3. Arrest the murderer

As a famous tourist city, Belfast is quite lively at night, the once very tossed Northern Ireland Republican Army has died down in the past two years, this city that once exploded every day and curfew, is now becoming more and more peaceful. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, in the dark alleys on the side of the street, some unpeaceful things still happen from time to time.

That's why I'm wearing an optical camouflage suit now, leaning on the roof and posing as a statue.

Belfast has been experiencing strange disappearances since May. At first, the local government thought that the Republican Army had done it, but after negotiations, it was found that they did not know anything, and after more than two months of investigation, and the lives of six police officers were paid, they finally determined that the criminal was not a human being, but a kind of monster with great camouflage and infinite strength.

Things have developed to this point, of course, it is necessary to invite professionals to come out, but due to political reasons, the magician organization "Clock Tower", which has a close relationship with the British government, is inconvenient to send people to interfere in the affairs of Northern Ireland, and they have no decent people in their own country, so they finally turned around and found Ms. Leila.

I was asleep in the departure hall when I was woken up by a phone call from Ms. Leila, and then accompanied by a Chinese-speaking Chinese-American agent, Melissa Mao, took a train to Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, to hunt down these lawless monsters.

Although I have decided to face life and challenges more positively, there is no need to rush to rush the ducks to the shelves......

Carrying the detective prop box delivered by the Spirit Express, I stood stupidly on the streets of Belfast, bewildered.

Come on! I'm just a trainee spirit detective! In this kind of case of chasing murder demons, at least senior spiritual detectives should be invited to come out!

Regrettably, neither Ms. Leila nor Ms. Mao seemed to be going to heed my protests. Lady Leila lent me a battle axe made of Olihull steel, supposedly strong enough to take on the weapons of the gods; Miss Mao took out a set of optical camouflage suits that were said to have been developed using mysterious black technology, which had an effect similar to that of an invisibility suit.

"The submarine 'Son of Dennu', which we organized the 'Mithril', is currently cruising around the North Atlantic, if you need technical combat support, please contact us using the disposable emergency communicator that comes with your camouflage uniform."

After saying this, Miss Mao, who knew at a glance that she was an outstanding soldier, did not wait for me to answer, simply turned around, got into a white car that seemed to be just passing by, and disappeared around the corner of the street.

In the summer, Northern Ireland is generally warm, but with the warm wind of midsummer, my heart is cold.

- You'll have to at least send me a fee for the event! Because the ticket has already been bought, I only brought the round-trip fare when I went out this time!

Because I couldn't afford to live in a hotel, I had to follow the information provided by Miss Mao to find the most frequent areas where those monsters haunt, turn on the optical camouflage suit, and wait on the roof.

…… I want to rest in a spacious and bright room and sleep on a soft and warm bed......

Leila Elric, I hate you!

After two days of uneating or drinking on the roof, the resentment had reached a point of no return.

What sustained me to continue to wait was the master's teaching.

"The so-called spirit detective, in fact, most of the time is not a detective, but a hunter. The demons that attack humans are generally not intellectually noteworthy, but their behavior is often difficult to judge using common sense, and it is not surprising that they make a big fuss or disappear. So what we can do is find the clue and wait patiently. ”

"Don't feel that waiting is worthless, at least while you wait, you can make sure that the area you pay attention to will not be infested by demons."

According to the information compiled by the Mithril Organization, this kind of camouflaged monster is always haunting the back streets, and although Belfast is a large city, there are not many places where it is really convenient for them to commit crimes, including the location where I am waiting now, there are only six in total. Mithril's men were in charge of two, the spirit detectives were in charge of three, and Northern Ireland's own masters were in charge of one, basically just waiting for those guys to reappear.

I'm not worried that the monsters will find me, Mithril's optical camouflage suit is very good, whether it is naked eye observation or mechanical scanning, it can't find me, just to avoid the smell on my body being smelled by the monsters, I have to shrink the aura to form a protective shield, so although it is a little tired, but I have exercised my ability to control the aura.

It's been six days since the last crime.,According to the habit of monsters.,Basically, they commit crimes once or twice a week.,So—

Here it comes!

A dark and bloody wave came from the corner of the street, and a young man and woman were walking side by side, as if they were about to take a shortcut to see a show. It's just that the man's stench on that man's body, which can be smelled from hundreds of meters away, has revealed his identity.

I didn't bother to wait for it to make a move, and the moment they passed in front of them, the aura of the whole body exploded, and the anger that had been building up for two days turned into a thunderous blow and smashed into the monster's head!

Judging from the data, this monster's combat effectiveness is limited, and after being discovered by the police last time, although it killed three policemen and managed to escape, it was also injured in many places by a police pistol that is not known for its power. According to the surviving policeman's recollection, it was very fast and powerful, and the first policeman was torn in half before he could draw his gun, but it was not able to make timely evasive actions in the face of pistol fire. On top of that, it clearly has a head and heart protection movement, which means that at least the damage is the same as that of a human.

