[comprehensive] villain friend

The city that never sleeps【Ⅰ】

Dolores felt relieved.

Even though she is still dragging her frail body, she feels that her soul is as light as a gust of wind, and she can fly high at will, overlooking the world from the highest point.

This feeling is really good... Maybe she used to have nothing, no identity, no status, nothing, just an ordinary citizen who couldn't even shake the state machine, staring at this huge machine with trepidation, wondering if it was When will it be overwhelmed—but now it is different, she knows that she holds power, which is the most primitive "cultural power", which has been transformed into political power, economic power and even military power as early as ancient times, It can be converted like this now.

... She doesn't need to wait for opportunities, because opportunities are everywhere in her eyes.

Dolores exhaled slowly, feeling that the world was vast, and even the ruins of this abandoned factory carried the relics of ancient Rome.A ray of golden light slowly rises in the distance, and the sun is about to leap from the horizon.

She finally stood up and walked down the ruins.

……

Inventing a tragic story of domestic violence for herself, Dolores borrowed a set of clean clothes from a nearby resident with tears in her eyes, found a hidden toilet and put on clothes casually. I tied a ponytail and washed my dirty fingers.

She casually flicked the water splash on her fingers, raised her eyes to the mirror, and looked at her face indifferently.

—What a face of a law-abiding citizen.Dolores thought, the black hair was pulled together to cover up the scorched marks. Although it looked a bit downcast, it was enough.When she returns to New York first...

When she returns to New York first... Dolores is a little lost.

"Hi, Dolores." A gentle female voice sounded behind her, with a hand on her shoulder.

In the mirror, a woman with a hood suddenly appeared, and there was still a trace of golden fireworks behind her, which disappeared completely in Dolores' eyes.

She paused, staring at the long face reflected in the mirror.

It was a familiar face.

"...Long time no see." Dolores spoke extremely slowly, staring at the other party, "Ancient Master."

"It's been a long time." Gu Yi withdrew her hand, still with a smile on his face, "...I didn't expect you to leave New York—we've been looking for you for a long time."

"Looking for me?" Dolores raised her eyebrows, "Why are you looking for me?"

"About that bodhi bead bracelet—"

"Bodhi bracelets? . . . What? You want to go back? If I remember correctly—" Dolores said, "You have given that to me, on the commission of 'someone.'"

"Yes. We have indeed transferred that to you—but I didn't come here to ask for the bracelet back." Gu Yi said slowly, "Actually, we never take back what has been given as a gift. something out."

Dolores looked at each other.

"...It's just that there are some other things." Gu Yi said helplessly.

Dolores smiled, and curled her hair with her fingers calmly: "Other things? I don't remember any other entanglements with the Supreme Master other than this bracelet... To be honest, I'm surprised that you would You found me, and what surprised me even more..." Her expression froze, "How did you find me?"

"You know, we are mages."

"Oh, not only do I know that you are mages, but I also know that you are the so-called 'Supreme Mage' - dear ancient one," Dolores said softly, "but it doesn't mean that you can wantonly violate ordinary people of**."

"If this is what you care about," Gu Yi shook his head, "I can promise you that we will never easily use this kind of magic to determine the location of others—this time it is just a matter of urgency."

"...Really?" Dolores looked at the other party, "Then, I'll just believe it. So what is your so-called emergency?"

"Are you sure we want to be here—" She looked around, looking at the shabby everything, "Are you discussing something important?"

"Of course I don't want to," Dolores replied, spreading her hands, "but I'm at a loss right now."

Gu Yi relaxed slightly, smiled, and held out his hand to Dolores: "Then, why don't we go back to New York first?"

……

Dolores wants to go back to New York.

She wants to stay at home, make herself a glass of milk, take a hot bath, change into clean clothes, and then lie on the bed and sleep for a while. After she wakes up naturally, she starts to think about her future plans. Things to do.

——Instead of coming to any strange place in New York, sitting on the sofa drinking tea, and listening to what the other party wants to say.

In any case, it is indeed a little surprising that Gu Yi will find her.

It is for this reason that Dolores agreed to come to 177A Bleecker Street, Manhattan, New York with the other party.

It is still a familiar hall, and the ancient decoration makes people suspect that they will travel back to hundreds of years in the next moment.

Dolores took a sip of her tea and remained calm.

