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I've had enough.

I'm really, really, really, fed up.

I'm fed up with staring at a boring world perpetuated by the selfishness of a few, without hope, without future and brilliance, without even fear and despair. When the time came to the Fifth Age, and the land remained unchanged, the political system was indestructible, and the core of ideology and culture remained the same as before, I knew that even if there was no Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun, even if I did not lose my essentia, I would definitely descend on this planet.

Because here, it's an ugly and twisted Dead Sea that will attract me to it.

236

The royal band began to play a second dance piece, this time in a bright three-beat rhythm, and the author made a lot of innovations in chords and forms, writing a completely different style from the traditional dance music of Intis, which has become the current trend music. If it were in the rigid and old-fashioned Rune, even the most popular music would not be able to enter the house, but this is Intis, Trier of Intis, the city of passion, the city of romance and joy, as long as it is moving enough, even in the circle of the top aristocracy, it is not surprising.

After Adella danced the opening dance, there was no sweat on her forehead, and even the speed of her breathing did not change for half a minute.

She had a good time, and took the initiative to change four dance partners in a dance song, just like doing a warm-up exercise. Then, she followed the resting girls to the hallway leading to the lounge in the ballroom, and stood in the shadows of the junction, stealthily looking at the corner by the frame of the arch.

She found her target next to the second sculpture by the wall, the Lord Viscount, the demon who had been living a peaceful and undisputed life in a fiefdom west of Intis fifty years ago, standing against the wall, with a glass of sparkling wine, talking to Russell Gustav.

The latter, who was not yet forty years old, was in the midst of a booming career, and was able to triple the price of newspapers throughout Trierdu by developing new plumbing designs and weapons orders for the Steam Church.

Russell's mind is easy to guess, just look at his lingering expression on the female rolls. Florent used an inappropriate way of solicitation and didn't deal with him, but in the face of himself, a beautiful woman, the other party was still more face-saving. Edward's mind is hard to guess, but Adele still tries to guess, maybe today is the time to practice.

Although she was peeking, her undisguised undisguised still caught Russell's attention, and he suddenly showed a three-point gloating and seven-point amusement expression, patted Edward's shoulder with his own hand, and then whistled to chase the backs of the other ladies and ladies.

So Adella walked up generously, covered the corners of her crazy mouth with the gorgeous feather fan in her hand, stepped on stiletto shoes and walked up to Edward, and met Edward's eyes as if looking at an open-screen peacock in front of her: "Gui'an, Viscount Vaughan, is the music and food not to your taste?" Don't waste this wonderful night, seeing a guest standing alone on the side, it would be a dereliction of my duty as the organizer. ”

Her address was Viscount, so Edward nodded perfunctorily, "No, everything is fine." Then he didn't intend to speak again.

Adella was not surprised by this alienation, the feather fan hid her face, and continued to smile and speak: "I want to talk to you, is it convenient for you now?" Maybe a little woman like me can help you. ”

"Nope." Edward responded to her simply.

Adella was prepared, she took a soft breath, lowered her voice to the point that only they could hear, and disguised the conversation by going to the long table to get a drink: "If you want to play a demon who learns human nature, there is still something missing, and I am willing to help you make up for it." ”

Edward was unimpressed: "Family? It doesn't have to be you. ”

"No, it's love." Adella smiled, picked up a glass of champagne with her burgundy tulle cut-out gloves fingers, and invited Edward to toast with her. Edward was silent for a second, then gently touched her cup and waited for her to follow, "If you want to make people feel like you, you have to imitate love. No matter what kind of love it is, I can help you cover it up, decorate your indifference with bad words, weaken the inhumanity in you, I do it all voluntarily, and there will be no flaws. ”

"Are you talking to me about terms?" Edward asked her, taking a sip of the golden sparkling wine, "I don't necessarily need it, and even if I do, it doesn't have to be you." What are you doing all this for? To help the Sauron family win me over? You know that marriage doesn't have any binding or special meaning for me, it's as ordinary as breathing. ”

"Because I like you." Adella stroked the broken hair around her ears, straightened the small crown on her head, and showed a bright smile, "I like you, I love you, so since they are all marriages, why not choose the one I like?" You need a family, a wife you 'love', I need a free home and people I like, it's a win-win. ”

"You've moved me a little."

Edward replied, "So where are you going to start first?" ”

Adela's joy was at once, she snapped the feather fan shut, took a few steps back, and then walked back to Edward with a reserved and graceful straight step, bowing slightly, holding the feather fan behind her back. She raised her other hand and said in a voice distinctly smiling:

"This handsome and noble ...... No, this gentleman with a cold face who doesn't want to talk to anyone, can you dance with me? ”

237

West End, outside Green Cemetery.

