Siren Blade

Chapter 19 Ambush
"Now, the sea monster is dead, and you are freed from her spiritual control. In theory, when you recall things about her again, you will feel the uncanny valley effect from the image of her in your memory." Blue Bird said , "Tell me, do you still love her?"

"Of course." I said without hesitation.

"It seems that the aftereffects of brainwashing still exist in your body..." She paused, and continued, "Some people's aftereffects will indeed last for a longer period of time, but this can still be cured with time."

"Let's stop here." I don't want to continue talking about this.

She nodded and said, "Then let's talk about your parents."

"What happened to my parents?"

"Didn't you go to the neighborhood you used to live in this afternoon?" This person obviously said before that she didn't follow me, but now she accidentally exposed it. She didn't seem to notice it, so she continued, "You My parents don’t live in that community now, they moved to another new community last year, and I’ll send you the address on my mobile phone later. If you want to reunite with them, go there.”

"Thank you." I didn't expect to move, and I didn't make up my mind whether to meet my parents, so I took the initiative to change the subject, "By the way, I don't know if you saw it before, I'm on the road Met an old man…”

I briefly recounted the confrontation with an old man on the road before.

"That should be 'Corpse Collector'." Blue Bird replied.

"The Corpse Collector?" I asked. "Is that his nickname?"

"Yes. There is nothing wrong with him recognizing you at a glance. He was also a law enforcement warlock of the Security Bureau."

"Ever? Isn't it now?"

"You also know that although the source of a warlock's power is the spiritual body, the physical body is also very important." She seemed to have regained the feeling of explaining to me in the dream before. Although what I said was all things I knew, I hope She can continue to say in this tone, "The flesh is to the spirit, just like the soil is to the fruit, and the depleted soil will naturally not be able to grow juicy fruits. Once the warlock grows old, the strength will naturally retreat, which is no longer the case. It’s normal. Although it’s not that warlocks don’t have spells to prolong youth and lifespan, whether they have magic spells and whether they’re popularized or not are two different things. In other words, in the world of warlocks, there’s no such thing as secret knowledge that everyone knows. It would not be called secret knowledge.”

"I see."

"The corpse collector in the past was a warlock known for puppetry. When he was old, he didn't know how much of his previous skill was left. Now he is semi-retired. Although he is still in the Security Bureau, what he does is Leisure work, such as helping to dispose of the remains. But he also has an uneasy son who gambles around, divorced his marriage, and doesn’t even care about his grandson.” She was really unsuspecting of me, and she would call others Her background was revealed to me, and I was a little worried about whether she had difficulties in her work.

When she mentioned the body, I thought of "it", and she went on to say, "Also, he said that there were murderers in the city recently, right? That's probably not referring to Sang Huai... Maybe there is Half of it, but there's been a real murderer in town lately."

"What?" I was surprised.

She recalled a little bit, and then said: "The nickname of the murderer seems to be 'Old Bone'. He is a warlock criminal who became active two or three years ago. I heard that the murder weapon he often uses is from his former lover. The femur bone that was removed from the body, and I like to stab people to death with this bone. Hey, this sounds like a perverted murderer. Those screenwriters who want to make horror movies may like this kind of topic, I just want to say here When I wake up, I feel that the food will become unpalatable."

"..." I looked at her speechlessly, but she didn't seem to realize that there happened to be a perverted killer here, and she was sitting on the opposite side of the table eating food with her.

She unconsciously continued the conversation.

"And then he is a very difficult guy to catch. His strength is not strong, but his escape is first-class. Many people who are stronger than him have failed to catch him." She said, "He has killed many people with very cruel methods. Dozens of people have been killed so far. As for his worst nature, he likes to attack people related to the Security Bureau, such as the family members of law enforcement warlocks. Maybe it was because of some grudges with the Security Bureau a long time ago. It’s not that someone anonymously provided witness clues this morning, we didn’t even know that this guy had come to Liucheng. Now we must catch him as soon as possible, otherwise we don’t know whose family members in the bureau will be attacked.”

