"This is the mist of the Fog Demon?" I asked.

Joan nodded, "I can now transform the spirituality in my body into this mist. ”

"The mist is a part of the body of the Fog Demon, and the Gray Ash, as the successor of the Fog Demon, is now closely integrated with you, so it can also be regarded as a part of your body, exerting the same potency as your flesh and blood...... Is that so? I asked.

"That's how it should be." He didn't study it himself.

"This flesh and blood clone spell, if I'm not mistaken, is a spell from the Demon Realm." I looked at his face, especially the look in his eyes, "Did you feel negatively affected by using this spell?" ”

"I didn't ...... No. "He was a little nervous to me.

I then asked, "So do you have the knowledge of the demons that correspond to this spell?" ”

"No, there isn't. Although I know how to use it, I don't know how this spell works. He shook his head, "It feels like this spell is not so much me using it, but the gray part of my body using it. ”

"The current ash seems to be an automatic calculation device when you manipulate spells, so even if you don't really grasp the specific principles of this spell, it won't affect you from using it?" I understood, "At the same time, since you are not a real user, you just pulled the trigger, or rather, pressed the button, so you are not mentally tainted?" ”

"Hmm...... That's pretty much how it feels. He agreed. From the look in his eyes, I was sure that there was no evil aura that characterizes demonic sorcerers.

I admonished, "But until it's 100% safe, I suggest you try not to use this spell again." ”

"Okay." He nodded obediently.

"And, this doppelganger......" I looked back at the little figure on the edge of the bed, "I noticed that he hadn't moved since then, can't you manipulate him?" ”

Joan also looked at her other self, the little Joan was still sitting on the edge of the bed, her eyes didn't blink once, reminiscent of a delicately made doll. Joan shook her head, then closed her eyes. Then Joan, who was small, moved, first slumping her feet to the ground with stiff hands and feet like an animatronic doll, then struggling to support the edge of the bed with her hands so that she could stand up straight, and then staggered two steps towards me. I almost fell down when I reached the second step, and I wanted to reach out and help me, but the other side quickly stood on my own.

"It's not, completely, it's impossible to manipulate." The little Joan was expressionless, and stumbled and said, "But, I can't do it yet, skilled." ”

"Can't you get rid of this clone?" I asked.

The main body, Joan, opened her eyes and said helplessly, "I can't do it for the time being." It's not that there is no ability to disarm, but if you want to describe it, it's like playing a video game with a controller that you don't know which set of keys corresponds to the function of 'disarming the clone'. If you do it randomly, I don't know what this doppelganger will do......"

The metaphor of playing video games with a controller is quite vivid. In other words, when he manipulated the clone just now, could it be that he was using the front and back of the handle to manipulate the movement of the clone?

But I'm more concerned about another question now, "So does he need to eat?" I only made breakfast for two, would you like to give him half of mine? ”

"Huh? If you don't use it, you don't need to eat, and the doppelganger shouldn't have to eat. He said quickly.

"Really? If the doppelganger is hungry, just say it. I said, "Also, although the Security Bureau has been delaying something before, if nothing else, I can help you remove the succubus by tomorrow at the latest." Have you made up your mind? ”

"Hmm......" he looked a little hesitant. Especially after tasting the sweetness of power, he seems to be more hesitant to remove the succubus.

The ideal solution to this matter is to let Ash Ash come out of Joan's body first, possess it when it is needed, and separate it when it is not needed, just like in some comics where the protagonist only "transforms" when he is fighting. But the reason why an ideal is an ideal is because there are fatal practical problems that make it impossible to land. If Ash Ash hadn't taken this kind of devotional and powerful fusion, it would have caused mental pollution to Joan. This is a problem that cannot be ignored.

Or when power is needed, instead of possession and fusion, let Joan direct Ash to use her own power? But there are problems with this approach. According to Joan, Ash doesn't seem to be able to use her own powers on her own. As the weak side of the succubus, the gray ash seems to be able to only move in a weak posture, even if it contains great power itself, which is already a deep-rooted basic attribute.

JoAnn must have wanted power. But becoming a succubus can cause mental distortion to the people around you. Even if you can turn off the power of seduction, it will only go from an immediate distortion to a subtle distortion.

I tried to put myself in Qiao An's shoes, and then I thought of Wei Chi, who seemed to have become crazy since the girl from the split family was kidnapped by the Zong family.

If I lose something important, I'm bound to become distorted. But isn't it a reversal of the cart before the horse to bring distortion to the things around you in order not to lose the important things? Or does it matter if it's distorted as long as you don't lose it?

Maybe Jo Ann thought the same thing, but he seemed to have more concerns than I didn't know about.

"The main characters in the comics I read are always able to take a step forward after struggling when they are confused, and they don't regret their choice." He sighed, "But when it's my turn, I know how difficult it is to move forward, can I really not regret my choice?" ”

He seemed to want to let me decide for him or not whether he should continue to be a succubus, but I wasn't going to interfere with his decision.

That's all for Joan's side first, and then let's talk about the security bureau's side.

Instead of subsiding down during these four days, the mass lethargy incident intensified, and the number of people who fell asleep even showed an explosive increase. The number of comatose people, who had originally numbered just over 200, had increased to more than 3,000 after four days, and the Security Service was so busy that it was still difficult to overcome the terrorist incident that was suspected to have been led the night before.

Naturally, the Security Bureau could not contain all of the comatose people in large numbers, and according to this trend, it could only rely on the power of external hospitals through some means.

