time lapse...
I don't know how long it took, but Song Lan once again saw his former partners who fought alongside him.
After the two arrived, the agents of the Investigation Bureau took the initiative to give up this underground mausoleum-like space to the two.
Song Lan and Lu Xiang stood in front of this row of lifelike statues. Each insect was carefully carved. For a moment, he seemed to see his friend taking off his dark shell, spreading his wings and flying. onto his shoulders.
This is the royal seat of General "Black Flash", a symbol of glory and the runner-up in the first Cricket Fighting Competition.
"Remember what happened before?"
Lu Xiang asked softly.
While exploring the "Sea of Souls", she had a vague premonition.
It's just that she originally thought that the secret of the past would be hidden in a church, or a more sacred place, but the space displaying the statues in front of her looked more like the remains of a magnificent building.
"Sea of Souls" believes that someone has modified a certain period of history in the past. Although it did not say it explicitly, it pointed to the current number one suspect Song Lan, both covertly and covertly.
In Lu Xiang's knowledge, only this stupid bird can do this kind of thing.
Song Lan's reaction seemed to indicate the reason why this ruins were preserved - the insect named Black Flash was his former partner, so that he was inspired by the scene during the revision process and kept these statues out of selfishness.
Of course, the prefix "Invincible in the Universe" was automatically ignored by Lu Xiang.
As the leader of the swarm, she even sympathizes with the little bug named "Black Flash" from the bottom of her heart. It must be embarrassing for everyone to hear her full name in public.
Comparatively, even based on the relationship between her and Song Lan, if Song Lan added "universally invincible" to her name in public, she would probably be so irritable that she would want to hit someone.
"Cricket Fighting Contest."
"Cricket fighting competition?"
Sure enough, anything that could arouse Song Lan's interest would not be a serious event.
"This one is called the 'Golden Lion' and is the champion of the first cricket fighting competition."
Some familiar scenes came to Song Lan's mind.
He did participate in this event, more than once.
He also remembered that every rule of the game was perfected by him bit by bit, because compared to the complicated and cumbersome spiritual practice, or to devote himself to some beliefs that he was not interested in at all, an exciting cricket fighting competition was more important. Much more attractive.
The rigid and serious archbishop originally did not agree to host the event, but ultimately lost to public opinion.
Under his active operation, he cooperated internally and externally with the church's top management, making the Cricket Fighting Competition a grand ceremony that belonged to the church. No matter what their status, everyone could fully enjoy the fun brought by the ceremony.
However, Archbishop Dargun Vida felt threatened and believed that the bishop's authority had been challenged.
"The first Cricket Fighting Competition is of great significance to the church. It fully relieved the tension and depression caused by the war."
Since the outbreak of the war, the entire Fourth District has become lifeless. "And this is the fun learning method I advocate. You can hone... disruptive psychic powers in fun and exciting competitions."
Song Lan paused and chose a term that Lu Xiang could understand.
But that's not what they called it at the time.
"Hone your psychic abilities."
Lu Xiang grasped the key information. She listened carefully to every lesson taught by Professor Miles. To this day, psychic ability research institutions have not developed a specific way to hone psychic abilities. Today, the growth of every psychic ability The methods are all different. Apart from stimulating the brain with electric current to keep them in an abnormal state at all times, they cannot conclude any rules.
She suddenly realized, "No wonder you don't know anything about the basics of psychic abilities."
Lu Xiang has always had doubts about this. It is hard for her to imagine that a person who is proficient in advanced mathematics cannot understand elementary school mathematics operations, unless...
These "calculations" are just things pieced together by latecomers based on incomplete history, and are far from the true appearance of psychic energy.
She asked curiously, "How did people practice cultivation at that time?"
"Belief is truth."
This is the preaching that most people will hear when they become believers. When they come to the Fourth District, it is a talk given by Archbishop Dargon Veda himself in the prayer room of the church.
"Um?"
"It's probably similar to choosing your mentor. The path you choose is said to determine the direction of your abilities."
"It is said?"
"My situation is different from others."
When he was brought to the Fourth District, his abilities were already finalized before he chose any path.
Although all of this was extremely unfamiliar to Lu Xiang, she continued the conversation as much as possible, "So, what path did you choose at that time?"
