The fishy smell is getting stronger and stronger, and the dark shadow behind the alley is getting closer and closer.
"Let's go!"
The girl being chased by the shadow waved her arm vigorously, feeling anxious and even a little angry.
She still remembers that when she was a child, in a movie, when she saw a passerby who refused to run away after the protagonist said hello but died suddenly, she was so angry that she threw the spicy sticks in her hand.
Now that she has grown up, she still has no patience when faced with such situations in reality, and directly scolds:
"Let's go! I'm not kidding you! There will be a fight and there will be no one to collect your body!"
Collect the corpse?
Just a vampire, not that much...
Qin Ren had already seen the black shadow clearly, and raised his eyebrows to express doubt. Then the next moment, a huge shadow covered his whole body, followed by a harsh scream, and a smelly wind suddenly filled the entire alley.
In mid-air, a humanoid gray monster with a hunched body that is as tall as a person is leaping high, with scarlet eyes, a wide open mouth full of silver sharp teeth, and bulging muscles in its limbs that are disproportionately strong to its body.
large.
boom!
The two strong forearms that came down were supposed to be aimed at the girl, but due to inertia, they hit Qin Ren who was standing a little further away.
"Get away!"
After shouting in fright and anger, the girl who stopped in her tracks turned around. In front of her eyes were smoke and dust, splashing gravel, and a string of dazzling blood flowers flashing past.
"hateful…"
The girl clenched her fists tightly. Not to mention a normal adult, even Tai Chi master Ma Baoguo would be bruised and bloody in the situation just now.
However, she also got a chance to breathe and took out a punk-style firearm from her arms. The slightly wide gun body was somewhat disproportionate to her small palm.
Buzz——
There was a buzzing sound, and the hatch-shaped gun muzzle lit up with a faint blue light, aiming at a pair of red eyes that lit up again in the smoke...
"Don't shoot."
"!"
"it's me."
"?"
"It's me."
"..."
Several coughs sounded, and the girl slowly put down the firearm in her hand. In the slowly dissipating dust and smoke, she could vaguely see a cross the size of a bottle cap glowing with blood-red light on the collarbone of Qin Ren, who was in tattered clothes...
Stigma!
Turns out he's an exorcist too!
When the dust completely settled and dissipated, the girl was shocked to find that although Qin Ren's clothes were damaged, there were no wounds or blood on his body.
Huh? That bloody light just now...
It won't be vampire blood anyway.
Vampire blood is petroleum color, very harmonious, but the blood that flashed before her eyes just now was clearly red.
Did you read it wrong?…
Probably so, but the girl didn't put her gun away because the vampire next to Qin Ren was still...
"Eh?!"
As soon as she moved her gaze a little, her whole body turned to stone.
I saw the violent monster sitting on the ground, a cigarette that was lit by someone unknown when was stuffed between its teeth, and there was a faint resentment in its blood-colored pupils.
And look at the man with melancholy eyes next to him. Although his clothes are ragged and full of milk tea, he is holding a cigarette in one hand and putting the other hand on the vampire's broad shoulder. Sometimes it sounds like an exhortation, sometimes like an instruction, sometimes like a warning in its ear.
They were chatting and laughing, and finally patted the monster on the back of the head, revealing an expression as if the boss had succeeded in painting a cake for his employees:
"In short, the situation is like this. Young people may not be sensible enough to exorcise demons for the first time. You all take a step back. Another day I will ask the superiors to send you some cattle and sheep to make up for it! How about it?"
"Roar……"
The monster let out two low growls as if complaining, stared at the girl, chewed the cigarette in his mouth, spat dark green spit on the ground, and actually ran into the alley without looking back and disappeared.
In the night.
The pair of big black eyes outside the girl's mask suddenly widened.
The exorcist and the devil are hooking up?
Cat serves as bridesmaid to mouse?
She put away the firearm in her hand, stared at Qin Ren for a long time, and then spoke stumblingly:
"Please... may I ask who you are..."
"Exorcist, you should have seen everything, right?"
Qin Ren pointed to the cross tattoo on his neck, where the red light gradually dimmed, and then shook his head suddenly:
"Oh no, I have been retired for a year and now I have nothing."
