How to become a sea witch

Once again, Bernice was awakened by the nightmare woven by those past memories.

Probably the sequelae caused by excessive intake of dairy products made her thoughts more chaotic and uncontrollable than normal, and at the same time made those dreams extraordinarily real, like experiencing it again.

She still remembered that it was the first few days when she was brought back to the sea witch's lair by Ursula, together with other sea tribes who were also captured, they were locked in many dark and cold magma stone cages.

Excessive hunger made her unable to stay awake, and the weak and almost non-existent magic power made her unable to resist at all.In order to get a mouthful of almost rotten food, she had to humblely pray to the sea demons stationed outside the cage.

Full of flying fish.

Flying fish carcasses mixed with sticky seaweed and wet fishy sand? This was the only food she could get at first.

Bernice herself was amazed at her adaptability from being so hard to swallow that she kept spitting it out, to being able to eat it completely.From then on, she never wanted to smell the flying fish again.

Any point will remind her of the days when she was imprisoned/trapped in a cage,? recall those dark days of panic and torture and humiliation.

Falling facelessly from the bed to the ground, Bernice closed her eyes and quietly waited for the intense heartbeat in her chest to gradually ease down.This is normal for her, and it usually clears up after a few minutes, no big deal.

She tried to touch the ground with her hands, and what she touched was no longer the familiar rough texture of reefs, but a strange feeling of icy smoothness like frosted glass.

In the haze, Bernice slightly raised her eyelashes in a daze and unwillingly, glanced around in a daze, and was completely frightened by the strange pure white and light sea blue piercing into her eyes so that she woke up.

She straightened up in a panic, flicked away the thick black hair that was swept up in front of her eyes by the current, and saw herself sitting on the ground, in a spacious and unfamiliar room.

It's not like a dream.

Bernice stared blankly at the colorful fish and colorful corals that were swimming leisurely outside the transparent wall.There are also those pieces of golden light spots crushed by the water layer, as the water surges, the magnificent light traces that move like living creatures in every inch are all quietly floating in the sight, reflecting the sea water Gentle and quiet.

Immediately afterwards, she discovered that not only the walls, but almost the entire room was constructed of that ice-like crystal.It’s just that due to the difference in thickness, the degree of perspective is also different. For example, the ground and other walls look as opaque as white snow.

There are other decorations everywhere, such as water rattles made of fish bones, gem bead curtains connected in series, and many rare fluorescent corals.

Bernice was sure again that this was not a dream.

At least, with her imagination, she would never have dreamed of such a beautiful and luxurious place, even seeing it...

"This is..." She sorted out her thoughts dully, and found that the only thing that looked a bit like this, and that she had seen before, was the Sea God Palace in the Abyss Sea God Territory.

The same room Thiago had used to trap her.

So, am I still in a dream?

Bernice was stunned for a few seconds, and subconsciously grabbed her hair to try to wake up, but she could only feel the clear pain from the scalp, and everything in front of her eyes remained unchanged.

She let go of her hair and shrunk to the ground guardedly, her nails quickly changed into a sharp and dark green hunting posture due to the magic power, her back was tense, and at the same time, she was trying to remember how she was brought here.

After a brief and fruitless memory, Bernice quickly gave up her plan to continue trying, but got up and slid to the door, holding the bone blade behind her hand, and tried to push the door in front of her.

The room was not locked, and it could be seen through the crack of the door that this was the second floor, and the first floor was a living room-like structure, which seemed much wider than this room, and the light seemed to be better.

Most importantly, there are no living beings around.

So Bernice quickly opened the door, ready to swim towards the door on the first floor, but just when she came across the heavy frost-white door engraved with repeated patterns, a voice suddenly came from behind her: "Go after breakfast." Well, it's still early anyway."

The sudden stimulation made Bernice's already tense nerves almost choke her to react instinctively.

But then, she realized that it was Thiago's voice.But at that moment, the bone blade had already escaped from her hand, and was barely stopped in mid-air by a cloud of green light.

Bernice pressed her back against the door, her long hair floating in the water like splashed ink, she stared at the mermaid boy who had just raised her head in a daze.Immediately afterwards, she looked back and forth between the opponent's blue ice eyes and the ready-to-go bone blade, and suddenly felt like cardiopulmonary arrest.

The light thread faded, and even the bone blade fell into the water and sank slowly, but was quickly taken back by Bernice.

