A certain sword soul's infinite journey

Among them, the silver awn represents the land, and the colorless represents the ocean.

And between these pieces of land and sea, there are countless golden thin lines, which criss-cross like a hollowed-out cover attached to the surface of the earth, covering the entire planet in it.

Diana and Steve stared blankly at this scene, and immediately heard Lin Yi's words.

"On the earth today, there is little light and frequent wars. Many dark forces, including hell, are secretly swaying. In order to dispel their coveting hearts, I plan to use London, Hong Kong, and New York as nodes. A huge magic circle covering the entire earth, blocking all dark forces from outside the earth!"

In the words, the thin golden lines on the surface of the earth spread vertically and horizontally, and quickly connected into three golden shields covering the earth. The center of each shield is a magic circle node. When the three golden shields are combined, 90.00% of the earth is covered. shrouded inside.

Diana and Steve stared blankly at this scene, and couldn't help being shocked by Lin Yi's grand plan.

"But why London, Hong Kong and New York?"

Steve looked at Lin Yi suspiciously.

The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched, who knows why it has to be these three cities, he is just copying the master's homework...

"Because of the leylines." Lin Yi said seriously, "After my careful calculation, these three cities are all places where the leylines converge, and the positions of the two cities are almost the same. They are the perfect locations for the nodes of the magic circle !"

"..."

Diana and Steve nodded half-understanding.

Lin Yi waved his hand in satisfaction, and the floating model of the earth turned into water and scattered in all directions.

Diana blinked her eyes twice, then suddenly turned her head and said thoughtfully: "Teacher, you don't need to tell us about this matter... Tell us clearly, do you need our help?"

"Yes."

Lin Yi smiled and nodded: "After the magic circle is completed, I need someone to protect it for me. The most important thing is the three nodes of the magic circle. Once these three nodes are all destroyed, the magic circle will be destroyed. array will also lose its effectiveness."

Diana said: "Let me guess, you want me to sit and guard New York?"

Steve was taken aback when he heard the words, and quickly said, "But sir, my hometown is in New Jersey..."

Lin Yi waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay, it's not far behind anyway, you can run back and forth in a few minutes at Diana's speed, and I'm not asking you to stay there all the time, you just need to be in France. When the formation nodes are under attack, it is enough to rush to support, anyway, the magic circle itself has a certain defensive ability, and it should not be a problem to persist for a few days."

"That's good!"

Steve breathed a sigh of relief, and Diana readily agreed.

Lin Yi raised his glass with a smile, and then waved his hands as if chasing someone away: "Okay, I've said everything I need to say, hurry up and get ready, the flight to the United States will resume soon, here Before, I believe that you still have a lot of things to do, such as a few friends who need to visit..."

"..."

Diana and Steve look at each other, thinking of the Chief, Charlie, and Samir.

And when Steve thought of the Chief, a long-forgotten thing finally came to mind.

"Chief, the village...my daughter!" Steve stood up abruptly, leaning on the table anxiously and asked, "Sir, sir! You must know where she is, right?"

"..."

Diana was slightly taken aback, and frowned tightly after recovering. Her eyes wandered back and forth between Lin Yi and Steve, and she suddenly realized that Steve seemed to be hiding something from her.

Lin Yi smiled lightly, and said calmly: "It seems that a certain irresponsible father finally remembered the promise he made at the beginning...It's surprising, I thought you would never remember it!"

Steve smiled wryly: "Sir, please stop mocking me, I did something wrong in this matter - what about her, is she still with the chief?"

"..."

Lin Yi smiled without saying a word, just raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Soon, Alanna, dressed as a maid, opened the door and entered, holding a tender and lovely baby girl in her arms.

"I took it over in your name a long time ago, and asked Alanna to find a nurse for her, who has been fostered in the staff apartment on the westernmost side of the villa. I guess you have never been there~"

Lin Yi said with a half-smile, and Steve rushed up to greet her, ignored Alanna's cold gaze, hugged the baby girl, and coaxed the baby girl apologetically.

