Siren Blade

Chapter 243 History repeats itself
Seeing that I planned to sneak into the suspicious fog alone, the five law enforcement warlocks looked at each other in blank dismay.The leader hesitated at first, and then said: "If you don't mind, let us follow."

"Aren't you afraid of danger?" I asked.

"This is also the order of our person in charge." He said cautiously, "After all, you are a rising superstar in the headquarters, and even our person in charge wants to curry favor. Not only him, we also want to take advantage of This is an opportunity to show yourself. I heard that you don’t have your own personal power yet, so why don’t you just give us a chance to interview and see how we perform?”

"You are direct enough." I was dumbfounded.

He replied as a matter of course: "Anyway, you must have noticed our little thought."

I really didn't see it.

Because some time ago, the headquarters issued an order to wipe out the eve, which was a major task that the security bureaus all over the country were cooperating with, so the information related to me also flew to all parts of the country along with the east wind, and even the local security bureaus around the mirage also knew about me. There are many rumors, but there are probably not many insiders who know.At least they didn't know that my life was short, and they thought I was a big shot with a bright future.

"As for the danger... Anyway, in this business, you will encounter inexplicable and dangerous secret incidents from time to time. It's not a big deal if you have one more time or one less time." "We certainly can't help you much in frontal combat, but in other areas, such as scouting and creating positions, we are very confident. What do you think?"

"Let me tell you first, I don't mean to engage in 'private power'." I also don't know how to evaluate the semi-open ethos of the high-ranking people in the Security Bureau to engage in private power.

In fact, not only other people, but even Lie Que has so-called personal power.The subordinates who secretly took him away from the medical facility attached to the headquarters belonged to this category.If you don't engage in this kind of stuff to some extent at headquarters, sometimes even some normal work becomes difficult to carry out.

"Then let's treat our following as an ordinary task." The leader probably didn't think it was so easy to accomplish.

Since the other party insisted, I led the team of law enforcement warlocks towards the distant fog.Everyone is a warlock, and the speed of travel is not slow.It didn't take long before we crossed the deserted city and entered the fog.

Unfortunately, as far as the results are concerned, the following of this team of law enforcement warlocks is useless.

It's not that we encountered any very dangerous phenomenon in the fog, or that the leader's self-promotion said "we are very confident in detecting and creating positions" is a boastful falsehood, it is simply that they Just couldn't keep up.

I kept going deeper and deeper into the fog.The surrounding fog of this fog is extremely dense, almost the same as the two times I have been in contact with it in the past.Not only is the field of vision strongly obstructed, but other senses, even awareness, are also blocked by the fog, and one can only feel the dynamics at close range.

This is the third time I have come into contact with this kind of fog, and I have gained a lot of experience.To keep people from getting lost in the mist, I let them grab each other's wrists, and I did the same.In my experience, this works.

None of them could see the existence of the fog, and for them, the city was unobstructed.It's just that since I said so, they all chose to obey carefully, holding each other's wrists and marching slowly in the fog.However, I don't know when, I was the only one left in the fog.

Obviously, I have been paying attention to my hands and my side, but when I came back to my senses, the other five people disappeared without a trace as if they were swallowed by the mist.

Immediately alarmed, I asked the siren, "When did they disappear?"

"Just now." As she spoke, she manipulated my vision and showed me the scene just now.

I saw clearly that just now, those five people were closely following me, but their bodies quickly became transparent.The leader's hand grabbing my wrist also seemed to lose its substance, like a holographic projection.Even the mist penetrated their bodies, finally covering them completely.

Did they encounter some treacherous and dangerous phenomenon at my closest distance?However, I didn't smell anything like that.Even if it wasn't aimed at me, if a dangerous phenomenon appeared so close to me, I should be able to react immediately.In addition, this is not like the change that I know the mist of the mist demon should have.

"It doesn't look like they were engulfed by the fog." The Sirens thought about their words and gave their own thoughts. "It's better to say that they seem to be excluded by the fog."

"What does that mean?" I asked.

"For example, if you compare this fog to a monster that eats people, the phenomenon just now is like the fog spit them all out, and then only swallowed you." She said uncertainly.

"Because only I can perceive the existence of this fog, does the fog only affect me?" It's not that I haven't heard of this type of thing.

For example, some vicious spirits will only attack people who are aware of their existence, but they will ignore those who are not aware of themselves; another example, some poisonous secret knowledge will be hidden between the lines of ordinary books, If someone can analyze it from the seemingly ordinary text like deciphering a code, it will completely destroy the normal thinking ability of this person, and those who cannot analyze it will be safe after reading this book, etc. .

"Being able to perceive" is not necessarily a good thing in many cases, but will become the cause of many disasters.Even in a secular society, people who "discover secrets that should not be discovered" can easily be involved in dangerous incidents involuntarily.

All in all, the team of law enforcement warlocks probably didn't have any accidents, so I was a little relieved.

"But the mist of the Fog Demon is not a different space independent of the real world, but directly occupies the land of the real world with the mist. Even if other people are excluded, it shouldn't be like that. It should be in the form of being excluded out of thin air." I tentatively put forward a different opinion.

"I can't explain this either. The fog demons in the past have never shown the characteristics of consciously selecting prey." Siren continued, "There is another point, I don't think it is my illusion... this fog There seems to be a faint smell of 'pollution' in it."

