[Comprehensive crime] The name of the murderer

This is a five-square-meter room with a height of only two meters. There are many layers of opaque black velvet hanging from the roof. The velvet covers the four walls and extends to the ground, making the room narrow, warm and quiet. It's like a lair that hatches monsters.

A man and a woman sat on the ground made of flannel across the crystal ball.

On the woman's face as cold as ice, there are blue and green pupils inlaid, and the brown curly hair is gathered along her slender neck and soft cheeks, and is bound by a silver ring on her chest.Her slender figure is encased in a gown of intricate heraldry, while gemstones and precious metals adorn her hair, neck, wrists, and bare feet.And the crystal ball held by her slender fingers is the only light source in this dark lair.

Tang Sisi looked at her white and clean hands in surprise for a while, then raised her head.

Although the man opposite was short in stature, his movements were very powerful, and he even developed obtrusive trapezius muscles on his shoulders.He took off his hat, exposing his gauze-wrapped left eye, then took out a small iron box from his pocket and knocked it between the two.

The man stared at Tang Sisi with his right eye.

"I agree to your terms, as long as Damon can come back."

After he finished speaking, he opened the box, and inside was a bloody eyeball spinning around...

Tang Sisi sat cross-legged, stretched out her hand and pinched the bridge of her nose, and at the same time peeked at the short man's strong biceps—if you ask him who Damon is now, he will definitely be torn apart by hand, right?

"Then, as you wish." Tang Sisi stretched out a finger and clasped the box, indicating that the thing was accepted by herself, "You can leave now."

The dwarf was confused: "But where is Damon?"

"It's not easy, I need time."

"If you lie to me, Metes, I will chase you to hell!" The dwarf leaned towards him with a ferocious face, making Tang Sisi clenched his fists involuntarily in fright, but the moment the two were about to touch, the dwarf's body suddenly Since the feet began to blur into smoke, the whole person quickly became transparent.

"Metess...resurrect Damon..." The dwarf's facial features twisted and froze, white smoke spread up, his body dissipated in the air, and after a while, the smoke cleared, leaving only a faint light in the air. The smell of burning vegetation.

Tang Sisi was quiet for a moment, and after confirming that there was no one here, she held her chest and let out a long breath.Then she jumped up and groped around, turned around but couldn't find the exit.This dark nest seems to be a natural cavity in the rock. It is not accurate to say that it is a rock. The material is warm and soft, but it is so tough that it cannot be torn or deformed greatly. It cannot be compared to any known material.

To make it easier to find a way out, she decided to pull all the velvets that were in the way to the ground, but when she actually started to do this, she realized that this place is not that simple.The velvet was piled up inch by inch, and quickly filled up half of the room. Tang Sisi even had to bend down to avoid bumping her head, but the velvet didn't seem to pull at all. If she kept going like this, she would definitely bury herself.

"What the hell..." She felt even worse.

Tang Sisi stepped back and picked up the crystal ball that had been overturned by the flannelette, but unexpectedly discovered that what she thought was the base of the crystal ball was actually a beautifully bound book.

The book is more than 6 inches thick, the cover is made of thin hardwood, with metal spine and edge, and the hardwood is also ironed with complicated heraldry. Not paper, but a tanned russet leather bearing text written in magenta ink.

Tang Sisi's English level is very limited, and she can only understand popular books, so she has nothing to do with this book full of old English. Fortunately, there are many exquisite illustrations in the book, including the section view of the room in front of her.On this page of densely packed text, there are two lines of short red sentences that are specially bolded and marked, which look like some kind of spell.

Since knowing the nature of the world, Tang Sisi has been able to accept this kind of messy truth naturally, and she realized that this time she might become a witch or a magician through time travel.Because the alphabets of ancient and modern English are similar, Tang Sisi was able to read these two sentences with unclear meanings, but nothing happened after she recited the spell.

That does not work.Tang Sisi frowned and shook her head. The pronunciations of Old English and modern English are far from each other. She couldn't make the spell work. Besides, she couldn't be sure whether it was Old English or a spell.

Tang Sisi tapped her forehead with a bitter face, she might become the most aggrieved transmigrator ever to die, it's all due to that bastard Shen Ming!Thinking of the reason for the initial time travel, Tang Sisi suddenly had an idea—since text messages can sign a contract, words should also be able to cast spells, she can try to write out the spell!

There was no paper and pen in this place, so Tang Sisi took off the gemstone ring, and picked up the metal box containing the eyeballs. With a bitter face, she didn't think about the human eyeballs spinning around in the box, and copied the two sentences stroke by stroke. To the front and back of the box.

After writing the last letter, a little white smoke suddenly came out from the tip of the gemstone, and then her hands and the metal box began to float away, and she clearly felt that her spirit was being torn apart, as if a force wanted to elevate her to another level.Feeling blessed, Tang Sisi opened her arms and hugged the crystal ball and magic book, and these two things also began to dissipate.

As if waking up from a dream, she opened her eyes on the soft double bed, and the air was filled with the faint smell of burning grass.

Tang Sisi sat up abruptly, glanced left and right, and could confirm that this was a high-rise apartment building with cold and modern decoration, desk lamps, mobile phones, routers, TVs, air conditioners, humidifiers, doors and doors, and a profession like a witch is basically two dimensions.Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but feel confused—is travelling so advanced now?It can actually start from a dream!

While thinking, she walked to the window, first saw the rising sun outside the window and the silent street, then lowered her head, and saw a strange animal skull on the desk by the window, inside the skull was some Stalks of grass that are slowly burning.On the right side of the skull censer, there was the weird magic book, the crystal ball, and the small box containing the eyeballs. There was even a spell written by her on the box lid, which was obviously in her own handwriting!

