This is not a weird story

The two of them didn't get up until eight o'clock the next day.

The appointment with the Vatican City Administration Bureau was to meet at the meeting room of the Administration Bureau at nine in the morning.

Wei An and Pei Na first sorted out yesterday's report, sent a copy to Meng Yibo, then went out to have breakfast, and then headed to the management office opposite.

The person who wanted to kill them yesterday may have been partly worried that their secrets would be revealed in the report. However, in fact, there was no way to trace them through this report, only the Liangcheng Investigation Team 2.

Another part of the reason may be because they are worried that Wei An and Pei Na will know too much to avoid future troubles, so they should be killed directly.

Wei An also mentioned the matter of being ambushed last night to Meng Yibo in the morning. Meng Yibo had the same guess as theirs, and said that he would report it to the Vatican City Administration Bureau immediately, so that Wei An and the two of them should be more careful.

When we arrived at the Vatican City Ghost Story Management Bureau, the office space here was much larger than that in Zhoucheng.

Wei An had learned beforehand that Liangcheng had a lot more staff than Zhoucheng, and the office space was larger than Zhoucheng, not to mention that it was located in Fancheng, the boss of the jurisdiction.

There are three buildings here that belong to the Administration Bureau, and there are more than 20 investigation teams. The allocation model of the investigation team is the same as that of Liangcheng. It is not that one investigator is a group, but they are allocated according to the investigator level from top to bottom. Investigators from Level 4 to Level 1, and some assistants.

The first five investigation teams in Vatican City all have more than ten members, and each has a fourth-level investigator as the team leader. The other investigation teams are basically composed of five teams.

So sometimes when they encounter some uncomplicated and lower-level cases, they will split into two or even three teams and handle them separately, which will improve the efficiency a lot.

Having said that, the area of ​​Fancheng is more than four times larger than that of Zhoucheng, and its jurisdiction is wider, so it is normal for there to be a large number of staff. Moreover, the administration here is also responsible for handling difficult-to-handle cases submitted by other nearby cities. Strange cases, these are all extra work.

In addition, the Administration Bureau here in Vatican City is also equipped with a research room and a team of experts, who are responsible for studying some mysterious things worth exploring encountered in the ghost stories, especially the research and collection of things that can be used by humans. .

When Wei An and Pei Na arrived at the conference room of the office building, no one had arrived yet, but the service staff were already waiting in the conference room.

After Wei An and Pei Na sat down, the service staff immediately poured them two cups of tea, and also turned on and adjusted the projector in the conference room.

A few minutes before nine o'clock, two men came in one after another, one was older, and the other seemed to be his assistant, or a student.

The older man's name was Xiong Shihai. Wei An had seen his introduction before. Xiong Shihai's main occupation was a professor at Vatican University and a linguist. He studied ancient Chinese and semiotics for a long time.

When the time just reached nine o'clock, two people from the administration came in again. One was Ma Tao, a staff member, not an investigator. Wei An was very familiar with him. When they were in Zhoucheng, they usually communicated through phone calls and mobile social software. Ma Tao also sent him a lot of information about the Vatican City Administration Bureau.

The other person is Yin Siyuan. He looks very young, but you can tell that he is very experienced in doing things.

This was the first time that Wei An met Yin Siyuan, and he didn't know his identity. Moreover, Ma Tao did not introduce much, but only introduced Xiong Shihai and his assistant to Wei An and Pei Na in detail.

Wei An noticed that Yin Siyuan sat next to Xiong Shihai in the middle, while Ma Tao, like the assistant, sat next to them.

The four people sat across from Wei An and Pei Na, separated by a conference table. At one end of the conference table was a projection screen that had been turned on.

After a few words, Xiong Shihai instructed his assistant to insert a USB flash drive into the computer used for projection, clicked the mouse a few times, and soon a picture appeared on the projection screen.

This is a huge talisman diagram, and it looks like it must have been enlarged.

Wei An recognized it at a glance. This was the talisman drawn by Haruki Nakata outside the elevator that he first saw in the strange story "Three Rumors". It was also the circle talisman he was most familiar with.

