Chapter 144

"The evil spirit will condense again?" the young man with the sun emblem pinned to his chest asked in astonishment.

Based on his knowledge of mysticism and the experience gained from reading case files, unless the evil spirit itself possesses unique abilities, being purified means complete extinction.

Such soul-type creatures are either the product of the death of powerful Beyonders or vengeful spirits that have broken through limitations with the help of various opportunities. The most powerful ones might even possess a certain divinity, but resurrection and rebirth have never been their characteristics.

The blonde man in the double-breasted brown coat straightened his body, looked at the gradually dissipating twisted vines, and said deliberately:

"Evil spirits are different from one another. Under certain special circumstances, when an evil spirit is born, it will rely on a certain object, which is often located at the core of its 'territory.'

"As long as this object is not destroyed, even if the evil spirit is completely purified, it will slowly condense again in the corresponding area."

Evil spirits will assimilate the place where they were born, allowing it to blend with the Spirit Realm and the Netherworld, thereby obtaining the power to maintain their existence. Otherwise, they will gradually weaken until they completely vanish.

That is to say, evil spirits have a fixed range of activity and cannot leave their birthplace too far, which is called their "territory."

The young man wearing the sun emblem and a white robe with gold thread probably understood why, and frowned:

"But we have been searching for several days and haven't found the birthplace of the evil spirit Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi."

Normally, Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi could not operate far from its "territory." As long as the official Beyonders searched the chaotic street and surrounding areas carefully, they would inevitably find the birthplace of the evil spirit and destroy its reliance.

But this is Trier. Not only is there the surface part, but there is also the underground world, a corresponding other chaotic street and another Honest Man Market district, and there are many little-known paths and cavities there.

More importantly, in the deeper underground, there is the Trier of the Fourth Epoch. Even for official Beyonders, that is a place that lacks sufficient understanding and hides many dangers.

As a deacon of the Tribunal in the Honest Man Market district, Angoulême de François had never been able to understand why they chose the original site when rebuilding Trier in the late Fourth Epoch, building it on top of the Trier that had sunk underground.

Although the geographical conditions here are indeed the best, such a decision has brought a lot of trouble to the past thousand-plus years.

Some supernatural events are not that the "Purifiers" don't want to solve them completely, but that they can't. The root of those problems is hidden in the Trier of the Fourth Epoch, hidden in the underground ruins.

It is said that even demigod-like existences have underground areas they dare not or are unwilling to risk entering.

Angoulême put away the golden longsword that was both solid and seemed to be condensed from light, inserted it into the top of a steam-powered gray-white humanoid mechanical construct, and submerged it into the corresponding "spine."

It seemed to be filled with some kind of dark liquid inside.

At this time, a man wearing a white formal suit, a yellow vest, a light-colored shirt, and also wearing a "Sun Emblem" walked out of the "Golden Rooster Hotel."

His light yellow hair was neatly combed, a piece of skin-colored tape was stuck on the bridge of his nose, his lips were thick, and his skin was slightly brown, as if he had the ancestry of some indigenous people from the Southern Continent.

"Deacon, I have questioned Charlie Corrent," he said to Angoulême de François.

Angoulême touched the gold buttons on his brown coat and said:

"Is he alright?"

The man with slightly brown skin shook his head and said:

"We arrived in time, he didn't suffer any substantial harm."

"According to him, after he dreamed of Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi again, although he was warned by the other party, he still chose to go out to seek help. As a result, he was blocked by Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi on the second floor of the hotel and almost merged with the other party forever. Well, the latter half of the sentence is Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi's version."

"Afterward, Charlie fell at the staircase and almost fainted. At this moment, he saw light like the rising sun."

This is a normal and reasonable development, and it perfectly matches all the details of the actions taken by the elite "Purifier" squad led by Angoulême. Therefore, neither Angoulême nor the other two Purifiers had any doubts.

In their understanding, Charlie going out to seek help must have been following the previous instructions to go to the nearest "Eternal Blazing Sun" church.

Angoulême looked around the rarely quiet chaotic street and nodded gently:

"Let Charlie Corrent's side go for now, but if we haven't found Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi's birthplace within two weeks, consider arranging a clerical job for him internally and tell him the truth."

This is the usual practice of official Beyonders, to protect ordinary people who have not yet completely escaped the influence of supernatural events to the greatest extent.

Of course, many times, they clearly have solved the problem and told the affected person that they can live in peace, but a few weeks, months, or years later, that ordinary person dies strangely.

Angoulême continued:

"We have two focuses now. One is to investigate this area, including the underground, to find Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi's birthplace. The second is to find the person who wrote the letter to remind us. He seems to have a deep understanding of Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi."

Before Charlie was released, Angoulême and his team had already quietly investigated the "Golden Rooster Hotel" and found no special area suspected to be the birthplace of the evil spirit.

In addition, they also used supernatural means to audit Charlie's encounter and testimony, confirming that from the time this victim began to pray to Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi until he was arrested by the police, the people he contacted were all normal enough.

That's why Angoulême said there was no need to worry about Charlie's situation for the time being.

