As Lird talked with the maiden priest, the chess game in front of him was also going on, Lird's mind was not on expectation at all, and the same maiden priest seemed to be prepared, taking advantage of the advantage of the first move to start pressing towards Lird step by step, Lird didn't care about this, and listened to the other party's conversation quietly.

The maiden priested: "In the eyes of ordinary people like Mr. Pym, there may be great magical power in the things in our hands, but in my eyes these are not so miraculous, although there is awe in my heart, but it has not yet reached the point of worshipping it. ”

Hearing this, Lird couldn't help but frown and said, "You don't believe in that [power]?"

The maiden priestly said, "It's not that I don't believe it, but I understand some of the essence behind this [power]. ”

Lird asked, "What's that?" The maiden priestess raised her eyes and glanced at Lird, although she didn't say anything, but Lird understood that the other party would not tell her, at least now these things are not in the ranks of the content of 'knowing everything'.

The maiden priest said, "Since Mr. Pym has told you something about the plan, I will give you an answer. First of all, I don't want to use violent means to destroy, but from the results of all the results, this kind of violent means is worth using, for the sake of my people, all the risks and crimes are worth trying and bearing. ”

Lird said: "But in the end, it seems that my father is the only one who bears everything!"

The maiden priest nodded heavily and said, "This is my negligence and responsibility. ”

Lird said: "At this point, all remorseful apologies are useless. ”

The Maiden Priestess nodded again.

Lird said, "So...where did [power] come from, and what did you do with it?"

"I can't tell you where it came from now, but you can imagine what we do with it, and if Mr. Pym wants to make a shocking explosion, he must need the necessary thing to make a bomb—gunpowder." ”

This crossover of abstraction and reality of the maiden sacrifice confuses Lyrd, but he already understands that his father is indeed trying to use the power of the Atlantean remnants to destroy the English military town.

Lird pondered for a moment, his eyes glued to the chessboard, as if the emperor on the other side was the key to solving the matter, the military town, but Lird did not think about the direction of the next chess attack at all, but constantly combed through all the content information received in his mind.

The maiden sacrifice was not in a hurry, and apparently she had plenty of time for Lird to splurge all night.

Lird said, "This thing... It's ridiculous. ”

The maiden priestess also smiled and nodded when she heard this, obviously agreeing with Lird's point of view.

Lird looked at the maiden priestess with some confusion and said, "I am curious about one thing, my father is only an outsider to you anyway, but why do you trust him so much, is it simply because he has saved the lives of many people here?"

The maiden priestess tilted her head and thought for a moment, "This can only be regarded as one reason, but at that time, we didn't have any solution to the problem, we have been in this area for too long, whether it is the materials in our hands or the constantly changing environment, we have no choice, although the plan that Mr. Pym came up with is absurd, but it is a good idea." ”

After that, the maiden priest summoned the unused Praetorian Guards of the first district to attack the camp of the former Lird, as if he wanted to spread his advantage from the whole situation, and at the same time continued: "For countless years, our tribe has adhered to the idea of absolute peace, and after we exterminated the clan, we did not want to rebuild our homeland, wanted to regain the glory of the past, but chose to live like this now, not to develop ourselves. No expansion of the population, almost no contact with the outside world, all in order to keep us in that fearful heart, so that we can get rid of the 'doom' in our bodies. ”

Hearing this, Lird couldn't help but laugh and said, "Do you believe in such a thing?"

The maiden priestess asked rhetorically, "Don't you believe it?"

Lird smiled: "Do you think I look like that kind of person?" The girl priest stared at Lird for a while and said, "It's not like that." ”

"Ever since I was a child, I believed that my destiny was in my own hands. ”

The maiden priestly said, "Including this time when you come here?"

Lird said proudly: "It is my decision to come or not to come, no one can control my thoughts, and it is impossible to drag me here from San Francisco, USA." ”

The maiden priest said, "Then have you ever thought that all this you have done is a catastrophe that fate has already arranged?"

Lird sneered, "Your argument is too far-fetched. ”

The maiden priestess smiled and said, "Maybe, but such a thing as fate can really only be said to be wonderful." "With that, he commanded the Praetorian Guard in his hand to advance and killed one of Lird's knights.

Lird said: "Let's not talk about fate, how does my father want to use that power to attack?"

The maiden priest said: "This question is very good, it was also a question that puzzled us for a long time at that time, you must know that the so-called power does not exist in reality, and it can be grasped with your hands. ”

After that, the maiden priestess thought for a while and continued: "Maybe its form is more like a flame, with a strong heat energy, but it doesn't have its own accurate form or even concept, and I think that even if science develops like this, not too many people can explain the state of flames. ”

Lird thought for a moment and said, "But the flame has combustibles as the basis for combustion. ”

The maiden priestess glanced at Lird and said, "I understand what you mean, it is true that the power in our hands is not an individual existence like a flame, it also exists in some kind of substance, and then through the flow of the medium to achieve the explosion of power. ”

Lird said, "So you... Or maybe you have some kind of treasure in your hands?"

The maiden priest said: "That's right, to a certain extent, it's indeed a treasure that has been handed down to us in Atlantis. ”

When Lird heard this, he couldn't help but flash back in his mind that the Holy Grail and the Sword of Kings were treasures that were widely circulated in the world, and he didn't know if the other party had this kind of items.

"When Mr. Pym stumbled upon this secret, he had the inspiration to use this power to destroy the military town. ”

Liard's voice was a little hoarse at this time: "This... How is it possible?"

