11 April 2027, Beijing, China, General Headquarters of the Occult Division.

"Qilan, what's wrong?" Nian Hang looked curiously at Xie Qilan, who suddenly sent a message to call him over, the expression on his face that should have been mature and handsome was something he had never seen before... Lonely?

"Come with me, I have something for you. Xie Qilan's tone was still steady, and he beckoned to Nian Hang and said.

"What's that?"

"You'll know when you come here, anyway... My old friends are gone, and I don't think I'll be able to use this thing anymore. ”

Gu Nianhang, who had just returned from the Nanjing branch, was originally going to the Vatican for an international conference in the afternoon, and now he should go to prepare materials, but he didn't see Qilan as a joke, and after instructing Ethan, who was handed over to him by Fang Shuanghua and was now his assistant, he followed Xie Qilan all the way to a courtyard that was quite far away from the headquarters.

"It's... "When Nian Hang walked into the courtyard and saw the painted objects in the open space in the courtyard, he was extremely surprised, the entire courtyard had no room except for the wall, and the giant formation pattern covering an area of about two hundred square meters was lying on the ground covered with a layer of white powder by Qilan, this kind of formation pattern is not a single color, it can be seen that it is a combination of various formations, and it is definitely not a simple thing from its complexity, no wonder Xie Qilan is a little mysterious.

"It took me five years, and I was originally trying to do it, but I didn't expect to really feel it, really..."Looking at the formation in front of him, Xie Qilan continued to stare at the spirit array spread throughout the courtyard as if he remembered something funny, and whispered to himself.

"Sensed... What?" Gu Nianhang, who felt inexplicable about Xie Qilan's abnormal behavior, had actually spent less and less time with the rest of the Scarlet Night group in the past few years due to the increasingly busy work of his business.

"Oh, nothing, you stand in the six-pointed star in the seven-fold loop in the center of the formation, I'm going to start. Qi Lan stretched out his right hand, and under the effect of his spiritual power, the spirit arrays all over the courtyard began to operate, and the formations of various colors began to shine with colorful luster and rotate continuously, if it weren't for the extremely powerful shielding spirit array that Qi Lan had laid around in advance, as soon as this huge force with a strong sense of impact appeared, it was estimated that the entire headquarters in Beijing would have shaken!

Although he was puzzled by Qi Lan's actions, but in line with the instinct of believing, he still let Nian Hang still walk to the center of the spirit array, which was different from the periphery, it seemed that the light in the center was not so dazzling, only sporadic golden points of light shone and jumped in the space around him, except for Xie Qilan, who could see the spell in front of him, even the wall behind Qi Lan could not be seen, this spirit array was also weird enough.

"Feel the spiritual power of the outside world and let them enter your body freely, of course you can block it, but it will be painful. Xie Qilan's heartless smile at this time was less of his usual cynicism, and his mature and handsome face was more tired that did not belong to him, and his intuition told Nian Hang that Xie Qilan must have discovered or experienced something, but for him, he couldn't force it out, so he simply cooperated with Qilan's every move.

"Got it. ”

"Listen, this is my last teaching, and you're the last person I'll teach. Xie Qilan let his mental state completely merge with the running spirit array, so his words could be heard clearly from all directions.

"I'm tired of your uniform names, so I'll call them magic again in the following teaching, just pay attention to yourself, although your spiritual skills are relatively bad, but it should still be quite quick to learn. ”

The spirit arrays of different levels are constantly swapping and rotating under the control of Qi Lan, and various colors are interspersed with changes, which is weird and abnormal," The construction of the basic magic array, all changes are the same, according to these basic to understand the formation imprinted in your spirit, the circular pattern represents the cycle to ensure that the magic power will not be lost; the straight line is equivalent to the flow of magic wire, correspondingly, the larger the formation pattern, the more circuits will consume more magic power; except remember the four elements that constitute the power of the magic array: the spell that communicates with the elements, the caster's own mental endurance, the crystal powder level that draws the circuit, and the source of the magic power of the magic circle, that is, the magic center, you can also directly imagine the image of the magic circle in your mind to draw, of course, unless your mental power is greater than a hundred times that of the other party, the power is extremely limited。 ”

Thousands, tens of thousands... Even Gu Nianhang, he couldn't count how many kinds of formations were imprinted in his mind, basic, changing, high-end, taboo, all Xie Qilan's clear magic arrays were all delivered to Gu Nianhang by him without reservation.