The crux of the monster is indeed similar to that of humans. After I blew the handsome head with just one punch, in the screams of the female companion, the young man's corpse spurted purple blood, and then turned into a monster twice as tall as an ordinary person, covered with a body covered with many armor spikes and claws as sharp as knives, proving that it is by no means a good species, and the body that has lost its head and can still twitch to get up shows that it has amazing vitality.

Although the monster had been successfully destroyed, I had discovered something worrying - it had just spoken proficiently in English to the woman who had been frightened, and they seemed familiar with each other.

This kind of monster can be well disguised as a human?!

Throw down a spell that can expel ordinary people and send out a flare. I picked up a piece of the monster's hair, opened the watch case, and put it inside.

The spirit detective's special prop "Demon Energy Meter" can find targets based on hair, and the improved version I used can mark all creatures similar to spirit waves, so as long as you kill one, there is nowhere to escape from the others.

Looking at the arrow on my watch pointing to the suburbs, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter what kind of enemy you are, it's only right to go home and sleep after fighting early!

The Demon Qi Meter absorbed a lot of spiritual power, and then shot out a beam of colorful light, forming a map in the air with a scale and direction. The map is similar to the GPS satellite positioning system used in the car, except that on the basis of the map, it also indicates the direction I am facing, the nearby psychic individuals, and the direction and distance of the target. After comparing the map, I quickly determined the location of the remaining monsters - except for the one I killed, there were still four left, and three with weak spiritual power were scattered in the city, probably changing into human appearance like this one; The last one was hiding on the outskirts of the city, near a ruined shipyard on a map.

OK, let's go!

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The "spiritual power" marked by the demon energy meter is actually calculated based on the user's spiritual power, for example, the spiritual power of the four monsters that I killed one after another is about 10, which means that their spiritual power is only equivalent to one percent of mine, and the spiritual power of the guy hiding in the cave in front of him is 22, which is almost one-fifth of mine.

Ten percent and twenty percent seem to be only a double difference, but in actual combat, a double spiritual power gap, and the difference in combat effectiveness will generally be close to ten times. In other words, that kind of low-level monster, a thousand together can't beat me; But if it's the previous one, at most a hundred, I have to consider whether to retreat strategically.

Actually, it's nothing, it's just a matter after all.

A few minutes later, with the monster with its severed limbs in one hand and my phone in the other, I began to photograph the strange patterns on the walls and floor of the cave.

My gut tells me there must be something wrong with them!

I was supposed to contact the boss who set up the work, Ms. Leila, but she turned off her phone; Or I could try to contact the tough-looking underground organization "Mithril", as they can make optical camouflage uniforms and have a high level of instruction - but I don't have their contact information, and I don't want to use the one-time emergency communicator that would be the equivalent of a flare.

Thinking about it, there is only one knowledgeable person I can turn to for help.

"Yuhiko, look at what these pictures are." Although it may not be the right specialty, this alien seems to know everything, and even the strange patterns drawn by Haruhi Suzumiya can be interpreted as the lingua franca of the galaxy, and these patterns may also be the language of some star clan......

"19751218 possibilities." Yuhiko's answer was as concise as ever.

Almost 20 million species...... Should I lament the richness of this guy's database, or should I lament the non-human being?

"Can't you narrow it down?"

"It will reduce accuracy."

"Lower it, lower it!"

"Excluding non-carbon-based biological civilizations, there are 33,012 species left; Excluding civilizations with a technology level of 6 or higher, there are 9,503 species left, and excluding civilizations ten light-years away from the earth, there are 102 species remaining. ”

"102 is still too much......"

"Analyze and screen 102 possibilities, exclude logical confusion conclusions, and leave 4 types."

"Yuhiko Nagato, you're a genius!"

"Conclusion 1: Comparison chart of solar trajectory observations. Civilization Type: Mayan civilization variant. control accuracy, 69.33%. ”

"This is obviously impossible, why did the Mayans come to Ireland to study the trajectory of the sun?"

"Conclusion 2, tail rot disease research report. Civilization Type: Starter Planet Pujie Clan. control accuracy, 71.06%. ”

"Yongyan, don't tell me those things that I can't possibly know, whether it's a bad end or a eunuch, I'm not interested."

"Understood. Conclusion 3: Historical change table of sea level height; Conclusion 4: Long-distance biological transport system. ”

Obviously, the fourth one is probably the most suitable for the current situation, and these monsters must have been teleported!

But who exactly made them? Why did you teleport here?

"Analyze the specifics of the teleportation array for me."

"Analyzing...... After the analysis is completed, the system has failed due to disrepair, and can only operate once, and will start on its own in two seconds. ”

"Oh...... What the?! ”

I saw the patterns all over the cave glow together, and I didn't have time to shout, "Why didn't you say it earlier!" He lost consciousness in a burst of vertigo.

Bastard alien, can't you pay attention to the order of importance when you speak!