Act XII. "Walk" after a meal
Starlight is like water.
The night in Jingjiang is peaceful and comfortable.
The evening breeze of early autumn still carried a bit of summer heat, but it finally swept away the dull and humid air, making Bai Ge feel a chill.
He looked up slightly at the night sky.
That is, under the light of the city lights, the stars are still dazzling.
The brightness of each star is extremely bright, and stars of different colors dot the obsidian-like night sky, forming a galaxy that stretches across the sky.
However, Bai Ge was unable to find any traces of the "constellations" that had been recorded in the history books between these stars.
These scattered stars constitute a sea of stars that only belong to this era.
"[Night Sky]."
Ai Lian saw Bai Ge staring at the night sky, so she spoke.
"You should know."
"Hmm."
Bai Ge turned his gaze slightly from the quiet night sky to the black-haired girl in a dress beside him, and then looked ahead.
It is a slightly depressed shopping street.
On the side of the road, office workers who return late are in a hurry, leisurely men are jogging with golden retrievers, and some homes that eat late are coming from the sound of calling for children.
"This starry sky, it's fake."
Pulling his attention away from those trivial daily routines, Bai Ge knew that what he was walking now was a "non-ordinary" path.
"Yes, the abyssal relic of the [Natural Disaster Level], [Night Sky], is said to have been left by humans in the old era, but with our current technology, it cannot be analyzed, interfered with, or contained."
Although the body of love is heavy, she is light at the moment, like a nightingale.
"It is precisely because of the existence of [Night Sky] that the institutions that govern and manage the ascended are the major observatories and the subordinate Abyss Relic Affairs Division."
"Is the star who loves you also on this?"
Bai Ge asked suddenly, and then felt that this question was a little stupid.
Love is an alchemy puppet, an alchemy puppet, not a human being in nature, naturally it can't be an ascender, a star or something, there is no way to talk about it at all.
Probably because love doesn't look like a puppet, so Bai Ge subconsciously asked.
"Of course I'm not there, are you stupid?"
Ai Lian glanced at Bai Ge rather disdainfully.
"Each star above the [Night Sky] represents an ascender who has reached the second order of the chain of ascension [Traces of Ren Xia], and these stars are said to reveal the fate of the ascender, which is the star of the ascender......"
Halfway through her speech, she suddenly lost her voice.
Bai Ge was suddenly startled, thinking that he had encountered something, but when he turned his head to look, he found that the eldest lady was parked outside the milk tea dessert shop on the side of the road, staring at the ice cream in it, unable to take her eyes off.
"Didn't you just eat it?"
Bai Ge came to Ailian's side, a little curious.
This alchemy doll is too big for the stomach.
If she goes to be a food broadcaster, she will definitely be very popular.
"Little brother, we're going to close the stall soon, ten yuan and four balls, buy one for my girlfriend?"
The man in the clerk's uniform was very good at business and pointed to the price sign next to him.
The original price was fifteen yuan for four ice cream balls, and now it is past eight o'clock in the evening, and even if this place declines, it is really not the time to close the stall.
Maybe it was just a whim of the clerk.
When I heard this, I suddenly became excited.
"I want chocolate, mango, rum and matcha!"
She expertly pointed to the different colors of ice cream in the freezer, and didn't care about the clerk's name as Bai Ge's girlfriend.
This woman, was it premeditated a long time ago?
While the clerk was busy digging ice cream balls, Ai Lian turned her head to look at Bai Ge again.
"My wallet isn't on this dress."
“...... Forget it, it's only ten dollars. ”
Bai Ge was speechless, took out his mobile phone and scanned the code for the clerk, only then did he suddenly remember something.
...... What era is it, where are there still wallets!
He watched Ai Lian happily take the ice cream, sat at the open-air table and chair outside the store, and ate while playing with his mobile phone, feeling as if he had been cheated again.
Sure enough, the more beautiful a woman is, the more she can deceive people.