My father still doesn't wake up, and my mother visits me from time to time. I have visited many times, but I have always chosen to visit when my mother is away.

And the reason why the medical examiner delayed the preparation for Joan's removal of the succubus was also because he had to concentrate on dealing with the mass lethargy with his colleagues. He's been so busy lately that his feet don't touch the ground. When I saw him in the security bureau, he didn't seem to have slept for two days and two nights, and the previous "it was just a small tentacle ...... the night before" Yunyun couldn't say it anymore.

"I have to retract the preface, this time it's not a small tentacle, but a big fish from the night before." He said helplessly.

"How tricky is it?" I asked.

"Didn't you say before that as long as you can get the secret knowledge corresponding to the circle in the grocery store, you will have a chance to solve the lethargy incident? Now it seems that this level is not enough. "According to our analysis, even that would be the most important thing to do is to interfere with the collective dreams of the sleepers, such as sending our people to the dreams of unknown detail." Then, as long as the dream itself is destroyed, all the sleepers will probably wake up. ”

"In other words, it was the dreams that trapped the sleepers?" I asked.

"Yes." The medical examiner nodded.

"Don't you already have a plan?" I said, "It's just the last piece of the puzzle." ”

"The problem is, that's the ideal situation." He said, "In fact, even if we get the secret knowledge corresponding to that magic circle, we are only less than 20% sure that we can move on to the next stage of the plan." ”

"In other words, more than 80 percent will fail?" I asked.

"Yes......" he sighed, "but that's the only clue that can break the situation at the moment, and it must be won." ”

I thought silently.

It's a "dream" again. Wei Chi's dream immortal body and the collective dream of the sleepers, these two things seem to be isolated, but in fact they both have the key word "dream". Could there be a connection between the two?

The medical examiner continued: "Let's not mention this for now, the matter on Joan's side can't be delayed again and again, I have done a perfect job of preparing to help him remove the succubus, you can bring him over in the afternoon." ”

"Can you tell me exactly how you plan to separate him from the demons?" I asked.

"The principle is complicated, simply put, I want to drain some of his blood as a material, draw hundreds of runes all over his body, do a separation ritual, and spend three hours slowly separating." "The 'preparations' mentioned earlier are mainly that I have to repeatedly correct the details of the ceremony based on the data from the medical examination." If the ritual is not targeted enough, although the separation can still be successful, Joan will be seriously injured as a demon host, and at worst die. ”

He sighed, "Runes are also quite troublesome to draw. If there is one more irrelevant rune or one less related rune among the hundreds of runes, the process of the separation ritual will automatically freeze. When the time comes, we will have to start all over again. ”

After saying goodbye to the medical examiner, I relayed the previous words to Joan on my phone in the hallway to get him ready.

In the middle of the conversation, I saw Glarice Joe hurrying across the hallway, coming straight for me, as if something was going on. But she didn't interrupt me after she stood still, but stood quietly by and waited for me to finish the call.

After I ended the call, she asked, "What are Joanne going to do?" Change back, or continue to be a succubus? ”

"It's hard to say." I say.

"Anyway, thank you for taking care of my brother these days." She seriously bowed her head and thanked her.

"I'm a little unaccustomed to you being so serious." I also made a joke with her, and remembered that the last time she entered the other space with me and the hunter to chase and kill evil moves, she also said something different from her usual image, "Speaking of which, you usually tell me to go to bed, and those are actually testing me." ”

She seemed to remember what she said at that time, and said with a smile: "It's not just a test for you." ”

"Huh?" I wondered.

"If you refuse righteously, you are worthy of so many years of hard work for the blue bird." When she said this, her words changed and she said in a shocking voice, "But if you agree, I can also taste the powerful and ruthless young man who is still burdened with darkness and urgently needs mother's love to heal in the past, and once sacrificed his life to save me from fire and water, wouldn't it win and win!" ”

I'd better stay away from her.

Also, I'm not a "teenager" by any means.

"Actually, though, I hated you at first." She said suddenly.

"Really?" I reminisced about it, but I didn't remember that at all.

"You really started to know me after you saved me from the old bones, and at that time you didn't even want your own life to protect me in front of me, of course I can't still hate you." She said, "But until then, I have a problem with you." Do you know what the bluebird looked like in the past? It's not Nguyen Van Zhu when he went to school with you, but the blue bird who chased you after you disappeared and became a demon. ”

"I rarely hear her talk about it." I say.

Last time on the way to Tianhe City, I thought about asking about the past of the blue bird from Qiao Licorice, but I was interrupted halfway due to another encounter with the hunter, and this time it was a good opportunity to inquire again.

"What was she like before?" I asked.

At that time, she was very cold and contradictory, and her eyes were full of pressure on others and herself. I couldn't help but feel at her end when she joined the Security Service at that age to fight those vicious criminals. After that, I did everything I could to talk to her, and I learned about you from her. "I can't help but think to myself, how can you get her to do so much for you." She also gave up the youth she could have enjoyed, and had to drift away from her family. I can't imagine how painful it would have been if I hadn't brought you back in the end. ”

She sighed, "I feel very sad that she was still young, but she made a decision that changed her life, and then she might be imprisoned for the rest of her life." ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be silent, and at the same time thought of myself who always wanted to commit suicide in disguise by other people's hands. How does the blue bird feel about me? Qiao Licorice's words seemed to put a heavy weight on the tray of the bluebird in my heart.

(End of chapter)