Chapter 15: The Death of Change
Outside the house, a few white and yellowish rose petals faltered in the corner. Tang Quan didn't rush in, he glanced at the almost withered white roses on the lintel, and was actually slightly distracted. Reaching out to the withered black color of the edge of the white petals, his fingertips stopped, and he remembered his daughter's warning not to pluck the rose. But this warning gradually faded, dispensable, and finally fell silent, and he still stretched out his hand after hesitation. "Half of the petals are withered, I'll go buy a new one tomorrow morning." He muttered.
The door lock fits snugly with the key, and in some years the deadbolt makes a screeching sound. Hearing the sound, Tingting's little hand that was still moving the knife paused slightly, leaving the tomato petals oozing bright red juice from the cutting board. The slender body turned slightly sideways, giving Tang Quan, who had just entered the house and still had fog sticking to his hair, with a bright smile, "Father, welcome home." β
Although Tang Quan only replied in a low voice, his heart was already warm, and he didn't know that a smile appeared on his face. Closed the door, put down the things in his hand, and walked towards his daughter in a cold air.
"Father, go and sit there, the noodles are easy to cook, and dinner will be ready soon." The chopsticks in Tingting's hand were stirring quickly in the porcelain bowl, and the egg liquid was off the wall, as if attached to the tip of the chopsticks, and it was still producing some yellow and white foam.
Tang Quan screamed and retreated. On a short chair in the distance, he sat obediently, with his big rough hands on his knees, and looked at his daughter with a serious smile on his face.
Tingting poured the egg liquid into the oil pot along the edge of the pot, and a pair of watery eyes on his slightly nervous little face glared at him fiercely, "Don't look at me!" Perhaps it was her father's intently gaze that made her hands, which were already practice, slightly jerky, which made her resentful of her father. Tang Quan sighed stupidly, and reluctantly looked away, but he felt a little lonely in his heart, after all, this was one of the few psychological comforts in his life.
After a short time, the steaming noodle soup was carefully served by Tingting, the golden scrambled eggs were dotted with tender green green onions, the sauce-colored soup was mixed with the red of tomatoes, and when he took a deep breath, a strong sense of intoxication filled Tang Quan's entire lung cavity. Tingting sipped the noodles, but his eyes kept glancing at his father's wolf-like eating appearance, secretly happy. Taking a bite of the sweet eggplant, she was suddenly stunned because her father, who was sitting opposite, actually stopped eating.
Tang Quan seemed to remember something very important, but he tried his best to maintain a mysterious expression, "Guess what I bought for our baby daughter today?" Before Tingting could react, "Oh, kick," Tang Quan didn't know where to conjure up a delicate box, the box was ajar, and a small, but lovely cake appeared inside, and the three huge strawberries inlaid with wavy white cream firmly caught Tingting's sight. Her expression of disbelief could no longer be restrained, the corners of her eyes were round, her throat moved, and she swallowed her saliva unconsciously.
Tang Quan also gained great satisfaction, and a smile bloomed on his face, "Hehe, save it for dinner and eat it later." Seeing his daughter nodding in disbelief, he wanted to continue the dinner, but a sudden sense of oppression in his heart made him instantly alert.
There was a noise outside the window.
Wind?
Footsteps?
The sudden irritability in his heart made Tang Quan subconsciously turn his neck, and a moment of coolness cut a gap in the warmth of the room. After a moment's notice, he saw a steaming ice blade stuck in the wall!
Not good! Tang Quan's heart suddenly became nervous, and the words that Da Fat said today flashed in his mind, his leg muscles bulged, and he immediately got up and entered a fighting posture.
Although the continuous sound was not loud, it was the tearing sound of broken windows, which was very terrifying.
Tang Quan was a little confused.
Two figures flashed in through the sound of the door and window shattering.
