Aurus Optimis awoke in agony.
He failed again, Orus thought bitterly. But part of the grand plan should succeed, in which case his actions would make sense.
Aulus could not see anything; he was blindfolded and restrained. He thought he was in a car and was being transported somewhere. What ending awaits him next?
Naturally, his father, Gaius Optimis, would not pay the price to save him. The right choice is to cut first and minimize losses. If Aurus were to plan it, he would use secret hands to silence himself, so as to avoid the leakage of intelligence to the greatest extent.
That's good, the death you get after your mission is accomplished. If it is captured by a research institution and used as material for new weapons, it can be said to have contributed to scientific research activities... No matter what, his death is meaningful. that's enough.
Thinking of this, Orus felt a burst of light. He appeared to have been carried out of the vehicle and dumped on the ground. Aulus' vision returned. He opened his eyes and found that he was in a colorless room.
Everything he saw was dark, and the furnishings in the room were as strange as unconstructed game models: the floor and walls were full of irregular bulges or depressions, and several unknown geometric objects were stacked up occupying a large space. In the house, there is no ceiling above, but endless blackness...
And directly in front of Aurus, on the uneven wall, there was an ink painting hanging. A man in black has his back to him, reading a scroll in the painting.
As if sensing Aulus' gaze, the man in the painting turned around. He had a young face and looked to be a few years older than Aurus.
The young man in the painting put down the book and cursed: "Who the hell are you?"
Aurus felt a rare irritation for a moment. He did not expect that the officials planned to humiliate him before dealing with it. He suppressed his anger and said: "I am Aurus Optimis!"
The man in the painting pinched his chin, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Ha! Now that I think about it, he is a self-righteous idiot. He spreads nonsense about talent everywhere, but he doesn't know that he is the most useless one!"
The person in the painting took a step forward and walked out of the painting, turning into a black and white person in reality. This man looked down at Aurus and poked at the pain point in his heart mercilessly: "He is as dumb as a chicken, as stupid as a donkey, and short-sighted. After throwing away this skin, there is no trace of humanity left, but he has a wolf-like heart and a small belly!"
A playboy who doesn't even know how to act, and talks about his ideals and ambitions in front of others, is really the most ridiculous thing in the world! "
Aulus was furious: "How dare you judge me!"
"Ha! I am the smartest man in the world. Don't call me a brat like you. Even the emperor will scold me!"
The man in the painting looked down at Aurus and said with a smile: "I know exactly what you are thinking... You think that I need your information, so I won't kill you for the time being, but you don't know what you have in your hands." That bit of news is of absolutely no value to me!"
I just heard the person in the painting say in a strange voice: "Your ugly and paranoid way of communicating with the gods must have been guided by the purifying person who came here today. And it is 100% to take care of your practice of impermanence without being discovered by the authorities. It is the Lord of Hidden Laws.
Your stupid idea to bring down the King of Order was thought up by yourself, and although you planned this operation yourself, you don't know much about the mastermind behind it. Except for your father, Jinglian and Yinlu Lord, you have never come into contact with any real high-level people! "
Aulus was shocked. This man had never been in contact with him before, but what he said was exactly right! He calmed down and asked: "How could you-"
"none of your business!"
The man in the painting kicked Aulus to the ground, put his five fingers together and stabbed him, piercing Aurus's chest and cutting out his heart alive!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I heard that you brat likes talents? What a pity, beasts never need people's hearts, so you can't use this thing!"
The person in the painting took out a writing brush from his sleeve, drew an ink heart out of thin air, and stuffed it into Aurus's chest.
"According to your words, people without talent are useless. Now you are useless, get out!"
The man in the painting kicked Aurus out of the door, threw the crown's heart in his hand, and returned to the painting with the heart.
Aurus was horrified, but even his anger disappeared for a moment. He never imagined what kind of magical power this was, he never imagined what kind of power it was. Various possibilities passed through his mind, and one of them that was the closest made him tremble.
"Are you Tianji...?!"
But when he exclaimed, the strange room was no longer there, and the person in the painting also disappeared. Aulus fell into a puddle of sewage and found himself in a dirty alley. A few men dressed as gangsters were puffing away smoke and talking nervously about something not far away.
