Siren Blade

Chapter 54 Prologue
I grew up reading fantasy stories, especially ones with a lot of fighting.

In this kind of fantasy story, the protagonist often faces an evil villain, and the villain has done all kinds of bad things, and his deeds are heinous. It is unacceptable that there are such people in this world.According to the development of the story, as long as the protagonist smashes the villain to ashes, everyone will be able to vent their anger.However, many authors like to superfluous, and have to add a stroke to the setting of the villain.For example: this villain is not a pure bad guy, but actually has good original intentions and good wishes; or he has no choice but to become such a bad guy because of unavoidable difficulties; Sympathetic in the past, no wonder he has fallen so far.

What's more, it is also said that the villain himself does not want to do so many bad things. He was manipulated by another villain with evil magic.Now that he is out of control and has become a character of his own faction, please forgive him.

How can it be forgiven?He has become a good person now, so is it possible that he can only hold back the bad breath in his chest?Will the man killed by those hands be resurrected because he is out of control?The previous villain is still so rampant, it's not his responsibility to pat his ass now, it's really unreasonable.How can you accept such an excessive plot.

It's better to send him back to the west before he knows that the villain has so much trouble.Wait until he's dead to hear what he has to say. Anyway, people are already dead, so it's no big deal to say a few words of regret for him at that time.I really have to wait until I have heard his bitterness before deciding whether to kill him or not. Killing him is not a joy.

Although I thought so when I was a child, in the eyes of others now, I am afraid that I am no different from that kind of hateful and depressing villain.

"I..." Joan was a little hesitant, as if unconsciously touching his left wrist.Just like me who was released some time ago, he also wore a gray bracelet with positioning and alarm functions on his wrist at this time.

Immediately, he also noticed his small movements, showing a little embarrassed expression, hiding his left wrist slightly behind his back, and then said, "I'm here to travel and relax."

Bairi Town is really a small tourist attraction, but its popularity is low.However, it is true that some people do not like to run to popular attractions, but do the opposite.But I looked around and didn't see his parents or Joe Licorice.Normally, no parent would rest assured that their thirteen or fourteen-year-old son would run around alone, especially since he was involved in a secret incident not long ago.

"Where are your parents?" I asked him, his expression became more embarrassed, he lowered his head as if he had done something wrong, and stared at the tip of his shoe.

Seeing his reaction, a sudden inspiration flashed in my mind, "You didn't run away from home, did you?"

His reaction was that he was told what was on his mind.

"...I never knew." He said to himself, "My parents actually pushed all those things to my sister and didn't tell me anything..."

It turned out that it was his parents who told him everything about the family inheritance.

On the one hand, it is Qiao Licao, the elder sister who is forced to accept the inheritance, and on the other hand, she is living a normal life without knowing anything.After he realized the truth of the family, he felt guilty towards his sister and angry towards his parents, so he ran away from home and went to this kind of place in a daze, and called it "traveling and relaxing"... Objectively speaking, he did I came here to relax, but the problem is that the location is not very good.

He has a high-awareness physique that is easy to be involved in secret incidents, and he has come to such a place where succubus may appear, so it is hard to guarantee that he will not be involved when I am dealing with succubus.Especially since he participated in the event where the succubus appeared last time, he may have formed some kind of mysterious connection with the event itself, and continuing to approach it will only increase the probability of falling into danger.

It sounds a little superstitious, and it seems to be an attempt to apply some kind of dramatic narrative thinking to forcefully apply what happened in reality.But in the hidden world, such inexplicable coincidences are common, and the question of superstition or not can't be taken into account.

I explained this to him, and then persuaded, "It's still too late, the station is not far from here, let's leave Bairi Town as soon as possible."

"This, this..." Qiao An was stunned.

"Also, your sister has never blamed you." I said, "If you have any worries in the future, don't hold them back alone, and go to your sister to discuss it."

"Did she really not hate me?" he asked uneasily.

I said emphatically, "No."

Not only did she not, that pervert secretly installed a lot of surveillance cameras in your living space. More than half of the coveted eyes you felt some time ago were probably hers.

Isn't it a little bad to persuade him to go to Qiao Licorice to discuss his concerns just now?Suddenly, I felt that I might have given the wrong advice.

Without hesitating for long, Joan made a decision and bowed his head to me, "Thank you. I'll go back right away."

I also said goodbye to him.He turned and left, drifting away.It seems to be some kind of walking habit. When he walks, he always touches the walls around him from time to time, just like he would pat the railings intentionally or unintentionally when walking by the railings.Soon, his figure disappeared around the corner in the distance.

I went back to my own business.

It didn't take long for me to arrive at the investigator's residence.It is a rather run down apartment.I walked through the corridors pasted with some advertisement leaflets, came to the door of the target house, knocked on the door, and at the same time used my awareness to silently sense the situation behind the door.

There was no answer or sound of walking behind the door, as if there was no one there.

But I know there are people in the house.With my keen hearing, I could already hear someone breathing deep in the room.It's just that the sound of breathing sounds quite sick, reminiscent of a broken bellows, and it seems that it will be completely out of breath in the next second.He knocked on the door again, but the sound of breathing remained unchanged, as if he couldn't hear it.It may also be heard, but not in a state of being able to answer or open the door.

I leaned over and opened the rug in front of the door, and found a key underneath.In fact, I "scanned" this thing with my awareness as soon as I came here. It is probably an emergency measure for people who live alone to prevent themselves from forgetting their keys when they go out.I borrowed this spare key to open the door, walked into the house, and entered the bedroom.

A man with an extremely haggard face was lying on the bed covered in sweat.As soon as I approached, he seemed to sense my presence, turned his head with great difficulty, and barely opened his eyes to look at me.

