Chapter 006 The Four

That night, Yanggu Town, which was bustling during the day, gradually became quiet. There was no one on the street, and even the sound of insects could not be heard.

Tarona sat up from the bed and suddenly thought that there seemed to be few cats and dogs in this town, even birds were rare. But she changed her mind and thought that this was normal. After all, it was a dangerous place full of ghosts, and it was the instinct of small animals to avoid this place for survival.

It is now midnight, the time is just right. Wuqing next door and Jinjian and Yinjian next door have already fallen asleep. They are really tired after a whole day's journey.

What's more, Wuqing is in poor health...

Wait a moment.

[Have I said this several times? ]

Theseus answered every question: [In my impression, yes.]

Tarona doesn't think she is the kind of enthusiastic person who cares about others. It is understandable that she cares about others once or twice, and she is not a cold-hearted person. However, is she a little too caring and ruthless?

The Great Witch finally realized that something was wrong and asked hurriedly: [Theseus, how high is the synchronization rate between me and Vest Card? ]

Theseus flipped the page and took a look, saying, "20.3%, totally not up to the standard for video recording, please rest assured."

He felt that the last sentence was redundant. After all, his partner had never known what social death was, and he didn't want to do too much work out of boredom. But out of some stubborn system principle, he still added this sentence.

Ah, it’s already 20 percent... No wonder she said that the surging maternal love of [Blood Nun] was becoming more and more prominent. So that’s how it is.

The impact of just 20 percent is so great, so what about more than 50 percent?

Tarona suddenly felt guilty and realized that she shouldn't have laughed at her friend before. The social death in this situation was indeed uncontrollable.

Besides, she felt something was...weird.

Being affected by emotions and feelings that did not belong to her, even though she knew it was fake, she couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable and repulsed.

But it's only 20%, not enough to affect her actions.

The beautiful woman in plain clothes let go of the little knot in her heart, raised her hand to tie up her knee-length black hair, and when she opened her hand again, a strand of hair that was so black that it was faintly red had rolled itself into a knot in her palm.

A small knot of hair fell on the bed and instantly turned into a puppet with the same appearance as the beauty.

Talona stretched out a finger, gently lifted its chin, slightly opened his lips, which looked particularly red at night, and blew a breath on the puppet's forehead.

The motionless puppet was immediately breathed with life. It stretched smoothly and lay down next to the sleeping child, its breathing gradually becoming more normal.

Speaking of this child, the great witch really doesn't know how to take care of a child. She has been relying on magic to coax the child along the way. She now wishes she could find the child's family immediately so that she can send this soft little thing back and then she can be free.

But it was strange that her blood magic was ineffective. This shouldn't be the case. She had used this magic to help countless tadpoles find their mothers.

【Maybe it's because of something abnormal?】 Theseus said uncertainly.

Tarona shook his head, indicating that this issue would be discussed later.

Now, it's time for a night visit.

…

The identity of a powerful ghost is quite convenient. Tarona moved forward in a straight line along the source of the ghost energy. She pushed the speed that the [Blood Nun] could currently exert to the extreme. In less than half a minute, she had reached the source of the ghost energy - the col southwest of Yanggu Town.

This valley is deeply enclosed by high mountains on both sides. The mountain walls on both sides are covered with green grass, as if they have absorbed enough nutrients, and are abnormally green in this autumn.

It was the middle of the night and the temperature was very low. Perhaps it had rained too heavily yesterday, so even after a day, there was still plenty of moisture in the mountains. In the night, one could see the rising mist that filled the entire valley.

This mist is quite distinctive, grayish white with a hint of green.

Theseus said helplessly: [This is poisonous fog. Just in case, you'd better be careful.]

Since we have already guessed that the secret of Yanggu Town is related to the anomaly, it is better to be careful with this seemingly insignificant poisonous fog. What if something goes wrong?

Talona nodded, and the alien cross sword condensed in her hand. One protective magic was not enough, so she cast eighteen.

A mountain breeze carrying a faint stench of corpse blew out from the valley, and the solid body of the black and white nun gradually became ethereal. When the mountain breeze stopped, she floated into the valley naturally like another gust of wind.

The stench of corpses in the mist was even stronger, mixed with a fragrance so strong that it made one's head swell. It smelled like the fragrance of flowers, and also like some special medicinal fragrance. It was definitely not a good thing.

With her body so ethereal that only a little visibility remained, Tarona moved forward in the direction of the drifting mist. After drifting for a while, she had determined that the mist here acted like a sealing barrier.

It locks up the ghosts inside and also locks up the people coming from outside.

Tarona continued to drift deeper.

After floating for about two minutes, she saw Mars, and the complex smell became stronger.

After walking a dozen meters further, the mist suddenly disappeared and the field of vision became much brighter.

There is a lake here with a diameter of less than 20 meters. It is very deep and has running water. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be connected to the river in Yanggu Town that runs through half of the town.

And on the lake, there was actually an altar.

Twelve pitch-black coffins were connected head to tail, forming a hexagram. In the middle floated a large bronze tripod with three incense sticks as thick as a child's arm stuck in the middle. The incense ashes in the tripod showed that it had been there for quite some time.

The hexagram, it’s obvious at first glance that it’s not Eastern metaphysics.

Tarona thought of the search results Theseus had mentioned before. Did the sentinel report the death of a bird?

Indeed, in many magics, the hexagram array is a common array pattern for summoning demons, but it can also be used to summon angels and other bright beings. In fact, it is one of the universal and universal arrays.

The formation here is made up of coffins containing dead people, so it can only be used to summon dark creatures.

Tarona put away the alien cross sword and tried to lift the lid of the coffin closest to him to see if it could be a young woman from the roar inside. As expected, it didn't lift the lid.

