"I will give you five years. If you can come up with 3 million magic crystals within five years, then you can take him away." Lydia said.
For a promising alchemist, 3 million magic crystals is not an unreachable number. As for the five-year time limit, it is just a motivation for him to move forward. The conditions given by Lydia
, obviously a combination of various factors did not really embarrass him.
Therefore, Angel agreed without hesitation.
"Then I will wait for you here. I hope you will do what you say." After Lidya finished speaking, she flew into the air leisurely.
Angel took Toby out of his pocket and whispered, "Wait for me outside, I'll be back soon."
Toby howled in dissatisfaction, then took the lead to fly out of the fog and spread his wings to Angel. It was obvious that he did not want to be left alone.
Angel also didn't want Toby to stay outside. Although Lady Mirror and Lady Tree Spirit were both there, there was no guarantee that Lydia would do something. After thinking about it, Angel asked Sanders, "Mentor
?Can Toby come in?"
Sanders waited for a long time before sending the message: "I don't know. But there shouldn't be any danger around you."
After getting this answer, Angel felt a little relieved, and then he waved to Toby and let him stand on his shoulder. With Toby here, if he encounters a parasitized mutant, his reaction will be faster than Angel's.
I am much faster and can buy him more time to respond.
One person and one bird, they slowly walked into the thick fog.
Seeing Angel's figure disappearing into the fog, Jing Ji said to the tree spirit beside her: "Aren't you going to follow him in?"
The tree spirit shook his head: "Not to mention whether Sanders is willing to let me in, I don't want to go in myself."
"Why?" Jing Ji asked suspiciously.
The tree spirit smiled brightly: "Because I am very optimistic about Angel. His growth potential should not be wasted in his infancy. If I go in, although I will not help him, I will have no worries psychologically and will be very happy."
It’s hard to encourage him to grow.”
…
The fog was thick and the visibility with the naked eye was less than one hand. With a strange mood, Angel slowly walked into this city in the fog that seemed to be abandoned by time.
It was already early morning in the inner earth world. After the catastrophe in Night Demon City, the street lights were not lit, so it was not only foggy but also pitch black. He could only rely on his mental tentacles to try to distinguish the surrounding terrain.
I stepped into the city gate in the dark.
In the dark fog where you can't see your fingers, people will inevitably think of malicious ghosts, especially this dark fog full of parasitic madmen. Just thinking about it, there are madmen peeping in the dark, will make your hair stand on end.
The above are just the thoughts of ordinary people, and they were also what Angel was originally worried about. But when he went deep into the fog, he was surprised to find that what he was worried about did not happen.
He was in a peaceful mood, without any fear, and even felt vaguely happy as if he was at home in water.
This was very wrong. Angel knew that this was wrong, but his joyful mood still couldn't stop coming out. The darkness seemed unable to stop the wild horse in his heart from running wild, and he used this fog as his thoughts to gallop on the green grassland.
Angel knew that there would be no danger in the next step, but he still walked very slowly, very slowly. Like an old man staggering, or a baby learning to talk.
It's not that he doesn't want to go fast, it's that he's fighting fiercely inside.
Reason told him that everything was wrong. But instinct told him happily that this fog was a paradise and a pure land.
Reason forces him to stop, while instinct urges him to move forward. Under such circumstances, how fast can he go?
The narrow architectural streets and dense high-altitude corridors of Night Devil City are like monsters with teeth and claws in the fog, waiting to devour people.
Anyone, even a mortal, has basic vigilance when faced with the fog of black shadows. But Angel did not. He looked at the changing black shadows as if he were looking at two cute black cat cubs.
, calling coquettishly to him.
Angel continued to walk forward. In order not to be surrounded by mutants, he took the main road. Although it was not very spacious, it was at least much wider than the streets and alleys.
As soon as he stepped onto the main road, Angel was attracted by a strange melody.
"I am a happy little laborer, working diligently to change the streets. The Queen is about to arrive and see the streets transformed."
Although Angel couldn't understand the melody and the language, Angel received the emotion expressed by the melody. After reading this emotion, his face immediately fell: "As expected, it's that queen again!
"
At this time, two strange shadows suddenly appeared from the front. Angel stopped and held the golden revolver in his hand. Toby also lowered his chest, making an attack appearance.
When two strange shadows came out of the mist, Angel frowned suddenly. These two people were typical Hythians, adult men, with short stature but slender limbs.
Just like what Lydia said, they were wearing very bright clothes. The one on the left was wearing a red and green rhombus jumpsuit with a red hat, and the one on the right was wearing a gradient purple polka-dot hoody.
