Siren Blade

Chapter 52 The Truth
The time has entered November.

Lie Que didn't send me to patrol this time.I continued to study the textbooks of the Security Bureau in my residence, and sorted out the trivial information I got from the middleman.The middleman has been in the black market in Liucheng for many years. Apart from the tainted materials of the corpse collector, he also has a lot of black materials from his colleagues.If all of them are exposed, violent turmoil will occur in the black area of ​​Liucheng.But those criminals deserved to be caught by the Security Bureau, so I submitted those black materials to the Security Bureau anonymously.

In fact, even if this kind of thing is done, the black area in Liucheng will not disappear.It's nothing more than a reshuffle, with old faces replaced by new ones.As someone once said, criminals can be killed, but criminals can never be killed.

But even if there will still be cockroaches next summer, it will not prevent all cockroaches that can be seen from being eliminated this summer.

As for why it is anonymous, it is because I cannot explain the origin of the black materials on hand.I didn't intend to let other people—especially I didn't want Lie Que to know that I had the ability to extract memories from the spirit fragments of the people I killed.

But I still told the blue bird about it.Because I want to hide nothing from Jade Bird as much as possible.

Speaking of Blue Bird, she has been a little angry with me these two days.

The reason is still on me.When I found a middleman near Qiao An's house last time, the best strategy should be to contact Jade Bird first, rather than acting alone.With the speed of the blue bird, as long as I contact her, she will come over within a minute, and there will be absolutely no delay in time.But I still chose to do it alone, not that I have no confidence in Jade Bird's ability, or want to monopolize the opportunity.It's purely a lack of teamwork habits in my mind.

In the final analysis, dealing with the middleman was originally Jade Bird's task, and I was the one who intervened in the middle, and I was the one to blame.And if he had cooperated with Blue Bird at that time, maybe he wouldn't have been trapped in a different space by the middleman and the succubus.

But if you do that, you won't be able to meet Joan and the others who are also trapped in a different space, and it will be even more impossible to rescue them.Qiao Gancao said a few words for me thinking about the favor in this regard, but it turned out to add fuel to the fire.In the end, she left with an embarrassed smile under the blue bird's eyes full of resentment, and left the mess to me.

"You have to come to my house tonight." Blue Bird said sullenly, "Otherwise I won't forgive you."

So that night I went to the Blue Bird's house to "overnight".

Thanks to the inexplicable and messy physical transformation of "it", my body has become different from ordinary people from the inside to the outside, and I will not get tired no matter how I do some "manual work".However, despite being so blessed physically, I still can't feel the slightest excitement psychologically.But one yard is one yard, as long as the blue bird can be happy, I will be happy too.So every time Jade Bird invites me, I will never refuse.

It's just that although I have nothing to mind, the blue bird seems to be a little bit sorry.She was the one who invited me every time, and she was the one who felt bad after the "overnight".In the middle of the night that night, she also fell into my arms exhausted and covered in sweat, and it didn't take long before she started to read again, "I'm sorry, I'm the only one who is so comfortable every time..."

In order to divert her attention, I chatted with her about the memories I retrieved.Of course, Sirens were also talked about in the process.

It's just that her face became weird when she heard it.

"Wait..." she couldn't help but say, "You mean...the Siren Blade has self-awareness?"

"Huh? Yes." I said, "But the point is not that, it's the memories she retrieved. In the memory of the middleman, I saw..."

"Wait, wait... the memory of the intermediary is fine." She said, "that is to say, although you are now sleeping on the same bed with me, hugging me so sticky. But wait a minute After you fall asleep, you meet another girl in your dreams? This girl can change into anything you want, listen to any of your needs, and is she not a person?"

"That's right."

"Then you still said it to me with a nonchalant expression?"

"I don't think I should have any secrets to hide from you."

"You..." She looked at me dumbfounded, "...you have said that, what else can I say... No, you are hiding it from me, wrapping up what you said just now... No, I didn't ask for it. You lied to me, I just want to say... What the hell am I trying to say..."