Where is this place? Is he still in the Sky Capital? What does the man who looks like Tianji want to do? Aurus was extremely nervous. He hurriedly made gestures, but failed to transmit them as he had in the past.
"No..." Aurus said desperately, "Oletros!!"
Cutting doesn't work, nor does exchanging... No matter how hard he tries, it's all in vain, his super power has disappeared! He can't even use the Impermanence Technique anymore! !
This series of actions attracted the attention of the gangsters. The leading man had tattoos and colorful hair. He was the kind of low-level scum that Orus usually hated the most. The gangster looked at the panicked man and said with a hint of doubt: "Why do I think he looks a bit like...the Supreme Crown?"
Aurus controlled his emotions, stood up against the wall, and put on a panicked expression: "Sorry, sir... I don't understand... maybe you have recognized the wrong person..."
The gangsters exchanged glances and laughed.
"Haha! It's so funny." "You have such bad eyes, Bob, can this be the highest crown?" "You must be a newcomer, look at this coward..." "I'm probably scared to death by what happened a few days ago. "
Aurus heaved a sigh of relief. Time should not have passed long, and he was still in the Capital of the Sky.
"No." A dark-skinned gangster suddenly said, "That's him. I've seen him before. I was in the church during the meeting a few days ago... He is definitely the Supreme Crown."
Aurus's movements stiffened, he stepped back a little, and his heel stepped on a broken wine bottle.
The gangsters were saying something strange. Had a meeting a few days ago? church? It shouldn't be, he had never been to any church in the past few days...
"Hey! Supreme Crown!" Gangster looked at him with strange eyes, "It's a pleasure to meet you...I mean, I'm honored. Is there anything we can help you with?"
Orus spoke as steadily as possible: "If you are willing to help me contact the members of the Light Core, I guarantee that you will get rewards beyond your imagination."
The gangsters' smiles had a look that made him panic. Orus was still thinking about that sentence, and he suddenly remembered the face of the dark-skinned gangster. The man's name was Adam, and I had met him once in the church...
But that was three years ago! It was what happened that night when he and Gongsun Ce fought!
"There's something wrong. Guys, why doesn't he just teleport away?" "It seems that our distinguished big shot has encountered a little trouble..." The gangsters approached him step by step. "He just converted to Jiyan Dao... ah no, the devil had a big fight." "It seems that this has a big impact on him." "What a coincidence, brothers. We haven't had any trouble yet... …It seems we are very lucky!!”
The gangsters laughed wildly and rushed forward. Aulus kicked up the bottle and hit him on the head. He turned around and ran away without even looking at the results. The laughter of the gangsters came from behind, which frightened him.
"Hurry up! Tell everyone who has a grudge against the light core that the Supreme Crown can no longer use his ability!!"
"What a fucking surprise!" The thugs laughed wildly and chased after them. "Don't run away, Supreme Crown! You will definitely be very, very, very fucking surprised!!!"
Aurus was in a rare panic. Everything that happened since he was in coma was too ridiculous, his abilities could no longer be used, and all the details now told him that he was back three years ago!
But what's worse is that Aurus has no time to think about these strange things. Because those thugs were still chasing after him, and he realized today that he was not familiar with every place in the city. Just like now, he didn't know exactly where he was. Therefore, he didn't know where to go to escape, he didn't know where the pursuers would appear from, and he didn't know what kind of miserable treatment he would receive after being caught... He also didn't know that in a few minutes, he would escape. A dead end.
Aurus Optimis, who has become an ordinary person, will truly pay the price for his failure and his evil deeds.
And this time, no one would come to help him.
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For other ordinary citizens, life is not as exciting as the members of the Disaster Club, nor is it as painful as Orus is at the moment. Life is just life. Occasionally it gives you a little surprise. Most of the time it's fucked up, but no matter whether something goes wrong or not, life is the same every day.
The time is now two o'clock in the afternoon, and the City of Sky is once again in a state of exhaustion.
Compared with the melee three years ago, the affected area this time was even wider. The central area where everyone fought with Orus became the most severely damaged city area, followed by the Red Mage battlefield in the Thorn Area.
