73 Facing the bite of blood
Although the Mystic Warlock is not the real Wei Chi, since I don't know his true identity, I will continue to call him "Wei Chi".
From my initial contact and conversation with "Wei Chi", it is clear that he followed the tentacles of the Fog Demon to that dead end, only to accidentally bump into me in the process, and judge me to be an enemy who needs to be dealt with there.
Is there any point of conflict between me and him? Judging from the attitude he has shown, it should not be my past enemy, he does not have that kind of hatred. And if I had to say that there was any connection between me and him, it would be the "tentacles of the demon of the mist". Does he have a position contrary to mine on this matter? But even the Tianhe City Security Bureau only found out that it was me who did the follow-up investigation of the Fog Demon after I arrived, and where did he know about it? Did the intelligence leak from the Tianhe Security Bureau?
"Speaking of the tentacles of the Fog Demon, the Tianhe City Security Bureau has compiled and shared the information they have recently investigated. I just scanned it briefly, so you can take a look at it. Qiao Licorice took out the tablet and handed it over, "The rest of the place is similar to what we know, but this part is a little suspicious......"
She had already flipped the page for me, and I took it and looked at it. According to the investigation of the Tianhe City Security Bureau, the tentacles of a large number of fog demons wandering around the city are rapidly decreasing.
But this is not because of the diligence of the law enforcement warlocks, but because there seems to be a warlock who is operating among the people, and is destroying those demons with the momentum of the wind and clouds. This folk warlock is unidentified and inexplicably strong, and he has always been a one-hit killer against demons. The Tianhe City Security Bureau only judged the existence of such a person after investigating many traces of the scene, but never witnessed his true face.
Qiao Licorice was suspicious: "Could the main warlock who fought you before be this person?" β
"Inexplicably strong, and unidentified, targeting the tentacles of the Fog Demon...... It's almost impossible for this kind of person to run out of a second one, and it's almost certain that it's this person. The hunter replied, "But that's all the stranger. Since he wants to destroy the tentacles of the Fog Demon, then his position should be in line with ours. β
"Yu Chi" actually secretly destroys demons in secret, which sounds like a vigilante in a superhero movie. Thinking of this, I even had a strange thought, could it be that he heard that the heinous "Demon Li Duo" had come to Tianhe City, so he rushed to eliminate the harm for the people with enthusiasm? But he also killed a law enforcement warlock...... While the Security Service does have its dark side, there's no need to kill people on sight.
"Also, why did he manifest himself in spirit form?" Qiao Licorice wondered, "Did you use the Out-of-Body Technique?" Or is it ...... He's a ghost? β
The so-called ghost is a spirit that can still exist in the world after the death of the physical body for some special reasons.
However, unlike the Spiritualist, the Ghost, despite its spirit form, cannot be seen as a continuation of the living.
Let's take the example of a dead evil move, suppose he becomes a ghost for some reason after death, even if he still has the memory and temperament of the evil trick of the living, he is already a different person. Many of the elements that make up a personality, such as memory, are stored in the biological brain. Some ghosts, even if they have memories of their lifetime, are only due to the fact that the spirits have the property of mimicking physical containers. Just as writing on the first page of a notebook leaves traces on the second and third pages, the ghost's memory is ultimately a trace of this indirectness.
No matter how much it looks like the living, the ghost is just an echo of the living.
This is true even for the warlocks who have become ghosts. Moreover, the ghost that the warlock has turned into cannot continue to grow stronger even if he practices as he did in life. To use the example of evil tricks, if he becomes a ghost after death, but still harbors hatred for the Hunter, and wants to grow to a stronger level than the Hunter to take revenge, then he will not be able to do so anyway. If death is seen as a kind of end, the ghost is something that is insulated from growth. He didn't have the strength of a hunter before he was alive, and he didn't have it after death.
