Demon Realm. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Sanssouci Palace.

The inner walls are made of white crystal, and the unexpectedly smooth brilliance sparkles like diamonds. All of Sanssouci is made of crystal and gold. The main palace is divided into an inner and outer nave, with two side halls and a council chamber. The inner hall of the main palace is inhabited by the demon king and the demon queen, and the outer hall is inhabited by the heirs of the demon king; The side hall is used to house the female demons other than the demon queen.

In addition to the fact that the building is made of crystal, the entire decoration of Sanssouci Palace, including all the flower beds in the garden, is also carved from various colors of crystal. Even a small budding rose or a small tuft of grass shines with the crystal luster.

Walk through the swirling corridors, step on the red carpet, and slowly enter this luxurious and dazzling palace. In addition to the brilliance of the eyes, there is also a pleasant and elegant fragrance in the air.

At this moment, the Demon King Assel was sitting on the golden central bench in the council chamber. Under the black crown, the short golden hair fell down, the dark red eyes floated with black streamers, and the handsome face always had a smile on it. It's just that in this smile, there is a faint evil atmosphere.

He smiled and looked at the demon gods chatting on the left and right, his gaze resting on the empty seat on the left hand side of the lower end. Arcel's gaze turned to Mina, who was standing solemnly, Mina frowned at the empty seat, stepped forward and was about to speak, when he saw a black figure walking from the red carpet without hurrying. The light aroma in the air seemed to be frozen in an instant, and everyone unconsciously raised their eyes to look at the black figure, and even more, they stood up directly and looked respectfully at the handsome man who was walking slowly. Like a black gem bathed in the cold moonlight, or like a black rose shrouded in the deep night. The figure faintly walked in front of everyone's eyes under a faint inky halo.

"Demon God Vashag, I have seen His Majesty the Demon King." Calm voice, a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. seems to have a gentle look, but it reveals the coldness that rejects people thousands of miles away.

"Sit down." Assel smiled and raised his hand to signal Vashag to take his seat. When Vashag sat down, all the people who had just gotten up to welcome him in also sat down.

Assel glanced at Vashag playfully, then turned to the demon gods, and laughed loudly: "It's been a long time since I've been together with you. Actually, rather than sitting here so seriously, I prefer to have a drink with everyone at a cocktail party, or ...... On the battlefield, learn from each other's skills, and squander blood and sweat. It's much more enjoyable than sitting and deliberating. ”

Everyone laughed, but they were not wanton. Even Bell, who had always been arrogant, only laughed dryly twice, then sat up straight and looked up at Assel without squinting. Vashag was the only one whose face was expressionless. He turned slightly sideways, one hand propped up his forehead, and his gaze was slightly fixed. He didn't care about the insinuations in Arcel's words. Because, he will never challenge the Demon King.

"The annual Demon God Ranking Battle will be held as scheduled in half a month. This year's newly graduated Demon Warriors from the Academy will compete for the three Demon God candidates this year within half a month. Assel's gaze swept over the people present one by one, and he said unhurriedly: "In addition to the first winners of the six departments of the Demon God Academy over the years, the top ten students of each department, and the students sent by each hall, this year will make an exception to allow non-Demon God Academy students to participate in this battle, even the outstanding warriors selected from the Demon Clan will also get the opportunity to participate in this battle." ”

When everyone heard this, their expressions were different. Historically, only outstanding students who have been trained by the Demon God Academy have been eligible to compete for the three Demon God candidates each year. And the three Demon God candidates, according to their respective abilities and willingness, will independently choose the palace they want to join, as long as the selected Demon God Temple Guardian recognizes, they can become one of the candidates for their successor, as a reserve force to protect the Demon God Temple. But this year, Arcel made an exception to allow non-academy students to participate, apparently intending to let those demon warriors who were not admitted to the academy regain the opportunity to become demon gods. In this way, there will be many more unknowns in this year's battle for the Demon God candidates. After all, no one can be sure that outside of the Demon God Academy, there are no missing genius warriors.

Assel looked at everyone with a smile and continued, "In order to select excellent warriors among the demon clan, the Demon God Academy will conduct a seven-day pre-tournament selection. Ten outstanding Demon Warriors will be selected before the competition, and the best of the academy will participate in the battle for the Demon God candidates. And after the battle is over, it's the annual Demon God Ranking Battle. Arcel paused, his gaze swept to everyone again, and said with a slight smile: "I hope that all of you here, in addition to preparing for the battle, you must also teach the outstanding students of each palace to prepare for this year's Demon God candidate competition." ”

Asser's gaze deliberately lingered on Vashag for a few seconds before turning to the others. Belhaha laughed, and although he had tried his best to suppress his voice, his arrogant words still reached everyone's ears. I only heard him laugh and say, "Xiaoyun will definitely be able to qualify as a demon god candidate!" Haha, the fire system is always the strongest! ”

Hall sat next to Bell, and he watched Bell shake his head helplessly, but didn't say anything to retort. Mara, who was not far away, scolded in a low voice: "Be arrogant! Arrogant to death! ”

Bell didn't seem to hear Mara's scolding, but looked up at Vashag directly opposite, only to see his left hand on his cheek, his gaze wandering, as if he didn't care at all about what Assel had just said. As for the rest of the demon gods, some of them were secretly scolding Bell's arrogance behind their backs, and some were planning to arrange which students in the palace would participate in this battle.