Tang Quan raised one arm flat, blocked his daughter with his body, and shouted, "Who are you and what do you want to do?!" β
The two of them wore huge black capes, their entire faces perfectly covered by towering collars and pure black top hats, and the only eyes that could be exposed were sunglasses. One of them made an unhurried voice that was still young, it was the ninth ranked "Zhantan" Onodera Shinri in the Red League, "You don't need to know who we are, both horizontal and vertical are dead." β
Tang Quan's body trembled when he heard this, seeing that the two of them were dressed as trying their best to hide their identities, and the situation of him and his daughter was worrying. Tingting hid behind her father, but her mind was roaring like thunder, she knew very well that the two black-clothed people in front of her were the murderers of Zhang Hengyuan's family a few days ago, and their voices would appear at the same time as the palm that grabbed the back of her neck in a nightmare these days. But she didn't understand why she was murdered with the protection of White Rose, and Liang Leon and Xu Mengheng's thousands of instructions finally failed.
At this time, Shota Horikita, who was also dressed in black, shouted at Onodera in his hoarse voice, "Hurry up, the sneak attack was unsuccessful, and it was still grinding to make such a big move." I saw that the air around him quickly condensed into short icicles, and the palms of Onodera's hands ignited a high beam of bear fire, pointing at Tang Quan. After a brief snort in unison, the icicles began to shake and shoot towards the rapid Tang Quan, and two flames intertwined behind the icicles.
Tang Quan reacted quickly, and in the extremely short time that the two of them were singing, he pushed Tingting in the direction of the inner room, while he quickly dodged to the left of the back. However, the coverage of magic was especially wide in the small room, and he couldn't dodge, and the blood seeped out instantly in the middle of the icicle in his waist and abdomen and right leg.
Tang Quan's brows furrowed, he heard his daughter's sharp scream, and there was obvious fear and uneasiness in his voice. He didn't understand why he had to be killed and killed because he had no grievances with them, and his daughter would ...... in the future, "Is my identity exposed?" It's impossible! He thought so anxiously and shouted at his daughter, "Tingting, run!" Leave me alone, run! β
At the same time, Tang covered the wound with all his hands, slowly leaned his body on the edge of the kitchen, and begged for mercy to the two men in black, "I don't know why you killed me, but please let my daughter go, she is still ...... young."
"Spare it? How can it be? You're thinking too much. Although Horikita said this, he didn't pay attention to Tingting, who was hiding in the back room, and seemed sure that she would not escape.
Tang Quan leaned against the gas can at his feet, his hand behind him fumbled, he just touched the bottle containing oil, and before he had time to feel at ease, he was instantly angry when he heard the words of the two, "What!?" His right oil-stained hand swung forward, and in an instant, a wave of flames soared to the ceiling, cursing, "A bunch of bastards, eat me a red horn!" β
Onodera and Horikita were both stunned for a moment and took two steps back, but the red fire of Tang Quan's right fist was already rushing towards them like a bull. Seeing that he couldn't dodge, Horikita immediately pulled out a black metal rod from his arms, and clenched it with his right hand, and the black rod was immediately wrapped in ice, revealing the shape of a spear, with a sharp and angular head and a strange luster. Horikita only touched it with the tip of his spear, and then pulled the horns of the rampage to the side. However, although he was unharmed, he apparently forgot about the safety of his teammates, and Onodera on the side was unable to dodge and was grazed by a fire bull on his left arm. "Damn! Hurt me like this, I will definitely make his life worse than death! Onodera shouted viciously, clasped his hands together, and formed a fire seal, "Myojin Fire Cross!" β
Tang Quan saw Onodera raise his hand, and just wanted to dodge sideways, but he had not been exposed to this kind of functional magic, so he was immediately hit. The burning pain in his back suddenly burned like the taste of a thousand blades, making him cry out in pain. At this time, Tang Quan was like a broken Jesus who was fixed on the cross, but this cross was not wooden, but made of fire, so that Tang Quan could not move his limbs and endured the punishment of cannon burning.
But Onodera didn't burn Tang Quan to death immediately, he waved horizontally, and the fire cross wilted a lot, and Tang Quan's shouts were much lower. "What are you doing here? It's a quick fix. Horikita looked at Onodera in bewilderment, but the next second he shut up, because the latter's face was fanged like a man-eating demon.
