Chapter 714: Baoyou Returns and Ye Mo Meets (Eghver. Comfortable +1)
Chapter 714: Baoyou Returns and Ye Mo Meets (Eghver. Comfortable +1)
The bluestone slabs in the back alley of the Demon Suppression Pavilion were slippery from the night dew.
The soles of Lu Baoyou's boots sparked in the air, and he barely managed to stop being dragged away by the strange force.
She hung on the two-meter-high eaves, her hair brushing against the mottled brick carvings—they were the evil-suppressing Taotie patterns carved by the Demon Suppression Division for three hundred years.
At this moment, it was being torn into pieces by the black feathers of the fallen angel.
"Who am I thinking? Isn't this the old Broken Wing who was kicked out of heaven?"
Wu Hen put his hands in the pockets of his faded leather jacket and tilted his head to look at the fallen angel in front of him.
The twelve black feathers on his back were still stained with stardust, and a half-broken bloody silver spear was stuck in his left rib.
The Seraph emblem on the gun barrel shone coldly in the moonlight, "Is that old Lucifer short of money lately?
Sending a defective product like you to collect protection money? "
The fallen angel's pupils shrank into snake-like vertical lines, and its black feathers spread out, shattering half of the brick wall. "Lin Qiye, you haven't settled the score for destroying my divine kingdom's clone yet—"
He suddenly stopped, and turned his bloodstained face to Wu Hen, "You... you smell like Shenxu?"
Lu Baoyou gasped on the roof.
The day she was disqualified as a recruit was because the Shenxu riot shattered the dynamometer stone.
At that time, Chief Instructor Yuan Gang was holding her wrist.
His knuckles were almost digging into his bones. "Little girl, you are not an ordinary creature. You will either be trapped in the Demon Suppression Division as a living container for the rest of your life, or..."
At this moment, the divine ruins in her body was like a bean thrown into hot oil, and every tremor pulled her soul and caused pain.
When his eyes swept over Wu Hen, the golden light suddenly became clear - like some ancient magic pattern moving under his skin.
Exactly the same as the obscure patterns that occasionally appeared in her divine ruins.
"System prompt: Fallen Angel-level hostile camp detected, triggering the mission [Repel the enemy with verbal attacks].
Mission requirements: Use logical loopholes or language traps to make the target lose the desire to attack.
Reward: Random God Ruins Fragment x1 (may contain the bloodline of an ancient race).
Wu Hen's ears twitched slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up more obviously: "Old Broken Wing, you are a fallen angel, and you left the barbecue stall in hell and came to the human world to assassinate?
Heaven doesn't want you, hell doesn't like your stench, so you're a homeless stray bird now, right?
He suddenly took two steps closer, looked up at the gunshot wound on the other person's chest, and said, "Besides, this wound of yours was caused by Gabriel, right?
That old guy's shooting skills are still so bad that he missed the left rib by two inches——"
"Shut up!" The fallen angel's black feathers stirred up a hurricane, and the surrounding green tiles seemed to be grabbed by invisible hands and smashed towards the two of them.
Lin Qiye's fingertips ignited a blue ghost fire.
With a flick of his hand, he burned the tiles to ashes: "Wu Hen, that's enough. This birdman is cursed. If you keep cursing, he will explode."
"Hey, hey, hey, where are the system tasks?"
Wu Hen retreated to Lin Qiye's side and suddenly took out a piece of fruit candy with a torn wrapper from his pocket, "Do you want to eat it?
I stole it from the cafeteria, it tastes like lychee."
The fallen angel's black feathers suddenly shrank into sharp spikes, but stopped three inches away from Wu Hen.
He stared at the candy, his Adam's apple rolling twice: "How...how did you get the honey lychee candy from heaven?
Three hundred years ago..."
"Three hundred years ago, you were working as a kitchen helper in Heaven, and you were caught stealing the Archbishop's preserved lychees?"
Wu Hen tore open the candy wrapper, and the aroma of lychees mixed with the sweet smell of candy exploded in the air.
"I bought it from the system mall. The Hell Specialty Area is still selling the confession you wrote back then."
"Ten Netherworld Coins for each, saying 'stealing honey is a small matter, but insulting the godhead is a big one'—"
"enough!"
The fallen angel suddenly covered his face, and the evil fire on his black feathers suddenly went out.
"I...I just came to ask Lin Qiye if it was you who saved me in the ruins of the Kingdom of God."
When he raised his head, his face beneath the blood stains revealed a hint of fragility.
"At that time, I was being hunted by Heaven. A man in green robes used a talisman to stop my wounds... Then I searched for three hundred years..."
Lin Qiye's ghostly light flickered at his fingertips: "It's my master. He passed away ten years ago."
The fallen angel's black feathers fell like a black rain. "So... So he's gone."
He turned to leave, but suddenly stopped, "The Divine Ruins on that young man..."
He looked at Wu Hen and said, "Be careful of the Ancient God Church. They are looking for a container that can hold both the Ruins of God and the Hellfire."
Before he finished speaking, the sound of breaking wind resounded through the night sky.
