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Chapter 114: Evil Cult Sacrifice, Flawless Curse Crystal, Demon God's Choice (Subscribe)
"..."

A dead silence.

Xu Shu looked at the ashes of the unknown monster that exploded in Apartment 404 with great vigilance, his eyes scanning left and right.

The walls were covered with uncomfortable portraits with irregular patterns, there were many burnt white candles on the ground, and there was a strange magic circle with an evil pattern of blood circles.

In the magic circle was the body of a boy, tied up in an extremely twisted posture, with incense sticks and red animal fur stuffed in his mouth and nostrils.

This weird but somewhat familiar scene made Xu Shu's pupils shrink.

Was the monster just now also created by the esotericists?
No, more importantly, he remembered that the child was the son of the aunt in Room 404.

He is lively and cheerful, and often plays football with other children downstairs. When he sees Xu Shu, he will politely greet his brother.

Apart from this, there was nothing to confirm that the enemy was only the one just now.

'Boom boom boom...'

Soon there were shouts from downstairs, "The police department is investigating a case! No one is allowed to leave!", and the sound of hurried and heavy footsteps quickly came.

Obviously, although there were only the four police officers who entered the building, there were many people from the entire Xinyang Apartment District. It was a large-scale investigation operation with many people mobilized.

It just so happened that these four police officers encountered the target of this operation and unfortunately died.

Without even a moment to mourn his neighbor's fate, which was either unlucky or self-destructive, Xu Shu immediately stepped out and winked at his sister Zhou Shiyu who was standing stupidly at the door: "What are you looking at? Go back home!"

"Ah?" Zhou Shiyu finally recovered from her fear. She looked at her brother with complicated eyes and moved her lips: "You..."

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up."

Xu Shu didn't give her a chance to hesitate. He immediately pushed her and they both went back home and locked the door at the same time - of course, he didn't forget to grab the purple crystal on the ground.

Whoosh!
A stream of golden liquid light slid from above into Xu Shu's crotch.

Xu Shu had experienced this kind of vision more than once.

“It’s actually a curse crystal, not a corrosion crystal… This ugly thing is a transcendent from some monster path!
"...I don't know which way it is. First of all, we can rule out the two ways of Nurgle demons and Slaanesh demons..."

Xu Shu quickly glanced at the purple spell in the crystal. He was so confident in his judgment because he felt something was wrong during the battle just now.

He had fought against Nurgle demons and the unclean ones of this path more than once, and knew that they possessed obvious "filthy" abilities, which was a major characteristic of this path.

As for the Slaanesh unclean ones, although they have only been encountered once, that was by Yang Manman, the daughter of Principal Yang in the shelter, but this profession has a mandatory high-level skill, which is extremely evil and perverted, and is also a very obvious characteristic.

However, the ugly monster that we just fought clearly did not possess the characteristics of these two.

Judging from the fact that it shattered the door with one blow and killed four "qualified people" who were once candidates for human transcendents in one second, its physical lethality should be very high, and the tentacles it extended were as sharp as blades.

The most important thing is that there are 18 strands of cotton inside its curse crystal!

This is a flawless level 18 purple-named "Superhuman". In terms of level and quality, it is on the same level as the Yuanshen, Narrow-sleeved Guanyin, who had ravaged Xu Shu countless times before the mutation.

"No wonder he's so strong. He's only at the first level, but he gives me such a strong sense of oppression. Logically, I should have no rivals at the first level now. It turns out that he's higher than me, and his grade is only two levels lower than mine...

“Strange, the Yuanshen just made an ordinary person bleed from the nose, and then it was instantly shattered by the Star Tower, and even the erosion crystals were broken into pieces.

“But he was able to kill four people and fought with me for at least ten seconds before he was discovered and killed by the Star Tower. Why?
"Is it because he is a transcendent being on the monster path, somewhere between humans and monsters, so it takes time for the Star Tower to identify him?"

"It's possible that when targeting humans, the Star Tower needs to first conduct a judgment and release action similar to the Human Safety Protection Regulations before it can attack!"

As Xu Shu, who had been killed four times by the Star Tower based on Article 3 of the "Human Safety Protection Ordinance" [Those who damage the Star Tower are not considered human], he had some introductory research in this area.

"I don't know if my guess is correct. After all, I only know the third rule. I don't know how many there are in total, or what the others are..."

