Gongsun Ce now understood what misfortunes never come singly. He came to the door before he had time to investigate the new affairs of the agents. He had to first ask Alandia to take Qiluo and Qin Qianbai to guard the church to appease the people, and then he took the only spiritual envoy in the team to meet with Servais.
"Tell me, I am a Brahma Realm creator, but you treat me as a spirit-appearing servant. What do you mean by overestimating my talents and underutilizing them?"
Gongsun Ce held her hand with a smile: "Master Huanyue Zun, if you are able, please do more work. Can you tell me how many times on this trip I won't be without you?"
"Who said I started the world in preschool." Rei Shigure squinted.
"It took me so long to remember a joke, why should I be so cautious?"
The meeting place agreed upon by Ranger Servais was near Rufus Public Elementary School. This is a boarding elementary school located on a remote street far away from the central area of the underground city. When the two arrived, the blonde ranger was moving her shoulders. There were many men and women dressed as serious rangers standing around her, all of them looking gloomy. When she saw Gongsun Ce, the female ranger rubbed her eyes hard.
"You said you were near the Blade Rain State?"
"I happened to enter the underground city when you called me." Gongsun Ce said, "So what happened? You said on the phone that the children were like living in a horror movie?"
"It's true, man." A young male ranger answered with an indescribably weird tone, "The underground atmosphere has been too depressing these days. The school was afraid that the children would have mental problems, so they asked us to part-time as a small band to perform charity performances. . I promise I didn’t sing those bad anarchist songs, they were all familiar nursery rhymes, but the children cried after listening to them.”
"Nearly half of the children cried loudly, and a few children even mutilated themselves. They hit the wall, pinched their necks, and lay on the ground drooling..." Servais sighed, "I really feel that my singing is not that bad. I used to Got the trophy.”
"A single case or a common phenomenon?" Gongsun Ce frowned.
"I just contacted a few local colleagues. Similar phenomena have happened from time to time in the past few days." The female ranger frowned, "I don't think this is an environmental problem. Blade Rain has been falling for two thousand years and I have never heard of such a phenomenon. It’s a matter of time.”
"I understand, you guys please retreat, I'll go take a look."
Rei Shigure took the lead and walked towards the elementary school. Several part-time band members walked away with their instruments, their backs looking particularly gloomy. Gongsun Ce understood their feelings. Doing bad things with good intentions is the worst thing in the world, especially when you have done nothing wrong but made others suffer.
They found the previously injured children in the infirmary. There were six children lying on small beds. Their heads and hands were wrapped with bandages. It seemed that they had just been treated. The primary school doctor is a square-faced middle-aged man who gets angry when he sees Ranger.
"You still have the nerve to come! Come to me now—"
"Quiet, let's go." Shigure Rei said. The doctor immediately sat aside like a puppet. Gongsun Ce could see that his girlfriend was in a bad mood. She clapped her hands in front of the children, put on an affable expression, and said with a smile: "Good evening, children! I am Alice, the psychiatrist. Can you tell me what difficulties you have encountered?"
At first, the children just stared at her blankly and no one spoke. But when the daffodils quietly bloomed, their attitude softened significantly.
"Sister, I always hear the sound of bones upstairs when I sleep at night." A little girl grabbed the quilt tightly and said, "There must be bones of dead people upstairs. Go and check."
Another child looked horrified: "I keep hearing strange noises. There are shadows in the cloakroom at night. There is a ghost here!"
"I feel like someone is watching me," a little boy said first. "He's always on the TV, in the mirror, standing behind me. I can hear his breathing when I get up at night to go to the toilet."
The children's discussion gradually became louder. They became more frightened and excited as they talked, as if there was really an invisible ghost floating in the room, instilling panic in their hearts. Rei Shigure snapped his fingers and ordered in a strong tone: "Those are all fake. Remember, there are no ghosts in this world. You are scaring yourself."
The children looked at her confused, and Rei Shigure issued a new order.
"Don't think too much, life will get better."
The children's eyes gradually calmed down. Gongsun Ce told them a few bad jokes and led the two of them away. As soon as he went out, he said: "I used telekinesis to scan this school thoroughly. I guarantee that there are no ghosts or other things here, and there are no props that are deliberately pretending to be magical."
"There wouldn't be phantoms here in the first place. I would be scared out of my mind if the kingdom's specialties appeared in Ustus." Servais said, "Speaking of which, is your search ability reliable? Energy body, mental body, and those things It’s very hidden.”
