"coming?"
"Um."
"Where's Brother Scar?"
"...Brother Scar is dead."
"Condolences."
The afternoon air was hot and dry, with the smell of sand and dust in the air. Chen An shook his head and looked at the tallest building in the city in front of him.
The walls are composed of white jade-like stone bricks, representing luxury and nobility. The intricate reliefs and patterns highlight the grandeur of the character.
This mansion, which symbolizes nobility and power, is supposed to be a beacon in the dark world, bringing stability to reality and the dark world with absolute justice and light. As an "official" house, it should be a symbol of this chaotic, twisted and crazy world. In...the only remaining order.
It's just... Chen An was wearing a black cloak, and his eyes hidden in the hood quietly looked at the bronze door.
The city lord of this mansion has single-handedly presided over the distortion and madness that occurred in the past few weeks.
Along the way, Chen An saw people from the inner city suddenly falling to the ground, and heard the fanatical murmurs not far away.
Scenes from the divination are unfolding.
People are panicking...losing hope...the general trend is...
There is also the back of the man who still makes Chen An confused.
But... no matter what, all he can do now is to stop this Gu Suo, City Lord Gu, whom he has never met before.
"Let's go."
Chen An took a deep breath, calmed down his mottled and complicated mood, and looked at Zhao Si with bright eyes.
Zhao Si nodded calmly, stretched out the sleeves of his bleached brown long-sleeved shirt, and quietly opened the bronze door.
inside the door,
Magnificent.
In the empty hall, facing the door, is a chair like a dragon's chair.
The chair is inlaid with red velvet, gold buttons, and silver satin.
now,
An old man with a haggard face, wearing a brown fur coat, with white beard and hair, and his long hair tied up with a brush on the top of his head, was sitting there.
The old man's face is very thin and covered with unhealthy age spots. His eyes are deep, the bridge of his nose is slightly sunken, and his lips are very deflated, as if they have lost their moisture.
"You are here." Gu Suo's old and gentle voice echoed in the hall at this moment.
Did he know we were coming? Chen An's heart tightened, but looking at Zhao Si beside him, his face was calm, and there was a hint of coldness in the corner of his mouth.
The guidance of fate will lead us to the destined future... Chen An was silent in his heart.
When Chen An and Zhao Si walked into the lobby, the bronze door behind the door closed automatically with a bang.
This time, it seemed that the lobby was cut off from the outside world!
In a daze, Chen An seemed to see wisps of ethereal breath that was not clear enough, like threads, like silk, floating through the walls of the house from everywhere outside... all the way towards the old man!
"The ceremony has begun." Zhao Si said solemnly.
Chen An nodded.
Is this the power of the media that brings “everyone in soft capital’s destiny to be changed”?
Chen An didn't know what it was, but as these strands drifted, the old man's aura became deeper and deeper!
In fact, according to common sense, Chen An was waiting for Gu Suo's speech.
Ordinary villains will always talk at such critical moments, such as how Gu Suo knew about the arrival of Chen An and Zhao Si, and various... various things about their fate.
But,
The moment Chen An saw the harp that appeared in Gu Suo's hand from unknown time.
The danger warning brought by spirituality in his mind was frantically sounding the alarm!
Gu Suo's old fingers kept waving in the golden harp, his face flushed slightly, and his cloudy eyes shone with light!
At this moment, a huge and twisted spider with sixteen spider legs covered with symbols and silk threads, a body covered with black feathers, and a head covered with dense white pupils... suddenly appeared!
The spider seemed to have traveled from the invisible spiritual world, its body was illusory and twisted, filled with madness and darkness!
"Destiny Spider?" Zhao Si's face looked a little weird. He stretched out his hand to cover Chen An's eyes: "Don't look at it, this is an angel-level shadow... He can't exert his true power, but it's enough. Makes you crazy."
Chen An looked pale, with cold sweat pouring out of his forehead!
He just glanced at it...and heard waves of obscure murmurs coming from his ears. His head seemed to have turned into a ball of paste, and was about to explode!
The intense confusion brought his spirit to the verge of collapse!
He punched the wall beside him and let out a low roar from his throat.
The clown mask has appeared on his face. With the floating of white, yellow and red ink, Chen An feels a little indifferent and calm, but that is a drop in the bucket for the madness in his heart!
When Zhao Si saw this, his expression became a little more solemn again.
He stretched out his hand and put it on Chen An's shoulder. Chen An suddenly felt an indescribable aura washing over his mind. The feeling of madness and chaos, and the murmur in his ears slowly subsided.
"Destined enemy..."
Gu Suo looked at this scene, his old eyes flashed solemnly.
I have already seen that... on the day I become a bishop, I will suffer a disaster... Gu Suo closed his eyes and was silent in his heart.