"This unenterprising fellow......" Bell snorted coldly, sneering at Vashag's laziness and eccentricity. Suddenly, Amon in white stood up.

A smiling gaze swept across Vashag's face, and Amon turned to Asel and said loudly: "Your Majesty the Demon King, each palace has sent students to participate in the candidate competition every year over the years, but Lord Vashag of the third palace ...... It seems that not a single student has been admitted to date. Maybe it's because Lord Vashag has particularly high requirements for students, and ordinary college graduates are afraid that they won't be able to satisfy Lord Vashag. Therefore, Your Majesty hereby suggests that among the three Demon God candidates this year, His Majesty will appoint one of them and hand it over to Lord Vashag to teach. Presumably, the students who have the qualification of the Demon God Candidate will definitely be able to meet the requirements of Lord Vashag. ”

Hearing this, Assel nodded: "Indeed." The third hall was always guarded by only Vashag alone, which was indeed too cold and thin. I saw that his sword eyebrows were slightly raised, and the corners of his mouth were hooked, and he was about to continue speaking, but was directly interrupted by an indifferent voice.

"There are already new students in the third hall. Don't bother you. Vashag stood up and glanced faintly at Amun.

"Oh?" Amon raised his eyes curiously, "I wonder which student of the Demon God Academy was able to get the favor of Lord Vashag and teach him personally?" ”

Vasag replied in a flat tone, "Not a student of the Demon God Academy. Just an ordinary soul demon. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the conference hall. Bell looked at Vashag dumbfounded, Hall looked at Vashag in the same surprise, and Amon looked around with a stunned look on his face, then laughed, looked at Vashag and said, "Lord Vashag, this joke of yours is really a bit cold. ”

"I'm not laughing." Vashag said in a calm tone, "My student is a soul demon. ”

"Really?" Amon also had a look of surprise on his face, and he naturally followed the topic and asked, "Could it be that you, Lord Vashag, are you planning to send a soul envoy to participate in the battle for the demon god candidate?" ”

Arcel's expression at the moment was also a little surprised and curious. He suddenly remembered the beautiful woman beside Vashag at the carnival dance not long ago.

- Is a soul parasitic on the human body a demon? Would Vashag, who has always been eccentric and fastidious, choose a weak demon as a student?

"I didn't say I wanted her to compete for the candidacy this time." Vashag's tone was still calm, but it was tinged with a bit of coldness.

"Oh? Is it......? However, according to the traditional regulations of the Demon Realm, the seventy-two palaces must send students to participate in the battle, right? A sly smile tugged at the corner of Amon's mouth, "In the past, Lord Vashag had no students, so naturally there was no need to send students to war. But now that we have it, can we make an exception and not participate? ”

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The human world. United Kingdom.

London. Oceanarium.

After more than half an hour of speeding through the dark and damp underground waterway, Willy followed Jun Hao up an upward passage. I climbed about 100 meters on the rusty escalator and reached the end. The narrow, circular exit was blocked by a light-filled iron cover. Jun Hao laboriously pushed open the lid above the passage with his tool and jumped on it first.

"Whew...... Ice and snow...... "Willy only heard Jun Hao let out a long breath, and before he finished speaking, he heard Jun Hao scold angrily: "FUCK~!"

Before Willy could crawl out of the passageway, he heard a thud and the sound of a heavy object hitting the wall. Willy hurriedly climbed out of the passage with his hands and feet, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a huge white figure pounced on the wall, while Jun Hao fell to the ground and rolled outward quickly.

“FUCK~!…… Polar bear?! Willie exclaimed, flew towards the white figure that flew towards Jun Hao again, picked up the flashlight in his hand and smashed it hard at the thick back. The polar bear turned around and roared, and Willy was nearly bitten on the shoulder.

"Willy! You take him around in circles! Fast! Give me thirty seconds! Jun Hao saw that the polar bear was attracted by Willy, and quickly ran to the closed iron door not far away, took out the universal wire in his pocket, and quickly pry the keyhole.

“OH！ I'm day you! You damn bastard! You actually say this is a penguin?! Does this huge dick look like a penguin?! Willie cursed loudly as he ran, the polar bear was only an arm's length away from him, and if he slowed down a little, he would be crushed by the sharp claws on his back!

"How did I know that the animals in the aquarium would also move?! FUCK――！ COMEONBABY! COMEON――！ ”

Holding his breath, Jun Hao turned the thin steel wire in his hand concentratingly, and in the sound of his prayer, dozens of seconds later, only a beautiful light sound of "click" was heard, and the iron door was finally opened!

