"What should I call it?"

"The other believers of the Lord call me the Vicarator, and the Bureau of Mystery may also call me, 'Truth,'"

Wang'an City Abnormal Investigation Bureau, in a closed room.

This middle-aged man, known as 'Lies and Deception', is still bound by the vine with its roots,

And the roots of the vine spread out and grew deeper and deeper in him.

However, even so, the middle-aged man was still calm, with a smile on his face,

It's not like it's been controlled into the control room of the Anomalous Bureau.

It was more like entertaining an acquaintance in his own room, answering the words calmly, as if he didn't care about the tentacles that were writhing and stretching under his skin.

"Truth ......"

The reptile looked at the middle-aged man who seemed to have no fear, and repeated his name over and over again.

The name of the agent of lies and deception is somewhat absurd.

Lao Chen next to him just looked at the middle-aged man and didn't say anything.

At this moment, in this closed room, apart from this agent of lies and deception, there are only Lao Chen and reptiles.

As for the other investigators, they were guarded outside the enclosed house.

"Yes. That's my name. Everything I say is true, and I never lie."

Even under the restraint of the vines, the middle-aged man nodded slightly and replied with a smile.

And then calmly, even revealing some sincerity,

"I do want to talk to your bureau, and I think there's a need for us to communicate. But the two investigators, isn't that a little too enthusiastic?"

Saying with a smile, the middle-aged man lowered his head again and looked at the vines that bound him on his body.

Lao Chen and the reptile both paused slightly, but neither made a sound.

The middle-aged man didn't know if he was using his ability, but his words were exuding a kind of bewitching power all the time.

Let people subconsciously think about the rationality of their words, and then agree with them under some logic.

However, Lao Chen and the reptilian seem to have hearts as hard as iron, and they are indifferent to the words of the middle-aged man.

The long-term experience of dealing with all kinds of monsters has made these two senior investigators see all kinds of strange situations.

「…… Well, it seems that there is still a lack of some basic trust between us."

The middle-aged man exhaled, his expression was a little regretful at first, and then he smiled again,

"But I don't think it affects our communication."

In the closed room, although there are stools, they are bound by the vines that seem to have life, and the middle-aged man has difficulty bowing down, and he can't sit down, so he can only stand and talk.

"As for what I want to say, I think your Anomaly Bureau should have learned from that mysterious powerful man, and I don't need to repeat it."

"I just want to say that we are not enemies. Perhaps, the Lord is not your enemy either. Because the world is a lie."

"The Gui Heterogeneous Bureau is not keen on creating such a calm and beautiful lie, even if under the lie, all kinds of monsters have kept appearing, even if in order to maintain this lie, the Gui Heterogeneous Bureau has sacrificed a lot."

When it came to the mysterious and powerful man on the banks of the Wang'an River, the middle-aged man's face showed some awe. ….

Lao Chen and the reptile also noticed this.

"As a substitute for the Lord, I also admire your actions."

The middle-aged man said this sentence with sarcasm no matter how he looked at it, but his words and expressions were full of sincerity and respect.

Let Lao Chen and reptiles feel it, this seems to be the true words of a middle-aged man.

However, for middle-aged men who have the power of deception and lies, and exude demagogic influences anytime and anywhere,

This kind of judgment is meaningless, and it is impossible to affect the attitude of Lao Chen and the reptile.

However, after a pause, Lao Chen still replied to this sentence,

"What the Bureau of Anomalies does is to protect the existing order and existence

of calm, rather than fabricating some kind of lie. We are at the out, and the order is real, not a lie."

"The Fountain of Youth, too, is real."

The middle-aged man said with a smile again.

Lao Chen just looked calm, looked at him calmly, and didn't speak again.

It's not that you can't find the words to refute it, it's that this argument doesn't make sense.

The Anomaly Bureau and this middle-aged man were originally on opposite sides of the world.

「…… All right. What else do those two investigators from the Bureau of Investigation, my friend, want to ask?"

"I think I can provide most of the information, you know that."

"The identities of other believers who hold the power of deception and lies."

"Isn't that a little hard for me?"

The middle-aged man restrained his smile and replied seriously.

"Do you two friends know? Even if I preside over the ritual of strengthening my own power."

"In the execution, there are also other believers of the Lord who take the opportunity to steal some powerful lying power of their own."

"Please don't forget, they are also believers in lies, how can I know their true identity."

"Their identities can only be asked themselves. Besides, what if the Bureau of Strange Investigations knows their true identities, and what lying believers still exist in this world as their true identities."

