How to become a sea witch

This was already the seventh time in just 15 minutes that she lowered her head and stared at the pocket watch in her hand because of uncontrollable excitement.As the minute hand on the surface got closer and closer to the number twelve, her emotions began to become more intense, and she couldn't even sit still, so she simply stood up and paced back and forth under the empty street lights.

Through the small gap between the blinds, Bernice noticed that she was wearing a black off-the-shoulder wide-sleeve dress, and the complicated and criss-crossed skirt jumped at her knees like waves.

I have to say that this skirt is quite in line with Bernice's own aesthetics.

Thinking of this,? She couldn't help but look more carefully at the girl across the street.

She looks at most in her early twenties,? Very young, with healthy and fair skin,? A head of reddish-brown long curly hair tied up somewhat messily,? There is a clear and morbid sense of excitement in her demeanor, but those dark brown eyes It looked surprisingly hollow.

It seems that all the expectations she expressed are just illusory reflections floating on the surface, and the rest of her soul is still at a loss.

Speaking of...

Bernice glanced down at the file in her hand again, and noticed that the fictitious name this girl used in the candy house was "Reflection", and so far, the only creature from the original world like them.

"Although this is not the first time Wyatt has chosen a woman as his target, it is the first time he has chosen a creature from the original world."

She muttered to herself, leaning against the almost completely dark room, near the window, her light green eyes filled with light from the street lamps outside, clear and bright: "It stands to reason, Ge There's no way Randall didn't discover this in the preliminary investigation,? But why did she choose?"

Obviously, if you use your brain, you will think that once you choose the creatures in the original world to attack, your risk of exposure will definitely increase exponentially.After all, it is also the case that the relatives around you suddenly behave abnormally. Few human beings will doubt whether they are possessed by demons or impersonating them all day long, but many creatures in the original world can easily detect it.

"Maybe it's because I want to have as much experience as possible?" Troy answered softly, half of his delicate and delicate face was bright and half dark, "Didn't we speculate before that Wyatt has always regarded hunting as a game? Maybe after so After a long time, the experience brought by pretending to be an ordinary human can no longer satisfy him, so he took a risk and chose the creatures of the original world."

This is indeed a reasonable explanation.

Bernice nodded silently, didn't say anything else, only focused on looking at the young girl who was still walking around frequently outside the window.

Soon, a trace of coldness that was clearly different from the hot summer temperature came from the air, followed by a shapeless crimson mist that appeared in the dark night sky.

It twisted and floated, silently like a blood-colored ghost, falling down a large piece of misty red light and turning into a translucent human figure wearing a cloak, reaching out to the long-awaited prey.

The girl looked up at the ray of light, her slightly empty eyes suddenly became more dull, as if she was absorbed by it all of her mind in an instant, she walked towards it step by step without even struggling, her body was as stiff as a Marionettes.

At the same time, several bright and sharp arcs of light suddenly came from all directions, but the crimson figure quickly dodged it.In the next second, the dazzling daylight exploded, and a group of angels who had been lurking on the side quickly appeared from the shadows, and they cooperated tacitly to hunt down the fleeing red mist.

Bernice originally wanted to follow along, but suddenly heard an extremely shrill scream.She frowned and turned her head, and saw that the girl who was still standing on the ground just now was curled up in pain, her hands were tightly clutching her neck, her face was flushed, and her dark brown eyes were gradually covered with a strange haze. White.

Immediately afterwards, there were dense blue and black lines like fish scales, starting from the fingertips and spreading inch by inch on the originally fair skin.

This symptom...

Bernice was taken aback for a moment, then surprised, and subconsciously began to doubt the true identity of the red mist just now.

Why does the girl in front of me have such symptoms of being alienated by the curse of the sea demon?

She didn't have time to think about it, and the emerald green light in her raised hand swirled and spread like a big group of fireflies, wrapping the twitching girl on the ground little by little, forcibly stopping the curse that was quickly swallowing her original appearance, It also greatly relieved her pain.

But in order to completely lift it, Bernice still needs to figure out what kind of curse is on this girl.

However, she always felt that this curse was inexplicably familiar, as if she had encountered it before.

After withdrawing the magic power, Bernice approached the girl, squatted down and looked at the other's eyes covered with white film, and called out the other's name recorded in the file: "Miss Sabrina."

Hearing her name being called, Sabrina struggled to respond.She tried to turn her dry eyeballs, through a layer of pale white that came from nowhere in front of her eyes, and the blurred emerald green fluorescence that was slowly fading, she saw clearly the girl in front of her who was talking to herself.