After realizing what she had just done, she clenched her hands and hid behind her back, her face was a little ugly, the slight trembling and stiffness that came out of her nightmares still clearly remained in her tone: "Yes... I'm sorry , I thought it was... Anyway, I'm sorry."

Thiago looked at her like a child who did something wrong, standing at the door with her hands behind her back, looking extremely nervous, but as if nothing had happened just now, with a gentle smile on her face: "It's okay, I didn't expect you to wake up so early. Sorry for scaring you just now."

As he spoke, he raised his head towards Bernice and said, "Eat something first, you don't look very well."

She hesitated for a while, and finally sat obediently opposite Thiago, and saw a shell filled with pure sea breath beads in front of her.The fresh and tender snail meat that has just been processed is placed on the top, like a handful of freshly fallen snow.

Bernice glanced at the other things on the table, and found that they were all her favorites when hunting in the past, so she couldn't help but secretly looked at each other in surprise.

The mermaid in front of him was just handling those blue crabs skillfully, and put all the peeled crystal crab meat on a side plate. Even Bernice didn't respond when she thanked him again and again, as if she didn't hear it. , the face under the floating blond hair was silent, without any real emotion.

Thus, the breakfast proceeded in an awkward silence, until Bernice couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Is this your residence?"

"Yes." Thiago admitted it simply, and handed the processed blue crab meat to her very naturally, explaining with a flat attitude, "You were too drunk when you came back yesterday. I was worried about leaving you alone where you live, so I brought you here. How do you feel better now?"

"Am I that drunk?" Bernice stopped holding the fork, and after thinking about it for a while, she found that she had no memory of what happened after leaving the theater yesterday, and at the same time, she couldn't help but secretly recognized the waiter What was said on the dessert recommendation:

Sure enough, it is double the milky fragrance and double the richness.

"Yeah, the skirt on your body was also stained, so it looks like you can't take it anymore." He said lightly, still smoothly handling the green-lip abalone that was still trying to struggle. The ice blade pierced along the edge of the shell and split neatly.

The mollusk, which was still alive just now, immediately stopped moving.

"But it shouldn't matter, right?" he asked, raising his head and smiling at Bernice with a gentle and warm smile.

"The skirt..." Bernice thought about it, and felt a little regretful, "It's dirty."

Tiago watched every change of expression on her face and asked, "Do you care about that dress?"

"I don't really care, but at least it was given by someone else." She said, as if remembering something, she stretched out her hand and touched the top of her head, muttering softly, "It's strange, those things on my head don't exist anymore. Where did you go?"

"Maybe it was lost on the road." Thiago replied nonchalantly, picking up a green-lip abalone with the tip of his knife and taking a symbolic bite, "When I saw you yesterday, there was no hair on your head. something else."

"Is that so?" Bernice frowned suspiciously, feeling a little confused due to the gap in her memory.Immediately afterwards, an embarrassing question came to mind:

If she was brought back by Tiago, who changed her clothes?

With this weird question, Bernice secretly looked down at the little black dress she was wearing that had been dried in the theater.It was also because the dress was originally her own, so she didn't realize what was wrong when she just woke up.

Biting her lip repeatedly, she finally decided to skip the suffocating question.

As long as she didn't ask, the embarrassment would not happen, and the skirt ran on her by itself.That's right...

"What are you thinking?" Thiago asked, noticing her trance.

"Oh... I was just, just thinking, what did I do after yesterday, how did I lose something and don't remember? Where did you find me?"

"It's just beside the coastal road near the observation center." Thiago replied, and then said, "But if you can't remember it, don't think about it. Anyway, you said it's not something worth caring about. If you lose it, just throw it away. "

He comforted softly, but his eyes focused on the other person's face, taking every change in her expression into his eyes.

Bernice thought for a while, pursed her lips, and could only nod her head in agreement: "That's true."

After hearing this sentence, Thiago seemed to really laugh lightly.

In the middle of eating, Bernice stopped suddenly, looked at the other party and said, "I remembered, I met Greer yesterday and heard him talk about that night crow."

"Where did you meet?" he asked.

This question was a bit out of Bernice's expectation. She originally thought that Thiago would be more concerned about what Greer had said.But since he asked, Bernice replied quickly: "I don't know where it is, it was raining at that time, and it was the first time I wandered to that street. But..."

"Were you in a bad mood then?"

Facing Bernice with an obviously puzzled expression, Thiago added: "Usually you only wander aimlessly when you are in a bad mood."

Is that right?

