【Qijie】The Kingdom of Eternal Life

BGM: Amazing Trees-Tielle/Sawano Hiroyuki

Lu Li's golden light meandered continuously, sifting out almost all the stars in the sky.But the wind passed through them unceremoniously, not moving the light and shadow, and brushing the killer's black hair.

The sound of ringing chains hangs between the fingers of the blond young man.But its owner seems to have no intention of attacking for the time being.The guide and the killer changed from the previous tense swords, and of course they couldn't be friendly, but they didn't attack each other more or less.The atmosphere was eerily calm.

A lot of people gathered on the ground. Due to the extremely high height, from the top of the tower, it looked like a group of densely packed ants like small black spots were swarming and entrenched.It was Sendrick's people who hijacked half of the civilians in the city and were using them as hostages to confront the tower and make demands.It is precisely because of this that even in the middle of the night, the city is still full of lights and shadows, and the chaotic and mixed voices are carried into the wind and thrown up to the nine heavens, and even the tail cannot be heard.Like a silent clown show.

Yi Ermi stood next to the lights with her shoulders crossed and looked at them for a while: "Aren't you going to stop them?"

Kurapika put the pistol back into the holster around his waist, straightened his suit jacket, and the tailored black hem naturally drooped, covering the two lethal firearms.He slowly put away the chain, his fingers were white, slender and slender, and he looked like a refined nobleman again.It wasn't particularly obvious in the heavy golden light, but his eyes seemed to have faded from the deep red, and turned back to a low-key and gentle brown-black.The tower's nominal chief of intelligence, but actually the leader in various senses, shook his head: "It's not necessary. It will end soon."

His attitude was a little too sure, and Ilmi glanced down again to confirm that he was not mistaken. At least half of the more than 1000 people were equipped with guns, and there were many rocket launchers and other weapons of mass destruction. Weapons - Shows that even with (deliberate) arrest, Sendrick's family is still very rich.He said with some interest: "Are you going to give up these people?"

"Of course not." Kurapika said, "I will arrange for someone to send them compensation afterwards."

Elmi shrugged.He wasn't interested in these things, and the conversation was just boring. He turned and walked into the darkness: "I have something else to do, bye. Next time you have business, please come to me."

Kurapika didn't move: "You should know that next time we meet again, I will arrest and prosecute you for attacking the tower, Mister Enemy."

"Sorry." Ilmi apologized without sincerity, and the Viper followed him, crawling over those golden lamps, "The taste of your tower is really luxurious. Can these lights be turned off?"

Kurapika smiled, "Sorry, not yet."

ground.

It was late at night.It is the time when most people on this planet sleep soundly, but half the people in this city are destined to not sleep well this night.They were awakened from a dream, and before they had time to react, they were taken hostage by gangsters. They were divided into several parts, each of which was secretly concentrated in a different place, and several groups of gangsters were separately guarded to avoid being caught by the rescuers dispatched by the tower.But in order to show the tower, there were a few puddles of still warm blood on the ground under the tower, and a few poor people who were specially brought out by the gangsters to shoot them to make an example to other monkeys were lying there, with their wrists and knees all covered. Distorted into grotesque and hideous shapes.

Some of the gangsters were viciously and murderously guarding the chilling hostages, some were trying to communicate with their companions on the helicopter, and some were lingering, eager to aim at the city like Like a sharp sword, it breaks through the tower of the sky.Many of them have thin S-shaped scars on their arms and shoulders, like snakes swimming around, which is the sign of bone tattoos.

The tower side obviously heard their request, and the gangsters didn't believe that these pious guys would ignore these civilians: You must know that the most fearful thing for senior officials who have anything to do with politics or the military is accidents in their own jurisdictions, which means Their official career ends here.This principle is universal everywhere.

So it stands to reason that even if they don't agree to their request right away, at least they should send a representative to communicate... They did this in the palace of a certain country before, and the effect was outstanding.However, the efficiency of this high tower is obviously much slower than that of the imperial palace. Ten minutes have passed, and even now, no representatives have come down to negotiate peace.

The gangsters decided to radio and fax their demands again.To be honest, this feeling of being ignored is not very good.They command each other, swear, and spit in the faces of their companions from time to time.

A group of hostages were held in the lobby of a bank. They listened to the conversations of the gangsters walking back and forth. When they were trembling with fear, there was a sharp cry between them.

There were several families with children, and the children tried their best to bear it for a long time, and finally couldn't help crying.

How do you get a terrified child to stop crying?This might be one of the hardest puzzles in the world.Their parents were even more terrified than they were, covering their mouths and screaming, hoping they would stop crying before the gangsters noticed and came over-but apparently in vain.When several men with scars and tattoos wrapped around their arms came over with guns in hand, the crying children cried louder because they were too frightened.Their parents were also about to cry.There was a father who had the courage to apologize to the gunman: "No, I'm very sorry, we—"

A man sneered and hit him on the bridge of the nose with the butt of his gun.The crowd screamed, and another man pointed a gun at the crying boy and shouted loudly: "Look out for the pigs in the tower!"

