Chapter 54: The Wizard's Solution to the Problem

At the entrance of the stairs.

Xiao En saw Benjamin, who looked serious. He was still dressed as usual, holding the black umbrella called "Liu Guang" in his hand. He handed over an investigation file and said in a deep voice, "To make a long story short."

"This matter is a bit troublesome."

"Take a look at the case record first."

Sean reached out to take it and got on the carriage heading to the university town. The content on it was quite detailed, with files from the police investigation and interrogation, as well as records of other people's investigations. Hank had been following the incident throughout and was currently trying to find a solution.

The person who died committed suicide. One of the mentally ill people has recovered, but his mood is currently unstable and he is a little bit demented.

Xiao En quickly glanced over it and looked up and asked, "Did they summon creatures from the spiritual world?"

Benjamin nodded slightly and said, “Yeah.”

"But the ceremony was not completely completed. The door to the spirit world was only half opened."

"Hank suspected something had gotten out."

Unspeakable vanity.

Xiao En was unable to determine through the case records whether something had escaped. This incomplete ritual could summon anything. The strange existences in the spirit world were very dangerous and almost invisible to the naked eye. One must have inspiration to detect their traces.

"Have you contacted the mystic scholar?" Sean asked, putting down the file.

Benjamin nodded and said, "Gemma is on the way. The antique that those college students used as a medium for the ritual is also a bit unusual. It seems to be an ancient relic."

"I have sent someone to investigate."

Problem with ritual medium?
Wouldn't it be possible that some old guys would be summoned from the spirit world?
"What antique?" Xiao En asked in a deep voice.

Benjamin recalled and said, "It is an ancient coat of arms, possibly hundreds of years old, and is said to come from a fallen noble family."

This is stacking the death buff.

Xiao En nodded silently and prepared to go over to take a look before making a judgment.

Benjamin hesitated for a moment and said softly, "Since we started investigating this matter, Hank has been acting a little strange."

"I was worried that something might go wrong, so I asked you to come and help me."

Hank?

Sean looked puzzled. When he saw him two days ago, Hank was in good spirits.

He nodded slightly and said, "I understand."

No. 126 Kaixuan Road.

This group of daring guys were having a party in a student dormitory near the university town, which had been blocked by the police. Sean straightened his black windbreaker and followed Benjamin into the scene quickly.

"The scent of mysterious knowledge." Sean sniffed.

Maybe it was because he had touched the borderline of madness last time, but Xiao En was now more sensitive to mysterious knowledge. He didn't even need to identify the spells, he had already sensed a trace of the ritual. The extraordinary people of the wizard path had the strongest spell identification ability, and their rich mysterious knowledge also allowed them to judge the enemy's spell ability in advance.

As for the extraordinary people on the warrior side, many of them are reckless and good at chopping people, but not so good at other things.

Everything around seemed normal.

Perhaps because of the influx of the spiritual world's aura, the temperature in the room dropped significantly, and there was a slight chill.

Hank's figure came up from upstairs.

He looked quite haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, he stared at Xiao En and said, "You're here."

How did Hank become like this?
Xiao En frowned and said in a deep voice, "Are you okay? You look very bad."

Hank shook his head. "It's okay. It's not a big deal."

Investigators will directly sense the traces left by contact with strange entities, and their rationality values ​​will decrease invisibly. They can only judge the situation through their external mental state.

Hank's current appearance was obviously the result of his rapidly declining rationality. He looked a little anxious and had a strong smell of cigarettes on him.

No wonder Benjamin was a little worried about his mental state.

Xiao En quickly followed and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Hank nodded, "Yes. Follow me."

Corridor on the second floor.

As soon as Xiao En came up, he smelled a strong smell of blood. The master bedroom opposite was full of blood. The police should not have disturbed the scene. On the big bed not far away, the outline of a human figure could be seen. It looked shocking, and the whole bed was almost soaked in blood.

"Suicide, slit throat, neck almost broken."

"The blood is almost gone." Hank said softly.

Xiao En just glanced at it and asked in a deep voice, "Where is the ceremony site?"

This is not the ceremony site, but the result of the backlash of the ceremony.

The spirit senses a negative emotion of pain and regret.

