Sword of Daybreaker

Avoid the messenger.

The notch on the street lamppost glowed with a strange pale white, which appeared to be almost dazzling on the black iron lamppost. The surrounding chaotic fog was slowly flowing and surging, and the dead city in this silent fog made Na Jane The simple single line of letters suddenly seemed extremely strange, even so strange that both Sparrow Bee and Ye Xiao felt cold at the same time.

But they did not stop because of this. Instead, they continued to walk quickly towards the southeast urban area. The dim street lamp lights outlined a continuous dim path in the dense fog, and the buildings on both sides of the road were also spilled. There was a faint light, and these lights faintly illuminated the dark road, and this road...the distance seemed to have no end.

The Sparrow lowered her voice and asked that she didn't know why she lowered her voice, as if she didn't want to disturb some existence in the dense fog: "The messenger...You mean the'messenger' who was missing many days ago. NS?"

In Plantall, the "messenger" hasn't appeared for a long time.

He was a person with a very special identity, and was different from the general communication gap on the mainland of Loren. The "messenger" in this country of the wizard was a special person who walked between the inland cities and the border cities, with incredible power and access permissions. character of.

The cities in Violet are isolated from each other, and there are endless dense forests and mazes flooding the wilderness area. With these barriers, outsiders can't even go through the border cities to the inland areas, and even the locals do not need it. In fact, they rarely leave the city where they live, and messengers... are the "bridges" that connect these isolated cities.

They are responsible for passing letters between cities, for transmitting instructions from the city of a thousand towers to every border land, and for opening "channels" in the endless dense forests and locks in the wilderness to allow transportation between cities The caravan of materials passed smoothly.

In Violet, every city has and only one dedicated messenger, but even though there is only one person, they can take on the important task of transmitting information for the entire city, and they travel through this mysterious country in a way that outsiders cannot understand. , It seems that no matter how far they are, they can reach any corner of Violet in an instant. No matter how many letters they have, they can carry them with them and deliver them to the recipient accurately and timely. If the Kingdom of Violet is in the eyes of foreigners like Sparrow It is a country piled up by countless mysteries, so the "messenger" is definitely the most incredible and unreasonable one of these mysteries.

According to Sparrowbee's speculation, the "messenger" should be an unimaginably powerful spellcaster. He is in charge of secret arts that no one knows in the outside world. It is the best manifestation of the powerful magical background of this mage kingdom.

And the messenger responsible for the Prandall area has not appeared for a long time. In fact, in the memory of the Sparrow Bee, the "extraordinary vision" in the Violet Kingdom happened shortly after the messenger disappeared...

Sparrow and her colleagues tried to investigate the messenger’s whereabouts, but nothing has been found so far. The messenger disappeared earlier than everything else, and there was the least trace. The locals in this city seemed to take the messenger’s disappearance as a matter of course. , Even in the end... They simply forgot that there was a "messenger" in their country, just as Torrig had forgotten his uncle who lived in Palan Santo.

A pale nick appeared on a nearby lamppost, with only a few rather short letters on it: "It's him."

"Why avoid the messenger?" Ye Xiao couldn't help but ask, while constantly looking at the shadowy silhouettes in the surrounding dense fog, the warning made by the "store manager" gave him a creepy feeling, even though he was in the dark. There was no visible monster or enemy in the fog, but at this moment he seemed to feel an approaching malice, that malice was lurking in a place close to him, watching him through the flowing gray mist. "Is that messenger chasing'outsiders' like us? Is he related to this thick fog?"

They passed through a magic wand shop on the outer edge of the inner block. The prosperous shop was shrouded in weird silence at the moment, and a very dim dim light permeated from the doors and windows of the shop, like a fluid. Spreading and falling in the fog little by little, the wide shop window seemed to be crowded with some shadowy things. The bee accidentally glanced in the direction of the house, and then involuntarily withdrew its gaze in the next second.

On the lamppost passing by her, a line of clear and sharp pale letters quickly emerged: "The messenger is not chasing you, the messenger is clearing everything here."

For some reason, the letters no longer looked like traces of engraving, but more like sentences that emerged directly from the surface of the black iron, as swift as words.

The ramp leading to the outer city appeared in the thick fog ahead, and this long, seemingly endless block finally came to an end. Amidst the fog, the bird bee saw a black carriage quietly parked. Of course, there was no one on the carriage by the side of the road, but there was a cloud of undulating black smoke floating in front of the carriage in the shape of a horse. The loose harness was wrapped on the cloud of smoke, and the reins were floating in the air, as if still invisible. Holding by hand.

