Chapter 382 Interlude The Eve of Advent (Part 1)

"Miss Sushang, please come this way."

"Oh, okay, okay! Your Tianming Headquarters is just such a big place. I am already familiar with it. Besides, there are road signs above my head, so there is no need for anyone to deliberately lead me!"

The girl was chewing on the meat buns that she had brought from the Tianming Canteen not long ago. The aroma of fat floated along the corridor along with the hot white steam. Considering that this is a floating airport, this smell will probably linger here all day. They couldn't get away - the younger girl who was walking in front of the girl showed an awkward smile.

"Miss Sushang, this is not a question of whether you are familiar with the road or not. It is a question of etiquette... La. Since you came here from a distant China, you are naturally considered a guest. How can a host not entertain guests and let the guests stay on their own? Where is the wayfinder at the master’s house?”

Su Shang curled her lips and muttered in an imperceptible voice:

"Actually... you don't have to be a guest..."

"Huh? Miss Sushang, what did you just say?"

"Ah... ha... I'm praising your Tianming chef for his excellent skills. The meat buns he makes are much more delicious than those made by the master! Alas! Ever since Li Xue... Uncle Shi was snatched away by your Tianming, Taixu Mountain's The food standard has dropped a lot, and I have to go down the mountain to buy steamed buns several times during my morning exercise.”

"Well, this...it is said that Miss Lixue taught the chef how to make many Chinese dishes, so the Chinese food in Tianming Canteen suddenly became more and more popular...Ah, that, but, I just joined Tianming, I don’t know the specific situation, I just heard what others said..."

"well……"

Li Sushang sighed and looked at the girl leading the way again.

The girl is about fourteen or fifteen years old, but she already has to take on the responsibility of the Valkyrie... Ah ha, Li Sushang wants to laugh a little - for the era in which she was born, a fourteen-year-old or fifteen-year-old girl is indeed not young. It was time to get married and have children, and it was at this age that she was driven down the mountain by her master to "test the sword."

However, the relatively peaceful society now has somewhat changed many of her ideas. She always feels that these Valkyries are less than eighteen years old, or even sixteen years old... somewhat cruel.

But there is really no way around it. The training of combat skills and tactics takes a long time, and personal martial arts is even more so. As far as Sushang herself is concerned, she has been practicing swordsmanship with her mother for as long as she can remember. He was sent to Taixu Mountain when he was five years old, and was personally taught by his master and master. After practicing for ten years, he was allowed to go down the mountain and travel around the world. As a result...

"Huh? So Li Xue... where has Uncle Master gone? Is there any combat mission? In the past, the Rakshasa people sent Li Xue to lead the way."

"Uh...I don't know about this. I haven't heard of any missions for Lord Lixue, but currently all A-level Valkyrie have been recalled and are in a state of combat readiness. They must be on standby at any time..."

Su Shang raised her brows and looked around again. Apart from the two of them, almost no one was walking in the aisle. The atmosphere was a bit strange and tense. But she was not surprised at all. After all, this was what she came for today.

"That's it...what about you? What's your name?"

"Ah...me? Miss Sushang is asking for my name?"

"Otherwise? Could you please lead me the way? I have to know your name. This is only polite!"

"Ah...ah, it's nothing."

The girl was praised and was very excited for a moment. She stopped and turned sideways a little helplessly, her side face and earlobes flushed.

"Um...my name is Ragnar, C-class Valkyrie Ragnar Lodbrok!"

After saying that, she probably felt that the "C-level Valkyrie" was a bit..., she immediately followed up and defended:

"However! Although I have only been a Valkyrie for a short time, I am already preparing for next year's B-level Valkyrie exam!"

"Very good! Very energetic!"

Su Chang waved her fist and loudly praised the girl's vitality!

"Yeah, Ragna, I know your determination, so...can you give in first, you are blocking my way..."

"Hey...hey! Lord Bishop!"

Ragnar was lightly patted on the head. She slowly turned her head and saw Otto's helpless face. Looking up again, she saw the sign for the men's room.

"Uh... uh... Lord Bishop, good afternoon..."

She silently took two steps back, still muttering fussily:

"Let me go...the bishop actually needs to go to the toilet!"

The muscles on Otto's cheeks twitched violently. He lowered his voice and asked deliberately pretending to be serious:

"Oh? We're also human, why don't I need to go to the toilet?"

"Ah...ah hahaha, it's mainly because I rarely see the bishop leaving his office..."

"Okay, Ragna, your mission has been completed. I will take Miss Sushang personally for the rest of the journey."

"Oh...ok! C-rank Valkyrie Ragna, mission accomplished!"

The girl bowed and fled the scene as if fleeing.

