On how to catch dolls with perfect accuracy

April 10

It is late autumn now, and the temperature is like the dead leaves on the trees, dropping quietly without people noticing.

Qiu Baiye squatted at the gate of the video game city, with a cigarette dangling in his mouth.He only wore a coat casually, revealing the black shirt underneath indifferently.The top two buttons of the shirt were undone, and the neckline was open.Looking past, you can vaguely see the silver necklace hanging around his neck.

I saw Qiu Baiye squinting his eyes, staring casually at the people entering and leaving the video game city.

"Tsk..." As if he had discovered something, he pinched out the cigarette and stood up cleanly. The necklace slid out from his collar, and a pendant with a phoenix pattern hung under the delicate silver chain.

It's a little rainy...

Qiu Baiye put his hands into the pockets of his jacket, and walked into the video game city with a blank expression.

The last time I came here was more than ten years ago, when I didn't move.Qiu Baiye looked around, looking for his mission target.The layout of the video game city has not changed much, but many new machines have been replaced, which makes people feel inexplicably emotional.He walked through the crowd in the video game city following the sensed evil spirit, and finally stopped in the most deserted corner.

It was an abandoned claw machine, it was covered by a heavy dusty cloth, only a little bit of blue under the fuselage was exposed.A little girl about eight or nine years old was squatting next to the claw machine, holding a schoolbag, her big eyes were full of grievances, and she looked like she was about to cry.

Children are the most troublesome.

With such thoughts in his heart, Qiu Baiye walked up to the little girl as if resigned to his fate, and asked as gently as possible: "Little sister, why are you squatting here?"

The little girl looked up at him, didn't say anything, but turned her gaze to the claw machine beside her.

"You want to play this?" Qiu Baiye asked calmly, thinking to himself, can such a broken machine still work?

"Hmm!!!" The little girl's eyes lit up for an instant, but then dimmed again, and she lowered her head and tugged at the corners of her clothes.

Qiu Baiye felt that the evil spirit here was getting stronger and stronger, like the breath of a monster when it took shape. He was anxious to send the little girl away so that he could open the barrier to carry out the task, so he said: "But this machine has already It doesn't work anymore, there are a few new ones over there..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the little girl: "It can be used. I just caught it twice, but I didn't catch it... They didn't want to wait for me to get the money tomorrow to continue to catch it, saying that it was put here No one played with it, so I covered it with a cloth and threw it away after work."

"Obviously this one is the best..." the little girl frowned and said in a low voice.

Qiu Baiye was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect such a thing.

He smiled helplessly, seeing the little girl's sad appearance was a bit unbearable.Then he took a step forward, stretched out his right hand, and pulled the piece of cloth without any hesitation.

The claw machine lit up with the most dreamy light at that moment. Under the light and shadow, you can see the only blue penguin toy inside.

Qiu Baiye patted the little girl on the head, took out his only coin from his pocket, and threw it into the claw machine.The corner of his mouth raised a confident arc, and he said with a smile, "Brother, I'll grab one for you."

Like flowing water, before the little girl could react, a penguin toy was put in her hand.

"Go home!" Qiu Baiye said to her.

The little girl finally smiled and said happily, "Thank you brother! You are amazing!" Then she put on her schoolbag and ran away bouncing away.

Qiu Baiye heaved a sigh of relief, drew a barrier formation with his fingers hanging in the air, and turned to face this weird claw machine.

"If you're one step behind, I'll have to get rid of you, little monster." He scratched his finger, raised his hand and pressed it on the glass window of the claw machine, and chanted an ancient spell.Following the spell, the blood from the fingertips melted into the glass window, and a faint red light spread from the palm of the hand to the entire machine.

The moment the spell stopped, Qiu Baiye withdrew his hand, the machine in front of him was shrouded in red light, and it was shrinking a little bit.

"It's easy to do, so that you don't turn into a resentful demon... I don't like to eliminate demons, so it's troublesome."

The light weakened little by little, and the outline of the demon in human form could be vaguely seen.

"The enchantment will disappear after your transformation is completed, and there will be a period later." Qiu Baiye didn't stop, turned and left from the monster, and stepped out of the enchantment.

No one around noticed, and he walked out of the video game city as quietly as when he came.

It's all right now, I don't have any money on me, and my phone is turned off, Qiu Baiye frowned, his face turned cold.But then he touched the spare key in his pocket with his fingers, and thought, he could only go back to the old house and stay for a few days, and then go back after the mission expired.

If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have taken on this task.The Qiu family was in decline, and he received only a handful of missions, so he didn't earn a lot of money, but he paid a lot for the travel expenses to come here.

A soft heart is a big taboo for the exorcist.

He sighed, and walked on the familiar yet unfamiliar road.The sky darkened, and the faint mist seemed to carry the tranquility of the evening.

Compared with big cities, there is no sense of breathless tension here.

Qiu Baiye suddenly felt that the quietness and leisure at this moment were not so annoying.It's just right for an unmotivated demon exorcist from a declining family like me.

And that feeling lasted until he realized—

"What are you doing with me?"

The boy behind him came out from the corner of the street, wrapped in that dirty cloth, he looked shorter than Qiu Baiye, and his figure was also thinner.The skin is fair, the corners of the eyes and the brows reveal a youthful look, and the eyelashes are long and dense, making people look at those pale black eyes and feel good.

I saw him standing on the ground with bare feet, his lips were pale from the cold, and his whole body only showed a bit of human smoke under the cover of street lamps.

The boy's voice was clear, and he said, "I don't know where I'm going? I only know you."

Under his blunt and aggrieved gaze, Qiu Baiye still said coldly: "I have no obligation to provide you with anything, don't follow me, it's not good for you."

"Don't worry, I won't disturb you." The boy rushed forward to explain.

"That's the best, you can do it yourself." Qiu Baiye took a step back, distanced himself from the boy, and finally glanced at him lightly, then turned around without saying a word.

The boy was still not walking steadily, and continued to follow the only person he knew in front of him after stumbling.

Qiu Baiye has always been wary of monsters, he can't get close to them, let alone let monsters into his home.

But at this time, he forgot the common sense that a demon extermination master should have remembered.

The little monster who uses human power to transform into human form has no demonic power when it first transforms into a human form.

Couldn't even keep myself warm.

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After waiting for a long time, I finally wrote an article! !Although I haven't saved the manuscript, I will work hard to code! ! !