【West of Aslan Empire, Rennes, County Palace】

Moonshine in winter often looks like a sudden frost fall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe icy light is like a thin layer of ice flakes covering all living beings under the vast heaven and earth.

Standing on the windowsill of the library, overlooking the ruined courtyard at his feet, hundreds of years of meticulous carving could not withstand a sudden killing. The world is always like this, after countless people have carefully built it for a long time, it has become more and more beautiful and more refined, and then it is destroyed into ashes by a very small number of people in a snap of a finger.

Marble fountains, colonnades, arches in the courtyard...... The cedar shrubs that were trimmed into various shapes, the black locusts and roses that crawled all over the vines, all turned into decaying in the black ice crystals that corroded everything in the netherworld.

But the attention of the Heavenly Bouquet is not on this. Her gaze swept back and forth in the courtyard, just to pass the time. In fact, she didn't have much reluctance about this place in her heart. It's not like home.

Where you don't have a family, you won't feel like you can call it home if you stay for a long time. She had even hoped that she could set out to rescue Gilgamesh as soon as possible and get out of here as soon as possible. She has long been tired of the empty and tasteless life of fine clothes and fine food.

But now, she wants to stay here, and she's waiting for an answer.

An answer that has come in a thousand miles.

And she knew that her time was running out. If tomorrow is to set out to rescue Gilgamesh, then tonight is the last chance. The vast fog that hangs over our heads will likely dissipate tonight, revealing the core of the mystery that has been hidden in it. Fortunately, the bell in her palm had been vibrating faintly since the afternoon, and the crisp bell was getting louder and louder, and the sound reminded her that the answer had arrived.

Here it comes.

The heartbeat of the Heavenly Bouquet Youhua suddenly became faster, and on the ground of the courtyard, a pair of winged shadows were stretched by the moonlight, and the black shadow swept obliquely across the white marble, flying towards the Tianbou Youhua.

She looked up, hoping only that the blood-tattooed dove would not let out a shrill chirp and not wake anyone who was sleeping in her dreams.

She stretched out her arm so that the Tattooed Dove rested firmly on her arm, then she closed the window to keep the moonlight out of the library, and she walked back to the tall and deep gap between the bookshelves, unwrapping the file on the Tattooed Dove's feet, on which the Ice Emperor's special fire paint seal was clearly visible.

She raised the wick of the burning oil lamp on the floor a little higher, and the faint light brightened.

After she broke the fire paint, her hands, trembling with nervousness, slowly opened the file.

The parchment dossier is not a large piece of paper, but it is densely packed with small print.

Celestial Bouquet Youhua read the dossier quickly, her heart beating faster and faster, her attention was already attracted by the bloody secret aura churning between the lines, and she didn't notice at all that behind the bookshelf, there was a pair of eyes peeking at all her reactions, and those eyes slowly moved in the darkness.

Tianbou Youhua put down the parchment roll in her hand, she raised her hand and wiped the fine layer of sweat on her forehead. The sweat had already turned cold in the cold of the winter night, and only then did she realize that not only on her forehead, but also on her back. She rubbed her slightly paralyzed feet, and as she was about to get up from the ground, she suddenly sensed a peeping peeping through the cracks in the spine of the bookshelves.

"Who?"

She stood up and asked into the darkness, there was almost no sign of soul power in the darkness, a frightening sense of depression piled up in the dense spine of the book, the light was too dim to see clearly, but it was very obvious that something was moving rapidly in the darkness.

Tianshu Youhua squatted down, ready to pick up the oil lamp on the ground to illuminate the gap between the bookshelves, however, she just squatted down and stretched out her hand, and instead of the oil lamp, she touched a pair of feet.

The room was filled with elm, puhuang, and fairy grass, as well as the strong smell of wine.

"There is another ...... There's another one I can't guess. Qi Ling took the heavenly bouquet of Youhua to smear the remaining cotton pads, leaned in front of his nose and sniffed, "You said that this kind of medicinal wine to stop bleeding is called [Four Things Sealing Wounds], then there must be a kind of herb, otherwise it is not called Four Things." ”

"The fourth thing is crushed silver powder. Tianbou Youhua replied lightly, "Silver is the most natural tranquilizer, able to control wound infection. ”

"It turns out that there is silver dust in this wine. Kirin raised his eyebrows, a little smug and immersed in his own sneer.

Tianshu Youhua rolled her eyes and didn't smile.

"But you just shot too hard, I just watched you not sleep in the middle of the night, to see what you were doing, but you gave me an ice arrow with your backhand, which is fortunately shot a little under the collarbone, and you go a little further down and shoot to the heart, and I just rolled my eyes and glared at me. Kirin grinned and put on his clothes, careful not to let them touch the wound that had just been bandaged, "At this time, I envy your talent, just a few slashes and stabs, and a blink of an eye." ”

"Who made you sneak up behind me, and suddenly touched a pair of feet, I didn't cut off your feet directly. You deserve to spy on me in the dark for so long, silently. ”

"Peeping on you, how can I peep at you, I just walked behind you, and you just gave me an arrow, and I haven't even seen what is going on. Kirin muttered.

