May you be happy and prosperous

JAY shared the map in his hand on Lu Twelve's ID card, and the two went separately according to the agreed route.

Strangely, after seeing JAY's back disappear around the corner of a ruined building, Lu Twelve picked up his bag and was about to make a fortune and set out on the road, but suddenly, he shivered for no reason.

He raised his head subconsciously and looked around, and of course, he found nothing except some black windows that had no glass.

"...Maybe I'm overthinking it? Ahhh what the hell, you poor little paw, why did you choose this mission after hundreds of missions! This kind of mission should be divided into 25-player dungeons, a group of It is appropriate to carry out together with lively people.”

"Meow!"

"Yo, you sound pretty proud!"

"Ow."

"...a wicked animal."

"Pooh!"

"..."

Realizing that arguing with the non-speaking Eudemons would be boring enough for him, Lu Twelve finally gave up on the unfriendly communication with Fa Cai. After trying the walkie-talkie to confirm that he could contact JAY, he took out the electronic map and walked forward. Compare the surrounding environment - according to the simulated restoration map on the map, the egg tree forest that may have undergone plant mutations is in the original forest park of the city, and the land where Lu Twelve is standing at this moment is the former commercial area. There is a wide road here that leads directly to the forest park, but when Lu Twelve followed the directions on the map and walked along the road, he found a huge ruin of a fallen alien warship blocking his way.

On the left is a movie theater, and on the right is a five-star hotel. Now the hotel has completely collapsed, and what is stuck in the middle of the road is the ruins of a fallen warship.

"Strange, the map only marked the thorn forest that you can see at the gate of the forest park after passing this street, and it didn't indicate that there is such a large battleship ruin here? ... Damn it, who wrote the map so irresponsible .”

"Meow!"

"You are the road idiot."

Lu Twelve bent down and stretched out his hands to pinch the furry face of the young Eudemons at his feet. The latter was lazily wagging its tail and squatting at his feet until the furry face was pinched by him. He had to deform it, so he let go of it and started to study the electronic map in his hand again——

Lu Twelve looked at the electronic map in his hand, then raised his head to look at the ruins of the battleship that straddled the two buildings directly in front of him and blocked the way, as if he was repeatedly confirming whether he was really disgusted by being rich. A few minutes later, he raised his head in disbelief, looked at the huge figure casting a huge shadow in front of him, sighed and said, "...you obviously didn't go wrong? Could it be?" Did this warship come down recently?"

Fa Cai sneezed loudly with disgust on his face.

Lu Twelve: "...Okay, I'm just joking."

Of course Lu Twelfth was joking—the people from the Valterans have been evacuated from the earth for 500 years, how could they come back suddenly and silently.

It's just that at this moment, the juvenile phantom beast who followed closely beside him suddenly became much quieter. It squatted at the feet of the black-haired young man, staring quietly at him as if it had been distracted by something. Looking at the ruins of the spaceship in front of him for a while, his golden eyes stared at the side of the spaceship for a while. He touched his shoulders, squatted down, and then lowered his head to look at the electronic map in the hands of the black-haired young man at this moment, and meowed twice.

Lu Twelve turned his head subconsciously, and then saw a pair of furry faces that were close at hand.

One person and one phantom beast looked at each other for a moment.

All of a sudden, the young phantom came up to him with lightning speed, and quickly licked the black-haired young man's lips—leaving behind a faint scent of goat's milk steamed buns.

Lu Twelve: "...It's a good thing you didn't accept B Boy's dried fish just now, otherwise I would have thrown you into the egg bushes just now, leaving you with no bones left."

Fa Cai narrowed his beautiful golden cat pupils slightly, raised his soft paws and patted Lu Twelve's nose, then turned his head, and yelled at the side of the ruined battleship again. The cry was quite hasty, as if urging Lu Twelve to look over there...

Lu Twelve was reluctant to go there at the beginning. In fact, since he parted from JAY, he always felt uncomfortable and always felt as if someone around him was silently watching him from the shadows—this feeling made his spine tingle. Cool, but whenever he thought he looked in the direction he thought someone was there by surprise, there was always no one in that direction—the overly tense nerves not only made him look like a psychopath, but also brought him He gave Fa Cai inexplicable and contemptuous glances countless times.

But be careful sailing for thousands of years.

Lu Twelve didn't want to encounter any side missions that were accidentally triggered at this time.

but.

