The Witch's Taste

"The priest of the King of Ghouls came to see me." Chen Ziang whispered, "Invite me to visit Zubasa."

"Ah?" Tsukimiya Suzuna seemed a little caught off guard, "Are you... going now?"

"I feel like I can't refuse, unless I directly offend the ghouls." Chen Ziang said with a wry smile.

"That's right." Yue Gong Suzuna forced a smile, "Senior, be careful, don't offend the king of ghouls again? That god is very narrow-minded and loves to hold grudges!"

"Stop." Chen Zi'ang quickly stopped, "He's still upstairs!"

"Yeah." Yuegong Lingna was silent for a moment, then whispered again, "Then I'll come over and bring Xiaozhu something to eat before I leave."

"Okay." Chen Ziang said with a sigh, "I was invited this time, and I don't know how long I will stay there. Maybe I can come back tonight, or maybe... Forget it, I will contact you when I come back. "

"Yeah, senior, be more careful."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ziang finally edited a text message, briefly explained the situation to Xia Qingyu and asked for leave, then went back upstairs again, and said to the ghoul priest:

"Let's go."

"Have you finished?" the ghoul priest said sadly, "Don't miss anyone who didn't explain, when the time comes, the backyard will catch fire..."

"There are a lot of things on my side." Chen Ziang said calmly, "I hope it won't take too long."

"If this trip goes well." The ghoul priest said meaningfully.

148. Chapter 147 The Special Characteristics of Being the Protagonist

Tsukimiya Suzuna was sitting in the car, watching the passing scenery outside the window boredly.

Originally, he wanted to completely take down the senior on this trip, but he didn't expect to be meddled by the king of ghouls...Damn it, isn't it only the love rival that needs to be guarded against?

She was a little depressed and uninterested, so she simply took out her mobile phone and began to look through the chat records between herself and her senior.

From the first message I sent, "Senior, are you asleep/Bi Xin", to the recent chat records, there are probably thousands of records - all of which are well preserved.

Even though the phone was cleaned up several times because it was full, none of the messages with senior was deleted.

Tsukimiya Suzuna quietly flipped through the many conversations with her senior, and as the memories of the past resurfaced in her mind, she couldn't help showing a gentle and happy smile.

Arriving at the door of the house, she opened the door with the spare key, pushed the door briskly and entered,

Then quickly changed into slippers, came to the living room, knelt down beside Chen Xiaozhu's rocking chair, held her hand, and said with a smile:

"Xiao Zhu, I'm going to the Rose Nebula."

"Just wait here with your brother, and I will come to pick you up with an army of [-] in a super interstellar warship with my feet on colorful auspicious clouds~"

Chen Xiaozhu didn't speak.

"Hello." Yuegong Lingna feigned dissatisfaction, stretched out her hand and pinched Chen Xiaozhu's soft cheek, "I've been away for at least half a year, do you really have nothing to say to me?"

"Don't make trouble." Chen Xiaozhu couldn't help knocking off her hands after she rubbed her face back and forth.

"Well, it's good to see that you're quite energetic." Suzuna Tsukimiya said with satisfaction, "Although I'm going to the Rose Nebula, I will send messages to Senior and you on the way, don't miss me too much~"

Chen Xiaozhu remained silent.

"I brought you some small cakes." Tsukimiya Suzuna stood up, lifted the plastic bag in her hand, "Put it in the refrigerator first."

Then she ran to the second floor again, checked all the rooms, and confirmed that Chen Ziang was not at home, probably taken to the dying place.

There was no disappointment on Yue Gong Ling Nai's face, she just jumped down from the upstairs with her hands behind her back, like a girl with a childlike innocence.

"Then I'm leaving." She came to the edge of the hall, turned around and waved to Chen Xiaozhu, "See you next time, sister sauce!"

Chen Xiaozhu didn't answer, but her right hand seemed to lift a bit.

"Oh, that's right." Yue Gong Suzuna changed her slippers, suddenly remembered something, leaned out from the hall, and said earnestly, "Xiaozhu remember to help me look after your brother, don't let him be given by some stealing cat." Take it away?"

"Otherwise, when I come back, I'll kill them all! You heard me right, all~all~kill~drop~yo~"

"You can talk about it when you come back." Chen Xiaozhu finally couldn't bear it anymore and said.

"Hahahaha~" Yue Gong Suzuna leaned against the wall and laughed for a while, then slowly calmed down again.

She looked down at her toes and said quietly:

"Although I don't want to make senior feel sad, but... I don't say goodbye to senior face to face, I feel like something is missing."

