The sun is high

Xiuge's memory of the outside world stopped at the moment his body was "taken over."

Then he fell into a state between coma and wakefulness.

He could vaguely capture the sounds coming from around him, and he could vaguely feel the vibrations and collisions. However, it all seemed extremely unreal, as if it came from another parallel world, another scene in another vague dream.

As for his current body, he is like a passerby. He has no way to truly integrate into it, nor can he have specific control over his limbs and senses.

However, his spiritual world was extremely active and clear at this moment.

A large amount of information accumulated in his mind.

Those messy memories that were forced to accept because of contact with the black sticky monster are constantly colliding and splicing... At this moment, Xiuge even felt that he had become a person who could grow by devouring other people's bodies and absorbing other people's memories. Freak, he was able to absorb a lot of knowledge that he had no contact with at all from those fragmentary pictures, call out many names that he had never heard before, and recognize countless unfamiliar faces.

He knew that when he was exhausted, the Theseus who had been hiding in his consciousness had indeed solved the biggest trouble for him at the moment, but at the same time, he had also left some new problems and problems for himself. Hidden danger.

Xiuge really couldn't figure out this guy's thoughts and intentions.

After all, among the titles Theseus holds, there are both serious titles like "God of Destiny" and weird titles like "Weaver of Comic Dramas"... His starting point, methods and rules of doing things are completely impossible for ordinary people to guess.

After leaving the power of Theseus, the messenger in the mirror returned to its original appearance. It stayed in the magic groove and "looked at" Shuge eagerly, looking like it was Waiting for his lecture.

Shuge had nothing to say about this guy.

He now seriously doubts the connection between the messenger in the mirror and Theseus. After all, its shape and performance are closely related to Theseus, and it has indeed become the "Thousand-Change Man" not long ago. The carrier of the power of the Lord of All Faces.

"Tell me the truth, what is your relationship with him?"

Shuge asked the messenger in the mirror a vicious question, but the other person shook his head very frequently, as if he didn't want to answer Shuge's question at all.

After testing it with different methods, Xiuge gave up the idea of ​​continuing to question the messenger in the mirror. He knew that he must now prioritize the messy power and information stuffed into his head and body. Their existence has seriously affected Understand the connection between cultivation and one's own body.

This process is not too complicated, just like sorting out documents randomly piled up on the computer desktop at work. Xiuge tried to classify these messages from different living individuals.

Once this kind of work begins, it never ends.

In the current state, Xiuge had no awareness of the passage of time. He could only continue to speed up his movements in order to end this groggy state as soon as possible.

The memories belonging to farmers, workers and businessmen were quickly "stacked" together by Xiuge.

Soldiers, police officers and guards are grouped together.

The remaining most important part belongs to scholars and mages - the memories of such victims are very easy to identify, because their memory pictures must be filled with a large number of books, texts and magic formulas.

As for those scattered and indistinguishable memories belonging to snakes, insects, rats, and ants, Xiuge directly "swept" them into the corner. He was not yet in the mood to understand how these lives spent every day.

As the messy information continued to be summarized, Xiuge felt that the connection between himself and his body began to become closer. Now, he could clearly feel the changes in his surrounding environment.

He was sure that he had left the sewer now, because there was a faint smell of incense in the air, and he was lying flat at this time, seeming to be bouncing up and down as the vehicle moved forward.

He didn't hear anyone's voice. It seemed that Wei Lin, Sally and others were not around, or they were not having a conversation at the moment.

In desperation, Xiuge could only continue his unfinished work.

Now he neither feels tired nor aware of the passage of time. All that can accompany him are those chaotic and fragmented memories.

The memories belonging to scholars and mages were regarded by Xiuge as the focus of his attack. As he continued to search and organize these complex memories and knowledge, he finally made a special discovery in them.

In a certain memory, he saw a "familiar face."

Sugar remembered that this face had appeared on the podium on the day Putrin gave a speech in Rowe Square, and it was he who was presiding over that event.