Tianbou's eyes flickered, and she stopped talking.

There are two possibilities: Kirin is lying, or, just in the library, there is a third person.

Either way, it made Tianshu Youhua silent. She didn't take the issue any further.

However, Qi Ling broke the silence, his voice suddenly became much lower and slower than the tone just now, and even slightly made Tianshu Youhua feel that someone else was talking, and he asked in a low voice that was not young: "Youhua, you can tell me now, what have you been quietly doing behind our backs for all this time, right?"

The action of Tianbou Youhua packing up the medicine box suddenly stopped. She turned her head and looked at Qiling, "When did you first find out?"

"Some time. Qi Ling looked at her, his gaze did not dodge, his eyes were still clear and translucent, "But I still believe that you will not do anything to harm us." Right?"

"No, it won't. Tianshu Youhua replied lightly, "You don't need me to make any effort, you are already asking for your own death, dying early and dying late, why should I waste my strength." ”

Qi Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and his solemn face softened slightly: "Why did that blood-tattooed dove fly back again?

"No, I brought it back. As she spoke, she took out something from her clothes, and spread out her palms in front of Qi Ling, two small bells glowed with different textures under the illumination of the lamp, the silver carved bells shone sharply, and the enamell-fired bells were warm and shiny, "This silver bell is used to tie to the leg of the blood dove, and the enamel fired bell is used to guide its direction, and the three bells resonate with each other and make sounds, but this sound can only be heard by the wearer of the two enamel bells." The Blooddove tied to the silver bell will send messages back and forth between the wearers of the two enamel bells, and can be sensed no matter how far apart they are. ”

"Who is the wearer of the other enamel bell?" Qi Ling asked in a low voice as he looked at the Heavenly Bouquet of Youhua, and for some reason, the wound under his collarbone ached.

"Ios. Tianbou Youhua couldn't help but smile lightly when she said this name, and her cheeks were slightly flushed, "It's you who don't like to take the title when you mention the name, Ice Emperor Ios." ”

"You know him?" Qi Ling's voice was a little sour, "It looks like not only acquaintance, but also a good relationship." ”

"When he was a child, he would come to Rennes every summer to live for a while, and the huge palace in the middle of Rennes was his residence. As a royal family within the jurisdiction of Rennes City, naturally we all need to go and accompany us. So, when we were kids, we could often see each other. He was a few years older than me, just like my big brother. Tianshu Youhua replied, "This bell was also given to me when he came to Rennes for the last time before becoming the Ice Emperor, he said that after becoming the Ice Emperor, there will not be so much time to come to Rennes for the summer, but, with this bell, I want to find him, or I can find him at any time." ”

"He sent the parchment roll?" Qiling was a little surprised, "Isn't he missing? Where did he go?"

"The letter didn't say where he was, it just answered my questions. Tianshu Youhua shook her head, "Judging by the number of days the Blood Dove has been away, he is quite far from Wren. ”

"What the hell did you ask him?" Qiling wondered.

"During this time, there has been a place where I feel strange and can't figure it out. Ghost Mountain Lotus Spring and Silver Dust came to me, hoping that I would go with them to rescue Gilgamesh, but this reason itself is not valid. Ghost Mountain Lotus Spring has completely inherited my father Silul's immortality talent, and if the second level requires a lot of blood to open, then she herself can produce far more blood than me, and there is no need to ask me, an apostle with a broken soul, for help. ”

"But didn't Lianquan say that she would consume a lot of soul power during the first level of hypnotic blessing, and she wouldn't have time to recover?"

"When she says this, you believe it, let me tell you, among these people, the one you should be most careful about is the Ghost Mountain Lotus Spring, and you don't know when she sells it. Tianbou Youhua looked at Kirin's wide eyes and replied angrily, "In my opinion, she doesn't necessarily have less things on her mind than Treya and Netherworld. Who do you think is in charge of this rescue that looks like it will be dead? Who is the most motivated? Do you think it is silver dust? It is the Lotus Spring of the Ghost Mountain!"

"I don't believe it...... It's impossible for Ghost Mountain Lotus Spring to lie to us, right?" Qi Ling felt that his scalp was a little numb.

