Chapter 1866 The Destroyed Paradise (If It Doesn't Work, Start with Instant Noodles)

At the same time when the whole world was about to change, on board the Void Ray, Saten also seemed a little restless.

"That... Lei?"

"What's the matter? Sagittarius?"

Sitting on a chair, looking out of the window, Lei turned her head and looked at Saten.

"Can you tell me why you want to go to that...that..."

"Eddie Garden?"

"That's right, Eddie's Garden."

Saten sticks out her tongue, then looks at Rei.

"Think about it carefully, for so long, I have never asked why you went there."

"........."

Facing Satenko's question, Rei was silent for a moment, then began to speak in a low voice.

"Because someone is calling me."

"call?"

"That's right, her name is Xi Ya...she is my most important friend."

Looking out the window, Lei softly told Satenko about that period of history.

That part of the past.

The world at that time has become unstable, so human beings need power, and the holy war angels are regarded as their necessary power. People go around capturing jihad angels, enslaving them, and forcing them to fight with them. At that time, Lei also lived in such a village of jihad angels.

However, Lei's experience is different from that of ordinary jihad angels. She is a legendary existence of the Seven Brilliant Treasure Tree, and because of this, even in the jihad angel's village, Lei has always been excluded. At that time, Xi Ya gradually opened Lei's heart, allowing her to feel the joy of being alive again.

One day, Xi Ya took the children to the mountain, where they encountered a human hunting team who came to capture the jihad angel. Xi Ya, Lei and others were almost caught, but at this time, another group Humans suddenly appeared, killed those human hunters who tried to capture Xi Ya and others, and rescued them.

They were an embassy from the Garden of Eddie, led by a young man named Keith. They came here on behalf of Eddie's courtyard, hoping to build a bridge between humans and holy war angels here, change the status quo, and allow the two sides to live in harmony.

After that, the envoys stayed in the village. At the beginning, people kept a respectful distance from these humans, but gradually, the two sides gradually came into contact. Not only that, but the young man named Keith also fell in love with Xi Ya, became a pair of lovers, and finally got married.

After that, Xi Ya followed Keith to leave. Before leaving, Xi Ya made an appointment with Lei, and they would definitely meet again.

And when Lei was fifteen years old, she did receive an invitation letter from Eddie's courtyard, but...

"... At that time, I was attacked and sealed away. When I woke up again, I met you..."

"That's it..."

"Boom boom."

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Fang Zheng walked in.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your love affair, but Eddie's Garden seems to be coming soon."

"What, really?"

Hearing this, Renzi hurriedly stood up, and Lei also looked at Fangzheng in surprise.

"Just now Tinker Bell discovered something."

While talking, Fangzheng stretched out his hand, and soon, a holographic scene appeared in front of the girls. It was a group of floating islands floating in the sky. They looked like small islands covered with crystals, connected by chains. It's just that there is no light on those buildings at the moment, and they seem to have been abandoned from the outside.

"is it here?"

"I, I don't know, but... I can sense that Xi Ya's voice is nearby..."

"So, should we rest for one night and start tomorrow, or..."

"I can't wait anymore!"

"All right."

Hearing Lei's answer, Fangzheng shrugged.

"Then you guys get ready, I will also inform Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko."

Soon, the Void Glow Ship approached the floating island group under Fang Zheng's control, and then landed on the most central floating island, and then the brilliance flashed, and everyone appeared on the ground the next moment.

"Is this the Eddie Garden?"

Under the snow-white light, the girls looked around curiously. But as far as the eye can see, there are only ruins left, and from the outside, it doesn't look like a product of long-term natural weathering, but more like the ruins left after a great war.

But no matter what, this is far from the paradise-like place in Lei's mouth.

"That... Lei, this..."

Although she had a premonition, Saenko didn't know what to say after seeing this scene. Lei, on the other hand, stared blankly at the ruins in front of her, and then suddenly ran towards the inside.

"Wait a minute!"

Seeing Lei running towards the inside, the others hurriedly followed, but not long after Lei ran into the building in front of her, the people behind saw Lei suddenly shake and fell to the ground.

"Lee, are you alright?"

At this moment, Renzi also hurried over and helped Lei up, but Lei shook her head.

"It's okay, I just tripped."

Hearing Lei's answer, everyone lowered their heads and looked at Lei's feet, only to see that there was a rhizome after breaking through the ground. It's just that from its appearance, the rhizome has obviously lost water and withered. And everyone continued to move forward instinctively along the direction of the rhizome, and then...

"what is that!"

"Alas!"

Misaka Mikoto gasped when she saw the end of the rhizome, while Shirai Kuroko was also pale, and Saten held Lei's hand tightly, her face pale. Only Fangzheng stood behind the four of them and whistled.

