Song of Time – Dusk Awakening Verse

Emmon Mingming heard her eager invitation, but still stayed on the spot, glanced at the empty tavern hall, as if she was a little confused, the girl rushed downstairs and pulled his arm up. band.

The Great Swordsman, who was nearly two meters tall, was grabbed by Gloria's small hands, but he seemed to lose weight, let alone resist, and followed her lightly. The two of them just went up the stairs, and when they heard the name "J God", Kuo Shao greeted him with excitement: "Oh! You are Lord J God, look up to the name for a long time..."

He rubbed his hands in excitement, wanting to have a relationship with the "Uncrowned King" among the mercenaries, but was pushed aside by the unhappy Leah face. The girl pulled Eamon to sit by the table first, then turned her head and crossed her hands and shouted at him unceremoniously: "West, where is that lord? When can I get there?"

"That adult?" Young Master Kuo was still rubbing his nose anxiously. He was taken aback when he heard the words. She must have asked the mysterious white monk. He could only repeat Qijiehai's words with a wry smile. "The adult said it was temporary. I'm afraid I won't be able to come..."

Sure enough, there is something tricky... The girl has long felt something is wrong, and then glared at Jiehai, who was about to bury her face in the table. She was too lazy to talk nonsense with the opposite side, patted the table with a grin and shouted: "That's still waiting What? Bring all the wine and food to this lady!"

Lonnie was taken aback by the sudden change of her face. He didn't dare to say more. He responded and ran downstairs to arrange the scheduled banquet. After busying for a long time, he turned around. The table above was a group of friends and relatives. It's a good time to talk.

Gloria didn't like drinking, so she grabbed some juice and barbecue, chewed slowly, and squinted contemptuously at the young cat on her right, who was immersed in eating, and asked Emmon who was sitting on her left vaguely: "Big man, where have you been these days?"

The Great Swordsman heard her question but did not answer. He stared at the huge, sharp-edged man on the opposite side. There seemed to be a bit of appreciation in his eyes, but he was more eager to fight. Rhea clearly felt the war intent in his eyes, and only felt that this burly man was actually as childish as Leia, and could not help but curl his lips slightly. Compared to the middle-aged giant beside Bibi, he introduced: "This is my uncle. ..."

"Latis." The middle-aged man declared his name without waiting for her to finish speaking, and his voice was dry and low, like a cold breeze. He stood up and patted his chest vigorously to make a warrior salute, obviously also admiring the unfamiliar red-haired swordsman Shen Yuan's tolerance.

"...Emon." The Great Swordsman solemnly stood up and nodded in return. The two of them stared at each other motionlessly, causing a faint sword wind to blow around the round table.

The table full of people looked at the appearance of the two fighting powerhouses tit-for-tat, and the harmonious atmosphere suddenly cooled down. Rhea shook her head secretly for these two martial idiots, sipped the "Fire Jue" wine without incident, and smiled lightly at Emmen: "My clan uncle has been scuba diving in the glacier all year round. You can compete, but it's always after the conference. We are reporting for the team competition, and we can't touch you."

She expected that with the self-styled temper of a big swordsman, she would never team up with others. Although she regrets that she can’t compete again, for the sake of the team’s interest, she resolutely chose a team event with more rewarding points-the conference has long announced that two events cannot be registered at the same time, perhaps because more people can have the opportunity Come on.

Eamon seemed to have no response when she said it. He and the giant continued to look at each other for a while before sitting down silently. Then Leah, who hadn't received a reply, asked unhappyly: "Quickly, you guys Where is the sky?"

He turned his head and glanced at the girl's red cheeks, put his hand in his pocket, and took out a black disc and placed it on the table. When everyone saw the thing carved out of black stone, they didn't realize what it was. Unexpectedly, Leah's complexion changed in an instant, and she quickly put the disc into her small backpack with her hands and eyes, and she was holding her bag uneasy. He stared at him nervously and asked, "You, where did you get this...!"

