The Witch's Taste

Xia Qingyu, who was lying on the table, faintly woke up from the incomplete memory fragments.

She was leaning on the back of the chair, with her head bowed, her eyes staring at the light and shadow on the floor, as if she was in some kind of nostalgic mood.

Just sat there all day.

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Xia Zili fell asleep in front of the computer.

On the screen, there is a song that has almost been completed and can be sent to the studio for arrangement.

The name of the song is called "Hero".

Xia Zili wanted to be a hero.

She dreamed of a superhero movie she had seen before, in which the protagonist was usually just an ordinary person, standing in front of the office window, watching the huge explosion made by the villain in the distance.

Then, in the reflection of the window glass, the male protagonist began a handsome transformation.

However, that reflection quickly turned into the mother's bloodied face.

The familiar and kind face showed a desperate smile, and said softly like a raving:

"No, you don't want to."

"I want to be a hero." Xia Zili insisted.

"Zili, you don't want to be a hero." The mother's smile became more exaggerated, the corners of her mouth almost opened to the ears, revealing a terrifying and hideous wound.

"I..." Xia Zili wanted to refute, but she was inexplicably scared.

"It's okay." Mother stretched out her bloody arm from the window, and gently hugged her into her arms, "It's okay."

"You have to remember..."

"Then, redeem all this..."

"Let's start by becoming a hero..."

Xia Zili suddenly woke up from her sleep, kicked the table subconsciously, and soon covered her toes in pain, even tears came out.

But she raised her hand quickly and miraculously.

From the ends of the green onion fingers, tiny seeds were spit out from the skin.

It quickly grew four small hooves at the bottom, and many small buds sprouted from the top. They stepped firmly on Xia Zili's fingers, and began to dance a sticky dance happily.

At the same time, in her mind, the name of this seed also emerged:

【Black Cub】

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In the governor's office.

After reading the incident report, Shi Di showed a relieved expression:

"Meihui Xichuan is finally dead... The matter should be over, right?"

"To be precise, there is still some finishing work to be done." Song Mingyuan said with a smile on his face. "At present, there are still some sick individuals sporadically appearing in the urban area."

"However, the source of growth has been cut off, so we can basically announce to the outside world: under the wise guidance of Governor Shi Di, the crisis has been overcome, the disaster has been resolved, and the state of emergency will officially end today."

"Good thing." Shi Di laughed loudly, "I'll have a few more drinks tonight."

"Don't drink too much, Your Majesty the Governor." Song Mingyuan reminded him, "Tomorrow you have to meet with the special commissioner from the Federation, Mr. Trauch Klublief."

"Oh, very good." Shi Di's face quickly turned irritable again, "So those elves with their toes are going to point fingers at my face again, right?"

"Mingyuan, remind me, what is the specific identity of this commissioner?"

"Just look at his surname." Song Mingyuan said with a smile, "He is a high elf who came from the prominent Klublef family. This family controls the lifeblood of most of the federation's alchemy industry and is the most powerful elf society. Veteran aristocrat."

"In addition, the Klublef family and the Bakht family are long-term allies, and the Agilaos star area controlled by the Bakht family is the main trading object of our foreign exchange exports in Gaotianyuan."

"I understand." Shi Di was dizzy from those elf names, but he had also received political training after all, so he quickly grasped the point, "So, you have a strong background, so you can't offend them?"

"We must not offend you." Song Mingyuan said meaningfully.

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The lights were not turned on in the living room, only today's news was playing on the TV.

Seiko Takano sat silently on the floor, staring blankly at the only glowing TV screen in the room.

She has deleted all her friends in advance, and sent a statement of severance to all her relatives.

In this way, no matter how horrific crimes I commit later, they will not be implicated again.

The TV screen finally went out, so only Seiko Takano's eyes could be seen in the darkness.

Exudes a faint, strange light.

113. Chapter 113 King of Ghouls, hello to you

"The deceased is Miyuki Arai, female (20), who was found dead in her living room by a neighbor."

