Siren Blade

Chapter 21 The Dark Corner
I approached him with the determination to die together.

There is neither fear nor anger.Although it is a bit regrettable, it is also helpless.It is impossible for a person like me not to receive retribution, and if the form of retribution is "death in the struggle with a murderer", it is also the retribution I want.I'll take that as the best ending and embrace it.

If there is any regret, it is that the old bone in front of me is not very "qualified".In terms of evil, it is quite evil, and from the perspective of ordinary people, this person is also a heinous person, but if I can't even compare with myself, I feel that something is wrong.But now I can't fight someone who is stronger than him, and if I procrastinate, my fighting strength will become less in the future.

Before, I used ashes with lingering heat to describe my remaining strength, and I think this description is appropriate.Over time, the residual heat will decrease, and eventually the ashes will become cold.In other words, it doesn't mean that if I save it, the remaining power will always be waiting for me to use it.

So I don't have the conditions to pick and choose, so I will use them all here.

Although I don't know what cruel things I have done to you before, just go to hell with me today.

Old Gu's gaze met mine, and he took another step back, his facial muscles becoming more and more distorted.Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and took a hard step towards me. I thought he was finally going to attack.

But just when I was about to parry, he suddenly turned around and ran away.

He ran away... Unexpectedly, I saw his back running away in a hurry. I was about to catch up, but I couldn't lift up my body and almost fell to the ground.Probably the power of the previous bone vessel took away too much of my physical strength.

Why is he running away?Isn't he looking for revenge on me?

Could it be that you are only afraid now?Or have other ideas?

I felt that it was hard for me to stand, so I had to sit down against the wall first.After I relaxed, I felt the pain from the fracture of my left arm, which I had neglected before, erupted. The pain was so painful that I was sweating a little, and I wanted to lie down on the ground.But the ground is a bit dirty, so forget it.But it still hurts.

If other people who know me saw it, they might be dumbfounded. Is the devil Li Duo so embarrassed just because of a broken arm?Compared with the various injuries that the devil Li Duo has suffered in the past, this kind of injury is just a scratch, right?But there is no way. If those who have broken bones accidentally hit the table with their toes at home, or step on Lego blocks with their bare feet while walking, can they not change their faces?If you should shout about pain, you will still shout about pain, but you have to put on airs in front of outsiders.

Not long after, there was a sound like thunder in the distance.As soon as I heard it, I saw a flash of lightning at the corner of the dark alley, and a blue bird in a black law enforcement uniform appeared in front of me.

As soon as she saw me sitting on the ground, she quickly asked, "Li Duo, are you okay?"

It looked like she was worried about me, which made me happy.But why should she be kind to a murderous madman like me?This is something I have never figured out.

"I'm fine." I quickly straightened my expression and stood up, so as not to damage the brand image of the devil Li Duo.

It's sad to say, but notoriety is also a reputation for men, even people like me who are brooding about their past have a reflexive instinct to protect.To put it bluntly, I just don’t want others to look down on me, especially I don’t want Jade Bird to look down on me.

"That's good... no, isn't your arm broken!"

"It's just a bruise to me."

What am I talking about.

"What are you talking about?" She was dumbfounded, and then asked abnormally fast, "What happened to you? Just now I received a message from the Security Bureau, saying that you used the alarm function of the positioning bracelet."

"Wait...you speak slowly, I can hardly hear you clearly." I reminded.

The speed of her current consciousness and perception should be far beyond the realm of ordinary people. If she doesn't pay attention, the speed of her speech will become very fast.

"Ah...sorry." She quickly controlled herself, "Then...what about my question just now?"

I answered truthfully, "I met the old bone."

"Old Bone..." Her expression changed slightly, "Where did he go?"

I pointed in the direction, "However, he has been running away for more than a minute, and it is too late to chase him now." With the Warlock's mobility and the complex terrain of the city, he didn't know where he went for more than a minute .

But Qingniao still took out her mobile phone, and first notified a few people to search nearby, then looked at me, "Follow me back to the station for treatment first."

