Chapter 1472 Messenger
Dodge the messenger.
The scratches on the lamppost had a strange pale color, which was so eye-catching on the black iron lamppost that it was almost dazzling. The surrounding chaotic mist was slowly flowing and surging. This silent dead city in the fog made Jane The simple line of letters suddenly seemed so weird that both Sparrow Bee and Night Owl felt cold at the same time.
But they did not stop because of this, but continued to walk quickly towards the southeast urban area. The dim streetlights outlined a continuous path of low light in the thick fog, and the buildings on both sides of the road were also sprinkled. With the faint lights, these rays of light faintly illuminate the dark road, and this road... seems to be so far away that it has no end.
Sparrowbee asked in a low voice, and she didn't know why she lowered her voice, as if she didn't want to disturb some existence in the dense fog: "Messenger...you mean the 'messenger' who disappeared many days ago Is it?"
It had been a long time since the "Messenger" had appeared in Prandell.
That is a person with a very special identity. Different from the ordinary messengers on the Loren continent, the "messenger" in this country of mages is a person who specializes in walking between the inland cities and the border cities, and has incredible power and access authority. character of.
The cities in the Violet territory are isolated from each other, and there are endless dense forests and mystical locks flooding the wilderness area. Under these barriers, outsiders cannot even pass through the border cities to the inland areas, and even the locals, if there is no need to In fact, they rarely leave the city where they live, and messengers... are the "bridges" that connect these isolated cities.
They are responsible for delivering letters between cities, for transmitting orders from the city of a thousand towers to every border area, and for opening "passages" in the endless dense forests and mystical locks in the wilderness, allowing transportation between cities. The caravan of supplies passed smoothly.
In Violet, each city has one and only one dedicated messenger, but even though there is only one person, they can undertake the important task of delivering information for the entire city, and they travel through this mysterious country in ways that outsiders cannot understand , it seems that no matter how far they are, they can reach any corner of the Violet territory in an instant, no matter how many letters they have, they can carry them with them and deliver them to the recipients accurately and in time. It is a country piled up with countless mysteries, and the "Messenger" is definitely the most incredible and unreasonable of these mysteries.
According to Sparrow Bee's speculation, "Messenger" should be an unimaginably powerful spellcaster, who is in charge of a secret technique that is unknown to the outside world, which is the best embodiment of the powerful magic heritage of this mage country.
And the courier who was in charge of the Prandel area hadn't appeared for a long time. In fact, in the memory of Sparrow Bee, the "extraordinary vision" in the Violet Kingdom happened shortly after the courier disappeared...
Finchbee and her colleagues tried to find out the whereabouts of the messenger,
But so far nothing has been found. The messenger disappeared earlier than everything else, and there is no trace of it. The locals in this city seem to take the disappearance of the messenger as a matter of course. Even in the end...they simply forgot that their country has " Messenger," it was as if Torrig had forgotten his uncle who lived in Paransanto.
A pale scratch emerged from a nearby lamppost, bearing only a few rather brief letters: "It was he."
"Why do you want to avoid the messenger?" Ye Xiao couldn't help asking, and at the same time kept looking at the shadowy silhouettes in the thick fog around him. The warning from the "store manager" made him feel creepy, even though he was in the dense fog There were no visible monsters or enemies in the fog at all, but at this moment he seemed to feel a kind of malice that was constantly approaching, and that malice was lurking just a few feet away from him, watching him through the flowing gray-white mist, "Is that messenger chasing and killing 'outsiders' like us? Is he related to this dense fog?"
They passed through a wand shop at the outermost edge of the inner block. The normally prosperous shop was shrouded in eerie silence at this moment, and an extremely dim and hazy gleam penetrated from the doors and windows of the shop, like some kind of liquid Spreading and falling in the mist, the wide window seemed to be crowded with some kind of shadowy things. Finch accidentally glanced in the direction of the house, and then involuntarily looked away in the next second.
On the lamppost passing by her, a line of clear and sharp pale letters quickly emerged: "The messenger is not chasing and killing you, the messenger is clearing everything here."
For some reason, the letters no longer seemed to be engraved traces, but more like sentences that emerged directly from the black iron surface, as swift as words.
The ramp leading to the outer urban area appeared in the thick fog ahead, and this long seemingly endless block finally came to an end. In the mist, Bird Bee saw a dark carriage parked quietly On the side of the road, of course there was no one on the carriage, but there was a cloud of undulating black smoke roughly in the shape of a horse floating in front of the carriage. holding hands.