"Is there any limit to this kind of magic?" According to Nian Hang's understanding, it is impossible to accept such a huge power of others out of thin air without a price, and this price should be extremely huge, he doesn't want to become some strange physique because of these powers!

"The price is borne by me, and you don't care. Xie Qilan smiled indifferently and interrupted Nian Hang's idea of continuing to ask, and at the same time signaled him not to be distracted and accept the inheritance of power with peace of mind, "Next is my magic circuit, this will hurt a little even if you don't resist." ”

Before Xie Qilan's words were finished, the feeling of tearing the meridians climbed up to Nian Hang's nerve center, this feeling was like watching his whole body being torn by a meat grinder and not being able to move, what kind of pain is this! Xie Qilan, this is called very painful!

But of course, it is also of course that completely transferring his own magic circuit to the other party is equivalent to changing the other party's life bones, and it will be a problem if he can be reborn peacefully, but fortunately, Xie Qilan has taken this situation into account, and he has minimized Nian Hang's pain through external forces as much as possible, as for the price, it is still up to him to bear it anyway, Nian Hang does not know the actual situation of Qi Lan now.

In Nian Hang's feelings, a long time has passed, but in fact, only ten minutes have passed in the outside world, when he opened his eyes again, Xie Qilan had already withdrawn all the magic arrays, and looked like he was resting against the wall with a little weakness, seeing Nian Hang open his eyes, Qi Lan smiled at him, and actually patted his legs and stood up again, "Hey, it's not over yet, don't move there." ”

Walking slowly to Nian Hang's side, Nian Hang could clearly see Qi Lan's exhaustion, he was very tired, it could be said that he moved over step by step, but he just didn't mean to stop, and resolutely signaled Nian Hang with his eyes to wait for everything to be over before asking, of course, for Qi Lan, he could only knock on the side.

With great difficulty, he put the palm of his right hand inward on Nian Hang's back, Qi Lan's eyes froze, and a visible white line gradually disappeared along Nian Hang's back and flowed all over his body, it was magic, I remember that the magic power in the information I had read was regarded as a life force by the ancient magician, Qi Lan was crazy? Even the bones of fate!

"Don't be too surprised, my old friends are gone, and there's no point in me keeping my magic. The transmission of mana in the magic array was extremely fast, and it only took one minute for Xie Qilan to complete the entire transmission process, and he finally fell to the ground uncontrollably, and after being hurriedly helped up by Nian Hang, he smiled reluctantly and said.

"Is something going on?" Gu Nianhang was really puzzled by Xie Qilan's recent actions, since he came back from the UK as an executive commissioner, something had been wrong with his friend Arthur? But even if something happened to Arthur, this kind of thing would definitely not be a response for people like Xie Qilan!

Looking at the weak Xie Qilan, although he had just accepted an incomparably huge gift from him, Gu Nianhang still couldn't help but doubt what Xie Qilan might be planning to do, no matter what he wanted to do, it must be extraordinary to be able to force Xie Qilan to the point of doing this!

"He's dead, in the truest sense of the word, old age. Xie Qilan said as if with emotion, and at the same time stretched out his hand, a sword body was pitch black, and a long sword with edge teeth at the tip of one-fifth section slowly emerged from the array, Nian Hang pulled out the pitch-black long sword under Qi Lan's signal, the hilt with a strange black and red pattern seemed to have a strong repulsion, and he was almost about to break away from Nian Hang's palm autonomously, but under Qi Lan's control, it gradually stabilized.

"What is this sword?" Nian Hang waved the long sword, and the feeling that this sword brought him after it could be controlled was very strange, because he couldn't even feel the existence of this sword at all, even holding it in his hand felt like he was holding air, no, even if it was air, it still had a feeling, this feeling was like it made you deliberately ignore the existence of this sword, it was really a magical existence.

