Siren Blade

Chapter 67 Insufficient Authority
Lie Que decided to let Qiao Gancao accompany me to Tianhe City.

"Joe Licorice?" I said, "That's not appropriate."

"She is not suitable, who else is suitable? In other words, besides Qingniao and Qiao Licao, who else are you familiar with in the Liucheng Security Bureau? With the power of Qingniao, if you act together, you will definitely be noticed in advance by biting blood; But Qiao Gancao has no such 'disadvantage', she is also very free recently, and just happens to be with you." Lie Que said, "Or do you think you can deal with the Tianhe City Security Bureau by yourself?"

Hearing this, I thought about it for a while.

The Security Bureau of Tianhe City is where Saber Tooth works. If I go to Tianhe City for activities, I may run into Saber Tooth again.If Saber Tooth once again ignites the idea of ​​revenge and wants to swing the sword at me, this time I will not honestly surrender my life, otherwise Blue Bird will die of heart paralysis.

And even if this is put aside, just meeting friends and colleagues of Saber Tooth over there, there is a possibility of friction.Taking a step back, there is no need to say how dirty my past and reputation are, and it is reasonable for other law enforcement warlocks to criticize me.And I'm not a person who is good at interpersonal communication. If I come and go, there may be unnecessary incidents.If there is a character who can help smooth things over and save me from that kind of embarrassment, that would be great.

But I still struggled a little, "You should know about my relationship with Jade Bird."

"The news has already spread in the Security Bureau." Lie Que said, "It's so hot that it's hard not to know."

And this thing?I was stunned for a moment, and then continued: "Qiao Gancao is also a young woman. Is it not good for me to go on a business trip with her?"

He asked directly: "Will you cheat?"

"No." I said.

"Then cheat as soon as possible." He actually said that, "It's best to settle the matter with Qiao Licao on the night of the business trip, and then use the mobile phone to record a video and launch it to the blue bird, so that the blue bird can give up on you as soon as possible."

What do you mean by getting things done?While slandering me, I asked back: "Aren't you the teacher of Qingniao?"

"This is the care of a teacher." He said firmly, like an old father who saw his daughter mingling with hooligans on the side of the road. Because he couldn't get angry with his daughter, he had no choice but to show his face to me.

But even I often feel that I am not a good match for Jade Bird, and I am not very good at refuting the other party.But Lie Que was silent for a while, and changed the topic back, "Li Duo, Bite Blood is completely different from the old bones, middlemen, and succubus enemies you encountered before. She is really very dangerous. It is also really possible to kill you. But, maybe I will make you feel confused by asking me... Assuming she really kills you, will you really die?"

"If I am killed, how can I not die?" I really can't figure out his "thinking of the question".

"You used to have absolute immortality, so what about you now?" He asked, "Do you still have that ability?"

"It's gone," I said.

He asked: "You have never died, how do you know that you have lost your immortal body?"

"I can detect it." I said, "I can't guarantee other things, but I will never be wrong about my own life and death."

"Really..." He seemed to be lost in thought.

"Why all of a sudden?" I asked.

"It's nothing." He said, "Let's talk here first, I hung up."

After speaking, he hung up the phone.I look at my phone and think.Could it be that he suspects that I have concealed and fabricated information about my abilities, so he is testing me here?It doesn't seem like that.

I get the feeling that he has other, deeper intentions.It's just that I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't figure out what his intention was.
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The document appointing me to go to Tianhe City to conduct the "follow-up investigation of the Fog Incident in Bairi Town" came down soon.After confirming the contents of the documents, I completed my daily homework in my temporary residence, and then went to the Security Bureau, intending to investigate more information from the previous night in the archives before going on a business trip.

As for the so-called "homework", in addition to the general knowledge textbooks of the Security Bureau, there is also the knowledge of runes that I recently acquired.

After solving the middleman incident, Lie Que said that he allowed me to choose a piece of secret knowledge from the catalog he gave me for my own use, and what I chose was the knowledge of runes.There is no deep reason for choosing this, it is purely because I lack confidence in my magic talent, and this is the simplest and most basic.

