Chapter 765: Painting and Sword (two in one super large chapter, please vote for me)
Sitting on a moving off-road vehicle, He Ao held a burger in his hand, eating it while turning his head to look at the street outside the window.
The regional planning of Winter City is a bit like an upside down pyramid. Each area is shaped like a long strip and is arranged layer by layer.
The largest part of the 'tower bottom' is the storm area, which is closest to the Sea of Storms, followed by the Akka area and the Novit area, which are farthest from the Sea of Storms. At the same time, the smallest area of the 'top' part is the cloud area.
The fish cake bar that Ho Ao started from is close to the Aka District in the storm area. Now the off-road vehicle has passed through the Aka District and entered the Novit District.
He also bought a hamburger for lunch from a burger shop on the roadside.
After the off-road vehicle crossed an invisible boundary, the surrounding old residential buildings turned into neat buildings, with roaring machinery rumbling in the buildings.
Novi District is the most "special" area among the four districts of Winter City. Theoretically, Novi District cannot be inhabited, and there are no residential buildings designed in this area.
This entire area is the industrial area of Winter City, and the machines of the United Industry are running endlessly in these strict buildings.
Some large buses passed by He Ao's off-road vehicle. Inside were crowded crowds of tired people. Some people spotted He Ao's off-road vehicle. They glanced at the off-road vehicle with curiosity, and then quickly returned.
Withdrew his gaze.
The crowded carriages made it impossible for them to even use their hands to play with the bracelets in their hands. Many people had headphones in their ears, playing music or listening to some live broadcasts.
Some people were leaning against the crowd, closing their eyes tightly, and seemed to be fast asleep.
The vast majority of employees in the Novit district live in the Akko district. They take United Industries' paid buses to the factory during working hours and then take these buses back to the Akko district after get off work.
In order to carry more passengers, these buses usually do not have seats or drivers. The driver's seat is also saved and they rely on driverless systems to operate.
Winter City has never restricted the movement of people, but the vast majority of people living in the Akka District and the Storm District may have never been to the Cloud District in their lives.
He Ao watched the buildings in front of him retreat one by one, feeling the off-road vehicles passing through the old and disrepaired streets.
He looked up at the edge of the road ahead, where there was an electronic sensor.
This sensor senses the electronic chip in the vehicle's license plate to determine the current location of the vehicle.
This electronic sensor does not belong to the Winter Municipal Government, but to United Industries.
The factories and buildings of the Novi district, as well as the roads, are the assets of the United Industries.
All vehicles traveling on these roads will pay a 'toll' to United Industries, which is calculated based on distance and time.
A bill for this fee will be sent to the email address bound to the vehicle and deducted from the car owner's credit card account.
This toll is not cheap, but the roads in the Novit District can hardly be called good. Although they are better than the roads in the Storm District and Akko District, they are only barely usable.
He Ao took a bite of the burger, looked away, and felt the extraordinary power surging within his body.
The 'Secret Observer' has two abilities. The first ability is the 'Spiritual Observation' that He Ao had previously mastered. This ability allows He Ao to obtain a 'second vision' that overlaps with the original vision.
This field of vision allows him to clearly see the 'souls' of all life around his soul without turning on his super memory, and he can also feel the 'power' beating within their bodies.
If he can withstand the pollution of the whispers in his ears, he can still overdraw his life and enter the 'boundary of truth' that he has entered before.
This ability allows He Ao to clearly distinguish extraordinary beings hidden in the crowd and understand things that are incomprehensible to human vision.
Of course, this also means that he will be more likely to be involved in dangerous supernatural events than others.
At the same time, the endless 'whispers' that seemed to come from the truth were always echoing in his ears.
Moreover, this second field of vision cannot be closed. Even if he closes his eyes, he can clearly 'see' the things around him.
The second ability of the 'Secret Observer' is also roughly equivalent to the extension of 'Spirit Observation'. He Ao calls it 'Spirit Peeping Pressure'
When He Ao focuses his "eyes" on a specific person's soul, the deeper things in that person's soul will be dissected by "spiritual observation".
At the same time, those 'whispers' surrounding He Ao will also try to follow He Ao's gaze and 'peep' into the souls of the people they are looking at.
And these manifestations in reality are that people who are watched by He Ao will feel a kind of trembling from the soul, will be temporarily unable to fully control their bodies, and will have a series of stress reactions.
Of course, theoretically, if He Ao stares at that person for a long time, that person may be chased and contaminated by those "whispers" and eventually go crazy.
In other words, He Ao can completely rely on 'glaring people' to stare them to death.
