"Jeff...are you sure there are humans living in this place?" Kelly looked at the narrow alleys and dilapidated houses that were in stark contrast to the beautiful, stately buildings they saw in the city center.

“It seems the government neglected this place after they took down Brownsville Street...” Jeff frowned as he started walking towards the target house.

There were some children wearing dirty clothes looking at them curiously. While the adults were casting wary glances at the well-dressed intruders

Rubbish was scattered on the sides of the road, and the buildings had cracks and lots of graffiti

The people who chose to live in this area were either beggars or gangsters

Jeff was not greatly affected by this because this is a natural landscape in all cities, there must be an area that gathers this kind of people in one place. However, he wanted to get out of here quickly

In the end, he decided to enlist the help of the residents of the area

Jeff pointed in the direction of one of the children who were looking at them from an alley

The boy who was barefoot approached them and stood in front of Jeff

Jeff sat cross-legged. "We're looking for Patterson's house..."

The child pointed towards a house that was located at the end of the street. The house was medium in size and not much different from the surrounding houses

"Well done..." Jeff took out a coin and placed it in the child's hand

A wide smile appeared on the child's face and he ran towards his companions, who welcomed him warmly

Jeff and Kelly headed towards the house that the child pointed to, but when they stood in front of it they realized that there was something strange.

This building was dilapidated like the rest of the buildings in this place

Is there really someone living here?

No, according to the bakery workers, several young people must live here

Why do they bother living in this place?

Even if Jeff assumed they didn't have money it still seemed suspicious, where did they live before they came to this city. They must have owned a house before they moved here

Jeff decided to investigate further, this world was full of tragic events. Stories about people going bankrupt or indulging in hedonistic pleasures such as drinking and gambling, as well as the possibility that they may have been subjected to fraud.

With all these possibilities, Jeff couldn't prejudge them

Jeff pressed the buzzer but no one came out

The house bell appears to be broken.... Jeff shook his head and knocked on the door

Knock! Knock!

It took nearly two minutes for the door to open only halfway

There was a young man wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, looking at them suspiciously

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The young man's face was as pale as a ghost and his eyes were cloudy. The young man remained silent, waiting for them to speak

Is he a drug addict?..... This is the first idea that appeared in Jeff's head

But he suppressed these thoughts and spoke quickly. “We are sorry for the inconvenience, we are from the city police, and we are here to ask you something...”

The young man remained silent with incomprehensible eyes deep in thought, but he finally opened his mouth. "Come inside..."

Jeff and Kelly went inside and sat in the guest room

The place was tidy and the furniture was clean

Jeff and Kelly sat on a leather sofa while the young man with a pale face stood across from them and did not sit down

"I'm Officer Jeff and this is Officer Kelly..."

The young man nodded. "I'm Kyle..."

Jeff couldn't help but sigh, it was clear that Kyle was the taciturn type. This type of person is the most difficult to obtain information from. But he was forced to continue. “We don’t want to take up too much of your time. We will just ask a few questions...”

“I'll bring some juice, please wait a minute...” Kyle moved lightly to the stairs and quickly went upstairs.

Jeff looked at Kyle's back, who quickly left, then noticed that Kelly was looking around cautiously, so he asked her. "Did you notice anything?"

There was a rare seriousness on Kelly's face. "That guy, I don't know exactly but there's something uncomfortable about him."

“Well... his face might be a little pale, but he might have anemia or a disease that makes him look like that...” Jeff thought she was talking about Kyle's strange face.

“No…” Kelly shook her head. “His aura is unstable...”

Jeff was silent for a moment. Kelly had a high sensitivity to aura

Aura sensitivity was not a special or rare ability, but it was not common either because there are some special people who have a great affinity for aura and thus their sensitivity to the aura around them is high, but such an ability has many limitations.

