Chapter 672: Lanqi was asked about the pigeon
The two crossed a street and came to the bustling commercial area in the center of Bosen Flower City.
"Meow, this street is so cool."
The cat boss in Lanqi's hand looked at the grand scene of the city in the morning and stood up with stars in his eyes.
"Indeed, we'll be right across the street at Petras Auction House."
Lanqi looked at the cat boss and smiled.
This Crystal Orchid Avenue is located on the central axis connecting Platinum Palace and the New Pilgrimage Gate. It is also known as the Pilgrimage Avenue. It is one of the three most prosperous central streets in the Southern Continent and is also known as one of the ten most charming pedestrian streets in the Southern Continent.
It runs through the east-west main road of Parière, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a total length of 1,800 meters and a maximum width of over 120 meters. It starts from the Place des Roses in the east and ends at the Place de l'Etoile in the west.
The Bosen National Day Parade is held on this avenue every August 24th.
"Hundreds of years ago, this was a field full of swamps. Later, it was transformed into a tree-lined avenue by the queen of Persson at the time."
Lanqi said, pointing to the open tall buildings and square in the distance.
Therefore, in that era, Crystal Orchid Avenue was called the "Queen's Boulevard".
The evolution of Crystal Orchid Avenue is closely linked to the municipal development history of the Flower City of Parière.
According to Bosen's historical records, the real beginning was three hundred years ago. In order to expand the vision of the royal rose garden, the royal gardener extended the east-west central axis of the garden westward to the Dot Square, thus forming the prototype of the avenue.
"Its basic planning is actually very reasonable, which is why it has taken shape today. The first section is dominated by natural scenery, with flat park-like lawns on both sides, which is quiet and peaceful. The last section is a high-end commercial area, where famous brands, clothing stores, and perfume shops of the southern continent are concentrated, with fireworks and silver flowers, and elegant and luxurious."
"How do you know all this?"
She had also read the "Modern History of the Kingdom of Persian" given by Professor Pollao, which wrote about the construction of Crystal Orchid Street, but not as detailed as Lanqi's.
Compared to what he read in the book, most of the content seemed more like what he judged from his on-site observations.
"If you go to the Northern Continent, I will write the latest city planning for Helrom, the capital of the Protoss Empire."
Lanqi began his story with a hint of mischief in his smile.
"It seems that you do have good connections and are quite capable."
Talia's words fell softly into her ears.
There is nothing strange about Lanqi in every aspect.
At least she recognized my ability in painting, as I could draw her so beautifully.
"It is said that at 5pm, if you walk to the high ground of the park, you can follow this road without any buildings to watch the charming sunset disappearing on the western horizon."
Lanqi looked at the overlapping roofs on the other side, and the road terrain that gradually rose towards the city center in this direction.
"oh."
Talia just answered casually.
It seems like I heard it, but also like I didn’t.
No opinions were given about "want to go" or "don't want to go".
Watching the sunset together was something that seemed ambiguous, and she would never do it with Lanqi.
Unless you have to go for the purpose of training tacit understanding.
Lanqi narrowed his eyes and smiled.
It was like understanding Talia's thoughts.
"Boss Cat, do you want to watch the sunset?"
He lowered his head and stroked the cat's head.
"If Tata doesn't want to go, then we can go."
“…”
When Talia heard Lanqi's words, the blood vessels on her forehead trembled slightly.
She knew Lanqi did it on purpose.
"Meow!"
Before the cat boss could answer, it was snatched away from Lanqi by Talia.
"Boss Cat, come with me."
Taliyah's words were as cold as steel.
Lanqi looked at her with empty hands in astonishment.
It's like asking her if you can't afford to have fun.
"You guys can pull this and that, don't pull me, meow."
Boss Cat sighed helplessly.
The two people and the cat chat from time to time.
Sometimes noisy.
Came to the intersection.
The towering sycamore trees stood with their leaves shining in the morning light, like emeralds inlaid on the streets.
The sun was already high in the sky, and the sky was a soft light blue.
A brief moment of waiting for the traffic light.
Lanqi noticed that Talia was looking across the street.
He was slightly confused and looked in the direction of Talia's gaze.
I looked back and forth across the street and at her face twice before I was sure what she was paying attention to.
