Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 235: First meeting with the "Angel of Destiny"
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After being successfully promoted, Klein returned to the Future. After a brief conversation, he quickly walked towards his room.

There is a guess that is about to be verified.

Inside the room, Klein waited for a few minutes before reentering the bathroom and setting up the ritual again, throwing the Creeping Hunger, which was becoming increasingly frantic due to lack of food, onto the gray fog.

He slowly removed the immediately quieted Creeping Hunger and placed it in the junk pile as well.

During his last exploration, he discovered a bright "staircase" that seemed to lead to heaven. He suspected that the number of its levels was related to his own sequence, so he came to confirm it right after he was promoted.

After walking for a while, Klein finally saw the sacred staircase made of pure light. Compared to the previous one, it had one more level, for a total of five steps.

As expected... Klein sighed without any surprise.

Then he climbed the stairs, which were prepared for giants, and reached the top floor.

At this time, he was not far away from the gray fog floating in the air. It seemed that he could climb up with just one more step.

……

Lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the stacked gray buildings ahead.

The Demon Hunter Colin Iliad, who was carrying two swords, pointed at the opposite side and said:
"That's Afternoon Town."

His unkempt gray hair swayed in the wind blowing across the wilderness.

As these words were spoken, a ball of cloth held in the female doctor's arms struggled. The doctor quickly lifted a corner of the cloth, and the baby, who had grown a layer of soft silver hair, half opened his eyes, looked around, and yawned again.

"Chief..." the doctor spoke hurriedly, but saw the Chief making a gesture to her to silence her.

Everyone in the exploration team turned their eyes to the fragile baby who was wrapped in layers of clothes, not daring to breathe.

Uno Skold, or Ourolu, quietly stayed in the doctor's arms. He gave his mother a revelation and thus became a special member of the expedition team. With him, everyone felt that they had been blessed by the Lord, and they were more energetic and more cautious.

The baby had silver-gray hair inherited from his father and sky-blue eyes from his mother. Although Silver City knew that he was the incarnation of an angel, they would still discuss him with good intentions in their spare time. If the child continued to grow up, he would definitely be a beautiful and handsome young man in the future.

Thanks to him, the exploration team had a relatively smooth journey and did not encounter any major danger.

Of course, this place is not too far from Silver City, and the road they are walking on has been inspected and cleared many times, so it is reasonable that there is not much danger.

The exploration team members were in high spirits, and Uno was touched on the hair countless times along the way, but the child was quiet and did not move or make any noise.

As everyone waited with bated breath, Uno blinked, took a quick look around, leaned forward, and pointed at Derrick who was standing in the middle of the team.

Derrick looked left and right and behind him, and finally pointed at himself in confusion: "Me?"

Uno put his hand down, his half-open blue eyes still looking at him, so sleepy that it seemed like he would fall asleep at any second.

Derrick scratched his head and looked at the Chief, who also looked at him, and both of them were thinking about what this meant.

The doctor looked at the two people who were looking at each other in bewilderment and quickly said, "Maybe he wants you to hold him."

"Is that right?"

Derrick couldn't believe it. He put the Hurricane Axe on his back and rubbed his calloused hands on his legs nervously. Then he approached the doctor and stiffly took the child wrapped in cloth and animal skin, holding his hands flat in the air as if he was holding a plate.

"If you hold the child like this, he will fall and get hurt!" The doctor didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly corrected Derrick's action of holding the plate. As soon as Derrick corrected himself, Uno, who was already a little resentful due to being sleepy, immediately tilted his head and fell asleep directly on Derrick's chest.

"Is he cold?" Derrick, who could generate his own fever, asked honestly.

Colin Iliad said: "Perhaps he has sensed the exploration route I am going to arrange for you."

"My exploration route?" Derrick was stunned, then regained his serious expression.

He once again carefully followed the light of lightning and observed this place called "Afternoon Town".

These buildings are arranged compactly and spread out. Some have collapsed, while others are still standing, but they all bear signs of decay and deterioration.

It was completely different from what was described in the textbook... Derrick suddenly recalled what he had learned in history class.

According to the records of the City of Silver, Afternoon Town is the gate separating reality and myth, where humans and giants live together. There are nights and days here, but all the daytime is in the "afternoon" state. No matter if there is heavy fog, heavy rain, or ice and snow, they cannot cover the relatively strong sunlight. But at this time, it is dark and gray here. Even if it is illuminated by lightning, it lacks a sense of brightness and is lifeless.