""nothingness"."
"Nothingness? This is in line with your character. Everything in the world will eventually return to nothingness. If we look at it from a longer-term perspective, maybe everything we do now is meaningless... This concept may be the same as yours."
After spending a long time with Song Lan, the first thing Lu Xiang thought of was not a specific person, but a certain concept.
Just like the salted fish virus.
Everyone who had in-depth contact with Song Lan was inevitably affected in the end.
"As expected of you, Lao Lu, you thought of these all at once, but..."
Song Lan hesitated to speak.
In fact, he only learned about the concept of nothingness very later.
"But what?"
"But I didn't think so much about it at the time, I just picked one at random."
The main reason why he chose the path of "nothingness" was that the shadow representing "nothingness" was closest to him at that time. "Maybe, this is fate."
"You..."
Lu Xiang felt as if a breath was stuck in his chest, and he was speechless for a long time.
Song Lan could always give her an unexpected blow in unexpected places.
She could imagine that Song Lan and the Archbishop Dargon Veda he called were in the midst of sacred prayers at that time, facing those beings in the upper world, about to make a choice that would affect his life. This was What a solemn and solemn scene, the result was that the stupid bird chose the one closest to him.
Maybe the Archbishop, no, even "Nothingness" doesn't know the reason why Song Lan chose him in the first place.
"But we did have a good chat at the time, and we were like-minded."
"Maybe He was just assimilated by you."
After getting along with Song Lan for a long time, no one can escape the fate of being assimilated by him, not even "Nothing" is an exception. Lu Xiang thought of something and said, "'Golden Lion' won the first competition at that time. Is the winner of the Cricket Competition ‘Nothingness’?”
Although it lacks the prefix of the "Invincible Universe" series, the naming style is obviously from the same school.
Even Lu Xiang himself was affected.
For Song Lan, a fisherman who spends three days fishing and two days drying nets, and missing work for a week, if it were her before, she would definitely kick him out, but now...
Not only did she turn a blind eye, but she even found ways to make amends in other ways.
This is tantamount to complicity.
Lu Xiang, who had always been known for his integrity in Daystar, was eventually corrupted.
"Well, the players of 'Void' are quite capable."
Song Lan crossed her arms over her chest and said in an evaluating tone.
"Why do you sound like you're the champion?"
"Because there has been more than one cricket fighting competition, based on the overall fighting record, my winning rate is still relatively high."
Lu Xiang was stunned. She had rarely seen Song Lan showing such a proud expression.
Song Lan is the person with the least desire to win or lose among the people she has ever met. In his words, being obsessed with winning will only bring him trouble and enemies. This is not in line with his philosophy of life, but he seems to I am very concerned about the cricket fighting competition.
"So, the old friend who came to see you is 'Nothingness'?"
"Other than him, no one else should be able to find this place."
"I thought all your friends were dead."
Lu Xiang remembered that Song Lan mentioned the existence of the upper world after his trip to Wisteria Academy. He said at that time that there was no one there.
The dean of Wisteria Academy fulfilled his long-cherished wish, but unfortunately, there was no one waiting for him there.
Referring to the fate of other friends Song Lan made in District 17, Lu Xiang reasonably guessed that those existences had perished.
"Most do."
"So, he came to you this time for revenge?"
"No."
Song Lan stared at the lifelike statue in front of him. "Nothingness" attracted them here through the eye-catching Vadim, just to convey a message to him.
"The 37th Cricket Fighting Competition is coming soon."
………………………………
Meanwhile, the Eden Hotel.
The four-person team headed by Veronica and Valian reunited here. After realizing that Teacher Lu Qi did not seem to be so reliable, they decided to take other measures.
Therefore, Roger, who had been behaving abnormally since arriving in District 4, became the target of their focus.
There is no doubt that Roger has become stronger.
Although they failed to save the founder of Kolo Films, he did manage to kill the humanoid monster that was eating Xingosi's body.
This obviously changed after Roger came to District 4. You must know that the day before departure, he participated in an underground boxing match because he was drunk and knocked down his opponent with one punch, which made his winning rate worse than that of a professional boxer. It became 0 wins and 2 losses.
