Chapter 268 Fusion, the new form of the Queen's stone statue (asking for monthly tickets)
Xia Pingzhou opened his eyes and still saw the floor of the express train carriage, but it was not shaking like before.
The train stopped. The sound of the train whistle also disappeared, and instead, there was a broadcast reminding passengers to take their belongings with them.
He turned his head and saw the kimono girl next to him staring at him motionlessly.
When I turned around, I saw that all the passengers on the express train had already got off.
The train was empty, with only him still sleeping on the train, and he was the type that couldn't be woken up no matter what - he was concentrating on trading with the leader from the perspective of Unit 03.
"Kitty, what's wrong?" Ayase Origami asked.
"It's okay... I'm just a little sleepy." Xia Pingzhou said as he stood up, yawned lightly, and took out the suitcase from the locker above the seat.
He carried his suitcase and got off the train with Ayase Origami, and walked into the night city of Hokkaido. The light of the Sapporo Radio Tower shone down and covered their heads.
After a while, the two stayed in a high-end five-star hotel near Odori Park as arranged by the hacker.
It was already late at night, close to midnight. The two of them did not go out, but went to bed early in the room.
Ayase Origami went to take a shower, while Xia Pingzhu sat on the windowsill, turning his head and staring at the scenery of Sapporo in a daze.
Suddenly, he remembered something, so he called up the skill tree panel and took a look.
[Bridge of Man and Demon: Briefly fuse one of your chess pieces with the demon piece (the duration of the fusion depends on your "spiritual attribute") (Contracted demons do not belong to chess pieces, so they cannot be fused). ]
"By the way, I haven't tried the effect of this skill yet." Only then did he realize that several days had passed since he learned this skill in Bergen that day, but he had always forgotten about it.
But this is also due to the fact that Unit 1 is too busy, with big things happening one after another and they simply can't stop. Now that my brother has joined Rainbow Wing, they can finally take a break.
"Will my brother be taken away by the spies of the Salvation Society in Hongyi to be brainwashed by the instructor? If so, it will be troublesome... Black Pupa's whereabouts will be exposed in an instant." Xia Pingzhou thought, "But my brother ran so fast, even if he can't beat the spies of the Salvation Society, at least he can definitely escape, so there is no need to worry."
Not long after, Ayase Origami changed into a new kimono and walked out of the bathroom.
Her hair was wet and hung down on her white skin, smelling of citrus shampoo. In the past, she would manipulate the paper to stick to her hair, absorb the water, and dry her hair in an instant without worrying about affecting the hair quality.
But today she didn't do that. She just sat on the bed, looked down at the hair dryer at the corner of the bed, and took it with a piece of paper. Then she raised her head, her dark eyes staring at Xia Pingzhou sitting on the windowsill.
Xia Pingzhou raised his eyes from "The Dancing Girl of Izu" in his hand and met her gaze.
He seemed to understand what she meant in an instant. The long time they spent together made him understand the mind of this strange doll girl more and more. So he walked over, sat down, picked up the hair dryer, plugged it in, turned it on, and started to blow her hair.
He lowered his eyes and touched her hair, which was as soft as snow. Ji Minghuan suddenly recalled the scene of his parents blowing his hair when he was a child. However, those memories were very old, like yellowed photos.
"alright."
After a while, Xia Pingzhou turned off the hair dryer and placed it on the bed.
"You're a good cat because you help your master blow dry his hair." The girl in kimono opened her eyes, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and raised her hand to touch his hair.
"Then can you do me a favor too?"
"What?"
Xia Pingzhou disagreed and released Tianqu, selecting the "Queen's Stone Statue" and the disposable demon chess type "Flame Demon" from the chess shadows flowing in black and white.
He summoned the stone statue of the queen in advance, but held the shadow of the "Fire Demon" chess piece between his fingers and was slow to summon it.
The silver-white graceful giant was half-kneeling on the floor of the room, nodding its head, waiting for orders.
"Can you prevent the room from catching fire or being destroyed?" Xia Ping Zhou looked at Ayase Origami, "I want to try a new ability, but I'm too lazy to go out. I'm a little tired after traveling all day."
The girl in kimono nodded. The pale paper pages flew up like a heavy snowfall, covering the window tightly, leaving no holes untouched, and providing excellent soundproofing.
With a "click", Xia Pingzhou crushed the chess shadow of the fire demon, and then a ball of flame with bared fangs and claws quickly appeared in the air. The temperature in the room suddenly rose a lot, as if the air conditioner was turned on the wrong mode.
Its flame is divided into two parts, light and dark. The light flame constitutes its body, and two small dark flames are embedded deep inside, which are its eyes.
The fire demon exhaled, and like a circus performer, it sprayed out tiny flames, illuminating the faces of Xia Ping Zhu and Ayase Origami.
Ayase Origami used paper sheets to catch the scattered flames that fell from the fire demon to prevent the floor of the hotel room from suddenly catching fire.
"The Bridge between Humans and Demons." Xia Pingzhou said softly.
[Hint: Please select the object to release the "Human-Devil Bridge" (the condition must be one "International Chess Piece" and one "Disposable Demon Chess Piece".]
"The Queen's Stone Statue and the Flame Demon."
As soon as the words fell, an invisible bridge seemed to extend across the room, with the head and tail of the bridge connecting the Queen's stone statue and the body of the fire demon respectively.
The next moment, their bodies were suddenly sucked onto the bridge, twisting and merging, and finally a dazzling fiery red light spread outward.
