Chapter 57 Children (5)

The hall of the association was decorated magnificently. The crystal chandeliers that hung from the fourth floor to the ground floor were shining softly like stars. Unfortunately, because it was refracted light, it could not illuminate every corner of the banquet hall.

In the main hall, gentlemen and ladies in exquisite formal attire were talking around the fireplace. There was a flood outside, but the room was unusually warm and dry. Even for the guests who came late and got wet, there were low-level fire talents serving as waiters at the door to help them dry their clothes.

Becoming a member of the association was the best way out for most people who had no connections or strength.

"The weather is terrible." Belle's father, wearing a greasy hat, took a good position by the fireplace and leaned against the sofa.

"Yes," his wife nodded, holding the candy tightly in her coat pocket, as if talking to herself or to someone beside her: "Rod, don't be too sad for your child, look to the future."

"Of course," Rod's face with sunken cheeks and wrinkled skin squeezed out a smile, "My eyes have always been looking to the future, madam, have you brought the things?"

Everyone sitting on the sofas was suddenly curious about what the things were that needed to be brought by a woman who had been excluded by the aristocratic circle for a long time, and they all looked at her.

The sudden focus of attention made the woman a little uncomfortable. She rubbed the coat that she hadn't worn for a long time and took out a bag of candy that was wet and stained by rain from the pocket.

The candy packaging was simple, and it was clearly the style that the common people outside liked to eat the most. Everyone was immediately disappointed.

"Is this what you want?" A lady who was covering her face with a fan looked at Rod beside her with puzzled eyes.

"Of course, Madam, this is what I want most." Rod held the bag of candy in his hand, as if he had held a key to something, and even his originally exhausted expression became more energetic.

As his voice fell completely, the stove that was originally burning steadily suddenly flickered, and the fire became brighter, illuminating everyone's faces as if covered with a layer of blood.

"Oh my god, is this fire crazy?!" Belle's father, who was sitting by the sofa, almost had his pants set on fire. He wanted to curse, but because he was outside, he had to sit farther away with a sullen look on his face.

Aixina had been living in the fire while the flames were flickering, and saw with her own eyes that the bag of candy was handed to Rod by the woman.

She knew this Rod, and he was the noble whose son was accidentally injured during the lockdown. He was not a bad person, and the child had a gentle personality, but his fate was unpredictable. After the child died, he became an unfortunate noble, and had to spend his days spending money.

Maybe Louisa was deceived by him and was locked up somewhere at the moment.

Her originally anxious heart was ignited like a fire. What if Louisa was locked up in the basement? The flood backflow might kill her, and she couldn't escape at all.

While everyone's topic was slightly diverted, Aixina quickly escaped from the fire and hid under a curtain, but she saw Ronnie hiding in the shadows in a corner not far away.

The young man was now dressed in black clothes and a big hood covered his face, but it was still obvious that he was extremely excited and his whole body was shaking.

Aixina stopped walking towards the president's room and did not walk out from under the curtain.

"Uncle Rod, why are we having a banquet today?" A little girl ran past the curtain where Aixina was standing. Fortunately, she kept her head up because she had to talk to the adults and did not look closely at the situation around her.

"It's to celebrate the initial completion of the shield, and..." Rod was about to continue speaking when suddenly there was a commotion from the stairs of the first-floor lobby. Aixina looked up.

Dimula was leading the way in front, and he shouted to the crowd to look in his direction. Behind him was a huge alchemy puppet, with Zhou Ye in its arms.

Zhou Ye saw the crowd surrounding him below, and his originally calm face was covered with a polite smile, but a hint of illness still emanated from his brows.

"Isn't it an internal gathering? Why are so many people here today? And it's really too difficult to hold it now."

"President Zhou, this is an internal gathering, and most of the people present are members or former members of the association." Dimula avoided most of Zhou Ye's questions in a roundabout way.

"But Aixina and my descendants are not here..."

"Oh, do you mean that the party can't be held without them?" The woman holding the child showed a sweet and provocative smile.

"Hahaha," Zhou Ye hadn't answered yet, but Dimula took over the woman's words first, "How could that be? We are all family. Let's hurry to the banquet!"

Under the double act of the other two people, all the nobles who had a little bit of sense in the whole banquet laughed in harmony, but Nuo was the only one who didn't show any expression.