He pulled the trigger.

"What else does this light mean?"

"Yes."

"What is it?"

Kurapika smiled.

"'Our crystal is under attack, please return to defense immediately'."

Yi Er tilted his head: "What do you mean?"

"Start fighting back."

boom.

The unconscious body landed heavily, stirring up dust on the ground that hadn't been wiped for a long time.The gun fell far away.Blood poured out slowly, and the crowd screamed one after another, piercing the silky night like a few sharp daggers.The gangster companion who had witnessed everything picked up the machine gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation, regardless of 21, he planned to sweep towards his side, smashing everything that could move and talk into pieces.

Ding.

A kunai pinned to the barrel of his gun lightly.The unbelieving man squeezed the trigger several times, the hot gunpowder squeezed, heated, and expanded in the barrel, and finally exploded with a bang, blasting his hands into bloody pieces.

The rest of the gangsters who were scattered all over heard the sound and quickly gathered here. After running a few steps, they were pinned by several kunai, and the severe pain caused them to fall to the ground struggling and crying.A figure quickly flashed through the crowd, his posture was ingenious, as swift as a petrel flying a little water.The little boy who was so frightened that he stopped crying sobbed dryly, stared blankly at the dead body whose throat was blocked by a Kunai for a while, stretched out his hands, picked him up and stuffed him into the mouth. He fell into the arms of his father, who was also sitting on the ground, and was about to back away on tiptoe, when the little boy asked in a daze, "Mr. Qi, Qiyu?"

The ninja was so choked that he tilted his hand, and the Kunai throw aimed at the criminal's wrist was nailed to the eyes of the latter.What was more fatal was that the gangster who was about to be shot was carrying a rocket launcher in his hand. It is not an exaggeration to say that a single shot could blow the whole lobby into a catastrophe.

The ninja leaned down, and just took a few steps, when a girl with light green hair and high braids fell from the sky, her knees clamped around the man's neck, her body fell back extremely flexibly, and her legs twisted like two pairs of scissors.

The ninja heard the sound of a broken neck, the girl landed lightly, a cold light flashed in her hand, and a sharp knife shaped like a kitchen boning knife flew out, severing the wrist of another man carrying a heavy machine gun.She glanced at Ninja and said, "Young people should read less manga."

The bald ninja obediently listened to his senior's instruction, and flashed into the darkness bitterly.

The gangsters who heard the movement from the side of the building quickly returned to the defense, and the hot girl in a T-shirt and hot pants bent down and picked up her knife, then turned around and said, "Citizens are frightened, please follow me this way. "

Sendrick laughed and got into the cabin, bumping into shoulders with old buddies he hadn't seen for a long time.The helicopter flew steadily at high altitude, gliding towards the port city they had made an appointment with the Sentinels.

At this time, he found that there was a strange girl sitting in the cabin, with long hair hanging down her waist, a delicate and innocent face, fair skin, and looked a little immature, maybe still very young.She was wearing a light green long dress, and sat there quietly, watching him with a shy smile.

"Who is this?" Sendrick asked.

"I prepared it for you." Several people winked at him.Sendrick sat down happily, put his arms around the girl's shoulders, and asked complacently, "How about the others?"

"Part of it went to buy time for you, and part of it was at the sentinel."

Sendrick frowned: "Buy time? They haven't retreated yet?"

"The second-in-command commanded them. They took a lot of hostages and wanted the tower to delete our criminal record, so we won't be held accountable in the future..."

"What?" Sendrick interrupted him, and he said in disbelief: "How can he be so stupid? Didn't you tell him to make two random attacks and then run away?"

"How could that attract the guards in Khaitali?" The companion patted him on the shoulder, "Isn't it good to have fewer people to share things?"

Sendrick clicked his tongue loudly, brushed his hair irritably, and let go of the girl's thin shoulders.He felt that the girl was a little too thin, and her bones were so hard that it was uncomfortable to hug her.In addition, many heads may have been given away by idiots, which really makes people unhappy.

"What second-in-command? It's just here to block me." The drug lord complained loudly, "How do you manage things when I'm not around?"

Once he lost his temper, even his familiar companion men didn't dare to continue joking. There was silence in the cabin for a while, and then someone whispered amidst the rattling sound of the propeller: "Anyway, the sentry promised to share Give us something, nothing..."

"Sentry. Ha, Sentry." Sendrick interrupted him, "It's rare that I spend so much money deliberately staying in the tower for so long, and he dares to deliberately slow down the progress. What audacity, do you really think I can't see it? If you want to use me, there is no such cheap thing in the world."

