Hemispherical shields, curved streets, spherical buildings, streamlined vehicles, and white uniforms and armor worn by passers-by decorated with a large number of circular patterns.
If the designer of this city is not an avid lover of circles, he cannot find a ruler and only has a compass in his hand.
Cable sat on the half-moon bench in the central square, looking at everything in front of him, thoughtfully.
call--
A ray of moonlight stopped beside him in a beautiful arc, and then condensed into the image of the moon girl in a white robe and white cloak.
"Father," the girl looked a little confused: "You don't seem to have saved this city from history, right? The residents here feel like..."
"Are they all dummies?" Cable patted the seat next to him: "Sit down and talk."
"Um...oh." Moon Girl lifted her cloak and sat down upright.
"You know, the way I save the Martians and Saturnians is to go to the node that led to their destruction and eliminate them. Then unless some kind of disaster occurs again that leads to the destruction of the race, they will naturally continue to the current point in time,"
Cable said: "But for these 'lunar people', you can't do that."
"Why?" Moon Girl looked around and then asked.
"Because they don't have such a node," Cable replied: "These aliens did not encounter any disasters after they landed on the moon. They suddenly disappeared without warning - together with their cities."
"Together... Huh? Isn't this like it?" Moon Girl's eyes widened.
"It's like how I erase a city from history," Cable nodded: "But it's fundamentally different, otherwise there wouldn't be your 'Kaguya' left."
"Kaguya?" Moon Girl was confused: "Is that my name?"
"No, it's just a metaphor. According to legend, she was a girl who was placed in a bamboo tube and eventually returned to the moon. But you were placed in a cylindrical dormant by your tribe before, and now you are on the moon. The difference doesn't seem to be big.
." Cable replied.
"The difference is quite big..." Moon Girl said.
"I think your first stop on the tour should be there, right?" Cable gestured to the cylindrical building not far away with his eyes.
"Well, after all, my own 'sleep warehouse' is the only clue, and that seems to be the place where it is mass-produced." Moon Girl nodded: "You already knew that I would find nothing."
"It can only be said that it is invalid information," Cable replied: "It is indeed a factory that manufactures dormant warehouses, and it also stores a large number of your clansmen who are dormant, but this only verifies the information we have already speculated.
."
"Oh..." Moon Girl lowered her head.
"Of course, I still got some information related to it from the past, otherwise I wouldn't be able to reproduce it," Cable said, looking at the adopted daughter who suddenly raised her head: "They seem to have joined an organization called the 'Court of Owls'
, and thus disappear.”
"Owl? Disappeared?" Moon Girl blinked, not knowing why.
"When I arrived at the point of its 'destruction' based on past experience, I found that it was the moment when the last person disappeared. He disappeared in front of me like a bubble, and then the entire city disappeared, leaving only the last person pretending to be
In order to avoid time problems with you in the dormant warehouse, I buried you at the location where I originally found you." Cable said.
"..." Moon Girl was stunned for two seconds: "In other words, you can be regarded as half of the 'biological father'?"
"That's not important," Cable knocked on the head of his daughter who was paying the wrong attention: "I then continued to go back in time to an earlier point in time and found that there was a song circulating in this colonial city with the content of 'The Owl is Watching'
"I'm singing your weird nursery rhymes, and the city's management all wear owl masks. After observation and judgment, I confirmed that the order in which these people disappeared should be in order of their fanaticism for owls."
"Although I can't remember, that means I'm not interested in that owl at all, right?" Moon Girl looked proud.
"It's also possible that my brain is not in good shape and I can't remember such a complicated song."
"Gu..."
"After that, I planned to go back to the earliest time point, that is, the moment when those members of the Owl came to spread this weird belief, but..." Cable frowned: "There were no preachers at all, and these songs were spread almost overnight.
It spread throughout the lunar city."
"Yes!" Moon Girl shuddered and hugged herself tightly.
"In this case, I almost suspect that this is Kang the Conqueror's handiwork, but it is obviously impossible for that guy to go to all the trouble just to deal with this... not very strong colonial city," Cable shook his head: "I can only
It is said that there is obviously a higher-level power intervening, but the purpose is unknown."
