Stray Chapter 59: New Testament
"The treemap designer, it's not broken."
"Kamijo Touma has no memory loss."
"No one was hurt, and things worked out."
Back in her apartment, Xia Ran checked today's harvest and nodded with great satisfaction. The only regret was that there was one missing photo in the digital camera.
Well, although there is also a precious CG of the welfare "Saint" Kanzaki Kaori, but after all, it is not a skin painting such as "Fallen Angel Erotic Maid Costume", so the degree of preciousness is naturally slightly inferior, not as good as Xia Ran The most anticipated shocking scene of killing the "Dragon King" with a knife.
Unfortunately, the big guy's senses were too keen, and he was very decisive in running for his life in the first place.
I don't care about dignity at all.
This is a very good villain quality. More than 99% of the peers do not have such professional quality, so they either die of too much talk or die of iron, but the "Dragon King" has been able to She escaped with her life in the hands of Xia Ran——
Miracle and magic do exist!
It's just that the client doesn't like this very much, Xia Ran sighed and put down the digital camera, feeling that this perfect day seemed to draw a not-so-perfect ending, like a little bit on a white paper The ink dots are ordinary, although they are only insignificant smudges, they are extremely dazzling.
A little bit of dissonance is a huge disruption to the whole.
"That won't work, why don't you make up for this head, or it'll be a pity for the day to end..." The magician frowned for a while, and finally couldn't help but stand up from the sofa , At the same time, a bright red light like blood bloomed in his eyes.
A complex and mysterious magic circle appeared on his retina, and the next moment, two magic circles with a diameter of more than one meter were projected in the air like a picture projected by a projector.
The nodes of the two magic circles correspond exactly to the position between Xia Ran's eyebrows. It seems that some energy gap has collided. There are dark lightning bolts visible to the naked eye, tearing apart the cracks in the space...
All of this is exactly the scene of the evening when the "automatic book" defense system on Index activates the magic.
It is the magic formula "St. George's Sanctuary".
But this is easy to understand. Although I haven't contacted it before, this evening, the little silver-haired nun exerted such power in front of Xia Ran's eyes. Since he saw it on the spot, she directly obtained the corresponding magic. Formula, mastering this magic is also normal.
It's nothing to be surprised at.
"Let me think about it, the next step is to derive the "DragonBreath" based on this magic..." The magician muttered to himself, looking around, as if he was in the living room Looking for a handy weapon.
During this process, the two magic circles floating in the air also moved correspondingly, as if they were fixed on his eyes. Because his head swayed and his eyes moved, it also happened. corresponding displacement.
Like a projector at work, if someone moves the position, the projection result will naturally be affected and changed.
"Forget it, that's it, don't pick it up... save the trouble."
He probably didn't find a weapon in his hand. After all, the living room is just a living room, and he didn't try to change its functionality, so don't expect to find any regular weapons in the living room. Xia Ran's final sight was fixed on into the fruit basket on the table in front of him.
There is a fruit knife lying quietly there.
He let out a slight sigh, bowed and picked it up, held it in his hand and weighed it for a while, and turned the knife around at will. Although he was very dissatisfied, it was only this. It's the same result. There should be no difference between being stabbed by a fruit knife and being beheaded by some dragon-slaying sword, right?
Presumably the "Dragon King" wouldn't mind the details.
"I'm going to die, who cares what kind of weapon he was killed by?" Xia Ran was so self-convincing, thinking that it should be the truth. "And it didn't object, and certainly thought so..."
After reaching a consensus with the "Dragon King", he gathered momentum and looked straight ahead, preparing to activate the second derivative magic while maintaining the current magic field, preparing to really draw a perfect ending to this imperfect day——
Yes, he realized that he actually mastered the corresponding magic, and he could also summon a big guy who escaped today...
There is no need to worry about the things you missed before, there are not many opportunities, right? Having enough food and clothing by herself, Xia Ran secretly praised her wit.
