Then let the witch offer her loyalty

"I'll go back to the team immediately to report and lead men to catch this bastard."

Chen Moxin was about to leave when she stopped before going out the door, as if she was thinking about something.

He took out paper and pen from his pocket and wrote as he spoke, "Sister Lan, he's a psychic. I don't know if this mission will be dangerous. What if something happens to me..."

He handed the completed slip of paper to Liu Lan and said earnestly, "This is my home address. Please give it to my colleagues and ask them to take good care of my family."

Liu Lan stared blankly at the piece of paper in her hand, tears streaming down her face. Her throat felt like it was blocked by something, making it impossible for her to make a sound.

Seeing that Chen Moxin was about to leave, the suppressed feeling transformed into a fierce desire for revenge, which surged from his heart.

"and many more!"

Chen Moxin turned around and saw those eyes filled with resentment.

Liu Lan gritted her teeth and said, "I don't care about the others in your department, but I absolutely do not want to see anything happen to you."

"Since Zhang Hao has betrayed me, I will show him no mercy. I will take away what he depends on most!"

"I will immediately break the spiritual bond with him!"

As soon as she finished speaking, faint lines appeared between Liu Lan's eyebrows, intertwining and shimmering with a dark purple light, eventually forming a complex emblem.

That is a symbol of the spiritual pact between the witch and her proxy.

A witch can choose a proxy to form a spiritual contract, which will increase her own madness tolerance while granting the other party her spiritual power.

Correspondingly, they can also break the spiritual contract at any time and reclaim the spiritual energy bestowed upon them.

These are witches; they are the source of madness and the masters of psychic energy, wielding absolute control.

The emblem between her brows floated and spun. As the despair and hatred in Liu Lan's eyes intensified to the extreme, a crack appeared, tearing the emblem in two.

Finally, the emblem disappeared completely, which also meant the end of her spiritual bond with her proxy.

At this moment, Liu Lan felt as if her spine had been removed, and she collapsed to the ground in a daze. She suddenly felt as if she had been in another world, and the memories she had with Zhang Hao seemed to have become a false dream.

She covered her face with her hands and began to sob softly, "He betrayed me, and my family has long since disowned me... What am I going to do now..."

"Don't be afraid," came the boy's gentle voice, as warm as a breeze.

The hand with distinct knuckles gently rested on Liu Lan's cheek, wiping away her tears.

"I'm still here."

Liu Lan raised her head blankly and looked at the pair of jewel-like amber eyes in front of her. They seemed to be the only light shining in this darkness, becoming a lighthouse guiding the way in the vast night.

Suddenly, she felt a corner of her heart crumble and drift away completely from her.

Meanwhile, in another place, a strange emotion is rising uncontrollably.

Chen Moxin embraced Liu Lan, who had unknowingly leaned against him, and a mysterious smile appeared on his lips.

He blinked, and a prompt composed of light traces shone brightly before his eyes:

[Current Stage Task: Get Liu Lan to voluntarily dissolve the spiritual contract with the substitute (Completed)]

Chapter 18: Let's all stop here!

feel sleepy.

My lower back aches and my legs feel weak.

Zhang Hao woke up from his drowsiness, rubbed his eyes, and subconsciously touched between his legs.

Well, after a whole night of trouble, it's finally back to normal.

He stretched comfortably, looked at the little sister lying next to him, and reached out to put his arm around her waist: "Come on, baby, let's do it one more time before we go."

The younger sister was woken up and was a bit grumpy. She impatiently pushed Zhang Hao's hand away, saying, "I'm not coming anymore, I'm exhausted."

Zhang Hao clicked his tongue: "Don't you know the rules? An overnight stay includes the next morning. I've already paid you."

Upon hearing this, the younger woman immediately complained, "How dare you say that? Don't think I can't tell. You must have taken drugs. No normal man your age is this vigorous. You're getting a bargain by only charging that little bit of money."

She ignored Zhang Hao, got out of bed and headed to the bathroom, still complaining, "Hurry up and get dressed and leave. I definitely won't take you next time you're on medication. You've made a killing."

Watching his younger sister's retreating figure, Zhang Hao spat and cursed his bad luck inwardly.

A prostitute who takes money and still rambles on and on, what a piece of trash.

Ugh, this life is so pathetic.

Even though they are all psionicists with extraordinary powers, in the Azure Federation with its free and sweet air, they should definitely be upper-class people.

And now? They can only hide like rats, and are even looked down upon by prostitutes on the street.

"Damn it, when I get to the Federation, I'm definitely going to join their army and take revenge on this place!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Hao looked at his hands.

Others' talk about getting out and then taking revenge is probably just impotent rage.

But he was different; he was a powerful man.

His past experience with violent groups had instilled in him a near-obsessive worship of power.