As for what a rune is, there is no need to explain further.All over the world, wherever there are writings, there will be legends of "writings with magical powers", such as traditional Taoist talismans, or runic writings that are very familiar to occultists.Just drawing or reading this kind of characters will form a wonderful effect, and the combination and arrangement are even more wonderful.

But runes also belonged to the field of secret knowledge. Even if ordinary people with insufficient awareness got their hands, they would persuade themselves to put them on the shelf for various reasons, or discard them casually, or forget them for no reason.

And even for a person like me who has reached the standard of awareness, it is not so easy to learn.

I still remember seeing a special toy card when I was a child, which was given as a bonus for crisp noodles or other snacks.I don't know what kind of manufacturing process is used, the pattern on the card will change with the viewing angle.And the runes remind me of that card.It's just that I obviously haven't changed the viewing angle, but the runes are still unpredictable.It was still the same in the last second, and it was completely different in the next second.

I tried to recall the appearance of the runes for a second, but I was surprised to find that it was not only the runes on the paper that changed, but even the runes in my memory were not fixed, as if they were alive.

Let alone drawing, I can't even remember clearly.

I have consulted Jade Bird about learning, and her suggestion is very simple, that is, to give full play to one's awareness.Strong awareness can recognize the correct form of the rune, and bind the memory of the rune in his mind.

But a strong awareness does not necessarily mean a strong spell talent.Moreover, in the matter of learning runes, what is more important is the fate with runes.If you feel that you can't learn the current rune, you'd better change another rune and continue learning.

As a result, I searched through the entire book, but I didn't feel that I was destined for any rune.Perhaps, as the Siren said, I didn't have the destiny to become a warlock, so I hit a wall in this regard.

Instead of wallowing in self-pity, I decided to start over with the most basic "ignite the fire" rune.

Unlike me, Joan made rapid progress in learning spells, and today he has mastered the first spell in his life.

I met him after I entered the Security Bureau. As soon as we met, he couldn't help sharing his joy with me.

It seems that his magic talent is as good as his perception, and at the same time, he can reshape the worldview very quickly.You must know that the most uncomfortable hurdle for a layman to become a warlock is to change the way of understanding the world.

The way real warlocks look at the world is incompatible with the secular society, they are more like the ancients.

In the eyes of modern people, there is a clear distinction between nature and supernatural; but in the eyes of ancient people, the basic elements of the world are those things that are considered supernatural to modern people.

One of the manifestations is that when modern people search for evidence of miracles, they may ask those who firmly believe in miracles, "If this is the case, then prove it to me." The premise of this questioning method is the modern worldview.Because modern people firmly believe that the flow of wind and water is caused by physical laws, they will not believe that miracles have already spread in every corner of life, unless they are shown evidence; For the ancients who were "gods and elves", modern people's doubts about miracles are permeated with an indescribable sense of weirdness just from the way they ask questions.

But even if you can successfully cast a spell by believing in the warlock's worldview, it doesn't mean that the warlock's worldview is correct.Just like in the world of science, many old theories that have been overthrown today were also useful theories that could correctly predict many phenomena in the past, but it did not affect the replacement of new theories.Human beings are always introducing new ways of explaining the world, but no one can say what the true face of the world is now.

The above are all what Jade Bird said when she was a "tutor" for me. She likes to play the role of my teacher very much.Sometimes I was reading the textbook in front of her, and she would suddenly pull it away to see what I was reading, and then start the class with a high spirit.I also really like watching her talk to me with a happy expression, so I never refuse her.

Back to the present, the reason why Joan appeared in the Security Bureau was because he was a witness of the Fog Incident in Bairi Town.It is helpless to say that some people in the Security Bureau have some "views" on my report (not so much about my report, but about me), so I asked Joan, who was with me at the time, and talked to Compare with my report.

