The first time I saw the Hunter's face was before I left for Daylight. In order to find out in advance who the warlocks stationed there are, I specially checked the information. Attached to the information is a photo of the hunter, who is a man with a straight face, and his body seems to be entangled with righteousness. To put it mildly, although I have never been on a real battlefield, if I work with such a person on the battlefield, even if it is the first time we meet, I may not help but entrust my back to him.

The second time was in the fog incident in White Sun Town, he was still the same face, but his temperament changed from awe-inspiring righteousness to crazy evil. For the sake of the succubus, he even did not hesitate to destroy the entire town that he was supposed to protect. And after he was relieved of his charm, he became a stubborn man immersed in frustration and inferiority, so fragile that even the gaze of others could easily pierce his flesh and make him bleed, and a few words were enough to shatter his weak body. In the end, in order to escape those terrifying eyes and words, he said goodbye.

And the third time, this time, he was literally a walking corpse. It had been less than ten days, and his face had become pale and weak, with shocking dark circles under his eyes, and his hair was greasy on his scalp, and his back was humbled as if his bones had been broken. Originally, he was a middle-aged man close to fifty years old, but now he looked like an old man who was going to the coffin shop to prepare his own funeral.

If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't have mistaken the person I had fought with, how would I dare to believe that this person was a hunter.

"Hunter." I tried to call him.

He shuddered sensitively, and then scanned his surroundings in panic. Soon, he locked onto my face and stared at me wide.

Qiao Licorice also looked over curiously, "He's the hunter?" What a coincidence. "It seems that she and the Hunter are meeting for the first time.

To say that coincidence is indeed coincidence, but this kind of coincidence is not surprising in the world of warlocks. It's normal for different warlocks operating in the same city to meet each other. What's really strange is, why did the Hunter appear in Tianhe City?

After a moment's hesitation, the hunter squeezed through the crowd of carriages, first greeted him, and then said, "Congratulations on becoming an official law enforcement warlock." I heard that you have joined the camp of the law. ”

The Law camp is the Security Service faction where Liewan and the Hunter belong. As the name suggests, this faction is populated by Security Bureau warlocks who focus on hidden laws. The secret law is a special law used by the Security Service in law enforcement and justice.

Yes, the Security Service, as an official organization, is actually a very problematic organization with both law enforcement and judicial powers.

The raison d'être of this special law lies in the fact that it can be used to deal with certain problems in which the laws of secular societies are not very compatible. For example, if someone is killed by a monster who has completely dominated his mind with a force beyond the scope of modern scientific explanation, then he is guilty or innocent. There are no such cases in secular societies, and although it is not impossible to apply existing laws, hidden laws are more specific to this.

Hunters have been manipulated by succubi in the past and forced to kill many people, but in the end they were not convicted, which is also the result of the judgment of the secret law. But even if the law would forgive him, he wouldn't forgive himself.

"Aren't you going to stay in Daysun now?" I asked.

"After that incident, Lieq stripped me of my position as a Warlock stationed in White Sun Town, and also gave me the task of dealing with the aftermath of the Fog incident in White Sun Town." He said bitterly, "But where did I dare to stay in Daylight Town, I tried my best to turn down that mission and leave there......"

"But Ling is a warlock who belongs to the Liucheng Security Bureau, how did you come to Tianhe City?" I say.

"I don't dare to meet people who used to know me." "So I took a leave of absence and went back to the city where I was born and raised." ”

"So you're from Tianhe City?" I said unexpectedly, "Then why did you come to work for the Liucheng Security Bureau?" ”

"The working environment of the Tianhe City Security Bureau is not very good." He seemed to fall into a memory, "I used to work in the Tianhe City Security Bureau, but in 02, Qi Yu wooed me and said that Liucheng was the place where the law camp was in charge, so I applied for a transfer. ”

I'm unfamiliar with the name.

In addition, Qiao Licorice also criticized the Tianhe City Security Bureau with a similar speech yesterday, how bad is the working environment there?

"Who is Qi Zhen? Listen to you, he used to be a member of the Liucheng Security Bureau? Qiao Licorice asked, it seemed that she didn't know who Qi Zhen was.

"The son of Lekque." The hunter replied.

