"Well, I'm leaving tomorrow. Otherworldly training, I told you before. ”

At the dinner table, Bai Yiquan took the initiative to provoke the topic.

Ani just nodded and didn't say anything, instead focusing most of her attention on the dish. She learned to use chopsticks during the holidays and fell in love with peanut butter, so much so that no matter what she ate, she had to dip some peanut butter with chopsticks, and her mouth was full of crab sauce. This appearance made Bai Yiquan suspect that she hadn't listened to herself carefully at all.

Bai Yiquan, who originally wanted to repeat it to her, thought about it or forgot it, and ate obediently. During the meal, the two maintained a high degree of tacit understanding of "eating without speaking", and could only hear the sound of the tapping of the tableware and the chewing of the swallowed food.

After eating, Ani didn't mean to communicate with Bai Yiquan, she got up and was about to leave, but Bai Yiquan immediately stopped her.

"Wait, wait......" He hurriedly took the ring out of his pocket and handed it to Ani, "This is what you asked me to fix before, I'm sorry I forgot it when I got home." But it's still fixed now, it's important to you. ”

Ani took the ring a little dazed, her fingertips rubbing lightly on the ring, and she was silent.

Bai Yiquan was a little nervous, he was afraid that Ani would see the faint color difference, and asked himself why the traces of repair were so obvious. But Ani didn't say that, she just nodded and said thank you, her voice so small that she could barely hear it.

Ani then left. The day before the training in the other world last year, she gave Bai Yiquan a gun and a few bullets, but this time she didn't give anything, not even saying anything, and even Bai Yiquan felt that the somewhat harsh sentence "pay attention to safety" was gone.

Looking at Ani's back, Bai Yiquan didn't know whether he was happy or lost in his heart, so he had to sigh heavily.

......

"The small world we are going to this time is codenamed [Thorns], and the specific information has been sent to you a few weeks ago, so I don't need to elaborate too much. Siwell, who was standing at the head of the carriage, said to the entire carriage, "The time travel time of this space-time journey is about twenty-three hours, and everyone can rest in the carriage to maintain their full physical strength. When you get to your destination, you won't have extra time to rest. ”

"More than twenty hours why not a sleeper. Bai Yiquan muttered, "How can you rest on the hard seat?"

"This kind of carriage is the standard equipment of the time train. Only those of us who came from Earth know what a sleeper is. He Xinxin, who was sitting next to Bai Yiquan, pursed her lips, "[THIRD] will indeed learn all kinds of advanced technologies from the earth, but it basically has nothing to do with comfort. Changing the seats in the carriages of the Time Train into beds seemed to them pointless. ”

"That's why the Soviet Union collapsed. ”

"What?"

"Nothing, I'm talking nonsense. ”

"Why are you talking nonsense in broad daylight?" Herme, who had just sat opposite Bai Yiquan, showed his concern, "Yiquan, are you not feeling well, or do you have some mental problems? I have heard more than once that you dozed off in class. ”

Bai Yiquan shook his head again and again.

These days, even complaining doesn't make people complain well.

"You just mentioned the sleeper car, the one we took on the last trip to Nilgani, the kind of car that was requisitioned by the second group. Hermer smacked her lips, "Those battle maniacs will enjoy it too, tsk." ”

The second group? That is, Ye Zhifan and them, I really don't know what tasks they are performing all day long. Bai Yiquan still wanted to wait for him to come back and ask about the [Revenant Knight]. He seemed to know more than Thomas.

"Then again. He Xinxin glanced back at the other people in the carriage and said softly, "There are a lot of strange faces, are they all from us?"

Hermo was about to speak, but Sivir, who sat down, spoke first, "No, there are a small number of guards in the House of Elders. ”

"The guards of the House of Elders?" He Xinxin was surprised, "Aren't they never going to leave the House of Elders?

Bai Yiquan was also a little surprised, because he had never heard of the title of Elder Guard. He followed He Xinxin's gaze, and sure enough, at the end of the carriage, there were five or six gray-robed people who were incompatible with the temperament of the surrounding students. If it weren't for the [THIRD] logo on their bodies, Bai Yiquan would have thought they were legendary gray-robed mages.

Then again, this was the first time Bai Yiquan had seen a gray robe uniform. In [THIRD], the uniforms of the first series are pure white of the alchemy series, the uniforms of the second series correspond to the pure black of the combat type, the uniforms of the third series are the turquoise that symbolizes the earth, and the dark blue uniforms of the fourth series represent the illusory time and space. As for the legendary "other side of the coin" of the five series, he did not know. And the gray is also the first time to see it, does this mean that they are an independent organization of [THIRD]?

Bai Yiquan said the doubts in his heart.

Sivel bowed: "That's right. The grey robe symbolizes the Elders, who generally do not leave the World Tree. Even the elder guards are the same, and the selection of the elder guards is not the same as the selection of the students, they are directly selected by the elders' house itself, bypassing the academy. ”

"Then they don't have a lot of power?"

"ALMOST, THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THE DEAN IN [THIRD]. But in the academy, everyone except them is on the side of the dean, so their rights are not reflected in many cases. Hermo shrugged, "As for the selection of guards individually, it's just to save face." Since it is selected individually, it means that the resources in each world through [THIRD] are not allowed, so what excellent gods can they choose. ”

"In that case, why are they with us?"

"One is supervision, and the other is the custody of something. ”

"What item?"

"[Mijin Cut]. ”

Bai Yiquan was stunned for a moment, and the dark red long knife suddenly appeared in his mind. It was with that long knife that he had slain Jörmungård a few months earlier, and before he could finish the final blow, [Goshin Cut] directly defeated Jörmungård's Divine Realm, thus allowing him to achieve the achievement of killing gods.

"After we returned to the Academy, the House of Elders realized the power of the [Mijinkiri] and took it over from the Dean. The reason is also very valid, such a powerful weapon should be stored in the most heavily defended place of [THIRD], that is, the World Tree. Hermo said coldly, "Of course, they definitely don't just keep it, they must have done more research, at least to see who else besides you can unleash the unique [Domain] of [Gojinki]." ”

Hermo changed his words: "Well, judging from their willingness to hand over the [Imperial God Cut] now, they haven't found anyone who can replace you." In other words, Ichizumi is still the only one who can use this knife. ”