Chapter 54 The Wizard’s Solution to the Problem
At the entrance of the stairs.
Xiao En saw Benjamin with a serious look on his face. He was still dressed as usual, holding the black umbrella called 'Liuguang' in his hand. He reached out and handed over an investigation file and said in a deep voice: " To make a long story short."
"This matter is a bit troublesome."
"Please take a look at the case record."
Xiao En reached out to take it and got on the carriage heading to the university town. The content on it was relatively detailed, including files on police investigations and inquiries, as well as records of other people's investigations. Hank followed the entire incident and was currently trying to find a solution.
The person who died committed suicide, and one of the mentally disturbed people has recovered, but is currently emotionally unstable and slightly demented.
Xiao En looked over it quickly, raised his head and said, "They summoned spiritual creatures?"
Benjamin nodded slightly and said, "Yes."
"But the ceremony did not It is not completely completed, and the door to the spiritual world is only half open.”
"Hank suspects something has escaped."
Indescribable nonsense.
Xiao En can’t judge whether something has escaped from the case records. This incomplete ritual can summon anything. Weird existences in the spirit world are very dangerous and can hardly be seen by the naked eye. You must have inspiration to detect their traces.
“Have you contacted the mystical scholar?” Xiao En put down the file and asked.
Benjamin nodded and said: "Gemma is already on the way. Those antiques used by college students as ritual media are also a bit unusual. They seem to be an ancient relic."
"I have sent people to investigate."
Is there a problem with the ritual medium?
Isn’t it possible that some old guys will be summoned from the spirit world?
"What antique?" Xiao En said solemnly.
Benjamin recalled: "An ancient coat of arms, possibly hundreds of years old, said to come from a declining noble family."
This is stacking death BUFF.
Xiao En nodded silently, preparing to go over and take a look before making a judgement.
Benjamin hesitated for a moment and said softly: "Since the investigation of this matter began, Hank's state has been a bit wrong."
"I was worried that something would go wrong, so I applied for you to come. Help.”
Hank?
Xiao En's expression was confused. When he saw him two days ago, Hank was still in good spirits.
He nodded slightly and said: "I understand."
No. 126, Kaixuan Road.
The meeting place of this group of daring guys was in the student apartment near the university town. The place had been blocked by the police. Xiao En adjusted his black windbreaker and followed Benjamin quickly into the scene area. .
"The breath of mysterious knowledge." Xiao En sniffed.
I don't know if it's because he touched the critical line of madness last time. Xiao En has now become more sensitive to mysterious knowledge. He doesn't even need to identify spells, but he can already feel a trace of the remaining traces of the ritual. Extraordinary people of the wizard path have the strongest spell recognition ability, and their rich mystical knowledge also allows them to judge the enemy's spell abilities in advance.
As for the extraordinary ones on the warrior side, many of them are reckless men who are very good at cutting people, but not much else.
Everything around me looks normal.
Perhaps due to the influx of breath from the spiritual world, the temperature in the room dropped significantly, and there was a slight chill.
Hank's figure came from upstairs.
His expression was quite haggard, and his eyes were bloodshot. He glanced at Xiao En and said, "You're here."
Why did Hank become like this?
Xiao En frowned and said in a deep voice: "Are you okay? You seem to be in poor spirits."
Hank shook his head and said: "It's okay. It's not a big problem."
Investigators will directly perceive the traces left by contact with strange existences, and their rationality values will decrease invisibly. They can only judge the situation through the external mental state.
Hank's current appearance is obviously the result of a rapid decline in rationality. He looks a little anxious and has a strong smell of cigarette smoke.
No wonder Benjamin was a little worried about his mental state.
Xiao En quickly followed: "Did you find anything?"
Hank nodded and said: "Yes. Follow me."
The corridor on the second floor.
Xiao En smelled a strong smell of blood as soon as he came up. The master bedroom directly opposite was full of blood stains. The police should not have touched the scene much. On the big bed not far away, you can see the outline of a human-shaped blood stain. Look It was shocking to see that the whole bed was almost soaked in blood.
"Suicide, cut your throat, your neck is almost broken."
"The blood is almost drained." Hank said softly.
Xiao En just glanced at it and said in a deep voice: "Where is the ceremony site?"