Impatient and now wanting to go to the ruins of the battleship to find out what happened, Fa Cai licked, bit and scratched his earlobe persistently, and was finally driven almost crazy. Stuffed the broken electronic map from the wrong path into the left pocket, then grabbed the juvenile Eudemons on his shoulder and stuffed it into the right pocket, when the latter screamed "Aww", a head popped out from the edge of his jacket pocket While staring around curiously, it heard its owner above it, saying in a very calm voice: "Just go and take a look, just take a look, don't touch, don't touch, and don't take it."

After getting rich, he squatted in Lu Twelve's pocket, squinting his round eyes into an arc in satisfaction.

Carrying a heavy backpack, Lu Twelve slowly climbed along the ruins and rubble to the side of the warship hidden in the shadows like climbing a mountain. While he was climbing, the walkie-talkie was unilaterally turned on. ——JAY on the other side of the walkie-talkie sounds like everything is going well in the melee. He has reached the thornbush and handed over the task of opening the road to B. Now he thinks of harassing his teammates for fun when he is free.

JAY cheerfully asked Lu Twelve what he was doing, so Lu Twelve stopped his climbing movements, paused, and looked down at the moment when he was looking up with his head up and his golden pupils looking expectantly. For his own fortune, after feeling mixed emotions in his heart about the gap between phantom beasts and phantom beasts, he replied angrily, "Respond to the call of the times, reminisce about history, and go sightseeing", and then hung up the walkie-talkie .

For the curiosity of making a fortune, Lu Twelve spent four or ten minutes longer than planned, just to let his Eudemons satisfy that strange curiosity.

When he slowly climbed to the destination, he only felt the light in his pocket, and the young phantom beast that had stayed in his pocket obediently during the whole process of climbing the ruins immediately jumped out and landed on the gravel and metal waste. On the document, he leaned close to an iron plate that seemed to be a fallen battleship hatch, sniffed his nose, and then let out a "snoring" sound from the depths of his throat.

Lu Twelve seized the opportunity to taunt: "Sniff, you're not a dog."

At this time, Fa Cai had already wagged his tail, jumped over several ruined parts very lightly, and jumped into the shadow of the main body of the battleship. When Lu Shishang was out of breath following his phantom beast, he saw The fortune is such a shape -

Its two hind paws stepped on the ruins below the battleship, its body stretched like a huge caterpillar, its two front paws rested on the ruins of the battleship, its ears shook quickly and then stuck On the forehead, and then, accompanied by the piercing sound of sharp claws scraping through metal, Lu Twelve watched helplessly as his phantom beast left ten scars on the body of this battleship, which can be regarded as an ancient relic. long scratches—

Lu Twelve peed.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

At this moment, the black-haired young man only felt that his reaching out had never been as agile as it is now. He stepped forward one by one, followed by a sea fishing for the moon, and finally staged a monkey stealing a peach, hanging half of his body on the ruins of the battleship The juvenile phantom beast pinched his waist and grabbed it back, and Fa Cai opened his teeth and claws in his arms dissatisfied, while his little heart was still beating, but at this time, in the sound of Fa Cai's "Aoooooo" and his Amidst the sound of the little heart beating violently, there was a sound of gravel and dust falling from the top of his head.

Lu Twelve subconsciously opened his mouth wide and raised his head.

Then his face was covered with dust.

When he was spitting out the dust in his mouth and taking the fluffy phantom beast in his hand as a face towel to wipe off the dust on his face, suddenly a ray of sunset light shot into him from nowhere and just shone behind him On the ruins of the battleship Vatlun, when Lu Twelve slapped the dust on his hair, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the golden light reflecting on the battleship from the corner of his eye!

Lu Twelve was taken aback for a moment, threw away the fortune in his hand, and turned around—but at this moment, the scene that suddenly appeared in front of him shocked him from ear to ear!

On the battleship that should have been very dilapidated after 500 years of wind and sun, he actually saw the newly engraved golden totem of Zanxinru. The totem is composed of a golden sickle pattern and a blooming lotus. , when the afterglow of the sun shone on the totem, a layer of metallic luster slowly shone through the totem——

This totem...

At first, it seemed familiar, but after a while, I suddenly remembered the meaning of this totem. The pupils of the black-haired young man standing under the battleship narrowed slightly, showing a horrified expression. He took a breath and subconsciously took a big step back—— At this moment, he only felt that because the totem covered in dust suddenly reappeared in the sky, the battleship that was regarded as ruins suddenly became lifelike for some reason, as if it would start in the next second...

