Chapter 20: Serial Deaths in Rosetown 20
Little Emile's arrival was just in time, and solved a big problem for Sanna, and when she was leaving, Sanna stuffed her with the fruit that Assaleng had bought, and the little girl was so simple-minded that she immediately smiled and narrowed her eyes, and said happily that she would come to see Sanna tomorrow.
Being stirred up by little Emir like this, Asa Leng couldn't get angry anymore, and Sanna changed the topic again and talked about something about the mission, and the matter was perfectly revealed.
At the end, Sanna mentions something to Assalen, "Do you remember that dark-haired Oriental girl we saw yesterday at Mayor Mare's house?"
Asa Leng nodded, "Remember, what's wrong?"
"Then do you remember the Rogue's story?"
Asa frowned coldly and fell into deep thought.
Rakshasa Woman, that is a female demon who has been wanted by the temple for hundreds of years, it is said that more than 300 years ago, she traveled all over the world, killing people without purpose, not for money, not for power, not even for hatred, and the people she killed had nothing in common, she hid in the crowd like a ghost, and quietly raised her butcher's knife at a specific moment that no one could understand.
Some people speculate that it may be a demon beast that thinks she is God judging the world, and the people she kills are burdened with sins that ordinary people do not know, but this is not convincing, because it is said that she has also seen her snatch the newborn baby from her mother's arms and kill it mercilessly with evil magic.
There are also people who speculate that human beings have now discovered that there is a special kind of person in the crowd who will bring disaster to ordinary people, so could it be that the so-called Rakshasa is actually protecting mankind?
This speculation has been accepted by a very small number of people after the calamity has gradually become known, but the vast majority of people are still in a wait-and-see state for this statement, after all, three hundred years ago, the Rakshasa suddenly disappeared without warning, and in that era when the historical record was not even complete, this lingering shadow that had been hanging over human history for hundreds of years was like a nightmare that never existed, and there was no sound again.
There is no historical data to prove that this demon, who has killed countless people in history, will be an unsung hero who silently guards mankind.
What's more, even now, human beings have never found that any race can confirm the calamity in the population in any way, as far as this era is concerned, the way human beings deal with calamity is more likely to kill by mistake than let go, and the personnel who deal with related events often have to stay at the mission site until there are no deaths for more than seven days, and then they can be considered to have completed the mission and left.
As for whether there was a manslaughter during this period-
Truth be told, the temple receives hundreds of complaints every year, all of whom feel that their relatives and friends are innocent, after all, calamities are no different from ordinary people except for the death that they bring to people, and among them, there are bastard students who spend their days in the school hall, toiling peasants who work diligently in the fields for the life of their families, decadent youths who consume their lives in the bright fireworks venues, and bards who wander the world and sing their lives into poetry.
They used to be like ordinary people, burning their own floating lives in the billowing red dust, but suddenly one day, without any reason, those who looked no different from themselves declared that their existence would bring disaster to mankind, and for this reason they would sink them into the sea and be banished forever-
This is the only way for humanity to deal with calamity at present.
And the Rakshasa woman three hundred years ago, it is said that before she kills someone, the target she chooses will receive a death notice, the specific content is not fixed, but the core meaning is to make people choose between death and escape.
All of these death notices were pieced together with a few cut-out characters, and many references to them can still be found in the scarce historical materials of the era.
No one knows why Rakshasa did this, so some people speculate that it was a demon who entertained people by torturing people, and sent death notices in advance in order to cause panic in her prey and increase the pleasure of her hunting.
As for the truth, human beings have nowhere to study, and can only speculate on the mythical witch a hundred years ago through some sporadic historical materials.
"Do you think that Oriental girl could be a Rogue?"
As soon as the words came out, Asa Leng couldn't help but frown, as if he had just said something absurd and strange.