It turned out that Lieqi also had a son...... Speaking of which, Lieqi is almost sixty years old, let alone a son, even if he has a grandson, it is not surprising.

Twenty years ago, that is, twenty years ago...... At that time, Lieqi should have been thirty-nine years old, even if Lieque got married early, that Qiyu should still be a young man back then.

Qiao Licorice asked strangely, "Son?" I've heard that there is no object in the column......"

"He was married, but his wife and son died tragically in '05." Said the hunter.

In other words, Qi Yu is no longer alive.

"What are your plans for the future?" I asked.

"I'm ......," the hunter was silent for a long time, "I'm just going to walk around and see where I grew up." Afterwards...... After that, let's talk about that later. ”

His answer was like a mirror that allowed me to see my past self.

Didn't my past self also have such thoughts, wandering aimlessly in Liucheng, and finally planning to die in an unknown corner somewhere?

Could it be that the hunters have the same intentions?

I hope I can comfort him, and persuade this law enforcement warlock who is really just being seduced to turn back. But how should I speak to him? I cannot comprehend his suffering, for unlike him, my past sins were never committed by seduction; Besides, to comfort him with my relationship with him, it is inevitable that there will be problems with simple words.

After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly thought of a certain piece of information that I had seen before I left for Tianhe City, and that the hunter should be very concerned about.

That information clearly pointed out that in Tianhe City today, there are still some tentacles of fog demons active.

This is actually quite an anomaly. The Fog Demon is dead, and so are the demons that are its tentacles. Because of this, after I destroyed the Fog Demons in Daylighttown, all the demons that haunted the fog disappeared.

The situation in Tianhe is quite the opposite. Those tentacles appeared when the Fog Demon was raging in Tianhe City, and it is strange to say that it is clear that the Fog Demon had already left Tianhe City, but those tentacles did not leave with the Fog Demon, but stayed in Tianhe City. And it didn't die out because it was cut off from the fog, but it seemed to be an independent demon cluster.

In my quest "Follow-up Investigation of the Fog of Daytown" mission, I also included investigating this mystery.

In a sense, those demons were like the remnants of the Fog Demons that still remained in the world.

Didn't the hunter have any thoughts about it?

I asked him, but he had a surprised expression, "The tentacles of the Fog Demon...... Is there still one alive? ”

"You don't know?" I asked rhetorically.

He said ashamedly: "I've been very depressed lately, and I haven't been exposed to so much information from the outside world......"

"I see." I said, "We're going to report to the Security Bureau here." You're on this train too, which means you're going to go over too? ”

"Yes." Said the hunter.

"You don't have any mission on your side right now, since you just want to look around, what are you going to do with the Security Bureau?" I asked.

"I want to see someone." "A corpse, to be exact," he said complexly. ”

"Corpses?" I wonder.

"You should know that the Fog Demon was summoned by some demonic warlocks in Tianhe City." He said, "Those demonic warlocks are almost all learners of cyber demon knowledge, but the warlock who is the core host of the ritual is different, he has been a demonic warlock for more than twenty years. ”

"Do you mean 'bad tricks'?" Joe Licorice asked.

The hunter nodded, "I have a grudge against the evil tricks. Even if he died, I would have to see his body with my own eyes to be at ease. ”

I've seen the name Evil Trick in the archives, he is the culprit who summoned the Demon of the Mist, who fled overseas twenty years ago and smuggled back home in the last two years.

I recall the saying of biting blood.

Before he died, he gave the Misty Demon an order to go to White Sun, could this act have something to do with the grudge mentioned by the hunter?

It was that order that prompted the succubus to launch a fusion ritual in White Sun Town...... But the evil trick is dead, and neither are the succubi and the demon of the fog, and going through old accounts now will only only increase the guilt of the hunter. Not to mention that it wasn't the information I should have known in the first place.

But the hunter seems to have something to worry about. He suddenly looked me up and down with a strange expression. Then, hesitantly, he asked, "Then again...... You seem to have some strange aura on your body? It's like a curse......"

Is he talking about the curse of the bluebird? I was surprised. It's not surprising for Joan to see it, because Joan's awareness is so powerful. But the hunter's awareness has receded, and he can still sense the curse on me. Could it be that this curse made by the blue bird is actually very crude?