Crane accompanied Dr. Allen for a long walk in the nearby woods, coughing from time to time from the falling dust.

"Maybe there is no such thing as a tree, and the things of dreams cannot be fully reflected in reality." In the end, Alan himself was a little unsure.

Luckily, I'm good at finding things...... Crane pointed in the direction with his cane and said, "Let's take a look over there and make a final effort." ”

"Okay." Alan gasped.

The two walked for a while, and Alan suddenly stopped, pointed diagonally forward, and said, "There, there!" ”

More than ten meters away, a birch tree with a circle of bark off its waist stood quietly, as if waiting for the two of them.

"It's exactly like in my dream." Alan is very sure.

Crane smiled a little warily, "But there is no Will Onsetin. ”

Alan approached the birch tree, frowned for a while, and suddenly pointed to the root of the tree and said, "Will Unsetin was sitting here at the time, and he had a hand pointing at the dirt below!" ”

Pointing to the dirt below? Crane stood next to him, looking down at the area where there was almost no dead grass, "You want to dig it up?" ”

Alan nodded: "I've found this place, I have to make sure what there is, Sherlock, you go to the cemetery and borrow two shovels." ”

"Or I'll stay here, you go to the cemetery, I'm worried that something will happen." Crane said cautiously.

"Okay." Alan didn't shirk and immediately left the woods

After a while, he wasted his money, returned with three shovels and a grave keeper, and began to try to dig.

Crane dug and dug and suddenly smelled something more familiar, and as the dirt on the surface parted, what was below was gradually revealed.

It was the corpse of a child that was already highly decomposed!

His skin and flesh looked like they were about to melt, and there were many bugs crawling in and out of his nose and mouth.

While!

The shovel in Allen's hand fell, smashing into a stone. He pointed to the corpse's legs, his mouth twitching wildly but he couldn't speak. Crane endured his nausea, looked closely, and found that the left leg of the child's corpse was clearly missing the lower half of his leg.

At the same time, Alan took two steps back, fell to the ground, and shouted in a high-pitched voice, "Will Onsetin!" Will Unsetin! ”

That's Will Onsetin's corpse!

He's dead?

Will Onsetin is dead?

And it seems to have been dead for a while!

Could this be fake?

Crane looked at the child's corpse in shock and suspicion, and many thoughts popped up in his heart. In his cognition, Will Onsetin belongs to a special child with his own, and may have a certain connection with the sequence 1 "Mercury Serpent" of the "monster" pathway.

The divination game he played, his casual remark "Doctor, your luck will be bad", made Alan unlucky for a long time; The thousand paper cranes he folded could allow Allen's star spirit body to be positioned in the spirit world and be instilled with artificially created revelations; His whereabouts, even if Crane is above the gray fog, can only glimpse one or two, and it is difficult to draw an effective conclusion...... How could such a child die inexplicably? Died before Dr. Allen dreamed? What about his loved ones?

Crane narrowed his eyes slightly, endured intense nausea, and scrutinized the highly decomposed corpse, revealing some torn tarot cards in the surrounding dirt.

His spiritual instincts told him that the corpse in front of him was most likely Will. Nextine.

It's really shocking and incomprehensible...... Go back to the gray mist to confirm if Will Onsetin is faked...... Wait, what does this have to do with me? I've long decided not to get involved in this matter, lest I get entangled in some "mercury snake", which may be even more terrible than the seal "0-08...... Crane came back to his senses and said to the frightened grave keeper and Dr. Allen, who was about to collapse in fright, "Call the police!" ”

"Good, good!" The grave keeper was stunned for a moment, and then replied repeatedly.

With his shovel in hand, he turned and ran out of the woods, as fast as if a living corpse was chasing him behind him. Crane sighed, then took a deep breath, walked over to Dr. Allen, lowered his head, pressed the other person's shoulder and comforted, "There's nothing to be afraid of, he's already dead." ”

“…… It is precisely because of death that it is more terrifying. Dr. Allen calmed down a little and got up on his own. He looked at Crane and was about to say something, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a crow in a black hat standing on a tree in the distance that had lost most of its leaves, tilting its head to look at them. Seeing Alan coming, it flapped its wings and flew to another tree with thicker leaves, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Alan?" Seeing that the other party was in a daze, Crane looked behind him suspiciously and vigilantly, "Is there anything behind me?" ”

"What? No, I just seemed to be distracted. ”

