The Witch's Taste

He has already noticed that whether Ambassador Pierre is threatening or slowing down his tone, it is actually a well-controlled camouflage expression, not showing his true feelings.

Moreover, he also had some kind of more obscure intuition without evidence, that is, the mining ship that Pierre wanted to park in did not only have simple mining functions.

Of course, there is no need to tell Xia Qingyu about this kind of speculation without logical support, otherwise there is a high probability that he will only get a ridicule.

After returning to the unit, Xia Qingyu didn't say much, and sent the two of them away.

Chen Ziang returned to the office, looked at Yue Gong Ling Nai's empty desk, and couldn't help sighing.

I don't know where Suzuna is now or what's going on.

He sat down on the chair, unlocked the computer, and suddenly noticed that someone in the mailbox had sent a new email.

I clicked on it and saw that the letter was from "Interstellar Internet Communications Company". I didn't recognize it, but the tone at the beginning of the letter was extremely familiar:

"Senior, how are you? Do you miss me~ Suzuna's spaceship has left the Percyon Passage and started to jump towards the Rose Nebula."

"To be honest, I originally came to my senior's house that night to see my senior. I wanted to say goodbye face-to-face, but I was worried that I would not be able to help crying... I didn't want my senior to see me crying, and it happened that senior went to the deathbed again. environment, so I will bid farewell to Xiaozhu first, and hope that senior will not be too sad."

"The reason why I want to go to the Rose Nebula is because there is something very important that I need to go to deal with in person. Let Suzuna keep the suspense first, and when I return from the Rose Nebula, I will tell Senior everything."

"Life on the spaceship is very monotonous, because most of the time is spent in faster-than-light transitions, so I sleep in the decompression chamber."

"But once in a stable flight state, you can still come out for some activities. I took a few beautiful pictures of the starry sky through the porthole, processed the grayscale and saturation, and showed them to the seniors."

The following drawings are full of photos of various cosmic stars and celestial bodies.

"Of course, it is said that the Rosette Nebula has more beautiful interstellar gas and dust, which is why it is called the 'Rose Nebula'. After arriving, I will show more beautiful photos to seniors."

"During the time I'm away, seniors should also remember to eat well and sleep on time."

"Love you~"

Attached at the end are three selfies taken by Suzuna Tsukimiya. They are smiling Biscissorhands, puffing up her cheeks to pretend to be angry, and playfully blinking her left eye. With her outstanding and sweet appearance, she looks very good no matter what pose she poses. pleasing to the eye.

After reading the email, Chen Ziang was in a good mood, and saved all three selfies as a file, and then began to deal with official business.

Well, today we will get all the year-end materials!

156. Chapter 155 The Origin of the Mandala Sword

After finishing the year-end materials, Chen Ziang took the time to go to the big information database again, and asked Rio Hoikaze about "cloud and fog".

"This sealed item is too early." Rio Hokaze replied, "At that time, the big information database had just been established, and many things were still incomplete, so the relevant information was not sufficient."

"But whoever brought it back into the warehouse should have a record, right?" Chen Ziang asked puzzled.

"Kikuchi Ukyo." Rio Hokaze replied.

"Is that the senior who was born with super high spiritual vision, built a large information library by himself, and then suddenly disappeared because of his high spiritual vision?" Chen Ziang asked in surprise.

"That's him." Hokaze Rio sighed, "He built the big information database, so he has the final say on how to enter the information. It's a pity that Kikuchi Ukyo is the kind of guy who cherishes words like gold, so he didn't leave any information. There is too much information, just a general description of the characteristics of the 'cloud' and the dangers of using it, but not how he got it."

Chen Zi'ang continued to check the relevant information, and it was indeed said that after Yunwu got out of trouble, he would quickly search for nearby life forms to devour them, and then use this to inflate himself.

This kind of devouring + expanding behavior is almost unlimited, so once it appears in a densely populated colony, it must be an extremely serious disaster.

As for how to deal with the cloud and fog, the intelligence library did not mention it.

"If you want to study how to solve the cloud, it's actually not difficult." Rio Hokaze suddenly said, "Look at this."

She handed over a document, and Chen Ziang took it and started to read it.

Unexpectedly, this information was also left by Ukyo Kikuchi, and it tells about a very powerful artifact:

Mandala sword.

"The Mandala sword is a magic weapon from the goddess Mandala." Kikuchi Ukyo wrote, "It is said that the goddess Mandala is extremely aggressive and aggressive, and most of her followers also take it as their duty to subdue demons and demons, so He is shared by many Onmyoji families."

"The mandala magic sword he gave has almost the same exaggerated power. You only need to stab the monster, and you can kill it ignoring most of the rules."

