Under the mask

At the end of the slide was a room with no lights, and the dim atmosphere around Gong Chen was very uncomfortable, and as he fumbled for a lighter in his pocket, some dark blue flames appeared around them, lighting up the room.

It was a bedroom that was once quite distinctive, and the undestroyed wallcovering was even embroidered with beautiful patterns and patterns, but most of it seemed to have been burned by a fierce fire, and there were burnt marks and smells everywhere. Especially next to the fountain in the corner, it was more as if it had just come out of the fire scene, the original pale cyan crystal bench had been burned orange, and on the bench sat a gentleman in a blue suit and top hat, with chic flowers embroidered on the cuffs, and on his left hand was a bouquet of flowers made of pure ice.

After seeing Yu Siqi and the others coming up, he stood up and slowly walked towards everyone. Yu Siqi found out that this person was wearing a very cartoon mask, and the handwriting on it seemed to be the hand of a child, and he even had a suspicion, thinking that the graffiti below and this mask were all made by one person.

When the masked man walked up to them, he waved his hand, and a neat and luxurious row of benches appeared on Siqi's right. Then the masked man walked straight past them, walked to the entrance of the slide, and spoke to Father Ann below, as if they didn't exist.

"Hey, although the stool is good, isn't this too much!" Gong Chen sat on a stool and said, "We are the first to arrive." ”

Ignoring Gong Chen's complaints, the masked man was still talking to Father An about some unpleasant things, but since the priest was about to arrive, Gong Chen stopped a little and chatted with Yu Siqi about his thoughts.

"How many floors do you think this tower has?" Gong Chen asked.

"I don't know, it's definitely not low." Yu Siqi recalled that before he came in just now, he saw the towering tower, and felt that this trip was definitely not an easy thing to complete.

"At least ten floors or more," Xie Baozhen said, "do you hear, this guy is threatening the priest!" ”

"Threats are the kind of things I hear in the office more than five times a day." Gong Chen smiled and said, "You may not know how much those bureaucratic old dogs like to talk about apartment 23. ”

"By the way, so you don't work in the place where I used to work, that is, your wife Xiaofang's company?" Yu Siqi asked.

"Of course, why should I work there? I have more important work to do, and I am only on duty there to meet the needs of the work at that time! Gong Chen said: "However, our friendship is real, so you must rest assured." ”

"No, it was your idea to let me go to the communication room that day, right?" Yu Siqi asked.

"Did you find out? Actually, Xiaofang and I have been rehearsing for a long time, and I'm really sorry to keep it from you. Gong Chen touched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"One more question, you deal with this strange thing every day, does Xiaofang know?" Yu Siqi asked.

"Oh... I think she knew, otherwise she wouldn't have picked this time slot to go back to her parents' house, right? Father Ann smiled and came to them.

"Isn't she afraid?" Yu Siqi asked: "I mean, she should be just like me, an ordinary person, right?" ”

"We are also ordinary people," Xie Baozhen stressed.

"Well, it's me who didn't do it properly." Yu Siqi said.

"I'm sorry to disturb your chat," said the masked man, standing in the middle of the room, taking off his top hat and bowing deeply to the crowd, "I think now that you're all here, it's time for the show to begin." I'm Mr. Parvadi and I used to be a teacher. ”

"You can't be a music teacher too, right?" Yu Siqi's blurted out questions and answers that made the masked man look at him, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

"Music? No, no... I teach my master everything, not just music. Pawa put on his hat and said, "Of course, music... It's a really important course, especially about life. ”

Without waiting for the big fellow to speak, he continued: "Wise among you may have heard from the words before that what happened to the owner of this room, and I have to say that I am quite concerned that the melodica lady was burned to ashes by the blasphemous fire; So be prepared, because I'm probably not as kind as Bobosha downstairs. ”

"Do you want to compete?" Gong Chen stood up and asked, "Or is it about fighting?" ”

"Driven by violence? Of course, violence is one of the ways to solve this set of problems. "But it's not the best way." ”

"Are you scared?" Xie Baozhen asked.