"How can you do it when your flesh is roasted? This way of death is hard to solve the hatred in my heart. I'm going to cut off his meat piece by piece and feed it to his daughter!" Onodera said this, his eyes widened wildly, and he was so happy that a butterfly knife appeared in his hand at some point, flying dazzlingly. Horikita had a chill in his heart at this time, and as Onodera's partner, he knew his temperament very well.
Shinri Onodera is usually a warm-hearted and righteous person, who will give food and clean clothes to street children with a smile, and he will often take the initiative to help when the elderly have difficulty moving and no one to take care of them. However, the self-proclaimed beautiful man, he cherishes his body very much, once someone hurts him, he will immediately turn his face, even if it is an ignorant child, he will return to the other party with several times the pain, moody to the terrible. Once, Onodera put a little girl who accidentally stepped on his shoes to the ground, and stomped on the girl's face with the heel of his leather shoes, and trampled his brain out alive, because he had nail fungus on his feet, and he couldn't stand the pain of trampling. And now that Tang Quan's fire bull has burned his arm, or left an indelible scar, of course he is furious, and he will definitely treat Tang Quan with the most inhumane criminal law.
"Rip the flesh out of your chest first! Let your daughter taste the taste of her father's human steak! Onodera laughed and cut through Tang Quan's clothes, skillfully peeling off the human skin and taking out the tendons between the two ribs. As soon as the fingers probed, like a flash of fire on the head of a welding lance, the smell of meat faintly appeared.
Onodera was no longer interested in Tang Quan's wrinkled expression of pain and screaming, he stuck a piece of meat in his dagger, and walked to the pavilion hiding in the corner and peeking at it with a wicked smile, "I found you, little girl, we met again, it's really fate." I let you go last time, so I won't be able to run away this time. He stretched out his hand, grabbed Tingting, who was trying to escape, and pulled her loose hair under him.
Tingting was kneeling on top of an adult man of Onodera's weight, and she couldn't even breathe, coughing incessantly, and her mind still lingered with her father's wails and the bloody appearance of the flesh being ripped off. Tears poured down the concrete floor, but she didn't know it, and only turned her head with all her might, whimpering to avoid the gray flesh against her lips.
Onodera Marei didn't have the patience to play a gopher game with Tingting, and his left hand gripped his cheeks roughly, but no matter how hard he squeezed, Tingting gritted his teeth to death. "You open it for me! Believe it or not, I'm going to kill your dad right away? Onodera let go of the two red fingerprints and grabbed her neck again.
Tang Quan, who was still moaning, was actually unconscious, and the burns and knife wounds made him faint. But Onodera didn't seem satisfied, "Emperor, wake him up, I want him to see this peerless beauty with his own eyes!" Shota Horikita looked at Onodera's crazy demeanor, and felt powerless, so he could only shake his head, pick up the hot water kettle on the stove, and wave his hand, it was ice water with the sound of solid collision.
Tang Quan was successfully sobered up, but when his vision was reflected in the situation of his daughter being trampled under her knees, he almost lost his mind, yelling at some inaudible sentences, and his limbs fluttered wildly, and the fire cross was also driven to crumble.
If you don't eat the piece of meat in front of you, your father will be killed. Under this coercion and intimidation, Tingting was frightened, but still kept her senses, she knew that even if she ate the piece of meat in front of her, the two murderers would never let her father go, but she had no choice but to stitch a bloody stain in her mouth with difficulty. And Onodera was as excited as he saw the girl's menarche, and smashed the piece of meat into Tingting's mouth with a dagger. The smell of blood and flesh melted on Tingting's tongue at once, and the pain made her almost faint. Onodera was overjoyed to see Tingting in such pain, and he looked up and laughed wildly, but his laughter was suddenly mixed with the screams of a woman.
Onodera's eyes flashed in shock, and when he looked back, there was a woman standing in front of the broken window. Although the woman's face was frightened, her face was as beautiful as the flowers on her arms, and it was Sister Ling, the owner of the flower shop.
