Throne of Radiance

"Sure enough, I couldn't get an answer."

"...However, it's not all fruitless."

"At least, if we know their whereabouts during this time, we will have more clues worthy of our exploration."

"Yeah, I didn't expect that there are so many incidents related to Joey. Maybe we can talk to relevant people?"

"I agree. Shicheng's statement is one-sided. Although we can be sure that he is not lying, other people's perspectives are different. No matter how little they know, it is also a kind of supplement and perfection."

"Then act."

He learned about his experience during this time from Shi Cheng's mouth, and the countermeasures team of the Detective Department discussed together for a while, and the paper file belonging to Joey added more than ten thick pages.

As for who to talk to about...

Several people invariably turned their attention to the newly added pages on the paper archives and the events written by them.

([-]) The truth about newly promoted Gu XX's withdrawal from the circle

On the afternoon of May 5th, at 5:17, Gu XX, a newly promoted top performer in the entertainment circle, suddenly issued a withdrawal announcement on his social account: saying that Gu XX suffered from depression due to excessive pressure and had to choose to temporarily withdraw from the circle. Return date undecided.A psychiatrist's diagnosis was also posted.

On the same day, Gu XX's fans almost flooded the social networking site, questioning that the account was stolen, and some young underage fans directly rushed to Gu XX's opponent's house, and sent police everywhere to those artists who had conflicts with him.Afterwards, Gu XX had no choice but to come forward in person, admitting that the declaration of resignation from the circle was true and that his account was not hacked. By the way, he clarified that his illness had nothing to do with other people and was purely his own.In the live broadcast, the newly promoted top-ranking man looked haggard, his makeup couldn't cover the dark spots under his eyes, his eyes were gloomy and tranced, and he seemed to be in a very bad state of mind.

But just three days ago, the other party had just held a concert. He was full of energy on the stage with a bright smile, and he was also in high spirits when interviewed by reporters, talking freely, and had intimate interactions with fans. Nothing abnormal can be seen.

The other party's sudden withdrawal from the entertainment industry once became an unsolved mystery in the entertainment industry.But if fans who have so far struggled to accept the truth can see a page on this dossier about Joey...

On the snow-white paper, there are lines of clear handwriting——

[According to Shi Cheng’s dictation, on the evening of May 5th, after receiving the compass from Tianshi Shensuan, the compass began to shake slightly. It seemed that some lost property was not far from where they were, probably in the same city.In the afternoon of the second day, they followed the guidance of the compass all the way to the remote alley of the film and television city, and walked towards a dark car parked at the intersection with a clear goal.The target guided by the compass is in that car. ]

"At that time, there were several bodyguards around the car, all of whom had cultivated their internal energy. When they saw a stranger approaching, they stepped forward to stop us and didn't let us approach. It just so happened that there was a film and television studio there, so I guessed Maybe it's a star..."

That's what Shi Cheng recalled.

"However, this small hindrance is of course unlikely to cause trouble to Mr. Joey."

"...So, those people quickly gave up resistance and let us walk all the way to the front of the car and open the door."

His tone was as relaxed as describing what dessert to eat after a meal.He also exaggeratedly exclaimed: "Wow, I really didn't expect that the person sitting in the car would be the big star Gu XX!"

As for Gu XX, who was invited by the investigation department, his performance was not as relaxed and calm as that of Shi Cheng. Recalling the events of that day, there was still lingering fear in his voice:

"The devil! That guy must be a devil..."

How did he react when the stranger who came suddenly said "My sheet music is in your hand, it's time to return it to me"?Guilty?fear?Angry?Not only refused to admit it, but also let the bodyguard drive him away?

At one point, he even had the idea of ​​sealing this secret forever.There are so many otherworldly crimes out there anyway.

He was once ridiculed by his fans for only being able to see his face. Not long ago, he suddenly revealed his unparalleled musical talent. He wrote more than ten pieces of original classic music in one breath. Once the album was released, it became popular all over the country, and he took off the hat of the vase , became the hottest top streamer in one fell swoop!How can the secret that made him become a musical genius exposed to others?How could he just lose that strange musical score that would automatically compose music and refresh the track every morning?

And the greed of not wanting to let go finally made him pay the price.

"I regret it, I was really wrong..."

His pupils, which were constantly dilated due to fear, seemed to reflect the scene he saw that day——

Looking out through the blackened glass windows of the nanny's van, everything in sight seems to be cast in shadow.He saw the security guard who came forward to yell at the other party to drive away suddenly froze in place like a stiff puppet, and the cursing voice turned into incomprehensible shouting and frantic raving.Their stiff hands and feet waved wildly, as if they were sunk in cement and struggling desperately.

