Foreword:
Hatred cannot hurt the enemy even a hair, but it can turn one's life into purgatory.
Dale Carnegie丨"Human Weakness"
[Part ①· Are there any masters? ]
Under the strong request of the water ghost brother, he first introduced himself.
"My name is Quite, a native of District 41. I came to this ghost place in 1988."
"I have two children. Before the western suburbs park was built, I was the ranger here."
"You must be curious about how I died."
Mr. Jason shook his head.
Jiang Xueming also had an indifferent attitude. After turning on the recorder, he was like a stone.
Grandpa Quite is preparing to divide his story into nine volumes and eighteen chapters and slowly tell them——
——Fragrant Fantasy stuck her head out from the gunsmith's shoulder and yawned, frightening him to get straight to the point immediately.
"Yes, yes! Four days ago! Let's just talk about what happened four days ago!"
"That's right. As for the Marley Perot and Haruta Yukiko you mentioned, I have indeed met these two people."
Quite scratched his skull and recalled carefully.
"It was sunrise time in Chenguang County, and I was hiding in the mud at the bottom of the lake. Without the blessing of the spirit awakening ceremony, a weak spirit like me is not qualified to face the sun."
"I didn't know what happened until the sun went down and Wang Xin drifted to the 40th District. About twenty minutes later, the conversation of the young couple became clearer and clearer. I was curious, maybe I came out of the water to take a look.”
At this point, the two balls of green fire began to tremble violently in Quite's eye sockets.
The mud on its face was squeezed into a sad and frightened expression, as if it was remembering an incredible scene.
"Marley Perrault ate a hamburger, specifically a ground beef patty on a whole wheat bun with just a little bit of salad dressing."
"But it's not that simple. There must be other ingredients added to that piece of ground beef. Its psychic tide makes me uneasy."
"What happens next is just as the two adults speculated."
Quite's tone became nervous and stuttering.
"The young man's two arms grew eyes and mouths. They seemed to control the host's mind, tearing apart Yukiko Haruta's body, taking away the clothes and hair, without sparing any drop of blood, like a high-power water pump. , I ate up this girl Yukiko all the time."
Jiang Xueming then asked: "Other than that? Have you seen anyone else?"
"Yes, I want to ask this too." Jason Megan asked: "How long have you been observing by the lake? Are there any other suspicious people outside the boulevard?"
The Holy Communion is a very important ceremony for every believer in the Crazy Butterfly Religion, just like the stone ceremony.
People use this method to acquire survival skills. The Eternals behind the scenes must be observing all this in the dark. The range of psykers is limited.
But what Jason and Jiang Xueming didn't know was that Pellelini had exceeded the range limit at the cost of one eye.
Grandpa Quite frankly told what he had seen——
"——I was so frightened that I couldn't move. I saw Marley Perrault lying on the ground, his mouth on the palm of his hand constantly searching for the scattered blood. More than half an hour later, I finally woke up and didn't care about anything else. Things, I just want to escape back to my warm wooden boat as soon as possible."
It seems that there are no other clues. The evidence this water ghost can provide is only to reaffirm the blood-granting properties of Marley Perrault. This young man has indeed turned into an ogre.
Jiang Xueming thought so, feeling a faint uneasiness in his heart.
Marley Perrault is a player of the Zebra Power Team. At this juncture of the Luna Cup, the Eternals once again came to the human city to act as monsters. They created blood-granting units to participate in this competition. It seemed like a small fight. Take it out on the kids.
But in fact, as long as one young man is bewitched by them, Blue Morpho's camp will lose a talent, and Red Morpho's camp will gain another minion. This is already two lives. From the perspective of the chess game between Ao Hun Ming De and Vita Brand, BOSS lost two small points.
If Marley Perrault can carry this gift from the evil god to the finals of the Luna Cup, it will be a devastating blow to the morale of the other contestants.
The children that people have worked so hard to raise are sent to various places to study, practice dueling skills, and fight for their fellow villagers in their hometown, for their own future, for their ideals, and for their partners—in the end, a man-eating monster stood on the podium. superior.
The beast hybrids have been integrated into the big family of Homo sapiens, because these hybrid babies and Homo sapiens can coexist peacefully and work together in the same team for the sake of a harmonious society that seeks common ground while reserving differences.
