Chapter 825: The arrogant person (please vote for the big chapter)
He Ao turned his head and looked at the glass cabinet door he opened. On this vaguely translucent cabinet door, a blurry 'painting' was reflected.
The old man in the painting kneels on the ground, and even light shines on his body.
This 'painting' did not change because He Ao's perspective changed from the front to the back. What he saw was always the 'front' of the painting, or in other words, the reflection of the painting projected in his mind.
As He Ao watched, twisted and strange hymns gradually echoed in He Ao's mind. In an infinitely high place, a great being seemed to be projecting his gaze across endless time and space.
Two lines of blood and tears seeped out from the corners of He Ao's eyes, and then, his pale skin began to be covered with a strange blush, and then strands of blood seeped out from under his skin like thin strands, gradually spreading throughout his body.
The endless pollution was raging in his body, but his eyes did not move away from the 'painting'.
As he watched, the painting 'imprinted' on the glass cabinet was rapidly becoming lighter and lighter, until it completely disappeared.
In the end, the 'painting' completely disappeared on the glass cabinet, and the pollution surrounding He Ao finally stopped.
He Ao raised his head and looked around.
The twisted patterns that had gathered around this glass cabinet had completely dissipated at some point and returned to calm.
What is on the glass cabinet is not a real 'painting', but a simple 'reflection' left on the cabinet by the painting that was originally placed in the cabinet.
And as the cabinet door opened, He Ao looked at the 'reflection', which also dissipated due to structural changes.
He Ao stared at the empty cabinet and fell into a brief silence. At this moment, the entire library also fell into a strange silence.
"Ok?"
A gentle question from a slightly nervous girl broke the gloomy silence.
"Okay, you can open your eyes now."
He Ao withdrew his eyes from the empty painting and replied slowly.
Willie took away her hands and opened her eyes. Then the first thing that caught her sight was He Ao, who was bright red all over and looked like a bloody man. Her voice was slightly higher, with a little worry, "Your body
!”
"fine."
He Ao shook his head and jumped down from the edge of the glass cabinet.
Willy quickly found a pack of tissues from the side.
He Ao stretched out his hand, took the tissue, then pulled out a few and wiped the blood off his face, "Thank you."
At this moment, his eyes were still staring at the empty frosted glass cabinet?
"This is?"
Willy also raised her head and followed his gaze, "Has the contents been taken away?"
She also had some reaction at this moment, and said thoughtfully, "After my father died, only Carrie and I entered this room besides you. You and Carrie are both trustworthy people,"
She paused and thought, "Is there a burglar? When?"
"I'm afraid the contents of this cabinet were taken away a long time ago, even before your father died."
He Ao looked at the edge of the glass cabinet, where a lot of dust had fallen. Before he opened the frosted glass cabinet, the cabinet had already accumulated very thick dust.
However, the sealing of this cabinet itself is very good. There is no dust accumulation in the cabinet. The remaining dust is evenly distributed and there are no traces of items placed inside for a long time.
"Before father died?"
Willie was slightly dazed, that was already a long-ago memory for her.
"Did your father bring anyone to this library when he was still alive?"
He Ao turned to look at her, "Does anyone know that there is a special 'oil painting' placed here?"
"My father often brings people in here. When he has small meetings, he likes to bring people in, and he also likes to take his friends to visit his collection,"
Willy paused and seemed to be trying hard to recall, "In addition to Uncle Endil, Uncle Jacko, and Vincent, there are many people from the joint industry and even the city cabinet who have entered here."
She glanced at the densely packed books around her and said, "Many of the books here were collected by my father's 'friends' for him."
"Is it?"
He Ao came back to his senses and looked at the frosted glass cabinet above his head again.
"You are suspicious..."
Willy raised her head and looked at He Ao.
"You have to know that this painting exists before you take it away, right?"
He Ao lowered his head and looked at Willie.
After all, this painting is not the only valuable item in this library, but this painting is the only one missing.
"Um,"
Willy paused and said softly, "Maybe Vincent took it."
There were so many people who came into the library that it was impossible to determine who took the painting last.
