Although the strength of the psyker's body is no different from that of ordinary people when they are not driving psionic energy, Hasegawa does not suffer any injuries from falls, but he just looks quite embarrassed.

The waiter wanted to support him, but he shook his head and refused, while standing up with the table and chair that had fallen over next to him, and then took the initiative to put all the tables and chairs he had knocked down back in place with the waiter. I was a little surprised by his attitude, I thought he was a guy who treated all ordinary people as third-class citizens because he was a psyker, but his true character didn't seem to be as savage as he had just shown.

Adam also stepped forward to help, and I couldn't sit alone, and for a moment the scene didn't feel like a "meeting of the three Black Zone residents". Soon, we were back in our seats.

Hasegawa changed to an awkward sitting position where he could run away at any moment, as if I would pounce on him and bite him at any moment, staring at me intently.

"I've heard from people that the Facelings are dead, dead in the siege a year ago." Adam said to me, "But I didn't expect you to be alive and even move freely." ”

"Faceling" is the nickname given to me by the people of the city, and the idea of this nickname is straightforward, as I have never been in the black zone of Beaver City in my true face.

Even my ex-partner had never seen me for who I really was, and he didn't know who I really was. Even for a long time, no one knew that my face was actually disguised.

But after being betrayed by my ex-partner, everyone knew I was going to be transfigured.

In fact, when I was most active in the past, the inhabitants of the Black Zone called me something else, and the nickname Facelings only became popular after I retired from a serious injury.

I replied with a straight face: "Even a long time ago, there were many people who tried to kill me – in all sorts of ways. But their efforts all proved to be futile. As you can see, I'm not someone who dies so easily. It would be naïve to think that just a few random psionics could send me back to the West. ”

"There is a limit to what you can say!" Hasegawa snorted dissatisfied, but when I swept my gaze, he turned his face as if he hadn't said anything.

To be honest, I also know that I am talking big things, and when I say those big words, I often feel hot on my face, and I always wonder if my words and sentences will be too high-profile, and even seem "unclear".

But since I went through a series of activities in the black zone, I have come to realize that it is really rare to use the attitude of "modesty" to deal with these people, they are "cheap", and they just eat this way.

If it is changed to a low-key style, they will suspect that this is a sign of "opportunity".

"Let's get to the point." I said, "I want to know what the mysterious organization you're investigating is." ”

*

"It's a local organization that's studying how to use pharmaceutical technology to transform ordinary people into psionics." The person who spoke was Hasegawa, and his tone was filled with depression for me, "All drugs have to go through a lot of tests after research and development, and through the inspection of efficacy and safety, to decide whether they are 'completed' or 'move on to the next link'." The initial testing session is generally carried out through animals, but the problem is that the drugs studied by the mysterious organization are mainly developed with the details of human physiological characteristics as the main object, and the goal is to forcibly disturb the physiological changes of people, induce psychological changes, and finally make the soul transform to awaken spiritual energy. ”

"So, this drug can't be tested on animals, and can only go directly into human experiments, right?" I asked.

"Yes." "It's an unethical technology, and naturally there is no open recruitment of volunteers, and insiders are not willing to test the drug, so they are starting to enter the black market and buy 'guinea pigs' from human traffickers." ”

"However......," Adam continued, "even if they are 'guinea pigs', they have specific requirements, and they must be people with good psionic talents. ”

"Why?" I followed her words and asked.

"Their drugs are temporarily in the semi-finished link, which can only make people with better psionic talents become psionics, and there are dangers and huge side effects that cannot be ignored. They would then collect data from the test subjects to move on to the next step in developing safe drugs that would allow people with less gifted psionic abilities to awaken psionic energy. "Because the traffickers couldn't provide so many 'just right' test subjects, they decided to take matters into their own hands and kidnap low-level residents from Beaver City and its surrounding villages and towns to meet the needs of the experiment." ”

"It seems that the decision-making level of this mysterious organization is mostly 'laymen specializing in crime'."

As I expressed my thoughts, I recalled which organizations in my local area had this kind of technology, but when I thought about it, I couldn't find a target to suspect for a while.

After all, turning ordinary people into psionics, where did this mysterious organization get the confidence to dare to study such a project?

At the same time, Hasegawa showed a puzzled reaction, "Layman? How do you know? "I was a little surprised that he was confused by what I was saying.

"Don't you know?" I said, "As the saying goes, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, and local organizations directly kidnap people locally, which easily increases the possibility of being detected by the local police." Criminal organizations with a little specialization will choose to kidnap people in other places, and if they are criminal organizations with long hands, they will choose more distant conflict zones. In that kind of smoky place, no one would think that the disappearance of the living was anything worth noting. ”

"Exactly." Adam also nodded, "However, it is an organization with scientific research projects, and there must be smart people inside, although the decision-making level initially made a mistake due to his own layman, but he quickly noticed his low-level mistakes and came up with a plan to avoid being tracked by the local police." ”

Hearing this, I lowered my head and thought about it.

A criminal organization that kidnaps local residents, a sheepskin killer who awakens with drugs, and a plan to avoid being tracked by the local police......

I immediately came up with a possibility, looked up, and asked, "Is the sheepskin killer a 'scapegoat'?" ”

Adam nodded in agreement, and then said, "The mysterious organization found the sheepskin killer and deliberately gave him a half-finished drug to make him a psyker. However, the psychic awakening induced by this semi-finished drug is completely different from the regular psychic awakening, which is equivalent to the cost of burning the soul, and at the same time, it will also cause great changes in the psychology of the person taking the drug. The sheepskin killer already has a serious tendency to commit crimes, and the power and side effects of the drug have made him put down all his scruples, so that he will kidnap and torture local residents everywhere. In order to make his criminal activities smoother, the mysterious organization even provided him with a psionic spell that increased his concealment. ”

The psionic spell she was talking about was naturally 'feigning'.

