Chapter 145 Mother Tree "Can the evil spirits gather again?" The young man with the holy emblem of the sun on his chest asked in astonishment. Based on his knowledge of the occult and his experience from reading case files, unless the evil spirit itself possessed unique abilities, being purified would mean complete demise. This kind of soul creature is either the product of the death of a powerful extraordinary person, or a wronged soul that has broken through limitations with the help of various opportunities. The most powerful ones among them may even possess a certain degree of divinity, but resurrection and rebirth have never been their characteristics. The blond man in a double-breasted brown coat straightened up, looked at the twisted vines that were gradually disappearing, and said carefully: "Evil spirits are different from one another. Under certain circumstances, when an evil spirit is born, it will rely on something, and that thing is often located at the core of its 'territory'. "As long as this thing is not destroyed, even if the evil spirits are completely purified, they will slowly condense again in the corresponding area." Evil spirits will assimilate the place where they were born, allowing it to merge with the spirit world and the underworld, thereby gaining the power to maintain their own existence. Otherwise, they will gradually weaken until they disappear completely. In other words, evil spirits have a fixed range of activities and cannot stray too far from the place where they were born. This is called their "territory." The young man wearing the Holy Symbol of the Sun and a white robe inlaid with gold probably understood why and said with a frown: "But we have been searching for several days and have not found the birthplace of the evil spirit Susanna Mathis."

Normally, it is impossible for Susanna Mathis to be so far away from her "territory". As long as the official extraordinary people carefully search the chaotic streets and the surrounding areas, they will definitely be able to find the birthplace of the evil spirit and destroy the things it relies on. But this is Trier, where there is not only the above-ground part, but also the underground world, with its corresponding chaotic streets and another honest market area, and there are many little-known paths and caves there. More importantly, deeper underground is Trier in the Fourth Epoch. Even for official Beyonders, it is a place that lacks sufficient understanding and hides many dangers. As the deacon of the Inquisition in the Candide Market District, Angouleme de François could never understand why Trier was rebuilt on the original site in the late Fourth Era, on top of the Trier that sank into the ground. Although the geographical conditions here are indeed the best, such a decision also brought a lot of trouble in the following thousand years. Some extraordinary events are not because the "Purifiers" do not want to solve them thoroughly, but because they are unable to do so. The root causes of those problems are hidden in Trier in the Fourth Epoch, in the underground ruins. It is said that there are underground areas that even demigods and demigods dare not or are unwilling to venture into. Angouleme put away the golden sword that was both solid and like condensed light, and inserted it into the top of the head of a gray-white humanoid mechanical creature driven by steam, and sank it into the corresponding "spine". It seemed to be filled with some dark liquid. At this time, a man wearing a white suit, a yellow vest, a light-colored shirt, and also wearing the "Holy Emblem of the Sun" walked out of the "Golden Rooster Hotel". His light yellow hair was combed neatly, there was a piece of skin-colored tape on the middle of his nose, his lips were thick, his skin was slightly brown, and he seemed to have some indigenous blood from the southern continent. "Deacon, I have asked Charles Collent," he said to Angouleme de François. Angouleme touched the gold buttons on his brown coat and said: "Is he alright?" The man with a slightly brown complexion shook his head and said: "We arrived in time and he suffered no real harm." "According to him, after he dreamed of Susannah Mathis again, he chose to go out for help even though she warned him. As a result, he was blocked by Susannah Mathis on the second floor of the hotel and almost merged with her forever. Well, the latter part of the sentence was said by Susannah Mathis. "Afterwards, Charlie fell down at the stairs and almost fainted. At this time, he saw a light like the rising sun." This was a normal and reasonable development, and it was completely consistent with the details of the actions taken by the elite "Purifiers" team led by Angoulême. Therefore, neither Angoulême nor the other two Purifiers had any doubts. In their understanding, Charlie must have gone out for help in accordance with the previous instructions and went to the nearest "Eternal Sun" church. Angouleme looked around the unusually quiet street and nodded slightly. "Let's put Charlie Corrente aside for now, but if we still haven't found the birthplace of Susanna Mathis within two weeks, we will consider arranging a clerical job for him and tell him the truth."

