When Vanak's figure disappeared from the surface of the mirror, Lumian reluctantly put the books on the table into the "traveler's bag".
He stood up, left the room, walked to Julie's door, and knocked twice.
Julie quickly opened the door, hugging the quilt to her chest and exposing her shoulders, like two piles of snow reflecting the moonlight at night.
"I didn't mean to harass you!" she said vaguely expectantly.
Lumian said to himself:
"Wanak invited me to deal with Gusin and Albus together, in the ruins of Dades Agricultural Company."
After saying that, without waiting for Julie to respond, Lumian turned around and went down the stairs sleeping in the night, gradually becoming one with the darkness.
…………
In a hollow filled with the fog of war, in front of four statues facing each other, Gusin, who was wearing a half-high silk hat, said to Albus, who was wearing a black-and-red-striped jacket:
"It's impossible to determine whether the clues related to Wanak are bait. Will we step into a trap later?"
Albus put his hands in his pockets and laughed:
"So we came here.
"No matter whether there is a trap or not, what kind of trap it is, as long as our power is strong enough, we can invalidate their conspiracy and let them swallow the bitter fruit of failure."
Gu Xin nodded slightly and said:
"Yes, I once heard a saying that no amount of eggs combined can break a stone. What we need to do now is to turn ourselves into stones.
"Last time, we were not sure whether we could lock down Vanak, so we didn't take the risk to activate the most powerful power of this altar to avoid wasting it. Now, we can give Vanak a 'surprise'."
Albus said with a "hehe" smile:
"It's a good thing that it didn't work last time. The illusion might allow Vanak to gather all the targets we want to deal with, so that we can solve them all at once."
Having said this, Albus looked around and said with a sneer:
"I thought Lumian would return here in the next few days, and I specifically asked you to leave the 'Lamp of Disaster' on the altar to induce him to use it. I didn't expect that he turned out to be a coward."
"He should have been here." Gu Xin has an in-depth and detailed grasp of the topography around the altar. "He tried to destroy the statue many times, but failed. This caused the altar to draw a certain amount of power from the earth to repair itself, resulting in a small number of details.
Change, well, I really didn’t expect him to be able to endure that kind of desire and call, and not light up the ‘Lamp of Disaster’ on the spot. In ‘Hunter’, this kind of self-control ability is an alien among aliens.”
Albus raised his chin:
"Hurry up and hold the ceremony.
"Haha, first check whether the 'Lamp of Disaster' has been replaced or if anything has been added. A 'Hunter' who doesn't do some damage would really be sorry for the name of this path."
"Are you looking down on my prudence?" Guxin laughed, approached the half-height stone platform, and picked up the lamp filled with semi-solid and semi-liquid light butter.
He observed it carefully for a while, then lightly smelled the smell of the oil lamp, and finally put his finger in and lit it twice near the wick.
Gu Xin immediately retracted his fingers and let the blazing white flames burn the light butter on them.
A breath of warmth, charm, dark fragrance and rust quickly penetrated into his nose. He half-closed his eyes, nodded gently and said:
"No problem."
Albus then smiled and said:
"Where did you learn the production method of the 'Lamp of Disaster' and the corresponding secret ritual? It's quite magical."
"You will know in the future. After we complete this matter, we will be true companions." Gu Xin said with a smile.
He turned around and faced the four statues and the "Lamp of Disaster". He took out a palm-sized iron soldier in blue from the hidden pocket of his clothes and placed it on the half-height stone platform.
Isn't it Trier in the Fourth Age? There's nothing hard to guess about this. It needs to be kept secret... Companion, haha... Albus began to move backwards, trying hard to distance himself from Gusin.
This is an instinctive choice to prepare for accidents.
In the end, Albus stopped fourteen or five meters away, watching Gu Xin light the oil lamp through the thick fog, sit cross-legged on the ground, and enter a meditative state to complete the secret experience.
In just ten seconds, Gu Xin "saw" a thick mist in the seductive fragrance.
Different from the fog of war in the cavity, this fog is dyed with a dark color.
It envelops a city with no visible edges, only vaguely showing its outline.
Gu Xin flew towards a certain place half-conscious and half-awake, and he was very familiar with it.
After an unknown amount of time, he came to a tall tower that was only a shadow, and sank rapidly, entering the eerie and terrifying bottom.
There seems to be a well here, blending into the darkness.
Gu Xin kept repeating the purpose of this secret ceremony to fight against the increasingly serious confusion.
He approached the well and looked inside.
