[You are a detective, and your family has been doing this for generations. However, as the times gradually entered the mechanization period, the meaning of detective gradually began to change. People began to think that they were just some intelligence dealers who kept asking for gossip. The so-called A large part of reasoning and investigation has been replaced by technology.
Seeing your father gradually turn the agency into an intelligence room no different from other detectives, you feel that this is very different from the education you received in your childhood. You are not willing to let such a profession disappear like this. However, in the bustling city, there are few major cases that require detectives to intervene.
But opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. You finally encountered a seemingly ordinary case during college. The cause was just a theft on campus. At the request of your roommate, you followed the clues to investigate the thief and ordered him to return the stolen property. But the thief has sold it and invested in an activity that makes you feel incredible - making a body to hold the soul.
You saw the body that was pieced together from corpses purchased through illegal channels, and you also saw the real onmyoji. Although the spirit summoning failed, the world that had been formed since childhood began to collapse. Through the unknown onmyoji, you learned about the place where this method was spread, a small town on the east side of the Marcos coast.
As it happens, a client with whom your family has some connections has referred you to a new client who is looking for a travel assistant with excellent observation and analytical skills. After you saw that the location was exactly at that place, you asked your father to travel by yourself without hesitation.
Witch's Clothes, this is the name of the body that the onmyoji told you. The spirit summoning did not fail that time, so there are only two possibilities. One is that the function of the body is not to load the soul, and the other is that the body can only load specific souls.
"Find the answer." You say to yourself. 】
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"Doctor, let me tell you something." Shen Lishu smiled and leaned on a soft chair. Lu Ning looked at him.
"Speaking."
"Tomorrow night, Xiaoye and I plan to go to the lake house together and spend the night." Shen Lishu's voice was slightly lowered, and Lu Ning could barely hear it clearly.
"You don't need to tell me."
"Hahaha, it doesn't hurt to tell you. At least someone must know where we are going, whether it's a human or a ghost." Shen Lishu took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time, "Actually, I suspected that you, doctor, are a demon. It’s human, but it doesn’t matter anymore, my mission has been completed.”
Lu Ning thought for a while before she understood what Shen Lishu was referring to.
"You gave up?"
"People must know how to be willing to give up. If there is force majeure, then choosing to protect yourself wisely is also a way. I don't have the courage to kill everyone in the town, and neither does Xiaoye. The peaceful solution we are trying to find will not work in this scene."
"You should know that confrontation scenarios cannot be expected to be resolved peacefully." Lu Ning shook her head, "Did what happened today disappoint you?"
"Disappointed? No, no, no, there will always be people who can't help but use this kind of solution, but generally speaking, people who do this will not have any good results." Shen Lishu coughed, "If I were two years younger At ten years old, I probably still have some courage, but I’m old.”
Lu Ning watched the old man slowly walk back to the room with suspicion. The tourists at the distribution center did have an age gap when they entered, but if they were really too old to walk, they might not even be able to get through the first scene, so Shen Almanacs can't really be that old.
But his words were indeed very similar to those spoken by an octogenarian. They were not disguised, but had some real feelings in them.
When night comes, it's when the devil is ready to move.
Karl had already walked into the dense forest with sparse moonlight. He was holding the coin Robert gave him in his hand, and his right hand was on the holster on his waist, ready to draw the gun and shoot at any time.
Being alone is the best target. Karl naturally knew this, but he still came out into the night.
The trees in the forest were rustling, as if the wind was blowing, or something was passing quickly across the tops of the trees. Several birds were startled, but Karl was not nervous enough to shoot at the slightest movement.
"The night breeze is cool and the moon is shining over the trees. Why don't you come out and reminisce about old times?"
Karl walked under a tree, squatted down and swept a pile of fallen leaves aside. Near the root, there was a triangular mark under the dim moonlight. His lazy voice spread among the trees, as if he was performing a one-man show.
But the next moment, the moonlight dimmed. Karl raised his head with a slight smile that did not change at all, and the sharp blades in the sky were reflected in his pupils.