"The only problem is that if you kill a weird person with a mandala sword, you will inevitably suffer the same degree of severe pain that can even be fatal. It is a pain that directly affects your own spirituality. Therefore, in the family of ancient Onmyoji Once there is a situation where the Mandala sword needs to be used, the family often selects a person who is willing to die with Weird to hold the sword, which is called a 'human sacrifice'."

"I'm curious about what will happen if a robot is allowed to kill with a Datura sword. In any case, if we get this sword, it will definitely help us deal with the weirdness."

"That's right." Rio Hokaze said suddenly, "The time Kikuchi Ukyo wrote this information was just before he disappeared."

"What do you think?"

"The method of using a robot is not feasible." Chen Ziang said with a sigh, "The mandala magic sword needs to be held by its master in order to exert its ability to destroy. I let Lu Yunfeng hold it to kill monsters a long time ago, and it didn't work at all."

"But you haven't suffered any pain 'enough to cause death.'" Hokaze Rio said.

"Indeed." Chen Ziang sighed.

He recalled the words of the ghoul priest Sarah Hek, "All the gifts that fate has prepared for you have hidden prices behind them."

So, what is the price of using the Datura sword?

Being targeted by two gods, fighting back and forth?

After leaving the unit, Chen Ziang decided to go to the dying place tonight, agreeing to Sarah Hek's request, and trying to help him remove the cloud.

In any case, since the Mandala Sword can indeed kill Weirdness, it should also work on the things left by the cloud and mist. As for the price...

Although I don't know why there is no price, but let's ignore it.

You can't put all your eggs in the same basket, and you can't rely too much on the Nightmare Clan. It is necessary to find more partners and sources of information.

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When he came to the city of Zubasa, Chen Ziang, who was wearing a mandala magic sword, successfully met the ghoul priest Salahek.

"Have you decided?" Sarah Heck asked grimly.

"The reason why you chose me is because of it?" Chen Ziang patted the sword on his waist and asked tentatively.

"The Mandala Sword." Sarah Hek laughed hoarsely, "Not everyone can use it easily."

"I need information about Yunwu." Chen Ziang said bluntly.

"Okay, come with me." Sarah Hek said.

He led Chen Ziang into the underground black altar, walked through long corridors and corridors, and finally stopped at the door of a room.

Most of the internal buildings of the black altar are connected by corridors, and there are almost no doors. All the halls are open.But this room not only has a door, but also has a strange and complicated cipher circle on it, which is drawn from the door to the entire wall.

It looks like some kind of extremely powerful seal.

"The distortion left by the cloud is inside." Sarah Hek replied, "The dead part was taken out by my lord, and the living part was also killed by us."

"But there are still some 'immortal' parts left, we have nothing to do about it, so we can only use your mandala magic sword to completely get rid of them."

"Either dead or alive?" Chen Ziang asked tentatively, asking him to give more information, "What do you mean?"

"Well, there are not only two possibilities of survival and death in this world, you should already know this." Sarah Hek said lightly, "The spiritual beings who will enter the dying state are almost all those who belong to the 'dying people' consciousness, which is also a state of immortality."

"Of course, people who are dying will eventually return to death, and some individuals who have been assimilated by pollution cannot die naturally...but they can be killed by the Datura sword, it's as simple as that."

The information Sarah Heke provided was too simple, which made Chen Ziang a little unhappy.

However, if you think about it carefully, it may be because human reason has a limit and cannot understand too much forbidden knowledge, so Sarah Hek can only say some irrelevant things.

Thinking about it this way makes it even more unpleasant.

"Let me in." Chen Ziang made up his mind.

"I wish you a safe return." Salahek said a rare human word, then opened the door on the sealed wall and gently pushed Chen Ziang in.

The entire underground space of the black altar is illuminated by a brazier filled with burning charcoal, and this room is no exception.

Illuminated by the light from the brazier in the corner, Chen Ziang finally saw the monster sealed here.

It was...a monster that I don't know how to describe.To use an analogy, it's like countless villains made out of plasticine and roughly kneaded together by a guy with strange aesthetics.

The monster's body is a large amount of wriggling flesh and blood. Countless hands, feet, torsos, and heads extend from this lump of flesh and blood. Some are dwarves, others are ghouls, and they are scrambling to wave outwards. It seemed that they wanted to break free from it, and it seemed that they wanted to drag the only living creature in the room that did not belong to them—that is, Chen Ziang, into their flesh and blood.

Chen Ziang quickly pulled out the mandala magic sword, cut off the hands and feet that were entangled with him, and at the same time received a reminder to obtain the fire seed.

Obviously, these severed hands and feet were judged to be separate weird individuals by the Mandala Sword, so the fire can be obtained from the process of killing them.

But these hands and feet are too many, even though Chen Ziang swung his sword as fast as possible, he still quickly invaded from the air where his sword passed, and grabbed his body greedily and ferociously - the place where he was caught is said to be There was a melting pain, as if his own flesh and blood were being quickly swallowed by the other party.

