heavy fog

A crisp bell sounded suddenly in the hall.

Wen Luan subconsciously looked at the black cat's neck, and then realized that this was the third elder of the Dark Council, or the elder of the Sanguine family. He just loved the animal form, so it was impossible to hang pet bells.

The candles flickered and went out with a pop.

The Great Elder suddenly stood up, and took out a crystal ball from his black robe. A blurry scene appeared inside, and before it could become clear, the door of the conference hall seemed to be kicked hard by a giant, with a loud bang.

"Alert Level [-], from the Red Spider Nebula, the enemy is coming,"

A shriveled little old man rushed in, his messy gray hair stood up like a hedgehog. In a short sentence, his hair was so short that it became shoulder-length, and then shrunk again. go back.

The change in his face was not so obvious, after all, even with a wrinkled and wrinkled face, he would still be an old man even if there were less than a dozen lines.

"Beagle! Pay attention to your image!" This time it was the black cat who yelled loudly. He imitated the tone of the great elder, waved his paw, and said vividly, "Don't lose face in front of our new speaker."

The old man raised his head in a daze, and looked at Wen Luan foolishly.

"speaker?"

"Yes, our Dark Parliament has finally ushered in after 2000..."

"Wait, what do we need the speaker for?" The old man interrupted the necromancer, his eyes widened, and he said rudely, "Elder, this is your conspiracy! According to the charter, the dark council votes, each elder has one vote , one speaker is equivalent to two votes! With the speaker, you are not afraid that Abel and I will vote to have carrot toast for breakfast tomorrow, right?"

The black cat silently covered its face with its paws.

The Great Elder drew out his staff, knocked the old man to the ground, and then turned his head and introduced to Wen Luan: "I'm sorry, this is the second elder of the Dark Council, Beagle, a curse wizard, and he can solve the problem for Your Excellency the Speaker. Your little trouble."

Wen Luan groaned in doubt.

"Human technology is very useful, but the dark race always has some tricks." The first elder blinked, and kicked the second elder who was lying on the ground and pretending to be dead.

"Carrot toast," the old man whispered.

"Okay, I guarantee that there will be carrots for the whole month, stand up for me!" The Great Elder narrowed his eyes and threatened.

The Second Elder finally walked leisurely in front of Wen Luan.

"Crack." The invisible barrier bumped the old man so that his eyes circled.

Shier said sternly: "You can't get close! You have seven kinds of volatile poisons that can be detected by the equipment, and each of them is enough to kill the people in the whole building."

Wen Luan turned his gaze to the necromancer with the black cat squatting on his shoulder.

"Cough, that's right." The black cat explained, "But the cursed wizards like to spray poison as perfume and bathe as body wash. However, the Witcher Association said that the Black Death was caused by a group of cursed wizards collectively catching a cold and sneezing. This kind of thing is an absolute slander! Knowing that many poisons are mixed together through dark magic, they will become wonderful and harmless... shower gel!"

Cooperating with the black cat's explanation, the second elder grinned and looked at his face carefully, he was quite amiable.

At least he looks much kinder than Papa Suta who grows corn in Meteorite Town.

Seir didn't speak, and carefully assessed the quality of the air: "Master?"

"It's okay, I want to see what the so-called tips are?" Wen Luan put on a very casual look.

Losing is not losing, the mechs are behind him, and he is an immortal tapir. If he shows an expression of worrying about damaging his current body, he will be caught by someone.

When Shier withdrew the defensive cover, Wen Luan smelled a strong smell of chocolate!

Wen Luan almost thought that there was something wrong with his nose, especially when he found out that the source of the smell was the second elder, his expression became stiff—the shower gel mixed with seven poisons smelled like chocolate?

The second elder muttered something quickly.

Wen Luan suddenly felt his limbs go numb, and his arms and lower legs dried up with changes visible to the naked eye, just like a mummy, the scorched black surface proved to have lost all moisture in an instant.

"Boom."

All the confinement metal rings on Wen Luan's joints fell off and fell to the cold ground.

"The latest technology haha, it's not the body of the hostage, but the bones and blood vessels... A few seconds of weathering and complete death signs are enough to deceive it, solve it!" The second elder snapped his fingers triumphantly.

Wen Luan's hands and feet recovered again, and even the broken joints healed.

This made him raise his arms in disbelief, and he couldn't wait to stand up—God knows that he hasn't relied on his own strength to walk for a long time, and even with Sier, this severe disability is still depressing.

"Machine and human technology are all rigid things." The second elder laughed.

The silver chair collapsed and reassembled, Shier held the knight gun expressionlessly, and hit the second elder hard with the barrel of the gun unceremoniously.

"Gudong-"

The second elder's head fell directly from his neck and rolled all the way down in the stepped conference hall, like a pinball.Wen Luan was stunned, and finally realized that the body standing upright in front of him was still a piece of wood, and the head was not real.

