Lin Nian leaned against the window on the top floor and looked at a few black umbrellas walking further and further away on the stone road at night. As he turned the corner and left, one of the people holding the umbrella turned back and looked in his direction.
At first glance, because the sky was really dark and there was continuous rain, I couldn't see anything clearly except the flickering light in the window, so I turned around and left.
"This is a 'psychological test'." Angers put down the Dragon Song Sword on the table, grabbed the handle under the hidden buckle and lifted it up.
"I know." Lin Nian said.
"Everyone who is identified with the 'Seven Deadly Sins' is identified by the 'living spirit' that this individual will eventually be destroyed by a certain 'sin.'" Angers said, "The 'living spirit' in the sword is very good at finding ways to hold it.
The inner psychological shortcomings of the user who live in them correspond to the sins controlled by the 'living spirit', and the 'living spirit' will naturally be happy to lend them power."
"Is the purpose to prescribe the right medicine to induce people to fall more efficiently?" Lin Nian looked at the seven deadly sins that Anget brought up, and stared at the dark dragon pattern in the shadow of the Dragon Sword Box.
"No." Angers shook his head slightly, "I prefer to regard these 'living beings' as psychiatrists, but their treatment methods are too extreme. Human life is like a puzzle, something is missing,
Wherever there is an empty space, if it remains empty for a long time, the whole structure will become loose and prone to collapse. "Living" encourages people to pursue whatever is lacking, and to spare no effort to fill the hole and make up for it at all costs.
"
Angers handed the seven deadly sins to Lin Nian, "When people pursue what they desire most, they can always explode with unimaginable power."
Lin Nian took the Dragon Sword Box and felt its heavy weight, "I am very curious about the origin of these 'living spirits', seven living beings with different personalities. Could it be that Zhengtong really secretly raised seven living beings in an unknown place?"
A pure-blooded dragon?"
"The production process of 'living' does not strictly require pure blood dragons." Angers said, "There are some things that do not need to be investigated thoroughly."
"I know." Lin Nian nodded.
"The thing is in your hands. Don't lose it or break it. Although it is a test product, you still have to return it to the person over there with the test report afterwards." Angers asked.
"I'll try my best." Lin Nian didn't dare to guarantee anything, because the objects that had always passed through his hands would not end well in the end. The first was transportation, and the second was weapons. There was a record of not even a single one being returned completely.
Ange looked at Lin Nian, who was looking out the window and lost in thought as soon as he calmed down, and said, "Don't you want to know why among the several groups, only Group E is special?"
"If you can speak, I can also listen." Lin Nian replied.
"It can be said, and it is something that the orthodox side has specifically told you to tell you."
"So this is the orthodox meaning." Lin Nian turned around with the Dragon Sword Box in hand, retracting his eyes and thoughts.
Angers took out a box of odorless poplar matches from the breast pocket of his suit, walked to the cabinet in the corner and took out the pine wood cigar box, picked up the cigar scissors on the counter and cut the edges carefully until it was dim.
There was a slight "squeak" sound of burning, and some faint firelight leaked from the old man who had his back to Lin Nian. The firelight was bright and dim at times. It was the cigar that was bitten in the mouth and was burning evenly.
Breathing in to fuel the flames, the flame in front of the cigar head lights up and goes out rhythmically: "Do you know about the Nibelung Plan?"
"I know some, but not much." Lin Nian stood upright by the window with calm eyes. The rain outside the window continued. The heavy rain at night washed the Kassel College, and the artificial lake surrounded by dim woods made waves. "I heard
It is said that the secret party has always had a project, which can rely on the legacy of the first generation of species to safely enhance the bloodline of hybrids through the most cutting-edge alchemical technology, so that hybrids will not be genetically altered by dragon blood when they exceed the 'critical blood limit', complete once
Deep 'evolution'."
"Orthodoxy wants this technology."
"There's no one who doesn't want this technology."
"It is true that no one can refuse excessive wealth, but people who are truly addicted to wealth are often those who have already held part of the wealth in their hands. Because only those who have vested interests will know how tempting the benefits are.
Deep is good." Angers blew out the match that was burning with a soft flame, and a large amount of white smoke rose in front of him.
He chewed his cigar and opened the cabinet, selecting a bottle of Sig whiskey from Appenzeller, Switzerland. He also held two Locke cups between his fingers. The walls of the cup were gently squeezed and hit, making a crisp tinkling sound. "Orthodoxy is here."