As for the letter sender, the methods were brilliant, and they had rich experience in anti-divination and anti-tracking, actually choosing to use Spirit Realm creatures to write and send letters.

You must know that even if the same Beyonder is asked to summon Spirit Realm creatures using the same descriptive incantation, what comes out each time is likely to be different.

Because relying only on three-stage descriptions, the number of Spirit Realm creatures that meet the conditions is in the hundreds of thousands or millions, or even more. What can be summoned each time depends entirely on luck.

Unless there is a corresponding medium and a description pointing to the unique characteristics of the other party, it is almost impossible to lock onto the suspect spirit by restoring the incantation, and the vast majority of Spirit Realm creatures have nothing that can be called unique.

Angoulême had previously tried to find colleagues who were good at this aspect to help, using that letter as a medium to summon the corresponding Spirit Realm creature to see if he could get some clues from it. As a result, whether it was the "writer," "author," or "sender" of the letter, nothing was summoned.

It is possible that there was a certain error in the descriptive statement, or it is possible that the corresponding Spirit Realm creature sensed "ill intent" here and chose to refuse the summons.

—Even if the entire process of the summoning ritual is flawless, it may ultimately fail because the Spirit Realm creature that meets the description is unwilling to respond to the summons. Only those sequences that are good at summoning can greatly increase the probability, or even force it. Of course, most of the time, Beyonders will not encounter this situation. The Spirit Realm creatures pointed to by their three-stage descriptions are too many, and there are always a few willing to come to reality for a turn and take away some spirituality.

Lu Mian pretended to be asleep, ready to run away at any time.

It wasn't until the church bell rang nearby and 6:00 AM arrived that he quietly let out a sigh of relief.

The battle between the official Beyonders and Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi seems to have ended, and they didn't discover that I had a short standoff with Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi... Lu Mian rolled off the bed and rubbed his face.

He didn't know if Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi had been completely resolved by the official Beyonders, nor did he know if this matter had ended here.

Recalling the intense hatred Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi showed toward him, Lu Mian felt he couldn't wait with a fluke mentality.

He planned to write a letter to Ms. "Magician" now to report his contact with Mr. K, and by the way, ask what kind of creature Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi is now and if she has any weaknesses.

To be safe, Lu Mian also prepared to ask "Madame Lady Lady Hai La," the vice president of the Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society, since Ms. "Magician" is not omniscient.

After writing two letters separately and cleaning up the room, Lu Mian summoned two messengers at ten-minute intervals to ensure they both took the correct letter.

By the time he finished washing up and returned to 207 from the washroom, two replies were already lying quietly on the wooden table.

"Uh... Ms. 'Magician' is also this fast? Did the two messengers bump into each other? If they did, what would they talk about?" Lu Mian muttered while picking up one of the replies.

That letter came from "Madame Lady Lady Hai La":

"Similar things have happened in both the Northern and Southern Continents. Some men and women frequently dream of the opposite sex, are intimate with them, and eventually die from being too weak.

"If the victim still has a partner or lover, these innocent people will be killed one after another by creatures similar to Su Su Shanna Ma Ma Disi. The reason seems to be that these creatures consider themselves the wife or husband of the dreamer.

"It is said that these creatures have powerful abilities, no worse than mid-sequence Beyonders.

"From some details, it can be seen that Su Su Shanna may have already died and turned into a vengeful spirit or evil spirit..."

Indeed very strong... Lu Mian recalled last night's encounter and felt that if it weren't for the deterrence of the "Fallen Mercury," having Charlie as a "hostage," and the fact that Su Su Shanna considered herself Charlie's wife, he likely would have been resolved by the other party within a minute.

Rubbing his spirituality, lighting a flame, and burning "Madame Lady Lady Hai La's" reply, Lu Mian unfolded the letter from Ms. "Magician":

"I don't know whether to congratulate you or sympathize with you. The probability of you encountering an evil god's favored one seems to be much higher than that of a normal Beyonder. This may be brought about by the contamination of the seal in your body.

"It's hard to explain this with the Law of Beyonder Characteristic Convergence. It's more like those powers rejected by this world are attracted to each other because they are rejected.

"The above is my guess, not guaranteed to be true. If I'm wrong, remember to let me know and tell me the correct answer.

"According to your description, I suspect Su Su Shanna was originally a believer of an evil god and received His gift, possessing power equivalent to Sequence 5.

"The evil god's pseudonym in this world is the 'Mother Tree of Desire.' Do not try to understand Him, and do not guess His complete, true honorific name.

"Su Su Shanna should be a 'Fallen Tree Spirit,' also known as a 'Spirit of Lust.' In some places, they are called 'Little Eros.' They are both male and female, like to have dream sex with people, and absorb the victim's energy. As time passes, they will consider themselves the victim's wife or husband based on possessiveness, and kill the other half of the victim, including lovers, due to intense jealousy.

"However, Su Su Shanna also showed the characteristics of a soul-type creature. She likely died due to an accident or because she couldn't bear the gift, turning into an evil spirit, more paranoid and more driven by instinct."

(End of chapter)