As for this totem, Lu Twelve remembered that he had seen it on the news broadcast. It was a totem that symbolized the Vatlun royal family.

The sickle and the lotus are the symbols of the supreme power of Vatlun.

This is a Valtrun royal starship!

This thing actually fell in this place? !

The flames of war, the people of Vatrun, the interstellar warships that are huge enough to cover the sky and the sun, and the tall buildings in the dust, lazily flicking their tails, looking down at their huge cat-like machinery as if they were looking at ants beast……

The memories of the "end of the world" once flooded into his mind like a tide. Without thinking about it, Lu Shier bent down and picked up Fa Cai who was staring at the battleship in a daze beside him, and put the fluffy young phantom beast into his arms , he escaped from the shadow range cast by the battleship almost by rolling and crawling. When he hurriedly returned to the block where the sun could shine, he felt exhausted and fell to the ground. He wiped his face with his hand, and his hand was soaked in cold sweat just now!

Lu Twelve was stunned for a while.

Until he felt something furry rub against the back of his hand, he was stunned for a moment, and looked down, only to realize that it was Fa Cai who was squinting at the moment, and was arching the back of his hand with his head.

"..." Picking up the inefficient little hairball from the ground by the back of the neck, Lu Twelve looked at the pair of golden pupils expressionlessly, "Get rich."

Fa Cai: "Meow?"

Lu Twelve: "In the future, you will let me go east—"

Fa Cai: "Meow?"

Lu Twelve: "...I will definitely go all the way north without hesitation."

Get rich: "..."

After finishing speaking, he threw the phantom beast in his hand to the ground, and the black-haired young man got up from the ground softly, patted his buttocks, rearranged his backpack, and then turned on the walkie-talkie, talking to JAY over there. He just came across the thrilling story of the ruins of the royal warship, and walked towards the former movie theater next to him.

……

Now the movie theater is the only way for Lu Twelve to continue to reach the thorny forest, because it is almost sunset, and when he walked into the facade of the building, it was pitch black. Calmly turned on the flashlight JAY gave him, and reported: "I'm going to walk through the movie theater now—"

At this time, the signal of the walkie-talkie seemed to be disturbed by some kind of electric current, which was a bit noisy... Thinking that the signal in the movie theater is not very good because of the sound equipment, Lu Twelve frowned slightly, but he didn't take it seriously. On the road, just as he was about to turn off the intercom to stop the noisy voice, he suddenly heard JAY's intermittent voice——

"Wait, I really want to hear what's coming from your side?"

"..."

Almost at the same time as JAY said these words, Lu Twelve's back suddenly stiffened, and he felt that the eyes that were secretly staring at him that he had ignored for a while seemed to return to him.

The difference from before was that before, he felt that line of sight was coming from above him.

But this time, he felt that the sight gave people a very strong feeling, which meant that if he was not delusional at this moment, then the person who had been spying on him from the beginning was very far away from him now. Very close!

I don't know when that thing caught up...

At this moment, Lu Twelve's back was completely tense. For a moment, he was sweating profusely, and he could only hear his heartbeat beating wildly!

When the whole person was in a state of complete mental tension, Lu Twelve suddenly calmed down. He stretched out his hand and turned off the disturbing intercom that kept ringing, and then slowly, slowly Stepping back step by step, when his back was about to reach the wall closest to him, suddenly there was a loud bang from his side!

Lu Twelve let out an "ah", and a low growl full of fear echoed infinitely on the first floor of the empty movie theater. When he suddenly turned around to look in the direction of the sound source, he found that there was a man with adult arms That big mouse was dragging its tail, quickly crawling out of the dark corner, and then eagerly hid in the next dark place.

The "kuang" sound just now was probably the sound made by the mouse knocking over something on the ground during its action.

Lu Twelve heaved a sigh of relief, and looked down at Fa Cai. At this moment, the young phantom beast was squatting at his feet, seemingly unaware of the tense atmosphere, just staring at it with interest. That huge mouse floated past him...

Turning on the walkie-talkie, the signal seems to have been restored. On the walkie-talkie, a series of "hey, hey, hey" sounds from JAY actually made Lu Twelve feel relieved, and he took a long breath: "I'm here, I'm fine."

"...Scare me to death, don't turn off the walkie-talkie suddenly next time without talking, where are you now? Just now you said you were in the ruins of the movie theater? Now? Are you still inside or come out?"