Everyone sat down and the banquet began.

Dimula didn't stay by Zhou Ye's side. He held a glass of champagne and acted like the one closest to Zhou Ye, chatting with those Zhou Ye's admirers. Even if some of those people wanted to come forward to greet him, they were afraid of Zhou Ye's sick face and didn't want to disturb him.

During this time, Dimula's feet were full of air, as if he had broken through the gloom of the past few days.

The woman holding the child had been following Zhou Ye, which seemed to be a bit of a surveillance, but Zhou Ye was held in Nuo's arms and hardly communicated with her.

Seeing that almost everyone in the hall was seated, Aisina raised her hand and threw a small, weak fire to Zhou Ye, and he immediately turned his head and looked at the window when he sensed this little bit of heat.

A pair of familiar shoes revealed under the curtains made Zhou Ye instantly realize that it was Aisina, and he controlled Nuo to hold him and sit in the wheelchair.

"Where are you going?" The woman holding the child looked at him, and she had no intention of giving up following him.

"Do I need to report everything I do to the assistant president?" The young man spoke in a gentle tone, but his content was not timid.

Hearing Zhou Ye's words, the woman frowned and reminded Zhou Ye in a gentle but threatening tone: "Then President, please come back soon. If you are not here, we will not be able to carry out the next activity."

"I won't make things difficult for the assistant president." He left with a smile, as if his toughness just now did not exist, but it made the woman feel like a lump in her throat for a moment.

Soon, Zhou Ye and Aisina met in the flowerbed next to the bathroom, and Nuo stood outside to block them.

"President, I'm glad to finally meet you." Aisina's tense mind suddenly relaxed. "Luisa is not in school. My ancestor taught me to ask Lord Siming for the compass and the candy I used as the lock. However, he was led all the way back to the association. I saw with my own eyes that the candy was handed over to Dimula."

"They must have some kind of plan against you and my ancestors. By the way, Siming has also been surrounded by monsters outside the city. The situation is critical. I..."

After describing the situation for a short while, tears unconsciously flowed from her usually tough eyes, "I don't know whether I should stay with you or continue to look for Louisa."

"How come everything changed today? By the way, there is one more item..."

Zhou also listened to Aisina patiently and quietly, and finally nodded and said in an affirmative tone, "You have done very well, Aisina, don't be sad."

"Now listen to me, the most important goal right now is to find Louisa and ensure her safety. Whether it is Siming, Cong Yue, or me, we are all adults and can protect our own safety. Louisa is different, she is still a child."

Zhou also reached into the pocket of the wheelchair and actually used the surprise value to pinch out a cupcake on the spot. This cake was Louisa's favorite besides him and Vest, and should be the most accurate lock.

"But, you." At this point, Aisina lowered her head in embarrassment and impatience, her eyes falling on Zhou Ye's legs that could not move for a second.

"So you are worried about this." Zhou Ye smiled softly as if he didn't mind. "Don't worry, I still have Nuo."

He took off the key that was originally on his chest and shook it in front of Aisina. At this time, Nuo, who should have lost control, stood up and approached the main body, like a loyal dog that was called.

For the first time, Aisina was no longer afraid of the out-of-control alchemy puppet. She looked at Nuo and nodded with a smile.

"The president's safety is in your hands. Please protect him."

"I will." The puppet's eyes no longer lit up with the light of being controlled. But it was still trusted.

Aixina ate the cupcake in Zhou Ye's hand, dripped blood into the compass again, and manipulated the remaining talent to follow the direction it pointed, turning into a flame and rushing out.

As soon as she got outside, Aixina was instantly shocked by the water level outside. In less than ten minutes, the water level that was originally above her waist had now risen to her chest. In

just the first second of contact, the large amount of water vapor in the air caused the flame she turned into to be compressed to the size of a thumb.

Walking through the lights was even more exhausting. After only two or three streets, the talent factor in her body was exhausted. She instantly retreated from the flame to the human form and squeezed the bulb. In the flickering fire, the compass she was holding tightly in her arms fell into the water with a thud.

The freezing cold, salty seawater rushed into her chest, making it almost impossible for Aixina to stand up from the water. She ignored the wounds on her body and suppressed the urge to close her eyes and frantically search for the compass underwater.

