Chapter 168: Alchemy Items
Frandi's car drove quickly and steadily, and even if it was triggered from the outskirts of the city, it only took half an hour to reach his employer's home, an ordinary community apartment.
Different from the commercial buildings in China, which often have dozens of floors, people here generally live in independent apartments, and the distribution structure is similar to that of rural areas in China, perhaps this is the advantage of a small number of landowners.
Parking the car in the parking space on the side of the street, Flandi looked up at the duplex apartment in front of him, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bend, and he turned to look back at Jiang Xin: "I don't know whether to say good luck or bad luck, this one percent chance of less than one percent, actually let us meet it for the first time." ”
Hearing Flandy's ridicule, Jiang Xinyun picked up the view he learned from "Hua", but in an instant, the apartment that originally seemed extremely warm in the sunlight disappeared, and was replaced by a haunted house covered by black Qi and with an eerie atmosphere.
"See." Flandy felt the fluctuations on Jiang Xin's body: "The situation is very serious, this time it should be a big guy." ”
"Big guy..."Jiang Xin looked at the faintly composed of a ghost body Hei Qi, and asked casually: "The abnormality in there is a ghost?" ”
"Not sure." Flandi pushed the monocular eye and rang the doorbell: "Ghosts, curses, abnormal things, all possible, no one dares to make a conclusion until they have seen it specifically." ”
"That's right." Jiang Xin nodded, giving up the idea of directly using the spirit to send the general, he was very interested in these foreign ghosts.
Jingle bell~
After a crisp doorbell, the two of them felt a chill rush in, and then there was a sudden silence around them, and only a few minutes later did they hear the creak of squeezing wood in the apartment.
Then, quietly, the wooden door in front of Jiang Xin and the two opened, and standing behind the door was a woman with withered hair and a haggard face.
Grabbing the white gloves that Franky was wearing, the woman burst into tears: "You're finally here." ”
Glancing at the black handprints on the white gloves that were invisible to ordinary people, Flandi placed one hand behind the woman's back, and said as if by magic: "Take it easy, ma'am." We've arrived, you're safe. ”
As if she had been interfered with, Frandi's words made the woman who had been in tears calm and calm again, and put the two into the room.
The next moment the door closed, an undisguised malice enveloped Jiang Xin from all directions, and the black qi that was originally only flowing on the walls, floors, and ceilings also seemed to have life, gradually converging towards Jiang Xin and the others.
As for the woman behind the two of them, the black aura on their bodies was already extremely thick, and a black figure with a height of two meters almost formed behind them.
Knock—
Flandi tapped the cane in his hand on the floor lightly, and an invisible diaphragm was born, pushing the black qi out of the body a few centimeters, and Jiang Xin had Yuan Qi's protection, and he was not afraid at all.
As for the black shadow of the woman grinning behind her back and staring at them, she was directly ignored by Jiang Xin and the others.
Taking a glass of water from the faucet, Flandi gently knocked on the wall of the glass, and a wisp of extraordinary power instantly merged into the clear water, and handed the glass to the woman, Frandi and Jiang Xin sat on the sofa opposite her: "Mrs. Smith, let's drink saliva first, and talk slowly about something." ”
"Oh, well, well..."Mrs. Smith, who was unconsciously curled up, held the cup in both hands, and took a sip of water in some disbelief, and was about to speak, but her eyes became trance-like, like a puppet, and she could no longer move.
"Alright." Seeing this scene, Flandi stood up, and went directly to the second floor without looking at Mrs. Smith: "I have sealed her consciousness, and now there are only those who are present, except for the two of us, only that weirdness." ”
"I'll go upstairs, you're downstairs, find out where the source of this weirdness is as soon as possible."
"The source of the weirdness?" Jiang Xin subconsciously looked at the black shadow behind Mrs. Smith, and stretched out his hand to make a move: "Detention Spirit!" ”
Rumble!
Jiang Xin's momentum shook all over his body, and the black qi that was originally flowing slowly was instantly disturbed, and under the control of the spirit general, the black shadow attached to Mrs. Smith trembled violently.
As the black shadow appeared abnormal, Mrs. Smith, who had lost her soul, shook like a sieve, looking like she was being drained of her soul by life, seeing this scene, Jiang Xin immediately stopped the movements in her hand.
After a temptation, Jiang Xin already understood the relationship between the black shadow and Mrs. Smith: "Refining human souls into spirit bodies is an evil method. ”
With the spirit being the result rather than the cause, unless Jiang Xin wanted Mrs. Smith's life, the spirit detention would be of little use.
