Chapter 21: Irritability
"Twelfth!"
As if suddenly taking a step out of the shadow of the corner plane, and then becoming three-dimensional, the young man in the school uniform held a sharp dagger in his backhand, and stabbed a rickety "zombie" passing in front of him neatly.
The jet-black dagger did not reflect in the light, but the line of subtle inscriptions on the blade of the dagger flashed a faint golden light at the moment when the dagger pierced the neck of the twisted human form. So the evil spirit tilted its body without snorting, and a faint flame ignited around its body, which turned into a puddle of ashes in less than two seconds.
Mu Xiu, who let out a long breath, noticed that five minutes had passed, and his task was still not completed, which meant that there were other evil spirits in this abandoned building. He silently moved his gaze to the stairwell that led to the next floor not far away, dark like a giant beast opening its mouth, waiting for himself to enter and be devoured by it.
With only the last floor and rooftop left, there shouldn't be any problems.
He thought so, then flicked the sharp dagger in his hand, and the figure disappeared into the shadows behind him again, almost merging with the darkness. Along the way, he relied on the skill of breath masking, and was not discovered by any type of D evil spirit, and simply assassinated all the way, like the most superb assassin, it was simply chopping melons and vegetables.
Mu Xiu suddenly wanted to take the assassin's route, and even subconsciously inquired about the skills and equipment of various stealth series just now, but fortunately, after calculating the reward points and side plots needed, as well as considering the resources invested in his current preliminary template formation, he still rationally chose to let go.
He found that there were many things that he still needed to experience personally before he could think more carefully-
For example, the exorcism dagger in his hand has already cost five hundred bonus points to redeem. In this way, even if the task is completed perfectly, but as soon as he enters and exits, he actually doesn't earn any reward points at all, but it's just the same as the original.
But there is no way to do it, because he has already experimented with the first evil spirit he encountered, that is, if there is no suitable means or weapon, his electromagnetic manipulation ability can only barely destroy a type D evil spirit, and then he will fall into a state of power shortage, and it will probably take a long time to recover, but the mission has a time limit.
As for the armed color domineering, he has just completed the mastery, and the C-level armed color domineering is not able to be released and evolve into attack power, and as for winding around the weapon to strengthen the attack power, it is even more unnecessary to think about it, it is estimated that he needs to thoroughly develop this ability to a higher level before it can be completed.
In other words, Mu Xiu did not have any effective means to deal with spirit enemies at present, and if he completely relied on exchanging consumables to get through the difficulties, he also knew that he would inevitably become dependent, which would not be a good thing for future mental growth and willpower...... Therefore, after hesitating for a while, he still chose to exchange for such an exorcism dagger that could effectively kill and injure spirit enemies.
Even on the surface, it is better to simply exchange some consumables and smash them over, at least you can recover your losses.
But in fact, he knew that this kind of real combat experience and experience was necessary for him.
Walking quickly through the dark staircase, this time Mu Xiu didn't see any evil spirits wandering, but the rancid smell in the air seemed to be a little more intense and disgusting. After searching all the way, he already knew that it was a dilapidated abandoned hospital building, because he had seen the ruins of the wards, the operating rooms that had not been cleaned up because of the haste to escape, and even the strange human tissue soaked in chemicals......
Some of the smells emanate from the broken bottles, some of which can be seen as human brains, some of which can be seen as withered and shrunken human tissue, but some things are difficult to associate with which part of the human body, and I don't know what kind of biological limb tissue it is.
- I'm afraid this hospital building was also very strange before it was abandoned, but after all, it was a thing of the past, and Mu Xiu didn't have any intention to pursue it.
He just frowned and looked at the space on the sixth floor, surrounded by a drowsy darkness, and he couldn't even hear the footsteps walking in the hallway, as if there were no wandering evil spirits on this level. However, because the task has never been completed, he does not believe in such a thing too much. And there is a way for him to remove the skill effect of breath masking, maybe the evil spirits that smell the breath of the living will swarm in.
But the boy had never been sure if he would be able to fight multiple evil spirits at the same time, so he didn't want to take the risk. But now it's the last floor, and there's the rooftop above it, so judging from the density of evil spirits on the five floors below, it doesn't seem too difficult?!
"Hmm——!!"
However, at this moment, he looked at the dagger in his hand, and for some reason, he suddenly felt that the abandoned hospital building at night looked a little familiar.
Before Mu Xiu could search through his memory the scene he had seen from a horror game, or the immediacy he had gained from the images of the other world he had seen when he had "become ill" before, he had already stood there in a trance as if he had touched some memory.
The vague and vague clips flashing in front of my eyes are strange and familiar, as if they are scenes that I have experienced or are experiencing, but it seems that there is no real sense at all, a completely unfamiliar feeling. This is not his kind of pathological visual hallucination, or it should be said that Mu Xiu is not sure if he is having visual hallucinations now, because ...... This feeling is completely different from the previous feeling of "onset".
He subconsciously pressed his chest, feeling an extremely strong uneasiness, an extremely strong loneliness.
He couldn't help but tear the restlessness and anxiety in his chest, but he didn't feel the pain or sadness at all.
However, this feeling came and went quickly, as if it was a complete hallucination or illusion, and the mood fluctuations quickly calmed down. But Mu Xiu suddenly felt a sudden tiredness, and his breathing seemed to be a little difficult.
