Chapter 32

"As I recall, the minimum contribution for stopping or capturing Ceob is a high-level contribution, right?"

Chu Zhongyuan became interested after hearing this. Unlike the two veteran psychics who heard about Ceob's atrocities every day and were filled with fear in their hearts, he seemed not to feel the atmosphere of fear and sighed.

CPA is divided into three categories: primary, intermediate, and senior contributions according to the different levels of completing tasks and making additional special contributions. CPA members are rewarded. Primary contributions are enough for several of them to become regular members. If it is a senior contribution...

Chu Zhongyuan didn't dare to imagine how good things would happen.

All of a sudden, he was praised by the whole city, the school awarded him a banner, and a statue of him was erected in front of the teaching building. These images filled his mind, and he seemed to have seen a bright future with Zhang Yiwei bowing and nodding for him.

"Then you have to be alive to get it."

Zheng Qiuji said unhappily.

Ceope is a person who is a headache for both the CPA Guild's most powerful high-level psychics and monarch-level psychics. He is insidious, cunning, and has no humanity. It is too much for a few minors like them to directly confront the inter-district criminals from the cross-cultural zone.

Now it is the best thing for them that the master of the secret realm confronts Ceobe's puppeteer.

They just need to hide far away and observe the changes.

One is mysterious, the other is a notorious criminal. For CPA, neither side is a good thing, and it is best for both to suffer losses.

“I hope the local colleagues in Heshu Town can bring enough people…”

Ayi's voice seemed weak in such an outrageous reality.

She was already starting to worry about her colleagues who were rushing over.

[“The Master said: Do not look at what is not proper, and do not listen to what is not proper.”]

Zheng Qiuji, who was hiding in the corridor and observing the situation, cast a layer of word spirit skill on everyone, concealing everyone's figure and voice.

Those who are here now will not see any trace of their existence.

Gu Qingming thought inappropriately that if this was in an anime, when Zheng Qiuji's Word Spirit skill was activated, even the subtitles would have a special gradient color.

Perhaps because he had no idea about the inter-regional wandering mutant wanted criminal, he didn't even feel much fear now. The fear was far less than the excitement.

Relying on his skill of words and spirits, Chu Zhongyuan carefully stuck to the corridor, and after making sure that there was no mysterious or en factor aura anywhere on him, he began to eavesdrop.

Gu Qingming held his forehead speechlessly, and his understanding of his new deskmate's good attitude reached a new level.

The puppeteer and the master of the secret realm seemed not to notice the slight movement in the corridor; they were arguing fiercely over some disagreement.

"How funny! She considers you her most important friend, but you are so cowardly... When did a great river god become as cowardly as a human? Could it be that you have been locked up here by those CPA guys, and your brain has rusted like wood?"

The puppeteer, whose true self was a puppet, waved his sleeves heavily, and his hoarse voice was like the hum of a poisonous snake, with an increasingly obvious murderous intent.

The master of the secret realm, who used the appearance of "Qin Zhen", sneered, "You don't have to provoke me. If she were still alive, she would definitely rather die completely than see you do these self-indulgent things."

The boy's eyes were filled with disappointment. He didn't understand why it turned out to be so vicious and cruel when it was clearly the girl's work.

He looked indifferent, and seemed to have no more intense emotions than the puppeteer opposite him. However, the puppeteer named Sha saw that the river monster in Heshu Town, which was disguised as a human, and had been worshipped as a river god by the residents of Heshu Town in the past, now had rune chains on its arms that became clearly visible due to the fluctuation of mysterious factors.

The rune chain will only become clear when the target has obvious mysterious fluctuations. He is not as calm as he seems.

In the shared memory of the puppeteer and the master of the secret realm, the girl was a very, very good person. After inheriting her father's dream, she devoted all her spare time to the practice of puppetry.

The girl carved her eyebrows and eyes stroke by stroke, and carefully constructed the most exquisite body. With her extreme efforts, she finally developed true intelligence.

Unfortunately, this wisdom came too late, just like the river monster felt the breath of death in the girl's body, they all realized it too late.

The moment Sha was born, the scene he saw was that the girl was helping the passengers who came here to carry their luggage, her body suddenly stopped unnaturally, and then she fell down from the high stairs.

The girl was sent to the hospital. The puppet, who had just gained intelligence, didn't know what that meant. She had heard sporadically that the girl's dream was to make the most powerful puppet in the world. So the simple-minded puppet thought: If I work hard to become the most powerful puppet in the world, would that be equivalent to fulfilling her dream?

So will she be very happy when she comes back from the hospital?

So, with the idea of ​​making his master happy, Sha worked hard to make his spirit stronger and stronger, but the girl never came back.

The moment Sha's spirit was able to leave the puppet's body and move freely, the confused puppet followed the road alone and walked towards the distant hospital.

But she arrived too late.

When she rushed to the hospital, the girl had already died of respiratory failure and lung infection caused by the disease.

However, the annoying CPA, because of the special nature of the girl's ability, immediately began to control her soul.

Sha, who witnessed everything, became increasingly distorted in her thoughts. At that moment, all her thoughts were controlled by the word revenge.

He has to become the most powerful puppet in the world, so that he can find the power to unite the soul of his master and give the girl, who should not have had such a rough ending, a perfect ending.

Obviously, with her master's talent, if she was given some more time, or even not a very long time, she could create a new puppetry and correct the impact of puppetry on the soul... She didn't have to fall into this situation.

How could such a brilliant life end here?

The river monster understood the reason why the other party was obsessed, and he had explained the truth many times, but there was only madness in the puppet's heart, and he ignored the facts at all.

