At this moment, Zheng Xiu stretched out a pair of crystal clear ice wings to both sides. The three-foot ice blade in his hand was spotless. The firelight on the ground reflected the dazzling brilliance on the ice blade.
The long hair dyed white by frost is like a bunch of white ribbons, flowing automatically without wind.
Purer than crystal,
More demon than devil.
Mia, Jim, and Jimmy, as well as the believers of the Lady of the Night wearing strange masks in the mall, all fell into a dead silence when they saw the twisted and pure figure in the sky that blended without any sense of contradiction. .
Zheng Xiu slashed away with his sword, freezing everything around him. As far as he could see, it was desolate.
It wasn't until the frozen demon fell to the ground, making a continuous crisp cracking sound, that someone in the mall exclaimed: "Humanoid! It's humanoid!"
The frost that had condensed between his brows and hair did not make Zheng Xiu feel any chill. Instead, a strange warmth flowed through his limbs.
"dad."
Xue's voice came coolly from Zheng Xiu's pectoralis major: "Godly power... use it sparingly."
"Um?"
Xue's arrogant and cold voice was a bit tired: "Xue left dad's ship, and her stored power is limited."
"Huh? Does your power of authority actually store energy like a battery?"
Zheng Xiu wondered.
"Well, I secretly saved a little from my mother before."
When the orange cat heard this, he was dumbfounded: "Ah, meow? What you are storing is my source?"
"It's mine now." Zheng Xiu vaguely and kindly reminded the orange cat who is the captain and who is the mascot now. The whiteness of his hair and eyebrows faded away like the tide, and the ice wings on his back and the ice knife in his hand turned into crystal dust and dispersed in the night sky.
Zheng Xiu fell back to Mia and the others, and the three of them looked at Zheng Xiu with different eyes. Mia was completely in admiration, but Brother Jiji looked at Zheng Xiu like a monster. When Zheng Xiu fell, the two of them subconsciously took a half step back and swallowed hard.
"I said Xiaoxue."
This time Zheng Xiu used the "high-speed divine words" in a serious place - childcare.
"Dad, tell me."
"This battery, no, this authority, how much 'freeze' can you store?"
The ice crystal mark on the pectoralis major was silent for a while.
"I'm sorry, Dad." Xue apologized honestly: "I can only force this world to enter the Ice Age."
"That's barely enough."
Zheng Xiu nodded.
"Hey, hey, you are squandering my resources so unscrupulously, have you ever considered my feelings?"
Zheng Xiu waved to Mia and the others and walked towards the mall: "Let's go."
"Meow meow meow?"
Mia pointed carefully at Zheng Xiu's arms: "Boss, is your pet uncomfortable somewhere? I hear it keeps barking."
"Meow? When did I become this bastard's pet, meow?"
"Boss, it sounds even worse."
Mia looked worried.
She thought to herself that it was not easy to work so hard to raise such a large piece of spare food. It would cost too much food, and it would be a pity to die.
"It's okay, don't pay attention to her."
Zheng Xiu smiled and pressed the orange cat's head down.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
The orange cat was gagged by the macho man's well-developed pecs and was speechless.
Behind the protective glasses, Mia looked at the boss's squirming chest with strange eyes.
Following the burning oil drums, the four people walked towards the mall.
Along the way, the demon's corpse was smashed to pieces and scattered on the roadside.
Mia noticed something strange. Some pieces of frozen demon meat fell into the oil barrel, but they did not melt due to the high temperature of the flames. Instead, the blazing flames in the oil barrel were extinguished by the ice.
She didn't have time to think about the scientific reason. Soon after entering the mall, the weird atmosphere around her made Mia shiver subconsciously, and the unreasonable tension made her tighten the gun in her hand.
The center of the mall was empty, and the dome above had long been shattered. The howling cold wind formed turbulence in the center of the hollow mall, making a strange sound. The believers wearing strange masks, who were howling crazily not long ago, now unanimously maintained an eerie silence. Masks were neatly arranged on each floor of the mall, and Mia could even feel the suppressed and crazy eyes looking at the four of them hidden under the eye protection glass.
In the darkness, a black figure walked out silently. The figure was wrapped in a thick black robe and had a gas mask on his face. Different from other people's gas masks, the gas mask on the face of the man in black robe has a ferocious bat pattern painted with bright red paint.
Around the man in black robe, there were dozens of believers holding high torches, and the stars surrounded the man in black robe, facing Zheng Xiu.
"lady!"
Although Zheng Xiu's record of freezing hundreds of demons with one blow outside the mall gave Mia, Jim, and Jimmy strong confidence in their boss's strength, which was more monster than monster. But similarly, "Madam"'s methods are no less generous than those of her own boss. In the blink of an eye, he can create such a terrifying giant out of corpses. In terms of visual impact, he is not much worse than his own boss.
