7 April 2027.

An old house with a warm scent of sunlight, the lawn in front of the house is covered with tenacious grass, and if you stand here and listen carefully, you can even hear the noise of children playing in the distance.

"Here's... Where... It's a familiar feeling..."

Sora Sakuraji looked at his hands blankly, he stroked the grass on the ground, this feeling was so familiar, but why couldn't he remember where this was, could it be, this was in a dream?

It's impossible, I have the dream test steps to train lucid dreaming on weekdays, it's impossible for me to be deep in dreams and not know, since I am so familiar with the feeling around me but can't remember it, then, let's take a look around first.

Walking through the lawn of unknown names, feeling the warm breath of the sun overhead, the empty cherry blossom set that kept walking through had a feeling of wanting to sleep here forever, and approached the old house, obviously feeling that it was the first time he had come, but he opened the door very skillfully, and even he didn't know how to open the door.

The little girl inside who was putting together a pure white puzzle turned her head and saw him, and ran towards him with a smile on her face, "Brother, you're back." ”

"Brother, are you... "Feeling the touch of being held by the little girl, it is very real, and the empty Sakura unconsciously reached out and touched the other party's head, feeling like it has been done many times.

"Brother, look, I'm done putting together the puzzle you gave me!" Sora Shuying took Sora Sakura's hand and pulled it to the table, pointing to the pure white puzzle on the table with a smug expression.

"Well, Xiaoying is so powerful. Sakura smiled, but apart from the shadow of the air, he still didn't have the slightest memory of this place, what the hell was going on, obviously so familiar...

That's right, the puzzles... It seems to be a birthday gift from myself to Sora Shuying when he was eight years old.

"Na, brother, you said that if Xiaoying completes this puzzle, you will marry me when Xiaoying grows up, the winner's reward." ”

"Please, you're serious..."It's really an empty shadow in his memory, Ji smiled and patted her head, feeling a little warm about her vexatiousness, "You really should go out and make some friends, it's not good to stay at home like this all the time." ”

"No, it's good that Xiaoying has been with my brother, if I marry someone else, won't you be bored alone?

"Okay, my brother promised you, it's not okay. Empty Sakura really couldn't pester her, so she had to agree, looked around the huge room and said, "By the way, what about Mom and Dad?"

"Haven't they been working? Based on the last time they came back, they still have five months to come back. As soon as the date was mentioned, Xiaoying suddenly seemed to remember something, "Ah, I forgot to inject today's medicine, brother, can I trouble you again." ”

"When did you do it yourself? By the way, I brought your gift. Kura Sakura felt amused and dismantled her, saying something that even he didn't know why he said it, and casually took out the gift that appeared in his hand at some point, looking at the medicine on the table, Sora Sakura thought that Xiaoying's body had indeed not been very good, but...

By the way, this is my former home, the empty Sakura set seems to have been suddenly poured with cold water all over the body, the brain is ethereal, the experience of having a lucid dream on weekdays comes to mind again, and then looking back at it for a moment, everything in front of me is gone, replaced by a fire that is burning everything, the scorching wave of air hits the nerves of the empty Sakuraji, the collapsed house, the burning furniture... And I am desperately looking for the empty shadow in the sea of fire... Self at the age of nine!

"Ahh It's a headache memory. ”

He was already sleepy, he simply got up, opened the window, and quietly looked at the night scene outside the window under the breeze.

"Empty shadow, you... Are you still alive?"

......

Nanjing, church.

Unlike other churches that are so bright that they can make newcomers uncomfortable, the light here is dim, not bright but soft enough to allow people to unconsciously relax their tension and open their hearts when they enter.

"I will spea.k out in the anguish of my spirit,I will complain in the bitterness of my soul..."The soft and low chanting suddenly stopped, and the man in a dark black priest's outfit slowly turned around, looking at the only man in black sitting on the empty seat behind him, his expression was calm, and he couldn't see any emotion, which is the quality that every qualified priest should have," Sorry, smoking is not allowed in the church. ”

"Really, you haven't changed at all in this regard. Xie Qilan smiled and snuffed out the cigarette butt, and looked up at Su Jiuxia, who had already been judged ten years ago, that face was no longer green, but full of the perseverance of a mature man, "But isn't it disrespectful for you to wrap the flower shape of the other side on the cross of Christianity without permission?" ”

"What are you looking for me?" Su Jiuxia turned sideways and put down the Bible in his hand, slowly walked to the seat next to Qilan and sat down, and at the same time motioned to Liu Jingyuan, who had been accompanying him by his side, to prepare tea, Xie Qilan was different from other worshippers, even the hospitality etiquette that Jiuxia was the laziest to do had to be prepared.