She concealed the real name of the thing and didn't want to be known to others. Emmon seemed indifferent at all, pointed to the backpack blocked by her and said two words faintly: "Use it."

When the girl heard this, her small face suddenly wrinkled into a bitter gourd. When chatting a while ago, she really said to the big man that she wanted something like this, but then she couldn't just go to "them" at this point! Looking at the expressionless face, she felt helpless, let alone angry, gritted her teeth and resented "Big idiot!", then pulled him and ran downstairs without looking back.

"I have left beforehand, you guys drink slowly!" The girl said erratic farewell on the stairs. Everyone didn't know what had happened, so they could only look at each other.

Master Lonnie watched them running, and quickly turned sideways to avoid the long distance. When they got down the stairs and looked at them, he only saw two points of his back and rushed out of the door. He was unfamiliar with this group of people, and he couldn't figure it out. He turned around and looked at the lively atmosphere of the banquet to turn into embarrassment. He hurriedly smiled and said roundly: "Haha, Miss Leah is really busy... that, everyone. If there is anything you want to eat or drink, just say, I will let them prepare."

As soon as his voice fell, the cat teenager who had been "to ignore the food and foreign affairs" from beginning to end immediately raised his head and raised his head, bulging his cheeks and shouted vaguely: "Oh, when you paint, dried fish!" His mouth was full. When it comes to chowder, only the word "dried fish" is clearly audible.

Kuo Shao didn't think much, he called downstairs and ordered the servant to buy it, and then the few people around the female archer looked at him with a bad look, secretly sighed a mistake, and did not dare to go forward to ask for scolding, he could only accompany the smiley face. He approached "Brother" Jiehai and accosted the blond boy who had not yet clearly identified himself: "Does this little brother also participate in the conference? You are really young and promising. I wish you a smooth game."

"Thank you." Yuno glanced at his shiny beaded robe and smelled the messy powdery smell he soaked in the pile of mercenaries. He naturally didn't like it. He smiled reservedly in his heart. There is no plan to continue the topic.

Lonnie touched a soft nail again, with a stiff smile and a little unable to get off the stage. He coughed and sat next to Jie Hai and drank a few sips of sake. Looking at the table of cold faces, he only felt that the banquet was really aggrieved and didn't want to. No matter what, I asked the "senior brother" softly about the details of the white robe monk.

"Hey? So you are from Tapaz?" As soon as the two talked a few words, Lonnie realized that this "senior brother" was actually his fellow, and he immediately raised a friendly smile and asked enthusiastically, "Your family Where is it? Not far from Star City?"

"My hometown is a small fishing village on the east coast, called Moritini, far away from Star City." Jie Hai felt that the broad young master was afraid that he had never heard the name of the country village, scratching his head in embarrassment. .

"Oh, it turned out to be Moritini...Morrie...Tini!?" Kuo Shao nodded without hesitation pretending to have heard of it. After the reaction in his mind, he suddenly stopped and stared wide. Jijiehai confirmed again, "Morritini?"

"Uh, yes..." The little clerk watched him gradually turn blue and didn't know what was wrong with him. He got up and said concerned, "Mr. West, are you okay?"

Master Lonnie shook his lips but didn't say a word. When he looked at the table of people (except for the cat boy), they all cast their gazes, even more embarrassed. He looked at the bewildered young man, thinking that when the words reached the point of view, it would be wrong to conceal it, and finally said to him with his throat down and straight: "A few days ago, something big happened...and our South Island has also encountered it. The beast attack... The location is Moritini Village."

"What are you talking about? Beast attack?" Jie Hai didn't even react. The little doctor sitting next to him jumped up and saw that Kuo Shao's bitter face didn't seem to be nonsense. A piece of coldness was added to his heart, and he firmly supported Jie Hai's shoulder, not knowing what to say.

