Chapter 1: The Rising Light of the Night Sea (1)
A few explosions shattered the silence of the nameless alley, and a flame rose high from the rooftop, red as the breath of a dragon, and the sky-high flames stained the clouds in the sky. Two figures rushed out of the door with a "whoosh".
Time rewinds to a few minutes ago, and in a gloomy room, there is an eerie aura everywhere.
"Scissors." A truth in the darkness spoke, her tone cold and unquestionable.
As soon as she finished speaking, Maylis had already handed her the object. Truth picked up the scissors and continued to work, and after a few moments, Truth said, "Hammer."
The hammer was in his hands, and the room immediately resounded with a rolling metallic roar, "Knock, knock, knock, bell, bell...". Two paper lamps hung on the wall emitted a faint light, swaying and flickering with the sound of percussion.
Two little shrine maidens are conducting a secret experiment.
"The assembly is complete, and the third test explosion will be carried out, and all departments will prepare." Truth put down the hammer and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, his expression extremely serious.
Maylis nodded, she covered her mouth and nose with her cuffs and carefully retreated to the corner, hesitated for a moment and reminded weakly: "Sister, we are really not bombing, please don't use the word test explosion, it has been blown up twice, I'm a little scared, and, besides us, are there other departments here?." ”
Truth shuddered and almost didn't fall, she glared at Maylis fiercely, and the poor little girl was so frightened that she quickly covered her mouth and signaled that she would not speak again. The cuffs of the truth were stained with the unknown substances on various experimental tables, so she simply pulled the two pieces of paper and pinched them into a ball to plug her nostrils, and also retreated to the corner.
After several days of hard work, during which there were two explosions, they still managed to get to this point, they looked at each other, saw the tightness and excitement in their eyes, the truth took a deep breath, made up her mind, raised the glass ball in her hand, and threw it at the wall with all her might.
The glass ball was hollow, and the dark red points of light inside stretched like a spider's web, emitting bits of light. It slashed a red arc in the air, hitting the wall, the glass shattered, and the dark red light points raged out in an instant, turning from crimson to red in a few seconds, spreading in an extremely fast fourth degree, like a fire lotus blooming in the darkness......
They named it the Scarlet Pepper Bomb, and the main ingredient was a plant called "Lava Pepper", which was ground into a powder and then added to the herbs that help to breathe smoothly, and various potions of unknown meaning from Grandma Mera's laboratory were added to the mood, and the specific effect was to amplify and spread the power of the lava pepper, so that it could achieve a terrifying killing effect that made people faint even if they blocked their mouths and noses.
The sisters have always been interested in making these kinds of things, and they are proud to be the greatest potions of the future, so it is only natural that the greatest potion master of the future will have to experience the effects for themselves.
And then the opening scene happened.
Just half a year ago, the sorcerer Mera moved to Nightsea City with her granddaughters Truth and Maylis, and in order to facilitate her research, she bought this long-vacant two-story mansion in the secluded Nameless Alley, and she hung a wooden sign with the word "witch medicine" on the door of the first floor, and a pharmacy without any certificate was considered open. Mera didn't have the leisure to open a shop, but buying the mansion used up a lot of her savings, and the rest was barely living, which meant that she had to give up her expensive daily research, which was unbearable for her.
The nameless alley where the ancient house is located is far away from the center of the night sea, and it takes about two hours to ride the carriage, which is sparsely populated, and there are few living people passing by for most of the day, let alone business, Mera has been crazy about it for a long time, and her hair has fallen out of a bunch, but she has looked down on it for half a year, and these troubles will be thought about later, if the money is not enough, she will use all the pocket money of these two little girls in the future, and there is nothing more important for her than being able to study quietly.
However, today a loud bang broke her usual calm, and Mera, who was indulging in experiments with a dropper in her hand, felt the whole house shake, and the bottles and cans in front of her were all shattered immediately, and the solution inside spilled, splashed, and mixed together, her brain was blank for a moment, and then a kind of confusion gradually turned into despair, and finally turned into anger. Before the explosion stopped, a second loud bang poured a bucket of oil on her anger, and a potion bottle rolled down the table in solitude, and with a thud it became a pile of debris, and she couldn't bear it anymore, and Mela kicked open the door, good fellow, two little girls who were not afraid of death were rushing towards her, and no one could save you this time.
Mera opened her arms, the spiral staircase a few meters behind her was the only exit, the spiral staircase was only so big, she was sure that she could block them, "Little ghosts, how many times have I said, don't do ......it at home" Before she finished speaking, she saw Maylis leaning down and pulling under Mera's shoulder with a tackle, Mera's shoulder before she could react, and the truth that followed had jumped high, and this leap actually crossed Mera's head, Mera's watched a figure pass by, at that moment, Time seems to be slowed down indefinitely.
As soon as the truth landed, he pulled up Maylis as she was gliding, and the two of them rushed down the spiral ladder without stopping, and the whole process was only a few seconds, and the two worked together perfectly. The last word "bomb" was swallowed alive by Mera, and she roared: "Since you run away, you must have the consciousness of going to hell together." She grabbed a broom and chased after her.
"Hurry, Maylis, Grandma Mera is catching up." Truth anxiously urged her panting sister, and the next step turned into two steps, and she could already hear her grandmother's footsteps coming downstairs. "Hey, how could this be, it exploded again."
"Actually... Sister, I think the effect of the bomb is good. Maylis said suddenly.
"Well, don't say it, we haven't stopped blowing up for a long time, if we hadn't run fast, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to run. Maylis, we succeeded in the end, and I named it the Explosive Pepper Bomb, what do you think?. ”
“......?” Maylis looked at her sister with an inexplicable look.
When the two finally burst out of the doorway, the truth flew up with a kick, and the door slammed shut, and Maylis softly ran over and bolted the door, pretending not to hear any of the threats that Mera had made after her.
Truth sat down outside the door and smiled awkwardly: "Don't worry about the bomb for now, think about how to run, Grandma Mera will blow up the door in a hurry, and we will be finished." ”
"But sooner or later, we still have to go home, and my sister who can't escape is better ....... Let's turn ourselves in. "Maylis looks like she's going to be transformed and start again.
"My dear sister, the moment the door was closed, we have missed the best chance to turn ourselves in, believe me, now we only have two ways, run or die." Truth patted his innocent sister.
"Ming... Understood, but where are we going? Maylis subconsciously bit her finger and looked up at the sky lit up by flames.