This is a common practice among official extraordinary people, in order to protect ordinary people who have not yet completely recovered from the impact of extraordinary events to the greatest extent possible. Of course, many times, they have clearly solved the problem and told the affected person that they can live in peace, but a few weeks, months, or even years later, that ordinary person dies mysteriously. Angoulême continued: "We have two focuses now. One is to investigate this area, including underground, to find the birthplace of Suzanne Matisse. The other is to find the person who wrote the letter to remind us. He seems to have a deep understanding of Suzanne Matisse." Before Charlie was released, Angouleme and his team had quietly checked the "Golden Rooster Hotel" and did not find any special area suspected to be the birthplace of evil spirits. In addition, they also used extraordinary means to review Charlie's experience and confession, confirming that the people this victim came into contact with were normal enough from the time he prayed to Susanna Mathis to the time he was arrested by the police. That's why Angoulême said not to worry about Charlie's situation for the time being. As for the sender, he was very clever and had rich experience in anti-divination and anti-tracing. He actually chose to use spiritual creatures to write and send letters. You know, even if the same extraordinary person uses the same descriptive spell to summon spiritual creatures, there is a high probability that something different will come out each time. Because it only relies on the three-part description, there are hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more spiritual creatures that meet the requirements, and what can be summoned each time depends purely on luck. Unless there is a corresponding medium and a description pointing to the other party's unique characteristics, it is almost impossible to lock the suspect spirit by restoring the spell, and most of the spirit world creatures do not have any unique features. Angouleme had previously tried to seek help from a colleague who was good at this kind of thing, using the letter as a medium to summon the corresponding spiritual creature to see if he could get some clues from it. However, no matter the "writer", "composer" or "sender" of the letter, nothing was summoned. This may be due to some errors in the descriptive sentence, or it may be that the corresponding spiritual creatures sensed the "bad intentions" here and chose to refuse the summons. ——Even if there are no problems with the entire process of the summoning ceremony, it may fail in the end because the spiritual creatures that meet the description are unwilling to respond to the summons. Only those sequences that are good at summoning can greatly increase the probability, or even force it. Of course, most of the time, extraordinary people will not encounter this situation. There are too many spiritual creatures pointed to by their three-part descriptions, and there are always a few who are willing to go to the reality and take away some spirituality. ………… Lumian pretended to be asleep, ready to escape at any moment. It was not until the nearby church bells rang and six o'clock in the morning arrived that he breathed a sigh of relief. The battle between the official Beyonder and Susanna Mathis seemed to be over, and no one noticed that Susanna Mathis and I had confronted each other for a short period of time... Lumian turned over and got out of bed, rubbing his face. He didn't know whether Susanna Mathis had been completely dealt with by the official Beyonders, nor did he know whether the matter had come to an end. Thinking of the strong resentment Susanna Matisse had shown towards him, Lumian felt that he could not wait with hope. He planned to write a letter to Ms. Magician right now to report his contact with Mr. K, and to ask what kind of creature Susanna Mathis was now and whether she had any weaknesses. To be on the safe side, Lumian also planned to ask a question to "Hela", the vice president of the Hairy Baboon Research Association. After all, the "magician" lady did not know everything. After writing two letters and cleaning the room, Lumian summoned the two messengers in turn every ten minutes to make sure they took the correct one. When he finished washing up and returned to Room 207 from the bathroom, two reply letters were lying quietly on the wooden table. “Uh… Ms. Magician was so fast? Did the two messengers bump into each other? If so, would they have anything to talk about?” Lumian muttered as he picked up one of the reply letters. The letter was from Hella: “Similar things happened in both the northern and southern continents. Some men and women frequently dreamed of the opposite sex and had sex with them, and eventually died from being too weak. "If the victim has a partner or lover, these innocent people will be killed one after another by creatures similar to Suzanne Mathis. The reason seems to be that these creatures think they are the wife or husband of the dreamer. “It is said that this type of creature has powerful abilities, no worse than a mid-sequence Beyonder.

"From some details, it can be seen that Susanna may have died and turned into a wronged ghost or an evil spirit..." It's really strong... Lumian thought back to what happened last night, and felt that if it weren't for the threat of "Corrupted Mercury", the "hostage" Charlie in his hands, and the fact that Susanna thought she was Charlie's wife, he would probably be killed by the other party within a minute. After rubbing his spirits and lighting the flame to burn Hela's reply, Lumian unfolded the letter from the Magician: “I don’t know whether I should congratulate you or sympathize with you. The probability of you encountering the evil god’s favored ones seems to be much higher than that of normal extraordinary people. This may be caused by the pollution of the seal in your body. “This is difficult to explain using the law of aggregation of extraordinary characteristics. It is more like the forces that are repelled by this world are attracted to each other because of being repelled. "The above is my guess, I can't guarantee it's true. If you're wrong, please let me know and tell me the correct answer. "Based on your description, I suspect that Susanna was originally a believer of the evil god, and received his blessing, possessing the power equivalent to Sequence 5. "The false name of that evil god in this world is 'Mother Tree of Desire'. Don't try to understand Him, let alone guess His complete and true name. "Susanna should be the 'fallen tree spirit', which is also called the 'spirit of lust'. In some places, it is also called the 'little god of love'. They are both male and female. They like to have sex with people in dreams and absorb the energy of the victims. As time goes by, they will think of themselves as the wife or husband of the victim out of possessiveness, and kill the other half of the other party, including the lover, out of intense jealousy. "However, Susannah also showed the characteristics of a soul creature. She may have died due to an accident or because she could not bear the gift. She turned into an evil spirit, more paranoid and more instinctive." (End of this chapter)