The round table seemed to stop time for this sentence. Everyone was silent, only Kony remained ignorant, but after Grey Eagle reached out his hand and knocked heavily on his forehead, he finally fell silent.

"Beast attack...?" Jie Hai really felt that he had auditory hallucinations. The South Island was far away from the dark swamp, and was blocked by a huge ocean. How could he be attacked by a beast? He was stunned for a long time without trying to understand, his ears were full of pounding heartbeats, and the flashes in front of his eyes were all golden light, and he couldn't help being dizzy.

He quickly held on to the edge of the table and panted and asked Lonnie anxiously, "...are everyone in the village... okay?"

"...It is said that the entire village has been destroyed, and there are no survivors..." Kuo Shao said dryly in an official argument, but Jie Hai was so convinced that he lost his measure in a panic, grabbed his collar and trembled. He shouted: "It is said!? Where did you hear it? Have you not been to see it? You, did you hear it wrong!"

Lonnie was startled by the smoke-like black light in the boy's eyes and wanted to go back, but couldn't get away from the hand that held on to the straw. Seeing that the little clerk was out of control, Yuno immediately stopped in front of him with his backhand. White light suddenly appeared, and the warm healing power shrouded in front of Jie Hai's forehead, forcibly suppressing the black power that was about to move in the chaos of his mind.

He continued to condense his divine power in his palms, biting his lip without making a sound. After the little shop assistant released his hand, he gently pressed his shoulders, causing the almost stiff body to slowly fall back into the chair.

Jie Hai sat down on the chair in despair, staring wide and staring at the cracked stone table, but his gaze was out of focus, only to feel that the black, black and white light in front of him ran across, making him feel painful. He has never seen a beast attack with his own eyes, but he has heard it in recent years. The last time he heard it was in a mountain village on the outskirts of the capital... But that is also inland. There has never been a beast before. The disaster occurred in coastal villages and towns!

He tried his best to find a reason, refused to believe the terrible news, and his heart was like a boiling soup pot. His poor mother, the mother who has worked so hard for half of his life and has not been cleansed for a moment, he was thinking of his mother who wanted to take over the capital to enjoy the blessing, is it such a disaster for no reason! ? He only felt that his heart was burning and his five internal organs were burning severely, but he was so frightened that he was so weak that he couldn't lift a finger to gently touch the choked breath in his throat.

Yuno stood beside him, frowning and looking worriedly at the little shop assistant whose eyes were blank and pale. He had a first-hand experience of the pain of bereavement, but he didn't know how to relieve him, so he was silent and said nothing, his eyes trembled like candlelight with sadness.

The originally relaxing banquet turned into a cold ice cellar, and no one spoke. Rhea's face was sinking, and she rubbed her fingers on the stoneware wine glass for a while, looked up at Kuo Shao, who was hiding in the distance while stroking the collar, not daring to step forward. He pondered for a moment and was about to question, but saw the rigidity. Suddenly, the young man shook his head and stumbled towards the stairs.

"I want to go back... go back..." The black in Jie Hai's pupils gradually covered the white light, and the pain of bone erosion became more and more paralyzed, and his vision became more blurred, but in his heart, there was a never Such a persistent thought: I want to go home and see! He must be talking nonsense, I want to go back to find my mother!

He struggled to drive his stiff body, step by step towards the seemingly unreachable steps, and heard several familiar but unfamiliar shouts in his ears, and he couldn't tell who was dissuade. He didn't care at all, staring at the aisle with different widths, one step, two steps, falling and then climbing up again, leaning against the wall, holding the railing, and shaking forward, until the deep black power completely covered him. Vision. At this moment, he seemed to feel a cracking sound in his head, and then he was spinning around and fainted to the ground.

"Jiehai!" The little doctor hurriedly ran to help the young man who fell on his back, opened his eyelids and looked at him, and then checked his pulse. He was relieved when he felt that there was no abnormality. He just half-kneeled and embraced the sea, motionless as if in a daze. After a while, he slowly turned his head, and whispered to Riya with a worried expression on his face: "I'll take him back first."

