Oracle of Terra

"Is someone talking about you again?"

"That's not it, I just feel like I've been shot."

Scratching his back, Telles sat drinking tea in the courtyard of the Chen residence. Chen Qingyuan hadn't returned to the residence for several days because she wanted to take charge of Qin Tianjian's affairs and conduct some research assistance. As for Police Officer Chen, she followed Shi Huai. Ya, Lao Li and others went to investigate the demon-related incidents and did not come back, so the Chen family compound can actually be renamed the Te family compound.

"It's so slow."

"What's slow? I always feel that you are in a good mood recently?"

Nian looked at Telles strangely. Recently, this guy has been running around with a troublesome expression, but he was overjoyed after going to the dungeon before, and he didn't seem to be stealing. Can make him so happy?

"How much did you get?"

"Haha, why do you think so?"

"Because there is no smell of alcohol, there are only three things you can be happy about, alcohol, women, and money."

"Sounds like the traits of a top scumbag."

Telles couldn't help but feel ashamed. He could actually be happy for other things, such as the birth of his son.

"Why are you panicking? I'm still staring at your small coffers. If I want to say, the business I talked about before made more money than you."

"I just remembered, how much did you earn from the Taifu?"

Nian silently made a comparison of eight.

"8000?"

"Add a zero."

"Damn it! The rich woman raised me! No, why are there so many? You won't steal the material fee, will you?"

"That's not enough, fight a city, the old man said that I can deduct as much as I can, and I will count as an extra commission. The original reward was only to give me [-] million."

"Hahaha, you don't want to do some tofu projects, do you?"

"Who do you look down on? It's just some hidden means. I can still make a few bucks with a little thought on synthetic materials. This order can help me make a lot of interesting toys."

"So, the matter of taking care of me..."

"If you are willing to come with me six or seven times a day..."

"Ahem, let's forget it, I think accuracy is better than the number of times."

Telles thinks it's better not to mention the high probability of winning the bid for the time being, because he feels that he may die if he says it.

"What are you two talking about?"

Xi, who returned to the other garden from the atrium with the drawing board, watched the two chatting there.

"Talking about your sister made eight hundred million."

"Oh."

With Xi's indifferent expression, Telles had an ominous premonition.

"Well, Miss Xi, I wonder how much your paintings sell for?"

"I don't care about this, but every time I just gave the little girl Filin some random drawing. I heard from her that she is quite popular in Victoria and Letania, but I think a group of fools have no power against It’s stupid to drive up the price of essays for boarding, about tens of millions for a painting? It’s not as good as last year’s [-] million.”

"It's too ordinary, I can't accept it."

Telles now only thinks that a person who is complacent about the rewards of King Zhen's mansion is an idiot. Can he lie flat and let the rich woman directly put steel wool on him?

"So why do you care so much about money? For us, the most important thing about money is just having fun."

"One thing to say, it's true, but isn't fun the biggest motivation for life?"

"But the fun of the two of us has to be found in you, don't you think?"

"It just so happens that the annoying little Li Boli is gone, go back to your room."

"Hey, you two, it's only noon now, don't you think you want to make it into the evening?"

There was a drop of cold sweat streaming down Telles' forehead. Although he was indeed suffocated, it didn't mean that he was really going through a terrible experience, brother. He just felt that he was suffering from kidney deficiency and would die.

"But speaking of which, what about Skadi?"

"She's sleeping. Although she's in a stable state these days, if you're not around, it's better for her to stay in a dormant state. After all, my stupid sister and I can't handle her state."

"Well, although I'm good at fine work, spiritual healing is beyond the scope of my knowledge. Sister Ling should be quite good at this, but she probably has to stay at the border of Dayan for a while."

"That's true, but did you arrange the figures in order of seniority?"

Telles glanced vaguely at the curves of the two of them, and was hit with a stick.

"It hurts, hurts, what kind of stick do you use?"

"Then you judge other people's body properly?"

"I thought you guys didn't care about this, but actually I think any shape is fine."

"Then don't talk too much, you don't want to sleep tonight."

"Be gentle?"

"Never."

Telles only felt that he probably didn't have time to help investigate the case these two days.

It can only be handed over to Lei Wen and Cyril.

"Your Excellency Lei Wen, how likely do you think what His Majesty said is possible?"

"Your Excellency Cyril, it is best to treat some of the predictions that His Majesty said as true, because some of His Majesty's predictions and conjectures are always correct."

"I remember His Majesty said that his luck is very good, but it is expected that this kind of thing can also be successful?"

"It's probably similar to the flashes of inspiration of those inventors before, but His Majesty always has flashes of inspiration."

"There is such a thing."