It's just that compared to the previous doll, this time it's much more realistic.

"..."

There are many magical illusions in the East, and the dream-eating tapir has the ability to break illusions.I have never encountered such a boring situation, carving portraits of myself and manipulating them to go around.

"Please don't mind, this is just a little hobby of cursing wizards..." The Great Elder showed a headache expression, "Oh, it's tradition! They have done too many bad things, and they are afraid of being retaliated, so they always toss like this!"

"The good thing is that once the Bruch family went out collectively to find the second elder to settle accounts, and as a result, countless of them were beaten up, and the dolls were dismantled and flattened to pave more than a dozen corridors, filling up the old castle—still no real ones were caught. Second Elder."

The black cat stroked its beard and said, "That was really a grand occasion. If you kick open any door of the castle, you may find a second elder. If you drag it out and beat it to exhaust your magic power, all the people lying on the ground are poisoned." Blood clans cursed in the middle, no, you can see the annoying Beagle being beaten by the sea everywhere, whether I am in the restaurant or on the stairs, as far as I can see, it is a real movement of the whole people of the Dark Parliament!"

"..." Wen Luan looked down at the "Second Elder" who was lying down, and the corners of his mouth twitched again and again.

Shier also stared at the wooden wreckage and studied it. Strangely, even he couldn't judge the signs of life before the magic power was exhausted.

"Let me remind you, just now..." Wen Luan pointed to a certain second elder on the ground, and said with a strange expression: "It seems that they came to report the news? The enemy is coming, huh? You don't need to prepare anything?"

With Wen Luan's deliberate accent, the black cat and the necromancer still looked very calm.

Seir quietly reminded: "The Red Tarantula Nebula is at the other end of the Beluga Galaxy, 17 light-years away from the Deep Blue Star."

Wen Luan, who lost face because of his lack of common sense, could only forcefully twitch the corners of his mouth: "I sincerely admire the defensive range of the Dark Parliament."

Unexpectedly, the Great Elder shook his head and said simply: "There is only a special observation point set up at that place."

After he finished speaking, he didn't want to explain any more. He pushed open the door and made a gesture of please.

"I think, Your Excellency should take a good look at the Dark Council! I also need to introduce you to the important members of the Council."

Wen Luan motioned for Se'er to follow him. He took a final look at the circular conference hall and found that there was indeed nothing here, so he followed the elder into the corridor.

The black cat jumped out nimbly and walked on the carpet silently.

"There are three floors where important documents are kept, and even I can't open them easily." The Great Elder pointed to the locked, dusty room doors and said one by one. There were also wooden plaques with notes based on the chronology of the Christian era. .

"There are also many naughty books, such as the fingers of people who like to chew on the pages of books."

Wen Luan walked through the library one after another, the miscellaneous room where the difficult gadgets that wizards like, the first elder's private bone assembly workshop, the second elder's storage room for spare dolls, and the third elder's living room "suitable for cat life" In the botanical garden, there are several groups of artificially reared birds, and several ponds for keeping small fish...

None of the so-called secrets of the real dark parliament has been seen.

Or rather, not at all.

Wen Luan finally couldn't hold back his temper: "Could it be that the dark race is preparing to evacuate collectively? I'm really surprised that there is no one in the headquarters you claimed."

"No, they all work below."

The Great Elder blinked his eyes and replied: "As a legal citizen of Deep Blue Star with household registration, how can it be possible not to have a decent job and create good social wealth?"

Wen Luan finally realized a serious problem.

The current headquarters of the Dark Council is not in an ancient castle deep in the Alps...

"Seier, check the map, what is this building for?"

"The difference between the sightseeing map and the city plan scanned just now is too great to judge," Seir replied.

Damn it, Wen Luan maintained a calm expression, turned his head and said to the elders of the Dark Council: "Okay, what contribution have you made to Deep Blue Star's wanton indulgence? Open a restaurant? Open a casino? Or..."

"Oh, it's very lucrative and has great taste."

Wen Luan's uncontrollable eyesight changed slightly, because he thought of Xia Kes - Aventure in the Jungle.

The Dream Demon had hinted to him that there are many dungeons in such interesting places, each with its own characteristics.

——Evil dark creatures, can they do business properly?

"Crack!" The Great Elder pushed open a small door at the bottom of the stairs, and all the noise and laughter poured in.

Wen Luan breathed a sigh of relief quietly, it couldn't be some mysterious and high-end special place with such a noisy place.

The Great Elder picked up the hood to cover his head, but he didn't know where to find a horror mask, which covered the upper half of his face, and at the same time motioned to Wen Luan for Xier.

"Your Excellency, you don't want your mecha to encounter what Andos suffered a few days ago!"

