Here, a deserted paradise. Here, the temple of hypocrisy. Here, twisted, danced.

- Preamble

Bai Gu had a dream. In the dream, he has no body, no mass, just a mass of consciousness, fluttering and shaky.

He saw Xuan Junyang waving to him. Xuan Junyang was full of energy and radiant, and his blood-red eyes exuded a treacherous light. The terrifying figure stood behind him, and a pair of wings that covered the sky and the sun were faintly visible. Looking up, Bai Gu's empty gaze reminded Bai Gu of that statue, that ugly statue.

Bai Gu felt that he was passing, like a hole in his face pocket.

"Aha!

He heard Jane Grey cry out excitedly, and a whirlwind rose from the dream world, lifting his light and illusory thoughts, and causing him to open his eyes.

"I see! I know!" shouted Jane Grey, sitting on the edge of her chair, "that's how the sword fell from the sky over the 'crown of seas' with that hypocritical power!"

Xuan Junyang sat on the other bed and looked at Jane Gray's elated and dancing back without saying a word.

"Silver light fell, half of the huge island was wiped out, and some of the broken wreckage sank to the bottom of the sea, and some drifted on the sea!" she said, holding up the translation of The Unknown God with satisfaction, "The sword is lost on the broken island, and the power is falling on the other side of the island that has not been destroyed!"

Longinus and the strange powers it killed were separated from Iceland and Greenland, and the remnants of the miracles carved the distant form of the power into stone, which is the origin of the sculpture they found. How the sword disappeared from Iceland and ended up with Gray is a story for another time.

Bai Gu rubbed his eyes in confusion, he seemed to understand Jane Gray's words. But whether Xuan Junyang can understand it is impossible to know, after all, that night he thought that Bai Gu and Jian were just going to go on a blind date, but he didn't know that they had watched the magical weapon that I don't know if it was a sword or a gun.

"How have you been sleepy lately?" Xuan Junyang glanced at Bai Gu and asked. His smile was ill-intentioned, as if it were a kind of sarcasm.

"Where is the boat?" Bai Gu smiled, stood up weakly and stretched.

Once again, they sat on a boat heading north, destined for Greenland. In the last week of August, Xuan Junyang came to the conclusion that Greenland was the destination to which the sculpture was pointing as the only clue.

"I've always been so focused on the historical side that I forgot to think from other perspectives. Since it's an illusory thing, it's good to look directly for clues from the Gray family's unrealistic various manuscripts. ”

When these words came out of the mouth of the stubborn Xuan Junyang, Bai Gu and Jane Gray were quite surprised. However, as long as Xuan Junyang finds a method, he will never go wrong - in just two months, with the help of Jane Gray, Xuan Junyang's research has made a major breakthrough, and he has successfully found clues from piles of manuscripts and materials. To be honest, Bai Gu was not satisfied with Xuan Junyang's conclusion, he felt that this was very hasty, and it was not Xuan Junyang's style at all. He had wanted to delay the plan and marry Jane first. However, Xuan Junyang's urging tone and expression seemed to carry an eager desire, which made Bai Gu unable to refuse. So they boarded the ship to Greenland.

"It's already halfway through, and I don't know how long it will take!" said Xuan Junyang with a wry smile.

Listening to Xuan Junyang's helpless words, Jane Gray closed the translation in her hand and asked Xuan Junyang: "Xuan Junyang, you obviously didn't support my proposal at all and even had some disgust with it before, why are you so eager to go to Greenland this time?"

Xuan Junyang raised his eyebrows: "Me, do I look urgent?"

Jane Grey sneered, with a hint of defensiveness and mockery in her expression: "Then you should really look in the mirror to see your expression......"

Hearing this, Bai Gu hurriedly walked up to Jane and stretched out his hand to cover her mouth. He was afraid that Xuan Junyang would think that Jane was disgusted with the changes in him, even if Jane didn't mean it that way.

However, Xuan Junyang seemed to show rare tolerance and open-mindedness, he did not refute Jane Gray, and not even a trace of anger appeared in his eyes: "Ah, in fact, I myself am troubled by my changes. ”

As he spoke, he rubbed his cheek with his fingers: "To tell you the truth, I've been a lot slower to react to temperature lately. Instead, his eyes became sharper, and I could even count how many times his body rose and fell in a minute while Bai Gu was asleep. ”

Bai Gu looked at him like he was looking at the ship of Theseus. He didn't know if Xuan Junyang was Xuan Junyang or not.

Looking up at the ceiling, Xuan Junyang slowly lay down: "However, these changes have not affected my health - my appetite is good, my weight has not dropped, and there is no itching in any place." ”

He didn't seem to pay attention to the gaze of Bai Gu and Jane Gray, but just said to himself: "Am I the one you call God's chosen one?"

"God doesn't put the mission on a vampire. Pulling away the hand that Bai Gu was holding herself, Jane Gray said loudly.