"You turned my secret realm into a puppet, dragged countless people who passed by your stall into my secret realm, and sucked their lives. Is this also for Koizumi?"

Faced with the puppet's obsession, the river monster finally couldn't bear it anymore and questioned.

"No, no, no, this is not the purpose, but the means. Only in this way can I prepare the body for the master, and then become strong, and help the boss grab the only chance."

The puppet's voice is still hoarse, as calm as the material she is made of.

"The only chance for Koizumi to come back."

"ridiculous."

The master of the secret realm made a cold judgment.

The owner of the secret realm is the Shuhe Water Monster who was contaminated by other vicious resentful spirits a hundred years ago, causing his consciousness to become confused and unable to control himself. He requested to be sealed here by the CPA at that time.

He was born two hundred years ago, and then fed on the incense and offerings of the townspeople around Shuhe River. He was revered as the local folk belief - Shuhe Hebo.

After guarding the Shu River for a hundred years, He Bo of Shu Town was polluted by vengeful spirits and could no longer control himself. He was afraid of hurting the surrounding townspeople, so he asked the CPA officials to seal him in the well.

The time underground passed like the dripping of dissolved water. Unconsciously, in the long passage of time when he could not perceive his body, Shuhe Hebo, who loved the hustle and bustle and often transformed himself into a human to mingle in the night market, had spent a life in the dark well that was equal to the time he had spent as Hebo.

With the warning from CPA, and the high degree of mystery of the well, which was blocked by CPA and not suitable for the survival of non-mysterious creatures, Shuhe Hebo had not seen any life in a hundred years, except for those tiny fireflies that had sneaked in.

It wasn't until a few decades ago that the daughter of a retired CPA, the girl who inherited the famous puppetry of Heshu Town, chased fireflies and jumped into the cave.

She did not despise the fact that He Bo's body had turned into a hideous four-legged monster due to his fight with vengeful spirits. She told him the content of her favorite novels about K-series, told him how to make puppets, told him that the newly built road led directly to the distant canyon, and told him that in a place farther than the mountains and rivers, those humans who needed his protection and prayed to him for good weather were now brand new and unafraid of nature.

He Bo liked the stories the girl told, the worldly life she described, and the sweet and oily fruits she brought.

Every time the girl came, this big four-legged cat looked nonchalant. No one knew that He Bo, who acted like a god and was disgusted by the girl's address, had been silently calculating the time in his heart, counting down countless threes, twos, ones, ones, threes, waiting for the crisp sound of "Big cat" to be heard at the entrance of the corridor.

That’s great. The girl likes to study mysteries, and his long life and experience can show her the magnificence of the world in the past.

He likes the fireworks of the world, otherwise he would not have become a patron saint. He worries and works hard every day, but he enjoys it. The girl seems to be immersed in the most beautiful fireworks in the world.

They exchange information that is of greatest interest to each other. This is truly the most stable and beautiful relationship in the world.

thought the four-legged beast.

However, one day, the girl had not come for a long time. When she came to the bottom of the well again, the four-legged beast smelled the scent of death from the girl who was only 28 years old.

It was the corruption that came from the underworld, so obvious that even a useless He Bo could clearly feel it.

That's the smell of a very serious illness.

But the girl was not defeated by the cruel reality at all. Her eyes were still bright and she shouted against the unfair fate.

She wants to make the most powerful puppet in the world and become the most outstanding successor of puppetry in her limited life which has already begun to count down.

She wants to correct the effect puppetry has on the soul so that people who learn puppetry in the future don’t have to disperse their souls to ensure the safety of those around them.

The four-legged beast sensed the scent of a newborn spirit on the girl and realized that the girl's wish was about to come true.

She creates life from dead things, and she indeed creates the true miracle of this world with her purest and most innocent consciousness.

The four-legged beast is not specified.

He thought, when the girl found out herself, she would be so happy.

Just imagining that joy made him feel extremely happy as if he were experiencing it himself.

But who knew that the young life would suddenly collapse in terrible exhaustion, and when the newly born puppet arrived at the scene, he only saw the most misleading moment.

The heirs of puppetry had already signed a voluntary soul-exorcism agreement with CPA. Puppetry, as a skill for controlling dead objects, is one of the most evil skills. It has a strong ability to alienate the soul of the user. After the death of the user, he will almost certainly become a vengeful spirit that goes crazy and attacks indiscriminately. Coupled with the puppets controlled by the puppeteer, it can definitely cause huge damage.

In order to prevent her death from bringing disaster, the girl smiled and signed the CPA's soul-exorcism agreement without hesitation, just like her father did back then. As soon as she dies, a CPA specialist will rush to seal and disperse her soul, which will then disappear into the vast earth, while also shocking all the mysteries around the Heshu Town.

To create the soul, one must tear apart one's own soul in order to reach the final shore.

She voluntarily turned into fallen petals, nourishing the countless new buds that sprout and bloom after spring.

Puppetry is a strange art that exchanges souls for souls, but the newly born puppets with souls know nothing.

She believed that the CPA was responsible for her master’s tragic end, and she fell into an obsession from which she could no longer escape.

The puppet has since disappeared from the town of Heshu and has become a member of a terrifying illegal organization of inter-district wandering supernatural beings.

From the conversation between the two, they roughly pieced together a rough truth and figured out what was going on.

Silence began to spread. All the coincidences led to the current situation. If the girl were still alive, this would definitely not be what she wanted to see, right?

Unfortunately, her life has become the warm winter sun that illuminates the entire earth, sinking in a small corner of Heshu Town, gentle and silent.

"Life...everyone has their own difficulties."

Zheng Qiuji frowned slightly and sighed.