In the spiritual refuge, Aragina carefully looked at the very special "cardinal" in front of her with the faint light emanating from the little David beside her and the slight starlight leaking from the cracks in the ceiling.

Since the starlight was very dim, I wondered if it was caused by the scarlet mist that Arajina had just glimpsed in her peripheral vision that haunted the gap in the vault. She didn't dare look in that direction anymore because of the strange cardinal's reminder.

Aragina is not familiar with this place, and of course she will not seek death to do some dangerous acts without being persuaded to do so.

Facing the cardinal's question, Aragina hesitated for a moment before speaking,

"I'm Arajina."

"Ah, Arajina, what a name"

The red-haired boy in front of him floated slowly to the distance not far in front of Arajina, and although his words sounded mechanical and monotonous, a warm smile hung on his face.

Such a smile unconsciously dissipated Alajina's vigilance a little, and she couldn't help but look at the little David floating beside her and asked,

"You all have the same name."

"Ah, because the general manufacturing technique came from my father and mother, who liked me very much, so even if there were other organisms and corresponding independent consciousness, they still named other bodies after me. But I'm the first organism to be created by Mom and Dad, and it's strange that I've never seen this stand-alone organism around you. ”

David slowly turned his head to look at little David, the expression on his face showed a hint of obvious doubt, and Arajina couldn't help but ask,

"Your mom and dad are. Angels? ”

"No, David's father was a saint, and his mother was a transferee. But strictly speaking, because dad has no gender and mom is a man, it sounds a little strange. Aragina just needs to know that they are important to David, but I haven't seen them for a long, long time, right, is Aragina going to my house as a guest, it's in the vault. ”

"The one who transferred. What is it? ”

"Oh, well, that's what the Saints call Mom, but David doesn't know what that means."

“.”

At the mention of "Mom and Dad", David's indistinguishable handsome face showed an extremely obvious sentimentality, but soon, he raised a sunny smile again, pointed to the dark space behind him, and invited Aragina like this.

Aragina glanced at the little David next to her, who was suddenly silent, and it seemed that he was also very wary of this sudden appearance of the "senior" or "mother", and she seemed hesitant for a moment, not knowing whether to move forward with this strange cardinal.

But there was nothing around her, and she hadn't forgotten what she was here for.

"Are you the only one here?"

"People? Oh, if Arajina meant David. That's right, David is the only 'man' here. ”

"What about the saints? Isn't this supposed to be their refuge? ”

I don't remember exactly what happened, but the storage module inside my body seems to have been damaged. I only remember a handful of things from a long, long time ago, when it was the Euphile Angel who was responsible for building the Vault. But I forgot why I was here, and where the other Saints were. I couldn't get out of here to find them, so I had to stay here and wait for them to come back. ”

David's tone was innocent, but it sounded very pitiful to Arajina, like a child who had lost her parents and forced a smile, which made her feel a little compassion.

And the little David next to him, who was originally silent, suddenly opened his mouth excitedly after hearing the name "Yu Feile" in David's mouth.

"My Maker, she built it!"

David smiled and nodded, turned his head to look at Aragina beside him with a look of hope, and asked her again,

"How's it going, is Alagina going to my house?"

"Okay, you lead the way."

"Great, David has been decorating the house very well over the years. I also checked when I just woke up, and there shouldn't be too much damage, please come with me! ”

"Hmm."

Aragina hesitated for a moment, but decided to follow the cardinal in front of her to the depths of the so-called "vault", for it would be better to have him as a guide to lead the way than to wander around by herself.

She always felt that it was very dangerous, maybe not in the shelter, but in the shelter. Outside?

David turned around in joy, exposing more of the damage under the white robe behind him to Arajina, but he flew into the darkness without noticing, allowing Arajina to follow.

As Aragina followed David away, she didn't notice that the starlight seeping from the shattered ceiling suddenly dimmed, and even the terrifying scarlet mist twisted and poured outward

In its place, there was a mixture of purple and silvery-white, a cold, watery moonlight.