This was the first collision between two humanoids. Mia and the three of them watched the "Madam" calmly walk out of the darkness. The firelight of the believers did not dispel the haze in the mall. The other party's terrifying and depressing aura made Mia and the three of them feel as if their hearts were in their throats, and there was a sign that a war was imminent.
call!
The lady moved, and the torch crackled.
"Madam" was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, she escaped from the crowd of believers and rushed towards Zheng Xiu.
"Watch out!"
Mia gave a sweet shout and raised the muzzle of her gun.
"Ahem, don't shoot." Zheng Xiu flicked his finger, and Mia's gun was bent, pointing 90 degrees toward the sky.
"Madam" ran into Zheng Xiu's arms.
Behind the mask came the joy as if a woman had just come out after calling for a long time.
"……husband!"
Mia, Jim, and Jimmy, who thought they were about to have a fierce fight, opened their mouths in shock and hit their chins on their masks, feeling extremely painful.
"Snapped!"
"Snapped!"
"Snapped!"
The precious firearms in the hands of Mia, Jimmy, and Jim fell to their feet in shock at the same time.
…
Half an hour later.
Yue Linglong and Zheng Xiu could be considered as newlyweds, so they entered the mall underground and lit a bonfire.
Zheng Xiu skewered a piece of canned lunch meat on wire, sprinkled a few handfuls of coarse salt, and while rotating the grill, asked about what happened to Yue Linglong after she came to this world, how she became the leader of the followers of the Lady of the Night, and so on.
On the side, the orange cat turned its back to everyone, crying while opening a can of Bat brand, licking the taste left by Feng Bei.
Of course, before licking the can, she had to completely erase the bat pattern on the can.
Humph, this is not a different kind of bull-headed cat.
The orange cat is addicted to it.
The abandoned subway station underneath the shopping mall is very crude compared to the Orange Cat Club's camp, and there is no trace of anyone even living there.
Yue Linglong said that when they came here, the ground was filled with bones and the walls were filled with rats.
It took them a whole week to manage to clear the place and use it as a temporary settlement.
Yue Linglong stood close to Zheng Xiu and gently rested her head on Zheng Xiu's strong shoulder.
Zheng Xiu turned his head and saw a trace of dirt on Yue Linglong's fair face. He smiled slightly and stretched out his fingers to wipe away the dirt on Yue Linglong's face. Yue Linglong suddenly bounced away like an electric shock, weakly Said: "Husband, am I...dirty now?"
Zheng Xiu was stunned when he heard this, and then understood Yue Linglong's concerns. As the saying goes, women should look good to please themselves. In this dilapidated world, maintaining "cleanliness" is a luxury. He shook his head and smiled: "Nothing."
Yue Linglong sniffed her body secretly and felt a little relieved. The last time she took a bath was two days ago. When she heard Zheng Xiu say this, she carefully leaned her head back again.
The place where Yue Linglong "landed" was District 12 in the south. Her learning ability was not as abnormal as Zheng Xiu's, and it only took her a few minutes to roughly master the language system of this world.
She has never been exposed to the world outside Beiman and Daqian, and everything in this world is extremely strange to her. A plague broke out in District 12. Corpses were everywhere and rats were raging. It was a hell on earth.
But places with many corpses are a different kind of paradise for [Corpse Maker]. It didn't take her much effort to create a famous name in District 12. A few months ago, Yue Linglong accidentally rescued a group of fanatics who claimed to be "The Believers of the Lady of the Night" despite the language barrier. , Yue Linglong was inexplicably called their "spokesperson" and joined them in a daze.
Hearing this, Zheng Xiu frowned slightly: "Confused?"
"Yes, I was quite confused at first. Ah... it's cooked!" Yue Linglong reminded Zheng Xiu that the barbecued lunch meat was ready to eat. Zheng Xiu put the piece of meat close to his mouth and blew on it to cool down the fragrant canned lunch meat. A little bit, everyone ate this rare "delicious food" one bite at a time. In this world, even expired lunch meat is one of the few delicacies left in the world.
Yue Linglong looked at the teeth marks left by Zheng Xiu on the luncheon meat. She blushed and lowered her head and ate happily. Yue Linglong continued: "Later, Yue'er gradually understood what they said, and after she could barely talk, , I asked an 'elder' among the believers, and I understood why they identified Yue'er as the 'spokesperson' at first sight."
"Just because Yue'er speaks the same language as the Lady of the Night...Dagan language. Dagan language has been passed down from generation to generation by elders among believers. Until now, only a few words remain and many have been lost. Dagan language The language they call the 'Language of God'." Yue Linglong's eyes narrowed: "But Yue'er can be sure that the 'Ms. of the Night' they believe in is most likely to have 'ascended' from our Daqian... A senior."
senior?
Hearing this, Zheng Xiu burst into laughter. He stared blankly at the crackling sparks, lost in thought, and was speechless for a long time.
