Siren Blade

Chapter 69 Prologue
The first time I saw the hunter's face was before I left for Daylight.In order to know in advance who the warlock stationed there is, I checked the information.A photo of the hunter was attached to the information. It was a man with an upright face, and his whole body seemed to be entwined with righteousness.To put it more exaggeratedly, although I have never been on a real battlefield, if I cooperate with such a person on the battlefield, even if it is the first time I meet, I might not be able to help but entrust my back to him.

The second time was during the Fog Incident in Bairi Town. He still had the same face, but his demeanor changed from awe-inspiring righteousness to crazy evilness.For the sake of the succubus, he didn't even hesitate to destroy the entire town he was supposed to protect.And after dispelling the charm, he became a hunchbacked person immersed in depression and low self-esteem, so fragile that it seemed that even the eyes of others could easily pierce his flesh and make him bleed, and a few words were enough to break his fragile body body.Finally, in order to avoid those horrible eyes and words, he left without saying goodbye.

And the third time, this time, he was literally a walking corpse.It has only been less than ten days, and his face has become pale and weak, with shocking dark circles under his eyes, while his hair is greasy on his scalp, and his back is as humble as if his bones were broken by someone hunched over.Originally, he was a middle-aged man close to 50 years old, but now he looked like an octogenarian who was going to the coffin shop to prepare his own funeral.

If it weren't for the fact that it was impossible for me to recognize the person I had fought with, how could I dare to believe that this person was a hunter.

"Hunter." I tried to call him.

He trembled sensitively, then scanned his surroundings in panic.Soon, he locked on to my face, and then his eyes widened in amazement.

Qiao Gancao also looked over curiously, "Is he the hunter? What a coincidence." It seems that she and the hunter met for the first time.

It is indeed a coincidence to say that it is a coincidence, but this kind of coincidence is not surprising in the world of warlocks.It is normal for different warlocks working in the same city to meet each other.The really strange thing is, why did the hunter appear in Tianhe City?

After hesitating for a moment, the hunter squeezed over from the crowd in the carriage, first said hello, and then said, "Congratulations on becoming an official law enforcement warlock. I heard that you have also joined the legal camp."

The legal camp is the faction of the Security Bureau that Lie Que and Hunter belong to.As the name suggests, this faction is full of security bureau warlocks who focus on the hidden law.The Secret Law is a special law used by the Security Service in law enforcement and judicial work.

Yes, the Security Bureau, as an official organization, actually has law enforcement and judicial powers at the same time, no matter how you look at it, it is a very problematic organization.

The significance of the existence of this special law is that it can be used to deal with some problems that are not very compatible with secular social laws.For example, assuming that someone is completely dominated by a monster with a power beyond the scope of modern scientific explanation, and kills someone during this period, is he guilty or innocent.There is no such case in secular society, although it is not impossible to apply existing laws, but the hidden law is more targeted.

The hunter was manipulated by the succubus in the past and was forced to kill many people, but he was not convicted in the end, which was also the result of the hidden law.But if the law would forgive him, he would not forgive himself.

"Aren't you going to be stationed in Bairi Town now?" I asked.

"After that incident, Lie Que deprived me of my position as a garrison warlock in Bairi Town, and at the same time gave me the task of dealing with the aftermath of the Fog Incident in Bairi Town." He said bitterly, "But where am I? He still dared to stay in Bairi Town, so he tried his best to refuse that mission, and then left there..."

"But you are a warlock affiliated with the Liucheng Security Bureau, why did you come to Tianhe City?" I said.

“I was also afraid to meet people who knew me,” he sighed. “So I took a leave of absence and went back to the city where I was born and raised.”

"So you are from Tianhe City?" I said unexpectedly, "Then why did you work in Liucheng Security Bureau?"

"The working environment of the Tianhe City Security Bureau is not very good." He seemed to be lost in memory, "I used to work in the Tianhe City Security Bureau, but in [-], Qi Zhe wooed me and said that Liucheng was a legal camp It is the place where the master is called, so I applied for a transfer."

The name Qizhe is very unfamiliar to me.

In addition, Qiao Gancao also criticized the Tianhe City Security Bureau with a similar speech yesterday. How bad is the working environment there?

"Who is Qi Zhe? According to you, he used to be a member of the Liucheng Security Bureau?" Qiao Gancao asked, it seemed that she didn't know who Qi Zhe was.

