260 Funeral Hall and Pre-War Meeting
"Baihui!" When Chrissy and Baihui walked out of the spatial portal (because they were responsible for the teleportation of two people, Chrissy opened the door directly), Kiriko and Lifa, who were worried on the side, rushed over and anxiously checked Baihui's condition.
Although when Kiriko first came to commission Chrissy, Lifa was indeed not there. But when he found out that Kiriko was not in the office as usual, because of the sudden anxiety in his heart, he ran directly to the basement where Chrissy and Kiriko were, and then learned the news of Baihui. And it was not Kiriko who entrusted Chrissy to rescue Baihui, but Lifa, who made this judgment and choice at that time.
However, just like Lifa's instincts, if Chrissy was one step late, then Paohui might need to have a big or small operation, or simply resurrect the last one.
Perhaps, this is the so-called bond, the strongest bond that is forever engraved in the soul, and even time and distance cannot erase it.
"I'm sorry, but there's more important things to do right now." Just when Lifa wanted to let Baihui have a good rest, Baihui said with a heavy smile. Then, Baihui left the basement and walked towards the outside of the City Lord's Mansion.
As if she understood the meaning of Baihui's words, Kiriko and Rifa smiled embarrassedly at Chrissy and left the basement with the same heaviness. Although she didn't mind, Chrissy didn't like to transform into ~ human form to go to the outside world, so she stayed.
The three people who left the City Lord's Mansion came to a building next to the City Lord's Mansion. Although the castle lord's mansion is not located on the streets where people gather in Kawagoe City, because it is the administrative center, and it is completely impossible to manage a city without an assistant or something, so the street where the castle lord's mansion is located is actually not very deserted.
But the door to the building was just hidden, and no one entered. In this building, there is only an old man who seems to be almost unable to walk.
"Hey......" After seeing that the person who came was the city lord, the old man sighed involuntarily, and then silently led the three of them to the interior of the building.
Inside the building, there is no frills, just a circular corridor that continues upwards. There is no extravagant or beautiful decoration on the walls of this corridor.
There are only human faces, names and dates of birth and death carved into the rock walls, approximate biographies, epitaphs left by relatives and others, and finally a small drawer for the relics.
Yes, there is no decoration in this corridor, and there are just simple and short tombstones that continue to extend along the corridor.
And this is the last grave and mourning hall of all the people in Kawagoe City.
There is a cemetery in Kawagoe City, but it is for the deceased who still have corpses. In this world, in this era, it is a great blessing to have a body to be brought back to the city after death. More often than not, in order to keep more people alive, adventurers and soldiers had to abandon the corpses of their companions, and could only take a few small artifacts from their deceased companions as the last proof of the other party in the shortest possible time.
As a result, identity tags that have the same function and shape as the dog tags used in the army were born. The difference is that dog tags are only available to people in the military, while identity tags are available to everyone in Kawagoe City, and they have completely replaced the role of ID cards.
Has God's Blood (Universal Alchemy/Forging/Enchantment...... Materials) as raw materials, plus each ID card has been recorded in the city lord's mansion and has a backup, so the proof effect of the ID card is more effective than the original ID card in modern society.
The most important point is that these identity cards have been easily enchanted, that is, as long as the person is still alive, the identity card is difficult to take, but once the owner is dead, as long as the strength is strong enough, then the identity card will be easily disconnected and fall to the ground.
Therefore, after the identity card appeared, many adventurers and soldiers, the last relic left behind was only such a small identity card.
And until now, almost every day, adventurers and soldiers, even civilians, have picked up these identity tags that have left their masters, outside the woods, in the dungeons, and on the streets where everyone has fought.
As long as the existence of the identification tag is not confirmed, then a person in Kawagoe City will only be defined as missing, not dead. Of course, this is only a small hope for others, a hope that everyone knows but pretends not to know.
Therefore, if you find that you have lost your identity card, then you must immediately go to the City Lord's Mansion to make notes and handle it, otherwise you will appear in this building~ as the deceased.
That's right, this is where these identification badges are kept, or rather, the final mourning hall for all the war dead.
Even if a corpse survives to be moved into the city and buried in the city's cemetery, its identity badge will be placed here. After all, in the battle at the end of the month, no one dares to guarantee that no monsters will pass through the cemetery, nor that the dead in the cemetery will not be disturbed.
Only the street where the gods are located, the center of Kawagoe City, is the safest. Therefore, the mourning hall was finally decided to be placed here.
In addition to this mourning hall, there are also some other important offices in the street where the city lord's mansion is located, such as buildings such as the city defense command post, so this is why this street is the safest, but its popularity has never been able to rise.