The most serious period of damage was mainly the melee in the first half. After the battle officially started, various creations covered the city cleanly, and the physical damage was reduced. As for the mental damage, it is quite serious. After all, not everyone has a big heart and can accept the spectacle of a lot of giant dragons flying in the sky. Therefore, today's Sky City is filled with the wailing sounds of anxious officials. It is really a difficult task to provide spiritual counseling to 5.7 million citizens one by one to prevent the birth of crazy dragons. Fortunately, the impermanent mages from various countries rushed to support in time, to a considerable extent. alleviates this problem.
Among the ruins of the junior high school of Cangqiong No. 2 Middle School, Milais walked over with two glasses of iced Coke in hand, sat down in a corner of the playground that barely survived, and handed the drinks to his deskmate.
"Drinking some ice will make you feel better." Millais said with relief. "It can relieve mental stress."
"Seventeen wants to go back to Zero Island." Shigure Shiqi's eyes were blank, "Seventeen doesn't want to go to school in this shabby place."
Millais believes that this shows the typical mentality change curve of Cangdu citizens: from arrogance to fear. After that, it is from fear → resistance → acceptance → reconciliation, and finally enjoyment.
Millais felt that he had reached the stage of acceptance, and the seniors of the school had probably reached the stage of enjoyment: they were cheering and drinking soda drinks at the school gate to celebrate another escape from the disaster and a four-day long holiday.
"Don't you think all this is weird?" He heard Shi Qi say loudly, "The evil spirit with a red mouth is causing trouble in the capital of the sky!! There are also dragons!!!"
Millais nodded slowly as he recalled his experience.
"Indeed." He said, "I also think it is quite bizarre to be eaten in one bite by an elementary school girl I met by chance."
Xiao Qi looked at him as if he were a ghost.
"That's the one we met at the doctor's clinic last time." Millais explained, "Have you met her?"
"without."
"Then at least you have better luck than me, right." Millais comforted.
The two unlucky children were speechless for a moment, staring ahead like birds on the roadside. Outside the school gate, a group of over-enjoyed high school students began to use their superpowers to cause havoc. An extra-large ice cream cone that was as tall as two people jumped out of the alley and crushed the high school students with sticky milk ice cream palms. on the ground.
"Look, the extra-large ice cream hit someone."
Millais tried hard to sound "surprised," but it didn't work.
Shigure Seventeen silently watched the whole process of superpowers fighting giant ice cream with him. In the end, the young people who had eaten mouthfuls of chocolate ice cream were hung on the wall with cookie cone handcuffs.
Shigure Seventeen grabbed the iced Coke and drank more than half of it in one breath.
"Seventeen has given up thinking. It's better not to use your brain in this place! Seventeen is going to eat ice cream!!"
"It makes sense. It's already so crazy, why bother thinking about it anymore!" Millais agreed, "Let's go find ice cream."
Millais and Seventeen found an ice cream cart two streets away, and they decided to eat two cones each to comfort their wounded hearts. Beside them, other ordinary citizens were still immersed in the warm atmosphere after each war. They discussed who the winner was this time, who the enemy was this time, how long it would take to build the house this time, and how many days of vacation they could have this time...
Citizens who have nothing to do with the melee enjoy their ordinary lives at their own pace. And the people involved in the melee are busy dealing with the last remaining things...
For example, torture a certain culprit who caused a serious situation.
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"I'll recruit! I'll recruit them all!" Shiyu Linwu shouted, "Brother, you have to save me. You know I don't want to cooperate with dad and the others' schemes!"
Shigure Reiichi sat in front of the iron table, crossed his hands, and stared at his brother who was tied up across from him with extremely oppressive eyes.
"We can discuss other questions later. The most important thing must be explained now. Why can you control the dragon?"
Lin Wutan smiled and said: "I actually don't know very well... But don't worry, brother, I have a guess! You know I am very smart!"
"Please say."
"Brother, you should understand the mechanism of how dragons go berserk. You are actually the signal source that attracts giant dragons. In extreme situations such as excessive emotions and mental breakdown, the 'seed' of superpowers can break through your mental defenses and attack the giant dragon on the other side. Send a signal and use the resonance of both parties to drill a hole in the real realm..." Lin Wu imitated the sound of drilling a hole, "Dululu! The dragon is coming. But brother, do you think that in terms of status, it is Long Gao? Or is it a dragon?"
