Taking advantage of Dong Zheng and Cui Zuojing's efforts in the library, the others who entered the box came back three days later.
In general, this box is still a near miss, all the way to the top of the giant tree, everyone's strength has been able to stand on their own, even Lin Hangzhi, who has never improved in terms of ability, only picked up physical skills and ingenuity Going out is good enough.
Taking advantage of the rest of the people who returned from the box that day, Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng went to the arms dealer's shop. According to the agreed time, Mr. Hades should have prepared the actual weapons.
They went out early in the morning and there were no other customers in the store when they arrived. Mr. Hades knew in advance that the two were coming and was ready.
The silver-white crossbow was carefully taken out from the workshop by the old weapons dealer and held in front of Dong Zheng.
Dong Zheng and Cui Zuojing glanced at each other. The young man couldn't understand his worries. He touched his lover with his elbow and encouraged softly, "Try it."
Dong Zheng took a deep breath, stretched out his hand, and for the first time really held this crossbow that he had seen many times with his own eyes.
This crossbow was lighter than he had imagined. The streamlined body of the crossbow shone with a unique silver light from the metal. The lines and grooves were engraved on it, which did not differ in the slightest from his memory.
Dong Zheng pulled the string with two fingers and pulled it hard. The string is made of unknown material, and it is very tough. It is not difficult to imagine how amazing the power will be when the arrow hits the string.
The entire crossbow is very handy in both size and shape, as if... as if it should belong to Dong Zheng and the goddess of fate as a gift to him.
"The forging of the crossbow body is very successful. When it is actually used for manufacturing, the characteristics of this metal are more obvious. It is certain that as long as the user has more training, its ability as a melee weapon will not be inferior to other weapons. "
Hades said: "It's just that I encountered a little trouble. Due to the special properties of metal, I thought that the arrows built with it would have special effects, but in fact the results were not as good as I imagined. I tried many kinds of The plan and forging conditions are not as expected."
Can't make arrows? Cui Zuojing snorted: "Can you show us the previous experiments?"
"Okay." Hades went into the workshop and took out more than twenty arrows, each of which was different, the length, thickness, shape of the arrow and tail feathers, and the blood tank on the arrows changed a lot. Dong Zheng took them one by one and tried them. Sure enough, as Hades said, they were not very good.
There is no difference between a crossbow without an arrow and an iron block. Dong Zheng frowned. He put the arrow on the table and said, "I can wait until you make an arrow that meets the expected effect."
Hades nodded. He also believed that if he was given enough time, he could test out what kind of structure was the most perfect. Before Dong Zheng and Cui Zuojing left, he casually sighed: "If only there were similar samples for me to refer to."
The two left the weapon dealer's shop. Dong Zheng didn't take the crossbow that had been made. Hades needed to use it to continue testing the energy efficiency of the arrows.
Cui Zuojing's mood was unspeakably gloomy. Although there was no blood pact induction, he could still sense that Dong Zheng's mood was heavier than his, because all of this was probably a sign of something that would happen to him. destiny.
Destiny, does this thing really exist in the world
Dong Zheng didn't believe in fate at first, but until he had a car accident and was guided by the clown to the afterlife, he passed the blood contract and met his lover who used life as a match. Too many things were linked together. It seems that there are really hands in the dark, pushing them forward.
Heinrich's text message came at this time.
[The system shows that you have a safe that has just expired today, come and pick it up as soon as you have time.]
Cui Zuojing: "The safe? When? Are you secretly saving money from me?"
Dong Zheng laughed: "Am I still saving money from my private house?"
Cui Zuojing also thinks about it. At this time, all assets are accumulated in the form of points, and there is no good money for private housing. However, when he goes out one day, he is recruited by Dong as a person who has no education, no job and no income. It is possible to secretly Save private money.
Cui Zuojing couldn't help shedding a drop of invisible cold sweat, but fortunately Dong Zheng didn't think in any other direction at all, and wondered: "When did I use the safe?"
Cui Zuojing: "Let's go and have a look first."
When the two arrived in Heimdall, they did not go to Heinrich specifically, but went directly to the vault. Dong Zheng entered his fingerprint on the system, and the relevant information popped up automatically.
[The safe A385467 you rented on September 12, 23, Baili, expired on October 23, 24, Baili. Please take away the stored items as soon as possible.]
Pure White Realm has its own calendar, and the age is determined according to the ruler's name. It seems that during the reign of the Red Queen, it was the xx year of Hearts, but neither Cui Zuojing nor Dong Zheng liked it. According to the time when you entered the pure white world, use 2019 and 2020 instead.
Cui Zuojing was surprised: "September of the 23rd year of the White Calendar?"