"It's Lie Que's son." The hunter replied.

It turns out that Lie Que also has a son... It is true, Lie Que is almost 60 years old, let alone a son, it is not surprising that he even has a grandson.

In 20, that is, 39 years ago... At that time, Lie Que should be [-] years old. Even if Lie Que got married early, Qi Zhe should have been a teenager back then.

Qiao Gancao asked strangely: "Son? I heard that Lie Que has no girlfriend..."

"He was married, but his wife and son passed away unfortunately in [-]," Hunter said.

In other words, Qi Zhe is no longer alive.

"What are your plans for the future?" I asked.

"I..." The hunter was silent for a long time, "I just plan to go around and see the hometown where I grew up. Then... let's talk about the things after that."

His answer was like a mirror, allowing me to see my past self.

Didn't my past self also have such thoughts, wandering aimlessly in Liucheng, and finally planning to die in a corner without anyone knowing?

Does the hunter have the same plan?
I wish I could console him, this law enforcement warlock who was really just charmed, to get back on his feet.But what should I say to him?I couldn't understand his pain, because unlike him, my past crimes were never committed by charm; moreover, to comfort him based on my relationship with him, there will inevitably be problems with shallow words.

After thinking for a while, I suddenly thought of a certain piece of information that I saw before heading to Tianhe City, which the hunter should be very concerned about.

The information clearly pointed out that in today's Tianhe City, there are still some tentacles of the mist demon active.

This is actually quite an anomalous situation.The Mist Demon is dead, and so are the demons that serve as its tentacles.Because of this, after I wiped out the demons of the mist in White Day Town, the demons that haunted the mist also disappeared.

The situation in Tianhe City is completely opposite.Those tentacles appeared when the Fog Demon was raging in Tianhe City. It is strange to say that the Fog Demon had already left Tianhe City, but those tentacles did not follow the Fog Demon, but stayed in Tianhe City.And it didn't die because of being disconnected from the mist, but it seemed to become an independent group of demons.

In my "follow-up investigation of the Fog Incident in Day Town" task, I also included investigating this mystery.

In a sense, those demons seemed to be the reverberations of the fog demons that still linger in the world.

Doesn't the hunter have any idea about this matter?
I asked him, but he showed a surprised expression, "The tentacles of the mist demon... are still alive?"

"You don't know?" I asked back.

He said ashamedly: "Recently, I have been very depressed, and I haven't had so much contact with outside information..."

"So that's it." I said, "We're going to report to the security bureau here. You're also on this train, which means you're going there too?"

"Yes." said the hunter.

"You probably don't have a mission right now, since you just want to look around, what are you going to do at the Security Bureau?" I asked.

"I want to see a person." He said complicatedly, "A corpse, to be precise."

"Corpse?" I wondered.

"You should know that the demon of the mist was summoned by some demon warlocks in Tianhe City." He said, "Those demon warlocks are almost all learners of online demon knowledge, but the warlock who is the core host of the ceremony is different. , he was already a Demon Warlock more than 20 years ago."

"You mean 'bad trick'?" Joe Licorice asked.

The hunter nodded, "I have some grievances with Evil Zhao. Even if he dies, I have to see his dead body with my own eyes to be at ease."

I have seen the name of the evil trick in the archives. He is the chief culprit who summoned the demon of the fog. He fled overseas 20 years ago and returned to China in the past two years.

I recalled the saying of biting blood.

Before dying, Evil Zhao ordered the Demon of Fog to go to Bairi Town. Could this behavior be related to the grievance mentioned by the hunter?
It was that order that prompted the succubus to launch the fusion ceremony in Bairi Town... But the evil trick is dead, as are the succubus and the demon of the mist, and it will only increase the hunter's sense of guilt if things are going to be opened now.What's more, that matter was not information that I should have known.

On the contrary, the hunter seemed to be concerned about something.He suddenly showed a strange expression and looked me up and down.Then, he asked hesitantly: "Speaking of which...you seem to have some strange aura? It's like a cursed aura..."

Was he talking about the blue bird's curse?I was surprised.I'm not surprised to be seen by Joan, because Joan's perception is so powerful.But the hunter's awareness has already receded, and he can still detect the cursed breath on my body.Could it be that the curse made by the blue bird is actually very rough?

