The cold evening breeze was blowing, and the birds were chirping from time to time.

Russell walked briskly in the direction of the back door of the academy that he had agreed with the professor.

It was approaching midnight and there were few pedestrians on the road.

As he walked, Russell had a strange illusion -

The path along the same college trail today seems longer than it used to be.

Soon, Russell came to the downstairs of the astrological platform next to the back door of the college.

This is the agreed meeting place with Professor Opal.

"Russell, you're finally here."

Professor Opal, who was wearing a brown casual shirt and jeans, smiled when he saw Russell.

"Hello Professor." Russell greeted the professor warmly.

"I've handed over Dr. Birdbeak to the International Occult Detective. Let me start with a brief description of the information I got before the criminals were handed over...... "Opal stepped forward.

"I deliberately set up a series of different dream scenes, let Dr. Birdbeak experience these scenes separately in the dream, combined with the information obtained from hypnosis and mind reading, and finally learned the technique and principle of constructing this occult disease. I've written down all this occult knowledge, and it's sure to help you develop your medicine. ”

As he spoke, Professor Opal pulled out a small palm-sized notebook from his jacket pocket and handed it to Russell.

Russell briefly looked through the small notebook and found that it contained a lot of arcane formulas and arcane symbols, as well as a lot of text analysis.

Combining his knowledge of the occult of necromancy and life, he judged at a glance that this was indeed the knowledge related to the construction of this occult plague, and it was of great value.

"During this time, I will try to study this knowledge thoroughly and see if I can combine my mutant talent to find a new direction of treatment." Russell closed the notebook, put it in his pocket, and asked, "Did you give this document to the school hospital?" ”

Russell almost forgot that he was just a weak and weak ordinary second-year student, and this kind of thing should be the job of the school hospital!

It's just that in the face of this occult illness, the miracle doctor Russell's performance is better than that of the school hospital, and both the students and teachers have high expectations for him.

"Of course, there are several copies of this document." Opal nodded, "I also gave it to Professor Black Amber, as well as a few students from the Necro and Life Department and the Transfiguration and Transformation Department of the High Academy, so that they could also help with the research." ”

With that, Professor Opal turned the subject back to Dr. Birdbeak:

"I have also found out the motive of the Bird's Beak Doctor's crime. For this reason, I also specially retrieved his file when he was a student at the college more than ten years ago.

"The family he was born into was an influential witchcraft family in Western Europe many years ago, with a fixed seat in the World Occult Council......"

The wind chimes that emerged from Russell's back interrupted:

"The World Occult Council? What kind of organization is this? ”

Russell shrugged:

"It's the 'relevant departments' of the otherworld, like the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter."

Many of the occult families and secret societies of the supernatural world have their seats in council. According to Subway, there are people in the Sai family who are responsible for representing the family and serving as members of parliament, but basically do nothing.

"Did this group appear in the previous episode?" Wind Chimes struggled to think back for a moment and found that she couldn't remember anything.

"I mentioned it, I don't have a sense of existence." Russell answered patiently.

Opal continues:

"Sadly, the power of witchcraft seems to be losing from generation to generation, and fewer and fewer children are able to spiritually awaken and become transcendent beings in each generation. By the time of Dr. Birdbeak's parents' generation, there was no one in the family who was extraordinary.

"Doctor Birdbeak himself was an accident, he actually succeeded in spiritual awakening without any supernatural talents from his parents, and became the only transcendent person in his family.

"This kind of thing is not uncommon in the supernatural world, not all the talents of the transcendent can be passed on to their descendants, and there are also some children whose ancestors have never had transcendent beings who have unexpectedly awakened spiritually, which is like throwing dice, no one can say. This will always result in a new family replacing the old one and becoming a member of the supernatural world.

"Long before Dr. Birdbeak became a transcendent, his declining family had been expelled from the World Occult Council and had to leave the Transcendental World.

He was saddened by the family's decline. He has a great talent of his own, but it is not enough to restore the entire family to its former glory. This is the case with this mindset that the boy, Yuhir, entered the school, and when he entered the academy, he had a new name - 'Doctor Bird's Beak'.