An inexplicable fear suddenly seized him.He wanted to urge the driver to drive away quickly, but he couldn't make a sound.

He could only stare stiffly at the figure that was getting paler and more gloomy in the traces of the shadows, leading the people behind him slowly approaching, and a strange and unknown melody floated from the other party's lips and teeth.

As a result, everything in sight was melted by the distorted shadows, the sky and the earth swirled upside down, the melted earth melted the figures, everything melted turned into silt, surging down from the swirling sky, like a dark deep sea, completely engulfing him Devoured completely.

It seemed that black mud had entered from the eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and flowed down the throat, filling every crevice in his body.There are countless figures whispering in this deep sea.

His brain, his abdominal cavity, and the flesh and blood in his body seemed to have been filled with mud.He didn't know when he fell from the seat, knelt down along the opened car door, and curled up into a ball.Amid the strong nausea and dizziness, he trembled and retched violently, as if he wanted to vomit out the all-pervasive mud.

"Looks like you carry it with you..."

In a confused state of mind, a Youdao figure stayed in front of him, directing another person to take out a yellowed sheet music from his pocket, and that person reached out to take the sheet music.

He struggled instinctively, as if he wanted to block it, but the outstretched hand quickly became a rigid twisted shape.It is like the last struggle and cry for help of a person who is about to drown in the deep sea.

——What the manager who arrived afterward saw was his own artist curled up on the ground with a distorted expression. He stretched out his hands and scratched in the air like a drowned person, struggling continuously.On his face, which was in a state of embarrassment due to the running down of tears, was the pain of being suffocated by the sea water.As if he heard the manager's footsteps, he opened his eyes wide in a daze, and his pupils were dizzy.

——That afternoon, he was sent to the hospital. According to the doctor's appraisal, there was no physical damage, but the spirit suffered a severe trauma.

He dared not tell anyone the truth of the matter for fear of being retaliated by the owner of the score.It's just a strong request to quit the circle, and no one can persuade it.

The stolen musical talent does not belong to him after all, if he continues to stay in the entertainment industry, he will always be afraid of being approached by that person again, he just wants to find a safe place to hide himself, forever and ever!

——When the detection department came to the door, this top-notch retired person had been hiding at home for more than a month and hadn't gone out.He wouldn't have dared to come out if it wasn't for the repeated promise of the detection department to protect him.

"It's not depression caused by psychological pressure at all, it's more serious ptsd..." Recalling everything that happened that day is still an indelible mental torture for him, "I shouldn't have touched that score , that must be the bait cast by the devil, the medium through which the devil came from purgatory to the world, my greed got me hooked..."

He repeatedly talked about the devil and purgatory, and repeatedly emphasized that the detective department must protect him. He was in a trance, and it looked abnormal.

Liu Ningshuang couldn't help but turned around, pointed to her forehead, and whispered, "Is there something wrong with him?"

"It has been confirmed by experts, there is no problem." Li Fufeng also answered her in a low voice, "At least there is no problem in passing the test in the mental hospital, and there is no mental disorder. "

The others couldn't help but glanced at each other, thinking of the robbers who were facing Joey, especially Li Biao, who was in the most miserable shape, they couldn't help but nodded silently: Indeed, compared with the robbers who have been judged to be insane, this Symptoms are mild.

Obviously, that Mr. Joy didn't have the idea of ​​​​causing him permanent trauma, or in other words, he controlled the force when he shot.

Their eyes flicked across each other's dazed faces again.

...If this situation can be regarded as controlling strength?

([-]) The Mystery of the Maple City Serial Suicides

In April, there were several male suicide cases in Fengcheng. When they were found, the deceased were often lying flat on the bed or on the ground, with their hands tightly around their necks, suffocating to death.

This terrible way of death once caused panic among countless local people.Because survival is the instinct of human beings, even those who really want to commit suicide, at the moment when they are dying, their strong desire to survive will drive them to save themselves, instead of tightening their palms and strangling themselves to death.This is simply against human nature!

But all the clues point to suicide, and as time goes by, more and more suicides occur.

As a result, this "impossible suicide" was quickly included in the list of abnormal events, and was submitted by the local police station to the Detective Department.

However, the investigators sent by the Investigative Division never found out the truth. The only key clue they concluded was that the deceased had a history of child abuse, or was a recidivist of child abuse.

This once reminded them of the serial murder case that happened in Yuanyang City on a rainy night. Could it be that this is another transcendent who hates evil and is exercising his "justice"?