Xu Shu was not completely sure, it was just a guess, but he did not have time to think about it.

In fact, from the time the extraordinary person from the unknown monster path was struck to death by the Star Tower to the time he picked up the other party's curse crystal and returned to the room, less than ten seconds had passed.

During this process, he had taken off all his clothes and pants, squeezed them into a small ball, and stuffed them all into the washing basin under the pile of clothes that his sister had not yet hung to dry.

At the same time, several handfuls of laundry detergent were poured in to cover up the smell, and the curse crystal was also stuffed in to wrap it up.

After doing all this, he changed into clean trousers and clothes as quickly as possible, but deliberately did not put them on properly - the belt was not tightened and the buttons of the shirt were not buttoned.

He looked like he had just been woken up and was in a hurry to get dressed.

During this period, sister Zhou Shiyu noticed the specialness of Xu Shu's extraordinary underwear - after all, it was really eye-catching. Although it was a mature dark color, a fluorescent light flashed on the surface from time to time.

"..." Zhou Shiyu's mouth suddenly felt slightly bitter as she met Xu Shu's questioning gaze.

"Sister, you have to keep the fact that I'm a superhuman a secret for your brother..." Xu Shu raised his index finger in front of his lips.

For the time being, he doesn't want others to know that he is a supernatural being.

This time the reason was not whether the driver upgrade was legal, he knew that this problem had been easily solved.

The problem is that the situation is special at this moment.

He is a supernatural being who suddenly appeared and has not yet registered. He was inexplicably involved in this unknown case involving the evil sacrifice of the esoteric cult. He will definitely be subject to further investigation and he may even be suspected of being a cultist.

In short, revealing your identity at this juncture would be very troublesome. Even if the Judgment Bureau could clear your name in the end, who would want to go through so much trouble?

In a situation like today, it would be more appropriate to maintain an ordinary identity with official notarization endorsement such as "Xu Shu, resident of the safety zone, failed the qualification test."

Xu Shu is not afraid of trouble, but he does not want to cause trouble if he can avoid it.

He was also worried that his sister might not be able to control her mouth at such a young age, so he had to communicate with her in advance.

Fortunately, Zhou Shiyu did not disappoint Xu Shu. Although her face was still a little pale from fright, she had managed to regain her composure.

She took a deep breath, as if she had convinced herself, and then nodded firmly: "I know, don't worry, I won't tell anyone that my brother's underwear is colorful."

"?"

What color? Mine is clearly dark?

Xu Shu pondered and said, "I'm talking about what I did just now. There is one more thing, did you just now..."

He was a little hesitant, not knowing whether Zhou Shiyu had closed her eyes obediently just now and whether she had seen the terrifying Eight Spider Lances growing from her back.

Zhou Shiyue blinked and asked back, "What do you mean by attack? What are you talking about, brother? Are you confused in your sleep? Someone just knocked on the door and said they were the police. I didn't believe them, so I didn't open the door. I also heard some roaring. It was so scary. Is there a monster?"

After hearing this, Xu Shu smiled: "Okay, okay, you are worthy of being my sister. I love you for a reason."

Boom boom boom!
As they were talking, only half a minute after Xu Shu and his companions returned to the room, the other police officers finally arrived.

Xu Shu lay at the door and listened. There was a large group of footsteps outside the door, followed by a conversation in a low voice, and the rustling sound of a radio:

"Damn it, something happened, Zhao Qu and the others are dead."

"Zizizi...report the situation..."

"Reporting to the executive officer, the Zhaoqu search team, codenamed Operation 12, encountered the target secret cultist. The battle at the scene has ended. There were four members in the team, and four of them were sacrificed."

"Four dead? ... Zizi... Where's the target?"

"A large number of evil sacrificial supplies and magic arrays were found in Room 83 of Building 404. The traces at the scene are clear. There was indeed a weird person, but he was killed by the Star Tower!"

"Zizi... Got it. Since the Star Tower has automatically locked on, let's withdraw our team. Don't make any noise. Let's check if there are any witnesses at the scene."

"Roger that, sir... zizizi..."

"...Clean up the scene immediately, conduct an on-site identity check on everyone in this building, and take all the suspicious non-local outsiders back home!"

……

Hearing this, Xu Shu turned around and gestured to his sister.