"Scared?" Pavadi sneered, a little oozing.

"No, he's just thinking about how to destroy us." Father Ann said blandly: "Just killing us obviously can't calm his resentment and hatred, it seems that the group of good people in front of us left us a very delicious 'hot potato'." ”

"Sometimes that's the case, Father." Gong Chen said with a wry smile: "Most people are more ... Reckless..."

"Ah, I thoughtβ€”" Pava called out suddenly, in a very harsh voice.

"Maybe with your souls, you can pull the undissipated figure of the Lady of the Mouth Organ back from the endless earth, yes, that's it!"

As soon as the words of the Pawa flute fell, the dark blue flames surrounding Yu Siqi and the others gradually gathered together and turned into a flute.

"Ah Zhen, open the enchantment and protect everyone. Gong Chen, find a good angle. Father Ann said with a solemn face, "I'll meet him." ”

When the pure white enchantment appeared in front of Pavadi, the latter actually smiled and said, "Enchantment? But it is only to slow you down your march towards death. ”

"The Decree - Strengthened." After reciting the incantation, Father An took off his coat and pressed the badge in his pocket to his chest, only to see that the badge with the broken chain actually stretched out something like a stitch, and pierced deeply into the priest's chest, and there was a faint blood sparkle.

"Just a human being, how can you still understand the ancient law?" Pavadi picked up the flute and looked at Father Ann's head, but he didn't want to be caught by Father Ann with one hand.

"The Orderβ€”Swift." Father Ann said again, and the badge emitted a hint of green light, and in the blink of an eye, Father Ann appeared behind Pavadi and gave him a backhand punch, which seemed to surprise Pavadi, but it didn't have any good effect.

Watching Father An and Pavadi engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat, Yu Siqi was a little skeptical that he had gone to the wrong set, the previous priest always gave people the illusion of a 'mage', and suddenly such a 'battle' scene came, which made people a little unguardable.

But because the speed of the two of them is getting faster and faster, Yu Siqi's eyes can no longer keep up with their speed, and he can only barely catch two afterimages in his eyeballs testing each other back and forth.

"No, I gave up." After Gong Chen pulled the fifteenth bow, he panted and said, "I can't see who is who at all, I can't shoot it!" ”

"We can only watch the priest perform," Xie Baozhen said, holding the white ball in one hand, "but if we keep the foundation of this enchantment running, we still have a lot of time." ”

"Hey, I can't help either, I'm so angry." Yu Siqi complained.

"No way, who made you not as handsome as your brother!" Gong Chen put away the long stick and said, "Besides, there are always one or two in every team who will stand in the back row and shout 6... What..."

The sudden impact interrupted Gong Chen's words, and some cracked lines appeared in the originally intact enchantment, and in the center of the lines was the scarred Father An.

Looking at Father An, who was covered in blood, Yu Siqi and the others began to panic a little. Just when Gong Chen was about to help, Father An tried to jump to the ground from the crack in the enchantment, turned around and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, spat on the bloody spit, and said, "Ah Zhen, strengthen the enchantment, don't worry about me." ”

"But, Father." Xie Baozhen said with some uneasiness.

"It's okay, you can't die from this little injury," Father Ann said with a smile, "The law - self-repair." As the spell took effect, the badge glowed an eerie red again, and the wounds on Father An's body began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, simply violating the rules of physics. However, when the wounds all over his body healed, the badge that pierced his chest sank deeper, which made Xie Baozhen's face covered with layers of sadness.

"As a human being, I have to say that your vitality is much more vigorous than I imagined." Pavadi gently patted the dust off his clothes, smoothed out the wrinkled flowers on his cuffs, and said, "But how many times does your strange spell work?" How many times will your broken body last? How many rays of light can your weird badge shine again? ”

"That's not something you should be concerned about," Father Ann dodged to Pava's right hand and swung his fist out.