If I remember correctly, at this time, they had just come out of the Dusk Island box and had not reached the top of the giant tree. Although Heinrich sent an invitation to reconnect, at that time, everyone didn't even know the name of the organization he founded, so how could they keep things in the safe in Heimdall
Dong Zheng frowned. He checked the registration information of the safe that he had used, and it was indeed his fingerprints.
As for other information, nothing.
No team numbers, not even names.
Fortunately, Dong Zheng later joined Heimdall to register his fingerprints, otherwise this thing would become unclaimed.
Did the system go wrong? Or... the guy who left things in the safe in the first place moved
It is useless to think too much. Dong Zheng memorized the number of the safe and found it in the depths of a row. This is a medium-sized safe that requires fingerprints and a six-digit password to unlock.
After the fingerprint recognition passed, Dong Zheng hesitated while facing the numeric keypad.
He didn't know any passwords at all, and the passwords he used most often, including computer passwords, were not six-digit numbers.
Cui Zuojing reminded him: "Try it, pick a number that is most memorable to you?"
Dong Zheng pondered for a moment, pressing one key at a time.
1, 9, 0, 4, 0, 3.
With a soft beep, the lock popped open, and the safe was opened.
Dong Zheng didn't rush to open it to see what was inside. He stared at the numeric keypad and whispered, "This is the day I had a car accident."
Cui Zuojing knew the second half of Dong Zheng's unfinished sentence - this was also the day he met him, the day when all stories began and the wheel of fortune turned again.
He put his hand on Dong Zheng's shoulder and said, "Open it and take a look, don't worry, no matter what happens, I will be by your side."
Dong Zheng snorted, opened the door of the safe, and bright lights came in from the outside, illuminating the small hidden space on that side.
Inside was a silver arrow.
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When the door of Neijian Studio was knocked again, Hades was surprised that the two had returned so quickly, and even more surprised by the silver-white arrow in Dong Zheng's hand.
"Where did you get it from?" Hades stroked the straight body of the arrow and couldn't help asking several times.
"..." Dong Zheng didn't know how to answer, should he say that this was left to him by someone from the future
Cui Zuojing asked with concern: "How is it, can it be used?"
"Okay, this is what I ideally look like." Hades handed the crossbow and arrow to Dong Zheng. He pointed to the lush tree outside the window and said, "Let's try it first."
Dong Zheng tightened his fingers one by one, clasped the cold metal tightly with his fingertips, and held the crossbow firmly. He put the arrow on the string, pulled it back to the slot, and put the arm of the hand pulling the string under the right wrist to make aiming more stable.
Cui Zuojing looked at him, as if swimming back in time, and saw the man in Dusk Island who pierced the gluttonous beast with an arrow.
Dong Zheng pulled the trigger.
The silver arrow shot out like a streamer, and the arrow seemed to penetrate time and space, piercing a certain destiny and ending.
Boom! With a muffled sound, it hit the target, and the arrow completely sank into the bark, squeezing out some translucent sap.
Dong Zheng put down his hand, he placed the crossbow arrow on the table lightly, and said, "That's it."
This is what he wants, the most handy weapon.
The second winter Dong Zheng spent in the Pure White Realm came silently.
At the top of the giant tree, even when the snow falls, all the plants are still green and lush, and the white snow pressing on the thick green branches does have a unique flavor.
Dong Linhai and Wang Que have probably officially established their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend, and they often go out together after training. Lin Hangzhi stayed in the old castle all day, and had some academic exchanges with Victor. Usually, Xia Qiongyun would sit not far away at this time, doing his own business, and listening to two or three sentences from time to time.
After the huge piece of metal was finished making the crossbow, the rest was estimated to be able to make three or four hundred arrows, and Dong Zheng asked for one hundred and fifty arrows first. When they saw Dong Zheng's tailor-made weapon, everyone except Xia Qiongyun, who joined later, was stunned.
"This, me, him... What is this, what's going on with this thing?!" Dong Linhai's expression could be described as frightened. After so long, Domingo's specific appearance was blurred in his mind, but Dong Linhai Still can't forget the many "pretend behaviors" of that person.
Isn't this thing Domingo's crossbow? How did it become my brother's weapon? ?
"I don't know either, but I'm sure that what Domingo did back then would basically not harm us." Dong Zheng didn't say anything about the arrows in the safe. Sometimes he knew less about other things. protection of people.
Wang Que: "Did Domingo finally take the amulet and the broken scepter of time for us?"
Cui Zuojing shook his head: "He should use those to do more important things."
When he said this, Cui Zuojing felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart, and he remembered that when Domingo pushed him towards the door at the end, the demon god who was roaring and crawling out of the ground from behind him was opening his mouth full of bone spurs. Giant bat wings.
It was only now that he understood that under the man's icy calm eyes, what was suppressed was endless indulgence and mourning.