Chapter Twenty-Three: Rough Memories
Rick kept running. He went up and down the stairs and around the corner, and often when a riot came at him, he turned to avoid the battle. Small, Naimor, and Serian were all separated during his run. The floor shook beneath his feet, the rubble repeatedly jumped off the ground and fell again, and a lot of dust fell from the ceiling. The shaking sound of Titicaca came from every direction. It's not caused by human running, it's caused by spirits. The queen is on the move.
Xi Ke gritted his teeth and thought, the mage troops almost caught up!
He didn't know where to hide, there were rioters inside and mobs outside, and the two major threats to the existence of the Fourth Incinerator were threatened at the same time, and there was nowhere to escape. In desperation, Rick opened the door to the cleaning room and hid inside.
He went in without looking inside and closed the door. It's dark inside. Syk sat with his feet crossed. He smelled a heavy smell of dust, a musty smell of water mixed with dust that was wet and dry, and a smell mixed in. That's a man's body odor, it should be an older man. Although I often take a bath to keep it clean, my health is not good, so it has a sour smell. Nick unconsciously made a diagnosis. It took about twenty seconds for Rick to notice that the person emitting the smell was very close, sitting next to him with his hands on his knees in the same position as him.
"Are you here to take refuge too?" asked Rick in a low voice.
"They said I couldn't be found. The man said.
"It's really not going to be good to be found now. Rick said.
"If I were found, the queen said I would spoil it, because I knew the system. The man said.
Xi Ke thought for a moment, and he seemed to have heard of this flat tone without emotion.
When he remembered, Rick jumped up and shouted, "Weird-headed thief!"
The monster-headed thief bounced at the same time, "I can't be found!" Rick's outstretched hand only caught the fishbone antenna on the monster-headed thief's head. The monster-headed thief ditched his new hat, kicked the door open at maximum speed, and fled down the hallway.
Vic was about to blow him up with a spell when the captain of the mage unit appeared on the other side of the hallway, right in front of the monster-headed thief. He used the neatness of a soldier to hold the strange-headed thief. The monster-headed thief tried to hit him, but he was crushed against the wall.
"Strange head!" Rick rushed forward, "Captain, he's the monster!" Rick held up the fishbone antenna in his hand, "This monster was just on his head!"
"This isn't Norpige!" the captain looked weird. He pulled his hair and shook his head vigorously. His eyes widened when he saw Rick and said, "Are you—help me, will you awaken your mind?" he pressed his head, barely squeezing the words out between his teeth.
"It's the same, drink it!" Rick handed his water bottle.
The captain took the kettle, took a large sip, and then soaked his handkerchief with medicinal soup to cover his mouth and nose. He looked much more sober and said hurriedly, "The Spirit has taken control of the entire park. Now that the temperature of the furnace has been rising, I am afraid that it will not be long before it cracks. Your system engineers are like this, and they won't be of any use!" said the captain, pointing at the weird-headed thief.
Because of the drink, the captain did not continue to catch the monster thief. He didn't run away, but just grinned and said, "The queen will be free soon! The slaves will open the gates of the pit and free all our people, and you can't stop it!" He snatched the antenna from Syk's hand and put it back on his head.
Xi Ke pounced on the strange-headed thief and shouted, "Give him the medicine!" He and the captain pressed their heads and feet, opened the mouth of the strange-headed thief and poured the medicine soup into it, and the overflowing part dyed all the monster's top and coat gray-green.
"What's wrong? Why am I dressed so strangely?" After pouring the medicine, the weird head blinked, screaming and pulled out the fishbone antenna on his head and tossed it aside. The exhaust gases that had poisoned his mind had been purified by the medicine of Xi Ke, and the strange head had regained his senses.
Kick grabbed the collar of the monster head, and in a hooligan-like tone, the corners of his mouth turned to the side, and said, "I spent a lot of money on this medicine, and you have to work hard for me to pay it back—how can I stop the spirit from blasting the main furnace?"
The monster head held his head in both hands and shook his head violently: "The main control room - it's ruined - the magic correction room! The magic correction room on the top floor of the main furnace building should be fine now! But it takes a lot of energy, and it is impossible for the main furnace to output that much energy now!"
Rick shook his head vigorously, "You're the only system engineer, don't say it's impossible!"
"Only Archmage Cha can use the magic correction room without relying on the main furnace, he puts the mana refining in the core of the incinerator, and he can use it by that, but that is only he can use!"
