Siren Blade

Chapter 137
The girl who was frightened by us and sat on the ground was Xiao Jing who once survived with Qiao An in the ruins of chaos.

This is the woods on the outskirts of Mirage, and she is a student of Liucheng, why does she appear in such a place?Joe Licorice and I looked at each other.

Xiaojing finally came back to his senses after being stunned for a few seconds, looked at Qiao Gancao and asked tremblingly: "Joe, Qiao An's sister?"

"It's me. Are you okay?" Qiao Gancao stretched out her hand and helped Xiaojing up.

I observed the latter carefully. I met someone who should not be here in such an abnormal place, so I had to be extremely vigilant.Sometimes, after the devil drags the victim into a different space, it will first pretend to be the acquaintance of the other party, so that the other party can relax their guard before hunting.Although Xiaojing is not very familiar with me and Qiao Gancao, but we are in this kind of ghost place, so there is nothing wrong with being careful.

However, from her body, I can't see any signs of danger for the time being. Both eyes and intuition tell me that she is a true human being. There is nothing special about her whole body except that she is afraid that she will not be able to stand still. .If I had to say it, the clothes on her body were dirty, and there were a few small wounds on her exposed skin, probably because she was cut by the branches and leaves of the trees while rolling and crawling on the road.Perhaps before she met us, she had encountered the demon first, and then narrowly escaped after some twists and turns.

Her eyes moved from Joe Licorice to me, but she didn't seem to recognize me.And maybe because my scrutiny was too explicit, she hugged her body as if she was catching cold, and asked in fear: "You, are you..."

"Law Enforcement Warlock, Ren Sai." I just reported my family name, and remembered that the middleman had used my real name in front of her before, and added, "You can also call me Li Duo."

She froze for a moment, as if recalling something, and gradually showed a stunned expression, "I, I remembered, I saw you before, in that place with many monsters... So, it turned out that it wasn't a dream... ..."

"Of course not." I said, "And when you went to the Security Bureau for a physical examination after that, didn't you also see me?"

"Uh, I remembered, I've seen it before. It's strange, why didn't I just remember it just now..." She touched her forehead in doubt.

"Don't you remember now? Let's not mention this." I said, "It's not very safe here, talk about it while moving."

"Go this way." Qiao Gancao glanced at her compass, then said to Xiaojing, "Follow us closely."

"Okay." Xiao Jing hurriedly approached us, "Do you know how to get out of here?"

"I don't know for the time being. But as long as we follow closely, we won't be in danger again." Qiao Gancao pointed at me with a smile, "This brother Li Duo will protect us."

We moved on.At this point, I have been able to conclude that there is indeed no problem with this small scene.But I was still very curious about the reason why she appeared here, so I tried to find out a few words.It's just that now she has recalled what happened in the ruins of Random Numbers, and she has shown a suspicious attitude towards me, and it is not easy to talk to me.I told her and Joan before that I used to be a person full of evil, which probably made her unable to trust me.Even if I leave this point aside, my impression of her has always been a suspicious and timid girl who looked at me suspiciously from the very beginning.

However, obviously she had experienced such a thrilling and terrifying thing before, but she just forgot about it as easily as if she forgot what breakfast she had last week.If I lived according to the so-called "normal life track", I would probably be similar to her.But now I can't even imagine what kind of mentality she used to look at the secret event and myself who had experienced the secret event.

Qiao Gancao took over the task of inquiring, but Xiaojing's attitude was still very "cautious", and the conversation was not smooth.I think, probably the same as I saw her before, she is probably wondering "why did I meet acquaintances in such a ghostly place", and even suspects that we are demons in disguise.

But no matter how worried she was, she could only follow us every step of the way, looking around in fear from time to time, like a frightened cat.

Calmly, I put my hand into my pocket, touched the "Quick Talk" talisman Joan gave me, and injected some spiritual power into it.

"Why are you here?" I asked, "Are you here alone?"

The "Quick Talk" talisman has the power to break through the psychological defenses of others and make people willing to speak the truth.But at this moment, the vigilance she showed melted away like a snowball encountering boiling water, and she answered me honestly, "I came with my mother, but I got separated from her."

Qiao Gancao glanced at me thoughtfully, and then asked Xiao Jing, "Can you tell me more about it?"

Xiao Jing closed his mouth.It seems that the "Quick Talk" talisman can only be used for the conversation between me and the other party, and it cannot allow the third party to enjoy the benefits of the talisman.I just had to rephrase the Joe Licorice problem.Hearing this, Xiao Jing told me the ins and outs of her appearance here, as if she didn't realize that there was something wrong with her different attitudes.

According to Xiaojing, just last night, her mother suddenly made a decision to take her to Mirage, and even contacted her school to ask her for leave.Although she had asked her mother why, but her mother kept it secret and talked about him from left to right.And just this morning, her mother drove her off.

But unexpectedly, when driving to the forest road, the mother and daughter fell into the fog of unknown origin.The surrounding fog is getting thicker and thicker, even to the point where driving is seriously affected.What's more terrible is that this originally not very long forest road has no end at all, even if the fuel is exhausted, it is still impossible to leave it.

After encountering this kind of thing, they were completely at a loss, and they couldn't even muster the courage to get out of the car and explore.Although there were attempts to communicate with the outside world, the signal could not be conveyed no matter what.Moreover, such a long time has passed. It is reasonable to say that the sky should have been dark, but the time seems to have stayed in the daytime, and the light has not weakened at all.As far as the naked eye can see is a vast gray mist.

After a while, they still had to get out of the car.Because a huge monster covered in black metal armor suddenly rushed out of the thick fog and attacked their car.

