Soul Trigger

Chapter 23 Guests
"Are there any festivals coming up soon, or is there anything in particular you're looking for?"

"...No, you...why did you suddenly speak like that?..."

Jin Misha shrank away from Ji Li while holding the bowl.

"Do not."

Ji Li shook his head, and gently took off her hand holding the chopsticks in the other's stunned gaze:

"I feel that if I hadn't met you in the Lingbo Prison, I might have died there. Today is the same. I have to trouble you with many things. I suddenly want to do something for you, otherwise I will feel very guilty..."

"Ahhhh stay away from me!!!"

Jin Misha broke away from Ji Li with her teeth bared and claws bared: "What are you suddenly going crazy about!... Can you be normal! Old Ji, is there really nothing wrong with your brain???"

The smile on Ji Li's face suddenly collapsed, and he coughed twice:
"…Nothing, I just wanted to tease you suddenly, forget it."

Tsk, looks like I messed it up.

Ji Li thought about the statue named Daughter of Demonic Shadow and wanted to try to find a way to improve the level of that connection.

As for the specific operation method, speak in a gentle tone, buy some small gifts and put them in the hands of the bunny girl?
But now it seems that the force may have been used in the wrong direction. He is really not cut out for this job... Let's just let nature take its course.

Seeing that Ji Li's aura seemed to have returned to normal, Jin Misha breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed her itchy paws on her buttocks:

"…You scared me. I think I need to help you get your mind back in order."

As she spoke, she took out her cell phone again and started clicking on it.

"Actually, my previous commission was to investigate the Red Whip Society. Meeting you, Old Ji, was just a coincidence. I didn't expect that base would become so troublesome... Of course, these things are not the focus now."

"After accepting the commission, my contact sent me some information. It was some files related to the Red Whip Society, which included many missing persons cases. I remember you were among them, so I should be able to help you find some clues..."

Jin Misha quickly found the file that seemed to be Ji Li's and quickly flipped through it. Ji Li also leaned over:
Name: Ji Li

Sex: Male
Age: 16
Birthplace: Shulong

Briefing: A foreign national was reported by a passerby who witnessed the incident. An investigation was launched and the last location he was found was Jinnan Road. After a week of investigation, he was listed as a missing person and his family could not be contacted.

Two weeks later, new clues emerged in the Red Whip Society case and it was confirmed that he was kidnapped by the Red Whip Society and the case was included in the Red Whip Society's action file.

"As expected, you are a Shulong person."

"…What dragon man?"

"Shulong is the name of a country, not a species..." Jin Misha rolled her eyes, "Wait, since your brain is broken, don't you know what country this is?"

"I know it's Silla Aurora City, but I can't remember anything else." Ji Li shrugged.

"...Does this count as formatting your brain? You even have to relearn history..." Jin Misha complained, and gave Ji Li some scientific knowledge:
"Shulong is an ancient oriental country located in the center of the world. It has a long history, a large territory, and now has a strong international influence. In the other world, it is said to be the country with the most awakened people in the world. I had the opportunity to travel there last year..."

"As for our Silla, it's relatively small. On the map, it's in the upper right corner of Shulong. A few hundred years ago, Silla was a vassal state of Shulong, but that was in ancient times."

"Are you from Silla?"

"Yes."

"If it were a few hundred years ago, would you have to kneel down and call me Master?"

"I called you uncle...let's talk business!!!" Jin Misha bumped her head against Ji Li who was standing next to her.

"The actions of the Red Whip Society are handled by the Special Management Bureau. The content behind it is difficult to access. But there should be some other clues in the front... Got it, do you remember this address?"

"Of course not. How do we get there?" Ji Li looked at the unfamiliar address.

"Uncle Li, pay the bill. Can you lend me your car?"

……

By the time Jin Misha stopped the electric bike, the sun had already set. A white street light was flickering on the faces of the two people, as if there was a circuit failure.

Along the way, Ji Li also stuck close to his brother to appreciate the beautiful sunset scenery of the city. With the chattering of Bunny Girl, he also had a better impression of this world and this city.

The country he is currently in is called Silla, and the coordinates are Silla's port city, Aurora City, which is a large international city with a developed economy.

Silla was once one of the territories of the superpower Asian Federation. It later successfully became an independent country and quickly became one of the developed countries with its strong entertainment industry and electronics market.

Since the Asian Federation once accepted many immigrants and Silla was once a part of the Asian Federation, more than 30% of Silla's population are non-Asians, and more than 50% of the population are non-original local residents.

As for currency, the current currency in circulation throughout Asia is the Hong Kong dollar issued by Shulong, which is called "Qianyuan" in Shulong.

According to Jin Misa, Shulong is the only country in the world that has developed from the feudal period to the present and still practices a monarchy. The full name of Shulong is the Shulong Empire, which is known as the shortest full name of a country in the world.

The current world situation seems to be in a state where there are no major events but a lot of small events, coupled with a lot of evil and anomalies. The conditions of various countries do not seem to be particularly good, but overall it is still peaceful.

But in Ji Li's eyes, these things were just like playing house.

To him, it was like the natives on a small broken ball fighting each other, just like an ordinary person watching tribal conflicts in the primitive jungles of South America.

But now he is also one of the natives, and he can't help but sigh, alas, damn organisms.

"The navigation shows this is it..."

With a creaking sound, the motor stopped and the electric vehicle stopped on the dim roadside.