"Quick! Hurry up! Willie! Hurry up and run! Jun Hao opened the iron door, jumped on the rockery next to him, picked up a stone under his feet and threw it at the polar bear, the polar bear was hit in the back of the head, turned his eyes to Jun Hao angrily, and then roared and turned to Jun Hao and rushed over. Willy was finally able to catch his breath and run towards the iron gate, and at the moment when the polar bear was about to pounce in front of Jun Hao's eyes, he actually moved quickly to the iron gate at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye, and in a few seconds, locked the iron gate, blocking the polar bear that pounced on the iron gate.

Both of them gasped. Because Willy was only paying attention to the direction of the iron gate, he didn't notice the abnormality of Jun Hao's movement speed. And Jun Hao himself didn't seem to be aware of his inhuman movement speed.

"Oh my God! It's horrible! Willie gasped and patted Jun Hao on the shoulder, Jun Hao also took a deep breath, but he quickly returned to his normal breathing rate, then took off his gas mask and protective suit, took out the flashlight, small tool kit and a stun gun in the protective suit, and strode out.

"I said Jun Hao, where are you going this time?" Willie took a big breath, caught up with Jun Hao's footsteps, and said shortly, "Don't make a mistake again!" If I do fall into the shark tank, I can only pray that the scalpel in my pocket will be enough to dissect the murderous ones. ”

"Shark tank?" Jun Hao glanced at Willy, "It's really difficult to take the initiative to fall into that kind of ghost place." But if there is a blasting device installed here, we don't need to fall into it, and the sharks will swim over! ”

"What?! Is there really a blasting device here?! Willie was shocked.

"This possibility is not ruled out."

"Oh my God! And you're still running in? ”

"If you don't run in, will you wait outside for the murderer to throw himself into the net?" Jun Hao recalled the architectural structure of the aquarium, and soon found an area similar to the word "phase". "Don't worry. Haven't the police and the military already sent people to search for explosives? Besides, since the murderer left a hint of 'unitary', he will definitely not blast before 7 o'clock. Because, until then, he should still be in this aquarium. ”

"So what?" Willy scratched at his hair a little frantically. Although he was curious about what kind of three-headed and six-armed guy that murderer was, he didn't want to experience the 'passion' of swimming with sharks again!

"So? So...... When we come, we are at peace. ”

"What has come is what is safe? What do you mean? ”

"It's an old Chinese saying." Jun Hao didn't bother to explain the meaning of this ancient saying, just ran quickly towards the direction in his mind, turned his head to Willy and said, "Believe me, I will definitely be able to find that murderer before 7 o'clock." And you'll never have a close encounter with a shark. ”

"Okay. I don't want to believe you, though. But to satisfy my intense curiosity. I have the right to 'come and be safe'! ”

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But obviously, this time Jun Hao did not get the wrong direction. After passing through several special passages for the staff, Willy and Junhao avoided several waves of police who went deep into the aquarium, and finally arrived at a special exhibition hall.

A separate exhibition hall with a special ring-shaped fish tank. In the blue waters, there are no real sea creatures swimming. Rather, it is a 'mechanical fish' made of machinery. The blue and silver mechanical scales shimmer with a metallic sheen, and the white pupils and silver head make this biomimetic product look strange and eerie. In front of Willy and Jun Hao's eyes, in the circular fish tank, in addition to a few 'mechanical fish' that looked like alien creatures turning stiffly, several small red fish could be seen swimming back and forth quickly in the water.

"It's here. Here it is. Jun Hao raised his eyes to look at the top of the fish tank.

"This is it?" Willie looked around and said strangely, "But there's nothing here but these strange fish?" …… Do you want to tell me that that murderer is these mechanical fish? ”

"Of course not." Jun Hao walked to the close side of the fish tank, and through the refraction of the glass and the water surface, he saw a long black line that was incongruous.

"In oracle bone inscriptions, 'order' and 'fish' are very similar forms. To put it simply, the 'mesh' is the 'fish' lying flat, and the 'fish' is the 'mesh' that is vertical. The word 'wood' is composed of a 'person' character and a 'ten' character. If the image is to be described, the word 'wood' is like the image of Jesus crucified. Jun Hao's fingers followed the unnatural black line across the surface of the glass fish tank, and explained at a very fast speed: "In Chinese, the word 'phase' not only indicates direction, but also means image and surface. At the same time, after it was dismantled into the characters 'wood' and '目', it was a fish related to wood. This murderer has a certain study of Chinese, ancient Egyptian script, oracle bone script, and Mayan script. But other than that, he seems to enjoy combining words and graphics. So, if my guess is correct...... The poor journalist should be tied to wood or steel bars at this moment, just like the crucifixion Jesus. And where he is above this mechanical fish tank! ”