XXII. The Impending Crisis
To the southeast, one kilometre from the hotel, there is a small hill that is the highest in the area. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThis hill originally didn't have a name, but because there is a small cave that is not deep in the bottom of the mountain, everyone likes to call it Dongding Mountain, and it is also one of the favorite destinations for camping enthusiasts, because this small cave is sheltered from the wind and rain, and it is a good camping spot.
Lina had been here a few times, so she was familiar with the place, but instead of taking the normal stone path, she climbed from the back mountain to the top of the mountain, and then slowly descended to the cave. Because the stone road at the bottom of the mountain leads directly to the cave under the top of the mountain, and it is also convenient for camping enthusiasts to camp, but this kind of ordinary passage often has cameras and other monitoring devices to ensure the safety of climbers, after all, this area is usually open to tourists.
After reaching the top of the mountain, Lina bypassed the few sentry guards who had been watching the bottom of the mountain, changed into the clothes of one of them, and went into the cave, still wanting to see who would have such a way of designing herself. Outside, there were three sentry posts, hiding in the grass, in the treetops, and on the dark side of a rock. After a lot of effort, Lina finally sneaked into the cave without realizing it.
In fact, the cave is not very big, to be precise, it is only wide, and there happens to be a stone pillar in the middle against the top of the cave, although the two ends of the pillar are thick and thin in the middle, and it is obviously something similar to stalactites, but from the size, it does look like a pillar. There were seven or eight tents set up here, large and small, and Lina soon spotted the largest of them and sneaked over. In fact, the tent is a very good warning equipment, as long as the light intensity inside the tent is weaker than the light outside, it is easy to distinguish someone from the shadow on the tent.
Inside the tent, a loli with blonde hair tied with two ponytails, sitting on a chair, two legs casually hit a box, holding a book in his hand, which is also an item related to the dark world, looking at the cover of the book, a bit like an alchemy symbol, in fact, medieval alchemy, is also transmitted from the dark world, a kind of reaction technique that seals a certain reaction with an ability, is a technology for the forcible transformation of matter. This blonde Lori is holding a lollipop in her left hand and flipping through a book in her right hand, looking very comfortable.
Just as she was reading the book comfortably, a dark shadow gradually rose behind her, but Lori didn't seem to notice anything unusual. Suddenly, the black shadow stretched out two hands and hugged Lori's chest, startling the lollipop and the book in her hand to the ground.
"Sister Lina, why do you bully people every time you meet, and you ...... every time Rub it all there......" said a voice that sounded as crisp as a little girl.
"That's because you don't behave every time, and use some self-righteous little tricks to calculate me, you yourself said, this so-called kidnapping is the first time you have used it on me? I already knew that this kind of thing that seems to be full of loopholes must have been done by you, a crazy girl!" Lina said viciously while rubbing the little girl's breasts.
"Sister Lina...... I apologize...... I can't apologize!"
"Forget about apologizing, who doesn't know that you guy is doing one thing in front of you and one thing behind your back, didn't you say that you wouldn't dare next time, how many times did you do it next time?" Lina stopped while complaining.
"I don't want to see if Sister Lina's strength has regressed after losing her ability!" the blonde-faced girl bent down and picked up her book.
"By the way, Alice, what is the matter with your visit this time? Or do you miss Sister Lina's hand so much that you are determined to stay with me to death?" Lina smiled playfully at Alice.
"No! there's an important thing to tell Sister Lina. Alice put down the book and looked at Lina innocently with her hands on her chest, "The main thing is that this thing is not so safe. As he spoke, he pointed to the bracelet on his hand.
"What? Is this something to do with the organization?"
"Sister Lina, do you remember the last time you were on Witch Island?" Alice said mysteriously.
"Of course you know, what? Does it have anything to do with Witch Island?"
"I don't know if Sister Lina knows that after that big event, there was something called the Book of Prophecy?"
"I do know that this is said to be a stone tablet that can predict something related to the dark world and the light world, and I have seen it once, so I put it in the secret storeroom, right? ā
"Yes, it's the slate. Alice continued, "Sister Lina may not know that not long ago, a new prophecy was born. ā
"New prophecy? It seems that this prophecy book has not predicted missing a thing since it was discovered, right?" asked Lina softly, as if to say to herself.
"The new prophecy says that the doors of our world and the other world will soon be opened, and believers will need to find the keys to open the doors of hope and return dust to dust. But the last sentence is not very clear, I guess it means to send the things from the dark world on our side back there. Alice continued.
"How do you know these things? As far as I guess, even if you are now the leader of the Witch Island Guard, you can't have access to this, right?" Lina suddenly thought of something and asked.
"I didn't see it with my own eyes, but one of my duties is to guard the relics researchers, and one of them is in charge of researching the prophecy, and I saw it from his sources. Although I just stood nearby and glanced at it, Sister Lina, you also know that my ability is speed reading, and I can understand the content of half a page on a piece of paper at a glance. ā
Prophecy ...... Gate...... Believer...... Key...... Dust...... "Lina was lost in thought, and said to herself, "How do I feel like a conspiracy, didn't I clean up those fanatics last time?"
"Sister Lina, I came here to tell you that the time when the door opened this time is only a month from now, and as far as I know, they haven't found the so-called key, and I don't know exactly what it is or what, in short, I only know so much. Originally, we were going to go back after completing the escort plan, but suddenly I saw that Sister Lina was also on the competition list, and remembered that Sister Lina had told me before she left Witch Island that if there was anything abnormal, she must tell you, so I turned a corner and told you about it at the wrong time, in fact, I was the same as you, and I felt that this matter was a bit unusual. ā
"Well, Alice, thank you for remembering what I said back then, this is not a trivial matter, at least in the records of our world, there will always be disasters when the two worlds are connected, I have to go back and think about what the hell is wrong with this. By the way, Alice, have you caught any of the cultists lately?"
"No, since that purge, no cultists have been found on Witch Island, and this is still a matter of concern to the organization. ā
"Okay, thank you Alice, it's time for me to go, my apprentices may be in a hurry, and I don't know if Ayako has found it. Lina got up and prepared to go back.
"I won't send you Sister Lina, we will also leave immediately now, ready to return to Witch Island. Sister Lina, take care!"
"Well, be careful, Witch Island is a dangerous place, don't take it lightly!"
"I know!"
After saying goodbye to each other, the two sides left in opposite directions, and the cave top mountain returned to its original dark and silent appearance. However, a few minutes after Lina and Alice left, two figures suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain, both of them were covered in robes, and their faces could not be seen, and they looked like the guards behind the white robe who met Ayako in the roof garden of the hotel. It was only then that the summit really fell into silence, and the sounds of insects and animals resounded.