However, this middle-aged man is also a mage. His attainments in the field of magic are extremely astonishing, and he is likely to have reached a level above the lake level. However, such a spellcaster with unlimited future resolutely He walked into House No. 37 and used himself as the most critical ritual key in that weird sacrificial ceremony.

The black sun pattern on the middle-aged mage's clothes has revealed his origin.

"The Black Sun Society... It seems that everything that happened in Salem City was indeed part of their plan, and the Black Sun Society most likely made many plans in advance, so even if the goblin who had actually betrayed the society Master Marcel has made such a move, and the Black Sun Society can still achieve its goals through another set of plans."

Shuge recalled these strange sacrificial texts he had received. After combining them with the prophecies of the Black Sun Society, Shuge finally got a glimpse of part of the truth of the society's plan.

"Judging from the final result, the biggest goal of the Black Sun Society's trip is to perform this sacrifice and successfully summon that weird black monster... Salem City is designated as the place where the war begins and ends. At the sacrificial site, the changelings are regarded by them as "incomplete heirs" because of their own characteristics, the blood of incompetent descendants, which most likely refers to the blood of the princes and nobles who participated in the celebration ceremony."

"As for the celebration of the ignorant, it must be directed at the common people participating in the celebration."

"And in the end, the empty shell of nothingness..."

Xiuge's thinking suddenly stopped at this moment.

Because judging from the desire of the black sticky monster to touch him no matter what, the behavior of doing his best to corrode his body and spirit, and the sacrificial incantations he repeatedly recited during the corrosive process...

"Damn, so the empty shell mentioned at the end of that paragraph is me?"

Just when Shuge was seriously questioning himself, a strange noise came from the side, so Shuge's attention was immediately withdrawn from the spiritual world. In the darkness with a little light, he felt something The person opened the window next to him, and the cold wind blew in. A trace of coldness slowly drifted down and fell on Xiuge's eyelids.

Perhaps it was because the obstacles that hindered his awakening had been basically removed, or perhaps because the coldness brought enough stimulation, Xiuge finally slowly opened his eyes.

Then he saw the bright skylight, the shaking carriage and windows, and the slowly falling snowflakes.

Of course, he also saw the familiar face bent by the window, staring at him.

"How long...have I been lying there?"

Shuge tried to speak, but his voice was so hoarse that it almost didn't sound like a living person.

"It's been seven days, Mr. Sugar. The Gin Moon is over, and now it's the Snow Moon."

Vereen Ernst's voice was as cold as the wind outside the window, but also like those slowly falling snowflakes, with a hint of trembling.

She quickly raised her hand and closed the car window to a crack.

…

In the year 2699 of the Cathar calendar, on the last day of the Gin and Wine Month, news of the death of Prince Hawid and Princess spread throughout the Lovi Plateau.

At the same time, a series of abnormal magical events that occurred in Salem, the "City of Peace", have also been known to Merlin Lehe, the headquarters of the Legal Committee.

"Groups of assassins launched a horrifying attack on the prince's motorcade. In the end, several staunch believers in 'Delan supremacy' used a special new type of firearm to paralyze the protective ritual on the prince's car. The prince and princess ordered Fall on the spot!"

"Some kind of terrifying magical creature that looks like black sludge is operating in Salem City. It travels through all the gaps and pipes, treating people as food and killing them. According to the requirements of the Legal Committee, Salem City will continue to maintain a closed state. The executor members of the City’s Legal Committee will pursue and hunt the target!”

"The visit of Merlinle and the Master Representative to the Kingdom of Votel was blocked. The new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Votel issued a question to the Legal Committee, believing that the Legal Committee's move to maintain the blockade of Salem City was a violation of the Kingdom of Votel's efforts to contain the remains of Prince Hawid and his family. Obstruction from the need to track down the murderer!”

In the few days after the "Armistice Celebration" that had become a joke and a disaster, all kinds of messages and news spread everywhere in Vanen. Different from the news in the past, this time everyone learned from these The news smelled of imminent danger, so their spread speed became even more alarming. Even the distant eastern world received relevant messages.

