Chapter 330: Demon-Slayer Sister (3)
Seeing the completely different attitudes shown by Ah Mei and Ah Yu after seeing the arrangements of their respective departments, some audience members laughed: It seems that "guarding the reservoir" is not as simple as simply guarding the reservoir.
By then, the reactions of the two people should be reversed.
What happened next was just as the audience had expected. The "reservoir guarding" job arrangement was not the "reservoir guarding" that people are familiar with. Under normal circumstances, reservoir guarding is even "lower-level" than traffic police and patrol police, because it is simply guarding near a water source that supplies tap water to prevent people or animals from polluting the water source and to prevent any accidents such as poisoning or dumping of corpses. It is basically equivalent to the security guard at the door of a building.
This kind of work is exactly what the salted fish who just want to eat and wait for death love the most. One can imagine how different this arrangement is for Yuk who just wants to take a rest and Mei who is determined to do great things.
"You are very lucky. It is after rounds of tests and many discussions by the higher-ups that you two were finally selected to enter this department." After driving the people to a small building near a reservoir, the old superintendent greeted the staff inside and got the key, then took Ah Mei and Ah Yu to another hidden passage.
"It's just guarding the reservoir, but you talk like you want to be a spy." Annoyed, Ah Mei couldn't help but curl her lips.
Ah Yu, who seemed to have noticed something, gently tugged at her sleeve, signaling her to stop talking so as not to say anything more.
After arriving at another underground office, the old superintendent began to formally explain the truth: "Your real job is not to guard the reservoir, but to learn magic to exorcise demons and defend the way in this secluded place. After you have learned it, you will be responsible for exorcising demons that ordinary police officers are not capable of."
As the old superintendent explains, the whole plot gradually reveals its true fantasy nature: this world is not as peaceful as people see it. A strange creature that has been recorded since ancient times is waiting in the dark for the day to invade the human world.
"It is said that this disaster was caused by Qin Shi Huang's insistence on the elixir of life," the old police chief recalled slowly. "The sorcerers who served Qin Shi Huang captured a strange little race on the shore of the East China Sea. They look like humans, but have powerful abilities that humans cannot imagine. They usually eat the same food as ordinary people, but once they are injured or weak, they can recover their vitality by absorbing the vitality of other living things."
"In the ancient times, they called this race the 'God Race'."
"In order to obtain the Protoss' special physique, the warlocks kept refining medicine and testing it on slaves and soldiers. Unfortunately, they were never able to comprehend the mystery of the Protoss' physique. In the end, they created a bunch of monsters that only knew how to devour the flesh and blood of living things to maintain their lives."
"The monsters were sealed in stone figurines, and then buried deep in the underground mausoleum with the captured God Clan leader 'Goddess Yunsu' as the seal." The old police superintendent sighed again, "Unfortunately, these monsters were not completely sealed, and the small number of monsters that managed to escape eventually became zombies and ghosts in the legends. When foreigners came to ancient China to visit and learn, they spread to other places and became creatures such as vampires in other places."
"Fortunately, over the past thousands of years, there have been sorcerers in the East and demon hunters in the West. In addition, the seal of the goddess's tomb is solid, which has controlled the 'reproduction' of monsters."
"But because of that world war, the goddess' tomb was destroyed, and then the seal loosened, and the monsters became stronger..." At this point, the old superintendent finally explained the origin of this hidden department, "So in these years, more and more strange things have happened, prompting the official departments to secretly set up a demon-slaying department to fight these monsters and protect the people."
"What I encountered back then..." Ayu's face changed.
"That's right. It's because you've escaped from this kind of monster before that you were chosen." The old superintendent's words directly broke the superficial information that Mei had obtained before. "The lady boss of the convenience store is not a psychopath. She was infected and turned into a monster. That's why she can follow the breath of living people -"
With the explanation of the old police superintendent, the truth of the incident, which was disguised as an accident, finally surfaced: the lady owner of the convenience store was indeed diagnosed with incurable cancer that year, but after listening to someone with ulterior motives, the couple decided to give it a try and became drug testers for a large foreign pharmaceutical company.
At first, after taking the so-called special medicine, the boss lady's various indicators did improve to a certain extent.
The best part about this special medicine is that it has no side effects at all. The boss’s health is much better than before. Therefore, the couple who owns the convenience store are extremely grateful to this big medical company for their kindness and continue to take another course of medicine.
This time, before she had finished half of the medicine, the proprietress died in agony in her sleep, as if all the pain that had been suppressed in the past had burst out at once.
The convenience store owner could not accept his wife's miserable condition and decided to go to the company to seek justice. However, he learned from the news that the pharmaceutical company had been closed down for committing multiple unethical human experiments, and the owner, Chris, had fled back to the United States. Relying on strong capital support and local social characteristics, he managed to avoid the pursuit of the Hong Kong police.
