The mountain forest was quiet, the afterglow of the setting sun was blocked by the hills, and the light on the shady slopes became dim.
The Mexican man came to the hillside and finally found a trace, which was a footprint at the foot of a tall cedar tree. He squatted on the ground and touched the soil in the footprints with his fingers to check the moisture and hardness of the footprints.
"No one can escape my tracking, not even you are a fox." A sneer appeared on the corner of the Mexican man's mouth. Those who thought they could escape his tracking had grass on their graves as tall as one person.
call!
There was a sound of wind.
The sneer on the corner of the Mexican man's mouth suddenly disappeared, and he raised his head suddenly. At that moment, a figure fell from the sky and stepped on his back. Before he could make any dodge reaction, his face hit the footprints he had just discovered, and the violent shock and impact almost made him faint!
Ning Tao kicked the mini submachine gun out of the Mexican man's hand, then grabbed his hair and lifted his head up from the ground.
"Can you understand English? If you want to live, answer my questions, otherwise I will kill you." Ning Tao said.
"Bah!" The Mexican man took a sip of water on the ground.
Before the "Bah" sound could be heard, a scalpel was pierced into the Mexican man's chest.
"You..." The Mexican man looked at the scalpel stuck in his chest in horror, and then looked at Ning Tao. His eyes were full of fear, consternation, unwillingness and regret.
Ning Tao said calmly: "Do you think this is making a movie? If I say I want to kill you, I will kill you."
The Mexican man clutched his chest and fell to the ground, his eyes wide open as he stared at death.
Spitting is risky. Sometimes what you spit is not just spit, but your life.
Ning Tao found a passport from the Mexican man, which was an American passport. The person in the photo is the Mexican man he killed. The name can be ignored because it is probably fake.
"These people may be pursued from the United States, or they may be mercenaries of Black Fire Company in Italy. If it is the latter, the real pursuers of Black Fire Company should still be on the way." Ning Tao made a decision based on this passport After making this judgment, he then searched the Mexican man's body for a communicator used for internal communications and a room card to open the hotel.
Ning Tao put the communicator back on the Mexican man, leaving only the room card.
The communicator has the potential to be located, and carrying it around is definitely not a wise choice.
Ning Tao pulled out the Eclipse Blade from the Mexican man's body and dragged his body forward. A scarlet bloodstain was left on the ground, which was shocking.
Ning Tao did not go far. After walking about ten meters, he threw the body down. Then he turned back and found a stone among the bloodstains that was not contaminated by blood. He drew a blood lock on the stone, opened the door to the side and walked in.
A few seconds later, Ning Tao appeared on the top floor of Giotto's Bell Tower.
He dragged the Mexican man's body up the hillside just to send some wrong information to the other party, that is, he killed someone and then ran away up the hillside. He will only kill one of the five opponents, and the remaining four will make a judgment, and then pass the false information he wants to convey to the person who directs them, perhaps that Olivia, or someone who has never shown up. , maybe even Nicolas Conti!
There is only one purpose for doing this - the scarlet skull fragments hidden in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Flowers.
Why are the scarlet skull fragments in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Flowers? The answer to this question may one day surface, but not now.
Ning Tao stood next to the iron clock, looking out of the window. In his sight, the fiery red sunset was about to sink into the horizon, and the large dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore seemed to be coated with a layer of gold powder, making it even more sacred.
At this time, both the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and Giotto's Bell Tower have passed the visiting time, and there are no tourists inside. This is also the reason why he dared to open a convenient door and return to Giotto's Bell Tower openly.
The next step is to wait, waiting for the night to come.
While waiting, Ning Tao took out the broken version of the Ancestor-Seeking Pill, entered into a drug-allergic reaction, and at the same time activated the Whisperer's function of capturing soul soul energy.
A still picture appeared in his field of vision.
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore has been half-built, and many craftsmen are working on the scaffolding. On the streets, there were nobles riding tall horses with guards, beggars holding broken bowls begging, women selling apples carrying bamboo baskets, and children playing and chasing each other.
I don’t know what year this is, or what the names of these people are, or what stories they have, but whether they are nobles wearing bright clothes or angry beggars, they are all sleeping underground, sharing a darkness. .
Suddenly, Ning Tao's pupils shifted to the right, and out of the corner of his eye, a woman in red stood quietly beside him, looking out the window at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Flowers, which was being built.
Ning Tao didn't dare to move, he was afraid that if he moved too much, just a little bit, she would be scattered all over the floor like a mirror broken by a stone.
From such a close distance, he could even see the long eyelashes on her eyes and the invisible pores on her skin. Unfortunately, he couldn't smell any scent on her body, nor could he see her innate aura.