"If you want to hear it, I can tell you other things by the way, but it may delay your international conference in the afternoon, which one do you choose?" Xie Qilan's smile had already regained its previous brilliance, although he had just experienced such a big spiritual skill, he seemed to be ready to deal with it, so he recovered quickly, and sat down and said comfortably.

"You know which one I usually choose. Gu Nianhang glanced at Xie Qilan, the expression of the person in front of him was indeed true, could it be that he was thinking too much, Xie Qilan was just sentimental about the death of his old friend? No, this is ridiculous!

He took out his communication equipment and contacted Ethan Cruise, determined to stay here to figure out the situation, "Hey, Ethan, you can help me arrange it again, I will arrive at the meeting tomorrow, tell Fang Yunshan to let him talk to them alone." ”

"Okay, you can continue. After instructing the schedule and hanging up the phone, Gu Nianhang simply sat down, ready to listen to Qilan's narration.

"This sword is something Arthur left to you, or rather, he asked me to find the right person for it, and I will give it to you. Seeing that Nian Hang also sat down, Xie Qilan began his narration, "But before that, I want to ask, what do you think of Celtic mythology?"

"From the information you and Irina told me, it is not difficult to surmise that you once attacked Avalon together back then, and completely destroyed the place where time stood still, King Arthur's sword of kings was not given by the elves, but he took it out of the corpses of the elves, but since Avalon no longer exists, I can't think of the part about King Arthur being transported to Avalon after being injured. ”

"That's right, we didn't just find the Sword of Kings in the first place, as for the reason why we didn't let the information about the existence of the other sword spread, it was very simple, that is, because of this sword, Arthur and I and even Natalia thought that this sword should not appear in the human world, and the only purpose of the rumors of the Sword of Kings was to cover up the existence of this forbidden sword. ”

"So, why bring it out now?" If this is a sword that even White Ink City would worry about, then according to their style of doing things, if they can't destroy it, they will hide it in that place forever, why bring it out now.

"Because the barrier set by Natalia is gone... I'll tell you from the beginning, when Avalon started, it wasn't a place where time stood still. When Natalia first went to that place, she became friends with the ruler there, so she spent thirty years helping them lay the barrier that blocked time and space, but Irina also told you, it was a group of guys with the blood of dragon rules, they were in Avalon, which connected the two worlds, of course, they felt that they might become pawns in someone else's plan, and with the blood of rules, they would not be willing to be controlled by the unknown, and they created weapons beyond cognition to resist, the sword of kings, Excalibur, and this unnamed black longsword that was sealed by hundreds of prohibitions。 ”

In the detailed narration, Xie Qilan seems to have returned to the era of swords and sorcery again, the great magician Merlin Ambrosius who was in high spirits in the Middle Ages, " But even after the ban was placed, there was still a problem with the creatures in Avalon after this sword was created, their consciousness was restrictively manipulated, their lives were deprived, and they completely turned into Deadpool with only fighting instincts, and the three of us found this sealed longsword after killing them all, if it weren't for Natalia, Arthur and I would probably have become that kind of Deadpool. ”

"Kill them all?wait, what about Irina?" Carefully reflecting on Qilan's words, Gu Nianhang suddenly seemed to understand and said in surprise, "You wouldn't say that she is..."

"This sword is her body, and what you see is the sword spirit of this sword, although the character of this sword spirit is not very reliable. Xie Qilan responded to Nian Hang's surprise with a calm expression, "Because of the ban, her ability has been limited, but now the space-time ban laid by Mocheng has disappeared, so I brought it out, because it is estimated that you are the only one who can prevent her power from causing disaster." Irina, I know you've been here all along, and it's not difficult for you to enter the restrictions of this magic array, so you can come out. ”

"Really, it won't be good for people to peek at it for a while. Behind Gu Nianhang, flocks of red butterflies fluttered around, and Irina in a black dress in the center of them slowly appeared, she looked at Nianhang, and asked with a smile, "Then now, I have changed my identity, do you still like it?"

