In the shallow layer of the Shadow Realm, somewhere on a street in Yandu.
The early morning sun above her head was emitting an illusive and hazy light without heat. Zhao Sida waited for a long time in the deserted and quiet street before Alex and Otto arrived.
The old hunter, who was burly and majestic like an iron tower, appeared from behind the black limousine on the corner of the street, carrying Otto, who was looking unhappy and cursing, in his left hand like a chicken.
"Oh! I'm so sorry for keeping you waiting! My friend!" Alex crossed the black limousine and walked up to Zhao Sida. He spread out his free right hand and tried to hug the other party warmly to express his apology, but when he saw that Zhao Sida could not After moving back two steps to avoid it, he realized the difference between men and women, then he scratched his head and said with a smile: "Otto was a little angry on the way here and didn't want to go out. I wasted a lot of time trying to persuade him to go out. "
"FNNDP! Look at your hand holding my collar and say it again! Is this what you mean by 'persuading me to go out'?" Otto, who was still being held by his collar, danced excitedly, struggled and cursed. , "Shit! I told you I don't want to take risks with you! Who the hell wants to care about the fight between you and the 'Master' and the Truth Society! If you want to die, just die by yourself! Don't drag labor and management. one……"
But before he finished speaking, Otto swallowed back the rest of his quality speech.
Because Alex showed him a smile that he thought was kind, but was actually terrifying: "Otto, you can't say bad words in front of others. This is the most basic courtesy and respect for people."
"I ca..." Otto almost cursed him with a curse word. He wanted to curse people very much now. During the time when he was acting with the old hunter, he was violently coerced by the other party more than once, and was forced to obey the other party. The humiliation, the psychological shadow of living under violence and fear all the time has turned into a nightmare, torturing his spirit all the time. Even in his dreams, he couldn't find peace. He often dreamed of Alex's burly figure, forcing him to sit obediently in the ideological education class.
Recalling all the past experiences, Otto felt an unknown fire rising in his heart and rushing straight into his mind.
Does he have to continue like this? Do you have to live in the shadow of the other person all the time? No! Otto was beaten to death by Alex! Die in the shadow world, thrown from a tall building by an old hunter! I will never give in to the other party again!
The time to resist is today!
In an instant, Otto felt anger rising in his heart, and evil growing in his guts. The violent anger dispelled the fear of the old hunter in his heart. The thoughts and ideas in his mind were actually reflected in his body and he began to take specific actions, surging. Thousands of curse words in my chest finally converged into one sentence.
"I...I know, be careful next time!"
Thinking of the fate of those unrepentant supernatural beings who had their legs broken, Otto shrank shamefully and succumbed to the violence and threats Alex had shown.
Sure enough, it is more important to survive. I am trying to learn the wisdom of my ancestors, but I am trying my best to survive! It's definitely not that he's afraid... Otto kept hypnotizing himself like this in his mind, trying to find a more acceptable reason for his retreat.
Zhao Sida nodded and didn't mind the brief charade between Otto and Alex. Although this level of charade was very novel, since she came to Wu Ming's house temporarily, she not only had to interact with Elizabeth, who was full of whimsical ideas, every day. Wu Ming has to fight wits and courage, and must always control Wu Ming, whose mind is prone to go astray and then lead Elizabeth into chaos, so he has become very resistant to weird scenes in this area.
She immediately brought the topic back to business: "Let's get straight to the point. I heard that you found traces of the Truth Society's activities?"
"Yes." Seeing that the other party started to get to the point, Alex stopped worrying about Otto's problem for a moment and turned to Zhao Sida: "That's it. A while ago, I have been following reliable information channels to trace the Truth Society. traces."
As he spoke, he glanced at Otto with a smile. The latter's eyes changed a little, but he never answered. He just snorted coldly and looked away.
"Of course, you also know the specific results. When the 'Master' was already alert, several attacks against members of the Truth Society ended in vain. The progress so far has only been to catch a few people who leaked drugs. personnel, but according to my understanding of the 'Master', these personnel must have been drained of their use value and then thrown out to use their remaining heat, and this conjecture was indeed confirmed in the subsequent interrogation."
Zhao Sida did not interrupt Alex rashly, but silently watched him continue his narration.
"They were indeed thrown out for use after they lost their use value. Since you destroyed the Changsheng Village, the Truth Society has stopped rationing truth pills to them, and no longer requires them to leak truth pills to young student groups, even to In the end, they were no longer able to contact their former compatriots of the Truth Society, and they relied on the inventory on hand to leak the remaining extraordinary medicines to society. In fact, it can only be regarded as a personal act."
At the end, Alex added: "Furthermore, after using extraordinary magic to travel through dreams and conduct investigations, I also found that the number of sudden disappearances of people in Yandu is on the rise. Most of them are students, young people who have just entered society, and outsiders. Migrant workers. They will suddenly disappear one day and quietly appear the next day. Others will not be able to notice that someone is missing, and they will not leave a vivid memory in reality. It is as if these people were not in the world during the period of disappearance. Nothing ever existed in the world, and only some records have been preserved in the form of dreams..."
"So that's it." A character flashed across the doll girl's eyes, and she had already calculated the conclusion in an instant, "They are gradually recovering ordinary people who have taken the medicine, and are conducting extraordinary transformations on them in batches. Do you have a rough idea? Are you following the direction?"
"That's right." Alex's face became serious, "I spent a lot of effort to catch several young students who suddenly disappeared and returned quietly, and then extracted some scattered information from their dreams. , narrowed down the search scope, and not only found more clues about the activities of psykers, but also found traces of the 'Master'."
Traces are a way for hunters to refer to the residual traces left by prey in the environment, including smells, footprints, extraordinary power characteristics left after battles, and other things that may leave information. The presence of traces means that the prey Has been present in the area where the trace appears.
Zhao Sida looked at Alex: "What do you mean..."
"Split up and chase the traces of psykers' activities. Follow the clues to see if you can uproot the Truth Society." The old hunter pointed at Otto, indicating that he and the doll girl should be divided into a group to act together, and then pointed at Himself, "And I will deal with the 'Master' so that he has no time to take care of your actions."
