"Sorry, sorry, I'll do it right away!"
He apologized while taking out things. In fact, Dilan didn't bring much.
Hairpins and money, a Silver Eagle pistol and two boxes of bullets, a roll of medical bandages, a bottle of smelling salts, a bottle of pepper to adjust my eating habits, and nothing else.
"These things are temporarily kept here. Don't worry, I will give them to you when I come back. I promise not to lose a single cent."
"There are still buttons to button up."
“Double it…!”
"Are you sure there aren't any small parts in your clothes and shoes?"
"No……!"
"That's fine. Remember, you go in after he goes in."
"Ma'am--!" Tilan couldn't suppress his inner nervousness, "Is this really okay?"
"No problem, you mean?"
"Clothes! We are still wearing clothes and shoes! Won't they be stuffed inside our bodies?"
After all, her previous description was a bit too terrifying, and Tilan had to consider whether such a possibility existed.
"You are so funny, Your Highness Arles." The woman with the cigarette chuckled.
"Let me describe it to you like this. If you walk under a street lamp, what determines your silhouette and shadow?"
"My shape?"
"Right! So your body shape is not only natural, but also definitely influenced by clothes and even hats. These things are 'wrapped' around you. They are part of the outline of your shadow. Do you understand that?"
Just like if I wear a hat, will my shadow also wear a hat?
Those small parts are not included in the shadow, and they cannot affect the shadow, so they may cause the position after the shuttle to be different...
Tilan blinked, not sure whether his understanding was correct or not.
She wanted to ask Wright because she thought Wright must know more than she did. But when she turned around, she found that Wright was gone again.
What about others?
Hasn't he already gone in?
and many more……
The woman said that if Wright went in, I would follow.
So now I should...
"puff!"
"Remember to shut up~"
Before she could react, Dilan felt someone push her back hard. She staggered forward a few steps and wanted to turn back angrily, but the next moment she realized that something was wrong with her.
Looking back, I couldn't see anything, no light, no people.
I looked ahead and couldn't see anything, nothing at all, just complete darkness.
As for her physical sensation, she really didn't want to use such a description, but she felt like her whole body was about to melt. She was like a piece of mud being stretched, stretched, and stretched again, and thrown into a noodle-making machine, spinning wildly.
Dizziness...
The world is spinning...
She really wanted to vomit, and she deeply regretted having eaten anything at night. She thought of the words "Remember to shut up", and tried her best to grit her teeth and purse her lips to suppress the dizziness and nausea in her heart.
With a "whoosh", the scene in front of me changed again.
It seemed like there was light again.
There were a lot of colorful things... She couldn't see clearly. She vaguely heard someone talking, but couldn't make out all the words.
"She... for the first time..."
"You'd better rest... otherwise... there will be sequelae..."
I was helped to sit up in a daze, and something was handed to my mouth.
"Wow--"
She vomited directly.
He vomited all over the place, as if he wanted to vomit out all his organs.
She felt much better after vomiting, and a cup of water was brought to her mouth for her to rinse her mouth... Someone massaged her shoulders and someone massaged her scalp. That person seemed to have applied refreshing essential oil on their hands. Her thoughts became clearer and clearer, and she gradually recovered.
She suddenly grabbed the massaging hand, and when she looked up, she saw a young maid.
"Where is this?"
She questioned the maid.
"Tree...Tree house hotel?"
The maid looked a little confused, not knowing what she meant by asking this.
"I'm asking where this place is!" Tilan frowned.
"Is it the Elsa Continent?"
"Is it Aishazhou?"
"Of course." The maid became more and more confused. Where else could this place be but Aisha Continent?
This guest is really strange.
If it weren't for the fact that her companion paid generously, she would definitely not serve such a strange guest.
After some understanding, Tilan roughly understood her current position.
On the southwest coast of the Elsa continent, there is a city called "Inian Port".
She was dropped off here by Let-Sally at a place called the Tree House Hotel.
The Tree House Hotel is very famous. It is said that the chain has opened branches all over Elsa. It is a large hotel in the city with excellent service facilities.
But this was not enough to satisfy Tilan. She drove away the maid, ran outside alone, and finally found Wright at the end of the corridor.
Wright was smoking.
There was a window at the end. He was half leaning on the windowsill, smoking and looking down. His collar was open, revealing half of his chest. He looked as relaxed as if he was on vacation.
Ah... I can't stand his attitude...
"Mr. Sally."
With a dark face, Tilan asked him.
"Where did you get the money?"
"Where did we come from?"
"What on earth are we doing here?"
"You should tell me everything, right?"
"Oh, knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing for you."
Wright took another leisurely puff of his cigarette.
"Before I take you through all of this, I suggest you cherish your present life."
"why--"
"Because pretty soon you'll be out of breath."
Wright turned around with a deep look in his eyes.
"That's the weight of the 'myth'."
“I really don’t know what they are thinking.”