Across the street, a wealthy man in sophisticated attire slowly walked by a shop window displaying merchandise ranging from high-end fashion to exquisite jewelry. His gentle steps looked like a carefully choreographed dance.
Behind him, the demons dressed in simple but clean and tidy clothes followed respectfully, carefully holding several ornate shopping boxes in their hands and keeping their balance as they followed behind.
Although the shopping bag was quite heavy, the demons had no complaints and only showed respect.
The bracelet on the demon's hand is a symbol of his subordination.
Lanqi looked at Talia again and found that she had looked away, no longer staring at the scene that made her feel that everything had changed.
"Actually, this is not unusual in the Flower City of Pariel."
Lanqi looked at the traffic light and said to Talia beside him.
As an international metropolis, Paris also faces challenges common to modern cities, such as the integration of immigrants.
"I know."
She is well aware that times have changed.
She had already accepted this fact many times before coming to the Person Kingdom.
It would be fine if it was just a work contract, but if she saw the demons becoming slaves of humans, she would feel a little uncomfortable.
But there is nothing to complain about, because the demons who sign slave contracts are either atonement for their sins or selling their time and labor in exchange for a large amount of money for some reason.
In the Kingdom of Person, most contracts are fair.
The traffic light changed, and the two of them walked forward with the little black cat.
"What's wrong? Tata, do you want me to help you win a championship, too? Like Duke Migaiya?"
Lanqi seemed to have read her thoughts and smiled at her with some interest.
Although the basic purposes are different, Miss Ifatia likes to watch the fun, while Talia likes to give the demons freedom, but as long as the goal is achieved, at least a potential demon can be released. After the demon has value, no matter how much money it is, there will be powerful people willing to redeem the champion and sign a more equal business contract.
"I'm not the kind of woman who needs a man to please me. No matter how you try to please me, I won't smile at you even once."
Talia stared at him and answered calmly and slightly indifferently.
On the one hand, seek truth from facts.
On the other hand, she couldn't bear to see Lanqi testing her with this tea-flavored look.
"That's right. You were happy when I fed you, but you didn't smile..."
Lanci shook his head.
Before he finished speaking, he dared not say anything else because Tata was already looking at him.
"I'm really curious about one thing."
Talia frowned and looked at him for a long time before finally asking.
She wasn't angry this time.
I don't want to argue with him anymore.
She just suddenly felt really curious.
"you say."
Lanci replied with a sigh of relief.
"Why didn't you provoke me wantonly when I first met you?"
Talia stared at him, as if this question had troubled her many times recently.
"I think according to your personality, you should have said something that made me intolerable from then on. Instead, it was as if you had foreseen my danger and changed your mindset to slowly get to know me first."
She finished her words, her eyes still fixed on Lanqi's face.
"Meow."
The cat owner was also very curious.
After following Lanqi for so long, it has discovered that Lanqi's suicidal character means that alcohol is like poison to Lanqi, but he will become addicted to it.
And Talia is also a substance similar to alcohol to Lanqi, which will make him unconscious. It is dangerous and addictive, and he obviously can't resist it.
It was hard to tell whether he drank because Talia had cured his addiction or whether he regarded Talia as his new alcohol and necessity in life.
"Maybe it's because I happened to break into the temple of the goddess of fate that day, and the goddess of fate gave me a dream, foreseeing how to approach you?"
Lanqi thought about it and met her gaze calmly.
Hans said that every time he got drunk and had no memory of anything, he accidentally broke into the Church of the Goddess of Fate in Nanwantina the day before he met Tata, and accidentally knocked a gem off the statue of the goddess, causing a lot of trouble for the priests.
Fortunately, the noble and kind priests did not take his mistake to heart, saying that it was a kind of fate.
The divinity of the goddess of fate that the priests believe in is that as long as the people pray to her, she has the power to slightly interfere with fate. The more devout and longer the prayers are, the more of their voices will be conveyed to her. The oaths made to every god must not be spoken carelessly, regardless of whether these gods still exist and whether they can interfere in the world, as they may result in cause and effect.
Therefore, according to legend, there is a protective stone called the Samsara Jade.
It could be any stone that is related to the Church of the Goddess of Destiny. As long as it serves as a medium, the gods can slightly interfere with the world from the conceptual side.
