Huacheng No. 1 Middle School.
There are still some remnants of fire damage caused by shells in the surrounding buildings.
After the mysterious handling department of the General Affairs Bureau went in to investigate and confirmed that the ritual performer was hiding again, and that there were no more 'rituals' or 'abnormal reactions' at the scene, the regular departments began to intervene, clean up the mess, investigate the casualties, and make statistics. List.
On the campus road that was scattered with dust and gravel due to artillery fire, a man and a woman were talking quietly. The man was young and was wearing an ordinary sports suit. His clothes were torn by a sharp weapon, which made him look very embarrassed. The woman was wearing a black windbreaker. Carry black suitcase.
"Are there many casualties, Sister Tongyan?" On the way, Zuo Dao asked in a low voice as he looked around at the scene where there was no one else but the General Affairs Bureau officers.
Tongyan seemed to know the feedback on the scene very well and said directly:
"The students are okay, mainly the faculty and staff. Because some students died due to the ceremony, they had been evacuated and sent back to their homes. However, there were still students on campus at that time, and then...
"As well as some faculty and staff working on campus, they have disappeared after this ceremony."
Tong Yan did not continue.
"What happened before? Team Leader Zangtiao probably didn't tell you how to cancel the spell she gave you, right?"
Zuo Dao shook his head: "Yes."
Tong Yan paused, but quickly recovered:
"I'll take you to the team leader."
"Thank you, Sister Tongyan."
The two quickly left the campus and came to a command vehicle.
"Wait here for a moment." After saying that, Tong Yan knocked on the rear door and went straight in.
Not long after, Zang Ti walked down, but Tong Yan did not follow to take charge of the first and second shifts. Zang Ti looked around and saw Zuo Dao waiting outside. She waved her hand and led Zuo Dao to find a place with few people.
"Tell me about the situation." Zang Tiao lit a cigarette.
Zuo Dao touched his chin and recounted everything that had happened since he entered the campus today. Apart from vaguely dealing with the situation of his own paper spirit, he also described everything else, including what Cheng Quan had entrusted him to do. , Zang Tiao nodded while listening.
At this time, when it came to the passage after the Mist Ritualists retreated, Zuo Dao changed his words and asked:
"Team leader, was the shelling outside mainly aimed at the library? I was trapped in the library at that time and didn't know much about the situation in other parts of the campus."
"No, the other party's ritual covers the entire No. 1 Middle School. The order I issued is to fine-tune the strike freely," Zang Tiao explained negatively. She was afraid that Zuo Dao didn't understand this term, so she added:
"The so-called free fine-tuning of strikes is the authority that can be given after the review of another department called the Observation Center when a range-type ceremony occurs. The magic-breaking cannon strike will use an even strike range to consume the opponent's ritual power."
After Zang Ti finished speaking, she obviously realized that there was something in Zuo Dao's words. After escaping from danger, Zang Ti took this kid to find her so quickly. It was obvious that she didn't just want to report and seek protection as soon as possible. She asked again:
"What did you find?"
The other party's keen insight made Zuo Dao sigh in his mind.
Complicated feelings.
"Other people's rebirth and time travel... Even if there is no golden finger, there are all kinds of opportunities again. How did you get to this place? Not to mention the constant dangers, the crises experienced in the past two days have exceeded the "business volume" of the past year. Well, not to mention the delicate thoughts of each character, this is completely different from the description of the decent gentleman and the evil villain in the novel...!"
"The most troublesome thing is that it's the humanistic habits of this world, or it's a common problem among the people who come into contact with mysteries. These people's minds are not bad at all. How can they have the ease and harmony of time travel in other people's novels?"
"It's too difficult for me."
Zuo Dao made a small complaint, but still maintained his role:
“At the time of the shelling, I feel like a big part of it was in the library.”
"Well... this is against the rules. The analysis given to us by the observation center did not say that your location is an obvious highlight of the ceremony," Zang Tiao said with no wave on her face: "I will check it later, and Woolen cloth?"
Zuo Dao muttered:
"The first person who came to the library was a group of colleagues, led by a team leader named Li Jia. He asked me, the team leader, the name of your technique. I didn't tell you, and I didn't remove the windshield after that. I waited for Sister Tongyan to come. I didn’t get here until after.”
"Slippery," Zang Tiao smiled and pointed at him:
"I'm warning you, fellow leftist colleague, you are trying to sow discord among colleagues!"
"It's nothing, team leader, I'm just a little confused." Zuo Dao denied with a naive face.
"You don't need to worry about these. You, Xiaotong and Menyou Ping will go to the ex-wife's house named Cheng Quan later and look for what he said. Pay attention to your own safety." Zangwei stamped out the cigarette and ended the topic. Return to be responsible for many trivial matters on site.
...
in the car.
Quan Hu drove the car and used the communicator to conduct advance control of the destination from time to time, and the target was naturally Cheng Quan's ex-wife's home.