"Hey! Let me tell you! Why are you so strict, Rakshasa? Do you see how scared this little girl is to you?"

Otto shook his head and sighed helplessly:

"It's just a joke. Let me tell you, you always like to joke, but why can't you hear other people's jokes?"

"Ah... ah... am I like this..."

The corners of Otto's lips curled up and he didn't speak any more. Su Chang didn't make any more fuss. She rubbed her head and followed Otto quietly, arriving at his magnificent bishop's office within a few steps.

"Okay, you came all the way from China, did something happen?"

Su Chang sat obediently opposite Otto. She heard Otto's words, but she didn't answer in a hurry because her eyes were already attracted to the figures on Otto's table.

"This is..."

For some reason, an impulse surged in her heart. Even though she knew that it was bad behavior to move things without others' permission, she still couldn't help but reach out to the white-haired girl figure that seemed familiar to her inexplicably.

"Um?"

Otto was the first to grab the figure back in front of him, and then put it into a wooden box that appeared out of thin air and kept it safely as if nothing had happened.

Although her behavior was stopped, Su Chang still did not give up. She lowered her head and pretended not to care with her poor acting skills and asked:

"That figure just now...why does it feel a little familiar?"

"Oh? This, you are familiar with it. I have sent you a CD before, and this is what is on it. It is a role-playing game that I personally developed and has not been released to the outside world - "Karen Fantasy VIII"."

"Karen Fantasy? Oh, oh... oh... I remembered it when you said that, but there are no computers on Taixu Mountain. You said you wouldn't release it to the public, and I didn't dare to use it in Internet cafes and game arcades, so I went to So far, I have only seen the cover of the CD..."

This is a half-truth. She initially felt that Kallen's figure was familiar, and it was indeed because of the visual memory left to her by "Kalen's Fantasy VIII", but...

The moment she heard Karen's name, she actually remembered it.

"Rakshasa, Kallen...is the name of your childhood sweetheart, right?"

One, two, three——Otto took three slow breaths before he replied leisurely:

"Yes, but it's just a borrowed name."

"Huh? Just the name? What about the appearance?"

"..."

Otto leaned on the blood-red sofa and remained silent. He spread his right hand and half a glass of red wine appeared in his hand. He took a sip before speaking again:

"The appearance...I can't explain clearly."

"How could it be! Isn't this a game you made yourself? Kallen must have made it according to her appearance in your memory, right?"

"...the problem is memory."

Otto shook his wine glass, and the floor-to-ceiling curtains opened automatically without any voice command, allowing the brilliant sunset outside the window to fill the room without reservation.

Otto stared blankly at the wine glass in his hand. Different red colors were suffused in the glass, and the light and shadow were intertwined. It was beautiful, but there was only deep boredom in his eyes.

"The problem lies in memory... Su Shang. After all, those were the people and events five hundred years ago. Five hundred years later, even if we try all our methods to look at everything at that time, it will just be looking at flowers in the fog. That's all. Even she, even she, is just a blur in my eyes. I can only see her long snow-white hair, her blue eyes, and the confident curve of her mouth. Everything else, I can't even see clearly."

Li Sushang knew what he was talking about, Kallen... this person had little to do with her, Kallen's death even happened before she was born. but……

But along with Otto's tone, which was so calm that there was no fluctuation at all, she felt inexplicably sad and heartbroken.

But she knew very well that she was not heartbroken for the illusory Kallen whom she had never met before... maybe a little bit, any tragedy would make people heartache. But in the final analysis, what makes her heartache more is just because of the man in front of her.

"I've heard you tell her story before."

"Well... that was five hundred years ago, which year specifically..."

"Using your calendar, it's 1496."

"You remember clearly."

"After all, this was the year when my master drove me down the mountain to try the sword. How could I not be impressed?"

Su Shang forced out a bright smile, yes, that was the year when she went down the mountain to test the sword alone. Although through the efforts of several master uncles, Taixu disciples spread all over the world, the master did not allow her to report the Taixu Mountain gate number, but casually made up some kind of Supreme Freedom Sect... It was precisely because of this that until Nowadays, she and others still use this name when reporting their family status... Of course, no one in China today is unaware of the fact that the Supreme Freedom Sect is a branch of the Taixu Sect.

But... none of this matters.

The important thing is that when she first entered the world, she met her in the sandy Western Region...

"At that time, you were carrying two coffins, one was Karen's, and the other was..."

"My sister, Eleanor."

"Oh...when you said that, I actually remembered it."

Su Chang leaned forward and rested her upper body on Otto's desk. She tilted her head and looked at the sunset outside the window without making a sound. She didn't know what she was thinking.

