After......

I don't know how long it took, Song Lan once again saw her former partner who fought side by side with her.

After the arrival of the two, the agents of the Investigation Bureau took the initiative to give up this space like an underground mausoleum to the two.

Song Lan and Lu Xiang stood in front of this row of lifelike statues, each insect had been carefully carved, and for a moment, he seemed to see his companion shed his pitch-black shell and spread his wings and fly onto his shoulder.

This is the royal seat of the "Black Flash" general, a symbol of glory and the runner-up of the first cricket fighting competition.

"Remember?"

Lu Xiang asked softly.

While exploring the Sea of Souls, she had a vague premonition.

It's just that she thought that the secret of the past would be a church, or a more holy-looking place, and the space in front of her to display the statues looked more like the remains of some magnificent building.

"Sea of Souls" believes that someone has revised a certain period of history in the past, although it does not say it explicitly, but it points to the current number one suspect Song Lan.

And in Lu Xiang's cognition, only this stupid bird can do this kind of thing.

Song Lan's reaction seemed to indicate the reason why the ruins had survived—the insect named Black Glitter was his former partner, so much so that he was moved by the situation in the process of repairing them, and kept the statues out of selfishness.

Of course, the prefix of "Universe Invincible" was automatically ignored by Lu Xiang.

As the leader of the swarm, she even sympathized with this little bug named "Black Flash" from the bottom of her heart, and it must be embarrassing for everyone to hear her full name in public.

Comparing hearts to hearts, even if it is based on the relationship between her and Song Lan, if Song Lan adds a "cosmic invincible" in front of her name in public, she will probably be so irritable that she wants to hit someone.

"Cricket Fighting Contest."

"Cricket Fighting Contest?"

Sure enough, what can arouse Song Lan's interest will not be a serious event.

"This is called the 'Golden Lion', and it is the champion of the first cricket fighting competition."

Some familiar pictures came to Song Lan's mind.

He did participate in this event, more than once.

He also remembered that every rule of the competition had been perfected by him little by little, because an intense and exciting cricket fighting contest was much more attractive than the complicated and tedious spiritual ability cultivation, or the devotion to some faith that he was not interested in at all.

The rigid and serious archbishop did not agree to hold the event, but in the end he was defeated by public opinion.

Under his active operation, he cooperated with the top management of the church to make the cricket fighting contest a grand ceremony belonging to the church, and no matter what status it is, you can enjoy the fun brought by the grand ceremony.

Archbishop Dargon-Vida, however, felt threatened and felt that the bishop's authority was being challenged.

"The first cricket fighting competition is of great significance to the church, as it has fully relieved the tension and depression caused by the war."

Since the outbreak of the war, the entire Fourth District has become lifeless, "and that's what I'm advocating for fun learning, where you can hone in fun and exciting competitions...... Disrupting psionic energy. ”

Song Lan paused and chose a term that Lu Xiang could understand.

But that's not what they were called at the time.

"Hone your psionic abilities."

Lu Xiang grasped the key information, she listened carefully to every lecture of Professor Myers, to this day, the spiritual ability research institute has not studied the specific way to hone the spiritual ability, and now every spiritual ability person grows differently, except for stimulating the brain with an electric current to keep them in an abnormal state at all times, they can't summarize any rules.

It suddenly dawned on her, "No wonder you don't know anything about the basics of psychic abilities. ”

Lu Xiang has always been puzzled by this, and it is difficult for her to imagine that a person who is proficient in advanced mathematics will not understand elementary school math operations unless he ......

These "calculations" are just pieces together by latecomers based on incomplete history, and they are far from what psionic energy really looks like.

She asked curiously, "How did people practice at that time?" ”

"To believe is to be true."

This is a sermon that most people hear when they become Catholics, and when they come to the Fourth District, it is Archbishop Dargon Vida himself who talks between the prayers of the Church.

"Huh?"

"It's probably like choosing your mentor, and the path you choose is said to determine the direction of your abilities."

"Supposedly?"

"I'm not in a different situation than everyone else."

When you are brought to the fourth district, before you choose any path, your ability is already finalized.

Although all this was extremely unfamiliar to Lu Xiang, she still let the topic continue as much as possible, "So, what path did you choose at that time?" ”

"'Nothingness.'"

