High priest

It's night, one o'clock in the morning.

All is silent, and human beings are in deep sleep.The zookeeper on the night shift was dozing indoors, and his companion, Quincy, was holding a flashlight and started his daily night watch.

Normally, the "nightlife" of animals has just begun.Lions in the free-range area will fight, tigers in the wild forest will howl, and leopards that cannot sleep will change their meekness during the day and become murderous.If the fence hadn't been locked at night, no matter how fierce the fighting people were, they would never have taken over the job of night watch.

The animals in the sanctuary are downright wild and can be especially dangerous late at night.

It's just that today they...seem a little too quiet?

Quincy heard a strange sound, a rustling, the gentle rustling of leaves.Puzzled, he raised the flashlight and looked up, only to see an adult leopard buried its head in the huge tree hole, its exposed body trembling crazily.

"Hey, kid?" Quincy clapped his hands. "What's wrong with you?"

The leopard trembled even more!

After scanning the flashlight to no avail, Quincy left the leopard area puzzled, but passed by the lion area, feeling that the grassland tonight was particularly "harmonious".It is so harmonious that four different groups of lions are actually huddled together in the same place, cuddling each other and shivering.

Quincy: ...

"Hey buddy." Quincy called his dozing companion. "Something happened."

"Is the lion group fighting again?" The companion yawned a long time, and said sleepily, "Tell me, which lioness was injured? Or which male lion died in battle?"

"Neither, but the four lion prides have merged and are snuggling up for warmth."

"I thought it was a big deal. It turned out that four lions came together... Uh, eh?"

The burly man regained his spirits immediately. While picking up the flashlight, he put on self-defense tools and left the office without hesitation.

Just after he walked away, Qi Xinli went through the window and entered the room, and fixed the camera aimed at Ye Lin in threes and fives.He tapped the communicator and gave an instruction: "It's done, let's start acting."

"Received." Lagi restrained his breath, and left the place in a flash.

It didn't take long for the four prides of lions who were shivering together gradually regained their composure.Several male lions roared at each other, as if they had finally realized the matter of "land grabbing", they showed their fangs one after another.

Soon, they were scuffling, flying manes and turf everywhere.

"Quincy, you lied to my feelings. Where are the four lions cuddling up to each other?"

"Oh no man! I'm not lying, they were fine before and now they're fighting..."

Deep in the wild forest, Lackey scared away a leopard and scared off a tiger.The tip of his nose twitched, he glanced around, and finally determined the location of the black panther Morun.

It was a strange feeling. He had never touched Moron, but he could smell it.It was as if the instinct to find a wild beast was engraved in his blood, and he could "summon" it whenever he wanted.

What an amazing experience.Lackey thought so.

"He's walking back, oh, jogging, he'll be there in 2 minutes."

"receive."

Lackey stared at the dark place, and let out a deep growl from his throat.The panther, who was integrated with the darkness, backed up on guard, but Lackey suddenly lowered his body and rushed out with great explosive force.

Like a wild beast preying, he directly overturned the panther.The left hand pinched the back of its neck, the right hand wrapped around its abdominal cavity, and disappeared into the shadows a few times.The howling sound of the black panther left alone was blown away by the wind, but it did not attract the administrator's attention.

Qi Xinli was silent for tens of seconds, and then quickly unlocked the program.When his finger hit the Enter key, the doorknob turned, revealing half of the man's burly figure.

"哗啦" was the soft sound of the night wind blowing the curtains.The room was quiet, leaving no trace of warmth.

The man took off his coat and tools, checked the monitoring in the working state, and found nothing abnormal.After a long while, he closed the window and asked doubtfully, "Strange, didn't I close the window when I left?"

In the silence of the night, no one could answer his question.

……

"Dania" Castle Hotel, the exterior wall at the blind spot.

"Is it really okay for us to take the black leopard away without saying a word?" Yu Mingyang whispered, "It's reasonable, why don't we negotiate? The iron mouth of the Foreign Affairs Office came with us and asked Ula to borrow a leopard. What a simple thing."

"Do you think that 'Tie Zui' came with us just to make ordinary negotiations?" Qi Xinli smiled, "Wake up, he is a helper who made a special trip to clean up the mess for us."

"Eh?"

"Think about it, which one of our actions is not a big one?" Qi Xinli said, "The country knows that we are a group of 'troubleshooters', so they send people to help us out. As for why we don't make good negotiations—if we can negotiate normally, Why do you need the awakened ones to dispatch?"

"It involves poachers and serial killers, and maybe even bigger fish will be pulled out. If we follow the process completely, won't we be exposed? The enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light. The more you can dig deeper into the truth."

The enemy is in the dark, they are in the light...and this is still abroad.

It's not like home outside, and the chaos in some places is unimaginable horror.

"Under this general environment, as long as the serial killer is not dead, he must become a demon." Sinocheng said in a deep voice, "And the poachers are either individual teams or large organizations, plus the Benefit chain..."

Needless to say, the layers of barriers inside are enough to kill everyone who wants to break through.