But even the souls of ordinary people have a certain degree of order. It is actually very difficult to rely on "spiritual spying" to introduce pollution into his body, and it will take a long time.
A high-level talent sequence of the same path as the 'Secret Viewer' may be able to achieve the achievement of staring someone to death, but it is more difficult for a C-level 'Secret Viewer' to achieve this.
Therefore, in actual combat, its most important role is to influence the opponent's soul, thereby causing the opponent's actions to make mistakes.
In fact, these two abilities appeared during the promotion process, and He Ao has been using them subconsciously. It is only now that the promotion is completed that they have stabilized.
Of course, strictly speaking, this is not a normal 'promotion'.
Iroh himself is not an extraordinary person. The talent sequence of 'Secret Observer' should come from the 'wooden sign' that Iroh's father brought back, which seems to be engraved with the wizard's emblem 'Eye of Truth'.
That wooden sign should be a supernatural object with no apparent supernatural power, and after the accident, Yiluo activated the extraordinary power inside for some reason, which led to the fusion of the wooden sign and Yiluo.
In fact, the final outcome of this kind of direct fusion of high-level extraordinary items that bypasses the pre-requisite talent sequence is basically either death or turning into a monster.
Only a handful of lucky people can survive smoothly, but they are still on the verge of madness.
This seems to be how many extraordinary people in the main world are promoted. They are attracted to eat the remains of high-ranking extraordinary people in the ruins. If they succeed, they will be promoted. If they die, they will die.
Perhaps this special 'wooden sign' was the method that wizards thought of to 'inherit the extraordinary' in the age of cataclysm, when there was no periodic table of talent sequences, or even knowledge of talent sequence promotions.
If you can withstand it, you will survive. Congratulations on becoming a transcendent. If you can't resist it, just take the next one.
But why Ilo? Is it purely accidental?
Yiluo himself seems to have a very high affinity with the talent sequence of the 'Hidden Viewer'. He can even borrow the power of the 'Secret Viewer' to a certain extent without being contaminated, and may even be able to maintain his life.
The Hidden Viewer's power is at work within.
But as an ordinary person, he cannot bear the pollution brought by the Secret Observer. The pollution brought by this talent sequence that can 'peep into the truth' is much higher than other C-level talent sequences.
However, he may not die directly. Judging from his characteristics, if he completely accepts the power of the "hidden viewer", he will most likely become a monster that can "peer into the truth" in the end.
If He Ao hadn't come, the 'script' seemed to be like this.
Of course, there is another possibility that Yiluo obtained the wooden card and merged with the talent sequence in the wooden card. This is all just a coincidence.
He Ao leaned on the driver's seat, folded up the wrapper of the finished hamburger in his hand, and put it into the trash can in the car.
He used his 'spiritual vision' to 'see' the densely twisted patterns in the city sky.
The whirlpool below the city seemed more chaotic than he expected.
The subtle pain did not completely disappear after the promotion ended. It still lingered around his body, and whispers echoed in his ears.
Strictly speaking, if he didn't have a little tolerance for pollution and pain, he would have gone crazy.
The off-road vehicle continued to drive between the factory buildings, and soon, a clean and tidy street appeared at the end of He Ao's field of vision.
Since the shape is a long vertical strip, it does not take much time to cross the Novit District.
Ahead is the cloud area.
Unlike the Novit District, which is generally depressingly gray and white, the buildings in the Cloud District are mixed with many bright colors, and many buildings adopt streamlined designs, which are quite aesthetic.
In addition, the roads in Yunduan District are much smoother than those in Novit District, and there are landscape trees with branches covered with snow on both sides.
The roads between the two areas are not blocked in any way, but it is like an invisible wall that clearly separates the two areas.
The off-road vehicle drove onto the clean road, and then followed the navigation route all the way north. Soon, a majestic and tall building appeared in He Ao's field of vision.
The entire building has a convex arc on the front and a vertical back. It stands out among the other buildings that are overall shorter. It is like a towering cliff, standing at the top of the collapsed 'pyramid' in Winter City.
He Ao withdrew his eyes from the majestic tall building, and the off-road vehicle drove past the arc of the building.
In front of the United Industrial Building is a wide square. In the center of the square is a huge circular fountain. Clear water droplets continuously gush out from the center of the fountain, like flowing wealth, collecting in the pool below the building.
After bypassing the United Industrial Building, there was a wide park. He Ao parked the off-road vehicle in a parking lot near the park, then got off the vehicle on foot and entered the park.
There are many pedestrians wearing down jackets walking in the park, and the white snow falls on the landscape trees, creating a beautiful winter picture.
He Ao did not stop in front of this beautiful picture, but quickly walked through the park and reached the deep depths of the woods.