"I've also searched, and there's no trace." Shigure Rei shook his head, "But this is definitely not a coincidence. Even human experiments that directly use pharmaceuticals will not cause such big changes in children in a short period of time. Rain. It has only been less than a month since the situation became stronger, and the situation should not have gotten this bad."
Servais touched her arm back and forth and said nervously: "Miss, are you so murderous? I know this is very disturbing, but please don't show your face, 'I want to kill everyone'. Is that okay? We little shrimps will get goosebumps after seeing this! It’s so scary!”
There was no smile on Rei Shigure's face. She said coldly: "I hate people who take advantage of children the most."
Gongsun Ce patted her back to express comfort, and they walked around the primary school building. Rufu Public Primary School is a boarding school, and the children still have 2 hours of free time before going to bed. They saw that the children in each class were staring at the TV programs in the classroom, and several classes were watching. comedy movie.
"We have always been proud of our traditional school spirit. Normally, children would use their evening time to read some books and listen to teachers reciting fairy tales, poems or stories from scriptures to them." A young head teacher told them sadly, "But recently, I don't know What’s going on, the children are so resistant to everything, even listening to music makes them manic. Now we can only show some TV shows, which is better than leaving them with nothing to do.”
Gongsun Ce looked inside the classroom through the window glass. The adult men and women in the program were talking and laughing loudly. The light on the big screen made the children's faces colorful, but did not bring a smile. Most of them have expressionless faces, as numb as adults returning home after a long day at work.
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The investigation into the panic was temporarily at a deadlock, and the more than half an hour spent in the elementary school yielded nothing except making the three people's emotions worse. When she walked out of the school gate, Servais tapped her fingers on the holster of her gun, grinding her fangs irritably.
"I want to shoot something to calm down, damn it! What could be the reason for this? A spiritual magician who specializes in children?"
"It's hard to say. This situation may not be unrelated to the abnormal rain." Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses, "Miss Servais, I remember you used a very interesting move when you were fighting. It seemed like you drew it from the surrounding environment. Power. Is that a psychic weapon or a symbolic technique?"
"That's my impermanent method." Servais hit her back repeatedly, "I have no problem if it stops raining in some areas for a short period of time, but I don't have the ability to mess with the climate of the entire state. You guys have a strong background and magical powers. Can Guangda find a solution to Totem?"
"I will try my best... By the way, I see that you have been knocking on your back for a long time, do you suffer from rheumatism at a young age?"
"Nonsense! How could I, a young and beautiful woman, have such a problem that only the elderly have?" Servais protested loudly, "It's because of the climate. Every time I come here, I feel a stinging pain in my back. I told you before Blade Rain State is not a place for people to live, if you stay here for a long time you will become mentally ill."
Gongsun Ce paid the ranger a sum of money and made an appointment with her to contact her again if there were any abnormalities. Shigure Rei said nothing after leaving the campus. He held his girlfriend's shoulder and brought the black-haired woman closer to him.
"We will definitely solve this matter." Gongsun Ce said.
"What are you telling me for? How can I have such a strong sense of social responsibility?"
"But you won't be happy when you see it. As a brave young man, of course I can't just ignore it, but making Miss Witch happy is also a major driving force for my actions."
Shigurei glanced at him, turned around and grabbed his ears and said, "Don't do this, finish your work quickly and let's leave this bad place."
"It's all up to you~"
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While the two were investigating the elementary school, the trio in the church were not idle either. Qiluo transformed into a priest and calmed the believers outside, while Alandia and Qin Qianbai took the lead in investigating the whereabouts of the agents.
To their surprise, the two agents who came to investigate were not missing. They were lying in a secret room deep in the church. The files show that the two male and female partners in their early thirties have experienced hundreds of battles and have the ability to manifest themselves. However, at this moment, the two people on the stone bed were silent and acted like two unconscious vegetative people.
"There was no physical harm." Qin Qianbai reported while checking, "They seemed to have been mentally attacked. Could it have been an attack by a spiritual magician, Miss Alandia?"
"Not necessarily. The nuns' testimony said that the two agents fell into a coma while resting in the church. It is difficult to imagine that two senior experts could be easily assassinated in the base camp."
"If the spirit creates a world..."
"Since the Secret War, there have only been two spiritual world-creating envoys. One is Lord Roninlus who just woke up not long ago, and the other is the man you are familiar with."