Otto was not in a hurry to speak. Logically speaking, as the powerful Bishop of Destiny, he should not be so leisurely, but who allowed him to have Amber as a tool? As for some obscure and unexplainable things... Haha, if Otto Apokalis will fall apart if he ignores his destiny for a few months, it means that he has really made no progress in the past five hundred years.

Besides...

"I'm sorry for making you talk about those sad things again."

She lay on the table in plain clothes, and her voice became a little dull.

"It's nothing. Although it is indeed a sad thing, I have been used to being sad every day for decades or hundreds of years."

Su Shang nodded silently.

It seems reasonable at first glance. Su Chang lives in a different place. If he is really addicted to the grief of the past, he will not put Kallen's image into the game, and even make Kallen a figure for himself. In front of you.

In this way, wouldn't it make her even more sad just to see Karen?

Right? Right? Right? Yes... right... yes...

If you say this, you can only lie to yourself, right?

【But... ugh! What does that have to do with this girl... This girl just thinks that such a good man left everything he had five hundred years ago, which is really... pitiful... This girl has a chivalrous heart and just likes to help poor people. ! 】

"Hey! Rakshasa people, come and recite with me: Give up your fantasies and recognize the reality. The world is a beautiful place!"

Su Shang suddenly jumped up from her seat and raised her hands in the air, looking somewhat funny.

Otto smiled, "Where did you learn this?"

"A mental hospital!"

"...how did you get in..."

"Oh... I sneaked down the mountain to play that day, and I met a driver at the bus station who said I could take the bus for free, so I got on the bus, but he drove a bus full of people directly to a mental hospital. I kept stressing that I was not sick, but The doctors and nurses there all say that only sick people feel that they are not sick and that they are not sick. People thought they were sick. What kind of theory was this? It wasn’t until the third day that the police came to the door and said that the driver was hired to transport a car of mental patients to a mental hospital. But this guy got off the car and bought it on the way. After ordering roast chicken, he came back and found that everyone in the car had fled. He was afraid that his money would be deducted, so... just..."

"Pfft...hahahaha...hahahahahaha...ahhahahahahaha..."

"Oh Rakshasa, why are you laughing!"

Su Shang was ashamed and angry, but in the end, wasn't she the one who told this embarrassing thing that should have been buried? But people are often like this. On the one hand, they want to use their embarrassing things to attract someone's attention, but if they really laugh about it, it will make themselves even more shy.

"Ahhh! Rakshasa, don't laugh!"

Su Shang sat down on the table and slapped Otto's face hard with both hands, directly compressing his facial muscles together. Now Otto really couldn't laugh anymore.

"Okay, okay, I just won't laugh."

Otto made a promise, and Su Shang sat back in her seat with a pouted mouth.

"Huh? What did I just say?"

He had clearly decided in his mind to say something serious just a moment ago, but as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he somehow turned down another road:

"That was... 1476."

"Huh? What did you say?"

"I said, the year she and her... Karen and Eleanor died was 1476. The spring of 1476."

"Rakshasa, you..."

"listen to me."

He clearly said, "Listen to me," but after the words fell, he himself fell into a long silence.

"If... if you are unhappy... don't say anything..."

Su Shang's eyelids kept twitching. She wanted to continue listening, but she didn't want the Rakshasa to continue talking.

It's painful enough to chew on those painful memories alone in the middle of the night, let alone talk about them in full again?

"No, that's not the case."

Otto drooped his eyelids and looked absent-minded, but he could easily see through Su Chang's heart.

"Perhaps those memories do mean pain. But I have deeply felt the powerlessness of memory. Su Shang, what is more painful than retelling these is to watch the once clear memories become blurred and finally helpless. So, I will I tell you this story, just remember it for me. If one day I forget something important... it's up to you to tell me."

Su Shang swallowed her saliva. She wanted to say that her memory was really bad and she was often criticized by her masters in her private school when she was a child, but she did not dare to say it out loud. She was afraid that the Rakshasa people would give up her plan to continue talking.

So, she just listened quietly:

"You all know the previous story. I followed my sister Lisa's instigation and opened a special prison in Klosten - the prison where Honkaimon is held. No, there is nothing to cover up until now. It's necessary. It's a laboratory, an underground laboratory, a laboratory specially used for conducting experiments on Honkai beasts, and I am half the owner of the laboratory.

"When I shook off the small number of Honkai beasts that were clinging to me and returned to the ground, the entire Klosten was already in a sea of ​​fire. Before I could even react to what was happening, I saw someone fighting. With just one blow, I was killed. All the buildings in Klosten were razed to the ground except for the church with the protective circle."

The corner of Su Shang's mouth twitched. She remembered that her master and master seemed to have been to Klosten. Could it be...

