Silver Blade and Rose

The accident happened when one of the exorcists knocked on the door.

They all knew what case Zalls came to investigate, and thought he was a member of the York City Association. Although they didn't know Xuesting Fern, who was innocent and guilty, they all showed him a friendly attitude and grabbed the evil spirit on the rooftop. Then come down and help him.Out of other considerations, Zars didn't take the initiative to go up to the third floor, but asked them to knock on the door as ordinary people to confirm whether the person in the room was what he was looking for, while he waited in the corridor to see the situation.

An exorcist wearing a peaked cap casually picked up a cardboard box from the trash can and pretended to be a delivery man from a pizza shop. He went up and knocked on the door twice. Seeing no answer, he raised his voice and said, "Hello, yours. Pizza delivery," still no sound came from the house.He turned his head and exchanged glances with his companion hiding in the dark, then suddenly raised his leg and kicked towards the door.

The old wooden door was kicked open by his kick, revealing an empty room inside.

"It's gone!" cried the exorcist at once.

At the same time, Zals felt that the barrier he set up was trying to break through, so he immediately turned and ran downstairs.

The prop that Elvins gave him was a small enchantment stone filled with an isolation enchantment. Even a person like him who knows nothing about enchantment can use it. The purpose of walking around this building is to Set up an enchantment.This thing doesn't really work much in the hands of Zars, but at least it can be used as a protective cover in an emergency, and it can be used in a situation like the present.

The shape-shifting creature obviously noticed the situation in the building, and was already preparing to escape. He had to go and catch this guy. If he let it escape now, he didn't know when he would find it next time.

He ran to the place where there was movement in the barrier outside the building, and looked up. At about the height of the second floor, there was a strange-looking animal trying to break through the invisible barrier, and it would make a slight whimpering sound when it hit the barrier.

The voices of the exorcists quickly came from the second floor. It paused, turned around and tried to run to the other side, but at this moment, it met Zars' sight through the barrier.

"You can't run away," Zarth said, "just catch it."

The shapeshifting creature stopped and stood there looking down at him.It now looks like a translucent cat or a fox. It is very inconspicuous in the night, but it is clearly defined in the eyes of Zals wearing night vision glasses-it looks difficult, but fortunately it has a substance, at least it can grab it.

He and the shapeshifting creature confronted each other for two seconds. The latter turned to run, but the exorcists had arrived and surrounded it from three directions.Zals downstairs could see its lower body, and pulled out the "Meteor Moon" from the holster around his waist. He was thinking of shooting to stop it, which might cause panic among other residents, but he suddenly stopped and started Goosebumps all over my body.

When he first came here, he felt that this apartment building looked very bad. It was obvious that something malicious was entrenched here, rejecting the entry of outsiders.Zals originally thought it was caused by the evil spirit on the roof, and after the exorcist captured the evil spirit, the malice in the building basically disappeared, but he didn't expect that at the moment when he hesitated to target the fleeing deformed creature In an instant, the malice that disappeared just now seemed to suddenly find an exit, and surged towards him outside the building from a certain point like a wave.

"Be careful!" Someone shouted from inside the building.

Zars rolled on the spot to avoid this wave of attacks, and when he looked up again, the shape-shifting creature had already jumped out of the window and climbed to the top of the building in two or three hits.At the same time, the raging malice exploded from the roof of the building, and even the exorcists who were still in the building were affected.

Someone shouted to retreat in this sudden crisis, but it was hard to tell which one it was, because Zals could no longer tell who was running in the building.

At first he thought it was a shape-shifting creature that took over the magpie's nest and disguised itself to live in a human residence, but now it seems that is not the case at all.

This place is more like a gathering place for monsters, not only the captured evil spirits on the top floor, but also not only the deformed creatures that turned into human appearances to commit crimes, but also more unknown creatures lurking in this building. Live like a human.

Someone ran out of the building. She was the only woman among the three exorcists. She gestured to Zarsby. Without waiting for her companions, she ran to the car they were driving, started it, and drove to the door of the building. , the other two people just ran down, took advantage of the opportunity of the car slowing down in front of the door, opened the door and got into the car.The female exorcist still wanted to drive the car to where Zales was and pick him up, but the malice had already followed them to the first floor, crashing into the inside of the barrier like a wave, almost smashing it to pieces.

"You go first!"

Zars yelled loudly and gestured to them for reinforcements, then put the enchantment stone in his pocket and ran into the apartment building with a gun in his hand.

The alarmed big guy made no distinction between friend and foe, and was sweeping indiscriminately. Fortunately, he was barely blocked by Elvins' barrier. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he had to hurry up and catch the deformed creature.

If it was sucked into the vortex in front of him and smashed, then his mission would have to end as soon as it started.

Knowing that his behavior of following up was irrational, Zars didn't look back, but went all the way up the stairs to the top of the building, pushed open the roof door that was pried open by the exorcists, and strode in.

