Chapter 281 Is it you? !
Shwadani city.
This is the city where the Hunter Association's headquarters is located.
In the city center, there is a hospital with the same name as the city.
At this moment, one floor of the inpatient department of the hospital was urgently requisitioned, and hundreds of poisoned patients showing symptoms of petrification were lying on the beds.
Their bodies are as stiff as stone, their skin is gray-white, and their vital signs have been deteriorating.
Currently, this toxin has caused the death of twenty patients.
In the office at the end of the corridor on the first floor.
Chiduo, an adult dog of the twelve earthly branches, is concentrating on reviewing the latest pathology report.
She pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose with her white-gloved left hand, and there was a solemn expression between her eyebrows.
At the desk.
Wearing a black dress, Shegailu folded her arms, and there was no trace of any fluctuation on her cold face.
Her profession combines the fields of toxicology, autopsy, pharmacy, etc., while Qiduo combines the professions of a doctor and a lawyer, and shines in multiple professional fields. She is one of the few three-star professional hunters in the association.
There are similarities in their professional fields.
Hence, in order to solve this incident, it is rare for them to get together.
The office was so quiet that only the sound of Qi Duo flipping through papers was left.
A moment later.
Gai Lu's cold voice broke the silence: "The root of the problem is the snake-like mind beast. If we don't solve it, the number of victims will only continue to increase." Under the premise, even if the snake-like mind beast is destroyed,
it can become stronger by “shedding”→Gailu.”
Chi Duo did not raise his head and said calmly: "So we are treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. We give priority to developing agents that can neutralize the toxins, which can at least improve the survival rate of the patients."
"I have hired a mind-killer."
Gai Lu's face was always as cold as ice, revealing an inaccessible aura. "As long as you use your ability to solve difficult and complicated diseases to find the snake-like mind beast, you can completely eradicate the problem."
Hearing this, Qi Duo stopped flipping through the report, raised her head slightly in surprise, and looked at Gai Lu's cold face.
As for the snake-like mind beast left behind after death, even the mind-killing master in the association was unable to deal with it, and was not even willing to take risks to limit the scope of the snake-like mind beast's actions.
However, when Gailu talked about hiring a mind-killer, she seemed to be full of confidence.
「如何确定这个除念师能成功？
绮多面色如常，道：「如果再次失败，那条蛇类念兽在死后之念的加持之下，只会再次更强→盖璐。」
「我不了解那个除念师的水平，甚至连他的名字都不知道。」
Gai Lu said indifferently: "But he was recommended by that guy Jin. Although I don't want to admit it, I believe in Jin's vision. 2
"Really?"
Chi Duo was even more surprised. The change in his eyes seemed to be asking: You can actually contact Jin?
The members of the twelve earthly branches in the association basically understand the virtues of that guy Jin.
Hence, after seeing the change in Chiduo's eyes, Gai Lu immediately understood the meaning and explained: "In fact, it was Jin who took the initiative to contact me and recommended this mind-killing master to me. I believe in his vision and am willing to Let’s try again.”
“Even if it’s the mind-killer recommended by Jin, I don’t intend to interrupt the development of the antidote.”
Chiduo shook his head slightly and rejected Gai Lu’s proposal.
Gai Lu couldn't help but frowned.
This situation is a bit inconsistent.
Gailu, who is an expert in toxicology and pharmacy, advocates giving priority to eliminating the mind beasts, while Qiduo, who is good at difficult and complicated diseases, insists on developing antidotes.
Normally speaking, the drug hunter Gai Lu should have taken the lead in the detoxification work, while Qi Duo was responsible for suppressing or eliminating the snake-like mind beast.
It can only be said that the way professional hunters sometimes act depends more on their personality and acting style than on their own professional characteristics.
Chiduo can see that Gailu has made up her mind, but she is the same and will never give up halfway.
"Go find Lu Pei."
Chiduo proposed a compromise plan, "His ability can also locate the position of the snake-like mind beast → Gai Lu."
This suggestion not only preserves the action space of both parties, but also speeds up the resolution of the incident.
