Siren Blade

Chapter 42
Joan recently felt suspicious eyes?As soon as I heard this sentence, the first thing I thought of was the mysterious gaze I noticed after I eliminated the demon in school.

Could it be that what he felt, and what I perceived, were the eyes of the same person?
"Joan has extraordinary awareness. Since he said someone was watching him, he must have been watched." Qiao Licao said to me, "And he also said that whenever he is caught by that gaze Looking at it, he felt creepy, as if something bad was going to happen."

"Where did he notice that gaze?" I asked, "Is it in the school?"

"No, it's at home." She said, "to be precise, after returning to the community, there was a time when he sat by the window and did his homework. The desk he used for homework was placed by the bedroom window. If someone was standing downstairs, he would be able to see him."

"Did he see who was looking at him?"

"No. And..." She had a serious look on her face, "After I found out about this, I searched around his house many times, but I still didn't find anyone peeping at him nearby."

Then, she added, "Of course, voyeurs may also have sneaked into Joan's living space and used the dark psychology under the lamp to avoid being discovered by me. So I also specially set up in Joann's house and bedroom. I have installed a lot of surveillance cameras, but I still can't find out where the voyeur is."

I was almost speechless after listening, "The suspicious look your brother noticed was actually referring to you?"

She denied it emphatically: "How is it possible? My eyes are clearly credible!"

I feel like my impression of Joe Licorice is getting worse.

But since even she couldn't find the voyeur, it meant that the voyeur was definitely not an ordinary person.Although she has no fighting power, she is still a warlock. If the voyeur does not have the hidden power based on spirituality, it will be extremely difficult to avoid the warlock's search.

Assuming the gaze looking at me has the same source as the gaze looking at Joan, what do Joan and I have in common?Have you also experienced the ghost talk incident?After experiencing the strange story, I feel suspicious eyes from the dark corner from time to time... This seems to have a strange flavor, but the demon of the strange story has been solved by me. Is there any other inside story?

"Why didn't you tell me last night?" I asked.

"It was 08:30 yesterday, and Qiao An said that the eyes would recede before eight o'clock every time, so I think today is better if I ask you to arrest people." Qiao Licorice said, "Then...conditions If allowed, it's better not to alarm Joan about this matter."

"In order not to make him aware of the hidden world?"

"Yes. Although I am very upset that my parents treat us differently, I also hope that Joan can live a peaceful life instead of being involved in dangerous incidents at every turn." Speaking of this, she He sighed again, "However, it has become more and more difficult recently. Look, hasn't someone spread knowledge about demons on the Internet recently? Those knowledge, ordinary people will never take it to heart when they see it, but people with high awareness see it. He will instinctively realize that it is real and effective. He still has some friends in school, who exchange strange stories, black magic, alchemy and so on... Those ordinary lovers will only come into contact with some specious knowledge, but if It's Joan..."

When I was in junior high school, I also liked ghost stories, as well as black magic and alchemy, or Feng Shui and Taoist talismans, which are not incomprehensible.

But the more I listened, the more I wondered whether Qiao An might be the inside story of the ghost talk incident.A young man who is born with high awareness, is interested in strange stories and black magic, and yearns for an unsophisticated life, coupled with the knowledge of demons spread on the Internet and the strange stories and demons that happened in the campus...the clues are too many But when I thought of Joan's harmless gaze at me, it was hard for me to convince myself to accept that suspicion.

"If that's your intention, then I have to remind you first." I said, "Joan has already been exposed to secret events."

"What!" Joe Licorice was taken aback.

I told her how Joan came into contact with the strange talk incident.

"How come..." She was very disappointed, "Why didn't he tell me..."

Assuming that Joan was only involved, then he must be out of fear.

After encountering such a horrible thing, I can't confide my heart to anyone. Even if I tell others, they will just turn a deaf ear and turn a blind eye as if they were hypnotized.He must have spoken to many people, but to no avail.Even though he is among the noisy crowd, it seems that he is the only one living in a different world.

The so-called stepping into the hidden world refers to such a thing.

Sometimes the most distant is not the physical distance, but the spiritual distance.

He must be afraid, even his relatives showed him the expression of indifference.

"Let's settle the matter at hand first." I said to Qiao Licorice, "Joan will be home from school soon. Since the voyeurs are active near his house, we will squat there first."

"Well, okay..." She forced herself to restrain her emotions and stood up.

Then we left the restaurant, and she took me all the way to the building where Joan's house was located.

It was already past five o'clock, and Joan was about to go home.However, they waited until the sun went down, but they still didn't wait for him.

"Does he always come home this late?" I asked.

"It seems that he will play with his friends for a while before going home after school." Qiao Gancao said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I forgot this and kept you waiting. Can you wait a little longer? "

"It's okay." I don't mind waiting a little longer.

But after a few more ten minutes, it was already dark, and Joan still couldn't wait for the figure.

Seeing this, Qiao Gancao inevitably became worried, and called Qiao An, but couldn't get through over and over again.On the contrary, I received a call here, and it was from Jade Bird.

I went to a far corner to listen to her talk, she said she was off work, and asked me if I wanted to have dinner together.

"No, I'm with Joe Licorice now," I said.

"Xiaocao? What are you doing with her?" She was alert at first, and then she reacted, "Oh, she seemed to ask you for help yesterday, is that it... Forget it, since you won't come, then I will use the mobile phone to send the information Send it to you."

"intelligence?"

"I have been tracking and investigating the intermediary all day today. Didn't I say that I would share information with you? I have summarized the results of today's investigation. You can take a look later."

