Chapter 315 85: Seed

In the early stages of the supernatural, most people only knew that supernatural beings were born, but they had no clear concept of the supernatural, nor did they know how these supernatural beings appeared.

Is it the so-called revival of spiritual energy, the gradual emergence of ancient legends, or is it that beneath the peaceful world, there has always been another dark world hidden, but it has only begun to show up recently.

There are various theories, and no one can be sure.

As a result, many strange sects took advantage of the situation and rose up, holding various banners. Some claimed to be reviving ancient religions, some created new gods, and some directly regarded the extraordinary people who had appeared in the past as angels of their own factions. In the final analysis, they had only one purpose: to promote their own theories and recruit people to join the sect.

It can also be seen as grabbing traffic and then monetizing it.

For a while, the atmosphere was in chaos, and rats emerged in droves. They harvested money, fame and fortune everywhere, making a fortune, and they thought they had found the right opportunity.

But the good times didn’t last long. As the knowledge of the supernatural spread, everyone had a basic understanding of its abilities. Only then did the counterfeits discover that others were actually serious!

Flying, controlling objects, burning, exploding… they can use all kinds of unscientific methods at will, but they are still the old school who use scientific methods to create psychological hints, make some rigorous chemical reactions, and arrange a group of people to stir up trouble.

Compared to this, they are simply devout scientists, without any mysterious attributes at all.

As a result, most of the wildly growing sects were carefully tested by the authorities, and after confirming that no extraordinary people emerged, they were completely destroyed. However, some of them were foresighted and formed a community of interests with many official personnel in advance. In a world where truly extraordinary people and even angels and demons appeared, they were still able to occupy a place and develop steadily.

One of the largest organizations is Voodoo.

But their original base is not in Rio. Coming here is to open up a new market and serve as an outpost.

With the help of several new moves learned from his peers, the voodoo messenger gained Aitor’s trust and promised that if Aitor’s terminal illness was cured, he would make the entire Rocinha convert to voodoo and become a base for them in Rio.

In fact, this was just a trap set up in advance. The attacker bribed the other party’s confidants and women in advance, continued to poison the patient, and then paid the hospital to cooperate. Everything could be done with money.

The Voodoo Cult only chose him because they thought he was the best value for money option.

After all, it is useless to have a low status, and Voodoo does not lack one or two low-level believers. If the status is high, it is difficult to scare them, and it is also difficult to bribe the people around them.

Gangsters from the slums like these are greedy for profit and have all the five evils. The so-called confidants just have to pay extra money. Under the financial offensive of Voodoo, those guys who have been bought have claimed to be the most devout Voodoo believers, and they cooperate with the actions of the Voodoo messenger and set up the trap for Aitor to take the initiative to get involved.

First I was poisoned, then I went to get checked because I felt sick, and alas, I had a terminal illness! My head was buzzing, and before I could think of going to another hospital for a checkup, I heard that there was a very effective voodoo cult.
Also because the poisoning was stopped before the ceremony, it was true that Aitor’s discomfort was relieved, which made him believe in voodoo even more, like grasping at the last straw.

“Sir.” The assistant carefully closed the door of the room where the envoy was, checked the room, and then asked, “Do we really want to make a big news? If it is exposed, won’t the whole of Rio hate us? Will this hinder the plan of the master?”

You know, their religion has always had a bad reputation. If they make some big news, wouldn’t it be like throwing more fuel on the fire in a poor family? They will be vilified.

“So, we cannot be exposed and we will not admit it no matter what, unless that extraordinary person in black robe comes to us.” The messenger slowly took off the decorations on his body, then washed off the color on his face, his eyes showing fanaticism.

Since the other party chose to save people in the fire today, will he show up next time as well? Will he be able to find a channel to communicate with him?
Although this approach is risky, he is a gambler who is even crazier than Aitor.

His purpose was actually to attract the extraordinary person to come to him, and then persuade the extraordinary person to join Voodoo. Once successful, his status in the church would rise, and Voodoo would become a force that truly possessed extraordinary people.

