Chapter 30: The Bounty Alliance
In the old city of Tiandu, the approximate time is close to midnight, and the exact time is 11:40 in the middle of the night. In the old city, it has long been in a deep sleep, only the silent street lamps still record the dust and snow flying in the sky under the light and shadow, like an oil painting of ice cubes, which is deep due to precipitation.
When three women came out of a street wearing down coats, they immediately attracted four unemployed young people who were smoking cigarettes. They were talking all night under a street lamp, mainly interested in the maid in a tavern in the old town.
"In this cold day, let her bring a few girls over, let's go to Wang Hu's house, stay up all night, watch a movie, and he has a box of ale under his bed." The man in the stuffed cap glanced at the tall man on the left with a cigarette in his mouth. "Ah Hu, how about it, go directly to you tonight? I don't have any money left to open a house. ”
"The projector in my mother's house is broken and hasn't worked for a long time." The tall man Wang Hu said that he didn't want to take this matter on his head, and the next morning, the house must be a mess. He still remembers that last month, his mother worked late, and when he came back the next day, he actually found two sexy thongs on the master bed. It was hard to believe that after a night of haphazard gatherings, two couples of men and women rolled sheets in his mother's house, and were beaten and scolded for it.
"Your mother hasn't seen movies in years." The man in the cap said contemptuously: "Don't be like this, it's not a big deal to just borrow a place to play." ”
"Hey, wait." Another short-haired man standing next to the cap interrupted, with a scar on the tip of his left eyebrow, about two centimeters in size. "How do you know about his mother? Haven't watched a movie in years? The short-haired man showed a lewd/smile and said in a trance: "Oh, is it possible, there are still inextricable relationships here?" ”
"Shut up, Yang Shan, watch out for me shoves your head into Sadie's buttocks."
"Haha...... Haha......"
"Haha......" everyone laughed, echoing wantonly under the silent night sky.
(Sadie: A waitress at the Qiaotou Tavern in the old town of Tiandu, she is fat, one meter sixty-one in height, but weighs nearly three hundred pounds, and she is like a huge bucket below her waist, which looks like enough to accommodate an adult.) )
"Hey, shh...... You see. "In the middle, the short man spoke, his eyebrows were sinister, and he was hunched over, like a man on the ground." Here are the beauties, or three big beauties, hehe. ”
Walking slowly from the depths of the alley, the footsteps of the three of them were still resounding in the snow. "Eh, Sister Miao Xue, after you entered the other world before, did you find anything strange?" The cute and well-behaved little girl poked her head out and asked.
"No, it just feels like it's very empty inside, and when I entered the other world in the past, I always felt that there were many evil spirits lurking around, and I was worried about being discovered by them. But this time, I didn't have that experience, I felt that there was nothing in it that I should be wary of, as if they were all gone. Compared with the brave girl a year ago, Chen Miaoxue today has more vicissitudes, but it is more charming.
The cold and sexy girl beside her, still exuding an innate queenly atmosphere, said in a deep voice: "There are no evil spirits in the other world, which seems to say that there are no stars in the universe." ”
"I also think it's strange, is it because you were exorcizing demons at the time and giving more powerful holy light protection, so I felt a little at ease in the other world, that feeling really strange." Chen Miaoxue frowned and sighed, her face under the shadow of the lamp was red and immature.
Situ Xinyue was silent for a moment, then shook her head and said, "It's unlikely, in the other world, the more powerful the power of the Holy Light is, the more evil forces will be suppressed. Unless......" She took a deep breath and stared at the dark sky without the astrolabe. "Unless all the evil spirits of the other world escape."
"What? This, this can't be. Chen Miaoxue was shocked, she knew what it meant, it was recorded in the holy book that the rise of evil forces, once the door to the real world was opened, it would definitely be a catastrophe for all things, a catastrophe for the end.
"We've been encountering more and more paranormal events lately, and these lurking evil spirits are everywhere, and it seems that the only way to find out why is to go there."