"Let's go, take Morun to find the psychic in Qianding City." Si Nuocheng looked at the black panther, but found that the panther seemed to have a human nature, no longer roaring or guarding, just quiet huddled in the shadows.

It seemed to sense what they were going to do, so it stood up on its own initiative and walked to Lackey's side.It raised its animal pupils to look at each awakened person, then lowered its head and sniffed lightly, remembering their scents.

"It's almost as if it has become a spirit..." Jiang Qining rubbed his goosebumps, "Is it human, why did it suddenly become so obedient?"

The panther was still struggling under Lackey's hands before, trying to run several times.As a result, they decided to find the "serial killer", and it was extremely peaceful in an instant.

Yu Mingyang said: "How is it possible, animals can't understand human words, it's an illusion."

Hearing this, Ji Si raised the corner of his mouth.

……

Ula is a very magical country.

Their people have always believed in witchcraft and spirits as real things, and also recognized psychics and witches as legitimate and regular professions.

People who are in a period of confusion will seek the help of psychics, and the police who are deadlocked in investigating cases will also seek help from psychics.Even in order to facilitate people's consultation, many psychics gathered in Qianding City and opened their own witch shops, specializing in selling magic supplies and asking questions.For example, the Fragrant Temple and Daoist Hall in Central Continent, although they have different forms, are similar in essence.

And the magic house of "Aurora" is just such a witch's shop.

It is located at the end of Qiandingcheng Street and needs to turn three turns to get there.It's just that the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley. Even if the awakened person doesn't recognize the address of the witch's shop, he will be attracted by the strange fluctuations emitted by the witch's shop, and then walk to the destination inexplicably.

It is 02:30 in the morning, but the witch shop is still open.Its decoration is natural and simple, the wall is made of uneven rocks, and the display stand is made of woody tree stumps.

Crystals and herbs are placed in wooden lattices, and candles and jewelry are placed on stone walls.There are dolls with weird shapes sitting on the chairs, and the magic oil of plants sinking and floating is emitting a fragrance.

When the dim light hits from the top of the head, everything looks hazy and mysterious, as if entering another world.

The awakened ones opened the door and entered, and saw the woman leaning against the counter opened her eyes and turned to look at them: "Welcome."

When she opened her mouth, she was quite scary.

There is no other reason. This woman has big red wavy hair, fair skin, and exquisite facial features. She is sitting at the counter in a slim sweater that reaches her ankles. If she doesn't speak, everyone will think she is a life-sized doll.

"You can call me 'Aurora'." She smiled, her voice was low and clean, "That's my witch name."

She stood up, perhaps because she was wearing high heels, her height was similar to theirs, and she had a strong aura.Aurora carefully looked at each awakened person, paused the second she swept past Ji Si, and then sat down as if nothing had happened.

"I can feel your energy is very strong." Aurora smiled, "This is very strange, you who also have psychic abilities, why did you come to me?"

"In order to verify the information." Si Nuocheng turned sideways, and the black panther Mo Lun walked out slowly, "I spied a part of the content, and I want someone to check the answer."

He didn't want to make a fuss, but found out that he had found the wrong place.By the way, he wanted to observe carefully how the psychics in Qianding City channeled psychics.

……

Ten minutes later, Aurora lit a candle and placed it in the center of the copper pentagram.She watched the panther silently, then reached out and lifted Morun's jaw.

Just like what Snow City did, Aurora put her forehead on Morun's head, and suddenly said, "Lini, don't let the guests touch those dolls."

After the words fell, a white cat rushed out quickly and stopped Yu Mingyang's fidgeting fingers with its pads.Its green animal eyes stared at him dead, as if saying: [If you touch it again, I will bite you! 】

Yu Mingyang: "It... damn it!"

He turned his head to look at the black panther, and then turned his head to compare with the white cat.Immediately afterwards, he looked at Ji Si with a distorted expression, as if he had been hit hard.

"Really, really understand human speech?" asked cautiously.

"It's not understandable, it's just 'heart-to-heart'." Ji Sidao, "When people get along with animals, they often raise 'magic envoys' without knowing it."

"Magician?"

"Well, for example, the black panther Morun, or this white cat Lini." Ji Si explained, "I said that a human being is an extreme tool, the mind can move at will, and the law can be spoken at will, and the name is the shortest spell. "

He looked at the panther: "The beginning of the connection between humans and animals is to give them a name."

"They accept the name and the protection given to them by humans, and they will naturally give their loyalty and give protection to humans when necessary. This two-way emotional return is itself a flow of energy. It will make animals understand What humans think makes humans feel what animals want."

"Over time, the demon envoy has been cultivated in this way, but human beings don't realize what's wrong."

"Emotions are two-way, and protection is two-way. Once the link is formed, the magician will protect human beings for a lifetime. They are companions in life and guardian spirits after death."

"It's fine if the person they want to protect dies naturally, but if they are killed by someone—" Ji Si paused, "then the murderer is the target that the devil will kill in his entire life."

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PS: Beep in a low voice: Actually, Aurora is a man.

Beep even softer: In fact, the previous wizards were not called wizards, they were all called "witches".

Beep even softer: I am really stuck in a dog ==