"Didn't I tell you that your level of aggression doesn't work for me at all." Parvadi lazily leaned over and said, "Is it chilling that the wisdom you have shown downstairs has drained all your existing intelligence?" ”

"I used to know a guy who was very badly beaten, but after meeting you, I changed my mind." Father Ann withdrew his fist, unexpectedly changed angles, and slammed his fist Pavadi's mask. With a 'rattle' sound, the shattered masks fell to the ground one after another, and Pavadi, who had taken a few steps back, stared at the fragments of the mask on the ground with a blank look of disbelief, unable to speak.

To the surprise of Yu Siqi and the others, what was revealed behind the mask was a semi-circular hollow skull, in which was placed a stone object in the shape of an egg, judging from the eyes of the 'egg', it was likely to be the so-called 'Pawa Flute'.

"I've long been suspicious," said Father Ann, as he gathered around the standing Parvadi, "and wherever I struck you, you didn't parry it at all, but only occasionally symbolically dodged, and then took advantage of my flaws and began to fight back violently. It's only above the head that you will be vigilant and try to avoid being touched by me, which is very unusual. Of course, the head is a vulnerable part after all, and it makes sense to avoid being hit, so I didn't find out about your intentions for a long time. ”

"Looks like I'm underestimating you, human." With a wave of his hand, Pavadi brought a new mask to his face and said, "But even if you know my true identity, so what? Next time it won't be so easy for you to get your hands on. ”

"I can't tell," said Gong Chen, who had walked out of the barrier, in the posture of holding a bow, "I'm not a three-year-old baby, and whoever lets me stay there, I'll be honest and obedient, Priest." ”

With a familiar long whistle, Gong Chen shot the arrow that killed Bamon earlier, because of the suddenness of the incident, Pavadi had to try to change his body to dodge the arrow that shot at him. But Father Ann wouldn't give him a chance, taking advantage of the moment when Pavadi panicked, he made a bold move, kicking Pava Di, who was not in a hurry to avoid it, in the direction of Gong Chen, and this recoil force slammed himself to the ground, and the 'bang' scared everyone with a 'bang'.

Then, like the sound of an eggshell being shattered, Pavadi fell to her knees, a not-so-large hole in the center of the mask, and orange juice was leaking from it.

"Father, are you alright?" Xie Baozhen asked worriedly.

"It's okay, if there is any kind of person willing to help me, it would be great." Lying on all fours, Father Ann gasped and said, "I'm old, this little warm-up exercise has made my bones fall apart." ”

Xie Baozhen, who hurriedly removed the enchantment, quickly ran to Father An's side and observed his injuries. Yu Siqi, who followed up, looked at Pawa Di who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "Is he dead?" ”

"Of course," Gong Chen said affectionately stroking the long stick in his hand, "it told me that it has long been unpleasant to see the turtle son of Pavadi, and he likes to pretend to be deep all day long. Now that he had been sent to meet the Bamon couple, he was in a very good mood and wanted to sing loudly. I let it go home and sing it again, it's easy to get into trouble here. ”

"Why?" Yu Siqi asked curiously.

"Because the song it sings has a high probability of making you lose your hearing," Gong Chen put away the long stick and said, "I usually wear noise-canceling earplugs to let it sing." ”

"Okay," Yu Siqi said, spreading his hands.

"I said, is that how you treat the elderly?" Father An slowly stood up with Xie Baozhen's support and said, "I don't know if I came here to care about it." ”

"You've gone too far this time," Xie Baozhen looked at the round scar on the priest's chest and said, "This scar has to go back and apply some plaster to get a little better, but now there is no way." ”

"It's okay, as long as you're not dead, it's not a problem." Father An took the badge in Xie Baozhen's hand, watched the dense bloody stitches on it gradually retract in, and said, "Don't stand there stupidly, go and take off that guy's clothes for me, don't you see that I am not covered now?" ”

"It's okay if you don't get to the bottom of your stomach," Gong Chen muttered.