Guild Boss's Ambition

As Miss Lannon explained, she took out a necklace from the drawer and returned it to me along with the compass.

At first glance I recognized this necklace as the exorcism necklace that I usually wear around Zi Feng's neck.

"We tried so hard to persuade him to wear the necklace properly, but he sold it so easily..."

"Without this as a restraining force, coupled with the red moon last night..."

Fear suddenly filled my mind. In order to prevent Miss Lannong from noticing my uneasiness, I quickly put my trembling hands and the necklace into my coat pocket, and tried to stay calm. I asked the poster, "My son has been missing for two days. Miss Lannong, do you have any news about him?"

The poster girl stroked her chin and finally shook her head. "The last time I saw your Zi Feng was in the morning three days ago. At that time, she... No, he came to find Saint Agatha. Until now, he has not come to our stone house again, and none of us will pay special attention to his whereabouts."

"Yes." I nodded slightly, trying to maintain my composure, and instructed: "If there is any news about Zi Feng, please send someone to inform me, and remember not to be alone with him. If there is a strong man above the platinum level nearby, you can try to suppress him by force, but please don't hurt his sexual desire..."

Halfway through my speech, I made up my mind, shook my head, and changed my tone: "Well, if he really shows the symptoms of complete demonization, then there is no problem in executing him on the spot. I will not blame anyone in your guild for this. Everything should be based on the welfare of the people. I think this will also be Zifeng's wish."

"Mr. Green Willow..."

The young receptionist called my name softly and looked at my already exhausted face with concern.

She seemed to be asking: Are you okay on your own? Is there anyone who can help?

But I don't want her to help at all...

I don't want anyone other than myself to discover Zi Feng at all.

I was terribly scared.

I smiled briskly and answered as if talking to myself: "No problem, this is my job, bye."

With a confused mind, I turned around angrily, wanting to leave this place and find another way.

However, at the corner of the corridor, a dark shadow was already waiting there. She was holding a paper bag containing breakfast in her hand, and a long French bread covered half of her face. She smiled at me playfully, like a devil waving to ignorant mortals. While I was hesitating, the receptionist behind me was already running towards the food.

"Bai Ye, did you buy breakfast? Can you give me some? I'm starving!"

"Okay, okay, you can take as many as you want."

"Strange, why do you drink two cups of coffee by yourself?"

"One cup is for me, and you can take the other one."

"You're welcome then! After breakfast, I'll go get some sleep!"

After getting the bread and coffee from Bai Ye, the little girl walked past me and went back to her room. She seemed to really like sleeping and needed breakfast, so she didn't notice the silent communication between Bai Ye and me. Or maybe she had already noticed it all, but she liked bed and food more than these.

The extra coffee that Bai Ye bought was for me.

She knew I would find the Stone House...

"What made you decide that I would come to the Stone House? Do you know the whereabouts of my beloved son?"

"You look very bad, try this?"

Bai Ye threw me a high-spiritual fruit, which was a refreshing fruit, about twice the size of a longan, and had a very strong and sour taste. I reached out to take it, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it. Although the effect was minimal, it played a big role on the psychological level and calmed me down a little.

Seeing me finish eating the high-spiritual fruit, the black-haired girl smiled with satisfaction and said leisurely, "I have been investigating a serial murder case recently. This morning, I caught the murderer. I haven't handed him over to the procuratorate yet. I am not entirely sure how to correctly deal with this murderer, but if we follow the laws of this country, I believe he will definitely die."

Purple Phoenix...

I immediately realized what Bai Ye was referring to.

I had a huge struggle in my heart.

"What's your purpose in telling me this?" I evasively threw the question back to Bai Ye.

"Depending on your attitude, my goal is also to change you. So, what is your wish──?"

In the end, the decision came back to me.

Seeing my inner struggle, the Necromancer's face was full of anticipation and joy. Although I knew she was a woman with a bad taste, she really disgusted me this time. The so-called blood relationship has far exceeded the scope of joking, not to mention that this time it involves my most cherished family members.

"Bai Ye, should I kill you and take him away?" I asked her coldly, staring at her.

"Kill me? I saved your son's life, but you turned around and said you wanted to kill me. Is there anyone in this world who is more ungrateful than you? Please, I really like watching others struggle, but that's because I am full of anticipation for the will and desire hidden behind it. Dear Exorcist, what is your answer -"

The threat of death seemed to have no weight in front of Bai Ye. She only used her cold voice to calmly mock me. From her words, I heard the corrosiveness of sulfuric acid. She wanted to corrode my will and defeat my ideals. As long as I sacrificed myself here to protect my own son, the justice that I followed in the past would become a ridiculous joke.

But, do I really have justice?

When I became an exorcist, wasn't it just because I wanted my family and I to live in this city like ordinary people? The justice that I always talked about was just some grandiose excuses. If I had to say something, this society that discriminates against half-blood demons is very strange...

