National Juggernaut

Chapter 26 Coincidence

The beheading demon was originally a simple criminal case, and there are a lot of fighters and spirit races that get out of control every year.

But the prefix "justice" can be added to the semi-official one, which shows that the problem is extremely complicated.

After all, due to the activeness of the secret police in this era, when people mention "justice", the first thing people think of is the black armband, not its original intention.

"A traitor has emerged among us"

Zheng Li remembered very clearly that Xie Ying's expression was quite heavy when he was given the commission to investigate the traitor.

This case first appeared half a year ago. At first, no one took it seriously.

It’s just that some ex-prisoners and notorious people were beheaded in alleys/homes.

"Another sad battlefield PSTD (post-traumatic stress disorder) patient, it should be dealt with soon"

Shiqian City and other large human cities have been in a state of sub-war for a long time. The other side of everyone holding weapons is the long-term output of a large number of battlefield wounded and veterans.

Some retired due to injuries, but most of them were due to psychological factors, and most of them were unable to bear the fear of killing and being killed.

This is normal, after all not everyone is suitable to be a fighter.

But some people are too adaptable, so adaptable that they can't stop

"The victim's body was dry, his vitality was obviously lost, and there was a clear burning sensation on the wound. The high probability was the result of the extraction of psionic energy. The whole body's psionic power is much lower than that of a child. It can be basically judged that both vitality and psionic energy have been taken away. A sword master with devouring abilities, an out-of-control killing sword, or both. Of course, aliens with similar abilities are also possible, but the probability is not high."

The spirit blade is a killing tool, and it can grow through killing. Taking life on the battlefield to obtain soul fragments is the best nutrition for one's own spiritual and spiritual growth.

But this kind of growth is also limited. It is an embellishment rather than a meal, and it is the key nutrient to make up for one's own defects.

This finishing touch is the externality that spiritual awakening lacks, rather than the big-mouthed "I want it all". "

The example of the sword master Wu Sanjun who has the ability to devour and eats everything is sober enough.

But it is not the most deadly, the most dangerous is the so-called "falling into the Shura way".

The desire to kill, the appetite for soul and life, once a person indulges, the bottom line will gradually be lost, and the evolutionary path will be completely distorted, not only for sword masters, but also for spirit races and even spirit blades.

That's right, including Spirit Blades, psychic weapons without self-awareness.

With the continuous capture of life, the spirit blades that have not yet awakened can instinctively evolve the ability to devour life and capture spiritual energy, accelerating their growth.

If they had a similar devouring ability and killed a life in the same way, their harvest would be more than three times that of ordinary spirit blades.

More importantly, "it's delicious" to them.

At that time, the Spirit Blade was like an ignorant child, whose desire to eat was irresistible.

Once the hunger of the delicious soul is formed, it will rapidly intensify, and every time you eat, you will be in a state of intensified poisoning.

Even if he was sane at first, he became unable to leave the killing when he came back to his senses, and fell into the endless Shura way, becoming the so-called "magic sword".

The best among them can even manipulate the sword master in reverse, twisting it into their own tools. That's right, Lin Yuying is a magic sword, at least it used to be.

And because Demon Sword's consciousness is in a hazy and chaotic state at this time, and his actions are all based on instinct, there are quite a few tool man sword masters who are driven crazy.

Ironically, due to the sufficient supply of "battlefield nutrition" and the psionic energy bank of the living sacrifices of the tool people, and the strong desire impulse itself, the consciousness awakening rate of the magic sword is indeed the highest among the types of spirit blades. The last magic sword at least killed enough, and finally awakened their self-awareness, just because of their previous sword masters.

The tool man is broken?Just look for it.

It is quite normal for a magic sword to take shape and harm (consume) twenty or thirty sword masters and tools.

The same is true for sword masters who devour supernatural powers. In a sense, they are no different from magic swords. They are all poisoned by absorbing spiritual energy and life force, but the sword masters are often more crazy, and the body mutation will be abnormally obvious. , and often transforms his spiritual blade into a magic sword.

Blood-hungry lunatics, regardless of ethnicity, will be left on the front line of the battlefield.

Or face self-destruction in madness, or gradually cool down over time.

The situation of Demon Sword is special. After their self-awareness is awakened, it is tantamount to starting again.

Of course, many people dispute this point.

Some people blamed that the Demon Sword Spirit Race is generally stronger than the Spirit Race of the same level, and has a lot of powerful abilities on the battlefield such as blood control and life force absorption. Loopholes are intentionally left in the formulation of regulations.

"All spirit blades have the possibility of becoming a magic sword, and it is mostly the responsibility of his sword owner to become a magic sword. We cannot allow him to be judged for his crimes before he was born (before the awakening of consciousness). If he commits a crime again later, we can recover responsibility."