"retire…"
After hearing this, the girl understood something. She pondered for a moment and made a fist like in a martial arts movie:
"I've met senior!"
senior?
"Uh... ok."
Qin Ren thought for a while and realized that he was indeed a senior, so he agreed.
"Hello, senior, I am a new exorcist from Chengdu. Because I happen to be coming to Chengdu to attend university, the bureau assigned me here by the way."
It turned out to be the successor.
…
Generally speaking, there is only one exorcist in a district.
This is the allocation from the Plane Management Bureau. After all, this is modern society. Demons do not appear every day. One exorcist per city is enough, so after Qin Ren retires, it is normal for the Plane Management Bureau to find new people.
…
"Senior, so what was that vampire you just talked to...?" This is the question that girls are most concerned about right now.
As for why Qin Ren was unscathed, she was not very curious.
After all, how can you be an exorcist if you don't have some superpowers? People always use some unique tricks of their own.
"That vampire's name is Goudan." Qin Ren frowned and looked at the holes in his shirt.
"Dog...dog egg?" The girl couldn't help but look at the holes in Qin Ren's body.
Well…
Well...it seems to have abdominal muscles...
One piece, two pieces, three...
"girl."
"!"
Qin Ren shook off the milk tea and dust on his body:
"You shouldn't have been exorcising demons for a long time, and you may not be familiar with Goudan. It's actually an old man from Chengdu. He never drinks human blood. He usually catches some wild boars on Qingcheng Mountain, and occasionally goes down the mountain to steal one or two calves and lambs. As long as you
It will never hurt anyone if it doesn’t take the initiative to provoke them.”
Qin Ren took out a box of xylitol from his trouser pocket, took one for himself, and stuffed one into the other person's mouth to calm her down:
"Actually, these days, there are very few random demons, and the methods used by exorcists to maintain order don't have to be too bloody. Sometimes it's just a matter of time. Making friends is good for both public and private purposes. You know what I mean.
?"
The girl didn’t quite understand, but she was still deeply shocked.
Make friends with a demon?
This is really not in line with the philosophy she has followed since becoming an exorcist.
"Then what is your philosophy?"
“Cut the grass and root out the roots!”
Pretty ruthless.
The girl's eyes became sharp, and Qin Ren could tell that she was the kind of righteous partner who hates evil as much as she hates it.
"Then what if they run away and you are not allowed to kill them?"
"Then chase."
This girl is sassy but also straightforward. She holds her head high and her chest high, and she has a bit of "the best female head catcher in the world" vibe:
"Especially those demons who can block the sense of the stigmata. They are extremely hidden and must be hunted down to the end!"
"Shield the stigmata induction?"
Qin Ren narrowed his eyes. How could he, an old exorcist, not know that there was such a demon?
But the girl said with a slightly heavy heart that she really had:
"A few days ago, I met a barefoot girl on the street. I thought she had run away from home and wanted to call the police. Who knew that as soon as I grabbed her hand, she suddenly discharged electricity at me! And my stigmata didn't move at all.
...Huh? Senior, you don’t look too good?”
"..."
It's really not good. Qin Ren's face has already stiffened since he heard "barefoot girl":
"No...it's okay. That thing is actually just static electricity. You are overthinking it."
"No, there is no static electricity with electric sparks. Although the power is almost 0, looking at her appearance at that time, she really planned to attack me with electric discharge."
"Nonsense, if you grab someone's hand, it's normal for them to be stressed and defensive."
"But…"
"Okay, okay, anyway, please remember that the situation in the Chengdu area is different. In the future, as long as the demons are not actively looking for trouble, you should not provoke them. They are all peaceful in the first place, but if you do it, you will cause trouble and suffer the consequences.
Who is this? Not a resident of Chengdu? Do you understand this?"
This was said much more clearly. The girl was stunned for a while, then thoughtfully, and finally nodded like a student who has memorized the teacher's teachings:
"I understand, thank you for your guidance, senior."
As long as you understand, Qin Ren, as a Pixiu breeder, naturally doesn’t want to have much to do with this “female head catcher”. He encouraged her by saying, “There is a long way to go, but there is a promising future.” Then he waved his hand and walked away, under the dark night.
There is only one heartfelt message from a retired old exorcist:
"Remember, exorcism is not just about beating and killing, exorcism is also about human nature."