"Then do you still like me?" Since it was the same question, Nian Hang's answer had always been the same, and he did not appear afraid of Irina because of his identity, but instead changed his passivity to actively tease Irina.

"That's a pity, I thought I would lock you up and enjoy it alone if you didn't like it. Irina looked sorry, as if she didn't achieve her training plan.

"You can't catch me right now. Gu Nianhang raised the long sword in his hand, and at the moment when Irina appeared, he could clearly sense the connection between himself and this sword, which was very subtle, like the sound of a heartbeat when he was sleeping, faint but indispensable.

And the sense of control that comes with this connection tells him that he can seal Irina back into the sword at any time if he wants to, although he doesn't know if the sword will still be usable by then.

"You're a bad guy. There was nothing to do, Irina bit her lip dissatisfiedly, but her pitiful face was grabbed by Nian Hang and held her in her arms and couldn't move.

"Okay, Qilan, you go on. Subduing this sword spirit, which was really unreliable as Qilan said, Nian Hang motioned for Xie Qilan to continue.

"Then there's the question of Natalia's identity, you can feel it, the control of time, the unlimited elemental transformation, and the previous immortality, either way, is beyond my knowledge, let alone human. ”

Don't talk about Gu Nianhang, even Xie Qilan sometimes feels terrified of Natalia's ability, the kind of power that is close to the limit of the concept but follows the rules If it is fully discovered by humans, it is estimated that humans will be able to march deeper into the universe, no wonder the church and the knight's sword desperately wanted to lock her up, "And what I want to say is that an existence like her cannot be evolved by creatures on the earth, no matter how mutated it is, the existing genes on the earth alone will definitely not reach this level." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, the first appearance of the dragons was because of a meteor shower that almost destroyed the earth, you mean, Mocheng is a dragon and the dragons are alien creatures?"

"That's right, she's a dragon, or rather, she's changed from another species to a dragon. Originally, Nian Hang thought that Qi Lan would laugh and deny his conjecture, but he didn't expect him to affirm it directly, which made Nian Hang extremely surprised, "Mo Cheng must have often mentioned the myth of Genesis Kolotis in her memory before, it was not a myth, it was a fragment of her memory, she herself had studied this memory deeply, but except for Arthur, I and Corvinus basically never talked about it." ”

"Are she friends with Corvinus?" Nian Hang was full of curiosity about this enigmatic senior.

"Sort of, Corvinus was originally the ancient White Wolf King, he was cursed by a dragon-blooded wizard to become a human, I don't know if the wizard made a mistake in the spell, the spell that should have been simple couldn't even be solved by Natalia, the two people who have lived for a long time naturally have a lot of points in common, and although Vlad has also lived for a long time, but at that time, Mocheng had no interest in studying those things anymore, so he didn't talk to him. ”

Xie Qilan's words surprised Nian Hang, the two biggest trump cards of the highest will, the vampire true ancestor and the wolf king, turned out to be his friends in the scarlet night, but he was thinking about another point, if those with ulterior motives caught this point, it would probably cause a lot of trouble.

"Don't worry, that guy has no feelings for humans and won't say it at all, and the only ones left to know are me and Vlad, and no other living person knows. Xie Qilan motioned to Nian Hang not to worry about these boring questions, and continued to listen to him finish speaking.

"At the beginning, Natalia found that the creation myth in her memory was very peculiar, because if you take it as a fact, it can be completely reasonable, you must know that no matter what the myth is, there will definitely be loopholes and problems, so Mocheng based on this assumption in order to explore the truth of the previous generation of time, began to develop a kind of space-time positioning magic, you know, this incredible magic she actually succeeded, but after the successful implementation, she reflected and found that this ability to cause the return of time and space is not constructed by external elements, but comes from her power itself, that is to say, she is the master of the rules, that is, the dragon king of Genesis, the rule attribute is the king of the dragon clan of time and space. ”

Xie Qilan's words continued, Gu Nianhang was already fascinated by what he heard, and even holding Irina's arms unconsciously increased her strength, causing her to look at Nianhang with a red face, but seeing what he heard didn't bother him, regardless of whether what Qilan said was all right, but if this is an assumption, then many phenomena can match the information he has!

