In the East District, in a small one-bedroom apartment.
"It's a good thing you rented a room here, otherwise we would have no place to go." Forsi sat on the bed and looked around, "It's just too small."
"This was originally a place I rented to temporarily change my clothes. How big do you want it to be?"
Xiu blocked Forsi's complaint smoothly, and then complained himself: "Oh, if I had known this, I wish I had not gone to that Extraordinary party yesterday."
"By the way, have you got your manuscript? If not, you are not allowed to go back secretly!"
"Do you think I'm as impulsive as you?" Forsi put up the pillow on the bed and leaned on it.
"Even if I don't get it, I don't dare to go back...but if that's the case, I probably won't be able to write my new book."
"Did you get it?" Xio asked in surprise: "When?"
"I put it on the coffee table yesterday before going to bed. Fortunately, I put it away when I passed by, otherwise I will definitely regret it now!"
Speaking of this, Forsi sighed:
"What happened on this day was more and more dangerous than what I have encountered in the past year combined."
"Tell me, after we fall asleep tonight, will we wake up underground in the Holy Wind Church tomorrow morning?"
"I think that lady is scarier."
Xio lay on the back of the chair with his hands, supported his chin, and said with some uncertainty:
"I think I recognize her. If she is correct, there is a reward of 200 pounds for information about her!"
"So many?" Forsi sat up and looked at Xio, "What did she do?"
"Murder and theft at Earl Levitt's Mansion." Hugh clearly remembered the big and small rewards in the newspapers.
Forsi leaned back again, "Then this is too little."
"This is just a bounty from the Police Headquarters," Hugh explained: "They never give out too high amounts, and 200 pounds is already a lot."
"She must be a mid-level strong person. Unfortunately, I thought about getting her bounty before, but now it seems that I thought too much... I thought it was right. The police department's money is not that easy to make."
Having said this, Xio suddenly changed his tone and asked:
"What's going on between you and Varina? Have you contacted each other privately? How come there's a love triangle?"
Forsi's eyes widened, "What are you talking about?!"
"Am I talking nonsense?" Xio tutted a few times, "You were so excited that your face turned red!"
"I'm inspired to write!"
Forsi explained with a serious look:
"Don't you think the scene was very dramatic? It must be a famous scene adapted into my novel!"
"Yeah, yeah, I believe it." Xio nodded repeatedly, but his expression was disapproving.
…
When Qili hugged Varina and left, he kept twisting and shouting "Upstairs, upstairs!"
An angry Qili pinched him hard and replied, "It's been dealt with."
Varina finally calmed down.
In the heavy rain, the streets everywhere were almost empty, and the raindrops and water splashes caused by Qili's invisible running were covered by the rain curtain.
When they returned to their residence in the Bridge District, both of them were soaked to the skin.
In the empty room on the second floor, Qili put Varina on the empty bed board, quickly found towels and clean clothes from his room, and threw them next to him.
"Before I come back, change it yourself."
After saying that she left.
Varina breathed a sigh of relief. He would rather endure the pain and do it himself than let Qili help.
With his current physical condition, he would not be able to overturn the car, but it would not affect making a fool of himself.
If that kind of scene really happened, maybe Qili wouldn't care, maybe even happy to see it happen, but he himself would feel very embarrassed.
The pain on his body reminded Varina that the damage of the "Lightning" spell was much higher than he imagined.
He remembered that the dog-licking mirror "Arrods" in the original book struck countless people with lightning, and everyone got up after lying down for a while, as if it was not serious.
Now it seems that "Arrodes" kept it.
Thinking about it, the sequence, path and level of the people who were hit by it were very different, but the final injuries were quite consistent.
This is simply a testament to the careful control of damage levels.
In contrast, what he endured was the "lightning" inspired by the spell.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is a gift from the "Lord of Storms". Although there is only a trace, it is also a real punishment thunder.
Varina experienced it personally and felt that if the lightning hit an ordinary person or a weak low-level Extraordinary, it might be fatal with one blow.
It's actually quite a coincidence that he survived and fought back.
If his body hadn't experienced the double amplification, even if he could withstand the lightning strike, he probably wouldn't have the strength to fight back;
If the punisher hadn't fired, he would have had no chance to fight back;
If it weren't for that "connection" ability, he wouldn't have the means to fight back.
…
After changing his clothes, Warina sat on the bed, waiting for Qili and thinking at the same time.
This time he made a big mistake.
First, he should not believe too much in the content of the original work, be blindly optimistic, and ignore possible dangers in order to deepen his relationship with Xio and Forsi.
Secondly, he accidentally killed a member of the Punishers, which was also the biggest mistake he made in the whole thing!
This mistake was so big that he had no way out at the time.
If Qili had not appeared, even if Xio and Forsi had taken him away at that time, they would have been wanted soon, and the best outcome would have been to escape from Backlund.
To be fair, this is a very bad outcome.
Thirdly, Qili helped him make up for the second flaw, but also brought a new one - she collected the blood of Xio and Forsi.
This problem may be big or small, but the consequences if it gets bigger are completely unacceptable to him.
He could accept being threatened because it was his own choice for the potion formula.
But Xio and Forsi were different. They were completely implicated by him.
No, we have to find a way to solve this problem...
After much deliberation, Varina's mind finally turned back to the punisher.
His name seems to be...Corvo?
Wariner really couldn't believe it, and it was hard to accept that the "Assassin" potion in his body was completely digested because he counterattacked and killed him.
The knife flew out and shattered three things.
Corvo's throat, the shell of the "Assassin" potion in his body, and the bottom line he sticks to.
The bottom line is the bottom line because of its absoluteness.
If the bottom line can also be flexibly changed, then there will be no such thing as a bottom line, and the meaning of persistence will be lost.
Varina was trapped in a cycle of self-blame and couldn't extricate himself.
At this moment, Qili, who had changed her clothes, walked in.
Seeing Varina's dazed and regretful look, she slapped Varina in the face and cursed:
"waste!"
"Do you still have a little bit of the Jedi counterattack you had back then?"
"Ignoring right or wrong, things have already happened. Will you just wallow in the past and blame yourself?"