The deep corridor was intact all around, and David, who was leading the way in front, suddenly opened his mouth to warm the atmosphere,

"By the way, Arajina, David forgot to ask you, what are you doing here? After all, it feels like it's been a long, long, long time since a creature has been here. ”

"Me"

What should Aragina say, that she actually wanted to come here and sneak around with something, but you found out?

"She wanted to see if there was anything valuable here that could be used, and if she could, she wanted to bring something good back to reality."

But the little David next to him was not polite at all, and helped her tell her purpose in advance.

At this point, Aragina also had to explain in person,

"I need some weapon to defend myself from, or a relic that will make me stronger, and that's important to me. Otherwise, my husband would have been taken away by other women. ”

"Ah, this way, there are still a lot of treasures left by the saints and their parents here, they have been put away for a long time, I will take you to see them later, you can take them all."

To Arajina's surprise, David in front of him was not ordinarily easy to speak, and when he heard her intention, he turned around and said with a smile almost without pretense.

"Huh?"

Not only Alagina was stunned, but even the little David next to him excitedly circled,

"Mother God willing, that's wonderful, Arajina. But I forgot to tell you before I came, my jumps are limited in performance, and you can't jump with too much or too much stuff, otherwise there is a high chance of accidents. With the Mother Goddess above, little David must make safety his first priority. ”

They had not walked long before they reached the end of the dark corridor, and in front of the many doors opposite each other at the end, David skillfully opened a door that had not been completely closed, revealing a wide space inside.

"Here we are, Arajina."

Inside, it looked like a factory workshop or a research institute's laboratory, with a large space filled with machine tools for making certain items, all kinds of chairs covered by machinery, protective compartments with some kind of line links, and a lot of drawings.

Aragina had thought that there would be a ventilated place or a window that could look out, but it was still sealed with stone bricks, which reminded Arajina of David's words "don't look outside" just now.

But she didn't ask, just looked at David and sat on a chair with a smile, and then looked left and right at the room full of mechanical parts, and he couldn't help but say apologetically,

"I'm sorry, Arajina, there's nothing here, David can't entertain you for the time being."

Aragina shook her head and replied,

"Mother Goddess, thank you very much for inviting me over."

David smiled and pulled the white robe on his body a little crampedly and shyly, revealing some traces on his white thighs like broken ceramics, and then said,

"Thank you, Arajina, for what you said made David happy. Can I be your friend, and my parents will be happy if they find out. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't want to, David won't care. ”

As he said this, David's expression suddenly became tense, as if Aragina said a word of refusal, and the part of his cavity that provided energy would stop functioning.

A faint smile also appeared on Alagina's unsmiling face, and she couldn't help but say,

"Of course, David."

"Great, Arajina, David will cherish your hard-won friend, and will also help you snatch your husband back, David is very good at doing this kind of thing."

"Very good at it?"

David nodded and said quite confidently,

"That's right. Excuse me, how is Arajina's relationship with your husband? ”

"I rarely meet him, but the relationship is very deep, and I am already married to him, and I very much want to marry him, but between me and him, there are always other women in the way"

For some reason, in the "Reality of Husband and Wife", Arajina is very heavy.

When David heard this, he experienced a fierce analysis from his expression that jumped up and down, and then, with great excitement, he raised three fingers and said,

"Arajina, I decided to name your operation to reclaim your husband as 'Love Snatching Battle', and I have prepared three countermeasures for this."

"What do you say, take love."

"According to my analysis, there are three possibilities why your husband will be snatched away by other women, the first is that your strength and charm are too weak to be attractive to your husband; The second is that the strength and charm of other women are too strong, which seduces your husband away; The third is that your husband is a scumbag who treats feelings casually, and is so greedy that he doesn't know how to feed himself."

Aragina opened her mouth, and then said,

The Mother Goddess assures that the third is impossible.