"But this doesn't explain the dragon kings who began to resurrect on Earth, there are only seven dragon slaying battles in your image, but in fact, Natalia has killed ten dragon kings before this and handed them over to one person for safekeeping, although I don't know who that person is, but it should be worthy of her trust. Later, in the case of the continuous resurrection of the dragon king, Mo Cheng began to investigate again, and finally found the problem, they were not automatically resurrected by the resurrection state of the conceptual arm, they were forcibly awakened by artificially, the beginning of the life known to you humans on the earth, in fact, it was the result of the war between Natalia and the ten dragon kings, everything was due to the huge high temperature and elemental pouring generated by the battle that led to the birth of life, and the advanced creatures that could appear at that time, do you think it would be earth creatures?"

"That's... What is the matter with becoming a dragon king?"Although the concept goes against tradition, as long as it makes sense, it is not necessarily wrong, this is Nianhang's cognition.

This is the assumption that Mo Cheng made herself, because she has the ability to control time and space, but she does not have the corresponding dragon form, and her ability is obviously too much in terms of the power of the rules that the dragon can master, so combined with the fighting instinct of the dragon in the image and her memory, she made the following assumption, the dragon in the genesis period suffered an unknown disaster, and the dragon clan as the lord of the rules was all forced to enter the resurrection period and spread the entire universe in the form of conceptual armament, and she may have been devoured by the time and space dragon of the elemental lord not only occupied her body when looking for a recourse, but also wanted to occupy her consciousness, but due to the severity of the time and space dragon king's injuries, he was gradually assimilated by her, and the consciousness of the final fusion formed her, the assimilated monster. ”

Of course, she didn't guess for no reason, after knowing that she had the ability to control time and space, she had simulated her past, and the power of rules would only be distorted when she met the dragon king, who was also the lord of rules, although the picture she saw was blurry, but she could recognize it clearly, what appeared in front of her in an unknown place at that time was a scarred dragon that could fall at will, and the first words that the dragon communicated with her mind were 'monsters'. ”

Monsters? And the existence of monsters called by the Genesis dragon clan? Isn't the dragon king a creature at the top in the mythology of Kolotis? Gu Nianhang couldn't help but feel that things were getting more and more tricky, but these were more like rumors from a long time ago, I really don't know what kind of mood Mo Cheng would be in when he was tracking down this kind of thing.

But then again, everyone wants to know, that's the truth for themselves.

"With the ability to control time and space, then can't she change the past?" Nian Hang suddenly thought of this, so why would something happen to her?

"Because after a later war with the Dragon King, her memories of her Dragon King's spell were sealed, and that power is not free to change time and space, but can travel through time and space to observe at that point in time and space, in the eyes of Mo City, no race can change the past and the future, because at that time, your existence has been erased... It doesn't seem right, Natalia said a long time ago that there was a race that could change time and space with their technology... Forget what it is, it's too old, and a lot of it can't be remembered. Speaking of this kind of thing, Xie Qilan smiled unnaturally, is it very old? It should be, for human beings, it has always been.

"If all of this existed, it would have been a crazy time. Nian Hang exhaled lightly, digesting these long-ago secrets, and then said slowly, "Doesn't anyone else know about these things? I mean, humans have dominated the earth for so long, and what you said about the existing cognitive system of human beings is completely ridiculous. ”

"No one else will know, the cognitive system or something, they are not already satisfied with this system, they believe that what the world sees is the truth, they are limited to scientific research, and they are always based on the opinions of the majority, so I have never told the world what I know, as you know, the real smart people are only a minority, I don't intend to let my memory and knowledge become the argument of those fools, since they think they have the truth, then let them be satisfied, why expose them。 ”

In the face of Xie Qilan's words, Gu Nianhang, as a member of the human race, could only smile helplessly, "The more I listen to you say this, the more I start to hate conceited human beings." ”

"It's good for your own race, don't talk like that, though, I hate it too. Xie Qilan finally lit a cigarette, and in the smoke, he got closer to the image in Nianhang's memory.