"Okay..." I agreed, and looked at her black law enforcement uniform again, "Did you change your clothes before?"

"This? I created this uniform with props." While speaking, she took off the top button of the black dress.

The black clothes suddenly turned into light blue, and immediately disintegrated into countless small blue electric currents that dissipated, revealing her private clothes, only the button remained in her palm.

"Okay, the transformation is lifted." She said.

And "transformation canceled"... Is this person a magical girl from somewhere?When I came up with this idea speechlessly, she was also observing me, "You seem to have suffered more than a broken bone, I feel the breath of the curse... Is it made of old bones? Just in case you do it again Physical examination, and..."

While rambling, she came to help me.

Afterwards, she and I drove to the Security Bureau and told her the details on the way.

"So that's how it is... I was also chasing him before, but he used the clone spell to lure him away. Calculate the time, he escaped from you and I eliminated his clone at about the same time. If he escaped later, he would I will be caught." She analyzed, "He is indeed a guy who is very good at escaping, no wonder he hasn't been caught for so long."

In other words, maybe he ran away not because he was afraid of me, but because he realized that the blue bird was going to chase him?

"If he's going to target me, how about using me as bait?" I suggested.

"You say this again..." She shook her head, "It's useless, according to his previous behavior pattern, he will flee from Liucheng to avoid the limelight."

"what a pity."

"There's nothing to regret. If he stays in Liucheng again, won't you be in danger?" she said.

My regret is here.If there is a chance to break it off as soon as possible, at least I still have the strength to fight.

Moreover, I have also fantasized that if the battle with him is not an end or defeat, but a victory, is there a chance to join the Security Bureau with this qualification?The other party is an extremely vicious criminal who has repeatedly attacked relevant personnel and family members of the Security Bureau. It must be a great achievement to take him down.Furthermore, as long as I join the Security Bureau, I will also have the opportunity to learn secret knowledge and become a real warlock.

The so-called secret knowledge, in a broad sense, refers to all the "hidden knowledge" in this world; in a narrow sense, it refers to the knowledge of describing and manipulating spiritual power.Generally speaking, it only needs to be understood in a narrow sense.Once I have the knowledge of manipulating spiritual power, maybe I can re-raise my strength to the point where I can fight.Although I also understand that the practice of a warlock is very difficult and takes a long time, but it is still a rush.

But if you want to join the Security Bureau, it's probably not that simple.Although law enforcement warlocks have no sense of presence in the secular society, they are still civil servants, and they are extremely special. They must have a very strict political review.If a novelty-seeking serial killer like me becomes a serious "law enforcement" warlock, it would be a shame to the world.Just like in my dream, if I heard that the demon had joined the demon hunter department, I would definitely feel that the head of the demon hunter department had the siren blade in his head.

If you just want to obtain secret knowledge, there may be other ways.For example, if I can capture Old Bone in private, I can then torture him and dig out of his brain how he practiced to become a warlock.But the old bone didn't know where he went, and even if he found it, he might not be able to catch it. He was very good at escaping.

What should I do to fulfill my final obsession?
After the treatment, removal of curses, and comprehensive physical examination at the Security Bureau, I bid farewell to Jade Bird and returned to my temporary residence.

The temporary residence is located in an old apartment on the edge of the city. The living conditions are pretty good, with a separate bathroom and kitchen.

After these two days of hard work, I still haven’t met my parents, and I don’t know how to explain my disappearance for five years.

My relationship with my parents has never been harmonious.Moreover, if I complain, I may be said to be a wolf.They can't be called good parents.

Regarding their experience of getting married at the beginning, I also summarized it from a few words from relatives.When they were young, they seemed to be singles, and they viewed marriage and offspring with an extremely negative view, but in the end they couldn't withstand the pressure of their parents, and they got married and had children just to make do.As for this kind of makeshift marriage and me, they can't talk about love or hate, they are more likely to maintain it with an obligatory attitude without warmth.

