Chapter 269 Chapter 269

While most of China has already reached the warm season with temperatures over 20 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature in this place is still struggling around zero degrees.

This is Kutsk, Russia. You can't see the high-rise buildings in the bustling cities here, only the traditional Russian architectural culture. There is a wide river in this city, the water is so clear that you can see the bottom, and it looks like a blue ribbon from a distance.

On the open space by the river, there is a small wooden playground with bright colors. A woman wearing a dark blue woolen hat is playing with three children, and laughter can be heard from time to time.

At the entrance of the amusement park, a young boy with a high ponytail looked at them quietly.

A slightly taller child next to him was holding a straw doll in his hands and looking at the children quietly.

The woman's cell phone rang. She quickly glanced at her three children and saw that they were having fun. Then she turned slightly to a quiet place and started making a phone call. Her tone was a little hurried and it was obvious that she was not having a pleasant conversation with the person on the other end of the phone.

The three children playing were two boys and one girl. The girl, who had just come down from the slide, turned around and saw Mang Tao and Qin Xiaocao. She walked to the door and spoke in a childish voice in the language of Russia: "Want to play together?"

Qin Xiaocao looked at her without saying anything.

"What's in your pocket?" Mang Tao asked.

The girl looked down at her pocket and pulled out an old key.

She found this in an old box in the attic of her house. She wanted to try out the lock at home with it, but she couldn't find the right keyhole, so she kept it in her pocket and carried it with her.

Mang Tao stretched out her hand.

The girl looked at Mangosteen, then at the old key in her hand. She had a good impression of the boy in front of her, but she also liked this key very much, so she was a little hesitant for a moment.

"Mila, it's your turn." The girl's two brothers called their sister but didn't come over. When they saw Mang Tao and Qin Xiaocao, they came over.

"Hey, are you kids from the neighborhood? I haven't seen you before." The taller boy looked at Mang Tao and Qin Xiaocao and stretched out his hand cheerfully, "Want to play together?"

Qin Xiaocao glanced at him coldly.

Mangtao still looked at Mira steadily.

Seeing that the two children didn't respond to him, the boy felt a little embarrassed. He took back his hand and muttered something, then saw what his sister was holding. He looked at Mango Tao again and immediately took it and put it in Mango Tao's palm: "You want it? Here you go."

Mira, whose key was stolen without even being asked a question by her brother:

Another boy was looking at her eagerly. He also wanted to get to Mangtao, but he couldn't squeeze past his brother, nor could he push his sister away. So he just stayed behind and stretched his neck to look.

The ponytailed boy in front of her was very handsome, and the child felt like she was in love at first sight.

"Hey." Qin Xiaocao stretched out two fingers and waved them in front of the boy's eyes. "If you keep looking, I'll poke you blind."

The shy boy immediately lowered his head.

Far away, the mother of three was still arguing with the man on the other end of the phone: "There was such long hair in the bathroom. I cleaned it up and made a big mess. Who else could it be except you who brought a woman back? I have short hair. Could it be the hair of one of your good friends? I am very angry. Don't call me again today."

After saying that, he hung up the phone, then turned around and saw that there was no one on the slide.

She was frightened and turned around to see three children surrounding two boys at the door. She breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward.

Mang Tao lowered his head and looked at the old key in his hand, and exerted slight force with his fingers.

"Hello, kids." The woman walked forward with a smile, "We moved to a nearby..."

The key let out a shrill scream, and the girl was so scared that she also screamed and hid behind her two brothers. The two boys were also frightened by this sudden scene and their faces turned pale.

The woman saw black mist coming out of the key, transforming into the phantom of a long-haired mummy wearing a gray dress, and then it disappeared into mist again.

The key in Mang Tao's hand broke into several pieces: "Do you still want it?"

The girl shook her head quickly. She didn't want to touch this thing at all.

Mang Tao raised his head and looked at the woman, then handed the key fragment in his hand to her.

The woman finally saw Mang Tao's face clearly, as well as Qin Xiaocao's appearance beside her. She gasped, "The light..."

"I'm asking you a question." Qin Xiaocao said coldly.

The woman shook her head hurriedly: "No, no." Then she realized: "Is this something Mira took out? Wait, this key... I remember it."

She remembered that this was one of the relics left by her grandfather. The key handle had a very delicate and intricate pattern and was estimated to be a hundred years old. Because it was very beautiful and a small antique, she put it away and then forgot about it.

After all, no matter how good-looking this thing is, its value is not high. Who would think about a worthless little thing every day?

"...monster?" the woman said in disbelief.

After the Red Sun, people often said on the Internet that they should check the antiques in their homes and deal with them properly if they were dangerous or strange objects. At that time, the woman completely forgot that the key existed at home, and even joked with her husband that there were no valuable old items at home and there was no need to worry.

In fact, these days are indeed stable.

"Many things don't show their danger at the beginning." Mang Tao said, "This key is fine now. You can keep it after repairing it. Do you really not want it?"

