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Lost contact.

The team sent to Tingen to be responsible for the divine descent lost contact.

When I got this news, I was staying in the underground church of the Aurora Society's stronghold in Backlund. Except for the occasional person who came to pray and suddenly exploded into pieces, it was quiet enough here for me to write.

Creation. The listener knelt on the ground and reported to me. His body was shaking violently, as if he was about to collapse into a puddle of flesh and blood in front of me.

I did not respond immediately. I finished writing the next line with a classical quill pen and carefully added a full stop. Then I put down the manuscript paper and the pad on my knees and turned my face to him:

"What happened?"

From his confusing answers, I pieced together the general process: First of all, I knew that this divine descent was actually a deception. The requirements for using a human woman as a maternal body to conceive the offspring of a god were extremely high, and it was very difficult to complete the ceremony. So the son of the god was actually

It was a smoke bomb, and the real container was the members in charge of the ceremony. Although they knew nothing about it, they would definitely feel extremely honored by it, so none of us said it clearly.

Of course, to me, smoke bombs and back-ups are the same. It would be best if the Son of God could succeed in one go.

But now, a problem has arisen.

The two members who performed this ritual are missing. There has been no reply for three days. They are probably dead. And Z, who is responsible for this matter, has not sent a report or asked for help. This is unreasonable.

This is also my dereliction of duty. Strangely, I should have been "looking" there, but I didn't know when I withdrew my gaze, because I felt that this divine descent could not fail. Why? What affected me?

I recited the honorable names of my allies and listened carefully. The chaotic words rushed into my mind with the knowledge of the dangers of corruption that could cause low-sequence people outside the path of ordinary people and shepherds to explode in an instant. I isolated them skillfully,

Thrown into the filthy abyss of my consciousness. Thinking of those traces of twisted destiny, I thought about it for a moment and confirmed that there really was something terrible hidden in that small town. Then, according to the past failed experiences of divine descending, this

This thing is very likely...Adam.

"——I know, please step back."

After a moment of silence, I said to the still trembling listener: "Go tell the manager of the sealed artifact that I want to withdraw an extraordinary item of at least Sequence 5 from the "Apprentice" path."

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About ten minutes later, I got the sealed item I wanted. An item that met my requirements and corresponded to the "Traveller" sequence, in the form of an emerald ring. It has no living characteristics and can be carried out at very short intervals.

The negative effect of teleportation is that when worn, it will have extremely strong aggregation ability, unable to accurately locate the destination, and it will be accompanied by constant crying and screaming in the mind, which has quite a lot of negative effects.

The cry of blood, the desire to gather... I knew in my heart that most of these were the certificates of surrender brought by the "Secret Saint" or Mr.

Abraham. I remember that Mr. Door is still in the hands of the Mother Goddess.

And Russell, although I also polluted Him quietly, the little pollution I had hidden could hardly defeat the fallen mother goddess who had never restrained her hands. Watching Russell being swallowed by the red moon, I could only

I could look at the ocean and sigh. I secretly hinted to Him the coordinates of my body and hinted Him to go there, but this guy always acted out of common sense and ran straight to the moon, becoming a prop in the hands of others.

If it falls into my hands, it will at best fall into eternal numbness and chaos. The Mother Goddess is not as kind-hearted as I am.

Okay. Let’s go to Tingen now to see the situation. I put the ring on my hand and poured it into my spirit. Indeed, I couldn’t clearly imagine the destination in my mind. So I randomly chose a direction and opened it in the air.

There is a blue "door" and you step in.

My vision suddenly changed, and I came to a not-so-wide street, surrounded by low-rise houses, wastewater flowing on the street, and corpses and garbage piled up in the corners. This is the East District, a place where despair breeds. There is no one around, I

I roughly estimated the distance and spirituality, and prepared to open the door and leave. Suddenly, spiritual fluctuations occurred in the alley ahead, a light door opened out of thin air, and a familiar figure ran out in panic.

"What's going on?!" Miss Forse Wall shouted desperately, "We are still in the East End, why are we only separated by two streets?!"

There was also a petite woman who came out of the door with her. She was holding a three-edged thorn in her hand. After glancing in a certain direction, her whole body was shaken as if she had been struck by lightning, and she was dead.

Staring in that direction, his body stiffened into a stone.

"It's over." The little woman squeezed out the words through her teeth. "He saw us. Qilingos and I made eye contact."

Miss Forsi's face turned pale in an instant, losing all color. She looked at the bracelet with only two stones left on her wrist, and reached out to pull it off - then she saw me. Her

His expression flashed through shock, fear, and struggle, and he blurted out: "Why are you here?"

This gathering came too fast. My eyes glanced at the bracelet on her wrist, and I understood it in my heart. Then I smiled and asked like an ordinary person who happened to be passing by and knew nothing about the upcoming danger:

"Good afternoon, Miss Wall, and the unknown lady. I am collecting inspiration in the East End. Can you invite you to afternoon tea?"

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Forsi's pupils instantly shrank to the size of needle tips. She had no time to explain. How could she explain the horrors of the extraordinary world to an old-fashioned gentleman who lived a normal and calm life? She gritted her teeth and pulled off the last two stones on her bracelet.

