How to become a sea witch

The first thing that caught Bernice's attention was the breathing sound of living things gradually becoming clearer in the air, which was familiar and dull.Immediately afterwards, that terrifying wave came again.The dazzling green light kept flickering in the crystal ball, and the original clear sea area monitoring picture was replaced by darkness without warning.

It is a sign of Yermungard's activity.

Bernice realized this, and at the same time quickly pulled the monitoring range of the crystal ball away from the originally designated area, trying to prevent it from exploding directly like last time.However, the strong vortex that was disturbed in the latitude hole counterattacked,? Competing with her, not giving in, and even dragging her in together to tear it apart.

Without the shackles of the light ban, a steady stream of powerful magic power was released from Bernice's hands.

The emerald green magic flame fought with the silver-gray divine power whose source could not be seen at all. The impact of the collision caused rows of windows on the second floor of the entire observation center to explode.Countless pieces of paper and glass swirled in the air, flying all over the sky like crushed snowflakes, cutting the sunlight into pieces of golden light.

Gradually, the fluctuation subsided, and the picture in the crystal ball returned to its usual stability and normality.

Bernice breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed her faintly sore arms, turned her head and glanced at the messy and dilapidated room, and suddenly felt very dizzy.

But compared to this,? She should report this emergency to Thiago immediately.

Thinking of this, she was about to turn around and leave, but her eyes accidentally caught a glimpse of the empty corner of the desk, she couldn't help being stunned, and even stopped with her footsteps, with a dazed look on her face.

Something is missing.

It is different from desk lamps, books, or all kinds of grotesque illustrations that are just for decoration.There should have been something else there, with some special meaning, that would allow her to immediately discover what was missing subconsciously.

After a pause for a few seconds, Bernice came to her senses.

is a flower.

The deep sea rose that she kept on the table was gone.

After realizing this, Bernice immediately looked around the ground, and at the same time rummaged through all the books and papers scattered on the ground and the fallen conch wind chimes, but still did not find the rose.

Pulling down the dilapidated shutters that were constantly shaking in front of her eyes, and carefully avoiding those sharp and sharp glass edges, Bernice stood up and looked out, but all she could see was a lush green tree crown and golden hot The sun shines, and the shards of broken glass shine on the asphalt road.

Almost without any hesitation, Bernice turned over and jumped down, squatting under the shade of a tree, carefully looking for the crimson flower that might have been smashed into pieces.

At this time, a familiar lively voice suddenly came from behind: "Bernese? Why is this here?"

She frowned and turned her head, her lips were pursed, her light green eyes reflected the spots of light falling from the shade of the trees above her head, bright and sharp, and there was an unconcealable anxiety on her face.

Seeing her like this, Troy was taken aback for a moment, and then became a little nervous: "What's wrong with you, what are you looking for?"

"I..." When asked, she seemed to have finally realized the abnormality of her actions and feelings just now, she blinked quickly, stood up, and replied with pretended ease, "It's nothing, something is missing, Just look for it."

Gabriel withdrew his gaze from looking at the broken window on the second floor, and turned to look at her, but he didn't point it out. His golden eyes were still calm: "What happened?"

"Ah, just now, the latitude void was affected by Yemengarde's activities. After being captured by the crystal ball, I tried to adjust the monitoring range, and then..." Bernice said while spreading her hands, "That's it The main reason is that the fluctuation this time is much stronger than the one a few days ago."

Hearing Yemengarde's name, Gabriel's expression sank: "Have you reported it to Your Majesty?"

"……not yet."

"Let's go together then."

As he spoke, he was about to turn around and leave, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Bernice looking around, so he stopped and asked, "What are you looking at?"

For a moment, it was clear to Gabriel that Bernice was going to say something, as if she was looking for something important to her.But after a short silence for a few seconds, she finally shook her head and replied as if nothing happened: "It's nothing... Forget it, let's report to His Majesty first."

"Let's go, let's go together along the way." Troy smiled happily and beckoned to her, the tufts of curly hair on the top of his head were swaying by the summer sea breeze.

Since the last time the dimensional hole fluctuated, Thiago didn’t appear in the observation center very often, but spent most of his time in the Oceanographic Museum with Silvedu.

And I don't know if it's her own illusion, but Bernice always feels that every time she sees Tiago recently, he looks vaguely tired.

Just like it is now.

Even though he sat there neatly and neatly, with his legs crossed and his fingers interlocked, he quietly listened to the report on the results of the investigation of the victims' identities, even the gentle expression on his face was no different from his usual one.

