Unable to obtain useful information from the Garys, she turned her attention to the group of robbers moving here and there.
He waved his hand gently in front of him, and the air suddenly twisted and rippled, quickly forming a swaying whirlwind, which at the same time split into a dozen whirlwinds of equal size and flew towards the fallen robber.
The whirlwind lifted them up, moved them to their respective positions, and then instantly dissipated into the air, leaving these people plopped on the ground.
They were lined up neatly with their heads and feet facing the same direction, like customers in a morgue.
"Well...it's you!"
Qi Ji glanced at the dozen or so people and finally locked his eyes on a middle-aged man who was dressed in a short leather jacket, a rider shirt, straight trousers, and leather boots.
She remembered this man, the one who had the same demeanor as the leader before, and he should know more.
A faint blue light burst out from the palm of her hand, quickly and briefly scanned the other person's head, and soon went out and disappeared.
After a few seconds, the man slowly opened his eyelids, stood up with stiff joints like a puppet, and stood there in a daze, staring unfocused eyes into the infinity ahead.
Mental magic is useful and works every time...
"what!"
Seeing him stand up, the couple's face changed and they hurriedly took a few steps back towards the carriage, protecting Daisy and Youer behind them, their faces full of vigilance and fear.
"Don't worry, this is my magic. He has been controlled by me and will not threaten you." Qi Ji explained briefly, then chuckled playfully and said in a calm tone:
"What is your purpose for ambushing and attacking us here?"
"Mr. Rice... entrusted us," he said stutteringly, his head shaking slightly, "He... provided us with information, saying that a carriage would pass by... this afternoon... and we need to... hijack them..."
Mr. Rice?
Qi Ji crossed his arms across his chest, tapping the elbow of his other arm with the fingernail of one hand:
"What is that black thing?"
"It is... a puppet given to us by Mr. Rice..." The man continued to shake his head, "It can provide us with... the necessary help..."
"Is that thing being remotely controlled by that 'Les'? Or is it acting autonomously?"
"Uh..." The man's mouth was half open, and no other sound came out except for his breathing.
Silence means not knowing.
Qi Ji thought for a moment and asked again, "Did he give the puppet to you temporarily?"
"No..." He answered with a dull look in his eyes, "This is a gift from Mr. Rice a long time ago. We will bring it with us every time we take action."
It is obvious that the black puppet is some kind of sophisticated supernatural prop. Judging from its performance just now, its combat power and mobility have an overwhelming advantage over the team composed of mortals.
Giving something like this to a group of robbers? There is indeed a lot to say about it.
Moreover, the reason why this group of robbers ambushed and attacked Gary and his wife was because of the instructions of Les.
"Did he say why he kidnapped Gary's family?"
silence.
"That's right...you are just helping to do the dirty work, why should others explain their motives?" Qi Ji shook his head in self-mockery.
She asked a few more key questions, such as Rice's identity, address, and how to contact him after the kidnapping was successful, but most of them were answered with silence.
Finally, she closed her mouth, stroked her chin with one hand, and let out a long moan.
Although this guy couldn't answer the most crucial questions, the existing information alone was enough to draw many conclusions.
They... and the Les behind them, were targeting Gary's family. This was quite clear. After all, they even predicted Gary's family's movements accurately.
Without sufficient investigation in the early stage, it would be impossible to achieve this.
But to be honest, Gary's family didn't carry anything valuable with them, which Qi Ji had already confirmed with his inspiration - apart from coins, their luggage only contained ordinary daily necessities.
These guys have such a clear purpose, but it's not for money or material things.
That means...
As a human being?
Chapter 114 Puppet
The first chapter of the additional update. =========================
"One last question," Qi Ji suddenly smiled coldly, "How many people have you killed?"
The answer to this question determines the fate of these people.
If they are a group of law-abiding robbers who only commit petty thefts, then you can let them go for now, at most give them a psychological hint and let them surrender to the authorities later.
But if they were just the kind of regular robbers who committed murder, arson, rape, looting and all sorts of other evil things... then it would be embarrassing.
Don't let any bad guy go, but don't wrongly accuse any good guy either. This is one of Qi Ji's basic principles.
"I……"
The man opened his mouth dully and uttered half a syllable stiffly. Before he could say anything more, his words suddenly stopped.
A strange, morbid color quickly climbed up his face and then quickly spread, and soon his entire head, including part of his neck, was dyed red and white.
His originally lifeless expression was distorted to the extreme, like dough that had been kneaded wantonly, revealing a look of extreme pain, which was extremely horrifying.
"This is..." Qi Ji's eyes suddenly flashed.
"Oh!"
A dull bang erupted from the man's head, like a big balloon being punctured, and a fishy and warm air seemed to gush out from his seven orifices.
Black blood was oozing from the man's mouth and nose. He fell to the ground like a piece of clothing with its frame removed, with the color quickly draining from his face.
"Bam! Boom! Bam!..."
This phenomenon seemed to be contagious. Almost at the same time, the faces of the other robbers lying on the ground turned purple, and blood flowed from all their orifices, accompanied by muffled sounds.
"what!"
Mrs. Gary was frightened by this strange and bloody scene. She covered her mouth with her hand involuntarily. After half a second, she reacted and hurriedly covered Daisy's eyes with her other hand.
Gary took a step forward immediately and used his body to block his younger brother Youer from seeing this scene that was not suitable for children.
In Qi Ji's perception, the life breath of the robbers was instantly shattered, and even their spirituality flew away and disappeared.
"Has it been noticed?"
She immediately focused her attention, using her inspiration to scan the entire place, and soon found a rapidly dissipating spiritual aura above the neatly arranged corpses.
"Got you!"
