Chapter 189 The truth that should not be guessed, a nice blow...
When Chu Xiuyan left the Aletta Palace and headed for Feng Town, and was then entangled by the treasure map squad led by Rodney, the Aletta Palace on the other side was still peaceful.
It was not until noon that the sound of doors opening on the third floor began to be heard one after another.
Cui Zhiyong greeted the wise man, dark circles under his eyes, and yawned. Was he going to the courtyard? Taking a walk to wake up.
But when he walked to the rest area, he suddenly saw a strange figure walking down the stairs. Her yellow long skirt and wide hat almost covered her entire face. Only when she turned around and walked to the next step did her profile reveal her identity.
It was Sabrina, the head maid of the Aletta Palace.
Cui Zhiyong muttered to himself: "Is he going out?"
But? Soon, a vague sense of strangeness emerged in my heart.
From the night talk I was forced to attend last night, I learned that Sabrina of the Aletta Palace wears that maid uniform all day long, and never changes her clothes whether she is out shopping or fighting with the guards.
So it's a private matter?
Cui Zhiyong's brain, which had been slow due to lack of sleep, became even heavier. To be honest, after last night's discussion, his mind was successfully diverted, and he couldn't help but think too much about every suspicious point in the Aletta Palace.
"Well, it's okay to go outside and breathe some fresh air..."
He yawned again and went downstairs with light and heavy steps.
On the first floor, two Western strangers were about to go upstairs. They were Boqu and Silas. One of them smiled and whispered, while the other nodded perfunctorily, seemingly not noticing Sabrina who had paused above him.
Then, Sabrina, who was only a few meters away, lowered the brim of her hat, turned around, and stepped into the west corridor of the second floor, just missing Boqu and Silas who were going upstairs.
Cui Zhiyong stood on the upper staircase and witnessed Sabrina deliberately avoiding the Western Stranger. His confused and slow brain suddenly became clear, and he frowned as he looked at the stairs below and the corridor on the west side of the second floor.
He closed his eyes, the water vapor in the air glowing faintly in the dark vision, and then, an image as if with a bad signal appeared in his mind.
Sabrina walked to the end of the west corridor of the second floor, opened the window, held down the brim of her hat, flipped over, and landed steadily on the ground outside the palace, then hurried towards Fengzhen.
Cui Zhiyong opened his eyes and ignored Bo Qu and Silas who were going upstairs. A hint of doubt flashed across his blue eyes.
Sabrina avoided the Western? North Stranger, indicating that she did not want to? Contact them? Or did this "not wanting to? contact" include everyone from? the mainland? outside the Holy City of Aletta??
After a while, Bai Qu and Silas saw Cui Zhiyong standing on the stairs motionless.
"Is he sleeping here?" Silas approached Cui Zhiyong curiously.
"I just said that the rats made too much noise last night, so I really need to find someone to spread rat poison..."
Bo Qu, who was still thinking about last night's noise, had just finished speaking when he saw Cui Zhiyong, who was immersed in his own thoughts, suddenly move and grab his right hand and shake it up and down in a trance.
"Hello, goodbye."
After that, Cui Zhiyong walked past Bai Qu quickly and continued to go downstairs in a hurry.
Bo Qu looked at his right arm that was forcibly pulled up to shake hands, and laughed: "I guess he was definitely not in his right mind just now."
Silas narrowed his eyes. "You poisoned me?"
"How is it possible? Are there any enemies here?" Bo Qu pushed his glasses with a smile. "It's just an unimportant matter. There's no need to spend too much time on it. Silas, is there anyone suitable here?"
"Cloud Flame!"
"...I've already told you, it's hard to turn around."
On the other side, Cui Zhiyong, who was following behind Sabrina, was completely awake.
Sabrina's unusual behavior dissipated the fog in her mind.
He suddenly remembered something. He was invited here, but why had he never met the ocean god named "Yilian"? Although the Lion Boss of the ruined city claimed to have communicated with her, he also observed her from a distance through a screen and never met her face to face. He only vaguely saw that she looked like a petite girl.
The girl in a black dress that Yunyan had met at night called herself Elena, another god with the name of Sky.
The similarity is too high. Although no one brought it up last night, everyone has a secret guess.
[Ocean] Elaine is probably in some kind of predicament, so she cannot appear in front of outsiders.
[Sky] Elena is likely a hidden threat, secretly plotting something.
Then, going back further, why did the messenger team heading to the desert, dressed in all white, only mention the "disaster" but avoid talking about the "source of the disaster"?
Cui Zhiyong coughed a few times, and the dark, deep and silent deep sea seemed to reappear in front of him, pitch black, terrifying, and without a sound. The densely packed dead fish with their stomachs turned upside down and the sinking wreckage and ruins that appeared like an illusion, as if everything was dying silently.
This is where his fear comes from.