This relatively moderate statement has been recognized by most citizens. In this non-peaceful era, people worship the strong, and the Demon Sword Spirit Clan is basically all strong.

After the Demon Sword Spirit Clan woke up, some returned to the city-state, and some still chose to stay on the battlefield. The city did not have enough nourishment for them.

The most dangerous thing is that someone comes back, but the heart does not come back.

"In just 20 days, seventeen people were killed. All of them were killed by a blow to the throat. The cleanliness was unbelievable. This guy has a big appetite."

Similar cases happen every year, and they are often solved quickly.

After all, these days the police don't do anything for nothing, even if they can't handle it, they still have black armbands.

The police aren't letting up because the victims are jerks/wanted, they know that the soul's thirst knows no bounds and there's no lower limit to depravity

"I only kill some criminals, I just kill harm for the people."

"These punks are wasting food when they live. I am cleaning up the garbage and saving social resources."

"If he doesn't get in the way, I won't kill him! I don't want to either! I just want to escape!"

"I just want to survive! I still have potential to tap, I want to evolve stronger, I want to live longer, what's wrong? Tell me, what's wrong with killing a waste of spirit crystals?! I can do it much more than he."

The lower limit of a person is that there is no lower limit.

When the bottom line is set in the heart and is constantly urged by the hunger from the heart, it is hard to say how much bottom line and reason that person still has. They can always find various reasons to satisfy their own desires and the few remaining "conscience" "!"

It is worth mentioning that probably due to the same species, and the spiritual evolution of all sword masters, the spiritual power and vitality of human beings are quite good nutrients for sword masters and spirit swords who have fallen into the evil way.

It's not a lot to make up ten for one, and the weird law of making up for what you eat has played a role again, so the criminal law strictly prohibits killing each other.

By the way, some demon sword spirits are still using the sword master as a cover to drain the psionic energy of tool people one after another, which is really heinous but completely legal!

After all, this is theoretically just a normal contract.

You can't stand the temptation yourself, your body can't bear it, and you are sucked clean, don't you deserve it.

Cough, let's get down to business, there are so many criminal cases like the beheading demon, so many that even tabloid reporters don't bother to report them.

The sudden death of criminals is often a harbinger of serial murders. The exhaustion of vitality and spiritual power on the corpse is too obvious. The police in Bailu District who were the first few victims immediately formed a task force and started investigation work. .

Based on past experience, they quickly focused on the location of the victim and searched for suspicious-looking solitary spirits in the surrounding areas, sword masters with magic swords, and sword masters with devouring abilities.

Generally speaking, there will be a harvest soon. Most of the sword masters possessed by demons have changes in body shape and appearance, and their words and deeds are basically abnormal.

The characteristics of the Demon Sword itself are even more obvious. Standing there, the Demon Sword Spirit Clan gives people a strong sense of threat.

If the investigation does not work, then setting bait, fishing, or simply waiting at the victim's site can often be rewarding.

Unless he doesn't commit another crime, he will be caught sooner or later. This is the confidence of the old policemen.

But this time, after a full month and a half, there was still nothing. Cases continued to occur, and they showed a trend of expansion. The veteran police found that something was wrong.

The increasing frequency of crimes often indicates that the murderer is getting more and more hungry, but the strange thing is that

"How come the victims are still some murderers who don't want to die. It is obvious that there are ordinary people around the victims who are easier to attack. This is too self-controlled."

The victimized area has expanded from one district to four districts. Although the autumn sub-district and Bailu district are still the main ones, the crimes took place irregularly.

The most incredible thing is

"There are so many villain lists from him?! He is more comprehensive than the wanted list of our police station."

The most wanted list is limited, and most of the so-called villains are in prisons. Many corpses were finally taken to verify their identities, only to be found to be big villains in disguise.

In this world, no matter how many kinds of powers there are, there is no prophecy, and that has already involved the gods of the time domain. Even rare information processing powers still need enough information and data, and it is impossible to dig them out so casually. Out of so many lurking villains.

At this time, the portrait of the perpetrator in the police has changed from the initial killing and poisoning to a lunatic who is obsessed with eradicating evil and implementing "justice" in his own way.

Uh, it sounds a bit familiar.

"This is not something we can handle, leave it to the black armband."

The case team in charge finally gave up sensibly, and they also sensed the smell. It seems that they can't continue to investigate.

After transferring it according to the procedure, the problem suddenly became serious.

"Hey, why are so many victims on our assassination list?"

Assassination?Yes, this is also one of the important jobs of the secret police.

After Zheng Ligang's intelligence investigation work, in the new list of problems, there are some people who are not suitable for public handling.

For example, if the chief city defense officer who has already treasoned the country, if he does not handle it properly, the soldiers below will change, and he is afraid that he will jump over the wall and do something.

Then, it would be better to treat him as "died of illness" or "suicide".