“No.” The woman shook her head desperately. “It was left by my grandfather. I don’t even know which lock this key belongs to.”

"It belonged to your great-grandfather. It was something worth remembering for him." Mang Tao raised the corner of her mouth. "After all, it was a lover's favorite."

The story is very simple. It is about a man who, after getting married, suddenly met his true love. However, his true love was also married, so they secretly exchanged letters. The small gifts and letters sent by the woman's great-grandfather were carefully hidden in a box by the lover. Then one day, the lover's husband found them and killed them, and her things were also thrown away.

The woman's great grandfather later secretly searched for the box and key that the woman treasured. Then the box and the things inside were discovered by the great grandmother and thrown away. In the end, only the key remained. When the woman's grandfather found it, he just kept it as his father's relic, and knew nothing about its story. Later, the woman took it away as his relic.

After hearing the story, the woman didn't want to keep the key even more.

The story behind an antique belongs only to the person involved. To its heirs, it is just an old item.

"Little leader, are you here because there is a strange place here?" the woman asked fearfully. She cared more about this than the key.

"Well...it's almost there." Mang Tao looked up at the sky.

This time, the mysterious domain unexpectedly appeared in the air.

It is about several hundred meters above the ground, which will not affect aircraft, and there are no tall buildings in this city.

The only problem is how to enter the strange area when it appears.

Although it will not affect humans in the short term, if left alone, the evil domain will expand.

Then, just as Mang Tao was thinking, in a small roadside playground, he sensed a budding quasi-C-level weirdness in the girl's clothes pocket.

I happened to see it and destroyed it.

"It's time to come." Qin Xiaocao looked up.

Hearing his words, Mang Tao and the woman raised their heads, as did the three children beside her.

A tiny black ball appeared floating in the clear blue sky above. It gradually expanded until it covered half of the sky.

The sudden cloudy sky made everyone look up at the sky, and then they were startled by the huge sphere that suddenly appeared above their heads.

"What is that?"

"Meteorite?"

"Oh my god, is this the end of the world?"

"It's the strange domain. This black one is the strange domain?"

"Why isn't the strange realm on the ground? Is it in the air?"

"You should be glad that you are not on the ground! Otherwise, if you enter the strange area..."

People walked out of their rooms and looked up at the sky, discussing the matter in a buzzing voice. Some took photos and posted them online, while others called the Russian authorities for help.

"Mom, look!" The girl Mira pointed to the sky.

The woman looked over and saw two little children suddenly appear in the sky. They flashed by and entered the strange area.

Those are Mangtao and Qin Xiaocao.

"Mom, that black ball is dangerous, right? You said the strange realm is scary." Mira grabbed her mother's wrist, "Will anything happen to them?"

“They won’t,” the woman urged. “Let’s go home.”

She thought of the long, dry and frizzy hair of the women she always found at home, and the strange image that appeared in the key. Maybe her husband was really innocent.

The most important thing now is to go home first.

Mang Tao and Qin Xiaocao used the system to teleport to mid-air. After entering the strange domain, they arrived at a magical space.

I had thought it would be foggy and I couldn't see anything in this strange realm, but it was unexpectedly as bright as day. The space inside was not big, with a horizontal width of about the size of a school, but there were several small pieces of land floating above, below, left and right, all of which were suspended islands.

Mang Tao and Qin Xiaocao happened to land on a small suspended island at the top. The island was about the size of a playground, with gray land, broken dead trees, and spherical stone houses under the trees entangled by black vines.

The rounded stone blocks are orange-red with silver glints. There are no windows on the sides, but on the roof is a large dome-shaped piece of transparent glass.

This world does not have an architectural style, which is indeed a mysterious place from the outside world.

Walking into the stone house, I saw a table and chairs made of unknown materials. On the table was a diamond-shaped stone surrounded by a metal ring, which was floating and rotating two or three centimeters above the table.

And sitting on the chair next to the table was a skeleton.

The skeleton was wearing a shirt and trousers with intricate patterns, and had two silver rings on his wrists. One hand bone was hanging down, and the other hand was placed on the table, pointing at the diamond-shaped stone on the table.

“Hmm.”

Before Mang Tao could go forward to check, the salvation system cried out first.

Mang Tao paused and asked, "You know him?"

Qin Xiaocao originally wanted to check the corner of the stone house, but when she heard this, she turned around and looked at him.

Savior System: "Yes, host, do you still remember the 24th host mentioned by this system?"

"Remember, genius boy, the code he wrote chose me." Mang Tao looked at the skeleton beside the table. The skeleton didn't look like a child's.

"This is his brother." The Savior System whispered, "He also knows the existence of this system."

The genius boy is arrogant because of his talent. He thinks there is nothing he can't handle, and he doesn't think there is any secret he needs to hide from his family. His family is very kind and will not harm him.

Indeed, when the boy said that the world was about to end, his parents and brother believed him and chose to help him.

But in the end it did not change the fate of their world's destruction. When the first city was destroyed, the boy's brother was left there forever in order to leave the family, and his body could not be brought out.