But occasionally, when he lowered his eyelashes several times without responding, or gently rubbed his forehead by brushing away the platinum hair that fell to his eyes, the smooth skin between the eyebrows followed his unconscious frowning And when a few wrinkles appear suddenly, but spread out quickly, Bernice can't help but wonder, what happened to him recently?Why do you look unwell?

Could it be related to Yermungarde's activities?

As she was thinking, Troy had already handed her one of the files in his hand.

"For me?" She was a little surprised, but the other party nodded with a cute smile.

This is something new.In the past, they would only prepare one copy for Thiago, and they would not consider her at all.Now it's...

She looked at the familiar logo of Meteor Garden on the cover parchment, and glanced at the blond-haired mermaid from the corner of her eye. She suddenly felt very guilty, and even hesitated to open it.

"So, those victims don't have any intersections in their lives. Different regions and social circles, different classes and occupations, different family backgrounds and age groups, both men and women." Thiago nodded while thinking He said, "It seems that the other party has no obvious hunting preference, and the chosen target is quite random."

"Could it be a wandering killer?" Silvedu guessed.

"probably not."

Tiago shook his head slightly and explained: "Wandering killers can randomly find different types of victims in different regions, but Bernice also said that they were all cursed within a year or two before their death. And this The function of this spell is to make their bodies into containers, so that even if their souls perish, they can remain the same for a long time without decay. Therefore, he needs a fixed place to store these bodies."

"It sounds like..."

Silvedu frowned, and didn't continue talking, but Bernice didn't mind and said, "Change clothes. He uses these human bodies as clothes, and after destroying their souls, these bodies will be To be his shell, he can be anyone he wants. Generally, those who use this kind of spell are demons without their own fixed entity."

"But if that's the case, then why were these humans discarded in the end?"

"Because this is the human world. If a certain person's body is used, then the original social relationship of this person is a threat and trouble to him, so he needs to discard these 'old clothes' at the right time and go to the Looking for a new body." Thiago replied.

"However, there is also a very strange thing about this." Bernice didn't quite understand, "He clearly knows that humans with normal social relations will cause the body to be used for a short time, increasing the number of hunting and exposure risks, so why does he still To continue to select these people without screening?"

"We've thought about this problem too, but there's no result." Troy scratched his head, his tone sounding helpless.

After a brief silence, Thiago looked at the information on the victims on the files, as well as the various statements recorded by the families of the victims in the police station, and suddenly smiled slightly: "Maybe for him, apart from In addition to hunting, capturing and participating in the lives of these people is also a very interesting thing. Therefore, he does not need to avoid high risks, and he does not need to choose specific targets, even this kind of random behavior that seems completely unreasonable to us That's part of the fun. It's like picking and choosing which movie you want to see."

"Fun?" Bernice was taken aback for a moment, suddenly feeling strange.

This is indeed a guess that is in line with the logic of the behavior of most demons, but it seems that something is not right when the other party says this.Obviously she is the devil, but it is Thiago who seems to understand the devil's way of thinking better.

"Yes." He tilted his head and looked at Bernice beside him. The pair of azure blue eyes under the pale golden eyelashes were as pure as the clearest sea water, sparkling in beauty, "He can take the bodies of these people, so very Obviously, it is not difficult to control the closest people in the original social relationship of these human beings to help cover up. But he did not do this, but let them discover and speculate, and when he felt the same, he simply put Abandon this body."

"So he treats all of this as a game." Silvedu understood, and then asked, "But how did he choose these people? Could it be that he just picked a place randomly and only depends on his mood?" Do you want to start? To make so many seemingly unrelated people into his container, it is impossible to act on a whim."

"And from the experiences and backgrounds of the victims, it's clear he was handpicked."

Tiago tapped the parchment full of identity information with his fingertips, and added: "These people have nothing to do with each other, but it's actually a pattern. He hopes to have a different game experience, so after confirming the hunting Before killing the target, he must have done an investigation."

"We have also considered this issue, but according to the previous investigation results, whether it is in reality or on the Internet, there is no intersection between them." Gabriel explained calmly, but the expression between his eyebrows and eyes was different Dyeing a thin layer of melancholy, it seems that this result surprised him too.

Flipping through the file in her hand again, Bernice suddenly noticed something very inconspicuous: "The statements provided by these family members are basically about what happened some time before the police, but according to our deduction just now, These confessions are all about the demon we are looking for."

After all, by the time these family members called the police, it was almost time for this body to be abandoned.

