Siren Blade

Chapter 7 Her Words

"First of all, as you know, the weapons used by the devil are very special. It is said that the devil was just an ordinary person living an ordinary life, but one day, he went to a mysterious place that no one could find. land, and found a monster that no one knows in a mysterious place.” At this time, we had already left the beverage shop, and the blue bird walked slowly in front of me, as if describing an ancient fantasy story, “In his When the monster was discovered, the monster also found him. Then, the monster bewitched his mind and made him lose all human reason; and as compensation, the monster gave him the supreme weapon—that is, the 'Siren Blade' '."

She continued, "The Siren Blade has many incredible properties. For example, just by holding this weapon, you can get explosive power and endurance far beyond ordinary people; ordinary blades and bullets can't penetrate his skin , and even if it causes damage, it will quickly regenerate and heal in a blink of an eye; what is even more frightening is that when a demon hunter faces this weapon, he only imagines in his mind that he is being attacked by it, and his body will automatically emerge with a corresponding Wounds. There was once a demon hunter who was good at seeing the future and fought with demons. He may have thought that as long as he used his special ability to predict the enemy's opportunities, he would be able to gain the upper hand in the battle with demons, but his fate was also the same. It is conceivable: before his partner had time to see him make a move, he automatically disintegrated into scattered corpses on the spot."

"Is this why you were seriously injured? Because your arm was cut off in my precognitive dream, so..." I suddenly got stuck, because there was a serious logical contradiction here.

It was me, not her, who foresaw the future in the dream.If anyone was hurt, it should be me.I dreamed that I was killed by a demon one after another. According to this logic, my head shouldn't be on my neck, right?
"Why am I fine, but something happened to you?"

"I am also very puzzled about the former. No matter whether the phenomenon that happened to you is a precognitive dream or time regression, since you have the memory of being killed by the Siren Blade, you cannot be safe and sound." She Say, "As for the latter, that explains it all... Do you know anything about sympathetic witchcraft?"

Is the particularity that appeared on me related to the devil's insistence on killing me?As I thought about it, I replied, "I don't know, I don't know anything about demon hunters."

"This is not the exclusive knowledge of demon hunters, but a theory put forward by an anthropologist in the secular society. He analyzed the primitive witchcraft thinking of ancient people and divided them into two categories: 'imitation' and 'contact'. Ignoring the latter, the basic principle of the former is that assuming that two different objects have similar characteristics, it means that there is some hidden connection between them, and by exerting influence on one of them , you can influence the other from a distance.”

"For example, stick a picture of the cursed object on a doll woven with grass, and then pierce it with a needle?" I thought of such a "curse technique" that appeared in many fictional stories, and connected it with reality , "Because I predicted that the demon in the dream would attack you, so I also cursed you in the real world?"

"Correct."

"This is too unreasonable." I was stunned.

It would be fine if it was Jade Bird who was framed in a dream, but now I am dreaming and Jade Bird suffers, how unfair it is to Jade Bird.

"The Siren Blade is such an unreasonable weapon." She said, "What's worse, the Siren Blade also has the power to cause real damage to the physical and spiritual bodies. Generally speaking, wounds cannot be healed. Even the super-speed regeneration ability is useless, and even monsters with undead bodies can be killed. Of course, I am no exception."

"Then you now..."

In front of me, she lifted up her cuff, revealing a section of her severed arm, which was messily pasted with a white substance like plasticine.

"The stop loss measures have been taken, don't worry." She put down her cuffs again, and said, "Now you understand the danger of the devil, I think you seem to want to participate...don't do that think."

It turned out that she only showed the wound to let me quit in spite of the difficulties.However, seeing this kind of thing, how can I convince myself to back down.This is an incurable wound she took to protect me.

"You mentioned the spirit body just now...do you mean the soul? Your soul was also hurt?"

"It's almost the meaning of the soul. But that's the case, the spirit body and spirituality are nothing more than other kinds of matter and energy, but people with slow awareness cannot perceive it. Since measures to stop losses can be done to the physical body, it is also possible to stop the loss of the spirit body. able to do that," she explained.