"No honey this time." Gu Yi held the tea in her hand, looked at Dolores with a smile, "—your taste."

"Not bad," Dolores said, "but we should get down to business first, shouldn't we?"

"That's right." Gu Yi nodded slightly, and put down the teacup in his hand, "Actually, for some reasons, I hope to invite you to live in Kamataze for a while."

"For some reason?" repeated Dolores. "Oh—I'm going to be interested in this 'some reason.'"

"For safety, Dolores." Gu Yi said slowly, "...it is not difficult to explain, but it is really time-consuming to explain clearly."

"However, if I don't explain clearly, how can I willingly live in Kamataze according to your idea?" Dolores asked back.

Gu Yi hesitated for a moment: "...a long time ago, I had a very talented apprentice. I taught him a lot of things, and I hope he can inherit my lifelong knowledge, but he was lured by the dark force, and he only wanted to pursue the powerful and powerful. eternal life--"

Dolores narrowed her eyes: "Obviously you failed to control his inflated ambition."

"That's right—he thought I had concealed the secret of eternal life, so he turned against me and defected to our greatest enemy, Dormammu."

"...This story tells us that if you cut the grass but don't get rid of the roots, it will regenerate when the spring breeze blows." Dolores said in a low voice.

"What?" Gu Yi was taken aback for a moment.

"It's just trying to learn some lessons from other people's experience for introspection." Dolores smirked, "I'm sorry that you have an additional enemy-but to be honest, I still don't understand, What does that have to do with inviting me to move to Kamatadze?"

"Since that apprentice of mine stole a very important spell book not long ago, I suspect that he will soon return with terrifying power - if he does return, it is likely to target you, Dolores S."

"Me?" Dolores tensed up, staring at Gu Yi, "Why me?"

"You already know that, don't you?" said the other party, "You are special."

"Of course I am special. Is there anyone in this world who is not special?"

"You know what I mean, don't confuse concepts, Dolores." Gu Yi shook his head, "Why don't we take any action when you obviously don't belong to this world? Because the world chose you, not You chose the world. It took the initiative to accommodate you and contact you, but as guardians, how could we disregard the wishes of the world?"

"Accommodate me? Contact me?" Dolores sneered, "If that's the case, I won't...be sick in bed all year round and still have no way to find the cause."

She still remembers the long white years, and the smell of disinfectant flooded her memory. Every doctor she saw couldn't find out the exact disease, so she could only keep moving between various hospitals in various countries .

"About this..." Gu Yi said, "Are you sure it's because the world is rejecting you?"

Dolores paused.

In fact, this question is very easy to think about.But that's what she thought at first, and later she became more convinced of it, and never questioned it.

But think about it, if the world is really rejecting her, then she should be bedridden on the first day she came to this world, not to mention her mother——

When did she start to get weak?

"It's not important, Dolores." Gu Yi said, "What's important is that you take that bracelet and go to Kamataze with me—only in this way can I guarantee your safety."

"If the other party really makes a comeback," Dolores said calmly, "his first target will be Kamataze. I don't think you can protect me when the other party has premeditated. Even if you can Guaranteeing that I will not be taken away in a group attack, nor can it guarantee that I will not be injured in a pile of flying magic... In this way, I will be more dangerous when I am with you."

Gu Yi smiled wryly.

"Maybe the mage alone can't take care of so much, but don't forget, Kamataze is not just the ancient master alone." A deep male voice sounded in the palace, Dolores looked over, and Modu said from that Stepping out of the familiar golden circle, he was dragging another person, and at this moment he was looking at Dolores seriously, "No matter how bad it is, there is Strange—"

"...What do you mean by 'no matter how bad it is'." The man who was dragged said a little depressed, stood up straight, straightened his collar, and motioned slightly to Dolores, "Hello, I'm Stephen Ster Lankey, I'm a surgeon."

"Ex-surgeon." Modo added, "now he belongs to us."

Dolores narrowed her eyes: "...are you an American?"

"Of course, Americans." Stephen nodded, looking at Dolores a little strangely, "Why do you ask this?"

"...It's nothing." Dolores looked away coldly.She felt that the first thought she had when she saw Stephen just now was a bit stupid.

—The Sherlock Holmes family has no lost children, and Sherlock has no twin brothers.

"I just think this world is really fantastic." Dolores raised the corners of her lips, "...Maybe it really is some kind of virtual world."