"That nigger looks honest, but he's actually cunning to death." Someone echoed, "He deliberately threw the bodies of the two sentries in that coffin so that the tower would find us, and he wanted to take this opportunity to blackmail us. It's a shame to get rid of us."

"Now I hope he'd better ensure that the S-level mental fragment has enough effect to complete the agreement." The drug lord evoked a grim smile, "Otherwise..."

Someone comforted: "Don't worry, boss, the medicine made by the brains of ordinary sentinels is very effective. Adding two S-level medicines together will definitely cure...you will definitely live forever."

He swallowed the words back in time, the drug lord glanced at him, and finished the original next sentence: "Otherwise, I would know where his child is."

The others laughed, and this rough laughter undulated in the high-altitude wind, filling an ocean full of malice.

"Speaking of which, why are sentries better than ordinary people?" One person gestured twice, "I don't see how powerful they are. The previous one, this one, aren't they being calculated so that they can't even keep their brains?"

"Guides and sentries are paired. Why can't the brains of guides be used as raw materials?" Another person asked gossipingly, "Didn't it mean that the spiritual power of guides is much higher than that of sentries?"

"We don't know, you fucking ask that nigger yourself later. Those sentinel guides are so noble and glamorous, they are so lofty, they seem like another race, so don't blame us for doing it. It's not a race anyway. of."

They began to insult one person after another with gusto, their mouths were very vulgar, and they crammed as many obscenities as they could into every word.Their lives are like rotten silt parasitic in the swamp, every inch of thought exudes stench and desire, naked, greedy, without buoyancy, without bottom line, just sinking continuously.

A voice suddenly interrupted them.

"Is this a scar?"

This voice is crisp and clear, free from dust, without desire, only the innocence and curiosity of ignorance of the world.A plain white hand touched the back of Sendrick's head, touching a somewhat vague S shape in the stubble.

Everyone was stunned. In the life of the big drug lord who was full of blood and all-powerful situation, no one had ever dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head like this.For a moment, not to mention continuing the original topic, everyone even forgot to breathe, and the cabin was so quiet that even a needle could be heard falling.

The girl didn't realize that the atmosphere was becoming murderous and dignified, so she put down her hand.Sendrick looked at her, he grinned, showing a mouthful of jagged shark teeth: "So what?"

The girl asked, "Are you sick?"

The smile on the corner of Sendrick's lips widened, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes, "Yes."

"You are dying." The girl smiled.

The atmosphere is like solidified plaster.Someone started to touch the gun, and the forehead of the person who brought the girl into the cabin began to sweat.

The girl didn't seem to have any awareness of what might happen next.

The helicopter flew over the tall buildings, and the brilliant neon lights were shredded by the rotating propeller blades, sprinkled into the cabin, fell on the fair face of the girl in front of her, and fell into her eyes.

Sendrick, who was supposed to be furious, suddenly discovered that her eyes were extremely clear blue.Contrary to the soft smile on her face, there was no smile in those eyes, nor any panic and fear that he should see in her eyes, only calm.

Look at the peace of the dead.

"Goodbye."

she said calmly.

Three minutes later, Alluka raised her skirt, passed over the arm of a lying man, and approached the cockpit that had set a destination and was flying automatically.He proficiently poked and tapped on those instruments humming a song, looked at the starry night beyond the bulletproof glass in front of him, and said happily: "I'm going to find my brother. Nanika, are you happy?"

The man threw the walkie-talkie to the ground angrily, smashing it to pieces.He is tall and slender, with a shirt and trousers. At first glance, he even has delicate features, which does not meet people's perception of a vicious villain with a scar on his face.But he is obviously the leader of this operation, and his actions frightened the other people who followed him, and some of them said in a hurry: "Since the boss has come out, why don't we just go directly with him?" He met, and the file was deleted or not—"

The gentle man slapped him hard.

"If we fail to achieve our goal, do you think we can get out of this city alive tonight?" He said angrily, "Why is there a problem with the information given by that sentinel? He clearly told us that the tower's defenses are relatively light tonight!"

He bit his fingers nervously.

Excluding the time they took to capture and pick hostages, the tower had already basically controlled the situation within 10 minutes of their start of operations.

Why exactly?

Obviously, the two S-level towers with the sharpest combat power have no time to participate in the battle, and there are still many sentinel guides who have no time to come back from the task, how could it be——

Swish.

It's very soft.Because it was so light, everyone didn't even react at the beginning.

It wasn't until a bright line of blood burst out from the man's neck, and the man fell to the ground in the next second, his white shirt was stained with blood, that everyone realized that their second in command was in the darkest corner among the crowd. , was shot.

And the man's nails were even in his teeth.

There was no leader in the group, and the panic-stricken gangsters gritted their teeth, some ran away, some smashed their cans, picked up their guns and started killing indiscriminately.