"That's true." Gabriel nodded, "But because of the long distance, we can't determine the exact time when these people were possessed by demons. It's even more difficult to find out how they were targeted. Difficult."

"Or we could switch angles."

While talking, Tiago reached out and rubbed his forehead slightly, and changed his sitting position: "If I were this demon, before I decided to make the next body container, I shouldn't just choose one target. After all, at the beginning, I don't know if this person's family and social relationship will cause me to repeat the game experience."

Bernice understood what he meant: "So he will find several targets at the same time, and finally decide which one to attack through investigation."

"Then the next question is, what method would I use to investigate the life background of multiple targets at the same time."

"Internet." Gabriel quickly answered the call, but he was a little suspicious, "But I have checked the traces of their activities on the Internet, and I haven't found any overlap between them."

"Maybe it's a matter of time." Thiago speculates, "after all, after their bodies were taken, they still spent some time with their families. During this period, their previous activities on the Internet may be erased And the further the victims, the higher the network activity records that need to be investigated.”

"I understand, the security department will conduct an in-depth investigation immediately."

"Thank you for your hard work."

Seeing the backs of Gabriel and Troy leaving, Bernice felt that her awe of things like the human Internet had once again increased a lot.

I really don't understand what's the use of them inventing such a thing that they don't even know if it's a ghost.

Thinking of this, she was about to get up and say goodbye, and went back to continue searching without hope to see if she could get the deep sea rose back, but she saw Thiago seemed to be sighing, stretching out his hand and rubbing the center of his brow slowly, as if he was very nervous. exhausted.

And Silvedu, who was on the side, also looked at the other party worriedly, as if he was going to say something, but stopped, turned his head to Bernice, and left quickly.

Sensing Bernice's stay, Thiago opened his eyes and looked at her with a gentle attitude: "What's wrong? You have never looked at me like this before."

The other party's words gave her some kind of secret touch, which made Bernice a little at a loss, but she still answered bravely: "You look like, not very well."

"This." He paused, and at the same time glanced down at his hand, suddenly smiled and asked an irrelevant question, "Can I think you care about me?"

care?

This overly intimate word came out of his mouth and scratched Bernice's heart like a feather, causing her to flinch a bit, look away, without answering, scraping the parchment file on her lap with her fingernails, It left a sudden dark mark on it.

"It's just expected. After all, I only exist in a split state now, and Yemengarde's activities have become more and more frequent recently, so I will also be affected." His tone sounded very casual, even A little careless, doesn't seem like a big deal.

But for some reason, Bernice still felt a little...

She didn't know how to describe this feeling, as if something was hanging there all the time, attracting her attention from time to time, which made her feel a subtle sense of unease.She wasn't sure if she was bothered by the feeling.

"It's you." Thiago changed the subject, "When I saw you coming in, I noticed that you seemed a little unhappy. What happened, can you tell me?"

Bernice hesitated for a while, always feeling that a flower was insignificant compared to his current state and the criminals who hadn't been tracked down yet.

So after thinking twice, she still shook her head: "It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly encountered the same situation as last time in the morning, so I'm a little worried."

"That's it."

He looked at her intently, the smile on his face remained the same, but he was no longer so friendly because he noticed the other party's concealment, it looked like it was painted on an overly refined mask, cold and illusory: " It's fine."

At the end, he turned his head again and added without emotion: "Let's talk about it when you want to talk about it."

An unprecedented sense of guilt surged up in an instant, and Bernice subconsciously wanted to save something, so that she changed her words without much thought: "The flower is gone."

"Flowers?" Thiago turned his head again, with a hint of confusion on his face.

"Rose." She paused and took a breath, "The one you gave me."

This answer seemed to be a little unexpected to him, and even the tone of the question was soft and tentative: "I didn't expect you to be unhappy because of this. So, do you like it very much?"

Unable to nod or shake her head, Bernice finally chose a compromise answer: "It's beautiful."

Immediately afterwards, she told how the flower disappeared and what she was trying to find afterwards, trying to change the focus of the topic just now.However, she didn't realize until after she finished speaking, why did she make up the part she was looking for?On the contrary, it is equivalent to answering the other party's question in disguise.

"It seems that he made a lot of noise this time." Thiago shook his head, and looked at her again, the blue color in his eyes was as clear as melting sea ice, soft and warm, "Anyway, you It’s fine. Don’t worry about the flowers, but remember to put on the scales I gave you in the future.”

"Scales?"

"Before we return to the original world, there will definitely be more than one or two such fluctuations. If you wear it, Yermungard will know."

what do you know?

