Back to the Future 1999: Raining at the Same Time

Arcana looked at the figure gradually disappearing in the teleportation array, and all his expressions faded at this moment.

Staring at the place that still retained someone else's body temperature the moment before, her eyes gradually became cold.

"Ms. Arcana..."

Another person appeared in the training room.

He stood respectfully aside, not even daring to look at the only beautiful figure under the spotlight.

"You left the meeting so suddenly and for such a long time..."

He spoke each word slowly, as if hiding some emotion.

"Most cadres have begun to have some opinions."

It was a faint anger, and I didn't know whether it was directed at those who did the work or at the person in power in front of me.

Arcana just glanced back at him quietly without saying anything.

But that cold look pierced straight into the visitor's heart, making him feel as if his life was threatened for a moment.

Without any further movement, Arcana just waved his hand, and his body turned into black liquid and merged into the endless darkness.

Soon, the sticky black liquid reshaped her body, and she sat upright on the most luxurious throne in the conference room. Invisible oppression spread throughout the entire space from the moment she appeared.

The meeting room, which was still buzzing with discussions just a second ago, suddenly fell silent.

Everyone was silent, looking at her on the throne, not daring to say a word.

"Go on, everyone."

Arcana's words, without a trace of emotion, sounded like an order.

However, in the conference room where the atmosphere was terribly low at the moment, no one dared to speak.

Arcana looked down at the people in front of him, his eyes moving back and forth, finally landing on a boy at the end of the table.

The corners of his mouth slightly raised a few pixels, and he asked in a deep voice:

"Tia, you served as the temporary captain for the last mission."

"Why don't you give us a brief account of the last mission?"

The boy who was called stood up immediately, his face flushed red.

"Ah...Ms. Arcana, regarding the last mission, here are my thoughts..."

As Arcana watched the man in front of him stammeringly report the specific details of the mission, he recalled everything he saw in the forest that day.

Arcana had rather conflicting thoughts about this temporary captain.

On the one hand, he presumptuously ignored his request, leaving Chen Xi alone in that remote village, and even wanted to make him leave the hands of Reshaping forever.

But on the other hand, if it weren't for him, he wouldn't be able to see Chen Xi's soul-stirring mystical techniques.

As he was thinking, a smile had unconsciously spread across Arcana's entire face.

The boy took a casual glance and caught the smile at the same time.

When he came to his senses, he found it difficult to take his eyes off that face - how could there be such a beautiful smile in this world.

When the boy thought that it might be his report that made the adult so happy, his tone became more intense, and his memory began to drift back to the night when they first met.

"The end of the mission..."

A fire that gave me new life...

"Forty outstanding mystics have pledged eternal loyalty to our Hand of Reinvention!"

That night, the screams of those so-called "doctors" were endless...

"But that unplanned person still came back!"

My last memory of that night was Lord Arcana's hand reaching out to me in the firelight.

"He naively dictates to us what our ideals are!"

It was that hand that led him out of hell and back home...

"This is the greatest disrespect to Miss Arcana! I suggest that he be immediately masked, stripped of his consciousness, and made into our most loyal disciple!"

At this moment, as if she had been liberated for the second time, Tia shouted out her thoughts.

The love, admiration and enthusiasm for Miss Arcana in my heart also burst out at this moment.

It's like a suitor showing all his love, hoping that his hormones can also capture the other person's heart.

Tia cast her eyes on Arcana's face expectantly.

only……

There was only endless coldness left on that face, and the disdain and disgust in his eyes tore at the boy's heart, which had been beating wildly just a second ago.

It was like a burning fire being poured with a basin of cold water, and the boy's face instantly fell.

"Sit down."

It was a simple sentence, neither praise nor criticism, but it was like a broad axe hitting the young man's heart.

The light in his burning eyes gradually faded and became empty and lifeless. He sat down stiffly like a puppet, muttering "why" to himself, and there was no life left in his mouth.

"Ah--"

A faint sigh drifted out of Arcana's mouth, but everyone present could hear it clearly.

Finally, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, a loud bang was heard in the conference room.

It was a position only one person away from Arcana.

Standing up was a well-dressed man, his well-cut dark suit seeming to highlight his meticulous and rigorous attitude. His round-rimmed black glasses couldn't hide the sharp and cunning gaze behind him.