As for what Lin Yi mentioned that he didn’t know that the little guy was fostered in the staff apartment next door, Steve thought it was definitely not his fault—Bessie’s room was in the middle of the corridor, and he couldn’t even go there if he wanted to. Dare!

Seeing the apology and gentleness on Steve's face, Alanna's cold eyes softened a little.

"Start learning to be a good father, Mr. Steve."

Lin Yi said with a meaningful smile, and waved his hand to fish out the little black cat that fell into the water at some time, and took the sword qi to dry and comb its hair.

Alana stood at the door and bowed respectfully, then turned and left the hot spring room.

Steve watched Alanna leave, and turned around to find Diana looking at him kindly.

Steve's heart trembled, and when he was about to explain to Diana, Diana covered her mouth with her hand, pointed to the baby girl in his arms who had been awakened by the hot spring, and whispered, "Let's talk about it later."

Steve nodded quickly, and the two walked out of the hot spring room lightly.

As soon as she went out, Diana closed the door casually, and looked at Steve calmly with her arms folded, obviously wanting to get an explanation from him.

Steve didn't dare to hesitate, quickly lowered his voice, and told Diana all about the baby girl's origin and the agreement between Lin Yi and him.

After listening to Steve's explanation, Diana lowered her head in a daze, looked at the white and tender face of the baby girl in Steve's arms, and murmured: "So, she is the only survivor in that village? "

"Yes."

Steve nodded silently.

Diana also stood there silently. After a long time, she stretched out her hand to hug the baby girl, and imitated her mother's way of holding it jerkyly. After a while, she suddenly said, "Asteria."

"what?"

"Asteria, a powerful and beautiful female warrior of the Amazons, and one of the idols I admired when I was young, what do you think of our daughter's name?"

"..."

Steve stared blankly at the serious Diana, suddenly smiled, and said softly, "It's a nice name, I like it very much."

In the hot spring room, Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from looking at the wall, and the silver glow in his eyes gradually dissipated.

After a long time, Lin Yi sighed faintly, don't get me wrong, he doesn't envy Diana and Steve at all, at most he misses Leah a little...

It's better to quickly forge the remaining two rule swords, and then go back and reunite with Leah!

Lin Yi thought so, and then sank his mind into the veins of the earth again.

Chapter 683 Meeting Again

Half a month later, flights from London to Washington finally resumed.

Diana and Steve packed up everything and boarded the plane to Washington with Etta Candy, Steve's chubby secretary.

To be precise, it was a military transport plane flying to the Washington Military District.

There is no way, the war is tight, all the orders of the aircraft manufacturing industry are basically monopolized by the military, and there are very few aircraft that can enter the civilian market. Europe.

Diana stood at the door of the cabin with a look of reluctance, looking at the smiling Lin Yi through the glass.

Steve was standing in the corridor further back, shaking hands with an officer with a big smile on his face, telling anecdotes that only his Air Force colleagues would know, and words of thanks for giving them a ride.

"You are too polite, Colonel Steve, we are colleagues, remember?"

The officer let go of his hand with a smile, turned his head to look at Diana standing at the cabin door, and said enviously: "Is this the rich man's daughter you met? God, what else can I say, she is simply artwork!"

"...Really, thank you for your compliment."

Steve said perfunctorily, his eyes still lingering on Diana.

The officer withdrew his gaze reluctantly. After thinking about it for a while, he seemed a little unwilling, and asked in a lower voice, "Hey, Colonel Steve, no, brother, do you think... I can do it?"

Steve was slightly taken aback: "Can anything be done?"

The officer chuckled: "Of course he is the son-in-law of a rich man like you!"

"..."

The corner of Steve's mouth twitched, and he looked up and down the officer's honor, focusing on a scar on his forehead, and then patted him on the shoulder with regret.

"This is a medal for a man!"

The officer curled his lips and touched the scar on his forehead in disappointment.

