Chapter 75: Serial Killing Gang Suffers Serial Killings (10) Love…
SAN value -10%.
Isaac's SAN value was only 60%. Seeing a psychopathic murderer so frightened by the "amiable father" before them, the ghosts felt a bit complicated. To say that this complexity didn't contain a trace of sadness would be an understatement.
But sighing doesn't mean forgiveness. If a murderer responsible for over a dozen deaths can be forgiven simply because of his own reasons, justice becomes a joke for the victims. This kind of forgiveness isn't something that ghosts carrying out their missions have the right to offer, not even the Emperor of Heaven, God, Hades, or Satan. Only the victims have this right.
——For Si Ling, who has been a fierce ghost for 30,000 years, this is a very simple truth, but Bai Ma, Li Qi and Zhu Mengwei are still very inexperienced, and simple "humanity" still exists in them.
Si Ling was a little nervous because of this. She looked at the expressions of the three of them calmly, and began to think about what words she should use to persuade them if they softened their hearts.
But it seemed she was being overly suspicious. None of the three showed any sympathy for the terrified and helpless Isaac. Li Qi even quipped, "The father wasn't a good father, and the son became a serial killer. It's true that the son of a mouse is the best at digging holes!"
Zhu Mengwei concentrated on driving the paper figurine while sneering, "More than a dozen lives lost, and you call that a rat's son can dig a hole? It's more like the disciple surpasses the master. If you ask me, letting him continue to be immersed in this fear is retribution. Sending him to meet Satan is too easy for him."
Li Qi yawned. "It's a shame it's a mission, we can't make the decisions..." Then he looked at Si Ling and said, "How about we go it alone? Find the villain and create this terrifying illusion that scares him. Let him immerse himself in it until he dies. How exciting is the retribution in this life?"
Si Ling laughed: "Think about the diplomatic conflicts between the underworld and don't cause trouble for the workers."
"Okay..." Li Qi said sullenly.
The Tongming Plate in his pocket vibrated twice. Si Ling took it out casually. The vibration continued and message prompts kept popping up on the screen.
Si Ling looked closely and found that the continuous messages were voice messages from the werewolf boss Fenric.
Fenric: "Are you there? Are you there? It's urgent, it's urgent, it's urgent!"
Fenric: "Can you sell us one of those paper figurines? We need it urgently to save someone! I wanted to buy it at the Fox Market, but the fox spirits are too expensive, and we don't know how to use that kind of magic, so we'd have to ask them to do it for us, and they'd have to pay extra!"
Fenric: "So... could you please offer me a friendly price? One paper figurine, and anyone from the Eastern Group can operate it. Thank you."
Si Ling frowned and looked at the scene in front of him, then asked Zhu Mengwei: "Can you handle Isaac?"
"Okay..." Zhu Mengwei was quite confident, "I'm familiar with NPD."
Si Ling nodded: "Okay, then this is for you to practice. Xuan Chi, A Zhui, you keep an eye on it here, and contact me if anything happens. Also keep an eye on the vampires upstairs and don't let them come out casually."
Ah Zhui was puzzled: "What do you mean? Do you have anything else to say?"
"The werewolves seem to have encountered some minor problems. I'll go take a look." After saying this, Si Ling sent a message to Fenric: Give me your location.
Fenric immediately sent over the positioning, which was not a simple coordinate positioning, but real-time positioning.
Si Ling clicked on it and saw that he was not far away from her, also on the outskirts of the foggy city, about three or four kilometers away, but he was moving continuously.
Si Ling frowned and sent another message: "I'll go over now, you wait for me there? You werewolves run too fast, I can't catch up."
Fenric's reply was filled with apology. "No... We're tracking our target, but it's just a normal human being walking. We're not very fast. Sorry to bother you!"
Hearing what he said, Si Ling had no choice but to follow him. To make it easier to find them, she floated higher. Ten minutes later, she spotted the three werewolf brothers hiding in the woods. Besides them, there were two other figures in the woods, one in front and one behind. The one in front was a girl, and behind her was a middle-aged man about twenty meters away. Si Ling guessed that was their target, Alice's murderer.
She landed directly beside the werewolves. The three werewolves who were concentrating on watching her shuddered in fear, but they relaxed when they saw it was her: "You're here, that's great! Oh, you have to trouble yourself to take care of such a small matter..." Fenric looked embarrassed.
Si Ling raised an eyebrow: "You're welcome. What's going on? Why do you need a paper figurine?"
Fenric glanced at Barnaby, who was completely oblivious to their presence. "We waited and waited at his house, but he showed up. Alice assumed he was out committing a crime, so we came out to look for him."
