At half past ten in the morning, Naoto Inoue brought me a call, and he offered to ask to meet. The meeting time was 12 p.m., and the place was the fast food restaurant where I first met him.

This time, I disguised myself as a different person than before, and entered the store fifteen minutes early as a normal customer. It was soon twelve o'clock, but Naoto Inoue did not show up. Alertly looking around, I reached into my pocket that had been deliberately deepened, and secretly stroked the dagger. I remembered what the Turin doctor had said. At my request, she had re-evaluated the function of the dagger.

The result of the identification is that the true function of this short knife is not "restraint over-speed regeneration", but "anti-psionic energy".

In other words, it has the ability to destroy psionic energy. If I use it to attack the Psionic Shield, it will be easier to damage the Psionic Shield than normal; And if you use it to attack an item that has been strengthened by psionic energy, it will be less difficult to destroy than before. The reason why the Disfigured Killer was prevented from regenerating at high speed last time was only because it was an elf. The body of the elves is composed entirely of psionic energy, so it will be restrained by "anti-psionic energy". It doesn't actually have any super-fast regeneration, but its psionic body is capable of recovering from injuries fairly quickly. This is not only elves, but also undead have similar skills.

Unfortunately, the Anti-Psionic seems to be powerful, but it is difficult to help me outside of fighting the Spirits.

In the case of being an enemy of the psyker, I was able to use my martial arts skills to force my strength to penetrate the psionic shield and attack the psionic's internal organs, and the short knife was nothing more than turning the "visceral attack" into a "piercing attack". As for the extra small attack distance, if it is used to fight an opponent like a disfigured murderer, it is not enough to look at compared to a psyker with all kinds of tricks. For example, the super-grade psionics who faced off against me this year, whether it was Violent or Xu Shengxing, they both had an attack range of more than 100 meters, and if necessary, they could even snipe at targets several kilometers away.

In contrast, it is the "blood power" that has helped me really greatly. The biggest disadvantage that has always bothered me is "strong offense and weak defense". And it made up for this fatal shortcoming for me, greatly increasing the margin for error in battle. I just don't know if it can still repair vital organs, and if it can, then I will never have a super dangerous situation in the future where "being touched by a psyker" is equal to "defeating". As long as I don't die in the first place, I can try to regenerate my injuries.

I was thinking about it when Naoto Inoue entered the store.

I took the initiative to step forward, "You're late." ”

Inoue stared at me for a moment, then hesitantly asked, "Faceling?" ”

"It's me." I said, "Why are you late?" ”

"Do you have an opinion?" His prickly response was clearly a parody of my last time I was late. I stared at him without saying a word, and he quickly fell into defeat, muttering something in a whisper, and then explaining negatively, "It's time to take care of my mother's business." ”

"Is it Hikaru Inoue who became a vegetative person because he accidentally read taboo knowledge?" I asked.

"Yes. She was recently lying in a private hospital on the outskirts. It was a hospital funded by some local tycoons, and the medical conditions were not necessarily much better than those of regular hospitals, but it was quieter and more privileged, and the rich liked it more. It's just that the cost of hospitalization is quite expensive. My father transferred her to that hospital two months ago, but he's dead now, and because of his human experimentation scandals......," he said, "Anyway, now I have to transfer my mother back to a regular hospital." And there's not much money either. ”

"Inoue didn't leave you much money?"

"He used to have a lot of money, but in order to run human experiments, not only did he lose his money, but he also owed a lot of debts. It would be nice to say if he embezzled public funds into the experiment, but it was not a project that would allow the money to flow into the surface. He said, "Now I have neither his inheritance nor his debts, but I am all on my own." I also had to pay for my mother's expenses in the hospital. ”

"You look a lot more relaxed."

"Pretty much."

After a few words, we got to the point.

"I tracked down the antcolony's headquarters in the suburbs." He said solemnly, "The Lord of the Ants has two cronies who stay in that headquarters. ”

"What about the Lord of Ants himself?"

"He never goes to headquarters himself." He shook his head.

"Can this also be called headquarters?" I asked rhetorically.

"All in all, if you have to say where the headquarters is, it can only be here." "If I can try to catch these two cronies, I can use psychic technology to force the news out of their heads," he said. That's what I did to the grassroots members of the colony some time ago. ”

"I advise you to save it."

"Why?" He was stunned.