Black hair and black dress, the necklace is an ice-blue shimmering fish scale.

On a young, fair and beautiful face, there was a kind of agility and innocence that did not match her race. The light green eyes were as clear as elk, the brows were slightly frowned, and there was a little curiosity in her gaze.

Wait... race?

Sabrina recalled this word with difficulty, and her eyes fell on Bernice's sharp fingertips that were dyed dark blue by magic power, and the clear and strong demonic aura coming from the girl in front of her was still active in her senses.

She screamed, and her eyes, which had been very dull just now, immediately shrank. She moved quickly on the ground, trying to distance herself from the opponent, and at the same time instinctively threw an offensive spell of light at the opponent.

The golden light blade was easily held between Bernice's fingers, and after weighing it around, it shattered into a handful of scattered light spots.

She clapped her hands, got up and took two steps back, just about to say something, just in time to see Gabriel and the others had returned.

It's just that the red mist is not there.

This was a bit beyond her expectation. She thought that with Gabriel and the other two angels, this arrest operation would definitely succeed easily.

However, in line with the good principle of being a demon and not easily poking the angel's sore spot, even though Bernice felt quite surprised, she didn't ask any more questions. After nodding to Gabriel, she briefly explained what happened to Sabrina. body matters.

"The curse of the sea devil?" Gabriel repeated with a frown, and then looked at Sabrina, who was huddled at Troy's feet, looking at Bernice in horror, and quickly noticed the scars on her body. Obvious alienation features.

It seemed that after hearing this, she finally pulled out a bit of attention from her mentally tense and flustered state to observe what happened to her body.

Looking at her arms covered with strange scale-like lines, the skin has become wrinkled and blackened, and a layer of web-like translucent tissue sticking between her fingers, Sabrina felt heart-piercing. She screamed, tore her hair with both hands, and sat on the ground trembling.

Seeing this, Troy quickly used a magic spell to make her fall asleep temporarily, and at the same time quickly reached out to hug him so that she would not fall directly to the ground: "Sir?"

"Take it back first." Gabriel looked at Sabrina thoughtfully, and said with an unchanged expression, "When she wakes up, try to find out what happened to her."

"clear."

"Leave the matter about the curse to me?" Bernice offered, "I believe it will be much faster."

"Then trouble you."

"...Uh, um, it's not troublesome, it should be."

Sure enough, she still couldn't get used to it. The Archangel, who originally only called her the prisoner code name of the Fallen Sin Garden, suddenly used such polite words.

With this subtle sense of discomfort and the inexplicably associated, some too... ambiguous memories of Tiago, Bernice immediately concentrated on solving the curse on Sabrina after returning to the Meteorological Bureau , wanting to interrupt this almost weird thought of myself.

However, soon, a new discovery made her suddenly enlightened, and at the same time fell into confusion.

In fact, although this kind of curse on Sabrina was rare, it was no stranger to Bernice, and at most it would take some effort to break it.

But what she didn't expect was that this curse was the same as the curse on the mutant she had encountered in Kamchatka, no wonder she felt a little familiar just now.

But in this way, many things at the beginning would be unjustifiable.

Bernice thought hard, and even began to wonder if the creatures that created those mutants in Kamchatka back then were not magic mirrors, but something else?

At this time, there was a regular and polite knock on the door, followed by that very familiar soft voice from outside: "Bernese, can you come in now?"

"Ah, of course."

Bernice ran to the door and opened it, and saw Thiago standing in front of her, with the usual gentle and gentle smile on his face, followed by Gabriel and the other two. Familiar angel.

As soon as he saw her, Thiago passed the crystal pot in his hand to the other party, interrupting her preparation to salute them, and at the same time blinked his blue eyes: "Dessert at night."

It was also after he said this that Bernice realized that she was indeed hungry, so she took it in her hand and nodded, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"How is she doing?" Thiago glanced at Sabrina, who was quietly sleeping beside her.

"Honestly, I was surprised."

Bernice quickly stated what she had discovered just now, and then added with some puzzlement: "It stands to reason that a demon like Wyatt cannot be a sea tribe, but this curse is indeed from the hand of a sea demon. .This is too strange, does he have a sea clan helper who is also a demon?"

"But I remember that when you inspected the mutant in Kamchatka, you said with certainty that it wasn't made by the sea devil," Gabriel reminded.

"I said so, but that's because I don't remember any sea demon other than me who could use this curse so freely. If there was one, I couldn't be unimpressed."

