Set up a funeral service team in a foreign land

The clouds are gone, the moon is bright, the sky is full of stars, and the night is filled with tenderness across the sea.

A young couple snuggled up to each other on the undisturbed beach, enjoying the rare beauty.

"The starry sky is so beautiful, which star do you like?"

"I love you, my shining star."

"...You are so unsophisticated!"

The girl smiled and pushed the boy. When she was about to say something, her expression suddenly changed slowly.

"What, what is that?!" Her throat tightened slightly, and she swallowed subconsciously, pointing to the sea.

The boy glanced over casually: "Huh? It's seaweed... F*ck?!!"

Suddenly, a huge black shadow about two or three meters high emerged from the sea and slowly moved towards them.

The black shadow had an irregular shape, a large round head, and it was unclear how many tentacles were wriggling. Looking carefully, there were vaguely human limbs, twisted and abrupt bulges, strange claws and pincers, and so on...

"Fuck! What the hell!!!"

Their minds went blank as they looked at each other in horror, then hurriedly pulled each other into the car, inserted the key, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away in one go!

A dark shadow in the distance.

“So salty…”

Xi Sui'an turned his head and spat out a mouthful of sea water, then pulled off the seaweed that was accidentally hung on his body, and said weakly.

"Squeaky..."

The giant octopus Tide held Xi Sui'an up with one tentacle and wrapped a giant spider crab with another tentacle and stuffed it into its mouth. The four or five meter long crab claws made a crunching sound, which made Xi Sui'an imagine chewing sugarcane for a second.

"Hey, let's get ashore quickly." Xi Sui'an, who could see the current situation on the coast, breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, there are not many ordinary people at night."

The man and the octopus had no idea that they had just scared away a young couple.

Chao Xi placed Xi Sui on the beach and sighed with satisfaction: "There are delicious foods in the human world, and they taste good." Although there was basically no original power to bring a sense of fullness.

Xi Sui'an turned over on the beach and faced the sky. The severe pain from the battle and the rapid recovery from her injuries made her feel a little exhausted.

"Tide, your mimicry is really convincing." It actually fooled Carlisle Nolan.

"Ah!" Chao Xi pressed his webbed wrist to signal to be low-key, "It's just a sample that will break if you poke it."

Xi Sui'an laughed. She looked up at the brilliant starry sky with her eyes slightly deep.

"Tell me, how did Carlisle Nolan find me in the human world?"

"What do you think?"

"Corbett knew I was in Damocles before, and this time Carlisle Nolan took action in the human world..." She murmured, recalling the so-called prophetic interference that Li Chu and Li Qing had mentioned when they went to the Nuyi ruins.

The stars in the sky flicker like countless twinkling eyes.

"Could it be... someone is watching me..."

she whispered.

Chao Xi shuddered subconsciously. They were being watched the whole time?!

The system popped up in my mind and said with a little worry: "Maybe someone is trying to capture the trajectory of your destiny, but there are only a few such rare people now."

Xi Sui'an pressed her eyebrows. For no reason, she thought of Wu Li, the leader of the Wuxiang tribe, and Gulveig, who was the fusion of the goddess of fate.

Probably not...

What does she mean to a being like Ju Mang? Is she an important chess piece on the chessboard of fate?

Xi Sui'an was silent for a moment: "Is there any way to hide the trajectory of my destiny?"

The system was silent for a moment and said, "Catherine of Damocles has done it before, but she prefers to use astrology to interfere with prophecy and divination. Now we are in the human world, and the people of Xuanmen may have a way."

“……”Why didn’t you say so earlier!

She should have accepted Li Chu's invitation before, maybe she could have established some good relations with the boss.

"Ahem, I don't remember." The system's voice was weak, and it sank into the sea of ​​souls.

It turned its head and said seriously: "The origin of the human world is too thin. It is difficult to recover the origin power you have consumed. It is better to return to the foreign land as soon as possible."

"I know."

Eat one bite at a time and do things one by one.

She covered her eyes and sighed softly, then after a moment she got up from the beach, scooped the tide into her arms, and walked towards the direction of the lights.

Behind him, the sea of ​​stars rises and falls silently.

Xi Sui'an found a place to get herself ready, put on a clean white windbreaker, and tied her hair into a neat high ponytail.

She put on her backpack, took out her equipment, and stuffed Tide into the backpack.

