Blizzard Meeting (5)
From the encounter to the present, Evan has unconsciously relied on Kevin, and many things will give priority to his opinion, but I didn't expect that a seemingly ordinary God Alchemy Technician has such a terrifying force, and he has a unique insight into spirituality and alchemy, plus the study of this camouflage, as far as she knows, only the members of the Hidden Department of the Knights will use it, and who is the teacher behind him, which can't help but arouse Ivan to pay attention to.
Lu Duo and Lian Qi had never seen this kind of camouflage at all, and they couldn't help but be surprised, and Lu Duo even pinched Kevin's face at this time, but he couldn't find any flaws.
At this time, the little girl asked in a low voice, "Are you going to the Spirit Void Pavilion?" Suddenly, the three of them looked at Lian Qi vigilantly, so frightened that she immediately lowered her head and took a few steps back.
Then she said in an inaudible voice, "I'm not one of theirs, I just, I just know the way to the Spirit Void Pavilion. โ
Evan walked over to Lianqi and played with the hair scattered on the top of her head, Oz's hair was mostly gray-black, but the girl was surprisingly dark red.
"How do you make us believe you?"
Kevin looked at Lian Qi coldly, nervously clenched her little hands, tears unconsciously overflowing her eyes.
"Because, because I went there to find my parents!"
With great determination, the girl shouted out the words that had been suppressed in her chest for a long time, and large tears fell to the ground with large tears.
Seeing this, Evan immediately comforted Lianqi, after all, the situation here was not fully understood at the moment, and someone who suddenly appeared to help had to be vigilant.
"As long as you take me, I can tell you the secret passage into the underground area of the Spirit Void Pavilion."
Seeing that Kevin still refused to agree, Lian Qi immediately knelt on the ground, and Evan also looked at Kevin with an unbearable expression.
Mr. Lu Duo, who had been silent beside him, suddenly spoke: "I see that this kid is not lying, as far as I know, there is indeed a secret passage into the underground area of the Spirit Void Pavilion near Otto Square, but it is not recorded on our map. โ
Hearing Lu Duo's statement, Kevin clasped his hands to his chest and cast a suspicious look at the girl kneeling on the ground.
"Why did you choose us?"
Lian Qi answered without hesitation after hearing the question.
"Because you're strong, the strongest I've ever seen!"
Kevin shook his left wrist, then crouched down to meet Lianqi's gaze, looking seriously into her eyes.
"Really?"
Before Lian Qi could answer, the sonic boom of the wind exploded instantly, and the speed was so fast that even Ivan on the side could barely keep up. I saw Kevin stop his psionic index finger at the center of Lianqi's eyebrows, and the wind pressure brought her scattered hair up in unison.
"Why don't you hide?"
"Because the strong will not hurt the defenseless!"
Lian Qi's heart was beating violently at this time, but she still kept her composure and said this.
"Little kids!"
Kevin instantly smiled, "Okay, I believe you, let's go and rest first, and let Lianqi lead the way for us at night." Then he fell asleep on the bed that was not long enough.
"I'm not small!" Lian Qi immediately retorted and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Evan touched Lianqi's head and helped her up, asked about the festival in the evening, and after another message with Vinol, she was put into a short break.
Three hours later, the crystal bridge that stretched across the Abyssal Rift was lowered, and the residents and caravans of the festival began to make their way to Otto Square.
"Alright, let's go."
After checking his equipment one last time, Ivan gave the order to go. At this time, Kevin and Evan, whose images had changed, took the lead and made an appointment with Lu Duo and Lianqi to meet near the Lingxu Pavilion in Otto Square.
Walking on the road, Kevin peeked at Evan's image from time to time, and always felt quite disobedient.
"Look what, go your own way!"
Ivan used the special ventriloquist taught by the Knights to transform into the rough voice of a middle-aged man.
"Yes, the voice has changed, but the tone is tougher."
Kevin's opinion caused Ivan to hit him the shoulder, looking around for the festival, which attracted Oz people from all over the world, but no one wearing armbands had yet appeared.
"It seems that not everyone in the Oz is the same size as Mr. Rudo, and many of them are about the same height as Ivan, which makes the two of them not too abrupt in the crowd.