He then "saw" the moss-covered stones and the iron-black chains locked on the inner wall of the ancient well. The reliefs on the surfaces of the chains were vague and it was difficult to distinguish their specific appearance.
"Can you see the inner wall of the ancient well?
"It never worked before...
"Is the effect this time so good because I am getting closer and closer to the great existence?" Gu Xin was pleasantly surprised.
He excitedly moved his gaze to the dark water in the ancient well.
The dark and deep well water gently swayed and rippled, gradually condensing into a figure.
Gu Xin looked hard and suddenly saw pieces of brown bark.
They are embedded in a certain face, bringing unspeakable horror and terror.
"Bark..." Gu Xin was startled and at the same time had strong doubts.
Why is there something like bark here?
Shouldn't it be steel and blood?
Gu Xin instinctively lowered his head, looked at his hands, and found that the backs of his hands also had patches of brown, rusty bark.
This... Gu Xin's pupils dilated sharply, and he once again cast his gaze on the dark and deep surface of the well water.
He saw clearly the figure reflected above.
That's himself!
His face is covered with mottled tree bark!
The next second, these barks squirmed at the same time, sunken inward, and became flesh-colored.
They turned into wet spores one after another, embedded in the flesh. These spores bloomed one after another, seeming to spit out countless naked little people.
Gu Xin's fear suddenly exceeded the limit. He suddenly opened his eyes and got rid of the secret contract experience just now.
Phew... While he was breathing heavily, he saw that the iron soldier placed on the half-height stone platform quickly expanded, and soon became three or four meters tall, and his eyes were iron-black, no longer violent.
Burning dark red light.
The spear carried by the iron soldier was quickly covered in blazing white and green flames.
"Successful..." Gu Xin calmed down and was no longer so nervous.
He felt that the abnormality that had just occurred was caused by his getting closer to the great existence, and it was the deepening of past secret bonding experiences, so there were obvious differences and more details were revealed.
"I am stronger..." Gu Xin stood up, stretched out his right hand, and extinguished the "Lamp of Disaster" that was still burning.
"Is this a soldier puppet with some of the strength and character of the 'Iron Knight'?" Albus walked back slowly from a dozen meters away.
"Yes, it can be treated as a weakened 'Iron-Blooded Knight', not comparable to Vanak." Guxin replied very confidently.
He hasn't had time to examine what benefits and knowledge he has gained from the secret experience.
After taking a few steps, Albus suddenly stopped.
He looked at Gu Xin and showed a joking smile:
"Your hair has grown longer."
My hair has grown longer... Gu Xing turned his head and found that his brown hair had grown from his ears to his cheeks.
He suddenly had a guess:
The gains from this secret contract experience have brought me closer to the "Witch" path?
With such doubt, he lowered his head.
Sure enough, he saw that his breasts were slowly rising, pushing up his shirt, cashmere sweater and formal jacket.
Almost at the same time, Gu Xin smelled a faint milky smell.
The smell of milk... Gu Xin was stunned again.
Will this happen to the "Witch" mutation?
He was about to ask Albus what other changes he had made, when he saw his collaborator retreating step by step.
He immediately felt the three- to four-meter-tall iron soldier behind him bend his back, and put his head close to his ear amid the sound of metal collision and friction.
The iron soldier made a metallic sound and shouted softly:
"Mother."
"Mom...me?" Gu Xin lowered his head blankly and found that his abdomen was bulging at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Seeing this scene, his mind suddenly buzzed, and he felt like he had been reborn.
Albus, who was slowly backing away to avoid causing any abnormalities, saw Gusin looking at him with a motherly smile, and his blue eyes were cold and extremely evil.
…………
Boom!
A huge explosion occurred in a neighborhood with a crater on the outskirts of the city. The blazing white fireballs gathered together, rolled into the air, and gradually became red in color, creating thick smoke.
At the ruined Dades Agricultural Company, Lumian and Vanak, who were hiding in the underground secret room, both noticed the movement that almost caused an earthquake.
Based on the direction of the earthquake, Lumian quickly made a guess:
“That hollow filled with the fog of war?
"There was a huge explosion there?
"Albus and Gusin wanted to make some preparations before dealing with Vanak, so they lit the oil lamp that I had added seasoning to, and then an accident happened?"
Lumian immediately shouted to Vanak:
"Things have changed!"
After saying that, he left the shadow creature state and "teleported" directly to the corresponding neighborhood.
He did not directly choose the entrance to the cave with the fog of war as his destination, fearing that the explosion just now was a decoy created by Albus and Gusin!