It's not impossible, because Qingniao is not good at cursing in the first place, and she forced herself to make an exquisite trap that made me unconsciously cast a curse on her, so it is inevitable that such mistakes will occur.

But couldn't she see it herself?No... As a spellcaster, she could of course see the existence of the curse, but she couldn't take the perspective of someone without her own qualifications.

It is also her characteristic to drop the chain from time to time.But it's not good to go on like this.

Joan had no knowledge of curses, and even if he could detect the signs, he would not be able to recognize that it was a curse.And if it is a warlock with excellent perception and corresponding knowledge, maybe he can see the specific content of this curse.Although this is not something shady, and there is no room for people to take advantage of it, but just in case, I still have to talk to Qingniao later and find a way to deal with it.

"Don't worry, I know what's going on." I only responded to the hunter with this sentence.

"Okay." He nodded, then asked hesitantly, "Li Duo, are you not afraid when you come to Tianhe City..."

He didn't continue to ask, maybe he was thinking of asking simple and deep questions.He didn't ask for the exit until the train arrived at the station.

But I know what he wants to ask.

He probably wanted to ask: Li Duo, aren't you afraid of meeting Saber Tooth when you come to Tianhe City?

I'm afraid.

To be honest, I wasn't ready to face Saber Tooth again.

I can see his hateful face, his devastated body in the mist to save the survivors, and the image of him giving up revenge at the last moment and leaving in a state of despair.

In the past, when the old bone stood in front of me with a weapon and yelled words of extreme hatred at me, I thought that those who wish to avenge themselves, even if their hearts are full of hatred, should not give up the idea of ​​walking on the right path .The avengers that fictional stories so fondly criticize end up losing everything because they left everything behind for revenge.If you sow melons, you will reap melons, and if you sow beans, you will reap beans. Because you have abandoned everything, you have lost everything. This is a matter of course.

Revenge itself is just, wrong is sick thinking.So don't be a sick avenger, be a healthy one.

However, wouldn't an Avenger with that kind of healthy mentality also be an Avenger who would easily let me go?Could it be that I'm actually unconsciously selfish when I'm expecting a healthy Avenger?
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After exiting the station, we soon arrived at the Tianhe City Security Bureau.

The building layout here is similar to that of the Liucheng Security Bureau. Internal warlocks in white uniforms and law enforcement warlocks in black uniforms walk around sparsely in the lobby on the first floor.Just from the appearance, I can't see the "bad working environment" that Joe Licorice and Hunter said.But I know that what they say is not good refers to the physical environment, but refers to the style of work.

To put it simply, the Liucheng Security Bureau is in charge of the legal camp, so the style of work will highlight the due diligence of the legal camp; while the Tianhe City Security Bureau is relatively lax.

It may not even be described as loose.Jade Bird once told me about some issues with the style of the security bureau in other places, and I was shocked by all of them. It was hard to imagine that this was actually what the security bureau should look like.In my mind, the Security Bureau is a just organization full of order and the spirit of law. Otherwise, why would a devil like me be sentenced strictly according to the law?However, the overall picture of the Security Bureau told by the blue bird is quite different from what I imagined.

More on these later.After entering the Tianhe City Security Bureau, the hunter said goodbye to us for the time being, and went to check the remains of the evil move.And Joe Licorice and I found the person in charge of receiving us.

The Tianhe City Security Bureau was at fault for the Liucheng Security Bureau. They failed to deal with the Fog Demon, which led to the disaster in Bairi Town.Therefore, I dare not neglect the person who came to do the follow-up investigation. The house warlock who is in charge of receiving us has been waiting in the lobby for a long time.But the other party probably didn't know that it was me who came, they just knew that the Liucheng Security Bureau would come.

None of the people walking around the lobby recognized my face either.Although I am well-known in the hidden world, the only ones who can recognize me when they meet are mostly my enemies.Most people are insensitive to most things that have nothing to do with their lives.

When it came to specific conversations, I handed it all over to Qiao Licorice, and she walked to the front without hesitation, took out the reporting documents from her satchel and handed them to the internal affairs warlock.

The house warlock flipped through the documents, and when he turned to the page with my information, he froze for a moment, then looked at me, and shouted in shock: "Devil Li..."

"It's the law enforcement warlock Ren Sai!" Qiao Gancao interrupted the other party angrily.

(End of this chapter)