Reiichi Shigure's superpower comes from the King of Destiny. He believes that his status is not as high as the Eternal King anyway.
"Compared to the seeds that send signals unilaterally, the dragon as its own body is a more advanced existence."
"Bingo~ So, I used the impermanence method to reverse my 'status'!"
After the status of bottom and top was reversed, the seed became the high-ranking party. Therefore, the being who gave orders became the seed Linwu.
This can be said to be a battle with the characteristics of Zero Island. It pins its hopes on the fantasy of word games and conceptual confusion, completely disregarding the consequences, and gambles with madness with the goal of defeating the superior. Just looking at the train of thought of this plan, Reiichi knew that it must have come from Genya Shigure.
"However, the only dragons that I can really control are the dragons in the spirit prison world." Lin Wu added, "Other dragons rely on these basic bases to expand their influence."
"That sounds reasonable. Sure enough, dragons live in a hierarchical society."
Lin Wu pondered for a while and said: "Brother, you have never controlled them and you don't understand. I don't think they have...the concept of society. In other words, their society is much simpler than ours. It is only divided into two poles: ordinary dragons and absolute ones." The ruler of them. When I control them, I feel like I am commanding them, as if I am controlling my own hands and feet. I am like the complete ruler of the dragon world...like a god."
This is very important information. Reiichi Shigure took note of the key points and prepared for further discussion with the experts.
After all the things that needed to be done were done, Rei Shigure relaxed and joked: "Is that the social form you hate the most?"
"Of course! What I hate most are gods and rulers!"
"Then you get brainwashed."
"How can I resist?" Lin Wu said with a sad face, "I was out doing field work when daddy lost the ball. I was really unlucky..."
Those who make up songs every day to scold Lord Jinshen should not expect much good luck.
Shigurei flipped through the files in a hurry: "According to reports from the on-site personnel, you were quite uncooperative in the final battle..."
"I was very cooperative before." Lin Wutan said with a smile, "You see, I left so many backup plans in advance, one of them must have had some effect...right?"
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Rei Shigure held a pen and tapped the paper file, making a noise that frightened the fifth brother. He frowned and said sadly: "Oh! Lin Wu, you have to be mentally prepared first. Although you have been brainwashed, the dragon summoning operation you participated in has caused a considerable impact in all aspects..."
Linwu's heart rose in his throat.
Rei Shigure changed the topic: "But because your CD played an important contribution in this battle and also provided important information just now, the official decided to consider your merits as equal to your faults and give you some mercy."
Lin Wugui shouted: "Brother, you scared me to death!"
"Haha. Heavenly evil spirits also know how to be afraid."
"Heavenly evil ghosts are also deadly..."
Shigure Ringo's brainwashing was lifted by Reiichi using the curse scale, and the black metal musician finally returned to his free body. Shigurei comforted his younger brother with his kind words for a while and walked out of the interrogation room. Caldesia was waiting for him outside the door.
"Reiichi! Is it so fun to scare your brother?"
Reiichi Shigure said honestly: "It's interesting."
Caldesia poked him in the face: "Naughty fellow! I don't remember teaching you such a thing!"
"Maybe it's hereditary."
"Eh~~~" Caldesia exclaimed, "How dare you tell such a joke? Are you reading this, my dear?"
Shigurei tried hard to recall the past, but found that he couldn't seem to remember the painful past clearly.
It's strange, obviously right after the revenge, those days are still so clearly imprinted in my heart. The only things that are clear now are the current time and the girl beside me.
"It's over a long time ago." He held the girl's hand and winked, "My dear."
"?~" Caldesia whistled and walked out of the official institution's gate with him.
"By the way, what are the other people doing?"
"The doctor was called to handle matters earlier. Gongsun and Qin Qianbai are still recovering from their injuries. Yun Yinglang is resting, Mo Yuankai and Chi Zijing went to chat, and John Garcia and Badman Ives should be visiting It’s over.”
"Is he okay?"
"I just came back from the hospital. After all, there is no big problem. I am working on jokes."