It's not impossible, because Blue Bird is not good at cursing in the first place, and she forced herself to make a clever trap that made me unconsciously curse her, and it was inevitable that this kind of mistake would occur.

But couldn't she see it herself? Wrong...... As a spellcaster, she can naturally see the existence of the curse, but she can't take the perspective of someone who doesn't have such conditions as herself.

Dropping the chain from time to time is also her characteristic. But it's not good to go on like this.

Joan had no knowledge of curses, and even if she could detect a sign, she would not recognize it as a curse. And if you are a warlock with excellent awareness and corresponding knowledge, you may be able to see the specific content of this curse. Although this is not something that cannot be seen, and there is no room for people to take advantage of it, but just in case, I still have to talk to the blue bird and find a way to deal with it.

"Don't worry, I know what to expect." I only responded to the hunter with this sentence.

"Okay." He nodded, and then asked hesitantly, "Li Duo, aren't you afraid of ...... when you come to Tianhe City?"

He didn't continue to ask, maybe he was also thinking about asking a simple question. Until the train arrived at the station, he didn't ask for an exit.

But I knew what he wanted to ask.

He should have wanted to ask: Li Duo, when you come to Tianhe City, aren't you afraid of encountering saber teeth?

I'm afraid.

To be honest, I wasn't mentally ready to face sabertooth again.

I conjure up images of his hateful face, his desperate attempt to save survivors' devastated bodies in the fog, and images of him giving up his revenge at the last moment and leaving in despair.

In the past, when Old Bones stood in front of me with weapons in hand and roared out words of hatred to me, I thought that those who wish to take revenge on themselves, even if their hearts are full of hatred, should not give up the idea of walking on the right path. The reason why the avengers who are so tirelessly criticized in fictional stories end up losing everything is because they abandoned everything for revenge. It is a matter of course that you lose everything because you throw away everything.

Revenge itself is just, and what is wrong is a sick mind. So don't be a sick avenger, but a healthy avenger.

However, will the avenger with that healthy mindset also be the avenger who is easy to let me go? When I expect a healthy Avenger, could it be that I am unconsciously thinking about selfishness?

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After leaving the station, we quickly arrived at the Tianhe City Security Bureau.

The layout of the building here is similar to that of the Liucheng Security Bureau, and the lobby on the first floor is sparsely populated with housekeepers in white uniforms and law enforcement warlocks in black uniforms. Just from the appearance, it is not obvious that Qiao Licorice and the hunter said that "the working environment is not good". But I know that when they say bad, they don't mean the physical environment, but the style.

To put it simply, the Liucheng Security Bureau is in charge of the law camp, so the style will highlight the due diligence of the law camp; The Tianhe Security Bureau, on the other hand, is relatively loose.

It may not even be indescribable in terms of casualness. Blue Bird once told me about some problems with the style of the foreign security bureau, and I was shocked by all of them, and I couldn't imagine that it was actually what the security bureau should be. In my mind, the Security Bureau is a righteous organization full of order and the spirit of law, otherwise how could a demon like me be strictly judged according to the law? However, the full picture of the security bureau described by the blue bird is very different from what I imagined.

More on that later. After entering the Tianhe City Security Bureau, the hunter said goodbye to us for the time being, and went to check on the body of the evil move. And Joe Licorice and I found the person in charge of hosting us.

The Tianhe City Security Bureau was responsible for the Liucheng Security Bureau, and they failed to deal with the Fog Demon, which led to the disaster in White Sun Town. Therefore, the person who came to do the follow-up investigation did not dare to slack off, and the internal warlock in charge of receiving us had been waiting in the lobby for a long time. However, the other party should not know that the person who came was me, but he just knew that the Liucheng Security Bureau would come.

None of the people walking around the lobby recognized my face. Although I am quite famous in the hidden world, most of the only people who can recognize me when we meet are my enemies. Most people are unaware of most things that have nothing to do with their lives.

When it came to specific conversations, I handed them all over to Qiao Licorice, and she walked to the front, took out the report from her satchel and handed it to the housekeeper.

The housekeeper flipped through the documents and turned to the page where my information was written, he was stunned, then looked at me, and shouted in shock: "Devil Li ......"

"It's the law enforcement warlock Rensai!" Qiao Licorice interrupted the other party angrily.

(End of chapter)