The wheels began to turn, and Gracie did not say a word of comfort to persuade the weeping Peggy, and after a few minutes said, "Totti, someone is following us, take Prosperity Avenue instead, and when you pass the third junction, go right into the alley, and then go out through the west gate of the city." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Yes, sir. The driver replied loudly.

Peggy had little contact with the head president, Gracie, and rarely visited his magical equipment shop, but it was the first time she had experienced the old man's magic, and the Assassins always speculated that the head president was a god. When Gracie spoke to the coachman, his voice was very small, like muttering to himself, but Totti, who was on the street across the car, could hear it, could the old man put the sound into Totty's ears?

"Wait a while, when you go out of the city gate, someone will check, we need to change our appearance, you see that my appearance has changed, don't be surprised, your appearance has actually changed. Gracie explained, worried that something was wrong with Peggy. In this way, others will not recognize us, and we will save trouble. ”

Peggy was amazed to see that a layer of air condensed on Gracie's face, slowly transformed into skin, and stuck to it, and after a short time of adjustment, the current old man was actually Lord Montgomery. Gracie then fiddled with his hand in front of Peggy a few times, explaining, "It's a little uncomfortable. ”

"Why did you become Lord Montgomery?" Paige was puzzled, she touched her newly transformed face with her hand, it seemed to be the same as real skin, but she felt an extra layer of film.

"Now the control of the entire Heavenly Grace City is much stricter than before, everyone has to be inspected when entering and leaving the city gate, and a person like me who has registered in the inquisition office must not be let go easily, it is better to pretend to be someone else to avoid suspicion. It just so happened that this morning, the Montgomeries were going to go far away, so we borrowed their identities and saved a lot of things. Gracie explained, "As for the real Lord, I have no choice but to be aggrieved and leave again tomorrow." ”

The carriage made a sharp turn, and Peggy quickly grabbed the handle of the seat, knowing that she had reached the third intersection of Prosperity Avenue and was about to shake off the trackers.

"Two detours can get rid of them?" Peggy thinks that since she is the one who has come to track down the Undercurrent Guild, it should not be so easy to deal with.

"Not only that, but I was behind the car, using a blindfold, setting up a mirror barrier, and our car was actually driving in the alley, but what the people at the entrance of the alley saw was that there was no carriage on the street. Gracie was patient, "They lost their purpose and didn't know where to look for us. ”

Peggy nodded, unable to help but be more interested in the elder, and continued to ask, "Mr. Gracie, are you a god?"

Gracie didn't answer directly, but sighed and said, "It doesn't matter, I know your subtext, Peggy, if I am a god and have such a powerful ability, why should I run away, why don't I guard the Undercurrent Guild with your father, right?"

Peggy shrugged: "My father and I are not qualified to ask you to do anything, without you, maybe Marion would not be alive today, let alone with me." ”

"Peggy, as you continue to grow, you will find that the laws of this universe are really helpless. Let's put it this way, if you want to go up, there will be a force that will stop you from going up, and if you are falling, there will also be a force that will stop you from falling. The possibility of decay of things that flourish is greatly increased, and where there is a beginning, there must be an end, and eternity does not exist. Gracie said, "Even the entire universe, all planes, are facing an end, and the end time is much shorter than you think. ”

"How short will it be?"

"Ten years later. ”

"Ten years, Mr. Gracie, you're not kidding, we're all going to die in ten years?" Peggy was shocked.

"It's not dead, it's completely gone, not even the bones and souls will remain, then there will be no more the main plane, no more heaven, no more underworld, nothing, a complete return to nothingness. "It's terrible, I'd love to be able to stop it." ”

"Master Gracie, how can you know now what will happen ten years from now, it is just your prophecy, or a hunch, that it has not happened. Peggy said.

"No, I've experienced it myself, and it's been a recurring experience, I'm a visitor to time. The old man said.

"I don't understand what you mean at all. ”

"Ten years ago, before the destruction of the universe, I went into a dark space cave, and then I returned to the present, and even farther ago, I have gone back and forth dozens of times, each time carefully observing and thinking about the cause of the destruction, to find the crux of it, trying to resolve the crisis, but each time I failed. This time, the return time is seven hundred years, and there are not many days left. ”

"You're from the future, how could you possibly return?" Peggy was puzzled.

"Maybe when the universe exploded violently, time and space were distorted by a powerful force, and I happened to find a way back at this time, and it was an arrangement, maybe even the universe was not willing to destroy itself, it created an opportunity for me to save the future. Gracie said, "It's a pity that in the dozens of returns, I haven't found the right direction and ideas, no matter how hard I try, I can't change the outcome, all resistance is useless." ”

"Then I'm not even thirty years old, and I'm gone, and I really can't accept it. Peggy felt terrified.

"Not only you, all life is unacceptable, the so-called holy calendar 448 years, is the end of time. ”

"There's really nothing to be done?"

"As a tourist who constantly travels back and forth in the time zone, as an observer, I am constantly summing up, and finally discovering that the key point that leads to the destruction of the universe is this plane, the plane that once created St. Ossidine, and the plane that created Brian, and my guidance to Brian and his own choices are the most important thing to affect the outcome, so that the next twenty-one times I came back, I returned to the continent of Rukai, waiting for the necessary time to meet Brian and tell him what the future holds. The old man recalled. "This is my mission, I can't directly confront the church, so as not to be detected by the heavenly realm, if I have an accident in the middle, I can't continue to go back and forth, then the universe is really going to end!"

"I see, in fact, we have talked like this twenty times, and in the previous twenty times, you told me as you do today that the universe will die in ten years, right?"

"Only nineteen times, the first time I decided to work with Marion to save the undercurrent, and it turned out badly, you were killed, and I was almost killed. ”