Chapter 4: The Curse of Blooming (3)
【Turning Waves】
{I'm on the banks of the river before dawn, feeling the waves of resentment.} The sound of turning back and crying deep into the whispers of Xiao Wall. }
When Harden hung the dripping umbrella on the shelf, he was angry that no one came out to greet him -
Especially the cedar who shouted early that he must remember everything He Yanfang taught him. Harden thinks Cedar can mix high in He Yanfang's fan group.
He walked into the hall and saw Ivan and the others all gathered around the new instructor, Cleo Bess, who was painting.
Well, the newcomer is quite popular...... Harden, who "has no other expertise than fighting", hates people who can do art the most, except for Jean. So he just leaned over to declare his presence without being angry.
"Welcome back," Selena looked up at him and smiled, "Has it been repaired by Mr. He?"
"Are you kidding, I've been repaired?" he sneered, "Where did Zhou Xuesong go? I even made a special recording for him, and his favorite Mr. He taught me how to control his breath - but he had to learn how to release it first." ”
"He went on his rounds, accompanied by Princess Alicia. Perhaps a little suddenly, the Nine Emperors and the Imperial Seal officially announced that they would give him real power. Clio said as he meticulously blended the colors with the palette.
"It's gratifying to give him real power, and I have to let him invite him to dinner tomorrow. Harden raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"You're in a relaxed state," Cleo glanced at him, "with your qualifications, you should go to the Island of Grudges to study, I had a pretty tough training back then, and I bet you need that kind of education." ”
"The Isle of Grudge is the comprehensive education base for the Heavenly Punisher, the Holy Milton Empire's Special Military Academy, right?" asked Ivan.
"Well, I graduated decades ago, and my record was washed out just to accompany you for another three years this fall. Clio said flatly.
"How old are you, senior...... I don't like old men. Ataya said jokingly, "But we haven't heard of schooling, are you sure?"
"Mr. He doesn't want you to go to the Curse Island, mainly because he is worried that the situation and circumstances will not be good for you," Clio put down his paintbrush, "because most of the people there are 'Eagle Party'." ”
"Here it is again, and it is said that there is no contradiction within the Heavenly Punisher, isn't this the 'Eagle and Snake Dispute'?" Harden frowned.
Clio nodded: "In fact, the way the head of the headquarters and Mr. He get along has always been problematic...... But the head of the headquarters didn't mean it, as you may have heard, he was a strong but very childish man, and in his opinion, any political struggle was just a game with Mr. He. It's just that his ministers don't see it that way, and the imperial forces infiltrate the Heavenly Punisher and cause a lot of chaos. ”
"We've heard this from Mr. Jean before, anyway, I don't believe it, that man is a monarch no matter what he says, and he still has the mind to deal with this matter. The truth is that he deliberately squeezed out the White World Branch, and I can bet with you. Harden sneered.
"This can't be nonsense. Clio's answer was perfunctory.
“...... Alright, let's get on drawing!Harden, go get dressed, it's wet, and I don't know how you got your umbrella......" Ivan thoughtfully changed the subject.
Harden also knows it's not fun to continue the conversation, but he can't be reassured. He just had an idea, but that would have to wait for Cedar to come back.
(I don't know who that guy is selling stupidly in front of...... He couldn't help but laugh at the stupidity of Cedar in front of his seniors.
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At this time, Cedar was accompanied by Alicia to inspect the prison in the courtyard, and he didn't know why the first stop of the inspection was the prison.
"Lord Zhou, Ellie, please go this way. "The person in charge of leading them is a familiar face, Cedar remembers Qin Yuan, this blonde and blue-eyed fair girl who is very suitable for wearing black Hanfu can easily impress.
"I'm sorry to bother you, in fact, I don't know anything......" Cedar smiled apologetically, "This time I'm going to meet the two members of the Ghost Mountain that Senior Jumang captured, right?"
"Yes, the Ghost Mountain Silver Rat and the Ghost Mountain Terry that were captured by Lord Jumang in the Storm Ocean Expedition, their attitude is quite good, but they have not been able to provide effective information so far, and the Heavenly Punishment ...... It should be said that you heavenly punishers are right? You are negotiating with us to transfer them for retrial. The matter of the ghost mountain should indeed be held accountable by the Heavenly Punisher. ”
"Well, Mr. He told me that Miss Madeleine of the Xuanshi Branch wanted to talk to the two of them. Cedar was a little apprehensive, "Can you hand them over smoothly?"
"No problem, you just need to meet them, confirm their condition, and then order them to be handed over to the Heavenly Punisher. Qin Yuan said lightly and led him to the end of the corridor.
"Good evening, Lord Chow and little Ellie, I'm here to be your escort tonight. The brown-haired boy who had been waiting there for a long time smiled heartily, and Cedar remembered that he was the best at using water, and seemed to be quite active in the battle against the Empress of the Firmament.