Yuan Gang's black iron spear pierced the fallen angel's left shoulder.
The demon-suppressing pattern on the gun barrel shone with a dazzling golden light: "Where did this evil spirit come from, daring to run wild in the Demon-Suppressing Division?"
Lu Baoyou jumped down from the eaves and saw Wu Hen stuffing the lychee candy into his mouth and shouting incoherently, "Chief Instructor!
He just said that the Church of the Ancient God——"
"Shut up."
Yuan Gang drew back his spear, and drops of blood dripped from the tip of the spear onto the bluestone slab.
“Wu Hen, come with me to the Discipline Hall to receive your punishment for sneaking out of the dormitory in the middle of the night.
Lin Qiye, take the newcomer back to the Phoenix Squad. "His eyes swept over Lu Baoyou and paused for half a second, "You, follow me."
Lu Baoyou's divine ruins suddenly calmed down.
She looked at Yuan Gang's back, then at Wu Hen - the latter was winking at her and pointing at his chest.
The golden magic patterns there were still flowing, perfectly matching the patterns in her divine ruins.
"System prompt: Mission [Defeat the Enemy with Words] completed, rewards distributed.
A hidden related character, Lu Baoyou, was detected, triggering a new task [Resonance of the Ruins of Gods].
Mission requirements: Make Lu Baoyou reveal the secret of Shenxu within three days.
Reward: Ancient Phoenix Bloodline Fragment x1.
Wu Hen licked the sugar residue from the corner of his mouth and waved at Lu Baoyou.
The moonlight overlapped the two people's shadows, printing two intertwined light patterns on the bluestone slab.
Lu Baoyou followed Yuan Gang through two dark alleys, and the black iron spear made a crisp sound on the bluestone slabs.
The chief instructor's back was like a piece of rock tempered with cold iron, and even his shadow carried the solemnity unique to the Demon Suppression Division.
She stared at the crescent-shaped scar on the back of his neck - it was left when he blocked the demon claws for the new recruits three years ago.
At that time, she was still cleaning her gun at the shooting range. She heard from the veterans that Yuan Gang had half of his flesh torn open by the demon blade, but he gritted his teeth and twisted the demon's head off.
"Chief Instructor..." She had just opened her mouth when Yuan Gang suddenly stopped.
The lantern at the corner was swaying in the night wind.
A warm yellow light flooded his taut jawline. "Are the lines in your Divine Ruins the same as those on Wu Hen's body?"
Lu Baoyou's Adam's apple moved.
When the dynamometer stone shattered that day, Yuan Gang's hand was on her wrist, and the calluses on his fingertips rubbed her so hard that it hurt.
When he said "either be trapped in the Demon Suppression Division as a living vessel", there was a dark fire burning in his eyes, which looked very much like the word "protecting the calf" that she had seen in ancient books.
"Yes."
She clenched her sleeves, her nails almost digging into her palms. "The closer I was to him, the more…"
"Don't go on."
Yuan Gang suddenly turned around and stabbed the black iron spear heavily into the ground, shaking the moss in the cracks of the blue bricks and falling, "Wu Hen's Shenxu is a monster.
Three years ago, when he first entered the Demon Suppression Division, the merit-measuring stone was blown to pieces, and even the evil-suppressing bell in the Discipline Hall was silent for three days.
"He lowered his voice, as if he was talking about some dark secret,"
I checked his origins, and his hometown was listed as a dilapidated temple in Yunzhou. However, the statue enshrined in that dilapidated temple was not Guan Yu, but a stone cracked into three pieces.
"Chief Instructor!" Wu Hen's shout suddenly came from the alley.
Lu Baoyou turned around and saw the guy sticking his head out from the wall.
The corner of his leather jacket was still stained with incense ash from the Discipline Hall: “Old man Yuan, you are biased!
If I sneak out and get caught, I'll be punished to clean the toilet for three days. But if Baoyou follows you, it'll be fine? "
Yuan Gang's eyebrows twitched and he swung the black iron spear over.
Wu Hen was prepared and dodged to the side. The tip of the gun brushed against his ear and was nailed into the wall.
The wall was shaken so hard that it fell down. "Stinky boy, who allowed you to follow me?"
"It's a system task."
Wu Hen dusted off his body, walked to Lu Baoyou's side, and nudged her lightly with his elbow.
"Sister Baoyou, is Old Man Yuan saying something bad about me?
Let me tell you, last time he stole the sweet-scented osmanthus wine I hid, he got so drunk that he hugged the Demon-Suppressing Cauldron and shouted, "Master's Wife, I was wrong."
"Shut up!" Yuan Gang drew his gun with a dark face, and the demon-suppressing pattern on the gun barrel suddenly glowed red.
Lu Baoyou looked at the smile lines at the corners of Wu Hen's eyes, and suddenly remembered what happened on the eaves just now.
When the golden patterns on his body overlapped with the patterns in his own divine ruins, he felt a warmth that spread from his bones.
It was just like when she was a kid in the mountain village, squatting in front of the stove and roasting sweet potatoes.
