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"You've finally met Crane?"

Edward put down the chicken sandwich and newspaper in his hand and said incredulously, "You still remember this?" ”

"What do you say?" His half-body was accustomed to being blamed, and was proud of it, "I will indeed be attracted to other things, but I will not forget what I should do, by the way, I have done some archaeological excavation and research work on the ancient city-state civilization of the immortal bird in the Godforsaken Lands, so it is inconvenient to send these books and archaeological records I just wrote to the demon of knowledge?" ”

“……”

Considering that it was inconvenient for him and he didn't want to go to the Godforsaken Land, Edward chose to forbear: "Give me the data and information." Tell me, now that you've met Crane, what's your next step? ”

"I'm talking to him."

In his mind, the half-body voice paused—although they were now using their spiritual minds to transmit information, the other party was still very dutifully simulating the appearance of being "interrupted from thinking"—"Speaking of which, there is something I want you to ask the Demon of Knowledge. I wonder if anything had changed from Him, the seal that had divided Eurasia just two days ago? ”

Edward was wandering when he saw two sneaky hunters approaching the river in the distance, chose a hidden spot in the shadows to lay down the bench and bucket, and then arranged the fishing gear, and began to skillfully make a nest, as if intending to waste a morning under the bridge. So, when he heard this, he reacted for a moment before asking:

"Klein made the seal change?"

"There was a point, and from where I was at the time, there were signs of opening."

The half-body coped with himself and Klein at the same time, and it seemed that he had long been accustomed to multi-threaded work: "But in the end, it still hasn't been opened, it's safer to ask the demon of knowledge, but I guess he shouldn't be able to see anything on his side." It seems that even if it is a small mystery, it is impossible to cross the gap of power and directly order the seal. ”

"You seem to be talking nonsense."

"How do you know it's nonsense if I don't say it?"

Edward took a deep breath, took a deep breath, and once again chose to forbear, after all, it was a shame to be angry with himself to say this.

"Other than that, it's the secret waiter who can run and jump." The half-body was completely unaware of what he had just said, or that he didn't care about the minutiae of these interactions, "I shouldn't have used such a weak container, which would fall apart after two steps, and I had to tinker with extraordinary creatures in order to maintain the basic shape of a human being." I couldn't keep up with the secret acolyte, so I had to hide and go where he might be in the future, and it was here that I ran into Klein Moretti. ”

"So you found Klein by chance."

Edward's mood didn't fluctuate in the slightest.

"That's right. I didn't think he would be here, but considering that such a large Godforsaken Land only has a few high-level sequences of the mysterious three paths, I wasn't surprised at all that wolf would appear near Moon City. ”

"But I think it's more interesting - the general law of aggregation will be manifested as a low sequence to a higher sequence cluster, and Crane is only sequence 3 now, even if he is promoted, he should not be qualified to attract the guy who is one step away from the promotion sequence."

"So, perhaps...... It was Amun who drew Him in? ”

Amun...... Not surprising either. ”

Edward pondered for a moment, then walked away again. Seeing that the two sneaky hunters had already laid down their bait and set up their fishing rods, he simply kindly helped to check the movements of the fish in the river in front of him, and came to the conclusion that the river was now almost connected to a deep underground lake, and the big fish in it were not interested in the small earthworm bait of the two of them, and the two hunters were destined to the air force.

"It's been half a month since Amon got the Source Fort, and he doesn't seem to have done anything."

Edward was idle, and simply took a bite of the chicken sandwich in his hand: "You are in Moon City now, have you been to Silver City?" ”

"Not yet, is there anything?"

"There's an interesting curse in Silver City, you can go and see the principle when you have time, and my gut tells me it's going to be an interesting thing." Edward chewed his sandwich slowly and vaguely, "What do you think is the fate of these two cities?" ”

"Didn't you ask in vain?"