Over the past twenty years, I have risked my life and death for justice many times, but has justice ever sacrificed anything for me?

I answered Bai Ye affirmatively and said, "Take me to see Zi Feng."

"hehe."

She smiled twice, turned around gracefully, and led the way for me, taking me through a long alley, turning a small corner, and finally coming to a house number with the number 444. I remembered that this was Bai Ye's room. I had been here once yesterday.

Bai Ye held the paper bag in his left hand and opened the door with the key in his right hand.

"He's right in there."

"Ah."

Following the steps of the necromancer, I walked into the room holding my breath. At first glance, the layout of the room was still the same as yesterday. I didn't find Zi Feng immediately. After sensing my inquiring gaze, Bai Ye also took follow-up actions after putting down the paper bag. He moved a cabinet in the living room with the hand of a mage.

The cabinet next to the straight cabinet is also a straight cabinet. When they are put together, they can form a hollow mezzanine.

As the cabinet on the right moved, a brown body came into my sight.

He is my son, my son no matter what, my well-behaved and obedient Zifeng.

At this moment, Zi Feng was sleeping quietly, just like every other morning.

"A brown, humanoid body that looks like a fly..."

"It doesn't emit any demonic energy..."

"There is absolutely no skin, no facial hair..."

"**'s body also no longer has human sexual characteristics. He has completely transformed into it."

At this moment when I was almost in despair, the necromancer over there was smiling as if it had nothing to do with me.

With an excited and curious voice, she said with a smile: "Unfortunately, your son's magic blood did not merge with the original bloodline, but was a perfect anti-ancestor awakening. This is a kind of monster I don't recognize at all. Its skills and characteristics are a bit like the double phantom, but its body shape is very different from the double phantom. This guy is not afraid of light magic at all, but afraid of fire..."

Afraid of fire?

Fearing the cruel methods of the Necromancer, I was immediately furious: "How dare you hurt him?!"

Unfortunately, my anger only made her smile even brighter. "Please! It's very fierce, okay? And it's an unknown creature. I have no reason not to treat it with caution. By the way, you haven't officially answered my question yet. How do you want to deal with this interesting thing? Mr. Exorcist?"

Bai Ye's words made me very angry, but if I was completely irritated by her here, then there would be no need to discuss the following negotiations. So far, I don't quite understand why Bai Ye called me here. Is she trying to get some benefit from it? Or is she just out of kindness and sympathy?

I really want to make a decision as soon as possible, but I still can't stop hesitating.

"Can I talk to my son alone?" I asked.

"You can talk to him, but it's impossible to be alone," she replied.

I nodded in agreement and moved aside to make room for Bai Ye to remove the restrictions on Zi Feng. The restrictions she imposed were very complicated, ranging from weakening strength to delaying magic power, from paralysis to silence, there were about twenty or thirty kinds in total, and at my request, she only removed seventeen of them, allowing Zi Feng to recover to the point where she could speak.

Hugging him who couldn't move, hugging him whose body was as cold as a tree, I tried hard to call out as usual.

"Zifeng, it's morning, time to go to school."

"Hmm..." He murmured softly in his arms.

The two dark holes without eyeballs and eyelids gradually emitted a tiny red light...

After a while, these two words brought down my tears.

"dad."

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53. Father's Love is Like a Mountain (White Night)

(white night)

Father.

I don't really know what it means to be a good father.

But I think in the eyes of most people, the exorcist Lu Liu would never be a bad father. A bad father would not cry while holding his children who have turned into monsters. Even when facing the rumored demon king, he never showed a trace of weakness. But at this moment, he exposed all his weaknesses in front of me and completely lost his usual calmness.

He no longer knew how to deal with the current situation.

Just sobbing sadly and helplessly.

"Dad, I'm sorry for making you sad. I did a lot of bad things without telling anyone..."

The body that looked like it was woven from hemp ropes emitted a series of childish voices. The awakening of his bloodline would not make his memory disappear. When it hunted prey, its thinking was the same as his thinking, and the two were synchronized and integrated. Moreover, as the son of a detective, the boy was also very careful and proper in cleaning up the scene afterwards.

The only thing that puzzles me is that he knew how to dispel the evil spirits at the beginning, but he didn't continue this practice later.

Through the confession of another deceased ghost, I easily tracked him down to "Purple Phoenix-Garcia", and after the Demon King incident was over, I successfully captured him by ambushing near his residence. Unlike other common monsters, the Purple Phoenix monster race does not emit any demonic energy at all.

Perhaps it was because of this characteristic that Zi Feng was able to keep the truth hidden from Lv Liu, the exorcist, after he awakened.

"Zi Feng...listen to what father says..."

