"On July 3, 04, Typhoon 'Dandelion' made landfall in the city, with a gale force of 10, and I asked my dad to pick me up after school that night..."

"The typhoon was very strong that day, but it couldn't blow away our car..."

"The road was congested, so we turned onto an elevated road..."

"The signs on the elevated road are obscured by willow trees, and I can't see the street numbers... No, it seems that there are a few zeros on the street signs, but I can't remember exactly what they are..."

"There was no one on the road, nothing but heavy rain and thunder..."

"Dark Shadow... A lot of dark shadows, they found us, they were thirsty... Very hungry... In search of fresh flesh..."

"I had a splitting headache, I saw the altar, the women and the snakes, it was chaotic, it was dizzying, but it was beautiful... I thought I was crazy, but my dad said I didn't, and he said I was welcome to join... The real world? ”

"Shadows are banging on the windows... Daddy fights with them... Killed a lot of things... But he also said that something was looking for us... I didn't know what it was at the time... But then I knew... He hid at the end of the elevated road, riding an eight-legged horse, with a spear in his hand... It's as if he is..."

"The main god of Norse mythology, Odin...?" Lin asked in a young voice.

When the gorgeous leaves fall, the veins of life are visible.

Peeling off Chu Zihang's shell, he saw the fragile and hesitant boy in the shell, standing alone on the elevated road on a stormy night like a newborn ghost, screaming at the broken Maybach, as if it was a despicable ghost who had swallowed the man.

"You..."

Hearing Lin Nian say the answer, Chu Zihang, who had been immersed in memories, suddenly looked up at him, revealing three points of shock and two points of restraint and... Five points of expectation.

Maybe he thought that Lin Nian would know some inside information, where was the country of the dead, he had returned to that elevated road countless times, but he could no longer set foot on the way home that night, just like the name of the typhoon 'Dandelion', a hurricane blew the tidbits of white velvet and the man into the distance that was difficult to trace.

"......" Lin Nian sat on the rattan chair and rubbed his eyes, his brows were kneaded like dough, no matter how much the rain caressed and combed, it was difficult to smooth out the traces.

"Do you know there?" Chu Zihang asked in a low voice.

Lin Nian didn't meet his gaze, because he could guess the complex bartending emotion in the other party's eyes, just by looking at the pale gold color, he could imagine how many mixed tastes were mixed in it, and rashly licking it would only be washed over by the bitterness and richness.

"It's not in my right place to tell you much about this." After thinking for a while, Lin Nian chose to shake his head to stop the topic, "I really didn't expect you to actually go to that place... Listen to your description, your bloodline was also opened there, and those dragon texts that Deadpool spat out in the chaos 'visioned' you... I really don't know if you can say you are lucky or unlucky. ”

"The ghost will only devour one person at a time as a sacrifice for death." Chu Zihang's voice was a little cold, even after so many years, when he mentioned this matter, there would always be a storm in his eyes that had crossed time and entrenched in the depths of his pupils.

"Odin is going for your father, not you, and if this is a sacrifice, then your father is the sacrifice and thus you can escape." Lin Nian shook his head lightly, "I have to sigh that you are really fateful..."

"What is He?"

"Do you mean Odin?" Lin Nian said, "If you tell you the answer now, you will only not be able to accept it, so it is better to tell you these things when you understand more." ”

"Is it because I haven't enrolled in school yet, so I'm not one of 'you' guys?" Chu Zihang said softly.

"No, if you know enough about the half-breeds and the secret party, then you should know that you have become one of us on the night of the typhoon, and the blood flowing in your veins is engraved with our fate and party constitution." Lin Nian knocked on his heart, "Half-breeds are attracted to each other... Anomalies will always find anomalies, but even if you don't find us, we will find you, unless you are willing to live as an ordinary person for the rest of your life with that hatred of 'God' and pain for your father... You can't do it, though, can you? ”

Chu Zihang nodded silently, Lin Nian sighed softly when he looked at his appearance, he really wanted to tell Chu Zihang about the terrible and absurd things he encountered this morning, but he couldn't, once he said it, there would inevitably be a fatal loophole, that is, how he escaped from that elevated road, if he guessed correctly, it was a 'Nibelungen', the land of the dead, the realm of the first king, if you want to enter or leave, you have to get the king's permission... Or kill the king.

