They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

"No, no..."

In response to Su Enxi's suspicion, the intelligence officer Emiya said that this was absolutely not the case and that all this was purely coincidence.

However, Emiya did not intend to let the topic go. The reason he originally planned to find Norton was to obtain a method to resist scissoring, but it was still unclear whether the other party could do it. Now that there was a ready-made method delivered to his door, he naturally had to seize it as a priority.

Emiya asked Su Enxi in detail about the news of "Avalon" and "Tower of the End", but it was obvious that the boss, who was a senior riddler, would not tell his subordinates anything extra.

"No way, since you said you could provide me with assistance, you should at least give me a contact number, right?"

When Emiya finished saying this, Su Enxi and her two colleagues had already plopped down on the sofa. She spread her hands helplessly:

"I don't know either. The boss has always been like this, even towards us. But we don't know if he has ever appeared in front of outsiders before... Maybe he will appear in front of you, Emiya, at the right time, just like he did with us?"

Emiya shook his head and said, "Then how can I contact them in time? Tell your boss that the possibility of this accident is far beyond our original expectations. We need to make preparations for both scenarios."

"Two hands?" Su Enxi still didn't know what the critical situation was.

"Well, it's about a luxury cruise ship in the Arctic Ocean. Firstly, I'll be the regular combat force here to deal with any crises that may arise. Secondly, I'll have you and Nono Eri and the others guard outside the cruise ship and call for support from the Tower of Avalon at any time."

Nuonuo couldn't help but speak out, "We are outside? Are you going to board the ship alone?"

"Yeah," Emiya flexed his wrist.

"According to my guess, after the other party's ability triggers the 'bleaching' phenomenon, I'm afraid ordinary people will have no ability to resist it. Only someone like me with complete divine power can cope with it."

"You must be under the protection of Avalon to assist me in my operations. As a flying unit, Melyusina can support both of us at any time."

"Okay," Nuonuo was not too unwilling to do things beyond his ability, "Be careful in everything."

She leaned forward, put her arms around Emiya and kissed him softly on the face. Her bold behavior in front of everyone caused Su Enxi, Jiude Mai and others to exclaim in surprise. They didn't know the development of the relationship between the two. Only Xia Mi, who was watching silently, seemed to have thought of something and lowered her head with a strange look on her face.

Eri looked at Emiya and Nono leaning against each other, and followed suit. When Nono separated, she opened her arms and hugged her awkwardly, but when she kissed her gently, her face turned red instantly.

"Okay, Eri, don't push yourself."

Emiya stroked her head as if he was taking care of a child, but Eri didn't like it at the moment. She shook her hair in protest, stood on tiptoe, raised her head, and changed the kiss into a playful forehead touch.

"..." Eri suddenly felt that there was a subtle difference between the way Emiya treated her and the way he interacted with Nono, and this difference made her feel strangely uncomfortable.

Eiry couldn't figure out where this inexplicable feeling came from. Finally, facing the curious and inquiring eyes of the group, she slowly retreated behind them with a slightly blushing face.

"Okay, now let's talk about what to do. Although we know the bleaching phenomenon is likely to occur, if we take proactive and efficient action, there's still hope of preventing it. It's never too late."

...Isn't it too late? When Reggie Reve heard Emiya's words, she suddenly remembered that her grandmother Maria warned her in her dream, "It's too late."

Is it really too late?

Ridgelife suddenly began to feel a little nervous.

She mustered up the courage to raise her small, white hand, "I have a request... Lord Emiya, I also want to join you, board the YAMAL ship, and return to my hometown."

----

Although summer is the peak tourist season, the YAMAL's Arctic sailing route is relatively niche among the exploration routes of many tour groups.

After all, there are few other ships like the YAMAL that sail all the way to the depths of the Arctic regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter.

Because this nuclear-powered icebreaker is confident that it can cross the vast icy sea and maintain its own safety, it is known as the unsinkable steel island on the icy sea.

"...The introduction also said that even if the Yamal encountered the same iceberg that sank the Titanic, it would remain unharmed, because when two ships collide, the iceberg is always the only one that suffers."

Inside the luxurious suite on the cruise ship, Mariana flipped open a beautiful brochure written in multiple languages ​​and exclaimed in an exaggerated tone, "Are they sure they're not bragging?"

Su Xiaoqiang practiced while hanging from the ceiling. "Isn't it said that the predecessor of this ship was a Soviet-era warship? I guess it's different from a civilian standard tourist boat."

"Xiao Qiang, do you believe it?"

"Believe it or not, there's no way around it. This is peak tourist season, and the only cruise company we can book the fastest is this one."

Su Xiaoqiang on the ceiling was upside down, with her head hanging down and her long hair scattered. If the room had not been brightly lit, Mariana would have felt like she had encountered a hanged female ghost.

"...Xiaoqiang, you are too hardworking," Mariana opened her mouth wide and watched Su Xiaoqiang wrap his legs around the steel frame on the ceiling of the room, using his extremely strong core strength of the waist to hang heavy objects and do inhuman exercises.

"I thought you were joking when you said you were trying to practice, but I didn't expect you to be serious about it!"