"What the hell is the core of the incinerator?" Rick shook his head even harder.
"Fake fake - dentures!" the weird head managed to finish the word.
Xi Ke was stunned, let go and let go and let the strange head sit on the ground.
Normally, the container used to hold the mana essence and the core of a famous spell system would be an expensive gem or trinket.
On the first day of Xike's arrival, behind the counter in the hall, the old tree spirit opened the secret cabinet and took out dentures in front of him! Dentures are the essence of the old man who is the embodiment of dentures!
"Do you know where the dentures are?" asked the captain, pulling the monster's head.
"I really know where—" Rick muttered to himself.
The sky shook again, the floor cracked, and the captain and the monster fell down with it.
"You go get the dentures, and I'll escort him to the magic correction room!" shouted the captain. He casts a slow-down spell to protect him and the monster from landing safely.
The hall was now the epicenter of the mob, and he didn't want to go back there at all. But he didn't have time to tell the captain that he still wanted his life, so he asked the captain to send someone else, so he had to go to the gate by himself.
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Orange lights are shining everywhere in the park. The boundaries between the kingdom of the spirit and the real Shijie gradually blurred, and they began to communicate with each other. Wick chose to take the swimmer's route back down the hall past the heated pool. As he stepped on the roots of a tree by the pool, a powerful orange light flashed, like orange lightning appearing indoors. After the light faded, the ceiling turned into an orange-red sky, and the upper part of the building was replaced by the Kingdom of Riots.
Rick saw the Queen's skeleton stretch out its hand to the sky in the distance. He saw near the Queen's kneeling knees, blurred by the heat. Due to the mixed relationship between the two shijies, although he now directly sees the queen in the main furnace, in fact, the main furnace of the real shijie has not yet broken. If the queen had stood up and walked out, the park would have been flattened by an explosion.
"Rick!"
When he heard Seren's call, he turned his head to see Seren's knocking out two mobs that had been thrown at him with hoses, and slashing five spirits with his holy sword, and walking straight at him from the outside.
Suddenly, Xi Ke seemed to see the scene of three years ago. Three years ago, in an underground temple, the lost Old God, the Night King, was summoned by the Night Order to descend on Ethero to destroy all living beings. The Holy Shield, the Staff of Light, and the Order of the Night are engaged in a battle to the death in the Underground Temple.
The light of the holy sword flashed in Seren's hand, it was a miracle connected to the soul, his slightly rapid breathing, his clothes messy from the battle, and the chaotic atmosphere around him all seemed to reappear three years ago.
Serian pointed at the queen and smiled, "Can you suppress that?"
"Impossible!" Rick didn't look away, but didn't look away.
"Didn't you even suppress the Night King? this isn't as powerful as the Old Gods?" Seren clenched his left hand into a fist and tapped the back of his hand on Rick's chest.
"At that time, the ground was full of sacrifices, and now you want me to kill who to cast a spell?"
"I don't know—how about I drag a few seriously injured people over to you?" Seren laughed.
Xi Ke raised his sacrificial knife and slammed the hilt of the knife into Seren's hard head: "Be sober! You have inhaled too much exhaust gas! Where has all your justice gone?"
Seren was knocked to the side by Cyke, his eyes widened, he pressed his head, and his expression was incredulous, "It hurts! What am I talking about?"
"Let's go, come with me to save someone!" said Rick. He bent down and picked up a pod of a demon plant and took it away.
With Serian by his side, Syke didn't have to do anything, and left it all to Serian to deal with. They made their way to the hallway in front of the hall, leaving shards of fainted mobs and spirits in their wake.
Looking in the direction of the gate, the hall was filled with mobs. The cries of children and the cursing of adults are endless.
Lady Fonflora kept shouting, "Kill them!"
The mage troops were besieged behind the counter to resist, and there was a thick mob wave between them. The mages shouted, "It's dangerous here!Get out of here!" Their mana had to be divided to resist the exhaust gases, and the barrier collapsed quickly due to the devouring of spell energy, and it didn't last long. But the mob, which had already been instigated, inhaled the exhaust gas and did not listen to it at all.
Lady Fonflora saw that she was not hiding behind the barrier, and turned her spear at them, pointing at them and shouting, "That's our enemy, kill them!"
Xi Ke raised his sacrificial knife, arched his back, and closed his chin to protect the vital point. He met the frantic gaze of countless pairs of mobs, and the killing intent surged towards him like a tidal wave. He had the urge to slit open the belly of everyone who touched him, even if it was just the corner of his clothes, to pull out their intestines, and to gouge out their hearts and offer them to the King of the Night. Turn all of this into minced meat and sacrifice them all, and he will have enough liliang to suppress the queen!
