From the end of the world

Chapter 27 Extraordinary Communication 1
If I really answered "inconvenient" here, would you just let me go home? I had this thought and answered, "convenient."

Although I really wanted to go home and check on Ma Zao's condition first, unlike the previous choice of whether to re-enter the cave, choosing to communicate with Zhu Shi would not cut off the connection between me and the "firefly".

On the way to this forest, I released a few "fireflies" to return home for confirmation.

"You just said that this monster is a fallen demon hunter?" I didn't miss Zhu Shi's name for the devil. "In other words, it is actually... a human?"

In other words, could this demon be Ma Zao? No way. Ma Zao was so lively now, and he would fall even if he walked on flat ground.

The suspicion that Ma Zao is a corrupt demon hunter (serial killer) should be ruled out.

"That's right. So you didn't know he was a human before?... That's a good thing. You shouldn't show mercy to this kind of evil. If you knew he was a human, it might be difficult to take direct action..." Zhu Shi nodded thoughtfully, then walked towards the demon lying on the ground, "You should have heard from other places that a serial killer appeared in Xianshui City recently. In fact, he was eight months ago... Hmm?"

Suddenly, she hesitated and her eyes stayed on the demon.

The demon didn't move.

"What's wrong?" I was alert, sensing through the remaining fire on the demon's body.

Zhu Shi moved forward again, first walked around the demon twice, then leaned over and touched the other's chest, and then uttered a surprised voice: "He..."

"...dead?" I also came to the conclusion, "You killed him?"

At this moment, the demon has completely stopped breathing.

This was not pretending to be dead. I could sense that he was pretending to be dead just now. But now, he was more like a piece of lifeless meat, burnt on the outside and raw on the inside, rather than a living being.

"No, I didn't." Zhu Shi shook his head, "I just knocked him out."

"I only damaged his skin and some muscles, and did not cause any damage to his vital organs or other fatal parts." I also explained, "Although his legs were blown off, the wounds were quickly burned with flames. He did not bleed much, so it is impossible that he died of excessive blood loss. ... Could it be that he died of burn shock?"

What if it was me, that is, I killed someone?

I wanted to find some guilt in my heart, but I couldn't even feel a sense of reality, let alone guilt. This demon didn't look like a human, and it didn't look like a human when it burned. I really couldn't believe that I had killed anyone.

"Impossible. A physically enhanced demon hunter like him would not die in such a short time due to such a degree of physical damage as long as there is nothing wrong with his brain and heart..." Zhu Shi shook his head again and walked forward. "In short, let the organization come and retrieve the body first, and then do an autopsy analysis."

When I heard her say that she wanted to do an autopsy, I removed all the remaining fire from the body.

Before I withdrew, considering that there was a one in ten thousand chance that the demon had suddenly realized the secret of pretending to be dead when on the verge of life and death, I carefully sensed it again. This demon - this fallen demon hunter was not only not breathing, but also had no heartbeat, and the blood was not flowing normally, and there was no sense of vitality.

I judged that he was truly dead, and even that "what if" did not exist.

Zhu Shi’s approach was more direct. She drew the sword from her back again.

With a flash of sword, she chopped off the fallen demon hunter's head on the spot; then she stabbed the sword into his chest and crushed his heart, completing a perfect "life and death check" - as long as she killed the person herself, the wrong conclusion of death would become right.

It was simple and crude, yet it also revealed the coldness and efficiency of a professional, as if she had done this more than once. Unlike a novice like me who was involved in a weird battle for the first time, she was already very skilled.

She immediately swung the sword in the air, shaking off the blood on the sword to the ground, and then sheathed the sword again.
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Zhu Shi took out his cell phone and made a call. Not long after, some people in gray uniforms arrived at the scene, loaded the demon's body into the car and left.

She took me to another secluded place. I carefully observed her clothes on the way. The straw raincoat, bamboo hat, sword, and her beautiful face made her look like the heroine in a costumed martial arts drama.

Does this unusual outfit have any special meaning? Or is this the exclusive uniform for Luoshan fighters? Whatever the truth is, this outfit is very much in line with my hobbies, and I couldn't help but take a few more glances. It's not that I like martial arts style outfits, but on such an unrealistic night, she intervened in my battle with the devil in an unrealistic outfit. Instead of being unromantic, it made me more excited.

Recalling her cold and experienced attitude when she just "finished the job" of the demon, it showed me the battlefield style that a "monster hunter" should have.

The only flaw is that under the straw raincoat, you can vaguely see that she is wearing casual clothes and short boots. This kind of "flaw" can be regarded as a blooper in a costume martial arts drama. But maybe this is also a good thing. There is also beauty born from incoordination. This is what I convinced myself.

Not only was I looking at Zhu Shi over and over again, Zhu Shi was also looking at me over and over again.

