Chapter 426 Penetration
The rain was continuous and seemed to be a little more gloomy than usual. The disorderly wind blew through the buildings, and the rolled up rain lines were mixed up in the wind. The neon lights in the distance turned into large areas of blurred colors in the hazy water vapor, with a phantom light that was difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion.
The black-sailed boats and mechanical flower boats floating between the pavilions and towers received the navigation warning issued by the Control Bureau, and they all docked next to the nearest buildings to avoid the weather that was about to deteriorate further - there was an alarm that a mass of cold air was moving southward from the wilderness, and would transform into a cyclone when it approached the refining tower, bringing a storm to the entire city.
Through the large windows, Xuan Che could feel the restlessness brewing in the air outside.
Something sensed it... sensed the discordant "gaze" in the city.
Xuan Che collected his thoughts, his expression calm as he looked at the city lord Mo Ran who was sitting opposite him.
Mo Ran, with a smile on his face, was reporting to him about Mo Cheng's renovation and reuse projects of the surrounding refining towers in recent years. He turned his head from time to time and talked to the invisible "Zhenxing Elder Dao Heng" in the air.
Ten minutes ago, a waiter entered the room and greeted "Elder Daoheng".
Xuan Che did not show the slightest sign of abnormality.
His spiritual sense once again swept across the room and the entire city lord's residence.
Mo Ran had no hostility. No one here had any hostility. They were not the group of "black monks" - even if Mo Ran had evil intentions, she would not use an "invisible star guardian" to perform such a ridiculous show.
Obviously, there is something wrong with the cognition of everyone here.
Xuan Che continued to perfunctorily deal with the other party for a while, and then found a reason and left calmly.
Mo Ran and "Elder Dao Heng" accompanied him to the gate of the mansion.
"There will be a big storm in the city soon," Mo Ran looked at the street where there were few pedestrians, turned around and bowed slightly to Xuan Che, "If the Immortal Envoy is not in a hurry, I can arrange a fairy boat."
"No need, a little wind and rain is a different experience," Xuan Che bowed, "Taixu Lingshu doesn't often see this kind of weather, I'd like to take a walk around the city - thank you for your hospitality today, Lord Mo, please stay."
The two sides said goodbye, and Xuan Che stepped out of the protective formation of the City Lord's Mansion. The wind and rain outside rushed towards him like a group of beasts that had smelled their prey, but were quickly blocked by the protective spiritual energy around him, swirling around and dissipating, leaving only a trace of cold air that seeped in, which actually made one's mind clearer.
He walked towards the depths of the rain, his steps seemed slow but were actually fast, and in a moment he was several blocks away.
Several passers-by wearing straw raincoats and bamboo hats were walking hurriedly across the street. One of them was muttering as he ran that the sudden change in the weather was a bit abnormal, but the person next to him comforted him by saying that the weather in Mo City has always been like this, and heavy rains every few days in this month are the most common.
A drunk stumbled out of a nearby tavern. The cold wind and rain on the street made the drunk stumble as soon as he stepped out of the door. Then he looked up at the sky outside and began to walk forward cursing. The protective spiritual energy on his body was swaying in the wind and rain. When Xuan Che got closer, he heard the drunk muttering: "... But it's time to drink... When will it rain? Bad luck... I don't know how many people will be absent from work at the mine tomorrow..."
Xuan Che calmly avoided the drunk. From the corner of his eye, he saw a black-sailed boat decorated with lanterns and colorful floating around it passing low between two nearby buildings. Singing could be heard faintly from the boat, and a young woman in a gauze skirt was standing on the bow. The woman seemed to be completely unaware of the growing wind and rain, and had no intention of letting the boat find a nearby building to dock.
Xuan Che narrowed his eyes slightly.
It seemed as if the rain never fell on the woman in the gauze dress, nor on the black-sailed boat.
He reached into his arms and took out the Lingxi mirror.
Lingxi Mirror received a message from Garrison-3. In the message, Mr. Yu mentioned the strange crystalline jungle, Yun Qingzi's fall thousands of years ago, and the truth buried deep underground.
The unknown dark angel has the characteristics of parasitic planets. Garrison-3 is the first victim, Shuji is the second, and "His" next target is most likely Taixu Lingshu.
It is very likely that the Dark Angel is still hiding somewhere in Shuji - at the same time, there should be a "copy of Yun Qingzi" under his control hidden on this planet. Those black-robed monks under the instructions of "Yun Qingzi" have probably been transformed into "followers" of the Dark Angel in essence.
As for those hermits hiding deeper inside... they may not have any plans for the Grand Void Spiritual Axis, but they will definitely take action when the Dark Angel becomes active again...
Xuan Che quickly scanned the messages, then calmly probed into the Lingxi Mirror with his spiritual sense, and reported back to his master what he had just discovered and his guesses. He also sent it to his uncle master who stayed in "Huixianzhou" and Mr. Yu who had not yet returned from Weisu-3.