The Reincarnation Jade is a gift for the destined person. If you pray sincerely to the goddess of fate, she may let you have a beautiful dream, maybe it is accidental, or maybe it is an old dream.
But this kind of thing is mysterious after all, and cannot be verified, so it is more often regarded as legends and fairy tales.
According to Hyperion's idea.
She felt that she was a witch lady in her previous life, and Lanqi was the son of the sun in his previous life. Of course, it is also possible that they were reincarnated into other worlds and experienced a wonderful intermediate life before the two lives. Everything was the gift of the goddess of fate.
so.
It is possible that it was that time when he accidentally touched the sacred stone of the Church of the Goddess of Destiny that he received many revelations from the Goddess of Destiny, who gave him some information that was enough to change the future.
Of course, how all this happened is not important to someone like him who does not believe in reincarnation.
He only thought that the Son of the Sun was a flower similar to himself tens of thousands of years ago, and they had no direct connection. The same was true for Miss Witch and Hyperion.
The essence of reincarnation is the repetition of history, through the constant annihilation and rebirth of the world.
After a long time, similar people and stories will always appear.
If you believe it, it exists; if you don’t believe it, it doesn’t exist.
How you think it is - that is how it is.
“…”
Talia was silent for a long time after hearing this.
"Is that so... No wonder you knew about the disappearance of Duke Migaiya like a prophet."
She listened to Lanqi's inner thoughts and talked to herself.
Hyperion and Lanci had already shared with her the information about Duke Migaia and the vampires.
She was sure that Lanqi had not lied to them.
At the same time, Lanqi's secrets have not been explored.
Prophets, fortune tellers, and futurists are not uncommon in this world, but very few creatures possess them.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
[Destiny] is the realm of gods that cannot be reached by living beings, while [Divination] is the ultimate realm that can be reached by living beings blessed by gods.
If a great demon like Pranai who is good at divination could grow for a few hundred more years, perhaps they would not have lost in the first place.
If it were from the goddess of fate, everything would be explained.
"How do you know so many secrets and yet be so indifferent to the deeper secrets? If Hyperion were you, she would probably be thinking about it all day and would be too confused to sleep."
Talia asked again.
She could hear Lanqi's thoughts and see fragments of stories recorded in "Kaliera's Shadow Weaving Record".
"I am not very interested in theology or history. I prefer philosophy, aesthetics, and ethics. The present is the only thing that matters. The past and the future are not worth delving into for me."
He explained with a smile.
“…”
Although this guy doesn't believe in God, he sometimes does act like a charlatan. This kind of person is often called a pyramid scheme leader or a cult leader.
My condition was most serious when I just came back from the Northern Continent.
Now there are gradually signs of improvement and he is becoming a little bit like a normal person again.
"Have you ever thought about going to the Church of the Goddess of Destiny again and really asking for a piece of the Reincarnation Jade?"
Talia suggested.
"See what our past dreams were like."
She spoke in an almost silent way, like a whisper in the morning mist, soft and elusive.
If it was the goddess of fate who brought them together, then perhaps they had a special fate.
Her fate with Lanci is not necessarily worse than that between Hyperion and Lanci.
"I don't believe in the goddess of fate, and I don't pray sincerely like Hyperion, so I think it would be a waste of time to go to the temple with other purposes."
Lanqi spread his hands indifferently.
"You can go there on the way."
Talia said calmly.
The Parière Police Headquarters where the two of them stayed last night is very close to the famous Notre Dame de Parière Church.
Near the Church of Our Lady of Parié, there are many temples and church branches in Huadu.
Logically speaking, Notre Dame de Parié Church is also a place they want to check in.
It was just that it was too late yesterday, so neither of them thought about going.
"We can go to the Church of Our Lady of Pariah, but the temple of the Church of the Goddess of Fate can be found anywhere. For example, there is one in Ikerita."
Lanci analyzed.
"If we could have a beautiful dream, aren't you curious about what it would be like?"
Talia asked.
"Not curious."
Lanci shook his head and told her with a calm smile.
“…”
Boss Cat listened to the two people talking.
It felt like Lanci did it on purpose.
The two of them started to argue again.
Tata wanted to go a little, but not particularly. She would rather Lanqi suggest that they go together to ask for the amulet of the Church of the Goddess of Destiny. Lanqi knew that she wanted to go, and unless she directly invited Lanqi to go with her, Lanqi would pretend to be confused.
