The Witch's Taste

It sounds like an ordinary dream, but it fits many characteristics of spiritual pollution.

The next step is to open the inspiration and browse around the house.

Ashiya Yu had no hope for this, because last time he brought his assistant here to check it out, but Kiritani Maki himself was not at home, and he didn't find anything weird.

He talked to Kiritani Maki, and then went to check the bedroom first.

Hoshino Jixiang quickly followed, because there may be some private things in the bedroom, even if they go out, they can be sold at a high price on the black market.Although there is no loss to the parties involved, it still has to be watched after all.

So only Chen Ziang and Kiritani Maki were left in the living room.

"Miss Maki." Chen Ziang asked tentatively, "If you don't mind, I'll go to the study where you usually work first to check..."

"Xia Zili." Kiritani Maki said suddenly.

"what?"

"My mother is from the Lu tribe, not from the island tribe." Kiritani Maki said sincerely, "So I am also from the Lu tribe just like you. My mother's surname is Xia, and my name is 'Zi Li'. Kiritani Maki was given to me by the brokerage company." stage name, they feel that being a mixed-blood islander is more beneficial to my career development."

"Ah, oh, I won't say it, thank you for letting me know." Chen Ziang was about to get up when he heard Kiritani Maki, who is also Xia Zili, suddenly asked hesitantly:

"That...Mr. Chen Ziang, although it may be strange to say that, but..."

She slightly opened her azure eyes, revealing a sense of confusion, hesitation, and bewilderment:

"Have we met before?"

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 his inspiration and soon discovered an 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.

Chapter 26 Data Collection of the Touch of the Abyss

"Then, let's take our leave." Ashiya Yu said with a half-bow.

"If Miss Tonggu still has symptoms tonight, please contact us in time." Chen Ziang added.

"Yeah." Hoshino Norika's complexion improved significantly, "Thank you very much this time."

She really couldn't understand why the two people just walked around the room and the problem was solved.

But looking at Kiritani Maki who was sleeping soundly on the sofa, she really didn't want to ask about the specific details... Anyway, as long as Maki can sleep well, that's enough.

Leaving the Riverside Apartment, Ashiya Yu took Chen Ziang to the subway station, and asked casually:

"How to solve it?"

"I went to her subconscious level." Chen Ziang explained, "She..."

"Stop! Stop." Ashiya Yu said quickly, "Don't elaborate, I don't want my spiritual vision to rise."

"Then I won't talk about the specific knowledge." Chen Ziang said seriously, "I'll just tell you the necessary information: she didn't encounter something weird, but was cursed."

Ashiya Yu was silent for a moment, nodded and said:

"Well, it seems that we can sell the anti-curse package to Ms. Hoshino."

"I suggest not." Chen Ziang said in a low voice, "The method of the curser seems to be extremely clever."

"Devil priest?" Ashiya Yu asked in surprise.

Chen Ziang shook his head, meaning he didn't know.

"Let's not mention that for now." Ashiya Yu patted him on the shoulder and said enthusiastically, "Thanks to you this time, it's great to be able to solve it so smoothly. The reward will still be divided according to the old rules, and it will be transferred to your account?

"Yes." Chen Ziang responded casually.

He is not interested in money, all he wants is kindling.

"By the way, it's only 4 o'clock in the afternoon." Ashiya Yu suggested, "Shall we go have some wine?"

"Uncle You, why don't you go back to the office." Chen Ziang said, "I want to borrow your basement."

"Okay, I just renovated the basement the day before yesterday." Ashiya Yu said with a smile.

In the subway car, Ashiya Yu looked out the window boredly, while Chen Ziang was still thinking about what Nicole said:

"...So I suggest you just keep this matter in your heart and don't continue to pursue it, otherwise you will definitely die."

But I'm a security officer!How could the security officers give up on chasing the prisoner just because he was so vicious? !

Oh, I've been suspended, that's fine.

He opened the phone again and found that there were many new messages in it.

There are comforting messages from my colleagues, an exhortation from the head of the section "Don't quit, I'm still trying to persuade the head of the department", and a greeting from Suzuna Tsukimiya with 99+ unreceived messages...

99+ what the hell?

After clicking on the 99+ new messages, Chen Ziang looked carefully, and sure enough, most of them were just silly complaints.

………………

[Jade Rabbit refuses to admit defeat]: Senior, senior, senior, senior, senior! /cute

[Yutu refuses to admit defeat]: Ah, really!What kind of person would leave a guest at home to take care of his sister, but go outside to have fun?

[Yutu refuses to admit defeat]: If you don't answer, I want to enter your room?I want to see your browsing history and find the learning materials in your hard drive!