Even if there are differences in ideas, a professional and cooperative attitude can still be ensured.
Gai Lu thought about it and realized that it was better to give up most of the entrustment reward and kill a few more people.
She acquiesced to Chiduo's proposal and simply turned around and left.
"This is the famous city of Swadani——"
Morrow, in simple disguise, stood on a busy street in Swadani.
His changed eyes glanced at the shops along the street. They were basically offices that specialized in undertaking various commissions.
Some of the bosses of these firms are professional hunters, but most are amateur hunters.
After all, this is the city where the Hunter Association's headquarters is located. As long as some commissions are revealed from the fingers, it is enough for these offices to survive.
In fact,
Hunter Association, as the most prestigious organization of strange people and strangers among the people, is indeed difficult to accept all the commissions from all over the world.
At this time, countless offices opened in the city can take on some relatively easy commissions for the Hunter Association.
It can be said that the main achievements of Swadani City come from the Hunter Association and the offices that can be seen everywhere on the street.
Morrow came to Swadani for the first time. After seeing this street, he came up with the idea of opening an anti-psychiatric office here.
But business was important right now, so I didn’t think much about it and went straight to the agreed meeting place.
Soon,
Morrow came to a membership-only tea room. After reporting his reservation number, he was led by the greeter to a quiet tea room.
In the tea room.
Gai Lu and Lu Pei have been waiting for a long time.
When the two of them saw Morrow's well-covered attire, revealing only his clear eyes, they both flashed a strange look.
Morrow didn't care at all about the reaction of the two people, and sat down in one of the seats naturally.
I originally thought that Gai Lu was the only one here, but I didn’t expect that the hunter Lu Pei was also there.
Then you don’t have to think about it·
Lu Pei's role should be to find the mind beast left behind after death.
In this way, you don’t have to waste too much time.
This is good.
Thinking of this, Moreau raised his eyes to look at the two of them, and said calmly: "I'm in a hurry, let's solve it as soon as possible."
Seeing that Moreau was so confident, Gai Lu and Lu Pei had different reactions.
Gai Lu was a little surprised, while Lu Pei was more curious.
The former only wants to quickly solve the threat posed by the snake-like mind beast, while the latter is because he always values talents.
"I hope your ability is worthy of this confidence."
Gai Lu stared at Moreau for a moment, then turned her head to look at Lu Pei, and said indifferently: "Then let's start directly."
"No problem."
Lu Pei pushed the frame of the mirror out of habit, and then used his telekinesis ability.
"The Call of Lost Things"
During the surge of thought, Lu Pei's left hand condensed into a slightly bloated palm at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Before acquiring the ability to find objects, the seeker needs to wear this palm and draw an outline of what he or she is looking for. It does not need to be exactly the same, but the person must have the emotion of "I want to find it" so that they can establish a connection with the "lost object". 』
Every time you receive a commission, you must explain the ability of reading.
This allows Lu Pei to speak quickly and clearly enough when explaining.
Hence before, when he was in the ancient Ganyu Kingdom, Moro had already seen Lu Pei's telekinesis ability, but he had no reaction.
When Gai Lu realized that she needed to put on the palm, she couldn't help but frown.
She has mental mysophobia.
But in order to avoid more victims, she could only hold back her nausea and took the palm from Lu Pei's hand.
After putting on the palm, Gai Lu drew the snake-like mind beast as quickly as possible, and then wanted to take off the palm, but found that the palm was tightly attached to the skin and could not be removed at all.
At this moment, a mouth suddenly appeared in the palm of his hand.
"Oh, what a pity, failure, failure~!"
Several wrinkles immediately appeared on Gai Lu's broad forehead.
Lu Pei explained calmly: "If your "emotion" is not strong enough, there is a chance that it will fail.
Please try again." "
There was no longer a trace of coldness and indifference on Gailu's face, replaced by gritted teeth.
She took a deep breath, held back her nausea, and drew the image of a snake-like telen beast on the paper.
"Is it okay this time?"
After painting, she couldn't wait to take off the palm.