Seeing her nod, Xu Shu slowly walked over.

After a while...

"Boom boom boom!"

"Police station! Open the door!"

The door was slammed roughly again.

This time there was no such relatively gentle and unhurried feeling as before.

Including the person who was calling at the door, his voice sounded a little hoarse.

The girl answered them with a tearful voice: "Mom and Dad are not here, are you really the police? Wuwuwu..."

The police officers looked at each other in bewilderment, but since their colleague's body was still warm on the ground, they could not afford to be careless, so they chose to force their way in.

When I finally opened the door, I saw a young brother and sister hugging each other. The sister was terrified and the brother was also panic-stricken. His clothes were messy and it was obvious that he had just been woken up by his sister.

The police officers' ferocious expressions hesitated for a moment. They saw a strong contrast between the quite normal, tidy and clear layout here and the weird layout of the house opposite.

In fact, almost the moment they opened the door, they knew in their hearts that there was absolutely no problem with this house.

The madness and perversion of the esotericists cannot be hidden, just like the one across the street, they are mentally ill and cannot resist the urge to draw something symbolic on the wall.

However, out of duty, they still walked in and looked around as if it was a routine matter, and said, "Identification documents, take them out."

……

"Xu Shu, 18 years old, identity and address verified."

"Zhou Shiyu, 17 years old, identity and address verified."

"Nothing unusual...Captain?"

"Let's go, notify the logistics department to collect the bodies. Everyone else, divide into groups and go upstairs to check for people."

There is a star on the shoulder strap of this police officer. He is a transcendent of the same level as the patrol team leader, and will not exceed level 12 of the first order.

Everything here has been confirmed, so he naturally has no time to waste here and has to go upstairs to continue checking.

According to the information provided by the anonymous tip-off, there were indeed only about eight people suspected to be cultists who entered the apartment area today, which matched the number of shoes at the door of Room 8. In theory, the matter was over and no one had slipped through the net.

However, if he doesn't vent his excess energy, he will feel very uncomfortable.

The police officers withdrew one by one.

The last police officer stood on the balcony and looked down. He didn't find anything unusual. When he turned back, he accidentally kicked the basin containing the girl's clothes soaked in it.

The water waves swayed, and the pink clothes floated up and down.

The middle-aged policeman's eyes blurred and he felt as if some light flashed in his eyes, but it seemed like an illusion.

Xu Shu: …

Zhou Shiyu: …

The two of them glanced at each other and looked at the police officer expressionlessly.

He was still unaware of what was happening and was subconsciously looking into the basin.

At this time, Zhou Shiyu suddenly said: "Uncle police, I just heard a very scary scream, you are here to hunt down monsters, right?"

She spoke timidly, and looked at him with red eyes, looking like she was about to cry. The police officer felt that if this girl had not been held by her brother, there was no doubt that she would have broken down and cried.

The girl said intermittently:

"The teacher said that with the Star Tower there, the monsters outside the wall can't get in, but the police officers just now were clearly..."

The police officer was silent for a moment: "Well, they encountered a monster and were killed."

"So they died to protect us, right?"

"Ahem, actually..."

“In fact, it’s because of you guys who are guarding it that the safe zone is so safe… What star tower is protecting me? The books are all lies… You are obviously the guardians, the real heroes, but no one knows… My dad has always hoped that my brother can become someone like you who can protect everyone when he grows up… Uncle police, thank you for guarding this place…”

"?"

The middle-aged policeman was shocked all over, raised his head, and looked at Zhou Shiyu, who was about the same age as his daughter, in disbelief.

His heart was trembling, and he felt the long-lost blood in his body come back to life.

At this moment, he felt that he could no longer say something like "We were only assigned by our superiors to find the secret believers, and we have no interest in protecting you poor people."

How can I say it out loud?
If I say something like that to a young girl who admires low-level police officers like me, it would be a crime!
After a while, he said in a hoarse voice:
"Kids, I'm sorry to scare you, but don't worry, even if monsters come in, we will be there to protect you!"

He stood straight, saluted the brother and sister, his eyes moist, and followed his teammates' pace with firm steps.

inside the house.

Xu Shu closed the door while watching the logistics team who came to collect the bodies leave.

He gave his sister a thumbs up: "Six, such a good acting."

My sister is so skilled, I'm afraid she must have been scheming against her best friends and roommates at school, right?
"Oh, don't talk nonsense, I really think so."