In this way, neither Lanqi nor Talia expressed their opinions, leaving the atmosphere tense for a moment.
"Don't you think that [Kaliera's Shadow Weaving] also has a feeling of interweaving the past with the present? I always feel that taking a piece of the goddess of fate's amulet and adding it to the card making process can also be used as a material."
Talia finally said.
As long as it is well blended with the formula, adding it in will basically not reduce the success rate even if it does not increase it, and gems related to the goddess of fate always make people feel that they can become luckier.
"Well……"
Lanqi thought about it for a moment and felt that it did make sense.
"Then let's go to the temple later."
He compromised.
"You two are totally...! You stop pulling at the right point every time, and you know exactly how far to pull to make the other person feel delicate without getting disappointed or angry!"
Boss Cat finally couldn't stand it anymore and complained.
"Boss Cat, what are you talking about?"
They both stared in amazement at the cat boss' sudden outburst.
“…”
Boss Cat felt that it was all over. It seemed that these two people were really unconscious.
They have no idea how other people look and feel.
I just knew that I was having a lot of fun with each other.
"But I think there's a chance we'll be wasting our time, so don't expect too much."
Lanqi didn't think that he and Talia would be able to see any dreams similar to the Son of the Sun and the Witch Lady.
In the first three Blood Moon Shadow Worlds, no demons similar to Talia appeared.
If I must say, only Lord Orion of the Mist and Lord Esmodesm of the Night have some shadows of Talia and the Great Poet.
However, even if these two great demons have offspring, they may not appear even after the Son of the Sun dies.
At the end of the third shadow world, the two big demons were still there, brothers.
Lanqi got a headache after hearing that.
"It's okay. It's enough for me to learn from you that we met and there was the Temple of the Goddess of Destiny."
In fact, Talia also passed by the Temple of the Church of the Goddess of Destiny that day, and she did remember that there was some commotion inside, but she didn't pay much attention to it. She just glanced at it silently and left.
In fact, her story with Lanqi had already begun that day.
"I remember that it was also the day I lost a dark pigeon familiar. But because I finally found an important job and a change in my wandering life, I temporarily put aside my search for its whereabouts. I wonder if it is doing well."
Talia muttered to herself.
Now more than a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
In the past, a year was just a passing cloud for her.
“…”
Boss Cat suddenly felt that Lanqi's expression had changed, and his heart rate soared to 180.
He seemed to be trying his best to control his thoughts and not show any abnormality.
"That dark pigeon has been with me for many years. Even when I was going through the hardest time and hadn't eaten for several days, I never considered killing it."
Talia continued to tell the story of her past, her face full of reminiscence.
“…”
Sweat began to break out on Lanqi's forehead.
"Why are you sweating so much?"
Talia noticed that Lanqi was quiet for a long time and didn't speak to her.
"It's a bit hot in the morning in this flower city of Palieu. I don't feel it when I sit at home, but I feel the temperature when I walk outside."
Lanqi took off his thin coat, put it on his hand and said with an effortful smile.
"oh."
Talia nodded.
She took out a handkerchief from her small shoulder bag, raised it slightly, and handed it to Lanqi.
It is unclear whether she wanted to help Lanqi wipe his sweat or just wanted to lend him the handkerchief from the beginning.
"Thanks."
Lanqi accepted Talia's handkerchief.
"What if, I mean, the pigeon has been killed and you catch the murderer, what will happen?"
He asked again.
"hehe."
Talia clenched her fingers.
"I will treat the murderer the same way he treated my pigeons..."
Her words were so cold that they seemed to lower the temperature around them, making people shudder.
"Ahaha, that sounds so scary. Oh, by the way, that dessert shop across the street seems pretty good. Let's go buy two ice creams."
Lanqi didn't dare to mention it again as if his throat was blocked, and he quickly laughed dryly and changed the subject.
"Which one?"
Talia's attention was instantly drawn to the direction Lanqi pointed.
The two began to chat intently again.
"Meow."
Boss Cat looked up at Lanqi in confusion.
Teacher Dalan, why are your hands shaking? If this pigeon is really related to you, then you will have to send it sooner or later.
Recommend this book ~ "Salute to the King of Monsters!"
(End of this chapter)