Bernice was puzzled for a moment, but she still didn't continue to ask, just nodded: "I understand. Then you also...well, I mean, if you take a little rest, you might feel better, I guess."

Only when she speaks the truth, she who has always been so rich in beautiful words will stumble a bit.

Thiago laughed, and suddenly leaned closer to each other, and his forehead touched for a moment.

This is a way of expressing intimacy and pleasure among the mermaids.Bernice suddenly remembered what she had seen a few days ago, her body froze, and she heard his voice falling to her ears: "I will."...

Two days later, the investigation by the security department finally came to fruition.

These victims had registered on a website called "Candy House" and frequently logged in and stayed there in the one to three years before their death, and had participated in an offline activity called "Remodeling" on the website many times .

According to the records, the number of times each of them participated is different. Some participated only four or five times before leaving a "farewell declaration", and some participated more than ten times before announcing their farewell.

And judging from the content, these so-called farewell declarations are all written in the same way.It's nothing more than finally discovering that I don't belong here, and I have found a better world.Or you are completely tired of this place where no one can control you at all, and you want to go to a free paradise where you can do whatever you want, etc.

It seems that it is completely in line with the idea of ​​a human being who is tempted by the devil to distinguish between true and false.Bernice thought silently while flipping through the records in her hand.

"Since this activity called 'remodeling' is conducted offline, can the address be found?" Thiago asked.

"If you come back to the crown, there is absolutely no clue to follow." Gabriel seemed disgusted to admit this. When he said this, even a few traces of anger were clearly visible on his normally paralyzed face, "Any means Tried everything, but couldn't find it. So we investigated the website directly and found that it was different from ordinary human websites, and then determined the exact location of the operator behind it."

This sounds like good news, but Thiago doesn't seem to think so.

Silvedu saw his worries and asked, "You think there is something wrong, right?"

"It seems a bit too easy, doesn't it?" Thiago analyzed thoughtfully, "Why use a website that is obviously different from the normal human model? It is completely to ease the difficulty of our investigation."

"Maybe it's because, like us, he is a creature from the original world."

Bernice was thinking, trying to put herself into the perspective of the other party to understand: "After all, his cover-up method in the early stage is already very good. If it weren't for this storm surge, neither we nor the human police would have discovered that he had killed him. So many people. So in this case, he probably didn't care much about glossing over the issues with the site itself."

Her explanation made sense. After thinking quietly for a while, Thiago finally agreed to Gabriel's hunting plan: "Then go find the operator behind it."

"As ordered."

The arresting location was not far from the city, and Bernice also went there. The reason was that she always stayed in the observation center for a long time, and occasionally wanted to go out to the field.

But in fact, she just simply doesn't want to be with Thiago.Otherwise, there will definitely be many strange situations that she can't deal with normally, and her attention will always be inexplicably shifted to places related to him.

It's scary to think about.

So even though it is shameful to avoid it, since it is so useful, it is not in vain.This is the incomparable magic creed that she has believed in since she was a child.

However, what she didn't expect was that the person she met this time turned out to be another demon she knew.

Grendel, a lord-level night demon that originally inhabited the northern kingdom of the original world all year round, was also a trade buyer with whom Bernice had a very close relationship - she was responsible for finding the barnacles he needed from the bottom of the sea For the fossil, Grendel rewarded him with a few edelweiss crystals.

Of course, about this perverted beauty who turned (transformed) into a human shape (sexually) and married the king of the North, and arrested people in the castle every day to imprison/abuse/torture, tortured in every possible way to absorb human pain and Feed on fear, and asked Bernice to sell him the barnacle fossils, and at the same time help him throw those useless human corpses into the sea to destroy them. Bernice's attitude at that time was also very simply:

Yes, but that's another price.

Then her jellyfish opened her mouth and asked him to give five pupils of the ice sea for one cover-up fee.

As we all know, it takes 300 years for the pupil of the ice sea to condense in the depths of the northern glacier, and the deal fell apart as expected.

But that's okay, Bernice really doesn't want to touch those bloody and horrific corpses.

After that, she rarely heard about Grendel.Ursula forced her to deceive the heart of the ocean in the shortest possible time, otherwise her life would be worse than death.For this reason, she had to spend all her time on Tiago, who was still young at the time, and naturally she slowly cut off contact with Grendel.

Looking at the "veteran customer" in front of her who didn't seem to recognize herself for the time being, Bernice immediately had a complex feeling of "the world is so wonderful, we should do it as soon as possible".

"give it to me."