Sparks from the stove popped out and landed on the back of my hand, which was red from the cold. It hurt, but it was so comfortable that I wanted to cry.
"Wu Hen." She suddenly spoke.
They both turned their heads at the same time. Wu Hen's smile froze on his face, like a puppet with its strings tapped.
"The lines in your divine ruins..." She licked her dry lips.
“Is it related to this piece?”
She pulled out a red rope from around her neck. The pendant was a piece of gravel the size of a fingernail, its surface covered with spider-web-like cracks.
When she was swept by the fallen angel's black feather just now, the gravel suddenly became hot and left a red mark on her collarbone.
Wu Hen's pupils suddenly contracted.
He reached out to touch the gravel, his fingertips paused half an inch from her skin.
As if he remembered something, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her in front of him.
The gravel stuck to the overlapping skin of the two people and suddenly made a buzzing sound.
"System prompt: Detected fragments of the same origin as the Divine Ruins, triggering hidden memories."
Wu Hen's temples throbbed, and fragments of images flashed before his eyes: an old man in green clothes burning talismans in front of a brazier, and the scraps of paper turned into golden lines as they floated up;
The baby was crying in the dilapidated temple, with the same red string as Lu Baoyou tied around his wrist;
On a night when black feathers covered the sky, the rubble broke in two, falling into two separate swaddling clothes...
"turn out to be......"
He let go of her hand, his voice hoarse, "We were separated when we were young."
Lu Baoyou's hands were shaking.
She remembered that her grandmother held her hand before she died and said, "Xiaoyou, when you find the other half of the stone, you will know who your real mother is."
There was no paper money in the old lady's coffin, only half a piece of broken jade, which fit perfectly with the gravel pattern on her neck.
Yuan Gang's black iron spear fell to the ground with a clang.
He stared at the two pieces of rubble, his Adam's apple moving again and again: "Back then, the Demon Suppression Division rescued two babies in the ruins of the Kingdom of God."
"They all carried this stone... Later, one of them was kidnapped by people from the Ancient God Church..."
Suddenly, a sharp whistle was heard from outside the alley.
It is the warning signal of the Phoenix Team. Three long and two short beeps mean "a special-grade monster is approaching."
Wu Hen's system sounded a prompt at the same time: "Ding!
The mark of the Ancient God Church is detected, triggering the mission [Protect the Container of the Ruins of Gods].
Mission requirements: Ensure Lu Baoyou evacuates to a safe area within three breaths.
Reward: Phoenix Bloodline Activation +10%.
He grabbed Lu Baoyou and ran, the wind blowing through his leather jacket making a rustling sound. "Sister Baoyou, do you believe me?"
Lu Baoyou staggered as he pulled her, but still nodded vigorously.
The gravel was hot in their palms, so hot that it almost burned through their skin.
But there was an indescribable warmth in that heat, as if saying, "Don't be afraid, let's go home."
Yuan Gang grabbed his gun and chased after him, the demon-suppressing pattern on the gun barrel burning red: "Run to the Demon-Suppressing Cauldron!
That thing can suppress the evil magic of the Ancient God Church——"
Before he could finish his words, a sound like shattering glass was heard above his head.
Countless black butterflies swarmed down from the clouds, each with the hexagram of the Ancient God Church embroidered on its wings.
The leading butterfly group formed a human face, which was the member of the Ancient God Church that we met at the alley.
At this moment, her pupils were covered with black scales: "Finally found the Twin God Ruins..."
Wu Hen protected Lu Baoyou behind him, and ignited the Phoenix Fire that the system had just rewarded him with at his fingertips.
The flame was a rare green-gold color, and it made a sizzling sound as it licked the black butterfly: "Baoyou, hold on to me.
The system said that this fire can burn through the ancient gods' evil spells——"
"Wu Hen!" Lu Baoyou suddenly shouted.
Her spirit surged within her body, the heat of the gravel flowing through her blood vessels to her fingertips.
The same lapis lazuli flame ignited, "I seem to be able to control this fire!"
The two lapis lazuli fireballs collided in the palms of their hands, exploding into a sky full of sparks.
The group of black butterflies were like paper figures doused in boiling oil, instantly burning to ashes.
The screams of the members of the Church of the Ancient God were torn apart by the wind.
Wu Hen turned his head and saw golden lines in Lu Baoyou's eyes, like two small lamps, illuminating his shadow clearly.
"System prompt: Mission [Divine Ruins Resonance] completed, rewards distributed.
The awakening of the Twin Gods has been detected, triggering the ultimate mission [Slay the Gods]...
Yuan Gang's black iron spear slammed heavily at the feet of the two men.
He looked at the two balls of still dancing lapis lazuli flames and suddenly laughed.
The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes shone with tears: "Those two children chosen by the God Ruins back then have finally grown up."
Lu Baoyou let go of Wu Hen's hand, and the gravel in his palm suddenly made a clear sound.
Under the moonlight, the two halves of rubble slowly rose and merged into one between the two people.
Golden light seeped out from the cracks on the stone, outlining two entangled small characters:
"Evergreen".
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