Stray

Chapter 34: Disrupted plan

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It seems that Mr. Cross has absolutely no intention of speaking from the bottom of his heart before he dies. Nemo coughed twice, searching for words that would open the door. In the end, before he could determine where the extraordinarily illusory breakthrough was, the former knight commander opened his mouth again, sealing his breakthrough tightly.

"I also have a question to ask, who are you in the abyss?" Adrian Cross's tone was still damn calm, as if talking about today's weather.

Nemo shuddered. The people in the cell didn't show up, but their aura was overwhelmed - it wasn't a sense of oppression stemming from power, but a bloody fighting intent on the battlefield.

"What?" he laughed dryly.

"You're also a superior demon, aren't you?"

Don't say he's not sure yet, even if he is, he doesn't put a fluorescent sign on himself - doesn't it mean that superior demons have always been difficult to distinguish? Nemo moved back and began to think about the possibility that Adrian Cross himself was also a superior demon.

"I'm not your kind," the man in the cell added, seeming to see through Nemo's thoughts.

The atmosphere became more embarrassing for a while.

"But you..."

"The demon I know will never reveal its identity to humans. And you yourself can escape from the deep cell, and you don't sound like a demon warlock."

Nemo wiped his face hard - great, he didn't even say a word, so he tried the other side upside down. Thinking from another perspective, if he will be executed, and his nemesis will come to greet him in person... Cross is considered very self-restrained not to spit at him.

Can't talk today.

Nemo groaned and sat down cross-legged, cradling his head, trying to come up with a few solutions before time ran out. The two cells behind him were uneasy - the rag group continued to shout the sentence that was not known as a verse or a scripture, while the woman scratched the stone slab with six hands, her long fingernails scratched across the stone surface, making a harsh squeak squeak. In front of him, Adrian Cross remained quiet and seemed to have lost interest in him.

Time passed mercilessly, and the circle behind him was getting hotter and hotter, but he still had no idea. In such a quiet environment - wait, quiet

The shouting and rubbing noises stopped suddenly, and Nemo suddenly had a bad premonition, and the next second that premonition came true—a large, skinny, corpse-like hand poked out of the darkness above his head, with an unpleasant tinge of disapproval. Silver light, headed straight for Nemo. Nemo crawled up and down and stuck to the steep rock wall, but the hand caught up like a maggot to the bone, and left a deep scratch on the rock wall.

"What the hell is this?!" Nemo exclaimed subconsciously.

"Prevent people from hanging out in Garland's largest dungeon as their backyard," the knight commander explained calmly.

Seeing that the hand was about to grab him, Nemo became impatient - he rushed to Adrian Cross's cell, pulled the railing directly, and quickly squeezed in. Then he turned around and quickly straightened the crooked railing.

His actions soon paid off. The hand seemed to have lost its target, and it groped for a moment at the bottom of the pothole, slowly withdrawing the darkness. Fortunately, the prison cell for the sacrifice was large enough, and Nemo sat down slowly against the wall and sighed in relief.

"Is this interesting to you?" Adrian asked, his voice colder. "Please come back, you won't get anything from me."

Although the tone is still polite, it is undoubtedly the attitude of facing the enemy. At this moment, the magic circle on Nemo's back was terribly hot, and there was not much time left for him.

Nemo took a deep breath—he had an idea that was probably a bit bad, no, maybe a really bad idea.

Nemo stood up slowly, patted the dirt on his body, and walked straight to Adrian Cross. In the darkness, he could only vaguely see the silhouette of the other party. The knight was taller than him, and despite being imprisoned in the dark dungeon for nearly half a year, his physique still looked strong enough. The chains on his body reflected a little white light of the Holy Emblem—Mr. Cross was now bound, and that was enough.

Nemo grabbed Adrian Cross by the collar and almost lifted him up.

"Okay, stop playing." Nemo desperately recalled the tone of Ann's first encounter, trying to make himself sound colder. "If I kill the sacrifices of the gods, what do you think they will think?"

Adrian didn't answer. Nemo was sure he could speak, but the former knight commander was like a closed clam shell, not saying a word.

"But I really don't like that guy - he even sent Witherspoon to trouble me just because I stepped into his territory and he thought it was more fun." Nemo apologized inwardly, trying to keep his voice of stability. This darkness really helped him cover a lot of tricks. "Can't you just cooperate and have some fun with me? Do you really think that ridiculous trade mark can save your life?"

"Save my life?" The person being carried finally opened his mouth and sneered. "That's probably all your rotten brain can think of."

"Actually, I'm quite interested - who on earth is so inconceivable and hopeless that he wants to make a deal with the bastards of the Holy See?"

"As I said, you won't get anything from me," Adrian said calmly. "Do you want to do it? Please feel free to do so."

There was even a hint of laughter in his voice.

“…I have a clear conscience.”

This is it.