But the blood donation unit must not touch the cauldron of Dagda. These beasts are the natural enemies of Homo sapiens.
There is another thing that the gunsmith is particularly worried about and should be careful about.
Jiang Xueming and Jason said: "This guy is here for me."
Sooner or later, the Zebra Power Team will have a head-on collision with the Fairy Tale Kingdom. Marley Perot is the pawn of the Eternal Ones, used to test the combat effectiveness of the new generation. If the Fairy Tale Kingdom is unable to withstand this punch and shows weakness, then it will be followed by a combination of attacks against the Nameless Ones.
Don't look at the little angel Concho Johnny of the Love God's Mercy Society who has been dead for so long. Before his death, this [Wing of Light] taught the gunsmith earnestly, and the gunsmith dared not forget a single word.
Time will make the weapons of warriors rust, and time will turn young and strong young men into weak old men.
Time changes everything and changes everything beyond recognition.
The students of the gunsmith practiced for six years, but in the end they were defeated by the [Wings of Light] created by the Eternal One. Such a result also verified from the side that the existence of the gunsmith and the crying general was just a coincidence, and it was Ao Mingming. Due to some bad luck, De temporarily had the power to repel the Vita Brand.
The next generation of Homo sapiens is still weak and incompetent waste, and blood-red butterflies are flying wantonly among the railways. This is the normal state of the underground world.
"But." Grandpa Quite suddenly raised his head and added, "But Deliya should know more."
Jason spread his hands in annoyance: "Okay! After all you fucking said, it turns out that there is a bitch named Delia who also saw these things? Where is she?"
Quite quickly explained: "This has to start with the cause of my death."
"You still want to talk about the cause of death, right? Do you still want to tell your story?" Jason Megan eagerly took out the gun.
This time Jiang Xueming stopped the irritable half-wolf and said calmly: "Let him explain clearly the cause and effect."
Grandpa Quite nervously rubbed his hands, a lot of mud fell from his palms, and told this story.
"It's because Delia is not a human being. Her inspiration and sense of smell are sharper than mine. She should see more clearly."
Jason asked in surprise: "I didn't expect there to be masters?"
"Ah, it's like this." Kuite said about the cause of his death: "I have two children. When I was a ranger, the development zone in Chenguang County was far away from here. I rarely went home and I had conflicts with my wife. .”
"She raised the two children almost by herself, and followed my work to come to this place together."
"I miss her very much, especially during the odd-numbered shifts and those days when I stay alone for the rest of the night."
"There was originally a fire tower next to the ranger's hut."
Quite pointed to the dock next to the lake. Not far from the street lights on the dock, one could see iron frame steel beams and concrete foundations.
"It's been demolished now, so we don't need to call the forest fire. I used to sleep on the tower. When I dreamed, I would dream about Delia."
Jason couldn't understand more and more: "Delia is your wife?"
"No." There was something wrong with Quite's language organization. It seemed that his head had been soaked in water for many years, so it was difficult to tell the story clearly. He quickly explained: "That was a crocodile, a very big crocodile."
Jason: "Your wife is a crocodile?"
Quite: "No, it's a very good-looking crocodile."
Jason: "Did you cheat? Dreamed about a beautiful female crocodile?"
Quite looked embarrassed: "You can put it that way."
Jiang Xueming was shocked: "I didn't expect there to be masters?!"
After Kuite explained the ins and outs of the matter, he finally got a rough idea——
——In the lake in the western suburbs park, there were originally ferocious beasts living here.
There is a strong female crocodile as the leader of the group. She has special psychic powers and affects the ranger Quit at all times.
It transformed into a beautiful woman in Quite's dream, and turned into various "mermaids" with different styles, tempting Quite to take a wooden boat alone in the middle of the night, and eventually perished at the bottom of the lake together with the boat.
Old Quite lost his life, but he still missed this female crocodile, and even gave it a name, calling it "Delia".
"Delia accompanied me through more than seven hundred difficult nights."
Old Quite was coy and didn't seem to have any resentment at all. On the contrary, he felt a deep attachment to the crocodile when he mentioned it.