Lu Twelve looked around, frowned slightly, subconsciously slowed down his pace, walked a few steps forward according to the original route, and said as he walked, "I'm going to pass through the movie theater now, and there was a little problem just now. , but it’s just a mouse... Master JAY, I always feel that something is wrong here, maybe the situation here is much more complicated than we imagined, or we just give up the mission and forget it?”

"It's all here, what's the matter if you give up?" Unexpectedly, JAY refused over the intercom, "Don't be suspicious, the Phantom Beast Staff Guild is very accurate in judging the degree of danger of the mission. I will definitely not put the blue task in the white task area to deceive people..."

"...What if this mission isn't even a white mission? What if the system goes wrong? What if it's a legendary mission? What if—"

"What, I told you not to be suspicious! When you get out of the movie theater, find a bright spot and stand still and wait for me. My side is definitely a dead end. The real road is on your side. I'll be over soon."

"Oh."

"Stand don't move!"

"Okay, even if you beg me on your knees now, I won't move around, okay?"

Lu Twelve was distracted by talking to JAY, and finally, after he didn't know how long it took, he finally passed through the whole floor of the ruins of the movie theater.

This process seemed to last for as long as a century. When he kicked open the crumbling iron gate and stepped out of the back door of the cinema to return to the light, Lu Twelve leaned against the wall and rested for a while, before he could relax. When his heartbeat returned to normal, he suddenly felt something approaching him behind him——

That feeling was strong.

It seemed that something was about to rush out of the dark cinema in the next second!

Lu Twelve felt that his hair was singing the national anthem one by one and stood up to salute. The door he kicked open shook again. When the black-haired young man almost forgot how to breathe, the door was suddenly opened. pushed away—

"Fa, get rich ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Ow, ooh, ooh—"

Lu Twelve subconsciously yelled, but at this moment, his phantom beast rushed into his arms with howls faster than him!

Then, from the gap in the door that was slowly pushed open, a human head with a red peaked cap popped out.

Lu Twelve: "..."

JAY glanced around twice, then stepped out, followed by a B-boy with completely metal ears behind his ass - it seems that his ability has been improved in the process of clearing the thornbush...JAY walked The black-haired young man said, "Have you been waiting for a long time? I don't think so, because I happened to find a small road on the map and took a shortcut to run here hehehe... But the atmosphere in the cinema was good, when I walked over I didn't feel that someone was staring at me, are you really too nervous to have hallucinations—"

Before JAY could finish speaking, when he turned his head and saw the black-haired young man's tense and livid face, he said "wow": "Your face looks like a dead person just dug out of the grave. Do you want to be scared?" so!"

Lu Twelve lowered his head and looked at Fa Cai, only to realize that even the young Eudemons in his arms were staring at him with big round golden watery eyes, looking up at him inexplicably—as if She didn't look like she was frightened at all.

Lu Twelve: "...you were just yelling and calling for an asshole?"

Fa Cai lowered his head, and intimately rubbed his master's hand that was covered with black lines from his furry face——

"Meow."

I thought you called me so enthusiastically because you wanted me to come and hug you. When you are happy, of course you want to scream.

"..."

Lu Twelve let go of his hand expressionlessly, and threw the young phantom beast in his hand to the ground. After the latter landed lightly and gracefully, he raised his head to see that his hands were in his pockets at this moment, and he looked under the brim of his hat. Looking at his little human friend, he thought for a while and asked, "So from the beginning to the end, I was the only one who was scared to death, right?"

JAY nodded: "Yes."

Lu Twelve was silent for a moment. When he walked out of the cinema side by side with JAY, he turned his head to look at the building behind him—it was still the same as when he came, but the man who had been staring at him since he stepped into the ancient battlefield The line of sight suddenly disappeared.

disappeared without a trace.

As if everything was really just his illusion.

"..." Lu Twelve thought for a while, then suddenly said, "Actually, I was pretty bold before."

JAY nodded and said seriously: "Oh."

Lu Twelve frowned: "Really."

JAY nodded again: "Well, I believe it."

Lu Twelve was helpless: "Then why are you looking at me with sympathy?"

JAY thought for a while, then raised his hand to press the brim of his hat, twisted his face and looked around, then turned back to stare at the side of the face of the black-haired young man beside him and said seriously: "...I just suddenly felt that I always wanted to The desire to do the mission with a startled novice girl seems to be fulfilled, although she is not wearing a lace bowknot dress, but you know, (<ゝω)☆Kira!"

Lu Twelve: "..."

JAY: "(<ゝω)☆Kira!"

Lu Twelve: "Get out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"