After dropping these words, Bernice immediately chased after the figure who turned around and ran after seeing the angel appearing.

With the idea of ​​never letting him reveal her dark history, Bernice was merciless in her attacks, and every time she used the strength to beat the other party directly with amnesia, she even didn't forget to use up the last package. Ruth sealed his mouth.

Looking at the demon of the night wrapped in a large cocoon and thrown in front of him, Troy applauded again and again without knowing why: "It's different after unlocking the restriction. It's so easy to deal with lord-level demons, it's amazing."

Bernice laughed a few times, shook her hands and asked, "How about it, do you want to execute it on the spot?"

Gabriel raised his eyelashes and glanced at her: "I have to take it back and obey His Majesty's orders."

"Ah this..."

Bernice suddenly felt a little regretful, she knew that she should have acted more slanderously just now, and just interrupted him.

But then, she suddenly realized that Thiago already knew what kind of jellyfish he was in the past, and now it is completely unnecessary to do this kind of cover-up.

She was just too flustered just now.

Seeing the disappointed and bewildered expression of the sea witch in front of him, Gabriel weighed it for a while and asked, "Do you have any trouble with him?"

"what?"

"I think you seem to dislike him very much."

"Oh, not at all." Bernice replied inattentively, "I just feel that when encountering such demons who have gone astray, it is very necessary to use the iron fist of justice to wake them up."

Gabriel: "..."

"It's all right now, let's go."

Back in the interrogation room of the Meteorological Bureau, Grandel was in a coma for almost half an hour before waking up.Seeing that he was tied to the cross by the spirit lock, and he didn't care about the sharp pain that was still clearly present on his body, he immediately yelled at Bernice outside the glass window: "You traitor of the demon clan, son of a bitch Bitch! You actually started to work for the angels, you see money-hungry lackeys!"

Bernice didn't care about his insults. Instead, she hoped that he would continue to scold her for joining the angel camp, as long as she didn't mention anything else.

However, after Thiago appeared, Grendel's expression looked even weirder.The face with obvious bloodstains and swollen scars was full of disbelief, and the crimson eyes looked back and forth at Bernice and Thiago several times, with a distorted face: "Okay, okay, it's Wusu Pull the most powerful subordinates. You can cheat the qualifications to inherit the magic power of the sea witch, and you can also cheat the chance to get out of prison by working hard to pay for your crimes. You lied to me like this at the beginning, right?!"

"Lying to you?" Bernice was a little unresponsive, completely unaware of what he was talking about, but still subconsciously glanced at Thiago who had just arrived beside her.

Under the light, his face was expressionless, his face showed a kind of delicacy and fairness that was too cold, and even the two touches of blue in his eyes were frozen, cold and cold.Obviously there is no sign of anger, but it is daunting.

Sensing that Bernice seemed a little afraid of the blond sea god next to him, Grendel grinned, looking extremely ferocious, and his tone of anger just now turned into a sinister cunning: "Isn't it Is it? You tricked me into finding a sufficient number of pupils of the ice sea for you, and I went there, and lost the lives of many people in the northern kingdom, have you forgotten?"

Bernice was stunned for a second, and instantly realized that the pervert was planning to blame him for the crimes he had committed in the original world, and immediately choked back tit for tat: "I don't remember, show me the evidence. I only know that you have changed your gender." Marrying that old king, and being in love with him every day, this kind of ingenious way is not something I can think of."

"It's also because of you!" Grendel retorted angrily, "You lured me to do it for you, it's all for you!"

lure? !

Gabriel took a complicated look at Bernice, who was so angry that she didn't even need to use words at all, and directly switched to demonic language to quarrel fiercely with the other party, wishing to fight again, and beside her, after hearing the word seduction, they obviously Thiago, whose brows and eyes were even colder and indifferent, suddenly felt a little sympathy for Bernice.

"enough."

Accompanied by a cold interruption, pale and icy frost suddenly spread throughout the interrogation room.With his order, midsummer fell into midwinter in an instant.

Bernice shut her mouth, and moved involuntarily towards Troy.

Seeing this, Gabriel quietly grabbed Troy and moved to the side.

Are you... are you serious about taking a half step back?

Bernice looked at them in disbelief, and suddenly felt the malice of the whole world rushing towards her.

"Since each has its own statement, let me interrogate."

As he spoke, Thiago pulled out his hand that was originally in his trouser pocket, and pushed open the door in front of him.

In an instant, the bone-piercing cold invaded.

The author has something to say: To answer the jellyfish, they are serious about taking a half-step back, and it is true that such a small movement hurts so much.