A half-demon black shadow blocked half of the moon. The wings behind him spread out, and two long black whips extended from the top and bottom of the wings, dancing in the air like four long snakes.
"No one will save you this time."
The demon raised his hand and pressed down, and the sharp blades all over the sky were pressed down with his movements. There was no space within ten meters for a person to dodge!
"Zhong Feiying, it's hard to meet again, is this how you say hello?"
Karl calmly faced the flying blade and took a step back.
There were continuous stabbing sounds on the ground, but none of the blows pierced the human body. The demon saw Karl disappear from the place and appear in the open space not far away, still wearing that infuriating smile. , as if laughing at myself.
"Why...this time we are obviously in the minority, but you have mastered such an ability!"
The demon—Zhong Feiying swooped down, and all the sharp blades bounced back to his body, merging with his skin. His head had turned into that sharp-mouthed kappa. If Karl hadn't confirmed it many times, this would have been Tokiya simply couldn't believe that this demon was that stupid black short man.
"These aren't the only things you can do, right?"
He looked at the long knives growing out of the demon's hands, but he didn't even draw the gun.
"It was Qu Siyuan and Pan Haishu who reported their location to you." Zhong Feiying said coldly, "The two of them have been chasing me for a long time. If I weren't worried about being discovered, I would have killed them long ago."
"You can't do it. How can a demon who escaped from battle the next day have the courage to take the initiative to find someone who dares to track him? Let alone two people." Karl looked at Zhong Feiying who still hadn't come over, "If I hadn't You guessed it wrong, you don’t have the confidence to take me down in close combat, do you?”
"So what?" Zhong Feiying opened his arms, "No matter what abilities you have, at least one thing is untouchable, right?"
Karl narrowed his eyes.
"Sky."
As if gravity had no effect on him, Zhong Feiying's body once again rose to a high place without any hindrance, "My ability is very simple, it is flying - I am not going to call him that silly 'air demon'" It, but I'm happy with it."
Zhong Feiying was indeed a soldier, so he knew very well how important air supremacy was in war. With the mechanical level of technology, hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons has become a thing of the past, so why would he want to fight in close combat?
"Your ability seems to be space movement? Or is it time transformation? It doesn't matter - that ability doesn't seem to allow you to exert power beyond human limits." Zhong Feiying rose to a safe distance, and he was already confident that he could dodge the pistol shot. After he passed, he said sarcastically, "No wonder you were chosen to be the bait. It turns out you are capable of protecting yourself."
"Of course, then how are you going to deal with me, Demon?" Karl raised his hat and grinned at Zhong Feiying.
"Even the power of suspending time is completely different when used by a baby than when mounted on a chariot. For you, this ability can only be used to escape, and... how many times can you use it?" Zhong Feiying asked. He raised one arm. There were black webs between his fingers, but they were still translucent. The moonlight penetrated the film and illuminated countless tiny particles suspended in the air.
Karl's expression was condensed. He didn't know when the space around the two of them had been occupied by these gravels no bigger than a thumb, but he didn't notice it.
"Flying, this simple ability can not only be used by myself, but can also be attached to other things. I myself cannot produce a dense bombing that is enough to cover your entire dodge range, but it is not impossible to use the terrain environment."
Zhong Feiying raised the corners of his mouth sarcastically, stretched out his fingers, and formed a ring behind the stone closest to him.
Karl reached out to draw his pistol, but Zhong Feiying, as a demon, was faster. His fingertips that had been charged for a long time popped out and flicked the stone directly to Karl's face. What was affected by this was the hundreds of stones floating around. Judging from the howling sound in the air, the speed was close to subsonic speed, forming a rain of bullets!
"Shit..."
Karl immediately dodged out and appeared ten meters away, but this area was still within the attack range of the stones, and Zhong Feiying raised his hand to shoot out the second group of stones!
Step bombing.
"Well!!"
Karl groaned and finally hid behind a tree in time, but his arm and shoulder were hit by several stones. Blood slowly gushes out of the wound. This smell was immediately smelled by Zhong Feiying.