"She knows how hard it is to be a ranger. She understands me. She. I don't hate her at all, because Carnegie said that hatred can't hurt the enemy even a hair, but it can turn my life into purgatory. I must love her! "
Jiang Xueming: "That's enough."
Jason: "Okay, okay, brother, it's okay."
[Part②·Basic Operation]
Once he opened his heart and told his story, Mr. Quite's attitude towards the two young people changed drastically and he became very enthusiastic.
After a lot of trouble, the two brought the water ghost to the lake. Under the friendly calls, the originally calm lake surface started to ripple.
There was no obvious sign. The shadows of the underwater fish still stayed in place, and what appeared along with the spreading ripples was a huge crocodile skeleton.
This is the [Dahlia] Mr. Quite calls her. Like him, she has rotten bones and is covered in mud, with the remains of a wooden boat stuck in her abdomen and throat.
Mr. Quite doesn’t need to say a word——
——Jason Megan has already completed the story in his mind. It is probably about an unlucky ranger who meets an even more unlucky predator.
Kuite drowned, and the female crocodile choked to death.
Jiang Xueming and Jason had never learned the language of crocodiles, couldn't understand Delia's roar, and couldn't understand any useful information from the resonance of the board and bones.
But fortunately, there is Quite. He has been with the "Lake God" in the western suburbs park day and night for so many years. He can be his companion in the water and can act as a translator.
Under the threat of Fragrance Phantom's spiritual pressure, things have made obvious progress.
The crocodile's skeleton roared, and Quite said one thing.
"Except for Marley Perrault and Yukiko, there are many people hiding upwind, that is, in the southwest of the forest, close to the old rotten forest."
The boulevards in the western suburbs park are new forests, and the wild land near the intercity expressway in the southwest is old forests.
"Delia could feel them. While Maripero was eating, there were at least eight people sitting on the low slope upwind, observing the young couple."
The crocodile head shell, which was as big as the front of a tractor, nodded its head and let out a hoarse howl.
Quite then said: "There are only two older ones who smell sweet. They should be farmers who often slaughter livestock. The others smell of gun oil and gunpowder. Delia is very scared."
Other than that, there is no other information.
"Understood." Jason Megan made a gesture, asking Jiang Xueming to get to work: "Send them away."
"You want me to save you?" Jiang Xueming tilted his head and looked at Jason.
Jason: "I don't know how to send souls."
Jiang Xueming: "Neither can I!"
The two of them stared at each other for a long time, and finally looked at Fang Fang Huan Meng.
The big steel cat shrugged helplessly and walked towards the two water ghosts.
"I know."
This pair of unlucky ghosts who had forgotten their age and race turned into brilliant water splashes under the beating of fragrant dreams. They used boats and bones as spiritual mediums to exist. Now that the medium was shattered, the spirit body finally left the lake. , no longer need to indulge in a dirty cage.
For Jiang Xueming, this little information was far from enough. He was restless all the way. He used to be a loner, but now he not only has his wife and children, but also these students, who are worried and confused.
"Jason, can you find these guys?"
Jason Megan was full of confidence and did not rush to the old forest. Instead, he took a long way back to the pavilion bench to search for more traces.
"Don't underestimate me, my little boss."
Although he has become younger, he has also become greasier.
"I am a member of the golden generation of the station. Without two brushes, I would not be able to survive now. This clue is enough for me. Hehe. Don't be scared by my abilities later."
He squatted next to the bench, and his face immediately began to deform. Like 3301's racial talent, the sideburns on his face spread towards his nose, his muzzle and nose protruded, his eyes elongated, turning into a big wolf head, and his ears stood up.
Jason Megan licked the bench carefully, followed the smell all the way to the gravel road, his nose twitched and he suddenly sneezed.
"Baccarat's tomato sauce is in stock in the freezer. It should have a shelf life of thirty days. It's a special discount."
"The white sesame seeds on the bread are very fresh and have a very unique fishy smell. It should be the taste of Longli fish. There are only two vegetable markets that sell Longli fish in District 41 and only one in Chenguang County, not far away. It’s seven hundred meters here.”
"Fuck, it smells like shit."
Jiang Xueming took out a toothbrush and toothpaste from his backpack and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Jason continued: "The lunch box fell once. Marley Perot must have been too nervous and threw the box out."