"Even if she doesn't lie to us, she can selectively let us know what things and what things we don't know, and the consequences are no different from lying to us. In retrospect, all the information we have so far about the rescue comes from two separate incidents, the first one in the Abyss Corridor, but the participants in that incident, the pale boy and the ghost mountain crack soul, are already dead, leaving only the ghost mountain lotus spring to be the only person in the know, and the second time, it happened in the explosion of Eternal Life Island, and the ghost mountain lotus spring became the heir of my father Siliuer, that is, the only person who knew his last words. In these two information acquisitions, the only person who participated in all of them was the Ghost Mountain Lotus Spring. If she has any secrets hidden and not told, we won't be able to find out at all. Tianbou Youhua looked at Qi Ling, "I wasn't very skeptical, but the arrival of the Netherworld shook my ......"

"Nether?" Qi Ling had a headache, "Is this matter so complicated?"

"If the Silver Priest simply wants to prevent us from rescuing Gilgamesh, it would be nice to send the Nether to kill me directly, according to Lianquan's words, without me, the rescue will fail. Then why did he go to all the trouble of bringing me back?" "My father was suddenly summoned to Eternal Life Island, and before leaving, he quietly sealed my mother and made my mother his apostle, which in itself is not very logical, if it were not for special circumstances, then the sealing ceremony was carried out in the imperial capital of Grante—"

"My seal isn't in Grant...... either," Kirin muttered quietly.

"Don't interrupt me just yet. Tianshu Youhua glared at Kirin, "My father secretly sealed my mother before leaving for Eternal Life Island, proving that he must have known that he would never come back if he went. Next, my mother had an accident during the process of conceiving me, which caused me to absorb her soul circuit, and as a result, my mother died, and I survived in a state of incomplete soul path. But was my mother's death really an accident? In any case, the immortality talent should definitely be a buff to the flesh and not a debuff. Moreover, my father had lived in this world for so many years, and he knew all the attributes and effects of the immortal talent very well, and if it led to such consequences, he would not have been able to seal his pregnant wife. Then you and Lianquan entered the soul mound, and then Tiange sent me a message, saying that the time had come, let me take the chain of resurrection, so I entered the soul mound and fought you and Lianquan to the death......"

"Didn't you say that you came in to find me because Silver Dust knelt down?"

"I'm just trying to be angry, who let him knock me to the ground so embarrassed. Tianshu Youhua replied angrily, "Even if Yinchen didn't ask me, I would have entered the soul mound that day, and I had already received a message from Tiange." But there is a logical point in this that cannot be explained, if you just want to stop the Ghost Mountain Lotus Spring, then why let me in, just let an apostle in is also the same effect, for example, just let Treya's apostle Neon in Isn't it better to complete the task? He's a slashing machine! Then the chess pieces at the exit of the soul mound were changed to lead to the ruins of Utur, and Tiange told me that the chess pieces on the left and right sides were reversed, but in fact, we all knew later that both chess pieces led to the ruins of Utur, so it was clear that they were going to kill me together. ”

"It's good that Kira kindly saved us, otherwise we would have died in the ruins of Utur, so many undead, I still have a numb scalp when I think about it now. ”

"You're wrong. If it weren't for the unexpected change of the layout, Kira wouldn't have saved us, do you think Kira is a good person?"

"What's the accident?"

"Do you remember those necromancers? none of our weapons can do any harm to the necromancy, except for your Broken Blade Greatsword, if you didn't happen to get it, the three of us would have been buried in the ruins of Utur, one of thousands of undead. The timing of Qila's appearance was too coincidental, and just when you found out that you could use the broken sword to damage Ligil's spirit, he appeared, pinching it, right?

"I think you're a good person too, although you don't sleep in the middle of the night, and I didn't tell them about Yinchen, I think you must have something of your own difficulty. ”

Tianshu Youhua looked at Qi Ling's warm eyes, her heart was a little sour, and she said coldly: "You'd better be a little wary of me, it may not be necessary if I kill you one day." ”

"From today onwards, I really have to be careful that you release cold arrows, it's too scary. Kirin pointed to his bleeding wound and raised his eyebrows playfully, "Having said so much, why did you go around to the soul mound in the first place?

"How can there be so many accidents in this world, once in a while is an accident, and the development of one link after another is not called an accident, it is called a well-laid out. Among so many 'accidents', only you are the real accident. I've figured out all the links, but you, you have an accident, I still can't figure it out. ”

"What the hell have you figured it out?" Qiling asked absentmindedly, blinking and a little sleepy.

Tianbou Youhua retracted the look on his face and laughed with him, was silent for a while, and then said in a very indifferent and hateful voice: "Imprisoning Gilgamesh is not imprisoned because he is too powerful, and even Gilgamesh himself may be one of the arrangers, all this, from the root to the present, all the chaos is a war without gunpowder between the silver priest and the royal bloodline." ”

Qi Ling suddenly woke up, and his drowsiness was suddenly driven away by the murderous aura on Tianshu Youhua's face.

Tianshu Youhua said word by word: "And the most critical and targeted among them is the superposition of the royal bloodline and immortal talent. (To be continued.) )