"Are there undead people active in the mist?" Hearing this, I immediately tried to sense it, but I didn't feel a similar reaction.But since she said so, there must be.It can only show that her sense of smell for "pollution" is more acute than mine.

"No, what I mean is that this mist itself has extremely fine 'pollution', and it is not an exaggeration to say that the latter is one of the constituent elements of this mist." She corrected.

In other words, the appearance of this fog may be related to "pollution"?
In fact, I was a little skeptical that the mist was made by biting blood.Although she was not the main culprit in the past two mist appearances, the Mist Demon was originally a demon summoned by the spirit séance ceremony that she taught the evil move, so she might have the means to re-sent the Mist Demon.

It's just that from her memory, she has never been exposed to technologies related to "pollution".This mist is not so much in her style, as it is in the style of Dawn's dream.Looking at it this way, it turns out that Li Ming is the mastermind behind the scenes.

Between retreating and advancing, I chose to move on.After a while, I passed through the perimeter of the fog.Just like the fog in the mirage last time, the fog here is only very dense on the periphery.After walking a certain distance, the overly thick fog quickly thinned out and turned into a mist that did not obstruct the vision.

The appearance of the downtown area was clearly presented in my eyes.Although the mist only occupies a part of the mirage, the area still has the size of a town.But the scenery in front of him was still empty and deserted as before, with abandoned vehicles parked here and there, dried blood and dead bodies everywhere.

I felt something slightly wrong from this scenery, but it was difficult to sum up what was wrong for a while.

The Siren also muttered strangely, "Wait, what about these bloodstains and wreckage..."

Before she could finish speaking, an extremely noisy voice came from afar.I couldn't hear what this sound was, it was actually one after another of screams and cries for help, and the roar of monsters.

I sprinted out without thinking, and immediately rushed to another street two or 300 meters away.Then, what I saw was an incredible scene.

Hundreds of ordinary people in different clothes are running away frantically, and behind them are chasing even more demons than them.Those demons have carapaces like black metal and ferocious monster shapes, and they are the tentacles of the fog demon.

My first reaction was to save all these people, and my body moved reflexively.However, before I could actually make a move, I grasped the abnormality of this scene with my own perception.I stopped my movements and silently looked at the people rushing towards me.One of them rushed over as if he couldn't see me.I stepped back a little, and then tried to reach out and touch his arm as it passed me.

My hand passed through that arm as if through the air.

Others were also running away and hitting me. This time, the other party directly penetrated my body with its whole body, and then went behind me intact, walking away step by step.Then the demon also hit, and it also penetrated without any resistance.

It turned out that these were just phantoms.

I continued to watch the scene change.The demon chased up one of the people in the yellow coat from behind, and threw him to the ground viciously. The man was torn into bloody pieces before he even had time to call for help.Even knowing that these are just phantoms, I am still shocked to see them.

And it's a "coincidence" that the place where the phantom of the deceased fell happened to be covered with remains covered in yellow cloth, and even the falling position of the flying pieces of meat could correspond to the surrounding wreckage.

There is a saying in the hidden world that if a person dies with strong resentment, he will leave a curse on the scene of his death.Assuming that it is a rental house or something, after the tenants move in, they will repeatedly dream or see the scene of that person's tragic death in reality.And the scene that I see now is almost indistinguishable from that statement.

Could it be that the dead who died in the Mirage Fog incident had accumulated too much resentment, so they replayed the scene when they were killed here?However, I did not feel such a strong resentment.The truth should lie elsewhere.

"Sure enough... the traces in this place are very strange." The siren seemed to observe other places, "This place seems to be not 'now', but 'past'."

Her speech sounded unintelligible, but it made me react, "I just said that something is wrong...the blood stains and the degree of corruption of the wreckage around here are a bit problematic. It should be more corrupt at this time , and now it looks about the same as when I entered the mirage last time."

"Perhaps we have returned to the past time point... No, it is more like the power of this fog has replayed the scene that happened here, and the death replay we saw just now is part of the replayed historical scene .” Siren made an analysis.

I went to touch the wreckage on the ground.Unlike the phantom just now, this wreckage can be touched.If the Sirens are true, is it that dead things are re-enacted in physical form, and living things are re-enacted in phantom form?
But the mist of the Fog Demon should not have the function of repeating history.

"There are other possibilities." I had a flash of inspiration, "For example, it is not the fog that repeats history, but other forces that repeat history. The reason why the fog appears is because the fog is also the 'repeated history' 'a part of."

"However, what kind of power can repeat history on such a large scale..." At this point, the siren suddenly realized, "Is it the power of 'pollution'? The reason why I can catch the smell of 'pollution' from the fog is because Because this mist was conjured from the past by the 'taint'?"

If it's "pollution", it's not surprising even if it can do this level of things-although this kind of "since it's 'pollution', everything makes sense" way of thinking is not very good, but there is no There are other ways of explaining it.

However, there are still too few clues at this stage, and perhaps we should not be so anxious to draw conclusions.Besides, the purpose of my trip is not to "solve the case", but to kill Liming, and in the process, I will confirm whether Bite Blood is really dead or not... No, let's be a little more honest with myself , although killing Liming is the top priority, but I really want to know whether Bite Blood is dead or alive.

I was a little uncertain about the direction of my next exploration, so I decided to go to the Mirage Security Bureau first.

(End of this chapter)