"No, that's not a ghost." I recalled the feeling I felt during the previous battle, and made a judgment, "It's not like I haven't dealt with ghosts before, but that's not the feeling of ghosts. β
That is to say...... It wasn't a spirit created by someone's death, it was someone who was still alive......" the hunter thought, "Is it really a warlock who used out-of-body magic?" But why doesn't he act in the flesh? β
Instead of increasing one's strength, out-of-body experiences become more vulnerable, and exposing vulnerable spirits is dangerous behavior that would not be done without a special need. Furthermore, if I am my opponent, the damage of the spirit body by the Siren's blade will also affect the main body. If "Wei Chi" was really an out-of-body warlock, his body would definitely have been hit hard at this time.
The more they communicated, the more confused they became, and the more suspicious points they became, they could only slowly explore in the process of advancing the follow-up investigation of the Fog Demon.
I asked the hunter if he had any plans to get involved, and he didn't hesitate to say he wanted to get involved. The memory of the Fog Demon's invasion of Daysun Town must still be deeply imprinted in his mind, and it was reasonable that he could not sit idly by and watch the Fog Demon's subsequent influence in Tianhe City.
Of course, I haven't forgotten that the purpose of my trip is to bite blood. It is impossible for Lie Que to know, and I did not intend to "investigate the whereabouts of Bite Blood" from the beginning, because I had already learned from the memory of the succubus that Bite Blood was in Tianhe City's temporary residence.
But Biting Blood is an alert person who is troubled by even the lack of strings, and it is hard to believe that she is unprepared in her own dwelling. If I raid her quarters directly, I will either return in vain or fall into a trap.
It is best to ambush her in the vicinity of her home.
In the evening, I said goodbye to Joe Licorice and the Hunter. I didn't hide anything about what I was going to do, and I just told them that I was going to track down and bite blood. The hunter seemed to be on the move, but to put it mildly, if I did have a conflict with Bite Blood, even a warlock of his level would be able to easily drag his feet, let alone Qiao Licorice. What's more, multi-person action is also easy to stimulate the danger awareness of biting blood, so I can only act alone. After parting, I went straight to the place where the bite was located.
The Bloodbiting Temporary's temporary dwelling is in the city where the Fog Demons once wrewked havoc.
It was said to be raging, but because the Tianhe City Security Bureau was still dispatched quickly at that time, there were not many traces of damage in this urban area, and the death toll was controlled to less than 100 people. It's ironic to say that I've seen the Fog Demon wreak havoc in Daytown, and the death toll of less than 100 people is already a "meagre" in my mind. In a secular society, such a large number of deaths would have been reported in the national news media.
However, this is a hidden event, not only the whole country, but even the residents of this urban area are not very aware of it. I bought a meat bun at a roadside stall for dinner, and tentatively asked the stall owner about the fog some time ago. The stall owner said after recalling: "Fog? Yes...... Speaking of which, it was indeed foggy a few days ago. The fog is so thick......"
"I've heard that hundreds of people died in the fog." I say.
"Hundreds? How is that possible? He smiled disapprovingly, "Maybe he was hit by a car and died, after all, the fog was so thick." But hundreds of people must be talking nonsense, if this kind of thing happens, even if I haven't seen it, I can't have heard of it? β
With that, he put the conversation with me behind and entertained the other guests. I had no choice but to take the meat bun and leave. It's a lot of deaths happening around them, but they don't know about it, as if those deaths happened in another world. To be a warlock is to be a resident of another worldβand there may be a reason why those warlocks are so unempathetic to the average person.
I finished my meat bun with mixed thoughts, and then came to a remote apartment. This is the temporary shelter for the bite of blood.
According to the succubus's memories, Bite Blood seems to hate sunlight and always carries a red umbrella with him when he goes out, just like a vampire. In fact, in the knowledge of warlocks, vampires are indeed one of the demons, and perhaps the demon blood mixed in the body of the blood-biting body is on the vampire side. But unlike the legendary vampires who turn to ashes as long as they are exposed to sunlight, sunlight is not harmful to bite blood, or it may be that it must be exposed to strong radiation for a long time to accumulate a little damage, but in this regard, humans are almost the same. All in all, she rarely goes out during the day, and I probably didn't see her until night.
