Chapter 2: The Believer

7 April 2027. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

An old house with a warm scent of the sun, with a grassy lawn, listen carefully, and even the noise of children playing can be heard in the distance.

"Here's... Where... It's a familiar feeling..."Sora Sakura looked at his hands blankly, he stroked the grass on the ground, this feeling is so familiar, but why can't he remember where this is, is it, this is a dream? Impossible, I have a training dream every day, it is impossible for me to be deep in a dream and not know, since it feels familiar and I can't remember, then, let's go ahead and look around.

Walking through this unknown lawn, feeling the warm breath of the sun, the empty cherry blossom set actually had a feeling of wanting to sleep here forever, approaching the old house, obviously feeling that he was coming here for the first time, but he opened the door very skillfully, even he didn't know how to open the door, the little girl who was putting together the pure white puzzle inside turned her head and saw him, and ran towards him with a smile, "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. Sora Sakura smiled, but apart from Sora Shuying, he still didn't have the slightest memory of this place, 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 still serious..."It's really an empty shadow in her memory, Ji smiled and patted her head, "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. Sora Sakura 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. 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. Sora Sakura laughed and dismantled her, saying something that even he didn't know why he said it, by the way, the medicine on the table, Xiaoying's body has not been very good, but...

By the way, this is my former home, and the empty Sakura set seems to have been suddenly doused with cold water all over the body, and the experience of the lucid dream that I have had on weekdays comes to my heart again, and then I look back at it for a moment and everything in front of me is gone, replaced by a fire that is burning everything, and 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. ”

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, which are so brightly lit that they can be uncomfortable for newcomers, this one is very dimly lit. But it's soft enough to make people unconsciously relax their tension and open up when they come in.

"ofmyspirit,iwillplaininthebitternessofmysoul..."The soft and low chanting suddenly stopped, and the man dressed in dark black priest's costume slowly turned around, looking at the only man sitting in the empty seat, his expression was calm, and he couldn't see any emotion, "I'm 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 is the matter with 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 beside him, to prepare tea, he basically cut off everything in the past, except for the girl who received him at the beginning, he took her to the church together.

"I want to tell you that the Supreme Will went into action a month ago, and the headquarters decided to end your five-year vacation and return you to Scarlet Night. Smiling and taking the cup from the tea tray brought by Liu Jingyuan, Xie Qilan handed over a golden card with the pentagram exclusive to the Chinese supernatural department to Jiuxia.

"It's been five years, and I've been in this church for five years. Jiuxia didn't take the card, just picked up a teacup and took a few sips, and smiled stiffly, "Why did you remember to let me go back at this time?"

"Because of the purges of the Supreme Will, all the supernatural organizations have been hit hard, and people like you, of course, the country will not let the Supreme Will meaninglessly deal with it, after all, the storm that raged in New York seven years ago will not be forgotten, and your name is now known to everyone in the supernatural organization. ”

"I see, put it away, I don't need that ID card. Jiuxia pushed Qilan's hand away.

"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, and then laughed: "That's really not a coincidence, the information on this kind of card is still valid for scanning all departments, and besides, I don't have that kind of boring gold card." ”

He stood up and walked towards the outside of the church, "Then I'll be waiting for you at the headquarters in Beijing." ”

"Did you say anything less about the previous imprint?" Su Jiuxia's suddenly low words temporarily stopped Xie Qilan's pace of leaving.

"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 had his back to Jiuxia, lit a cigarette again and spat out silently, "If it is just to maintain the transmission of spiritual power, as long as the pupil array has a carrier to attach, 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 greatest, because he has already traced the source of spiritual power to the seal array left behind, but there is only a source of power, but he can't conjure up a specific scene.

"It's been five years, I've 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 took a long breath, "Don't worry, I won't make myself sad for too long now, I will pass in ten days, and besides, the laferrari at the door of the church can please drive away, I don't need that kind of tactical car, I'm not used to it." ”

"And then there's the last question. Jiuxia seemed to be thinking about something, and his expression was confused, "Are these supernatural organizations really here 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.

"thelampofthewickedissnuffedout,theflameofhisstopsburning..."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 Tokyo branch of the supreme will.

"Miss, you withdraw first, and leave it to me here. "Dressed in a blue and white samurai uniform, Sagigi Atractylodes looked at Sana Momiji who was processing the data, the battle situation outside was already very urgent, this time the supreme will dispatched a team of at least a hundred people, and here there is a teleportation spirit array left by Cang Wei, and the spirit array 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 will take a year to complete even if Cang Wei is sixteen nights, not to mention the recovery period, so there are only three of these spirit arrays so far, one is here, one is in the headquarters Kanagawa, and one is 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 while anxiously handling the papers.