"Don't you think it's very similar, the threatening letter that the mayor's daughter received is like a death notice from a Rakshasa woman, and do you feel it? The boy who followed the girl should not be a human being, but a human form that some artifact had transformed into a spiritual sense. ”
When talking about business, the expression on Sanna's face was still very serious, but the baby's fat little face didn't match this serious expression so well.
But Assalon still likes Sanna's appearance.
"And then?"
Asa Leng bowed slightly.
She was also aware of the fact that the boy was not human.
She and Sanna are both cultivators, as long as the other party is not far superior to the two of them, and they deliberately conceal it, they can easily feel the spiritual power of the same cultivator.
The boy obviously had no intention of hiding it at all, his body was full of spiritual power, and he stood in the crowd like a bonfire in the night.
As for the situation of the Oriental girl, she was a little confused.
She has spiritual power running on her body all the time, and it seems that she is vomiting anytime and anywhere, but when Asa Leng carefully investigated, the girl was like an ordinary person, and there was no trace of spiritual power in the dantian, as if those spiritual powers were just wandering around her body and slipping away.
This was the first time in his life that Assaleng had encountered it.
But what does that mean?
"According to the mayor, these two people came here five days ago, and the blood weapon that had been sealed in the temple disappeared five days ago, and the death in this town also started five days ago, and the most important point is that I saw that the girl had something similar to a séance lock on her right hand. ”
As soon as these words came out, Asa Leng accepted all the smiles, and his expression was more serious than ever.
"Are you sure?"
Having said that, Assalin knew very well that she and Sanna were both clergy who were responsible for calamity, Sanna's position was actually much higher than her, compared to her, Sanna was not good at fighting, this seemingly reckless guy had almost the entire temple books in his head, and her control of spiritual power was also naturally meticulous, and she had a unique endowment in exploration and research.
"I'm sure that while they don't look the same as a normal séance lock, I'm sure the principle is the same. ”
“......”
Asa's heart sank, and she looked up at Sanna, and both of them saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.
The so-called blood weapon is a black giant scythe, which is said to be the weapon carried by the Rakshasa woman a hundred years ago, this thing is indestructible, and the material used in forging is an unknown metal that has never been discovered by human beings, and it is also the only thing that human beings have discovered at present, which can really kill the calamity.
Since the Rakshasa disappeared a hundred years ago, the scythe was found, changed hands several times between merchants, and was finally bought by the temple at a high price.
Originally, it was just that a certain high-ranking person in the temple thought that such murder weapons should not be circulated among the people, and that buying them back could also be used as some kind of negative case to teach the world to stay away from killing.
Unexpectedly, I later found out that the calamity that could not be killed with ordinary weapons was no different from ordinary people in front of this scythe.
Since then, murder weapons have been designated as blood weapons, and are used to deal with certain calamities that refuse to be tried and are superior in power and difficult to capture.
As for the séance lock, it is a kind of shackles made by a certain founder of the temple for cultivators, which can generally only be seen in the prison of the temple, and it can be used to directly pierce the prisoner's pipa bone and seal all the actions, plus this thing can also suck away all the spiritual power in the prisoner's body, no matter how great the magic power is, being tied up by this thing is also inevitable, and it is specially used to deal with some extremely vicious cultivator criminals.
The higher-level clergy basically have one hand. A good helper in handling cases.
Sometimes, the clergy and the criminal may just meet for a while, and the clergy are not completely sure of arresting the criminal, so they will let the séance lock themselves to lock the criminal first, and then arrest the criminal in the next day.
There is also a situation where séance locks are seen outside of the prison - and that is a fugitive who has escaped from the prison.
The thing that can be used is basically the death penalty, and the person who uses it does not intend to take it off before the criminal dies, so there is no way to untie it from the beginning, once it is locked, it will not be able to take it off for the rest of his life, it is the number one natural enemy of people outside the law, and it is also a first-class weapon for clergy.
If that is really a séance lock, then even if this Oriental girl has nothing to do with the Rakshasa Woman, she is still a first-class dangerous person.