Chapter 74: Serial Killing Gang Suffers Serial Killings (9) As if...
"I'm a ghost." Si Ling was overjoyed.
Zhu Mengwei's face froze. She hadn't actually spit out anything, but out of habit she turned on the tap and rinsed her mouth. Then, to Si Ling's surprise, she let out a long sigh after turning off the tap and said to the mirror, "Okay, I'll try."
"?" Si Ling was stunned. "Is it scary?"
"Yeah." Zhu Mengwei nodded. "Perhaps the best way to resolve psychological trauma is to face it head-on. Besides, I'm an immortal now, and I still have a long time to live. I can't let this trivial matter of my original family stay with me for thousands of years, right?"
Si Ling was overwhelmed with emotions.
She thought of the stack of cards she found in Isaac's photo album. If her inference was correct, that was probably a way for Isaac to "face his psychological shadow."
It's a pity that Isaac took the wrong path, and it was a very wrong path.
Look at the brave and decent Zhu Mengwei in front of him... otherwise she could become an immortal!
Si Ling smiled and handed the stack of cards to Zhu Mengwei. "I'll let you control the paper figurine later. You can use magic or possess it yourself. When it comes to key lines—" She pointed at the stack of cards, "If you can use any of the lines here, copy them exactly as they are."
"What is this?" Zhu Mengwei frowned as she flipped through the cards.
Si Ling sighed softly, "Isaac exposed our nightmare."
Zhu Mengwei, half-believing, followed Si Ling back to the living room. Isaac had already retrieved his guitar and was singing in the living room. The guitar sounded quite good alongside his young voice. Zhu Mengwei crossed her arms and quipped, "Looking at this, it's a little hard to bring yourself to do it."
"Snap." Si Ling glanced at her and snapped his fingers. In Zhu Mengwei's perspective, Isaac was no longer an innocent boy, but had returned to his appearance as a Frankenstein with a full set of instruments.
Si Ling had a blank expression on his face: "Are you still heartbroken? There are more than a dozen lives on your shoulders, darling!"
Zhu Mengwei gritted her teeth and clenched her fists: "He must die in my hands."
For several minutes, "Aurelio" and the "guests" listened quietly to Isaac's playing, and when he finished, everyone applauded in unison.
Then, at Si Ling's signal, the guests did not stay too long.
Anyway, Si Ling arranged this scene just to have a plot that could reasonably allow Isaac to further "immerse" himself in the scene, and also to give the magic power some time to take effect. Now that the effect has been achieved, the guests have successfully left.
Aurelio smiled kindly and escorted the guests out of the house - this step was already handled by Zhu Mengwei. Si Ling was a little worried that she was not good at it, until she saw the smile on Aurelio's face disappear the moment he closed the door and turned around.
"Damn!" Si Ling was horrified. "You have a talent for scaring people."
——Parents who are suspected to have NPD personality are sunny and warm in front of outsiders, but they become like a different person as soon as the door is closed. For many people, this is more terrifying than Sadako.
Then, with an expressionless face, Aurelio walked up to Isaac and squatted down with his eyes narrowed.
Zhu Mengwei looked at the cards in her hand and instructed the paper figures to pronounce the words clearly: "Okay, now let's talk seriously about the previous issue."
A Zhui and the others had just floated back in Isaac's invisible spiritual state, and they saw Isaac shiver visibly.
SAN value -10%.
Zhu Mengwei quickly flipped through the papers in her hand and picked out a suitable one: "I just hope you know right from wrong, dear."
"I..." Isaac trembled violently. Even at a distance of several steps, they could see that his eyeballs were trembling, and his SAN value plummeted by 20%!
"?!?! Why?!?!" Ah Zhui was shocked. "We rarely drop SAN by 20% when we play tricks, right?!!"
"Hey, you're making a fuss out of nothing, senior." Li Qi patted Ah Zhui's shoulder calmly, "You've never seen a demon before, right? This kind of thing happens a lot in the human world. I can only say that many people are not worthy of being parents." Li Qi thought for a moment and added, "But these people just love to have children."
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In another villa, the three werewolf brothers and Alice waited and waited but Barnaby didn't show up.
As noon approached, Alice began to feel uneasy. She floated out of the music box and appeared in front of the three werewolf brothers. She said to them seriously, "Let's go find Barnaby!"
"What?" Boss Fenric asked in surprise, "I don't mind looking for it... but where?"
The second oldest, Ulrike, said, "Why bother looking for him? This is his home. We'll just wait here. He'll come back sooner or later."
The third brother, Orrick, agreed, "Yeah, yeah. If we go out and search aimlessly, what if we get lost? It's safest to wait here! He'll come back eventually!"
Alice sighed and shook her head repeatedly. "No... Before Principal Lucifer rescued my soul, I was trapped here for over a year, so I know Barnaby's daily life. He's a loner, has long since cut off contact with his family, and doesn't have many friends. His life basically consists of commuting between home and work."