In this extremely tense atmosphere, many frictions occurred along the border, which was not stable in the first place. The reconnaissance information provided by the Kingdom of Delan and its affiliated kingdoms showed that within three days, Several teams of unknown composition brazenly crossed the border and carried out extremely vicious attacks on some military camps, checkpoints and even logistics warehouses set up in the frontier areas of Delan. This resulted in the destruction of multiple checkpoints and warehouses, and nearly a hundred people were killed. Killed during the attack, and two officers even disappeared as a result!

According to reports from witnesses and survivors, these attackers possess extremely amazing combat qualities. They often launch surprise attacks from unexpected directions, and after succeeding, they quickly leave under the cover of magic.

And this was not over yet. People soon discovered that many collection and training camps belonging to the Kingdom of Delan, including Lone Wolf Ridge and Gray Pine Forest, had suffered devastating blows. Among them, the Lone Wolf Ridge camp was completely destroyed. , none of the garrisoners survived...

The Kingdom of Deland immediately launched a serious pursuit. However, as the biggest suspect, the military of the Kingdom of Votel refused to be responsible for this series of incidents.

Therefore, on the fourth day after the arrival of the Snowy Moon, the political alliance composed of the plateau countries directly rejected the equal dialogue proposal initiated by the Legal Committee. After this, a letter was sent by Walter, Hain and Saint The statement of condemnation jointly issued by Steele's three kingdoms was directly slapped in front of everyone.

At the same time, all branches of the Law Committee established on the Luowei Plateau announced that they would cooperate closely with the Plateau Alliance.

So this time, even Merlin Lehe remained silent.

Although the Legal Committee did not want to show its weakness in front of the alliance, the internal differences between Merlinle and the Alliance were already extremely obvious, and the departure of a large number of elite members caused extremely serious damage to this ancient and powerful mage group.

The arrogant spellcasters realized for the first time that their influence on the world had been severely weakened.

However, everyone underestimated the fierce attitude of the Votel Kingdom towards the "Salem City Incident".

Snow comes on the 5th day of the month.

After issuing the stern statement against the Kingdom of Deland, the Law Commission and the independent government of Salem City, the Kingdom of Votel immediately issued new demands, and Harvey was still being discussed heatedly in all newspapers and magazines. When Prince De died, a large number of articles, reports and interviews led by political figures from the Kingdom of Walter were immediately issued.

Under the onslaught of these news, even the people of all countries on the Goddess Plain lamented this incident. The young people sighed for Prince Havid's noble move of insisting on giving priority to evacuating the people even in the face of the threat of assassination. , and the girls burst into tears after hearing the love story between the prince and the commoner wife.

In such a situation, even the most staunch supporters of Teresa had some doubts and wavering.

Under this wave of public opinion, the Walter Kingdom took advantage of the situation to take another step forward.

They strongly demanded that the Legal Committee immediately allow the troops of the Kingdom of Votel to enter the area around Salem City, and directly participate in the investigation and trial of the instigators behind the Salem assassination case. The Votel people believed that anyone who spoke with words under the current circumstances would Public officials who attack Prince Hawid and the Kingdom of Votel, whether they belong to the independent government of Salem City or the Legal Committee, should be immediately dismissed and expelled.

Not only that, Votel's ministers also proposed that the Kingdom of Deland should strictly supervise and control those associations and organizations that are detrimental to relations between the two countries. Among them, the Three Color Brotherhood, which is most closely related to the assassination case, should be disbanded first and punished. Its members will be held accountable and severely punished, and the concept of "Delan supremacy", which is regarded as the core concept of the Tricolor Brotherhood, should be completely eradicated from all fields!

In that coming cold winter, people closely discussed the strange little city that stood at the junction of the plateau and the plain.

The successive political confrontations have completely occupied people's attention. Except for the grassroots Law Committee executors, almost no one still remembers that the city of Salem, which was closely related to peace and stability in the past, is still under strict blockade. The "terrible magical creatures" mentioned by the Legal Committee are still running rampant in the city.

For most ordinary people, Salem City is far, far away from them.

So they naturally feel that war is also far away from them...