"There is actually a correction to the statement just now. Although objectively speaking, the Siren is not human, but I think she is human." I said, "So I will not cheat in my dream. You can rest assured about that."

"...That's really reassuring." She was silent for a while, and then said dumbfoundedly, "What to do, from the perspective of common sense, this is not a reassuring situation, but from your mouth Why is it so convincing..."

This may also be some kind of distorted credit.

"But...it's still really strange." She fell into thought, "Can the power of the true spirit awaken self-awareness? It doesn't make sense."

"Why?" I asked.

"The power of the true spirit should be something very pure, the original spirituality flowing from your consciousness. If there is any self-consciousness in this power, it is your own consciousness, not other consciousness ."she says.

"Could she really be my consciousness, just split off from me?" I asked.

"That's impossible. The true spirit mentioned by the sorcerer is the 'consciousness itself' of human beings, and the so-called 'consciousness itself' is the last thing left after removing memories, desires, instincts and other things in your consciousness. The purest and simplest things. Just as elementary particles refer to the basic unit of matter that cannot be divided any further, 'consciousness itself' is also a simple thing that cannot be divided any further." She said, "But all of this must be based on your siren On the premise that the blade is indeed the power of the true spirit. The power of the true spirit is actually presented in the form of an ax...First of all, this is incredible."

"She said it was because the power of the true spirit should not have appeared in my destiny, so the power of the true spirit appeared in the form of an external object."

"This statement is also very suspicious... The so-called fate is nothing more than hindsight. It does not exist in nature at all. Although there are indeed some magical powers that seem to be able to manipulate fate, they are nothing more than making the situation worse. It’s just like that.” She thought, “Even if destiny is real, as some fanatics say, it should be a huge collection. Whether you become a devil after meeting a sea monster The future, or the future that you have no relationship with the hidden world, is covered in it. And since you have become a warlock now, it means that this is in your destiny, but you just happened to walk on this very remote track .How could it be so easy to deviate from destiny? Unless..."

"Unless?" I asked.

She said categorically, "Unless the sea monster drifts over from another world, it is absolutely impossible."
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The communication with the blue bird made the siren once again covered with a mysterious veil in my heart.But I followed my instincts and chose to continue trusting the Sirens.

Afterwards, I also told Jade Bird some of the things I got from the memory of the intermediary.

It is worth mentioning that all the secret knowledge learned by the middleman has also come into my hands.For example, some of the spells in the demon domain that he has mastered, the evil spells of flesh and blood used to make himself stronger, etc.It's a pity that those are demonic knowledge, not only is it harmful to use, but it will pollute the spirit just by studying it in depth.

In the hidden world, people are not the only ones who are evil, even weapons and knowledge may really have evil attributes, so we have to be vigilant in this respect.After a few glances, I stopped paying attention.

I also tried to get a way to get in and out of that different space from the middleman, but ended in failure.That seemed to belong to knowledge that I could not remember.As soon as I heard him relay the knowledge in the dream, I felt that I suddenly couldn't understand his semantics.In psychology, there is a phenomenon called "Gestalt collapse", which means that after a person stares at a word for a long time, the word will become very strange.And this psychological phenomenon of Gestalt collapse seems to have happened to my hearing.It stands to reason that every word he relayed is the language I am most familiar with, but I can't understand the specific meaning of it when connected.

Is it because the method of entering and exiting that different space is secret knowledge, so this phenomenon occurs?But I can understand all the devil knowledge he said before.

In addition, after Joe Licorice and I rescued Qiao An and the others from the different space, the Security Bureau tried to fix the entrance and exit of that different space.It was successful at first, but then it seemed that someone forcibly destroyed it from the inside, and the entrance finally collapsed.

When I reported to Lie Que in the Security Bureau, he revealed some information to me.

