As the recycling bin closed, their mission was completed. The bright red everywhere had gradually dried up, and the feet felt sticky when they stepped on it.
The strange smells and whispers have disappeared, and the broken stones and broken walls prove that that short battle once existed. There will always be a moment in everyone's life when they are amazed by someone, and then leave a lifelong memory.
Yulia stepped forward to catch the fallen Jiang Chenchuan. The cold wind blew away the blood mist, and it just melted into the air, or maybe turned into dust in the world.
it's over.
It's not quite over yet.
They solved the source of the curse, but there was no way to save the people in the city who had mutated into monsters.
Now was not the time to think about these things. Ethan and Yulia worked together to reluctantly move Jiang Chenchuan to a clean place without blood stains, so that he could use the Palutru Gun normally.
"We can leave."
Ethan muttered, pulled the trigger, and the Gun of Palutru in his hand slowly lit up, before the confusion affected his thinking...
shot!
The gunfire rang out and the connecting passage was opened. Barras did not expect that the almost suffocating breath would disappear completely.
Seeing Jiang Chenchuan's figure appear at Da Silva's home, everyone was surprised. There were still infected people in the city, and it was not an easy task to transport the unconscious people back from the royal city.
Several people hurriedly stepped forward to pick up Jiang Chenchuan. Ethan and Yulia had no wounds on their bodies, but looked a little tired.
Barras marveled at Jiang Chenchuan's vitality and execution ability, but when he thought about what happened when he first entered the city, he felt relieved.
"finished?"
"It's over."
Ethan put the recycling box on the ground and leaned on the sofa to rest tiredly. Everyone was covered in blood and exuded a strong smell of blood.
After settling Jiang Chenchuan, Da Silva invited Yulia and the others to take a bath first. Potochar stayed by Jiang Chenchuan's bed, regretting that he did not participate in this fierce battle.
And he had no idea how much they paid for victory.
The withered branches were unable to grow, and the sun gradually went west. After the battle, only this devastated city was left, and the last glimmer of light was cut into pieces by various buildings.
The whining did not stop, but the source of the curse was solved, but the final problem of Ronark City was still not solved. The city occupied by the infected could only decline step by step.
After taking a shower, Ethan brought the recycling box to Jiang Chenchuan's room. Looking at Jiang Chenchuan who was still in a coma, he gently placed the box next to his bed.
"Don't worry, Yulia will come to treat you later."
Although he said he was relieved, in fact, Ethan himself had no idea, and Jiang Chenchuan's situation was completely beyond his understanding.
Looking out the window, something was constantly floating in the air, as if it was snowing, but it was a little different from snow.
Ethan was a little confused, so he stretched out his hand, and the warm dust fell into his palm, like gray snow. He squeezed it gently, leaving only an inconspicuous gray.
"Burning ashes?"
Ethan raised his eyes and looked into the distance. The dancing firelight in the distance was particularly conspicuous in the sunset that was about to end.
"Char, do you know which direction that is?"
Ethan pointed to the location of the fire and asked Potochar, who looked melancholy beside the bed.
Potochar raised his head when he heard the sound, came to the bedside and looked out, showing a shocked look.
"It seems like..."
"The Association of Conjurers."
The next words were picked up by da Silva who pushed through the door. He seemed to know about the fire in advance and was not surprised at all.
A surging heat wave rushed up into the sky. From such a distance, you could faintly detect the temperature coming from it. The fireworks were swaying, and you could feel the noise and chaos over there.
"What's going on outside? I see that the infected people on the street seem particularly anxious."
Barras asked, poking his head in the doorway.
No one has an accurate answer. Even da Silva looked confused. As soon as the recycling was completed, the Conjurer Association was burned down. No matter what, there must be some connection.
"Meow~"
Suddenly a cat meowed outside the window, and then a black cat rushed in from the outside. It landed steadily on the ground, glanced at the people around it, sat down, and licked the stains on its body. Ash hair.