"I see..." Hearing this, I subconsciously assumed the perspective of a fugitive criminal, imagining myself shuttling or lurking between the streets and alleys, just to avoid the team of law enforcement warlocks chasing after me.This spontaneous imagination probably originated from my position not long ago.Thinking about it this way, he actually developed a kind feeling towards the murderer.

Even I couldn't help feeling kindly, it can be seen that he is a person who deserves to die.

So I just said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"You're starting again. It's the same in the dream, and I like to go to dangerous places." She couldn't help but said, and seemed to react, coughed a little, and returned to a somewhat distanced tone, "Hmm... You have lost your strength now, and using a warlock as your opponent is simply asking for trouble, I suggest you don’t come along, it’s better to live a normal life honestly.”

I changed the subject, "Speaking of dreams, have you found out about the inner ghost you mentioned before?"

Last time, it was because of the "inner ghost" in the security bureau that the dream that was used to treat me had such a huge deterioration.However, it is said to be an "inner ghost", but from the perspective of a normal person, the person who disturbed my treatment plan might as well be a righteous person.

I don't know how many people were killed by me, and I don't know how many people secretly hate me. Even if they are eyeing my life, it's not surprising.Even the interrogator told me that there are still some voices in the Security Bureau who think I am guilty, and the previous body collector is probably one of them, and the "inner ghost" is probably about the same.

But I still wonder who the identity of the "inner ghost" is, and is it possible that it is really Ren Sai?Ren Sai in the dream said to me that she is my partner, no matter what happens, she will always stand firmly by your side... This must be a casual word, but it has been said to me, I It is inevitable that he can't help caring about her.

"It hasn't been found out, and the bureau is not enthusiastic about investigating this matter, maybe it can't be found out..." She shook her head in disappointment, then took out a gray bracelet from her bag, and put it in front of me.

I picked it up, "What is this?"

"The positioning bracelet." She said, "It also has an alarm function."

"Call the police?"

Could it be that when I attacked someone, this thing would call the police and ask someone to arrest me... I reflexively assumed the position of the perpetrator.

"When you are aware of the hidden thing, the hidden thing is also aware of you." She habitually showed a posture of being a teacher in front of me, "Since you wandered with the siren... or, since After you gained extraordinary awareness with the support of the sea monster, you must have summed up this rule. Strange events that you have never heard of before are always witnessed by yourself, and people with amazing powers appear one after another. Appeared in front of me... Yes, those are not pure accidents. We are always easy to encounter each other, and also easy to encounter hidden events, this is the fate that people with extraordinary perception must bear."

"So this bracelet is the one I called for emergency help when I encountered a secret incident?" I said, "I remembered... I seem to have seen this kind of thing in other places before, but the style is different."

"This is for those who are more aware than ordinary people, but live a normal life. The styles are different because of different regions. I heard that some places still give rings or pendants." She said, "Call the police." Of course, the target is not the normal police, but the local security bureau and law enforcement warlocks near you."

"I see..." I nodded, "Can I ask one more question?"

"what is the problem?"

"Where is the body of 'it'...now?" I finally couldn't help asking.

She knew who I was asking, "It has been cremated."

In other words, it was already a mass of ashes.

I also understood that even if I saw the dead body, it would be meaningless, so maybe I can die now.

Blue Bird urged me to put on the gray bracelet with his eyes, and I put it on without any hesitation.

"I hope there will be a day when the alarm function will not be useful." I said.

But after only two days of work, this gadget came in handy.

That evening, I saw Blue Bird again, at a fast food restaurant on the street.This time she brought me some psychological test questions. I heard that it is also the job of the supervisor. Not only should I regularly check my life and activity routes, but also regularly check my mental health and report to my superiors.

Having said that, the psychoanalyst from the Security Bureau has already assessed my psychology, so when it was Jade Bird's turn, there were only a few simple psychological test questions, and even a novice in psychology like her could take charge of it.In her words, this is a process, it doesn't matter if you do it or not, and it doesn't matter if you don't want to answer the questions, she can also fool around.

