Chapter 25: Illusion
At noon in autumn, it is refreshing. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoEven if there are two people in the crowd who are fighting each other, it's not unusual.
The breeze swept across the mirror-clear river, raising the corners of Kareda's plain clothes, and teasing the long light purple hair on her sideburns half-hiding. She faced Changtian's fearless questioning, a cold smile filled her eyebrows, and she changed the topic: "It's too early to talk about this! You just need to know that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for you." ”
"I'm not interested in political power, and I don't need to know about the shady deals...... Changtian responded.
Kareda didn't answer him, but her expression changed slightly and motioned for him to get out of here, obviously knowing that someone was watching the sudden appearance of the prince at all times. I don't know how many people are staring at this hot potato, and in order to get rid of those people, Karuida has a lot of bends with a long sky.
The labyrinthine alleys with nine twists and eighteen bends do not have a trace of deserted shadows even in this Olas commercial circle, and all kinds of people stay there in groups and don't know what is being handed over. At the end of the potholed black slate road is a shabby low house with no signboard and yellow canvas hanging in front of the door to block the sun, faintly revealing an evil smell, not inferior to the sour stench of a skunk.
Lifting the heavy canvas curtain, the dust came to the nose and choked, as if no one had come for a long time.
Kareda easily pushed open the secret door inside, reached out and pulled the valve-like switch next to it, and the magical barrier set up outside changed the scene in an instant. The dilapidated shop suddenly disappeared, replaced by a dead end with no road.
The dark passage was triggered by her magic, and the candles covered with cobwebs on the walls lit up one after another in an orderly manner, giving a kind of eerie feeling of a cemetery. Through the faint light of low visibility, the road paved with pumice stone under my feet looked a little scary, and it felt like there was nothing empty underneath, because with each step, the body couldn't help but control its balance.
"Don't look down! Walk as fast as you can!" Kareda turned around, and the face of the female ghost of the underworld really startled him.
"Where are you going?" I always feel like I've left Swadia......" There was a bang, and the soles of my feet seemed to be stepping on cotton, and I lost gravity and sank. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get started, but he was stuck in the sludge and getting worse and worse.
At that moment, the illusion opened like Pandora's box, invading his inner world.
In a dense forest on the outskirts of Zilvaza, the silver-haired young man was lost in the misty forest, like a stupid road idiot. He turned around for a long time, but he didn't get out of this strange forest. In this seemingly unfamiliar place, he can be said to have suffered a lot.
He wiped his sweat and found a place to sit and rest, and the tiredness came like a tide, making his body like a rock, stiff and heavy, after all, he had been a long day. Looking up, through the dense gaps in the leaves, he saw a clear blue sky, different from the hazy sky seen in vague memory.
At that time, the sky was gloomy because of the war.
Between empires, there are perennial wars, as the so-called people die for money, and birds die for food, for nothing but precious land and power. After a few moments, he began to look for the right way forward.
Blurred shadows in the distance, entangled in the clouds, like phantoms.
So he frowned and wondered if it would be the city of Zilvaza in that direction, for he hadn't been back for ten years.
On the way forward, there was a faint strong fluctuating energy, as uncomfortable as a needle pricking the skin, what was the matter with this uncomfortable mental power? He opened his eyes to look at the movement around him, and found that under the dense grass on the left, there was a loud movement, and a noisy fighting sound.
With that, he walked over with his hands and feet, and saw an astonishing scene.
A group of black-robed werewolves surrounded a woman in purple with a scar on her arm, as if she wanted to take her life and eat her flesh. In particular, the leader of the werewolves, who was covered in evil red fluctuations, his fangs flashing with cold light looked particularly dazzling and terrifying under the shadows of the gloomy trees.
When ordinary people saw this, in order to save their lives, they ran away, but Chang Tian went the other way.
Without saying anything, he quickly took out a black object from his backpack and threw it up, closing his eyes. With a loud bang, the air exploded with a fierce impact that bounced off the leaves and released a blinding glare of light. Taking advantage of this gap, Changtian activated the switch of the Swift Magic Guide Shoes, and rescued the woman in purple who was surrounded by werewolves at close range.
The woman in purple was a little dizzy, her vision was blurred due to the alarm, but her words were a little strange, and there was a trace of inconspicuous bad intentions in her mouth, which was precipitated under the glow for a while.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you, I used a flashbang out of necessity!
Chang Tian's face was full of apologies, and he lightly helped the woman in purple rub her temples to relieve the pain caused by her vision. He looked around and asked with some uneasiness, "Eldest sister, why are you in such a desolate place? There are so many werewolves chasing you......
The woman in purple is in her early thirties, dressed in a simple kimono, a little charming, and you can clearly see that her cheeks on both sides and the slender white neck behind her are all red, and the red and white are very good-looking. She smiled charmingly: "Your title makes me very unhappy! You just call me Gu Zi, what a handsome young man......
At this moment, a desolate wolf voice was heard through the air, disturbing the low and dead atmosphere of the jungle, as if it was gathering information. Werewolves are a special species, they have an agile sense of smell, excellent hearing, and it is very difficult for prey to escape from their hands. Therefore, as far as Changtian and Gu Zi's situation is concerned, it is extremely embarrassing and dangerous.
"They're closing in...... It's a terrible breath. ”
Gu Zi was in a desperate situation, and he did not have the slightest intention of fear, but calmly faced death, which was really unpredictable.
"Run! Their target is not you. ”
This is not a place where werewolves haunt, so why do werewolves appear? Through Gu Zi's information, I learned that they were a group of hired werewolves, who made a career of killing people to get paid.
