"Now that the Kraken is dead, you have been freed from her spiritual domination. Theoretically, when you revisit things about her, you will feel the uncanny valley effect from the image of her in your memory. "Tell me, do you still love her?" ”

"Of course." I said without hesitation.

"It seems that the after-effects of brainwashing are still present in you...... "she paused, and continued, "Some people do have after-effects that last for a long time, but they can still be cured over time." ”

"That's all for now." I don't want to go on talking about that.

She nodded, "Then let's talk about your parents." ”

"What happened to my parents?"

"Didn't you go to your old neighborhood in the afternoon?" This person obviously said that he didn't follow me before, but now he was accidentally exposed, she didn't seem to notice it, and continued, "Your parents don't live in that neighborhood now, and they moved to another new community last year, and I'll send you the address on my mobile phone when I go back." If you want to reunite with them, go over there. ”

"Thank you." I didn't expect to move, and I didn't make up my mind whether to meet my parents, so I took the initiative to change the subject, "By the way, I don't know if you saw it before, I met an old man on the road......"

I briefly recounted the previous confrontation with an old man on the road.

"That's supposed to be the 'corpse collector.'" Bluebird replied.

"Corpse collector?" I asked, "Is that his nickname?" ”

"Yes. There's nothing wrong with him recognizing you at a glance. He was also a law enforcement warlock for the Security Service at one time. ”

"Ever? Isn't that now? ”

"You also know that although the source of a warlock's power is the spirit, the physical body is also very important." She seemed to have regained the feeling of explaining to me in her dreams, and although she was talking about things I knew, I hoped she would continue to say in this tone, "The flesh is to the spirit what the soil is to the fruit, and the depleted soil naturally does not produce juicy fruits." As soon as a warlock ages, his strength will naturally recede, and this is perfectly normal. Although it is not that warlocks do not have spells that prolong their youth and lifespan, whether they have them or not are different from whether they are popular or not. In other words, in the world of warlocks, there is no secret knowledge that everyone knows. If everyone knows it, it is not called secret knowledge. ”

"I see."

"In the past, corpse collectors were warlocks who were known for their puppetry, and when they got old, they didn't know how much of their past skills were left. Now he is semi-retired, and although he is still in the Security Bureau, he does all the idle work, such as helping to dispose of the body or something. But he also has an unconscious son, who gambles everywhere, gets married, and doesn't even care about his grandson. "She was really unwary of me, and she revealed other people's backgrounds to me in a few words, and I was a little worried about whether she was having trouble at work.

When she said about the body, I remembered "it," and she continued, "Also, he said that there were murderers in the city recently. That probably doesn't mean Sang scolding Huai...... Probably half of them, but there's been a murderer in the city lately. ”

"What?" I was unexpected.

She reminisced for a moment, and then said, "That murderer's nickname, I think it's 'Old Bone', is a warlock criminal who became active two or three years ago. I heard that the murder weapon he often used was the thigh bone taken from the body of his former lover, and he liked to use this bone to stab people to death. Hey, this sounds like a perverted murderer, and those screenwriters who are going to make horror movies may like this kind of topic, but I feel like the food is going to be unpalatable just by talking about it here. ”

"......" I looked at her speechlessly, and she didn't seem to realize that there was a psychopathic murderer here, sitting across the table and eating with her.

Unconsciously she continued the conversation.

"And then he's a really tough guy to catch. The strength is not strong, but the escape is first-class. Many people who were stronger than him failed to catch him. "He has killed a lot of people in a very brutal way, dozens of people have been killed so far." And when it comes to the worst part of his nature, he likes to attack people related to the Security Bureau, such as the family members of law enforcement warlocks, and maybe he has some grudge against the Security Bureau a long time ago. If it weren't for the anonymous sighting clues provided this morning, we wouldn't have known that this guy had run to Liucheng. Now we must get him out as soon as possible, otherwise I don't know whose family members in the bureau will be attacked. ”

"......I see," I said, but I unconsciously put myself in the shoes of a fugitive criminal, imagining myself shuttling or lurking between the streets and alleys, just to avoid the team of law enforcement warlocks chasing behind me. This kind of spontaneous imagination probably stems from the fact that I took this position not long ago. Thinking about it like this, I actually developed a affection for the murderer.

