Perhaps I have inadvertently said something misleading in my past interactions with the Hunter, and his image of me seems to be a little distorted. And he seems to have developed a strange sense of companionship towards me at the moment.

"You must have been brainwashed too." He said this to me repeatedly.

I didn't refute his words this time, and I still didn't accept it in my heart. But if I make him feel that I am a "fellow believer", it can relieve the pressure in his heart somewhat, and I don't mind continuing to maintain his misunderstanding.

We left the Security Service. On the way, the Hunter seemed to finally open up and confide in me about his own journey after leaving White Sun Town. Just as I imagined in the past, he intellectually understood that he was brainwashed, but after all, it was his own hands that did evil, and the memory remained so vividly in his mind. His strong sense of morality could not allow him to forgive himself.

Qiao Licorice whispered in private, "He seems to think that you were like him not long ago, and ran away immediately after the fog cleared in Daysun Town. ”

We had lunch at a nearby restaurant. Incidentally, I asked the hunter about his bad tricks. If it were now, perhaps the Hunter would like to tell me about what he knew about the Evil Move, and his past with the Evil Move.

Hearing this, the hunter hesitated. It took him a long time before he seemed to have made up his mind to reveal his past.

"Evil trick...... For me, the evil trick is an enemy that cannot be forgiven no matter what. His tone seemed to describe hatred, but his expression contained extremely complex feelings beyond hatred, "This incident has been since more than twenty years ago...... I started talking about it when I was in college. I met a certain girl in college who later became my wife. At that time, I didn't know what the hidden world was, and my wife, like me, was just an ordinary person who lacked the gift of awareness. And we've been on the same page ever since. ”

"To this day, I can still say that my wife is the perfect object for me. Not only was his appearance and figure stand out among all the opposite sexes I knew at the time, but his personality was also gentle and considerate, and his mind was also ice and snow smart. Although she occasionally surfaces with her willful self, she is kind-natured and will soon wake up and mend her ways, and I will ask me to correct her when she is not doing well. I stumbled with her at first, but it didn't take long for me to get used to this mode of getting along and then live a glue life. "But just as we look forward hopefully to life after college...... Evil tricks have intervened in our relationship. ”

His face became extremely gloomy, "He didn't know where he got the demonic knowledge, and then he unleashed a spell that could change the common sense and cognition of others, and shamelessly hacked into my wife's mind. ”

“…… Yes? "I expressed my feelings in one word.

"He made my wife mistakenly think that he was the real lover and that I was an outsider and didn't know how much I did during that time...... Fallen things. "And I was mentally affected by him in the same way, and for a while I thought I was really an outsider." ”

It's no wonder that he was so secretive about his past with evil tricks.

"Dominating the mind of another person with the power of magic, causing him to act contrary to his personality...... This is very common in the records of sorcerers committing crimes against ordinary people. Qiao Licorice was not surprised, she cared about other things, "But people with high awareness often have strong resistance to consciousness realm spells such as hypnotic brainwashing and common sense change, unless it is really a particularly strong consciousness force, such as the charm of a succubus not long ago, or the brainwashing of a kraken even more years ago...... Now that you've become a warlock, you should have a good sense of awareness even if you haven't known the hidden world in college, and you haven't been able to break free from the spells of evil moves, right? ”

"No, although I was recruited at that time, I always had a sense of disobedience in my heart. If you have the common sense of the hidden world, you will probably be able to realize the situation you are in in an instant. But due to ignorance, it took me some time to manage to break free from the spell. "I didn't expect my best friend and confidant to do that to us......

"Wait...... Friend? Bosom friend? I said, "So you knew the evil tricks before that?" ”

"Hmm...... Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have started with that incident. The hunter shook his head, "Let's start at the beginning." I met Bad Recruit before my wife and I met, but we first met in college. At that time, college students were much rarer than they are now, but there was no shortage of college students. As the saying goes, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds. With so many people gathered together, there must be a few bad birds with bad morals in it. ”

"One of them?" I asked.

The hunter said unexpectedly, "And me." ”

"What?" I was unexpected.

"I'm a bad guy." The hunter recalled, "At that time, I took the living expenses from my family and gambled in the nearby chess and card room, and then learned the bad tricks there. ”

"Take the living expenses to gamble ......" Qiao Licorice seemed to reacquaint himself with the hunter.

"At that time, I was also very guilty, I just couldn't control my hands. The evil trick was the same as me, he was a college student who couldn't control it at the time, not some kind of demon warlock. We immediately smelled like each other and complained to each other. "Then we decided to supervise each other, and we never went to any chess room again." As a result, they formed a deep friendship and regarded each other as their best confidants. ”

I didn't expect a hunter with such a strong sense of morality to have such a past. I feel so much in my heart.

"I wasn't who I am from the beginning." The hunter seemed to have guessed my thoughts, "After becoming a law enforcement warlock, and after joining the Law faction...... All these experiences have made me the person I am today. More than 20 years ago, I was just a young man who lacked self-discipline, and I was free from the constraints and discipline of the past, and it was easy for me to fall into self-depravity. ”

"Human temperament is formed with experience, and therefore changes with experience." "Youth, youth, middle age...... Personalities at different times may even be judged by two people. ”

I can agree with that. As a result of the encounter with "it" and the five years that followed, my current personality must have become very different from my past personality. The healing dream me inherited my past personality, and by comparing it with my present self, I can see a huge difference. Although the blue bird doesn't seem to agree with me so much.

