The Witch's Taste

Chapter 25 Curse
Chen Ziang never thought that in this day and age, there would still be people who would strike up a conversation with him with "Have we met?"

And twice!

Well, Yue Gong Suzuna didn't say that the first time, but her eyes kept revealing the meaning of "we have actually met", which caused Chen Ziang himself to often misunderstand.

Facing Xia Zili's serious expression, he replied straightforwardly:
"We haven't met."

"That's it." Xia Zili nodded, not feeling much disappointed, "Then would you like to listen to me?"

"Please say."

"I don't think it's my fault." Xia Zili said softly, "When he died... I wasn't there, so I couldn't stop him."

"I see." Chen Ziang said perfunctorily.

"But, I can't convince myself." Xia Zili said with a sigh, "The 'I' in the dream constantly put that heavy sense of guilt... on me."

"But I'm also very innocent...I've never even been in love, but I have to bear the pain of killing my lover. Isn't that a bit too much?"

Chen Ziang: ……………

"Well, indeed." He also sighed and said, "I will find a way."

"Thank you." Xia Zili forced a smile, then bowed her head gently and said, "Sister Ji Xiang said that it might be because of dirty things, but I don't know much about it, so I can only ask you."

"Don't dare to do it, it's our responsibility." Chen Ziang subconsciously said the common language of security officers, but quickly realized it, and said with a smile, "Miss Tonggu, go sit on the sofa first, if we have a result You will be notified."

"Okay." Xia Zili went back to the sofa and sat down.

Chen Ziang looked at her back, and silently activated the ability to walk in dreams.

He wanted to enter Xia Zili's subconscious layer through the collective subconscious layer, and see what was hiding in her consciousness.

Of course, if you can get rid of any weirdness, it would be even better to get the tinder.

After entering the preconscious level and then the subconscious level, Chen Ziang saw Xia Zili still sitting on the sofa with a forced smile on his face.

Dive into the collective subconscious layer, the surrounding environment changes suddenly, and finally freezes into the grassland by the river.

Sitting cross-legged by the river, Chen Ziang once again visualized Xia Zili's appearance.

Oh, found it.

In the collective subconscious layer, to find a person's subconscious layer depends on a clear and accurate cognition of this person, and then use meditation to locate it.

Fortunately, Xia Zili herself is very... unique, so Chen Ziang found her subconscious layer without any effort, and then activated her power again.

began to invade her subconscious.

The environment changes again, it seems to be the bathroom?
Wearing thin translucent pajamas, Xia Zili was lying on her side in the bathtub, her blond hair was disheveled, and there was a deadly breath between her eyes and eyebrows. She had an extremely weird, delicate and fragile beauty.

The dark red blood slowly flowed down from her fair arm leaning on the bathtub, reminding Chen Ziang of an oil painting called "The Death of Mara".

He turned on the inspiration, and soon discovered the anomaly:

From the bathroom window, a large number of pitch-black tentacles stretched out, wrapping around Xia Zili's neck.

Hoshino Jixiang guessed right, Xia Zili was indeed entangled with something unclean.These tentacles lurking in her subconscious layer, although I don't know what they are weird, but they will definitely affect her own mental state.

Chen Ziang was silent for a moment, then raised the mandala magic sword, chopped off all these tentacles.

18:1 Tinder arrives!Each tentacle is 18 point of fire, a total of [-] tentacles, large and small, are all sucked up by the mandala magic sword, and they are very happy.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Zili, who was half lying in the bathtub, gradually woke up.

"Chen Ziang?"

"It should be resolved." Chen Ziang put away the mandala magic sword, "Next, please rest your mind..."

Before she finished speaking, Xia Zili suddenly pressed the edge of the bathtub, propped herself up vigorously, and then hugged him tightly.

"I'm sorry..." She almost broke down in sobs, the tears trickled down her cheeks and flowed into Chen Ziang's collar, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"Uh." Feeling the warmth and softness in his arms, Chen Ziang was also a little at a loss, he couldn't even put his hands anywhere, "I don't think there is anything you can do to me, Miss Tonggu..."

As soon as the words fell, the beautiful woman in her arms suddenly collapsed and slid back into the bathtub, as if she had fallen into a coma again.

Chen Ziang checked his surroundings carefully, and found that there were indeed no more tentacles.

Although Xia Zili was in a coma, the dead silence between her eyebrows and eyes was gone, and the blood on her arm had also disappeared without a trace.

There is no abnormality in the inspiration, and there should be no fish that slipped through the net.

So he activated his power again, left Xia Zili's subconscious, and sent it to the ancient city of Enrank in the collective subconscious layer, intending to ask Priest Nicole about it.

After listening to Chen Ziang's description of the whole thing, Priest Nicole was silent for a moment, and replied:
"10 points of merit."

Chen Ziang:?

"You mean the consulting fee?" he asked tentatively.

"That's right." Nicole said with a smile, "If it's something about the shadow camp, I can tell you for free, because it falls under the scope of official business."

"But the matter you mentioned has nothing to do with faction wars. Of course, I can't help you with doubts for free—knowledge is valuable after all."

"Having said that, is 10 points of merit too expensive?" Chen Ziang asked with a frown.

"Not really." Nicole said with a smiling voice, "Because there are certain risks involved."

"Risk?" Chen Ziang tried hard to understand, "You mean..."

"Telling you the truth will make me take a certain risk." Nicole confirmed his guess.

"Okay!" Chen Ziang finally made up his mind.

A total of 18 fire seeds were obtained, and 10 were to be given away in a blink of an eye. This is like stealing money.

It's just that the "risk" that Nicole said made Chen Ziang feel a strong crisis.If she wasn't lying, what was the risk worth 10 tinder?

As the shadow cloak transferred the fire, after Nicole confirmed the account, she said bluntly:
"According to your description: being strangled by a large number of tentacles in one's own subconscious layer, this is actually a curse."

"Curse?" Chen Ziang raised his eyebrows.

"Did I mention last time that there is a power called [Touch of the Abyss]?" Nicole continued, "It is the [Underworld's Touch] to strangle the target's spirit slowly and without leaving any traces from the subconscious level. The extremely high-level usage of Abyss’ Touch.”

"So the murderer is someone from the shadow camp." Chen Ziang suddenly realized.

"And the military rank is at least [-] levels higher than yours." Nicole said, "Even I am probably not his opponent, so I suggest you keep this matter in your heart and don't continue to pursue it, or you will die undoubtedly."

Chen Ziang was silent for a moment, then looked at the Chaos Altar again.

In the redemption list re-projected by the altar, [Profane Witchcraft] and [Thousand-faced Incarnation] are still exchanged for 50 fire seeds, while the price of [Touch of the Abyss] has risen to 100 fire seeds, and the note is "upgradable".

In other words, if you invest 100 fire seeds, you can upgrade [Touch of the Abyss] and summon stronger and weirder tentacles.

Here comes the question: Cursing the murderer who assassinated Xia Zili, how many times have you upgraded [Touch of the Abyss]?How many more powerful powers have you mastered?
Thinking of this, Chen Ziang felt shuddering.

(End of this chapter)