17. Spirit animals

I never thought that one day I would be relieved that a little teenage girl was killed.

It wasn't just my hanging heart that was relieved of the tension, it was my arms that were relieved. At this moment Gerald also violently broke free from my grasp, and then ran to the little girl who had been cut in two and cried bitterly.

"Is that your daughter? What did you do to her? Turned her into a monster with witchcraft? I ran after him and questioned Gerald.

Gerald's crying suddenly stopped, he turned his head and smiled disdainfully at me, and then replied in Chinese, "Aren't you looking for a wizard?" Aren't you looking for the root of the evil spirit? Well, now you'll never get what you want, because you've just killed the wizard! ”

"What?! What did you say?!!! Qiao Wei suddenly rushed to Gerald excitedly and asked.

"Can't you understand what I'm saying? She, the girl you killed, she's the wizard you're looking for! Gerald replied again.

With Gerald's answer, Qiao Wei was stunned. The two assassins, a man and a woman, who had previously killed them, also looked at each other in surprise, and it was obvious that this result was beyond their expectations.

"What the hell is going on? The girl just now ......"

Before I could finish my words, the girl who was lying in a pool of blood also began to change, her body quickly stretched and expanded, and at the same time, her skin quickly became old, and in less than ten seconds she changed from a teenage girl to a withered old woman who was at least 100 years old! The blood that flowed from the wound on the side of her body also became sticky and black like asphalt, and it looked disgusting!

"It's over! Finished! Finished! Qiao Wei said three sentences in a row, and there was a look of confusion on his face.

"I said you told me what was going on?!" I rushed anxiously.

Qiao Wei swallowed his saliva to calm his emotions a little, and then explained to me: "Wizards generally do not act alone, he will be accompanied by a special animal bodyguard, these animals feed on the blood of wizards, and will gradually turn into human spirit animals. At first I thought the girl was Gerald's spirit animal, but now it seems like I've done it the other way around! ”

"Reversed?! Don't make such jokes, okay! You two, before you start, don't be sure which one is a spirit animal and which one is a wizard? Are you professional?!! "I began to take my anger out on the two Assassins, but they clearly didn't understand what I was saying.

"It's not their fault." Qiao Wei defended the two assassins: "After the wizard seals Liliang, he will become an ordinary person, and only the spirit beast will maintain Liliang beyond ordinary people. The liliang shown by this girl obviously shows that she is not an ordinary person, so they judge that she is a spirit animal. ”

"Do you think she was an ordinary person before? How could he seal Liliang? What went wrong? I asked.

Qiao Wei shook his head and said: "Actually, I don't know what the specific thing is, but when a spirit beast dies, it will turn into an animal form, and when a wizard dies, it will grow old, and it will shed dead blood, that is, black blood." From this, you can tell that Gerald shouldn't lie to us, that girl is really a wizard. ”

"So that girl is not Gerald's daughter at all, but his master? And what about Gerald? What is he? With that, I turned my gaze to Gerald.

Once again, Gerald glanced at the four of us with his disdainful eyes, and after a weird smile he lay on the ground, and then his body swelled rapidly, tearing through his clothes, and Zuihou turned into a maroon horse! It's just that the horse has no ears, and both of its front legs are no longer moving, and there are three bloody knife marks on its belly.

Gerard didn't say a word when he was a human being, and now that he's a horse, I'm sure he won't tell us anything useful.

At this time, the two assassins, a man and a woman, exchanged glances with each other, and then moved the old witch who had been beheaded into the trunk of the car, and motioned for Qiao Wei and I to get in the car and leave first.

As we got into the car, I saw the two Assassins walk up to the horse lying on its side and stab it in the neck, ending Gerald's life once and for all. The two men then put their hoods back on and quickly disappeared into the night.

Qiao Wei and I returned to his house at midnight and carried the old witch in the trunk into the hall, which had been cut in two.

Qiao Wei's father and Shu Xin also came out together. Shu Xin only glanced at the corpse of the witch who was in a terrible state of death, then turned his head and ran to the wall, and then retched several times while holding on to the wall. After a while, she turned her back to me and said, "I'll go back to my room first, tell me when it's all settled, I really can't see that thing." When she was done, she ran upstairs.

The witch's appearance is indeed disgusting, her whole body has been dissected from the side, and the internal organs have long fallen out, and now she is a shell that has been skinned and hollowed out. It was probably the next difficult situation that gave me more headaches, so I didn't have time to think about nausea or anything like that.

I said directly to Qiao Wei's father, "We are all mistaken, Gerald is not a wizard. ”

"I already know the specific situation, come and get her to my studio."

Qiao Wei's father's studio is on the second floor, although the family is a bit exaggerated, but only Qiao Wei's father really lives here. Usually during the day, there will be a few nannies who are similar to housekeeping services to clean the room and help with cooking, but in the middle of the night, only his father is left in the house, and we can only help with the work of moving corpses.

The so-called studio looks more like a coroner's room, with an autopsy table and complete dissection tools.

We put the witch's body on the autopsy table according to Qiao Wei's father's instructions, and then Qiao Wei's father also changed into a set of surgical gowns and began his work.

I don't know if it's the layout of the studio or the smell of disinfectant inside, but I started to feel a little nauseous, so instead of standing in front of the dissecting table to watch Qiao Wei and his father perform all kinds of shiyan on the witch's corpse, I chose to go outside and wait for the results.

After waiting for about half an hour, the two finally came out of it.

I hurriedly asked what I found.

Qiao Wei replied, "This witch's age should be between one hundred and one hundred and thirty years old, and as for her superhuman Liliang, I think it may have something to do with her abnormal relationship with spirit beasts." ”

"Abnormal relationship?"

"It's just popping."

"You mean ...... man-beast?"

Qiao Wei nodded.

"Damn, the wizard's shijie is too heavy, right? How much she liked her horses...... "I stopped halfway through my complaint, because a familiar image suddenly appeared in my mind, which was Spencer's "Dark Surge". There are two little girls, one of whom turns to look out the window, and outside the window Stephenson is leading a pony!

Thinking of this, I immediately said to Qiao Wei's father: "Uncle Qiao, where is that painting?!" ”

"It's still on the third floor, what's wrong?"

"I don't think the clue is broken, I seem to know the identity of this witch!"

I could clearly feel my heart beating faster with excitement, and if things were as I thought, I might be able to recreate the whole process of the witch's evil form, and it would not be impossible to find the root of the evil spirit!

When we returned to the classroom on the third floor and unfolded the "Dark Surge", Qiao Wei's eyes couldn't help but widen, and his eyes also fell on the dark red horse outside the window on the right side of the picture!

"You think that's Gerald?" Qiao Wei asked me.

I nodded, then pointed to the short-haired girl who looked back out the window and said, "This should be the witch lying on the second floor!" This painting was painted in 1917, and the girl looked like she was seven or eight years old at the time, even if she was seven years old, if she lived to this day, she would be one hundred and three years old, and the age was exactly the same! ”