"This cat... seems to be the cat we lost before!"
Potochar picked up the cat and observed it before speaking.
"Lost? Did Ivel bring it in?"
Ethan turned his head and looked at Barras, hoping that he could give him a satisfactory explanation.
Let’s not talk about Jiang Chenchuan’s character, but at least Ethan can’t be messed with. So in order to save his life, Barras still stood up and answered Ethan’s question very cooperatively:
"This cat was not brought into the city by Evel, it seems..."
As he spoke, Barras met the sharp eyes of the black cat, and felt a chill all over his body. He suppressed the next words. He felt as if he was threatened by a cat.
yes!
Barras patted his face. He didn't expect that he was so timid all of a sudden and that he was afraid of a cat. Moreover, he was so familiar with it before and had been with it in the mansion. Why did he suddenly become a little bit scared? Become stranger.
"What does it seem like?"
Looking at Barras' strange behavior, Ethan continued to ask.
"It was as if the cat came to the door on its own and suddenly showed up that day."
Barras shrugged, but he didn't dare to look at the cat. He felt like a secret informer, and he began to feel guilty for no reason.
"Find Yvel by yourself..."
Ethan looked at the black cat in Potochar's arms with a thoughtful expression, and the cat just licked its fur leisurely, as if it didn't take Ethan seriously at all. He lay in Er's arms for a while, then jumped down and started playing by himself.
After all, the cat thing was just a sideshow. The most important thing was Jiang Chenchuan’s safety. Yulia changed out of her bloody clothes, quickly cleaned herself up and rushed over. Jiang Chenchuan was still unconscious, and No sign of waking up.
After Yulia's careful inspection, she found that Jiang Chenchuan had no scars at all on his body. The previous injuries had miraculously healed.
"Sorry, Ethan, I don't have any good solution. I can only wait for Ivel to wake up."
Finally, Yulia shook her head and said with regret.
"What's going on with Evel now?"
Ethan leaned against the window, with a little spark and white smoke rising slowly. He looked at the darkness outside the window. The raging fire that burned the Spell Masters Association finally went out.
"Evel's body is fine, but he just can't wake up. Generally, this is a problem of consciousness."
Trapped in the dark consciousness, struggling, unable to escape.
"Is there any way to wake him up?"
Ethan raised his head and asked.
"Feel sorry……"
Yulia shook her head.
The human brain will subconsciously protect itself from harm, but who would have thought that there is a terrible source of pollution hidden in Jiang Chenchuan's brain, and the impact it can cause may be thousands of times more dangerous than the mermaid corpse in the recycling bin.
Yulia's mood was a little depressed, and her condition didn't look good. In other words, she was annoyed by her incompetence. Jiang Chenchuan saved them, but she couldn't do anything.
"Then... we can only wait."
Ethan spoke slowly.
When Jiang Chenchuan woke up, after all, this man who seemed to have miracles was also full of ulterior secrets.
"Meow……"
The black cat didn't know when it slipped into the house. The darkness was its best cover. It jumped onto the bed with elegant cat steps, and was as good as when it came. It just walked around in a circle.
Finally, it chose to find a place to lie down at the end of the bed, at Jiang Chenchuan's feet. It seemed that it had realized something and wanted to stay in the room and accompany Jiang Chenchuan silently.
Ethan took a look and saw that it did not have any drastic actions. Although he was a little wary and suspicious of this black cat, it was still an animal after all, so Ethan didn't take it too seriously.
There was another person in the room. Barras sat aside and did not participate in their conversation from beginning to end. Although the problem of the relics was solved, it was still very difficult to leave in this city full of infected people. thing.
"Since Ivel is unconscious and unable to move, we cannot leave Ronark City for the time being, so Miss Yulia, I think..."
After a long silence, Ethan suddenly spoke. Even the black cat, who was resting with his eyes closed, heard his voice and opened his eyes.
"What?"