No one wants to continue to endure a heavy and serious atmosphere after a day of mental tension.
After quietly walking along the corridor for no time, and expressing their respect to everyone who died fighting for Kawagoe City, the four finally came to the empty space in the corridor.
"This is the identity card and the last relic of the deceased." From his pocket, Baihui took out the identity cards of all the members of the two high-level adventurer teams that had been wiped out by the reconnaissance mission, as well as the last bit of relics left on the bodies of several people.
I don't want to die without even a place to pay tribute to myself, and no one will even remember me anymore.
Therefore, everyone in Kawagoe City has a tacit rule: when their companion dies, they must take down the other party's identity card no matter what, unless it is really impossible to do something.
As a result, when the party was initially attacked by a bear (which was confirmed during the final scene), the identity cards of several of the dead were taken by the rest of the team.
This also allowed Baihui to directly collect everyone's identity cards, and searched for some protected gadgets on several people who still had corpses, that is, the last relics of several people.
"I'm sorry, I can't bring them back, even the corpses ......," Baihui said with a little guilt and sadness.
"It's not your fault, Baihui......" Standing beside Baihui, Lifa gently stroked Baihui's back and comforted softly.
"I'm sorry, I'm going to trouble you again this time, Master." Kiriko took a step forward and handed over the document bag in her hand, "This is a backup of their data, so let's put it in the relic as before." There is no one left for them to write their resumes and epitaphs. ”
"I'm just an ordinary craftsman." After receiving the identity tag, relics, and information bag, the old man, as the tomb keeper, took out the tools used for rock carving from the pocket he carried, and sighed at the materials in his hand and said, "And that's all I can do for them." ”
After bowing to the old man who had started his work and made tombstones for the deceased, Kiriko, Rifa, and Momoe left the mourning hall and walked in the direction of the castle lord's mansion.
And as the pace progressed, although there was still a hint of sadness, the expressions of the three of them had been replaced by fortitude and determination. The heavy atmosphere of the three of them also transformed the monstrous battle intent, making everyone passing by involuntarily enter a state of combat readiness.
The sacrifice of the deceased will never be in vain, no, it will never be in vain!
"Coming back?" Seeing that the three of them were back in the basement, Chrissy asked in a prepared tone.
With a silent nod, the three of them followed Chrissy outside the basement, directly across the stairs from the others, in front of a wall that was indistinguishable from the others.
Chrissy tapped a light on the wall, revealing a large door as if it had never existed.
This is definitely not an ordinary illusion that can be said to be a trick, because the three of them can confirm that the wall is real, at least when they touch it.
Perhaps in normal times, the three of Kiriko would ask Chrissy curiously, but now, the three of them have ignored these anomalies and only for those more important things.
It seems that it is because it is directly detected that the person outside the door is Chrissy, or because the original setting is like this, the next moment the door appears, it slides open left and right, revealing the space inside.
Of course, there is nothing unexpected behind this gate, because it is just a hidden elevator for the transportation of large people.
After getting on the elevator, without any buttons, the elevator closes the elevator doors and starts to run automatically, descending at a top speed. After waiting for dozens of seconds with a sense of weightlessness (Chrissy was floating), the elevator door opened again, revealing a circular conference room with a round table in the center.
Chrissy made a gesture to sit down and sat casually down at a round table. Because they were numb to the various things shown by Xue Feng and the others, and because their current mood did not allow it, the three of them did not have any exclamation or stunned expressions, but like Chrissy, the three of them randomly chose a seat at a round table and sat down.
They didn't have to wait long, and after the three of them sat down, two beams of light rose from the two seats next to the round table, and with the light appeared, it was the figures of Yukikaze and Ellie.
Even the three of Kiriko, after seeing the obviously unreal, even slightly false figure, understood that this was not the two of them coming here through a space jump, but a projection of Yukikaze and Ellie.
Even the Ilona Continent has completed the command, dispatch and coordination of the entire continent through projection, how could Xue Feng and the others throw away these technologies and ideas?
"Now, then, let's start the meeting." Xue Feng spoke first, "Ke'er, Baihui, the two of you can tell us about the information you have obtained now." ”
"The specific situation of the monster restlessness in the eastern forest that happened before must be clear to everyone, so I won't repeat it here. And after this investigation, it can already be confirmed that the source of the previous incident is those twisted and hideous monsters. Baihui opened his mouth to report the situation, "The other party has the ability to disturb the mind, and when fighting them, keeping a certain distance will stimulate negative emotions in the heart...... The opponent's body is not stable, and it often switches between spirits and entities, but attacks can damage spirits, and it seems that they are also spirit attacks...... Although I don't know if the other party's target is Kawagoe City, Kawagoe City is indeed on the other party's route......"