He was a water-based mutant, and he could sense the ominous aura emanating from the ocean better than anyone else.
The disaster that destroys the land may come from the deep sea.
【Ocean】...is about to die.
The moment this thought came to mind, Cui Zhiyong suddenly felt a premonition of danger and rushed forward faster. Then he turned around and saw a somewhat unfamiliar figure.
"Captain of the…guard of the Aletta Palace, Vaughn?"
This is a black-haired swordsman, standing on a busy street. People? As if sensing danger, they unconsciously dispersed to an empty area.
From? The captain of the guard of the Aletta Palace was wearing a tight dark uniform. His dark green eyes reflected the vigilant Cui Zhiyong a few meters away. His expression was as calm as water, and his right hand was on the hilt of the sword at his waist.
Cui Zhiyong felt his heart beating rapidly.
He remembered this man named Vaughn, who was serious and old-fashioned, respected and obeyed by all the guards. He also had extremely terrifying swordsmanship - when he was fighting with Sabrina, a lot of the walls of the entire courtyard collapsed.
"Yunyan" had told him that Fu En looked serious but was actually very quiet and gentle. When he found out that Fu En had gone to the kitchen to eat secretly at night, he would help to conceal it silently. When he went out, if he told her what he wanted in advance, he would buy what he wanted. He was silent and serious, and his preferences were obvious. He would pretend to be nonchalant and quietly help others. He was the most popular person in the whole palace, except for Sabrina.
However, it was this guy who was now standing opposite Cui Zhiyong, slowly and firmly drawing his sword.
"I am very sorry, Your Excellency."
Cui Zhiyong heard the other party speak calmly and indifferently: "I smell an ominous smell... You guessed something you shouldn't know?, right?"
Cui Zhiyong's eyelids twitched wildly.
The next second, the eyes blurred, and Fu En, who was originally more than ten meters away, turned into a residual shadow and suddenly appeared in front of him. The long sword passed through the air? A sharp arc fell like lightning.
Split a stream of water in half.
Cui Zhiyong, who had already run far away, shouted, "Why can't we sit down and talk about it?! Why are you panicking?! Why are you panicking? Isn't it true that a mage can fight melee? No?!"
There are so many things wrong!
Cui Zhiyong looked around, and he didn't know when the surrounding environment was covered with a layer of blurry white fog, blurry, distorted, looming, and people's figures seemed to be far away in another time and space, and even their voices could not be transmitted.
It was eerily quiet.
Here? It's the dream world.
His eyelids twitched again.
When was he pulled into the dream world?
Vaughn is coming again? Here he comes.
Cui Zhiyong gritted his teeth, turned around? Straight? Face up, "Next time I will definitely not leave the team again..."
Scarlet blood flowed at the fingertips.
As Vaughn, who was attacking head-on, raised his sword, his arm muscles suddenly bulged, as if a living thing was swimming under his skin and was about to drill out.
The next second, blood splattered everywhere, and you could vaguely see bones with flesh and blood exposed in the air.
Even though he used such a cruel method, Cui Zhiyong felt nauseous. He sniffed, suppressed the strange feeling, and pretended to be calm and said to Fu En, whose sword fell to the ground: "Okay, you first? Calm down, we? Let's talk..."
His voice stopped abruptly.
Fu En, who had lost the flesh and blood of his right arm, seemed to have no sense of pain. He slowly bent down and picked up the long sword on the ground with his bloody arm.
Then, the lost blood seemed to appear out of thin air, forming scarlet filarial worms like living things, clinging tightly to the bones and wriggling and growing rapidly, and then instantly turned into a horrible black color.
A black right arm reappeared.
Cui Zhiyong felt as if something was blocking his throat, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Fu En, are you human?"
This time, the captain of the guard on the opposite side answered.
“I still think I’m human.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he grasped the sword in his hand and quickly attacked as a shadow.
At this moment, Cui Zhiyong felt angry for some reason.
"What a joke! You look like a ghost, but you still think you are a human?"
"Is it Elaine who is deceiving you? Is it?"
"She is bewitching and enslaving you? Is she?"
"Don't you know that the ocean is about to die? The feeling is completely different from the desert! Vaughn, what are you doing?"
"What on earth is He going to do?!"
Blood splashed again, streaking across? The blood around the neck was healed by the black line.
Cui Zhiyong covered his left abdomen where blood was flowing, and stared at Fu En in the distance, whose neck was half torn but was still slowly healing. He felt that he could not understand Fu En's thoughts at all, and said coldly: "Look at you now, you have become a complete monster, but even if you become a monster, do you have to close your eyes, pretend to sleep, and obey the gods?"
"…Not enough, sir."
Vaughn still looked sensible and indifferent, but he lacked a bit of human aura more than before.
He gripped the hilt of the sword again, with a firmness in his eyes that Cui Zhiyong could not understand, and said, "I will bet everything to ensure that the Holy City of Aleta will never fall."
