Unlike Wei Feng, Laiya returns to his hometown at least once a year to meet his elders, childhood friends, and their children. He uses the resources of the "Tube" to help them as much as he can.
Witnessing the villagers gradually putting aside their sorrow, getting out of their predicament, and starting an ordinary and prosperous life again.
Even though I don’t know when, due to some tacit reasons, there began to be a barrier between them that was difficult to see but always existed. This habit has never stopped.
He often recalled the carefree days of his childhood, and wondered more than once whether his life would be very different now without the tragedy of that night.
Maybe he will not enter the "Pale Hand" or become a ranger. Instead, he will grow up like other villagers, work, get married, and have children, and live happily and peacefully in a village with only a few hundred or thousands of people.
lifetime.
But this time it had nothing to do with any of that. Perhaps he was too bored, as he seemed to hear the voices of his mother and father that had been deliberately forgotten for many years.
Those seemed to be daily fragments. The father asked the mother what she wanted to eat that day, the mother asked the father to bring everything before going out, and so on. Or they were whispers when the two were side by side, many of which were related to him. They imagined three people
My future life, my own growth, and all the things that need to be done for this.
Leia was not sure if this was his delusion. Some of the words he had never heard before felt very familiar and reasonable. Maybe humans have very good memories when they are young, but what they heard and read was buried in a certain corner.
, has not been discovered until now.
Suddenly, a sharp breath came from outside the tavern, pulling Leia away from her fantasy - the person he had been waiting for was finally back.
Setsuna naturally knew how to hide his aura, but when he returned to his own city, he always disdained to do so. The young ranger turned his face sideways and looked out of the window, and saw a figure in black carrying a long knife on his back and holding a knife in his hand.
Holding a sack, he strode across the square. From time to time, some liquid dripped from the bottom of the bag and submerged into the sand of the square, where it was evaporated by the hot air in a matter of seconds.
He did not act immediately. Rushing forward now would only arouse the opponent's alertness, and in such an open space, it was impossible to prevent the "King of Shadows" from escaping. He slowly drank the liquid in the cup, paid the money, and touched
After rubbing his stomach, he walked out of the tavern with satisfaction and walked towards the east side of the city.
Soon, the young ranger came to a row of dilapidated huts, took out the key from his pocket, opened the door of one of the houses, walked in, and quietly closed the door.
The house has simple furnishings, and the thick dust means that it has been uninhabited for a long time. Leia walked around the four walls, squatted down by the north wall, took out the dagger from his waist, and carefully cut a piece of
The integrated, square floor was pried open, revealing a deep hole leading below.
He lit a fire in the palm of his hand and walked down the tunnel carefully. This tunnel was the work of a former member of the "Earth Club". Although his control over the earth was far inferior to that of Wei Feng, he dug a tunnel that led to the underground of the "Shadow Club"
, it’s not difficult for his companions.
The passage quickly divided into several, and Leia relied on his memory to choose the direction to go until he reached the location he identified. He extinguished the flame in his hand, closed his eyes, breathed calmly, and tried hard to sense the weak message coming from above.
Relying on these to identify specific visitors was one of the techniques taught to him by the leader of the "Mist Division" of the previous generation.
At first there was nothing there. After about half a day, several people came to his head and stayed for a while, seeming to be making some preparations. He shook his head secretly and simply lay down half-ly to relax his body more
Some, and also avoid consuming too much air - there is a vent in the tunnel that is connected to the ground, but it is some distance from his current location, so the tunnel is still a little stuffy.
It was not until midnight that the Naga scent that he was so familiar with finally appeared above the tunnel. Leia sat up carefully, swallowed, and suppressed a trace of fighting spirit in his heart. The best time has not yet come, he must continue
endure.
The young ranger further restrained his breath. He imagined the "King of Shadows" walking slowly above his head, coming to the center of the room, clasping his hands on his chest, and quietly praying to the gods he believed in.
After a long time, the other party opened his eyes, used a dagger to make a wound in his palm, let his blood drip onto the altar on the ground, and then put his palms together again——
The breath of fresh blood made Leia wake up - this was the opportunity he was waiting for. He recited the incantation silently, ignited balls of orange-red fire around him, and at the same time took out the one-foot-long silver handle from his arms.
Gun, finger ran across the runes engraved on it.
The silver gun sensed the master's will and returned to its original appearance in the blink of an eye. Leia walked towards the end of the tunnel, pushed open the stone slab that concealed the passage, jumped out of the tunnel, locked her eyes on the figure who was praying with her eyes closed, and stabbed with all her strength with the spear.
.
But at the moment when the tip of the spear almost touched the opponent's body, the "King of Shadows" in Leia's eyes suddenly disappeared.
——The opponent was already prepared, and may even have expected his attack. But before this thought flashed through his mind, the young ranger's body took action first.
The orange flames spread out in all directions according to his intention, and were arranged on the ceiling in an orderly and even manner. The small secret room suddenly seemed like daylight, with dozens of dancing flames intertwined with each other, and the shadows were all mixed together.
disperse.
At the same time, he quickly retreated to one side, and the spear in his hand cut through the air, whizzing across the surroundings. With the harsh sound of metal clashing, the body wrapped in black suddenly appeared again, staggering.
He took a few steps back and seemed to have suffered a small loss.
"Who I thought...it turned out to be you, the 'betrayer'." He glanced at Leia with a cold look, holding the long knife across his chest, "Why, this time I finally figured it out and planned to let him
Did I give you a pleasure?"
The young ranger was too lazy to answer, and just silently adjusted the position of the flame to ensure that no part of the secret room was contaminated by shadow.
The ability of "Shadow King" is to lurk in any dark area or the shadow of an object. He can also move instantly from one shadow to another - somewhat similar to "Shadow Walking", but the speed of execution is faster.
Much faster. Of course, the method of cracking it is also very straightforward, as long as the shadow 'ceases to exist'.
This thing is simple to say, but not easy to do. Light and shadow have always coexisted, and under the midday sun, the shadows are more conspicuous. The only possibility he found was to place a large number of light sources in a small space to let people from different
The light at the location dispels the shadows left by other light sources.