Tong Yan, who was in the back seat, was holding an internal terminal and looking through some people's files for analysis.
Zuo Dao was closing his eyes and concentrating. In fact, he was conducting a review.
Zuo Dao has always trusted his own intuition. If he was asked to evaluate it by himself, he might not have that "ding", or the grandpa and grandma, but the tricks in his mind, from today's point of view, must be able to count. one.
The other one is naturally intuition, or spiritual perception. The inspiration of an old practitioner is always the most worthy of everyone's trust, regardless of the legendary induction of heaven and man, the manifestation of heaven's secrets, the manifestation of external effects, looking old at a glance, etc. Wait, it all depends on the capture of spiritual sense.
To borrow a saying of unknown origin, if people don’t have confidence in themselves, then what else can they believe in?
Although he had lost his once huge soul power after traveling back in time, he found that the quality of his soul had not been lost. This meant that he would have to practice soul cultivation in the future, which would be a state of getting twice the result with half the effort, and he might even be able to reach a higher level.
The former Zuo Dao once again worked as an undercover agent and created a "big villain" who was famous on the lists of various agencies. He was in intrigues with various agencies all year round, and he was encircled and suppressed, which also allowed him to develop a strong sense of caution.
From another perspective, his "enemy" knows his "opponent" very well. Even if he changes to another world, the mechanisms developed from the commonality of human beings are actually very different in general.
Therefore, a large number of cannonballs fell in the library. In his opinion, it was an abnormality, and it gave him the feeling that he wanted to destroy everything here.
If it weren't for the spell on the silver cigarette case given by Zang Ti, he would probably have survived, but the price would have been extremely heavy. In other words, even he would have to do this now. What if it had been someone else?
What about the other "peripheral personnel" who have just arrived?
Because of this incident, his sixth sense was ringing alarm bells like crazy.
And the second anomaly...
It was Li Jia's behavior.
In this world, personal rituals and techniques seem to be a very private topic. Even among colleagues in the General Affairs Bureau, such conversations are extremely taboo. Inquiring into the names and even characteristics of other people's ritual techniques can be viewed as for serious provocation.
Unless a close relationship requires a high degree of coordination between each other, otherwise there may be two groups. Then we only know who is called so and so, and who is called so and so. At other times, most of the other party's abilities are superficial understanding and knowledge. From here It also reflects a characteristic of this department, which is its special "independence".
Although rituals and spells are powerful, their shortcomings are also obvious. As long as others find that "weak node", then the person himself will be like taking Shixiang Cartilage Powder, his skill will be greatly reduced, and the weakness is often eliminated through "Name" starts information analysis.
This point, whether it is Zang Ti or Chen Jiu, is a key reminder in the "Newcomer Introduction Promotion" of some general affairs bureaus.
As for Li Jia, who has obvious seniority in the General Affairs Bureau and is the team leader, would he not be aware of this problem?
Zuo Dao thinks it can't be done.
Coupled with the last inexplicable intuition at that time, Li Jia gave a treacherous feeling, just like his name.
Very fake.
Thinking of the "thrilling" mist ritualists had experienced over the years, this gave him a bold idea.
That is, there is a ghost inside.
Maybe, he is still the one who hit the ghost.
Therefore, when Zuo Dao came up with this idea, he adhered to the principle of caution and chose to find an excuse not to go with them, deliberately avoiding danger, so as to wait for someone he was familiar with, and then go to Zang Ti's place and see Zang Ti. Finally, without letting himself appear too "demon", he gave a hint to Zang Ti.
What happens after that?
As Chang Ti said, this is beyond his control.
Therefore, Zuo Dao was "sent" out again by Zang Ti to deal with another matter, which was the clue left by Cheng Quan. This was more of a way of protecting himself from Zang Ti.
From this point, we can see Zang Ti's attitude towards his subordinates: protecting their weaknesses, taking care of them, and not trying to catch cannon fodder.
It was also with this kind of evaluation that Zuo Dao chose to inform the other party, otherwise he would definitely continue his "lurking and running away" plan at this moment.
In fact, since she didn't ask herself why she had such unreasonable thoughts, and she was still teasing herself, she could be sure that there was nothing peaceful inside the Bureau.
Many things don’t need to be explained thoroughly. When you feel it, it actually already exists.
Now I have been labeled as Zang Ti, and regardless of whether Li Jia really has problems or is in a factional struggle, as a person who was promoted by Zang Ti, he must pay attention to this and protect the community of interests. .
"It smells like workplace infighting." Zuo Dao joked in his heart.
"All kinds of things, even my own body, are now a mess. I can only sort it out slowly. I choose to participate in other things to a limited extent. I hope that the notebook of the history teacher who died young can be preserved. Get something useful."
While thinking, the car paused slightly, and Quan Hu spoke:
"We're here, Xiaotong, classmate Zuo Dao, let's go."