Bernice herself didn't feel much, but after being reminded by him, she realized that it really seemed to be the case.

So, why does he remember his affairs so clearly?

She looked at the ice-blue eyes of the mermaid in front of her, and felt incomprehensible, but at the same time, there seemed to be a slight tremor in her heart.It was like a seam that quietly melted open on the deep ice surface when the wind blows by.

Immediately afterwards, Bernice staggered the other party's gaze, vaguely skipped the topic, and only said, "Anyway, he mentioned a very special thing."

"what?"

"He said, 'Maybe it will stay there again like it did at the beginning, waiting for the next person who is willing to make a deal with him with his life'." Bernice said with a frown, "It's a pity that I didn't I want to understand what this sentence means, whether it means something, or he just said it casually."

"Stay there again." Thiago repeated softly, suddenly recalling the totem they saw in that hotel room, and the complicated red threads wrapped around it.

"You remember that strange totem we saw, and those red lines that seemed to represent every time he looked for a similar victim?"

"remember."

"One image in there is the Red Manor, and all the others are in the New World."

"So you think he put the magic lamp back in the Red Manor?"

Thiago shook his head: "Probably not. If you want to go back to the original world, you have to go through the latitude hole. But all the latitude holes are currently under our supervision, and he is unlikely to have the opportunity to do so. And since the magic lamp is only It is the source of parasite control, and the security office has also found traces of it several times in the New World, so the magic lamp must also be in the New World."

As soon as the words fell, the sound transmission Haibei suddenly turned on automatically, and Gabriel's voice came from inside: "Your Majesty, there has been a new victim here in the National Forest Park. It can be confirmed that it was done by a collector, but it is not the same as his past. The approach is quite different. Would you like to have a look?"

Thiago frowned, and quickly replied: "We will come over in a while, and first ensure that the news is cut off."

"Yes."

After watching Haibei slowly close, Bo Ni said with some surprise: "There is a new one so soon? It seems that it has only been a few days since he last did it?"

"Yes. So his hunting speed is getting faster and faster now, because..." Thiago said, and suddenly stopped, his light red lips were flattened into a straight line, as if he was talking about something that made him extremely disgusted .

Bernice was about to ask why she didn't continue, but she heard him change the subject: "Anyway, let's go after you finish eating first."

"Ok."

After quickly eating the rest of the food, Bernice quickly followed Thiago to the place where the guard found the new body.

Under a towering fir tree growing deep in the heart of the national forest.

Recalling what Thiago had said that Greer was treating these victims according to the burial rituals of the Holy See of Light, Bernice guessed that the method this time should be tree burial.

However, it is very difficult to come to this place in the usual way.There are towering trees everywhere, slippery and sticky thick soil and fallen leaves, dense and lush fern leaves hang with crystal-like transparent rainwater, and the overly green and continuous crowns squeeze the sky above them into a narrow strip. Wire.

Gabriel was waiting for them in the employee walkway at the back entrance of the park.He was used to the fact that Thiago was always with Bernice.

So when he saw Bernice, he didn't show any surprise. He just nodded to her, and then led them inside while explaining: "Because this is not an open area of ​​the forest park, and it is far away from the elves. We live very close, so the news of this victim was notified to us directly by the elves, and has not yet been spread."

"That's good. What did you mean when you said that his technique this time is very different from before?" Thiago said while reaching out to push away the low-hanging branches in front of him, the soles of his feet were slippery The siege of moss and trees did not cause him any difficulty in moving.

"According to the habit of collectors, he will patiently dress up the appearance of the victim, but only limited to hair color and eye color. But this time his method is much more direct."

"How to say?"

"He shaved the victim's hair, put a wig on her and made her a new face."

"A new face?" Bernice's first reaction was the potion used, "He used the transforming potion? But that kind of potion is hard to make, and the raw materials are not easy to find, right?"

"No." Gabriel replied, while pointing to the foot of the towering giant tree not far away, "He used liquid silicone."

"What's that?" Bernice had just finished asking, when her eyes shifted, she found Thiago looking at the corpse that had just been cleaned up expressionlessly.

To be honest, she was used to his gentle smile, and Bernice sincerely felt that his expressionless appearance was much scarier than Gabriel.

"What's wrong?" She turned her head and immediately understood the reason.

Because the fake face made of liquid silicone and covering the victim's face is quite similar to himself at first glance.

But after careful identification, Bernice felt that she was closer to Dakota.

