It was in the evening that day that the change took place.

Recently, because Lieqiao always stays in the capital to work, no one has assigned me tasks in Liucheng. And the blue bird in the Liucheng Security Bureau is to continue to learn how to deal with management affairs as the future successor of Lieqing, she is actually my superior leader now, but she can't find a suitable task for me, and she won't send me to patrol work at will like Liecano. After coming and going, I was free.

Bluebird is still occasionally in a hurry when dealing with management matters, and although she has a team around to help, the most important place is for her to make decisions. Her genius is reflected in the warlock, not the leadership, and it is inevitable that difficulties will arise.

I also wanted to help the Blue Bird, but if I approached her while she was doing paperwork, she would be lazy and want me to chat or play with her. However, I inquired with a few people I knew in the bureau, and I heard that in places I couldn't see, she was still very serious about doing things. As a novice to management, her score is also above average, at least much better than the column gap of a long time ago, who is rumored to have made a mess around when she first got into management.

It's the middle of March, and it's Bluebird's birthday soon, and I want to give her a birthday present. I struggled with what to choose. If you ask me directly, you will definitely be seen through immediately, and you will lose your sense of mystery. So I wanted to ask her friends.

It just so happened that Qiao Licorice was also free in the afternoon, so I invited her to go out for afternoon tea and ask her what she thought. Actually, she wasn't really free, but this afternoon Joan's parents had to accompany Joan to the Security Bureau for a re-examination to see if he could continue to control Ash. Qiao Licorice had a very poor relationship with her parents and didn't want to meet her, and she knew about Qiao An's situation, so she didn't follow her, but slipped out of the security bureau for a walk, and waited until her parents left before returning to the bureau to deal with the rest of the work.

We went outside to the fine tea restaurant and talked in the private room. It didn't take long for me to make my troubles clear to her. After listening to this, Qiao Licorice couldn't help but let out a meaningful laugh.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked.

"It's okay, it's okay, I just think it'...... Ah, nothing, nothing. She smiled and waved her hand, then changed to a serious expression, and couldn't help but laugh again, and it took a while before she became serious again, "Well, birthday present, birthday present...... Do you have any ideas for yourself? ”

"I'm going to give an accessory, but I don't know which type she prefers." I say.

"She's a law enforcement warlock fighting on the front line, so if you give away an accessory, you might break it in battle." She noted.

This is also the reason why the current bluebird does not wear the white carnation hair ornament that he never left in middle school. I nodded, "I've thought about this too." ”

"Would you like to send an amulet?" Joe Licorice made a suggestion, "Amulets infused with spiritual power can be used both as decoration and for self-defense. ”

I thought for a moment, "Then I'll ask Lie Que if there is a way to get a high-grade amulet." ”

"I mean you do it yourself." She corrected.

"But I haven't learned how to make amulets, and it's too late to learn now." I say.

"Don't worry, if it's the most superficial amulet, it won't take much time to study, it's just to inject your spiritual power into the carved material. Gifts are the most important thing, and the amulet you make for the first time is very significant, no matter how unpresentable. She smiled and said, "With your current strength, even a casually made amulet should have a lot of power." In addition, things like amulets will have a more powerful effect on the premise of entrusting the maker's will to protect. Bluebird used to give an amulet to his father on his birthday. ”

Her father ...... "I remembered the face of the middle-aged man I had seen on Chinese New Year's Eve Night, who asked me to take care of the blue bird more in the future.

"Making amulets is a skill that has little to do with combat, and the reason why Blue Bird learned to make amulets is because she recognizes the darkness that people in secular society can't recognize, and then wants to give her only remaining relatives some security." Qiao Licorice sighed, "From this point of view, the amulet you gave her will also have additional meaning." ”

"I see." It dawned on me that something else was in my mind at the same time.

Compared to the blue bird, I am undoubtedly lacking care for my parents now, as if my parents were like me...... No, I'm not lacking in care, that's too tactful. All the while, I was just running away from it in embarrassment. Since becoming a law enforcement warlock, I have faced countless hardships and dangers, but I have never been able to muster the courage to face the two people I should face first.

Whether it's fighting to the death or running out of life, I don't have much time left. So at least in the end, should I muster up the courage to meet my parents?

Suddenly, I noticed that Joe Licorice was looking intently at my face. It's a little scary to be honest. When she saw that I came back to her senses, she asked, "Do you think of your parents?" ”

"Didn't you say before that you weren't good at analyzing other people's psychology on the spot?" I asked.

"But I'm the psychoanalyst in charge of you." She smiled, "Let me guess, do you think you should meet them?" ”

"I've been missing for so many years, and now I've come back but I haven't reported my safety to them, don't you think I've failed to do my part? At the very least, I should apologize to them. I said.

"You really didn't do your part." She nodded first, and then changed her words, "But they were also very bad before, and I think that if you want to apologize after meeting, they will apologize first, and apologize fiercely!" ”

I almost forgot that this person came out to have afternoon tea with me because he didn't have a good relationship with his parents.

I had to change the subject and talk about something else. At first, I just wanted to talk about something else and end the conversation early, but she seemed to want me to talk to her and share with me all the troubles and interesting things about life and work, so I had to stay with her for the time being. After chatting for a while, she expressed her curiosity about the information related to the white horse.