Walk to the vicinity of the Rift Valley, where a blackened pontoon bridge sits across the pitch-black abyss, the only access to the front and back of Otto City.
"This bridge deck is made of the famous black ore in the underground world, which can exhaust the efforts of several generations of excellent craftsmen at that time, although the performance of the ore is still a cut behind the three major minerals, but the characteristics of the hardness are also very suitable."
Kevin said that he had read about it in the books stored in Ludo's house, and then he pointed to the four large stones protruding from the two sides of the pontoon, the gray and white color of which contrasted strongly with the pontoon.
"See those stones, the magical buoyancy is released from these things, the essence of the Fountain of Life purchased at a high price from the Biling clan and the psionic generator made of wood from the Alberd Forest, infused with the energy of the Oz people's special research on the flow of the leylines."
"I think it's very similar to the principle of the anti-gravity furnace used under Floating Sky City."
Just as the two of them were observing the structure of the pontoon, a figure in a black robe quickly swept between the two, and the inaudible voice clearly reached the ears of the two.
"It will start after the dance after the festival begins."
The figure quickly disappeared into the sea of people, but Kevin still saw the Mithril armband hidden on his arm with great acumen.
"It seems that my conjecture is correct, and sure enough, when I see this emblem, I will take the initiative to contact it."
Kevin smiled ghostly, and Evan on the side watched the light wheel hidden in the back of his hand turn into a clock and calculate the time.
"It's less than an hour before it starts."
The two of them slowly advanced with the sea of people, and the buildings in the dark gradually appeared in front of them, and the tall and magnificent buildings on the huge rock walls were stacked in a staggered manner, and the bright light revealed was incompatible with the atmosphere of the underground world like the stars in the night sky, but in this shocking scene, an invisible dangerous aura lingered in the invisible darkness.
The eye-catching Paiyarosse Mansion is welcoming the envoy of the Blue Sky Empire at this time, and the huge goddess banner of the empire is planted in front of the door, and for this reason, there are a large number of garrisons and mechanical guards guarded by Lu Duo before.
The tall guards stood out among the diminutive Oz, and even among humans, the steel bodies that were twice the height of humans were enough to look up to. At this time, they were neatly lined up outside the mansion, and there were several soldiers in front of them who were wearing the uniforms of the Guards Regiment to carry something inside.
"It seems that the troops are concentrated here, but there is still a break to prepare for the previous festival, what's the matter, what did you find?"
Kevin saw that in the center of the empty plaza, worshippers dressed in Oz's distinctive national costumes were gathering for a prayer, a necessary ritual to guide the gathering of psionic energy in the leylines.
"Those who divide the Guards always give me an invisible sense of disobedience."
Ivan said this, and found that their walking movements were different from those of ordinary humans, and even a bit of a 'kind of person'.
"I'll go to the vicinity of Lingxu Pavilion to see the situation first, you first meet with Mr. Lu Duo and him, be careful not to reveal your identity."
Before he could finish speaking, Kevin's figure disappeared in place. Ivan snorted slightly to vent his dissatisfaction, but he also kept a vigilant look around, especially paying attention to people wearing armbands.
Lu Duo and Lianqi had already arrived at their intended position, looking around like the crowd around them to watch the festival, and Lianqi was also deeply attracted by the central prayer ceremony in the square.
"I remember that my parents also participated in prayer"
Lian Qi whispered as she recalled.
It was a festival three years ago, and the parents of the main priest were invited by the organization to confer the feast thanksgiving, and disappeared into Lianqi's life like the world evaporated. And Lian Qi can also run the hotel left by her parents with her grandmother at home.
Over the years, she has continued to spend a lot of money from black market merchants to inquire about the news, and found out that all the people who participated in the festival three years ago were arrested by the organization and taken to the Lingxu Pavilion, which is the place where countless treasures are hidden. But after all, the pontoon bridge in the front and rear areas only fell once every seven days, so she could only seize the opportunity of each pontoon bridge to open and try to enter the Lingxu Pavilion.
After repeated attempts, Lian Qi finally found an old secret passage that led to the labyrinthine underground area of the Spirit Void Pavilion, but she could only retreat in the face of those mechanical patrols without any martial arts, and even narrowly missed being caught several times.