"Ten meters." He moved slowly in the air, "Your limit dodge distance is ten meters. If it is a space ability, this is the distance limit, and if it is a time ability, then this period of time is about two to three seconds. .”
This guy has quite a lot of combat experience!
Cold sweat was already streaming down Carl's forehead, and he didn't know whether it was because of pain or nervousness.
"Besides, with my flying ability, even being fixed to the ground is useless."
Karl suddenly felt that the tree he relied on as a barrier began to shake violently and made a snapping sound. A large number of branches and leaves began to fly into the sky, and then with a huge snapping sound like a firecracker, the trunk of the tree split. It split into two halves, with one part flying into the sky, while the roots were still rooted in the soil.
Zhong Feiying caught the thick tree trunk with both hands, and with one exertion, he crushed the wood into thin wooden stakes about the same length as his forearm. These wooden stakes were purely used as weapons, so Zhong Feiying also Didn't bother paying attention to their shape.
"Call your backers or die."
He announced with a sneer, and then raised his hand to smash down the wooden thorns. At this moment, an arrow penetrated the gap in the forest and flew toward him!
"Flying props are of no use to me..."
Zhong Feiying stretched out his hand to deflect the arrow, but his expression changed in the next second. The tip of the arrow was obviously flashing with a faint fluorescence between blue and green, and his ability could not act on it at all. superior!
It was already too late to avoid him, the sword pierced directly through the palm of his hand.
"Ahhhhh!"
Zhong Feiying held his arms and roared. With his original willpower, this kind of injury would not have made him lose his composure, but this arrow directly made him feel fear...the fear of the devil!
"really……"
Fujii Yukine slowly walked out of the forest, holding a compound bow in her hand and a simple quiver on her back, which contained seven arrows with the same faint light.
"This special mineral can threaten demons. I remember that you should have bought some ore. Why not use it?" she asked Karl.
"It's not the time yet." Karl smiled and wiped the cold sweat from his head.
At this time, Zhong Feiying had already broken the arrow shaft. He raised the tip of the arrow and looked at it carefully. He found that the material used to make the arrow tip was indeed beyond his control.
"Did you go to the mine?"
"Mine? I've never been there." Fujii gave him a cold look.
"My old friend told me what he saw there. It seems that it is necessary to collect this thing." Carl pointed his gun at Zhong Feiying, "By the way, tonight is also the date we have scheduled to hunt you. "
"Huh? Are you so proud of yourself after just causing a few wounds?" Zhong Feiying shook off the arrow tail, and the wounds on his hands were healing quickly. "You only need to dodge the attack. Do you think you can defeat me with this?"
"There is a difference between an attack that is ignored and an attack that requires vigilance. Besides, do you think we were the only ones involved in this ambush?"
Fujii pulled out a second arrow and nocked it. Zhong Feiying was slightly distracted by her words, and two black spheres were shot out from behind him.
"what--"
Two black balls exploded in the air and turned into two large nets. Originally, this was nothing. What shocked Zhong Feiying was that the two nets were covered with flashing fluorescent metal pieces!
"Qu Siyuan! Pan Haishu!" He yelled out those two names and quickly wanted to take off, but stopped in a hurry when he glanced at him.
Fujii Yukine did not aim at him, but aimed above him.
There was a net behind him and an arrow aimed at the top. All the routes he could get out of had been blocked. At that moment, he almost read a hint of sarcasm on Fujii Yukine's expressionless face:
"Just stay away?"
As soon as his thoughts changed, the big net was approaching. Zhong Feiying gritted his teeth and rushed downwards with the wooden thorns in the air toward Fujii Yukine and Karl. As long as he killed these two people, all problems would be solved!
But for this long-planned hunt, Carl and Fujii were almost ready. Just when Zhong Feiying thought that both of them would be nailed into hedgehogs, a chant drove him to hell.
"Use soil - Rashomon."
The dense square earth wall perfectly protected the two targets. The strength of the wooden thorns did not make any difference in front of this kind of defense. Only Zhong Feiying's diving punch made a crack in the wall in front of him. It only takes one more kick to crush it.
But he knew he had lost.