The rooftop is very large and empty, except for an old-fashioned water tower in the corner, but even in this environment, the shapeshifting creatures are still huddled in the farthest position from the water tower, preferring to expose themselves to the sight of Zars , and did not hide near the only occluder.

Zals knows why, because something else is there.

It is different from the one caught by the exorcists. It is just an evil spirit after death due to unresolved resentment. This one may be closer to the earth-bound spirit. I don’t know what the original body is. It seems that it has almost merged with this building. One, should have been stuck here for a long time.And for some reason, its power is very messy, it looks like the product of the fusion of several different species, and they are still colliding with each other, appearing very aggressive.

If it was just itself, it shouldn't have developed to such a powerful point.Combined with the breath he felt all the way up the stairs just now, Zals guessed that the ground-bound spirits should have been absorbing the power of other creatures in the apartment building for a long time, and using this power to protect them.

It may not be able to completely control this power, but it is very unfriendly to outsiders, so that this power has become murderous because of its emotions, and is wreaking havoc downstairs after leaving the body.

He didn't want to confront this guy alone, the target was only the deformed creature in the appearance of an animal in the corner, so he didn't act rashly after entering the rooftop, he pressed his phone twice with his left hand in his pocket, and sent another message to the Exorcist Association for help , the attention is equally divided between the deformed creature and the earthbound spirit, and at the same time, it moves in the direction of the deformed creature without any trace.

The ward was still working strong, he was human and could move freely, but shapeshifters could not.Zars quickly calculated in his mind the possibility of disabling the barrier the moment he grabbed it, and re-opening the barrier immediately after leaving the building, while clenching the gun in his right hand.

The weight of the gun seems a bit wrong?He was distracted, and immediately attracted attention by another matter.

Sticking it on the wall, I could feel the vibrations coming from downstairs. Zars knew in his heart that the raging power of the earthbound spirit had already rolled up the downstairs into a mess, and it was about to spread here. All the muscles in his body were tense, ready for action.

The low vibration coming from the reinforced concrete was getting closer and closer to him. Knowing that he couldn't wait any longer, Zals turned his head to look in the direction of the water tower, and then jumped out like lightning.

In the direction of the shapeshifting creature.

He was skillful in feints and moved quickly. He didn't even take out the gun in his pocket. He grabbed the guy's neck with his left hand, and quickly took out a collar to put it on with his right hand. Turned around, people and animals fell straight out of the building.

In the next second, the power of the Earthbound Spirit broke through the roof gate and rushed towards him carrying sand.

Outside the enchantment gate, Hanzals quickly lifted the enchantment and restarted it. He jumped out of the enchantment range with a subtle time difference, and fell on the stone road downstairs with the deformed creature. During the period, he was distracted to see if there was any enchantment Reactivation miscalculated the time of landing and threw myself in a bit of pain.

He sat on the ground less than half a meter away from the enchantment, seeing that the enchantment was knocked precariously, but it was still strong and unbroken, he couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, and grabbed the deformed creature that fell to pieces.

"Howard Spencer," he said a name, and the shapeshifting creature began to struggle violently. "This is the name of the human you transformed into. He died four years ago. Am I right?"

At one o'clock in the morning, Zals sat at the door of the inquiry room of the local exorcist association, and was educated by his boss and boyfriend who finally received the news and came to lead him.

After hearing that Edwin was the untouchable lord in York City, the exorcist who had stayed here to chat with him quietly withdrew, leaving only the two of them locked in the magic box. shapeshifting creatures.

"I really just want to go and investigate..." Zales weakly defended himself.

He didn't know how to lead to a series of problems. Now the South Lowell branch has sent out all the available manpower to solve the problem of the apartment building. Only the necessary guards and civilians are left.After calling Elvins for permission, Zars lent them the enchantment stone, while he pitifully stayed to listen to the training.

Thinking that Edwin would blame him for not calling for help when he was in danger, Zals lowered his head and waited for a long time, but only waited for a chuckle.

Edwin reached out and stroked his hair, and then brushed off the dust left on his shoulders, and there was a faint smile in his voice: "Are you so afraid that I will punish you?"

To be honest, it's not that I'm afraid, it's that I do something unplanned and always feel a little guilty.

Zars didn't dare to open his mouth at first, and he touched his head gently a few times before he said, "I just wanted to go and have a look, and when I found something wrong, I called for reinforcements, but I didn't expect the problem to be worse than we imagined." more serious."

"I know," said Edwin, "you went out with less stuff, and I know you're not going to fight that guy."

"...What did I miss?" Zars was taken aback.

Edwin motioned him to spread his hands, and after he did so, a few things were put down in his palm, and he was speechless after seeing what it was.

That was the bullet of "Meteor Moon".

When he went out, he only looked at the address of the restaurant, but he actually forgot to bring bullets, and he didn't find out for so long, he was even thinking about whether to shoot.

"You really can't rest assured that you are like this," Edwin glanced at the shape-shifting creature locked in the box, and said lightly, "Although I caught this guy, but I almost put myself in it, and you also trade at a loss? "

Zals, who was completely caught in a vortex of loss, really didn't dare to say anything this time. He went to the association in desperation to complete the formalities, and was going to take the magic box back to the hotel.