A lush, evergreen special tree similar to pine trees appeared in He Ao's field of vision.
And behind these trees, there are ‘villas’ hidden behind the trees.
This is the end point of his trip, Pinewood Street.
It was just after the afternoon, and there was still some time before seven o'clock in the evening. He Ao could just take the time to retrieve his 'coffin lid' and harpoon.
He now has a spacious off-road vehicle that can accommodate these things.
He Ao glanced at the road ahead and slowly moved forward along the street.
Songlin Street is very long. He Ao walked about a kilometer before he could vaguely see a large, closed double iron gate. The door number next to the big iron gate said "No. 2, Pine Forest Street".
However, he did not walk over immediately, but looked towards the other side of the big iron gate.
A small guard box stood in front of the villa opposite the big iron gate. Standing in the guard box were two people who seemed to be security guards. However, their eyes were not focused on the villa behind their guard box, but on the pine forest.
The big iron gate at No. 2 Street.
He Ao's eyes swept across the outside of the guard box. At the top of the guard box, a mini hidden electronic camera was hanging on the outer wall, aiming at the large iron door.
It seems that this guard box is not used to protect the safety of the owner of the villa behind him, but to monitor the people living at No. 2 Pine Forest Street.
He Ao raised his bracelet and glanced at the location that Wei Li sent him not long ago.
This position is not at the main entrance of the villa facing Songlin Street, but at the back of the villa, in an alley far away from the villa.
His steps were hidden under the thick landscape trees, and he turned into the alley next to him before entering the scope of the electronic eye.
The alley was completely formed by the courtyard walls of the villas on both sides. He Ao walked for a long time before reaching the location marked in the positioning.
There are no doors here, just two towering walls.
After a brief thought, He Ao knelt down and glanced at his feet.
The ground in this alley seems to be rarely visited by people, and it has not been repaired for a long time, so it looks quite old.
He Ao put his hand on the ground in front of him and knocked lightly, and a faint hollow sound sounded in the alleyway.
After a brief pause, He Ao raised his bracelet and sent a message to Wei Li: [I'm here]
There was a quick reply: [Wait a moment]
Then after about a few minutes, with a soft 'click' sound, the ground in front of He Ao was slowly lifted up by the mechanical support rod, revealing a deep downward staircase.
There was a figure standing on the stairs at this moment, it was Carrie whom He Ao had met before.
Wearing a black and white maid outfit with a sense of design, she walked up the stairs, raised her head and looked around, then looked at He Ao and said quickly, "Go this way."
He Ao nodded slightly, followed her, and stepped onto the stairs.
The opened channel slowly closed.
At the bottom of the stairs was a long, brightly lit corridor. Carrie was in front, and Howo followed her, walking quickly along the corridor.
"This is the escape route prepared by the old master,"
As Carrie walked forward, she explained to He Ao, "The lady is now using it as a passage in and out of the villa."
He Ao stretched out his hand and touched the wall of the passage. The wall was very hard and seemed to have been specially thickened and reinforced. There were some small closed doors on both sides of the passage. In front of the door were marked 'Warehouse 1' and 'Warehouse 2'.
Class tag.
It seems that in addition to being an escape route, this passage can also be used as some kind of underground shelter.
After walking along this passage for about five or six hundred meters, a new staircase appeared in front of He Ao.
Carrie reached out and pressed a switch next to the stairs. With a crisp sound, something seemed to slowly turn on at the end of the stairs, and bright lights shone from the top of the stairs.
Carrie stepped aside and made a 'please' gesture to He Ao.
He Ao raised his feet and climbed up the stairs.
Soon, the scene above the stairs gradually appeared in He Ao's field of vision.
This is a hall full of gentle brilliance. The entire hall is in the shape of a 'deep well', with a height of about twenty meters. The surrounding walls are curved. A huge crystal chandelier hangs from the middle of the hall, emitting a warm light.
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Solid wood-colored curved bookshelves surround the entire hall along the curved walls, reaching to the top of the hall. Countless books are densely placed on these bookshelves, as if they have formed a 'tower' of books.
He Ao is surrounded by it.
Among these books, there are also some oil paintings hung as embellishments.
He Ao felt something in his heart, and looked up at the highest point of the entire 'book tower'. There, where the twisted patterns in the void were most densely packed, there was a frosted glass cabinet embedded in it. There seemed to be a pair of exquisite hangings hanging in the cabinet.
The oil painting is only hidden by the frosted glass cabinet.
But in He Ao's "spiritual vision", the "picture" of the oil painting was clearly presented through the "frosted glass cabinet".