When Sparrow Bee and Night Owl passed by the carriage, they couldn't help but glanced at the silent carriage. The next second, a little light suddenly appeared in the originally dark carriage, and then they Groups of shadowy objects emerged from the dim light, covering the rough glass of the side of the carriage like mud.
The two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau tightened their hearts, and immediately looked away. The next second, Quefeng suddenly saw a line of pale letters appear on a nearby wall: "Hide!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Sparrow Bee and Night Owl found the nearest and most suitable place to hide in an instant. Like two swift shadows, they slipped into the gap between two nearby houses, blocking their shadows with the help of the protruding corner of the wall .
Quebee felt her heart pounding. She wanted to ask what happened to her superior who could only talk to her in text for some reason, but forced her mouth to restrain the urge to speak, and the next second, She saw a tall and thin figure suddenly appear in the alley on the other side of the ramp.
In this silent dense fog, in this deserted dead city, a figure other than her and Ye Xiao appeared!
The shadow came out of the thick fog, gradually revealing some details. Bird Bee saw a gloomy classic long trench coat and a black top hat that was quite popular among the citizens of the Violet Kingdom. She saw the figure In one hand was a lantern that had the same dim light as the nearby street lamps, and in the other hand was a long cane. She recognized that it was Prandell's messenger.
Before the vision happened, this Mr. Messenger was called "Mr. Crystal" by the citizens of Plandel. As a "Messenger" who seemed particularly mysterious in the mysterious Violet Kingdom, this Mr. Crystal was actually a pretty good person. He even accepted Ye Xiao's invitation, and introduced to Ye Xiao the scenery of the City of Thousand Towers and his busy but interesting life as a "messenger" during a private drinking session.
He is a friendly and polite man, and he was even the only information window for "foreign businessmen" like Finch Bee and Night Owl to learn about Violet's inland customs. But now, Finch Bee feels no joy when he sees this "acquaintance".
Because the "store manager" told them to avoid the messenger.
Both she and Ye Xiao held their breath involuntarily, watching the tall and thin figure emerging from the thick fog step by step out of the alley, and then they saw this Mr. "Messenger" stop at the intersection , as if identifying the house numbers around him, then he turned to a nearby house, walked to the door unhurriedly, hung the lantern in his hand on the cane, and knocked on the door that was faintly revealing a faint light. light door.
The door opened silently, and dim light leaked out from inside. The shimmering light flowed slowly on the stone slab at the door like liquid, but no one came out from the door, it was just an empty house.
The messenger "Christo" didn't respond to this. He just took out a letter-like thing from his arms and handed it to the empty house.
The bee saw that the letter disappeared into the mist the moment it left the messenger's fingers, and in the next second, a nearly pure black "flame" burst out from the wall of the house, and it was swallowed up almost instantly The whole house and the chain of connected houses nearby. In the dark and silent flames, those houses dissipated like morning dew, and one after another, almost transparent figures came out of them, slowly sinking into the ground in the flames.
Those figures had no faces, like a cloud of shapeless human-shaped smoke, wrapped in a bandage-like curtain, surrounded by sparrows and night owls. I have seen similar illustrations in some supernatural things encyclopedia books published by the Empire.
All this lasted less than a dozen seconds, and the pitch-black flames faded away as quickly as they appeared, and when they saw the scene after the flames had subsided, Sparrowbee's eyes widened in an instant.
The row of houses that used to be there had all disappeared. It wasn't as simple as being burned, but there was not even a bit of wreckage or ashes left. After the flames disappeared, what was left on the spot was a piece of bare stone and mud.
She suddenly remembered the words left by the store manager just now: the messenger is clearing everything here.
Now, she knows what this sentence means.
In the next second, she saw that tall and thin figure moving again, and the messenger "Mr. Christo" walked towards another nearby house silently, so the horrifying and strange scene just now was repeated. He opened the door, stood in front of an empty building, and handed out a letter to an invisible object. The moment the letter was delivered, black flames shot up into the sky, and several houses disappeared within ten seconds. without a trace.
And as this process continued, the gray-white mist on the surrounding slopes seemed to become faintly thicker.
The messenger is still active, carrying out his work precisely and efficiently like a machine without thinking. Houses...or pieces of "areas" disappeared quickly after his letters were delivered, and Finch Bee felt his heart Bang bang, and at this moment, she suddenly understood why the "store manager" would suddenly leave a handwriting on the window when she was in the stronghold, telling her and Ye Xiao to leave the house immediately!