In Nick's eyes, what he saw was no longer the Fourth Incinerator. He could hear the roar of demons, the spells cast in Soni, the small crackling of mana hidden in the louder explosions. The people of the Staff of Light collectively chanted spells, each flickering point of light resembling the brilliance of a knight's sword, weaving through the crowd to hunt for the life of the evil mage.
The shaking of the earth, the shaking of the atmosphere, and the feeling of being permeated from the skin to the internal organs are very similar to those days.
This is the underground temple of three years ago, except for the disgusting smell of blood that fills the air and stains every object and even on the tongue.
And wailing, many, many wailing.
At that time, Xike was so arrogant. At such a time when survival is almost unsustainable, bloody violence makes people forget their fears. Just follow your instinct to kill, just look at your dying opponent. Death follows three steps behind, don't look back.
Rick looked at his sacrifices, clubs in his hands, as if in a hurry to catch a feast that would be regretted for life. Countless lambs that come to the door automatically.
Then he heard a voice that would not have been heard in the underground temple.
The cry of a baby.
Nick turned his head and saw a mother holding her baby in her arms, hiding behind a horizontal cabinet. She looked horrified. She didn't expect things to turn out like this, she had no idea that a parade that seemed ordinary at first glance could become so dangerous, she had just come to take part in a walk with a roar.
Nick came to his senses. The man in front of him was not a knight, not a mage, or even trained in combat. They're all civilians, and this isn't an underground temple!
Syk used his sacrificial knife to cut long blood streaks on his arm, and his blood gushed out and dripped to the ground. The blade of the sacrificial knife turned red. He rubbed the pods of the Demon Realm plant on the blade of the knife, rubbing out a string of sparks like using flint and steel, and let go of the pods to fly out. The people thought it was something dangerous, and instinctively dodged away. The bean pod landed on the ground between them, and as soon as it touched the ground, it immediately burst open, and the bean jumped out, quickly breaking through the ground cement to take root and sprout, growing and pulling out branches against the ceiling, and the green leaves spread out in large areas. There was a loud popping sound in the air, but nothing was damaged. The crowd was so frightened that they clutched their ears and squatted down.
The Demon Realm plants overgrow, wither quickly, and lose their leaves all over the ground. It needed psychic toxins to grow, and in the process of germinating to withering, it had depleted all psychic toxins in the air, and now, the halls were filled with fresh air.
"What are you people here for?" said Rick loudly, "Didn't you hear that the mage said it was dangerous?
"You're here to protect your homeland!
"You're here to live!
"Each of you has a home to go back to!"
Rick took a deep breath and yelled at the loudest volume he could, "No one who has a home to return to die in front of me!"
He gasped and stood there watching the populace wake up from silence. They exchanged heads, and there was no madness in their eyes. Seeing that the scene had calmed down, the mother holding the baby did not hesitate to stand up and run out of the carton gate, never looking back. As soon as someone took the lead and left, the others also got up and walked out in twos and threes. More and more people went out, and then everyone went to the gate.
Lady Fonflora stood in the middle of the gate, trying to hold the people by their sleeves or with her hands, and said to them, "You can't just go back! She grabbed a man's hand and was pushed away from the door to the side.
Syk saw Lisna emerge from the shadows, behind Lady Fonflora, reaching out to cover her eyes and dragging her into the shadows.
Another earthquake. There was a roar from the direction of the entrance to the pit. Charizard crawled over the bald grass with a large crowd of scurrying garbage. The crowd screamed. Luckily, they were clearly human, not ragdolls, so Charizard didn't hurt them, and only cared about destroying garbage.
When the hall was almost empty, Rick rushed to the counter, opened the secret door, and entered seventeen codes to open the safe. His habit is that whenever someone performs how to open a safe in front of him, he will definitely remember. Inside the safe was a shimmering bottle of lilac liquid, a carefully blended denture care solution that was as clear as glass. Inside, there is a pair of full dentures with pale red resin and white teeth on top, which slowly float up and down on the air bubbles, as if they were alive. There is a relief of a squinting cat on the outside of the bottle, just like what Xi Ke had seen earlier on the seven inner doors of the Lingkeng. These are the dentures of the old man with a dryant.
Nick slipped the denture into his pocket along with the bottle, and turned to run to the magic correction room.