He was largely cut off from everything that had gone before, except for the young girl who had received him in the first place, whom he had brought with him to the church, where she arranged his life.

"I want to tell you that the Supreme Will began a large-scale operation a month ago, so HQ has decided to end your five-year vacation and return you to the Scarlet Night Team. Smiling, he took the cup on the tea tray brought by Liu Jingyuan, and Xie Qilan handed over a golden card with the pentagram exclusive to the Chinese supernatural department towards Jiuxia with his right hand.

"It's been five years, and I've been in this church for five years. Jiuxia didn't take the card, just picked up another teacup and took a few sips, smiled stiffly, and was suddenly told that he was going back to that place where he was bound or uncomfortable, "Why did you remember to let me go back at this time?"

"Because of the purges of the Supreme Will, all supernatural organizations have been hit hard, and people like you, of course, the country will not let the Supreme Will solve it meaninglessly, after all, no one will forget the storm that raged throughout New York seven years ago, and your name is now unknown to everyone in the supernatural organization. ”

Looking at Su Jiuxia leaning on the church seat, Xie Qilan's cynical and frivolous eyes revealed a hint of appreciation and curiosity.

"I see, put it away, I don't need that ID card. Su Jiuxia pushed away Qilan's hand and put the teacup in his hand back on the tea tray in Liu Jingyuan's hand.

"So you refused?"

"No, if I am asked to go back to Scarlet Night, I will only use this one, otherwise, I will not go back. Jiuxia took out the silver-white card from the pocket of his jacket.

Xie Qilan was not surprised, as if he had a premonition that he would do this, he immediately laughed, showing a successful smile: "That's really not a coincidence, this kind of card information scanning is still valid in all departments, and besides, I don't have that kind of boring gold card." ”

The task was completed, Xie Qilan stood up and walked towards the outside of the church, "Then I will wait for you at the Beijing headquarters." ”

"Did you say anything less about the previous imprint?" Su Jiuxia's suddenly low words temporarily stopped Xie Qilan's pace of leaving, even if he turned his back, Xie Qilan could hear that Jiuxia's tone began to fluctuate.

"What imprint?"

"You told me five years ago that as long as the spiritual power imprint left by the pupil array does not dissipate, it means that its caster is still alive, right? Jiuxia raised his left hand, and the red mark on the back of his hand like a dragon's claw blossom was slightly dim, "But there is another possibility, right, according to the principle, there is another possibility that can be realized." ”

Xie Qilan, who was facing away from Jiuxia, lit a cigarette again, took a few puffs and spit out silently, "If it is just to maintain the transmission of spiritual power, as long as the pupil array has a carrier attached, it can play a role, and now it is impossible to locate him at all, perhaps, his eyes have been gouged out and transplanted to others through some methods." ”

In fact, compared to the former, in Qi Lan's heart, this possibility is the most likely, because he has already traced the source of spiritual power to the seal array left behind, but what he got was only the source of power, but he could not conjure up the specific scene, which meant that the original body of the spellcaster may no longer exist.

"It's been five years, because of your words, I have lived carefully for five years, and even the hatred of the supreme will that blew up my house and killed my parents seven years ago has been put down. Su Jiuxia's emotions calmed down in his restraint and let out a long breath.

"Don't worry, I won't make myself sad for too long now, I'll be over in ten days, and besides, the Laferrari in front of the church can please drive away, I don't need a tactical car like that, I'm not used to it. ”

"That's up to you. ”

"I have one more question for you...."However, at the moment when Qilan was about to step out of the threshold, Jiu Xia's sudden opening stopped him again, Jiu Xia seemed to be thinking about something, his expression was confused, "Are these supernatural organizations really to protect human beings?"

"Why do you ask this all of a sudden?"

"Because, I was told that these organizations were created to protect ordinary people. Jiuxia whispered.

"I can't give you an answer because I'm not one of them. Xie Qilan took a light breath and left quietly, what Su Jiuxia needed now was not advice, so he didn't have too much nonsense.

"The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out, the flame of his stops burning..." Jiuxia quietly walked to the front of the stage, opened the Bible, and the chanting voice was as calm as ever, but, between his eyes, the blue light like the sea was gradually filling the entire black pupils, unlike the previous calm voice, the corners of Jiuxia's mouth crossed a hideous arc.

"Listen carefully, world, there is a devil who sings the Old Testament in the church!"

.......

At the same time, Tokyo, Japan, was also attacked by the Supreme Will in another Tokyo branch.