"...Did you really find it?" Si Ling was a little surprised. As the capital of the British country, Fog City has a large area. It is even larger if the suburbs are included.
Fenric scratched his head sheepishly. "We paid for a missing person service in Fox City... Considering we needed to save someone, we wanted to hire a paper figurine to take his place, but the price was too high."
Si Ling asked as a matter of course: "Where is the [Substitute Puppet] that Professor Mammon gave me?"
That is one of the equipment that all new students receive upon enrollment.
Orrick turned his head and said, "The person being protected must activate it himself."
"Okay." Si Ling shrugged and asked, "What's the plan now?"
When she asked this, the three werewolves looked at Alice quietly.
It was not until then that Si Ling noticed Alice - she was some distance away from them. As a spiritual ghost, she didn't have to worry about being discovered by Barnaby, so she was floating directly behind Barnaby... just like what people often call a "ghost behind him".
Si Ling narrowed his eyes because of Alice's condition.
The appearances of the students at the Ghost Academy are varied. Ghosts like her and Bai Ma are the most "human-like". Apart from them, species like werewolves and vampires have their own merits. Zombie brides like Elizabeth even have a bloody feeling written on their faces.
And Alice - whether she is in the music box or transformed into the body of a normal girl, her appearance can be described as "sweet and cute". Even Si Ling often subconsciously treats her as an ordinary little girl, and if he is not careful, he will forget that she is actually a resentful ghost.
But now, Alice was surrounded by a dark green smoke, invisible to mortals, foreshadowing the rising resentment of the evil spirit. In the ghost world, if people saw an evil spirit in this form, they would try to avoid her, even if it was just out of the mentality of "less trouble is more".
"She's very angry." Si Ling turned his gaze back, "So, what is the plan?"
"Well..." Fenric was silent for a moment. "We did have a plan at first, but it was designed for the environment of Barnaby's home. After we realized he was going to commit another crime, we left his house, and that plan was naturally scrapped."
"So you don't have any plans now?" Si Ling looked at Fenric.
Fenric smiled bitterly. "I think Alice has a plan, but she's not going to tell us. Ever since she saw Barnaby about to commit another crime, she's been furious and wants to deal with him herself..."
"Then why doesn't she do anything?" Si Ling asked again.
Fenric sighed. "She's afraid Barnaby might act drastically against his new target out of fear. We all think that's unlikely—why would someone kill an unrelated person out of fear of ghosts? But Alice feels we can't judge a psychopathic killer with common sense. She doesn't want to take any risks with that girl, so we have to make sure she's free from Barnaby before she'll take action."
"She is very restrained." Si Ling looked deeply at Alice, who was full of resentment. The hand hanging by his side moved slightly, and a paper man appeared between his index finger and middle finger.
On a small path in the woods, a girl who was used to sketching in the suburbs every weekend was completely unaware of the presence of a psychopathic killer not far away, and the psychopathic killer was also unaware of the existence of a ghost behind him.
In Si Ling's eyes, this was a classic case of "the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind." To avoid Barnaby's unnecessary suspicion, she patiently waited until the girl in front of her turned a corner on a small hill, so that she temporarily disappeared from Barnaby's sight.
Si Ling seized the opportunity and quietly set up a barrier. The girl was isolated outside the barrier, and the paper man appeared at the girl's previous position.
Si Ling drifted over there, arms folded, waiting. Barnaby soon turned the corner, completely unaware that his target had been replaced. He continued his pursuit with excitement and patience. Alice turned around and her expression relaxed when she saw Si Ling: "Changed?"
Si Ling nodded.
"Thank you!" Alice smiled and immediately became the little girl Si Ling was familiar with. "I'll treat you to dinner when we're done."
"No problem." Si Ling smiled.
"Well..." Alice looked her over and said politely, "I won't bother you any more."
Si Ling understood what she meant. She was silent for a moment, staring intently at the resentment lingering around her.
But after a while, the resentment had clearly intensified, which made her a little worried. She pretended to be relaxed and said, "I know you don't want help, but I've finished my side and I have nothing to do, so I'll just be a spectator here."
"That's fine!" Alice accepted it generously.
Then, Alice showed patience that surprised Si Ling.
Since Barnaby would wait until dark whenever he started tracking his target, Alice waited patiently until dark and walked the three werewolves until they were tired.
Si Ling didn't know Alice's plan, and considering Alice's deep resentment, he didn't ask too many questions. In the end, he found out that she was just waiting for dark and was somewhat speechless: this was her barrier. She could actually make the sky dark and make Barnaby believe that this was normal...
When the last rays of the sun set, Alice finally waited for Barnaby to take action.
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