Presumably this is why Sarah Heck has nothing to do with him... He is neither alive nor dead, and those death-death spells have no effect on him.Even if an army of ghouls were sent to tear apart this lump of flesh and blood, the result would be more and more.

Chen Ziang held back the pain, and quietly activated the ability of the blood-stained pin to lock the injury on his body so as not to affect the next action.

He continued to swing the Mandala sword with his right hand, and all the flesh and blood that he passed were scattered like butter cut by a hot knife. The breath spread towards them along the contact point.

157. Chapter 156 Black Cat and White Cat

Sarah Heke waited silently outside the room, not at all worried that Chen Ziang would die inside, causing him to waste time outside.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ziang finally opened the door and came out.

At this moment, he was in a state of distress, his whole body was covered with rotten flesh and blood, making him look like he was fished out of jam.The exposed skin also turned red, as if something had digested his entire epidermis.

"Perfect application." Sarah Hek said in a complimenting tone, "The perfect application of the blood-stained pin, combined with the Datura sword...you are indeed the best person to solve this problem."

Chen Ziang smiled wryly, and this smile caused the pain in the wound on his face.

Indeed, a blood-stained pin that consumes fire to forcibly lock the wound is equal to immortality in a short period of time; coupled with the indestructible characteristics of the Datura sword, it is equal to the strongest spear plus the strongest shield, which is indeed worthy of Sarah Hek. commend.

"You should have the means of treatment?" Chen Ziang asked for confirmation.

"Of course, of course." Sarah Hek nodded again and again, "For the heroes who return in triumph, our clan will of course give the best treatment."

He laid down the scepter in his hand, pointed it at Chen Ziang, and murmured some kind of eerie spell.

Soon, Chen Ziang found that the wounds on his body were healing rapidly... The price was that almost every part of his body was itchy.

However, in the end, he couldn't show his timidity in front of Sarah Hek, so he could only grit his teeth and endure it.

In this operation, Blood Spot's consumption of fire seeds was extremely exaggerated. He burned more than 800 fire seeds in a short period of time, but he used the mandala magic sword to kill flesh and blood hands and feet, and the fire seeds he absorbed were only more than 600 points... ...so bad for loot.

Fortunately, in exchange for the cooperation of the ghouls and the opportunity to join the flesh and blood camp, it can't be regarded as a real loss.

"Why are your spells so itchy?" Chen Ziang tried to pretend to be casual and asked.

"This set of spells is used to repair corpses." Sarah Heck replied, "Some corpses may be severely injured before death, so they are mutilated and not very beautiful, so this spell can regenerate dead flesh and blood, making the corpse beautiful Elegant."

"As for itching... I can only say that you are the first living person to receive this spell, and we didn't know what side effects it would have before."

Chen Ziang: ……………

Cooperate with me as a guinea pig, right?

"Then, can I learn this set of spells?" He asked again tentatively.

Itching is itching, considering that it can quickly repair injuries and regenerate flesh and blood, those side effects can basically be ignored.

"Yes." Sarah Hek let out a low, weird laugh, "As long as you serve my lord voluntarily and dedicate your whole being to the king of ghouls, you can use his power to cast this spell .”

"So that's it." Chen Ziang changed the subject, "Since I got rid of the monster inside, the matter of the flesh and blood camp..."

"Follow me, please." Sarah Hek made a "please" gesture.

The two walked through the long corridor again and came to the entrance of the black altar.

In the center of the cellar-like hall, there was a brazier at some point, with orange-red, active flames beating in it, as if it had tenacious vitality, constantly licking the edge of the brazier with tongues of flame.

"Congratulations." Sarah Hek said in surprise, "The Mother Goddess of Flesh has been pleased, and you have successfully been allowed to join our Flesh camp."

"From now on, you can obtain meritorious service from blood-stained pins by killing individuals from the opposing faction. Of course, our war altar will also be open to you, and you can use meritorious service to promote your military rank, or exchange for corresponding powers. "

Chen Ziang turned his attention to the brazier, and sure enough, he saw the power exchange list unfolded in front of him.

The military rank is still a lamb, and promotion requires 100 points of merit. After all, it is impossible for the flesh and blood camp to share the military rank with the shadow camp.

There are three capabilities list here, namely:

[Scythe of Yin and Cold] (evolution direction: substrate), further upgrades require 1000 points of merit.

[Plague Walker]: Summon a terrifying giant worm carrying pathogens, which will spread plague and death in all directions. The exchange price is 500 merit points.

[The Name of God Pan]: You will be favored by God Pan, with extremely strong vitality and male fertility, the exchange price is 200 points of merit.

Chen Ziang silently browsed through the list of functions.He still has more than 500 merit points, which is not enough to continue to upgrade the Cold Scythe, and the name of Plague Walker and God Pan... To be honest, he doesn't want to give it away for free.

Then upgrade it.