Chapter 87 Jade: Wouldn’t that make me no different from those crazy people?
Black and white, twisted and interwoven double helix particle threads swirled out from deep within the thick clouds above the sky. It was a scene that could only appear in a game. The particle threads were divided into black and white, and they automatically searched for corresponding lines to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. After all the particles were put in place, the entire Skeleton Town area, connected to the nearby tree house tribe, was all covered under a huge black and white birdcage with an exquisite and dreamy shape.
The particles that make up the birdcage are extremely special. The same part appears in completely different black and white colors when viewed from different angles. The surface of those soul particles seems to be surrounded by a thin layer of halo or starlight, which makes them even more dazzling under the light of day.
"What kind of ultimate move is this?"
Lily of the Valley didn't look very happy, or rather, no one present looked very happy.
The moment the huge birdcage appeared in the sky and covered the entire Skeleton Town, a strange feeling of dizziness covered everyone's consciousness. Bai Ye held on to the wall and forced himself to endure it. When they opened their eyes again, they found that each other had undergone terrifying changes.
"Boss Jade, can you help me confirm if this thing on my ear is... crystal?"
The voice of the law enforcer following behind Feicui began to tremble. He originally wanted to press his temples to stay conscious because he was dizzy, but he didn't expect to feel a cold foreign object on his ear.
Feicui didn't care that her vision was still blurring. She turned around abruptly, and the moment her eyes swept over the other person, her vision was stung by the scattered light refracted by the completely crystallized part of the other person's ear.
“…It’s crystal.”
Feicui's voice was calm and heavy. Her eyes were fixed on the crystal mark on the law enforcer's ear. The crystal mark was spreading rapidly in a way visible to the naked eye. In just a few seconds, it covered the corner of the law enforcer's mouth.
“Crack—”
The strange sound of crystals squeezing and colliding with each other came from the law enforcer's body, making it hard to believe that this symptom could actually happen to the human body.
"So...it's true..."
There was no fear in the eyes of the law enforcer. After being confirmed by Emerald, his nervous voice relaxed. He calmly organized his thoughts and tried to tell Emerald all his feelings before the crystal completely covered his vocal organs.
"Boss Feicui, I am the first one among us to have this crystallization symptom. The location after crystallization will lose consciousness, as if it has disappeared from the physical world. I have two guesses about this situation. Maybe the speed of crystallization is related to the area and the strength of soul particles. In the process of chasing the Thousand Faces Wonder, I have been using soul particles to maintain my speed. Maybe the crystal diffuses-"
The nameless law enforcer had tried his best to share his feelings with Jade and his companions as quickly as possible, but he was still a step too slow. The last few words were blocked in his mouth by the "click" sound of the crystallized crystals squeezing - his vocal cords had also been completely crystallized.
"Your information is valuable. I will use it to find a way to get you back to health."
Feicui's voice was extremely firm. She didn't even hesitate or feel any grief. She walked forward like an automatically operating humanoid weapon, without retreating forever. The girl clenched her right fist on her chest and announced her oath to her subordinates and colleagues who could no longer speak.
The crystal quickly spread along the law enforcer's head, and the moment it covered his eyes, Emerald noticed that his expression suddenly became terrified, and his eyes were covered with fear as he looked around. The next second, they turned into pure white inorganic matter, swaying with colorful colors under the light that penetrated the birdcage.
Horrified...
Everyone realized the truth, they looked up, glanced at each other calmly, and received confirmation of their most horrifying guess.
Under the cover of the birdcage, no one escaped the crystallization of the target determined by soul particles. All the people present, whether law enforcers or the Squid Detective Agency, used a lot of soul particles in the process of chasing Thousand Faces. The crystal symbolizing despair has unknowingly occupied everyone's body.
"Are we all going to end up like that? I have a younger brother at home, he's still young, and I'm the only one who can coax him to sleep, and there's also my dog..."
Another law enforcer looked at his fingers and saw that half of his fingers had also shown signs of crystallization, and the symptoms were spreading rapidly. It was obvious that in the process of chasing Wonder just now, out of their responsibilities as law enforcers, the two law enforcers with more ordinary soul tags had tried their best.
Another law enforcer showed an expression that was uglier than crying: "Boss Feicui, if you have time, can you call another colleague of mine and ask him to help me feed the dog at home? Also, today is the last day of this month, you can't deduct my attendance by counting that I have completed a full day's work———"
The moment his voice fell, the spreading crystal had covered his entire body. His bright eyes, which were about to cry out in fear, completely turned into lifeless minerals. Jade looked at his two subordinates who had turned into crystal sculptures, then looked at his shoulders which had completely turned into crystal, and nodded seriously.