The country of the dead that he forcibly escaped with super-standard means, but he could not expose it before he completely controlled this means, once the secret party learned of the situation, what awaits him will be several times the current monitoring and control, and maybe he will use the excuse to push him to the secret party court, and judge whether he is guilty or not through the hands of King Solomon!

Presumably, the final outcome is most likely to be innocence after prevarication, but it is inevitable to sign all kinds of unequal treaties, and he is not absolutely sure that he will flip the table of the secret party, and when he has this qualification, he will not have to lift the table, but sit on the opposite side of the table like Hilbert Jean Angers, gentlemanly and domineering, and let them negotiate with the soles of your upturned Gucci shoes.

That's what Lin Nian wants, to really control the conditions for speaking in the secret party, those resources and power should not be pressed down after the table is lifted, but should be opened on the table with brute words and wrists, like candy and chocolate, everyone is 'fair and open' to divide it.

"Now is not the time, there are times when the things in your head don't belong to you." Lin Nian stretched out his hand and swept the curtain of light rain and pointed at Chu Zihang's eyebrows, "There are many people in the academy who can easily pry your head open, not to mention the supernatural power of speech spirit hypnosis, as long as you have studied hypnosis techniques deeply... I mean people who are really hypnotic, like my sister, who studied with Masashi Toyama, can dig up this information from your head and hand it over to the secret party in less than ten minutes. ”

"Hypnosis?" Chu Zihang's understanding of hypnosis is still at the level that the hypnotic master deceives people into a wooden plank, and then stands on that person's body.

"The world is big, bigger than you think, before we really get in touch we are like the house cat in the elevator apartment, living in a kingdom of 100 square meters, leaving their own smell and traces in every corner, firmly believing that this world is only so big. But in the eyes of outsiders, they will only pity our ignorance and short-sightedness, but they are unwilling to put us into that dangerous world. Lin Nian said, "The frog at the bottom of the well and the frog at the bottom of the well will not talk about how big it is outside the wellhead, but will repeatedly discuss and determine that the world is only as big as the wellhead..."

"I want to see more and find the truth I want." Chu Zihang said.

"I'm here to bring you that choice." Lin Nian took out a mobile phone from his trouser pocket, pressed it on the screen a few times, and handed it over.

After Chu Zihang took the phone, he saw that the screen went black and subconsciously pressed the power button, but found that there was no response, then Lin Nian reminded: "Don't try, there was a small car accident when I came, and the screen was smashed into a large black piece, I could see something earlier, and it was all black after a while... But it doesn't matter, for me the phone has a screen or not, it's almost the same, but I can't read text messages. ”

"What should I do?" Chu Zihang gave up operating this mobile phone, and the usefulness of this thing in his hand was no more useful than a brick.

"All you have to do is don't press the power button... If you press it for too long, this thing will explode, and it also has its own electrostatic field. ”

“？” Chu Zihang immediately let go of the hand on the power button, although he didn't keep pressing it, but he still physiologically chose to stay away from this dangerous key.

"The products of the equipment department, when I go out on a mission, my personal equipment is arranged for me by the same group, the leader of that group has a little problem with his head, and all the things given to me are multi-functional, shoes can be used as hair dryers with a foot warming system, razors can be turned into vacuum cleaners, and toothbrushes can pull out a blade when the base is pulled out... The only thing that everything has in common is that it can be turned into a bomb, and the yield is not small. Lin Nian sighed, this time for the group of neuropaths in the academy.

“... Bomb? It doesn't look like your task is going to be easy. Chu Zihang said.

"Okay, aren't you going to complete one of your tasks right now?"

Chu Zihang looked up at Lin Nian, he was thinking about whether 'solving himself' meant one or two things.

"Now your phone is connected to the college secretary at Hilltop College in Illinois." The gossip was almost over, Lin Nian brought the topic to the point, and put his hands on his knees with his index fingers touched, "Don't you want to enroll in Kassel?" Just tell her. ”

Chu Zihang glanced at Lin Nian and then at the mobile phone with the screen off in his hand, raised the mobile phone to his ear and said commonly: "Hello." ”

"Voiceprint entry successful."

"Auto-match city repositories..."

"The feed was matched."