"...Seer, hidden form."

Wen Luan silently stuffed the mecha that had turned into a silver metal ball into the cloak.This made him look weird, but Wen Luan had decided that no matter what kind of gaze he saw from outside, he would look back with contempt.

Who stipulated that it is not allowed to go shopping with a metal ball?Uh, maybe bar-hopping...

Wen Luan sniffed and said casually: "I guess there is a second elder behind the door."

Intense chocolate flavor.

The black cat laughed softly, and quickly rushed out the door. Wen Luan bent down and walked out the narrow door with a fearless attitude of "I'm just here to see a joke, even if the room is full of skeletons and skeletons".

"boom!"

The silver metal ball rolled from Wen Luan's hand to the ground.

Ten thousand kinds of psychological construction are not as good as going out and seeing a room full of radish heads.

Bright and magnificent castle room, high-end decoration, you can see big worthless glass diamonds everywhere, and cute candy-colored dolls hanging in mid-air.Children in all kinds of beautiful clothes looked up at Wen Luan and the First Elder, who were queuing up in front of the tall counter.

"Sir, your crystal ball fell off." A girl in a lace dress pointed to Shiel on the ground and said, "I haven't seen this model for sale. Is it white chocolate?"

A child who looked like an aristocrat raised his head proudly, and said to the clerk at the counter: "Get me this special model! The most expensive and the best!"

The clerks at the counter were all wrinkled wizards in peaked hats. They seemed to be taken aback, and they all stood up and bowed to the Great Elder.

"Are you the supervisor of this store?"

Most of the children who can come to Deep Blue Star to travel and spend money on their own are rich in their families. Although some are four or five years old, they have been brought in and out of high-class social occasions by their parents early on, and they are very discerning.

The elder who carried the shadow was ignored, and the children's eyes were all focused on Wen Luan.

Clothes made of ordinary materials, hand-cut, barely passable (provided by Cyrus mentor kindly), but the wearer obviously doesn't take care of them, the traces of the cuffs and curls are obvious, and they are reckless and rude and have no image.

They immediately chirped contemptuously.

"Director, the shopping line at your house is too long."

"The limit is too much, I haven't bought a liqueur chocolate-flavored crystal ball for three consecutive days!"

"I'll pay three times as much, and give me a coffee-flavoured crystal ball!"

Wen Luan was crowded to the counter dizzy, and finally understood the embarrassing situation of Andos that day.A group of children, and a group of spoiled aristocratic children, it is a disaster!

Wen Luan escaped out of this "sell crystal ball" hut.

In the long corridor outside the door, the children's attendants stood respectfully, and the sweet and greasy aroma wafted over more intensely. In another room full of children, Wen Luan saw a wizard stirring a cauldron, with colorful liquids bubbling inside. , issued a fragrant and attractive taste.

The stairwell is a huge window, realistic pumpkin cake, graveyard stone dark chocolate pie, cute little skulls made of white syrup finger cookies.

Wearing gorgeous clothes and speaking clearly, handsome men and beautiful women of the blood race are selling snacks by the glass window with a smile.They're not much interested in children, but they are interested in the nobles who come with children, well, their necks.

The building is completely decorated like a medieval castle, but without the gloomy feeling, and there are sparkling decorations everywhere.

There is also a fully transparent commodity exhibition room in the three-storey high rotunda, which is a spectacular scene that every child can only see in fairy tales, with a solid dark chocolate floor and a soft pink strawberry cake sofa, which is so big that it can go up Rolling, hazelnuts serve as cobbled paths, streams of milk flow, even spider webs are cooled and solidified syrup, and the spiders on them are realistic snacks.

Countless children stood there unable to move their feet, lying on the glass, unable to drag anyone away.

"Today's bidding price for Candy House has reached [-], guest! Forty thousand, who else wants to increase the price? The deadline is [-] pm! Afternoon tea starts!"

Wen Luan saw a guy who looked very similar to the second elder, and he was yelling through the crowd: "Think about it, for only [-], your child can invite his little friends to have a happy party, in a place where everything is food." Have fun in the candy house!"

"..."

Wen Luan stiffly walked towards the less crowded stairs, almost slipped and rolled down.

Especially when he heard the Great Elder behind him, he laughed and said: "This is the headquarters of the Dark Council, well, our largest industry in Deep Blue Star, in the words of the Orientals, it is not a problem to make money every day, and now it is also in name. Belongs to you, Honorable Speaker!"

Damn dark creatures!

Wen Luan stuffed Shire into the cloak, squeezed out of the crowd resolutely, rushed out of the store and left.

He took a last look at the gorgeous building that wafted a sweet and greasy scent. On the gate, there was a signboard written in the common characters of the Beluga Galaxy: "Sweet Encounter - Wizard's Magic Castle".