Chapter 423 The Curse from Koizumi Hongzi Asking for a Monthly Ticket ()
After escaping from the environment filled with hypnotic gas and being blown by the fresh night breeze outside, Kidd's eyes, which were almost closed, struggled to open.
He first glanced around vigilantly, and when he didn't see the police chasing him, he breathed a sigh of relief, stood against the wall, and looked at Mist Tengu.
Kiri Tengu reached into his sleeve and took out a dull ruby and threw it back to him - it was the "Red Ghost" that Kidd had just offered, and no one knew when he had finished eating it.
Kidd skillfully caught the gem that looked like an abandoned lunch box.
He held the withered stone in his hands and looked at it for a while. After hesitating for a moment, he silently raised the gem and shone it towards the huge full moon in the sky.
This is the method to determine whether there is a "Pandora" in the gem - according to the information Kidd had heard from the organization code-named after animals, "Pandora" is a legendary "Stone of Life" that contains the secret of immortality.
Pandora usually hides inside other gems. The way to identify it is to point the gem at the moon. If there is really a Pandora inside, it will emit red light under the moon's illumination.
...That should be the case in theory.
However, this time, Kidd looked at the gem in his hand from left to right, but still could not be sure whether Pandora had ever been inside it.
——He didn’t see any strange light inside.
But considering that this is a gem that Mist Tengu had eaten, maybe there was a "Pandora" originally, but Mist Tengu just ate it as a snack...
Kidd himself has no interest in "Pandora". But the "death" of his father, Kuroba Toichi, and the mysterious organization seem to be related to this legendary gem, and Kidd really wants to know the truth.
He put down his hand holding the gemstone and hesitated for a moment, intending to ask Kiri Tengu if the gemstone tasted unusual today, such as being particularly delicious or a little bit abrasive... In this way, he could determine whether there was a "Pandora" in the gemstone. If there was, he could also trace the source of the gemstone.
But just as he had prepared his words and had not yet opened his mouth to ask, he suddenly saw Mist Tengu turn his head slightly.
The pair of dark golden vertical pupils that were extremely conspicuous in the night shrank slightly, and his gaze fell on a certain point in the void, as if he saw something that interested him greatly.
Kidd was startled and looked over there, but saw nothing. In his eyes, Mist Tengu was just staring at a piece of ordinary air.
...Is there something out there that is invisible to humans?
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, a sharp pain suddenly pierced through his heart. The sudden pain was sharp and specific, like an invisible steel drill piercing through his heart.
The severe pain made Kidd's head buzz. He groaned, raised his hand to cover his heart, and staggered to his knees.
His hand felt wet, hot and slippery. Kidd reluctantly turned over his palm and took a look at the palm. He saw a glaring bloodstain on the white glove that was trembling slightly due to the pain.
He looked confused: ...What's going on?
Mist Tengu seemed to be startled by the noise of him kneeling down. He moved his gaze back from the void and looked at him thoughtfully.
Jiang Xia looked at the Phantom Thief who had been ambushed, and then looked at the vague black line connecting Kidd and the distance.
After a moment, he tentatively raised his hand and grasped it.
——Just now, Jiang Xia suddenly felt an extremely attractive energy flowing along the black line.
While he was struggling over whether to observe carefully or intercept directly, the breath quickly poured into Kidd's body, and then disappeared without a trace as Kidd fell to the ground with a groan.
...The energy came and went quickly, leaving Jiang Xia no time to study it carefully.
But Jiang Xia recalled the feeling just now - the energy that surged over seemed to contain an extremely pure energy core. Although the quantity was less, the quality was not inferior to the gems stolen by Kidd.
For the ghost fetus, the energy core is an excellent tonic.
——Although the ghost fetus is the backbone of the puppet, now, Jiangxia's ghosts are unable to independently control the puppet's actions. This is because they are still relatively weak at this stage. They have already used up all their strength just to maintain the shape and have no energy to do anything else.
If he consumes enough energy cores and strengthens them to a sufficient degree, Jiang Xia will not have to personally drive the puppets every time, but will have some conscious and proactive puppet minions.
so……
Why is there a sudden flow of energy cores?
Jiang Xia looked down at Kidd who was pressing his chest in pain, and opened and closed his wings behind him, casually fanning the sweaty event-type thief, while at the same time having a vague guess.
——This must be related to Kidd’s witch classmate.
Kidd looked like he was attacked by some kind of magic. The thing that just surged along the black line should be the cause of the damage to Kidd, that is, the witch's magic.
From this, it can be seen that the magic power of this world seems to be able to be used as an energy core?
The ghosts didn't expect that this ordinary and illusory black line would suddenly bring them food. After being stunned for a moment, they pounced on Kidd and hung on him, trying to dig out the energy core that had just penetrated into Kidd's body.
Unfortunately, the magic power disappeared silently after causing some minor injuries to Kidd.
Jiang Xia looked at the ethereal black line that had returned to its original normal state and was also somewhat disappointed.
But soon, he calmed down again.
...After attacking Kidd, this illusory black line did not disappear.
In other words, Koizumi Akako probably had other purposes. The attack just now was probably just an appetizer, and there must be a main course to come.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia wrapped the illusory black line around his hand twice to make it easier to leverage, then tentatively held down Kidd and pulled hard.
There was a slight bang that was inaudible to ordinary people.
The illusory black line that was attached to Kidd's body was forcibly pulled off.
——It actually worked.
Jiang Xia's eyes lit up slightly. He pinched the empty end of the ethereal black line and pressed it against his hand, waiting expectantly for it to change hands.
However, the black line seemed to have a positioning function - perhaps it found that the target it was attached to was not right, it quickly slipped away from Jiang Xia's hand, and stretched out towards Kidd, trying to continue climbing him.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He stared at the dishonest line for a while with an expressionless face. When the black line was about to touch Kidd, he pulled it back, wrapped it around his wrist, and tied a tight knot.
The vague black line paused for a moment, and the tip slowly bent back, as if observing the knot in confusion.
After a few seconds, it began to move slowly, as if trying to free itself, but the results were slow.
Jiang Xia looked at it silently: This method of robbing the curse seems to be really effective.
So he pulled the line and quickly tied countless knots again.
Don't worry about not being able to solve it - if this black line is useless later, he can just disperse the puppet and condense it again.
(End of this chapter)
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