This is not the ceremony site, but the result of the ceremony's backlash.
The spirit senses a negative emotion of pain and regret.
"The small room on the north side of the corridor." Benjamin said.
This apartment building is quite large. It should be rented by a group of rich kids. It has three floors. There is a small garden outside. There is a completely enclosed small room in the corridor to the north. It should be a second bedroom, but inside Everything was moved away, the windows were sealed with black cloth, and some nondescript ritual patterns were painted on the ground.
These are probably not the work of professionals, because there is no incense that leads to the spiritual world. Connecting to the spiritual world often requires a big man to cover it, otherwise you may be targeted by wandering evil spirits.
Using the understanding from previous life games, the challenge level of the spirit world is very high, and extraordinary people with average strength are best not to go there.
In the center of the room is the strange coat of arms that Benjamin mentioned.
On the top is a black horse with mist-like spreading wings. The painting is relatively abstract. It should be the family emblem of an ancient noble.
Xiao En moved and felt confused.
In an instant.
There are strange remaining traces in the entire room. They are water-like traces that are invisible to the naked eye. They are spread all over the corners, showing a faint blue color. There are also some kind of humanoid creatures on the walls. Crawling handprints.
"The ritual was just halfway completed when the creatures from the spirit world entered the real world."
"But they didn't notice it at all."
The spirit monster had probably crawled around in a circle , got in front of each ritual performer and observed for a long time, and confirmed that there was no powerful extraordinary person among them, and then started to take action.
Shawn tried to deduce the situation in his mind.
A strange spirit invisible to the naked eye has arrived. It has no legs and crawls on its arms. It has observed everyone, but the college students who were performing the ceremony were still unaware of it, and even laughed and frightened those around them. The marks on the corners showed signs of a fight between them.
There were three men and two women, and it was probably the girl who was frightened.
Hank stared at Xiao En in front of him, observing his movement in the room, and suddenly said: "Can you see it?"
Xiao En nodded silently.
Hank didn't know whether it was envy or regret, he couldn't help but sigh softly.
Too much inspiration is not necessarily a good thing.
Hank could only feel it vaguely, but Xiao En saw it with his eyes, and the difference was too big.
The weirdness is almost invisible in Xiao En's eyes.
“There is something more found here.”
Hank led Xiao En towards another room and whispered: “It was left by the crazy person. She left it on the mirror A paragraph."
"By the way. She is a part-time writer in school."
Xiao En touched the cold sweat on his forehead after hearing this. The death BUFF here was almost full.
A broken mirror. There seemed to be signs of a struggle here. Xiao En found a torn corner of his clothes and an incomplete sentence written in red lipstick on the mirror.
——"The young man thought he finally had the power to protect the one he loved...until one day...he stood in front of the mirror and saw a ferocious humanoid monster..."
Writer’s crazy inspiration.
The crazy girl must have seen some vision, so she wrote this line of text in her last moment of madness.
The spirit is trembling.
Xiao En stared at the mirror in front of him and saw a picture flashing by for a moment. A young woman with a painful and regretful expression was writing something with a confused expression. In front of her, on the originally intact mirror Cracks gradually appeared, as if a strange hand wanted to stretch out from the mirror world.
Consciousness is restored.
Xiao En knew that he had just been passively tested for inspiration. Fortunately, his will was not affected, and the moment of inspiration would not hurt his rationality.
"Ever since I gradually learned the truth about the monster kingdom and felt the despair of the world."
"It seems that ordinary weird creatures have no effect on me."
Xiao En just sensed Normally, if an investigator has a flash of inspiration and makes a check, it will also affect their rationality, because they will feel the same, as if they are victims, indirectly facing the indescribable strangeness. biology.
But Xiao En has no impact at all. These weird and horrifying scenes are not worth mentioning compared with the despair of the world!
He ignored them even more since he was not afraid yet.
Xiao En silently glanced at Hank beside him. In fact, Hank should be able to solve this mission without him taking action, because he probably already knew the answer, so he looked so tired.
Hank walked to the balcony and lit a pipe: "Do you have the answer?"
Xiao En nodded slightly and said: "I probably guessed it."
"But I don't know where it is hiding yet."
Hank took a deep breath, looked into the distance with his bloodshot eyes, then took out his notebook, wrote a row of words, and handed it to Sean next to him.