At noon, one person and one bird wandered over the eaves and walked towards the location marked by Telles.

"Huh? That is?"

But what Cyril didn't expect was that he saw the first person at their destination.

"I said Fen sausage dragon, what's the point of your coming here?"

"Have you been in business for too long and forgotten the basic principles of search?"

"what?"

Seeing Chen asking the staff here with the token, Shi Huaiya began to reflect on whether she had missed something, but after thinking about it, she realized that she knew almost no information, and she could understand a hammer.

"So what are you asking?"

"Ask the Candle Bearer Superintendent why he sent people in and out of the place during this period of time and the investigation. This is the itinerary I got from Mr. Zuo Le. The Candle Bearer Master Lu Ping heard that he helped the Superintendent. She has done a lot of things, and I heard that traces of human experiments were found in her residence, but because the kidnappers were all people wandering on the edge of the city and some criminals, and the power of Candle Holder is strong enough, so No one found out, but it wasn't until the case of Prince Zhen's Mansion that these things were exposed in broad daylight."

"Hey, I heard that the Qin Tianjian is all gone, and that Lord Liang still has a very ugly expression."

"Well, there are rumors about this matter inside and outside Miyagi, but it is true, all the staff of Qin Tianjian have become demons."

"I remember it was called Xie Chong?"

"Ursas is called a demon. Tallulah is used to talking about it when I chat with you. Didn't you hear about it?"

"No, I thought demons and evil spirits were two different things."

"It is indeed possible to distinguish them by region and habit, but in essence they are still the same extraterritorial creatures, intruders on the border of human civilization. Sometimes I wonder if there are only such monsters outside the border of civilization."

"When you mentioned it like that, I remembered that the stinky fortune teller mentioned the civilization border expansion plan."

"I have heard of that plan, but from what I heard from that Mr. Patriot, it is still a big problem to start exploring beyond the boundaries of civilization with the current resources and strength of Terra. The external environment is very poor, there are serious problems in resource supply, and the second is the acclimatization caused by the harsh environment, normal people generally can’t last long, but the Sarkaz seem to be very adaptable to the harsh environment.”

"Um........"

Involuntarily, Shi Huaiya thought of the place [Shupunos]. I heard that after going there, the snow monster team and many people's environmental adaptability and their own physique and even some physical abilities have been improved. Telles that guy just made [Shupenos] for training to explore the boundaries of civilization, right?

"what happened?"

"No, but what are we doing here investigating the water system?"

"Is it because of the possibility of 'poisoning'?"

Cyril Linguang, who jumped down from the eaves, looked at the two with a smile.

"It's a coincidence to meet you two here."

"Mr. Cyril, you are here... wait, what do you mean by poisoning?"

Shi Huaiya suddenly had a bad guess.

"Just as you think, I suspect that Liu Xiangru used some kind of substance that could not be detected by normal means and put it into the water conservancy system of the entire Dayan capital. Trading and even human trafficking, as well as kidnapping and turning right, but the access to these water conservancy systems is obviously unnecessary, and it is completely irreconcilable with the "experiment" of Liu Xiangru, so the biggest possibility is that he put something .”

"......"

Thinking of the drinking water she drank recently, Shi Huaiya suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

"After all, the only thing that can be filtered in Dayan's tap water circulation system is chemical toxic substances, but if it involves existence that does not belong to the scope of Originium science, then the situation is not so simple."

Previously, Chen Huijie had asked several 'uncles' whom she knew at the Qin Tianjian to ask for several research reports on demons. I have to say that because of the events after the Qin Tianjian was completely destroyed, the actions of the Tianshi Mansion were true. It happened very quickly, the corpse was just delivered in the morning, and now a specific research report has been published, but it is probably because the Tianshi Mansion itself has done some research on demons, combined with the research results at the border, it can be concluded that There are many conclusions.

"So it's okay?"

"Miss Shihuaiya, you don't have to worry. My lord Telles has protective spells for everyone in Sochi. At least you don't have to worry about the parasitism of demons. But the serious problem we are facing now is Dayan's. resident issues."

"Yes, according to the report, this envoy first visited the water conservancy facilities about two years ago, that is to say, during these two years, most of the people in Dayan have drank and been injected with some kind of water conservancy facility. It can be said that there are almost no exceptions for the water of things. After all, whether it is bureaucrats or nobles, or even royal family members in the imperial city, they drink water that also belongs to the circulatory system, but nothing has been triggered for such a long time. If you look at it, maybe the result of this kind of drinking water will need some kind of triggering condition, I heard that Jiang Qing, the dancer who escaped on Lianhong Street before, died?"

"Yes, according to what my lord Telles said, she seems to be a failure, and she turned into something like muddy water after death."