"It's the small room on the north side of the corridor," Benjamin said.

This apartment building is quite large. It should be rented by a group of rich kids. It has three floors and a small garden outside. There is a completely enclosed small room in the north corridor, which should be the second bedroom, but the things inside have been moved out. All the windows are sealed with black cloth, and there are some incongruous ritual patterns painted on the ground.

These are probably not the work of professionals, because the incense leading to the spirit world was not lit. Connecting to the spirit world often requires the protection of a big shot, otherwise there is a possibility of being targeted by wandering evil spirits.

According to the understanding from the games in the previous life, the challenge level of the spirit world is very high, and it is best for extraordinary people with average strength not to go there.

In the center of the room was the strange emblem Benjamin had mentioned.

On it is a black horse with misty wings. The painting is rather abstract and should be the family emblem of some ancient noble family.

Xiao En moved a bit confused.

In an instant.

The entire room was filled with strange residual traces, which were like water stains that were invisible to the naked eye. They were spread all over the corners and showed a faint blue color. There were also handprints on the walls that looked like some kind of humanoid creature crawling.

"The ritual was only halfway completed when the creatures from the spirit world entered the real world."

“But they didn’t notice at all.”

The monster from the spiritual world probably already crawled around, got in front of each ritual performer and observed them for a long time, and only started to take action after making sure that there were no powerful extraordinary people among them.

Sean tried to replay the situation in his mind.

A strange spirit invisible to the naked eye descended. It had no feet and crawled on its arms. It had already observed everyone, but the college students who were holding the ceremony were still unaware and were even laughing and trying to scare their companions. From the traces in the corner, it could be seen that they were fighting at the time.

There were three men and two women, and the one who was scared must be a girl.

Hank stared at Sean in front of him, observing his movement in the room, and suddenly asked, "Can you see it?"

Xiao En nodded silently.

Hank didn't know whether to feel envy or regret, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

Too much inspiration is not necessarily a good thing.

Hank could only feel it vaguely, but Sean saw it with his eyes, and the difference was too big.

Nothing could escape Xiao En's eyes.

“There are more discoveries here.”

Hank led Sean to another room and whispered, "It was left by the crazy person. She left a message on the mirror."

"Yes. She is a part-time writer at school."

Upon hearing this, Xiao En wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. The death BUFF here was almost fully stacked.

A broken mirror. There seemed to be some traces of fighting here. Xiao En found a torn corner of clothing and an incomplete sentence written in red lipstick on the mirror.

——"The boy thought he finally had the power to protect his beloved... until one day... he stood in front of a mirror and saw a hideous humanoid monster..."

Crazy inspiration for writers.

The crazy girl must have seen some illusion, so she wrote these words in her last crazy moment.

The spirit is vibrating.

Xiao En stared at the mirror in front of him and saw a picture that flashed by in an instant. A young woman with a painful and regretful expression was writing something in a confused manner. In front of her, cracks gradually appeared on the originally intact mirror, as if a strange hand wanted to reach out from the world of the mirror.

Consciousness restored.

Xiao En knew that he had just passed an inspiration test passively. Fortunately, his will was not affected, and the instant inspiration just now did not hurt his rationality.

"Ever since I gradually learned the truth about the monster kingdom and felt the despair of the world."

"It seems that ordinary weird creatures have no effect on me anymore."

Sean just sensed the traces left by the strange existence. Normally speaking, if an investigator has a flash of inspiration during a check, it will also affect their rationality, because they will empathize with the feelings, just like a victim indirectly facing the indescribable strange creature.

But Xiao En was not affected at all. Compared with the despair of the world, these weird and terrifying scenes were not worth mentioning at all!
He was not yet afraid, so he ignored them even more.

Sean silently glanced at Hank beside him. In fact, this mission did not require his help, as Hank should be able to solve it because he probably already knew the answer, which was why he looked so tired.

Hank walked to the balcony, lit a cigarette and said, "Do you have an answer?"

Xiao En nodded slightly and said, "I guessed it."

“But we don’t know where it’s hiding.”

Hank took a deep breath, his bloodshot eyes looked into the distance, then he took out a notebook, wrote a line of words, and handed it to Sean next to him.

