Chapter 129 Sword Bearer
"Strange thing, cursed thing, sealed thing, contained thing... these are its different names..."
"Most of the weird things are very dangerous and need to be contained and sealed! This is the only thing we can do!"
Mary poured a cup of tea and continued.
"Why...seal them?" Hei Jie asked curiously.
"Why?" Meili looked at Hei Jie strangely: "Because they are very dangerous. No matter what form they show, they are malicious towards humans! In other words, just like the road you encountered, they are all killing people crazily!"
"indeed……"
Hei Jie realized that he had said the wrong thing.
He thought about his notebook, which seemed to have never had anything bad happen to it. Instead, it had saved his life and was very useful. So he thought the strange object must be a notebook.
Now it seems that the notebook in my hand is the only weird thing!
But the next question arises: "Why do they...keep killing people?"
"I don't know. Anyway, it's not out of hatred, and there is no purpose. I just kill for the sake of killing!" Mary replied.
"Perhaps, it is actively or passively collecting 'spirituality', just like a set 'program'!" Fang Xian silently added in his heart while listening.
After growing eyes, he was finally able to sense the movements of the outside world and quickly learned the local language.
"Wait, that road?" Hei Jie asked again: "What is it?"
"Well, the strange thing you encountered was previously recorded in the files, codenamed 'No Circuit'... To solve a strange case, you must find its root cause. The root cause of this strange case is that road!"
Meili said: "It will randomly appear in various places in the city, disguised as ordinary streets. When you walk in, it will become a closed loop!"
She picked up a piece of paper on the table. "This is the road. When the prey enters, it curls up, connecting the head and the tail. Therefore, you can't escape no matter how hard you try... and all those killed by it will stay on that road forever, becoming a fixed image, or in other words , becoming its 'derivative'..."
"But...we escaped." Heijie whispered.
"This is the second characteristic of weirdness that I want to tell you about. Only weirdness can restrain weirdness!"
Meili smiled and said, "You held a strange object in your hand, and you used its power to get out of the No Circuit alive and save those three classmates! We call people who hold strange objects sword holders. Of course, you can also call yourself a spirit exorcist, exorcist, or custodian...it all means the same thing."
"Features?" Hei Jie asked, "What are they?"
"We have summarized the rules of strange cases. For example, the first one is the law of the immortality of strangeness! The second one is that only strangeness can restrain strangeness! And the third one is that using strange items will inevitably require a 'price'!"
Meili's expression became very solemn. "Because only weirdness can restrain weirdness, so our organization that specializes in handling weird cases has trained 'sword bearers'... However, some weird items have horrible side effects, so they cannot be used and can only be sealed. At present, it seems that you are lucky!"
"The man holding the sword... does the sword he holds have a double edge?" Hei Jie murmured, and suddenly clutched his schoolbag.
He knew that something was wrong with his notebook, and that there seemed to be no cost in using it.
Such strange things might attract robbery? Or forced confiscation?
He suddenly became nervous and stared at Mary.
"Are you worried that I will take your strange object away? I'm afraid you are overthinking it..." Meili seemed to see his inner thoughts and shook her head: "Although some captains would choose to do so, I observe that you are in very good condition and mentally normal, which means that you can control that strange object more perfectly, so I tend to absorb you into our team. Otherwise, why do you think I stayed up overtime to chat with you for so long and told you so many things?"
"After joining you, do I have to fight against those weird things?"
Hei Jie swallowed his saliva and said, "Is it too late for me to quit now?"
"What do you think?" Mary had a half-smile on her face.
…
"We are hidden in darkness, without honor!"
"We swear to protect this world and fight against weirdness!"
"We are sword bearers, and one day, we will die by the sword!"
…
Meili took Heijie and began to take the oath.
Then, she smiled and said, "Welcome, Hei Jie, to become a member of our secret agency. Well, you can give yourself a code name. From today on, it will replace your name and exist in the archives..."
"Why do you want a replacement number?"
Hei Jie asked doubtfully.
"Because some strange things are very dangerous, they can curse you if they know your name, so our organization used the power of another containment object to erase its own name. This is also a kind of protection... Do you think the name of our organization is called the Secret Agency?"
Mary looked at him.
"Okay... I'll just be called 'Raven'."
Heijie held his notebook in his hand and for the first time felt that the world was so dangerous.
"Very good, Crow, get ready and come with me tomorrow to solve the 'no return path'!" Meili smiled and said, "By the way, my Meili is also a pseudonym."
"Why do I feel like... you have no one else to use..." Hei Jie said with a sad face, "You're the one who caught me to take the blame?"
"You've discovered it? There have been too many strange cases recently, and the sword-wielding people died too quickly. I can't do anything about it..." Meili scratched her head: "If I confiscate your strange things and wait for new 'qualified people' to appear, I don't know how long it will take... But the circuitless path is imminent."
"Well, although the mortality rate of newcomers is very high, and it is a bit miserable that you have to face the extremely dangerous No Circuit in your first debut, but if you think about it carefully, this may be your chance! I remember that there was a sword-bearer who was temporarily assigned to the headquarters. Like you, he started his job from the most dangerous and strange cases without any training. Now he has grown into a big figure in the dark world..." Mary comforted.
"You'd better not say it..." Heijie said with a sad face.
"By the way, you also need to register the abilities of your strange things. No need to go into too much detail..."
"I...I can use blood and name to curse any creature!" Hei Jie thought about it and hid some of his abilities.
“So-so…”
Meili's expression was somewhat disappointed. "It's great against humans, but it's basically useless against the root of things... Do you think a road, a knife, or a pencil would have the concept of 'blood'? At most, it can be used to deal with some of their 'derivatives'..."
Hei Jie suddenly thought of the corpse .