"According to the test, the time of death was at least 10 days, and the cause of death was suffocation caused by drowning."

"There are a lot of marks of beating and torture on the deceased. Obviously the murderer has a lot of hatred for him. From the wounds on the arms and legs, other people's body tissue fragments were detected, and the test concluded that they came from four different people."

"The accumulated water extracted from the deceased's lungs has detected the source of pollution, and it can be confirmed that it is related to mysterious forces."

"The deceased was confirmed to be living alone. He used to live in the dormitory of Beihai University. Later, he was excluded by his roommates because of the 'man jumping from the building'. Therefore, he moved out to live alone a month ago."

"The incident of a man jumping from a building refers to a vicious accident that happened at Beihai University last month. The person involved, Masao Kono, was accused by Miyuki Arai of secretly taking photos of his skirts, and contacted idlers in society to seek pressure from high-level officials. The high-level officials demanded that Masao Kono Handing over her mobile phone was rejected, and Miyuki Arai videotaped the whole process and posted it on the school’s confession wall, which caused a sensation in the school’s public opinion, and collectively accused and criticized Masao Takano.”

"That night, Masao Takano jumped to his death in the dormitory. The Beihai District Public Security Department intervened. The public opinion in the school quickly reversed. Unable to bear the pressure, Miyuki Arai chose to move out of the dormitory and rent out."

"At present, it is highly suspected that there is a connection between the two cases. Masao Takano's mother Seiko Takano (48) has been missing for many days, and her law firm confirmed that she had resigned half a month ago."

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Xia Qingyu roughly read the case report, followed by the investigation record about Seiko Takano.

One of the stacks of information is all the chat records of Takano Seiko in the past three months.

One of the nicknames quickly attracted her attention:

【Is there any urban legend】

Chen Ziang.

As the head of the field work section of the fifth intelligence department, and also related to the suspect, he took annual leave at this critical moment.

Or get rid of him.

Xia Qingyu was silent for a long time, but still picked up the phone and dialed Chen Ziang.

Can't get through.

It wasn't that he was hung up by the other party, but that Chen Zi'ang's phone was already in airplane mode.

At this time, he was sitting in an airplane more than 1 meters above the ground with Yuegong Suzuna and Chen Xiaozhu, looking through the porthole at the white snow field and frozen soil below.

The terminal of the plane is the No. 3 Space Launch Base located in the equatorial region.After getting off the plane, the two will slowly lift off in a towed helium balloon, and finally arrive at the space star port more than [-] kilometers above the surface, enjoying a seven-day space trip.

Even in the era of interstellar colonization, the price of space travel is quite high, anyway, Chen Ziang himself would never consider it.

It's just that Tsukimiya Suzuna was lucky enough to win the first prize when she was shopping for a handbag, and the prize was three tickets to space travel.

It stands to reason that to get three tickets, the first consideration must be a family of three traveling.

But Tsukimiya Kiyomasa couldn't take a day off due to his busy work schedule, and Tsukimiya Chiyo said, "Ah, your dad and I have been to Star Port several times, and you young people should go together this time." Bar".

Therefore, this precious space travel opportunity fell on Chen Ziang very coincidentally, fortunately, and with a small probability...and of course his younger sister Chen Xiaozhu.

Needless to say about the things on the plane, there is nothing to see below except the snow field and the frozen soil, so Chen Ziang put on the steam eye mask and started to sleep.

Chen Xiaozhu sat quietly on his right, like a delicate porcelain doll.

Tsukimiya Suzuna was sitting near the left side of the aisle, wearing earphones, watching dramas with a tablet, giggling from time to time.

Gradually, Chen Ziang fell asleep.

In the dream, his consciousness quickly regained consciousness, and then he activated the ability to walk in the dream, and teleported to the ancient city of Enrank.

As soon as he stood still in the town square, Chen Ziang saw Nicole, the priest of Nightmare, coming out of the Chaos Temple.