"Oh, it's so annoying, after all, there is no way..."

"Xiao Zhu, you..."

After hesitating for half a minute, Tsukimiya Suzuna said again:

"Take care of your brother during my absence."

"Then I'm leaving."

She opened the door gracefully and went out, looked up at the clear moonlight, exhaled a long breath, and suddenly recited the poem crisply:

"...until I return from the stars. Take a boat full of good food and wine and poetry and take you back to the galaxy."

Next to the car outside, Emon Goro said respectfully:

"This poem by Matsuo is not very well-known, but at this time it is just right to use it to help Miss."

"What kind of action?" Yue Gong Suzuna said with a smile, "I'm expressing my feelings."

Emon Goro didn't make any excuses, but just opened the rear door for Tsukimiya Suzuna.

But she was not in a hurry to get in the car, but turned her head to look at Chen Ziang's house, which stood quietly in the quiet night.

I will be back, senior.

wait for me.

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Chen Ziang and the ghoul sacrificed and landed in a white desert.

"Welcome to the Land of the Dying." Said the ghoul priest Yoyo, "Death's sweet home and eternal home."

"Mortal, please allow me to declare my name. I am the priest of the ghoul family, Sarah Hek. How should you call me?"

"Ask." Chen Ziang said hesitantly.

"Interesting name," Sarah Heck commented. "Three syllables, a short burst, and two struggling croons, which match the flavor of dying very well."

Chen Ziang didn't know how to answer, so he simply kept silent.

But Sarah Hek seemed to be interested, and while leading him in the white desert, he said in a poetic tone:

"Ask, how do you feel about death?"

"I don't understand what you mean." Chen Ziang said cautiously.

"I can give you three answers for your reference." Sarah Heke said grimly.

"First, death is eternal sleep."

"Second, death is the beginning of another journey."

"Third, death is a frightening nothingness."

Chen Ziang: ……………

"I've heard some kind of saying, I don't know if you've heard of it." He didn't intend to reveal his view of life and death, but changed the subject, "That kind of saying claims that the root and home of spirituality is around a big whale. There are countless little fish. To live is to suffer, and to die is to return."

"Of course I've heard of it." Sarah Heck let out a low, disdainful sneer from her throat, "The ridiculous statement of the embalming school roughly reverses and replaces the concept of life and death, you don't have to remember this A ludicrous point of view."

"Death is an eternal sleep, and the decaying body is nothing but the bondage of the spirit."

"The reason why our family uses corpses as food is not our hobby, but to help the spirit of the dead free from bondage. If you have unnecessary fear of our family because you don't understand our family's traditions, Then I should be able to explain clearly here."

"So that's it." Chen Ziang explained carefully, "The reason why I haven't come to visit for a long time is not because I have misunderstanding and prejudice against your ethnic group, but... I don't have to hide some things. The Lord of the Deep Sea works."

"Oh." Sarah Hek tried to pretend to be surprised, but there was no hint of surprise in her tone, "I see, but as far as this matter is concerned, my lord has already forgiven you."

"Ask, in fact, you don't have to worry about it, because just as my lord will not easily forgive the offense of mortals, the Lord of the Great Deep Sea will not easily give His favor."

"When you have both, you should know that you have some kind of specialness... It's the same reason as you can get the Datura sword."

"Speciality?" Chen Ziang asked in confusion, subconsciously looking at the dharma sword at his waist.

"The Mandala Sword is a powerful killing weapon from the Goddess Mandala." Sarah Hek said quietly, "It can instantly kill any being stabbed by it, whether it is entity, concept or spirit, isn't it? ?”

"How did such a terrible holy artifact fall into your hands? And there is no side effect of using it... You should have the answer in your heart, right?"

Chen Ziang fell silent.

149. Chapter 148 Negotiations with Ghouls

Accompanied and led by the ghoul priest, Chen Zi'ang crossed the long white desert, but this time he did not encounter any god incarnation unfortunately.

As the two crossed the sand dunes, the majestic outline of the gloomy and decaying city soon appeared in front of them.

The last time I was here, the streets were empty.All the dwarf residents hid in the building, but cast a sinister and terrifying sight outside through the cracks in the nailed windows.

Now that Chen Ziang passed through the city gate of Zubasa again, what he saw more often was the vibrant market.

The stalls, shops, intertwined pedestrians, and the hustle and bustle of bargaining don't look like a plane in the abyss at all, but like a mortal market full of fireworks.