"It doesn't matter if it's not possible, the approach is generic. Let's listen to the best policy first, my best policy is to increase your own rank and strength, which can also change your appearance and make you more attractive and feminine. ”

Will it be more powerful than a phoenix, more attractive than a phoenix?"

"Phoenix?" David didn't know why she suddenly mentioned the phoenix, but after being slightly stunned, he continued, "Of course, although the best strategy still can't cross the gate of mythology, it is certainly more than enough compared to the phoenix under it." ”

"So, how?"

"I'm going to implant some very powerful prostheses on your body, such as bones all over your body, replace your arms entirely, load some high-powered particle weapons in your chest, etc., in addition to that, I can also change your appearance, reshape your face, and shape your body."

David pointed to the various drill bits and blades placed on the operating table next to him with interest, and saw that Arajina couldn't answer for a moment.

After a long while, she said a little hoarsely,

"What about the middle policy?"

"Zhongce, I can find you some powerful relics that are half-finished by consciousness. These holy relics were all refined by my father and Angel Gabriel later, although they are not as good as the real teardrop holy relics, but they are undoubtedly extremely powerful holy relics, and they are the finished products of the saint's forging skills, much more powerful than the holy relics on your body. Use people to control the weapon, and the instrument to help others, so that you will also become very powerful. I remember that there were some holy relics that would enhance your charm and make your husband lust for you. ”

What about the Phoenix?"

"Well, it's about five or five with the phoenix, if it's not a very powerful phoenix. You only need to tame those conscious relics, preferably a few more, to meet your diverse needs. There is a small drawback, if you want to use those holy relics, you will pay a little price, after all, it is not easy to tame them. ”

"At what cost?"

"I don't know, but David thinks it might be a little harder than it is to fully grasp the holy artifact on you."

"What about then?"

"The next resort is to use a cardinal as a foreign object. Mainly because the energy source in the vault is cut off, there is no way to start the machine machine, and the number of cardinals left here is less than a hundred, and it is still a very low-level cardinal, and Arajina needs to move out little by little. ”

Aragina opened her mouth, she didn't want to think about it at all, she was proud of her body, and she didn't want to implant it with anything, so she basically didn't think about it.

She originally wanted to ask David about Zhongce's holy relics, there were some ordinary holy relics for her own use, but when she thought that even the use of that kind of holy relics could only be similar to that of a phoenix, wouldn't it still be inferior to her to use other holy relics?

So, what about the third policy?

Aragina quickly grasped the pass, perhaps the cardinal was not weak, and the previous experience of the stormy sea and the brilliance of Nari also reminded her of how exaggerated the cardinal really was, just because the machine could not be turned on.

"So how do you turn on this machine, and can the energy in the shelter be turned on again?"

David pouted, looked around at the extremely dark surroundings, shook his head and said,

"It can be turned on, but I forgot where the energy switch is, it must be somewhere inside the vault. If I can turn on the machine, I can still repair my body, I don't remember how my body was damaged, although it didn't affect the core function, but after all, this is a body that my parents built for me, and I don't want to see it become like this."

David lifted his tattered white robe, revealing the scars that were smooth as jade but slightly damaged, and covered in ceramic cracks.

But after taking off the white robe, David's expression suddenly thought of something, and he became distressed,

"However, Alajina, even if I could restore the energy, I might not be able to operate the machine."

"Why?"

"Because my external links seem to have been artificially cut off, I can't build a network, I can't connect, access and manipulate other cardinals, and I can't manipulate machine tools to make cardinals. Now I can only stay in this body made by my parents, and while that's fine, I can't help you."

The little David next to him shook his head, and said in hindsight,

"No wonder I sent a signal here to ask for a link, but you didn't get any reply, it turned out that your link was cut and locked."

Aragina looked at David and asked,

"Who closed your link, is there any way to open it?"