For Changtian, the waves of air that surged towards him were like the tide of the sea, from the hissing of the leaves of the trees that flashed in an instant, to the impact of the wind passing through the grass, they overlapped and swooped down, making him feel as if he was in death, breathing rapidly and unresponsive.
A cold light slashed down and landed on Gu Zi's abdomen, wafting a heavy smell of blood. With a plop, Changtian didn't expect that it was the werewolf who died, but Gu Zi was unharmed. But just now, it was obviously a werewolf attack, hitting Gu Zi's vital point, what happened in this instant? His simple thinking couldn't analyze it.
The werewolf who fell in a pool of blood had red eyes, and spat out a sentence with difficulty: "A mere human being who desecrates the power of the depths of darkness with his own strength will die sooner or later without a place to bury......"
The power of the dark depths?
Changtian immediately raised a series of question marks, and he felt that something was wrong, and it was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
Capture the thief and capture the king first. The fall of the werewolf leader greatly restricted the actions of the rest of the werewolves, and they were afraid of this seemingly ordinary but not simple Gu Zi, and they did not dare to rush forward easily, hiding in the shadows and waiting to attack.
Gu Zi smiled kindly, sat on the root of the tree, fiddled with his sleeves and said, "Come! ”
Chang Tian helped Gu Zi up, and wanted to express the doubts in his heart, but unexpectedly, Gu Zi suddenly stretched out his right palm, shook it with his backpalm, and a small reddish mark popped up on the back of his hand, and suddenly the two of them were covered with a slight red light.
They couldn't allow them to relax for a moment, and then they saw three werewolves attacking from different directions, and the speed was like a thunderbolt, and the naked eye couldn't keep up with it.
However, at the moment when Changtian gasped deeply, there was a black in front of him, and when he came back to his senses, it was a cold unknown path on the outskirts of Zilvaza City, and there were no werewolves around.
"What the hell is going on?"
Chang Tian looked at Gu Zi who was pacing in place dumbfounded, and before he had time to solve his doubts, a person appeared, a person who overflowed from Gu Zi's shadow, his whole body was wrapped under the shadow clothes, and he couldn't see his appearance at all. But this person will be hidden...... It seems that I have seen it somewhere, but I can't remember the severe headache.
"Are you alright? Who is this person?"
"He's stumbled in, and he's fine. I'll take care of the rest. ”
The man respectfully stepped back and slowly melted into the shadow of the building, and soon disappeared, coming and going without a trace, an ability that the assassin undoubtedly possessed.
Gu Zi turned his uncertain gaze to Changtian and asked with concern, "You're not injured, are you?"
Chang Tianmu shook his head and asked, "Can you tell me what happened? You weren't pierced through the abdomen by a werewolf with a claw, but how did you die as a werewolf?" Who was the person who came out of the shadows just now?"
Gu Zi squinted and laughed, and when he walked out of the path, he was a noisy street, with people coming and going. She shuttled through the crowd casually with her hands behind her back, came to the riverside, and motioned for Changtian to take a boat.
Chang Tian looked at the familiar surroundings in amazement, the fresh air warmed the tip of his nose, and the feeling he had not felt for a long time made him feel very comfortable.
"How dare you go back to Zilvaza...... Did you appear in the jungle by chance?" Gu Zi's eyes were like a moment, hiding a faint light that no one could see, and if the other party acted rashly, he would kill him mercilessly.
Boating on the river, the breeze blows. Although Changtian was puzzled, he was upright and said with a comfortable smile: "I'm finally back......"
Gu Zi frowned, took out a bloody scarecrow from his trouser pocket, and showed it to Changtian.
"What an interesting young man! I just used the curse of the scarecrow, which is a dark magic, and as for the man, it was the assassin...... But you're really not afraid of death?"
"The Scarecrow's Curse...... Haven't heard of it. Changtian felt a little stuffy in his chest, and he didn't know why.
"Well, from the moment you step into the land of the Pascal Empire, it means that you are mentally prepared. Gu Zi's smile disappeared instantly, and his tone became heavier.
"Wait?" Changtian's expression changed suddenly, his head was sweating profusely, and his pale color gradually appeared on his face, as if he was in the dark and faced with a wild beast alone.
"Ten years ago, the only survivor of the Battle of Montenegro, Changtian Pascal, you have finally returned to the city of Zilvaza. ”
Gu Zi's face changed dramatically in an instant, the iron was as blue as a ghost, and the moment he looked at each other, his vicious eyes were like the red eyes of a murderous beast, and he couldn't resist.
Changtian's body suddenly froze, convulsions and fell to the ground, the stinging sensation was like a Gu worm penetrating into his heart, torturing him to death: "You cast a scarecrow curse spell on me? Why do you ......?"
"I don't allow you to have the idea of escaping! Although it is normal for people to be greedy for life and fear death, as a soldier of the Pascal Empire, such behavior is insulting to military orders. Gu Zi was not moved at all, and blamed coldly.
Chang Tian painfully closed his bloodshot eyes and lay silently on the plank of the boat. The trembling sensation connected the fragments of his disconnected memories, and it was unspeakably miserable. It was a war so dark that there was no light in sight, there was no chance of victory, and despair hung over everyone's heart, and they forgot how to breathe.
Because, the army of the Pascal Empire was ambushed by an unexpected soldier, the master of death.
His voice suddenly choked, uncontrollable tears flickered in the corners of his eyes, he bit his purple lips, his mind was in confusion, he felt that he couldn't move his body, his sluggish movements were like a weak oil lamp, swaying, and constantly repeating: "Grandpa...... Don't leave me alone! Take me with you...... I'm not afraid of the enemy! I can fight...... Please, don't leave me alone......"