"Yes, Miss Momiji. Cangzhu sideways pulled out the two-meter-long object from the scabbard on his back and blanched, "Before this knife is broken, no one will be able to disturb the eldest lady." ”

Closing the door, Atractylodes quietly leaned against the door, listening to the sound of battle outside, according to the other party'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 everyone should already know the news of the attack here, and it would be twenty minutes to get here, so that is to say, Atractylodes' knife walked to the staircase on the second floor, and his position was exactly 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, and Cangshu only held the sword in one hand, leaning against the wall of the staircase without paying attention, and he did not raise his head until the moment the staircase was surrounded by a group of people.

"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 the head is a little less elegant, since it is the order of the eldest lady, I have to accept it. Cangzhu blanched the object with both hands and flattened it in front of his chest, sideways and left foot straddled, when the other party rushed up, the originally relaxed and sloppy eyes suddenly condensed, turned sideways and turned a stab through the throat of the person in front of him without any fancy fancy, the left hand behind the handle of the knife was immediately released, and suddenly slapped the handle of the knife vertically, driving the knife body to cut off the entire head, and jumped down the stairs before the person behind the other party raised the firearm, the cold light of the blanching flashed, and the firearms of several people who raised their guns were quickly cut off, and before being surrounded by everyone, they rushed forward continuously, stepped on the railing of the stairs and jumped in front of everyone again, and waved the knife with their backhands, with the extra-long blade of 1.7 meters blanched by the other party, he took advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness to cut off the head of one person on one side again, turned around and stood on the steps, and once again raised the blanching sideways, and stabbed straight at the crowd rushing forward.

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.

"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 thing, and his face still didn't change in the face of everyone," 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.

"Of course, 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 when the two knives are slashed. ”

Cangzhu 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 under it, Yan Hui Flash, which is commonly known as Yan Hui." ”

Idiot, this guy, why is he talking about the strengths and weaknesses of his moves at such a time, since he wants to die so much, then just end him together!

"Well, by the way, it seems like it's been four minutes, guys, time is running out. Cangshu's rather ancient chivalrous smile instantly made this 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 help of the length advantage of the dry blanching, the defense carried out by the atractylodes is also extremely effective, and the rapid change of tactics while defending makes him unable to conquer this slightly narrow place, because even if there are many people with the highest will, they can only go together at most, and if they carry out long-range attacks, they must also take into account the problems of their own people, and the battle situation begins to favor more wood atractylodes.

"Cangshu, it's all dealt with, you get out of here first. A burst of fire spirit magic forced back everyone 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 attacked Cangshu, and the people in the rear raised the guns behind them, dealing with Cangshu one person will be blocked by him, but there is one person who is not necessarily, Cangshu has no choice, 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 has become a breakthrough, and he can'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 the guns, although during this time Momiji's spiritual magic helped him successfully contain the enemy's attack, but their target, not to destroy them but to retreat, there is no point in going on like this.

"Let's go. "Knowing that if you don't retreat, Momiji won't leave early, and Atractylodes doesn't have too much nonsense, a sideways jump back and pull up Momiji's hand, turn the stairs that were built separately and quickly run towards the third floor teleportation point, there is still the enemy's corpse in front of you, it should be solved by Momiji, it seems that Miss Momiji is also worried about her safety after encountering the enemy, damn, they will go to the front, if it wasn't for the eldest lady just now, she would have been hit.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"...

Without the suppression of Cangshu, the most priority attack plan in this situation is, of course, long-range weapons! The members of the Supreme Will raised their guns behind their backs, aimed at the fleeing two and began to shoot one after another.

Cangzhu pushed away the red leaves, reflexively swung the knife, and actually blocked the bullets and beams that had been amplified by the spiritual magic with only the ordinary long sword in his hand, Momiji Sana looked at the undamaged long blade in Cangzhu's hand in surprise, and the supreme will obviously not only have such a little means of attack, while the other people's firepower was suppressed, the small magic guide cannon had been set up, and it was launched with a roar and roar, the sword could block the bullet, but it couldn't stop the shelling at all!

"Big... Miss. Cangshu 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 set up a defensive spirit array in front of him to block this move, but the power of the magic guide cannon was too huge, and the defensive spirit array laid out in a hurry could not be effectively defended, and Momiji Sana flew over 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, there are four minutes left, kill you all. Cangshu stood up with a smile, and the blanched sword he was holding gradually appeared a strange white dragon pattern, he gently put down Momiji Sana, and his feet slammed on the ground and went straight to the people downstairs.