"Miss, you withdraw first, and leave it to me here. ”

Dressed in a blue and white samurai uniform, Sakugi Akushu looked at Sana Momiji, who was desperately processing the information in front of the table, and said in an anxious tone.

The battle situation outside is already very urgent, this time the Supreme Will dispatched a team of at least a hundred people, but although it is dangerous, there is still the possibility of escaping, because there is a teleportation spirit array left by Cang Wei in the sixteen nights, and the spirit array that was skillfully laid out with Cang Wei's spiritual cultivation can freely cross the space seal of the sealing stone disk.

But such a high-quality teleportation spirit array would take a year to complete even if it was Sixteen Nights Cangwei, not to mention the recovery period of spiritual power after completion, so there are only three of these spirit arrays so far, one is here, one is in the headquarters Kanagawa, and one is arranged in Nanjing at the request of Zhang Lingjin.

"No, you must dispose of all of this, Atractylodes, you stay outside the door, and you must not let them in until I have finished dealing with them. Momiji ordered decisively while dealing with the documents in a hurry.

"Yes, Miss Momiji. Since he said that he couldn't move the red leaves, then he had to protect him to death, and Cangshu sideways pulled out the two-meter-long object from the scabbard on his back and blanched it, "Before this knife is broken, no one will be able to disturb the eldest lady." ”

Closing the door, Atractylodes leaned quietly on the door, listening to the sound of battle outside, according to the opponent's current breakthrough speed, it would take ten minutes to reach here, and it would take sixteen minutes for Momiji to process all the information, and because the signal was blocked, everyone should already know the news of the attack here, and it would be twenty minutes to get here, so that means...

Gengmu Cangshu slowly walked to the staircase on the second floor with the knife, his position was right at the corner of the corridor on the second floor, and he only needed to drag them in this place for six minutes!

In just ten minutes, the sound of the battle outside changed from noisy to silent, but Cangshu didn't care about it at all, just held the sword in one hand, closed his eyes and leaned intently against the wall at the staircase, until the entrance of the staircase was surrounded by a group of black-clothed people He raised his head.

"Huh, there's a guy here who is greedy for life and afraid of death, everyone. The person at the bottom who looked like the leader of the team waved his hand and sneered, the people in the rear naturally swarmed up, they were all carefully selected elites, and even the strong people who could quickly kill the enemy a hundred times their own in the face, and now they have more than seventy people left, so they don't have to be afraid of this guy at all!

"Although your heads are a little less elegant, since it is the order of the eldest lady, I have no choice but to accept it. Atractylodes blanched the object with both hands on his chest, sideways and left foot diagonally across the other side, when the other party rushed up, the originally relaxed and sloppy eyes suddenly condensed, turned sideways and turned a sharp stab through the throat of the person in front without fancy, the left hand behind the handle of the knife was immediately released, and suddenly slapped the handle of the knife vertically, driving the blade of the knife to cut off the entire head.

The person behind the other party jumped down the stairs before raising the firearm, and the cold light of the blanching flashed continuously, quickly cutting off the firearms of several people who raised their guns, and before being surrounded by everyone, they continued to step forward, stepped on the railing of the stairs and jumped in front of everyone again, and waved the knife with their backhands, and took advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness to cut off the head of one person again, turned around and stood on the steps, and once again raised the blanching sideways, and stabbed the crowd rushing forward.

In an instant, the people in the front seemed to have hallucinations, and the sword light, which was obviously only the blade of a knife, flashed a sword light that instantly pierced through the throats of the three people! Everyone did not dare to rush too far forward for a while under the suspicion, and the arrogance just now was suppressed cleanly in less than a minute.

"Actually, this is not a powerful move, if you want to understand it, it is okay to explain it to you a little. "Gengmu Atractylodes blanched the object, and his face remained unchanged in the face of the opponent who was still large in numbers, "In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a quick continuous slash of the two robes and a change of move to predict the direction of the opponent." ”

Cangshu stepped forward slowly, because of the extremely long attack range of the blanching of things, it made everyone feel a little tricky for a while, even if they wanted to take out a long-range attack weapon in an instant, they would be interrupted by it, not to mention spiritual arts.