But he only knew that this talisman could kill monsters and backfire on the caster. As for what the talisman was and whether it had other uses, he didn't know.

"This talisman is called the Life-Destroying Curse." Xiong Shihai said to Wei An: "At first, we obtained this talisman pattern when we secretly investigated Haruki Nakata and Miko Akimoto, investigators of the Sunset Kingdom's Ghost Story Bureau. Later, we were in the central city. During a solo escape story, I once again got a description of this spell from the participants and learned its name."

Immediately, Xiong Shihai gave his assistant a wink and asked him to continue the introduction, while he took the tea cup, blew on the steaming cup, and drank two sips of hot water.

The assistant took over and said: "The Life-Destroying Curse can actually not only kill the living body, whether it is a living person or other living creatures, it can also kill monsters and even yourself, so we classify it as a universal killing charm. in the series.”

After finishing speaking, Xiong Shihai put down the teacup and asked Wei An, "Is this the talisman you saw the most during the ghost talk?"

Wei An nodded, "Not only have I seen the most, but I can also draw."

"If you can't draw it, try not to draw it." Xiong Shihai waved his hand, "Saying that this spell can kill yourself is not just talking nonsense. According to our current statistics, at least two Sunset Kingdom investigators, including Nakata Haruki, have been arrested for drawing. This talisman was destroyed by the backlash. We haven't found a way to break it yet, so we can use it as much as possible."

"By the way." At this point, Xiong Shihai continued: "You should have gotten the cinnabar pen in the ghost story. The cinnabar pen is a key prop for drawing spells. It can not only draw the life-killing curse, but also these spells."

While he was speaking, the assistant next to him had projected more spell patterns.

This time there are three talismans appearing side by side in the picture. One of them, Wei An, has written down the pattern on the talisman paper left by Akimoto Miko. He can also draw it, but he doesn't know what the meaning of this talisman is.

The other two talismans seemed to have appeared before, and they probably appeared on the talisman paper pattern, but I couldn't remember them at the time.

"These three are the Invisibility Spell, the Assimilation Spell and the Isolation Spell." Xiong Shihai explained: "The Invisibility Spell, as the name suggests, will make you invisible for a period of time as long as you stand on top of this spell. It should be effective against people and weirdos. After all, we still have It has not been tested in ghost stories.”

Pointing to the talisman in the middle, he said: "The meaning of this assimilation spell is that as long as you step on the talisman, you can make your breath the same as that of the object closest to you. For example, if there is a weird one next to you, in its eyes, you will It's also weird. If the person closest to you is a living dead, that is, a half-corpse, then you are also a half-corpse in its eyes. You can also assimilate into other weird forms. In short, whoever is closest to you can assimilate into the other person's aura. "

Then Xiong Shihai pointed to the rightmost talisman, "This is the isolation spell. When you step on the talisman, you and the other party will be in two different spaces, and the other party will not be able to touch you no matter what."

"But can you still see it?" Wei An asked.

"Well, I can see it, but I can't touch or hurt it." Xiong Shihai nodded and continued: "Half of the strokes of this isolation spell are similar to the travel spell we are studying, but the travel spell is much more complicated, and there is more than one. It requires at least three different traveling spells to be used together, and we are currently unable to get a complete picture of this set of spells."

Wei An replied: "That's true. I saw the pattern of the traveling spell left by Miko Akimoto on the rooftop in Ghost Stories, but at that time it had been soaked with blood in the basin of clothes, so I couldn't see clearly what it was."

Xiong Shihai's assistant said: "For this spell, you need to draw the first one in the real world as the starting point, and then draw the second one as the transfer point in the first ghost story you enter, and then use the place where blood appears in the target ghost story to make it Forming the third pattern becomes the destination point.”

Wei An was surprised and said: "That means you are not entering the target ghost story directly from the real world, but you have to enter other ghost stories first and establish a transfer spell in this ghost story before you can finally enter the target ghost story?"

He didn't expect that Miko Akimoto would enter the three rumors through such a complicated way.

I remember that my father Wei Zhengdong was almost dragged into the ghost story by Akimoto Miko. I dare to believe that the ghost story was not just a rumor!