The half-body laughed: "My perspective will not exceed my own strength at most, and at the same time, when there is the most overwhelming power, all other possibilities will be swallowed. Now that Amun's doppelgangers are all in these two places, I can see the future in addition to becoming God's sheep, that is, becoming His doppelganger. ”

But we're not His goal, so don't worry too much. Even if he wanted to do something, he would definitely give priority to the God of Thunder and that Parles Zoroaster. He had a day when he was caught, but not now, not in this month. The half-body paused again, and then said, "Crane is going to give a secret mission, I'll listen." ”

“…… Oh. Edward casually responded.

Then he looked ahead of him and met the eyes of an old man who had slowly walked to the bench across the street and sat down.

Edward didn't speak, but he noticed a slight smile on the corner of the thin old man's mouth, who seemed to be in a good mood, and in his hand was holding a children's picture book with a hard cover and a cute brass-colored dragon with a stick figure on the cover.

The brass-colored dragon was not as fierce as other of its kind that often appeared in the pictures, sitting on a pile of treasures or the bones of brave people spewing flames, but instead held a book in one paw and a pen in the other, with a serious expression, and a pile of books and a pair of small glasses by his side, as if he were an old professor, which made people laugh.

On the cover is the title of the book - "The Story of a Dragon".

Probably not an illusion, Edward saw a dead peace in the dragon's eyes with only two black spots.

This made him want to comfort the dragon a little, it was better to fall into the hands of the demon of knowledge than to fall into the hands of the god of thunder next door, right?

There are knowledgeable people who like to teach people how to do things at length when dealing with others, sometimes with good intentions, sometimes simply to show off. The intellectuals of the extraordinary world were of course no exception, and Edward saw that the smile on the demon of knowledge seemed to have written "Come and ask me", so he nodded at the crusty square picture book and asked politely:

"Where did you get this?"

The demon of knowledge had a mischievous smile on his thin face: "Picked it up from the beach by the sea." ”

"It's a bit of a long story, but it's not too long, and a few months ago a fisherman caught the book from a fishing net. This kind of high-quality picture book sold for a lot of money, so he dried the book and sent it to the market to sell, and half a gold louis was sold to someone else. ”

"Half a gold louis."

Gold Louis was worth less than a gold pound, and Edward couldn't help but smile: "A level 0 seal with a living trait is really cheap now. ”

The demon of knowledge also said, "The person who bought the picture book is a local merchant with a good family, and there is a child in his family who is more than ten years old, this child read the picture book, and under his guidance, he understands the hidden 'reader' potion recipe in the picture book, and then uses his pocket money to find a way to save this bottle of Sequence 9 potion and become an extraordinary." ”

"The town was destroyed in the tsunami, but the boy survived and made his way to Trier."

The demon of knowledge patted the cover of the book: "Originally, it was impossible for the church team to find Him. However, due to the loss of the family property, the child could no longer buy potions steadily and quickly, and even received news of the recruitment of the Church of Rune, planning to flee to Rune to join the Church of the God of Thunder and Truth. He was startled, and in order not to be smuggled into Rune last night, he reported his possession. ”

"When that young man was caught, he still felt that he was still the chosen one, and he would be able to snatch the book back in the future."

The old-faced demon of knowledge blinked and teased:

"Young people always have a similar self-confidence that the gifts are actually earned by hard work. However, it is good to have such self-confidence, so I painted a pie for him, let him complete his compulsory education first, and then be admitted to a national university, and then try to be selected by the demigods to enter the scientific research group with excellent grades. After that, as long as he is at ease to do his studies, as long as fifty years or as short as thirty years, he can apply to become a demigod. ”

"I can't tell if you can digest a bottle of 'demon' with this kind of behavior."

Edward complained, and saw the expression of the brass cartoon dragon on the cover even more through the red dust: "To make a long story short, you already know about Amon, are you still planning to find a way to get Bethel Abraham back, or start anew?" ”

When it came to business, the smile on the corner of the demon of knowledge's mouth slowly calmed down, and Zhengse said:

"For me, Bethel Abraham was the best choice, because he had no conflict with me, only my kindness to help him. But at the same time, it is also the most difficult to support Him, and the Fallen Mother will not let go, not to mention that He has already told the Mother about my plan. ”

"I don't want to help Amun, he doesn't seem to repay the favor, he only holds grudges, I'm very realistic."