The composure on Tang Sisi's face disappeared. Wasn't it just a dream?

She turned around and went into the bathroom to wash her face, calmed down her emotions a little, and then searched the entire room for the identity information of the traverser.Through the documents in the drawer, the communication records in the mobile phone, and the carefully preserved letters, she finally came to a vague conclusion.

This person is called Metes, and she is a witch hiding in Manhattan in the 21st century. Although she has a charming face like a girl, her actual age is at least 600 years old, but because she was born before the wave of witch trials that swept Europe for 300 years, so Most of his life was spent avoiding the fate of being burned to death.This bleak experience made her develop a cautious character, and she solemnly wrote on the title page of her diary——

1. Avoid using magic

2. Avoid contact with other witches

3. Avoid human contact

4. If you are allergic to lactose, you cannot eat ice cream, FU*[email protected]￥%￥#!

After digesting the known information, Tang Sisi confirmed that there was no soul exchange at home, and to find it, one had to go deep into the life of this "grandmother".But even if "Grandma" adheres to her own life creed and doesn't have much contact with the outside world, she is still a 600-year-old witch after all. If you want to understand her life trajectory, you must travel around the world!

Tang Sisi sat at the desk with a headache, thinking that it would be better to make a big news and find Shen Ming, and pray that he in this world would not be a permanent scientific expedition member in the Arctic... No, no, before that, she must hurry up. Find out what that dwarf asked her to do?And where was that place just now?Otherwise, when it is thrown in again in a daze, I'm afraid it will be torn apart by the dwarf.

Thinking of this, she began to use Google to translate the spell, and then guessed what she had just encountered.

This is a treasure hunt spell.

There is a dragon creature called Ji Li Ji Li, with three heads and five wings. It is the only strange species born in the pure nothingness where hell and heaven meet.When it breaks out of its shell, it will enter the human world through a spell, and the eggshell it leaves in nothingness can remain for 1000 years until it is swallowed by nothingness again.If the witch catches a crackle, she burns a sprig of sage in its skull, draws the shape of an eggshell with its tibia, and then draws what it wants to bring into the hole , and finally, as long as you say the spell, you can teleport yourself and the object into the eggshell.

But this actually has huge risks.The reason why the witches went to that hollow was entirely because the unhatched jirijili cubs would secrete golden lava, and the witches could dig out a few tons of gold from the hole where it was born, but if it was teleported to the gold lava The condensed cave will instantly melt until there is no bone residue left!

After the witch is lucky enough to dig up gold, she can bring the gold and other things back to reality as long as she utters the return spell, or she can be teleported back to reality after the sage is burned out.

So even if Tang Sisi didn't do anything just now, she should be able to come out now.

Mei Tess redecorated the empty eggshells and treated them as a scene of black market transactions, so as to avoid revealing her true identity and location, so as long as she didn't take the initiative to use this spell, the dwarf would not be able to find her. This conclusion made Tang Sisi Slightly relieved.

The language of the ancient English magic book was difficult, and it was very slow to read it with a dictionary, but Tang Sisi didn't dare to find someone to translate this book that might contain various dangerous spells, so he could only pick out the spells he was interested in and read two pages.

The first is the "resurrection spell" associated with the dwarf.The mantra is short, with only a few easy-to-remember words, and does not require auxiliary rituals such as burning straw.Tang Sisi couldn't help wondering, is the spell that can confuse life and death so simple?Isn't this world so exciting that you can live and die if you want to?However, there is a line of cursive footnotes under this page. She can only recognize the words "voluntary" and "soul", but she thinks that such things as footnotes should be irrelevant.

Followed by "The Witch's Key".This is the only page in the book that has human eyeballs drawn on it. It says that nearly a hundred kinds of weird materials are needed to make the thing, such as human eyeballs, the spinal cord of the scythe, the feathers of the Harley guitar bird, and the blood of the vampire prince. The extremely cumbersome and strict magic circle looks like a super powerful treasure!However, the book did not introduce the function of this thing in detail. There is only one sentence about its effectiveness-New Eden is coming.

She usually has to work hard to find the soul exchange item, but when she saw the legend of the "Witch's Key", she immediately felt a strange resonance. Needless to say, the exchange item this time must be the "Witch's Key" key".But Metes is collecting the materials of the "Witch's Key", which means that the thing has not been created yet. Could it be that Metes' soul is parasitic on something that doesn't exist yet?

"Ah, ah, it's so complicated..." She screamed and closed the magic book.

Tang Sisi took out Mei Tess's bank card and check folder. This "grandmother" has at least two dozen hidden identities and more than 60 accounts. on the card and deposit slip.So Tang Sisi confirmed the deposit amount of most of the accounts through the Internet and bank phone calls. The sum is an astronomical figure. It seems that Mei Tess has worked very hard in the past 600 years!

As she sighed, she opened the closet to look for outing clothes, only to find that Metes only had a variety of small dresses, including the blue witch robe worn in an eggshell.She changed into a relatively plain white foreign dress, put on sunglasses and a top hat, and went out with a stack of bank cards.

From then on, I drove to Lower Manhattan, and the vehicle finally stopped in front of an eleven-story building.

Tang Sisi asked the driver again: "Is this the most famous advertising company in Manhattan?"

The driver frowned: "Miss, this is New York. I can't say who is the most famous advertising company, but this company must be on the competition list."

"Thank you." Tang Sisi checked out and got out of the car, looked up at the building, and walked into the building with her head held high.

The lady at the front desk nodded to her: "Hi, do you need help?"

Tang Sisi took off her sunglasses and raised her head slightly: "Tell your manager to come out, there is a big deal."