Zhuang Li's inference immediately lifted the veil on this mystery and exposed the horrible truth.
He pointed at the glass bottle in the photo with his fingertips and whispered, "What you want to catch is not a murderer, but the devil in the bottle."
Devil in a bottle? This chilling term made Zhou Cheng's heart tremble uncontrollably.
"How can we catch these demons?" he asked anxiously.
He couldn't imagine where the demons that devoured their victims' brains had gone now, and whether they were wreaking havoc on the world. Though they possessed human form, they were completely devoid of humanity and difficult to detect. They were true murderers.
"You should have a priest who specializes in dealing with demons, right? You should ask your priest about this." Zhuang Li stood up and nodded slightly. "I've helped in every way I can. Officer Zhou, can I go now?"
Zhou Cheng had no way to force him to stay, so he could only stand up and respectfully escort him out the door.
After returning to the fortune-telling shop, Zhuang Li thought to himself, "It was online shopping."
"What?" 7480 was stunned.
"Those who died obtained black magic props through online shopping." Zhuang Li opened the original owner's personal computer, logged into the e-commerce website, and continuously entered keywords with roughly similar meanings such as DIY, companionship, dolls, inflatable dolls, and smart chat robots. Then he exited the e-commerce website and used the search engine to continuously enter keywords such as curse, black magic, ghost, and summoning demons.
At the same time, he slowly said in his mind, "None of the victims knew each other in real life, had no personal connection, and lived in different cities. Yet, they were able to obtain information and props about black magic at the same time. These characteristics reminded me of online shopping. It was logistics that delivered the deadly bottled demon to them, so there must be clues on the internet."
7480 quickly said, "Then tell the police about this clue!"
Zhuang Li raised his eyebrows and asked, "Tell the police, what am I playing?"
7480: “…”
"But your ideological awareness is getting higher and higher. You are worthy of being the system I nurtured." Zhuang Li praised with a chuckle.
7480: "..." You are probably the best in the world!
Zhuang Li excitedly turned on the supercomputers in the space and used them to invade the private networks of all victims. Not surprisingly, he found that all traces of their online shopping had been erased and could not be retrieved at all.
"Even I can't find the information. Do you think there is something fishy going on here?" Zhuang Li used a search engine to look up information related to love spells.
7480 really couldn't understand what he was doing and asked, "Master, what's the point of you looking up all this irrelevant information? Shouldn't you be looking for the mastermind behind this?"
Zhuang Li explained, "I can't find them, so I have to let them come to me. "Little idiot, do you know how to let people with a specific purpose find you online? Or, in other words, how can we find a group of people with the same characteristics? For example, lonely singles, devil worshippers?"
7480 thought for a moment and said, "Big data precise positioning?"
Zhuang Li chuckled softly, "You've become smarter, you little idiot. Yes, it's big data precision targeting. A lonely, single person who wants someone to be with them, who believes in the occult and is a fanatic about mysterious things, will easily accept the existence of the demon in the bottle and then come up with the idea of cultivating one themselves. So now, all I have to do is stick these labels on myself, and that dark wizard will follow the clues and find me."
7480 finally understood what his master was doing. He was constantly searching for these keywords, essentially labeling himself.
But then, 7480 became worried, "Master, is it dangerous for you to do this?"
"Danger is fun, right?" Zhuang Li smiled happily.
7480: "..." If I say something wrong, will you get angry?
Zhuang Li spent two consecutive days online. On the morning of the third day, when he logged into an e-commerce website, big data recommended him a store that made handmade dolls. There was a very touching photo on the homepage of the store.
In the photo, a baby the size of a fingertip is curled up and sleeping in a half-broken eggshell. The baby's arms and legs as chubby as lotus root nodes and his adorable sleeping face make people's hearts soften.
As soon as Zhuang Li entered the store, a dialog box popped up on his mobile phone screen. The store owner asked him to download a chat software and communicate through the software, saying that he could give him a surprise.
Immediately afterwards, the store owner sent him a video.
In the video, the baby sleeping in the eggshell slowly opened its eyes, staggered out of the eggshell, and stared pitifully at Zhuang Li with its large, sparkling eyes. It seemed to be full of curiosity about this huge world.
Zhuang Li stared at the little baby, grinning and smiling with interest.
The store owner said at the right moment: "Want to have him? If so, download my app and chat with me privately."
Zhuang Li tried to track down the store but could not find any trace, so he could only download this mysterious chat software, but found that its icon was a complex magic pattern array, which was used to summon demons.
"It's him." Zhuang Li sighed in his heart.
7480 said nervously, "Master, I suggest you call the police immediately."
Zhuang Li turned a deaf ear to this and entered the chat room, where he bought a set of equipment for nurturing angel babies for two thousand yuan.
Of course, angel baby is what the store calls it, but in fact, Zhuang Li knows better than anyone what kind of creatures this equipment can cultivate.
Then he used more than a dozen supercomputers to forge a dozen fake identities on the Internet, labeling each of them as lonely, cold, and heavily obsessed with black magic, in order to lure the store owner to contact his fake identity and purchase more than a dozen sets of equipment.
