Chapter 44: Soul Search (Part I)

"I'm guessing you're so confident because most objects can't hurt you." Hua Jiuxi thought about it and said.

Himiko nodded: "Although I don't know why, you all look at me like a bad guy, but everyone here really can't even tear off a single hair of me......"

"Really?" Laxmi smiled slightly, and waved her five fingers lightly on the top of Himiko.

She had an extra strand of long hair in her hand, which hung down softly.

Himiko was terrified for a while, because the premise that she relied on that ordinary attacks were ineffective against spirits was easily cracked by the girl in front of her.

A golden hall, a throne, a woman with a vague face—kneeling before her—

Rimiko had such a scene in her mind, followed by a severe headache. Himiko had to cover her head and involuntarily * in her mouth.

"Hey, you want to pretend to be pathetic again?" Seeing this, the leech immediately came to such a sentence.

"Forget it, leech." Hua Jiuxi said, "Why do you keep targeting her? - But I think she's really uncomfortable like this, Xiaomi, can you diagnose it? ”

"Yes, yes." Laxmi crouched down and asked Himiko, "Can you let me see?" ”

Himiko nodded.

Laxmi put her palm on Himiko's forehead - she could feel a strong spiritual power fluctuation.

"I know why you're uncomfortable." Laxmi said as she used her spiritual power to seal the restless part of Himiko's brain.

"It's like when a human wound heals, it's painful and itchy." Laxmi stretched out her hands as if facing a group of students, "Himiko's mind also has some of the broken memories being restored—and they are burned in the form of spiritual ripples in the brain, which causes pain. ”

Himiko nodded: "That's right, I've been having this kind of chaotic dream for a long time - sister you-"

"I can't." Laxmi knew what Himiko was asking of her, so she could only tell the truth, "I can only temporarily relieve your pain, but I can't completely stop the ability of this memory to grow." And you want to know the ins and outs of this strange dream. ”

Himiko nodded: "However, I guess there won't be a good ending to this - I'm a little scared." ”

"You can say it slowly—after all, we don't know much about your situation." Hua Jiuxi didn't know what to do, and she seemed to have moved a soft chair and sat like this, in order to add a little oppression to the interrogation work.

But, no one cared about him.

"Do you have to say everything?" Himiko asked.

"Tell everything in every detail – of course, it has to be true." Xiang Ling felt that he had not deterred Himiko before, and his tone increased again.

But Himiko basically ignored her words, and she said to Hua Jiuxi: "Okay, but don't expect too much - because I'm very confused myself." ”

"That doesn't matter." Hua Jiuxi waved his hand and said, "You can analyze it together." ”

"Well, I said—I was born—or rather have the memory of the beginning, in that Sacred Heart School. About 30 years ago, the school had not yet been converted into a school. Himiko's tone suddenly became old-fashioned.

Leech felt a chill on her body - no wonder she didn't like Himiko.

"My consciousness became clearer, even though I didn't know where I came from. But I kept some knowledge—mostly about youkai, the Netherworld, and so on. Himiko said, "I understand the habits of a youkai like Zashiki Boy, and it matches my own situation. That's why I think I belong to Zashiki Boy. ”

"But it's not." Hua Jiuxi said, "You yourself must be suspicious. ”

"Yes, I wanted to find out where I came from, but — I found myself unable to get out of that campus. It seems that someone has deliberately sealed me - and the effectiveness of the seal has slowly diminished over time. Just these days, it's been disturbed by other youkai and is gradually unable to restrain me. ”

"The other youkai are me." Leech said to himself, "I did a little bit of work. ”

"Not only that, but there are youkai from my hometown." Himiko said, "There are a lot of Oriental demons that gradually appeared, and then the arrival of leeches." I know that these two things are related, so I'm going to meet him anyway. ”

"Huh." Leech sneered.

"In the last few weeks, I've had all of a sudden I've had those strange dreams - and I can feel the same kind of people going on outside as I do." "They're looking for me, too, but my memory hasn't been fully restored—so I don't know what their purpose is." ”

"Actually, it should be clear if you guess." Hua Jiuxi said, "That's the annexation between spirits—you should have been separated from one body. ”

"Well, that's what I guessed." "In order to lure those guys out and keep me safe — I tried to hide in Rikia's body — I thought it would be easy, or that I was going to use violence, but I didn't expect her to agree easily." ”

After she said this, she nodded to Ligia, "I'm sorry. ”

Lygia waved her hand and said, "No—"

"And then the other Himiko really came out to grab you." The leech gritted his teeth and said, "And then I'm embarrassed in front of the enemy—"

"Because I think leeches are strong, at least they can catch the enemy and negotiate with them." "I'll choose to show up then, but the leeches are really disappointing. The second half of the sentence was completely cold.

Leech snorted, and her disgust with Himiko intensified - she was cruelly thinking about how to destroy the monster.

"But when you were hidden in Ligia's body, did you have the ability to perceive?" Hua Jiuxi asked her own question, "Did you witness everything with the help of Ricia's eyes, or did you know nothing about it?" ”

"I'm asleep, not in my own designated time—incapacitated." "In this process, it is impossible to easily expel from the human body without using a ritual like this one." Therefore, even if you are captured by the other party, you can buy as much time as possible - waiting for the rescue of others. That's what I'm going to do. ”

Hua Jiuxi tapped the back of his finger on his cheek and said, "This plan is generally okay, and besides, you choose to attach it to the person who Leech likes the most...... So he couldn't help but save it. ”

The two leeches were embarrassed when they heard this.