When the middle-aged man spoke, he seemed to be sincerely considering the Heterogeneous Bureau, so he sent advice for the Heterogeneous Bureau.

"What about you?"

Lao Chen looked at the middle-aged man and never looked away,

The middle-aged man's previous answer to the question did not exceed Lao Chen and the reptilian's expectations.

Lao Chen and the reptile want to know more about the latter question.

Further, I wanted to get more information from the answer to this question.

When the middle-aged man heard this, he fell silent, but just looked straight at Lao Chen and the reptile without answering.

"Are you the first believer in this world of lies and deception?"

"How is it possible that every living being who exists in wisdom is a devout believer in the Lord."

The middle-aged man smiled again, looked at Lao Chen, and then at the reptile.

Lao Chen looked at him and didn't speak.

The middle-aged man replied with a smile to himself,

"Well, I know what the two friends want to know. Yes, I should be the one who bathed in the power of the Lord and felt the mercy of the Lord first."

"How did you gain the power of deception and lies? How did you become a believer in deception and lies?"

「…… I seem to have told the mysterious powerhouse about this question, and Investigator Tatsu would like to get a different, more detailed answer?" ….

"My Lord has deceived death and redeemed me from death. I am naturally a devout believer in the Lord, or rather, I am dead, and my present existence is a lie."

The middle-aged man replied calmly.

"When will the god of lies and deception come into this world?"

"I don't know, maybe it's coming, maybe it's always been, maybe at some point in the future, you, when we don't notice it. And so the Lord came quietly."

The middle-aged man still gave a serious answer to this question.

"How much do you know about the existence behind the Fountain of Youth?"

"No more than you. That is Mother Earth, the Mother of Life, the Creator of all life, who holds the authority over life."

"If you want to ask when she'll come, all I can say is, by my feelings, it should be soon."

"If you want to ask me how to deal with her coming, I don't know. Or rather, I hope more for your organization."

The middle-aged man replied with a smile.

After basically asking the question, Lao Chen and the reptile looked at the middle-aged man again, paused, and asked the last question.

"How are you going to leave?"

From start to finish,

The fearlessness of middle-aged men all explains this matter,

Even within the Abnormal Bureau, middle-aged men have the certainty that they can escape.

"Hahaha...... It made the two investigators laugh."

When the middle-aged man heard this, the smile on his face grew, until he laughed.

Then the laughter relented, and he said again,

"But are the two investigators really sure that I'm in the Gui Alien Bureau, standing right in front of you?"

The words fell, and under the gaze of Lao Chen and the reptile,

The figure of this middle-aged man began to melt, like a drop of ink dripping into the lake and ocean,

Quickly dissolves into the air.

At first, just the figure of a middle-aged man disappeared.

Immediately after, the vines that still maintained their restrained appearance were gradually wiped away.

It wasn't until a very short time later, along with the vines that had previously bound the middle-aged man, that the middle-aged man completely disappeared into the room.

Only Lao Chen and the reptile were left, as well as the few fixed stools in the closed room.

It's as if the middle-aged man never appeared here.

There was a slight pause.

Lao Chen and the reptile first raised some glances and gazes, and turned slightly in this closed room.

But soon, Lao Chen and the reptile both turned their heads back and looked again at the place where the middle-aged man had been standing.

It was still empty, and all I could see was the empty stool.

But Lao Chen and the reptile didn't look away again,

"You seem to have said that you never lie?"

The reptile spoke out loud to the emptiness in front of him.

"It's not a lie, it's just a question."

The middle-aged man's voice sounded again, and immediately after, the middle-aged man's body, which was still bound by vines, also resurfaced.

Still in its original position, it has never been moved, and the roots that grow on the vine and are all over the place have also taken deeper roots in the flesh of the middle-aged man over time, spreading towards the internal organs.

It looks like he has been punctured once, but the middle-aged man doesn't look too anxious or impatient,....

After reappearing in front of Lao Chen and the two, he first looked at the vines that were entwined around his body and rooted and bound him, and then raised his head and looked at Lao Chen and the two.

"It seems that I underestimated the determination of the two investigators, their keen perception, and their great strength."

"At the same time, I also underestimated the background of the Anomaly, this thing is really annoying, and it is not so easy to deceive."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man still had a little smile on his face, and then looked at the vines wrapped around his body, like looking at a naughty child.

"But forget it, if you can't leave, you can't leave."

"This body is a gift from the Lord, and if the Lord needs it, return it to the Lord."

「…… Lord, I am your most devout believer, and I pray for you...... Let me be in your arms."

The middle-aged man smiled and raised his head, showing some devotion in his eyes.