She cannot measure her opponent's strength or anything like that. All she can do is know whether the amount of aura is small or large and whether it is stable, but this is not always accurate because she will not know the exact amount and will not be able to know information. Regarding the exact amount of Aura her enemy possesses

One of the limitations of this ability is that there are many ways that can hide a person's aura, techniques or potions. For people stronger than her, they do not need to resort to these methods because she cannot see their aura in the first place

But overall this was a useful ability in some cases

This is one of the advantages that geniuses like Kelly have

Baaam!

The two of them looked at the soft bumping sound that came from the ceiling

It looked like something had fallen to the ground

Kelly's frown deepened, but she didn't speak

Two minutes later, Kyle returned with two bottles of fruit juice and placed them in front of his visitors

Kyle sat in the chair across from them. “What do you want to ask me about?”

“About—” Jeff opened his mouth

But Kelly interrupted his words, directing her words at Kyle. “Would you mind telling me what that falling sound was?”

“A Falling sound?” Kyle looked at her in confusion

Kelly pointed her finger at the ceiling

“Oh...” Kyle realized what she meant. “My brothers were transporting some items and they dropped something during this process...”

Kyle's voice was neutral and his face was emotionless as he spoke to them

“Really?...” Kelly smiled. “For a moment I thought it was the sound of a corpse falling on the ground, hahaha.”

Kelly laughed hard

Kyle was surprised for a moment, but he laughed along with Kelly. “Hahaha, Miss Kelly has a great imagination, haha...”

“Do you mind if we search upstairs?” Jeff asked in a commanding tone

Kyle's laughing face froze when he heard Jeff's request

Kyle's face returned to its emotionless expression. “You said you were here to ask me about some things and not to search my house. Do you have a court order to search my house in the first place?”

“Yes...we have a search permit...” Kelly smiled as she got up and stood directly in front of Kyle

Kyle also stood firm in front of Kelly

Kelly reached into her pocket, while Kyle's eyes focused on her hand, waiting for her to pull out the search warrant

Suddenly and quickly, Kelly clenched her fist and punched Kyle directly in the face, causing him to fly several meters into the air and hit the wall with great force.

Kyle's body fell to the ground, causing the table beneath him to shatter

"..." Jeff stood there in shock

After a few seconds of shock, he looked at Kelly and screamed. " what did you do..."

Kelly didn't look at him and started walking towards the stairs

Jeff followed her angrily. “Don't you know this guy could sue us over this? Our careers would be over then—”

Jeff stopped talking after they reached the top floor and saw three people armed with swords standing in front of them

"Where's Kyle?" The muscular man standing in the middle spoke and seemed to be their leader

“First tell me where the body is?” Kelly took yellow gloves from her pockets and put them on slowly

The muscular man's face became hard and he looked at the man standing to his right angrily. “This is your fault, I told you we shouldn't let them in here...”

The man defended himself with a strong voice. “If we refuse to let them in here, they will become more suspicious of us. They were definitely suspicious of us from the beginning, otherwise they would not have come here in the first place. Instead, it is your fault because you dropped that damned corpse...”

While the two were arguing, the third man took a step back and seemed afraid to confront Kelly and Jeff

“Enough chatter...” Kelly rushed towards the muscular man.

“Damn you...” The muscular man swung himself forward with his huge sword in an attempt to smash Kelly’s head

Kelly didn't try to dodge the blow and instead aimed her fist at the giant sword blade

crack!

The sword broke into pieces and Kelly's fist hit the muscular man's chest, causing him to fling backwards, colliding with the other man, and the two of them crashed into the wall, unconscious.

The third man looked at what happened in horror. After seeing that his colleagues were easily defeated, he dropped his weapon and ran to one of the rooms.

Jeff and Kelly quickly chased after him, but froze when they saw what was inside the room

The man was holding a syringe that he took out of a small black box, and the syringe contained a glowing red liquid

There was a look of despair on the man's face as he looked at the syringe

But the thing that terrified Jeff and Kelly was the symbol that was engraved on a black cloth hanging on the wall

It was the symbol of a bloody crescent

Jeff took off his glasses and looked at this symbol in shock. " The hell..."