Afterwards, the convenience store owner returned home heartbroken, but was surprised to find that his dead wife was alive again!
The store owner was so delighted by his wife's "resurrection" that he completely ignored her bloodshot eyes, her screaming behavior, and the dead chickens at her feet that they had raised in the yard and planned to slaughter for the New Year. They were usually full of energy, but now had been sucked dry of blood...
"After investigation, it was found that Keith was a soldier assigned to the special operations team sent by the United States to support the former Soviet Union. He was also one of the survivors who accidentally entered the goddess' tomb and destroyed it during the battle." The old superintendent put a document on the table. "He obtained part of the elixir formula and some antique treasures in the goddess' tomb, so he returned to the country and established a pharmaceutical company. In fact, he privately studied this part of the elixir formula and wanted to make an 'elixir of immortality'..."
"With this part of the recipe, Keith's company did produce several special medicines that can strengthen the body and fight diseases, and then took advantage of the war to make a fortune."
"After acquiring a certain amount of capital, the research and development of the 'drug of immortality' was disguised as a special anti-cancer drug and was secretly put on the agenda..."
"Then how did the lady owner of the convenience store get to the women's restroom on the fourth floor so quietly?" Ah Yu suddenly asked a question that she still couldn't figure out.
"I was planning to talk about this later, but since you asked me first, I'll just say it all at once." The old police inspector took out two small bottles of pills of different colors and explained, "Keith was not the only survivor who accidentally entered the Tomb of the Goddess. The heir of the Zhuang family, who was one of the generals of the Thousand Gates, was also a member of the special operations team. Because he understood our ancestors' things better than Keith, a foreigner, the recipe he got was more complete..."
"And this has become the fundamental basis for us to train special police officers to eliminate demons."
"Based on the strength of the monsters, we divide them into two states: one is the 'zombie' which has a physical body and can be attacked with ordinary weapons; the other is the 'ghost' which has evolved further and can temporarily become a virtual body and can only be attacked with weapons that have been blessed by magic..."
"Zombies have much stronger strength and bodies than ordinary people. A normal adult male police officer would have to use a lot of force to kick a door open, but a zombie can just knock it open with a normal bang." The old superintendent couldn't help but glance at Ah Yu. "When you were locked in the toilet, if the classmates who bullied you hadn't blocked the door with two mops, and the store owner happened to have been weakened once and consumed most of her strength... I guess you wouldn't have waited for rescue."
"As for the hardness of zombies, for example, a bullet of the same specification can penetrate a human body directly, but when it hits a zombie, it can only penetrate slightly into its body - the tail end of the bullet cannot even penetrate completely."
"As for the more advanced 'virtualization', it is the ability to temporarily transform into a special existence that can ignore the laws of physics and forcibly penetrate all obstacles. The store owner suddenly evolved and broke free from her constraints. That's why she killed her husband and followed you, the closest living thing, away."
After listening to the old police superintendent's explanation, Ah Yu finally realized how dangerous and life-threatening she was back then, so she couldn't help but ask again: "The one who saved me back then..."
"David and Aaron were among the male candidates for the Exorcist Police back then. They had just learned some spells, so they were not able to deal with the store owner who had reached that level... In order to save you, they both took a blue pill."
"If you take one pill of the blue pill, you will gain the powerful strength of a zombie. The effect of one pill lasts for half an hour. If you take two pills, you will gain the virtual physique of a zombie, breaking through the laws of physics and the limitations of the human body, and being able to walk through walls and disappear without a trace..." The old superintendent said, pointing to the red pill, "This red pill is the antidote to the blue pill."
"If you only take one blue pill, you need to take an antidote within 2 hours after the effect of the pill ends. If you want to get the effect of the blue pill again, you must wait 24 hours after taking the antidote."
"But if you take two blue pills within 24 hours and become a virtual body, then you must take two red antidotes before the shadow of your original body appears, that is, before the effect of the pills wears off and you are about to transform back into a real body with a shadow. But no matter how many blue pills you take, you must take the antidote within the time limit, otherwise, you will be infected like the store owner and become the most basic monster zombie."
"Keith's so-called 'anti-cancer drug' is a diluted version of the drug formula. What he lacks is the antidote." The old superintendent shook his head. "This is also the result of the ancient sorcerers' improvement and some progress. Unfortunately, the events of that year have been buried deep underground because of the appearance of monsters. Otherwise, this magical transformation method that can change the human physique may be truly perfected in the modern era of advanced technology."
"Such a small pill, can it really be so magical?" Ah Mei stared at the two small medicine bottles with great curiosity.
"Of course. Ahead of you is Madam Lam, a non-staff exorcist who came down from above to Hong Kong for support. She relied on her powerful incarnation to solve many 'mysterious cases' that ordinary people could not understand. Not long ago, she also solved the case of Chris for our police." The old superintendent smiled.