Siren Blade

Chapter 168 Prologue
Although I have read Zhu An's information, I only wrote a simple background and resume on the information sheet.What kind of character she is, what kind of spells she is good at, those aspects are not involved.This is in line with the secretive style of the warlock group, but it is not very appropriate from the perspective of future cooperation.The next thing I should do is to communicate with her first, but because of her special status to me, I don't know how to speak to her.

Lie Que said that she arrived in Puqing City before me, but in fact she arrived about an hour earlier. During this period, she seemed to have walked around the train station, and she took me to the western restaurant in the station.I followed behind her without saying a word, and sat down on the seat opposite her.She always looked as usual, revealing a demure temperament. Although she was slender, she had a generous and natural demeanor.

She put her hands on the table, fingers crossed.The cuffs of the black gauze slipped slightly, and on the exposed white wrist was an antique bracelet.In my feeling, this seems to be some kind of magic item, but I can't tell the purpose.

It wasn't just me who was hesitating about what to say, but she also seemed to be deliberating, and no one spoke after 5 minutes.I couldn't help but get distracted and went to think about other things.For example, the awareness that arises when you just get off the train.

If nothing else, Bite Blood must be in Puqing City.

It's as if I had the feeling of "biting blood and leaving" in Tianhe City and Mirage, and now I can already feel whether biting blood is in the city I am in.However, this feeling is general. I only know that the other party is there, but I don't know the specific location of the other party, and I can't even judge in which direction.

But I'm not fazed by it.It is impossible for her to appear in Puqing City for no reason. She must have a conspiracy here, and this conspiracy is likely to be closely related to the missionaries who are also in this place.Even if I don't know where she is, if I keep chasing the missionary, there's a good chance I'll run into her.

At this moment, Zhu An spoke.I thought she would start by talking about our animosity, but she started talking about work.

"The mission this time is to catch the missionaries in Puqing City, but as stated in the mission document, the missionaries are probably not here, but some demon warlocks from the previous night are making trouble." She said, "Pu Qingshi’s security bureau doesn’t have main-level warlocks, and the results of the battle against the eve forces are not very good, and the enemy escaped several times. Our next action should be to help the local security bureau eliminate the eve forces.”

Even if she didn't mention personal matters, I didn't feel relaxed. I just felt that the other boot in my heart hadn't landed, but I had no choice but to cooperate with her first, "Aren't the headquarters planning to arrange reinforcements here?"

"We, or you, are the 'reinforcements'." She said, "I'm not good at fighting, I just know some tracking and scouting spells, and I know a little bit about escaping. So you don't have to worry about me when there is a battle .Even if Puqing City really has main-level warlocks and there is a conflict with us, I have a way to quickly withdraw from the battle scene, and you just have to fight with all your strength."

"I understand. But there is one thing I have to declare first. According to my private channels, the missionary is probably really in Puqing City. And, although this is just my feeling, Bite Blood—the super-main-level demon warlock It must be here too." I said, "It's too late to quit now."

"What?" She paused, seemingly unconsciously touching the bracelet on her left wrist, and then seemed to believe my words, "...No, I won't quit."

"You should know who I belong to you, so why did you take this task?" I simply made up my mind and opened the skylight with a desperate attitude to speak out, "Are you here to kill me?"

"Two years ago, my husband was killed by you." Hearing this, she stopped being devious, and her eyes became more gloomy, as if the eye sockets were not filled with eyeballs, but metal products like eyeballs, "chopped by you Hundreds and thousands of pieces were fed to the man-eating monster. When we found him again, all that was left was rotting flesh and bits of bone."

Her gaze seemed to grab the flesh on my face, "He was 23 years old when he died, his left arm was a prosthetic, and his usual weapon was a long red knife. Do you remember him?"

"I don't remember." I answered honestly.I can hardly remember anyone I killed during my five years as a majin.The lover of the old bones, the father of Saber Tooth, and Zhu An's husband, even if they said it to my face, I couldn't recall it at all.

I know that saying this will only irritate them more, but I will not lie to them or cover up.

"I heard that none of that was your fault, that monsters dominated you, and you were just an innocent victim, is that true?" she asked gloomily.

"It's fake." I said without hesitation, "Those were all my voluntary actions, and I killed them with my own hands."

She touched her bracelet again as if unconsciously, and she was silent for a while, then said: "I heard that you are a decent person now, running around to meet the villains, and even risking your life to fight the evil to the end. You have saved ten times more lives than the ones you killed in the past, and the number of people who will be saved from disasters in the future is more than a thousand times more due to your hands... so it turns out that all these are your acting skills?"

"Although I don't know how I came up with the idea of ​​thousands of times, those are all my sincerity, not acting." I said, "However, I don't think that as long as I do this, the people I have killed before It doesn’t even count.”

"Then I want you to die now," she said bitterly. "I want you to pay for my husband's life."

"I can't do it," I said.

"Why, are you afraid of death?" she asked.

"I'm not afraid of death, but there are people I can't let go of." Speaking of this, the figure of the siren also appeared in my heart, "And, if I die on my own initiative, someone will die because of me."

"Really..." Her voice sounded like a terrifying voice from hell.

I know very well that she cannot accept such a statement.Who lives in this world without someone or something he can't let go of?Her husband, who was killed by my own hands, must have struggled desperately before he died, thinking about people or things he couldn't let go of, and finally swallowed his last breath in deep despair.