"I know you must be sleepy, go to sleep." She stroked her tide and said with a smile.

Chao Xi rolled her eyes and turned away, ignoring her.

Xi Sui'an returned to the crowd with the tide on his back, and like every ordinary person, he rushed to the high-speed rail station, bought a ticket, got on the train, and headed to his destination.

She sat in her seat and looked at the rapidly receding scenery, feeling an inexplicable sense of dislocation in time and space.

There is no open or secret coming and going of various races here, no historical legacy of the alternation of eras, and no abundant original power.

Only countless ordinary humans passed by her.

I'm still a little uncomfortable relaxing, she thought with amusement. After a while, she took out a copy of Iloven's assigned textbook and flipped through it nonchalantly.

The college student sitting next to her was playing games and was unconsciously attracted by her reading.

The book was luxuriously bound, and the gems and metals were realistic. The other person commented to himself: It's pretty nice.

When he accidentally saw the title of the book, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

He had seen people reading magazines, papers, English books and reports on the high-speed train, but this was the first time he saw someone reading alchemy so seriously and out of curiosity.

All right, the college student withdrew his silent gaze and concentrated on playing the game. Who doesn’t have a dream of going to Hogwarts?

Two hours passed in a flash.

When she got off the bus again, she returned to the city she was most familiar with.

H City is always bustling with people coming and going, and the countless criss-crossing routes are as clear in her memory as yesterday.

She lowered her head and smiled, then strode towards home with her backpack on her back.

Since it's on the way, you might as well go and see the young girls who are still enjoying the hustle and bustle of life and absorbing carbon dioxide on the roadside.

"After such a long time, there shouldn't be any changes for Qingqing, right?"

Xi Sui'an muttered.

Most alien races are not as sensitive to the passage of time as humans, so there shouldn't be any major changes.

When she walked to the side of the road where Qingqing was, her originally relaxed smile suddenly froze!

I saw that the roadside in front of me was flat, and dense bushes replaced Qingqing's original position, as if Qingqing had never taken root there.

Where is Qingqing?

How come such a big green tree disappeared? !

"Is Qingqing safe?" Xi Sui'an frowned and his expression turned a little ugly.

She took out her cell phone, hesitated for a moment, and dialed the number she had written down.

"Du~~~"

"Hello, Yinglongweihao Jingci is at your service!"

"...??"

Xi Sui'an looked at his phone speechlessly. So this is the style of Yinglongwei?

"Well, it's me, Xi Sui'an." She touched her nose and said speechlessly.

The voice of Jing Ci on the opposite side paused, and the tone seamlessly changed to calm and steady: "That's great, I'm glad you're okay. Li Chu was very worried about you." He got ashore quite quickly.

"Tell Li Chu that I'm fine, let her rest assured." Xi Sui'an said seriously.

"I told her."

"I have something else to ask you. There is a cedar tree transplanted from a foreign land in H City. Why is it no longer in its original place?"

"You mean Qingqing?" Jing Ci said calmly, "He's fine, he just changed his form. We did some ideological work on him, and Qingqing is now a member of Yinglongwei for the time being."

"..."

Did she go to a foreign land for a few months instead of a few years?

"Is there a difference in the speed of time flow between the foreign land and the human world?" Xi Sui'an asked in his heart with a little confusion.

"No." The system replied calmly.

Qingqing... joined the Yinglong Guard? !

What's happening here?

"...You forced him to join?"

"No." Jing Ci calmly retorted, "Yinglongwei does not employ child labor."

Transformation does not mean adulthood.

"We just gave him an identity to walk in the human world. We can't throw him into jail right after he transforms."

Are you acting within the official circle with an identity recognized by them?

Xi Sui'an frowned thoughtfully.

"Then where is he now?"

"If we are destined to meet, we will meet."

OK.

Xi Sui'an thought for a moment and said, "I want to ask Xuanmen Sect Master Li Yuan something. Could you please tell me where I can visit him?"

Jing Ci paused, and said in the same tone: "If we are destined to meet, we will meet."

"..."

What's with this faint sense of human-machine?

"Any thing else?"

"Gone."

"Okay, the service is over here. We'll see each other again if we're lucky enough!" Jing Ci turned around and hung up the phone.

"..."

Xi Sui'an was speechless. Jing Ci's words made her almost forget the word "fate".