"Then, this city..." Moon Girl looked at the surrounding scene.
"I recorded the scene of the last seven days before the city disappeared, and then made a complete copy through the power stone, including all the moon people who could recite nursery rhymes - of course, they are just illusions made of energy," Cable folded his hands.
: "If the method of making the city disappear does not fail, we should be able to find the culprit soon, otherwise..."
"Otherwise?" Moon Girl blinked
"Otherwise, I'll just take you back to your hometown to visit relatives."
"Great!"
————
Six days later, the fake moon city.
The same central garden has now turned into a messy battlefield. Those graceful spherical buildings and circular decorations have been destroyed by huge power, blazing flames, freezing frost, and corrosive poisons.
The fighting party is naturally the golden-helmeted and purple-skinned Diansuo, while the other party...
Katcha! Boom!
It was a weird robot made entirely of blue steel, equipped with various electronic devices, and with a pair of pointed ears on its head. Various indicator lights on his or it's body flashed constantly, and they were very distinctive.
Confidently charge head-on towards the cable.
The robot was punched in the chest by Cable, and bursts of electric sparks erupted from the arm hanging precariously.
"Who gave you the courage to challenge Cable as a machine? Or do you think your ridiculous electromagnetic interference can hack my equipment?" Cable snorted and threw away the machine wreckage on his arm.
Throw away.
Buzz-bang!
A jelly-like green mat appeared out of thin air and caught the remains of the robot.
Then, a strange man in green tights with a green light all over his body and a pair of pointed ears on his head rushed towards Diansuo at a very high speed and punched Diansuo in the face.
The next moment, the light on the weirdo in green tights turned a pale green, tightly wrapped the cable, and then started to move as if sucking.
He looked at the motionless cable, and the corners of his mouth began to rise——
Snapped.
Before the evil smile on his face could be fully revealed, Diansuo suddenly stretched out a hand to grab his arm, and then used the other hand to remove the pale green light and shadow that was constantly deforming and twisting over his body.
All nonsense: "Ha! What is this? Willpower that can directly kill people? Have you ever considered the gap between willpower before using it?"
"Uh-huh-uh--" The green tights monster's eyes widened, and he let out a horrified cry as those green rays of light were torn apart.
“Horr——!” “bluff——!”
As if to rescue him, two figures jumped up from a distance and punched the cable together.
The new pair of enemies are different from the previous two monsters with normal body shapes. Not only are their bodies abnormally large, but their skin surface also has horny or scale-like mutations. But the only thing they have in common is that they are somehow stuck on their heads.
Two pairs of pointed ears are to appear.
Peng! Peng!
Cable threw away the green weirdo who looked very sluggish due to being torn apart by the miserable green light, and raised his arms to block the attacks of the new enemies one by one.
"Hohohoho——!" "Huhhhhh——!"
The two sides were in a stalemate for a while, but Cable clearly had the advantage, not only because he was one against two, but also because he still had room to speak at this time.
"Interesting, really interesting, absorbing energy? Infection and transformation? With such a useless ability, have you never encountered an opponent who can absorb your energy and transcribe the source of infection?" Dianxu's body was filled with purple light, although there was no
Regardless of any external movement, the roars of the two monsters with ferocious expressions changed from war cries to screams, and even the originally huge size began to gradually shrink.
Chi chi chi——
As the three of them wrestled, time seemed to slow down countless times, making their movements slow and clear. In this extremely slow world, there was a masked man wearing a bright red tights moving in a normal way.
He was running at high speed, and with every step of his foot, countless pitch-black bats scattered and disappeared in the surrounding space.
In this static world, he is the only one who can move, as if he is the master of everything, and judging from the corners of his lips, he obviously thinks so too.
As the masked man in red gradually approached the battlefield, he stretched out his hand, seemingly wanting to touch the back of Cable's neck, which had not noticed him due to the struggle.