The team began to move forward. Derrick, holding the child in one hand and the axe in the other, quickly adapted to the new balance. His eyes "contained" two miniature suns. He walked beside the exploration team and followed "Chief" Colin step by step into Afternoon Town.

The streets were littered with pieces of rotting flesh and traces of dried pus, and it was quiet all around, without a single sound.

The chief ordered:

“According to the arrangement at the time of departure, we will form groups of three to four people to explore and clean up different areas.”

"Yes, Chief!" Most of the exploration team members had rich experience and quickly completed the grouping.

Derrick's group consists of three people. In addition to him, there are Joshua and Haim, who went to the abandoned temple together. The former is a Sequence 7 "Weapon Master" and has a magical glove that can manipulate fire, while the latter has recently become a Sequence 6 "Dawn Knight" and has grown a lot taller, reaching meters tall.

"Ha, Derrick, it seems we are benefiting from you."

Joshua happily approached Derrick who was holding the baby. He reached out to pinch a corner of the white swaddling clothes to take a look at the child who was the incarnation of an angel, but Haim beside him quickly stopped him and said in a low voice: "Don't be so rude to an angel!"

Under the dignified gaze of his peers who were at a higher level in the same path sequence, Joshua also unconsciously lowered his voice:

"Haim, you don't know that Uno is very willing to be close to us. And he is just a child now, a smart and magical child, who needs to be fed and play games. If everyone treats him as an angel and keeps their distance from him, wouldn't he be a little lonely?"

"Then he is also an angel of the future. Angels are to go to the Lord, and angels are to make friends with angels. We mortals... can probably only cause trouble to the angels." Haim was somewhat persuaded, but still insisted on his point of view.

Joshua immediately began to use his eloquence: "Hey, you've never been friends with angels, so how do you know we are troubles?"

They whispered in Derrick's ear, and the chief standing behind them began to notice the three young people whispering. Derrick quickly took the children to their exploration route, and Haiyin and Joshua naturally followed. According to the assigned goals, Derrick, Joshua and Haiyin entered an alley on the left in a triangular battle formation and explored every house that could still be entered.

Perhaps because of the previous cleanup, they had not encountered any monsters. In addition, the angel was on their side, so they unconsciously relaxed a little.

"I heard that the 'Six-Man Council' wants to build a camp here and turn Afternoon Town into our base." Joshua, wearing a red glove on his left palm, said after inspecting the hall of a house.

Haiyin glanced around and pointed at the basement entrance and said:

"Let's finish exploring here first."

Derrick hummed, and relying on his night vision and "luminescence" abilities, he entered the basement first without fear of the darkness. Haim followed closely behind him, holding a Mongolian skin lantern, and Joshua.

The basement of this house is quite spacious, with pools of black dried-up stains inside. The smell of blood still remains after so many years.

Derrick looked around and felt that a sacrificial ceremony seemed to have been held here.

A long, long time ago... He added silently, and discovered the altar-like stone table and a broken candle, which made him more certain of his guess.

How could the residents of Afternoon Town secretly hide in the basement to hold a sacrificial ceremony? When the Giant King's Court ruled, they were all believers of the Giant King, and later they belonged to the Lord who created everything... Is the owner of this house secretly worshipping other gods? Questions emerged one by one, and Derrick approached the altar. He saw that the stone table was originally full of carvings, but it had been almost completely destroyed by natural and unnatural factors.

After careful identification, Derrick found three names:
“Ouroleus;
“Medici;

"Sasriel."

Ouroboros? This isn't...

Derrick lowered his head and looked at the baby in his left arm. Putting these three names together, he immediately thought of the "Redemption Rose" he had read on the mural! He was about to call his companions to come and see, but when he looked, the entrance to the basement was empty and dark. Haim and Joshua, who were supposed to follow behind, were gone!
Derrick picked up the axe cautiously, holding Uno who seemed to be still sleeping. There was a flicker of candlelight outside the house, and nothing seemed to have changed. So Derrick immediately realized that the change had happened to him!

Did the good luck of the "Angel of Destiny" fail to neutralize this accident? Or was it that the "Angel of Destiny" was waiting for me to come here, waiting for me to fall into darkness, and that he was not moving now, did it also mean that the danger this time would not be very great...

The light-hearted child in his arms gave Derrick some courage. He carefully explored the basement, trying to find some clues to escape, but all the records on the walls and altars in the basement were just the names of the three angels written in Giant language, without any valuable information.