He has always believed that there is nothing in this world that power cannot solve.

If so, it only means that the power is not strong enough.

The psychic energy he acquired was a power capable of changing his destiny.

Just as Zhang Hao was gazing at his hands with a look of rapture, his expression suddenly froze.

"Ok?"

what happened...

I can't sense the flow of psionic energy...

He quickly slapped his hand on the bedside table, trying to use his ability to leave a mark on it.

...But apart from a loud "thump," nothing else happened.

Cold sweat unknowingly poured from his forehead, and his slanted eyes widened in shock.

How can it be? !

Why can't I use my psionic energy?!

He thought he had been too hasty and hadn't mastered the technique, so he took a few deep breaths to calm his inner turmoil. Then, following his usual practice of activating his psychic powers, he used his consciousness to gather the power deep within his body...

Silence.

No response.

Nothing at all.

His heart was immediately filled with a tremendous sense of bewilderment.

"My psionic power... is gone?"

Zhang Hao's first reaction was that he had been set up. He immediately jumped out of bed and angrily rushed to the bathroom.

"Boom!"

Zhang Hao kicked the door open, grabbed the bewildered girl on the toilet, and roared, "What the hell did you do to me?!"

The younger sister screamed in fright, "Are you crazy?! What are you doing?! I'll call for help if you don't let go!"

Seeing the genuine fear in his younger sister's eyes, Zhang Hao regained some of his composure.

wrong.

The problem shouldn't lie with this woman.

There is only one thing that can affect psychic energy, and that is the spiritual contract between the witch and her proxy.

Outsiders unrelated to the spiritual contract cannot influence the gain or loss of psychic energy.

If your spiritual energy suddenly disappears, there's only one possibility—there's a problem with your spiritual contract.

That is, the problem on Liu Lan's side.

But how is this possible? !

He knew his wife's situation all too well.

Liu Lan severed ties with her family to get engaged to him, and he was the only person she could rely on in the world.

In this situation, she had no choice after being caught.

She couldn't possibly abandon her only support and cooperate with the Bureau.

She could only grit her teeth and bear it, waiting for herself to find a way to get her out.

Liu Lan was certainly well aware that it would be impossible to get someone out of a horrible place like the Management Bureau without some special ability, so she would never break the spirit contract.

It is at least impossible to resolve through subjective will.

Could it be...

Suddenly, a terrible thought popped into Zhang Hao's mind.

In the past, when reading news on foreign websites, I often saw a rumor that witches within the empire who refused to cooperate with the control measures might be secretly executed by the Tribunal.

Could it be... that the rumors are true?

Because Liu Lan stubbornly resisted interrogation and couldn't get anything out of her, those crazy guys in the courtroom just killed her?!

That's the only possibility!

Otherwise, there's no way to explain why my spiritual bond with Liu Lan disappeared!

The authorities must have been unable to catch him as their proxy, and they didn't want him to roam the society with his psychic powers, so they went straight for the witch!

Thinking of this, Zhang Hao's face quickly turned crimson, veins bulged on his forehead, and his facial muscles twisted incessantly as a surge of rage swept through his heart like a raging fire.

Damn these authorities! How dare they destroy my psychic powers!

At this moment, countless past scenes surfaced in Zhang Hao's mind.

He recalled being beaten and urinated on by thugs from his high school in the toilet; he still can't forget the stench that filled his nose and mouth.

He recalled going out into the world with friends after college, getting hacked down in a gang fight, and having to beg for mercy like a dog just to survive.

He even imagined going into business after graduation, dealing with those big bosses, being forced to drink until he was almost vomiting, yet still having to be obsequious and fawning.

All of this is because I'm not strong enough!

If he's strong enough, he can pin someone down in the toilet and piss on them! Make them beg for mercy like a dog! Make them vomit bile!

Later, Liu Lan awakened and became a witch, and she made a spiritual pact with him, finally giving him power that transcended that of mortals.

At that time, he felt that the humiliations he had suffered before were no longer a big deal.

He stood out from countless ordinary people, possessed the power to change his destiny, and became a higher being.

He can take back everything that was once missing from his life with this power!

However, this fervent hope was shattered on this ordinary Monday morning.

The authorities shattered all his hopes for the future.

Why? !

On what grounds?!

That is my power!

By what right do the authorities take away my power?!

This feeling of falling from a superior position back to square one consumed Zhang Hao with rage, wiping out his reason and replacing it with madness.

Fine! You forced me to do this!

If you don't make me comfortable, then nobody else will have a good time!

Zhang Hao pushed his younger sister aside, rushed out the door, and ran all the way home.

He grabbed the pistol he'd bought from the black market on the border and, filled with rage, charged toward the nearest kindergarten.

Chapter 19 The fault lies not with me, but with this country!