"Life or death doesn't matter to me, I just don't want to be too mediocre, or to be a little exciting on my way."
In the car, Duan Qiang seemed to be talking to himself in the car where he was the only one. He drove the steering wheel with one hand, and a small paper man held the gear next to him.
Now, he has scars all over his body, and the scratches and bruises on his face are also visible.
He was dying not long ago, but now he looked like a normal person.
"Oh?" A voice suddenly came from Duan Qiang's body:
"Is it because you feel bored day after day at the General Affairs Bureau?"
At this moment, there were several small paper figures inside Duan Qiang's body, maintaining his body functions. This was the strangeness of the paper-cutting technique, which shocked the other party for a long time.
"Huh... Are you either a temporary member of the periphery, or have you just joined the department?
"I think you are most likely a peripheral employee. The rookie colleagues who just joined are not as capable as you." Duan Qiang suddenly said while driving.
Zuo Dao knew that due to his new arrival, he had caught clues in the communication with the other party. He said calmly:
"Maybe."
"I can't tell you about the captain, but at least you have saved me now. You used your ability to make me take action and go to that location. I can also have a "good death". Then our exchange terms will start with the internal situation. Let’s talk?
"As for 'that person' you want to know about, I have never met him. It was always the captain who contacted him."
Duan Qiang's mouth twitched as if he was smiling.
On the street before, Zuo Dao threw Wang Zha.
Relying on people's habit of not giving up until they reach the south wall, Duan Qiang was persuaded.
Zuo Dao gave Duan Qiang the ability to act again and went to that place to find out the truth. Duan Qiang told Zuo Dao everything he knew about other things that did not involve the captain's interests. Of course, after Zhi Ling entered his body , Duan Qiang also knows that life and death are no longer up to him.
But there is one sentence that is buried in Duan Qiang's heart.
A person with strange abilities has entered the General Bureau, and his behavior does not look like a good person at all. I am afraid that he will be more harmful than him and the captain in the future...
He wanted to bury the seeds of his despair.
I hope it can bring some surprises to my former colleagues——
"What do you say."
Duan Qiang drove the car, thought about it, and said with a complicated expression:
"Most of the inheritance and system of Huayu are cut off."
"...Cut off?" The paper spirit hidden in Duan Qiang's body was silent for a few breaths, digesting the huge information contained.
"Um."
Duan Qiang slowly uncovered the mysterious corner of the world, and Zuo Dao's understanding of the world gradually became clearer through his narration.
This world has been suffering from the influence of 'mysteries' since ancient times. They are not human beings.
It may be a kind of existence, or it may be a phenomenon, which cannot be described in words and cannot be seen in detail.
Some can't see directly, some can't hear, some can't write, some -
It cannot even be known.
Disasters, miracles, wars, famines, harvests, history, and even miracles all have 'mysterious' interventions driven by these beings.
Therefore, people in this world collectively refer to all abnormal phenomena as - mystery.
It seems that only these two words, no matter how they refer to it, will not be contaminated by it and will not be watched by it.
In a certain era, everything about people is controlled by 'mystery'. People abandon their own path, pursue mystery, and long for the unknown.
The glorious ending also ushered in a great disaster.
After that, the whole world fell into chaos.
At this time, extraordinary people appeared in every region.
They reorganized the order and tried their best to eliminate the interference of "mystery" on ordinary people. They discovered that the influence of "mystery" on the real world, or "the current situation", is limited. The extraordinary people who discovered this, From this we started to work hard on our own.
With the chaotic era at that time, people's pursuit of "mystery" and "unknown" reached a point where future generations need to look up to them. The extraordinary figures of that era also discovered some patterns.
When the 'mysteries' are recognized by a huge base of human beings, the power of the 'mysteries' will be unprecedentedly huge. On the other hand, when the 'mysteries' or some kind of existence are known to fewer ordinary people, the 'mysteries' The power will also be smaller.
Of course, not their own power, but the intervening power.
Therefore, various regions began to spare no effort to control all knowledge related to the 'mystery', and the results were gratifying.