Even I can't help but feel cordial, it can be seen that I am a person who is innocent of death,

So I just said, "Is there anything I can do to help?" ”

"You're starting again. It's the same in my dreams, I love to go to dangerous places. She couldn't help but laugh, and seemed to react again, coughing slightly, and returning to a somewhat distant tone, "Hmm...... You've lost your strength now, and it's hard to fight against a warlock, so I'd suggest you don't come over and live a normal life honestly. ”

I digressed the subject, "Speaking of dreams, have you found out about the inner ghost that you mentioned earlier?" ”

Last time, it was because of the "inner ghost" in the Security Bureau, so it was used to treat my dreams that there was such a huge metamorphosis. However, it is said that it is an "inner ghost", but from the perspective of a normal person, the person who disturbed my treatment plan might as well be said to be a righteous person.

I don't know how many people have been harmed by me, and I don't know how many people secretly hate me, so it's not surprising that even if it's for my life. Even the interrogator told me that there are still some voices in the security bureau who think I am guilty, and the previous corpse collector is probably one of them, and the "inner ghost" is probably about the same.

But I'm still curious about who the identity of the "inner ghost" is, and is it possible that it is really Ren Sai? Ren Sai in the dream said to me that she is my companion and will always stand firmly by your side no matter what happens...... It's definitely a word of the tongue, but having said it to me, I can't help but care about her.

"It hasn't been found out yet, and the bureau is not enthusiastic about investigating this matter, maybe it can't be found......" She shook her head in disappointment, then took out a gray bracelet from her bag and put it in front of me.

I picked it up, "What is this?" ”

"Positioning the bracelet." "There's also an alarm function," she said. ”

"Call the police?"

Could it be that when I attack someone, this thing will call the police and ask someone to arrest me...... I reflexively substituted myself for the perpetrator's position.

"When you perceive the hidden, the hidden becomes aware of you." She habitually took on the posture of being a good teacher in front of me again, "Since you wandered with the Kraken...... Or, since you've gained extraordinary awareness with the support of the Kraken, you've surely figured it out. Strange events that I had never heard of before always happened to be witnessed by myself, and people with amazing powers appeared in front of me one after another...... That's right, none of that was purely accidental. We are always prone to encounter each other, as well as to encounter hidden events, which is a fate that people with extraordinary awareness must endure. ”

"So this bracelet is there to call for help when I encounter a secret incident?" I said, "I remember...... I think I've seen this kind of thing in other places before, but the style is different. ”

"This is for people who are more perceptive than ordinary people, but who live a normal life. The style is different because of different regions, and I heard that some places still give rings or pendants. "Of course, the people who called the police were not normal police officers, but the local security bureau and the law enforcement warlocks near you." ”

"I see......" I nodded, "can I ask one more question?" ”

"What's the problem?"

"The remains of 'it'...... Where is it now? I finally couldn't resist asking.

She knew who I was asking, "It's already cremated." ”

That is, already a mass of ashes.

I also knew that even if I saw the body, it didn't mean anything, maybe I could die this heart now.

The blue bird urged me to put the gray bracelet on with her eyes, and I put it on without any fuss.

"Hopefully there won't be a day when the alarm function will be useful." I say.

But it's only been two days since this gadget came in handy.

That evening, I met the Blue Bird again at a fast-food restaurant down the street. This time, she brought me some psychological test questions, and I heard that it is also the job of the supervisor, not only to regularly check my life and activity route, but also to regularly check my mental health and report to my superiors.