However, the motionless palm is equivalent to telling her "Oh, you failed again, it seems you are not sincere enough!"
The mouth on the palm of the hand was grinning high and shouting loudly.
Gai Lu's broad forehead was instantly covered with black lines, and her eyes and face even began to twitch.
Although she was not a severe mysophobia patient, the strange palm in front of her really brought her a strong sense of discomfort.
Morrow saw this scene, the corners of his mouth under the mask raised slightly, and a smile flashed in his eyes.
Since coming to this world, he has only had one contact with Gai Lu.
At that time, he noticed that this member of the Twelve Earthly Branches had an indifferent temperament that was repellent, as cold as a snake.
But now looking at Gai Lu’s gnashing of teeth, almost on the verge of breaking her guard, I think that under that coldness,
There is also a temperature hidden that is not easily noticed by others.
Lu Pei put his middle finger on the frame of the mirror, obviously seeing the reason for Gai Lu's failure, and reminded: "Don't resist so much, otherwise you will still fail even if you try it a few times."
This time, she did listen to Lu Pei's reminder.
After she finished painting, she felt the separation between her skin and the palm of her hand. She immediately took off her palm like lightning and threw it to the table with all her strength.
states.
The palm of my hand suddenly exclaimed: "Ouch, barely passed, barely passed~!"
"The sound is not loud enough, but there should be no problem."
Lu Pei sighed softly and took the finding palm in his hand.
Gai Lu suddenly stood up and rushed into the bathroom with a black line on her face.
A few seconds later,
The sound of water came from the bathroom.
Obviously, the disgusted snake lady was washing her hands.
Lu Pei didn't care much about Gai Lu's exaggerated reaction. He stood up and looked at Moreau across the table.
Morrow also got up when he saw this, walked to the door and waited.
After a while.
Gai Lu walked out of the bathroom, her face returned to its previous stern expression, as if nothing had happened just now.
“I feel it, this way, this way!”
The index finger of the searching hand kept pointing in the south direction while shouting.
This is the characteristic of ability, even if you want it to shut up, you can't.
Morrow glanced at Gailu who came out of the bathroom and asked: "Before you find your target, tell me the information you have."
Gailu glanced at the object-finding palm that was still popping the disc in disgust, and then briefly explained the origin of the snake-like mind beast.
That is the manifestation ability of a telepathic user, which can manifest a snake with one eye, two wings on its back, and eye patterns all over its body.
This embodied snake has the ability to change its characteristics and can convert thoughts into venom.
The effect of the venom is to petrify the target, but it is not fatal.
It's just that the ability to read has become stronger after death. Not only has the one-eyed snake survived, but the effect of the venom has also been enhanced, allowing people to gradually die during the process of petrification.
Because the person with the ability is full of resentment before dying, this poisonous snake eye has no precise target of hatred at all.
Or,
Its target is all human beings.
"One more thing."
After explaining the origin of the snake-like mind beast, Gailu's tone suddenly became serious, "This one-eyed snake has the ability to shed its skin. Once it is fatally attacked, it will become more powerful through shedding. So—"
"So good?"
Morrow blurted out subconsciously.
Gai Lu was stunned for a moment and looked at him with a slightly confused look.
Morrow reacted immediately, his eyes slightly lowered, and his tone became serious: "It seems that this will be a tough battle."
Gailu was silent for a moment, but there was a trace of doubt in his heart.
For some reason, the covered mind-killing master in front of her, both in his eyes and in his voice, gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if she had met him somewhere before.
If Moreau knew what Gailu was thinking, he wouldn't care too much.
Him Wen is not going to take part in the hunter test, so his disguise is a bit casual.
Neither wore contact lenses to change the color of her eyes, nor did she deliberately adjust her voice.
A few hours later.
Under the guidance of the searching palm, Moreau, Gai Lu, and Lu Pei arrived at a concert hall where a concert was about to be held.
When she discovered that the one-eyed snake might be hiding inside, Gai Lu's face instantly became solemn.
In two hours, this place will be filled with nearly 500 spectators.