"Thank you for your hard work, Chang Right senior. Cedar thought that he knew too little about his predecessors, he smiled at Changyou, and planned to invite Changyou to eat something after the inspection, so that he could slowly get acquainted with his seniors.
Changyou patted him on the shoulder, and then handed him and Ellie a pack of small biscuits, "Snacks for you." ”
"Thank you. Cedar stuffed the cookies into her pocket.
"Changyou, have you checked their magic confinement rings?" Qin Yuan paused before opening the heavy iron door.
"Oh, of course, no problem, they're honest. Changyou nodded, then realized that he had a proper posture, and escorted him into the torture chamber in front of Cedar.
"Good night, silver rat and dill. Cedar first greeted the listless prisoners and sat down with Ellie face to face with them.
The silver rat slowly raised his head to look at him, and showed a wry smile: "Colorless general...... This is the Raiden Princess, right? Long time no see......"
The silver rat's silver hair was messy, and his appearance was so haggard that Cedar couldn't immediately match him with the sturdy young man he had seen at the time.
Oniyama Terro also raised her head, and the girl with a lovely face also had her hair scattered and her expression was gray, like a withered autumn grass.
"You don't seem to want to reveal information...... Either way, your interrogation will continue, but at least you can get out of here. Cedar didn't know what to say, but he just went through the motions, and he said it kindly.
The silver rat smiled dismally, and after a moment of silence, he looked at Cedar with his strange purple eyes, "You're just here to check on our condition, aren't you?" I guess you don't have anything to say to us...... I'm glad to be able to talk to you, it's so depressing here......"
"Please speak relaxed. Cedar felt that he was supposed to be a talkative person.
"You've changed," Silver Rat sighed, "you've become so strong......"
"Thank you," Cedar smiled bitterly and rubbed the cyan demon sword on his waist, "It's all the light of the branches, and I don't ...... it myself."
After being lightly kicked by Ellie, he noticed that Qin Yuan next to him frowned, so he stopped making a sound.
"Actually, in this situation, you don't expect the ghost mountain to recover you, right?" Changyou suddenly interjected, and his tone was so harsh that Cedar couldn't help frowning, "Suicide is the best end for you." ”
"Changyou!" Qin Yuan glared at him sternly, he was a little rude as a guard.
Both Silver Rat and Dogwood looked at him in surprise and did not speak.
"Changyou senior, it's ...... like this" Cedar was a little uncomfortable, he looked at Changyou suspiciously, and suddenly felt that Changyou's expression was a little strange-
He was not impressed by Changyou, but Changyou did give people a casual and cheerful feeling. And now, Changyou's face was a little gray, but his eyes flashed with excessive eagerness, and he didn't know whether it was excitement or annoyance: the reassuring feeling was gone.
"Senior, are you ...... Not feeling well?" Ellie knew Changyou better than he did, and she said, glancing at Qin Yuan quickly.
"I'm fine, little girl, I'm fine," Changyou smiled nervously at her, but his eyes were fixed on Silver Rat and Dogwood, "I'm just a little tired of these two guys, who they think they are, and they're wasting our time......"
"Cedar," Nobore's voice suddenly became like that of a hunter who had just come to his senses, "something is wrong!"
"That's enough, Changyou, I'll be in charge here, you go out. Qin Yuan also looked at Changyou strangely, took a step closer and said.
"The lowly little people should leave the scene early, so that it is in accordance with the law, isn't it?" Changyou didn't look at her, but approached the transparent barrier between the prisoners and them, and stretched out his hand—
"Stop!" Ellie's vigilant cry erupted at the same time as the green tide of the branches, but then, the white light spread, and the explosion of the barrier and the screams of the dant mixed together, causing the cedar to be confused for a moment.
“...... How ......" He realized that Changyou had done something very bad, and it was the vines released by Dengzhi that kept him from being harmed by the ice and snow, but he was still immersed in panic.
"Come to your senses, Changyou senior!" Ellie rushed up against the snow and ice, her surroundings surrounded by lightning.
"It's so weak...... "Chang You showed a slightly dissatisfied look, and quickly dodged Ellie's electric light, and his movements were a little surprisingly fast and graceful.
Ellie bit her lip in surprise and flew to kick without hesitation, making a hole in the wall after falling short. But Changyou didn't look at her, but rushed to the silver mouse and Delol!
"Stop-" Finally came back to his senses, Cedar didn't think much about it, and raised his arm to block in front of the prisoner-
The golden-green light erupted in front of him, instantly turning into a huge flower, blocking the dense array of arrows!
"Cedar, kill him!" Nobuzhi unleashed more power without saying a word, and the "flower crown" that blocked all the ice arrows instantly turned into more than a dozen flower vines to grab and entangle Changyou!
"Get out of the way!" Qin Yuan pulled out the giant fan of her height on her back and rushed straight up, the long arc of the black iron fan with dark green poison powder slashed across Chang You's side, even then he couldn't stop him from slowing down due to the vine chasing!