Edward guessed the answer: "So your last choice is ......"

"Bethel Abraham is still number one in my heart."

The demon of knowledge said solemnly, "As for the others, Paris, Crane, Kotal, Zarathu...... I'll think about it. ”

Zarathu had already been thrown out of the alternate track, but during the courtesy, the demon of knowledge still added the other party's name.

Edward nodded, accustomed to the special way of thinking of the demon of knowledge, and asked curiously:

"Who's Kotal?"

"The 'God of Wishes' who wanders in the land of God's forsaken." The Demon of Knowledge glanced at him, held out his hand, and made a gesture of asking for payment, "I heard you talking to yourself, give me your archaeological data, and in return, I will share some information about the 'God of Wishes' with you." ”

……

"Your Excellency, you are here to take us out?"

On the outskirts of Moon City, he was chatting with Klein, asking for some information that was not very important to the other party:

"Do you think the outside world is beautiful? What is the outside world like, is it worth leaving our homes where we have lived for thousands of years? ”

As the position of the sun gradually began to approach the middle of the sky, before noon, a team of seven or eight people from Moon City approached the small room where the "Divine Messenger" was yesterday. But when they cautiously pushed the door open, they found that there was no one inside.

The team was caught in a short commotion, and soon, they found the note left in the house, regrouped according to the instructions on the note, and began to move towards the distance, in the direction of the gray-white mist outside Moon City.

And somewhere outside of Moon City, Crane had already lit a bonfire not too far away to make himself some food.

Klein looked at him, pondering the question, and felt that it was normal for the residents of Moon City to ask this question, which was also one of the questions he was about to face, so he thought seriously for a few seconds, and replied calmly and steadily:

"I can't guarantee you, I don't dare to say that the outside world must be better than the Eastern Continent."

"There aren't so many monsters out there, but there's war, there's hunger, and some unspeakable dangers lurking."

"But the Eastern Continent cannot be cultivated, and human beings cannot live healthy and normal on their own, and if they do not leave here, they are destined to die out slowly. So, I think it's necessary to take you out. ”

"I see."

He looked around.

In front of him was a slow-burning bonfire, and Gelman Sparrow sat on the other side, holding an iron-black long stick, roasting mushrooms.

Around the campfire lay the corpses of one monster after another, on these corpses, there were all kinds of strange things, some of them were white and full, as if they would squirt liquid when they poked, some were black and inlaid with blood-colored filaments and fat patterns, some were covered with golden spots, and the lid on the top was the size of a palm...... These mushrooms were things that the people of Moon City had already seen, and he didn't feel like he was going to show surprise or shock.

He thought for a moment and then asked, "Then if one day, the land of the Eastern Continent returns to normal, and cultivation can be carried out here, and we want to return here, will the esteemed 'fool' be willing?" ”

Come back? Throw yourself into God's arms again? Thinking of the disappointed and even desperate look of the High Priest of Mooncity when he learned that the Creator was dead, Klein pursed his lips, he restrained his inner struggle well, and still maintained a calm attitude:

"I don't dare to make judgments on behalf of the 'fools'."

"But...... I believe that the freedom to choose one's faith and place of residence should be one of the most basic human rights. ”

"What if the 'fools' don't want to?" He made up his mind to tease the little mystery lord of the Trinity, "If the 'fools' were angry at our actions and asked God to make you, Your Excellency, come and stop us, or even use some force, would you do so?" ”

Klein didn't want to talk to Him anymore, and he couldn't answer the question.

If he were a fool, he could simply shake his head, but now he is the oracle of the "fool", a devout believer, a man who came to save you because God asked for it, and he really can't and shouldn't show much of his opinion.

"I will pray for you." He said this stiffly as an end.

Sensing Crane's displeasure, he simply stopped talking, and fell silent with Crane, staring at the white mushroom that was bubbling above the flames.

After a while, a team of people from Moon City slowly walked in the distance, and Klein glanced at it, and his expression became a little distorted.

- There were only a dozen or so people who came, and half of them were wearing monocles.

TBC

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I went to the bug just now and repeated a paragraph, urgently modified

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