Chapter 45: Mutation (1)
The sound of thumping fireworks exploded in the sky, and ribbons of colored smoke drifted away with the breeze. It was clear that the time had just arrived in winter, but this year's first snow came exceptionally early. The hot air balloon made in advance by the maintenance department fluttered into the air against the vast snow, and the banner under it was straightened, and the large characters of "Welcome to the Dream Soul Academy" were very clear.
All 16 gates of the Dream Soul Palace are open today, and the long-awaited huge flow of people is pouring in at the moment of opening, rows of various stalls hang balloons to attract customers to open for business, and interest clubs have sent reception staff to put out wooden signs to guide tourists to visit. The adults exclaimed the spaciousness of the schoolyard, while the children tugged at their parents' trouser legs with their fingers in their mouths, staring at the changing shapes of the two wooden sticks in the hands of the food stall owner.
The sounds of shouting, rubbing shoulders, and laughter mingled together. The Cultural Festival is the biggest external display event of the Dream Soul Academy, and these noisy and lively sounds are perfectly matched.
On the inside of the side window on the top floor of the French Palace, babbling was riding on Yang Haohui's neck and looking out desperately through the window, a pink little face was almost squeezed into a cake. Today she changed into a black silk ruffled lolita tutu dress, and wore a small round-brimmed hat with a bow, like a little princess from a kingdom that came out of a fairy tale book. I heard Mo Meng say that this is Biao's favorite set of clothes, and he specially proposed to stay and wear it today. However, the thoughts of being a father and being a mother are always different, Yang Haohui's main worry is that it will be cold when he wears this, so he insists on putting two layers of cotton pants in his babbling skirt.
"Babble, babble!" babbling excitedly, from the flow of people to the snow flakes falling from the sky, whenever she encounters something curious and unintelligible, she will twist her neck to chase after it.
Babbling is a gift from the whole god and its existence has always been kept secret from the outside world, and Yang Haohui rarely took her out in order to prevent exposure. Even when she was fighting in the school palace, she only took her to the closed Yuan Dou Tai, this was the first time since she was born that she had such close contact with the outside world, even if it was just the flowers and plants that ordinary people were used to, they were also fresh and interesting in her eyes.
"Dad! there are so many people! they are all very happy!" Babbled and pointed out the window, shaking Yang Haohui's head desperately.
"I'm not your father, don't pick my hair. Yang Haohui said helplessly, he had already seen many of the students in the corridor casting strange glances.
"Balloons! Flying! Babbling likes cultural festivals!"
"I know, I know, so don't mess with my hair. Yang Haohui was dragged by the babbling and continued to be forced to shake her head, but fortunately, it didn't take long for Mono to arrive as promised, and she volunteered to take over the job of taking care of the child early in the morning as the only idle person.
"Yo junior brother, it's fun. Mono laughed at the scene in front of him.
"If you're two minutes late, I'll be bald. Yang Haohui took the babbling down and handed it to Mo Nuo, and handed over his yuan value card, "Today, I'll trouble you, senior sister, she can buy whatever she wants, swipe my card." ”
"Is Dad going to perform?" babbling looked at Yang Haohui and the ghost class behind him who were discussing the details of the upcoming performance, slightly lonely. Today, everyone is dressed in a white power suit carved with flame flow patterns, and the shoulders and waist are inlaid with broken silver sequins, which is the dance costume that Sui Xinting has set in the morning.
"I'm sorry, I'll walk with you when we're done here. Yang Haohui scratched his babbling nose, "You are allowed to buy candy to eat today, but you must be obedient and follow the senior sister, don't cause trouble to others." ”
"Come on, Dad, I'm looking forward to Dad's performance. She nodded obediently, begged for a hug and kissed Yang Haohui, and then reluctantly followed Mono downstairs.
There were still fifteen minutes before the start of the interest group, and Yang Haohui, who had finally coaxed away the babbling, just wanted to go and prepare to hang himself on the stage, but Mo Meng suddenly ran over in a hurry: "Help! Brother Yang, will you be able to dry ice refining?"