At this moment, most of the doubts in my heart have been swept away.

Why does the level of gift of the Blood Sacrifice Ritual not match the value of the Sheepskin Slayer's soul? Because the sheepskin killer is not a normal psionic person at all, his psionic energy is brought at the cost of a high-speed burning soul, and the value of this soul naturally cannot be compared with a real psionic.

The "scapegoat" plan of the mysterious organization is also very simple, that is, to find a madman in the black zone, to kidnap local residents everywhere, and then according to this situation, two sets of clues and physical evidence are prepared in detail according to the two developments of "scapegoat was arrested by the local public security" and "not arrested", so as to push all the criminal records left by his previous crimes onto the sheepskin killer.

The reason why Adam wanted to find the Sheepskin Killer was because he could get clues to the mysterious organization from the Sheepskin Killer.

And the reason why "even if it's a corpse" is because Hasegawa over there is likely to be a rare psychic medium among psykers, who can make corpses "speak", and maybe they can get more clues than direct questioning.

Just in case, I asked Hasegawa if he was a psychic medium, and I got a positive answer.

"Most of the information we have now is still explored with the help of Hasegawa's divination technology as a psychic medium, as well as psychic technology." "If it weren't for his help, I wouldn't even know that the Sheepskin Killer was related to a mysterious organization, and I thought the Sheepskin Killer was an ordinary serial murderer." At this point, she gestured helplessly, "But unfortunately, that's all we know." Is there anything else you want to know? ”

*

"Your motives." I said, "Why are you tracking this mysterious organization?" ”

"Wait, didn't you say 'one question and one question'?" Hasegawa asked with little confidence.

I looked at him without saying a word, and he looked away.

Adam smiled, then replied, "My motives are not complicated. In the process of casting a net to gather information, I accidentally touched the boundaries of the mysterious organization, and they especially didn't want to be known about their existence, so they immediately sent someone to hunt me down. Since they treat me like this, then naturally I will not be polite. ”

"And I helped Adam fight off the enemy while she was being hunted down, and so we formed a temporary partnership." Hasegawa also talked about himself, "The reason why I was hostile to the mysterious organization is also very simple, my sister was kidnapped by them. ”

"They kidnapped your sister? A psyker's sister? I asked rhetorically.

"It's a long story." Hasegawa avoided talking about it.

"We're all done, then, about the corpse of the sheepskin killer......" Adam looked at me.

Unfortunately, I could only shake my head, "I'm still the same as before, I've lost the body of the sheepskin killer." ”

"You-" Hasegawa stood up angrily, and then paused slightly under my gaze, and his words changed, "...... 's milk tea is going to be cold, so drink it quickly. Then he sat down.

After a second, he seemed to feel that his reaction was too sloppy, and it seemed that "the more he thought about it, the more angry he became", and all his mental activity was written on the surface.

I pondered my words and continued, "Although I cannot hand over the body, in exchange I can join you and assist in your activities. ”

"What!" Hasegawa was dumbfounded.

Adam asked cautiously, "What is your motive?" ”

"I'm interested in the drug that can turn ordinary people into psykers." I replied.

"You want to be a psyker?" She asked.

"It's a long story." I glanced at Hasegawa, and he tugged at the corners of his mouth.

Adam reminded: "But that drug is only a half-finished product, and the side effects are huge. ”

"It's possible that they've already worked on the finished product now, isn't it?" I asked rhetorically.

Hearing this, Adam pondered for a moment and said to me that he wanted to discuss it privately with Hasegawa. After I nodded, she pulled Hasegawa and walked out of the fast food restaurant, whispering somewhere.

I sat in a fast-food restaurant and thought about the past.

For me, the Hasta Blood Ritual is certainly one of the routes to becoming a psyker, but the path is too dangerous to walk on a tightrope. According to the forbidden knowledge in my mind, the higher the quality of the soul sacrificed in the blood sacrifice ritual, the more gifts there will be, and the more intense the side effects. The sacrifice of just one sheepskin killer had nearly wiped me out, and if it had been a true psionic sacrifice, I would have been doomed.

But I have to say, I was really lucky.

At the beginning, I did plan to catch a psionic person for a blood sacrifice first, regardless of whether this idea of "catching a psyker first" came from the influence of forbidden knowledge, but if I did do it, the end can be imagined.

However, what I caught was an "impostor", which saved my life. I was deceived by the Sheepskin Slayer's psyker identity, but this deception led to good results.

This gave me the opportunity to re-examine the good and bad of the blood ritual.

Although I am not without a solution to reduce the side effects, it is achievable, but it is not that convenient.

It would be better to try to add another path to track down the mysterious organization, and while I don't think it's possible for them to develop a so-called "finished product", I don't know if they will surprise me at all.

Moments later, Adam and Hasegawa returned.

"How's your discussion going?" I was the first to speak.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and then Adam took the initiative to step forward and welcome, "I have heard the name of the 'Faceling' for a long time, and I am very honored to be able to cooperate with you. ”

"Each other." I nodded solemnly, "Although I have heard some bad rumors about you, I can tell that you are not that kind of person. Don't look at me like this, in fact, I am very confident in my own way of looking at people, who is a trustworthy person, who is a shameless liar, I have my own way of discernment. ”

Speaking of this, I took the initiative to stretch out my right hand, "And you are a trustworthy person, let's fight together in unity." ”

She froze in place, then smiled movingly and took my hand.

*

After the disbandment, I didn't hesitate to track down Adam.