A monster, of course, refers to a demon.In this situation, if they did not escape, they would just sit and wait to die, so they had no choice but to get out of the car and flee, rushing into the woods in a panic.However, due to the hasty escape, the distance between the mother and daughter was slightly opened, and the daughter could no longer see where her mother was.

Just like in Bairi Town, the dense fog here also seems to have the effect of causing people to lose consciousness, and Xiaojing is completely alone, wandering in the dense fog-submerged forest.

Even though she was walking in such an open place, she could only see a very narrow space due to the thick fog. This experience awakened the primitive fear deep in her genes and pushed her spirit to the limit.

She didn't dare to shout loudly or walk quickly, for fear of disturbing the monsters that might be wandering in the depths of the dense fog.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, she finally saw someone other than herself, that is, us.

Xiao Jing finished talking about her experience as if she had let go of all her psychological burdens.While listening to her narration, I sighed in my heart how powerful the "Quick Talk" talisman is.She, who was so suspicious of me just now, actually knows everything and can't stop talking to me at this moment.

At the same time, I caught the doubt in her words.

If what she said was true, then she should have been lost in the thick fog.In the mist of the Fog Demon, "lostness" is a special phenomenon, which generally occurs to people who do not have advanced awareness, and it is difficult for the lost and the non-lost to meet in the mist.However, we met Xiaojing normally.

This time the fog seems to be different from the past.I vaguely had such a feeling.

In addition, the probability of ordinary people encountering hidden events due to bad luck is very low. The probability of death is still very low, and this is the second time Xiaojing has encountered a secret incident.

Although it cannot be said that it is definitely not due to her bad luck, but what she said before inevitably makes me concerned, so it is prudent to ask again.

"You said your mother suddenly decided to go to Mirage, but didn't tell you the reason?" Joe Licorice asked concerned, "So do you have any guesses about it?"

"Guess..." After talking about the encounter, Xiao Jing seemed to stop coddling, and answered Qiao Gancao's question, "Maybe it's because of that person... It's because of my father. What is there in Mirage?" The only thing mother cares about is him."

"Your father is in a mirage? Is he there on a business trip?" I asked.

"No, my mother divorced him a few years ago, and then took me from Mirage to Liucheng, while he continued to stay in Mirage." She said.

"Divorce? What's the reason?" Joe Licorice asked.

"I was just a child back then, and I didn't know a lot. I heard from my mother that my grandparents were all working in the front line of law enforcement, so that person inherited his father's career and joined the government. But his conduct was not good. , and was kicked out of the unit by the superiors, wasting the efforts of grandparents." Xiaojing talked about this incident, revealing a strong contempt in his tone, "I was still in elementary school at that time, and that person drank heavily every day, it's okay I just scolded and scolded with my mother. It seems that there was a fierce fight? I don’t remember clearly. Later, I don’t know where I met some cronies. It seems that I was still gambling outside to make money, and I got involved with people in the black area. My mother couldn't stand him, so she divorced him."

"Later, he found Liu Cheng from the mirage, stalking and saying that he wanted to get back together with his mother." She said dismissively, "How could it be possible to get back together with that kind of guy!"

It really sounds like a hopeless person, but when I heard her say "law enforcement work", just in case, I took out my work ID from my pocket, "law enforcement work? Could it be that your father and you What do grandparents' documents look like?"

"Ah? No, no, it has nothing to do with you guys. My mother took me to his place of work to see it before. My grandparents are also serious law enforcement officers. They have even appeared on TV news. There are awards at home. And the pennant." Speaking of this, she couldn't help but add, "It's completely different from that person, he is simply a waste of society."

She didn't even want to call the other party her father, she only said "that person", and she seemed to want to distance herself from her father.Speaking of the latter, her face became a little strange, as if she regretted why she told us.

"In short, maybe something happened to that person recently. My mother has suddenly become very strange these days. She is talking all day long, and suddenly decided to go to the mirage, and now she has become like this again..." Looking at the fog around her, her face became uneasy again, "I don't know where she is now, is she safe and sound..."

After a moment of silence, she asked again: "Well, I've wanted to ask since just now, where are we going?"

"We are still groping, and now we are looking for clues to get out of this fog." Joe Licorice said.

Xiaojing couldn't help asking: "Is there no one from the outside world to rescue?"

"No. You can regard this fog we are in as the same place as the different space that involved you and Joan last time. And, no matter how long it has passed here, it is only a moment to the outside world. "While speaking, I thought, if the mist is a blood-biting arrangement, then she must want to use this characteristic to do something.Seeing that she has not attacked for so long, her target is probably not us.

In other words, we are mostly just affected.

Then, I added: "If you really want someone to come to rescue, you might as well treat us as rescuers. Based on the responsibility of the Security Bureau, we will not leave you alone."

Originally, her expression was very disappointed, but after hearing the second half of my words, she recovered a little spirit.It was Qiao Licao and I who rescued her from the ruins of chaos last time, and my words should be of some use to her.

Suddenly, I noticed a slight change in the fog.At first I thought I didn't look carefully, but as I moved forward, I found that the fog was slowly fading at an undetectable speed.

I looked at Qiao Licorice, "Are we moving in the direction of leaving the fog?"

"No, according to the compass, the clue to leave the fog should be in the hinterland of the fog..." She also noticed that the fog was fading as she moved forward, "We are not moving away, but going deeper."

After going forward for a while, we finally got out of the woods and came to a road.The fog in the field of vision became thinner and thinner, until it became even possible to see clearly the scene hundreds of meters away.

And continuing along the road, we finally entered the mirage.

Or rather, a mirage that has been destroyed.

(End of this chapter)