Curse of the Eye of the Dead

The 78-year-old Tsurumi Toranojiro is also the oldest among the top executives in the magic world.

A person is old and mature, let alone an old man who grew up as a person in power in an aristocratic family.It seems to be calm, but the careful thinking is actually one set after another.

For example, observing the situation, I am always good at analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of different opinions in troubled waters, and then analyzing the orientation of interests, and then quietly fueling the flames with carelessness, precision and ruthlessness, creating a basic impression for myself that "by wooing him, you will gain an advantage".

It's not easy to do all this.

But for Toranojiro, who has a deep understanding of the thinking logic of high-level members and is a powerful magician himself, it is not difficult.

After all, no matter how you discuss it, the core logic of the high-level people revolves around the two points of "interests" and the self-styled traditional "laws of the magic world", and this is basically the same as the family environment where Toranojiro once stayed.As long as you master the rules of the game and understand this point, it is not difficult to climb up with the help of the Tsurumi family with Toranojiro's qualifications and intelligence.

"You must have seen the information on Yokohama."

Everyone has arrived, and one of the high-level people spoke slowly and raised his head.

Toranojiro didn't lift his eyelids, he just sat neatly, without saying a word.

This special projection technique can uniformly present the high-level figures from all over the country in one barrier, and in front of each high-level position, there is a shoji door erected out of thin air to block their figures, and in the end only A dark shadow was reflected on the door.

They all know each other's looks, so the purpose of this shoji door is only to cover up the changes in the expressions of the high-level members, so as not to be seen through their true thoughts. After all, they also have a competitive relationship with each other.

For Toranojiro, this is naturally an artifact for him to catch fish.

——Although his serious and rigid face full of wrinkles is quite deceiving, even if there is no shoji door, others can't see what weird things are going on in his heart at all.But with such a door, fishing is always more at ease.

Toranojiro had two minds, listening to the opinions of other colleagues and judging their intentions and ideas, while thinking in his heart which city had a better environment.

Yes, since the start of the Dragon Head War, he never gave up the idea of ​​letting Master Usheng move. Although Master Usheng may not agree to move, this does not prevent him from making preparations in advance.

In Toranojiro's heart, although the city of Yokohama is a rare place where the magic world is almost impossible to intervene, theoretically it is the best place for Uo-sama, who is a magic spirit...but there have been too many accidents in the past few years.

Lawless organizations run rampant, and ordinary people are involved in melees one after another, like the previous "Seven Days of Blood" and "Seven Days of Hidden God", as well as the now popular urban legend of "Guardian Guardian God" popped up one after another. However, it is far from the peaceful life Torajiro imagined.

Toranojiro can only say that Master Uo is still the same Master Uo, and there is no way to turn a blind eye to such a large-scale casualty—no, as long as there is a conscience, it is impossible not to be moved by it.

Seeing such a cruel and inhumane situation, he is indifferent and thinks about his interests, and even ridicules, doubts and covets those who perform rescue operations... Like his colleagues, they are beasts that have lost their humanity.

I am also one of them.

Toranojiro touched his heart with cloudy eyeballs - rather than paying attention to the shocking casualties in Yokohama City, he was more worried that Mr. Uo was involved, and that the peaceful life he had finally obtained might suddenly become turbulent .

He and his high-level colleagues are nothing more than half a catty, they are all cold-hearted monsters in human skin.

To them, casualties are nothing more than a number.

The only difference is that Toranojiro will not disobey and question Uo's actions, but will calmly deal with the follow-up for him.

By the way, seriously think about which city is suitable for the Uosu family to be the next foothold.

"According to the available information, that [Guardian God] is really too suspicious. Look at what it says: Only a small number of survivors blessed by miracles have seen that [Guardian God]. Some of the trapped people could see the [Guardian God], while others could not, and the descriptions given by the witnesses were all the same, with obvious inhuman features..."

"This is basically a curse spirit, right? After all, this information is completely in line with the special rules that ordinary people see when they see a curse spirit."

"And this [Guardian God] appeared every time during a large-scale disaster in Yokohama... This is also in line with the consistent active curve of the mantra."

"But what about the miracle of the resurrection from the dead? Curses don't save people, and it happened so many times in succession." Someone raised objections.

"Rescue? That's not necessarily a rescue. So many people died in Yokohama during this period, and there are also a lot of people whose whereabouts are unknown. It's hard to say whether any of them died at the hands of the curse spirit, and the part that was saved... the situation It’s still not clear, most people can’t see it, but it may be that there is a mark engraved on the body by the curse.”

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Toranojiro listened, frowning slightly, his expression was not very good - after all, they were discussing his most respected Master Uo.

Although he is 78 years old, his old man's physique is very good. The muscles under the loose kimono are not inferior to those of young people. Now because of his unhappiness, the blue blood vessels on his arms are obviously protruding.

But Toranojiro is quite tolerant, he has lived for so many years, and his pretending skills are first-rate.

He interjected in a very natural tone, and chose to stand aside: "I don't think it's a curse spirit either."

"How to say?"

"To tell you the truth, I actually sent an auxiliary supervisor to infiltrate Yokohama City earlier. Although Yokohama is a special place and the government forbids the magic circle to intervene, I couldn't stand the chaos during that time, so I sent a clever auxiliary supervisor to sneak in under his name. It's easy too."