If the one-eyed snake attacked at that time·
Without any hesitation, Gai Lu immediately found the person in charge of the concert hall, and quickly emptied all the staff based on his identity as the twelve earthly branches.
"Found it, found it!"
In the central passage of the concert hall, the searching palm suddenly pointed to the light stand above the stage.
The three of them immediately looked up.
I saw a one-eyed snake about two meters long and as wide as an adult's five fingers, coiled on the lamp stand, looking down with its cold snake eyes.
It seemed that it suddenly jumped down from the lamp stand because of the noise made by the palm of the search object.
But on the way down, its snake body suddenly straightened, and a pair of wings unfolded out of thin air, like an arrow off the string,
It shot directly at the three people standing in the passage.
Morrow raised his hand without hesitation, and a flying star condensed with thought energy burst out of the sky in an instant, shooting straight towards the one-eyed snake!
The flying star hit accurately, and its violent telekinesis directly tore the one-eyed snake's body into pieces.
「?」Lu Pei was stunned.
“??” Gai Lu’s pupils shrank. Since she had explained the one-eyed snake’s ability to shed its skin in advance, she obviously didn’t expect Moreau to attack the one-eyed snake so hastily.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm quite afraid of snakes, and I get nervous if I'm not careful."
Morrow explained casually, but his eyes were fixed on the remains of the one-eyed snake.
I saw that the broken snake bodies were not completely dead, but instead exuded dark thoughts, squirming like living creatures,
and gathered together.
Immediately afterwards, the snakeskin on the pile of meatballs fell off with a brush.
But I saw the one-eyed snake emerging from under the snake's skin intact, raising its upper body, and the snake's pupils were filled with coldness.
What is even more frightening is that the black thought energy wrapped around it is more intense and ferocious than before.
Morrow's eyes lit up slightly when he saw this scene.
Sure enough, as Gail Lu said, the ability of this thought snake to shed its skin essentially enhances the intensity of thoughts after death.
However, even if this power has the ability to continue to become stronger after death, there must be an upper limit and it cannot continue to become stronger.
But no matter what, in order to increase the benefits of annual ring energy, Moro needs this mind snake to become stronger.
The one-eyed snake stared at Morrow, and it was wrapped in a black aura and shot towards him like a spring.
"I will limit its mobility."
Upon seeing this, Gailu didn't care to blame Moreau. Her right arm suddenly transformed into a black snake with four hearts printed on its forehead.
However, before she could make any move, she saw Moreau raise his hand and shoot a flying star over.
The release speed is extremely fast. It is obvious that the release system creates extremely high harmonics.
Gai Lu just watched helplessly as Feixing tore the one-eyed snake into pieces again.
"You——·?!"
She turned her head sharply, her cold eyes piercing Morrow like a blade, and scolded: "What on earth do you want to do?"
Lu Pei on the side looked confused, and subconsciously took half a step back.
Morrow spread his hands as if nothing had happened and sighed: "Snake creatures are really scary. Fortunately, my telegrams are fast enough."
Before he finished speaking, Gailu had already controlled the snake's head to approach his cheek, and the scarlet letter almost touched his skin.
But Moreau had no reaction at all, and it was completely impossible to see what he meant by being afraid of snakes.
"You'd better give me a reasonable explanation."
There was a biting chill in Gail's voice.
Although Lu Pei didn't say anything, his face became more solemn after he felt the soaring aura of the Nian Snake, and his eyes when looking at Moreau became wary.
"Don't worry, I will take care of it."
Moro replied, and immediately released his manifestation energy and walked directly towards the mind snake that had completed shedding its skin and became stronger again.
Seeing that Moreau did not respond directly to the question, Gai Lu frowned and immediately bit Moreau's cheek with the ready-made love snake head.
But this kind of offensive move is more of Dong intimidation.
Morrow did not sense Gailu's hostility, so he did not respond and let the love snake bite and hiss.
While acting frightened, the fangs unintentionally lifted up the mask, and then tore it into pieces as the snake's head swung.