In the center of the oil painting, an old man with an old face is kneeling on the ground, bowing his head in prayer. Bright light shines from the sky and spreads evenly over his body.
This old man looks old and seems to be close to death, but this painting paints this old man like a baby. The whole oil painting reveals a twisted and weird sense of "holiness".
He Ao pulled away his 'vision' and moved downwards. Under the oil painting, a small note was written with the name of the oil painting.
"Baptism,"
A gentle female voice rang in his ears. Willy stood beside him, looking up at the frosted cabinet with the oil paintings as well.
"My father said that this was an oil painting he bought from an antique dealer. It seemed to be from a great painter in the early days of the Federation.
"But he didn't let anyone in our family see the painting. As soon as he bought it, he covered the painting with frosted glass and hung it at the highest point."
She looked at He Ao's deep eyes with some confusion, "Is there anything wrong with this painting?"
In her impression, although He Ao looks young, he seems to be a powerful transcendent who knows a lot about mysticism.
"no problem,"
He Ao withdrew his gaze, "He is right not to let you see this painting."
The "weirdness" of the painting itself should come from the content of the painting, not the painting itself. As long as ordinary people cannot see the painting inside, they will not be affected by it.
But something that makes He Ao a little confused is that the painting itself does have some kind of magic, but the performance of the magic is not strong.
It doesn’t seem to match the ‘person’ shrouded in ‘distorted patterns’.
"You look young, but sometimes you speak in an old-fashioned way,"
Willie seemed to be caught up in some kind of memory and whispered, "My father has always said before that I should not be curious and not look at this painting."
In a world full of weirdness, most of the time, the more curious you are, the faster you will die.
He Ao turned to look at her and said, "Your father seems to be a very capable celebrity."
The oil paintings hanging in this hall are not all extraordinary items, most of them are ordinary oil paintings. Judging from the memory that He Ao inherited from Wei An, most of these oil paintings are authentic works by masters, and the cheapest one is
It also costs millions of federal coins.
Wei An also has many similar oil paintings in his home.
There are not many people in Winter City who have such financial resources.
"His name is Skorn."
Willy paused and said softly.
"Founder of United Industries?"
He Ao looked up at her.
At the same time, Eve was explaining information about Scone to him in detail through a hidden Bluetooth headset.
Iroh does not have this information in his memory and does not understand it.
Cohen is one of the founders of United Industries, as well as the first chairman of the board of directors and the first CEO of United Industries.
It was he who presided over the construction of the current Novit District.
As the first leader of United Industries, the policies of the Schoen era were more civilian-oriented than those of United Industries today. He vigorously built factories, created more jobs, increased employees' welfare benefits, and cared about welfare undertakings, laying the foundation for the early United Industries.
Industry gained a lot of prestige.
In Skone's time, there were no tolls on the roads in the Novit district, and there were many free buses with seats.
Because of this series of measures, Skone also has high prestige among the citizens of Winter.
However, Schoen's time in power was short-lived. According to public news, he resigned from the position of chairman of the board of directors and CEO of United Industries seventeen years ago, and all policies were discontinued.
Fourteen years ago, he was assassinated while attending a public event with his wife.
At the same time, He Ao probably understood why Willy seemed to have a high prestige in the 'Twilight Society'.
This girl is most likely the financial backer behind the Twilight Society.
"Yes," Weili smiled and looked at He Ao, "How about it, after knowing my identity, do you regret transferring the more than 5,000 yuan to me for the bracelet?"
He Ao nodded cooperatively, "I regret it."
"It's so perfunctory,"
Willy sighed, "I'll give you back your skis and harpoon first."
Two household robots came over, carrying Ho's metal cap and harpoon.
"Then,"
Willie paused and raised her hand.
A flying robot flew out from behind her, reached the highest point of the entire hall, pulled a long wooden box off the top bookshelf, and flew all the way in front of her.
She reached out her hand and caught the long wooden box.
Then the whole person was shaken by the weight of the wooden box and almost fell down.
He Ao quickly reached out his hand, held up the wooden box, and helped her stabilize her body.
"Ahem,"
She coughed and pretended that nothing happened just now. She hugged the wooden box with her face flushed and opened the lid of the wooden box. "This may be suitable for you."
He Ao looked at her struggling appearance, stretched out his hand again, held the wooden box, relieved Willy's pressure, and raised his eyes to look into the wooden box.
A knight's sword that was completely white, separated from the scabbard, with fine lines carved on the blade, and reflected a faint cold light appeared in his field of vision.
"The name of this sword is 'Guardian',"
Willy looked at He Ao and explained slowly, "It is said to be a weapon made by wizards in the Cataclysm Era. Only those who stick to their beliefs can master it."
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