Roger's explanation for this is that after coming to District 4, he came into contact with some kind of natural force.
When a crisis strikes and he, as one of the few male compatriots in the team, must shoulder the burden of protecting his colleagues, the force of nature responds to him.
It wasn't until the four decided to hold a special meeting about the natural forces Roger mentioned that they suddenly discovered how outrageous this thing was.
The most outrageous thing is that before starting the meeting, they actually accepted the setting of "natural energy" as a matter of course for a long time.
"Wait a minute, why do we take Roger's connection to the forces of nature for granted?"
Zhuang Chi took action.
Veronica and Valian looked at each other, and they couldn't answer this question for a while.
In fact, until now, they still don't know what the natural energy Roger mentioned is.
"I'll comb it out a little more."
Zhuang Chi waved his hand and let his mind go back to the first day they came to the fourth district.
They encountered many things on the first day.
The buyer of the autographed photo died tragically at home, and her dream of getting rich was completely shattered. It was also that night that Roger came up with the idea of protecting his companions.
Then……
Roger locked himself in a room for a night and connected with what he said were natural energies.
He didn't even put on boxing gloves and hit the punching bag to exercise his arm strength!
Although it sounded extremely absurd in the past, the fact that Roger killed the monster was a certainty, so they had to believe that natural energy was real and rationalize this twisted and bizarre story as much as possible.
They then thought that if natural energy really existed, then maybe each of them could master this power.
"Roger, you said you stayed in your house all night that day, right?"
"Um."
"What have you done?"
"meditation."
"meditation?"
The three of them frowned in unison. They felt that things were becoming more and more bizarre. Only characters in magical works could become stronger through meditation.
"Come and show us."
"It's a little inconvenient here. I need to go to my own house."
"Okay, then go to your room."
Accompanied by three people, Roger entered his room in a decent manner.
Under the spotlight, he closed the curtains, got on the bed, and covered himself with a quilt.
The three of them just stood there, their eyes never leaving Roger.
Even the way of meditation was far different from what they imagined - Roger didn't even pretend to sit cross-legged on the ground in a pose that had no meaning, but got directly under the quilt.
"Did he sleep like this all night?"
Veronica was filled with doubt.
She couldn't sense Roger's will to protect his companions from his actions at all. She could only tell that his sleep quality should be good.
"Roger, Roger?"
Ten minutes later, seeing that there was still no movement from Roger, Zhuang Chi tentatively called his name.
Roger didn't respond, only the sound of even breathing came from him.
"Roger...is he just asleep?"
Valian raised the question on everyone's mind, "Is the practice of natural energy just a dream he had after he fell asleep?"
"No, probably not."
Veronica said suddenly, her gaze lingering on Roger as if possessed. Only then did Zhuang Chi and Valian discover her abnormality.
Veronica's lips moved and she murmured, "His dream..."
"His dream? What happened to his dream? No, no, why do you know what he dreamed about?"
"The muscular man appears!"
"ha?"
"The muscular man is teaching him fighting skills!"
Thanks to an alien for the 100 starting coins!
Small theater its two hundred and thirty-nine:
A certain day of a certain year, a certain day, a Saturday, in the morning
"The night heron's genes are really amazing."
That morning, while Ye Lu and the Young Death Crab Detective Team continued their visit, Lu Xiang and Song Lan found a shady place to sit down.
Genetic changes will bring about changes in habits. In theory, night herons can easily integrate into the life circle of almost all mutant creatures.
"yes."
Song Lan looked at Ye Lu's jumping back. His worries about Ye Lu were always the opposite of those of other children. Maybe the deep mountains and old forests were a more suitable place for Ye Lu to live.
"I suddenly remembered something."
"Um?"
"Remember the sleeping contest you held before? You lost to Night Heron."
"That's what happened."
"Where did she get the gene for sleeping in? It seems like few people around us have time to sleep in except you."
Not everyone can skip work every three days like Song Lan.
"I think the focus of education should be different for different children. Children like Yelu should still be allowed to adapt to a leisurely life..."
"I know."
Lu Xiang half-smiled, "But what I want to ask is, how did she extract your genes?"
(End of chapter)