One of them shouted: "Come here quickly!"

"Please believe me, Mr. Vaughan!" She said at the fastest speed in her life, "I will explain to you later, follow us now!"

Judging from the confused expression on his face, Mr. Edward seemed to be still out of the situation, but he still walked quickly towards them. The distance between them was only four or five meters, and adults could reach them in a few steps. Forsigu

No matter how distressed she was, she only had the last stone left, and she raced against time to open the door. But at this moment, Xio, who was already extremely nervous beside her, suddenly exclaimed, turned around suddenly, and pushed her towards the door that was not yet fully formed.

.

"You go first!" The little arbiter's expression was one that Forsi had never seen before, "Qilingos is already here!"

Forsi opened her eyes in disbelief and looked at the sky. She found that Edward, who was only two steps away from them, also raised his head and looked in that direction. She saw a scene that instantly made the blood in her body freeze to freezing point. That cruel scene

The murderous pirate general stepped on the window sill and used the ability of "Wind Blessed" to glide towards them like a big bird! He had a bloodthirsty smile on his face and his body was light and strong, just like catching prey.

The prey of the eagle is like a swooping vulture, looking at their death struggle with contempt and aloofness, with eyes full of the ecstasy of determination to win.

"Forsi, go quickly!"

"No, no! Hugh, you come with me—"

Forsi's legs were out of control in fear, and her thoughts seemed to be at a standstill. Her fingers tightened on Xio's clothes, trying to pull her into the door together. At this moment, she felt her body rising into the air.

Before they could be confused, they saw Xio lifting her feet off the ground, and Edward Vaughn, who had already arrived in front of them, was holding one person's back collar with one hand, and threw them both into the newly completed door with incredible strength.

"...Wait!" After falling into the brightly colored tunnel, Forsi's brain that had stopped started to work again. She saw the figure of Qilingos gliding in the gap behind Edward Vaughn.

, but she couldn't do anything but shouted in despair:

"No! Wo——"

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Qilingos saw clearly that the woman was not a "traveler", but she held an extraordinary item of traveler order. Although there was still one last stone, it was enough for him to complete the planned murder and escape calmly.

He licked his lips, and the bloodthirsty and crazy smile on his face further expanded, and he had already seen the scene of torturing the two people and then tearing them apart.

With the help of the wind, he crossed the distance between two streets and alleys in just a few seconds and arrived directly in front of the door. Qilingos stretched out his hand and decided to feed the middle-aged man who was hindering his plan first.

He caught the "creeping hunger" and then calmly snatched the magical item. But at this moment, his spiritual intuition suddenly issued a shocking warning, and then fell into deathly silence the next second. Qilingos was shocked and uncertain, and he wore

The hand holding the "squirming hunger" was less than an inch from the gentleman's back.

The gentleman slowly turned around.

Qilingos suddenly couldn't move.

What is going on?! The pirate general was shocked: the distance of an inch and the time of less than a second seemed to have been stretched infinitely, but this man who had never been in his eyes did not change at all.

"If you die here, Miss Wall and her companions will definitely suspect me...but you look like you taste good."

"I still have work to do, and you disturbed me."

Edward Vaughan stared at him calmly, without ridicule or contempt. His irises and pupils were black, looking misty and without light, accurately reflecting Qilingos's frightened expression. His standing posture plate

Upright and elegant, with chest raised and head raised, he walked slowly and proudly, like a well-designed and meticulous puppet. His eyes stayed on Qilingers' "squirming hunger" for a second, and then fell into silence, as if

After a brief thought, a terrifying light like lava flowed from the depths of his eyes. He raised his cane and tapped the gem-encrusted top on Qilingos' chest from a distance.

"roll."

Blasphemous words from the abyss spewed from His mouth.

As soon as he finished speaking, Qilinges felt as if he had been hit hard. His entire sternum was sunken, and all the bones in his body made a heart-wrenching twisting and cracking sound. His face turned blood red for an instant, and the gaps between his teeth were

Blood overflowed, the skin cracked, the limbs were crooked, and the broken flesh and blood instantly soaked through the clothes all over his body. Then, as if he had been hit by a battering ram with full force from the front, he was knocked out heavily like a cannonball, and several pieces of it collapsed.

A thick plume of smoke and dust rose from the roof of a dilapidated bell tower a hundred meters away.

Edward Vaughn turned his back and sensed that the flow of time returned to normal. He stepped into the brightly colored tunnel in front of him, and the blue door gradually closed behind him, just blocking the scene of Qilinges flying out.

At this time, Miss Forse's short "Mr. Vaughan" had not yet read the second word. Then, her unspoken words were stuck in her throat, and she looked at the other party in disbelief after protecting the two of them.

In the last half second, he entered the door with all his limbs intact.

"That's great, that's great..." She was about to cry without tears, and was trembling over the fact that the elder almost lost his life because of her.

"Don't be afraid, ladies, we are safe." Edward comforted them softly, with a look of relief on his face, "It is a gentleman's duty to protect women and children. We are all fine."

"...So, now, do you want to go sit down at my house, drink a cup of tea, and explain to me what is going on?"

TBC

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