She clapped her hands and did not try to break it open violently. Instead, she walked around the hexagram array and looked at every coffin.

The witch's brows wrinkled slightly, and she bit her lower lip lightly, showing a bit of tricky meaning.

Without exception, all of the twelve coffins contained young women whose deaths were horrific.

What does this mean?

Is this really a summon?

Or... is there another purpose?

Tarona had never encountered such a situation. According to her previous experience in the mission world, the hexagram was generally used for summoning, and Constantine of the Dark Justice League was very good at it.

But the problem is, the nature of this world is not extraordinary, so what can it summon?

[Theseus, go to the forum and see if there are similar situations? ]

[Okay, Miss Ta.] Theseus put on his cleaned glasses and his fingers danced on the virtual keyboard.

Tarona walked around the coffin and floated to the bronze cauldron. She reached into the cauldron, picked up a bit of incense ash with two fingers, and used identification magic to simply identify the ingredients.

It contains corpse oil, dozens of precious medicinal materials, cinnabar, black dog blood, and an unknown ingredient that cannot be identified.

As long as it is an ingredient that Tarona is not aware of, the results given by the identification magic will be unknown.

But how can there be any unknown elements in a martial arts world?

The store where officers of the Space-Time Balance Bureau can purchase items will be updated in real time every day. As long as this martial arts world is not completely newly generated, any item in the world can be found in the store.

The same goes for databases.

The only thing that is constantly new is the endless emergence of anomalies.

Sure enough, her guess was correct, the secret here was related to the abnormality.

In less than five minutes, Theseus made some progress: [Ms. Ta, I have consulted some members of the forum, and the answer they gave is - this formation may be for the purpose of raising something. ]

Twelve female corpses with tragic deaths, twelve ghosts below the level of powerful ghosts, their accumulated ghost energy, yin energy and resentment should not be underestimated, someone who knows the business can even use them to give birth to a ghost king of a decent level.

But there were not enough clues as to what exactly they were raising, and even the most experienced officers could not give a definite answer.

Tarona rested his chin on one hand and knocked on the lid of the nearest coffin with his fingers bent on the other hand.

The direction of this answer is most likely correct. These coffins are locked very tightly, and even for her, they need violence to break them open. It can be seen that the person who set up this method does not want the ghosts inside to come out.

If they are all feeding materials, then what are the things they are "feeding"?

Tarona thought of the weak little cannon fodder, and the next second, she shook her head again.

It's too weak. It's impossible to raise such a thing by feeding ghosts below the level of twelve powerful ghosts.

But if the creatures to be raised here were abnormal, she didn't feel any aura that was different from this world.

Except for the unknown ingredients in the fragrance.

Tarona clicked her tongue in a slightly irritated tone. Why did she feel that the anomalies in the martial arts world were even more mysterious than those in the Anglo-American world?

Is it because she doesn't understand the world of martial arts?

The Great Witch decided to brush up on her martial arts common sense and Eastern metaphysical knowledge. Since she was already here, it would always be a good idea to learn more.

Tarona, who was confused for the moment, left the valley quietly. In order to prevent the Golden Sword and the Silver Sword from rushing in without knowing anything, she planned to keep a closer eye on the two children in the future. As soon as they came here, she would immediately give them a ghost wall set.

As for whether it would scare them, being scared is better than dying.

Forcibly destroying the formation will definitely alert the enemy, so Tarona plans to sit back and wait. As long as she can get a hold of a little clue, she will immediately strike. Even if she can't catch the anomaly, she will suppress the thing that has grown here.

You can't have neither of them, right? You have to have one.

After the first night exploration, Tarona returned with some gains but not much.

She had been out for a short time, but it had been half an hour, and before she even entered the yard, she heard the sound of a wheelchair rolling on the ground.

Ruthless?

Are you out for a walk because you can't sleep?

Tarona looked over suspiciously, only to find that he came out from the direction of his own compartment.

Can't sleep and come to see her?

What's so good about a blind weak woman? Are you still doubting her in your heart?

That shouldn't be the case. Her acting skills are pretty good and the evidence is complete. Is there something wrong?

Tarona thought about it and decided not to start the mind-reading skills, respecting other people's privacy and avoiding psychological emo.

After the Great Witch watched Wuqing return to her own room, she passed through the wall and floated into the room. The puppet lying on the bed sat up, turned back into a bun, and floated slowly into her open palm.

The memories of this short period of time naturally merged into Tarona's mind.

It turned out that Wuqing was attracted by the crying of a child. When he was asking outside the door, the puppet, which had perfectly inherited the original body's zero-level skill with children, was standing still with the child in its arms.

Wuqing asked, and the puppet went forward to open the door and handed the child who couldn't stop crying to the omnipotent constable to coax him. There was nothing unusual throughout the whole process.

As for why Wuqing looked so unhappy just now...

Tarona thought this was because he had few ruthless expressions. After all, she had never seen him smile during this journey.

Let’s review what we have just gained.

Seeing this, Theseus shook his head indifferently, picked up the coffee beside him and took a sip.

In the final analysis, it was because Miss Ta didn't take the existence of the Lucky Child to heart. To her, the Lucky Child was at most an important passerby who was rewarded for saving him, so how the Lucky Child felt had nothing to do with her.

Even if there was a mistake somewhere, she wouldn't care. At worst she would just give up the extra reward.

His partners have always been clearly distinguished.

…

However, in another room, Wuqing did not continue to sleep after returning to his room, but sat in a wheelchair, thinking about something.

The chief constable frowned, puzzled, and at the same time, a slight chill filled his heart.

Madam Luo...how come you have no pulse?