Hesperis never thought that one day he would be frightened by a simple sentence.
The hunt will end.
There are only six simple words, six words that are meaningless to ordinary people, but they are enough to make Hesperis, an ancient god who has survived from the age of mythology, feel dizzy, and she can't even understand this for a while. The deep meaning of a few words, so she stared at Hao Ren for a long time, and asked the other party to repeat it before she trembled and said: "Could it be that the demon hunters... really all disappeared?"
"No." Hao Ren hesitated for a while, and did not directly tell the other party about the current situation of the demon hunter, "There is something wrong with them, but it's over. It's just that from now on, the hunting war will end, and they ...Well, as long as you can maintain a balance, demon hunters will no longer take the initiative to hunt and kill aliens."
Hesperis sensitively heard the deep meaning behind the words "maintaining balance" and "active hunting", but she didn't say much, just frowned and looked at Vivienne curiously: "Are you really Went to the witcher's lair? And... came back unscathed? What the hell were you doing there?"
"Would you believe me if I said I went to help?" Vivian looked at her old friend with a half-smile.
Hesperis' face changed. Obviously, in her world view, it was a bit unthinkable for a group of aliens to go to the witcher's house to help. Although Hao Ren once mentioned to her that his group was "absolutely neutral", Hesperis still subconsciously regarded this group of people as being in a different camp.
"Are you going to help the witcher?" The "Goddess of Twilight" twitched her eyebrows a little, "Vivian, Countess, are you sleepy again?"
"The witcher is an important part of the balance," Vivienne said deliberately inscrutable, which fits well with her identity as an ancient, and can make Hesperis realize that there is an intricate truth hidden behind the whole incident, "We went to help them so that everyone in the shelter can be safe—the demon hunters hold powerful ancient powers, and they will bring greater danger after they are finished. Let's not talk about this, we are going to the shelter to see It depends. It is said that the most noisy guys are all here in Athens?"
Hesperis shook his head helplessly: "Yeah, who made this one of the biggest sanctuaries. It's also the one with the most convenient transportation to the outside world. The younger family forces are all here. But don't worry. , the Heatherana family, which is usually the most troublesome, is the most stable this time. Your cheap girl has a high prestige among the younger generation, and she can hold the field better than us old guys. Tsk tsk, now Young people don't know respect..."
Hesperis hadn't finished speaking. Vivian slapped the table with a slap: "How many times do I have to say that! That bastard is not my daughter! She's just a little bat that I fell out of..."
Hesperis looked at Vivian's slap on the table expressionlessly: "Six hundred thousand—Euros. You just smashed Octavian's forehead."
Vivien raised her eyebrows: "Stop talking nonsense, I took pictures of Octavian when he was alive! They are all foxes on the mountain, what are you talking about?"
The quarrel between the two ancients is probably like this.
Hesperis opened the labyrinth leading to the shelter with a troublesome expression, and soon, everyone came near the "city hall" of the shelter.
The city in the shadows has not yet been rebuilt, and some traces of the last war can still be seen, but apart from these traces, Hao Ren's biggest feeling is that the atmosphere in the city is completely different from the last time he was here. .
A depressive and gloomy atmosphere enveloped the city streets, filled with the wind and rain everywhere.
Although the City of Shadows originally had a repressive and murderous air, it was mostly due to the fact that the city was located in the shadow layer and the delicate relationship between the various races in the city. The depressive atmosphere will never be so obvious that it makes people uncomfortable, but the streets and alleys here are obviously different from usual. Hao Ren hardly saw many people walking outside, and even if there were a few figures on the street, they were mostly in a hurry. Moreover, these people walking outside are also wearing clothing with obvious family logos—this means that they are not out to hang out, but are personnel sent by certain large families.
"There was some trouble between the little guys in the shadow block in the west and the burning light high platform." Hesperis walked beside him, explaining the current situation in the city, "They are all new families that have become active in the past few hundred years. They don't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and they are easy to be whimsical. Authoritative traditions have little deterrent effect on them. Especially after we sent a few batches of investigators: the investigators found the uninhabited people left by the demon hunters. The strongholds were successfully destroyed, and they have not been retaliated by the demon hunters so far, and those destroyed strongholds naturally dissipated in the turbulence of time and space. So many people think that the demon hunters will never come back."
"Xinxing small family..." Hao Ren was a little curious about the inheritance of the heterogeneous family. "How did this small family come into being? Given the current living conditions of your heterogeneous families, most of them should be survivors from the inheritance of ancient families. Will there be so many small families born?"
Hesperis' voice was a bit lazy, but he explained patiently: "Separation, exile, heretics, all kinds of reasons. The Heatherana family is composed of exiles, and some new families are Split from a big family, or the reorganization of the remaining forces after several big families fought. Although we are hiding in the shelter, it does not mean that our social structure is solidified-most aliens can live for a long time, hundreds of Thousands of years are enough for us to produce many new groups."
Nangong Wuyue muttered casually: "It sounds like these small families should be weak."
"Not necessarily," it was not Hesperis who spoke this time, but Vivienne, "Not all families are stronger as they get older, look at Hessiana—sometimes the bigger the brain, the stronger the family." Strong. And many things of the different kind were broken in the twilight of the gods. The historical background and so on... In fact, the impact is not great. Of course, the old family is stronger in general, but the difference between the young and the old is not the same. It's not as big as you think."
Just as Vivienne was saying this, a loud noise suddenly came from the front.
Hao Ren followed the prestige, and saw a red light suddenly lit up in the direction of the city council hall. This red light carried a huge ferocious force. Just looking at it, one could feel a scorching aura coming from the bottom of his heart. Where the red light rises, a large crowd of people gathered, bursts of shouts and strange whistling like a hurricane in the canyon resounded from the crowd, constantly hitting the eardrums.
After seeing this scene from a distance, Hesperis just shrugged expressionlessly: "So I came out to hide."
"Young people nowadays..." Vivienne covered her forehead and sighed, suddenly a gust of wind blew up around her, and then rushed towards the direction of the crowd rioting with a large amount of lightning and dark clouds.
Hao Ren's reaction was a bit slow, but he followed immediately.
The group of troublemakers gathered in front of the city council hall has almost occupied the entire square. They are huge, and they don’t seem to be limited to one race, nor are they limited to one family. This is probably a group of coercive forces united after discussions. Activists from various young families gathered in the square of the chamber, occupying the roads and checkpoints, constantly pushing and attacking the defense line of the city council. And the red light just now should be the handwriting of a certain person in charge: boasting of his own strength, causing greater chaos, but not carrying out a real violent attack.
In front of the chamber, the guards of the "Parliament" are maintaining the final order. This city of sanctuary does not have a "government" in the true sense. Several big families including the Heatherana family and several ancient people who sit in the town are the ruling class here, and the parliamentary guards are these families and soldiers of the ancients. These not-so-professional law-and-order personnel formed a line of defense in front of the hall, and they had been in a tense confrontation with the rioters for an unknown amount of time.
When Hao Ren and the others arrived, the scene was in such a tense and chaotic situation that even the confrontational parties did not notice the sudden fall due to high tension (the road outside was blocked, Hao Ren and his party directly let the data terminal take teleported in) small team. I saw a young vampire rushing to the front of the crowd, shouting loudly in the direction of the chamber: "This city is corrupt! We will find out the traitors in the hall!"
Hao Ren heard such an angry shout just as he came out of the teleportation light. (to be continued~^~)