"The biggest advantage of this move is that when the first two knives are fast enough, the opponent will not be able to defend against the second knife and be killed directly, but it also has a great disadvantage, and the lower head will be completely exposed to your attack at the same time as the two slashes. ”

Cangshu once again turned sideways and blanched the previous stabbing move, "So, this move that amplifies the attack to the limit and completely abandons the defense is the secret sword below-Yan Flashback, which is commonly known as Yan Hui." ”

Idiot this guy, why talk about the strengths and weaknesses of your moves in this kind of battle, since your weakness is knife speed, then as long as there are more than five people together, he will be tired of dealing with it and will not be able to achieve a one-hit kill, even if this is a narrow corridor on the left and right, but after that, it will stop, as long as he breaks through and surrounds him, he will definitely die, since he wants to die so much, then simply end him together!

"Well, by the way, it seems like it's been four minutes, guys, time is running out. Cangshu's elegant smile with the spirit of an ancient chivalrous man instantly made the group of guys with the highest will understand that this guy's intention was purely to delay time!

However, the sword light, faster than his words, once again cut the neck of the person in front of him and cut off his head entirely, with the advantage of the length of the blanching of the object, the defense carried out by the atractylodes was also extremely effective.

Not only is the swift and terrifying attack, but the rapid change of moves while defending makes him simply insurmountable in this slightly narrow place, because even if there are many people with the highest will, but they can only go together at most three at most, and if they carry out long-range attacks, they also have to take into account the problems of their own people, and the battle situation has been biased towards more wood atractylodes from the beginning.

"Cangshu, it's all dealt with, you get out of here first. A burst of fire spirit shot from the rear and forced back the people in front of Atractylodes, Atractylodes looked at Momiji Sana who pushed the door out of the data room in surprise, according to his plan, as long as he delayed enough time for Momiji Sana to evacuate safely, and then he could evacuate to the teleportation point with the advantage of the field, but Momiji was worried that he hadn't left yet!?

"Miss, you leave first, and then you will arrive. "The reaction of the supreme will is extremely fast, the few people in the front quickly attack the cangshu, and the people in the back raise the guns behind their backs, and one person will be blocked by him against the cangjutsu, but there is one person who is not necessarily!

Cangshu was helpless, so he had to jump down and swing the object to blanch with the advantage of blade and speed to block a few guys who raised guns, but in this way, the staircase became a breakthrough, and he couldn't take care of the two places at the same time, so Cangshu had to turn sideways and quickly return to the same place along the edge of the stairs after blocking those who raised guns, unable to kill the other party, making Cangshu's action a meaningless waste of physical energy, although in the meantime Momiji's spiritual magic helped him successfully contain the enemy's follow-up attack, but the goal of the two of them was not to destroy them but to retreat, and if the position in the corridor was forced to retreat, everything he did would be meaningless if he continued like this。

"Let's go!" Knowing that he didn't retreat Momiji wouldn't leave early, Atractylodes didn't talk too much nonsense, a sideways back jumped up Momiji's hand, walked quickly, turned far away and separated the stairs built and quickly ran towards the third floor teleportation point, there was an enemy's corpse in front of him, it should have been solved by Momiji, it seems that Miss Momiji was also worried about her safety after encountering the enemy, damn, they would have overtaken the front, if it wasn't for the eldest lady just now, she would have been hit.

"Boom!", "Boom!", "Boom!"...

Without the suppression of Cangjutsu, the most priority attack plan in this situation is, of course, long-range weapons! The members of the Supreme Will picked up the guns behind their backs one after another, aiming at the fleeing two people and constantly firing overwhelmingly.

Atractylodes pushed away the red leaves, reflexively swung the knife, and actually blocked the bullets and beams that had been amplified by the spirit art just with the ordinary long sword in his hand, and Saina Momiji looked at the undamaged long blade in Atractylodes' hand in surprise, and the thing in her memory had not yet split the bullet without leaving scratches!

And the supreme will obviously not only have such a little means of attack, while the fire of others suppressed, the small magic cannon has been set up, roaring and roaring and firing over, the sword can block the bullet, but it can't stop the shelling at all!

"Big... Miss. Cangzhu was going to block this move for Hongye to buy her time to leave, but she didn't expect Hongye to take the lead, and the defensive spirit array laid out in front of him blocked this move for him, but the power of the magic guide cannon was too huge, and the defensive spirit array laid out in a hurry could not carry out effective defense, and Momiji Sana also flew upside down after being bombarded.

"Stupid, don't leave yet. Caught by Atractylodes, there was a helpless smile on the face of the red leaves that had been stained with blood, and he fainted after finishing speaking.

"Okay, mission change..."Cangshu smiled fiercely, slowly stood up, the blanched sword in his hand, the strange cyan dragon pattern gradually appeared, he gently put down the seriously injured Momiji Sana in his arms, his foot slammed on the ground, and the horizontal knife roared straight at everyone downstairs.

"There are four minutes left, kill you all!"