Chapter 120 Stainless Steel Basins Never Go Out of Style
When Shuichi Akai came back with the paper bag, he found that the three people in Kudo's house were sitting around a trash can, silently cracking melon seeds and eating pistachios, as if they were not in the reception room, but under the old tree at the entrance of the village.
Akai Shuichi looked at Cheng Xiaoyu who was eating melon seeds.
There are no nuts in Kudo's house, so it's easy to guess who brought these things.
It's really amazing that a demon lord can live so down to earth. If no one knew about it in advance, no one would have guessed the true race of this woman who looked and behaved like an ordinary person.
“I brought Curacao back.”
Cheng Xiaoyu stood up, brushed off the nut crumbs, and stepped forward to take the bag of ashes: "Thank you for your hard work."
The lid of the urn was opened, and the grayish-white ashes lay quietly at the bottom of the box. It was difficult to associate it with a living person.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Does anyone know her real name?"
Akai Shuichi: "I don't know. Is it okay to call Curacao?"
"Names and titles are the bonds that connect people. Considering she previously defected from the organization, she probably won't react to the name Curacao, and it might even be counterproductive. But it's not a big deal. If she refuses to listen to my calls, I'll use my magical weapon to forcibly pull her out."
Cheng Xiaoyu placed the urn in the middle of the coffee table with both hands. The Kudo couple and Akai Shuichi surrounded her, wanting to see what magical instrument she was going to take out.
Cheng Xiaoyu's face was solemn, and he concentrated his energy into his Dantian. He reached into the shadow that was winding up beside him and took out a -
Stainless steel basin.
The Kudo couple:?
Akai Shuichi:?
Why does this development seem so familiar? Why is it a stainless steel basin again?
This stainless steel basin looks familiar. Is it the one I used to hit Soul’s head last time?
Cheng Xiaoyu placed the stainless steel basin upright on the coffee table, placed her hands on the edge of the basin, and suddenly tapped the wall with her fingernails. A light, echoing sound echoed, and she nodded in satisfaction. "Great, now I have a necromancy device."
ah?
Akai Shuichi asked what everyone was thinking: "Are you really going to use this as a spirit summoning device? Will it really work?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Just like a real driver would discard his license when faced with a critical situation, I've decided to abandon the mage's red tape for now. The sounds all sound the same anyway, so I can just stack the magic and use it. If it's not loud enough, I can always just flip the basin over and hit the bottom."
Although Cheng Xiaoyu said it lightly, ordinary mages couldn't play like her.
Because Cheng Xiaoyu studies a wide range of subjects.
Over the years, she did not just stick to the air magic system that suited her best. Every time she visited a new world, she would learn and collect the local unique spells. For this purpose, she repeatedly sneaked into magic schools in different worlds just to study new magic.
More than a dozen completely different spell systems, thousands of mastered spells, tens of thousands of spell books they have read and the electronic versions they can carry with them are enough for Cheng Xiaoyu to create a hodgepodge of spells and combine and innovate new spells according to different situations.
She hasn't lived nearly a thousand years in vain.
Cheng Xiaoyu was seen holding a stainless steel basin, with her ponytail spread out at the back of her head, and her soft hair wiping out the densely packed magic patterns carved on the stainless steel basin.
Directly carving metal without heating, especially carving a stainless steel basin, should produce a harsh noise according to common sense. However, until Cheng Xiaoyu finished carving the stainless steel basin, they did not hear the sound that should be made by carving a stainless steel basin.
Cheng Xiaoyu knocked the stainless steel basin with the magic pattern carved on it against the edge of a trash can filled with nut shells to shake out the stainless steel chips inside.
"No matter how many times I see it, I can't help but marvel at the magic," said Shuichi Akai. "It looks like a normal carving process, but there's no sound at all. Is this the magic of enchantment?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Huh? No, I was just carving magic patterns. The reason there was no sound is because I cast a [No Noise] spell on the stainless steel basin. After all, the sound of carving metal is too harsh."
After saying that, Cheng Xiaoyu raised her index finger, and as she recited an obscure short sentence, an ice-blue light ball the size of a fingernail appeared at her fingertips.
As soon as the light ball touched the stainless steel basin, it immediately spread along the strange patterns on the stainless steel basin like a drop of water encountering a crack, and then quietly went out.
"Now the enchantment is complete."
Cheng Xiaoyu placed the stainless steel basin that she had touched in front of the ashes, dipped a little ashes with her fingertips and placed it on the edge of the stainless steel basin, then slowly tapped the wall of the stainless steel basin with her fingernails.
With every knock, the lines on the stainless steel basin appear like waves of ice blue.
At the sixth knock, the stainless steel basin suddenly vibrated, and all the lines on it lit up with a faint ice-blue light, and changed slowly like breathing.
Even Shuichi Akai and the Kudo couple, who don't know magic, know that this stainless steel basin Horcrux should have found its target.
Next, Cheng Xiaoyu made a silencing gesture to everyone with one hand and continued to knock on the stainless steel basin.
As she knocked, the ice-blue light on the stainless steel basin became brighter and brighter, and the buzzing frequency of the stainless steel basin became louder and more obvious. This was obviously not a result that could be achieved by physical knocking with that kind of force.