Joan, on the other hand, was not very clear about those complicated things. He couldn't hide his excitement and told me that he had learned spells.Suddenly, he had a strange expression on his face, "Why do you have a strange feeling on your body... eh? Chains? Wait, why do I think of chains..."

Did he sense the blue bird's curse?It's a power of perception that cannot be underestimated... I didn't intend to talk to him about that matter, but turned the topic back, "What spell did you learn?"

"Well... it's a kind of mind-reading technique." Speaking of the specific content, he became embarrassed, "This spell can understand the other party's thoughts at this moment by touching the other party's body and on the premise that the other party opens his heart..."

"The other party has already opened up to you, do you still need to use spells to understand the other party's thoughts at this moment?" I asked.

"Yeah, so it's a useless spell." He said helplessly, "And I haven't been able to find someone to practice it. After I learned it, I haven't used it once."

"Can't you practice with your sister?" I asked.

"My sister is closed to me." He sighed, "Maybe she actually hates me..."

She just doesn't want you to see how she usually flirts with you.

"You can ask me to practice." I said.

"Will you open up to me?" He asked strangely, "Is there any secret that you don't want me to know?"

"I have nothing shameful." I said, "I finally learned the spell, let's try it first."

"Really?" He confirmed again and again, "I really want to use it?"

"Use it." I nodded.

Hearing this, he closed his eyes.I felt the spirit in the air moving indistinctly towards his body.After a long time, he seemed to have finished his preparations, opened his eyes, and carefully pressed his hands on my chest.

Speaking of it, although there is nothing shameful, it is better not to let him see some things that endanger the mental health of young people.It’s like the memories of the middleman. Even I can’t stand it after reading it. Some time ago, I was influenced to look at Joan with colored glasses, which is really harmful.

Suddenly, Joan's face turned red, and he quickly withdrew his hand like a frightened animal.

It's not good, have you seen the things you just thought about?

To avoid embarrassment, I pretended to be ignorant and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing, nothing!" He said in a panic, his voice involuntarily raised, and he pressed his heart as if he was afraid that his heart would pop out of his own accord.

I continued to ask: "Has the spell been released?"

He lowered his head blushingly, his eyes were nowhere to rest, "Let it... let it go..."

"Just let it out." As I spoke, I stretched out my hand, wanting to pat him on the shoulder to make him relax.But when he was about to touch it, he felt uncomfortable, and his body suddenly felt a little nervous.

Seeing this, I took my hand back, and said without changing my face: "Then let's go here first this time, I still have something to do. If you want to practice in the future, you can come to me again."

"Okay...Okay!" Hearing this, he fled away as if he had been pardoned.

I also breathed a long sigh of relief, watching his back disappear around the corner.

I really did something to be sorry for him, I hope he will not leave a psychological shadow because of it.

I turned around and walked in the opposite direction. It didn't take long before I entered the file room of the Security Bureau and came to a computer.

The computer's monitor was dark, and there was a card reader next to the keyboard.I took out my work ID and put it in the card reader.

The monitor flashes the interface of the archive.

The archives of the Security Bureau are electronic, and corresponding permissions are required to read the archives.Previously, I was a non-staff law enforcement warlock, with only temporary authority, and many files were forbidden to read.

And now I am an official law enforcement warlock, and my reading privileges have been upgraded.

In order to check that my permissions have really been upgraded, I took a look at a few files that were previously forbidden to read.

For example, the file about "Devil Li Duo" is funny to say, it's about me, but I didn't have permission to read it in the past.

Another example is the file about "Kraken", which I wanted to see for a long time in the past, but couldn't.

However, after actually looking at the contents of these two files, I didn't get any new information.Especially the latter, more than [-]% of the content in it is not "it", but about me who was with "it" at that time.Are those things still unclear to me?After a brief scan, I turned it off and started searching for information related to the night before.

At this moment, on a whim, I searched the archives of the security bureau's dream of my healing.Soon, I searched for the corresponding file, and then clicked on it with the mouse.

A prompt box popped up.

--Insufficient permissions.

(End of this chapter)