He didn't have any weapons in his hands, but as he stretched out his hand, those dark bats continued to form and fly away, which looked extremely weird.
However, the movements of the masked man in red actually slowed down again in this already extremely slow world. He watched in amazement as Cable slowly turned his head, turned his gaze towards himself, and then slowly spoke:
"[——,——.]"
Varied--
you are too slow.
When the weirdo in red tights finally heard what Cable said from the elongated voice, the flow of time had returned to normal, and his two wrestling accomplices had been picked up by Cable one by one, like a meteor hammer.
It was smashed over.
Peng! Crash! Three weirdos collapsed a wall and were almost completely buried.
"Ha, finally you have a decent ability, super speed and accelerated aging? Not bad," Dian cable clapped his hands and looked at the weirdo lying on the ground: "If it was just like that just now, I would have thought you just dominated the kindergarten.
"
"Stop! That purple sweet potato spirit over there! If you move again, she'll be dead!" At this time, a sharp female voice came from the roof next to her.
When Cable looked up, he saw a woman who was also wearing a weird pointed-eared hat, but who was wearing something like a one-piece diving suit, holding a trident across Moon Girl's neck.
"..." Diansuo looked at her and tilted his head strangely: "Are you afraid of the light?"
"Shut up! Don't move!" the strange woman shouted.
"If you are afraid of light and your ability is to control water, don't hold the 'moon' that can cause tides in your arms, or is that your intention?" When Cable said the last sentence, his eyes had already turned to that person.
On the "hostages".
"Hey~" Moon Girl stuck out her tongue.
"Varied--"
squeak——buzz——
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
A bright, blazing white moonlight suddenly lit up in the arms of the woman holding the trident. Although the light was not dazzling, it made her emit bursts of black smoke as if she was being burned. She screamed and fell headfirst from the roof of the building.
Go down.
"I'm sorry." Moonlight flew back to Cable's side, re-condensed into the moon girl, and took his arm to act coquettishly.
"I think it's time to tell you the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'," Cable shook his head and looked at the street corner: "After taking care of this guy."
"[You are very strong, but it's a pity~]"
Following the voice, a strange man wearing a pointed-eared hat, a tight-fitting leather jacket and a cloak, spiked goggles, and a blood-red smiley face walked out of the corner. He spoke in a weird voice while speaking to
Cable shows the tarot card "The Fool (0)" in his hand:
"[All of this is within my plan.]"
Katsa.
Following a strange sound, everything in front of Cable was "played backwards" rapidly, and the weirdos he had knocked down recovered to their full state one by one, standing in a circle from a distance and staring at him eagerly.
"[Now that we know your abilities, then——]"
"I will stop your plan." Cable interrupted him, and then snapped his fingers. The scene changed again, and those weirdos who had stood up fell miserably to the ground again.
"[...Your behavior is also within my plan, so it is invalid.]" The spiked eyepatch drew another card "The Hanged Man (XII)", and a group of weirdos once again
Get up.
"Then I invalidate your invalidity." Cable snapped his fingers again, and all the weirdos fell down again.
Snap, snap, snap, snap...
Moon Girl, who was sent back to the roof by various "ineffective" and "planned" games, watched the spiked blindfold and Cable pull out cards and snap their fingers at each other, while those unlucky weirdos were twitching as if they were break dancing,
Finally I couldn't help but say:
"Well, your total number of cards is limited, right? And my father only needs to snap his fingers?"
"[Hmph, we will meet again, Big Chin.]" The spiked eyepatch took out the last "The World (XXI)" card, and then disappeared together with the other weirdos who fell to the ground.
"Well..." Cable snapped his fingers twice more, but the weirdos did not appear again: "Forget it, let's tear this place down and go back to Titan. Such a big movement may have aroused the concern of those on the earth.
Attention."
"If you want me to say... they are already here." Moon Girl raised her finger to the sky.
Cable snapped his fingers, demolishing the city in front of him, and then looked up at the bat-shaped spacecraft suspended in the earth-moon synchronous orbit.
"Father, tell me, will they regard us as the bad guys who destroyed the city?"