Qi Ji stretched out his hand and grabbed in the air in that direction, and the air froze for a moment.
Then, three or four meters above the body of the robber leader, a large number of deep red lines emitting extremely weak fluorescence appeared out of thin air, intertwining and entwining with each other, outlining a group of three-dimensional stripes with almost no discernible pattern.
It was frozen like a frozen specimen, floating in the air without any change.
Because it is translucent and the fluorescence it emits is very weak, it appears almost transparent under direct sunlight and is difficult to see.
"…successful."
Qi Ji chuckled, turned the wrist of the hand he had grabbed in the air so that his palm was facing up, then bent his elbow steadily and slowly and pulled his hand in front of his chin.
As she moved, the tangled mass of deep red fluorescent three-dimensional lines also flew straight towards her, eventually arriving less than half a meter in front of her, floating above her palm.
“Miss Yaoliuliu, what are you doing…?” Gary swallowed nervously and asked in a slightly raised voice from a distance.
"There is someone behind these guys, and that person may have sensed something and used some spiritual means to kill all of these guys remotely to silence them."
Qi Ji turned around calmly and held the hand holding the fluorescent thread towards him so that he could see it more clearly:
“It’s the remnant of spirituality that I captured.”
“I, I see…” The couple nodded as if they understood, with a look of fear on their faces.
They don't understand magic or supernatural powers, but they know what "killing to silence" means.
Just to protect his identity behind the scenes, he killed more than a dozen of his men at once? Such cruelty and brutality was beyond the imagination of these honest citizens.
Being targeted by such a vicious person... Even though they are out of danger now thanks to Miss Yaoliuliu, it still makes them feel uneasy.
Qi Ji withdrew his hand, brought the fluorescent filament image close to his eyes, and observed it carefully using his various senses.
This thing...is not "the influence of spirituality", but spirituality itself.
There is a considerable difference between the two.
Spirituality is not a consumable; it is indestructible and cannot be eliminated. It can only be destroyed and changed from one form to another.
Spirituality is to the extraordinary as guns are to soldiers. Any extraordinary person can only exert extraordinary power by calling on spirituality, otherwise they are not much different from ordinary people.
The guns themselves are usually not consumed.
As for "spiritual influence", it can be likened to the bullets loaded into a gun, which is the way the gun releases its power.
The bullets fired are short-lived, time-limited, and will be consumed.
For extraordinary people, spirituality is their "gun", and the martial arts they perform and spells they cast are the "bullets", that is, the "influence of spirituality".
For mindful warriors, righteous masters, and other extraordinary beings below them, their spirituality is almost completely contained within their bodies and cannot exist independently from their bodies.
Although it can be manipulated to a certain extent by one's own will, the most it can do is move it from one location in the body to another, and it cannot be released externally.
It is like a gun, once it is completely out of the control of a soldier, it is just a piece of scrap metal. Even if it is loaded with abundant and advanced ammunition, it will be useless.
However, the ball of fluorescent filaments in her hand is different. It is a spirituality that exists independently from the material carrier.
This is equivalent to the gun in the soldier's hand having the ability to act independently. Even if it is not in the soldier's hand, it can move, aim, shoot, and even reload bullets.
! In other words...
Is this thing the creation of a "magician" or a "psychic warrior"?
And in terms of aura... it's very similar to the black puppet that she had blown up before.
...is it a sub-body separated from that thing?
Qi Ji believes that the probability of this happening is not small.
No matter if they were magicians or psychic warriors, they were all well-deserved high-level strongmen in the human world. However, such strong men gave their creations to a group of robbers who burned, killed and looted... This in itself was very suspicious.
If the puppet he gave to the robbers contained some special program that could silence and destroy evidence under certain circumstances... that would be basically logical.
It should be that the black puppet took the opportunity to split off a part of itself when it was destroyed, thus gaining a moment of survival, and then seized the opportunity to use some means to kill all the robbers in an instant.
All this happened very covertly, with almost no spiritual fluctuations revealed, which resulted in Qi Ji, who did not pay much attention to this aspect, not being able to notice it in time.
Fortunately, Qi Ji's reaction was indeed very fast. He used special means to seal and imprison it before it disappeared, and forcibly preserved it.
This may be the evidence and clue to find Mr. Rice and his true purpose...
Chapter 115 I, a bounty hunter!
"What are you going to do next?"
Qi Ji held the ball of fluorescent filaments in front of his lower abdomen, looked up and asked Gary and his wife.
"We..." Gary glanced at the body lying behind Qi Ji with lingering fear, and said anxiously:
"We want to go home quickly... back to Sunset Harbor! This place is too dangerous. We can't stay here any longer. Otherwise, who knows..."
Mrs. Gary nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and agreed:
"Yes, we must leave as soon as possible... Sunset Harbor has perfect security and is guarded by the great wizards of the Academy of Sciences. These vicious and terrifying guys will not be able to run rampant there."
This experience left them with a deep impression of the dangers of the dark world. If they could return home safely, they would probably never dare to go out of town again...
Even leaving Sunset Harbor, or even just going to a more remote area in the city, requires careful consideration.
After this experience, the world and society will appear completely different in their eyes. The darkness and filth that originally only existed in distant rumors and stories are now truly revealed before them.
From then on, the once bright and warm streets and magnificent high-rise buildings seemed to them to be hiding countless madness and blasphemy. Malicious gazes were projected from every dark corner, following them like a shadow all the time.
Qi Ji looked at their fearful and anxious expressions and said calmly:
"But how are you going to get back?"
"Uh..." The two were stunned for a moment, then realized something, a huge sense of helplessness and uneasiness spread across their faces.
"Yes! If these people were coming for us, how could they let us go so easily..." Gary held his wife's hand tightly, his fear evident in his expression:
