Chapter 15: Countdown
"What do you think of when you see this?"
The wind blows, Victoria Peak, and the bustling night view of Victoria Harbour is in full view. Chen Xu stood by the viewing platform, and beside him was a middle-aged man in a Christian priest's suit, with a pair of blue eyes. Hearing the priest's question, Chen Xu smiled.
"The afterglow of the empire on which the sun never sets? As an Englishman, I guess that's what you feel the most, right? ”
"Nothing is set in stone, the empire on which the sun never sets is only the past, dwelling on the past will only bring disaster, as a Chinese, I think you should have the deepest understanding of this."
"Neither can God be static?"
"What doesn't exist in the first place, how can it change? How does it not change? ”
"I really don't know how you became a bishop, what you say now makes me feel like a monk, not like a priest......" Chen Xu shrugged his shoulders with a smile.
The priest looked at the night scene on that side, and also smiled heartily: "What is the difference between a monk and a priest?" The meaning of religion is to let people get rid of pain and gain courage, the church is first and foremost for preaching, deviations from the essence and process are common in human society, the essence of society is to hope for fairness to promote collaboration, but in order to ensure the existence of fairness, the government must first understand the meaning of unfairness, the same sentence can be paraphrased by three people to produce deviation and deception, how can you ask the leader to be an innocent child? ”
"It sounds like you're trying to spread your ideas to me."
"The priest's professional habits, but it's really a bit difficult for people like you to develop."
"That's really hard, don't forget that I used to be a priest too."
"Yes, the difference is that you are more religious than I am......," the priest paused, "So, Brother Chen Xu, what are you going to sell me today, I guess it won't be the upcoming batch of Korean lambs?" ”
"We can handle it, and anyone who engages in politics is not lethal...... Chen Xu muttered as he leaned on the railing, "The question is not what I sell you, but what your own plans are." ”
"Everything is to deal with the Gate of Truth, if we can unite of course, of course, it is the best, we can cooperate in this regard, and we can completely obey your arrangement, and in order to make this friction not too intense, it is of course the best way to detonate the matter in advance, the problem is, who knows why the Gate of Truth chose Hong Kong this time, and who knows what they will do, everyone is not a child, there is not enough temptation, no one will move." He frowned, "Besides, we are not very much in favor of your attempt to cause the conflict in the first place. ”
"If it were you, what would you think would be done?" Chen Xu turned his head and asked him.
"So I'm just saying: I'm not very much in favor of ......," the priest smiled, "what if you use your tactics too hard and cause a backlash?" The door of truth has not yet begun to move, you have angered the elephant god, angered Korea, and even angered Takamagahara, and then dragged the marginal organizations such as the Black Cross and the Bleak Royal Court, and even the Americans into it. At least the Gate of Truth will not deliberately sabotage Hong Kong's return to the motherland, but when they really want to do something, can you bear it? ”
"If you can't bear it, you have to carry it." Chen Xu was silent for a moment, and then slowly spoke: "You should understand the significance of Hong Kong's return to the Chinese, China's modern modern history in the past 150 years, this is one of the most important moments, if it is chaotic, no one will have good fruits to eat." ”
"Can you still declare war on the whole world?"
"As I said, government organizations have scruples." Chen Xu laughed, "What we want to scare is those small organizations, who are not recognized in the dark world, who think that they can leave with a single shot, and it doesn't matter if they make money if they make a bargain." Add to that the events of eight years ago, some people had to die, and we don't want the situation to expand uncontrollably, but things are so complicated that it's like walking a tightrope, and there will always be times when you can't hold it down. ”
"But the Gate of Truth will be the enemy of all mankind." The blue in the priest's eyes became a little deeper, the color of the deep sea, "Honestly, they make me doubt my faith and outlook on life. ”
"From thinking that there is no God to thinking that God exists, or from thinking that God exists to not existing?" Chen Xu asked with interest.
The priest glanced at him: "Both." ”
"Just like me......"
In a whisper, both of them laughed, and in a moment, the priest prepared to leave.
"For the sake of everyone's position of fighting for all mankind, Park Jung-won's matter I will visit Shadok Rhein in the field of freedom, let him mediate, and by the way, suggest that the British side put pressure, as you said, politicians are not lethal, this time in South Korea, Kim Dae-jung's presidential candidacy is estimated to have made him very tired, and it is not a big problem. In addition, we know that the second person in Europe, the woman codenamed 'Pandora', has entered Hong Kong, and according to the information of the last encounter in Europe, her ability is equivalent to that of a fifth-level evolutionary, which is very terrifying, so you should be careful. ”
"We already know about Pandora......" Chen Xu looked at him, "Shadok has already come over?" ”
"He has a relationship with Park Jung-won...... Hehe, I really shouldn't have told you, I almost forgot that you were already a stooge of the government......"