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"It is very likely that Shuji's 'Star Guardian' has met with an accident, and may have even disappeared decades ago... From the records retrieved from the City Lord's Mansion, Elder Daoheng only had relatively close exchanges and normal private contacts with the various major cities of Shuji when he first took office, and then soon became a recluse...
"According to the records, the Star Guardian performed his duties very regularly, even a little too regularly. Aside from the activities necessary as a Star Guardian Elder, the records in Mo City barely mention anything else about Elder Daoheng.
"Mo Ran herself is conscious and can talk freely, the problem lies in her cognition.
"Everyone's perception is not right. Everyone."
Master Yuan Hao frowned, looking at the message he had just received from Xuan Che on the Lingxi Mirror, and fell into deep thought for a moment.
After a moment, he came to the window and pushed it open.
The wind and rain outside came together, but were instantly blocked outside the hotel building's own protective barrier, leaving only a trace of cold and damp air blowing into the room.
On this colony planet developed from a wild land, most buildings have this kind of built-in environmental protection design, which can be regarded as a "characteristic tradition" of many developed planets - although in most cases their strength can only withstand wind, rain, cold and heat.
Zhenren Yuanhao looked at the rain for a while, then took out two jade-white bricks from his arms and threw them out of the window.
Zheng Zhi, who was watching short videos on his phone nearby, looked up and saw this scene. He was shocked on the spot and almost thought that this handsome guy like a god was throwing objects from a high altitude to hit people with glass - but the next second he saw the two square objects flying up again in the rainy night, with a hazy glow on the surface, and disappeared in the distance in the blink of an eye.
Zhenren Yuanhao looked at the two flying "bricks" and his expression became more and more solemn.
"Friend Zheng Daoyou," the old general suddenly turned around and looked at Zheng Zhi who was sitting up from the sofa, "Come and take a look at the direction of the refining tower in the distance... Is there anything unusual? I always feel something is wrong, but I can't figure out what's going on over there."
Zheng Zhi stood up, not knowing what was going on, and walked to the window, staring out with wide eyes.
His gaze penetrated the misty rain and he stared intently for a long time.
Then his eyes suddenly widened.
A strange gray-black crystalline substance mixed with the paleness rose from the end of the city like an indescribably huge "branch", and was now entwined around the refining tower - and the refining tower itself had turned into a dark shadow at some point, as if... a crack that penetrated the sky and the earth, splitting vertically at the end of the city.
They didn't just appear.
It seems like they have always been there.
Zheng Zhi was startled and subconsciously took two steps back. But just when he was about to tell Master Yuan Hao what he had seen, the horrible scene at the end of the rain curtain disappeared again.
But his abnormal behavior had already been noticed by Master Yuan Hao.
"Friend Zheng, what did you see?"
"A huge structure like a branch, wrapped around the refining tower - it looks like some kind of crystal..."
Zheng Zhi licked his lips and said with some shock, but the moment he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a chill.
It was as if an invisible pair of eyes that were originally just blindly patrolling around suddenly became aware of his existence and cast a terrifying glance in his direction.
“It” saw itself.
The next second, something strange happened!
The storm that had been warned of earlier arrived, and the rain outside the window turned into a violent storm in the blink of an eye. Amid the howling cold wind, the heavy rain was like a knife, easily tearing open the thin protective barrier outside the Huixianzhou Building.
The wind and rain suddenly poured into the living room, and everything near the window was instantly soaked. The rain seemed to carry some strange devouring and corrosive power. Everything that was stained by the rain seemed to be cut and gouged by an invisible blade, and began to disappear rapidly into the air - but then they recovered as if nothing had happened, and the wind and rain that poured into the room also rolled back out of the window.
The streets outside the window disappeared and reappeared, the towering buildings were wiped out in the middle, and then restored to their original state in the blink of an eye. A mechanical flower boat came flying crookedly from the rain, with warning lights flashing on both sides of the hull. The huge hull slammed into the roof of a nearby restaurant, splashing amazing waves like a stone falling into the water - flowers bloomed in the waves, and the flower boat flew back backwards, intact.
Elegant music came from the flower boat, and a graceful dancer was dancing in front of the window. A girl with a terrified look on her face appeared on the side of the boat, and she seemed to want to jump away from the crashed ship. But just as Master Yuan Hao was about to make a move, the entire ship disappeared in the wind and rain.
The whole city began to emit a low roar, as if a giant beast was about to wake up.
"Knowledge and perception obstacles?" Yuan Hao Zhenren's face was as gloomy as water, and then he suddenly turned to look at Zheng Zhi, "Fellow Daoist Zheng..."
There was no one around him, and Zheng Zhi's figure had long disappeared in the room.
(End of this chapter)
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