...Since the appearance of K, there are not a few guys who claim to be his fans and use the name of Skywalker to carry out justice.

The Detective Division immediately began to investigate suspected martial arts practitioners, especially those who had been abused as children.But no matter how they searched, they couldn't lock the suspect.

And after the last suicide appeared on May 5, there has been no similar suicide case in Fengcheng. They suspect that the suspect may have left, which makes the case more difficult to investigate.

It wasn't until they learned the truth about this matter from Shi Cheng that they finally realized that they had misdirected their investigation.

——The serial suicide case was not the work of an extraordinary person.Rather, it was caused by a painting called "Evil Ghost".

The person who owns this painting is the daughter of the first deceased.

When that painting appeared, the little girl couldn't tell.

It seems that one day after she was severely beaten by her father, she returned to her room and found a portrait on the mirror in the bedroom.

In the painting is an exceptionally beautiful blond girl, her face is flushed, her jewel-like eyes are clear and beautiful, looking out of the painting, her eyes are full of attachment.

There is an inexplicable vividness in the person in the painting that a living person has.The little girl even thought she saw her rolling eyes.

The little girl who has never had a friend is not afraid, but likes the friend in the painting very much, and shares her thoughts with her every day.

And just after she was beaten by her father again and hid in the room dragging the scars all over her body, she remembered crying for a long time, expressing her grievance and resentment in front of her friends.

She murmured: "That man is still drinking, why didn't he die drunk? It would be nice if he died. "

When she woke up the next day, she found that the living room was full of the smell of alcohol, and the man named father was lying on the cold floor with his hands tightly around his neck, his face was already blue.

--he died.

The first thing that surged up in the little girl's heart was joy. She felt that her wish had come true. Could it be that her good friend fulfilled her wish?Will her friend be taken away by the police?

This thought drove her to action, and before the police arrived, she put a dust cover over the mirror, which also blocked the painting.

The traces at the scene are too easy to check, no matter how bizarre it is, it is suicide.No one suspected that the man's death was related to the little girl who stayed in the room all night, and naturally they would not touch her painting.

And since that day, there have been more and more similar suicides.

Until Joey showed up in Fengcheng with Shi Cheng, and took back the painting from the yearning little girl.

——Although she is very reluctant to part with her friends, she also knows that once the truth is discovered, many people will want to take that painting away, and she has no ability to keep it.

When Shi Cheng told the truth behind this, Liu Ningshuang, who was afraid of ghosts, already had goosebumps all over her body. She couldn't help but ask, "So, is the girl in the painting a human or a ghost?"

"It's neither a human nor a ghost." Shi Cheng explained, "Although the painting is of a high standard, it is not up to the level of psychics. It is impossible for any ghosts to hide in it. It is purely due to the profound knowledge of the painter. Emotional projection makes an ordinary painting spiritual, and it becomes a miracle in everyone's mouth. The theme of the painting and the emotion invested by the author affect its characteristics."

"So, it's not the evil spirits that are killing people. It's the spirituality that spreads from that painting, which produces some kind of spiritual pollution to a certain group of people within a certain range, which causes those people to commit suicide. I asked Mr. Joey at the time, and he was like that Said."

He didn't forget to add: "Oh, that's right. Teacher Joey said that the prototype of that painting is the author's younger sister who was abused and died in childhood. The name of that painting is "Evil Ghost"."

Liu Ningshuang broke out in a cold sweat from the fright of his lowered tone.

Even if she looked back at the file now, recalling what she said at that time, she couldn't help but move a few steps aside.

Compared with the top person who retired from the industry, the person involved in this incident was only a six-year-old girl, and their attitude towards her was much gentler, more like a friend who played with her, after sending the little girl away , and specially arranged for her an orphanage with the best reputation to ensure her life.

([-]) Curse of Alice

This is also an unusual case that was brought into the attention of the Department of Distinctions.It was a "cursing ceremony" that suddenly spread among some schools not long ago.It is said that in the beginning, someone wrote a poem on the wall of a middle school library, titled "The Death of Alice". This poem takes Alice as the protagonist and describes her various ways of death. Except for the first few lines, every line of the poem is a way of death, a total of nineteen kinds.

According to the description of the poem, the fictional Alice in the poem committed suicide because of being bullied at school. The whole poem is more like the ravings in the fantasy of a lunatic who couldn't accept her death.Alice in the poem dies in various ways, symbolizing the countless collapses of the poet's spiritual world.

Liu Ningshuang: "???"

When she saw the interpretation of this unusual incident, she almost wanted to ask, which reading comprehension teacher is this.