Seeing this, Lao Chen and the reptile frowned slightly, and stopped them one after another.

But, this time, the stop failed.

Because, middle-aged men don't look like they want to escape.

In the midst of pious prayers.

The middle-aged man's body was bound by vines and suddenly swelled, and the place strangled by the vines did not move,

But between the cracks of the vines, the flesh and blood still bulged,

Then, suddenly, like a watermelon rotting and swelling inside,

After a hole was opened, it quickly deflated again.

All that remained were traces of blood shattering into rotten flesh and blood all over the ground, and vines that had fallen back to the ground, sucking the flesh.

Lao Chen and the reptile frowned and immediately stepped forward.

The reptile picked up the vines on the ground and put them away.

Lao Chen directly reached out and grabbed the rotten flesh and blood water on the ground that was broken into minced meat residues.

Judging from the current situation, and from the beginning to the end, the situation of high vigilance perception and feeling,

The surrogate is dead.

He gave up his life so easily?

If it were other monsters, believers in the gods, this kind of crazy behavior would be normal though.

But this is a believer in lies...... Even this believer of lies had previously used the coming of his Lord to strengthen his own power.

Such a person chooses to die so easily?

It doesn't make sense logically.

And then...... Lao Chen thought of what he had said when he communicated with the middle-aged man before—"I'm dead, and my current existence is just a lie."

So will this lie appear elsewhere?

Lao Chen withdrew his hand from the flesh and paused.

"I guess I ran away."

The reptile also raised its head and looked at Lao Chen.

The two made the same judgment.

The substitute of this 'lie and expectation' should have fled at the cost of death.

……

「…… Good grandson, good grandson...... Slow down, slow down......"

"Hee-hee-......"

The edge of Lintian City, at the foot of the Longnan Mountains.

In that mountain village, although it was noon, it was exceptionally quiet.

Only at the end of the village, the old man beckoned to his grandson, and the sound of playing with his grandson sounded.

Previously, the old man got the dream dagger, and after paying a huge price,

The old man resurrected his grandson.

It was costly, but it was all worth it. ….

The old man was covered with snow-white hair, his face was full of wrinkles and age patches, and after taking two breaths, he sat under the eaves of his house.

Smiling and squinting, he looked at the children who were running around in the yard.

Then he looked up at the quiet village, and then looked back at the empty house, and the blood-dripping dream dagger enshrined on the offering table.

Well...... Everything is worth it.

Then he looked back at his grandson who was running around in the yard,

The old man was once again extremely sure, and the smile on his face was even more.

「…… Grandpa, grandpa, I'm hungry."

"I want to eat."

"Okay, okay, grandpa is going to make you lunch." What do you want to eat at noon?"

"I want to eat meat...... Eat a lot of meat...... After eating the meat, I felt my body strengthened."

The grandson is still the same as he was three years ago, not growing up, just like he was three years ago when he last saw him in the yard.

When I'm idle, I'll run around in the yard,

It's just that there is no one to run around with him, the neighbor's dog.

"Okay, grandpa will cook meat for you, cook a lot of meat......

The old man smiled and replied, as long as it is what the good grandson wants, he, who is a grandfather, will naturally get it.

"But...... You're going to follow Grandpa to the kitchen and help him light the fire...... Otherwise, grandpa will see you alone in the yard...... Grandpa is scared, scared......

The old man looked at the river not far in front of the house, because of the nightmare of three years ago, he even covered this section of the river with the wooden planks he had gotten.

Reaching out and hugging the child again, the old man spoke with teary eyes.

"Okay, grandpa, I'll follow you."

The grandson responded crisply, grinning and signing his grandfather's hand into the house.

「…… Grandpa, I'm going to eat that ...... today."

The grandson pointed into the house, and the old man smiled and answered.

"Good...... Good grandson, do you want a dog? If you want, wait until tomorrow Grandpa will go to the street to buy you one and come back, and play with you."

"Okay, thank you, Grandpa."

"Hmm...... I called your dad last night and asked him to come back...... Wait until tomorrow, when your dad returns, to see you

and must be happy."

"Hmm...... Grandpa, let's cook, I'm hungry......

brought his grandson to the kitchen, and the old man began to get busy with the work in the kitchen.

Cleaned up the wok and went to light the fire in the stove.

It's just that, at this very moment,

The child standing on the side suddenly paused.

Immediately after, the body began to twist, growing rapidly, and changing its appearance at the same time.

The old man came back with a scoop of water, and when he saw this scene, he was suddenly stunned in place, and his eyes suddenly fell into a trance as if he had lost his mind.

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