"Liquid silicone is a commonly used tool in the human film and television industry in the New World. It is usually used in special effects makeup. Sometimes it is also used in conjunction with other materials, such as oil paint, to create various fake scars." Gabriel explained.

"He works in the theater, and it's really easy to get these liquid silicone." Bernice nodded understandingly.

While speaking, Thiago had walked to the corpse silently, carefully scrutinized her face, and then her dress.He found that unlike the previous uniform winter skirts, the clothes on the victims this time did not seem to have been changed, they were just ordinary summer clothes.

The most important thing is that the posture of the corpse is very strange, as if it is praying or confessing.

"Generally speaking, the sudden change of tactics and types of victims is due to the emergence of new stimuli." Thiago commented without emotion, and at the same time reached out and pressed the corpse's throat, testing whether there was any similarity as last time. Filled with foreign objects, "Without the careful preparation in the early stage, when he murdered this person, it was a crime of passion, and it would be easy to leave valuable information."

As he said that, he said to Gabriel: "Check the identity of this woman and where the first incident happened. It's unlikely that he just randomly picked someone on the street. There must be a reason for choosing her. "

"clear."

At this time, Troy and another female angel, Camilla, came from the depths of the forest.

After saluting Gabriel and Thiago, Troy first reported on the survey of the surrounding situation and the inspection of all the surveillance cameras in the park, and then noticed that Bernice was also here, so he took the initiative to put on a pretty cute smile. Greet each other silently.On the other hand, Camilla frowned immediately after seeing her, as if she was baffled by her appearance.

After Bernice returned the same smile, she continued what Thiago said just now: "The new excitement... Could it be because I met him yesterday?"

"You met with Greer?" Gabriel asked.

"Yes." She nodded, and then recounted the general situation yesterday.

Before Gabriel could say anything, Camilla on the side suddenly said coldly: "Then I think it's you, 0331, who made Greer find this poor girl, right?"

With just one sentence, Bernice can clearly tell that the angel in front of her hates her very much.After all, she may not be so sensitive to other emotions, but she is most familiar with such things as malice.

But thinking about the racial differences between them, Bernice felt that she could fully understand this angel.Therefore, after hearing the unfriendly questioning from the other party, she didn't have any special reaction.

"Did you go out alone yesterday?" Camilla continued to ask.

"Yes."

"According to the regulations, any going out of the parole prisoner must be within the supervision, or after reporting and obtaining consent." Camilla spoke quickly, with the arrogance of a law enforcement officer to a prisoner, "You Have you done any of these?"

This is quite new.

Bernice couldn't remember anyone ever telling her that it needed to be like this, and of course it was possible that her main solo activity map in the past was between the three points of the ocean, the weather bureau, and the observation center.Either with Thiago or Gabriel, of course the former is more.

"Camilla." Gabriel called her in a moderate voice, with sharp eyes, signaling her not to say any more.

But Camilla didn't intend to end: "Sir, it's a fact. 0331 violated the parole conditioning's going out regulations, and Your Majesty also said just now, the reason why Greer came to this girl so suddenly was because he was received Excitement. Obviously this incident has something to do with 0331."

Gabriel clicked his tongue and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Thiago: "I agreed to her going out."

He said, with a very faint, impersonal and cold smile on his face: "In this way, you should probably hold me accountable."

Camilla froze for a moment, and the expressions on the faces of the others also achieved an astonishing unity at this moment.

"How about this."

He suggested: "After everything here is dealt with, you can come to me to discuss it alone, can you?"

"This……"

"What's the matter, don't you want to? Then..."

"It's not necessary." Gabriel replied quickly, "Since His Majesty agreed, the security department naturally has no right to intervene. Camilla didn't know that 0331 had already asked you for instructions. Please forgive me. "

The blond boy in front of him smiled softly and didn't respond much.

"As for the two of you." He turned to the two angels who had just arrived, "Go and find out the identity information of the victim."

"Yes."

After Troy finished speaking, he pulled up Camilla, who was still in a daze, and rushed into the surrounding dense green forest.

Bernice looked at their disappearing figures, then looked back at Thiago, and for no reason remembered what Greer said to her yesterday:

"He will protect you, no matter what dangers or difficulties you face or the malice from others."

"What's wrong?" He noticed Bernice's gaze and asked.

"It's nothing."

She lowered her eyelashes and threw back the words she had just remembered.

The author has something to say: this dungeon is almost over...I'm about to vomit, what kind of rubbish is this, I can't write anymore, who will teach me how to finish it quickly