Qin Qianbai covered the two agents with quilts and walked out of the secret room with the Dawn Knight. They sat down in the lounge a little further away, and the gorgeous holographic projection outside the window was performing an ancient puppet show. Colorful virtual puppets floated above the streets and told witty jokes one after another, but the numb tourists on the streets rarely raised their heads to watch.
"The last time I saw Uncle Situ, I was very young. He was still studying in the imperial capital at that time. When Qin Ming and I went out to play, I would always see him quarreling with Yan Qi like he was singing in an opera. I would see him making up jokes and choreographing Uncle Liu. He teased Qin Ming and was beaten by Qin Ming in turn." Qin Qianbai said, "But he was always very kind to me. He would sing to me and tell me jokes. I always thought he was a weirdo, but he never I never thought he was a bad person."
"I think there are many differences between Qin Ming back then and Ming Ke now." Dawn Knight said, "People will always change."
Have you changed a lot too, Miss Alandia? Qin Qianbai didn't ask this question, she thought now was not the time to feel sad about spring and autumn. She changed the topic back to the main topic: "Excluding the interference of the Creator Law Envoy, what else is possible?"
"Special spells, powerful telepathic weapons, the influence of certain Haobian spirits...there are too many possibilities before us, so we need to start from the clues to speculate." The Dawn Knight handed her a notebook, "This is Agents’ personal notebooks, which contain their jottings while working.”
Another notebook. Agent Will also likes to carry a small notebook with him. This seems to be a habit of many agents in the Mithril Pillar. Qin Qianbai opened the last few pages of his notes and checked the notes written down by the agents.
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Blade Rain State DAY1
Check totem
The totem's mood fluctuates strongly, and it is speculated that there is a source of stimulation.
Investigate outside interference
…
DAY4
No trace of supernatural interference
Slow progress and anxious mood
The investigation is suspended tonight and the situation is being adjusted.
Suspected of being followed
DAY5
After receiving the report from Xuanci State, I changed the direction of investigation by referring to the devil's processing ideas.
Feeling anxious, relying on prayer to calm down
Emotional management has been continuously out of control in a short period of time, and interference is suspected.
DAY6
The panic among the masses is obvious, and the concept of aversion to the local environment is widespread
Emotional deterioration is bound to climate deterioration, making it difficult to find an entry point
Consider applying for publicity support
Hallucinations, confirmation of being followed
…
(No record of the seventh day)
(Notes gradually become sloppy)
DAY8
Elena noticed panic among younger children
Communication is unstable
Feeling panicky, go to bed early tonight
(No record of the ninth day)
(The handwriting is very sloppy)
DAY10
Withdrawing the support application, it is meaningless for low-level personnel to come
I have to send a warning to headquarters
Seriously out of control emotionally
No use of electronic devices
It's too late, take first aid with Elena
(A large section of meaningless graffiti, handwritten a few pages later, with extremely thick blood letters)
It's looking at me!
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Qin Qianbai closed the book and commented: "What a vicious prisoner."
"Suspected to have the ability to be invisible, good at mental pollution and emotional attacks, using blood letters as a crime declaration, typical characteristics of happy criminals." Dawn Knight summarized one by one, "We can basically confirm the prisoner's tracking method. We will start after the strategy has collected the intelligence. investigation."
"Can you know this?" Qin Qianbai was confused.
"Miss Qin, if you have working experience in Superbia, you will also find this method obvious..."
The two people who were communicating had their backs to the window. Where they couldn't see, the virtual puppet show in the holographic projection was becoming more and more dynamic. One of the little puppets moved its mouth back and forth, as if smiling at the people in the room. It slowly walked out of the projection range and submerged half of its body into the church wall. Its wooden hand suddenly thrust out and stabbed towards Alandia's back!
"ah!"
The strange puppet let out a shrill scream, and a black flying knife appeared out of thin air, nailing its arm into the stone wall. Immediately afterwards, several needles made of hardened air were shot out of the window, killing all the virtual puppets that were about to move. Qin Qianbai, who caused all this, just moved her fingers slightly, and asked without changing her expression: "Is this this kind of thing?"
The Dawn Knight nodded: "They often appear at night, are good at using electronic devices and fear emotions, and have no physical body... The Shadow Mist City was once full of such monsters, we call them phantoms."
(End of chapter)