"Why, if you want to eat it and buy it yourself, I won't give it to you."
Seeing that Bai Ge had been staring at her, Ai Lian moved the ice cream in her hand to the side of her body, like a cat protecting food.
"Speaking of the star grid just now, it is said that these stars are closely related to the ascender, and it is true that you can predict the condition of the ascender by observing the starry sky?"
Compared with ice cream, Bai Ge is more curious about the knowledge of love.
"Well, of course...... Whew, what ice! ”
Ai Lian put a scoop of chocolate-flavored ice cream into her mouth, immediately squinted her eyes, and paused for a moment before continuing.
“...... The promotion of the ascended, the activities related to fate, and death will all be reflected in the [Night Sky], a few days ago, when the one in the extreme north was promoted to a demigod, you should have also seen the news broadcast. ”
She lifted her spoon and pointed to the northern night sky.
There, indeed, there is a star shining, which represents the [twilight bell] Dmitry. Sergeyevich's star.
"Fifty-two years ago, when the Lord of the Zhuxia Federation was promoted to the seventh rank, it is said that the blue stars were clearly visible even in daytime, and for a month, the dazzling blue stars have been hanging high over people's heads, so that the status of Zhuxia among the various forces has been truly established, of course, we estimate that the scene is difficult to see."
After Ai Lian got used to the temperature of the ice cream, she ate it faster and faster, and swept the four balls in the cup clean with three strokes and five divided by two.
This guy seems to have eaten three bowls for dinner.
The girl said that she has a stomach for sweets, right, and your alchemy doll also has it?
"Satisfied, it's time to work."
Ai Lian stood up and threw the paper cup into the trash can on the side of the road.
"In general, the color of the ascender's pupils will change depending on the archetype they are in, and their star grid will also show a similar color, which is also the origin of the name of the rainbow of the ascendant, as for the shadow archetype, I remember it ...... Black bar. ”
She turned around, her face leaned in front of Bai Ge, and a pair of big eyes carefully looked at Bai Ge's pupils, being stared at like this made Bai Ge a little embarrassed.
As for the characteristics or something, the people on Zhuxia's side are all black-haired and black-eyed, and Bai Ge is naturally the same.
"Isn't it indistinguishable?"
Love turned back, and sighed without any regrets.
Bai Ge was stunned before he kept up with the other party's footsteps.
"What do you mean, patrolling like this? Are we going to catch yesterday's ascender? ”
He couldn't help but ask.
The two chatted without saying a word, and before they knew it, they came to the alley next to the commercial street.
There are several factories that have been shut down, as well as warehouses and whatever, and because it is on the banks of the Jingjiang River, there is also a small dock for unloading.
In the past, it was connected to the shopping street and the residential area near Ailianjia, and the school was regarded as an industrial life park.
It is said that the night is haunted, and more than one person claims that the machine that should have stopped working a long time ago is moving in the middle of the night, but these are just rumors, and they are after-dinner chatter.
Bai Ge looked at the time, at nine o'clock in the evening, he had already broken up with his love for almost an hour and a half.
Is this the right time to relax after a meal?
He was about to ask what he was doing here, when he saw Ai Lian put her finger in front of her mouth and made a boo gesture.
"Look ahead."
Ai Lian raised her other hand and pointed to a factory in front of her.
It was dim here, only the starlight was shining, Bai Ge looked over in confusion, and saw that there seemed to be a faint and flickering light in the factory.
"What is this?"
Thinking of those urban legends, Bai Ge subconsciously tensed his body.
"We got information that a few days ago, there was a transaction involving a local illegal organization at the dock here, and there are abyss relics that have not yet been discovered by both sides of the transaction, and tonight should be the time when their security is at its weakest, so we will take the opportunity to get it back."
Ai Lian whispered and walked towards the factory.
Illegal Organizations???
Abyssal Relic???
Bai Ge was stunned.
Is this love taking itself to fight the underworld and eliminate evil, and maintain community order?