He pointed to the bedside table with difficulty, on which were some notes and photos.I picked it up and looked at it. It was information on the whereabouts of the succubus.

"What happened on your side?" I am still paying more attention to his situation now.

There is no doubt that he is the investigator I am looking for.I had seen his photo before I came here, but compared with the photo, he is too sick now.From his body, I felt an ominous spiritual wave that was distorted and expanded, which was constantly eating away at his vitality.

He was probably cursed, but who put the curse on him?

Is it a succubus?He tried to submit information on the whereabouts of the succubus to the Security Bureau, but was noticed by the succubus?Then fell under the spell of the succubus?But in this distorted spiritual fluctuation, I can't feel the provocative and obscene color of the succubus, but rather something more violent, malicious, and cold.

"Yes, it's a dream..." He said vaguely, as if holding a mouthful of thick phlegm, he tried his best to say, "I dreamed, dreamed, dreamed..."

"What did you dream about? Wait, don't talk yet." I rummaged through my body for the healing paper talisman that Jade Bird gave me before, "I have healing props here, although I don't know if it can work on curses..."

He didn't close his mouth, but stared at the ceiling with his eyes wide open, "I dreamed about...fog..."

Before he finished speaking, his whole body twitched, and the twisted waves in his body suddenly exploded.

Right in front of me, his chest exploded from the front, and a strangely shaped black crustacean like a praying mantis ran out of it.Since it was previously hidden under the chest of a person, it is reasonable to say that its size should not be too huge, at most it is at the level of a small dog.However, this creature is not like that at all. It is as tall as a human being, making it impossible to understand why it was able to hide in a human body before.Its carapace has a metallic luster, which looks like a killing machine against the bloody water.

I recognized it in shock, the creature in front of me was clearly a demon.

As soon as the demon appeared, he swung his scythe-like forearms to cut off my head like scissors.

I immediately assessed the level of this demon.As far as explosive power is concerned, it is even faster than the standard security bureau law enforcement warlock.If the person standing here was an ordinary warlock, he might be decapitated in the next moment.However, it is far from enough to deal with me.In my field of vision, whether it is its forelimbs closing like scissors or the blood splashing around it, they are all as slow as slow motion in a movie, as non-threatening.

I punched the demon on the breastbone, and the gust of wind blown away along with the blood splashed towards me.The demon flew upside down, piercing through the wall, and smashed into the utility room next door.

It's impossible to kill the demon at this level, but I didn't intend to kill it immediately, but to capture it alive first.The investigator mentioned the two keywords "dream" and "fog" before he died. Although I don't know what the dream refers to, if you combine "fog" and "demon", it reminds me of a recent incident in a neighboring city. The demon of the mist that caused the storm.

Does this matter have anything to do with the Mist Demon?And what is the connection with the succubus?
The demon in front of him is definitely not the demon of the fog in the rumors, so it is better to capture it alive just in case.Most demons have chaotic consciousness, even if they are killed, they cannot retrieve decent memories.It's just that my plan didn't go well.The body of the demon that fell into the utility room suddenly disintegrated into a mist state, and ran towards the window as if it had vitality.

It would be bad if the demons were allowed to run into the streets, so I summoned the siren blade and slashed at the mist.With just one blow, the mist that seemed to be immune to physical attacks made a weird scream under the slash of the Siren Blade, and then completely collapsed and disintegrated, and the soul flew away.

Capture failed.

Sometimes too much damage is also a problem... I just had to accept the fact that I called the aftermath on my phone and left the place.

Although the investigator just now seemed to live there alone, there should be family members and friends who missed him, but he died so cruelly.This incident weighed heavily on my heart.But I still have to make full use of the information he left me.

And, about that demon, I might talk to the law enforcement warlock stationed in Day Town later.

According to the homework done before coming here, the law enforcement warlock stationed in Bairi Town was also a member of the Liucheng Security Bureau, and his code name was "Hunter".Although he has not reached the level of a main-level law enforcement warlock, he is still a powerful warlock who has made many achievements.

He is very good at fighting, especially at tracking and scouting spells.The sorcerers and criminals he had found could never escape his pursuit no matter where they fled.Later, his awareness turned back and he withdrew from the front line.

The awareness of a warlock will decline due to various reasons, such as changes in the way of looking at things, changes in mood, and so on.To give an example that is closer to life, some children always have fresh curiosity and the impulse to observe things, but become indifferent to the things around them when they grow up.In the eyes of warlocks, this is also a "regression of awareness".

Today's hunters can no longer display the tracking ability of the past, but they should not have become dull in combat.

However, in order to prevent further delays and other possible changes, I decided to settle the succubus matter before going to the hunter.And for hunters, I still have a little worry in my heart.Leaving that aside, according to the information left to me by the investigator, the succubus should be in the hotel chain in the center of Bairi Town right now.I want to get rid of her as quickly as possible.

But after a while, I entered the chain hotel, hiding my breath and walking all the way to the upper floor.Neither the front desk nor the waiter could notice me. I came to the door of the target's room like a ghost, and explored the interior with awareness.

But before he had time to scan the interior clearly, the door suddenly fell apart.A familiar bone whip pierced through the door and hit my throat.

In the next moment, the bone whip was shattered into pieces by the siren blade in the air.I strode into the room, and at the same time, I saw clearly the person who attacked me——the succubus, she was standing in the middle of the room, staring at me with gritted teeth, "You actually chased me to such a place!"

At the same time, I also saw the cruel scene inside the room clearly, and then said to her: "This is where you will be buried."

"No, I won't die here." She suddenly calmed down and shouted sharply, "Kill him, Hunter!"

(End of this chapter)