After Lumian's fireball failed to hit Charlotte, he saw countless branches and vines entering the Golden Rooster Hotel from all directions, covering the walls, floors, windows, and ceilings, interweaving brown and green, making it airtight.
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With this change, the scene around him instantly became illusory and then returned to reality.
He saw a huge brown-green tree, its roots penetrated deeply into the earth, and its crown slowly grew high into the sky.
Lumian's hole suddenly enlarged, and he found that he had been transferred to another place without realizing it, just like entering the "other world" without realizing it every time.
He was no longer inside the Golden Rooster Hotel. He was stepping on the roots of the knotted tree all over the ground and looking up at the giant tree that seemed to come from myths and legends and the blue sky and white clouds like an oil painting.
The giant tree was covered with disgusting, wet tumors, and each branch seemed to carry a building, a road or something.
The Golden Rooster Hotel is one of them. It is located on the top of a brown-green tree trunk above and is surrounded by a large number of branches and vines, with only a dozen windows exposed.
Through those glass windows, Lumian saw the eloping couple cursing each other and exercising frantically, while the intelligence dealer Anthony Reid was possessed by fear and huddled under the wooden table, shivering...
On other tree trunks, most of the things wrapped in branches, leaves and vines present a wonderful sense of blur and haziness, as if watching scenes of drama recorded by magnetic fields through the mist: there are triangles.
Ancient buildings with friezes, gabled roofs and leaded-framed windows; there are women holding on to gas lamp poles and being hugged from behind; there are priests standing in front of naked men; there are people jumping out of glass windows with their buttocks covered.
There is a man; there is a graceful curve being carried to the dining table on a tray; there is a happy party with clothes thrown everywhere; there is an evil beauty who suddenly turns her head and sprouts two black horns; there is a bishop who is naked in front of the Holy Emblem and accepts the confession of believers.
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In different scenes, the architectural style, characters' clothes, and hair styles are all different. Some are full of age, and some are like they happened yesterday.
While Lumian burned the wound to stop the bleeding, he condensed semi-illusory red fire crows behind his back, and quickly looked around, but could not find Franka.
Franka was not transferred to this place between reality and fiction!
On the chaotic street, among the tree roots, branches and vines, the vendors and pedestrians, some ate the food they sold, and did not stop eating until they vomited. Some of them knocked down the opposite sex next to them in the street.
Some drew out their daggers and slashed with red eyes at their colleagues who had quarreled with them before and took over their positions. Some, in such a chaotic scene, walked to the glass windows on the street and tried to invite the mirror in a gentlemanly manner.
Let's do a dance by myself...
Outside these streets, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages pass by normally, and nothing strange is seen - the vendors are still hawking, and the shops on both sides are all open. People walking through them seem to be addicted to such excitement and are reluctant to leave.
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What they didn't notice was that no one who entered that area came out again.
Market Avenue, fourth floor of the khaki building that houses the congressman's office.
Hugues Artois looked at the streets not far away, wondering what he was thinking.
The red-haired Cassandra looked back at the door and asked curiously: What does Susanna of the "Blissful Society" want to do?" Hugues Artois smiled and said: "They talked a lot, but
I lacked enough knowledge, so I didn’t hear it very clearly. I only remembered that they planned to let the sacred tree in the ground plunge down into the depths of Trier in the Fourth Age, and extend upward into a place called the star realm.
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Cassandra, Rhone, Marguerite, and Beaudoit looked at each other and said with doubts and worries: "Will this cause too much noise? Our current strength and official strength are extraordinary.
There is still a big gap between them. It is best not to directly conflict with them. You may not know it well, but I am from the Sauron family and I know the official situation very well. I know how exaggerated and terrifying their strength is.
"Everything we did before was done in secret, trying hard to avoid investigation. If we were to be exposed to the sun, the person who would greet us would most likely be a saint, a level 1 sealed object, and above that, there would be angels
, and 'O'-level sealed objects."
Hugues Artois pressed down his right hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, they can't implicate us." I didn't instruct them to do this. I didn't even give a hint or help. It can only be regarded as knowing their plan in advance.