Lvliu didn't feel sad for too long. He quickly adjusted himself and made arrangements: "You have to remember those things and find a way to not make the same mistakes again. No matter what you become, your father will always be the father who loves you. If this city is not suitable for us, we can leave this city. There will always be a place for us in this world."

It looked like he was going to betray his duty as an exorcist.

He wanted to cover up for his son who had committed murder.

Last night he was still a believer who fought against the devil for the light, but this morning he abandoned the righteousness he spoke of.

He was like a gray wolf that was cornered by a hunter. He hugged his children and stared at me not far away with fear.

He said he would not run away, but seeing his neurotic attitude, I knew he would do all kinds of bad things for his child. But I didn't ask him to come here to make him his enemy. The conditions he agreed to on behalf of the church still need his active efforts. If he becomes an apostate here, my reward may be in trouble.

Whether it's the Light of the End or the teleportation map leading to the Dark Alliance, I want to get both as soon as possible.

"What an admirable hypocrite! When superficial beliefs and true desires conflict with each other, any rational person will definitely put those boring dogmas aside, right? But, dear detective, have you ever thought that your family can continue to live happily in this intelligent human society?"

After hearing what I said, Lvliu showed an interested expression, but then calmly analyzed, "It is extremely dangerous for any monster to stay in the same city. Not every person who investigates a homicide case is as unruly as you. As long as Zifeng continues to commit crimes, we will be found sooner or later."

"Green Willow, please tell me, what is your monster bloodline? And why are you defined as a monster?"

The exorcist looked at me with a cautious look and replied, "Our race is called Painted Skin. We are intelligent creatures that feed on the hearts and livers of humans. According to my personal research, an adult Painted Skin must consume more than ten fresh hearts or livers a week. Of course, the source of the organs must be intelligent humans."

I took out my notebook and wrote as I asked, "Why do you have to eat human organs? The reason organisms eat is to replenish the energy and nutrients they need for activities and growth. What in our human organs do you need? From my perspective, there is actually not much difference between the hearts of animals and humans."

"That is the law of nature. A large part of the monsters were born because of the will of nature. In order to suppress the number of intelligent humans, nature lent its power to things with lower levels of food habits. Among them, we Painted Skins are the resentment of the animals killed by human traps. We have the instinct to plot and kill others."

"Do you have this instinct too?" I asked, smiling at Green Willow.

"Just a little." Lvliu lowered her head and looked at her child.

"Very good, thank you for your cooperation."

I slowly stood up and used the magician's hand to close the two cabinets again, then said, "Help your son sit over there. I have some preliminary hypotheses that I want to test. If this hypothesis can be realized, then you and your son can continue to live peacefully in this city of Mopolis."

"What do you want to do?" Green Willow Fox asked.

“I know how to make people’s hearts.”

In order to demonstrate the actual meaning of the words more intuitively, I directly stretched out my hand to break open my chest in front of Lvliu, took out my heart and placed it on the table. At the same time, my "body remodeling technique" quickly made the heart that had been completely pulled out grow back in my body. Then, I pulled out my heart again and placed it next to the first heart... I repeated the same process several times...

"Hehe..." Looking at the dumbfounded Lvliu, I smiled with satisfaction and explained, "As long as the nutrients stored in my body are not consumed, I can make as many fresh hearts as I want. Let's give it a try. There are six hearts here in total. If they can satisfy your son's appetite, can't you continue to live in this city?"

Looking at the still beating hearts on the table, Lvliu was so shocked that she didn't move.

Seeing this, I shrugged indifferently, picked up my heart from the table, brought it to the boy named Zi Feng, and asked him bluntly: "Would you like some breakfast? Don't worry, don't worry about the price, your dad will pay for you."

Without much doubt, the hungry monster opened its mouth and bit the heart in my hand, and the spurting blood immediately covered its face. From my point of view, feeding the monster with its own organs was a very unique experience. What was even more pleasing was the exorcist Lvliu's expression at the moment. He seemed to see his own world collapsing like dominoes.

"Is it delicious, kid?" I asked the boy with a smile.

After eating the first heart, the two sparks in the monster's eye sockets stared at me quietly, as if it wanted to eat me whole in addition to the heart. Judging from this situation, these freshly removed hearts from my body should be able to fill the monster's stomach, but in addition to appetite, the instinctive aggressiveness is another hidden worry for this child.

Duo──

I snapped my fingers, causing the restrictions on the Exorcist's Son to take effect again, sending it back into a coma.

"Green Willow, I think you should understand the situation. Food alone is not enough." I warned.

Green Willow gazed at her child lovingly, and muttered to herself in a voice as deep as ice: "As long as there is enough food, I can take good care of him. I will educate him to be a monster suitable for survival in the city. He has been a kind and dedicated child since he was young. I believe he will be able to learn to conquer the blood in his body with reason and faith..."

There is one thing I didn't tell Luliu - I actually have a way to turn his son into an ordinary human being.