I am in danger... I can't save myself... The situation is critical, so what will I do next?
Back at the altar, Derrick thought about it carefully and suddenly froze.

His next step would be to recite Mr. Fool’s honorable name and ask for Mr. Fool’s help!

Ouroboros knew that I would be in danger, and guessed that I would ask Mr. Fool for help, so he followed me before the exploration?
Derrick suddenly felt a little overwhelmed. Uno was motionless and sleeping soundly, as if waiting for him to recite the name of “The Fool”.

However, the relationship between Mr. Fool and the Lord seems to have eased somewhat. He also knows about the Angel of Destiny’s arrival in Silver City, and said it was an attempt by the Lord to escape from the abyss of madness… If the Angel of Destiny wants to harm Mr. Fool, then I will warn him immediately and commit suicide to apologize…

After waiting for dozens of heartbeats, the candlelight became weaker. The surrounding environment remained unchanged. I don't know whether Haim and Joshua have left here or are wandering around. I can't continue to be in a stalemate like this. Derrick took a few deep breaths, lowered his head slightly, and whispered devoutly:
“A fool who is not of this age;
“The mysterious master above the gray fog;

"The Yellow and Black King who controls good luck..."

Instantly, the sleeping baby in his arms opened his eyes. Ouroboros' silver eyes looked straight up. The cold and indifferent look startled Derrick, who had just opened his eyes after praying.

Derrick suddenly felt his whole body stiffen. The soft child in his arms seemed to have turned into a cold and hard snake in an instant, and he was the tree trunk for the snake to climb. Ouroboros stared at the sky above, and the thread of fate swirled in his silver-white eyes and turned into a river.

……

Klein, who was standing by the window admiring the scenery of the God War ruins, had no choice but to go back into the bathroom, put away the interference items, and walked four steps backwards to the top of the gray fog.

He sat in the high-back chair at the top of the long bronze table, stretched out his right hand, and extended his spirituality to touch the group of deep red stars that symbolized the little "sun".

Suddenly, the sound of prayer became extremely clear, and the corresponding image appeared before Klein's eyes.

He first saw the small "sun" which was still a little blurry, and then he found that something was wrong with the environment he was in!

The "sun" is surrounded by an indescribable darkness, and in the darkness, eyes of different shapes are silently watching him.

These eyes were densely packed, vague, dark and introverted, like uninvited onlookers, but the little "sun" was unaware of them.

Afternoon Town is so dangerous? Klein is very familiar with what Sun is going to do recently.

He thought about it and intuitively felt that the darkness was very strange and not real enough, so he gave up the option of using the "Scepter of Poseidon" to respond to the little "Sun" and instead pulled the other party into the gray fog.

Klein exerted his spiritual power, but he felt that the crimson star seemed to be stuck in a swamp, making it quite difficult for him to pull the person in.

Then, Klein saw a strange ball of white cloth in Derrick's arms. The ball of cloth was insignificant compared to Derrick's height. Coupled with the countless eyes and flowing darkness around him, Klein did not notice it for the first time and thought it was just a package.

First a tiny hand stretched out from the package, and then a baby with white hair came out.

The baby looked around in the void, searching for his direction. Soon, he turned his head and looked straight at Klein, who was sitting in the position of The Fool, with his pair of silver-white eyes!

He is, He is the "Angel of Destiny" Ouroboros of the City of Silver? How could He be on Derrick? He was not there when "Sun" reported to me last time! Klein was horrified, but soon he noticed that Ouroboros did not seem to find his position accurately. He just glanced at the sign of "Eye without Pupil, Line of Change" above the seat of "The Fool", and then immediately closed his eyes.

At the same time, Klein vaguely saw a circle of silver light flashing around the little "sun"'s body. The strange darkness and countless eyes quickly retreated into the distance, and the surrounding scene suddenly shattered.

……

The "Monster Hunter" entered the basement with high alert, followed closely by Haim and Joshua.

They saw Derrick Berg's figure quickly outlined in front of the dim candlelight, like a picture.

Then, they heard a faint cry. The child in the swaddling clothes covered his eyes and kept struggling and twisting in Derrick's arms. Two lines of blood and tears flowed from his eyes and dripped into the white swaddling clothes.

TBC
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In fact, Steve was also following behind. (Steve: The Vietcong poked their heads out)

(End of this chapter)