Similar situations also include celebrities in the city who are bought into public opinion propaganda, a second generation who deserves the death penalty for the worst crimes but whose relatives are troublesome, a famous star who is actually a spy from another country, and so on.

Strangely, after further investigation, the black armbands found that the beheading gang had reduced their workload a lot.

I got the case file from the police station, and compared it carefully, good guy, this guy is really full-time 997 without getting paid.

Not just the assassination list, the solid list, the special list, the spy list, the list of dangerous gangsters, as long as killing is a good thing, there are all of them.

So, there is the first scene

"Find out the traitors who leaked information, no matter whether they deserve what they deserve, they should not be punished by lynching by outsiders!"

Not only did Xie Ying entrust Zheng Li, but also pickets and investigations began inside the black armband.

But what made Xie Ying unhappy was that within the discipline inspection, many people recognized and even worshiped the decapitated demon's behavior, which hindered the investigation by obediently obediently and secretly.

Who has the motive to investigate who?According to the concept and working method of "eliminating evil and doing everything" in the discipline inspection, all employees should be suspicious.

In the eyes of many black armbands, whoever doesn't have any motives and secretive words, that is the real disloyalty!

The progress of this internal investigation was directly zeroed out. Many black armbands concealed and covered up each other. When you asked A if he had an alibi, BCDEF would say "play mahjong with me", "let's go have a drink up"

It was obvious that other person A was working overtime in the office, so he was tricked into countless doppelgängers, and became an important object of suspicion. In the end, after checking and checking, they entangled each other, and they just got into a mess.

"Or, let's give different intelligence to several people, and if we find out whose intelligence-related person is dead, whoever is suspected."

Even when this case was handed over to Zheng Li as an outsider, there was still no progress.

He was annoyed by Xie Ying's pursuit and questioning, so he simply took out the classic routine of searching for traitors in TV dramas.

At that time, Xie Ying nodded on the spot, but shook his head again.

"This is the first step in finding a traitor, and we used it early in the morning."

"No results? The bait didn't even move? The other party is very experienced."

"No, the bait is all dead, the mole is higher than we expected, and now all the top secret police are on the suspect list."

At this time, this case was poured out by the unscrupulous media, not only vividly, but also named "justice", which made the black armband mad.

This is not a pure loss of reputation, but the public opinion aroused by the report has made the "beheading demon of justice" more folk admirers.

Forget about worshipers, this is an era when all people are armed, and there are many imitators, which puts gangsters and other minor dangerous criminals at risk, and greatly increases the difficulty of detection.

In the end, everyone dispatched together, captured a bunch of "decapitated demons" and came back, checking one by one, all of them are not true.

Although he had awakened a long time ago, he still annoyed the exhausted half-dead policemen and black armbands.

That was about four months ago. At that time, the media paid attention to it, and the pressure was really great. Xie Ying was also in a hurry, one newsletter a day.

Really annoyed by this real "headless case", Zheng Li came up with another crooked idea.

"Why don't we change our thinking and find out the traitor? We might as well start with the Demon Sword Spirit Clan who is the most capable and motivated to commit crimes. In my opinion, Lin Yuying is the most suspected. She is not only a Demon Sword Spirit Clan, but also a The title hunter is so powerful that most people on the death list can't handle her."

While talking, Zheng Li kept nodding.

"Yeah, she's still a spirit race in the shape of a sword, and the wounds match up. She has blood-draining and energy-draining characteristics, and she always walks alone, which is a perfect fit! Let's arrest her and interrogate her first."

At that time, Xie Ying glared over.

"Avenging private revenge is a crime. Do you want to go in and squat for a few months?"

"Tsk, it's fine if you don't check, what are you doing so fiercely?"

"We have already checked, she has a complete alibi. Not only her, we have checked all the records of the Demon Sword and Demon Sword Spirit Race in the surrounding four districts. None of them match."

Hearing this, even Zheng Li was silent, and he did some mental calculations.

"It's very hard, even if it's not over a thousand, there are hundreds, and it's not easy to deal with, and there are connections with each other."

"Working overtime, staying in the office for half a month, many colleagues were injured, and I also went to the hospital for two days"

This case dragged on for longer and longer, making the Bailu District Disciplinary Inspection No. [-] Office who took over very embarrassing. At the same time, the Disciplinary Inspection No. [-] Office of the next-door Qiu District was equally uncomfortable.

Victims are mainly concentrated in these two areas, indicating that most of the leaks are also in these two areas.

The "Justice" hat of the Justice Beheading Demon is becoming tighter and tighter, and it has become a classic joke for other secret police to laugh at the black armbands. Almost everyone suspects that a high-ranking black armband did it.

Seeing that the case is becoming more and more headless, it seems that everyone agrees that this will be a long-term unsolved case, and they can only wait for the murderer to show his flaws. Even Xie Ying's frequency of urging Zheng Li has decreased a lot. , or because the victims are special, many police and secret police lack the motivation to solve the case.