When Sister Ling saw this, she was so frightened that she ran away, but how could Onodera let go of this eyewitness, and chased after her in a few steps, and the arquebus around her body wrapped around her legs like seaweed. Seeing Sister Ling break free and fall to the ground fruitlessly, Onodera's half-open mouth splashed with salivation, and he stabbed her snow-white back of the neck fiercely. Sister Ling's whole body spasmed and her limbs twitched, and the blood quickly pooled up on the side of her neck, but Onodera was not happy at all, and while listening to her desperate screams, she broke her whole body to the front, and the shower knife stabbed her chest, until she crooked her neck and collapsed to the ground, without a sound.
"It's all your fault, if you had eaten this meat earlier and solved it earlier, the woman wouldn't have had to die. You know? It's all your fault. When she returned to the house, Onodera Shinri couldn't wipe the viscous liquid off her face, and angrily grabbed Tingting who was trying to escape again, and yelled at her.
Tingting's mind was roaring, and Onodera's words had gradually blurred, making it difficult for her to make out the words. She didn't expect that such a kind and beautiful sister Ling would be brutally killed because of herself, "Well, my sister just came to send me some flowers, knowing that my white roses are about to wither, hahaha." Why did God arrange it so coincidentally? Tingting's eyes were blank, and she smiled nervously, muttering something that even she couldn't hear clearly.
Onodera saw that Tingting was delirious and crazy, and he also lost interest, spat out boring in his mouth, raised his knife and frowned, and walked towards Tang Quan, who was half-dead. At this time, Tang Quan was like an angry dog chained, his limbs were choked, and he could only stretch his neck and open his teeth.
"Since I've got innocent people involved, I don't want to waste any more time, so I'll send you on my way now. You just thank the woman who loves to join in the fun. As he said this, Onodera suddenly struck out with his right hand and grabbed Tang Quan's head. I saw that there was a burst of fire between the palm of my hand and my scalp, as if Tang Quan's head was about to explode in the next second. But at this moment, a terrible scream made Onodera slightly stunned. By the time Onodera reacted consciously, Tingting on the side had already smashed the chair in his hand tremblingly, hitting him accurately in the back of the head, and his right hand that was casting spells was extinguished as if the power had been cut off.
It is a magic that condenses flames in the palm of your hand, and if it is interrupted before the final explosion, its magic circuit can be easily damaged. Therefore, Onodera's palms hurt hotly, and he turned his head to stare at Tingting, who was deflated and frightened after mustering up his courage, "You slut, see how I will clean you up later!" At this time, he knew that the magic circuit in his body was temporarily disrupted, and it was not appropriate to use magic again immediately, so he snatched Shota Horikita's ice spear and stabbed Tang Quan's chest in annoyance.
All this is in her eyes, and now she is afraid, but in her sight is her father who is about to be pierced by the tip of the gun, how can she take care of so much? Immediately went crazy and pounced on Onodera's body, scratching and biting.
"Emperor! Tie it up! β
Tatei was dizzy after only one elbow from Onodera, and he was unable to resist Horikita, who was holding a hemp rope, and was soon tied up. The strange binding method made her hands and feet unable to move for a minute, and it was difficult to even curl and squirm, so she could only be thrown into the corner by Horikita at will. The thick tape covered half of her face, her nose smelled of plastic, and she could only stare at the two men killing their father, but she couldn't say a word.
"Hahahaha!"
Suddenly, a strange laughter sounded in the room, and it actually came from Tang Quan, who lowered his head, and saw his straight arms shake, and he fell from the fire cross. With scorched smoke all over his body, he stepped on the ground, and the fire snake rose again in his right arm, and when he raised his head again, the fire snake suddenly expanded, and the rare barking sound was like a hound's chained hound, ready to attack.
"How is that possible? Can you break free from the Myojin Fire Cross? Onodera was startled, jumped back a few steps, and threw the ice gun back to Horikita.