"...Be careful on the road." The female archer winked at her two subordinates, one tall and one short. Panta, a big guy, picked up Jie Hai in his arms without saying a word, and followed Yuno. And Analei went downstairs silently.

This banquet is no more fun. When their footsteps disappeared from the noise outside the tavern, Rhea sat in her chair for a while and pondered for a while, holding her glass of wine around for a few times and drank it before heading towards Lonnieby who was still standing by the railing. He said softly: "Sit down first."

"Hey!" Kuo Shao heard her rather dignified instructions, and forgot that he was the master of the banquet. He stepped on tiptoe to sit opposite her, and listened to the female lord calmly asking: "What about this...what? When did it happen?"

"On the 1st of this month, some people guessed that some kind of diving monster suddenly attacked, oh... the whole village collapsed in half, but no corpse was found..." He took a breath and wiped the sweat on his forehead, recalling that time. I read the report slowly repeating, "I didn't go to the scene either, only read in the newspaper... It hasn't been such a terrible disaster in the South Island for a long time, and the city is still full of turmoil."

"On the 1st of this month..." Rhea's heart moved. Isn't that the time when they just returned to Rock City from the Dark Swamp? Could it be that the monster leader "the Faceless" came up with any conspiracy after they left? But why did "he" go all the way to attack that little-known remote village... Maybe there is any secret in it?

She frowned slightly, and several speculations about the monster's new trends flashed in her mind. She has not yet judged, but her always keen intuition told her: This matter is by no means simple, I am afraid that there will be a future! She couldn't sit still thinking about this, got up and gestured to her giant clan uncle, then turned to Lonnie and smiled happily: "I'm sorry, I'll thank your Excellency another day."

She didn't wait for the other party to answer, and strode forward on her own. After crossing the wide young girl, she blinked and turned into a faint melancholy. The giant Latis naturally followed closely, stepping on the stairs with heavy footsteps like drums, like a secret demonstration. The Gray Eagle still hid in the cloak without saying a word, but bowed slightly to the owner, and dragged the reluctant cat boy and left.

Lonnie was left alone in this empty tavern, staring dumbfounded at the table full of empty cups, and then looking back at the few disappearing back figures, depressed to the point that he couldn't express himself, and finally he could only sigh on the stone chair.

It is early morning, but in the mysterious bookstore where time has stagnated, the transition of day and night stars seems to have become a matter of indifferent matter.

Yun Xuan put on a blue and white cloud pattern short-sleeved robe, and leaned against the soft cloth cushion sofa with an imperceptibly tilted foot, holding a mahogany pipe in one hand, and holding the "lucky copper coin" in the other, Zitong There was a daze, lost in thought.

The hut he was in was the library of the upper space in Song of Time. This seemingly less than a hundred square meters room has countless lanterns of various sizes falling on the top of the room, and only a few sofa chairs are placed under the lights, and the coffee table and low stools are carried to form an irregular circle. The center of the circle is a slowly rotating beam of light. The column is divided into dozens of sections by horizontal and vertical lines. Books are written in categories, such as history, theology, poetry, alchemy, mathematics, art, strange tales, etc. .

The room was terribly quiet, there was no wind, no clock gears, except for Yun Xuan's inaudible shallow breathing, only a few clear noises made when he fiddled with copper coins. He didn't know how long he thought about it, and finally his expression became slightly loose. He took the copper coin and stuffed the pipe into his mouth, bounced and jumped to the side of the beam of light, and clicked on the word "history" casually.

As soon as he touched the beam of light with his fingertips, countless colorful squares flashed in front of him. Each square is an ancient document condensed with painstaking efforts. It is connected by a golden thread to a growing river, arranged in order of chronology .