"That's right," Xuan Junyang sat up and gave Jane Grey a grim look, "I still want to be my own god." ”

That look made Jane Grey tremble, she didn't want to say anything now, she just wanted to hide behind Bai Gu and get as far away from Xuan Junyang as possible. Her idea was right, since she and Bai Gu left for a short time that night, Xuan Junyang began to change, until he became such an abyss-like person - a deep, dark, and tentacled monster.

"Don't scare her," Bai Gu took Jane Grey and sat down, "It's been so long, how is the situation at home? I heard from my eldest brother that there are uprisings all over the place, and the situation is even more chaotic than during the Revolution." Don't you worry about your family at all?"

"Well, I've heard of these too," Xuan Junyang touched his hair, as if he didn't bother to think about it, "The news is naturally received, but it's just some things that are uninteresting, so don't say it." ”

Seeing that Xuan Junyang didn't care at all, Bai Gu knew that there was nothing important in his family, so he also put his mind at ease. Just silently meditating that this trip had better arrive and end sooner, not to marry Jane, but to hope that the panic and worry in his heart for some reason could end with the end of this trip as soon as possible, so that his heart could be calmed again.

......

Greenland is also a beautiful place to visit. It's just that thinking of the last time I was trapped in the snowstorm, even Jane Gray changed her aggressive style and suggested finding a place to rest first. But along the way, the three of them could not find a place to rest, so they had no choice but to set up a tent at the foot of the mountain where their destination was pointed, waiting for the short night in Greenland at this time.

"I didn't expect it to be so beautiful at night here. Bai Gu and Xuan Junyang sat around the campfire outside the tent, Bai Gu looked up and watched the starry sky fall into the distant mountains with the canopy, muttering to himself.

"You rejoice everywhere. Xuan Junyang fiddled with the bonfire and said to Bai Gu.

"Of course I'm happy," Bai Gu rubbed his hands against the campfire, his gray hair turned warm yellow by the firelight, "I think that the three of us can live like this in the future, never separated, what is there to be unhappy." ”

"What you said is like I don't want a wife, I just start a business and don't have a family," Xuan Junyang smiled, let out a long breath, and turned to Bai Gu and asked, "Bai Gu, do you value Jian very much." ”

Bai Gu laughed, as if he felt that this question was ridiculous: "It must be, otherwise I will marry her?"

Xuan Junyang nodded: "Then if Jane dies, what will you do." ”

"What are you talking about," Bai Gu glared, "Good manners, curse people to death?"

"I don't want her to die, although I think she's really stupid, but I don't hate her and curse her to death," Xuan Junyang explained, pulling out the wooden stick that was playing the bonfire, the stick was stained with flames, and the tip burned, shining a blurred ball of light in the darkness, "After all, everyone is going to die, and I'm afraid you won't be able to accept the accident." After all, you have a good heart. ”

Bai Gu shook his head and closed his eyes: "I don't know, I just want Jane who lives and doesn't want to die." ”

Xuan Junyang nodded again, staring at the flames on the wooden stick with a pair of eyes, but no longer spoke.

"What's wrong with you? don't say a word, are you planning to harm Jane?" Bai Gu saw that he didn't speak, and stretched out his hand to poke Xuan Junyang.

"Nothing, just something to think about. I don't know how to do it, I don't know if I should do it sooner or later, or even if I should do it. ”

Bai Gu frowned: "Looking at it this way, you are more like a philosopher." ”

Xuan Junyang shook the wooden stick, and the flame that was not vigorous was completely extinguished, leaving only a little unextinguished charcoal to draw red lines in the darkness.

Suddenly, the surrounding scenery became slightly brighter, and a green shimmer inexplicably emanated from all around.

"What's going on?" Bai Gu looked at his green hand, and Bai Gu realized that this light came from the sky.

The two of them raised their heads in unison, and what caught their eyes was the green ripples in the sky - behind the steep mountains, the green light bands were like ink dripping into the water, and the fluctuating emerald green light shrouded the foothills and plains under the night sky, and also illuminated Bai Gu and Xuan Junyang's surprised expressions.

"This ...... Is it Aurora?" Bai Gu stood up, he wanted to go to the tent to wake Jane. This was a scene he had never seen before, and he felt that if he was going to die tomorrow, the emerald river of light in front of him was the most beautiful scene he had ever seen in his life.

Suddenly, his body shook. For some reason, Xuan Junyang reached out and grabbed him, preventing him from taking a step towards the open top.

"What......" Bai Gu looked down at Xuan Junyang, but he could only see the nervousness and fear on that face.

So following Xuan Junyang's gaze, Bai Gu looked over.

In an instant, Bai Gu understood why Xuan Junyang did not move.

Just across the campfire, no more than three paces from them, a large, pitch-black, grotesque head with a big mouth was grinning at the two of them.