"What the hell are you-" As if he couldn't feel the weight of the black iron fan at all, Qin Yuan divided his hands, held a fan in each hand, kicked the vine, threw the fan at him with one hand, and then closed the other fan with both hands and smashed it down!
However, the handle of the black iron fan only smashed the thick ice, and Chang You jumped up directly regardless of the scattered poisonous powder, and countless ice shoots also stabbed up!
Qin Yuan could only smash the ice bamboo shoots with an iron fan, but in just that moment, Chang You had already turned over and kicked over the ceiling, and the iron cannon fell towards the cedar side!
The "Corolla" unfolded again and pushed upward, and at the moment when Chang Right was hit, the Thunder Fire Butterfly had already connected into a net and enveloped him!
He fell down hard, and the vines that climbed the branches immediately bound him strongly.
"Master Tagenit is up there, kill him!" Lady Rose was trembling, her left hand still tugging hard at the magic confinement ring on her right wrist, "He's a demon!"
"It's all right, we'll take care of it!" Cedar hurriedly crouched down to check on the situation.
He then glanced up at Ellie in horror, then reached out to reach out for his right snort.
"Could it be ......," Ellie hurriedly squatted down.
"The senior is dead!" Cedar's words also had a trill, "Good ice...... Even if he used ice, his body temperature would not drop ......."
The door opened, and the other guards rushed in.
"Take the prisoner back, and then call Xiao Ruan over!" Qin Yuan took the black iron fan back behind his back and squatted down to inspect the situation as he ordered, "Okay, don't touch the corpse again, leave it to us to deal with......"
"Colorless General!" "Silver Rat looked back in horror before being escorted back to his cell, "I swear, he changed his soul when he came in, really!
"Evil spirit......" Cedar glanced back at him, repeating quietly like a dream, "Evil spirit......
"Cedar?" Ellie visibly suppressed her fear, her turquoise eyes flashing with fear that Cedar hadn't ever seen.
"I'm fine...... Are you okay, there is still Qin Yuan's senior......" Cedar tried to calm down, and he looked at Qin Yuan, whose face was pale.
Qin Yuan smiled at him reluctantly: "You guys go back first, we'll take care of it...... Maybe we'll talk about it later when we're all figured it out, but for now...... Let's go back first. ”
Protected by a large group of guards, Cedar and Ellie stepped out of the aisle. At the entrance of the building, they saw Ruan Yanshan, dressed in a white coat, hurriedly running in from the rain.
Yan Shan nodded to them and rushed in, the rain dripping down his body dripped all the way, leaving an unpleasant trace.
"How did things come to this......" Cedar sighed quietly as she looked at the water trails left by Yanshan.
"Who knows......" Ellie sighed as she looked at the endless lines of rain in the darkness and fell silent.
In the dark rain tide, the rushing river gradually swirls and waves, is it a bad omen for the return of the tide with a vendetta...... Nobody knows.
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Preview: "The autopsy results are out, the temperature of Changyou's body is too low to confirm the time of death, the cause of death is unknown but it is confirmed that there is no external injury and no toxic reaction," Ellie walked into the hall of the mansion while flipping through the report, "Cedar, let's confirm what happened with Qin Yuan later, this fact is strange." ”
"Okay," Cedar nodded, "Have you checked the relics of the elder of the long right?"
"I'm checking, but be careful, Yanshan found something strange on the inside of the clothes that Changyou was wearing before he died," Ellie frowned slightly, "a frozen daffodil......"
"Narcissus?" Harden, who was sitting on the side, looked up alarmedly, "Hey, that's not good, is it......"
"Why?" Cedar was stunned for a moment, and suddenly whispered to herself, "Deep Snow Wandering Girl......"
One of the late Nine Evil Kings, the witch who used ice and snow to weep deeply, the representative flower of her blood sacrifice to the beast king was Narcissus......
Cedar suddenly felt a chill rise from behind him.
He didn't know what Changyou's madness was all about, but at least he felt that there was an unknown, insane evil element in it, like evil thoughts from the Netherworld leading them into madness......
"Cedar, are you still having the little biscuit that the senior gave you?" Ellie took out her little biscuit and shook it, "Mine has been checked, and the senior left a small note saying that he has something to talk to us about—about the Flower Blossom Courtyard." ”
Cedar hurriedly took out his pack of small biscuits and unpacked it.
"There's a note," he hurriedly took out the note, "'It's so sad about the tragedy of Huakaiyuan, it's so sad to cause Xiao Wall, please let me tell the truth about the dirt and sorrow, long right'......"
"Let's go to the Blossom Courtyard and have a look," Harden immediately called, "Let's make arrangements, we can't just watch." ”
Either way, they can't be outsiders anymore, the secrets of the ruins are sprouting wildly, and they must act, for their own sake.
Part II: The Spell of Blooming Flowers (4): The Aftermath of the Ruins.