Chapter 17: The Road of Bones (Two in One)
"So, we are actually coming to Aisha to carry out a secret mission this time. The key to this mission is that we have to track down a group of hidden evildoers. It would be best if we could capture them alive and find the documents and records of the years when the gray fog descended from their mouths or in their collections?"
In the room, after listening to Wright's description - which was actually just a few ambiguous words - Tilan took the initiative to make the above summary.
"You have a good ability to understand, Your Highness. Indeed, our mission this time is very heavy." Light nodded, acknowledging these speculations.
As for the reason, he thought that Tilan should know it even without saying it: because Aisha is not entirely the territory of the Engineering Association. Although the ruler here is one of their own people, the area of Aisha is still too large compared to the remaining population. There are often no people for hundreds of miles. The overly primitive and desolate environment makes pursuit difficult.
"I don't understand." Tilan frowned and crossed his arms, "Don't they have enough people to do this? Why do they have to..."
Why would you give such a task to a newcomer like me right from the start?
Let’s take a look… First of all – “track down the evildoers”, “preferably capture them alive”, so this must be an actual combat, right?
Secondly, this is a cross-border mission, even a cross-ocean and cross-continental mission! Apart from anything else, the shuttle that she saw in the pharmacy at the beginning can be called a top secret! She didn't understand, has the pace of the engineering association always been so fast?
Before the newcomers have been familiarized with the organization, before they have been tested to see if they are truly loyal, before they have been fully trained and taught, they have been directly assigned tasks of this nature?
"Well... this may be because..."
"Because of you?" Tilan stared at Wright suspiciously, "I've suspected it for a long time, Mr. Sally, you know the top leaders of the organization, right? Could it be that you took this mission privately by using this relationship? "
This was the only explanation she could think of. Wright had the authority to accept this level of mission, so he took it directly. He didn't even consider whether a newcomer like me could handle it. He even had the nerve to tell me to "cherish my life now."
Aren't you, Wright Sally, the one who caused me to be involved in this trouble?
Including tricking me into signing that contract. Why is it that every time I get into trouble it’s because of you?
Wright didn't say anything, so Tilan took it as his tacit agreement. She turned around angrily and said, "If I remember correctly, as long as the premise of 'information not being disclosed truthfully' is established, the organization members have the right not to perform the task at hand, so I apply to go back to the other side!"
"do not do that……"
"I want to go back!"
"We are working for the goddess~"
“I want to go back—what did you say???”
The rest of the words got stuck in his throat. Tilan twisted his neck sharply and opened his eyes so wide for the first time in his life, fearing that he was hallucinating.
This guy, did he finally admit it? The person he knew was actually... really the person she and Lemuel had discussed before... the one who could change the world?
"Not the Sun King." Wright felt that it was about time to confront her. He coughed and began to explain: "You also learned about the history of this continent this morning, about the struggle between the Corrupted Blood Kingdom and the Mechanical Kingdom. Don't you think the latter title is very cool?"
"..." Tilan couldn't figure out what he meant, so he just frowned at him with suspicion.
"A long, long time ago, probably before the gray fog descended." Wright began to speak slowly. "At that time, there was no Sun King, no Sun Kingdom, no Blood King, no Dragon Queen, etc. How do you think they were born? Even now that we have found some documents, we know from sporadic records and fragments that they were once mortals, so how did they get to that point?"
"What do you want to say?"
"I think if they can succeed, it means others can succeed too."
"Oh! I thought you were going to say we could make it, too! Especially since you would lie to me and say 'especially me'!"
"Can we be serious, Your Highness Arles? You see, I have never treated you as a fool. Let's be sincere to each other, even if it's just for show in front of the elders."
“……” Tilan took a deep breath, but in the end said nothing and exhaled forcefully.
Well, that's true.
No matter how many times this damned Wright-Sally had played tricks on him, he had indeed leaked a lot of intelligence and knowledge. The most important thing was that he was indeed an elder, and his hair was all white.
Even if the Chesman princess joined Sarah's association, she could not abandon the most basic etiquette. She couldn't let it be known that she was a barbaric princess from a barbaric country. This would not only bring shame to herself, but also to the entire country.
And after calming down and thinking about what Wright had just said, Tilan suddenly felt that she seemed to have guessed what this hateful guy wanted to say.
"You're not trying to tell me that after the Kingdom of the Sun, another Kingdom of the Mechanical God will be established?" She frowned and asked Wright in a tone as if she had heard absurd wild history.
They are all kingdoms of God, right? Maybe there is an heir to the mechanical kingdom of God... a mechanical prince? Or a mechanical princess? Oh, anyway, she inherited the legacy left by the Sun King, or she took a similar path to the Sun King's deification. Anyway, she succeeded, and now she is our leader...
"Sometimes the truth is just too hard to believe." Wright raised his eyebrows at her, "Remember to be respectful to them. Don't forget that your subjects are still waiting for Shadow Night to save them."
"'Shadow Night'?"
"The nights in Wayne are always so quiet and peaceful. Don't you want to know why?"
"So why?"
"Of course it's because of the great 'Shadow Night'!"