She was confident and calm, like a venomous snake, beautiful yet deadly...

He slammed the document in front of him shut, and the sound, like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue, immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.

"Ms. Arcana..."

Forget-me-not looked directly into Arcana's eyes, showing no fear at all because she was his superior.

"I think you've been too close to that outsider lately."

"His heart does not belong to us. I hope Miss Arcana will maintain her composure."

He had no intention of saying it out loud.

Arcana stared back at him, even smiling back.

Just as Forget-Me-Not was still feeling happy about his successful persuasion, a black tentacle had unknowingly wrapped around his neck and was constantly tightening.

The forget-me-not tried to tear at the tentacles on its neck, but it was either difficult to grab or it passed through directly.

He stared angrily at Arcana in front of him, but he could only struggle continuously.

After all, when the venomous snake is stuck before it can spit out its tongue, what threat can it pose?

And if we look more broadly, we can see that everyone here has a black tentacle wrapped around their neck.

It was slowly tightening as if it were alive, and the fear of gradually losing oxygen was squeezing their brains tightly, but cruelly leaving a trace of consciousness, allowing them to deeply feel the pain.

"Chen Xi..."

Slowly lifted everyone present from their chairs.

"He is the most mysterious mystic I have ever discovered."

Arcana's eyes were so sharp that he seemed to want to cut all of their throats.

"The secrets he holds are worth more than any of us here."

"So, I don't want to hear any gossip about him anymore!"

Leaving behind a final warning, the Queen turned and left.

The pressure on everyone's neck disappeared instantly, and they all fell back into their seats, covering their throats and gasping for breath.

After Arcana left, almost everyone in the conference hall sighed at Arcana's stupidity and how he was deceived.

Wiping the saliva from the corner of his mouth, Tia felt the remaining pressure on his neck in disbelief. He had never imagined that one day, the person he admired would become like this.

Gradually, a figure began to appear in his mind, a figure that made him extremely disgusted.

"Chen Xi!"

Tia suddenly screamed loudly:

"it's him!"

"Everything has changed since he came to Reshape Hands!"

"Miss Arcana is keeping an eye on him all day and night, delaying things!"

"If he disappears, Ms. Arcana, this place, the Hand of Reshaping, will surely be able to return to the 'home' that once belonged to us all!"

Everyone stared at him in amazement. The elder sighed with regret and gently patted his shoulder.

"Tia, there are some things everyone knows, but it's better to keep them in your heart. Trouble comes from the mouth."

The hand on her shoulder was knocked away with a slap, and Tia was still shouting:

"Don't you want to go back to the way things were?"

Tia's eyes blazed again as she glanced at everyone.

However, most people still looked at the ground with difficulty, or just stared at him expressionlessly.

"coward!"

After cursing angrily, Tia turned and left the meeting room.

The rest of the people sighed and began to leave one after another.

Arcana, hiding in the shadows, heard all of this and sighed silently in his heart.

Because even she herself doesn't know why it turned out like this.

From the first time she saw Chen Xi's mystical fluctuations, she felt deeply attracted.

Especially after seeing Chen Xi standing in front of him, the urge to possess him became even stronger.

She really liked it, every time he performed his mysterious magic; every time he grew up in pain; every time she was happy to discover his new look.

Even though this strange emotion has made her no longer herself, she is still immersed in it and cannot extricate herself.

Reaching out to touch the tiny marks left by Dao Wu's cuts, Arcana couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth again.

Even though this has caused dissatisfaction among many people, and even though spending too much time on Chen Xi has affected the Hand of Reshaping.

But she still couldn't control herself, and the feeling of wanting to hold Chen Xi tightly in her hands never subsided.

"While he's away on this mission, let's take care of the Hand of Reshaping."

"I also hope that the results he brings back from this mission will not disappoint me."

"It's also good to give an explanation to my subordinates."

Arcana shook his head helplessly and walked deeper into the shadows step by step.

……

But it is obvious that all the conflicts taking place within the Hand of Reshaping will not be known to the protagonist of our story.

Chen Xi looked at the desert with yellow sand floating all over the sky before him, silently unfolded the map in his hand, and fell into deep thought...