"It's easy?" Another high-level executive clicked his tongue, "During that time, almost all the entrances and exits of Yokohama were occupied by the mafia. The indiscriminate hail of bullets is not something that ordinary auxiliary supervisors can break through. Send a stronger spell. It is possible to be a teacher, but that would be overkill.”

"Oh, regarding this point, if you have the ability to take the initiative to pay attention to [window]'s newcomers, and put aside the value of spells and comprehensively analyze the strengths of those young people, you probably won't ask this kind of question... just like I just received That kid, undercover in the mafia organization, is pretty good."

Toranojiro narrowed his eyes, speaking casually.

Then, without giving my colleagues a chance to refute, I continued to get to the point: "In short, I just received the report from the people below, which said that all the survivors who were blessed by miracles and the scene of rescue did not have any traces of magic power. It should also be clear that if the body is repaired by the spell of the curse spirit, according to the number of occurrences of [miracles], it is [completely] impossible to leave no trace of filth. After all, the curse spirit itself is a A collection of magical powers...Here, this is the report that the [window] person just handed me not long ago, you can take a look."

Gently pulled out a piece of paper from the sleeve pocket, put it on the ground and tapped it, and the same paper projection appeared in front of other high-level officials at the same time.

The other higher-ups were silent for a while.

There is currently no effective way to remove the filth in the magic world. Generally speaking, the filth can only slowly disappear with time.Therefore, tainted spell power is often regarded as the basis for judging whether a case is related to the magic world.

Although Tsurumi Uo was able to do it, the specific function of that technique was only known to the older generations of the Tsurumi family who were in power, and it was not disclosed to the public. What's more, Uo had been dead for such a long time, and his existence had long existed. A lot of people in the world of conjuration have been wiped out, and his special case naturally cannot become a universal logic.

Therefore, Toranojiro, who deliberately used an absolute tone, was not refuted.

The old man of the Tsurumi family took this opportunity to guide him: "Although I don't want to admit it, but for now, it is indeed more logical to say that [Guardian God] is an anonymous supernatural power... There are also supernatural powers. The type with a specialized appearance, and will not leave any residue, I heard that there is a person with supernatural powers in Yokohama who can restore the health of dying people, maybe there are people with similar abilities hidden in that city."

If the [Guardian God] is a person with supernatural abilities... then it will be under the supervision of the Supernatural Special Affairs Department.

There is no reason for the magic world to intervene.

"No, we can't draw conclusions so quickly. After all, some of the survivors who were present could see some but not see. This is a solid record, and it is an obvious feature of the curse spirit." Another person shook his head and refuted.

"The fact that there is no filth is indeed a big argument, but other information must also be taken into consideration... It is hard to say how those survivors were rescued. After all, the abilities of the curse spirit are too varied. If it is a special talent , The amount of spells used is small, so the filth disappears quickly. This situation may also cause misunderstandings. If you look at the investigation time in this report, the shortest interval is five hours, and the filth in our records The fastest disappearing speed is within one hour."

Other high-level officials retorted: "But the standard of the fastest disappearing speed you mentioned corresponds to the low-level curse of the third and fourth levels. How could a curse of that level have such a degree of healing ability? And it caused such a large-scale disaster." Sensation, if it is really a curse spirit, it must be at least a first-level curse spirit."

"But we can't give up this possibility, otherwise the contradictions in the eyewitness testimony can't be explained." The other person said meaningfully: "And, if it's really a curse spirit, then the value of pursuing it to the end is very high, and it's not a loss to investigate... ...the healing power that can completely cure a dying person is something that no one would dislike."

Several senior executives who originally held objections paused for a moment and did not speak out again.

Toranojiro sighed inwardly.

Sure enough, this is still the case. The miracle of resurrection from the dying is too tempting for the high-level people.

The [Reversal Spell] that can be used on others is very precious—otherwise, the magic world would not put the reverse Spell user in the house under the guise of protection.

And the high-level people in the magic world...even in the general environment of the magic world, there are precedents of taming the magic spirit for their own use.

To be precise, not a lot.

In Yusan's house, there was a punishment room dedicated to imprisoning curse spirits, which was filled with curses that had been captured alive.

And there are similar departments in the high-level. They capture the magic spirits with special abilities and controllable dangers, and then seal them with spells and perform a long-term physical taming—for example, there are several in the high-level magic spirit library. Only a level one curse spirit.

It's just that the intelligence level of those cursed ones is generally relatively low. After a period of taming, they can establish an effect similar to Pavlov's conditioned reflex.The higher-ups and other families in the magic world basically used this tough method to take these spell spirits with special abilities for their own use.

Therefore, the high-level covetousness for power has never been limited to conjurers.

The spell spirits with special abilities are also within the range of their targets—of course, they are greedy, but they are far less courageous. If the target is too threatening or uncontrollable, they will issue it without hesitation. command to exterminate.

This is what Toranojiro was worried about at the beginning: If there is no way to deny the inhuman status of the [Guardian God], the actions of the high-level executives who miscalculated the [Guardian God]'s strength level will inevitably go to develop in this direction.

At first, he wanted to capture the special ability of the magic spirit and domesticate it physically like other magic spirits captured alive in the past.

After discovering that the curse spirit is an untamable and extremely dangerous special class, it is estimated that it will be frightened and immediately changed to the order of extermination.