"Nothingness? This is very much in line with your character, everything in the world will eventually return to nothingness, and if you look at it in the longer term, maybe whatever we are doing now is meaningless...... This philosophy may be the same as yours. ”

After getting along with Song Lan for a long time, Lu Xiang's first thought was not a specific person, but a certain concept.

It's the same as salted fish viruses.

Everyone who had deep contact with Song Lan inevitably ended up being affected.

"It's you, Lao Lu, I thought of these things all of a sudden, but ......"

Song Lan was a little speechless and stopped.

The concept of nothingness was actually something he learned much later.

"But what?"

"But I didn't think about it so much at the time, I just chose one randomly."

The main reason why he chose the path of "nothingness" was that the phantom representing "nothingness" was closest to him at that time, "Perhaps, this is fate." ”

"You......"

Lu Xiang felt as if a breath was blocked in his chest, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Song Lan can always give her a surprise blow in unexpected places.

She could imagine what a solemn scene it was for Song Lan and Archbishop Dalgon Vida to be in the midst of holy prayers, facing those beings in the upper world, about to choose a choice that would affect his life, and as a result, the dumb bird chose the one closest to him.

Maybe the archbishop, no, even the 'nothingness' didn't know why Song Lan chose him in the first place.

"But we did talk a lot at the time, and we were like-minded."

"Maybe He was just assimilated by you."

No one can escape the fate of being assimilated by him after getting along with Song Lan for a long time, not even 'Nothingness', Lu Xiang thought of something, and said, "'Golden Lion', the person who won the championship of the first Cricket Fighting Contest at that time was 'Nothingness'? ”

Although it lacks the prefix of the "Invincible Universe" series, the naming style is obviously the same.

Even Lu Xiang himself was affected.

For Song Lan, a fishing king who fishes for three days and dries nets for two days, and is absent from work for a week, if she were to change to before, she would definitely sweep him out of the house, but now, ......

Not only did she turn a blind eye, but she would even find a way to make up for it in other ways.

This is tantamount to being in the same boat.

Lu Xiang, who has always been known for his integrity in Daystar, was also corrupted in the end.

"Well, the 'Nothingness' player is still quite strong."

Song Lan clasped her hands around her chest and said in an evaluative tone.

"Why does this tone sound like you're the champion?"

"Because there is more than one cricket fighting competition, according to the overall fighting record, my winning rate is relatively high."

Lu Xiang was stunned, she rarely saw Song Lan showing such a smug expression.

Song Lan was the least eager person she had ever met, and in his words, obsessing over winning would only bring him trouble and enemies, which was not in line with his philosophy of life, but he seemed to be very concerned about the cricket fighting competition.

"So, the old friend who came to you was 'nothing'?"

"No one else should be able to find this place but him."

"I thought your friends were dead."

Lu Xiang remembered that Song Lan had mentioned the existence of the upper world after his trip to the Wisteria Academy, and he said that it was already empty.

The dean of Wisteria Academy fulfilled his long-cherished wish, but unfortunately, there was no one waiting for him there.

Referring to the fate of the other friends Song Lan had made in District 17, Lu Xiang rightly guessed that those existences had already died.

"Most of them are."

"So, he came to you this time for revenge?"

"Nope."

Song Lan stared at the lifelike statues in front of him, and Nothingness had drawn them here through the eye-catching Vadim, just to convey a message to him.

"The 37th Cricket Fighting Contest is coming."

……………………………………

At the same time, the Eden Hotel.

A team of four, led by Veronica and Valen, reunite, and after realizing that Mentor Luffy doesn't seem to be that reliable, they decide to take other measures.

As a result, Roger, who has been behaving erratically since coming to the Fourth District, has become the target of their attention.

There is no doubt that Roger has gotten stronger.

Although they were unable to save the founder of Chlo Films, he was able to kill the humanoid monster that gnawed at Singosi's corpse.

This is obviously what Roger has changed since he came to the fourth district, you must know that the day before his departure, he participated in an underground boxing match because he was drunk and then his opponent knocked him down, making his professional boxer's win rate 0-2.

Roger's explanation for this is that after coming to the Fourth District, he came into contact with some kind of natural force.

