One of the Twelve Kingdoms

Joshua was about to ask Alexander clearly, when halfway through he suddenly felt a shock.Immediately, there was a chill on the top of the head, as if something was causing airflow in the sky, and even heard a familiar sound of wings flapping.He raised his head subconsciously, and saw a large black mass of birds with sharp chirping, staring blood-red eyes, sharp claws and beaks swooping towards the dining room.

Joshua was taken aback for a moment, and immediately squatted down with his head in his arms to avoid the attack of the flock of birds. The flock of black birds glide past with hissing, and began to attack the entire restaurant. Dilapidated, the guests screamed and hurriedly fled out of the gate.

Joshua hid under a fallen umbrella and wanted to find a chance to run to a safe place, but the sudden appearance of a big bird hovered around him all the time, and it would immediately attack as soon as it found him.Joshua just breathed a sigh of relief, the birds turned around and flew towards him again, this time the distance was too late to avoid.

"Josh!" Gunshots rang continuously in his ears, and then several black birds almost fell to the ground wiping their hair. Alexander rushed to his side while shooting these inexplicably crazy birds, like a hero. He protected him behind, staring sharply at the dangers around him, "Are you all right?"

Joshua's arm was scratched with a few bloodstains. The wound was not deep but looked a little hideous.It was nothing to him, and he would heal in a few minutes.Joshua quickly hid them before Alexander found out, and replied: "It's okay." He looked at Alexander's tense and serious look, and knew that he should avoid that point, but his heart beat at that moment.He couldn't take his eyes off Alexander's profile.

This is a bad sign.

Alexander notified nearby colleagues and ambulance stations for reinforcements in the shortest possible time, loudly and calmly commanded passers-by to evacuate, and handled several blackbirds that attempted to attack with ease during the period.Joshya praised sincerely: "Your marksmanship is really good."

"I train every day." Alexander turned his head to look at him, showing his white teeth because of his smile, but his expression changed in surprise the next second.Joshua also looked at the ground, and after a while, the bodies of those black birds began to disappear into a cloud of black smoke.

Facing such a scene, Alexander couldn't help but be speechless: "What are these things?"

"Is it a Gu sculpture?" Joshua murmured to himself in amazement. He was curious about how Yanqi subdued the emissary before, and it was this kind of monster that the other party caught when he showed it to him.It was a black eagle with red eyes and horns, just like any he had ever seen.

"What?" Alexander asked with a frown, failing to catch the word clearly.Joshua was stunned for a moment to react, and immediately denied: "No, no... I mean, I don't know either."

The look in Alexander's eyes almost made Joshua think that he had seen through his clumsy lie, but the other party gave him a meaningful look and did not pursue it further. After all, as a policeman, he had more important things to do right now.

Joshua ran to the street alone and looked around. He was sure that it was a Gu sculpture that only existed in the Twelve Kingdoms. If this was the case, then the man behind it must be nearby.Out of his instinctive perception of danger, he did feel that there were some special beings staring at him from an invisible corner, and then that feeling disappeared within a few seconds, and Joshua understood that he was depressed. missed it.

Suddenly, he was patted on the shoulder, and Joshya suddenly turned his head to see Jonathan's worried face.

"I know all about it." He came here after receiving a message from Alexander, and Joshua was much relieved when he heard what his brother said.

The traces of the Gu carvings have disappeared without a trace, ambulances are transporting the injured, the police are checking the records, passers-by who don't know the truth stand outside the cordon, and there is a mess everywhere.

"Brother, you're right." Joshua wiped his eyes and connected the recent events, his blue eyes flashed uneasy, "Everything is wrong."

Jonathan snorted coldly, gave him a look that he had only just realized now, and then said, "Come with me."

He threw the helmet to his younger brother, and Joshya obediently sat on the back seat. The speed of the motorcycle and the thick helmet forced him to speak loudly: "Where are we going?"

"Weather Bureau," Jonathan replied.

"What? Why are we going there?" Joshya asked loudly in wonder, but Jonathan honked the siren and turned on the horsepower. The sudden soaring speed caused Joshya to almost fall due to inertia.He held onto his brother's back tightly, only hearing the wind blowing by his ears, and his face was already pale when he reached the destination.He floated back to the ground, swearing in his heart that he would never get in Jonathan's car again unless the world ended.

Jonathan glanced at his disappointing younger brother, and said mockingly, "It's time for you to exercise, Josh."