Their movements are also very weird, like puppets on strings, with their limbs swinging in a way that ordinary people cannot understand. At this strange swing frequency, their speed is not only unsatisfactory, but even very fast.
The clothes are bright, the eyes are crazy, and the behavior is weird. They meet all the conditions for being parasitized. There is no doubt that these two people have definitely mutated.
When they approached, Angel was already ready for battle, waiting to reach the attack range and deliver a one-hit kill.
But at this moment, they saw Angel and stopped far away.
The weird songs that came out of his mouth also stopped.
They bowed far away to Angel, just like a circus clown's final bow, and then they slowly retreated into the mist and slowly disappeared.
In the process, the style of the songs in their mouths also changed, and the underlying emotion was no longer about singing about the Queen, but about praising Sharapova.
"My hometown is far away, the noble Sawa. I inspect it on behalf of the Queen. Her eyes are stars, and her gaze is starlight. Sawa, Sawa. Your Excellency, Sawa, is fortunate to be illuminated by the glory."
With flattering singing, the two parasitized people left Angel's sight.
At this time, Angel could no longer deceive himself and others. He first sang about the Queen, and then praised Sawa. He always told Angel that these mutated people were his "masterpieces" after he opened the nightmare world.
Along the way, Angel met several waves of mutants, but these "clowns" all turned crazy when they saw him, acting respectfully like nobles encountered by civilians.
But even though they respected Angel's identity as "Sawa", whenever he wanted to communicate with them, whether it was with words or emotions, they had no response. They just disappeared when they saw him approaching. In the fog, Angel wanted to catch up, but because the fog obscured his eyes, he was unable to keep up with them.
"This is so wrong." After Angel entered, from the abnormal psychological joy to the mutants bowing respectfully to him, everything seemed extremely absurd.
Sometimes Angel felt that those people were not really in awe of him, but in awe of an existence named "Sawa". But who was Sawa? Angel had no clue.
Angel stopped. In the center of a residential area in the corner of Night Demon City, there was a fountain statue of a goddess holding a bow.
Before Angel arrived, nearly a hundred people were carnivaling, singing and dancing in front of the statue. It was crazy like a pious ritual. But as soon as he approached, everyone praised the arrival of "Sawa", and then slowly After retreating, when Angel entered the statue, there was no one around, and it was as quiet as a cemetery.
"Come out! Why are you hiding from me?" Angel shouted: "In the name of... Sharapova, I order you to come out!"
No one responded.
Angel clearly wanted to be angry and wanted to release the anger he had held in his mouth, but he enjoyed the tranquility, loneliness and inner peace of walking in the Night Demon City too much, which made him feel very relaxed. This is a contradiction. mood.
Angel leaned against the statue a little dejectedly.
"What are you doing?"
A low, hoarse voice that had not been heard for a long time broke Angel's inner peace and appeared in his ears out of thin air.
"Teacher, I feel something is wrong." Angel whispered his feelings in a low voice: "...I should be afraid, angry, and fighting. But I can't get excited. This place makes me feel at ease. It's like, like, like the soul has been soothed."
Sanders was silent for a long time and then said to him: "Don't be affected by unwarranted emotions. The reason why you feel something is wrong is simply that your reason is restraining your instinct. Relax and treat this place as a paradise. It's not a bad idea." .”
"But you have to remember in your heart that the paradise is always someone else's paradise. Children can play happily in the paradise. But after playing, they still have to go home."
Speaking of this, Sanders' voice suddenly softened a bit: "Relax, Night Devil City was described by Honglian as being reduced to ghosts, which is actually inappropriate. The reason why I haven't done any outreach for a long time is not that I can't, but that I can't
I know this is not as difficult as I thought."
"Angel, do you know why I asked you to come?"
Angel said: "Because I created this place?"
Sanders: "Of course not. Every cause does not necessarily have an inevitable result. Every chance may not have a real cause. Even if the original source is you, after half a month, various non-inevitable conditions will
Not enough for you to be the cause of this disaster."
Angel seemed to understand.
"I called you here because only you can wake them up. All the parasitized people are not dead, they are just sleeping. The parasites act on their behalf but do not really kill them, because once the host dies, the parasites will
It is not easy for a living thing to find its next host and then adjust its spirit."
"If you can wake them up, it's not a disaster, but a benefit because the parasites strengthen the host's body."
Those mutated people are not dead? Are they just waiting for him to wake them up? When Angel heard this, the first thing he thought of was not to relieve his psychological burden, but... There were millions of people in Night Demon City, and he wanted to wake them up one by one. How could it be that he wanted to wake them up one by one?