Before the sun went down, I stepped on it a little near my apartment and ambushed behind a street tree in the far side of my apartment. After it was completely dark, a figure slowly walked out of the apartment.
Wrinkled skin, pale hair, bright red eyes, black complicated clothes, red Western-style umbrellas.
And the familiar taste of being human-like, as if being in an ecological niche far from humans, just mimicking the appearance of a civilized person, the temperament of a monster.
That figure is biting blood!
It was the first time I had seen a blood-biting face in reality, and I had seen a lot of information about her in the SS archives.
Bite Blood is a warlock criminal who was notorious before his debut, and he is also the main opponent of the young Lieque.
If the story of Lieque's youth is written into a long story, then biting blood is also one of the villains in the main story. For a long time, the young Lieqi was often in the disadvantageous situation of being suppressed by her. As the strength of the column grew, the situation gradually changed from more defeats to fewer victories to more victories and fewer defeats, and even later formed an overwhelming advantage. Biting Blood relied on her sense of danger to evade Lieq's pursuit in embarrassment, and later just heard that Lieq had come to her city, whether it was for herself or not, she would run away, and she didn't even dare to see the other party.
It sounds humiliating, but the notoriety of biting blood among warlock criminals has not been tarnished. Because the opponent is lacking, there is no way to escape.
Moreover, it is precisely with this kind of caution and vigilance that the bite of blood has been able to make waves to this day. For more than 80 years, thousands of lives have fallen into her hands, and the number of indirect killings she has spread because of her demonic knowledge has reached a level I could not imagine. The mere case of a succubus is enough to make a heartbreak, and the number of victims who die at the hands of middlemen and old bones is also horrifying. Compared with her, the so-called "Demon Li Duo", who is as famous as her, also seems to be a petty traitor.
If I were to be asked where I would spend what little of my life was going to be, it would undoubtedly be spent fighting the source of such calamity. Presumably the old bones must laugh at me, what kind of face does a guy like you have to say such sanctimonious lines? But I'm just going to say it. Not only to say, but to do. To the last moment of his life with a momentum that even he was jaw-dropping.
I was about to strike, and all of a sudden, I had a wonderful intuition that I was going to fail.
Because I've been found by biting blood.
Even though I didn't even look at me, I just felt that way. And this time, I decided to trust my feelings. Now that you've been discovered, let's go out in a dignified manner.
I stepped straight out from behind the street tree and intercepted the biting blood.
"Oh?" She glanced at me, obviously recognizing my identity, but smiled unexpectedly, "Demon, didn't you kill me directly this time?" β
It was the first time she had spoken to me, and she had acted like she had done more than once. I asked rhetorically, "This time?" β
Could it be that I saw Bite Blood and fought with her when I was a demon? But I have no impression of this. My memories of myself during the Majin period have always been a little vague, but that's because my mind was basically "it" at that time, and I didn't pay attention to the things around me. If I had to describe it, it was like walking on the road with the thought of a person who was always thinking about going home to play games, and didn't care about the scenery around him. However, if I couldn't remember the others, how could I not remember if I had fought an opponent of her level.
I can clearly perceive that Bite Blood is definitely a powerful main-level warlock. When it comes to the degree of threat, it is even stronger than the previous "Wei Chi".
"Let me ask you, what are you looking for me?" She asked.
"I have something to ask you, you once asked the old bone to go to Liucheng and steal 'it' from the security bureau there...... The remains of a Kraken. I said, "What are your intentions for that body?" β
"You say...... I want the remains of a Kraken? She smiled visibly confused, "Did you misunderstand something?" What's the use of me asking for the remains of that monster. β
She was definitely pretending to be deaf and dumb. And from her attitude, I can't see the meaning of bargaining. It doesn't matter, since you can't pry the truth out of her mouth, ask her spirit fragments. I wasn't going to go home with an answer, but I was going to have a fight with her here anyway.
The siren's blade appeared in my hand, and in an instant, the axe blade slashed at her head with a mountain of rocks.
(End of chapter)