After hearing this, I don't know whether to relax or worry.But what she said about the soul always made me unspeakably wrong.In some sci-fi stories, some authors described the soul before, and tried to explain it scientifically as matter and energy like electromagnetic waves. I had similar feelings about this, but it was really hard to express in words what was wrong.

I waved away this untimely thought, and then persuaded: "Since you are already injured...then call for foreign aid, and don't fight alone this time."

"Unfortunately, there is no foreign aid around here that can replace me or help me," she said.

"Wonder hunters are so understaffed?"

"It's true that there is a shortage of manpower, but more importantly... I don't know if you heard me say last time that I am a national first-level demon hunter." She said, "This title means that I am already a member of this country. The highest level witcher."

Although I also felt very powerful when I heard the word "national level" at first, but the highest level... This is the first time I heard that she is such an amazing character.

"Is there no other character as good as you?" I asked.

"Yes... But, some of them are good at perceiving. If you let them see you, the phenomenon of precognitive dreams that happened to you may also be exposed." She said seriously, "The witcher department is quite a cold place , if such an example of you is found, maybe they will force you to join, and then use you as a tool."

Without hesitation, I said, "Then let them take advantage."

"What?" She was stunned.

"That devil is a very evil guy, so you must not ignore it." I hope I can be brave in front of her, and I really mean it, "I read nothing special I can’t find any good jobs after graduation anyway, and I still have to work for others. Isn’t this being used as a tool? It’s okay to expose my ability to do prophetic dreams to the witcher department. It’s because I found an iron job in advance. The witcher department won’t even give me a salary and let me work for nothing, right?”

"You..." She looked at me blankly, "Could it be..."

I silently waited for her next text, but what she said left me speechless, "Could it be that your front desk really wrote a love letter to you, but it was accidentally discovered by a classmate, she was too shy, That's why you lied and said it was a fake love letter fabricated by others?"

"Ah?" I was interrupted by her, and I didn't know how to place the resolution I had finally brewed.

She smiled, "Okay, I just said it casually."

It turned out that it was just casually.

"Because it's too late to call for foreign aid, and it's not so easy to recruit demon hunters of the same level as me."

Does "casual talk" actually refer to this part?I opened my mouth.And she continued: "The only thing we know so far is that the devil will appear on the Wuming Mountain at ten o'clock in the evening, that's all. Once this time is missed, the trail of the devil is likely to be lost. If he wanders to the barren mountain again In the wild mountains, or mixed in with the crowd, it will be difficult to handle."

"It shouldn't be easy for him to blend into the crowd like that." I added in my heart: and he is still an irrational madman.

"It's not easy, he just needs to walk into the crowd..." She stopped abruptly, "I'm sorry, I was stupid."

I was a little concerned about her attitude, but she changed the subject, "I don't want you to participate in this matter, and there is another important reason. If there is no accident, once you get close to the devil, he will immediately lock on to your specific location."

"Why?" I asked immediately.

"It's quite simple to come to this reasoning. The demon's perception is relatively scientific. Although it is sensitive in combat, it is not so powerful. But last time you only looked at him from tens of meters away With one glance, he immediately locked on to your location, especially when he was concentrating on fighting with me... This is very suspicious no matter how you think about it." She expressed her reasoning, "And you said it , when you first noticed the battle between me and him, the battlefield was about two or three hundred meters away from you, and then you turned around and ran away, but the battlefield quickly caught up with you... I don’t think it’s your bad luck, it’s probably because The devil can sense your presence, so he deliberately shifted the battlefield over."

"Because of these?" I think these are still insufficient as evidence.

"It's just reasoning. So, I'll give this to you." She took out a cyan amulet from her body and showed it to me.

Then, she pressed the amulet to herself.

—she's gone.

No, she was still standing where she was, but my mind weirdly concluded that she was gone.I tried my best to stare at the blue bird standing in front of me, distracted by the contradiction between vision and consciousness.

Then, she took the amulet away again, put it into my palm, and explained: "This is a hidden amulet. Its effect is to prevent other people's consciousness from capturing you. Temporarily hide yourself. In this way, if he goes down the mountain, he will not be able to lock your position immediately."