Then she paused and said in a slightly lower voice, "It could be someone else..."
"Once something is done, it will leave other traces."
He Ao raised his head and glanced at Weili. He did not continue to say more, but turned to ask, "Did your father also see this painting?"
Just a 'reflection' contains terrifying pollution, and the power of the painting itself is probably much more terrifying than what He Ao originally guessed.
Even if it is not an extraordinary object in itself, it may have 'contacted' an inaccessible high-level existence in a sense, giving it some special power.
If Skone, as an ordinary person, had seen this painting, he should not have retained his complete sanity.
"Um?"
He Ao's question made Willie slightly absent-minded. She frowned slightly, as if she was trying to remember, "This painting seems to have been here a long time ago. I was still very young at that time. I remember that my father brought it with me."
When it came back, it was wrapped in thick black cloth, and my father put it in a glass cabinet."
"When this painting was put in the cabinet, it was wrapped in black cloth?"
He Ao was slightly stunned.
The black cloth is most likely some kind of sealing method that allows ordinary people like Scone to be protected from the influence of the painting.
However, if the painting itself is covered, how can it leave a reflection on the glass cabinet? Is there some unknown force that passes through the seal, or...
He raised his head and glanced at the glass cabinet again.
The person who took this painting away may have 'seen' this painting in this library.
The man briefly unlocked the painting here, and the power overflowing from the painting was imprinted on the glass cabinet.
Of course, those black cloths may not be able to completely seal the power of the painting. The painting may have some ability to tempt people to open the seal after being looked at. Otherwise, Schoen would not use a frosted glass cabinet to 'secondize' the painting.
'Seal it up and put it away in a high cabinet.
In the Federation, antique collecting is really a high-risk hobby.
No one knows what will suddenly arrive.
He Ao lowered his gaze.
Until this moment, all the fragments in his mind were finally completely connected together.
"That's how it should be,"
Willie nodded slightly, turned her head and looked at He Ao, "So, is there something wrong with this painting?"
"perhaps,"
He Ao was silent for a moment and said softly, "This is the 'origin' of the Eternal Esoteric Cult."
Willie raised her head and stared at the empty glass cabinet.
The name of the painting is "Baptism".
Wash away the dirt and take refuge in God.
Except for Vincent, all the United Industries executives and city cabinet members who had ever entered the library were very kind to her.
Even Vincent tried to be gentle and smiling when he saw her.
When she was very young, she even thought Vincent was a good person.
Even though Vincent overthrew her father, his father would still invite this 'old subordinate' to visit his library and collection when Vincent visited in a private capacity.
"Did the old mayor get back to you?"
The young man's slow and gentle voice reached the girl's ears.
This calm voice seemed to have some invisible power, smoothing the ripples in her heart.
"Wait a moment,"
She raised her head, took a deep breath, looked at He Ao, raised her bracelet and said quickly,
"I just called Uncle Endil, but he didn't get through. This is unreasonable, so I asked Carrie, who was collecting intelligence outside, to go to the mayor's palace. Calculating the time, Carrie should be here. After she arrived,
You should send me a message,"
In the middle of her words, her tone suddenly stopped, and her eyes were fixed on the content on the bracelet. After a short silence, she raised her head and looked at He Ao,
"The mayor's palace is surrounded by people from the United Industries! They seem to have cut off the mayor's palace from the outside world."
She took a deep breath and looked at He Ao,
"We contacted Uncle Endil. Without Uncle Endil, we can't win the support of the city defense army. Moreover, I don't know if United Industries will go crazy. Uncle Endil's mayor's guard lacks weapons and ammunition and cannot defeat United Industries.
of,"
She raised her bracelet and said, "I'll contact the Twilight Society people and ask them to gather people. We have to rescue Uncle Endil."
"Don't worry,"
He Ao shook his head and looked at Willy, "Calm down."
Willy raised her head and met the young man's calm gaze.
Her chest rose and fell violently, gradually from rapid to gentle. She slowly put down the bracelet and stared at He Ao.