, acquiescing to their actions.
"In the whole thing, the only thing that can be related to us is the explosion of the chemical plant in exchange for more gifts of decline, but that was Bono Goodwill who misunderstood Rhone's meaning and committed an unforgivable crime.
, as for the various emotions and desires brought about by the accident being used and amplified by others, snowballing to accumulate the nutrients they need, what does that have to do with us?"
Seeing that the expressions of the team members had relaxed, Hugues Artois left the window and laughed in a low voice: "If they succeed, it means that our career has taken another solid step forward, and we are approaching the end of the world."
The arrival of the great beings is getting closer. If unfortunately we fail, then we should restrain ourselves during this period and try not to be found by the extraordinary people of the two major churches. We are still the rulers of the market area." Regardless of their success, they will still be there.
Failure is our opportunity.
"I will accuse the extraordinary people of the two major churches of being corrupted and mediocre in their discussions in Congress, allowing the cultists to destroy the market area again and again, and each time it becomes more serious!" I will ask the Eighth Bureau to set up a branch directly in the market area.
, to help the incompetent church extraordinary men share the heavy workload.
"The Eighth Bureau, which has always been keen on expanding its own power, will definitely support me in doing so." By then, there will be three different official forces existing in the market area at the same time, and there are many conflicts between them, which will be more conducive to our work.
"Compared to the orthodox Extraordinaries of the two major churches, the people in the Eighth Bureau are the type who can be won over, eroded, and can be induced to change their beliefs bit by bit.
"This is my plan. In the long run, victory will definitely belong to us!"
Secretary Rhone, who wore gold-rimmed glasses and had her hair neatly slicked back, laughed: "This is what I'm best at."
Co-opt, erode, and corrupt, causing an organization to gradually decline and degenerate.
Hugues Artois straightened his tuxedo and tie, walked towards the door of the office, and prepared to go to the banquet hall.
Before leaving the house, he looked around, his eyes moving from the faces of Cassandra, Rhône, Baudoit and Margaret, feeling extremely confident and certain in his heart.
These four subordinates all have considerable extraordinary abilities, and the red-haired Cassandra is particularly powerful, making him feel safe.
Outside the door, near the stairs, there was an official Beyonder team responsible for protecting him.
——Not every member of Congress can be protected by a three-person team. Some members are powerful extraordinary people themselves, some are of noble birth and have their own extraordinary bodyguards, and some have certain strength and only need to provide an extraordinary person.
Following him is enough to ensure his safety. Only people like Hugues Artois who have neither extraordinary abilities nor family support need this level of protection.
According to regulations, the Church of the Eternal Burning Sun, the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, and the Eighth Bureau will take turns sending a three-person team to protect the safety of Hugh Artois. Today it is the Church of the Eternal Burning Sun's turn.
In addition to the extraordinary level, there are ten well-trained professional security personnel with firearms in the entire building. They all come from the Seventh Bureau of the Intelligence and Homeland Security Committee, which is the Special Service Bureau, and are responsible for providing services to Congress.
Congressmen and senior government officials provide basic protection.
Hugues Artois stood at the door, waiting for his secretary Rhone to open the door, then with a smile on his face, his head raised slightly, his chest puffed out, he walked out and went down the stairs.
"More than a thousand years have passed, and although Trier has not yet developed into what was expected, with joy supreme and indulgence to death, it has taken a certain shape, and the growth of the sacred tree has reached a critical moment.
"In this case, pure desires and emotions can no longer play a major role and can only be used as firewood. We need a sacrifice, a sacrifice of sufficient weight, and you, who has angelic level pollution but lacks matching power, are the best choice.
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Hearing this, Lumian was startled, and his child's eyes instantly zoomed in, as if he wanted to see Charlotte's appearance clearly.
Does she know that I have the power of destiny sealed in me?
Charlotte smiled: "The first time Susanna Chasi was summoned by you, she found that the terrifying power of an angel was sealed in your body, and she didn't dare to possess you. She wanted to kill you later, but not just