With such achievements, he could not even think about becoming a leader, but as long as he could stand firmly on Chaofan’s side, wouldn’t he be able to be second only to the leader and above everyone else? !

Of course, in the assistant’s opinion, the envoy’s idea was too presumptuous. Since Chaofan chose to save people, it meant that he would not like their behavior of killing and arson. If they found out that they were the masterminds behind the scenes, they would most likely kill them directly, and then they would not be able to say a word.

He had already planned to secretly report what happened here to the leader, then pack up his things and be ready to run away at any time.

The messenger seemed to see through his thoughts and said calmly.

“The leader has already agreed to my approach. You just need to follow my orders. Thinking too much could cost lives.”

The assistant opened his mouth, his scalp tingling, and had no choice but to agree.

My goodness, each one is crazier than the other. It is obvious that these pioneers are being treated as abandoned pawns, being used by the leader to gamble on whether they can communicate with the extraordinary.

Failure will only result in the loss of an already bad reputation, some people and money, but once success occurs, you will have no money or people at all.

The assistant’s heart sank and he touched his head subconsciously, wondering how many days he could keep this huge head on his neck.

“This fucking black ship is full of gamblers.”

noon.

Anko Shirai came to an address given by Maria.

This is a hospital located near Rocinha. It is naturally not a high-end private hospital, but an ordinary public hospital.

Perhaps due to insufficient funding, the hospital looks rather old, with gray walls, broken bricks, and a floor that cannot be cleaned.

This country implements a universal health care policy, which means free medical care.

But as we all know, free, no queuing and good results are called the impossible triangle of medical care. Although Maria’s parents were hospitalized for emergency and are still in the intensive care unit, the hospital’s facilities are outdated and the level is relatively average. A large number of patients poured in at once, causing the hospital to be overloaded for a while.

“Make way! Make way! The patient is unconscious!”

“It hurts! Where’s the doctor? Where is the doctor?”

“He’s not dead. He was clearly still breathing when he came in. Did you kill him?!”

The air is turbid and noisy.

Most of the patients injured in last night’s fire were sent to this hospital, which forced the already long queue to be further delayed. Although the director had sent some people to other hospitals, they were closest to the fire site, and the number of people they could accept could not be much less.

Shirai habitually scanned the crowd of people coming to see the doctor to see if there were any suitable seeds.

“Shirai, Shirai!”

Maria, who was wandering around anxiously, saw Shirai walking into the hospital in the crowd and waved to him hurriedly.

Shirai stopped scanning and walked towards Maria.

“How are uncle and aunt doing now?” Shirai walked up to Maria with a flicker in his eyes.

However, after not seeing each other for one night, Maria actually began to vaguely meet Shirai’s requirements for experimental subjects. Unexpectedly, the right seedling had always been by his side.

But it is not enough, if.
“They.” Maria’s eyes were red and her face was haggard. She must have not slept all night. Her eyes were full of bloodshot. Her hands were tightly grasping the corners of her clothes. She spoke hesitantly. Shirai looked around and saw that there were too many people, so he pulled her and walked out of the hospital.

“You said they were in the intensive care unit, but you can’t go in now. I guess you haven’t eaten for a long time. How about we eat something first?” Shirai spoke in a negotiating tone, but he was already holding Maria’s hand and walking on the road.

Maria pursed her lips, looked back a few times, nodded weakly, and said in a hoarse voice: “Oh, really, thank you so much, I’m glad you came.”

“You’re welcome. We are…” Shirai paused for a moment. Maria’s face seemed to be distorted, turning into her former weak self. “Friends, aren’t we?”

After saying that, Shirai turned around and clenched her other hand into a fist, the chaotic fragments in her mind making her confused.

That was the aftereffect of the ability of [False Paradise]. Although this ability had been replaced by [Black Light Angel], the sinful souls that she had absorbed with the False Paradise were retained.

Even though it could no longer torment her, once any inner demon was triggered, it would still cause trouble in her mind.

She chose Maria as her home language teacher, probably because the name triggered some subconscious feeling.

“Hiromote. Are we friends?”