"Verification starts, options on. Chu Zihang, date of birth June 1, 1990, male, tentative number A.D. 0043. I'm Norma and I'm happy to serve you, please identify the 'options' to verify admission to the Kassel Academy admission process. A calm female voice rang from the phone.

The long-awaited door to Kassel finally opened, but Chu Zihang was not as excited as he imagined, maybe it was because of this light rain, or it could be talking about the past, his mood was very calm, as quiet as a fish swimming in a fish tank in the corner of the balcony, with ripples on the water surface above his head, and a calm spot in the clear water.

"Have you thought about it? I didn't expect the admission option to happen here, but something like this can be started anywhere as long as you decide on it, and the shorter the process, the better, so as not to be retained by too many entanglements... Like being in love or something? Lin Nian couldn't help but chuckle and shook his head at the end, as if he had said something stupid.

He has known Chu Zihang for so long, and he has heard all rumors about Chu Zihang, saying that Chu Zihang goes in and out of bars to smoke and drink, that Chu Zihang secretly fights with hooligans, and that Chu Zihang's mother is contaminated with unclean things... But there are no rumors that Chu Zihang has had an affair.

Shilan students all know that the street trees outside the third of the track on the side of the playground are mixed with two transplanted cherry trees, due to the climate problems, the two cherry trees are not very pleasant, the one on the left is always sick and seems to be dying, compared to the strongest one on the right is a little crooked, at first glance it looks like a person is holding on to the wall and sighing, and when the cherry blossoms fall, it looks like tears buried in the soil.

... As the saying goes, girls who go to Shilan Middle School don't confess to Senior Chu once, the whole high school life is incomplete, and every time they are rejected, they should run to the crooked neck cherry tree to cry, after crying, the tears become nourishment, the crooked neck cherry tree will grow stronger, and the crying girl will grow a lot.

No one will take the girls' confession of failure as a shame, because every girl is climbing this high mountain, and people stand at the bottom of the mountain to feel his majesty, and express their respect for the climbers... Then I watched them fall, bend their waists, and weep bitterly. Lin Nian didn't know if these girls had really grown, but he only knew that the crooked-necked cherry tree at the corner of the runway would still be in full bloom next year.

"I look like a sinner who killed the cherry blossom tree." Lin Nian chuckled, looked up at Chu Zihang and asked with a solemn expression, "Are you willing to join the Kassel Academy and obey the shackles from now on?" Even though you don't even know what this thing is written about. ”

It's like signing a contract on the Internet for too long and not looking at the network agreement.

But Chu Zihang didn't care.

"I do." He said.

"Database access is enabled, account is opened, and course selection schedule is generated. I'm Norma, Secretary of the Kassel Academy, and I'm happy to serve you, your ticket, passport and visa will be delivered within three weeks. Welcome, Chu Zihang. Norma said.

"No, you don't need to book a plane ticket, you just need to send a visa and a passport, and he will act with me in the next time, and solve this little trouble even if it is to give him an early admission counseling, nothing is faster than actual combat to make people realize faster, isn't it?" Lin Nian stood up from the rattan chair.

"The recording of this call will be uploaded to the head of the Executive Department, Professor von Schneider, please be sure to upload your action change plan, Commissioner Lin." Norma captures Lin Nian's voiceprint, and the powerful artificial intelligence processes the current situation in an instant.

"Upload." Lin Nian said.

"Roger." Norma replied. The phone hangs up automatically.

"What's next." Chu Zihang got up with his mobile phone and followed behind Lin Nian, who opened the glass door of the balcony.

"Find an excuse to explain where we are now." Lin Nian turned around and took the phone and looked at Chu Zihang, who was as wet as himself, "After returning to the box, we can't say that we had a water fight in the toilet on a whim, it sounds too much... Homo a little? ”

“homo？”

"Nothing... Don't care about these details..."Lin Nian suddenly felt as if he had been taken by Fingal.

"What about a broken toilet pipe?" Chu Zihang said.

Lin Nian raised his head and glanced at Chu Zihang in surprise, then patted him on the shoulder: "Senior brother... Although we are probably at the same level this year, you are also one year older than me in Shilan, and I will not suffer if you are called Senior Brother... Then again, have you considered joining our executive department? ”