As a fear-level mutant on the path of destiny, he has already been able to glimpse some of the mysteries of destiny. He cannot see clearly, but he can also foresee some vague futures.
What made him uneasy was that the thread that was originally just "disrupting the bishop's path" suddenly turned into a huge crisis the moment these two people appeared!
"It's like something has blocked my perception of destiny..." Gu Suo looked at the two people. One of them looked crazy and ordinary, but the other one was invisible to him.
Taking a breath, Gu Suo suddenly opened his eyes. All of this may seem slow, but in fact it only happened in a second or two!
As his eyes opened, the terrifying illusory spider covered with black feathers, with thousands of eyeballs gazing, sixteen twisted threads, so huge that it could fill the entire open space of the mansion... stepped out its giant legs!
As a "harpist", Gu Suo can use music to materialize everything related to his own destiny in this life and turn it into strange creations!
And this Spider of Destiny was the most terrifying existence he had ever had the pleasure to witness... It was... an angel!
He didn't hesitate or test at all, he just came up and showed off his most terrifying weirdness!
"Jack Jack..."
Zhao Si's voice was calm with a strange tone.
"Little doll."
This time, the voice was tender and childish, like a female doll making it in his throat.
"Red Shoes."
This time the voice was noble and elegant, like the moans of a beautiful girl!
At the same time, Chen An, who had just regained consciousness, suddenly saw the spider rushing towards him...
From the shadow of Zhao Si, a little boy holding a stick appeared squirmingly, a girl holding the head of a long-haired woman crying, a man holding an ax, and a girl wearing scarlet high heels!
These weird monsters were entirely composed of vague black shadows, except for the girl's red dancing shoes, which were as red as blood!
The first two Chen An knew were Jack, who cried "Wolf", and the little girl and her father in the nursery rhyme "Sister Carrying a Doll".
Those were terrifying existences that made him feel irresistible.
But for some reason, looking at those scarlet red high heels... Chen An swallowed subconsciously.
Zhao Si took a step forward, and his mouth suddenly widened. The huge and illusory shadow creation of the "Spider of Destiny" actually turned into a drawn vortex and was sucked into his mouth!
At the same time, Gu Suo's expression suddenly changed!
"How is that possible!" Gu Suo's heart was filled with disbelief!
That is the phantom creation of an "angel"!
He suddenly felt bad, who exactly was this man!
But he is the city lord after all... The city lord's mansion is not just an ordinary mansion!
I saw Gu Suo slowly pressing a switch on the chair.
The next moment, the stone knight statues on both sides of the lobby seemed to emerge from the void!
"All the heroic souls of Ruandu in the past, in the name of Ruandu City Lord, I wake you up to fight for me and fight for the peace of Ruandu!"
Gu Suo's old and gentle voice was tinged with solemnity.
There were fourteen stone statues of knights on the left and right, men and women with different appearances, but they all started to move at this moment!
"Are you worthy?" When Chen An saw this, he couldn't help but feel angry in his heart.
It was you who destroyed Ruandu with your own hands,
It was you who took refuge in the secret organization and became a bishop for yourself!
Now, you want these heroic souls who sacrificed their lives for the soft capital and died fighting against the secret organization to help the evildoers? !
At this moment, the stick in Jack's hand had hit one of the heroes hard!
boom! With a bang, the stick smashed out the black mist and almost collapsed!
But the heroic soul with silver-white armor grabbed Jack's neck with a dull and brave expression!
On the other side, the little girl holding the woman's head began to cry, and the movements of the knight's spirit became sluggish...
The man holding an ax severely chopped off the neck of a heroic woman!
He seems to only be looking for female heroes to fight!
The girl wearing red dancing shoes slowly squatted down, took off her red dancing shoes, and then rushed towards a hero like crazy.
She threw herself at the feet of the knight's hero and pressed her boots hard on the knight's feet. The red dancing shoes seemed to disperse into red mist in a trance, and then regrouped on the hero's feet the next moment!
But there are fourteen heroic souls around him!
And Chen An noticed that the harp in Gu Suo's hand was missing. He sat there motionless, as if relying on his own spirituality and personality to activate and transport!
"Can you just kill Gu Suo?" Chen An shouted softly.
Zhao Si's eyes narrowed slightly and he said: "If we can't do it, these knights will organize us."
Chen An gritted his teeth. He relied on the "body control" given by the clown to constantly avoid the knight's attacks, and shuttled behind Jack and the axe-man.
Then, he suddenly put his hand into his clothes and took out a leather pocket!
Whoosh!
The flying knife came to Gu Suo's eyes in an instant!
The next moment, the flying knife pierced Gu Suo's old face.