"I can't remember who closed it, but if it wasn't for helping Alagina, it didn't matter if I wasn't connected to the outside world. If Aragina needs it, I can research it myself, and maybe I'll find a way to open it in a while. Until then, I can look for the energy switch in the vault and figure out how to turn on my locked external link switch. Aragina can take some cardinals back first, they have artificial physical control methods, and they don't need intelligence to manipulate them. ”

It turns out that you don't need intelligence to be able to manipulate it manually. No wonder Nari and the Black Chief were able to use these cardinals.

She nodded, and followed David's direction to see a number of cardinals of good quality who were neatly arranged and of excellent quality, but instead of going to pick them up, she looked at David, who was sitting in a chair and looking at her with a sunny smile.

It seems that in her eyes, the existence in front of her is not some cold machine, but more like a living child who has left his parents.

She opened her mouth and couldn't help asking,

"What about you, David, do you need me to help you with anything? I'll do it, I promise. ”

"Help me."

David was slightly stunned, then shook his head and said,

"I don't have anything you need to do for me, Arajina. I'm here to wait for my mom and dad to come back, and I don't want anything else. ”

"And what about your mom and dad, where are they? Maybe I can help you find it. ”

"Them."

David thought for a moment, and covered the light emanating from his long red curls like a migraine,

"They. I don't quite remember exactly where they went. Like, they're out there somewhere, somewhere outside the vault."

"Outside? You mean. The spirit world? ”

Aragina looked at the closed room around her, and was stunned for a moment.

"Well, yes, David seems to remember that they are outside, but it is dangerous outside, both for me and Arajina, so I can only wait here for them to come back. If you want to go out and find them, you need a lot of strength. If Aragina knows such a powerful person, please help me ask them to go outside and find my dad and mom, I miss them so much. ”

"Well, Mother Goddess testifies, and I will remember it."

"Great, Arajina, you're going to be David's best friend in the future, and you'll be back later, right?"

"Hmm."

"Then go and get some cardinals back, I don't know if these cardinals have beaten the bad guy who robbed your husband. Well, if you really can't do it, it's better to come a few more times, but it's better not to come too often, you are from within the world, and he will definitely find out if you travel frequently in a short time. ”

"He?"

"Well, I don't know who it is, it was my dad who told me. Anyway, it would be nice to come once in a few days, Arajina. ”

"Okay, I promise."

David smiled and nodded, stood up and took Aragina to the side to pick out some cardinals, and explained to her what they were for.

Under the watchful eye of little David, she held in her hands the four intact cardinals she could carry.

Then, with David next to her cheerful smile, Aragina no longer decided to stay here for a long time, so she called little David to send her back.

"Buzz!"

The same sound of breaking the air, the same sense of weightlessness, the same colorful subconscious ocean, until Aragina's feet were firmly on the ground again, the air around her suddenly became fresh and full, the temperature around her rose little by little, her eyes were filled with dazzling light, and the few extremely perfect cardinals she held tightly in her hands were still there, and they did not disappear

All this is not a dream, but a reality.

"We've arrived, Arajina, please rate little David for this service!"

“.”

The voice of the little David next to her came, but Alagina didn't have time to reply to him, she just suddenly squatted on the ground weakly, and her body gasped uncontrollably.

She placed the cardinal in her hand on the ground and looked at the cardinals from left to right, which were in turn a craft that gave the wearer the ability to fly quickly and a weapon with hollow particles, a mantis cutter that could be used in melee combat, a particle shield that could automatically hover, and a serpentine concealment device for surveillance

These cardinals are strong and strong, weak and weak, but they are cardinals after all, such a magical cardinal that even Nari may not have fully mastered, and she has just met a David who has all the treasures left behind by the Saints and the methods of making them

And that's just the beginning.

She looked expressionlessly at the cardinals lying flat on the ground, and her breathing slowly calmed down, and then, she closed her eyes and subconsciously said reverently,

"Mother God bless. Mother Goddess Blessed"

The north wind howled outside the plane trees, and the sky gradually darkened, swallowing up the dark sky and the extremely cold and lonely moon little by little. (End of chapter)