After the light faded, a new figure appeared in the room.
Judging from the general outline, it is still the human body structure of the stone statue of the queen, but her double daggers have disappeared. Instead, she has been replaced by a long sword forged by fire. The sword body is rippling with flickering flames, like the ebb and flow of the tide.
At the same time, a pair of giant wings made of raging fire slowly spread out from behind the queen's stone statue. Every time they vibrated, a rain of extremely hot fire would fall out, enough to leave a trail of pits and holes on the floor.
The firelight outlined her heroic and noble expression, her swan-like slender neck stood tall, and her breastplate was covered with a cloud pattern formed by the burning of flames.
[Hint: After the fusion of the "Queen Stone Statue" and the "Flame Demon" through the Human-Devil Bridge, they have become a brand new chess piece, the "Flame Queen". ]
[The powers of the "Flame Queen" are: "Flame Transformation" (transform the body into a flame for a short period of time), "Pillar of Flame" (raise the long sword, extend the sword body made of flames along the direction of the sword tip, and transform it into a pillar of flame)]
"'Flame' can only work on the queen herself, unlike the original 'Nullification' which can work on others?" Xia Pingzhou thought, "It seems that the fusion of chess styles has both advantages and disadvantages. At least it seems that the combat capability has definitely become stronger."
He scratched his forehead and began to wonder about more possible combinations. For example, what would happen if the Knight Stone Statue and the Fire Demon were fused together? Would the Knight Stone Statue's power then change into something like "Flame Charge"?
As he was thinking, another panel popped up in front of him, interrupting his thoughts.
[Currently, depending on the strength of your "Spirit" attribute, the fusion time will last about 5 minutes. During this period, you can split the Queen Stone Statue and the Flame Demon at any time. ]
The queen was majestic, flapping her giant flaming wings and hovering in the air.
However, the kimono girl remained calm. She clapped her hands softly and, like a shit shoveler, silently used a piece of paper to catch the flames that fell from the Flame Queen's body to prevent the hotel room from suddenly blazing.
"Are you okay?" she turned around and asked.
"Okay, there's no need to try other abilities." Xia Pingzhou nodded. From the first moment he saw the introduction of power, he knew how to properly use these moves in battle.
Therefore, the short-term goal is to hunt more demons, complete the training progress tasks, collect more disposable demon chess species, try more "Bridge between Man and Demon", and then apply these skills smoothly in battle.
In this way, the combat effectiveness of Unit 2 can be greatly improved.
"Thanks a lot."
As Xia Pingzhou spoke, he recovered the Flame Queen. The Flame Demon was a disposable chess piece, so its figure disappeared from the chessboard, but the stone statue of the Queen was still there.
The good news is that Xia Pingzhou still has two "Fire Demons" left in his chess library. The other disposable demon chess pieces were used up when he fought against the red traffic lights. But because the Fire Demons were too useless, he never used them.
Then he retracted the Möbius strip-like chessboard into his body, and the black and white light disappeared.
Xia Pingzhou thought, I should be able to fight against the mid-to-high-end quasi-disaster-level now. Of course, I am still far from the threshold of the disaster-level.
After all, unlike Unit 03 "Agubaru", the three branches of Unit 02 have not yet reached the end of the branch. This machine is seriously lacking in skill points, but at the same time this also means that the machine's potential is higher and more sufficient, and there is a lot of room for improvement.
"Do you want me to take you to fight the devil?" As if she had noticed his thoughts, Ayase Origami suddenly asked.
Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment and said, "Actually, it's no problem for me to fight demons by myself now, unless demons of Bai Tanlang's level are a little tricky, but... it's easy to get involved in trouble during a fight, such as one or two people from the Exorcist Association suddenly showing up, so it's better to have you with me."
"You're leaving?"
"Go to bed early and we'll talk tomorrow." Xia Ping Zhou looked at Ayase Origami's drooping eyelids and said, "It seems that you are too sleepy to be human."
The girl in kimono nodded, raised her hand to cover her mouth, lowered her eyes to look at the floor and yawned.
"Goodnight, Kitty."
"Good night, Cesar."
She was slightly stunned, then slowly turned her head and stared at Xia Pingzhou motionlessly.
"...Cesare?" she asked softly.
Xia Pingzhou was also slightly stunned.
When he usually controls Unit 3, he always says goodnight to the childish boy Cecil, which makes him accidentally get confused. Fortunately, his and the eldest lady's mobile phones are stored in the shoe cabinet at the entrance of the room. This is a consensus reached by the two to prevent being harassed by hackers.
"Xizel is... the name of the stone statue of the queen." He said intermittently, "She is conscious and often greets me."
The kimono girl put her hand on her chin and looked at him silently. After a long while, her slightly frowned brows suddenly relaxed. She was too sleepy and simply stopped thinking about some problems. She lay down on the soft big bed and closed her eyes.
Xia Pingzhou breathed a sigh of relief and silently covered her with a blanket. Not long after, he also lay down on the other bed. He placed his hands on his chest and closed his eyes.
A night in silence.
The next morning, when he woke up from his bed, the sky was just getting light. The Sapporo Radio Tower was emitting a warm glow in the dim blue, and the sun was rising slowly, burning away the white mist above the distant mountains.
He took out his phone from his shoe cabinet and found that he had received a message from a hacker.
[Hacker: The leader has arrived in Hokkaido. You will meet up with them today and discuss the prison break.]
【Xia Pingzhou: Got it.】
(End of this chapter)
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