"The name of that different space is 'random ruins'." He said, "As the name suggests, there are some abandoned indoor spaces, and they are generated randomly. Maybe they were still in the ruins of the school before, and then went to the ruins of the shopping mall. It is difficult to see spirits that are friendly or neutral to humans inside, but the number of demons is exceptionally large.”

"Did the Security Bureau know about that different space?" I asked.

"Information has only been obtained recently. Those who have obtained demon knowledge from the Internet seem to know how to enter and exit the Ruins of Random Numbers, and some of the more powerful guys will use it as a hiding place." He said, "And, the method of entry and exit It seems that it will be refreshed regularly. You mentioned in the report that the middleman and the succubus use mirrors as entrances, so this method has probably been refreshed now."

"Can't we get a way to get in and out of the random ruins from the knowledge of demons spread on the Internet?"

"Very difficult. Those demonic knowledge are likely to be activated."

"activation?"

"To put it simply, someone has endowed those demonic knowledge with strong vitality through the power of spells. Therefore, those demonic knowledge have their own judgment and will identify who is qualified to understand themselves and who is not qualified. Many advanced warlocks inherit This kind of activation knowledge spell is also often attached to ensure that one's inheritance will not be leaked to those who do not meet the requirements. The warlock who casts this spell on those demonic knowledge should be quite good, such a specification of activation is common in many high-level You can’t even see it in the legacy of sorcerers.” He said, “If you have a very strong perception, you can’t ignore this kind of magic and forcibly detain the knowledge itself in your mind. But that can only make yourself understand those things. Knowledge cannot be understood by people other than yourself. And even in the Security Bureau, there are only a handful of people who have this kind of awareness. Not even me."

Lie Que can get such an evaluation, it seems that the spread of demonic knowledge is really not an ordinary force.

"Let's talk about your affairs next." He said, "I should have asked you not to inquire about or interfere with the mission of Jade Bird, but you violated it. Why?"

"I have explained everything in the report."

I can sense Lie Que's doubts about me, he suspects that I will degenerate into a murderous demon again in the process of chasing "it"'s hand.

However, "it" was already dead, and all the remains were incinerated, leaving only one hand.Would I kill someone for that hand and feed it to that hand?That's impossible.Even when I was in the devil period, it is impossible for me to have such a disordered behavior.

If I really have the possibility of falling again as he thinks, it is impossible for me to chase that hand again.

In the report, I explained it this way: the reason why I found out about the mission of the blue bird was because I happened to be imprisoned in a different space with her; It was discovered that Joan was being targeted by a middleman.Everything is a matter of urgency.It's just that this kind of statement may not be completely acceptable to Lie Que, as if no matter how many students make up excuses for forgetting their homework, the teacher will still treat it as nothing.Besides, my report was not so seamless, and it was easy for Lie Que to find the flaws.

"You defeated the middleman and saved the two victims. This is credit; but you disobeyed orders. This is fault. In terms of credit, I allow you to pick a piece of secret knowledge from this catalog for your own use. Now you It doesn’t matter if you choose, or you can choose slowly after you go back. As for faults…” He took out a booklet and handed it to me, and then said, “I don’t make things difficult for you, isn’t the charm of the succubus useless to you? Then she will leave it to you to solve. You will have no other tasks until this matter is over."

Now I can only focus all my energy on tracking the succubus for the time being.

"Anything else?" he asked.

"Yes." I said.

Although I said before that I would not hide anything from Qingniao, I don't know whether to tell Qingniao about this.

Strictly speaking, it's not that I don't know whether to tell Jade Bird, but that Jade Bird probably doesn't know whether to tell me.

It's just that I may have penetrated into the secret she harbored in advance.

And Lie Que must know the truth.

"Qingniao once mentioned to me in a dream that when the Security Bureau implemented dream therapy on me, an inner ghost implanted a vicious factor into my dream, which finally turned the dream of treatment into a cruel nightmare." I said .

"There is such a thing." He nodded.

I went on to say, "The so-called inner ghost...is probably Jade Bird himself."

(End of this chapter)