"You may not be dealing with only United Industries now,"
He Ao continued, "There are still several B-classes in this city. Can the power of the Twilight Society be able to fight against the United Industries, the Eternal Secret Cult, and these B-classes?"
Willy's heaving chest finally calmed down completely.
He Ao raised his head and looked into her eyes, "Do you believe me?"
Willie looked at the young man's cheeks that were still a little bright red. She opened her mouth slightly, then slowly closed it, and finally nodded heavily.
"The more times like this, the more calm you need to be. United Industries just surrounded the mayor's palace, which proves that they have no plans to clean up the mayor's palace yet,"
He Ao raised his head and glanced at the densely packed books around him, picked up the knight's sword leaning against the wall, put it on his back, and walked towards the underground passage, "Let's leave here first. You contact the Twilight Society first. Listen to me for everything else.
arrange."
Willy looked at the young man's figure walking towards the underground passage. The bright chandelier stretched the young man's shadow very long, along the wall made of books, as if it was supporting the entire sky.
The panic, hesitation, confusion and fear just now slowly disappeared at this moment.
The blond girl with twin ponytails walked up quickly, following behind the boy.
The two quickly passed through the underground corridor and arrived at the exit.
"Can we really defeat United Industries and the Eternal Esoteric Cult?"
Reaching out to flip the switch that opened the exit, the girl looked at the boy's profile, lowered her head and asked softly, "Our numbers, strength, and equipment are all so different."
"have no idea,"
The young man's voice remained steady and calm. He turned on the flashlight on his bracelet, carried the knight's sword named 'Guardian' on his back, and climbed up the stairs.
Soon, a dark alley appeared in his field of vision, and the brilliance of the flashlight illuminated the darkness of this narrow alley. The young man raised his head and glanced at the dark cloudy sky, "But in this city's night, there are not only
People who stand in the spotlight.”
The blond girl walked out of the passage and stood behind the boy, with a bit of icy cold wind blowing through their hair along with the surrounding darkness.
Willie turned her head sideways and looked at the young man's profile with the help of the dim light from the flashlight on his bracelet.
She actually knew very well that the power of the Twilight Society was like an egg against a stone compared to United Industries and the Eternal Secret Cult, but she had no other choice, no choice.
If it weren't for He Ao, she might have really led her people to fight against United Industries, and then died in the encirclement and suppression by United Industries.
Although this 'little boy' is not very old, sometimes his words can hurt others.
But it seems that where he is, any difficulty has hope of being solved.
"What's wrong?"
He Ao glanced at Weili, who was slightly bowed and looking at him.
"nothing,"
The girl immediately withdrew her gaze and looked to both sides, "It's a little quiet around here, maybe there's an ambush."
"There's no ambush, I've seen it,"
He Ao raised his head and gave her a strange look, "Let's go."
He noticed Willie's movements, but didn't pay much attention.
He tightened his scarf and walked towards the end of the alley.
The blond girl fell half a step behind the boy. She looked at the boy's profile and walked a little faster.
The two quickly reached the intersection, where a dark off-road vehicle was parked.
The two quickly got on the off-road vehicle.
This time, Wei Li sat in the passenger seat and He Ao sat in the back seat.
"Where are we going now?"
Willie turned around and looked at He Ao behind her.
"Go to Lena first."
He Ao's tone was calm.
At the same time, he looked at the illusory cards in his field of vision.
[Would you like to pay 7 redemption stars to redeem ‘The Transgressor’? (The redemption stars you can currently use: 8)]
[You have successfully redeemed ‘The Transgressor’]
[Do you want to use one redemption star to exchange for 12 hours of use of ‘The Transgressor’? (The redemption stars you can currently use: 1)]
Previously, the ‘King of Night’ was an exchange star for one day, and the ‘Trespasser’ was an exchange star for ‘half a day’?
Can the redemption time be reduced by half?
He Ao stared at the system subtitles in front of him and took a deep breath.
Can the redemption stars be redeemed at half the price?
As if sensing his thoughts, the subtitles in his field of vision slowly changed.
[Do you want to use 5 redemption stars to exchange for 6 hours of use of ‘The Transgressor’? (The redemption stars you can currently use: 1)]