Morrow lost his mask and immediately revealed his true appearance.
The eyes of Gai Lu and Lu Pei fell on Moreau's face at the same time,
Although Moreau's eyes were a little different from the impression, that face was "Is it you!?"
The two of them spoke almost at the same time, their tone full of surprise.
Lu Pei was simply surprised, but Gai Lu felt an indescribable shock in her heart.
She never thought she would see Moreau again.
I never expected to meet again in this way.
Because of this, when she saw Moreau appearing in this identity, her heart was shocked.
Why him?
He is familiar with Jin?
Is he a powerful mind-killer?
And the intensity of this thought—
What is going on?
One question after another emerged from Gai Lu's mind.
So much so that she even suspected that Moreau just looked similar to the weak boy she met two years ago.
Suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted by the hissing of a one-eyed snake.
"Hmm?"
Gai Lu looked at the stage and saw that the thought snake was torn into pieces by flying stars and shed its skin again.
It's just that after shedding this time, the black aura on the snake seemed to be frozen and no longer changed.
"It seems that the intensity can only be kept constant."
Then she heard Moreau muttering to himself.
The next moment.
Morrow reflected in his eyes suddenly disappeared and appeared without warning next to the mind snake that had just finished shedding its skin.
Gai Lu's pupils shrank, and as soon as she spoke, she was interrupted by the scene that happened in front of her.
She saw,
Morrow reached out his hand and transferred the thought snake, which was surrounded by strong thoughts of death, into his body.
The malicious aura from the snake that was flowing in the air also disappeared without a trace.
Gai Lu was silent immediately, and Lu Pei was also silent.
It's just that the two men looked at Moreau in different ways.
Gai Lu is wrong and confused.
Lu Pei was shocked and excited.
On the stage.
Morrow glanced at the back of his hand without leaving any trace.
The energy of the third round of growth rings is finally full...
And it has overflowed by 4%.
Fortunately, the strength of several waves of thought snakes has been increased, otherwise it may not be possible to fully accumulate the energy of the third annual ring.
“Awesome, amazing!”
After Lu Pei reacted, he walked towards Moreau as if he had just enjoyed a shocking concert,
He applauded vigorously, with unabashed admiration shining in his eyes.
Invitation. "
"Let's talk about it next time."
Morrow turned his back to Lu Pei, receiving the negative emotions from the mind snake, as well as a detailed formula for a potion that can remove the effect of petrified venom in the memory fragment.
Lu Pei was not angry after being rejected again, and said seriously: "It's such a pity, but my invitation is valid for a long time, and you are welcome to change your mind at any time."
Hmm, you will."
Morrow turned around and said perfunctorily, and then looked at Gai Lu, who was a little wrong.
Looking at Gai Lu's slightly widened eyes, I thought of the other person's cold and indifferent words and deeds when they first met.
Compared with the lively expression now.
It is much more interesting.
A smile flashed across Moreau's eyes, and he said, "Can you settle the reward now? I'm in a hurry, Sister Gailu."
Hearing this title, Gai Lu's memory suddenly surged, and the speculation about the similarity in appearance collapsed.
She looked at Moreau even more shocked.
At this moment.
She was more willing to believe that Kang Zai could recite a hundred idioms skillfully, and she was not willing to believe that the unfathomable mind-killer in front of her was actually the weak boy from two years ago.
Morrow looked at Gailu's reaction, and a smile spread from his eyes to his face.
When he was in the antique business, he was used to calling the stall owners "brother" and "sister" when he went to sweep the streets and pick up leaks.
When he first met Gai Lu after his rebirth, the other party took the initiative to lend a helping hand, but he was weak, so the voice of Sister Gai Lu sounded sincere.
Today she is still called Sister Gailu.
But it has more of a joking meaning.
It also allowed Gai Lu to confirm his identity in an instant.
But Moro doesn’t care much about Gailu’s subsequent attitude. Once the rewards here are settled, he will leave immediately and go to participate in the hunter test.
As for the potion formula that came with the memory fragment, if it is useful, let Jin pass it on.