My consciousness returned to normal.Then, looking at the amulet in my hand, I put it in my pants pocket without being polite.Then he asked the blue bird: "How do you plan to deal with the devil? He has an immortal body, and you are so injured..."

"If you can't kill it, seal it, if you don't have enough strength, use a trap, there are many ways to solve the problem." She said.

"Is there anything I can do to help? Since the devil can sense me and hate me so much, maybe I can be used as a bait..." What the hell am I talking about, being a bait? The courage to say it is because I feel that I will wake up in the daytime when I die, so I am more courageous?Taking advantage of my courage not ebbing, I continued, "Besides, I will sleepwalk to Wuming Mountain at night. Even if I don't want to go up the mountain, I will eventually go up the mountain, right?"

"You will sleepwalk to the mountain, and you will definitely go up the mountain, are these two different things?" she said.

"Why do you say that?" I wondered.

She looked at me twice more, and sighed: "It seems that you really want to help me."

After finishing speaking, a large number of tiny cyan electric currents burst out from her hands.These currents are woven into ropes that bind me tightly.Surprisingly, these electric currents did not cause any damage to me, and did not emit the slightest heat. The touch felt like an extremely strong cable tie.I lost my balance in a subconscious struggle, and sat down in the grass by the roadside.He wanted to stand up, but his strength seemed to be sucked away by the electric current, and he couldn't support his body no matter what.

"It's my mission to defeat the devil. And you are a person living in the ordinary world. You can live cautiously. It doesn't matter if you lie to yourself a little bit. It's better to run away with your back when you encounter something that is frightening from the heart. It's a smart way of life. And you try to be honest with your fears, really, there is nothing more stupid than that." She walked up to me, stared at me intently, and suddenly smiled, "But I also admit that you were a bit handsome just now."

She pressed her lips with her index finger, then poked my cheek with this finger, and walked away from my sight with a smile.

I looked at the place where she disappeared, and then at the electric cords on my body.The way to prevent yourself from sleepwalking to the nameless mountain is so simple, just tie yourself up.Why can't I think of such a simple method?

After thinking about it for a while, I realized that it wasn't that I couldn't think of it, but that I didn't think about it.Because I really wanted to fight alongside her, I just mentally pushed things in that direction.If he was bound to go up the mountain, it would be logical to fight side by side with her—this is really an overly appropriate reason.That's why she said at that time: It seems that you really want to help me.

No... It's fine for her to think so, even I think so, do I think too bravely of myself?Maybe I just made a fool of myself for a while and didn't think of it?Don't take yourself too seriously, Li Duo.

But if I do have a little bit of a hero in me, and even she has identified with me...

When I think of this, I feel very happy.

——But then again, am I going to sit in the grass by the side of the road bound by electric current all night?

I returned to the cold reality and realized that I was in a very helpless situation.

At this time, there was the sound of footsteps in the distance, it was the blue bird returning.

"Sorry sorry, I was careless." She smiled embarrassedly.It was the same when he showed the Thunderbolt Sword last time, couldn't this person be handsome to the end.

"Untie me first." I said.

"That's not necessary, I'll move you to another place. But even so, it's not good to keep you waiting overnight, so you go to sleep first." As soon as she finished speaking, she stretched out her right hand and covered me eyes.

A strong sense of sleepiness flooded into my consciousness.

Her gentle words came from her ear:
"When you wake up, it's over. You go back to your own, normal life."

Darkness takes over all of my consciousness...
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I woke up with a jerk.

The moment I woke up, I noticed my situation.There is a shadowy darkness in front of him, and he can see the silver full moon hanging on the night when he looks up.Jade Bird's binding measures had no effect, and I came to the mountains and forests again.

Feeling the familiar intuitive guidance again, the devil is probably in the distance ahead.

Suddenly, the sound of shrubs shaking came from behind.Looking back, the blue bird appeared in front of my eyes.She had just walked through the trees and shrubs, and when she saw me, she opened her mouth involuntarily.

After thinking about it, I recited in front of her with emotion: "When you wake up, everything will end. You will return to your own, normal life track."

The blue bird trembled: "I never said that!"

(End of this chapter)