They often come home very late, sometimes they really work late, and more often they go to play cards or mahjong, and they are often alone at home when I go to sleep.I vaguely remember that there was a nanny in the past, but since I can take care of myself, I haven't appeared again.At that time, I would occasionally have nightmares. Although my parents never said such things as "If you don't obey me, I will throw you away", I often dreamed that they would move without saying hello, leaving me alone.

But what impressed me even more was that I was alone in the dark bedroom, afraid of ghosts so much that I didn't even dare to sleep.At that time, I was really afraid of the dark and ghosts, because I was criticized for turning on the lights at night before, so I didn’t dare to turn on the lights indiscriminately. After thinking about it, they probably didn’t care about the small electricity bills, but they just followed the social virtues of frugality from the perspective of parents. Just a casual criticism, I'm totally overreacting.After waking up in a cold sweat from a nightmare, I consciously redoubled my efforts to study and do housework, hoping to get the attention and praise of my parents, but this effort was probably in the wrong direction from the beginning.After that, my patience reached the limit, or maybe it was more caused by the rebellious psychology of adolescents. I had a big fight with them, and I still had a self-righteous cold war.In retrospect, it was really immature.Many things that were thought to be big at the time, when they grow up and look back, they are nothing more than small things like sesame seeds.

After that, it was the spring outing in April [-]. I met "it" on the Wuming Mountain and wandered around...

In the middle of the night, I sat on the bed in the temporary residence and recalled bits and pieces of the past.Unknowingly, the figure of "it" once again occupied my mind.

Even if there are only ashes, I want to see "it" again.

So what if I just saw it? "You can recognize it even when it turns into ashes" is nothing more than a metaphor.If the ashes of "it" were put together with other ashes, it would be impossible to distinguish them from each other.that gray...

I lay my body flat on the bed and closed my eyes.After letting go of his thoughts, there are occasional nonsense whispers in his ears.During the sinking time I spent with "it", these illusory ravings would sometimes ring in my ears.I once wishfully believed that this was "it" trying to communicate with me in some mysterious way, and it might also be a revelation of some kind of mysterious power. Later, all these ideas of mine were falsified, and the ravings are still lingering inexplicably. .

Lying on my pillow, I fell asleep and had a dream.

A dream about memories from the past.

What appeared in the dream was a dark and narrow basement, the only source of illumination was the faint light coming in through the crack of the door.Squinting hard enough to catch a ghostly silhouette from somewhere in the dark, that's "it."

It stayed in the corner of the basement without saying a word, still with the bloodless white skin, and the quiet gaze that didn't know what it was thinking.It's like a female ghost crawling out of a deep pool, with the breath of dampness and death all over her body, but in that dampness and death, that exquisite and well-proportioned body is so beautiful that I can smell the subtleties of it. sensationalism.However, it is afraid that it does not even understand what the sensational word "love" means.This sensational meaning does not originate from it, but from my turbid inner world.

That was the first year when I met it. At that time, I wandered around holding its hand, occupying a magpie's nest somewhere in a small town in another place.In that dark and narrow basement, I put a big and heavy iron collar on it, and tied it here with a thick iron chain like an animal.Because I am deeply afraid that I will lose it, afraid that it will leave me alone while I am asleep.Although it has never alienated me, I can't understand what it thinks after all.

But did I imprison it, or did it imprison me?I have long since become unable to leave it.

I hugged it tightly like a child afraid of the dark, and buried my face deep in its arms.It also took advantage of the situation and gently hugged my head, but I couldn't feel tenderness and comfort from this movement, maybe it just found a more comfortable position for itself.

But I still imagined that this was its care for me, and even tried to find some kind of motherhood from it, and slowly closed my eyes.
-
The next day, I saw the blue bird again in the evening.

She has invited me out for dinner every evening recently, not only to find a place to have dinner, but also to do the work of a supervisor.I was also happy to report my current life to her, and also did the psychological test questions she gave.

But she looks a little weird today.When I arrived at a restaurant that was famous for its delicious steaks, she was sitting on a seat in the back looking at a document with a look of dismay.

(End of this chapter)