I can always feel the resentment in her heart, she wants to eat me alive, even at this moment, it seems that she will rush to eat me at any time, tear and bite my face and throat, let me taste her husband Pain tasted.

However, the next moment, what she said just made me dumbfounded.I even frantically retrieved my memory reflexively, wondering if I had heard such absurd and grotesque words for the second time in my life.

"Then, I forgive you," she said.

"What did you say?" I must have misheard, or my brain must have malfunctioned, processing the auditory information incorrectly.

"I forgive you." She said, "You have proved yourself with many achievements, and you must make more contributions to the cause of justice in the future. My husband is a person with justice in his heart, and he will not I hate you, and as his wife, I naturally cannot stand against you. You asked me before if I came here to kill you. Not only will I not kill you, but in this mission, I will also Stand by your side and do my best to help you."

She is absolutely lying.Even now, I could feel her feelings of growing resentment.

Why is she telling me that?I have already said that those crimes were done voluntarily by me. Did she, like everyone else, believe that I was brainwashed?
Or, it was because I said that I would not voluntarily surrender my life, and she knew that she could not kill me head-on, so she wanted to pretend to be forbearing, choose the moment when I was not prepared, or use poison or curse to kill me from behind. Kill me somewhere?
This is a very reasonable speculation, rather, he doesn't think otherwise.And just as I was thinking this way, she took out a prop that looked like a wooden token from her bosom.

"Take this." She pushed the wooden token in front of me.

While I don't feel the danger of immediacy from above, it would be unwise to accept something from an enemy.

On this basis, I still accepted it without hesitation.

"Don't you ask me what this is first?" she asked coldly.

"If you want to kill me, I deserve what I deserve. I will not stand still, but I will meet your poison and blade from the front, and I will never run or hide." I said.

She was silent for a while, and then said: "Then I'll tell you, this thing won't kill you directly, but it will make it very convenient for me to kill you. Besides, I won't say more. You Just take my poison and blade with you, and pass the rest of the night with anxiety."
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After the private conversation ended, Zhu An quickly returned to her work demeanor, and left the restaurant with me.

We will then go to the Puqing City Security Bureau to make a simple report and take the subway route.After entering the train, she found a seat and sat down, and I sat on the seat opposite, paying attention to her figure from the corner of my eye.I haven't broken away from the previous conversation for the time being, thinking about the emotional fluctuations when she spoke earlier, although she must not have really forgiven me, but after going deeper, I gradually felt that she really didn't seem to be in secret. I plan to use the killer.

In other words, although she hated me so much, she seemed to have really forgiven me, both in terms of words and possible actions.

I even had a magical thought: Could it be that she is really determined to forgive me?

People's decision-making and emotions are not always consistent, just like diabetics want to eat sweets, but in order to control blood sugar, they can only reluctantly give up. Even if this decision is made, the emotion of wanting to eat sweets will not disappear.Forgiving my decision and resenting me can totally go hand in hand.

After realizing this possibility, complex emotions emerged in my heart that even I was caught off guard, and I couldn't help but want to ask - how can you forgive me?

I once tried to imagine the scene where my enemy forgave me.Yes, this is a very shameless imagination.Whenever this kind of thing occurs in my thinking, even if no one can read my thoughts, I will reflexively despise myself and suppress my imagination.

And even if I really imagined it, I would definitely not be able to imagine a specific picture.Because that is really too ridiculous, too unjustifiable.What kind of thinking is it that will forgive a blood-debt person like me?

But today, I really met such a person.I didn't feel relieved at all; instead, I felt like my brain had been poured into a bucketful of glue.

I can't accept it.

No, wait, it's too early to draw conclusions.

She may not really forgive me, maybe, I can wait patiently to see what she will do in the future.

For example, the wooden token she gave me, she said it was "a very convenient tool to kill me".Now she doesn't seem to have any intention of harming me, I can feel that, but what about after that?
She hates me so much, and has the means to harm me so conveniently, she can't help but kill me.

She must not be able to forgive me.

The train was running at high speed in the tunnel, passing one station after another, passengers poured into the carriage one after another, and the space became crowded.In three stops we should get off.

Suddenly, a strange feeling hit me.I stood up immediately, and summoned the Siren Blade, and Zhu An also raised her head quickly, and she seemed to have noticed something was wrong.In my sense, the air in the carriage—no, the tunnel space itself in which the train travels—brought me a tense sense of danger.

All the lights in the carriage were suddenly turned off, and it was plunged into a pitch-black darkness.Passengers were puzzled and disturbed, not knowing what happened, but my vision and awareness barely captured the change that happened at this moment.At this moment, this carriage suddenly lost contact with the front and rear carriages.Now only this car is sliding forward on the track following the inertia.

On the track in front of the car, I saw a figure with a weapon.

Black dress, white hair, red eyes.

A beautiful face that seems human but not human, a young girl's figure, and a two-handed giant ax as if forged in blood.

It's biting blood!

She's coming after me!
Cannot roll in other passengers.The thought flashed through my mind, and without hesitation I jumped up, crashed through the ceiling of the car, and went outside.Before I had time to reach the peak, I felt a strong sense of threat that was almost declaring that I would die—Bite Blood rushed to me at a speed faster than the sound, and swung the giant ax at me.

(End of this chapter)