If the messenger wandered into that shop, if he knocked on that door, if he sent a letter...
Although Sparrow Bee didn't know the mechanism of this process, she was almost certain that whether the door would be opened or not would not be within her and Ye Xiao's control.
Ye Xiao also broke out in a layer of cold sweat at this time. He nervously watched the movement of the tall and thin figure in the mist, hoping that the other party would never walk in this direction. At the same time, he paid attention to the nearby wall Surface and ground, always pay attention to whether the "store manager" will give new instructions or warnings.
Maybe it was fate, the tall and thin figure really didn't come this way, he didn't seem to be "destroying" everything here in order, but still strictly performed his duties like a messenger, After delivering the letter according to the delivery address of the "letter", after another clump of black flames rose, he suddenly changed direction and walked unhurriedly towards the inner block.
Bird Bee and Night Owl both breathed a sigh of relief, but just when they were about to wait for a while and plan follow-up actions, an inexplicable palpitation suddenly came from behind!
Sparrowbee turned around suddenly, and suddenly saw a tall and thin figure standing in the depths of the house, as if it had just "breeded" from the air, watching her quietly in the mist.
That's...another "Mr. Crystal"!
Immediately afterwards, in another alley very close to this hiding place, another tall and thin figure slowly walked out of it!
There is not only one Messenger, there are countless "Messenger Christos" active in this weird night fog, and...they finally found the unexpected guest in the thick fog.
A pale and palpitating word instantly appeared on the nearby wall: "Run!"
Sparrow Bee and Night Owl rushed out of their hiding place in an instant. Their heartbeats had never been so intense in their entire lives, and their speed had never been as fast as today. They rushed up the street like two sharp arrows. Behind him, several tall and thin figures had quietly walked out from the nearby streets, alleys, cracks in buildings and even the air, one after another without any emotion but creepy eyes fell on the uninvited guest on the back.
In the next second, these "messengers" took steps in the direction of Sparrow Bee and Ye Xiao. Their steps seemed to be very slow, but with each step, they seemed to appear in front of the two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau Very close behind, and getting closer!
Without hesitation, Quefeng directly took out a crystallized grenade from his carry-on, roughly judged the impact point and advance amount, and threw it behind him.
The loud noise finally broke the dead night. In the huge explosion and impact caused by the crystal grenade, a large amount of earth and rock debris was blown into the sky, and two "messenger" figures were also involved in the explosion.
The smoke and dust from the explosion dissipated, and the two tall and thin figures were still standing there, but they flickered violently like projections that had been strongly disturbed, as if they had lost the ability to move for a while.
Grenade may not be effective when dealing with extraordinary visions, but this time... it seems to be effective.
But there is a problem before the bee
As two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau performing latent missions, how could it be possible for them to carry so many grenades with them...
As if to make her feel worse, in the next second, Sparrow Bee and Night Owl simultaneously noticed that several new shadows appeared in the air on both sides of the ramp.
The "Messenger" was alarmed...they are gathering here!
In the next second, the two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau looked at each other in unison.
They saw the same determination in each other's eyes.
"You are fast," Ye Xiao said, taking a step faster, "You charge forward, and I will delay them from the rear."
"You are not strong enough, and you can't delay for a few minutes," Quefeng said quickly, "My queen, you..."
Ye Xiao suddenly became anxious: "When is this! We have to pass the news back! You..."
His shouting stopped abruptly in the middle of it, and a sharp whistling suddenly sounded in the air interrupted his words, and even interrupted the mood of the two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau
Amidst the whistling sound, a huge bright white light group that could even be described as dazzling pierced through the thick fog on the ramp in an instant, and passed over the heads of Bird Bee and Night Owl like a heavy cannon from a fortress. Fell between those "messengers" who were gathering more and more, the next second, the bird bee saw a mushroom cloud rising in the distance...
The houses near the mushroom cloud instantly turned into steam and powder, but she and Ye Xiao didn't wait for the expected shock waves and strong winds, and there wasn't even a breeze in the night sky.
All the power released by this terrifying blow was perfectly restrained within the explosion area.
The two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau stopped suddenly. They turned their heads in amazement and looked at the direction of the attack. In the midst of great tension and vigilance, they saw a figure standing on the ramp not far away. central.
It was an old man, an old man in a nightgown and a nightcap on his head, standing barefoot on the ground.
The old man even had a dazed look on his face.