"Why don't I do it for real? There is such a magical thing, cousin, don't you want to try it out?"

Su Xiaoqiang followed the training method given by the Holy Church. While feeling his own magic power, he exercised his body by hanging from the ceiling.

What's more, that magical circuit can even cultivate the energy in fantasy novels. She felt that a brand new door was opening to her.

She is not the kind of little girl who likes to cry and complain about being tired. Only a weak girl like Liu Miaomiao would act pitifully and bored, and like to depend on boys no matter what.

The little angel Su Xiaoqiang is not only as cool and generous as a man, she never talks about girls' topics such as makeup, beauty, and celebrity cheating. She always talks about the international situation, industrial iteration, and consumption upgrade. She is also generous and often treats others to meals. All the classmates give Su Xiaoqiang a thumbs up and praise him as a good buddy.

In order to live up to her image as a favored girl of heaven, Su Xiaoqiang worked hard both openly and secretly, because she was strong-willed and unwilling to admit defeat.

So when Su Xiaoqiang encountered Deadpool and was rescued by Emiya, it was one of the rare key scenes in her life where she felt unwilling and angry, yet deeply powerless.

Su Xiaoqiang was secretly getting angry while practicing.

Next time, she will never make the same mistake again!

----

Dinner soon arrived, and the guests, dressed in their finery, quickly entered the dining room of the residential area and began to enjoy their three-course meal. A small symphony orchestra played lyrical classical music, and waiters in elegant suits ran back and forth, dragging silver trays of various sizes.

If you walk further inside, you can see a small but magnificent gambling hall. Pretty girls from Belarus wearing backless skirts act as sexy dealers, urging gamblers to spend money in an atmosphere of high-end perfume.

Su Xiaoqiang and Mariana quietly received a big meal, which included king crab, blue lobster, bluefin tuna, garlic rock lobster and Spanish paella... Wow, it was worthy of being a cruise ship that drifted on the sea all year round, with seafood dishes everywhere.

Su Xiaoqiang ate the seafood rice boredly without showing much surprise. To be honest, she had eaten a lot of different kinds of food when she went out with her father these days, and the seasoning of the Western food on this ship was a little not to her taste.

My cousin Mariana, being Portuguese, was enjoying her meal. Su Xiaoqiang, with nothing else to do, looked around and noticed a red-haired boy sitting next to a white-haired girl, also feasting heartily...

Maybe it was because she had been recalling the experience of encountering a monster and being rescued by a red-haired man during her recent exercise, Su Xiaoqiang was a little sensitive to this color of hair, so she planned to get up and take a closer look.

But when she turned around, she noticed someone else sitting next to her cousin at the table. It was a young woman in her late twenties, with a slim waist and a rounded hip. The red dress she wore perfectly defined her figure. She smiled and spoke to Marianna:

"...So you're the guests in room 306? What a coincidence! I'm in the next room, room 307. You can just call me Madam Cassandra."

"So it's our 'neighbor' next door! Sure enough!" My cousin was cheerful, and in no time at all, she and Lady Cassandra seemed like long-lost sisters...

Su Xiaoqiang pursed her lips. It was amazing. She talked even more than when she was with her cousin.

She turned her head away, not very interested in this Cassandra, but when her eyes were about to continue to explore the red-haired man, her brows furrowed slightly.

Just now, the red-haired man sitting over there took advantage of the moment when Su Xiaoqiang's attention was distracted and disappeared.

"...bad luck." Su Xiaoqiang muttered softly.

----

The night seemed peaceful, and the casino would certainly operate until late at night, but this had nothing to do with female guests like Su Xiaoqiang who were simply traveling.

Su Xiaoqiang lay down on the soft large bed, said good night to her cousin across the bedside table, and fell asleep, but her mind was still thinking about the training method of the Holy Church's agent.

It is said that when the agents fight in the wild, they will use special breathing techniques to maintain a stable shallow sleep to prevent nighttime sneak attacks... Su Xiaoqiang, who is quite a roll king, thought that since he is going to sleep at night anyway, why not continue practicing?

Oh my god, if my cousin in the bed next to me knew about this, I guarantee she wouldn't be able to sleep well. Genius is scary enough, but what's even scarier is that this genius feels he's not working hard enough and is even more competitive than those with less talent.

Su Xiaoqiang began to fall asleep in a daze, and she didn't know whether she could succeed.

Anyway, after an unknown amount of time, an inexplicable noise woke her up.

There was a subtle friction sound, like some kind of sound crawling along the surrounding walls, getting closer and closer. After Su Xiaoqiang was stunned for a second or two, the tingling feeling on his scalp became more and more intense.

She suddenly jumped out of bed and woke up her cousin in her pajamas, "Don't sleep anymore! Get up quickly!"

"What's wrong? This is..." Mariana was sleepy. She was also wearing loose pajamas, but when she saw Su Xiaoqiang's nervous expression and holding the "dagger" issued by the church, all her sleepiness disappeared in an instant.

Su Xiaoqiang pulled her out of the door and threw the dagger in his hand out. There was a clear hitting sound in the darkness. It was not the sound of piercing the wall, but it sounded like it was knocked down by some unknown existence in mid-air!