"At this level, I'm afraid we'll have to row a boat to get through." On the other side, looking at the water outside the association's door, the waiters looked embarrassed.

"That's not necessary." Dimula stood up for the first time. He only touched the water with his feet, and a surging red water surged up from the water, and a still wet dirt road emerged. "My talent is to control the earth."

He bowed like a gentleman, and received warm cheers and applause from the nobles around him. Then, under the eager eyes of everyone, he was the first to step on and walk over.

Opposite was the simple shed that had just been built, and in the center was the protective cover that had been initially built. The order of the people passing through was the president, the assistant president, and finally the nobles who participated in the banquet.

Zhou Ye was led by Dimula all the way to the center of the venue. At this moment, the place was filled with rich fragrance, as if to cover up the smell of something.

"We are still a little too rushed," Zhou Ye looked up and could see that the greenhouse had some cracks due to the erosion of the heavy rain, and some rain water seeped in. "Why don't we go back first and then..."

"How can we do that?" The woman was always good at pretending. The end of her soft and sweet voice became sharp and high. After she found that many nobles around her were looking at her with strange eyes, she immediately softened her tone. "What I mean is that since we are here, we should go through the entire process of the banquet. We can also hold the opening ceremony next time."

"Yeah, what the president said makes sense!"

"Who should I call? I'm just assisting the president." Hearing the words of the top voice in the crowd, the woman covered her mouth and laughed, as if she was really embarrassed, but her body movements clearly revealed her joy.

Dimula then added a few compliments, and everyone formed a perfect atmosphere, except Zhou Ye and Nuo who stood behind him, who seemed to be outsiders.

After chatting for a while, the woman holding the baby approached Zhou Ye and put her hand on his wheelchair frame: "President, let's go and take a look at the core area of ​​the shield."

"Okay, the sooner we finish, the sooner we can go back." Zhou Ye's expression had changed from gentle to helpless, as if he was just looking forward to it being over as soon as possible.

"Since our president has ordered, how dare I disobey." The woman pushed Zhou Ye and slowly entered the circular shield area.

At this moment, from a distance, this circular shield looks like a huge opened egg shell. Its surface is covered with complex and delicate patterns. The patterns interweave together to form a terrifying and dense feeling of insect eggs that makes people feel scalp numb.

These patterns seem to be composed of countless tiny holes. The holes in each position are like living things, opening and closing. As they approached the evil shield, the woman saw that Zhou Ye's expression finally revealed a trace of barely perceptible resistance.

"Why don't we let the Alchemy Puppet go in first?" The woman said as if she was considerate of Zhou Ye.

As she expected, before Zhou Ye responded, Nuo stepped forward first. Compared with letting the main body take the risk of entering the disgusting shield, he could at least protect himself.

Seeing Nuo walking towards the center of the magic circle step by step, the woman's originally tight mouth corners grinned to her cheeks.

After making sure that Nuo was completely inside the protective shield, the woman bent down and lowered her head at an abnormal angle. Zhou Ye could almost hear the crisp sound of her spine breaking, and then in his wide pupils, the woman's real grin was reflected.

She suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhou Ye's neck, and then grabbed the necklace hanging on his chest.

"You!"

Zhou Ye screamed in pain, but the woman was not moved at all. She only saw her holding the key high, and there was only a pinch mark on Zhou Ye's neck that was still red and congested.

"Let him go!" Nuo's alchemy circuits were instantly activated, and within a second, he completed the bright rush out of the protective net.

Ding——But it was Dimula who was standing not far away and pressed the switch of the protective shield. The nobles around him even applauded, as if they were amazed at the quick activation of the protective shield.

"Do you like it? I chose a way of death for you." The woman folded her body backwards and held the child high up, and the blue-purple child finally crawled out of the cradle. His body was getting closer and closer to that of a normal baby, but his skin was still a layer of light color.

"Zhou Ye, the good days are over." The bent woman had no perspective on Zhou Ye at all, and still easily grabbed Zhou Ye by the collar, dragged him from the wheelchair and threw him to the ground.

"Cough, cough." Zhou Ye fell to the ground fiercely, as if his blood was boiling, and his whole body was shaking with coughing. His eyes were red, and physiological tears seemed to be about to fall from his eye sockets. Seeing him like this, the baby jumped to the ground.

"Tell me, do you like the way I chose for you to die?"

"Say it?!"