Chen Miaoxue glanced at her, understood what she meant, shook her head and said coldly, "I don't want to deal with those missionaries. Since her father's death, she has witnessed first-hand how this group of self-righteous believers has dealt with all this, and even the righteous and merciful missionaries have ruthlessly ordered their expulsion.
Situ Xinyue understood these things, and she said helplessly: "It's okay, I'll go alone at the church, you and Mu Lan ......."
"Sister, look, there's someone over there." Situ Mulan, who had stopped, suddenly said, under the street lamp in the distance, four men were slowly walking towards this side.
People who come unkindly always have a sinister look on their faces, and in their evil smiles, there is a strong desire/desire hidden in them, and they are restless and restless. The dust and snow fell one after another, and then piled up deeper and deeper, as if it had fallen into a white mire. "I really didn't expect that there were still three amazing beauties, and in the middle of the night, they must not be able to find their way home." The man in the cap couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and walked up quickly. "Hey, three beauties, where is this going? Why don't you go to my house and sit down, watch a movie, and drink a little wine, it must be warmer than now. Greedy eyes, moving from a lovely face to a cold look, and finally resting on the intoxicated red face, he swallowed his saliva, and his eyes almost fell off.
"Forget it." Chen Miaoxue saw Xinyue take a step forward, but she also stopped, she shook her head and said in a low voice: "After all, they are all ordinary people, this is not appropriate." ”
"Evil forces are most likely to parasitize on these people, and sooner or later they will be possessed by evil spirits." Xinyue's personality has always been cold, not to mention that the Situ family already has a strong and noble bloodline, and there is no room for a little dirt in her eyes, even for the marriage of two powerful exorcist families, she resolutely chose to escape the marriage.
The man in the cap gave a look to a few accomplices next to him, and suddenly, the other three stepped forward and formed an encirclement formation to stop Chen Miaoxue and the others. "Yo, beauties, do you want to leave without saying a word? There's no police station in the old town, and even if you dig your throat, no one will take care of it. The shortest man said lightly, staring at the well-behaved Situ Mulan in front of him, forcing her shy face to turn red. Little girl, she looks so cute, you see, we are highly consistent, how well matched. ”
As soon as it was too late, Xinyue's angry expression appeared, and she raised her right hand high, a rune mark appeared in the center of her palm, and flames burned at the edge of the handwriting, like an unfathomable rift. "Wait." Chen Miaoxue grabbed Xinyue's hand, took out a card from her coat pocket, and then showed it to the four young ruffians in front of her.
The man at the front was suddenly panicked, like a mouse meeting a big cat, a rabbit meeting a hunter with a gun, completely frightened, the card clearly shows that the three words of the serious crime team are the work cards of the members of the police serious crime team. The handsome and beautiful avatar of the police flower, heroic and cool, just like the arrogance that appeared on her face at this time, without the slightest timidity. "Why don't you hurry up, do you want to wait for me to hold you all in prison one by one, and look at the four high walls in a daze?" The four pairs of dull eyes looked at each other, and then retreated in a panic.
"Really, I'm so sorry we were so presumptuous."
"Just now, I drank too much." The man took off his cap and slapped it hard at the diminutive man's head. "It's all your fault, if you hadn't brought the wine out, would you have made us all drunk? Bastard! It's all your fault. He kept screaming and scolding, and his lower body involuntarily ran away, bang! In the dust and snow, his feet slipped and he fell to the ground fiercely, wailing and complaining.
"Hurry up, hurry up, don't go quickly." Crawling up from the snow, grabbing his hat and shaking off his feet. "What are you looking for, looking for death, go away!"
"Wait for us, you, what did you just see?" The crowd fled in panic and gradually dissipated in the middle of the winter night.
"They're cops, stupid, don't you know how to read? Almost killing yourself, it's all your bad idea. ”
"Policemen, are they policewomen?"
"Oh, hell, it's a good thing they didn't go back with us, otherwise we would have been guilty of seeing the contents of that pocket in the back room."
"Shut up, stupid! Beware of being heard! Syllable. Another hard punch sent the four men to finally disappear into the silent street.