But now, I am afraid that no one will lack the motivation to solve the case. The death of Director Liao means that everything is out of control, and all the black armbands have become mad dogs.

"Director Liao of the Ninth Division of Disciplinary Inspection became famous earlier than me, and he was called 'Dead Sea Hell'. His death is really a pity. But he sneaked into the villa area of ​​Fortune Avenue with makeup, which explains a lot of things."

"I remember that the high-level dormitory of your seven places is on Fortune Avenue."

"Well, there is a security team there, let's sleep in peace, it's directly opposite his death villa."

Well, needless to say, this is Director Liao lurking over, sneaking up to investigate the bottom line of your seven high-level officials.

Then, he died at the door of your dormitory

Just by imagining it, Zheng Li can guess how delicate the relationship between the Seventh Division and the Ninth Division is now.

It's no wonder that when I said I was looking for Xie Ying just now, the newcomers from the Ninth Division didn't report it. When I mentioned this name, I became even more excited.

Thinking of this, Zheng Li felt a little irritated.

"You still entrust me to investigate Director Liao privately?!"

Zheng Li was getting a little overwhelmed. If the entrustment was leaked, wouldn't he and Xie Ying become the first suspects?Wait, I don't want to go to prison with this idiot!

"Our two levels are similar, and a lot of information has only come from our hands. At this stage of the investigation, we are the people in charge. It is normal for him not to trust me, and I don't trust him either. No one is trustworthy. , is the basic premise of our work.”

Xie Ying spoke extremely calmly, as if all this was taken for granted.

"Wait, then you still come to me, do you know that you may be called for investigation at any time?"

"Therefore, I want to hand over the new entrustment to you first. Even if I was really quarantined for inspection because of this, and you were implicated because of it, you must be released before me, and you will deal with business immediately after you get out."

"Damn it, you're a workaholic, even your juniors are cheated!"

Expressing dissatisfaction angrily, Zheng Li felt a little guilty.

Release yourself first?Not necessarily, can I stand the investigation?Although it has never crossed the line, there are quite a few people stepping on the edge.

The Huohuohuo live broadcast platform alone, and the rabbit's contract, are just a bunch of problems. I won't fall down just because I was implicated.

"My time is limited, so I'll hand over all the work first. If it's just these things, it's still a criminal case, so it's not a big deal. But then, it's top secret. Remember to burn it after reading it. Don't you always wonder why 24 Does the head of the district have to be the most able to fight?"

"I know, it's because of the quasi-mythical creatures that they can be used as the guarding accessories of the 'Shiqian City' to maintain the spatial stability of the four ring districts."

Zheng Li took the document, looked down, and casually dropped a super bomb.

Xie Ying was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head.

"It seems that the relationship between you and your district chief is better than I expected, but this is still against the rules. Remember to report it later and don't disclose it to the outside world."

Zheng Li nodded, and after flipping through it, he knew what Xie Ying's second commission meant.

"Nine o'clock, the orangutan was arrested and the goods of the Atel people entered the customs. It was basically the same time. What a coincidence."

"Well, District Chief Sun was arrested. According to the soul contract requirements of Shiqian City, the criminal will lose his official status, and naturally lose his status as a guardian. The space lock of the entire Bailu District was unlocked, so that Atel's contraband It came in. It was also because of the lack of guards that Shi Whale was allowed to travel through the subspace at will, resulting in the scene in front of him."

Where Xie Ying pointed, there are ruins and remnants of buildings

"In the final analysis, it was caused by the beheading demon's knife? That's too coincidental."

"There are no coincidences in this world, there are only inevitability."

The indifferent Xie Ying uttered some familiar lines, and Zheng Li watched him for a long time. This guy is also a time traveler?Or a lover of vintage cartoons?

"Isn't that what you like to say? This time, I agree."

"The encounter between District Chief Sun and the head of the envoy was a coincidence in itself. The wanted criminal beheaded appeared at that time, happened to kill the important target, caused a diplomatic incident, and just happened to blame the more important District Chief Sun."

"This series of coincidences led to a short-term spatial imbalance. It was also a coincidence that Arte entered at this time and brought contraband. Now, Director Liao decided to investigate privately because of the beheading demon's change, and he happened to die in the There are seven dormitories facing each other, and this chain can still be called a coincidence."

"But too many coincidences coincide, and it is impossible to be a coincidence. Although there is no evidence, I think there must be a behind-the-scenes manipulator behind everything. This should be just the beginning, and the picture behind it must be huge. I will give you The entrustment is to find him and stop him!"

"Farewell, quit, goodbye!"

　Well, I finally wrote the main line, and it’s the amount of two or three chapters

　　

　

(End of this chapter)