Although she has been maintaining a calm demeanor, the disbelief she showed at the beginning must be her true state of mind. Until now, she still seems unable to accept it, and she looks at me as if she wants to find some flaws in me to prove that I am not the Zhuang Cheng in her memory.

Although I am not as unacceptable as she is, I can understand her feelings. My friend's sister is actually a demon hunter who works in a supernatural organization and deals with strange things. I am afraid that such a magical and coincidental thing can only be seen in stories. Tonight is really like a dream.

"You just said that I am also a demon hunter, what does that mean?" I started to talk. Zhu Shi first calmed down and then answered: "It means literally. As long as a person possesses power related to the weird, he will be called a demon hunter."

"Can I understand it this way..." I said while thinking, "Suppose there is such a person with superpowers, he just has superpowers, but has never hunted monsters, and has no intention of doing so, and even his abilities are not suitable for fighting... He will also be classified as a 'monster hunter'?"

"Yes." She confirmed.

"Isn't this a bit strange? Why not just call him a super-powered person, or a sorcerer, or a supernatural person like in online novels?" I wondered.

"I don't know about that. Everyone calls it that." She answered casually.

After a little thought, some unwritten thoughts emerged in my mind.

She obviously didn't intend to continue to dwell on such trivial titles, so she simply asked directly: "Zhuang Cheng, when did you become a superpower?"

Don’t you usually call me “Senior Brother Zhuang”? Why are you suddenly calling me by my name now... I swallowed the words.

In the past, when Zhu Shi called me that, I always felt like she was praising me, which made me feel a little uncomfortable. I also suggested that she should call me by my name. But now that she has really done that, I feel uncomfortable in another way. I am such a troublesome person.

But those were minor details, so I answered her in a normal manner: "I awakened my superpowers more than four years ago."

"More than four years... Is that when I just started high school? Or a little bit earlier, when I was about to graduate from junior high school... I see, no wonder you have been..."

Slowly, she seemed to figure something out on her own.

After a moment's silence, she asked again, "Judging from the injuries sustained by the Fallen Demon Hunter, your superpowers should be related to fire?"

"My superpower is the ability to summon and manipulate fire." I answered without hesitation.

"You actually managed to defeat the fallen demon hunter with such an ordinary ability?"

She seemed surprised, but was she necessarily so surprised?
The fire ability is indeed the most plain and simple one in the superpower battle comics, but compared with the transformation into a muscle-covered monster, I feel that it is at least more fashionable. In many battle stories I have read before, a large-sized physical attack attribute character like the Fallen Demon Hunter is probably only suitable to be the villain in the early stage, and even those stylish villains, if they also use the giant monster transformation skill, it is equivalent to saying that they will definitely be defeated next, and the ending is most likely that not even a complete corpse will be left.

However, I also know that I know nothing about the weird world, and I don't know Luo Shan's evaluation criteria for the power of demon hunters. It is not feasible to use half-baked story knowledge as a reference. Maybe other flame ability users are unexpectedly weak, so that the flame ability is just a useless thing in the eyes of others.

"Can you tell me the whole process?" Zhu Shi asked.

"can."

I told him everything from the time I encountered the Fallen Demon Hunter to the time Zhu Shi intervened, including all the skills I used in the battle.

Zhu Shi once again took out his cell phone from inside his raincoat and used it as a makeshift recorder to record my narration.

In fact, for a superpower like me, if it is just for self-preservation, it is better to hide my fighting method. But I hope to leave a good impression on Luoshan through Zhu Shi. In the future, through Luoshan, an official supernatural organization, I may be able to obtain more credible clues of strange events, and then encounter more colorful strange events.

In my heart, the importance of contacting Luoshan is even higher than that of Mazao.

Furthermore, if I could join Luo Shan and become one of them, Ma Zao would no longer be necessary for me.

Luoshan is a very large organization. As the saying goes, the monk can run away but the temple cannot. Now that I know the existence of Luoshan, I will have plenty of ways to contact it in the future.

But what about Ma Zao? She had a firm will to leave, and she even claimed that she had the power to transfer. Assuming what she said was true, she could transfer directly to a place I didn't know after she recovered. Although there was a way to continue tracking and finding her through super powers, I seemed to have a better choice now.

Of course, I actually have a better choice.

That means "I want it all".

There is not much to say about the confrontation between me and the fallen demon hunter. It was basically a one-sided suppression by me. Soon, I explained the whole process to Zhu Shi.

As soon as I started talking about my abilities, Zhu Shi quietly put away the phone he was using as a makeshift recorder, and an expression of shock that was hard to conceal gradually emerged on his face.

"You can ignite the target with your gaze, and you can also burn targets outside your field of vision... The flame cannot be extinguished, and it will continue to burn no matter where the opponent escapes?" After being stunned for a moment, she couldn't help but complain loudly, "What kind of 'ordinary fire manipulation' is this!"

(End of this chapter)