"Okay, I don't need you to tell me. With this scar, I don't count on rich and powerful daughters, but rich women should be fine. You know, they like rough and safe men like me. !"

The officer lowered his voice, laughed and chatted about common dirty topics in the military.

If Diana wasn't a demigod with super hearing, Steve would be more than happy to chat with him about it, but now, he could only smile perfunctorily, and then patted him on the shoulder again.

"Good luck, bro!"

After speaking, Steve walked towards Diana at the cabin door, and gently held her hand from behind.

"Diana, Mr. Lin will come to Washington next week, and you won't be apart for too long."

"I know."

Diana sighed softly, turned around to show Steve a beautiful smile, and then took his arm under the envious eyes of the officer.

"Come on, take me to our location."

……

Military camp airport.

As the plane went away, Lin Yi withdrew his gaze towards the sky.

He knew that Diana's emotions this time were a little abnormal, and he knew why.

At the end of the day, they've been together too long.

Diana grew up in the environment of Paradise Island. Her knowledge of her father was limited to an inherent noun in books, and she didn't know what the word meant.

But this time, the experience of pretending to be a father and daughter with Lin Yi made her truly feel something similar to a father's love.

Lin Yi felt that she might really start to regard herself as her father...

Thinking of this, a trace of complicated emotions rose in Lin Yi's heart.

Soon, Lin Yi walked out of the barracks accompanied by two military executives. Three old cardinals were standing respectfully at the gate of the barracks, and three black cars were parked on the road behind them.

Seeing Lin Yi walking out of the barracks at this moment, the three old cardinals looked at each other, and the pale-haired cardinal took a step forward, lowered his voice and said respectfully: "Mr. need……"

"Get in the car and talk."

Lin Yi interrupted his words lightly, passed the cardinal under the astonished eyes of the two senior military officials, and stepped into the back seat of the front car.

The white-haired cardinal exchanged glances with the other two officers, turned his head to look at the two officers and nodded with a smile, then followed Lin Yi's footsteps into the passenger seat of the black car.

The other two cardinals also each stepped into a limousine.

Soon, the three black cars started in sequence and drove away quietly and orderly.

The two officers stood at the door with smiles on their faces. After the three cars disappeared from sight, one of the officers couldn't help frowning and asked, "Huffman, do you think this General Prince... Is it just a rich man?"

"Who knows?"

Huffman glanced at him, and said lightly: "I only know that General Hugh Montague Trenchard has repeatedly asked me this morning to greet this rich man carefully and respectfully. As for the others , I don't know, and I don't want to know... What about you?"

The officer rolled his eyes: "Same as you."

Huffman patted him on the shoulder: "That's good, let's worry about this kind of thing when we get to General Trenchard's step. As for now... want a drink?"

"your treat."

"of course!"

……

In the black car, the white-haired cardinal sat in the co-pilot, looked into the rearview mirror and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, we have prepared the candidate you want."

"Several people?"

"..." The cardinal hesitated for a while, and whispered cautiously, "The number... is currently four."

Lin Yi raised his brows when he heard this: "There are actually four, yes, it's beyond my expectation!"

The cardinal suddenly showed embarrassment, and he really should be embarrassed, because the screening criteria Lin Yi ordered were actually not harsh, except for the strict age limit of 18 to 24 years old, the rest is nothing more than the requirement of devout faith, quality Noble nature, pure mind.

There were as many such people as there were when the atmosphere of the Holy See was at its best.

But now, they searched half of Europe and only found four!

Facing Lin Yi's surprised and unexpected expression, the cardinal was ashamed and indignant, and kept cursing the moths inside the Holy See who were golden and jaded, never thinking that he was no better than them when he was young.

"Your Majesty, please believe me, this number is only due to the bad weather a few days ago, and the cathedrals can only communicate in the oldest way, so it is difficult to find the candidate you want for a while, and it is definitely not the quality of the Lamb of the Lord We're going down, and if you give us a little more time, we'll—"

"No, four is enough."