The white light of the magic circle suddenly lit up, and the scenery in front of him changed rapidly, from a dungeon that could not be seen, to an abandoned house. Nemo had the feeling of stepping on the air, and it caused him to sit on the hard ground, hissing and gasping. Oliver was standing in front of him, the talisman in his hand still glowing with a warm white light. And An leaned against the wall, folded his arms, looking relieved.

"Ouch, Ollie, lend me a hand." Nemo slumped to the ground, not wanting to get up on his own. "That Adrian Cross is so tough—but I'm sure he's innocent. We've got to find a way to help him… hand?"

Oliver didn't pull him, but looked behind him stiffly. An Ze dipped her fingers into her hair and tugged it back.

"Tell me." There was a hint of despair in her calm tone. "The one behind you is not the one I thought."

Nemo swallowed hard and turned his head slowly. The moonlight in the abandoned house was very bright, and he could see clearly this time.

A strange young man was standing behind him. Probably because he had been groomed as a sacrifice, he didn't have long hair or a messy beard - Adrian Cross looked about thirty years old, with short dark brown hair and neat, deep facial features, with a bit of melancholy The temperament, a good appearance that can immediately remind people of the word "knight". He still wore the high-collared monk's uniform of the Rad Sect, except that there was only a rough cloth tear on the chest where the holy emblem was supposed to be, and it seemed that it had been roughly torn off by someone.

There are downsides too - he feels too cold. Especially at this moment, Adrian's dark brown eyes were firmly glued to Nemo. Nemo turned his head numbly and stood up, only to feel that winter was coming early. If his gaze had substance, his back would have been full of ice skates by now.

"...I'm so sorry just now." With all the courage he had today, he stepped forward to help the other party straighten the messed up collar, and hopelessly confirmed that the feeling was the same. "K... Mr. Cross."

Having said that, he slipped behind Oliver in three and two steps.

"Come on, pure human," he muttered, pushing Oliver's back. "The evil demon is dead."

Oliver silently pointed to Ann - the female warrior was facing the wall now, and thumped it weakly with her fists.

"The original mission was really simple." She said blankly to the wall, "Forge a document, take people out for a walk while the festival, meet up, and complete the mission! Why did I find it difficult at the time? …what’s wrong with my life?”

"Ann, I'm sorry, I'm not—" Nemo was about to apologize, but was stopped by a weak gesture from the female warrior.

"It's not your fault." She stared stubbornly at a broken brick on the wall, refusing to look away. "Abyss magic can't interfere with the magic circle of the Rad Sect, it's me... What's wrong with the magic circle I drew - Damn, it has never had a problem!"

"To be optimistic, at least we've got him out." Oliver tried to adjust the atmosphere.

"You know what? If we went through the normal process of bringing him back and getting him back, it wouldn't hurt to be found - at most bread crumbs stuck to their clothes, they wouldn't really have a hard time with us. Now, now we It's shit on the pants-"

"We're not going to send him back, are we?" Nemo whispered.

"Yeah, ideally not. If we can get hold of Cahill and rob people on the premise of sufficient evidence - grab the handle, find evidence, buy time, and everyone will be happy in the end."

"Listen, it sounds good."

"It's still a week before the festival, and we don't even have a handle on our farts, we have robbed people directly under their noses!" Ann pulled her hair, "They will kill us, this is in front of All the faces of the Rads, my friends..."

"What now?" Oliver asked cautiously.

"I don't know, don't ask me." Ann replied in a dreamy voice.

"I'll interrupt." Nemo cleared his throat. "That movement outside shouldn't be something, uh, a special evening clock, right?"

"It's an alarm." Adrian said coldly, and the three of them turned to look at him at the same time.

"The highest alert - it means the sacrifice has escaped from the bottom of the dungeon."

On the bell tower of the Church of the Penance, the golden bell made a dull and rapid sound. The scarlet circle representing the warning slowly turned, reflecting the night sky above the church red. Under the red light, the angel statue on the top of the church revealed a strange and ghastly feeling, and a figure was mixed in it—a blond young man who was too beautiful put a pair of marble wings on his legs and leaned his head against another statue. in the arms.

He hummed a little tune, stuffed the jam-covered dessert into his mouth, and then put the remaining jam on his fingertips on the statue's pupilless eyes, adding a pair of slightly silly pupils to it. The blond young man was amused by his own work for a few seconds, and finally put down his other hand - the slightly distorted miniature magic circle slowly faded in the night sky, and the style was exactly the same as An's painting.

"The sky falls, and the abyss rises." He tried to hum, then looked up at the statue's jam pupils with a serious approach. "Nice description. I like the word fall, darling. The sky has fallen, and where does the morning star go?"

After saying that, he squinted at the knights who were leaving the Church of Penitence in an orderly manner, stretched out, revealing the black seal on his chest—

There is a sea scorpion with five eyes carved on it.

,Wonderful!

(m.. = )