But I still like to do psychological test questions.Occasionally there will be tests like "120 test questions to determine your personality" on the Internet.For some reason, it seems like a lot of people are quite into this kind of stuff, including myself.

If only writing math test papers was as fun as writing psychological test papers in school.

Only halfway through, Jade Bird's cell phone rang.

After she got connected, she listened for a while, her face became more and more serious, and she finally said "Okay, I'll be right there", and then said to me: "The perverted killer mentioned last time, someone found his trace... "

I said directly, "Hurry up."

"Okay! I'm sorry, I'll treat you to steak tomorrow night!" She hurried away.

Maybe this person thinks that as long as he invites you to eat steak, I will look forward to it.Although I'm really looking forward to it.

I took some time to finish all the remaining psychological test questions, put the test papers in my backpack, picked up the black long-sleeved jacket, and left the fast-food restaurant.

Speaking of which, I have a bad habit, which I developed during those five years, that is, I like to go off the beaten track when I walk.Just as rookie thieves often behave suspiciously, my habit of going off the beaten path may be caused by some kind of guilty conscience.

When I was halfway through a certain dark alley, I suddenly found some blood stains on the wall next to me.

I touched it with my fingers and it was still fresh.Moreover, although it is only an intuition cultivated by experience, it seems to be human blood—when I made this judgment, a hallucination appeared in front of my eyes: a red human-shaped phantom appeared in front of me, and staggered He staggered towards the corner of the dark alley.

Such phantoms... I'm not particularly unfamiliar either.

In other words, anyone with a high level of awareness will be familiar with it.

The "awareness" mentioned by warlocks, in a narrow sense, refers to the ability to perceive the spirits and spirits that are ubiquitous in nature; in a broad sense, it refers to the ability to perceive all "hidden things".

Warlocks with high awareness can read information about past history by touching spiritual substances, and this phenomenon of reading information tends to appear in the consciousness of warlocks in the form of hallucinations or auditory hallucinations.

Although I am not a magician, I used to have a perception that rivaled that of a magician, so I occasionally encountered this incredible phenomenon.

And now that I have lost "it," my perception is still at a remarkable level, even though it has declined considerably, and it's not surprising that I trigger this phenomenon by accident.

For example, now that I touched the fresh blood on the wall, I was able to hallucinate the figure of the owner of the blood that passed by just now.But this special ability is not very stable, and it is difficult to use it consciously.There must be someone in the Security Bureau who knows this craft. If it were someone like me, I would just have to rely on my luck as I am doing now.

Seeing the red phantom staggering around the corner, I followed.As for whether it will be dangerous, I also have concerns about this.But since someone is hurt, or in danger, I want to help him.

Even if you have to die, you must die on the way to save others——I still have this idea.

However, just as I was rounding the corner, I found that the red phantom stopped suddenly.

His whole body swayed like a candle in the wind, and immediately exploded and disintegrated on the spot, then changed color and reorganized into a black mist vortex, from which suddenly rushed out a beast, with a head that roughly spliced ​​together several different types of animal limbs. Twisted and broken beasts.

In an instant, I understood my situation.

My illusion was possessed by a demon!
The demon pounced on me.

Without hesitation, I activated the "ashes" in my body.At this moment, I felt that the speed of my consciousness rose sharply, and my perception became extremely sharp.Now that I punch out, maybe the person's torso will be pierced right away.

But whether compared with himself when he was a demon, or compared with himself when he held the siren blade in the dream, this level of combat power is nothing to worry about.

Having said that, it is enough to deal with the crisis of this level.

I deftly slid out of the demon's attack line and punched its head with my fist.

However, just as my fist hit the target, an extremely sharp murderous intent rose from behind, aiming at my heart and stabbing me coldly.

In my feeling, this killing intent seems to have been waiting for a long time, and it suddenly broke out at this time.

I am ambushed!
(End of this chapter)