These experiences left a shadow on Dr. Birdbeak's mind, and he gradually became hostile to the entire otherworld. This also became the opportunity for him to later enter the road of crime.

"A similar idea came to him more than a decade ago, when he was still a student at the academy.

"Doctor Birdbeak joked that what would happen if all the transcendents, including himself, lost their powers overnight and turned back into normal people?"

Russell patiently listened to Opal's long list before frowning slightly and making a brief comment:

"That's it?"

It doesn't seem to be a bitter hatred!

It can't be because of the study of necromancy and life that he gradually blackened and corrupted and embarked on the road of revenge against society, right?

Is this major really so evil?

"Moreover, with just a third-year powerhouse with a double major like Doctor Bird's Beak, plus a pool of weeping springs, can he really create a strange plague that the school can't do anything about?" Russell threw out another doubt.

Opal nodded thoughtfully as well:

This is also the question I wondered after reading his memory. It seems to me that he still lacks the motivation to create a plague of occultism.

"And I also deliberately called up the written materials of that year, and I am very sure that even if Dr. Birdbeak really had some dark thoughts back then, he changed his mind before leaving school, and did not intend to put those horrible thoughts into practice.

"I spent a lot of time digging through his memory fragments, and finally found the problem."

"What's the problem?" Russell hurriedly asked.

"His memory may have been tampered with!" Professor Opal said.

Memories have been tampered with!

This conjecture made the wind chimes exclaim.

Russell, on the other hand, thought of many philosophical questions, such as "Is all one's memories still oneself after all one's memories become another"?

"There are some unnatural traces in the memory and knowledge of Dr. Birdbeak. It's as if someone has deleted some of his memories, adjusted the order of his thinking, amplified some of the obsessions that had been left behind, and added some cutting-edge knowledge of the occult that he shouldn't have known but seemed to have thought of for some reason. Professor Opal explained.

"Frontiers of the occult?" Wind Chimes felt that he could understand every paragraph of this term, but when it was put together, he couldn't understand it.

Russell explained lightly:

"The occult needs to keep up with the times.

"There are frontiers in chemistry, in physics, and of course in the occult.

"Almost all college teachers, students in colleges and universities, and some second-year students in elementary schools who are good at academic research publish their research in occult journals. Recent research hotspots in the academic community are extrasensory perception, Reiki therapy, the subconscious mind and dreams, numerology and digital, aliens and UFOs.

"Didn't you see it when I downloaded journals like Spiritual Mentors and Sects, Dark Arts and Witchcraft, and Ghostology?"

Wind Chimes were shocked:

"What? Turns out those are journals? I thought it was a third-rate magazine! I probably didn't have any of that when I was alive. ”

Patiently waiting for Russell to finish arguing with his contract ghost, Opal was finally able to change the topic back:

"It was by using the many cutting-edge research results of the occult community that Dr. Birdbeak succeeded in creating the occult plague.

"And from now on, part of this knowledge must have been artificially instilled by the behind-the-scenes manipulator who modified the memory, and even the behind-the-scenes manipulator may have provided covert help in the process of creating the disease, but Dr. Birdbeak himself was unaware of it."

Sure enough, there is a behind-the-scenes manipulator! Russell bowed his head slightly, sensing that the problem was getting worse.

"Professor, did you inform the International Occult Interpol about the possible alteration of Dr. Birdbeak's memory and personality when you transferred the captives?" Russell asked.

Professor Opal nodded, "Of course." As for how to judge, I don't know. ”

Russell felt that the topic of "people whose memories have been modified commit crimes" was divergent, and he couldn't finish talking about it for three days and three nights, so he asked:

"Who could be behind this? Is there a clue in Dr. Birdbeak's memory? ”

Opal's face, which was always smiling, is now as solemn as ice:

"Yes, I already know the identity of the person behind it."

"Who is it?" Russell asked busily.

"In addition to Mr. Principal in the history of the academy, another fifth-year student, the Thorn Bird!"

(End of chapter)