The slightly moist night wind swept across the rooftops of tall buildings, stirring a few strands of the boy's orange forehead hair.The sniper remained motionless, not even the slightest wavering of his eyelashes.He locked his eyes on the scope, moved his ears slightly, and the sounds within a range of several hundred meters could be clearly heard in his ears.

Including the weak heartbeat of the second-in-command who planned the riot through his secret relationship with Tarin.

Well, the anesthesia bomb is very effective, and the plasma that burst out scared the group of idiots.You can recycle it later.

He thought of the man's puzzled question before, and curled his lips boredly.

——Why is this happening?

Since the two S-ranks are not here, do you think that the people they stay behind are vegetarians?

Even if more than half of the people are on missions, even if all their sentinels and guides add up to less than two hundred, it is enough to deal with this group of scattered troops.

He crouched on the ground of the rooftop, like a calm underwater plant, and the tower behind him was as bright as the sun, like a solidified lightning that tore the sky and split it down.

Bokul smiled slightly, and pulled the trigger with his fingers without any hesitation.

Before the bullet fired like a beast of prey hit the target's neck artery, a car slammed on the accelerator, like an arrow from the string, rushing out of the tower's underground at the maximum speed, onto the ground. Running against the bullet, countless neon lights and gunshots scratched the window glass. In this colorful and turbulent night city, it is like an electric light that has passed through the gunpowder smoke and left only an afterimage.

The internal general channel in the car was switched on, and Leorio shouted angrily over there: "Qi Ya?! Qi Ya? Hey! Is your injury okay?!"

The silver-haired young man sat firmly in the driver's seat, with one foot on the gas pedal and one hand on the steering wheel: "It's okay, I'm driving, and I've hung up."

"Wait!!" The doctor yelled, "You bandaged your wound yourself! What happened?"

Although Daisy's miniature bomb was hidden in the body and has not been discovered, but with the speed of Qi Ya, it was completely in time to prevent it from happening before she made a move, instead of not only not robbing the living, but being blown by the wind between the lightning and the flint. Saved the iron house, and was even injured by the aftermath of the explosion in the end.

"It's not serious." Qi Ya said, "I don't feel it anymore."

Leorie reiterated: "What happened? Come back quickly. You know that Hanzo and the others are clearing up those terrorists in the city. They don't know much about the exchange of fire. No matter what happens, we'll talk about it when it's over."

The position of the chief doctor in the tower has always been the same, and no injured patient has ever dared to disobey his doctor's orders repeatedly: that may mean that the next time he is accidentally injured, he will be treated horribly, such as no anesthetics, no painkillers , Replace ordinary medicines with oral medicines that have the same effect but are maddeningly bitter, etc.Although the treatment will not be delayed, the process is indeed worse than death.

Qi Ya said, "No. It's too late."

Leorio: "What could be worse than the headquarters being attacked—"

"My spiritual link with Xiaojie is broken."

There was silence on the communication side for 30 seconds before Leorio said, "Be careful."

His voice lowered, appearing extraordinarily calm and reliable.He stopped talking at length, and only told his friend succinctly that this trip is dangerous, so take care of yourself.

"You must come back," said the doctor, "I can hang you back even if you have only one breath left."

He paused and added, "You two."

Qi Ya finally slightly relaxed the corners of his tightly pursed lips, revealing a faint shadow of a smile.He said: "Well, I have a sense of proportion. You--"

Halfway through his words, his pupils shrank suddenly.

Suddenly, a figure fell silently in front of the car.

The car is driving on the superhighway, at a speed of 50 yards, and the distance is less than 30 meters.Qi Ya slammed on the brakes, and the tires of the car suddenly made a harsh friction sound, as if a woman's terrified scream pierced the night sky.The inertia and dizziness brought about by the sudden drop in speed almost seemed to knead the whole world together and throw it into a front-loading washing machine and tumble up and down. 15 meters, [-] meters, five meters... The figure did not move, standing there like a ghost, standing there as motionless as a mountain, watching this uncontrollable speeding beast approaching him with nothing to do, Until it stops within easy reach.

Leorio asked on the other end: "Qi Ya?! What happened..."

Qi Ya turned off the communication.

He took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

Qi Ya opened the car door, got out of the car, and stood next to the car. The expressway in front of him behind him was empty for three thousand miles, only a few scorched black tire tracks stretched.The tall tower stands in the distance, the light is soft and bright like the sun, like a standing lantern in the chaotic and starless night.The wind brought the vast gunpowder smoke, like a handful of fine ashes of an unknown person, blowing on the shoulders of the living in this lonely city.

The figure stood not far away, with long hair fluttering and pale face, even if he was almost hit by a car, he was indifferent, like a ghost, and also like an emotionless puppet.

The doll said, "Archie, you should go home."

TBC.