After being silent for a moment, Jiang Xin stretched out his hand and raised his eyebrows: "Imperial Law: Soul." ”
As if summoning the soul of a human body, Jiang Xin summoned the soul of life, but unlike before, the fusion of the five evils, the five ghosts and other means, the breath on the soul of the soul was condensed as if it were a real person, and it immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding black qi.
But compared to the strength of the life soul, those black qi are too weak, and the life soul can completely disperse and disappear with a random movement, and after nodding with Jiang Xin, the life soul turned into an illusion and wandered around the apartment, trying to find the source of the weirdness.
After a few minutes, nothing was found, but Flandi walked down from the attic with a notebook with a sheepskin cover: "Found it." ”
"This is the journal?"
"It's not." Flandi opened the diary and put it in front of Jiang Xin: "The real curse is in the basement." ”
Jiang Xin took the diary, on which were a few lines of handwriting and a photo of a glass bottle: "What is this?" ”
"Alchemy items, dementor bottles."
Frandi said again and again, and quickly found the entrance to the basement: "This is an alchemical item that has been banned, and its function is to transform the souls of a specific group of people into spirits, and the selected ones will have various mental symptoms in the process, until they turn into spirits and are ingested into the bottle after death." ”
"A specific group of people?"
"It's an ordinary person who is not yet an alien, but has the possibility of becoming an alien. The soul is strong and has no means of defense, so it is easy to be targeted. ”
The two rummaged in the dimly lit basement for a moment, and then walked up with a long-necked skimming glass bottle with a bottle body that was not very regular, through the transparent bottle, Jiang Xin could clearly see the black air mass that was constantly circling inside.
Holding the dementor bottle, Flandy's tone was a little playful: "It's really interesting to collect an alchemy item that almost cost you your own life." ”
As he spoke, Frandy pointed to his finger. With a click, fine cracks instantly filled the bottle, like a leaking balloon, and the air mass in the dementor bottle quickly dissipated.
Without the support of the dementor bottle, the black air around the apartment gradually dissipated, and the black image found something like a silent roar, but in the end it could only dissolve into nothing.
Putting the cracked dementor bottle into the top hat, Flandi snapped his fingers, and the puppet-like Mrs. Smith was instantly awakened, and the water glass in her hand slipped and fell directly to the ground.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Looking at the water stains splashing on the ground, Mrs. Smith picked up the cup in a panic and wiped it off, not remembering what had happened to her before.
Flandy took Jiang Xin to watch silently, and it wasn't until Mrs. Smith walked back with a few bottles of drinks that she smiled slightly: "Mrs. Smith, how are you feeling now, have you become much more relaxed?" ”
Delivering the two bottles of drinks to Jiang Xin and the others, Mrs. Smith was stunned for a moment, and then moved her shoulders twice with some hindsight, her eyes were full of surprise: "I, this!" ”
"Since you're all right, it's inconvenient for us to stay longer." Frandy smiled and nodded to her, and then left the apartment that had been affected by alchemy items not long ago: "The cost of the exorcism, you can directly transfer it to the designated account, I wish you a happy life." ”
Returning to the car with the bottle of dementors, Flandy breathed a sigh of relief, carefully put the bottle that was on the verge of breaking into a box, and then started the car again: "It's not over yet, we have to go to the Federal Inspection Bureau." ”
"Is there a lot of this kind of thing like a dementor bottle?" Jiang Xin was a little curious.
The detainee generals can only detain the spirits that are transformed into spirits after death for their own use, but this soul bottle can forcibly turn people's souls into spirits, although there are certain restrictions, but looking at the strength of the black shadow behind Smith, it is no weaker than those spirits in China who are transformed by aliens, and may be more aggressive.
As soon as he went out, he encountered an alchemy item that could be compared with the Eight Wonder Skills, and even Jiang Xin was a little confused.
"How can it be more?" Flandi snorted: "Alchemy items involving the soul realm are not at all what ordinary alchemists can make. ”
"Looking at the production process of this dementor bottle, it should be dozens or hundreds of years ago, and now the alchemists who can make the dementor bottle are only five fingers, and all of them are registered, and no one dares to make them at all."
"Why?" Jiang Xin didn't understand the reason very well: "It's just a tool that transforms the soul into a spirit body, if it can be controlled, it should be very good." ”
"The dementor bottle can't be controlled." Flandy shook his head: "Take that Mrs. Smith, once she is completely transformed, she will become a malicious spirit with a certain amount of intelligence, and she will use the dementor bottle to create more spirits on her own. ”
"As soon as the first spirit takes shape, the Dementor Vial will become an automated production factory, and the possible consequences cannot be afforded by anyone, so if it is discovered, it must be destroyed with the justice of all parties."