Bernice continued as she quickly recalled: "And in the incident in Kamchatka, this curse was widely used on the sea people, and the effect it brought is also similar to Sabrina's current situation. different. But after comparing the two, I can be sure that this is what the same sea demon did."

"Is that so?" Thiago sighed with a slightly regretful smile, "It's a pity that the magic mirror has no self-awareness. And from this point of view, it seems that we have all ignored an opponent who has been lurking for a long time, so this time Wyatt would have escaped so easily."

The conclusion is obvious and deeply irritating.

Therefore, although Thiago did not show any intention of blaming, Gabriel immediately knelt down on one knee, bowed his head to the sea god in front of him and said: "Please allow me to atone for my sins, I will investigate all known crimes as soon as possible. The type of sea demon, and cross-reference with the crime records of the Fallen Sin Garden, to confirm the identity of this sea demon as soon as possible."

"It's not your fault, Gabriel, so you don't need to blame yourself for it."

Thiago raised his hand reassuringly, motioning for the other party to stand up: "Take Chao Ling with you, you will get the full assistance of Yuanhai Shenyu."

"As ordered."

While talking, Sabrina, who was lying on the bed, began to wake up gradually.

Under Bernice's healing treatment, she has returned to her original appearance from the half-human, half-fish horror state just now, and the strange white film covering her eye sockets has also faded away, revealing a pair of slightly misty dark brown eyes. The eyeballs muttered as if they couldn't respond.

After listening carefully, it should be a prayer to the God of Light for protection.

Recalling her overreaction just now, Bernice took the initiative to step back when everyone stepped forward, only to hear Thiago ask Sabrina: "Are you okay now?" , are you feeling alright?"

Sabrina sat up in a daze, lifted the messy hair that covered her eyes, looked up to see the other person's eyes, and suddenly fell into a piece of extremely clear blue without any preparation, and recited it thousands of times I forgot all my prayers, and I could only look at each other stupidly, as if I was drowned in the deep sea, and I couldn't think of anything else in my blank thoughts.

It is different from the over-the-top and weird enthusiasm of the succubus, or the iconic beauty without temperature of the angel.What the young man in front of him displayed was another kind of extreme elegance, a pure surprise that was not compromised by any worldly cognition and aesthetic prejudice.

Like a god.

Extremely clean and alienated, floating high at the end of sight, an existence that can never be touched.

Seeing that there was no response from the other party, Thiago patiently repeated it again: "Are you feeling okay?"

"Ah... okay, okay." Sabrina finally came back to her senses, and at the same time quickly realized her gaffe just now, a thin layer of blush appeared on her originally pale face.

However, this vibrant look of shame did not last long on her face, and the pure belief in the Supreme God in her bones began to make her reflect on her thoughts just now.As a result, the lovely blush faded immediately, and then fell back to a more bloodless state.

She quickly lowered her head, her eyelashes trembling in panic, hurriedly lifted the quilt, stepped on the ground with her bare feet, knelt down and kowtowed to the other party: "Your Majesty, please forgive my... rudeness and offense just now. ..."

Thiago smiled lightly, and said in an easy-going manner: "Don't worry, I'll just ask a few questions and leave. Don't be nervous."

"Yes..." Sabrina remained kneeling in prayer, clasping her hands over her heart. Like every faithful believer Bernice had met, she was impeccably devout, "with glory and the sea I will answer any questions Your Majesty may have with sincerity, without any deceit."

"We are tracking down a hunting website, which you have come into contact with, called Candy House, do you remember?"

"Yes." Sabrina nodded in confusion, then her eyes widened, "You said, this is a hunting website?"

"That's right, everyone who enters the candy house is a hunting target. They will use a game called 'reshaping' to guide you to indulge in it, and finally choose the right object to harvest, just like you met tonight like that."

After a brief explanation, Thiago asked again: "How did you discover it?"

"Hui Mianxia's words were recommended to me by a pen pal I met at a reading club."

"Can you elaborate?"

"of course."

Soon, Sabrina tells how she met this compatible pen pal at a book club, how they slowly became friends in real life, and then, how she used this pen pal. The pen pal came into contact with the candy house, and finally got out of control and became what he is today.

During this period, her emotions became more and more agitated, and even her voice trembled slightly: "Actually, when I first came into contact with the candy house, I felt something was wrong. That game..."

When Sabrina said this, her expression was also in a trance, and then she continued with strong regret and self-blame: "I have no way to refuse, it can detect all my wishes, and I am reluctant to give up. , I've always wanted to get it back..."