"As an employee of a tech company, he's really busy and sometimes works all night, but when he does, he always goes home the next morning and has a full day to rest."
"There were three or four times... like today, he was gone at night and didn't come back during the day. In all these times, he brought back new victims."
The three werewolf brothers looked at each other, and Orrick stammered: "You, you mean..."
Alice nodded solemnly. "Yes, I suspect he's either committed another crime or is looking for a new victim. He was the one who first stalked me, and then killed me on my way home from school."
Ulric lowered his head and murmured, "That means, if we go find him now, maybe we can save someone?"
Orric nudged him with his elbow. "But that's not our mission! We are ghosts and shouldn't meddle in the affairs of these humans! That's their fate, God's will!"
"Hmm..." Both Orric and Fenric hesitated.
Alice didn't try to persuade them, but turned and walked out. "If you don't want to go, I'll go by myself." Her back in the gauze dress looked childish but determined. "If that's God's will—if God wants me to die in such agony, I won't believe in him even after I die!" She raised her middle finger, "F**k God!"
“……!!!” The three werewolf brothers, who had always been quite devout to God, held their faces in their hands in horror. Fenric took a deep breath and chased after them helplessly, “Don’t swear, little kid. Okay… we’ll go with you!”
"Are you serious?" The two younger brothers hurriedly followed, "Do you really want to interfere with the human world?"
Fenric spread his hands. "Let's be honest. Regarding Alice's case, if this is 'God's will,' then God is certainly being unkind. But if it's not God's will, then there's nothing wrong with us saving a victim who's about to suffer the same misfortune as Alice! What do you think?"
“That, that makes sense…” Ulric frowned.
Orric, always the most carefree, clicked his tongue upon hearing this. "Just go! To be honest, maybe God really isn't very kind. I've recently started to suspect that all 'Gods' in the world aren't very kind!"
"Oh..." Fenric understood. "Are you talking about the Eastern Emperor of Heaven?"
"Yes." Orric nodded. "Look what he did to Xuan Chi? It's simply outrageous!"
"Maybe Xuan Chi really did something wrong." Out of his piety to God, Ulric subconsciously defended the Emperor of Heaven.
"Come on." Orric waved his hand dismissively. "Look at Xuan Chi—sure, he makes mistakes, of course, but do you think he's committed any unforgivable crimes? What could he possibly do that would deserve tens of thousands of years of torture? Even the worst villain wouldn't suffer this kind of torture in hell!"
The last sentence silenced everyone. Indeed, even the most brutal villains wouldn't be imprisoned in Hell for that long. While their final fate might be annihilation, it was still far more humane than tens of thousands of years of torture.
This means that the god who is the embodiment of kindness, mercy and justice has done something more cruel than Satan, which is incredible to the werewolves.
The werewolves followed Alice out of Barnaby's house in silence. They didn't know where Barnaby was. As werewolves, they didn't have any spells to help find their targets. Alice, as a ghost, should have some, but she had been a ghost for too short a time. Although the strong resentment effectively enhanced her cultivation, the spells she had been exposed to were still very limited, and she didn't have this skill.
Therefore, the most convenient way is to go to Lingbo City - various magical tools can be purchased from the black market dealers in Lingbo City, and finding props for specific mortals is not a rare commodity. There will even be big sales on Black Friday.
"Let's go directly to Fox City." Ulric suggested.
That was the black market controlled by the Three-Tailed Fox Clan, and it was also the most prosperous black market in Lingbo City. Its disadvantage was that the prices were not very low, but its advantage was the wide variety of goods. There was a saying in Lingbo City that "if you pay enough, you can even buy a priesthood from the Three-Tailed Fox Clan."
This is just a joke, but it also shows how comprehensive their products are.
The group of four then entered Lingbo City as quickly as possible and headed straight for the 8-story glass building on the north side of the city.
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On the other side, "Aurelio" was still squatting in front of Isaac with a smile and talking: "You mentioned your mother just now, do you remember what I said?" His tone was indeed persuasive.
In fact, Zhu Mengwei asked this question only because although she noticed some clues from Isaac's reaction just now, she did not know enough about Isaac's previous experience, so only this ambiguous statement would not be exposed.
However, Isaac's face immediately lost all color, he stumbled back half a step, and shook his head in horror, denying, "I didn't! You heard wrong... You heard wrong, Dad."
Zhu Mengwei paused for a moment before continuing to manipulate the paper figurine. Aurelio's gentle, loving smile remained unchanged. Under Isaac's horrified gaze, he unbuckled his belt.
Zhu Mengwei intentionally had the paper man perform this action slowly and methodically, just enough to further stimulate Isaac's fear.
Si Ling concentrated and thought for a moment, then silently cast a spell, filling the air with the smell of blood.
It was just a very faint trace, as if it came from the depths of Isaac's memory, an illusion caused by extreme fear.
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