Because she was the one who dealt with this abnormal incident, Liu Ningshuang was very impressed.

The cause of the incident was very simple. At the beginning, the school saw the poems on the library wall and thought it was a prank by the students, so it didn't pay attention.

But someone copied the poem on a whim and replaced Alice's name with a classmate who had been bullying him. As a result, the classmate really died the next day, and the way of death was the nineteen kinds of death One of the methods, the situation began to tilt in an unimaginable direction.

The man excitedly told his good friend the secret he had discovered, and then the secret was no longer a secret.

In this way, "Alice's Curse", as a terrifying campus legend, not only spread in that middle school, but also continued to spread to more schools.

As more and more bullies were written about in that poem and died in the poem, some people also found that it was not for free. Die with another name, and the natural joy that belongs to them will be deprived.

— that is, they are losing their joyful emotions.There was only slight joy in what should have been a good laugh.Once the number of curses is too large, the experience of joy will be lost forever.

Compared to the lives taken from the enemy, the price seems insignificant?Especially when the hatred reaches its peak, and even the death is ignored, the so-called price is even less concerned.

At that time, as the investigator in charge of this abnormal incident, Liu Ningshuang and several teammates tried their best.Even the wall where the poetry first appeared was completely destroyed.

But the result is still useless.

Fortunately, the curse in that poem is not killing indiscriminately, it will only be effective against extremely vicious bullies.They really have no good solution for the time being, they can only find the school and teachers to cooperate, put an end to campus bullying, strengthen the education of students, and teach them that if they are bullied, they should call the police or tell the teachers and parents as the first choice , instead of choosing to retaliate with curses.

Hearing that this incident was also related to Joey's lost property, Liu Ningshuang breathed a sigh of relief, it would be great if the curse could be solved.

But Shi Cheng poured cold water on her.

In his words: "Once the form of poetry is spread, it is difficult to prevent its pollution, unless everyone's memory is erased. Mr. Joey is just recycling the original manuscript of that poem, but after the original manuscript is recycled , the curse may be weakened. Only near the original manuscript, the curse will be so strong."

Following the guidance of the compass, the two quickly retrieved the original manuscript.

And the Detective Department, who learned the inside story from Shicheng, also had a direction of investigation, and quickly found out the cause and effect of the incident.

——The original manuscript of that poem was in a corner of the school library, caught in a book, but accidentally discovered by a student.

It just so happened that the student was scolded by the grumpy librarian for not obeying the rules during the day. punishment.And this poem just happened to be chosen by him because it was dark enough, cool enough, scary enough.

Later, "Alice's Curse" broke out, and he was guilty and afraid. He didn't dare to tell anyone, and he didn't dare to go to the library.

……

There is already a thick stack of files about Joey. Except for these a few sensational and unusual incidents, most of the time, he took away his lost property silently.

As for the fact that the villagers were almost misunderstood for taking drugs when they stayed overnight in the village, it was also included in the archives.

According to the summary of these events, the mysterious and transcendent Joy, who knows music, painting, sculpture, and even food, can do everything, even though the final effects are very strange?

"However, at least we can now be sure that Mr. Joey's extraordinary ability is indeed biased towards the spiritual side." Chu Xingrui made a conclusion, collecting so many traces of the other party's presence, it was enough for them to come to such a conclusion.

"...Is this another extraordinary system different from martial arts, or is it an ability that belongs exclusively to the other party?"

If it is the former, it means that it can be spread like martial arts, but its danger needs to be questioned.

If it is the latter, then the other party is unique.

To know the answer to this question is actually very simple.

Several people looked at each other and said a name in unison: "Shicheng!"

——As a special person who was brought by that extraordinary person for nearly two months.If this ability can be learned in a systematic way, the other party is likely to have mastered it.As long as you pay attention to the changes in time and multiplication, you can know the answer to the question.

And the results of observation tell them that the answer is yes.

Shi Cheng is now considered to be a name in the Department of Detecting Alienities. Occasionally, like other wild martial arts practitioners, he will accept some tasks issued by the Department of Detecting Differences and get paid.

Not long after, in an unexpected situation of a mission, he encountered a wanted criminal supernatural being. He actually summoned the illusory and invisible sword out of thin air, and with a single stroke of the sword, he made people cry and regret.

It seemed that his sword had touched the opponent's soul.

When the news reached the Alien Detection Department, everyone was shocked.

——Is this really another extraordinary way? !

This allowed them to raise Joey's importance level by a few levels again, and at the same time, it was inevitable to ask another question:

"That Mr. Joey, who is it..."