The maiden priested: "How is it impossible? Whether it is a gun or a bullet, it is a dead thing with five lifeless minds, but under the manipulation of human beings, it can become a weapon with great lethality, so what else is impossible?"

Lirde was a little dumbfounded when he heard this.

The maiden priest pushed her bishop forward, and directly killed Lird's chariot, Lird fell into deep thought in his mind, and subconsciously made a judgment with his arm, and used the queen to directly kill his own bishop, seeing that the girl's sacrificial face showed a smug smile, and waved his hand to directly kill Lird's queen with his own queen, and then Lird found that there were no more chess pieces in his hands to fight, and the whole situation was already in a state of complete rout.

"Phew, I'm losing. Lird sighed helplessly, and leaned back in his chair a little dejectedly.

The girl sacrifice, who was "abusing and killing" extremely heartily, was quite unhappy when she saw this, and pouted and said: "Hey! Don't count people so easily! If you work hard, you may be able to turn the tables!"

Lird naturally didn't believe in this "kind encouragement", and he spread his palms to show that he had completely admitted defeat, and the maiden priest said dissatisfiedly: "It's really boring." "Looks like a little girl who is disappointed that her wish has not been fulfilled.

Lird continued to return the subject to the main line, "My father is here because he manipulated this power, right?"

The maiden priestess sighed softly, the dissatisfaction on her face gradually retracted, and then she said, "Mr. Pym's design is like controlling a flame, and it is necessary to use the flames in the campfire to drive away the beasts, and there is no need to pass the flames to the torches in order to be effective. ”

Lird interrupted the maiden's sacrifice and said, "But unexpectedly, this fire eventually ignited the flames..."The maiden priestess nodded again.

Lird closed his eyes in abruptness, was silent for a long time, and smiled bitterly: "Yes? I see, although I don't know what exactly happened in this process, but isn't stealing chickens like this a counter-erosion? In the end, he actually made himself look like that." ”

Just when Lird was stunned, the maiden priest looked at Lird and said, "Actually... It's not completely unsuccessful, at least half of the whole plan..."

Liald was taken aback by the maiden's words, and he opened his eyes and looked at the maiden's sacrifice and said, "Half the battle?

"The ultimate goal of the whole plan is to create a war that will make this region chaotic and complicated, and we will take this opportunity to escape and get rid of the current encirclement of many forces, but we have not done this. But..."

The maiden priestess paused at this point, and then added, "That English military town has indeed been destroyed. ”

For a moment, Lird was stunned, and he was somewhat immersed in a pure black world, which shielded him from all his perceptions and feelings, making him feel as if he were immersed in an isolated space.

I have to say that all kinds of things are like pranks that hit Lird one by one, so that he couldn't catch him off guard.

After a long time, Lird said incredulously, "Destroyed?"

The maiden priestess nodded and said, "Absolutely true, everything has been razed to the ground." ”

She was not surprised by Liard's surprised appearance, for even a look of wonder appeared on her face, which was evident to be difficult for her to accept.

Lird's brain was racing, and he had a lot to think about now, and besides digesting what the maiden sacrifice had said, he had to think about another question, why his father's purpose had not been achieved.

"Now that the entire military town is gone, then... So why didn't that plan happen?"

Lird asks a very rational question apart from subjective feelings.

I don't want the maiden priest to shrug her shoulders with a wry smile and say: "Maybe all this is an arrangement in the dark, you may not believe it, and there are many people who won't believe it... It would be more appropriate to say that the military town was destroyed than to be wiped out. ”

Erase?

Liard's brow furrowed tighter and tighter.

The maiden priestess stood up and left the chess table and began to pace on the ground, as if to use this method to dispel the uneasiness in her heart. After a while, the maiden priestess spoke, "You didn't see the scene at that time, you wouldn't have thought of that scene... That scene was just... Spooky!"

Lilde said to himself: All this has begun to use supernatural powers, where can there be any weirdness?But the demeanor of the maiden's sacrifice did make Lird realize the complexity of the matter.

The maiden priest said, "The reason why I say that the word erasure is more appropriate is because... At that time, the military town was immersed in a white light, and there was no loud explosion or screaming from anyone. All... Everything was silent in that white light, and if it weren't for the birds and beasts scattered around the surrounding woods, I even suspect that it was all a dream. ”

Lird swallowed, waiting for the maiden's sacrifice to tell the rest of the story.

The maiden priest said: "After the white light disappeared, everything fell into darkness, we thought that the plan had failed, but soon we realized that the problem was wrong, and the originally brightly lit town was completely plunged into darkness, as if it had disappeared out of thin air..."

For some reason, the four words that disappeared out of thin air stabbed Liard's nerves violently.

"After some thought, I sent someone to check the news, and for a long time the man came back, as if he had hit a ghost, and he told me that the whole military town had disappeared, not in a mess of destruction, but as if it had been blown away by the wind. ”

"I was also shocked at the moment, and I went to see the situation myself, and it turned out that... The heavily guarded military town had completely vanished, and all military installations had disappeared, replaced by flat ground and weeds in some places, making it difficult to find any traces of a garrison unless you carefully identified them. ”

Lird's eyes widened in astonishment, and he had to say that the scene described by the maiden sacrifice was even more horrific than the father's story of playing chess with that [power] out of thin air.

The maiden priestess smiled bitterly and looked at Lilde and said, "Can you believe it? ”