“You can think that I killed your father. Everything was just for experiments.”

Time and the scene seemed to have returned to that morgue.

Guangsue looked down at him with a cold gaze, and his heart seemed as cold as his father’s body beside him.

The scene changed, and a blue iris wrapped around her ankles and thighs, and its huge petals blossomed in front of her. A beautiful woman’s head grew out of the pistil, with a look of pity, and the branches and leaves gently held up Shirai’s face.

“It’s not surprising that you have expectations for society at your age. But in the end, this society will disappoint everyone, including you.”

She is Maria, Maria Imaya. The Enchanter. Shirai seemed to have heard these words before. They were the last words she left in his ear after he had taken in those dirty souls.

Hey, Maria.

The fog inside her still refused to let her go and continued to pull, a roar that was deafening.

“Shirai Kyoko!! You deserve to die!!”

Shirai was very familiar with this voice; it was Yumi Takashima’s scream.

He was also the person she had been avoiding.

“Shirai? Shirai?”

The two of them had already arrived at the restaurant. Maria shook Shirai Anko’s arm with some concern. Since Shirai sat down, she had been keeping her head down, as if she had stopped breathing, like a living corpse, not saying a word.

Shirai slowly dispelled the mental fog, looked up, and his eyes became clear.

“I’m fine, let’s order first.”

Neither of them had much appetite, so they ordered two steaks and had a tasteless lunch. During the lunch, Maria kept secretly glancing at Shirai, took several deep breaths, wanted to say something, but then lost her temper.

“Do you want to transfer your parents to a private hospital?” Shirai knew clearly why Maria was looking for her, and she knew it from the moment she contacted her.

Maria didn’t know much about her, but being rich was one of the things she knew, so it was unlikely that she was asking her for help in finding a better doctor. Maria knew that she was an outsider with no local connections.

So the only way I can go to her is to borrow money.

However, it would be against social etiquette for either party to say it directly when they met, so this meal was held as a prelude.

Shirai Anko’s attitude towards Maria has nothing to do with friends, or rather, she doesn’t have any friends at all. She needs to cut off ties with all old friends, which is the best outcome for both parties.

Besides, what she is going to do in the future will only offend countless people.

Of course, she could have ruthlessly used Maria as an experimental tool like Hirosue did, let her parents die naturally, and then stimulate her emotions. In this way, she might have been able to meet Hirosue’s requirement of planting the seeds.

But she didn’t want to do that. Behavior like Hirosue would make her feel uncomfortable both mentally and physically.

“Well, the doctor said that there are better medical equipment and conditions there. If they can go there for treatment, the chances of them waking up will be greater. Otherwise, they may not wake up.”

Maria choked up as she finished her words and wiped the tears from her eyes.

Her parents’ condition is very serious and they can only barely hang on to their lives now. If they are delayed for too long, the chances of survival will be even lower.

“This card has one million reais, and the password is six sixes. Tell me if it’s not enough.” Shirai took out a bank card, placed it on the table, and moved it in front of Maria.

“!” Maria’s eyes widened. She had just started to speak.

“No need to say thank you. I hope your parents can recover soon. I’m still waiting for you to teach me Portuguese.”

Shirai interrupted Maria’s words of gratitude and stuffed the card into her hand.

The money had been delivered, Shirai comforted Maria with a few words and left.

This was just a small thing for her, and the reason for doing this might just be the other person’s optimistic personality and the popular name Maria.

Maria’s words were stuck in her throat and she couldn’t utter them for a long time. She could only watch Shirai leave and walk out the door.

She clenched the life-saving bank card.

Before this, she had asked her only friends and relatives, but had not been able to borrow money. She also knew that their lives were difficult and they had been affected to some extent by the fire, so naturally they could not come up with any money.

She found Shirai only to give it a try out of helplessness. She had thought of many things and was prepared to sell the rest of her life to the other party, but she never expected that the other party would give it to her directly without any proof.

Before this, she never thought that there would be someone as good as Shirai in the world.

“thanks, thanks”

(End of this chapter)