“Emerald…”
Lily of the Valley looked at the youngest and most outstanding captain of the Law Enforcement Bureau with some concern, but the latter was obviously not the type who needed sympathy. Emerald simply silently arranged the two subordinates, and then, taking one in each hand, easily lifted the two crystal statues with strength comparable to that of a main attacker.
"How are you doing?"
Emerald spoke seriously.
"It's obvious." Shuise stretched out his hand. Two fingers on his right hand had already turned into crystal. Linglan pointed to his shoulder and said with a smile: "We are quite symmetrical."
Her shoulder was just the other side of the emerald that wasn't crystallized.
"There's a piece of crystallized on my forehead." You Yu pointed at his forehead. The crystallization of his head gave him a strange and wonderful illusion, as if a piece of his brain had completely disappeared because of the accident.
"Although it sounds very suspicious, I haven't experienced any abnormalities for the time being."
Bai Ye was as decisive as emerald. He spread his hands and said, "Maybe it's because I didn't use many soul particles just now, but it's also possible..."
"Your Soul Tag ability has negated the effects of the birdcage."
Jade remembered the miraculous ability that the cobalt blue-eyed boy in front of him had displayed during the Solomon Academy incident. It was an immune ability that could only be used on himself, in addition to creating condensates, and could resist the influence of all soul particles.
But...she finally asked.
"Bai Ye, can you really not extend the immunity effect to them?"
"...As you can see."
Bai Ye sighed. He stretched out his hand and gently placed it on the two young law enforcers who were completely crystallized. His halo lit up, but the two crystal bodies did not react at all. "But I can create condensation, maybe--"
Jadeite shook her head first. Among all the methods that can condense the power of soul tags, the Shinto technique of the Yedao Shinto family has the least side effects. However, even the Shinto technique of the Shinto family can cause irreversible damage to the user's soul, otherwise Bai Ye would not have stayed in the hospital ward for so long last time.
A voice shouted in Feicui's heart: He's just a criminal, so what if you use his health to save your subordinates? They are the law enforcers who have followed you into many devil games!
What's more, it was the juvenile offender who proposed it himself. You shouldn't refuse it for both moral and logical reasons! Does anyone know if this Qianmian has any connection with that guy?
But there was another voice, subtle but firm, suppressing the voices in Feicui's heart one by one.
There must be a way, there must be a better way, Jade thought, otherwise...
Her original intention of becoming a law enforcer, to prevent everyone from experiencing the same misfortune as she did, has that become just empty talk, right?
“…Forget it. Even if you can create condensates, as long as they are within the coverage of this birdcage, they can still turn back into crystal statues at any time by using soul tags. The most important thing now is… if they are all like this, what about those whose skulls have already been crystallized from the beginning?”
Jade's face turned very ugly.
"It seems we have to go back and tell Senior Spade and the others everything that happened here."
You Yu pressed his beret, and the golden thread of fate lingered between his fingers again, as if mocking his powerlessness.
Naturally, the matter of the birdcage could not be hidden from the two leaders, Spade and Plum Blossom. When Youyu and others arrived at the Skull Town Cemetery, Spade was already pushing Plum Blossom, quietly looking at the huge birdcage high in the sky outside the cemetery.
Not to mention Plum Blossom, who usually seldom spoke and was always absorbed in inventing things, even Spade, who always liked to joke and talk nonsense, fell silent, with a serious expression and a frown on his face. It was obvious that the situation at the temporary hospital in the cemetery would only be more serious than before.
"Hey, you guys got hit too?"
Seeing the young people rushing over with uneven crystal marks on their bodies, Heitao forced himself to smile like usual, "Even Youyu and Feicui are in such a mess, it seems I am not that embarrassed."
On his neck, there was a distinct crystal mark that looked as hideous as a crack.
Meihua was more serious and handed a stack of medical information directly to Youyu and Feicui. The ordinary medical staff who were still able to move immediately took over the two law enforcers from Feicui's hands, laid them down on stretchers, and hurriedly carried them to the temporary hospital which had been expanded a lot.
Not only those two law enforcers, but also medical staff were coming and going in the open space in the cemetery of Skull Town. It was obvious that they were not the only ones caught in the crystal crisis, but also other unlucky law enforcers in this town.
"Unlike the patients who began to crystallize after the birdcage appeared, the patients in the later stages only lost their vitality on the surface and were transformed into crystal. At least they are still human with flesh and blood. But those who were crystallized before... have now completely turned into crystal statues from the inside out."
Meihua sighed: "It's as if human organization has never existed in them."
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