The dry ice of the Tianyuan Realm is not a substance of the same name and different kinds, and it is a solid extinguishing gas (carbon dioxide) like the original world. Because of its large size and long-lasting smoke, most performance clubs will use it as a cigarette cake. The Drama Club is no exception, and their early plan for a show is to end with a dazzling stage effect of dry ice smoke mixed with gold leaf
So Yang Haohui immediately
understood what Mo Meng meant, and said embarrassedly: "No, you have to say that the gaseous gas extinguishing is okay, and the solid ...... Don't you just tell me we're running out now? ”
"But it's really gone, we found it when we checked the props just now. Mo Meng's tone was equally embarrassed, "Senior seems to have forgotten to cover the container with dry ice last night, and you know that thing is easy to volatile." ”
Yang Haohui looked behind Mo Meng, Sui Xinting was squatting on the ground, being punched and kicked by others besieging the city.
"Alas, don't slap your face, don't kick there, kick badly, so many of you seniors are going to be widows!"
Yang Haohui silently retracted his gaze: "It's okay to find other clubs to borrow something, we are not the only ones who have this thing." ”
"It's even more impossible, the senior has offended all the other clubs lately. "What Mo Meng said was naturally the small damage that Sui Xinting did before," Xiao Yan had already asked just now, but no one agreed. In particular, the sailing club that performed the lion dance threw the remaining dry ice into the water in front of him. ”
Yang Haohui felt that there was a tendon in his brain jumping wildly when he heard it, he looked at Sui Xinting who was rolling on the ground, and his temper was like that, and he couldn't wait to rush up and kick his feet.
"What should I do, Brother Yang, there are not many material types in our class, so if you don't know it, you have to change your dance temporarily. Mo Meng said.
"It's been a month of rehearsals, so let's go ahead with the original plan. Yang Haohui sighed and took out a pocket watch to check the time, "There are about 14 minutes left, and it's still too late to go out and buy it." I'm not a dancer, so if I don't come back in time, you'll just dance first. ”
With that, he opened the side window and jumped off the Flann Palace, landing steadily under the surprised gaze of a tourist. The body of the elementalist is convenient, and even the time to go down the stairs is saved.
But in the same way, the Elemental Division, which is strong in combat effectiveness, is often the first target of the enemy on the battlefield.
In a forest outside the third entrance of the Dream Soul Academy, a middle-aged man and a child fell into the shadows. The man is only a second-order fire elemental, and he is still engaged in the profession of a chef who does not exercise his combat effectiveness. It is precisely because of his identity as an elementalist and his weak combat power that he has unfortunately become a target. Today, he was thinking of bringing his son to visit the Dream Soul, but when he was queuing up outside the entrance, he suddenly lost consciousness, and it was not very difficult to quietly stun a person in the crowd against a high-level elemental.
The five people of the Hunter Pavilion, who had been transformed, gathered around the father and son, and naturally they could not pass the security check by changing their appearance through the Yuan Technique, and they had already cut off the "mask" they needed from the face of the goods they were optimistic about.
"There were about eight minutes before the show started, and by then there was no way to trick the target. Hannibo smiled and said, "So guys, in eight minutes, let's capture the target." ”
The others nodded in response, in addition to having the Blood Grant of "Absolute Calculation", Earhunter himself was also a ninth-order material-type wood elementalist. She materially extracted several vines and burrowed into the clothes of the father and son in front of her, wrapping them around each joint point, and then controlling the vines to tighten. The unconscious middle-aged man and his child could not resist, and at the same time were manipulated by the vines to get up stiffly, like two puppets between the palms of the twinks being played. Hunter Ear knows the structure of the human body well, and she is the only one who can take on the task of "lineman".
At the same time, Hunter took out two cans of liquor and poured them into the man's mouth, and Hunter Bent a fruit knife into the middle-aged man's palm, and all preparations were completed. Everyone timed their pocket watches at the same time, and Hannibo gave the order with a smile.
"Action, let's go!"
Ten seconds later, Lin Huzhi, who was leisurely urging the junior doormen to carry out security checks and guide tourists, was attracted by the noise and screams outside the entrance. The crowd that had been lining up in an orderly manner suddenly began to flee in all directions in panic, automatically giving way to a circular space. Lin Huzhi immediately sent the rest of the guards to stabilize the tourists, and squeezed through the crowd to take a look. In the open area, a middle-aged man is holding a fruit knife in his hand to chase and kill the little boy who keeps fleeing in front of him.
But with the poor physique of the two, the boy had no way to dodge, and the next moment he was grabbed by his own father by the neck and lifted up, and stabbed into the abdomen.