The lives of ordinary people can be attributed to ordinary people, and their decisions can ultimately come from them.
At least, most of the time.
From then on, people in their respective regions organized themselves consciously and began to further restrict ordinary people's knowledge of any 'occult science' and even various types of 'related information'.
In order to prevent it from spreading from point to surface, and finally collectively point to a certain existence, let it inject power, and drop the 'fruit' that no one knows what will happen except when it blooms.
But this unexplored world is not airtight after all. Scholars refer to it as a 'sieve'. From time to time, or even every moment, natural or unnatural anomalies will appear in ordinary people's lives.
In an era when order was gradually restored, the extraordinary characters decided to retain the 'mysterious power' that was relatively stable and had few negative effects as a system inheritance to combat mystery and anomalies.
This has also formed the mysterious processing department of the General Affairs Bureau of Huayu, the observation center, and even some more mysterious agencies, such as mysterious organizations in other fields.
However, the establishment of a system is destined to be accompanied by bumps and bumps, and Huayu is no different.
There have been several major internal and external events in history, all of which have put Huayu facing great crises from top to bottom.
Twenty years ago, Huayu faced such a major event again, and the trauma was unprecedented.
That incident caused the operators of most departments in Huayu to lose their cultivation inheritance, and even the operation system was severely damaged, so that the operation capabilities of the functional departments almost came to a standstill.
At the critical moment, decision-makers from various departments became ruthless and issued instructions with various code names such as "Operation Wild Grass", "Moment of Wilderness" and "Spring".
A large number of "forbidden objects", "rituals", "spells", "secret rituals" and "secret rituals" sealed in the taboo list were unsealed, and with determination at any cost, reports were made to casualties, madness, and cripples who could be dizzy at sight. , and finally managed to survive the crisis.
What we get in exchange is a peace that ordinary people are almost unaware of.
But a bigger problem has arisen. The operation of the functional system cannot always rely on taboos, because what is filled is life, and the severance of the practice inheritance has also caused the hearts of the internal personnel to fluctuate.
No, each department took the lead and began to research the unknown, dig into history, find alternative 'rituals' and 'techniques' to order daily life, and then try to develop less harmful 'secret rituals' and 'secret rituals' in order to Keep functions running.
Almost starting from scratch and a large number of personnel gaps have allowed various departments to relax recruitment restrictions, which has also had a lot of impact on internal cohesion. Over the past twenty years, Huayu has been like a broken ship sailing in stormy waters, trembling with fear.
Along the way, Zuo Dao listened to Duan Qiang's eloquent talk. The small paper portrait hidden in Duan Qiang's heart raised his eyebrows and tasted:
"In other words, the "upward passage" in Huayu is almost gone now?"
Duan Qiang twitched his face after hearing this:
"Yes, for example, at the observation center, their 'Secret Instruments' and 'Secret Instruments' have been out of use for a long time. Nowadays, the observation methods in various places are all kinds of, and they are as messy as wild roads.
“So much so that they make mistakes every moment, and even so, they still rely on human lives to fill in the gaps.
“Every month there’s a former co-worker over there who’s head is exploding or they’re covered in eyes because of some kind of backlash.”
The little paper man hidden in Duan Qiang's heart nodded and understood why the 'observation center' sometimes gave way and felt like it was out of control.
"So, the defection of you and your captain was also based on this?" Zuo Dao keenly found the root cause.
Duan Qiang was silent, sighed, and said in an erratic tone:
"If we hadn't come into contact with the 'mystery', we might be able to live happily ever after, but after knowing it, we have no way out. That feeling, haha."
Zuo Dao said calmly: "So, you are looking for "hope"?"
"Maybe." Duan Qiang thought for a moment and then added vaguely: "Although I will still long for other things."
"What are the secret rituals and secret rituals?" Zuo Dao asked again at this time.
This question made Duan Qiang talk for a long time:
"I've actually never seen these two. I think they are both manifestations of the same rule."
At this time, the vehicle slowly stopped.
Destination arrived.