There is actually nothing wrong with Yue Linglong's reasoning. Feng Bei cut off all "reasons" in the world, and also cut off her connection with Yue Linglong, and cut off her superficial acquaintance with Yue Linglong. Naturally, he did not leave any memory in Yue Linglong's heart.
Snoring gradually began to sound in the underground of the shopping mall. Some believers fell asleep contentedly after eating and drinking.
"Yue'er once tried to use 'Brand' to contact Thirteenth Brother and the others, but for some reason, the connection with the Brand seemed to be disturbed. Thirteenth Brother and the others did not give Yue'er any response. Until today, I reunited with my husband."
A faint smile appeared on Yue Linglong's pretty face that had not lost any color due to the displacement. She arrived here early and lived here alone for nearly half a year. She was confused, lonely, and helpless. In the end, she ended up with " The identity of "Mrs." survives in this world. Now that I am reunited with Zheng Xiu, the suffering I have endured in the past six months seems to have become beautiful and worthwhile.
Zheng Xiu nodded and lowered his voice: "His aura of authority is everywhere. Your inability to get in touch may be related to this matter. Qing Shisan and the others are not mediocre. There is no need to worry about their safety. I am here for a short time. If I can Find His 'symbol' or 'True Body' in this world, and everything will be solved."
"Um."
Yue Linglong nodded vigorously, she had almost blind confidence in her husband.
"By the way, why did you change your name to 'husband'?"
Zheng Xiu noticed that Yue Linglong had been here for half a year, and her words and deeds had become more and more... down-to-earth, and even her spoken language had become more fashionable.
"ah!"
Yue Linglong's face turned slightly red and she asked timidly: "Husband...don't you like it? Yue Linglong can change it back."
"Not really, I'm just curious."
Yue Linglong took out a pamphlet from her arms and handed it to Zheng Xiu: "I got this from the followers of Lady of the Night. It is said that this is a relic left by Lady of the Night before she left hundreds of years ago."
Zheng Xiu took it and took a look at it curiously. It didn't matter if he didn't look at it. He almost laughed out loud when he saw it. He thought it was some mysterious book, but he didn't expect it to be an advertisement for a "diamond ring."
The advertisement is in the form of a comic strip. The ink printed on it has long faded. It uses vivid text and pictures to depict a happy couple. The man is handsome and tall, and the woman is wearing a wedding dress. They are getting married in the eyes of everyone. 's palace. At the wedding, the newlyweds put a ring on their lover's ring finger. When exchanging rings, the two of them had a message box above their heads that seemed to Zheng Xiu to be unoriginal, saying, "Husband, you are so kind, my wife, I will love you forever" and so on. Yue Linglong must have done her homework in advance and learned that "husband and wife" are nicknames for couples in this world.
The translation of the accompanying text is roughly: A certain brand of diamonds is both a constraint and a promise, to love each other for a lifetime and create eternity.
Yue Linglong has always been like this, pretending to be Zheng Xiu in her eyes and heart, trying her best to please Zheng Xiu.
While Zheng Xiu was looking at the advertisement, Yue Linglong stood silently, but her eyes were as bright as stars.
It was obviously a brainwashing marketing slogan, but in Yue Linglong's eyes, it became a fairy tale that has been remembered by future generations for hundreds of years.
She didn't know how to describe it, but to her, the couple in the book, even after a hundred years, still conveyed an atmosphere called "romantic" through the thin paper.
She felt it.
Zheng Xiu silently closed the brochure and returned it to Yue Linglong.
"That's right," Yue Linglong was expecting Zheng Xiu to call "wife", but Zheng Xiu didn't take the initiative. Yue Linglong's eyes dimmed slightly, and she quickly turned her face sideways, showing a faint smile, and changed the subject: "Husband, The reason why Yue'er found this place is because Lady of the Night left a relic hundreds of years ago. In fact, Lady of the Night had left hints on the relic hundreds of years ago. Unfortunately, the believers couldn't understand it. It has been passed down from generation to generation until now.”
"Relic?"
Yue Linglong turned her wrist, and a dark red box with twenty sides made of an unknown material, about the size of an egg, lay quietly in Yue Linglong's palm.
On the upward side, the word "North" is engraved in Juanxiu's handwriting.
Zheng Xiu's breathing was stagnant. Yue Linglong didn't notice that when Zheng Xiu stretched out his hand, his fingertips trembled slightly in an imperceptible manner. Zheng Xiu carefully held the twenty-sided box in his hand, which was integrated and had no gaps on the surface. Yue Linglong lowered her head and continued:
"Believers of the Lady of the Night firmly believe that before their lady left, she left a place where the sky is blue, the water is clean, the soil is fertile, and the land is covered with green trees. People They can run freely on the land without wearing masks, everyone can have their own home, and they can smile happily in front of the warm stove."
"Believers call that place 'Paradise'."
"And the box left by Lady Night is the key to 'Paradise'."
(End of chapter)