Blood dripped from Gu Suo's cheek, but he remained motionless, his face old and peaceful.
"He is performing a ceremony. After the ceremony is completed, as the bishop... he will abandon the human body. He now relies on the power of ritual thoughts to live outside, and does not care about physical damage." Zhao Si glanced at Chen An and explained calmly road.
"Abandoning the human body?" Chen An looked shocked.
"Well, the bishop is also called a demigod." Zhao Si nodded, his hands danced slightly, and those shadow monsters seemed to be full of power again!
And the heroic soul of the knight who put on the "red dancing shoes" actually started dancing unconsciously, and it was an elegant ballet!
The knight in red dancing shoes kept spinning in circles, the long sword in his hand spinning...severing the bodies of one knight after another...
"Black Fairy Tale... He is also a mutator in the path of destiny, a horror level..." Gu Suo couldn't help but be slightly startled when he saw this scene.
Mutants on this path are extremely rare, and there is one in Soft City... He never knew about it.
Seeing the extremely familiar path, Gu Suo's cloudy eyes filled with memories.
In the distant past, when I was still young, I seemed to have heard my father telling me dark and terrifying stories.
I would be so frightened that I would cry... There seemed to be "Crying Wolf", "Doll" and "Red Shoes" among them.
His expression was slightly startled, but those things were too far away, and his father had already died when he was young. Now...if he can't survive this, he will also die.
Has it been too long? I can't even remember my father's face anymore... Gu Suo laughed at himself slightly.
Then, he straightened up and saw that although the heroic souls had the advantage for the time being, the sense of crisis about his fate in his mind became stronger.
What is the origin of this person who can swallow the shadow of the "Destiny Spider"?
The "mythical true form of the Spider of Destiny" is an angel... It is an existence that is almost invisible in the entire dark world. If I hadn't seen my father show it to me when I was young, I would never have known that such a terrifying existence existed in the world.
A sense of uneasiness spread in Gu Suo's heart.
He tried to figure out the thread of fate, but found that his fate seemed to be destined to perish!
"No...no one can stop me from becoming a bishop."
Gu Suo's gentle voice was no longer gentle, but became hoarse and slightly crazy. He seemed to have made up his mind and stood up suddenly!
Then, he carefully took out a small brown-red pipe from the inner pocket of his brown coat.
The pipe is very beautiful, with four golden inlays, and the mahogany shell has been maintained to a shiny finish.
"You two... I don't know where you are from, but today, I will definitely become a bishop. If you leave, I am willing to let it go." Gu Suo tried his best to soften his voice, but it was still hoarse. Old and a little crazy!
Zhao Si caught a glimpse of this scene, and his expression suddenly became a little dazed...
Some things that had been buried deep in the memory seemed to be awakened.
"That pipe... looks familiar." Zhao Si said to himself.
Chen An took a deep breath and looked at the dissipating heroic souls around him, and then saw the pipe in Gu Suo's hand. A very bad feeling surged out of his heart.
Gu Suo's reminiscing voice slowly sounded:
"Sealed Artifact - Unnumbered - The destination of death. This is the relic left by my great father... It is also my most precious existence... Unfortunately, it will break after use, and I will never be able to remember it again. In honor of my respected father."
As he spoke, Gu Suo's eyes turned slightly red on his old and withered face.
Chen An was a little surprised when he saw this scene.
This beast who has no humanity and is not worthy of being a city lord... also has a tender side?
What Chen An didn't see was that the corners of Zhao Si's eyes twitched slightly.
Zhao Si looked strange and sighed deeply.
"The pipe is equivalent to a special "Level 2 Sealed Artifact" that can directly obliterate the existence of any non-bishop and guide him to the fate of death. He cannot be used." Zhao Si's calm voice floated in Chen An's ears.
"What should I do?" Chen An asked hurriedly.
Zhao Si shook his head.
Gu Suo stared at the two people in front of him, a sad smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he pointed his pipe at Zhao Si, the stranger who could swallow the "Spider of Destiny".
I'm not my father, and I can't use the pipe to its full power...but for one particular scare...it's enough.
Gu Suo said silently in his heart.
But...
The next second...
With a heavy sigh, Zhao Si waved his hand.
Gu Suo's body staggered suddenly!
He looked at the pipe in his hand with horror... It was pulled by invisible threads, and he couldn't hold it without his control... It flew towards the man!
The next moment, the pipe came into Zhao Si's hands.
Chen An was already sluggish.
Looking at the pipe in his hand, Zhao Si's eyes showed a rare warmth.
He raised his head, looked at Gu Suo, and said calmly: "Thank you for helping me keep it so well."
"you!"
"you!"
Gu Suo and Chen An said this word almost at the same time!