——"Ancient out-of-control people."
Xiao En took a look at it and wrote on it: "People with high inspiration may be early demon hunters."
They are investigating The predecessor of the members of the Order and the Night Watchman.
Hank looked at Xiao En's handwriting and was silent for a while.
——"He saw himself in the mirror, and I had seen it too."
Xiao En was silent.
He actually saw it before, but he was still a human being.
Also acceptable.
The investigators' high inspiration may also affect themselves. In that flash of inspiration, they may also see themselves looking like monsters.
Some people can't accept this.
In contrast, those extraordinary beings with low inspiration are much happier, because they can't see anything, they can only feel the growth of power and become stronger. Maybe one day, they will understand the truth of the promotion sequence and know He had long since become a monster.
But at that time, they had experienced a lot and were able to accept it all.
Besides, their inspiration is too low. Without the help of special spells, they usually cannot see all this. However, investigators can easily detect their own changes, so they know more and are better than others. People suffer more.
In the land of weirdness, ignorance is also a kind of happiness.
Hank is a good man.
Xiao En reached out and patted his shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "It's time for you to take a good rest and give yourself a long vacation."
"You have already touched the crazy warning line twice this year."< br>
“Leave it to me to handle this.”
Investigators are also mortals, and there will be a day when they can’t handle it anymore.
Hank was about to shake his head, but looking at Xiao En's firm eyes, he finally said slowly: "Okay."
"If there are any problems, please inform me immediately."
Shawn smiled, took one out of Hank's hand, and said calmly: "Just leave it to me."
A loss of control of ancient evil spirits.
In order to protect the one he loved, he embarked on the path to becoming a transcendent. He thought that in this way he would have the power to protect everything, but one day, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and saw himself in the mirror. .
A hideous and terrifying monster!
This is the cruelest truth about the weird country. Before today's professional promotion system was fully formed, the chance of ancient extraordinary beings losing control was even higher than now.
There were no psychiatrists in that era, and extraordinary people relied on their own will to resist.
When he discovered that the supernatural power he sought to protect his beloved had turned himself into a dangerous and terrifying monster, the inner world of this extraordinary man collapsed.
After his death, his soul became an evil spirit in the spiritual world.
Hank probably separated from his ex-wife for similar reasons. He probably still loved his wife, but he was very decisive and made a decision before everything was irreversible.
And that monster from the spirit world has probably done something irreversible.
So it was trapped in the spiritual world and twisted into an indescribable monster.
"This weird incident is not suitable for Hank to continue investigating. It will hurt his inner world."
Hank is obviously a little unable to bear it.
Not because he sensed traces of strange existence, but because all this awakened some of his dusty memories.
Xiao En's ability to guess all this is also related to Hank's current mental state. The investigator will not suddenly lose so much rationality. Hank was obviously affected by something.
The biggest possibility is that they have had similar experiences.
Hank has already touched the danger warning line twice this year and cannot let this incident be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
So Sean decided to take over all this!
He has no worries in this world, and has already accepted the reality that he will slowly turn into a monster, so even if his inspiration resonates, Xiao En will not fall into it.
What the investigators fear most is to be completely brought into the perspective of the victim and the strange existence, and to perceive all traces of the supernatural.
“Be like an audience.”
“No matter how the inspiration resonates, you are always just an audience, just like watching a horror movie.”
Shaun En is one of the few Then, he gestured slightly towards Benjamin at the door of the room, and said in a solemn voice: "Let the others evacuate."
"Help me prepare some ritual materials."
"I want to continue their unfinished psychic ritual."
The monster from the spirit world has escaped to no one knows where.
But it doesn’t matter.
Xiao En is going to do the opposite. Since it has run away, he will summon it back.
That unfinished channeling ritual has anchored its spirituality.
Before it hurts other people in the real world, Xiao En plans to summon it back and deal with it. He is not Hank. The wizard path is born with mysterious knowledge. Hank must rely on tracking to lock the target, but Xiao En, as a wizard, There is a lot of flower work in hand.
Knowledge is power.
Instead of trying to find it everywhere, it is better to try it again in a different position.
He plans to forcefully summon!
This is the wizard's way of solving problems. Xiao En has gradually become a qualified wizard.
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(End of this chapter)