Poof, Situ Mulan covered his mouth and smiled: "They are really funny, they were deceived by your Roy card." ”
"Roy card?" Situ Xinyue came back to her senses and looked at the police work card in Chen Miaoxue's hand, which gradually became blank. "I've heard of this thing, it comes from the psychic hall at the bottom of Roy Lake, it's the first time I've seen it, and I didn't expect it to be able to change at will with the cardholder's mind."
Chen Miaoxue said in a low voice: "I also found it in my father's book a few days ago. She handed the card to the curious Xinyue, knowing that she was just on a whim.
"Wow......" Situ Xinyue held up the card in her hand and stared at the street lamp, and the blank space gradually formed various patterns. The things in the psychic hall are strange, I have heard the elders of the clan talk about it before, and that place is the same as the forbidden place of our family, it is very mysterious and cannot be entered. Xinyue handed the card to Mu Lan, who was anxiously snooping on the side, and asked Chen Miaoxue, "Your father has been to the Psychic Hall before?" It's a place that can be found by very many people, and even the people of our tribe know a drop in the bucket. ”
"No, he hadn't been, I remember, it seemed like he had exchanged it for something at the exchange."
"Exchange?" Xinyue frowned, and the three of them walked towards the empty alley together. "Your father used to be a bounty hunter?"
Chen Miaoxue nodded and sighed: "Yes, but then he quit, and he told me that if even the soul needs to be supported by interests, there is not much point in living." I was ten years old when he left the Bounty League that year. "Remembrance is like drifting cold snow, deeply rooted in people's hearts, making the body tremble.
"Bounty hunters are a very high status symbol in the psychic world, and the Bounty Alliance is also a very powerful group, although there are very few psychics who can enter this alliance, it is a double-edged sword, and I have heard about the cruelty in it." Situ Xinyue stared at the starless sky, and even the hazy moonlight dimmed with the arrival of midnight. "Actually, in my family, there are also many people who have joined the Bounty Alliance, maybe everyone's yearning is different."
Chen Miaoxue took a deep breath, she turned her head to look at Xinyue, and asked, "What kind of organization is the Bounty Alliance?" Later, I asked my father why he wanted to leave, because since then we have been wandering endlessly, without a fixed home, but he never mentioned it. ”
After being silent for a moment, Situ Xinyue stopped, she turned to Mu Lan and said, "You get in the car first, tell Tang Song and Zhang Fang, where we are going next, we will leave early tomorrow morning." ”
"Oh, okay."
Looking at her distant back, Situ Xinyue sighed and said, "As I said before, the existence of this organization is a double-edged sword, and they use ritual scrolls or holy relics as transactions to issue bounty orders. ”
"Bounty order?" Chen Miaoxue's heart sank, as if she had seen this word somewhere.
"Yes, the bounty order is similar to dealing with paranormal events, but the difference is that it is specified! If you complete the mission, you can get a good reward. The exchange you talked about earlier refers to the exchange of various artifact-related things, but only for those within the Bounty Alliance. ”
"Paid, just for the money?" Chen Miaoxue's expression was gloomy, and in her heart, psychics were often sacred.
"Money? Perhaps, but only a few, and if you work for money, it is not worth it, and some relics are priceless, and I think they are for some ritual scrolls, or relics of the gods. Situ Xinyue watched Mu Lan get into the RV and continued: "The psychic people in the Bounty Alliance are not simple, and even, even some people, the magic rituals they know, the spiritual power they possess is even more unfathomable than the psychic elders of the three major exorcist families. ”
"Since it's so powerful, the exorcism skill must be very high, so this should be a good thing, why is it a double-edged sword?" Chen Miaoxue was puzzled.
Situ Xinyue shook her head and sighed: "They are indeed very powerful, so they will do whatever it takes for the end, and they don't care about cooperating with evil things, or even being with wolves, they don't care about the life and death of ordinary people, they just want to be able to complete the bounty order and get paid, that's all." ”
Chen Miaoxue had heard of such an explanation for the first time, and she couldn't accept it in her heart, why did this noble profession still put on an ugly cloak, and questioned: "But if they do this, can the Holy Lord still give them the power of justice?" (To be continued.) )