"Wait, no..."
The magician suddenly looked at the fruit knife in his hand and frowned.
Although the big guy will definitely not mind the question of what weapon he was killed by, how can he forget his original intention? ——It’s just for an epic shocking shot, so what’s the matter with holding a fruit knife? Isn't the photo taken at that time funny?
"Huh?"
At this moment, he frowned slightly and shook his head to disperse the magic circle in the air and the dark cracks that spread to every corner of the room, and the bright red light in his eyes also faded away. Reach out to the other empty left hand to fish into the air.
Like fishing for fish from the water, the next moment, a red-haired double ponytail was lifted in his hand.
The girl's eyes were a little dull, empty as if she had lost her soul. She was held in his hand like this, and she didn't struggle to resist.
Xia Ran put her back on the ground, patted her clothes, and tidy up her instrument. The movements and postures were familiar like a child falling down. After the adults picked her up, she did a series of actions. Habitual behavior with a baby.
After finishing all this, he calmly said: "Remember to walk in next time."
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After a while, the red-haired girl with two ponytails slowly regained her senses. She raised her eyes to look at the person in front of her, then looked at the living room around her, and said in a sullen voice, "That was... ...what? I seem to have fallen into another dimension..."
Jiebiao Danxi has been here before. Although it is only once, it is enough. So she is also familiar with this time. She set the coordinates in the other party's living room and moved directly through the space. Ability jumped over.
Then...
Something went wrong.
She didn't appear in Xia Ran's living room as she wished, but felt that she fell into a dark space in an instant, like a gravityless quagmire capturing her, trapping her in it, in the darkness Unable to extricate himself, it seems that he is constantly falling, and he cannot perceive anything.
There is no up, down, left and right, no all directions, nothing, and no sense of the existence of the outside world, and even abilities cannot be activated.
The most terrifying thing is that, in the dark and deep distance, there is an extremely dangerous animal breath. She can't tell what it is. Maybe it is the sixth sense from the spiritual level or the depths of the soul. Or a beast instinct that has been associated with danger since ancient times.
The pulse of some great life...
Some kind of unstoppable force...
The distance beyond time and space...
When the girl sensed the aura dormant in the depths of the darkness, her body trembled uncontrollably.
Time seems to stand still, and it seems to fly by, maybe a whole century has passed, or it is just a short moment, in short, in the darkness without a sense of time, her mind is blank, and she does not know how long it has passed. , I suddenly felt a vibration all around.
An invisible hand grabbed her directly and returned to reality.
Jiebiao Danxi looked around and let out a long breath. For the first time, she felt that life was such a beautiful thing. She had already developed a great fear of the ghost place just now, and she never wanted to experience it again. once.
"No way, you may be out of your ability, and there was a small accident just now, and you accidentally teleported yourself into the wall..." The magician didn't intend to explain it well at all, just casually said perfunctorily.
"You...!!"
Jiebiao Danxi's already pale face suddenly turned a little white again. Although she knew that this person was talking nonsense to change the subject, the words were still too scary and caused her psychological shadow.
However, she was still not convinced and asked, "Then why did you just say you remember to go out next time?"
"Isn't this a normal reminder? If you don't go out and send it directly without warning, what if I'm doing something that is not suitable for others to know?" Xia Ran said with a calm smile. "You don't want me to kill someone, do you?"
"Um...is that kind of thing? It's disgusting..."
Jiebiao Danxi showed an undisguised look of disgust on her face. She looked around subconsciously, thinking that she might find some traces or tissues that were too late to clean up at the scene. To the fruit knife held in the magician's hand.
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The girl pursed her lips tightly and took a step back, as if she was thinking something wrong?
Is it actually **** what the other party said about the shameful things? Could this man be some kind of perverted murderer behind his back? Could it be that there are actually imprisoned victims or corpses in the closed room over there?