They have always made great achievements in artificially improving the bloodline of mixed-race individuals. This is a topic they have been carrying out for hundreds of years. Unlike the Nibelungen, which was founded not long ago, they have already come up with something in this field.
achieved partial results.”
"..." Lin Nian responded in silence, watching Ange standing at the round table directly illuminated by the chandelier, placing the two Rock cups on the left and right. He knew this was an invitation, and he had no reason to refuse.
, so when Angers covered the whiskey lid with a handkerchief and turned it slightly, he walked over carrying the Dragon Sword Box.
Angers unscrewed the cap of the whiskey bottle, put the wine and cap at hand, turned and walked to the wine cabinet and bent down to take out the ice bucket that had been prepared below. It was his habit as an old man to always add some ice when drinking whiskey.
Lin Nian stood at the table, was silent for a moment and then said, "Is it about the 'Moon' project?"
He knew that some things could only be said privately, and it was for this reason that Angers deliberately dismissed the others in advance, leaving him alone here.
"Well, the Orthodox have always cared about the 'Moon' plan. This is their painstaking work, the work of their painstaking efforts for more than a hundred years." Angers stood in front of the cabinet, holding an ice knife in the ice bucket and concentrating on cutting out two round ones.
Ice cube, "But some technical problems cannot be solved naturally through the accumulation of time. They are a natural shackles given to human beings. If you want to break through this shackles, you have to spend hundreds or thousands of times to continue to settle in order to find a trace of it."
Aura, or rely on some external force to give this key aura."
"No wonder the orthodox and secret parties specifically requested that the vice-principal must be present when they signed the alliance." Lin Nian seemed to understand something.
"The vice-chancellor is the initiator and planner of the 'Nibelungen Plan'. The entire 'Nibelungen Plan' is based on his ideas and techniques. Don't look at the appearance of the vice-chancellor. In terms of alchemy,
He is the one who inherited the Flamel."
"I have never underestimated the vice-principal. Even if he goes off line again, no one will really think that he is a waste." Lin Nian said, "Even Lu Mingfei has guessed that the vice-principal has something else that we don't know about."
one side."
"In front of you, he may be a good-for-nothing uncle who loves to watch young female students take swimming exams, but in the eyes of outsiders, he is the 'Flamel' who represents the highest inheritance of alchemy.
Even the elders would respectfully call him mentor when they met him." Angers said, "The orthodox took a fancy to this aspect of him, and also learned about the secret party's 'Nibelungen Plan' through some channels.
', so I deliberately wanted to get some technical support to repair the last brick of the 'month' plan. A tall building is rising from the ground, but repairing the cornices on the top is the most difficult part of the entire project."
"So." Lin Nian did not hear any connection between these little secrets of the alliance between the Orthodox and the Secret Party and him.
"Compared to the 'Month' plan that has been reborn several times, even dozens, or hundreds of times, the 'Nibelung Plan' is just a new plan. It still has shortcomings. If the experiment is carried out according to the current original plan
, the final product is generally just unsatisfactory, but the career of slaying dragons is not just unsatisfactory, but perfection and excellence." Angers said, "If you want to make up for the gap in this aspect, it is the same as mentioned before, or rely on
Time, or external forces."
Angers turned back and looked at Lin Nian under the chandelier beside the table, "You probably don't know that the school board has always thought that you have your own way to obtain forbidden power from above the 'critical blood limit'?"
Lin Nian raised his head slightly and looked at Ange in surprise.
"They believe that you have a completely new set of knowledge that is different from the 'violent blood' technology, otherwise it would be impossible to explain your strength all the time." Ange said slowly, looking at Lin Nian in the light from a few meters away.
Lin Nian roughly understood what Angers was referring to, and said, "That's probably just a misunderstanding."
Twelve serve as the gospel spirit to forgive the suffering and the weak.
This forbidden knowledge is derived from bloodline refining technology, but is different from bloodline refining technology. It comes from the lost technology of the Great Library.
The only time he used this technology and was exposed to the public was probably the time he clashed with the captain of the UII team. The external characteristics of the Twelve Gospel Spirit Constructs when used were so obvious that they could be identified at a glance.
It is distinguished from normal bloodline refining technology.
...Does the school board think that he has always relied on this technology to kill those dragons? But before he mastered this technology, he had already encountered Norton and Constantine, and successfully imprinted them
Into history textbooks.