"Are you crazy! Stop!" Lin Huzhi immediately activated the Yuan Technique, and the blue light quickly condensed in his hand and suddenly dispersed into a claw-shaped mist that wrapped his palm. He was a sixth-order matter-type water elemental, and he was now using one of his refiners
Ethyl ether.
【Substance Refining, Ether, Resting Grip】
The claw-shaped mist covered with a faint blue light accurately grasped the middle-aged man's face, and Lin Huzhi could feel that his extract, which had a strong hypnotic effect, was inhaled into the man's lungs. But the unexpected happened, the middle-aged man was not affected at all, and the second knife was immediately pierced into the boy's chest, and blood was like a spring.
For the puppets who are already unconscious and rely on vines to manipulate their body movements, ether naturally does not work. The father would not have known that during the time he was unconscious, he had stabbed his beloved flesh and bone twice with his own hand.
Lin Huzhi didn't know the specific situation, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he immediately changed his strategy and subdued him closely. This sudden riot soon attracted more garrisons, the weaker of whom were responsible for helping the guards to protect the crowd from accidental injury, and the stronger ones assisting Lin Hu to suppress the murderers. But before the garrison could make a move, the middle-aged man and the little boy trembled spasmodically at the same time, and fell to the ground together.
The medical staff immediately began to treat the boy's injuries, while the rest of the people, led by Lin Huzhi, immediately controlled the middle-aged man with locking stone handcuffs. The staff member closest to him frowned sharply, his eyes shining with anger that was hard to hide.
"What's wrong?" Lin Huzhi asked.
"What a heavy smell of alcohol!" the staff kicked the middle-aged man in the face, "You stabbed such a young boy with a knife because you were drunk and crazy, if I hadn't been a guard, I would have wanted to beat this scumbag drunkard to death right now!"
"It's not just boys, they're probably father and son. The sweaty medical staff also glared angrily, "Their blood can be combined! This bastard is not only an alcoholic, but also a drunken domestic violence!"
"How's the kid?"
"The ventricular fibers have trembled, and the heart and gallbladder liver pierced by the two knives are all the most fatal vital points!" The medical staff sent the dying little boy to the stretcher, "Lin Lao, you watch the scene first, this kind of injury needs to be treated in the infirmary immediately." ”
The entrance to Dingsan was closed by a quarantine zone, and the rest of the tourists were calmed and guided to other entrances. Lin Huzhi looked at the unconscious middle-aged man on the ground and didn't say a word, just frowned and tore the leg of the cow and camel in his hand, and raised his hand to stop the garrison who wanted to escort the murderer.
"Don't worry, wait until you wake up. ”
"What else do you have to say about this kind of bastard, take him back to the union to await trial!" the staff member yelled angrily.
"Young man, don't be too arbitrary, this matter is a bit strange. Lin Huzhi said lightly.
"What do you mean?"
"You don't see the scene of the crime at the beginning, and the movements of both the man and the child are a little unnatural. And you think it's normal for a child to be stabbed twice without crying or making trouble?"
"This ......," the staff hesitated, "do you need to report to the principal?"
"The little cub of the school palace has been looking forward to the event for a month and canceled it because of this trivial matter, so what are we going to do with these old things?" Lin Huzhi said in a deep voice, "Don't make a noise, everything continues, but let's talk to Qianji and the law enforcement team." In addition, all guards were ordered to intensify patrols, and keep an eye out for the cries of the insects. The task of children and tourists is to enjoy this cultural festival to the fullest, and our task is ...... It's to defend the power they deserve!"
The order was quickly conveyed to the whole school through the communication snail, and Qian Ji also gave the same answer as Lin Huzhi in the principal's office. But they didn't know that the mastermind behind their vague guess had successfully infiltrated the school palace from one of the entrances where the guards were led away the most under the cover of the riot just now, and the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain had been successful.
They had plenty of time to act before the middle-aged man woke up completely, and there were more than 7 minutes left before the show began. The guards in charge of the security check did not discover their true identities, after all, there would be no better camouflage masks than the skin of a real person.
The plan was implemented step by step, and the second step was to lure Yang Haohui into leaving a single place under the pretense of receiving letters, and the five people of the Hunter Pavilion arrived at a sparsely populated corner on the edge of the school palace. Hannibo changed into a postman's clothes, and was about to pretend to be a postman to deliver a fake letter made in advance, but he and the other four facial features were stunned at the same time.
Immediately, they almost wanted to laugh wildly, because they actually saw the target Yang Haohui trotting towards them all the way here!
To be continued......