The cold muzzle locked precisely on Qin Feng's brow, and the faint blue glow flickering across the gun body seemed to come from another world, carrying a chill that could freeze the soul.
Qin Feng's body stiffened instantly, his pupils reflecting the frosty face of the woman opposite him.
The Scissors of Truth in his hand were heavy right now, becoming the most fatal incriminating evidence.
"Drop your weapons, hands on your head, squat down!" Shen Bingyue's voice carried no ripples, but the hand holding the gun was as steady as a rock.
Several team members behind her quickly dispersed, their tactical movements flowing like moving water.
One immediately stepped forward to check Liu Yan's condition on the ground, while another raised a tablet-like instrument, aiming it at every corner of the room.
"Report, Captain Shen, the target's vital signs are stable, just a shock caused by mental exhaustion."
"Report, Captain Shen, the grievance core of the E-class Anomaly 'The Thing Under the Bed' has dissipated, and the energy field is decaying... Wait, in this room... Ugh! What is this smell?"
The reporting team member hadn't finished speaking when his voice suddenly distorted, the tail end even carrying a hint of dry-heaving tremor.
A strange scent mixing burning, rot, and a highly penetrating peppermint-camphor odor unceremoniously filled the entire room, and it was also mixed with a faint, elusive... urinous stench.
This smell was overwhelmingly dominant, as if possessing a will of its own, desperately drilling into people's nasal cavities.
Hiss, it went straight to the head!
Even Shen Bingyue, who had been expressionless all along, couldn't help but twitch her delicate nose slightly, her pretty brows twisting into a knot.
Qin Feng rolled his eyes, panic and helplessness instantly presenting on his face.
He dropped the giant scissors in his hand with a clang, the scissors turning into a black light mid-air and plunging into his right arm.
This scene made the pupils of all Special Cases Department members contract.
"A Cursed Item!"
"This kid actually mastered a Cursed Item!"
In their impression, anyone who could perfectly contain and use a Cursed Item had to be at least a master of the "Wenyan Realm" like Captain Shen.
The members collectively looked at Qin Feng, gripping the guns in their hands tighter.
"Don't... don't shoot! I'm a victim!"
Qin Feng raised his hands high, his voice carrying just the right amount of tremor, and slowly squatted down. "Police... comrade? What I did just now was legitimate defense!"
His gaze drifted toward the bedroom door, where an empty mineral water bottle lay lonely.
A team member wearing glasses and looking scholarly walked over to collect the evidence. The moment he bent down, an intense, outrageously pungent urine stench rushed straight to his celestial cap.
"What the fuck! Cough! Cough cough cough..." That team member covered his nose and retreated three steps in a row, his expression looking like he had swallowed a three-day-expired fly whole, leaning against the wall and coughing violently. "Captain Shen... this bottle... seems to be a mixture of Fengyoujing and... urine?"
As soon as these words came out, the entire room fell into a deathly silence, and even the air seemed to freeze.
The gazes of all Special Cases Department members focused on Qin Feng squatting on the ground with the shock of looking at a prehistoric creature.
Using... urine... to ward off ghosts?
And they added Fengyoujing?!
What kind of heretical unorthodox path was this!
Which backwater did this wild gifted outlander run out from?
The Special Cases Department action manual didn't write about this!
"This brother."
A young team member finally couldn't help speaking, his tone filled with awe and incomprehension. "Your operation... isn't it a bit too grounded?
Aren't standard ghost-busting equipment holy water, talismans, a Peachwood Sword, crucifixes, and psychic weapons?"
"Where would I have any ghost-busting equipment?" Qin Feng said with a bitter face. "I'm just a poor student delivering food, how would I know about those?"
"Delivering food?" Another tall, strong-built team member's eyes lit up, and he slapped his hand fiercely. "I remember! You're the kid who used hair gel at the Fourth Psychiatric Hospital yesterday?!"
Qin Feng's expression stiffened.
"No wonder! I was wondering where I'd smelled that familiar cheap chemical fragrance!" The tall member realized with a start. "I thought it was some new chemical exorcism potion, but after all this time, it's a hair product!"