Bai Ju is Lieque's former partner, and he broke into the Liucheng Security Bureau to snatch and break his hand, and he is still my next biggest enemy. In her evaluation, my recent experience is simply a "story of another dimension" that happened in her hands, and on top of that, Hakukoma may be the closest villain to her.

"Bai Ju actually promoted the New World Project in order to make his ex-wife understand him......" Qiao Licorice was also stunned after hearing this.

"Why would he care so much about his ex-wife that he would do this?" I said, "Ordinary people are not aware of the hidden things, and countless people in the past have tried to shake this theorem one after another, but they have all failed without exception." Now that he has the wisdom of a superscientist and the power of a Grand Karcist, most of his wishes can be fulfilled with his own hands, and it is easy to build a new family again. And his ex-wife is a character who lives in another world and is destined to have nothing to do with him. With his conditions, he should be able to find someone who can replace his ex-wife, and even find someone who is better than his ex-wife and can fully understand his opposite sex. ”

"That's not right." She said.

"What's wrong?" I asked in a consquiring tone.

She seemed to recall, "Let's say you were a kid and your parents gave you a doll on your birthday......"

"Doll?" I asked.

"Or rather, a robot model." "You named it, imagined yourself and its future fantasy adventures, and felt like good friends with it," she said. Then your relatives bring their own children to your home, and your parents say they want to give it to their other child, and they will buy you a new robot model for the same price, or even more expensive, another day, and you will not hesitate to discard the old one? ”

“…… It's human nature to like the new and hate the old. I said.

"Anyway, I can't. If my parents had done something like this, I would have remembered it when I grew up. Speaking of this, she was suspicious, "But Bai Ju's thinking is too abnormal, generally speaking, who would do it to all mankind in order to save his ex-wife's feelings...... Could this abnormal psychology and desire not reflect his own will, but the will of the Siren? ”

She seemed to be lost in strange thought.

That's when something happened.

I felt a very large spiritual wave erupt from afar. This direction was probably the center of Liucheng, and after the eruption, the huge spiritual fluctuations spread in all directions at an incredibly fast speed. By the time I reacted, the spiritual fluctuations had already passed through the café we were in and continued towards the edge of the city.

And as the spiritual fluctuations passed, the space in front of my eyes also changed strangely. Visually, the scene of the entire tea restaurant looks like a human head has been smashed and everything is ghosted, all the colors and contours are separated and distorted, and at the same time, there is a low and high-frequency chirping in the ears. But it's really not a visual and auditory malfunction, it's really an incomprehensible error in the space itself.

At the same time, I also quickly grasped the details of the spiritual fluctuations just now—it was not an ordinary spiritual fluctuation, but a fluctuation of the power of pollution.

While the space was rippling, I felt the forces of pollution trying to pull me into other dimensions. It was as if the space had become an unstable swamp, and the force of pollution was the rope that tied me to my limbs and dragged me deeper into the swamp. Not only did I have this anomaly, but I also noticed a change in the licorice. She clutched her ears and fell to the table in pain, her figure fading and blurring as if it were about to disappear from my eyes.

I immediately grabbed her wrist so that she would not be dragged into the "depths of the swamp".

Fortunately, the scale of the polluting force is unusually large, but the density is quite low. Even if I didn't do anything, the drag force wouldn't seem to be enough to drag her into other dimensions, let alone myself. And the distortion of the scene comes and goes quickly. By the time she reached the table, the anomaly was over, and the ghosting in my eyes had subsided. The whole process takes no more than a second.

"What's going on, did someone attack us?" She muttered.

"No, the wave just now wasn't aimed at us, it was against the entire city." I looked around.

Only then did she notice the changes around her, and her face changed slightly.

Our surroundings didn't look terrible, it was still a normal indoor box, but the drinks and food that had been placed in front of us were gone, and the tables and chairs were placed in different places, as if the place where we were was was replaced by an empty box.

At the same time, I felt that the smell of humanity outside had disappeared, and the smell of danger was in the air.

Although I thought that Qiao Licorice and I had resisted the power of pollution just now, now it seems that we are still caught up in some kind of alien dimension. Not only that, but this kind of alien space feels very familiar to me. This is a feeling similar to the chaotic ruins, and it also has the temperament of the same phase space as the fog I experienced last time.

I even caught the spiritual fluctuations of a lot of demons nearby.

Joe Licorice quickly transitioned into the form of a security bureau warlock, reminiscent of my past experiences working with her in the mist of the mirage.

"What's next?" She asked.

"Let's go outside first." I thought about the situation as I stood up and walked to the exit, "Follow me." ”

"Okay." She left her seat and followed closely behind me.

I pushed the door open and made my way to the lobby. Originally, there should have been some customers here, but at the moment, let alone guests, even the clerk couldn't see one. Moreover, the tables and chairs are still crooked, the lights are flickering on and off, and the whole scene looks like it has been destroyed by several groups of thugs.

Even more bizarre is the outside. Although we haven't gone outside yet, Qiao Licorice and I can see clearly, it's night outside, and the street lights are already on and illuminated. However, it should be evening at most.

I walked slowly to the door, Joe Licorice following close behind. And as soon as we walked out, an extremely heavy and muddy wind sounded overhead. When I looked up, I saw a worm as huge as a heavy truck, opening its mouthparts like a whirlpool with dense teeth like a whirlpool, and swallowing it at us as it fell.

(End of chapter)