"Do you think they didn't imagine that they might be touched by the medium? The ant colony is not a novice criminal organization like the last 'mysterious organization', but a dark underground organization that has been lurking in Beaver City for more than 80 years, and has never been explored for leadership during this time. I really can't think things can go that way. As I spoke, I thought: But on the other hand, the strength of an ant colony as an organization is still limited. Now it has been removed from the whitelist by some "big shots", and it is estimated that it has fallen into a low period. No matter how strong it is, it is just a disgraceful gang after all. Even if you follow the example of the dark beaver and swell in defiance of the rules, you will only end up betraying your family.

"So what to do?" He asked.

I thought about it for a few seconds, then said, "I have a way." ”

"What are you going to do?" He asked curiously.

"It's simple." I said, "Torture." ”

*

Naoto Inoue wasn't optimistic about my thinking. In his mind, the cronies of the Ant Lord must be professionals who can endure any torture, whether it is "waterboarding" or "sleep deprivation", these so-called "tortures" that even amateurs can know about are difficult to count on. Unless my professionalism is above that, I'm going to be in vain. Naturally, he was right, and if his cronies couldn't endure the torture, the Ant Lord wouldn't be able to reassure him. But I have my own way.

I took out my "torture tool" from the place where I was hiding my belongings, and got into Naoto Inoue's car and headed to the colony headquarters.

It's a car, but it's not a high-end car, it's just a white van that looks cheap. Naoto Inoue said it was rented. He added that he did not own a car of his own, and that several of his father's high-end cars were awarded to creditors. The son of Beaver Pharmaceutical is now so down, and his acquaintances will be shocked when they see it. He himself was embarrassed, and became silent when he got into the car. I wanted to comfort him, but as a Faceling, I couldn't say it. If you are active for Xu Fu's sake, you can tell him in an encouraging tone: Cheer up, you are a rare spirit medium in Beaver City, and those so-called sons are just a group of local chickens and dogs compared to you.

"Why did you think that Xu Quanan was the Lord of Ants?" He asked me suddenly.

I can't answer that question. I also suspected Xu Quanan at the beginning because of the assassination activities of the Invisible Killer. However, this is indeed quite suspicious, if Xu Quanan is equal to the Lord of Ants, why is the Lord of Ants still alive? If Xu Quanan is not equal to the Lord of Ants, then why did the Shameless Killer insist on assassinating Xu Quanan? How did it first track down the Ant Lord and assassinate him? What was its motive for assassinating the Ant Lord?

Enigma, enigma, all mysteries.

"Captain Xu guessed the same wrong as you. It would be fine if only one of you guessed wrong, but both of you guessed wrong. I suspect that things are not that simple, I wonder if Xu Quanan is really the lord of ants. He said, "Maybe he didn't really die, but he was reborn somehow." ”

"You mean, he's like a villain in a fantasy story, with a way to resurrect himself from a distance after being killed?"

"Yes."

"This approach does exist."

"Really?" He was in good spirits.

"But—" I said, "'Reincarnation' is slightly less difficult than 'Resurrection,' but it's still quite difficult. Either a powerful force must be unleashed, or demanding requirements must be met. Xu Quanan is an ordinary person and can only satisfy the latter. Do you understand this? ”

"It's the first time I've heard of it." He said honestly.

He's probably only learned psionic knowledge that was useful to him. As I thought about it, I said, "There are usually two conditions that must be met for a reincarnation ritual that an ordinary person can perform. First, the reincarnated person must be his or her direct blood relative; Second, the reincarnated body must be very close to itself, at least no more than ten meters away. In addition, a lot of expensive materials must be consumed to set up the reincarnation ritual. ”

In other words, if Xu Quanan wanted to be reincarnated at that time, he could only be reincarnated to Xu Shengxing and me, who were also present. Xu Shengxing is a super-grade psionic and cannot be regarded as a reincarnation by ordinary people, let alone me. What's more, Xu Shengxing and I were more than ten meters away from Xu Quanan at that time, and there was no sign of arranging the reincarnation ceremony around.

"By the way, you said last time that the Ant Lord has two projects that have nothing to do with the interests of the ant colony recently running, what exactly are the projects?" I asked.

He replied directly, "One of them is to buy certain products and services at a high price from an underground scientific research organization called 'Silence'. But I don't know exactly what the product or service is. As for the other one......"

At this, he seemed to remember something, and his face became ugly.

"What's the other one?" I asked.

"It's a buyer." "For some unknown purpose," he said, "he bought a lot of people from the hands of some underground merchants, like guinea pigs." ”

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