When Sparrowbee and Yexiao passed by the carriage, they involuntarily glanced at the silent carriage. In the next second, a little light suddenly appeared in the originally black carriage, and immediately afterward. Groups of shadowy objects emerged from the dim light, covering the rough glass on the side of the carriage like silt.

The two military intelligence bureau officers felt tight, and immediately turned their eyes away. In the next second, Sparrow Bee suddenly saw a line of pale letters appearing quickly on a nearby wall: "Hide!"

Without hesitation, Sparrowbee and Ye Xiao found the nearest and most suitable place to hide in an instant. Like two swift shadows, they penetrated into the gap between two nearby houses, blocking their shadows with the help of protruding corners. .

Sparrow felt her heart beating. She wanted to ask her superior who could only use words to talk to her what happened, but she forced her mouth to restrain the urge to speak, and the next second, She saw a tall and thin shadow suddenly appeared in the alley on the other side of the ramp.

In this silent thick fog, in this empty dead city, there appeared a figure other than her and Ye Xiao!

The shadow walked out of the thick fog, and gradually revealed a few details. Sparrowbee saw a gloomy classical long windbreaker and a black top hat popular among the burghers of the Violet Kingdom. She saw the figure. Holding a lantern in her hand that emits the same dim light as a nearby street lamp, and leaning on a long cane in the other hand, she recognized it. It was Prandall's messenger.

Before the vision, the messenger was called "Mr. Christo" by the citizens of Plantall. As a "messenger" who appeared to be particularly mysterious in the mysterious violet kingdom, this Mr. Christo was actually pretty good. He even accepted the invitation of the night owl to introduce the scenery of the city of a thousand towers and his busy but interesting life as a "messenger" to the night owl during a private drinking.

He is a friendly and polite person, and even used to be the only window of intelligence for "outside merchants" like Sparrowbee and Ye Xiao to understand the Violet Inland customs. But now, Sparrowbee has no joy in his heart when he sees this "acquaintance".

Because the "shop manager" told them to avoid the messenger.

She and Ye Xiao involuntarily held their breath and watched the tall and thin figure emerging from the thick fog walking out of the alley little by little. Then they saw the "messenger" stopping at the intersection. , As if recognizing the surrounding house numbers, he immediately turned to a nearby house, came to the door unhurriedly, hung the lantern in his hand on the cane, and then reached out and knocked on the door that was faintly revealing Light door.

The door opened silently, and the dim light leaked from it, and the dim light was flowing slowly on the stone slab at the door, but no one came out from the door, it was just an empty house.

The messenger "Christo" didn't respond to this, he just took out a letter-like thing from his arms and handed it to the hollow house.

The bird bee saw that the letter disappeared into the fog as soon as it left the messenger’s finger. In the next second, a nearly pure black "flame" burst out of the wall of the house, and it was swallowed almost instantly. The whole house and a series of connected houses nearby. In the dark and silent flames, the houses dissipated like morning dew, and one by one nearly transparent figures came out of them and slowly sank into the ground in the flames.

Those figures have no face, like a cloud of indefinite human-shaped smoke, wrapped in a bandage-like curtain, and the sparrow bee and the night owl have seen similar illustrations in some encyclopedia books of the transcendent published by the empire.

All this lasted less than ten seconds, the dark flames faded as quickly as they appeared, and when they saw the scenery after the flames faded, the sparrow bee instantly widened its eyes.

The row of houses that used to be there has disappeared. It is not just as simple as being burned, but not even a bit of debris or ashes. After the flames disappeared, what was left on the spot was a piece of bare stone and mud.

She suddenly remembered the words left by the store manager: The messenger is clearing everything here.

Now she knew what this sentence meant.

In the next second, she saw the tall and thin figure moving again, the messenger "Mr. Christo" silently walked to another nearby house, so the horror and strange scene just happened again. Opened the door, stood in front of the deserted building, and handed out a letter to an invisible object. The moment the letter was delivered, a dark flame soared into the sky, and several houses disappeared within ten seconds. Without a trace.

And as this process continued, the gray-white mist on the surrounding ramp seemed to vaguely become dense.

The messenger is still moving, carrying out his work accurately and efficiently like a machine without thinking. Houses...or the "area" disappeared quickly after his letter was delivered, and the sparrow felt his heart. Jumping bang, and at this moment, she suddenly understood why when she was in the stronghold before, the "shop manager" would suddenly write on the window, asking her and Ye Xiao to leave the house immediately!