"I don't know what the alchemist who designed this alchemy item thought in the first place, creating this kind of autonomous and effective item that cannot be controlled by people, otherwise it would not have fallen to the point of being destroyed."
An autonomous item that cannot be controlled by a human being. The Soul Bottle is like a magic weapon that can run without any external force, but this magic weapon cannot be controlled by anyone, it will only run when there is a suitable target around, and stop when there is no target.
In addition, evil spirits are not scarce in this land, so the dementor bottle will be judged as a useless forbidden alchemy item that can be destroyed, otherwise the Inhuman forces would have preserved it a long time ago.
“IRS? Is the Authority the IRS? Jiang Xin looked at the sign of the building in front of him, and looked at Flandi with a look of 'you are teasing me', but what he got was a shrug from Flandi.
"The third largest armed organization in the United States, with subordinate channels in every city, and at the same time a private organization with a certain official character. In this country, apart from the IRS, you think there's that department that is qualified to deal with those of us. ”
Jiang Xin was silent for a moment, and asked an eternal question: "Then do you have to pay taxes?" ”
Flandy was silent for a moment, raised his hand slightly, and then put it down: "Of course." ”
The IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, is in charge of everything related to paying taxes, and if they don't pay taxes, even if it's an alien, they can make sure that they have enough firepower and intelligence networks to punish that alien accordingly.
As a result, the Federal Inspectorate, which is responsible for the coordination of the Inhuman Realm, is also affiliated with the IRS, and is managed internally by the Inhumans, except for the same system in terms of finances and violence.
As an exorcist detective who is often out and about, the people in the Oversee are already quite familiar with Flandy, and when they saw him walk in with a box, they immediately got up and greeted him: "Nightmare, meet again, how are you doing?" ”
"Good." Franky smiled and placed the box on the table, "I think I'll have a big payout soon." ”
"The big catch? What good things did you bring this time? ”
"A dementor bottle." Flandy opened the box, revealing a cracked glass bottle inside: "Good luck prevented the formation of the first evil spirit, this thing is not invaluable." ”
"Indeed." Without directly touching the dementor bottle, the man in front of Flandy handed the box to his subordinates behind him: "But this thing still needs to be identified, and by the way, you also have to tell us about the affected person." ”
"I've already done psychological interventions." As Flandy spoke, he casually wrote down Mrs. Smith's basic information on a slip of paper: "But you'd better check it out, it's a keen collector, and maybe you'll have something else to gain." ”
"Picking up leaks from under your spirit detectives, I don't think I have these skills, one by one, my eyes are as sharp as eagles..."Speaking of this, he only discovered Jiang Xin's existence in hindsight, and was a little curious: "This is your new spirit detective, an Oriental?" ”
"Hmm." Flandy nodded: "Dongfang Lian Qishi, they are much better at ghosts than us, and they can help a lot." ”
"It's rare." After taking the soul bottle and the appraisal report that his subordinates had sent back, the man looked at Jiang Xin deeply and lowered his head again: "Judging from the appraisal results, this is an alchemy product from more than two hundred years ago, and it is the soul bottle that is correct. ”
"Are you going to destroy it yourself?"
"Nope." Flandi waved his hand, took the million-dollar check, and pushed the small hammer back in front of him: "You guys do it." ”
"It's a pity that you don't feel what it's like to destroy alchemical items." As the man spoke, the hammer in his hand fell without hesitation, and with a snap, the dementor bottle turned into a pile of fragments.
Reaching out to take away the three fragments, Flandi smiled and waved his hand, and then left the IRS directly with Jiang Xin: "Have you experienced it, void and wrong." If it's not necessary, it's best not to have too much contact with these people, who are always trying to find out what we do, but never succeeded. ”
"The shards?"
"Without the fragments, there is no possibility of repairing the dementor bottle, which is also a means of insurance. We can do without, but neither can others. ”
As he spoke, Flandi used force in his hand to completely crush the fragments into a pinch of shiny powder, and reached out to blow it, causing it to drift away with the wind.
Putting the million-dollar check in Jiang Xin's hand, Flandy smiled slightly: "A pleasant exorcism, it's time for us to go back to the manor." ”
"What is the cheque for?"
"If you want to go out and walk alone, then you need to be fully familiar with the operation process of the Inhuman world, in which money plays an indispensable role."