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Chapter 262 The First Observation of the Demon

"John, I... I miss you so much. It's so lonely where we are."

The words “we” and “where we are” caught Ma Zhaodi’s attention, but before he could ask, Constantine asked first, “We?”

“Your old friends are all together, you haven’t forgotten us, have you?” Emma asked. “Strictly speaking, we all died because of you.”

"You...didn't go where you were supposed to go?"

Where should we go? Constantine? Heaven?

Emma's mournful blue eyes looked at Constantine, making him feel guilty as he lowered his head and took a drag of his cigarette.

"Why am I here, John? Think about it. If I weren't a wandering ghost with nowhere to go, how would I be here with you? We're the same. We can't go to heaven, and we don't want to go to hell."

“My child, you see, my mind is in a jumble right now, and I can’t concentrate or think carefully,” Constantine replied. “I’m in a bit of trouble.”

“I know, I saw you spending time around the crime scene,” Emma replied. “You’re trying to deal with Namos, aren’t you?”

“Yes.” Constantine took a drag of his cigarette and smiled helplessly. “He’s too strong. It will take some effort to deal with him.”

“You need an assistant, don’t you?” Emma stepped forward. “A ghost assistant would know more about the underworld than the living world.”

"Thank you, Emma."

Ma Zhaodi saw the same smile on Constantine's face as when he left Lester with Old Man Midnight—he even reached out to pat Emma on the shoulder.

This smile may be comforting or encouraging, but it is definitely not an expression of love.

“Don’t be silly, Constantine, you can’t touch me.” Emma watched his hand pass through her body as if grasping a wisp of mist, but a happy smile was clearly on her face.

She's so easy to please, isn't she? Even after dying once, she'll still be happy because of sweet words.

Constantine looked at her smile and cursed himself inwardly, but on the surface he still walked down the street with the two of them, chatting and laughing, as if he had returned to the old days when she was still around.

This gave Constantine, who hadn't had a rest in a long time, a welcome sense of relaxation. He even temporarily forgot about the mess he would have to face the next day, and a smile appeared on his face.

Ma Zhaodi, however, was completely oblivious to being a third wheel; his attention was entirely focused on his system panel.

【Ding】

Tracing the Roots

Status: Completed (100%)

Reward: Basic Energy Affinity has been issued.

Your bloodline is Chinese, and your energy attribute is magic.

After completing the mission, Ma Zhaodi was browsing his shop—the ghostly item "Ox Tears" had opened up a new idea for him. Since he already had basic energy affinity and his own mana bar, he could unlock many methods for dealing with spirits.

"Let me see if opening the Heavenly Eye consumes a certain amount of magic power, allowing me to see ghosts and demons. 20,000 asset points, so cheap?" "The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Divine Powers - The Art of Communicating with the Netherworld, can observe the netherworld and hell, dispelling illusions and revealing the truth. 500,000?!"

Ma Zhaodi hadn't read the Thirty-Six Heavenly Divine Arts, and the price of the Lesser Divine Arts of the Earthly Fiends was already quite outrageous; he definitely couldn't afford the Greater Divine Arts of the Heavenly Divine Arts.

"The six supernatural powers of Buddhism are also great supernatural powers, but one still needs to practice meditation. Farewell."

After some consideration, he decided to buy a "Heavenly Eye" skill first. This skill was already sufficient to deal with the current situation, at least so that he wouldn't be completely clueless again after encountering Namos.

Just then, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the street. It was noisy and clamorous, and seemed to carry endless evil thoughts, with a bewitching power.

"Let go! I want to eat meat!"

"Are you crazy?! You asked me to keep an eye on you yesterday—I hate you!"

Ma Zhaodi, Constantine, and Emma looked over in surprise. At that moment, a man and a woman were arguing on the street. The man shoved his girlfriend away in a fit of rage, barged into a supermarket, grabbed a piece of meat from the window, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"I want to taste blood and flesh, I want to chew on chunks of bloody meat, I can't stand it!"

"Eddie! My God, you swore you'd be a vegetarian!"

"I'm no longer a vegetarian!"

The man devoured the raw meat, eventually sticking his head inside the counter. Everyone around him was horrified; the man's behavior was so insane that it seemed less like he wanted to eat meat and more like he had lost his mind.

Ma Zhaodi noticed the flies buzzing around his collar and instantly realized who the culprit was. At that moment, the effects of the ox tears had worn off, so he immediately used the newly purchased "Open Heavenly Eye" skill, silently chanting, "Open."

In that instant, a balanced and peaceful energy flowed through his body. His blood and spirit, body and soul began to resonate rhythmically during the energy activity. When this energy gathered between his eyebrows, his vision began to change, ultimately revealing another aspect of this world.

From Ma Zhaodi's perspective, a thin, buzzing cloud of insects swirled around the man's body, feasting on the flesh and blood he had swallowed. Unfortunately, the man's swallowing speed seemed unable to keep up with their devouring speed, and at this moment, his internal organs were being slowly swallowed up by the insect cloud.

Even though he ate desperately, he could only slow down the swarm of insects devouring his body. It wouldn't be long, maybe a few minutes, before the man was swallowed up from the inside and left as an empty shell.

It was at this moment that Ma Zhaodi suddenly began to understand the meaning behind the buzzing of the insects. Although the only message they conveyed was hunger, compared to their chaotic buzzing in the restaurant last time, this time they at least expressed their own meaning.

The moment he understood those voices, Ma Zhaodi felt a hunger pang in his mind, but his basic mental resistance and hood immediately took effect, allowing him to ignore the influence of the demonic voices.

“I understand now that they weren’t silent before because they were being manipulated, but because I hadn’t truly seen their dimension. So their language just sounded like meaningless buzzing to me. Only after opening my third eye were my senses able to truly receive the information they were sending.”

【Ding】

[You have observed parts of Namo's essence, understood parts of Namo's nature, learned Namo's true name, and ascertained Namo's origin.]

The "I did not kill anyone" skill requirement has been met.

You can now use this skill on Namos to prevent it from launching a fatal attack.

(End of this chapter)