The address they found was a small community called Hibiscus. The houses were a bit old, and the landscaping was good, with dense ivy growing on the walls. It was just a bit too good, as one house's window was blocked by the twisted branches of the trees.

The entire neighborhood was unusually quiet, and as the wind blew, the green belt made a rustling sound. "I say, Old Ji, your neighborhood is a bit eerie...?"

"Are there any signs of haunting?" Ji Li said as he touched the soul trigger, but didn't sense anything.

It is not clear yet what the sensing range of his Soul Trigger is, but he is gradually developing the habit of using Soul Trigger to detect suspicious things.

"Not at the moment... My sensing range isn't that amazing, and this neighborhood is still a bit large."

After parking the electric bike on the sidewalk, the two of them walked through the small stainless steel door one after the other. In the security booth next to them, an old man tilted his head back and snored loudly. A property owner form was placed on the table in a blatant manner. It was obvious that he did not care much about community service.

The two turned left and right and arrived at their final destination, a gray apartment building. It actually looked quite good, but there was no elevator.

The water pipe next to it seemed to be broken. There was some fresh soil and traces of construction, as well as some sand and gravel materials piled aside, but no one was watching. It was obvious that the construction team was currently off duty.

After going up the stairs to the third floor, a tall man with a crew cut came out from a corner, looked at Ji Li and the other person, and his gaze obviously lingered on Jin Misha for a little longer. He then nodded slightly at the two of them and passed by.

“Is that your neighbor?”

Jin Misha asked in a low voice, but Ji Li suddenly stopped:
"Excuse me……"

The man who had already walked past was stunned and turned back with a little confusion.

"Brother, do you know the occupant of room 308?"

"Oh... I live around the corner, so I'm not sure."

"It's okay, we're just asking."

The crew-haired man left in a hurry. Jin Misha grabbed Ji Li's sleeve:

"What kind of operation are you doing? Do you know?"

"I don't know him, but what if he knows me?" Ji Li shrugged. "Okay, you were so boastful in the car just now, now it's your turn to perform."

"Small idea."

Jin Misha placed her five fingers on the door lock. As a shadow wavered in the keyhole, there was a slight "click" sound and the door opened.

According to Jin Yasa, this is to control the shadow in the keyhole to shape it and complete the lock opening.

There was a peculiar smell of a house that had been uninhabited for a long time coming from inside. Ji Li leaned in slightly:

"So dark?"

"Turn on the light."

"Turn on the light." Ji Li shouted, and Jin Misha looked at him with an expression as if he was a weirdo:
"?What are you doing."

Ji Li coughed lightly, and his habitual thinking came back again. Who would have thought that the lights in the 21st century would not even be voice-controlled?
"Touch the wall, the wall..."

Rabbit knocked his head helplessly, and Ji Li finally touched the lamp, illuminating the messy room.

All the tables, chairs and benches in the living room were overturned, the coffee table was broken into pieces, and the sofa was torn into pieces with cotton all over, and even the springs were faintly visible:

"Old Ji, was your house robbed?"

"How do I know?"

As Ji Li spoke, his eyes kept wandering around the room, as if he was thinking about something. Finally, he stopped at Jin Misha who was walking in, and grabbed her wrist.

“…What are you doing!!!”

Then the door slammed shut.

After a moment, Jin Misha, with a slightly red face, quickly left the apartment building. With the sound of the electric vehicle starting, the entire community returned to silence.

After a minute of silence, the lights in the corridor where Ji Li was suddenly flickered and then went out abruptly.

A dark shadow appeared at the door of Room 308. He squatted for a moment and fiddled with the keyhole. With an almost inaudible sound, the door opened.

The lights in the living room were turned off, and only the lights in the bedroom could be seen. The entrance was completely dark.

The shadow slowly walked into the room and closed the door ajar. But before he turned around, he felt a chill on his neck. A cold light appeared on his neck:
"Dude, did you go to the wrong room?"

The black shadow paused suddenly, and the next moment its body suddenly leaned forward and the blade directly sank into its muscles. Its whole body expanded to three meters high in an instant, and it reached out to grab Ji Li behind him, but only received a gust of cold wind.

He was stunned for a moment, but reacted very quickly and immediately stepped on the ground and rushed in a certain direction -

Bang!
With the dull sound of flesh colliding, he hit Ji Li's chest hard in the dark, and then pressed him against the wall with his backhand. With a burst of fine cracks and dust exploding, the man opened his mouth:
"No. 44, just follow us and you will be free from pain."

Under the dim moonlight, the man's bloated body was covered in gray muscles, and his ferocious face was full of protruding blue veins. Only the crew cut could reveal that he was the man who had just passed by in the corridor.

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pressed Ji Li's neck tightly, but saw a gray light flash in the boy's eyes:
"...You are a member of the Red Whip Society."

"?!"

Before he could react, he saw the gray light explode, turning the eyes of the thin boy in front of him into a dark black like ink, and then dissipated into a violent spiritual essence that hit him fiercely in the face -

Under the dim moonlight, a puff of black air exploded, and Ji Li's skin melted, revealing the white bones that squeezed out the bone armor. The black-lined goat horns grew wildly, directly in front of the sturdy man, and a pair of flame-shaped black eye holes slowly raised up -

Instantly, the burly man with a crew cut felt his heart trembling wildly, and his hair stood on end. The terrifying warning sign of the soul trigger frightened him so much that he instantly let go and retreated violently.

"Decadence?!"

　I'm a bit busy today, so I'm a bit late
　　
　
(End of this chapter)