December 26, 9 p.m. Tokyo time.

Xia Mingwei woke up from the bed, lowered his eyes and glanced at the quilt on his body, I don't know who covered it for him. He looked around, as if looking for someone, but could not find anyone, so he lifted the quilt and quickly got out of bed, put on his shoes, and walked briskly to the attic at the top of the church.

A girl is sitting on a windowsill reading a book, and the illuminated Tokyo is overshadowed by the night's glittering Tokyo Tower.

"Haven't you slept yet?" Qing Zhu Rin didn't look up, "Obviously, as soon as you lie on the bed, you feel like you're dead, and you can't wake up......"

Tokyo's neon glow spilled into the attic, dyeing her hair as hazy as butterfly wings, and even the floor was soaked in a splash of color.

She has finished watching "Snow Country", and now she is watching Yasunari Kawabata's 20th anniversary revised collection of works, including "Fishing Fire", "Izu's Dancing Girl" and so on.

That's because I don't usually look at this doppelganger once I've put him to sleep...... Xia Mingwei wanted to say this, but he forgot it:

"I just can't sleep today."

Qing Zhurin didn't speak, just stretched out his white right hand and pushed another book on the ground towards him, Xia Mingwei glanced at it, this book was "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

Xia Mingwei took the book and sat opposite Qingzhu Rin, the evening breeze outside the window gently blowing into this triangular space.

"Robert, you look weird today." She said suddenly.

"I don't know what's going on today." Xia Mingwei opened the book and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Yes."

Xia Mingwei didn't speak, he tried to turn the pages, but he felt distraught, the words were as incomprehensible as a dense rush.

He was silent for a long time, and then suddenly said:

"The only person I can trust is Ling."

"Me too." Qingzhu Rin was slightly stunned and raised his eyes from the book, "So...... Why isn't our Robert happy today? ”

Xia Mingwei looked at her face, recalling that time at the ball, Qing Zhu Rin said to him, 'Every time you look at me, it looks like you're looking at something else', at that time he was startled, and almost stepped on the wrong dance step, but the result was just a casual perfunctory, and Qing Zhu Rin believed him.

But he still had to lie, as if he was stuck in the cracks, and he was about to lose his breath.

"It's a matter of the afterlife, and I feel a little pain at the thought that we might be eaten." Xia Mingwei lowered his head and pretended to be relaxed in his tone, "Maybe it's that inexplicable feeling...... When I woke up at night, I suddenly found that I didn't seem to have anything...... It's almost suffocating. ”

He was silent for a moment, then put the book on the ground, his chest dull as if he were pressing a stone: "Isn't it stupid?" ”

Rin Kiyotake had never seen Robert look like this, she looked at his face quietly, and then lowered her eyes as if she was thinking.

Xia Mingwei slowly turned his head and looked at the lights of Tokyo tiredly: "I have ...... I don't know who else to trust. ”

"I'm here." She said.

"What?"

"I've always been here." "If there's anything you want, you can talk to me." After a pause, she said lightly, "Hmm...... After all, if the domestic robot fails, the owner has to be responsible for repairing it. ”

Xia Mingwei smiled softly and looked at her for a long time, until the tips of Qingzhu Rin's ears were slightly red, and she lowered her head and continued to read, the book covering half of her face.

"Then please fix me, I'm too weird today." He said.

"Okay, talk to me?"

"Well, tomorrow the church is off anyway."

On the same day, at 1 p.m. Beijing time.

"What are you going to do with Summerway," William asked, turning his head, "A sequencer who has lived with the mythical carrier for four years, do you really think this kid can be trusted?" ”

"He's important," Suad said, "he's the bait that lured the sun god Ra and Anubis, and the key to the inverted pyramid." What's more, he himself is the future of the Serialists, the only utopian in the world, and the potential implied by this name is immeasurable. ”

"Yes." William sneered, "Whatever you want, I'm leaving." The words fell, and he had already retracted the sniper rifle into the sequence.

Hanzawa Naoki walked over and babbled:

"Gu Lindong's kid slipped away so fast, ouch, even William is gone, sure enough, colleagues are colleagues, there is no real feeling."

"Gu Lindong has always been like this." Suad said lightly, "I've been paying attention to him since he was still in the Oribel Academy, and his temper is his biggest problem. But no matter what, it can't be denied that he is the most talented of the serialists, and at the age of only in his early twenties, he has already squeezed into the top of the Executive Board, who else can do this? ”

"Maybe it's true.,The school has introduced so many geniuses recently.。 Hanzawa Naoki smiled and said, "Let me think about it, what Jiang Zixiao, Pasha Hogan, and that Medici bastard boy 'Giovanni', and this Shamingway, the potential stock that you personally designated." ”

"Still, it will take a while for them to grow up, but I have a vague feeling that we don't have much time left, Hanze."