"Come on, you're not much better than me when you're riding a roller coaster." Joshah countered with a curled lip, and the corner of the latter's mouth twitched, as if he didn't hear strides into the door.Joshua suddenly remembered something and hurried to catch up, and returned the ID he was still carrying to his brother: "I think you will need this later—don't get me wrong that Alexander and I just happened to meet, he dropped it, and then I picked it up."

Jonathan glanced into his innocent blue eyes, took it and stuffed it expertly into his pocket before walking away.

"Don't you have anything to say?" Joshua followed behind his brother, seeing that he didn't seem to intend to explain his change of name while asking.

Jonathan stopped suddenly, and the person in charge of reception was a woman with brown hair, brown eyes and glasses, so Joshya had to shut up temporarily.Jonathan showed his ID to the staff inside: "Officer Elis Barrowman, please cooperate with the police investigation."

"Investigate what?" The capable-looking woman glanced at him with a smile, then fixed the whole thing on his face, and asked politely in a bad tone. Jonathan also said in a business-like tone: "Solar eclipse."

The woman's smile became serious when she heard this word, and she asked with a guarded look in her eyes, "When will your case depend on innocent natural phenomena?"

"This is an order from above." Jonathan was indifferent. He waited for a while, and the woman's expression relaxed a little. Can't reveal anything."

"Does that mean it was not just an ordinary solar eclipse?" Joshya asked, the woman looked at Joshya with the eyes of a child, and said slowly: "No comment. Give me a suggestion, next time you Better come back with an investigation warrant."

Joshua saw her gesture and turned to leave, realizing that the two brothers were about to be slammed, and turned his eyes and said loudly: "Maybe I can tell you something, you know that is not a solar eclipse at all, right?"

The woman's footsteps in high heels stopped, she turned her head and pushed her glasses: "I'm sorry to make you waste your time."

"Damn..." Joshua cursed in a low voice, and suddenly a voice turned the situation around.

"Hannah, please come in."

Hannah opened her mouth slightly, stared at the two and replied, "I think they're just talking, and the people from the Geological Bureau said the same thing last time."

Joshua was afraid that the man who spoke would suddenly change his mind and immediately said: "Thank you, we will go in first." He and Jonathan walked into the room where the man was, and said to Hannah as if he suddenly thought of something: "Oh, yes , I suggest you change your hairstyle, this kind of curly hair is out of date." Seeing Hannah stepping on her high heels and leaving Joshua, she squinted and smiled triumphantly.

This is an office, and there is a well-groomed bald man in his forties sitting in it.He looked at Jonathan and asked, "Good afternoon, Officer Elise. How's your case going?"

"The case has been closed, the witness was a paranoid patient, and it was a deer that attacked him."

"I see. I'm proud of the office efficiency of our city police." The middle-aged man praised perfunctorily, and then looked at Joshua: "You are the one who spoke just now."

"Yes, I'm Joshya, sir." Joshya replied.

"I want to hear what you know about solar eclipses?"

Joshua cheered up and quickly replied: "It just looked like a solar eclipse, and the moon was still in its place. At that time, it was not the moon that blocked the sun, but a hole, or a space-time vortex. .”

"Space-time vortex?" The other party's expression seemed to be thinking about the possibility, Joshua nodded and said affirmatively, "That's right."

Jonathan saw his younger brother answering fluently, and asked in a volume that the two could hear: "When did you know this?"

"The results of Jason's investigation, he has been busy with these recently. But that's all I know." He also leaned closer to the other party and whispered.

"You mean that something has intersected with the earth, resulting in a crack in time and space." The man came to the conclusion that Joshya didn't want to expose the existence of the Twelve Kingdoms, and said noncommittally: "Maybe it's just the influence of celestial bodies or something else. what, and that's exactly what we want to know now."

The man stared at the two brothers for a while and said, "Come with me."

They were brought into the monitoring room, and it was only then that Joshya knew that they even set up a research team for this purpose, and the comparison between the real-time video and the simulated image of the solar eclipse was continuously played on the screen.

"In fact, we detected some abnormalities just half an hour ago." The selected location on the screen continued to zoom in, and a group of Gu sculptures appeared out of thin air, and then began to attack the restaurant where they were just now.

"Oh my God..." Joshua stared at the picture with wide eyes, and the man narrowed his eyes: "It's like a magic trick, right?"

"It's more like an omen, like animals migrating before an earthquake, something is about to happen." Joshua has a strong premonition of danger. These individual events are like incomplete puzzles, gradually emerging show its true colors.

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