"Shut up." Shen Bingyue coldly interrupted the members' discussion, but the muscles at the corner of her eyes had already started twitching uncontrollably.
Hair gel, Fengyoujing, urine... This man was simply practicing the five words "exorcism cost-effectiveness" with his life.
"Take him back to make a statement, and hear the whole story." Shen Bingyue's voice revealed a trace of fatigue she hadn't even noticed.
"Wait, this matter can be discussed right here!" Qin Feng panicked; he didn't want to go drink tea.
"My landlord, Sister Liu over there, was acting a bit abnormal today. Coupled with last night's experience, I felt something wasn't right.
I read some unofficial histories and miscellaneous talks in the school library saying that virgin boy urine can ward off evil, so I just treated a dead horse as a living doctor..."
He stumbled through his words, but managed to explain it clearly.
This explanation was absurd, but combined with that bottle of "divine water" at the scene, it was fucking reasonable.
"Virgin boy urine?"
The young team member to the side couldn't help muttering softly, the way he looked at Qin Feng completely changed.
"There's still this precious stuff around these days?"
Qin Feng's face turned even redder, and his head buried lower. "I, I'm still studying, busy with school, where would I have time to date..."
Several male members looked at each other, and someone even secretly gave Qin Feng a thumbs-up.
Awesome person, not only was the operation awesome, even his personal life was so "pure."
Shen Bingyue's sharp gaze swept back and forth over him like a scalpel, attempting to dissect all his disguises.
Yet what Qin Feng displayed at this moment was only the weakness of surviving a disaster and the fear of being pointed at by a gun, harmless to humans and animals.
An untrained ordinary person countering an E-class Anomaly twice in a row under fatal threats.
This wasn't luck, it was a talent.
A monstrous talent that made her, a proud daughter of heaven from a prestigious background, feel tricky and unable to comprehend.
If such a person wasn't guided and controlled, he would either quickly burn himself to death in some incident, or become a huge risk drifting outside of order, even more unstable than anomalies.
"Captain, should we recruit him?" The bespectacled member recovered his energy, pushed up his glasses, and suggested.
"Yeah," someone nearby chimed in. "There's no chapter titled 'On the Role of Virgin Boy Urine in Practical Exorcism' in our action manual."
Shen Bingyue frowned, and the members immediately fell silent.
She waved her hand to signal the others to wrap up and handle the scene.
"We aren't ordinary police." Shen Bingyue put away her gun, her voice still cold, but the hostility had dissipated. "You can call us the Special Cases Department, SAC for short."
It was here. Qin Feng stirred inside, but on the surface he maintained a blank expression. "Special Cases Department? What is that?"
"The 'Slit-Mouthed Woman' and 'The Thing Under the Bed' that you experienced, we call them 'anomalies.' They aren't fiction, but real existing threats."
Shen Bingyue explained concisely, "And the Special Cases Department is the state's secret department for dealing with these supernatural events."
Her words were like a key, opening the door to a new world for Qin Feng.
Although he already possessed the system, getting confirmation from "official" lips still made his heart race with that shock.
"So... are there really ghosts in this world?" Qin Feng continued his acting, playing the part of an ordinary person whose worldview had shattered.
"Only more than you can imagine."
Shen Bingyue looked at him, finally throwing out her purpose. "Qin Feng, you're a person with a lot of potential, a born gifted outlander.
Yet your methods are too crude and too dangerous, walking on the edge of the rules, and you could invite disaster upon yourself at any time."
She paused, her azure eyes reflecting Qin Feng's slightly bewildered face.
"On behalf of the Donghai City Special Cases Department, I formally issue an invitation to you."
"Join us, and first become a Probationary Agent."
Qin Feng's heart leaped fiercely, and a madness of joy appropriately showed on his face, but it immediately turned into a trace of hesitation.
Yet instead of agreeing immediately, he rubbed his hands together and asked with a slightly timid and curious tone:
"Um... Boss, joining you guys... are there any benefits? For example, is the salary high? Do you provide meals? Is there social insurance and a housing fund?"
As his voice fell, the entire room once again plunged into an eerie silence.
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