"Actually, you can use the interrogation room here. The facilities are quite complete." The staff member said, "Anyway, everyone has gone out to clean up the mess. Now it is empty and no one is using it. You can do whatever you want."

Zars froze for a moment: "Is this in line with the procedure?"

The other party shrugged and threw him a pen and form: "Empty is a waste, just fill out an application form."

So he filled out the form, talked to Edwin, and then took the box to the interrogation room of the South Lowell Association.

Although nominally a non-staff member of the Association, this is actually the first time Zars has come to the Exorcist Association. After entering the interrogation room, he locked the door and found a chair for Edwin to sit in before putting The box fits into the recess on the table.

The box was lent to him by the exorcist. It was specially made by the association, and its size fit the groove exactly. After it was buckled up, the contents of the box would be sent to the closed space at the other end of the room by a special teleportation circle. walls and microphones to communicate with the outside world.

It was the first time to experience this kind of "high-tech" method, and Zales was like a primary school student who entered a science and technology museum. Fortunately, he also asked for the instruction manual, otherwise he really didn't know how to use it.

Interrogation wasn't his specialty, but he had learned some of it in school before, and Edwin didn't completely sit back and watch, and in the end they still asked something from the mouth of the shape-shifting creature.

For example, Howard Spencer, who died four years ago, was its owner, a retired exorcist hidden among ordinary people, who lost his life in an operation to assist in the hunt, but he could only claim that he died in an accident.Another example is that it knows Xuesting Fern, because the latter and Spencer were former colleagues, but Spencer was dead when the serial murder occurred. It claims to have nothing to do with this case, but it does not deny that it has appeared in on site.

"So you know who the real culprit is, right?" Zales asked.

The shapeshifting creature is noncommittal.

They stalemate on this issue for a long time, Edwin stretched himself and stood up. "To be honest, it's very late now, and I don't really want him to continue wasting time with you here—it's good for you to say something earlier."

The threat in his words was too obvious, because he didn't hide his aura, it was no different from extorting a confession by torture, and the deformed creature that had dealt with Zars for a long time without showing timidity was so frightened by him, and it directly changed back to its original shape and shrank in a corner trembling.

Zars looked at the slime-like thing: "..."

It turns out that Edwin also has this magical effect.

Under Edwin's intimidation, it didn't take long for him to get the correct answer: the group of slimes in front of him blamed the Exorcist Association for the death of his master, and wanted to cause them some trouble, so he assisted a group of desperadoes Created a serial murder case, and deliberately left traces at the scene, leading the Exorcist Association to participate in the investigation.

It was well hidden, and the association did not notice its existence in several investigations. The group of desperadoes were killed by it after they succeeded, so they were not arrested and brought to justice. In the end, they became Xuestin Fen for no reason and went to jail , which it did not expect.

It has been hiding in South Lowell since then, and then found out about the existence of the apartment, moved in, and went out every day to get some money to support the disabled guy living in the building.There are not only people like it living in that building, there are some who can't go out, some are very old, and some are restricted by their appearance and cannot go out for activities. People like it that can change into a human form have become the few. Not much freedom of movement.

"It has been protecting them, please don't kill it if you can," said the shapeshifting creature.

Zals was silent for a moment, then asked back: "Don't you ask yourself how you will be dealt with first?"

"It's okay, I've been prepared for a long time." It said, and glanced at Edwin not far away, "I just didn't expect to be caught like this, it seems that most exorcists are not very capable , We have to ask for foreign aid."

Zals wanted to say something, but was stopped by Edwin.He didn't object to it, he just said: "You wanted to avenge your master, but you killed his friend. Xuesting Fern has been in prison for more than two years as a serial murderer, what do you want to say to him What?"

The shape-shifting creature leaned against the corner and didn't speak any more.

"Let's go." Edwin turned around and said to Zars, "Take it back and let Sauron deal with it. Your mission has been completed."

They stayed only one night in South Lowell, and the next day they boarded the train with their boxes and returned to York.

Zals was still in charge of carrying the suitcase containing the clothes of the two of them. The enchanted box was placed on top of the box. It looked like an ordinary box, and it even passed the security check normally.Edwin left the train station empty-handed, reached out to help when he walked to the parking lot, and carried the magic box to the passenger seat.

They were not in a hurry to go back to No. 179. They sent the box to the Exorcist Association. Sanchez came out to take it away. Before parting, he promised to tell them the result within a week.

"Don't tell us," Edwin said, "just call the number and tell him."

He handed out a card with the number of the apartment where Grant was renting.Sanchez didn't ask much, nodded and took it, then turned and left.

Watching him enter the gate of the association, Zars stepped on the accelerator and started the car, asking, "Then we... go back?"

Edwin asked without answering, "What gift do you want?"

Zars was stunned: "What?"

"The reward for performing the task independently for the first time."