Although I don't know why Yukikaze and Ellie were led by this incident, getting Yukikaze's attention is a good thing for the three of Kiriko, so the three of them didn't plan to hide it from the beginning. The most important thing is that after Baihui cleaned up all the monsters at the scene at that time, from the subsequent status report, it can be seen that the monsters in the eastern forest still show no signs of calming down.
In other words, this incident is far from being resolved!
"The other party can indeed affect the mind, and this ability is speculated to be the source of the black fog entangled in the whole body, and it is preliminarily presumed to be a collection of negative emotions."
After Baihui finished speaking, Chrissy added, and at the same time turned on the projection equipment in the center of the round table, and displayed the information she had captured in front of everyone in turn according to the order of narration. Because he knew that Chrissy and the others were countless times higher in rank than him, Baihui did not raise any objections to Chrissy's addition, but had a sense of sudden enlightenment.
“…… At the same time, these black mist have the ability to resist all kinds of attacks, including law attacks, and their reduction is about 60 percent...... The opponent's constitution is a half-spirit, and although it cannot fully control its own exchange between spirits and entities, so it is impossible to be immune to physical attacks, but it is speculated that the effectiveness of physical attacks does not exceed 10...... Moreover, these black mist also have the effect of amplitude attack, which adds a law-level or higher killing effect to the attack while the opponent's constant attack pattern is constant. ”
“…… In addition, it was not possible to find each other with any detection system other than the 'Sin' detection circle before. Therefore, judging that the other party is a monster of 'sin', and the black mist on his body is not a negative consciousness, but-"
"The 'sin' after ultra-low concentration dilution!"
Although the three of Kiriko were surprised by the level of detail of the information collected by Chrissy and were puzzled by the "sin" in Chrissy's account, Elle and Yukikaze, who also heard Chrissy's report, showed that kind of expression.
"Can you already confirm the other party's origin?" Xue Feng asked extremely seriously.
"It has been confirmed that the other party is coming from the east, but the specific source has not yet been determined." Chrissy reported, "The nearest T.P.H.E. platform 13 will be here in a few minutes. ”
Although the communication network covering the entire mainland of Japan has been initially arranged, it is important to know that the detection range of the working platform is far from being comparable to the farthest transmission range of the signal.
Want to have a workplace that covers the entire continent? At least a hundred-digit working platform is required!
Don't forget, the current mainland of Japan has been magnified 100 times!
Therefore, when working as the most important signal relay point above Fudo Kawagoe City (the parallel transmission range of the signal is larger than the diagonal transmission range), it is necessary to transfer a temporarily idle platform from another place to understand where the other party is coming from.
"What about detection of other places?" Ellie asked.
"We have started to have all our work platforms open up the 'crime' detection circle, and it has been made the highest priority. But it doesn't take a short time to get results. Chrissy replied that it was not beyond Ellie's expectations.
So, before the new information arrived, everyone fell silent for a while. After all, if you don't know the real origin of the incident and the real source of the other party, then no matter what everyone does, it is an act that treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Therefore, it is better to take measures and means to obtain more information before the situation deteriorates, so that we can formulate a better and more effective response.
So taking advantage of this gap, the three of them asked Xuefeng and others what the "crime" in the mouths of several people was.
And the three of them didn't hesitate to tell the three of them everything. Although these are not contents that can be released to the public, there is no problem for the three of them. As members of the outer organization, the three people also have the right to know about many secrets (common sense of the underworld).
Even if the three of them are not peripheral members of the Watchman Dragon, when the other party has been involved in this matter, Xuefeng and the others will not hide any true ~ appearance.
Even if the mastermind is himself, even if the incident is caused by himself, even if the other party will resent him after hearing the truth~ phase, Xuefeng and the others will not have any deception about this.
Because for Hades, lies mean nothing. Therefore Hades will only conceal it, but will not deceive.
Whether or not to believe what Hades says is a matter of the listener's own choice.
ps: Replay Ancient 5 for the trend (?) After installing the HDT physics system (worshipping Sister Hydrogen here), the HDT physics plug-in and physical clothes were installed. As a result, am I really too confident in my fried chicken? After installation, the number of frames is only a single digit, and it is completely unplayable! So I worked hard to reinstall it......
PS2: By the way, how many times has this been reinstalled after getting a new computer? orz (To be continued.) )