When Lian Qi wanted to give up countless times, she remembered the smile of her parents and knew that they must be waiting for her, and it was this belief that supported her, so she went to the basement to practice martial arts when no one was around, but she had no talent and could only stand still. It was at this time that she met Kevin - listening to Lianqi's faint narration, Lu Duo, as an elder, still gently patted her thin shoulder to show comfort, held her calloused palm due to practicing martial arts, and said firmly.
"To believe them, I, like you, have a reason to find the truth."
At this time, Evan quietly came to the two of them, and used the changing voice to ask them to wait near the Spirit Void Pavilion first, so as not to be involved in the unexpected situation later.
The chant was completed shortly after, and the Gathering Generator placed in the center of the square slowly shone with a soft light. At this time, the celebrant began to lead the dance, and the ambassador stationed in the mansion announced the beginning of the festival.
"Well, what's going on over there?"
"There aren't many garrisons over there, and no related psionic defenses have been found, so it's estimated that it's been defaulted to a very safe place, but it's probably because there are unimaginable mechanisms hidden inside."
Kevin analyzes it with years of experience, and at this time the first show has already entered the section. Although the dance organized by the small Oz people is not as beautiful as that of humans, it has a petite dexterity.
At this time, the protagonists of the deliberation in the mansion slowly walked out and watched the dance on the platform temporarily erected on the side of the square.
Evan immediately focused his attention on the figure on the platform, the tall man in a silver-gray robe with the insignia of the Chamber engraved on his chest.
"It's him!"
- Supreme Commander of the Praetorian Guard, Beelzebub; Farangot!
It was this Imperial Supreme Military Advisor who acted as the envoy this time, and he was the only person in the current seat to hold military power, and any opinion he put forward was of great importance in the sub-council. In particular, he and the Supreme Speaker Hagen; Su Liepei's relationship is very delicate, after all, in the parliament, as Hagen's younger brother Hal is the commander of the branch guards, as long as he enters the branch council, he still has to suppress the Praetorian Guard.
"Frank Getuoqing, I don't know what you think of acting?"
The one who spoke was Bunongon sent by Oz as the current director of the Seiko Research Institute; Artesius, also the current king Schuna; Uncle of Artesius.
"Very good!"
The cold voice in unison with the soldier replied stiffly.
"Then we have just discussed the exchange of technology, and I hope that Your Excellency will keep your promise!" Bunongon's voice was soft, because he was very afraid of the commander of the empire in front of him, but in order to reverse all this, he could only cede what he regarded as the supreme secret.
"Are you suspicious of me?"
Beelzebub turned his resolute face slightly, and his torch-like eyes stared straight at Bunon's flattering face.
"No, no, the general's prestige is well-known even in his own country, and if he loses his trust, it will only damage the general's reputation."
Bunongun felt the strong sense of oppression emanating from the soldiers, and cold sweat was already breaking out on his forehead.
The dance in the audience has ended, and there is a short break - "It's going to begin!" Ivan looked at the clock turned into a light wheel on the back of his hand, and the time was exactly eight o'clock.
At this time, the lights of the building behind him and the light emitted by the spirit gathering generator in the center of the square were extinguished together, and in addition to Kevin and Evan, there were six other golden shimmers flickering in the darkness, which was a sign of action.
In an instant, the remaining six glimmers all moved in the direction of the platformโ"It looks like this is a list, and this middle-aged man is Bunongon; Yaltsio! โ
When Ludot saw this list before, most of them followed Bunongon; The members of the council who came to Artetheus to participate.
In this dim environment, the night vision ability that has been cultivated for many years has played a great role at this moment, except for Ivan beside him, the six Mithril killers have already approached the group on the platform.
"What's going on?" Bunongon nervously looked at the darkness around him, and although he was naturally adaptable to the dim environment, it would take a while to recover from the sudden situation.
A sound of footsteps came slowly, and he approached Bunongon, only to see a man standing in front of him holding a dark red mass object in his hand.
"Long time no see, Bunongon; Dean Artexiu! โ
Then the dark red glow of the object made Bunongon see the man in front of him.
"It's you, Samikina, you're not"