"Is it a misunderstanding?" Angers nodded slightly, "Actually, they had this idea from the time you killed Constantine and Norton. Until the conflict between you and the UII team was exposed in front of everyone, they
Only then did I become more convinced of this conjecture.”
Lin Nian just shook his head.
He came over with an ice bucket, "Lin Nian, you are different from most people. People always want to figure out why you are different. If they find an explanation that can convince them, then they will firmly believe in this explanation."
, and try to use various methods to prove the correctness of this explanation. People only believe the facts they want to believe."
"What about you, principal?" Lin Nian looked directly into Ange's eyes, "Principal, what do you think in this regard?"
"I think they must have misunderstood you. The source of your power is not the so-called unknown technology." Ange said calmly. He placed two pieces of cut ice into the Locke cup and the frame made a sound.
After wiping his hands, he picked up the whiskey bottle and poured it into it. The golden liquor poured onto the snow-white round ice, dyeing it a bright color.
"Is that so?" Lin Nian said, "It seems that the principal's vision is indeed different from others."
"The more people you know, the less likely it is to make random guesses. As you can see, I have always been a knowledgeable person in the eyes of others. In fact, most of my knowledge does not come from hard study, but from living too much.
The experience brought by the long-term exchanges. The more you see and the more you travel, the more you will naturally be considered knowledgeable." Angers chewed his cigar and lowered his head to pour the wine. "In this hearing, the school board probably has the original plan.
The purpose is to pressure you into submission. On the one hand, it is to hope that you can become a better tool in their hands, and on the other hand, it is to thoroughly dig out your hidden secrets - secrets that are different from others."
"I can't let them succeed, can I?" Lin Nian said.
Angers didn't answer. He finished pouring the wine and pushed the glass in front of Lin Nian. "The good stuff is matured in 130-year-old old beer oak barrels. It tastes like malt and hops and is characterized by juicy fruit."
Flavors and spices, and a hint of vanilla from oak barrels.”
Lin Nian took the Locke cup and looked at the wine in the cup. He wanted to say something, but felt it was inappropriate and didn't know if certain words should be revealed at this time.
Lin Xian and the blond girl taught him that the reason why those dark secrets were hidden was because the sharp blade had not been removed behind the black curtain. If he rashly reached out to reveal it, his hands would be cut with blood and he would not get any relief from the pain.
any other.
"You have always been a special case." Angers sat next to this piece of antique furniture that still had a somewhat solemn atmosphere, holding the wine glass and raising his head slightly, "In the past, when you were still hiding your capabilities and biding your time, you could still stay out of trouble.
You can avoid a lot of trouble outside, but from the moment you pull the thing off the throne, everything becomes a thing of the past, and the people swarming towards you are like bloodthirsty ants, wanting to explore the milk and honey hidden in you.
This is true for the secret party, and this is true for orthodoxy.”
Lin Nian lowered his head and took a sip of the wine. Just as Ange said, it had the flavor of malt and the unique sweet taste of juice.
"The orthodox 'month' plan has reached a critical juncture. In the past, the 'month' as a facade has repeatedly failed on important occasions. This has made some orthodox high-ranking people lose their patience, and they have begun to question the 'month' plan.
correctness, and began to proactively seek outside help. At this time, the secret party's 'Nibelungen Plan' was a huge opportunity in their eyes." Angers changed the topic.
"Do those arrogant talkers in the orthodoxy really think that the secret party's technology will be superior to theirs? This shouldn't be right?" Young Lin said in a low voice, "In my opinion, those guys should never admit defeat until they die.
People, the idea of seclusion should be engraved in their brains."
"Perhaps they have also read the history books published by the People's Education and learned some lessons?" Angers smiled.
Lin Nian declined to comment.
"The 'Moon' plan is of great strategic significance to Orthodoxy. It is their century-old project, and it is also a fundamental plan that has been built with countless resources and lives." The old man said calmly, "But this plan has encountered difficulties.
When it comes to technical bottlenecks, they urgently need to break through."
"Then you shouldn't seek medical treatment in a hurry." Lin Nian said, "The 'Nibelung Plan' has not yet emerged, so why do you think the secret party can help them?"
"Because orthodoxy believes that you are the successful product of the Secret Party's 'Nibelungen Plan'!" Angers said in a low voice, without saying anything shocking.
Lin Nian raised his head. He felt it was a little ridiculous and hesitated to move the wine glass. "They should know that the 'Nibelung Plan' was only proposed recently, right?"