The part about the crow was taken away in its entirety, and Alan didn't find that he was missing more than ten seconds of memory, and even forgot about the nervousness just now. He quickly recalled what he had just wanted to say, and quickly said to Crane, "Thank you, Sherlock, I already feel better. I wouldn't know what to do without you by my side. ”

Seeing that he had adjusted his mood and no longer pursued the matter, Crane also let go of the heart that had been hanging, and smiled relaxedly: "But before that, we may have another summons from the West Villas field. ”

238

A barefoot teenage child deliberately hit Richard, Richard reached out and scooped him up, lifted him up with his belt, and said to him with a smile: "Children are not allowed to steal things, right?" ”

The height of nearly two meters is very oppressive, and the child whose feet are more than one meter above the ground struggles violently a few times, and when he sees that he can't break free, he simply cries while flapping his limbs. Richard was not angry, and continued to lecture him in a good voice: "Don't steal, if someone forces you to steal, run away, go buy something to eat, and get a good night's sleep." Go to work on the docks, or apprentice someone else, you can live on your own, don't learn badly, you're still young......"

Richard patiently spoke of temperance and discipline, leaving the seeds of "goodness" in the child's troubled heart.

Alger next to him snorted: "Mr. Ernst, it's almost noon, don't waste time on these kids, they have probably been pickpockets more than we've ever seen, and they won't be able to get back." ”

"But you can't pretend you can't see it, it's still a child."

"I'm not accusing you, but there's no point in reasoning with them, they won't listen......" Alger continued to frown, although the child in Richard's hands had gradually turned into sobbing, no longer crying loudly, as if Richard's preaching really had some strange ability. Could it be that the Ernst family is a "spectator"? Alger guessed in his mind, and then he saw Richard put the child down, and wiped away the dirt and tears from the other's face with a piece of novice, revealing a malnourished, thin little face.

"Alright, let's go, don't steal anything in the future."

He saw that Richard's dirty hands were immediately new as if by magic, and Alger saw that he had secretly folded a 5-pound note into a handkerchief and stuffed it into the child's hand.

"If you really can't survive, go to the Ernst Foundation, and we'll let you live to adulthood."

The boy clutched his handkerchief and banknotes, and looked at Richard with the wary and uneasy eyes of a little beast. No one taught him to say thank you, so he hurriedly nodded at Richard and squeezed into the crowd.

Alger looked at Richard with a complicated expression, and slightly understood why there were so many charitable organizations, only the Ernst family was the most strained. In a split second, he even had the idea of charging a few dozen pounds less, but for the sake of his own future and the potion, Alger suppressed the idea. He walked up and reminded him without humility or arrogance: "It's time to continue buying supplies." ”

"The Sword Comes"

"Okay. It's hard for you to wait so long. ”

Richard replied with a smile, and followed behind Alger, watching with great interest as the other man selected dried seafood, dry bread, and some fruit that was easy to preserve. Sailors can filter salt by themselves, produce clean water, and go to the sea to fish in the waves, basically solving the biggest problem of ordinary people sailing: water. So there's not much to buy, just some dry food that can be stored for a long time, and a necessary change of clothes.

The list was crossed off one by one, and the shopping streets of Byam were bustling with adventurers, merchants, pirates and sailors. Richard followed Alger, watching and listening to a pirate who was about to rob a passenger ship and do a big ...... Inform Garland de that a businessman is talking about human trafficking in black language...... Inform Garland De.

A crowd of people came in front of him, and Richard heard a man shouting, "Two pounds, bring me ten pounds of red clay!" I heard someone laugh again, "Frank, you're doing those cult experiments again!" ”

So the voice just now defended itself, "Hybridization...... Not a cult experiment! Let the cows grow like wheat, and let the milk grow like coconut water in the fruit of the tree...... and many people in front of me laughed, "I saw you do those experiments with my own eyes last time, and then your captain threw all the dirt and stuff into the sea!" Frank blushed, trying to explain what "mother" and "hybrid" and "for more people" were hard to understand, and the market was filled with merry air.

Alger uncomfortably lowered the brim of his hat to block his blue hair, not wanting others to tell from the clues that he was going to sea.

And Richard frowned slightly, listened to these quietly, puzzled, and suddenly, and finally nodded, and said amazingly:

"It turns out that it can be like this, what a genius idea."

TBC

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Who asked if the decay would feel that the mushroom king was very pleasing to the eye, and the answer was yes.

Garland De, the head of the Sea of the Pilgrimage Sect, Death Path Sequence 5, a Bailang man, jumped from the Spirit Order.

The arrangement to serve as an "admiral of hell" was refused, citing seasickness.