Under the shining light, one can clearly see that at the end of the stem, a thing that looks like a person is being bound in it——no, strictly speaking, it is a person at all.

Fangzheng stepped forward and took a closer look.

"Hmm...it's mummification..."

While talking, Fangzheng stretched out his hand and fiddled with the corpse in front of him. That's right, the corpse in front of everyone was exactly a mummified corpse, with no flesh and blood, only skin and bones. Judging from the remaining long hair and pendant, the mummy should have been a woman during her lifetime.

"Been dead for about two hundred years."

Fangzheng took a personal terminal to scan it, and then gave a conclusion.

"In other words, was this place abandoned two hundred years ago?"

"Almost, all in all, just keep going and you'll know."

While talking, Fangzheng walked forward, and Lei hurriedly followed. Seeing this scene, Leizi and the three of them looked at each other, and finally bit the bullet and followed behind.

However, the deeper you go inside, the worse the situation becomes. The whole building looks like it was broken through by roots and vines of some kind of plant, and looking around, mummification can be seen everywhere under the radiance of magic. Just looking at the scene in front of him is enough to imagine how tragic the situation was.

"Why, why are there so many... so many mummies..."

At this moment, Misaka Mikoto was hiding behind Fangzheng, and she was almost like a cat with its hair blown up.

"Oh, because they're man-made."

"What do you mean man-made!?"

Misaka Mikoto felt her legs go limp.

"To put it simply, something sucked everything in their bodies except the skin and bones in an instant, just like dehydration preservation, so there are so many mummies left."

"Then, what could that be!?"

At this moment, Misaka Mikoto had already started to discharge electricity all over her body, and even Shirai Kuroko had to stay away.

"Then I don't know. According to the pissing nature of Hollywood movies, some secret experiment is usually screwed up, and then some monster comes out of the cage and wipes out the entire base?"

"Experiment? Monster?"

"Well... what do you think?"

Speaking of this, Fangzheng winked at Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko, and then curled his lips at Lei in front of him. The two were stunned for a moment, and then their expressions changed slightly.

Everyone here died in a cruel way, but Lei said that she heard the voice of the person she was looking for here. If the person is not a ghost or a ghost, then... there is only one possibility left up.

In this way, everyone walked through the broken passage and came to an indoor square, but at this moment, Lei suddenly stopped and looked at a statue not far in front of him.

"bud?"

Seeing Lei's eyes, Renzi raised her head hastily, and looked forward. There, there was a handsome statue of a man in white clothes holding a long sword. Under the statue, there was also a The name and date of the statue (2186-2401)

"Kees..."

"Huh? Is this the guy named Keith you mentioned?"

"Um."

Speaking of this, Lei was obviously a little sad. The lifespan of jihad angels is different from that of humans. She knew this before, but she didn't pay much attention to it. But now, seeing that the people she knew had already died, leaving only a statue... Rang Lei still didn't know what to say.

So, will Saten die too?

"really weird………"

At this moment, other people also came over, looking at the statue in front of them curiously, and then Shirai Heizi frowned.

"What's so strange?"

"That Mr. Keith...is he a human being? Can a human being live for two hundred years?"

"This... is indeed a bit weird."

Hearing Shirai Kuroko's question, Saten Saten was stunned for a moment, and then realized that something was wrong. According to the date on the monument, then the man named Keith lived at least 215 years, but... After all, this world is not my own world, and I don't know if the people here can really live for so long.

But Lei obviously didn't pay attention to the conversation of the crowd, she looked left and right, and soon, Lei found a few faint brilliance shining in the passage not far away, it was...

"Xue Jinghua! Xi Ya is here!"

Shouting, Lei quickly ran towards the direction of the radiance, and the others hurriedly followed behind her. Unlike the previous passage, the passage in front of her was blocked by those ubiquitous vines and roots. It is solid, and more importantly, on these rhizomes, you can see lily-like flowers exuding faint white light. Its crystal clear appearance looks like it is made of ice and snow.

Finally, in the passageway, everyone saw a figure imprisoned in an iron cage.

It was a woman with long silver-white hair and wearing a shabby robe, and snowflakes shone everywhere around her. At this moment, the woman closed her eyes like this, leaning against the wall, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.

This scene was so weird that even Renzi stopped involuntarily, but Lei threw herself on the fence, stared at the woman in front of her and shouted.

"Xia, it's me. I came to Eddie's Garden, because I made an appointment with you, and I will definitely come! Although I arrived so late and made you wait for so long, I..."

And at this moment, following Lei's words, the woman slowly opened her eyes, looked at Lei in front of her, and smiled, then she opened her mouth and softly called the girl's name.

"bud."

"Sia!"

Hearing the woman's voice, Lei reached out and held her hand tightly.