Zhou Shiyu raised her neck proudly and whispered, "Is the gem just now a crystal of monster corrosion? The purple one? Let me see..."

As she spoke, she was trying to find the curse crystal that Xu Shu had put in the basin from under the clothes.

"Almost, but don't touch it."

Xu Shu hurriedly stopped her.

It's not that I'm stingy, but because this thing is a curse crystal, the damage it causes to the skin is not comparable to that of ordinary corrosive crystals.

Moreover, because it is an object with the same purpose as the 'Curse Seal', as long as you touch the Curse Crystal, it will spontaneously undergo a process similar to containment.

Although if you just touch it briefly and then take it away, it won't be a life-threatening situation.

But for a girl, pain is inevitable, and it feels like a red-hot iron when touched.

Seeing that baby Xu Shu put away the very beautiful purple gem with purple sparkling words floating up and down, Zhou Shiyu couldn't help but curl her lips: "Brother, don't you think you owe me a reasonable explanation? Thanks to you, your sister has become a bad kid who lied to the police."

"Protecting your family is a noble virtue. This is what you should do. If there is a next time, please be more forceful. You did a great job today."

"Really?" Zhou Shiyu tilted her head, thinking.

Xu Shu said thick-skinnedly: "Of course."

Xu Shu didn't care at all about his sister learning bad things and lying. This is called keeping secrets between relatives.

If the roles were reversed, he would naturally try his best to keep it secret for his sister.

If a person would sell out even his closest family members for the so-called "great justice", Xu Shu felt that he could not be called a human being at all. Of course, there is naturally a bottom line of principle here.

What happened to Xu Shu today naturally has nothing to do with breaking the bottom line.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Zhou Shiyu changed the topic and asked, "You must have encountered a lot of things in the wasteland this time. It must not be easy to go from an ordinary person to a supernatural being. Is brother going to become the next director of the Control Bureau?"

All the children in area D8B3 know that the director of the local jurisdiction was originally an unqualified mortal. Later, he got an opportunity in the wasteland and became a powerful supernatural being. He has always been a good role model for all ordinary people.

——For example, Xu Shu also thought so before, and believed it firmly.

But now, he can only say that anyone who believes this story is an idiot.

"It's not peaceful here today. Let's not stay here anymore. Let's get a room outside." Xu Shu said, looking at the moonlight.

"Ah, why are you wasting money again?"

"Is it not good to take you to a hotel? If you are not afraid, you can stay here alone. I am going to get a room to sleep anyway."

Zhou Shiyu immediately stared at Xu Shu with suspicion and refused: "You don't want to go... No, I want to supervise you."

Xu Shu said, "It's up to you. Go to the hospital and tell Mom about tomorrow's arrangements, but don't mention what happened tonight, okay? Don't let them worry."

"You don't have to tell me that. Of course I won't tell my mother about this. I'll go get some clothes sorted."

"Okay, take your time, there's no rush."

Go to the hotel to sleep, because Xu Shu actually wanted to study the curse crystal just now and needed a private space.

It's not possible here. Their beds are like those in a university dormitory, with only curtains separating each bed. There is very little privacy.

Although my sister is a good person, it is enough for her to know a few things that happened just now occasionally. It is impossible for her to know all the secrets.

Besides, the environment of this house makes it difficult for him to sleep well. Recently, he has been living outside, under a bridge or near a city wall.

I might as well move out. I don't have to come back to this little shabby house in the future. It doesn't matter whether I leave early or late, so I might as well leave early.

It's still early now, around seven or eight o'clock.

The two packed some clothes, loaded two suitcases, each pulled one, and left the new home where they had lived for two years.

I first took the tram to the hospital and briefly informed my parents of the next arrangements.

Speaking of having to return to their original residence so soon, adoptive mother Li Guoying was a little bit hesitant to believe it.

She feels that money should be spent wisely now, such as paying for her husband's medical treatment.

However, Zhou Junjie had a keen eye and guessed that the noble person who helped Xu Shu was probably not an ordinary noble person. Knowing that his son had made progress, he was naturally pleased and told Xu Shu to just go for it boldly.

His physical condition is still not very good now, and he has to go to bed at eight or nine o'clock in the evening.

It is still the foster mother who keeps watch at night.