"The matter in the royal city has just been resolved, and someone is eager to deal with the Conjurer Association. So, I think there must be some secret hidden there."
Ethan held his chin and reasoned.
The black cat suddenly stood up and stared at Ethan intently.
"Do you want to go to the Conjurers Guild?"
Yulia asked.
After getting Ethan's affirmative answer, the two began to discuss the next action. Taking advantage of the darkness, the infected people could not move freely in the dark, so they could go secretly.
The black cat jumped on the table and grabbed something among the books on the table.
Ethan and Yulia told Barras to take care of Jiang Chenchuan, and they walked out of the door while discussing the situation.
"Meow!"
The black cat raised its head and barked, but it didn't attract anyone's attention.
Seeing Ethan and the others leaving, the black cat seemed a little angry, or maybe it was a cat's nature, and he pushed all the books on the table out at once.
There was a crash.
Barras turned around and saw a pile of books on the ground in a mess.
"I have never been so naughty before. If you cause trouble again, I will throw you in Ronark City and let those monsters eat you."
He wouldn't really be angry with a cat, Barras just muttered while squatting down to clean up the mess on the ground.
As soon as my fingers touched the book, I felt the book sink. I saw the black cat that was still on the table suddenly jumped down and stepped on the book.
"Please, please stop making trouble, okay?"
Barras said helplessly, trying to push the black cat away with one hand, but the black cat stretched out its paw, pointed at a certain word in the book, and meowed.
Following the black cat's gaze, you can clearly see the word she is pointing at, which happens to be...
"madness!?"
He grabbed the black cat by the scruff and threw it away. Looking at the cat's contemptuous eyes, Barras felt a little unhappy for no reason.
He didn't know why, but he always felt like he was being scolded by a cat.
Not only that, it is despising itself!
Thinking of Jiang Chenchuan's terror, Ethan's madness, and the threat of the black cat, it was hard for Barras to accept his current self. If he had known this, he shouldn't have gone through all the trouble to leave Duan Tingyang. Museum, and killed so many people...
The book slipped from his hands, Barras covered his face, stood up and left the room.
Watching the back of Barras leaving, the black cat just looked at it coldly and said nothing.
…
"Are you okay? Ethan."
The quiet darkness seemed to be cannibalistic, spreading continuously. There was a kerosene lamp on, and the weak light could only make people see a small area.
"Evel's situation...is out of my control."
Ethan sighed and said slowly, logically speaking, he saved himself, so he should help him keep the secret.
But there was something about Ivel that frightened him. Moreover, he also knew the true situation of Jiang Chenchuan. Ivel was not the real Ivel, an unknown soul from the Summer Realm. Could he really be a demon from other countries? .
"If today's battle is known to the Alchemy Institute, he will definitely be arrested for experiments..."
Yulia has also come into contact with those academics, a group of old men who are rigid and ignorant, and they think about some things all day long.
She couldn't accept that Ivel lost his freedom and was tied to the experimental table like an animal, so the only possibility was to convince Ethan to be with her, or...
Deal with him!
She was holding something in her clenched hands. At such a close distance, if she gave him a blow, he would almost lose consciousness. In this way, she would have a chance...
Yulia swallowed her saliva. It was hard to imagine that one day, words like murder and silence would appear in her mind.
Tonight, after agreeing to act with Ethan, it's hard to say that I don't have other thoughts.
I don’t know what exactly is going on in Ethan’s mind?
"..."
Ethan didn't answer.
"What do you think about Mr. Ivel's situation?"
Yulia asked nervously.
I don’t know if Ethan noticed it, but he turned his head and glanced at Yulia, shook his head and whispered:
"This matter, right now... we can't let anyone know the truth of this battle, and the situation of Yvel's self-healing."
"Ah...really?"
Yulia smiled softly. The moment she got the answer, she relaxed and put the relics away calmly.
Walking on the dark road, the two figures were submerged in shadows and walked towards the direction of the Spell Masters Association.