"I haven't moved my muscles for many years, but I didn't expect me to regress to this point. However, it's not too late, you didn't kill me in the first place, what a foolish choice. Tang Quan's eyes began to have confidence. More than 10 years ago, when he was an officer, he used a spell that was a flame piercing bow, and his rank in the army was that of an archer. However, due to the regulations of the army, archers were also trained as heavy bows and light bows according to their physique. Light Bow is good at medium-range speed magic, supplemented by close-range physical magic, suitable for containment and guerrilla; The Heavy Bow, on the other hand, relies entirely on explosive and destructive magic from a distance, with a focus on precision, at the cost of a longer forward swing time. Tang Quan belongs to the heavy bow, and before the battle, he needs to concentrate and concentrate his soul power to meet the requirements of long-range destructive magic. Therefore, he was just blocked in a closed environment by two killers, not only could he not let go of his hands and feet, but he could not immediately use his own magic, and could only sacrifice one of the only two close-range destructive magic used to protect himself, "Red Horn", even then he was a little powerless. However, after a period of forbearance and humiliation on the Fire Cross, he can finally regain his former style, although he endures the severe pain behind his back, he also has to speak and tease his opponent to make his daughter feel at ease, "It seems that your magic is very powerful, but it is just a little trick to tie people up." Fire and fire are eliminated, as a flame attribute magician, you actually tried to trap me with this kind of synonymous magic, you are too layman. β
"Look, don't let you go!"
"Shut up! Are you embarrassed to be burned like this? I think he can jump into the sky! Onodera was very tired of Horikita's complaints, and three python-shaped flames suddenly came out of his hand, and the police plane stood up, still swallowing snake stars, "Your firefly is also worthy of being compared to me, I really don't know how thick the sky is." β
The three fire pythons quickly entrenched on Tang's body under Onodera's order, and their bodies more than ten meters long intertwined with each other and strangled Tang Quan to death, and the empty snake head was still waiting for an opportunity to dance its sharp teeth and bite. Tang Quan tried his best to use fire on his body, and after getting rid of the restraints, he kept dodging left and right, and hit the python's body with his fire-entangled right arm, although it was effective for a moment, but the fire python immediately recovered as before.
Although Tingting is a layman, she can see it very clearly, although the three fire pythons seem to be immortal and immortal, in fact, the reason is also very intuitive, their tails have never been able to detach from the palm of Onodera's hand, and it seems that the damaged parts have been receiving a steady stream of energy.
On the other side, Shota Horikita was not idle, dancing like a windmill of the ice spear, and when the tip of the spear went from the top of his head to his waist, he suddenly clenched and stopped, and a wild wolf formed of white crystals came out with his teeth out, roaring straight towards Tang Quan.
Tang Quan was already struggling to be entangled by the fire python, and when he saw such magic, his heart was inexplicably sad. He has been in the army for more than ten years, and he has met countless wizards, but there are very few armed magicians who are stronger than the two gangsters in front of him. I thought it was just two magicians who knew a little bit about it, but I didn't expect the opponent to be well versed in magic. He didn't have the blessing of a spell, so how could he fight if he didn't use the long-range magic he was good at? Thinking like this, he was horizontal in his heart, the three fingers of his left hand curled, the single fire ghost seal, and his strongest hole card was sacrificed. I saw him shouting with confidence, "It's still too naΓ―ve for you!" Arrow of the Burning Sky! β
As soon as these words came out, Onodera and Horikita were shocked at the same time, but they did not hesitate to attack. Onodera stretched out another hand, and the six pythons went down together, "It's just the arrogant words of a dying man." He never believed that the ordinary man in front of him could use the extremely difficult to learn S-class magic, the Burning Sky Arrow, and after a brief moment of surprise, it was just a joke.
Tang Quan naturally knew how powerful this magic was, the straight trajectory, if with the help of the Flame Piercing Bow, the range could reach 500 meters, and it had one of the best penetrating power in the flame attribute magic, obstacles within half of its range could not block this technique, unless it was a defensive magic of the same level. Now without the blessing of the spell, the range of the Burning Sky Arrow will be within Tang Quan's maximum effective spell casting range, that is, within 88 meters, although it will hurt the nearby residents, he can't control it so much.
I saw a huge fire bow appear out of thin air in front of Tang Quan, there was no bowstring, only a thick arrow feather was rapidly stretched by his fire-wrapped right arm. When he reached the extreme position, Tang Quan knew that as soon as he let go of his hand, this arrow feather would immediately become the size of a missile, and in an instant, the trajectory of several meters wide would make this alley cut a "natural" ditch. But as soon as the smile reached the corner of his mouth, his dark eyes were imprinted with the helpless figure of his daughter in the corner, and the angry flames of his arm immediately wilted, and even the fire bow was quietly extinguished.