He raised the scepter in his hand high, and announced like a bell:

"He's back! Our hero! Asker!"

"Wait a minute..." Before Chen Ziang could stop him, he saw a large number of nightmares flying out from the roofs of houses in the city.

They hovered over the ancient city of Enrank, flew around the town square, and shouted loudly in an unknown language with a strange tone:

"Kaza, Vira, Hutha Vekia!"

Even with the shadow cloak locking up the spirit vision, Chen Ziang also felt a sense of his rationality collapsing from a violent shock - even when facing the divinity of Xi Chuan Meihui, he had never been so frightened.

Fortunately, these nightmare cheerleaders only shouted for half a minute, and then flew back to their residences.

Nicole said softly:

"We are not very familiar with the ceremony for humans to welcome heroes, so we asked a human resident for advice. I hope this ceremony can satisfy you, after all, you are already the favored person of the Lord of the Deep Sea."

"What is God's Blessed One?" Chen Ziang asked warily.

"This is a supreme honor." Nicole said in a solemn tone, "Simply put, all believers of the Lord of the Deep Sea will know your status as a blessed one, and they will treat you with the most noble etiquette. you."

That's it?Chen Ziang thought to himself.

"This is a supreme honor." Nicole emphasized again.

"I understand. I'm also honored to have... this title." Chen Ziang said reservedly, "I'll go and see the list of powers."

He walked into the temple calmly with 1800 tinder, feeling like he was shopping in a luxury store with a huge sum of money.

Concentrate your thoughts on the Chaos Altar, and soon a list appears in front of you:

[Touch of the Abyss] (evolution direction: matrix), 500 points are required to continue upgrading;

[Profane Witchcraft] and [Avatar with Thousand Faces] each require 50 points;

The military rank is [Lamb], promotion requires 100 points.

Chen Ziang smiled slightly, and finally he could do what he had wanted to do for a long time: upgrade his military rank!

The screen changed quickly, and the military rank originally displayed as "Lamb" quickly changed to "Slaughterer".

Chen Ziang: ……………

So, is it just a change from a sacrifice to someone who handles the sacrifice?Is there no better rank?For example, soldiers, generals, lords, priests, etc...

But the Chaos Altar obviously ignored his complaints. Looking at the power exchange list, it had become blurry.

Obviously, this thing is refreshing again.

But this was exactly what Chen Ziang hoped for.After all, whether it's [Desecration of Witchcraft] or [Thousand-Faced Avatar], he doesn't really need it at the moment. It's better to upgrade his rank to expand the scope of redeemable powers. Next time, let's see if there is anything better.

Use the dream walking ability to leave the ancient city of Enrank and the collective subconscious plane.

Chen Ziang continued to float up and returned to his subconscious plane, when he suddenly remembered something:

In the past, when he killed Weird, he gained double experience.

The Datura sword draws part of the fire, and the shadow cloak determines to kill the individual of the hostile camp, and also gives part of the fire, and the two numbers are exactly the same.

I killed the divinity of Nishikawa Meihui by myself, and the shadow cloak gave 1800 points of fire, so what did the mandala sword give?

Hey, don't miss the rewards that should be given to me!Hand it over!

Chen Ziang picked up the Mandala Sword (he would take it with him every time he went to the dream world), trying to immerse his thoughts in it, trying to communicate with it like the altar of chaos.

In the mandala flower-like structure of the sword body, he saw a large amount of dark red blood, which should have come from the person the sword pierced last time, Mie Nishikawa.

In the next second, he suddenly felt his eyes go dark, and then appeared in a certain illusion.

He found himself lying in the sarcophagus, the space around him was very narrow, and he couldn't even stretch his hands and feet.

Coupled with the turbid and dull air inside the sarcophagus, Chen Ziang had a frightening illusion that he was about to suffocate.

This discomfort didn't last long, because soon I remembered the harsh grinding sound, as if someone was scratching the slate with nails.