Something, forgotten by himself.
His breathing became slightly heavier, as if he had lost his excessive mental and physical strength for some reason. He waved his arms wildly, trying to recall his somewhat chaotic memories at the moment, but he couldn't remember what he had forgotten, which made Mu Xiu suddenly feel extremely irritated for no reason.
And when he almost roughly ordered himself to calm down and return to a more conscious state, he found that his aura had been broken, and there were dense hideous shadows slowly and staggering towards him.
Mu Xiu wiped his nose vigorously and clenched the jet-black dagger in his hand.
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Ten minutes later.
On the roof of the abandoned building, the gently closed portal was pushed open from the inside with a creak.
By the time it was nearly twelve o'clock in the morning, the snowflakes had already stopped, but the land had already been covered in snow, and the brightly lit city was decorated with a charming snowy scene, standing against the backdrop of the endless deep blue night sky.
The cold waning moon shone brightly, and a beautiful black girl wearing a black sailor suit, only a down coat on the outside, and carrying a long wrap, calmly walked out of the dark space inside the building and came to the empty rooftop. Reflected in the girl's flawless purple eyes, like black pearls, were a few shallow puddles of ash not far away, almost covered with snow.
She breathed a sigh of relief as if she had expected it, but instead of immediately letting her guard down, she continued to carefully search the last area of the rooftop, not even the water storage tank, before returning to the iron gate.
The girl leaned down slightly, looking at the iron door that had been violently destroyed, the latch that had been completely locked from the inside, but now it had been broken open from the inside by someone in the same way. She doesn't know much about detectives or tracking, but she doesn't need any skills either.
After all, anyone who is not blind can see the clear fingerprint on the door latch, and a clear shoe print that is deeply sunken. You can understand what kind of violence broke the iron door that almost sealed it......
It was as violent as all the kicked open and sealed doors on the six floors below, the only difference was that the iron doors on the rooftop seemed to get extra special treatment beyond a simple and rough kick.
"The fingerprints and the traces of dust and rust are clear...... And it's only been twenty minutes since the source of this disaster was detected, so who solved the problem here?! ”
Isayama Huangquan let out a long breath, which condensed into a white mist in the cold air.
And at this time, her phone rang.
"Hello? …… Well, it's been solved. …… No, I didn't do it, though it was just a Type D supernatural source, but- it had been cleaned up by the time I arrived...... Yes, I don't know who it is, but the movements are very neat...... Well, okay, I'll go back. ”
As the agent and main combat officer of the Ministry of Environment, the Natural Environment Bureau, and the Super Natural Disaster Countermeasures Office, Isayama Huangquan, who was on duty tonight, put away his mobile phone and sighed softly. As a semi-official high-level spiritual power, people like them are originally open all year round, for example, tonight is Christmas Eve, and she has not been able to take a good holiday.
And the girl who was supposed to be quietly enjoying the heating in the office, drinking hot coffee, and reading the information, had to leave the warm office immediately after detecting the source of the disaster, and quickly rushed to the scene of the crime alone in the snowy night to prevent the situation from escalating and turning into an accident involving ordinary people.
- Of course, the type D evil spirit does not need the strongest combat power under the jurisdiction of the environmental province like her, and even the ordinary type C evil spirit, the countermeasure room only needs to dispatch one or two ordinary combat power to perfectly complete the retreat work.
However, the source of disasters is different, generally speaking, a disaster source is a collection of at least dozens of evil spirits of the corresponding level and occasionally one or several evil spirits that can be refreshed to a higher level. In addition, she was on duty tonight, so after thinking about it, she felt that a type D super natural disaster source was really not worth alarming her comrades who were still resting, so Isayama Huangquan simply went out on his own.
But now it seems that it doesn't matter if she thinks she didn't see it, there are already wild exorcists or something passing by to kill this nest of evil spirits?!
Just looking at the clear fingerprints left on the door latch, the corners of the black-haired girl's mouth twitched slightly.
If it was really the same as the facts that were inferred on the surface, then she didn't know exactly what monsters were over there, and ordinary humans could have such a terrible grip?!
A psychic is just a person who has a talent that ordinary people don't have, but in the end, he is still a human being, and at most he has the ability to temporarily stimulate his body through some secret techniques or spiritual power. In essence, he is still unable to lift heavy objects beyond his own body weight, and the bullets of the iron element can easily penetrate the body, and it will not take five minutes to die without the supply of some kind of gas...... of the weak human race.
But this strange power that can pinch the iron latch with bare hands is a little concerning.
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I didn't expect that after I left, a girl arrived at the scene on the back foot, and through first-hand information, she noticed something abnormal about herself.
But Mu Xiu didn't care at all, he just walked on the snowy streets on Christmas Eve with a tired face, and the jet-black dagger was also properly hidden by him. He didn't have the energy to think too much about other things now, but he just wanted to go back to his house and get a good night's sleep.
He still had enough stamina to easily take down a dozen thugs—just two minutes earlier, he had done that.
However, what Mu Xiu really consumed was inexplicable mental energy.
He couldn't figure out why he was so tired and empty, he didn't want to think about anything, he just wanted to get a good night's sleep.
However, his unfamiliarity with the road allowed him to find the way back more than half an hour after Christmas.