"Are you referring to Anubis?" Hanzawa Naoki was silent for a moment.

"Yes, Anubis is alive." Suad lowered his eyes and said deeply.

"Is it the time traveler's words that make you think so?"

"Yes, Albert has been in a long sleep since the day of the entrance ceremony, and even the signs of life are getting weaker and weaker, but the information he wants to bring us has been conveyed with certainty." Suad took a deep breath, "Anubis is still alive, it just used some means to make itself disappear into the world for a short time, and according to our speculation, it may have hidden itself in a space that 'keeps its body intact' as a way to counter the loss of fantasy energy. ”

"It was really a fall from heaven to hell, I remember when the short-lived Mayan soothsayer said to us, 'Anubis is dead,' two years ago, you looked so relieved, I have rarely seen you so relaxed."

Suad raised his head and looked at the rainy sky: "Nava Zhan is the only soothsayer in the world, and at the same time, she is also a descendant of the Maya who were slaughtered. I trusted her so much that through her divination, we were able to obtain a lot of important information, one of which was the death of Anubis. ”

He paused, and his voice became solemn:

"But now the situation has changed, Nava is dead, no one can explain why she died in the school, her death shocked me, I used to think that Olibel school was the safest place in the world, but at that time this perception was completely overturned."

"There's a ghost hidden in the school park.。 Hanzawa Naoki gasped, and the rain wet his long braids.

Suad put his hands behind his back and nodded:

"At that time, we were about to ask Nava to take the position of the mythical carrier 'Zeus', but just an hour before the divination was agreed, Nava suddenly disappeared. Later, her body was found in the dormitory of the school park, when her face had been blurred by the fire, and her body was also mutilated, leaving marks on her body...... It was as if it had been eaten by a wild beast, and there were hideous tooth marks everywhere. ”

"The person who did this is a brute." Hanzawa Naoki was stunned for a moment, "Wait...... Cannibalism? He suddenly remembered the hideous appearance of Zeus when he had eaten the old man just now.

Suad was silent.

Hanzawa Naoki gasped: "Do you think that it was not the sequencer who killed the 'soothsayer' Nava, but the mythical carrier?" ”

"Yes, there's a good chance that this ghost isn't a sequencer." "As far as we know, mythical carriers can maintain their sanity for years by devouring their own kind, but they also have a way to prevent them from getting out of control, and that is the Devouring Sequencer, but this method is not very effective, at most for a short period of time, but as long as it continues to devour the Sequencer, the mythical carrier can continue to maintain sanity." ”

"What do you mean......"

"Don't you think the mortality rate of students in attendance in the past three years is ridiculously high?" Suad asked faintly.

"These students didn't die in the mission, but were swallowed by that mythical carrier?" Hanzawa Naoki asked hoarsely.

"That's right," Suad's eyes twinkled, "and I think back now that Nava's head didn't look like it was scorched by fire, it wasn't a flame, it was a ......"

"It's thunder and lightning." Hanzawa Naoki blurted out, and at this moment, a beam of thunder fell from the sky, and the deafening thunder shook out the goosebumps all over his body.

"Right...... It's thunder and lightning. ”

"Crazy...... The world is really crazy. Hanzawa propped his head with his hand and took a deep puff of smoke.

Suad looked at the thunder dancing between the clouds from afar: "Zeus...... It's very likely that it's hiding inside the Olibel Academy, and it's Nava's killer. And for the past few years, it has continued to feed on its students to maintain its sanity. ”

"But it found itself on the verge of being exposed, so it urgently needed another way to keep the mythic sequence from getting out of hand." Hanzawa Naoki continued.

"Yes," said Suad, "that's why it's in a hurry to eat a mythical body, and it can't keep its sanity by eating its students, because we're not going to let him succeed anymore." ”

"Now that it has eaten Surtr, it won't need to continue to eat the sequencer for a long time to come."

"That's right." Suad said in a deep voice, "It's more difficult for us to get Zeus out of the academy, it's been done seamlessly in the past few years, only the necessary need to devour the sequencer, so he has to show some horses, and now even the last weakness has disappeared." ”

"So, what exactly is Zeus' intention?"

"By my guess......" Suad took a deep breath, "it wants to break into the interior of the Executive Board and destroy the Serialist organization once and for all. ”

He paused: "Otherwise, what do you think it might have intentions?" ”

The bitter rain was still falling, and Suad's gray eyes were shining with a solemn light, and the hem of his clothes was swaying in the wind.

The cigarette butt in Hanzawa Naoki's hand was bright and dark, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Aside from this time, when was the last time Zeus appeared in our sight?" ”

"Three years ago." Suad replied softly.

"That year," Hanzawa Naoki said thoughtfully, bowing his head, "Is it just the time for us to kill 'Kaguya-hime'......"

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