"Thank you." I said sincerely, and remembered how Qiao Licao mentioned how "showing off" me when Qiao Licao joked about going to bed with me before, so I asked one more question.

After listening, Qingniao said speechlessly: "That guy Qiao Licorice..." She even forgot her nickname, "Didn't she be saved by you last time? So when we were chatting later, she asked me in private if I had a chance to talk to her." You develop and develop, I was anxious at the time, and said that I have developed with you, and I have done it..."

Then there is no need to specifically talk about how I performed at night.How panicked were you then to be so unscrupulous.

Qingniao warned: "You have to be careful of her! What she likes most is you who are younger than her."

"I'm not even a teenager."

"In society, 19 years old is considered a boy." She emphasized, "By the way, I am also a girl!"

You actually want to say the latter sentence more.

"Okay, I'm hanging up, see you later!" After finishing speaking, she hung up the phone hastily.

After a while, she sent over the middleman's information, along with information related to the succubus.

I glanced at Joe Licorice, who was looking worried in the distance, and looked down again.

The first is the information on the succubus. There are very few pages, so I read it first.The content only mentions that the succubus seems to be a fugitive from other provinces and cities. The weapon is a long whip made by splicing and refining the spines of multiple victims. It is much higher than the middlemen who have been committed to the black market in Liucheng for a long time.

Then there is the information from the intermediary, and the content of this information will be even greater, because Qingniao has already locked his real name and past identity from the archives of the Security Bureau based on his true face that he has witnessed.

Although he is now an incognito middleman in Liucheng's black market, he was a fugitive from other provinces and cities in the past, and he was also an out-and-out psycho killer.

But a long time ago, to be precise, ten years ago, not only was he not a warlock, he didn't even know what the hidden world was.

He seemed to be living an ordinary life and doing an ordinary job, and others commented that he was a gentle and humble man.There is also his wife and daughter, and he has friends who have been close to him since he was a student.However, without knowing what happened later, he brutally killed three members of his friend's family.

Since then, he has fallen into a kind of madness that others can't understand, and he keeps running around the country to commit murders, and his targets are all young, even young men.The modus operandi is also extremely dirty and twisted, he will first kidnap the victim, make up and match it with women's clothing, and then torture the victim in a nasty way that makes anyone look sick, and finally kill him .

And in the process, he also transformed himself into a demon warlock by relying on the demon knowledge he didn't know where he got it.

The characteristic of a demon warlock is that his strength increases extremely quickly. Through this, he has grown from an ordinary person who knows nothing about the hidden world to a well-known perverted killer.Even Qingniao once saw his face in the news of a certain hidden world, so when she saw his true face yesterday, Qingniao felt a little familiar.

The female remains that Jade Bird found in his hiding place last time were all male after inspection, but he had plastic surgery with flesh and blood to look like a female.

In the attachment of the information are the photos of those corpses before and after plastic surgery. It was also the first time I saw those corpses, and when I saw the faces of those corpses after plastic surgery, I somehow felt familiar.

Instead of dismissing this familiar feeling as mere delusion, I dug deep into my own feelings while gazing at those female-like faces.

After watching for a while, I matched those faces with a certain face in memory.

Those faces... seem to be somewhat similar to Joan's face!
I was taken aback by this discovery.

Joan?Why do I think of Joan?How could the matter of the middleman have anything to do with Joan here?But the more I look at it, the more I can't let go of this association.

I immediately went to Qiao Licorice, explained the matter to her, and then gave her the phone to show her the photos.

"How, is it a bit similar?" I asked, "I'm sorry, maybe this will give you a preconceived idea. Try to see from the perspective of a stranger, whether these faces are somewhat similar to Joan."

"No, no need, it's a bit like...wait a minute!" She was at a loss at first, then became anxious, "Joann hasn't come home yet, and I can't get through to him... Could it be that he was caught by an intermediary? Staring? The gaze he has been feeling all this time is actually from the middleman? He is now being captured by the middleman?"

That's what I suspect too.

If nothing else, the intermediary probably had other archetypes in mind when they forced plastic surgery on the victim.If the prototype is Joan, it shouldn't stay at the level of being somewhat similar.

But if you want to use this similarity as the basis for attacking Joan, it is not unconvincing.In fact, Joan was indeed being targeted by someone.

"If the middleman kidnapped Qiao An, where would he be now?" Qiao Gancao scrambled around in a hurry, and forced himself to calm down, looking for the opposite inference for himself, "Wait, wait...everything is going wrong now. It's just a guess, maybe Qiao An just played with friends for a long time... Besides, the middleman was approached by the blue bird before, he should have escaped from Liucheng, and never dared to come back..."

Next, she tried to reverse the reasoning, "But if Joan is a very obsessive object for him, is it possible for him to risk his life and death to stay? Just met the obsessive object ...would you risk your life like this?"

"Hmm..." Hearing this, I also tried to think about the criminal psychology of another perverted killer from my own perspective, "It's not that I can't understand..."

"Don't try to understand." She said dumbfoundingly.

"But that possibility is established, you know best?" I asked.

The person who knows my heart best is neither Jade Bird nor Lie Que, but the psychoanalyst in front of me.

If she could understand even my past criminal mind, then she should also understand that the possibility cannot be ignored.

"Your past crimes were not based on perverted psychology, but on the hypnosis and brainwashing of sea monsters, which are completely different." After finishing speaking, she took out her mobile phone again, "Let's report to the Security Bureau first, although it is not yet possible to confirm Joan Whether it was captured by a middleman, but at least this clue should be reported to the Security Bureau to protect Qiao An..."

"Wait..." At this moment, I noticed a very strange figure in the distance, "There is someone."

(End of this chapter)