"What is it?" Gabriel asked.

"My... parents, family." Sabrina replied tremblingly, tears gradually filling her flushed eyes, "All the peaceful and peaceful life I loved and had. At that time, the Latitude Hole had not yet appeared, The disaster has not yet come, they are still with me, I have always... always missed them...I want to be with them..."

Yes, Gabriel thought silently.Because Leslie tried to steal the power of the all-seeing eye, the dormant law of Yermungard was disturbed, and the latitude hole also appeared.

Although they had tried their best to remedy it at that time, and even the two supreme gods fell asleep one after another to maintain the balance of the world, the disasters in the early stage still caused the death of many creatures.

"I swore that I would only go to see them in the game one more time, the last time..." Sabrina murmured, her tear-streaked eyes filled with complicated feelings, thick and desolate.

"I just, want to go home," she finally cried. "I want to go back to my old life, the way it started. I can't help myself, I just go back to the candy house, back to the game, over and over again. Li. I didn't know it would become like this, I'm sorry, please forgive me, I'm really sorry..."

For some reason, her last few words made Bernice also secretly touched.

Just like when she was on the verge of death, she randomly agreed to Ursula's conditions.

She also just wanted to survive, to go home, to go back to the past.

She didn't know it would turn out like this, but...

Thinking of this, Bernice couldn't help closing her eyes, took a deep breath restrainedly, stretched out her hand and scratched her hair irritably, and forced herself not to think about the past that could not be changed and made her hate it.

Tiago turned back following her faint sigh, his eyes quickly passed over her face, and then returned to Sabrina, and he didn't know whether to say to her or Bernice: " You didn’t do anything wrong and you don’t need to apologize to anyone, it’s the people who hurt you who should feel guilty and pay the price.”

Sabrina looked at each other with tears in her eyes, her lips moved a few times, choked up and wanted to say something, but failed, only heard Tiago then asked: "So, before today, have you ever seen anyone Anyone else related to the candy house? For example, someone who claims to be the site manager, or the owner of the house."

She sobbed and thought about it for a while, then shook her head: "I only met my pen pal, you know, she said her name was Rosalie, but now I think that's not her real name. As for Candy House, they ...Only contact me every time I compromise and say that I will join the game again, and they always contact me on the website, and I have never met."

This is in line with what Grendel said.So, if Sabrina has only seen this Rosalie who recommended the Candy House website to her, then it is very likely that this curse was cast on Sabrina by her, just in case, or Killed when necessary.

"I see." Tiago nodded. "The last thing, you just mentioned that you and Rosalie were pen pals at the beginning. Did you keep the letters she sent you?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I always thought that she really wanted to be my friend, so I kept every letter she wrote, right where I live."

She wiped away her tears and replied intermittently: "If it is helpful to you, please take them away, and I also... I don't want to see them again."

"Thank you, this will help us a lot. Now, you can rest first. Of course, please rest assured that you are absolutely safe here."

Over the edge of Gabriel's snow-white wings, Bernice saw Sabrina almost crying again.But in the end, she tried her best to restrain her emotions, and only worshiped the gods in front of her in a respectful and humble attitude again, while reciting complicated and obscure blessings in a low voice until they all left.

After walking out of the healing center, Thiago asked Gabriel: "Since she has already registered with the security guard, can we directly find her address?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Then it's hard work for you to find those letters as soon as possible, and see if you can find any valuable information. As for the matter of informing Yuanhai Shenyu to cooperate with you in investigating the ocean demons, I will let Chao Ling do it first."

"As ordered."

After speaking, Gabriel and the others quickly left.

Throughout the deep summer night, apart from the occasional chirping of summer insects and the clear moonlight overhead, only Bernice and Tiago were left.

As if he finally didn't need to pretend anymore, Tiago rarely really relaxed, and then sighed a little tiredly.

Stretching out his hand to rub the aching forehead, he suddenly said to Bernice, "Can you walk with me?"

"But you look very tired, and you need to rest even more." Bernice suddenly realized something, so she quickly added, "Of course I don't mean that I don't want to, it's just..."

"Then let's go." Thiago stretched out his hand to her, the expression between his brows and eyes was gentler and more real than the moonlight, "If you are here, it will be much more effective than resting."

Bernice looked at the slender and clean hand in front of her, hesitated for a while, and couldn't tell what she was thinking at this moment, but slowly raised her hand, and touched the other's fingertips cautiously and tentatively. The fingers were clasped very intimately, and the palms were pressed together.