Tang Quan gave up. It was not so much about giving up as it was about discovering his fatal mistake. If that blow had just been used, his daughter, who was on the verge of a magical trajectory, would not have even scum left, and there would be no point in him being so desperate. Thinking so, he watched as the dazzling frost wolf attacked him, but he could only hurriedly dodge sideways......
"Puff click." Tang Quan was not good at physical skills, he couldn't dodge the rapid ice wolf, his armpits began to reach the lower abdomen, half of his body was bitten off by the wolf's head, and his broken internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and Bai Sensen's vertebrae could be seen shattered and standing, crumbling to support the broken body. The cold air spread from the wound, causing his blood to gradually coagulate, his nerves were frostbitten, and his flesh was blurred and he couldn't feel pain. Tang Quan didn't die immediately, probably the wound just avoided the heart. However, he knew that he was certain to die, and it was only a matter of time, but he was still thinking about how to protect his daughter at high speed. As his body grew colder and colder, he began to panic a little, unconsciously raising the flame in his right arm, expanding the coverage of the flame to the entire right half of his body, in vain trying to counteract some of the cold erosion.
Tingting in the corner looked at her father, who was only half of her body, tears blurred her eyes, but she blinked hard, trying to distinguish the terrible scene in front of her. She couldn't speak, but just holding her breath and whimpering made her throat hoarse. "Father will be fine! No matter how serious the injury is, it will be fine! It will definitely be cured! She was still forcibly soothing herself.
"It's almost over." Seeing that Tang Quan was not dead, Shota Horikita was cautious by nature, and he once again aimed at Tang Quan's heart with an ice gun and stabbed it hard......
At this moment, Tang Quan's heart was completely penetrated. But just as Horikita was about to pull out the ice gun, Tang Quan saw the gap where the two of them came together in front of him, and rushed up like crazy, his body continued to rise along the barrel of the gun, and the white and blue icicle barrel was covered by a layer of red paint, constantly drenching the ground with a little bit of numbness and bright red. Perhaps they didn't expect the dying person who was pierced through the heart to have such strength, and Onodera and Horikita were unprepared for Tang Quanqi's attacking arms. Tang Quan knew that this was his last chance, so he firmly clasped the necks of the two of them, no matter how they broke free from the blow, only the trembling fingers swiped behind Onodera's back one by one.
Tang Quan's thinking was getting slower and slower, he bared his teeth, his lips closed up and down with difficulty, his lowered head slowly raised, his eyes looked towards the corner Tingting, gave her a reluctant smile, and finally said a few words tremblingly.
"I'm sorry I lied to you all this time......"
In an instant, a fierce pillar of orange fire rose from the soles of Tang Quan's feet, engulfing Onodera Shinri and Shota Horikita together with their arms clasped together. Like the tail flame of a rocket, the pillar of flame erupted through the roof and into the sky. The howl of pain in the flames lasted only a few seconds before it was silent.
The fire disappeared in an instant, Tingting still couldn't believe all this, and his father, who was still laughing with him at dinner, disappeared without a trace. The tears on her face had long since been dried by the waves of fire that had been splashing around her, and she stared in horror at the place where the pillar of fire had been extinguished. The smoke was filled with three charred corpses left behind after the fire. The great grief swept through every part of Tingting's body, and after the fire was extinguished, the cold air hit again, and her whole body fainted, and her little hand suddenly twitched, and there was a small lump in the original half-closed palm that was shiny, probably the button on the coat of someone in black who had just been pulled.
Outside the house, a loud explosion may have been heard, and from time to time nearby residents appeared in the streets and alleys, looking at their houses from a distance. The huge pillar of fire soared into the sky, and they all knew that this was something they could not interfere with, even if the sound had dissipated for a long time, none of them dared to approach. People whispered, but the sound was absorbed by the sparse snow on the roadside, and this evening was quiet but breathtaking.