"Stop thinking nonsense, am I such a violent person?" Xia Ran waved helplessly in front of her eyes, but still held a knife, "I'm obviously a pacifist, the most bloodless When it's gone, even ants usually don't take the initiative to hurt, okay?"
"You are really a bodhisattva..." Jibiao twitched the corners of his mouth, "I'm here this time, and it's the chairman who asked me to give you a message."
"He said..."
"The Crusaders are preparing for a war."
Yubiao Danxi said seriously, while staring at the expression of the young man in front of him, trying to see something from the changes in the other party's eyes.
The Crusaders are preparing for war or something, which seems inexplicable to her. What is the age now, do those religions still feel that they are the masters of the power of the world? Or the old times when kings had to kneel and beg the Pope for forgiveness, and a Vatican no bigger than a booger on a map was the center of the world?
It's just that the chairman specially asked her to say something like this, but she couldn't be sure, so she could only look at Xia Ran curiously.
"Oh, I see." The magician nodded, then looked back at the red-haired double ponytail in front of him, "Speaking of which, about the previous matter, how are you thinking about it? Am I receiving psychotherapy here?"
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"...you...that's all you want to say?"
Jie Biao was stunned for a long time, but still felt completely unbearable——
"Didn't you hear what I just said? The Crusaders are preparing for a war! War!"
"I heard, didn't I just say "Oh?" Xia Ran stared at the girl suspiciously, didn't she already know?
He knew about this for a long time, and even expected the decision that Aleister would specifically inform him. There is nothing surprising... Whether the Hanged Man knows or not, he has been watching him and Lola the whole time. The secret meeting, at least the attitude and position are very clear.
That is, Aleister will never be on the magic side.
"..." Jibiao had a dark face, feeling that he was really wasting his feelings.
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"He didn't have any special reaction. Either he already knew it, or he didn't care..."
In the windowless building, the chairman wearing a green surgical gown and hanging upside down in a huge test tube had a flat voice.
"Isn't this what we expected? Aleister." A female voice mingled with murmurs sounded, "If even his pawns and lackeys can't deal with it, how can he replace those in authority? Where's the throne?"
"That's true... let me see how far he can go."
Aleister smiled slightly. I don't know how many years ago, he once again had such expectations, looking forward to the future.
There is a chance for chaos, whether it's good or bad, and... He will react, doesn't it just show that this Antichrist can really threaten the crown, behind the triple veil?
He looked at a screen in the center of the room. Not long ago, the Supreme Bishop was negotiating with Academy City through it. Although he was putting pressure on it, he also revealed an extremely critical and important information... …
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"Aleister! I'll just say it straight, he must die!"
St George's Cathedral in London, in this solemn and sacred building, the de facto leader of the Anglican Church, and the archbishop who has an extremely high status in the whole world, must seriously look at the display placed on the preaching altar .
Her voice was full of helplessness, and her eyes were filled with a faint but unquestionable murderous intent.
"Do you know what the Bible says about the covenant between man and God? Now, not long ago, after the Eight Covenants..."
She said:
"There is a new covenant!"
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After dismissing the knot, Xia Ran had no interest in continuing the dragon slaying for the time being, and did not want to continue to be peeped by Aleister, so she directly waved her hand to block the "sight" in the room.
Without outsiders, his expression became much more serious, and he turned and walked back to the room where the door had been closed.
The room was empty. There was nothing. There was only one thing that stood out, and that was a cabinet made of acacia wood wrapped in gold inside and outside, which was quietly placed in the center. Angels made of gold, they face each other and enclose a space with their wings.
"Is it really meant to function at this time?"
The magician muttered that the "Hanged Man" tarot card and this thing were also brought over.
Even if he is a little guilty, after all, it is said that where the Ark of the Covenant is placed, it represents the presence of God... So what is his current behavior? I will try to carry it out in front of this person. A usurpation conspiracy? I always feel that I have the risk of starting a business and failing in the middle at any time.