"Wait, I'll let you out first... What's going on with these vines? Xi Ya, what happened in Eddie's courtyard? Why are you locked up here alone?"

After the joy of reuniting after a long absence, Lei finally noticed the current problem.

However………

"Where's Keith?"

Following this question, Lei's movements suddenly froze. However, in front of her, Xi Ya still looked at her with a smile.

"Ray, do you know where Keith is now?"

"...?"

Facing Xi Ya's answer, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Judging from the statue outside, the person named Keith had been dead for almost two hundred years, but why...she seemed to be ignorant?

"You, what are you talking about..."

"I hate it, Lei won't forget him."

Facing the ashen-faced Lei, Xi Ya showed a gentle smile again.

"It's the captain of the Goodwill Mission, the hero of Orcanad, Keith Felugo of the Gem Hunter."

"Gem... Hunter?"

Hearing this name, Lei started to tremble for some reason, while Xi Ya lowered her head.

"I really miss Keith, I should be able to help her more... You see..."

While speaking, Xi Ya raised her hands and showed her body to everyone. Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng frowned, and the girls were even more shocked and speechless.

I saw that the surface of the fair skin was full of traces that seemed to be eroded by plants, and even little by little, horrible scars like blood stains emerged in it.

"Not only can I make the flowers bloom more, but also become stronger than before?"

"Xi...Xiya?"

Lei staggered back and stared at Xi Ya's body in a daze. It was no longer like a human body, but more like a hybrid of machinery and plants cruelly inserted into the human body. Nauseous form. But Xi Ya herself did not show any painful expression at all, and still had an innocent and pure smile.

"Look, Lei, I'm very strong, because I work hard?"

"Xi...Ya..."

"What's the matter with you? You look like you saw a monster."

Xi Ya chuckled and waved her hands.

"Damn it, it's just my hair is longer, wait a minute, I'm leaving here now."

Following Xi Ya's words, the roots that looked like they had already withered began to sway, and then the original cage was torn apart. Then, the girl slowly walked out of it, and then she raised her head and looked at the person behind Lei. everyone.

"I didn't expect, Lei, you actually brought me food. It's so kind...Thank you, I haven't eaten for two hundred years, and I'm troubled by it."

"Hey?"

"brush---!"

Before Lei could react, she saw those vines suddenly moving towards Fangzheng, and Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko shot towards Fangzheng. Faced with the sudden attack, Fangzheng just snorted softly and snapped his fingers. The next moment, the flames burst out, directly burning the surrounding vines.

Seeing this scene, instead of fear, Xi Ya became more and more excited.

"It's amazing! This power is stronger than the ones I ate before. As long as I can get these powers, then, then I will definitely become more beautiful, and Keith will definitely love me more!"

Following Xi Ya's words, more vines emerged from around the passage, rushing towards everyone. But before the vines caught the prey, Xi Ya saw a figure flash in front of her, and completely lost her target the next moment.

When everyone came back to their senses again, they had already returned to the square outside the building.

"Xi... Xi Ya..."

Lei sat down on the ground with a "bang", trembling, and didn't know what to say. The joy of seeing the closest person just now has been completely replaced by unspeakable complex emotions.

"boom!!"

The earth roared, and the shattered ruins completely collapsed. Then, Xi Ya, who had completely changed, walked out of it.

"Hurry up, give it to me quickly, I want to absorb their life, their strength!"

"stop it now!"

Looking at the monster that had almost become inhuman, Lei couldn't help but let out a wail.

However………

"Who are you?"

"………Hey?"

At this moment, Xi Ya, who was looking at Lei again, completely lost the intimacy she had before. She stared at Lei coldly, as if she was looking at an enemy.

"You want me to stop? You want to order me? Who are you? What ability do you have to order me?!"

"boom---!!"

Accompanied by Xi Ya's roar, hundreds of rhizomes drilled out of the ground and pierced towards Lei, but at this moment, tears suddenly appeared.

"Face the blast!"

The roaring wind wall immediately rose to the ground, blocking the rushing rhizomes.

"Lei, come on, we have a contract!"

"..."

Hearing Satenko's words, Rei raised her head, was silent for a moment, then nodded as if making up her mind, and grabbed Satenko's outstretched hand.

The next moment, the wind roared.

"Let's go."

Seeing the furious wind in front of him, Fangzheng turned around and walked towards the other side of the ruins. Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko were taken aback when they saw him turn and leave.

"Wait, Mr. Fangzheng, don't you intend to help?"

"It's a battle between them, we'd better not get involved, and I have things to do."

"...Is there something wrong?"

"That's right."

Fangzheng said this and snorted coldly.

"This poor lady is just a victim. If we want to hate, we have to hate the mastermind behind the scenes, aren't we?"

While talking, Fangzheng raised his head and looked coldly at the tower on the other side.