After doing all this, he had squandered the big red envelope sent by Zhang Lijun's family and the original owner's bank deposits.
The dozen or so addresses he fabricated were all fake, but when the courier called the recipient's phone, the signal would be intercepted by 7480 and then forwarded to the owner. At that time, Zhuang Li only needed to have the courier leave the parcels at the station and then hire different people to pick them up.
The store owner seemed eager to kill people, and sent out more than a dozen express deliveries within a day.
That afternoon, Zhuang Li began receiving calls from couriers one after another. That evening, a dozen men and women of all heights and weights delivered the packages to Zhuang Li.
If there were so many express deliveries in just one city, how many were there across the country? This shop owner seemed to have fallen into a killing frenzy.
Are the bottled demons, nurtured by the victims, now wandering the streets, continuing their silent killings, or have they returned to the people who provided them with their semen?
Zhuang Li doesn’t know the answer yet, but he will find a way to find it.
"Master, what are you going to do with these things?" 7480 asked, suppressing his nausea, staring at the dozen or so bottles filled with sticky liquid on the table.
"Of course it's for experiments." Zhuang Li brought the bottles into the space and scanned them carefully with a magnetic field scanner. He found that there were subtle energy fluctuations in the body of each bottle, and these fluctuations converged into magnetic field lines, forming a very complex magic circle.
This magic circle is invisible to the human eye.
Zhuang Li stared at the magic circle displayed on the scanner, and compared it with the relevant information in the database to identify the effect of this magic circle.
Magic circles are composed of specific symbols and lines, each born from thousands of years of historical accumulation and possessing its own religious significance. The inverted cross, the hexagram, the Star of David, the symbol of life, the Ouroboros...
The combination of different symbols and lines is like entering instructions into a computer. As long as every character is correct, a specific program will be activated, such as reincarnation, possession, summoning demons, etc.
To some extent, magic circles are similar to programming, and Zhuang Li happens to be an expert in this area.
He took the magic circle apart and interpreted it character by character, then reassembled it and interpreted it again.
"Life, origin, time, summoning..." He kept chanting the meaning of each key character in the magic circle, his eyes shining brighter and brighter.
Suddenly, he stopped disassembling, analyzing and interpreting, and quickly walked to a computer opposite, carefully drawing more than a dozen variations of the magic circle.
"Energy... If I want to shorten the cultivation time, in addition to modifying the magic pattern, I need even more energy. Blood is definitely not enough." He murmured as he walked towards the warehouse, took out a dozen crystal cores of the Zombie King, then came to the outside of the laboratory and scooped a cup of water from the spring that was emitting white mist.
He placed the blood-red Zombie King Crystal Core into a furnace with a temperature of over 6,000 degrees, turning it into liquid, and mixed it with spiritual spring water to create a thick potion with a dark bloody glow.
Then, he took out a dozen distilling bottles, dipped a quill pen made of super-strong metal into the potion, and drew a dozen magic circles that he had rewritten on the round belly of the bottle.
Looking at the bright light in his eyes and his busy and focused figure, 7480 couldn't help but shudder.
What's scarier than a dark wizard? Without a doubt, a mad scientist!
Just when 7480 was hesitating whether to persuade him, Zhuang Li ordered: "Little idiot, help me pour half of the contents of these bottles into the distilling flasks." He pointed to the bottles sent by the dark wizard and the white mucus stored in the bottles.
7480: “!!!”
It pointed its chubby finger at the tip of its nose, its eyes wide with terror. This space allowed the existence of energy bodies, so it could materialize. Now it stood at Zhuang Li's feet.
"If it's not you, then is it me?" Zhuang Li took off his goggles and asked with raised eyebrows.
7480 looked at its master's fair, slender, beautiful hands, then at its own thick, short, chubby hands, and finally nodded with tears in its eyes. It put on two layers of plastic gloves and protected its head with a transparent mask. Only then, suppressing its nausea, did it grin and evenly distribute half of the mucus, pouring it into the distillation flask.
"There should be no blood in your body, right?" Zhuang Li pondered.
7480 immediately realized what he was planning and quickly shook his head like a rattle: "Master, I don't have blood, I am a consciousness! Master, please spare me!"
Zhuang Li sighed regretfully, then reluctantly pricked his fingertip and dripped a drop of blood into a glass bottle sent by the dark wizard and a distilling flask he had made himself. As he added the third drop, his eyes flickered. He immediately wrapped his fingertip with an alcohol pad and headed to the laboratory's storage room. He retrieved the blood of dozens of ferocious beasts from the genetic sample room and dripped it into the glass bottle and distilling flask one by one.
After finishing, he placed the bottles in a huge energy field and cultivated them separately in dozens of incubators.
"I have adjusted the time flow rate of the magic pattern. It takes forty days to cultivate the devil in the bottle, but only four minutes is enough for me." Zhuang Li sat on a soft sofa and observed the dozens of bottles through the monitors installed in the energy field.
7480 waited anxiously. This scene reminded him of the systems his master had originally used for various experiments. Their fates had been horrific. He wondered what the fate of these bottled demons would be.
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