Yun Xuan scanned the sea of ​​books intently, and finally found the target he wanted, and then pointed his finger a little bit, the small square suddenly expanded dozens of times, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a crust with a gilded cover. Book-"Story of the Holy Tower: Epoch 2800-2899". He turned the title page casually, quickly browsed the table of contents, and read the chapter word by word silently after he found the chapter. It took him a long time to reclose the book and breathed out the smoke ring a little annoyingly.

Ever since the boy in Jiehai told the process of his sudden disappearance, he left a deep doubt in the priest's heart: the power of the holy profound has this extra effect! ? He searched all the memories in his mind, and could not find any clues, so he hurried to the bookstore to look up the information carefully.

This historical material on the sacred tower was written in the years before and after the founding of Tapaz. It records in detail the most turbulent period that the capital has experienced since the establishment of the sacred tower. For the dreams and obsessions in their hearts, countless monks farewell to their homeland in the capital city and set up their homes in the South Island. Among them, there are many practitioners with the power of Saint Profound. Although they are not many, Yun Xuan has searched through the entire book, and has not found any evidence that can infer the origin of the Out of Boundary Sea inheritance.

He had already checked all the recorded cultivators of the Holy Profound, and none of them had the ability to transfer instantly, and even in the legends and legends, there was no clue about the origin of this special ability, which made people unable to pursue it. . Nowadays, even the official history records can't find the slightest word that can tell the source, and the brain that has kept his high-intensity and continuous operation all night can not help but give birth to a few traces of depression and exhaustion.

What a weird kid... Yun Xuan sighed lightly, flicked the book forward, and turned it into golden light into a small square on the pillar. It is rare for him to spend the whole night on this matter, but he did not get anything. He was so frustrated that he didn't bother to think about it anymore. He kicked his pipe and walked out with wooden slippers in his mouth.

He walked through the crystal corridor surrounding the galaxy to the wooden hut of daily life. After he walked to the living room, he paused for a while, and subconsciously glanced at Miyou's room. It was very early at this point. The girl should be sleeping, and he didn't want to disturb, and walked slowly to his room.

There was a sound of closing the door in the quiet wooden corridor, and the quiet door of the small room opened suddenly, and two small heads blinking out came out.

"This old smoker, how did he know he was back today... he was almost caught by him..." The fat bird Ahuang still stood on Miyou's shoulder, staring at the door at the end of the corridor with some guilty conscience, and whispered in the girl's ear. "Xiao Miyou, when the bird went to the manor for supper yesterday, it seemed to hear that some mercenary meeting in Yancheng was about to open! The bird also heard that famous chefs from various countries would come to the scene to prepare for everyone Good food, hehehe...Let’s join in the fun too!"

"The mercenary...congress?" Miyou covered the often-worn lilac cloak, tilted her head and looked at Fat Bird in doubt, "It should be... only mercenaries can participate..."

"Uh...this way..." Ahuang squinted his eyes for a few seconds, then suddenly raised the crown of his feathers, and excitedly raised the girl, "Xiao Miyou, otherwise, you should also sign up for that mercenary guild. !"

"Sign up... Guild..." Mi You stood by the door for a moment, but didn't answer, and walked out slowly with her cloak together. Her footsteps were so light that there was almost no sound, and only the fat bird was left in the wooden corridor that could not conceal the eager noise.

"Oh, don't worry, Xiao Miyou, as long as the bird is there, it doesn't matter what he evaluates and what competition he does, it will not be done in minutes!"

"Hehehe... it's rare to have a big meal again, this bird will be the first to come in and find a good seat!"

"But there are so many people and noisy places in Yancheng...Xiao Miyou, otherwise, let's ask someone to pack up and go home to eat..."

"By the way, Ben bird seems to remember... that boy Shun still owes Ben bird many banquets! How much is it, Xiao Miyou? Well, let Ben bird count... one, two... six , No, no, start over! One, two..."

This hypnotic shrill sound stopped abruptly, drowning in a crisp and short magic buzzing.