The just right coolness and delicacy made Bernice couldn't help but think of the feeling of being caressed by the warm sea water with pieces of melted ice on the summer night.

The walk was carried out in silence, and she began to think about whether she should find some light and interesting topics to chat with, but she couldn't make a decision.

This realization made Bernice feel a little speechless.

How on earth had she been able to coax this fish around before?Why can't I even find a decent topic now?

At the same time, another even weirder question came into his mind - what if what he really likes is only the lively and cheerful person he pretended to be?

This thought made Bernice start to panic inexplicably, and she even quoted what Gabriel once said about mermaids will always love the partner they identified...

Comfort yourself? ?

What comfort is there? ?

Bernice became even more confused, and realized for the first time that something seemed to be developing out of control.

Probably noticed something from her micro-movements, after looking sideways at her for a few seconds, Thiago took the initiative to say: "By the way, I came to you yesterday, and I saw that there was still the last time on your desk. The book about the ancient language of the mermaids. Are you still studying?"

"what?"

Bernice came back to her senses, and answered subconsciously: "Yes, I just want to try."

"What have you learned?" He laughed.

"Uh..." Bernice tried desperately to remember the seemingly profound words she still remembered, and said uncertainly, "Ryno, bellith, mo...mohiga?"

"What?" Thiago was almost stunned, the blue eyes facing the moonlight had a kind of astonishment as if being stabbed by a needle, no matter how bright the light was, it couldn't hide it.

In her impression, except when he was young, Bernice had never seen such a childish and soft expression on his face.

So, she quickly changed her words: "...Maybe I remembered wrongly."

"No, you didn't."

He said, still looking at the other party with great concentration, so quiet that he seemed to have stopped breathing, and then he let out a sigh of relief, and softened his voice to the point of almost teasing: "Say it again."

"Ryno...?"

"That's not it."

"Ah, I think... bellith?"

"I want the last sentence, Bernice."

"mo, higa?"

The more Bernice spoke, the more guilty she felt, and she even felt a little sweat coming out of her hand that was tightly held by him.

"There is no need to pause for this sentence, can you try again?"

So how did it become a language tutoring class?

She pursed her lips, hating her poor memory in this ancient language, but she could only repeat obediently: "mohiga..."

There was no response, except that the surprise that first appeared in his eyes was gradually fading away, replaced by soft eyes full of eyes, sparkling and moving.

Bernice thought that her speech was not smooth enough, so she began to take the initiative to correct herself and muttered: "Mohiga, is this okay?"

"can."

Thiago laughed, so dazzling that even the moonlight falling on his shoulders lost its color: "Of course."

He looked as if he was simply answering his own question, but Bernice still found it strange.

So after returning to the Observation Center, she did a good job of mental construction repeatedly, and finally mustered up the courage to open the thick ancient language book, and found the three phrases she just said without much effort.

Ryno, beauty

Bellith, long time no see

mohiga, i love you.

She was silent, and began to think about whether she could go back to half an hour ago through the candy house, and strangle that nonsense self with her own hands.

……

The task of collecting letters from Rosalie was completed very quickly, and Gabriel had already brought the thick stack of letters back to the Ocean Observation Center intact at dawn.

After the embarrassing experience last night, Bernice didn't dare to look up at Tiago today. She just took a few letters and sat aside, opened them and read them.

However, as soon as she opened it, she was stunned, her face was full of disbelief, and her scalp was numb.

Immediately afterwards, she opened the second and third envelopes...

"What's wrong?" Gabriel noticed her abnormality.

And it's not just her, Thiago's face is also not good-looking.

After a short period of sluggishness, Bernice almost jumped up, desperately grabbed the other letters, opened them one by one and carefully identified them.

But the result is the same.

Whether it is the Hai Clan greetings written at the beginning and the end, or some details, they all reveal the same message——

That's her handwriting.

The author has something to say: When I wake up, I find that the bubbling friends are all confused. Let me explain here, it is actually all the things I wrote in the previous two dungeons [Magic Mirror dungeon and Bluebeard (Lambert) dungeon] Foreshadowing and dark lines are now connected in series in the last copy of the candy house.

But it may be that I update [you] too slowly, and I deliberately wrote it not too obvious, so many friends will feel confused about the beginning of this series.

But for the next plot, I will write out a lot of hints and foreshadowings that everyone must have not noticed before, so calm down and don't panic.

Friends who have read my previous articles know that I like to write copies that seem to be independent of each other at first, but they are all connected in the end.

... [The following is the original speech]

I finally wrote this step, and it gradually connected with the previous plot.