"Get out!" Chen Xu watched him take a few steps and said, "By the way, Chief Fang will arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow." ”
The priest was stunned, and then turned around: "Fang Shaobai? Did he really come? ”
"What do you say? Penn Senior. ”
"Park Jung-won came at a bad time." The bishop known as Payne muttered, and then shook his head a little helplessly, "Although the method of grading evolutionaries in the United States may not be accurate, but Mr. Fang was one of the less than ten sixth-level evolutionaries in the world eight years ago, and after General Lan died, he may even be the strongest in the world, and this time, many people are afraid that they really dare not move......
"Who knows." Chen Xu sighed, "When Chief Lan was still there, the kind of thing that happened eight years ago could have happened, not to mention ...... now."
The wind blew, and the sigh was swept in the wind, for the things of eight years ago, each other probably had different feelings, stood for a while, and was about to leave, the priest's body stiffened slightly, frowned and felt it, and then took two steps, only to turn around with some doubts, Chen Xu was already standing on the edge of the platform and looking in the direction of the city.
"Just now...... Something seems to have happened......"
"I feel it, too, it's closer to here...... The building over there seems to be a ...... A burst of energy ......"
The two of them waited there for ten minutes, and then, when the members of their respective subordinates reported the news, the priest was really a little surprised: "We have noticed a movement from several members of the Gate of Truth. ”
"My people also observed it, as if because of what just happened, they passed in that direction......"
"The rest of the people will move with it, Chinese what do you say...... Shit luck, now, the fuse you want...... Isn't there just that......"
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Lan Zi walked the streets of the city, thinking about what happened not long ago.
When the apple was smashed, he didn't know what came out, but he wasn't afraid of unknown things like ghosts.
This kind of thinking seems strange at first glance, but in fact it is also reasonable, he has always felt that he is an alien to human beings, but in fact, for such a thing as having special abilities, on the one hand, he is afraid of being known, on the other hand, there is inevitably a sense of superiority in many cases, this sense of superiority can not be revealed in front of people, a bit of regret of walking at night, but if it is revealed in front of some kind of "non-human" thing, it can be unscrupulous.
Since I can feel you, it means that you are not a very powerful thing, and it also shows that my power is effective against you, just like the orange last time, it didn't play a role in front of you! Sure enough, when the power spread out in the air and the violent energy raged, the strange feeling disappeared, and it was effortless at all, probably because the ghost was too fragile in the yang world, and the energy died as soon as it blew.
While thinking like this, he looked at the apple that was slipped into slag on the ground, remembered what happened to the dog half a year ago, and swept the rotten apple pomace back into the box, and carried it on his body, if there was anything strange about this apple, he would find a place to burn it to ashes, take one and flush it into the toilet, and throw the rest in each sea in the southeast, north, west, and west seas, and see if it could make all the fish in the sea become monsters!
Such an idea was made, and his heart was very happy, and the handsome energy burst on the rooftop also made him very satisfied with himself, walking on the street to look at the night scene, looking at the TV in the shop window next to him, and temporarily forgetting the mood of leaving Hong Kong, however, after more than ten minutes, he also faintly felt a sense of inappropriateness in his heart.
Looking back, the crowd and the city are still the same, and there is no unusual situation in the slightest, but ......
And that clown.
Reaching out and touching the box in his pocket, the city made him feel unsafe......
At the same moment, at the other end of the city, Tan Yuran stopped his sports car in the sparsely populated street, and at the end of the street, two small cars also slowly stopped on the side of the road.
"Half-past eight......" he looked at his watch, "I heard that Park Jung-won was coming, and these people finally showed the courage to come, what a ......"
Looking at the surrounding environment: "This side of the fight should be able to minimize the impact......"
"Even tracking is so untechnical!" Pushing the door and getting out of the car, his gaze became a little contemptuous and cold, he tightened his coat tightly, walked directly to the side of the road, then turned around, made a simple hook gesture over there, and then took out a middle finger and turned into the dark alley.
On the side of several nearby streets, vehicles stopped one after another, and more than a dozen South Koreans got out of the cars and entered this cobweb-like alley one after another from different directions......