"Here right here, there is some aluminum slag left on the gravel. It is a very cheap aluminum lunch box. Workers in the steel plant like to use this kind of lunch box, which can heat meals through the boiler water circulation system."
"This meal was prepared for him by Marley Perrault's parents. It smelled a little like tears - Marley Perrault's mother made hamburgers while crying. They knew that there was holy blood in the meal, and there was a The elixir of immortality.”
"Now let's go to Lao Lin."
After Jason said these words, he didn't rush to brush his teeth, and quickly crossed the tree-lined avenue and rushed to the countryside.
It's summer now, and there aren't many footprints left in the dense forest. Due to the drastic temperature difference between day and night, the trees will drop many leaves under the influence of the morning sun and hot moisture.
None of this bothered Jason, who licked around the trees, used his nose to clear a path, and even ate some insects and tree bark.
"It's right here! Little boss! It's right here!"
Under the low slope of the old forest in the southwest, Jason Megan was crouching next to an old tree with a serious look.
"These guys are well-trained and don't have the habit of spitting. They wear sweatshirts that don't leave much pheromones. There is some smell of cigarettes left in the air, and the cigarette butts are taken away. They want to use the smoke to hinder Laijin's tracking. "
"They did come prepared. There was a very powerful commander who hired a group of soldiers, probably armadillo hunters who were paid to do things to earn extra money."
"But this little thing will allow me to find them."
At the root of the old tree, among the layers of leaves, Jason dug out a withered yellow leaf stained with skin flakes. Such a small amount of human tissue is enough for Jason Megan to find his prey.
"This is a woman. The cleaning effect of the shampoo is too good, but she has allergic symptoms on her scalp - this woman has to tie her hair when performing tasks. The itching is unbearable, and a piece of skin flakes fell off when she casually scratched it. "
"She checked into the Dali Hotel just five days ago. This kind of shampoo is produced by only two suppliers in District 41. It has a unique grape scent and is not shipped to retail stores and supermarkets. It is exclusively provided for hotel guests. Dali is a five-star tourist-themed hotel with a public kitchen, and the clues we found at the murder scene just now are also consistent, as the fresh food market is only two streets away from it."
"As long as you find the guest information, you can basically locate their whereabouts."
With that said, Jason's head returned to its original shape and he grabbed Jiang Xueming's toothbrush and kettle.
Jiang Xueming: "Wow!"
Jason waved his hand proudly.
"No fuss, basic operation."
In the lobby of the Dali Hotel, Marley Perrault was not the only one blessed by the elixir.
The young man from Vietnam gave himself a poetic code name, Haitang.
After coming to the underground world, he has always determined to become an excellent armadillo hunter. When it comes to beating children and abusing newcomers, this is his favorite thing to do.
Strong people make him breathless, but bullying the weak will only make him feel happy, as comfortable as eating high-concentration nicotine salts from mint ice.
"Don't worry! Boss! Leave this matter to me!"
In the Bluetooth headset, Pellerini never said a word or did a thing.
"You have to know that sooner or later they will chase you to the hotel."
Haitang: "It's just like what you said! The police officers in District 41 are all rookies. To deal with this kind of disappearance case, the most you can do is call a few young militiamen from the local police department to investigate."
Pellerini: "Yes, if you get into trouble, open the suitcase I gave you."
"It's useless! Hey!" Haitang said with a crooked smile and crossed his legs: "Thanks to you, old man, I have the power of the soul! Can't I still deal with a few ordinary people?"
Pellerini: "It's a great blessing that you have this confidence."
"Hehe!" Haitang smiled confidently: "[Circus of Doom·Devil Circus]! What kind of pleasurable torture will it be? My new toy! ~ Hee hee hee! Hee hee."
Pellelini was offline, and Haitang immediately changed her face.
"What an attitude."
"I thought that since I had a few dirty dollars, I could use this uncle to do whatever I wanted."
"Just seeing that baby face makes me unhappy. Let me vent my anger on the prey."
Saying this, he looked at the hotel door with a sinister look -
"Who could it be? If it's like what you said, boss, and there are some sweet and delicious little brothers, I will capture them and make them slaves."