Something appeared in their room!

"Run!"

Under an inexplicable sense of crisis, the two people burst out at the fastest speed in their lives.

The lights in the corridor flickered, and the bright red ornaments on the wall looked as if they were about to bleed.

When they left the room, the sound of friction and movement in the dark corner of the room became louder and closer!

"Keep running!" Su Xiaoqiang and the other man were confused by this inexplicable situation, but at the moment there was no other way but to escape from danger quickly.

When Mariana passed by room 307, her ears suddenly moved. "Is this Cassandra's room? There's a lot of noise in her room!"

Apparently, the strange crawling thing attacked more than one room.

Su Xiaoqiang pulled her and ran quickly, "Cousin, you don't want to save her, do you? You have only known her for one night!"

"No, I'm wondering what that thing is. How did it get the ability to move so fast and attack so many rooms?"

“…Who knows!”

Su Xiaoqiang took the time to turn his head and take a look. A slender, bright red shadow suddenly stretched out from the open door of their room. The real culprit of the midnight attack finally revealed his true appearance - upon closer inspection, it turned out to be branches covered in blood!

"Xiao Qiang, there are some ahead too!"

Mariana pulled her to a sudden stop. Su Xiaoqiang's face changed drastically. She was no experienced agent, just an apprentice... not even an apprentice. That was why she wisely chose to escape immediately.

Is it still impossible to hide?

"call--"

The sound of wind began to echo in the corridor, weaving in and out of the gaps between the blood-red branches.

A male voice came from the end of the corridor, carried by the wind into their ears: "Get down!"

Perhaps because she had just started practicing, Su Xiaoqiang finally sensed something in time. Although she knew that branches were attacking her from the front and back, she still chose to pull her cousin down.

boom!

As the two men fell to the ground without a second's hesitation, the wind suddenly grew urgent, roaring in their ears. A sharp aura, like an invisible and intangible sword net, flew from the end of the aisle, slicing through the blood-red branches. The strange and terrifying branches offered no resistance to the sharp blades, and in an instant, they were slashed away like an avalanche.

When Su Xiaoqiang looked up again, the blood-colored branches turned into flowing light and disappeared into the wall and the ground.

The corridor became quiet again, with only the sound of footsteps in the distance getting closer.

She pulled her cousin to her feet, and Emiya and Reggie Reeves appeared in their sight.

Chapter 270 Deep Sea Computer Purgatory Hatchery

Mariana felt that everything from the attack to the rescue had happened too suddenly and unbelievably, but she should have thanked the person who had supposedly saved them. However, Su Xiaoqiang beside her seemed to have a different reaction:

"Yes, it's you..." Su Xiaoqiang stared at Emiya who was walking towards him, with suppressed excitement in his voice.

But when she said this, she couldn't help but get stuck, because Su Xiaoqiang found that she still didn't know Emiya's name.

Oh no! This long-awaited "reunion" has finally stopped at the first step!

"Xiao Qiang, what's wrong with you?" Mariana asked, her face full of gossip. "Could it be that you've fallen for the guy across the street because you're a hero saving a beautiful girl?"

But she knew that her little cousin was arrogant and strong-willed, and Su Xiaoqiang would not be interested in ordinary boys.

"Cousin, you misunderstood!"

Su Xiaoqiang was feeling a bit down because she realized that she recognized Emiya right away, but he hadn't paid her any special attention. It was like dressing up for a dinner party, only to have the person she should have locked onto ignore her without even a glance.

Moreover, Emiya's strength has obviously become stronger compared to last time. Even his act of saving himself may be essentially just a casual act, just like last time, and he doesn't care what he can get from him.

"...The branches on this floor should have been cleared away."

Emiya was still talking to Rigidrev. The small team that boarded the ship had already rushed to the YAMAL as soon as possible and reserved tickets here in advance to prepare for the investigation, but they were still too late.

"The situation has deteriorated much faster than we expected."

"Ever since I boarded the ship, I've had a strange feeling that something is wrong, and Vincent is missing."

St. Regis thought to herself that if she returned to the ship with dignity, Vincent, who once valued her very much, would definitely find her at the first opportunity... But now, St. Regis found that she seemed to have become an ordinary tourist.

Vincent and the others seemed to be attracted by more important things. In comparison, he, the canary in the cage, was not worth mentioning at all.

"We'll talk about finding people later. We need to count the casualties of this attack. Such a massacre happened on our first night here. I wonder if something similar happened on the previous voyage before we arrived."

Emiya's expression was not good.

According to Reggie Reeves and others, their grandmother, Star Maria, the original source of the clone's genes, is losing control. The reason for the loss of control is still unknown and Vincent has never revealed it, but it must have evolved into a situation worse than losing control.

He opened the door of room "307" and saw a bloody smell inside. It was obvious that the owner of the room had been murdered and his body was missing.

Sure enough, just like before, when Emiya walked all the way from the end of the corridor, he saw similar scenes in the rooms of all the passengers who had been killed by branches.

"Master Emiya," said Ridgelev, who, though she did not miss this "home" at all, felt saddened by the slaughter it had become. "It seems there are few survivors on this level."

"……that."