When the crisis hits and he, as one of the few male compatriots on the team, must shoulder the burden of protecting his colleagues, the forces of nature respond to him.

And it wasn't until the four of them decided to hold a special meeting on the forces of nature that Roger said they suddenly realized how outrageous this matter was.

One of the most outrageous things is that they had accepted the idea of "natural energy" for a long time before the meeting.

"Wait, why do we take it for granted that Roger has a connection with the forces of nature?"

Zhuang Chi took the case.

Veronica and Vallene looked at each other, unable to answer the question for a moment.

In fact, until now, they didn't know what Roger was talking about as natural energy.

"I'll tease it out a little more."

With a wave of his hand, Zhuang Chi brought his mind back to the first day they had been in District 4.

A lot happened to them on the first day.

The buyer of the autographed photo died tragically at home, and her dream of making a fortune was completely shattered, and it was that night that Roger came up with the idea of protecting his companions.

And then......

Roger locked himself in his room for the night, connecting with the natural energy he had spoken.

He didn't even put on boxing gloves and worked on his arm strength by punching punching bags!

As absurd as it sounded in the past, the fact that Roger killed the monster was a foregone conclusion forced them to believe that natural energy was real and to rationalize this bizarre story as much as possible.

It then occurred to them that if natural energy really existed, then perhaps each of them would be able to master it.

"Roger, you said you spent the night in your own house, right?"

"Hmm."

"What have you done?"

"Meditation."

"Meditation?"

The three of them frowned in unison, feeling that things were getting more and more bizarre, and that only those characters of magical works could become stronger through meditation.

"You can show us this."

"It's a little inconvenient here, and I need to go to my own house."

"Okay, then go to your room."

Accompanied by the trio, Roger entered his room in a decent manner.

Under the gaze, he closed the curtains, rolled over to bed, and covered himself with the quilt.

The three of them just stood in place, their eyes never leaving Roger.

Even the way they meditated was far from what they had imagined - Roger didn't even pretend to sit cross-legged on the ground and pose with no meaning, but went straight into the covers.

"That's how he slept all night?"

Veronica was full of suspicions.

She didn't feel the slightest sense of Roger's desire to protect his companions from what he did, and she could only tell that he should have slept well.

"Roger, Roger?"

Ten minutes later, seeing that Roger still didn't make any movement, Zhuang Chi tentatively called the other party's name.

Roger didn't respond, only the sound of even breathing.

"Roger, he ...... Just asleep, right? ”

Valen raised the question in everyone's minds, "The cultivation of natural energy is just a dream he has after he has fallen asleep?" ”

"No, it shouldn't be."

Veronica said suddenly, her gaze lingering on Roger as if she was enchanted, and Zhuang Chi and Valian discovered her abnormality.

Veronica's lips moved, muttering to herself, "His dream ......"

"His dreams? What happened to his dream? No, no, why do you know what he dreamed about? ”

"The muscular man has appeared!"

"Huh?"

"The muscular man is teaching him fighting skills!"

Thanks to a certain alien for the 100 starting coins!

The small theater of its two hundred and thirty-nine:

On the morning of a certain day of a certain month, a certain year

"The genes of the night heron are truly amazing."

On this morning, when the night heron and the young Death Crab detective group continued to visit, Lu Xiang and Song Lan found a shady place and sat down.

Genetic changes lead to changes in habits, and in theory, night herons can easily fit into the life circle of almost all mutated creatures.

"yes."

Song Lan looked at the back of the night heron bouncing, his worry about the night heron was always the opposite of that of other children, maybe the deep mountains and old forests were more suitable for the night heron to live.

"I suddenly remembered something."

"Huh?"

"Remember when you had a lazy nap contest? You lost to the Night Heron. ”

"That's the thing."

"Where did she learn her genes to sleep lazy? It seems that there are few people in our neighborhood who have time to sleep in other than you. ”

Not everyone can skip work twice in three days like Song Lan.

"I think that the focus of education for different children should also be different, and a child like Night Heron should still be allowed to adapt to a leisurely and casual life......

"I know."

Lu Xiang seemed to smile, "But what I want to ask is, how did she extract your genes?" ”

(End of chapter)