Xu Shu knew that the couple were truly in love and did not want to live separately. Zhou Shiyu was just an accident as their child.

Of course he couldn't interfere with them, so he took his sister to the hotel where they had stayed the night before - this was also the cheapest hotel currently available in the safe zone.

After booking two adjacent rooms and instructing his sister to knock on the wall three times if she needed any help, Xu Shu quickly returned to his own room after settling his sister down.

Lock the door and draw the curtains.

Xu Shu happily took out the curse crystal he had just obtained and held it up to the light.

It is purple all over, with spiral flocs of purple air coming from the east, floating up and down unsteadily.

In addition, there are spells with unrecognizable information that appear and disappear from time to time.

It's all purple! Luxurious purple!

"Haha, great! It's like searching for something unsuccessfully, but it turns out it's easy to find."

After testing again, it was thoroughly confirmed that this was a pure flawless purple cursed crystal, and not the 'half-purple' cursed crystal that called itself Ao Yaolin in the wasteland. The smile on Xu Shu's mouth was suddenly harder to suppress than AK's.

Then, he opened the prop bar, took out two items, and placed them on the bed.

From left to right, they are ① purple spell crystal ② golden "doctor" mark ③ golden [bloodline] mysterious seal.

According to the "at most one level lower" rule given in the Taichu Volume, the purple curse crystal is enough to be combined with the golden seal to form an epic curse seal.

Xu Shu had tried it last time with the half-step purple piece, and he was just a little bit away from success, so he was sure that this rule was feasible.

After synthesizing the "Doctor" seal, you can use the Xuan Zhang [Bloodline] to engrave an entry.

In time, this double-term seal of "doctor" + "martial artist" was provided to his own account Wang Teng for use, and the problem of the first phase of the Nine Phase Diagram being unable to condense was naturally solved.

How could Xu Shu not be happy when he originally thought that he would have to go through a lot of hardships to get the right purple curse seal?

However, he did not rush to synthesize them, but put the mark and the mysterious seal back into the prop column, and wrapped the curse crystal separately and put it aside.

Once the curse seal is synthesized, it cannot be put back into the item column of the Taichu Volume.

And on the other hand, he couldn't be sure now. If the doctor and the martial artist were both epic, what would happen if they reached level five in the future?
Although my son Wang Teng was born with the strength of a diamond, once he is born, he will be able to achieve the terrifying three-in-one power of a "strongman", "doctor" and "martial artist", and the "legendary" strongman will be the main one among them.

But who knows if the fifth-level physician will have any impact?

After all, epic level is a huge watershed.

"We can't be careless, but there's no rush. We'll talk about it later."

Xu Shu naturally wouldn't be in a hurry.

Next, he slightly raised his hips, activated the upgrade drive, and opened the light screen interface in front of him.

*Upgrade your network!

*Gu Pan (Taichu), first-level warrior

*Contributions: 8
"Oh, as expected, killing him won't increase your contribution."

Xu Shu sneered.

Although he didn't know what this strange thing was, he already had experience. When killing this kind of extraordinary person from the three strange paths, the formation would follow his rules of killing human extraordinary people and absorbing the information in the upgrade drive to identify the information in the opponent's curse crystal.

In a sense, Xu Shu was also using this ability of the array as his own true eye.

At this moment, new information was indeed jumping in the lower left corner:——

[You have defeated/killed other extraordinary people. You can freely choose whether to upload your record to the upgrade network. Excellent records have the opportunity to improve your ranking. ]

[Your current ranking: 414th on the Qingyun Ranking, nickname: Crouching Steel Rhino, Gu Pan! ]

[You picked up the upgrade drive of another extraordinary person... Correction, you picked up the curse crystal; the other party's identity is: blank, not an extraordinary person registered on the upgrade network. ]

[Information input completed: Vdivos, a first-order unclean being... a special state has been detected, and authorization has been requested from the array. Information is being corrected...]

[Information confirmed: You have killed a demon chosen by God! ]

[The Chosen Ones are a great threat to the human race. Hunting down the Chosen Ones is a great contribution to the human race! ]

[Opposite rank: First rank! ]

[You will receive an additional 100 contribution points! The reward will be delayed and will be automatically distributed to you within 24 hours! Thank you for your great contribution to the revival of mankind! ]

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"Ah?" Xu Shu.

(End of this chapter)