Chen Ziang noticed keenly that these dwarf residents turned a blind eye to himself and Sarah Hek—it wasn't that he couldn't see it, but when he and Sarah Hek passed by, the dwarves in front would automatically move out of the way to both sides, as if The flowing water meets the river stone that cannot be washed away.

Sarah Hek didn't have any explanation for this, and Chen Ziang naturally didn't ask too much, but secretly guessed that the city of Zubasa had its own traditional rules... For example, living people and ghouls are not allowed to communicate with each other.

Following the ghoul priest, he arrived at the entrance of the black temple located underground again, only to hear Sarah Hek asking:

"From the look on your face, what's the problem?"

"I don't understand one thing." Chen Ziang asked tentatively, "Zubasa is known as a gloomy and decaying city, but what I've heard and seen so far doesn't have the slightest hint of gloomy decay."

"That's natural." Sarah Hek said quietly, "Because the real Zubasa does not refer to the dwarf city on the ground, but the holy city of our family underground."

"But I'm afraid that's not what you're concerned about... You're worried about the purpose of my family's invitation, right?"

Chen Ziang responded silently, expressing his acquiescence.

"The main purpose of inviting you to Zubasa is of course to be a guest." Sarah Heck stopped before the underground steps leading to the black temple, but did not continue to climb down the steps, but continued to say in a hoarse voice, "After all You were in the ancient city of Enrank before, and you must have heard a lot of bad things about my family from the Nightmare family."

"If we can't communicate face to face, such misunderstandings are absolutely impossible to eliminate. As you can see, we ghouls are not a cruel, evil, and ruthless lower race. In Zubasa, we can interact with dwarves. Symbiosis proves that we don't have any malice towards you low-level races—the reason why ghouls attacked you before was because we accepted the instructions of my lord witch, not because we like to kill."

"I have already felt your friendship." Chen Ziang said cautiously, "Otherwise, I would never have come here safe and sound."

"It's just friendship, but there's no trust, right?" Sarah Heck pierced through his polite rhetoric, and said bluntly, "Trust needs long-term cooperation to accumulate, so let's talk further."

"The first thing is the blood-stained pin you seized from my lord's witch after you killed her."

"Our Lord has forgiven your offense and is willing to give you the power contained in the blood-stained brooch. However, the blood-stained brooch is the identity token of our camp, and behind it is our great Supreme Mother Goddess. You want to join us The camp, in your human terms, just needs a 'letter of surrender' to please the Mother Goddess."

Submission of certificates...Chen Ziang pondered.

In the past, he would definitely not be willing to join the flesh and blood camp. After all, he was the first to join the shadow camp in the ancient city of Enrank. How can loyalty be the second master?

Even putting aside values, walking between different gods and acting as a double-faced person sounds like an obvious and dangerous act to die for.

However, these two issues have changed up to now: From a motivation point of view, because of the same faction, the high priest of Nightmare Nicole is not willing to provide information on Takano Seiko, and also needs to charge a large amount of meritorious service as a fee.

In other words, if you stay in one camp from beginning to end, once you encounter enemies belonging to this camp, not only will you not be able to get war merits, you will not be able to receive war missions, and even the intelligence channels will be restricted. I am quite disadvantaged.

As for safety, the "specificity" mentioned by Sarah Heck does not seem to be used to fool himself after careful consideration.

The strongest evidence so far is that the king of ghouls knew his relationship with the Lord of the Great Deep Sea, so he held grudges and even cursed himself because of this, but he suddenly repented inexplicably and "expressed forgiveness", and even gave the blood-stained pin As a token, he was forced to force him to accept the settlement.

This kind of thing itself is so outrageous that "there is some kind of particularity in itself", but it has become a more plausible and reasonable explanation.

If you trust this judgment, then the danger of walking between the two camps is greatly reduced.

Finally, and the most critical factor: Maybe among the powers that can be exchanged in the flesh and blood camp, there is the possibility of healing my sister?

Seeing that Chen Ziang remained silent for a long time, Sarah Heke didn't urge him, but just let him think slowly.

"...Can you tell me what the certificate is?" Chen Ziang asked tentatively.

"Simple, do you still remember that you released an incarnation of a god here when you killed my lord witch?" Sarah Hek asked in a sinister tone.

Chen Ziang was stunned for a moment, then recalled that Xia Qingyu had released the seal of "Cloud and Mist" in the city in order to eliminate the pursuers, and quickly explained:

"That was done by my companion, I don't know very well."