"Buzz—"
The stainless steel basin suddenly vibrated violently on its own. Cheng Xiaoyu knocked it one last time, and an ice-blue beam of light immediately emerged from the basin. A transparent figure with long silver hair emerged from it. She looked around blankly, and finally her gaze rested on Akai Shuichi's face.
"Akai Shuichi, why are you in Hell too? ...Well, you were also stained with the blood of others during your time as an undercover agent. Is the organization finished?"
Akai Shuichi: "I don't know, and actually I'm not dead yet."
Curacao noticed that her perspective was higher than others, as if she was standing on a coffee table. She lowered her head and found that her entire body was transparent.
She wasn't panicked, but instead had a look of "as expected": "It seems I'm the only one dead. Is this an illusion after death?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "No, I just called you back to the human world with the soul summoning technique. We want to ask you for some information about the organization."
After all, Curacao had died before and had seen the literal meaning of hell, so he quickly accepted this setting: "Okay. But before that, I want to ask, did I successfully save those innocent people back then?"
There is no judge in hell, no one to torture her, only endless fire and darkness to remind her of the sins she has committed. She has no way of knowing what will happen after her death.
Shuichi Akai: "You did it. You successfully stopped the Ferris wheel from rolling and saved many lives. They are all very grateful to you."
In the bag containing Curacao's urn were many thank-you letters from the rescued people and their relatives.
Curacao gave a relieved smile: "That's great, thank you for telling me this."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "You're welcome. By the way, does the winery have a cemetery? Do you have a favorite place to bury the bodies of traitors?"
Curacao guessed what Cheng Xiaoyu was going to do, but she shook her head gently. "I'm sorry, but there's no such thing. Unless they're doing human experiments in the R&D department, no one in the organization will deal with corpses. For this reason, they carry special drugs with them to destroy the bodies, but only a few people know that there is a certain possibility of side effects of these drugs. They won't kill people, but will make them rejuvenate. The top leaders of the organization have been hiding this fact."
Akai Shuichi: "You said the top brass of the organization knew all along that APTX4869 would shrink people?"
Curacao nodded. "To be precise, they have a special drug that can rejuvenate people without causing death. However, to prevent this from being exposed and causing rebellion among the lower classes, this matter has been kept secret. I accidentally learned about this before, which is why I was almost silenced."
He was then rescued by Rum and used as his confidant.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "I remember that the person who came to silence you was Vermouth. She also took that kind of medicine, right?"
Curacao: "Yes. But from what I understand, she hated this incident and therefore harbored a grudge against the drug's developer. However, the drug's developer has always been closely guarded, so she didn't have the opportunity to take action."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Looks like we have to wait for Huiyuan Ai to come back from school and ask her where her parents' graves are."
Curacao: "It's no use asking her. The bodies of the Miyano couple are not in the grave."
The bodies of the Miyano couple are not in the grave?
This is strange. No matter how important the project that the Miyano couple is researching is, it has nothing to do with corpses, right?
Cheng Xiaoyu suddenly had a premonition: "Could there be no body in Miyano Akemi's tomb?"
Curacao nodded. "Yes, I was the one who claimed and exchanged Miyano Akemi's body after disguising myself, but I don't understand why they did this."
Miyano Akemi was not a core member of the organization when she was alive. Why did they recover her body after she was killed because she wanted to leave the organization?
And to be honest, Curacao found it very strange that Miyano Akemi was killed. Miyano Shiho was still holding such important research in the organization. Why did the organization so quickly agree to Gin killing Miyano Akemi, who was Miyano Shiho's closest relative?
If she wants to leave the organization and doesn't want to do dirty work, just leave her idle. With Miyano Shiho trapped in the organization, it is impossible for her to report the organization. Given her low-level status, even if she did, there would be no useful information.
She acted as a matchmaker and sent in a single FBI agent, but none of them were executed. How could she end up being executed for quitting the organization and not wanting to do dirty work anymore?
She also needs to steal 1 billion yen before she can quit. When did Gin go through so much trouble to kill someone?
Cheng Xiaoyu: “…”
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Let me ask you something. Has no one in the organization ever been able to rejuvenate so safely since the death of the Miyano couple?"
Curacao: “I don’t know about that.”
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Then let me ask you another question...Are you sure that without supplementary medication, rejuvenation is a very small possibility?"
Curacao: "It's a near-impossible probability, which is why this drug is used as a poison to destroy the body. Furthermore, the content of the Miyano couple's research is confidential. Even I only guessed the true purpose of the Miyano couple's research after seeing Shirley's shrinking appearance not long ago."
Then this "almost impossible probability" appeared three times.
Kudo Yusaku: "Ghost, have you thought of something?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "It's just a guess. Curacao, let me ask you another way. What age group are those who took the drug to regain their youth?"
"I don't know what the others looked like," Curacao recalled with a frown, "but the scene I accidentally saw was of a baby giving orders. This happened before Shirley defected from the organization. I don't know much about the drug. If you really want to know the details, I suggest you ask Miyano Shiho herself."
“…”
Yukiko: "Ghost, do you have any guesses?"
"That's true, but we need to wait for Huiyuan Ai herself to come and verify it." Cheng Xiaoyu said, "If this speculation is correct..."
No wonder the second high-dimensional creature asked her to get involved in this mess so readily. This is bullshit science!
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