"Lord Elaine!"
Calling for the exit, a secret gaze was cast towards the dream world.
Cui Zhiyong's scalp tingled. Fu En in the distance rushed over again? He subconsciously raised his hand, and the next second his pupils shrank. The water-based ability that he should have been extremely proficient in was like a water pipe with its outlet blocked, firmly suppressed in his body, unable to be released -
"【ocean】?"
How similar it was to the desert then.
How did Zhang Chun do it? How did he withstand the suppression of the Desert God's power and exert a far more terrifying power than before?
Before Cui Zhiyong could react, a long sword pierced his abdomen steadily, and then a cold palm pressed on his chest.
"I'm sorry, sir, but I need a moment. Please don't struggle."
Fu En, who was also extremely embarrassed, said in a deep voice, and the left arm that was pressing on Cui Zhiyong's chest slowly extended countless densely packed black worms, which swam towards Cui Zhiyong.
“…I thought [Sky] was the enemy.”
Cui Zhiyong coughed up a mouthful of blood and stared coldly at Fu En in front of him, "Now it seems that the [Ocean] is also an enemy, right? What you said before sounded so nice, saving humans on land before the disaster came, and we really believed it. But in the end, the source of the disaster was you, and it was you who set the trap to catch us all?..."
Fu En couldn't help but speak: "Please don't make random guesses. We never intended to murder you. All the truth will be revealed in the next four-party meeting. You just knew the wrong and fragmentary information at the wrong time. I am just fulfilling my responsibility and helping you erase this memory and guess."
Cui Zhiyong showed a cold smile, "Guess whether I believe it or not."
Vaughn fell silent.
"My anger, hatred and fear towards you will definitely penetrate deep into my bones. I will continue to observe you. As long as you show the slightest abnormality, I will recall this speculation again... I failed this time, what about next time? Or the next time?"
Cui Zhiyong continued to speak harshly. He was completely unwilling to accept this. Would the Ocean God personally come to help others fight? He had no moral principles!
He could feel a cold breath penetrating deep into his body, and his mind began to feel a little confused.
"... I remembered another thing. Why did you have to reveal the truth at the Four-Party Conference? Why hasn't the Four-Party Conference started yet? What are you waiting for? Are you stalling for time?"
Fu En's eyes trembled slightly. He looked at Cui Zhiyong, whose voice was gradually getting weaker and who was about to fall into a coma, and a trace of disbelief appeared on his face.
But? He disappeared quickly and regained his composure. However, the next second, Cui Zhiyong, who should have been in a coma, suddenly raised his hand and tightly grasped his wrist. His tightly closed eyes suddenly opened. They were blue-green eyes, but for some reason, they revealed a crazy and violent hot breath.
"Wait, I take back what I said before. I didn't lose this round either."
Vaughn: “What?”
Cui Zhiyong grinned, "I also have foreign aid."
A cold murderous intent came from behind.
In the air behind Fu En, a figure surrounded by white mist suddenly appeared. The figure was blurry and appeared and disappeared from time to time, but the pair of scarlet eyes were particularly clear. The next second, a baseball bat with a faint strange aura was raised high and smashed down at the target.
A violent sound of breaking through the air was heard.
Didn't react at all? The incoming Fu En was knocked back hard.
"Nice shot, ten points."
Chu Xiuyan, who had successfully invaded the dream world, landed on the ground and smashed the scarlet long stick to the ground. The gray fog behind him condensed into countless fog beasts and rushed towards the direction where Fu En flew out.
Chu Xiuyan supported the embarrassed Cui Zhiyong and sighed, "He's obviously a mage, how can he fight with melee fighters?"
"Next time I find something, I will definitely pack you up and take you away." Cui Zhiyong grinned as he healed himself - after the boy appeared, the ocean god who suppressed his superpowers had quietly left.
Chu Xiuyan touched Cui Zhiyong's stupid head and said lovingly, "So, why did you fight with Fu En?"
Cui Zhiyong blurted out: "Because——"
He was stunned, his mind went blank, "Wait, why did I fight with Vaughn? Wait, something seems wrong? Not right..."
Chu Xiuyan looked at Cui Zhiyong, who was touching his head with a confused look on his face, and his expression gradually turned cold.
He grabbed the baseball bat beside him again and walked towards Vaughn who was trapped in the gray fog.
Just? At this moment, Cui Zhiyong suddenly grabbed him and said excitedly: "I remember! I was going to find the treasure map, and then I was discovered by Fu En, so in order to fight for the final ownership of the treasure map, we? Fight!"
Chu Xiuyan: “…”
He slapped Cui Zhiyong's head like he was hitting a broken old TV, and said angrily, "How is this possible! Wake up your brain!"
Cui Zhiyong held his head and howled, "Wait, stop taking pictures! If you keep hitting it, it will really break!"
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