She existed in the past time and space, perhaps just a phantom, an illusion.
The two of them just stood like this, and the scene at this moment was like an oil painting that traveled through time and space. It depicts a couple who separated for unknown reasons and reunited here in this life.
"You come."
The Whisperers snowflakes surge.
Her voice also appeared in Ning Tao's mind, a distant and mysterious voice.
At this moment, he was extremely excited. He wanted to talk to her and express all the questions he was holding in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak because he was worried that if he did, she would disappear.
"Find me."
The Whisperers snowflakes surge.
Her voice appeared in Ning Tao's mind, and this was the first time he heard new content! It felt to him like she was a real soul, standing next to him and whispering to him!
Ning Tao's lips trembled, but he finally endured it and did not speak.
However, even though he had managed to remain calm and as quiet as a sculpture, the woman in red still disappeared. The scenes of past time and space outside the window also disappeared, and his vision returned to normal.
It was quiet in Giotto's Bell Tower, and time seemed to have stopped and stopped flowing.
Ning Tao did not have an allergic reaction to Xunzu Dan again. He just stood there, staring at the sky outside the window in a daze.
You come.
Find me.
This was what the woman in red said to him. He couldn't figure out why this happened, but he was sure that he indeed heard her voice and it was not an illusion.
For a while, Ning Tao ended his daze, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I came to find you, but I don't even know your name or where you are. The world is so big, and there are more Where can I find you in billions of years?"
No one responded to him, only the feeling of loneliness accompanied him.
The sun sank below the horizon, and darkness swept in, covering the sky and the earth. The street lights turned on, and the lights on ancient and modern buildings also lit up.
call!
A rope shadow passed through the air and plunged into a stone brick on the top of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Flowers. Ning Tao grabbed the end of the herb-collecting rope and jumped from the window in Giotto's bell tower. His body swayed in the night sky, and when he paused again, his feet were already on the top of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
Ning Tao put away the herb-collecting rope and ducked towards the big dome. Approaching the big dome, he jumped up, with a ladder under his feet, and moved upward on the curved surface of the big dome. The large dome that ordinary people could not climb looked like a slightly steeper hillside under his feet. He didn't learn Qing Gong, but at this moment his movement on the big dome was more like Qing Gong than the Qing Gong in martial arts novels.
In a few breaths, Ning Tao reached the top of the big dome.
The top of the large dome is a white spire made of marble, with a golden ball on top and a cross standing on the golden ball. The base has four glass windows for lighting and is also a passage for maintenance.
Ning Tao used the Eclipse Blade to pry open a glass door and entered the interior of the large dome.
Behind the glass door is a mezzanine space, with a narrow staircase extending downward. On one side is the outer wall of the large dome, and on the other side is the inner wall with "Doomsday Judgment" painted on it. However, standing on the mezzanine, you can't see the "Doomsday Judgment" painted on the inner wall.
There was no light in the mezzanine space, it was pitch black.
Ning Tao took out the tactical flashlight from the small medicine box and turned it on. The darkness in the mezzanine space was immediately dispelled. He carefully walked down the stairs. In the process, he awakened the smelling ability of his nose.
He can find things without using his eyes.
Soon, a strange smell penetrated his nostrils. He quickened his pace and followed the source of the smell.
That faint smell is the smell of the incense before the Buddha.
Until now, he had only smelled this scent on the fragments of Vermilion's skull. Therefore, capturing the scent of the incense in front of the Buddha is equivalent to locking the location of the skull fragments.
Not far down the road, Ning Tao stopped and used his tactical flashlight to shine on a stone brick in front of him.
The smell of the incense in front of the Buddha comes from the gaps in the stone bricks.
Ning Tao used the eclipse blade to carefully pry the stone bricks down, and when he took the stone bricks away, a ball of linen cloth came into his sight in the sharp beam of light. He put down the stone bricks, reached out and took out the linen cloth, opened it, and exposed a skull fragment.
There are words written on the inside of the skull fragments, all of which are the names and dosages of spiritual materials.
Ning Tao read it three times quickly and memorized the contents before putting the skull fragments into the small medicine box. Then he put the stone bricks back and returned the same way.
When he was about to get close to the glass window, he suddenly stopped.
There is no one outside the window, and you can see a dark blue night sky, as well as stars and moon scattered in the night sky.
The moon in Florence is not rounder than the moon in China.
After a brief pause, Ning Tao came to the window and pushed the glass window open.
At that moment, a figure suddenly appeared, and with a wave of his arm, a black pistol rushed toward Ning Tao's head.