"What's your relationship with Gu Suo?" Chen An looked at Zhao Si with his eyes widened and asked hurriedly.
An unimaginable guess slowly emerged in Chen An's heart.
An extremely weak smile appeared on Zhao Si's lips.
He looked at Gu Suo from a distance, with a duller warmth in his eyes.
"He should...call me father." Zhao Si said calmly and gently.
Chen An took a deep breath and closed his eyes slightly.
Okay, no wonder Gu Suo can summon the shadow of the "Spider of Destiny"...
Zhao Si said that over the past thousands of years, he has died and lost his memory countless times, and has fallen into the reincarnation of his own destiny. As the "Spider of Destiny" he once did, he cannot remember many things.
In reality and in the dark world, he may have left behind heirs, but he couldn't remember why he died or how far he had reached.
Gu Suo, on the other hand, stared blankly at Zhao Si... After a while, he suddenly stumbled to his knees!
His old and cloudy eyes were filled with tears.
"Father...you...are you really the father...?"
Gu Suo couldn't believe it, trembling and moaning intermittently.
Zhao Si took two steps forward, looked at Gu Suo, and said calmly: "It should be."
Looking at the father and son in front of him, one is a haggard old man who is almost dead, and the other is an ordinary office worker with a middle-aged face. If Chen An didn't know the inside story, it would be difficult for Chen An to think that these two people are father and son...
So is it a happy ending now... Zhao Si should have other ways to help Gu Suo become a bishop, right?
etc...
Chen An was suddenly a little confused...that...for everything that happened in Ruadu, who should avenge Ding Ping's revenge and Brother Scar's revenge?
Under the protection of Zhao Si, how could he kill Gu Suo!
He pursed his lips with a complicated expression and looked at the two people in front of him.
Gu Suo trembled and stumbled to his feet, looking at Zhao Si with tearful eyes on his withered face covered with age spots.
"Father...where have you been...how did you become a horror...I..." he said, almost choking.
Zhao Si took two steps forward and looked at Gu Suo gently.
"Sorry, kid, I didn't know I was your father before. I don't remember many things in the past..."
Zhao Si's voice was calm and gentle, and he helped the trembling Gu Suo up.
At this moment, two people with a huge age difference embraced each other...
"It's good to be back...it's good to be back..." Gu Suo's old and skinny palm pressed firmly on Zhao Si's back, his expression was excited and happy.
Most of the people are excited when they are old, but Gu Suo's old father... is almost too excited.
"Father, the memory child will help you slowly retrieve it...I have grown up...many things in the past...I will tell you...it's just..." Gu Suo's tone was choked, and he embraced Live Zhao Si and speak deeply.
Just...this moment.
Chen An's pupils suddenly shrank!
because,
Gu Suona's right hand on Zhao Si's back...the dry five fingers came together at some point, and with a burst of steely color, it actually turned into a barb!
The hook was about to pierce Zhao Si's back!
"Mr. Zhao Si, be careful!" Chen An exclaimed fiercely!
"It's just... you can't organize your children to become bishops!" Gu Suo's old voice was fierce and crazy!
His eyes were red and there was a sinister smile on his lips.
But as soon as Chen An said these words, his eyes widened...
Because Jack and the axe-man had appeared above Gu Suo's head at some point.
Their shadow bodies spread from Zhao Si's eyes and turned into thin threads, supporting their upper bodies, one on the left and one on the right next to Gu Suo's head...
A stick,
An axe.
The next second,
The stick and ax formed by the black shadow hit Gu Suo's head hard!
boom!
It was like a watermelon suddenly bursting open, blood splattering everywhere.
Zhao Si slowly loosened his arms around Gu Suo's body, letting Gu Suo's old body slide to the ground.
"My fault for being unfilial." Zhao Si calmly took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood spattered on his face.
Chen An's throat moved slightly. He took a breath and looked at Zhao Si and the headless old man on the ground in front of him.
For a moment, I didn't know what to say.
It turned out that Zhao Si never thought of letting Gu Suo go from the beginning.
Jack and the Ax Man have been preparing for this for a long time.
The same goes for Gu Suo. Knowing that he was no match for Zhao Si who got the pipe back, he directly acted in a bitter love scene.
It's really...a kind father and a filial son... Chen An felt silent in his heart.
but.
The surrounding wisps of breath suddenly stopped, scattered in the air, and became chaotic.
Gu Suo died and the ceremony was successfully destroyed.
At least, they succeeded.
Chen An smiled and clenched his fists.
At this moment, behind the two people, there was a bronze door that was always closed.
But suddenly there was a "click, click, click" sound...
The door is open.
"Chen An, you did a good job, you did not disappoint me."
A hoarse and deep voice suddenly sounded, accompanied by the sound of leather shoes hitting the ground!