——"Ancient Out of Control."

Xiao En took it and looked at it, then wrote on it: "A person with high spirituality, possibly an early demon hunter."

They are the predecessors of the Investigators and the Night Watchers.

Hank looked at Sean's handwriting and was silent for a long time.

——"He saw himself in the mirror, and I have seen it before."

Xiao En remained silent.

He had actually seen it, but he was still a human being.

Still acceptable.

The investigators' high spiritual perception may also affect themselves, and in that moment of inspiration, they may also see themselves as monsters.

Some people can't accept this.

In comparison, those extraordinary people with low sensitivity are much happier, because they can't see anything, they can only feel the growth of power and become stronger. Maybe one day, they will understand the truth of the promotion sequence and know that they have long become monsters.

But at that time, they had experienced a lot and were able to accept it all.

Besides, their inspiration is too low, and without the help of special spells, they can't see all this at ordinary times, but investigators can easily perceive changes in themselves, so they know more and suffer more than others.

In the land of weirdness, ignorance is bliss.

Hank is a good guy.

Xiao En reached out and patted his shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "You should have a good rest and give yourself a long vacation."

"You've crossed the line into insanity twice this year."

"Leave this to me."

Investigators are also human, and there will come a day when they can no longer bear it.

Hank was about to shake his head, but looking at Sean's determined eyes, he finally said slowly: "Okay."

"If there are any problems, let me know immediately."

Sean smiled, took one from Hank, and said calmly, "Leave it to me."

An ancient evil spirit gone out of control.

In order to protect his beloved, he embarked on the path of becoming a superhuman, thinking that he would have the power to protect everything. But one day, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and saw himself in the mirror.

A hideous and terrifying monster!

This is the cruelest truth of the weird country. Before the current career advancement system was fully formed, the probability of ancient extraordinary people losing control was higher than it is now.

There were no psychologists in that era, and all extraordinary people relied on their own will to fight.

When he discovered that the supernatural power he sought to protect his loved ones turned himself into a dangerous and terrifying monster, the inner world of this extraordinary person collapsed.

After his death, his soul became an evil spirit in the spiritual world.

Hank probably separated from his ex-wife for similar reasons. He probably still loved his wife, but he was very decisive and made the decision before everything became irreversible.

And that monster from the spiritual world has probably done something irreversible.

So it was trapped in the spirit world and twisted into an unspeakable monster.

"It is not appropriate for Hank to continue investigating this strange incident. It will hurt his inner world."

Hank was clearly overwhelmed.

It was not because he sensed traces of a mysterious existence, but because all this awakened some of his forgotten memories.

The fact that Sean was able to guess all this is also related to Hank's current mental state. An investigator would not suddenly lose so much rationality. Hank was obviously affected by something.

The most likely possibility is that they have had similar experiences.

Hank has already crossed the red line twice this year, and he cannot let this incident be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

So Xiao En decided to take over everything!
He has no ties in this world and has long accepted the reality that he will slowly turn into a monster, so even if it is a resonance of inspiration, Xiao En will not fall into it.

What investigators fear most is completely putting themselves in the shoes of the victims and the mysterious entities, sensing all traces of the supernatural.

“Be like an audience.”

“No matter how the inspiration resonates, you are always just a spectator, just like watching a horror movie.”

Xiao En flicked his fingers, motioned slightly to Benjamin at the door, and said in a serious tone: "Let the others evacuate."

"Help me prepare some ritual materials."

"I want to continue the spiritual ritual they left unfinished."

No one knows where the monster from the spirit world has escaped to.

but it does not matter.

Xiao En planned to do the opposite. Since it had already run away, he would summon it back.

That unfinished channeling ritual has anchored its spirituality.

Before it hurts other people in the real world, Sean plans to summon it back to deal with it. He is not Hank, a wizard who is born with mastery of mystical knowledge. Hank must rely on tracking to lock on to the target, but as a wizard, Sean has a lot of tricks up his sleeve.

knowledge is power.

Instead of going through all the trouble to find it, it’s better to try again in a different way.

He intends to summon by force!
This is the wizard's way of solving problems. Sean has gradually become a qualified wizard.

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(End of this chapter)