If the messenger wanders to that shop, if he knocks on the door, if he sends out the letter...

Although Sparrow didn't know the principle of this process, she was almost certain that she and Ye Xiao would not be able to control whether the door would be opened by that time.

Ye Xiao also broke out in a cold sweat at this time. He watched nervously the movement of the tall and thin figure in the mist, hoping that the other party would never walk in this direction, while paying attention to the nearby wall. On the surface and the ground, always pay attention to whether the "shop manager" will give new instructions or warnings.

Perhaps it was fate that was favored. The tall and thin figure really didn't come here. He didn't seem to be "destroying" everything here in order, but still performing his duties strictly like a messenger. After sending the letter according to the delivery address of the "letter", after another black flame rose up, he suddenly changed direction and walked unhurriedly towards the inner block.

Bumblebee and Ye Xiao both breathed a sigh of relief, but just as they were about to wait and plan their follow-up actions, an inexplicable feeling of heart palpitations suddenly came from behind!

Suddenly, the bird wasp turned his head, and saw a tall and thin figure standing deep in the cracks of this house, as if it had just "breeded" from the air, watching her quietly in the mist.

That is... another "Mr. Christo"!

Then, in another alley very close to this hiding place, another tall and thin figure slowly walked out of it!

There is not only one messenger, there are countless "Cristos, the messenger" active in the thick fog of this weird night, and...they finally discovered the uninvited guest in the thick fog.

A palpable word appeared on the wall nearby: "Run!"

Sparrowbee and Yexiao rushed out of their hiding place in an instant. Their heartbeats have not been so fierce in their lives, and their speed has never been as fast as they are today. They rushed to the street like two sharp arrows, and they Behind him, several tall and thin figures have quietly walked out of the nearby streets, between the cracks of the buildings, and even the air, and one after another, there is no emotion, but the creepy sight falls on the uninvited guest. On the back.

In the next second, these "messengers" took their steps in the direction of Sparrow Bee and Ye Xiao. Their steps seemed to be slow, but every step they fell, they appeared as if they were teleporting in the two military intelligence bureau officers. Very close behind, and getting closer and closer!

Without hesitation, the Sparrow Bee directly took out a crystal grenade from where it was carrying, roughly judging the falling point and the advance amount, and threw it behind him.

A loud noise finally broke the deadly night. In the huge explosion and impact caused by the crystal grenade, a large amount of debris was blown into the sky, and two "messengers" were also involved in the explosion.

The smoke and dust of the explosion dissipated, and the two tall and thin figures were still standing on the spot, but they flickered violently like projections that were strongly disturbed, and they seemed to lose their ability to move for a while.

The grenade may not be effective when dealing with extraordinary visions, but this time... it seems to be effective.

But there is a problem in front of the bee

As two officers of the military intelligence bureau performing latent tasks, how could they carry so many grenades with them...

It seemed that it was to make her mood worse. In the next second, Sparrow Bee and Ye Xiao found that several new shadows appeared in the air on both sides of the ramp at the same time.

"The messenger" was startled... they are gathering here!

In the next second, the two military intelligence bureau officers looked at each other in the same way.

They saw the same decisiveness in the eyes of each other.

"You are fast," Ye Xiao said a step faster, "you rush forward, I will delay them behind my palace."

"You are not strong enough, and you can't drag it for a few minutes," Sparrow Bee said quickly, "My Queen, you..."

Ye Xiao suddenly became anxious: "When is this! We have to send the news back! You..."

His shouting stopped abruptly when he was only halfway through, and a sharp whistle that suddenly sounded in the air interrupted his words and even interrupted the emotions of the two military intelligence officers.

In the whistling sound, a bright white, or even dazzling, huge light ball pierced the dense fog on the ramp in an instant, and passed over the heads of sparrow bees and night owls like a fortress cannon. Smashed between the "messengers" who were gathering more and more, the next second, the sparrow bee looked dull and saw a mushroom cloud rising into the sky...

The house near Mushroom Cloud instantly turned into steam and dust, but she and Ye Xiao did not wait for the expected shock waves and squalls in the night sky without even a slight breeze.

All the power released by this terrifying blow was perfectly confined within the explosion area.

The two officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau stopped abruptly. They turned their heads in amazement and looked at the direction of the attack. In great tension and alert, they saw a figure standing on a ramp not far away. central.

It was an old man, an old man...worn in a nightgown and a nightcap on his head, standing barefoot on the ground.

The old man's face even looked awkward.