"You think about this too much, there are few opportunities, and I don't have many people to choose from." "She had to be a woman, and fit enough to withstand my little spiritual power." ”

"Oh." Hua Jiuxi nodded, "Let Miss Xiangling tell you what happened next." ”

Xiang Ling replied softly, and steadily described how the leech met the enemy, and how she later had the process of destroying the enemy.

That's it.

She ...... Is she really exactly like me? Himiko asked in surprise.

The only witness, Rikia, nodded and said, "It's true that you and Himiko-san are like twins, but she seems to be a few years older than you." I have a photo here. ”

"What kind of high-tech thing—is it the latest product from the world's largest technology-based Big Germany?" Leech asked.

"Miniature camera." Lygia took out two photos from her underwear, "I haven't seen it even after I finished printing." ”

Himiko took the photo and looked at it: "Nothing......"

"Well, it can't be..."Rikia was stunned when she retrieved the photo from Himiko's hand - there was only the furnishings of the fortress's dark room, and there was not half a figure in it.

"Spirits are not to be recorded." Laxmi explained, "It's like the legend that vampires don't have a shadow in the mirror – because vampires don't have souls. ”

"Sister La, you are right in the front, and the rumors are in the back." Leech said, "Vampires have a body anyway, how can they not have a shadow?" ”

"Ah, then I don't know." Laxmi smiled and touched the leech's head, which blushed.

"Ahhh Rikia rarely made such mistakes, but her mood was always steady, "From another conversation between Himiko and me, I learned much as Mr. Hana had guessed - that woman wanted to be one with you—or rather, swallow you." ”

Himiko had already accepted the fact: "That's good—but what do I do next?" She looked at them with a pleading look.

"What should I do?" Laxmi repeated, looking at Hua Jiuxi.

"While it's not possible to tie the Nimiko incident to the enemy we're dealing with at this time—they all come from the same area and are surprisingly consistent in their duration." Hua Jiuxi said, "This is very problematic, and we must pay attention to this matter." ”

"But our power is also limited - we can't attack on multiple fronts." Xiang Ling emphasized, "In the case of the enemy and the enemy, we can no longer disperse our forces. ”

Her words made a lot of sense, and Hua Jiuxi nodded and said, "Also, Himiko—do you want to get our asylum?" ”

"Hope." Without thinking, Himiko replied, "I can sense your good thoughts—I can see that even if you are an enemy, you will not deal with me very cruelly." As she spoke, she looked at the leech, "Are you the only one who wants to put me to death?" ”

Leech was embarrassed for a while, and everyone's eyes swept towards this kid.

"Well, for a while, I wanted to do this - you look at it now?" Leech argued.

Himiko used her spiritual power of "his heart" to look at it for a moment, and said, "Although there is hostility, there is no killing intent. As he spoke, he sighed.

"Also, you really don't know where you're from? Why did you get here? Hua Jiuxi continued to ask.

"The kid wasn't lying." "I can see that, too—there's no fluctuation in her spiritual power when she speaks. ”

"What a headache - one mystery unsolved, another one added." Hua Jiuxi pulled a scab at his forehead.

"Are you going to imprison me?" Himiko deferentially stretched out her hands, and of course no one cuffed her.

"As you can see, the only one of us who can deal with spirits is this Laxmi." Hua Jiuxi said, "Only she can decide what to do with you." ”

"I'll come and see her, with me." Laxmi said, "Otherwise, there's nothing to trap this girl." ”

Hua Jiuxi shrugged: "Very good-if the enemy targets you, it will be tantamount to going against her old man." ”

"Who's her old man?" Himiko's eyes widened.

"Queen Mother of the West." Leech said, "It's a very eccentric woman. ”

"That's just one aspect." Hua Jiuxi stopped the leech from interrupting and said, "She is the leader of all the witches and monsters in the world, and her power is beyond our imagination. ”

"Queen Mother of the West... Queen Mother of the West, and so on. As if remembering something, Himiko said, "The reason why I'm here seems to be related to the Queen Mother of the West!" ”

Everyone was excited at first, and then disappointed.

Because Himiko only guessed that the woman in the dream was the Queen Mother of the West, and the rest could no longer be clear.

"Okay, Xiaomi, what are you going to do?" Hua Jiuxi looked at Laxmi.

"Actually, I thought of a solution." Laxmi pinched her chin and said, "Use the power of the bare ......"

Hua Jiuxi hurriedly said: "If you seal Himiko in that dream-didn't her old man say that there is no return?" ”

"That's for mortals." Laxmi stopped him, "And for a great god like the Queen Mother of the West, it is possible to bring people out - I think so: in case there is some conspiracy hidden in this matter of Miko - then this last doppelganger who cannot be easily found by others is our important bargaining chip." ”

"That's a good idea—but if she's not good by then, we're in for a big failure." Before thinking about winning, think about defeat first, this is the consistent principle of Hua Jiuxi.

"Then it's not that her old man is not working, but that I am not working." Laxmi said, "But, if you think about it, even if we can't release Nibiko, it doesn't seem like there's much to lose for us." ”

Hua Jiuxi turned back to this corner and nodded again and again: "Xiaomi, you are right." ”

The two of them talked about the results of the treatment of Himiko as if no one was there—and Himiko listened with a chill.

"Xiaomi, you have been messing with us for so many days, and you are so bold and decisive, haha." Hua Jiuxi said teasingly.

Laxmi blushed: "What's the ...... But to do whatever it takes to win, that's what you've taught me. ”

Saying that, she thought of Hua Jiuxi's embarrassment of kowtowing in Shaoguang City, and couldn't help but laugh.