"As the saying goes, things gather like and people are grouped. In the past, I had the same smell as Bad Tricks, and there must be more similarities. In fact, to me, it seems like another me who came out of the mirror, and it was different from my appearance. The hunter continued, "We even have the same aesthetic for the opposite sex, and we like the same girl, and that's my wife. Actually, the person who first confessed and dated my wife was not me, but a bad trick. ”

"Then how did it become your relationship with her?" Joe Licorice asked.

"Because the wife and the evil trick had a very huge conflict during the relationship, a year and a half later, the two broke up and broke up." "I don't know what happened between them," said the hunter, "and he won't tell me, and my wife hasn't told me anything about it." And over time, we got married and moved to Liucheng and then to Bairi Town...... The evil trick faded out of our memory. ”

"Far from it. After they broke up, I tried to reach out to my wife and confess to her, and eventually became a couple. "She's my ideal lover, and our souls are so compatible." I was hopelessly in love with her, and she returned the same love to me. Therefore, when I woke up from the influence of the spell and realized that the evil trick had done such a thing, my deep friendship with him turned into a bitter hatred. ”

Qiao Licorice asked suspiciously: "However, even you said that your previous self was so similar to the evil trick, it was like looking in a mirror...... Why did she break up with you like glue after that, but broke up with the evil trick before? ”

"Maybe it's because ...... She must have noticed the evil nature of the evil move. The hunter was silent again.

If this is the case, the huntsman's wife is discerning and unlucky. I'm afraid she would never have imagined that more than 20 years later, a succubus would be killed in the air. And this time it was her husband's turn to be dominated.

I didn't ask the hunter if his wife was still alive today. If the Hunter kills him while he is at his domination, then my question is undoubtedly a knife in his sore spot. But I also know that since the hunter and his wife both live in the town of the day, with the situation in the town of the day not long ago, unless the hunter specially protects her, there will be more than luck. And with the situation of the hunter at that time, how much could it be to protect her?

"And after that? After getting rid of the influence of the spell, how did you deal with the evil moves? I asked.

"It's not complicated. Realizing that there are such bizarre forces in this world, I also deduced that there is probably a state department that specializes in dealing with that kind of event. After a lot of hard work, I finally managed to get the attention of the Security Service. "In the face of the law enforcement warlocks, I can only escape from the evil tricks, and I have shown some talent for spell casting in the process of guiding me in the Security Bureau. A few years later, I became a law enforcement warlock, teaming up with other law enforcement warlocks to track down the evil tricks that were on the move. After many conflicts, he fled overseas. And then, today, I finally saw him again, and he was dead, dead under his own inadequacy...... He is not as good as me as a warlock, but he is trying to dominate the demon of the fog, which is really his own death. ”

"You don't seem very happy to see his corpse?" I asked.

"Because I want to kill him with my own hands...... This is one of the reasons. The hunter sighed, "and the other reason was...... It occurred to me that the nature of the evil move might not be so evil, and that he had only been distorted by demonic knowledge. ”

Demonic knowledge has the property of influencing the learner's mind, making it cruel and depraved, and it is a veritable "evil knowledge".

I've also seen a lot of demonic knowledge in the memories of intermediaries and succubi, but I haven't learned it, and that's what I'm worried about.

In addition, those whose minds are dominated by others are seen as tools of others, and even if they sin during this period, the secret law will only hold the ruler accountable. And those whose minds are distorted by demonic knowledge do not apply to this logic.

"Have you forgiven some of the bad tricks?" Joe Licorice asked curiously.

"It's just a little bit of empathy. I've recently experienced what it's like to have my mind turned black, and I know what it's like to be involuntarily. The hunter said in a complicated voice.

If he didn't have demonic knowledge, he might still be a good friend of the hunter, and the hunter would have lived a normal life, and his wife wouldn't have been hurt like that.

While fighting against evil tricks, the hunter may also have the sadness that his own life and that of his friends have been unreasonably destroyed by an external force.

However, after listening to the hunter's statement, I still have some doubts.

Why did the evil trick go to the hunter's wife, is it related to the reason for their breakup? Or is it just a lust center?

The hunter was hurt so deeply by the evil move, and naturally he had a reason to hate the evil move, but what about the evil move? I don't feel the hatred of the hunters. However, what is the purpose of the evil move to order the Fog Demon to move towards White Sun Town at the cost of all its life force before he dies? Because he is so eager to repay himself, twenty years later, he still remembers his failure at the Hunter? Or did he just think that he was going to die anyway, so it was better to drag an enemy to die with him?

And...... The tentacles of the Fog Demon are still active in Tianhe City, is there a relationship with the summoner of the evil move?

I spoke to the hunter again, but to no avail. There is no way, since I have hit a wall here, I have to change directions. I'm going to go and track down the bite first.

It's just that the plan can't keep up with the changes.

I didn't track down the bite first, but first "admired" the law enforcement style of the Tianhe City Security Bureau.

Just as we were leaving the hotel, there was an evil spiritual fluctuation in the distance. The hunter and I were the first to notice it, and we looked at each other again. There was a strong demonic flavor in this wave, and it wasn't long ago that I felt a similar wave in Daytown.

"The tentacles of the Fog Demon!" The hunter hurried in that direction.

I told Joe Licorice to stay here first, and then chased after it. Soon, the hunter and I were on another street.

A monster covered in pitch-black carapace and like a giant insect appeared in the sunlit street, and passers-by fled in panic. We were all fast enough, less than ten seconds had passed between the time the spiritual fluctuations came and the time we arrived, and the demons had not had time to inflict any casualties. But it must be dealt with as soon as possible.

The demon had already taken aim at a passerby who was too stiff to move not far away, and I was about to summon the Siren's Blade.

And at this moment, with a sharp slash, a black figure suddenly fell directly above the demon.

(End of chapter)