"At that time, I had no idea of ​​the situation, and I didn't know whether Kallen was saved. I just ran desperately towards the direction of the church, because the gallows prepared for Kallen was there... But when I got there, everything was gone. I could only keep searching... But not long after, the whole city was submerged in ice and snow again. My body couldn't resist that kind of temperature, and it wasn't long before I fainted in the snow... When I woke up again, the ice and snow were gone, and all the frostbite marks on my body were gone. The ground was full of lilies as white as snow."

"And then... "

"My father died directly in that disaster, and the Castle Council also suffered more than half of its casualties and its power declined greatly. On the field full of lilies, my sister Lisa took my eldest brother's son Marcel and inherited the position of Archbishop of Destiny. And reprimanded me for letting the Honkai Beast enter the city and colluding with outsiders Disrupt the hanging ceremony and exile me. I was deprived of the surname of Apokalis and could never return to Klosten. "

"Ah...then you..."

"Oh, by the way, she also portrayed Kallen and Eleanor as villains who colluded with outsiders to try to subvert destiny. But only I know that it was the two of them who saved Klosten. "

"Ah...you, how did you know?"

"When Lisa and Marcel held the bishop's coronation ceremony at the door of the church, I found the weapon that Eleanor had used in the field full of lilies - the key of creation, the black abyss white flower. "

"Uh...is it the one you treated my wounds?"

"Yeah."

"But, in the final analysis, you only saw a weapon, how to be sure that they...uh, I didn't mean that, I was just curious..."

"I understand, I know you are not that kind of person."

It was just a simple sentence, and Su Chang was instantly stunned.

And Otto didn't say anything more. He reached out to the air beside him, and a piece of pink letter paper that looked almost brand new appeared in his hand.

"This is on the ground next to the black abyss and white flower."

Su Chang took the letter. The handwriting on the paper was obviously written by a woman. It was neat and tidy, and playful curls were added at the end of the strokes. The punctuation marks in some places were replaced with cute musical notes.

She couldn't help but read aloud:

"The city was saved because of the sacrifice of the two of them. They gave their blood to the key of creation in exchange for the lilies that never faded on this field. They used their lives to save a group of people who didn't love them or understand them. They are real heroes, but I'm sorry I took their bodies away. The bodies that were sucked dry by the black abyss and white flower are not good-looking, and beautiful girls, even in death, want to leave their most beautiful side to the people they love. Of course, the corpse must not be beautiful, so, Remember the most beautiful moment of them in your memory. "

"Uh... their bodies were taken away by unknown people? Then the coffin you carried at that time..."

"It was a clone of the two of them, a clone with only appearance but no soul. I know that the Red Kite Immortal has a magic for the soul, and I wanted to use it. At that time, I just thought that as long as I called back their souls and put them into the same body as before, maybe I could revive them. "

Su Chang pursed her lips and pretended to be innocent:

"Knock... knock who?"

Otto closed his eyes and opened them again in an instant.

"Okay, sorry to embarrass you, let's get back to business - Miss Li Suchang, the third-generation leader of the Taixu Sect in Shenzhou, who accidentally gained the ability to be immortal due to the mistakes her mother made. What are you doing all the way to Tianming?"

"I want to eat the wonton noodles made by Uncle Lixue."

"Huh?"

"Uh, no, I mean, there seems to be an abnormal reaction of Honkai energy in Siberia, north of Shenzhou. I'm sure you Tianming already know this, right? I just heard from Ragnar that all A-level Valkyries have entered a state of combat readiness."

"Yes, that's true. But according to the agreement signed between me and your master and grandfather, Siberia should belong to my Tianming's sphere of influence, right?"

"Pah ! You big villain, don't try to fool me! When I came here, I read the original agreement. It clearly said... Hey, what did that sentence say? "

"Tianming and Taixumen jointly guarantee the safety of Siberia. If a collapse disaster occurs in Siberia, Tianming will be given priority to deal with it."

"Ah... Oh... It seems so. Anyway, I just came to inform you. If you can't handle that thing, you Luosha people, don't be so stubborn. As long as you say it, our Taixumen is ready to support you at any time."

"I appreciate the kindness of Taixumen, but at least now, things are still completely under the control of Tianming."

Otto stood up lazily, and Sushang was naturally not to be outdone.

But as if they had a telepathic connection, the two turned their heads and looked out the window at the same time-

Dusk had passed, and the full moon was quietly hanging above the sea of ​​clouds.

For some reason, Li Suchang asked a question that had always puzzled her:

"Hey, Luosha people, I heard that you went to the moon decades ago. What did you see? Why was the exploration of the moon banned later? It's not true that there are alien debris on the back of the moon, just like in science fiction?"

"Science fiction also says that humans will have a war with aliens this year..."

"Hey! Maybe! There are only a few days left this year, so don't be too sure!"