"If that's the case, maybe Jiang Qing is the case of 'most people'."

"most of the people?"

"Yes, most of the demons that change after drinking water with a certain substance will probably dissipate after death, and their own abilities are not too strong, and judging from the fate of those affected singers, they and Most likely, Jiang Qing was just trying to abduct the abandoned son of the little prince. To use an analogy, the person who drinks the water is a low-cost assembly line product, and the person who left the corpse like the young envoy Lu Ping was probably prepared by her. product of the

"Why do you feel that you are speaking clearly and logically, aren't you a policeman?"

"I have been to a lecture given by Telles to the Sarkaz people, and I can also understand the countermeasures of the Sarkaz warlocks. After all, this is not a prejudice. Because of the situation of the Sarkaz people, the criminals among them are relatively It happens frequently, but in recent years, most of the Sarkaz people around Ursas and Longmen have a normal way out, so the crime rate of the Sarkaz people has decreased.”

But Chen Huijie was still very distressed.

"The problem now is the triggering conditions. Mr. Cyril, do you have any clues? Or did that guy Telles say anything?"

"About this matter, it's better to let His Excellency Lei Wen explain it. After all, it is the most professional in the matter of demons."

"Of course, in this matter, the method to convert the residents of the capital into demons is also very simple, that is to 'induce' from the upper-level demons to the lower-level existences, the higher-level demons...that is to say, existences like Jiang Qing , it is necessary to torture and expand the dark side of the human heart to induce the parasitic 'seeds'. The scope of this situation is relatively small, and most of the cases are one-on-one. As for the other courtyard on Lianhong Street This is what I saw, because of the sense of fear, those singers and dancers on Lianhong Street became secondary demons. This type of demons do not have too much intelligence, they just devour and evolve according to their instincts, and they want to expand the range of victims on a large scale If so, then there are only higher-level existences, that is, the demon lord, who should be called the king of evil in Dayan."

"The king and the lord always feel different, don't they?"

"Actually, since the era after the decline of gods, demon lords have hardly appeared, and the evil king recorded in Dayan is also in the era before the true dragon of Dayan destroyed the remaining gods. Go ask Nian or Miss Xi Perhaps some detailed explanations can be obtained, but let’s skip here first, the strongest existence among the demons is the God of Demons, but that is almost an existence that only exists in imagination.”

It is also the height that Telles and its former friends want him to reach, to become the god of the demon group to cut off the harm of demons. After all, there are too many unknown parts of these things, but if the level and level of demons are high enough, in To a large extent, it can suppress the disasters of the demon itself, and it can also play a role in the exploration of the borders of civilization.

"In other words, Liu Xiangru is the demon lord?"

"No, she's probably just a human being, or she wants to become a demon lord in an instant, rather than the existence of the so-called superior demons and great evil spirits, but it's not that easy to become a demon lord."

At least Lei Wen still remembered that he had eaten the demons for nearly a few decades before he achieved the power of the demon lord, but that power could no longer grow after absorbing a certain limit of demons, or could not continue to grow.

If he continues to grow, his existence itself will become a disaster that endangers civilized society. Even if he doesn't take the initiative to do something, just there, he can keep breeding new demons.

"Because she's just a Phaedia, it's fine if she's an ancient species, but if it's just a Phaedia, she's not the one with the rich blood of the ancestors. I'm afraid she won't be able to combine the evil spirits with her own power well."

"The ancient species, I also said this in Telles's class, probably the race that Terra has superior abilities at present?"

"Yes, for example, Ms. Chen's Dragon Race, my Pegasus Race, and Mr. Herag's Eagle Race, as well as Duke Tallulah's Drake and Ms. Sereya's Vayvan, these races have Compared with other races, their blood potential has a certain degree of superiority, let alone some that can be seen differently."

"Wendigo..."

Chen Huijie can understand the power gap between races very well. At least according to Telles, the old man can only be regarded as above-average among Wendigo, but as far as modern Wendigo is concerned, he is already very strong. the ones.

"So, Liu Xiangru's target will most likely be the ancient species, and the closely guarded little prince will no longer be the target, so Miss Chen, you need to be careful."

"I understand, but I heard that Phaedia and dragons have similar family characteristics, so did she choose dragons?"

Involuntarily, Chen thought of his former boss, the current Ursus Police Chief Nine, who also had a pair of beautiful horns.

"Probably so, but my attainments in biology are far inferior to that one, so I won't say much."

"Hey, old man, let's not talk about the sausage dragon, since you are talking about ancient species."

Listening to the discussion, Shi Huaiya had a bad guess.

"Will Margaret, Maria, and Xindreya be targeted?"