"So I just need to keep these things alone?"

"You forgot there's another one here!" Irina struggled to pull out her right hand, which was restrained by Nian Hang's arms, and raised it.

"Alright then, two. Gu Nianhang, who was remnant, pressed her hand down again, this time firmly clamping it in her arms.

"It's your business whether you want to save it or not, I just think that you who don't believe that seeing is believing and are not limited to existing science are worth telling me, it's not over yet. Xie Qilan spat out a smoke ring, and his expression seemed to recover a little, "This sentence was told to me by Natalia, she said that everything has their set time, and there will always be a day when they end, and the eternal human beings who think that one day they will understand everything by themselves, before you are still a human being, try to help them as much as possible." ”

"What about me, I originally thought that I could lie quietly in the coffin after helping Arthur solve the matter, but Natalia's guy actually put a time ban on me and Arthur at the same time, slowing down the flow of our time, and I had to be stopped by that guy and said that I can't die until she finds a solution to the immortal body, and later, I met Lin Xinyue again, which makes me feel that it seems good to be alive, well, until now, oh yes, about the Holy Alice, you must not have found the information, when the knight's sword was to seize Natalia's power, the United Church captured it, and Alice died to save her, so Natalia killed on a large scale,Caused the witch ban movement,I don't think you're interested in listening to other details.,That's what I want to say for most of them.。 ”

"You forgot about it. Regarding Xie Qilan's subsequent impatience, Nian Hang looked at him with amusement, this guy has changed back to like that, it's very real... But it still made him feel a little problematic.

"There's no way, because people's memories are incomplete, you can also try to recall by yourself, and you will find that your memory will always miss a lot of things, that is, no matter how good your memory is, in your memory, there are always a lot of blank fragments of your previous life. Xie Qilan spread his hands and said that he was almost old and confused, so I will entrust Irina to you and take good care of it.

Gu Nianhang had no objection to Xie Qilan's words, after all, even if he deliberately remembered something, sometimes he couldn't remember it at all just after he did it, and what's worse is that every time you recall, it is no longer true history, you recall it over and over again, you will only deviate more and more from the truth, and then fall into your own imagination.

"So, you'd better look at Dian Jiuxia, this guy, the memory world in his mind doesn't know what it has become after going through those things, maybe it's completely distorted. Xie Qilan waved his hand one last time to remove all the circuits in the courtyard, and in an instant, the entire ground was empty, and there was no trace of it, "You can go and rest, let me stay here alone for a while." ”

"Well, anyway, as a friend, I still hope you live a little longer. Nian Hang directly ignored Irina, who was trying to struggle out in his arms, picked her up, and turned his back to Xie Qilan, who was leaning against the wall and smoking, he said slowly.

However, perhaps Xie Qilan's attention was no longer on Nian Hang, and he didn't notice the moment he stepped out of the small courtyard, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Sure enough, you're preparing for something. ”

It's really the same rhetoric as Lin Xinyue, Xie Qilan secretly smiled bitterly after Gu Nianhang left, since he sighed lightly, he tilted his head and continued to smoke his cigarette, "Got it, my friend." ”

Somehow I thought of her again, ghost poppy, people are like flowers, you really have addictive drugs.

He is a lone warlock codenamed Dark Devil, how long has he lived, even he has forgotten himself, Xie Qilan, Karis Constantine, he has used these names for too long, so what about his original name... Merlin Ambrosius, no, it's enough to even forget about myself, Nian Hang, although I just told you a story, but it's my life.

"Really, he shouldn't have come out of Avalon to help Uther in the first place, let alone build that sword in the stone to continue helping his son. ”

Nian Hang, Irina is indeed my apprentice, we are not wrong about this, because although she is a sword spirit, she does not know any magic, her magic is all taught by me, and the person who was able to create the Avalon elves who created these two swords and destroyed Avalon is also me...

Xie Qilan's hand turned lightly, no longer a cigarette, but a dark red square card, and beside him, there was a magic wand inlaid with nine strange gems.