"No, in fact, the 'Nibelungen Plan' took shape a long time ago. It was only formally brought to the table for discussion after the successful capture of the Lord of Bronze and Fire. But the orthodox don't think so, they have their own'
The Moon Project, and also has its own Moon, when they know that the secret party has such a Nibelungen Plan, they will naturally look at you." Angers kicked his left hand in his trouser pocket, and his right hand
Holding the glass and sipping lightly, "People will only believe the facts they want to believe. Maybe a long time ago, they have suspected that you are the product of a certain plan like 'Yue'? I said, your performance is really
It’s so amazing... Everything that is amazing must be amazing for a reason.”
Lin Nian unexpectedly did not deny it, but remained silent.
"Do you know why the Baidi City and the Bronze Purgatory Orthodoxy under the Yangtze River are willing to work together with the secret party to develop it?" Ange tilted his head and looked at Lin Nian, "That's because of your existence. You and Lu Mingfei killed the Dragon King,
This is a fact that is obvious to all, so the orthodox believe that the secret party has an innovative technology that is even better than the 'Moon' Project, and you are the finished product of this technology! They share the legacy of the Dragon King with us, and have no relationship with the secret party for this.
The reason why the Party went to war is because they believe that the value you represent is greater than the legacy of the Lord of Bronze and Fire himself!"
"This is a bit of a joke." Lin Nian tilted his head and held the wine glass close to his lips, "What do the secret party think?"
"The secret party itself is an insider of the 'Nibelungen Plan'. They know that your specialness has nothing to do with this plan that has not yet been implemented and only has concepts and technologies, but this does not prevent them from relying on this intelligence gap to accept
"The orthodox side has shown goodwill and willingness to cooperate." Angers said slowly, "But now almost a year has passed, and the orthodox side has begun to put pressure on the secret party. One year of research on the King of Bronze and Fire, and one year of research on the secret party.
The party's exchange and study still did not receive any help that was beneficial to the advancement of the 'Month' plan. But what is interesting is that the secret party also thought about the 'Nibelung Plan' to satisfy the orthodox appetite, but in the end the more they studied, the more they found that even
The Nibelungen Plan was executed perfectly, and the resulting masterpiece fell far short of what the Secret Party wanted."
Lin Nian smiled lowly, a little ironically. The mutual deception and games between interest groups would always lead to such ridiculous scenes. At the same time, he also understood in the silence the reason why Angers had left him to stay and say these words to him. Now he felt that
The current situation has never been seen so clearly.
"The Orthodox want to know the secrets about you." Angers said, "The Secret Party also wants to know the secrets about you. Both sides are suspicious and speculating, but in the end, the source of the problem will flow back to the same destination."
"I probably know why my group meeting was so special this time." Lin Nian put down his wine glass, "The school board failed to get an answer from me, so they simply handed over the entire test paper intact."
"Or is this a ghostwriting experience?" Angers raised his glass and took a sip. "Since the school board can't dig out anything from you, let Zhengtong give it a try. Maybe it really digs out something.
It’s a situation where both families benefit.”
"Then the key is, should I let them succeed?" Lin Nian looked at Angers.
"It depends on yourself." Angers didn't look at him, leaning on the table and shaking the round ice in the wine glass, "Actually, what's interesting is that the reason why Orthodoxy believes so firmly in the Secret Party can make the 'Moon' Project break through.
There is one. Only a few people know about this. It is said that the orthodox "Yue" entered a state of near-death for a period of time after encountering the King of Earth and Mountain at the South Railway Station, but someone rescued her from the brink of death.
After that, the orthodox internal authorities discovered during regular physical examinations for the 'Yue' that the 'Yue' system that they were proud of had undergone some small and clever changes, and it was these changes that allowed her to survive successfully.
, rather than the whole thing collapsing and becoming something more dangerous than Deadpool... Do you have any clues about this?"
"Not at all." Lin Nian said.
Ange stared at Lin Nian for a while, put down his wine glass, patted his shoulder lightly, stood up and gradually walked into the shadow where the chandelier could not shine, leaving only a faint voice, "This journey back to China."
It's more dangerous than you think. In addition to facing the awakening of the unknown Dragon King, many people are paying attention to you, hoping that you will make mistakes and expose some secrets, so it never hurts to pay more attention."
Lin Nian looked at Ange's walking back without saying a word for a long time.
So, principal, are you also one of the people who covets my secrets? Or, as you said, you are so knowledgeable that you already know those dark secrets like the back of your hand.