Having said that, the psychoanalyst of the Security Bureau has already assessed my psychology, so when it is the turn of the blue bird, there are only some simple psychological test questions, and even she, a psychology novice, can be responsible for it. In her words, it's a process, it doesn't matter if you do it or not, it doesn't matter if you don't want to answer the question, she can fool around.

However, I still like to do psychometric tests. Occasionally, there are tests on the Internet such as "120 test questions to determine what kind of personality you are". For some reason, it seems like a lot of people are keen on this kind of thing, and I'm no exception.

It would be nice if writing math papers was just as fun as writing psychological tests when I was in school.

Halfway through, Bluebird's phone rang.

She listened to it for a while, her face became more and more serious, and finally said "Okay, I'll be there", and then said to me: "The perverted murderer mentioned last time, someone found his traces......"

I just said, "Hurry up." ”

"Good! Sorry, but please have a steak tomorrow night! She went away in a hurry.

Do you think that if you ask for a steak, I'll look forward to it? Although I did look forward to it.

I took some more time to finish the rest of the psychometric tests, put the papers in my backpack, grabbed my black long-sleeved jacket, and left the fast food restaurant.

Speaking of which, I had a bad habit that I developed over the course of five years, and that was that I liked to go off the wrong path when I walked. It's like rookie thieves are often suspicious, and my habit of going off the beaten path may also be the result of some kind of thief's weak heart.

When I was halfway through a dark alley, I noticed a little blood stained on the wall next to me.

I touched it with my fingers, and it was still fresh. And, though only an empirical intuition, it seemed to be human blood—and when I made this judgment, I had a hallucination: a red humanoid apparition appeared in front of me, and staggered towards the corner of the dark alley.

Such a phantom...... I'm not a particular stranger either.

In other words, anyone with a high level of awareness is no stranger.

What the magicians call "awareness" is, in a narrow sense, the ability to perceive the spirituality and spirit bodies that are prevalent in nature; Broadly speaking, it refers to the ability to perceive all that is "hidden."

A warlock with a high sense of awareness is able to read information about the past by touching spiritual matter, and this phenomenon of reading information tends to appear in the form of hallucinations or auditory hallucinations.

I'm not a warlock, but I've had a sense that rivals that of a warlock, so I've occasionally encountered this incredible phenomenon.

And now that I have lost it, I am still at an extraordinary level, even though my awareness has greatly declined, and it is not surprising that this phenomenon is triggered by chance.

Now, for example, I have touched fresh blood stains on the walls, so I can visualize the figure of the bloodstained owner who just passed by here. However, this special ability is not very stable, and it is difficult to use it consciously. There must be people in the Security Bureau who know this craft, and if it were a wild man like me, I would have to look at luck like I am now.

Seeing the red phantom staggering around the corner, I followed. As for whether it will be dangerous, I have also been concerned about this. But since someone is hurt, or if it's in danger, then I want to help him.

Even if you want to die, you have to die on the way to save others - I still think about it.

However, just as I was rounding the corner, I noticed that the red phantom suddenly froze.

His whole body swayed like a candle in the wind, and then exploded and decomposed on the spot, and then changed color and reorganized into a black vortex of mist, from which suddenly rushed out a beast, a twisted and broken beast that seemed to be crudely spliced together the limbs of several different types of animals.

In an instant, I understood my situation.

I'm hallucinating, possessed by a demon!

The demon struck at me.

Without hesitation, I activated the "ashes" in my body. At this moment, I felt my consciousness rise sharply, and my perception became extremely sharp. Now if I punch out, I might just punch someone's torso.

But no matter how you compare it to yourself when you were a demon or when you held the siren blade in your dreams, this level of combat power is insignificant.

That being said, it is enough to deal with a crisis of this magnitude at hand.

I expertly slid out of the demon's path and slammed my fist into its head.

However, just as my fist hit the target, an extremely sharp killing force rose behind me, and it stabbed coldly at my heart.

In my senses, it seems that this killing force has been waiting for a long time, and it has only suddenly exploded.

I'm in ambush!