The blood elves in the comic world
164. Conversation on the tip of the tongue
"Chief, as you ordered, I brought the blade over." Lin stood at the door of the flower hall and said loudly.
"Keep your voice down, don't scare these fish." Mia, who was standing on the bridge corridor, turned around and whispered to Lin.
"Yes." Lin nodded.
"Okay, I'm not scolding you, there's no need to put on the same face." Mia slowly walked towards Lin, she raised her hand, waved it to Lin and said, "Go down first. I'll call you if anything happens."
"Yes." Lin bowed and accepted the order. He slowly retreated and left the flower hall.
Dao Feng looked at the woman in front of him and the room she was in. He found that the so-called flower hall was really big. It was basically a Japanese garden intact on the first floor. He could see through the glass above his head. Seeing the night sky above his head through the window, he knew that his location should be on the top floor.
"The grace of saving a life will never be forgotten." Dao Feng said. This was the only sentence he remembered after Lin emphasized it to him again and again.
Mia smiled, looked at the somewhat restrained Blade and said, "You're welcome."
For some reason, Dao Feng felt that the smile of the woman in front of him was familiar. He felt as if he had seen such a smile before.Blade's intuition was not wrong. Mia's smile was very similar to Venia's. The moment the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, the charm that hit her face almost made Blade fall. Of course, this was also due to Mia's secret use of abilities. .
Blade secretly bit the tip of his tongue. He didn't want Mia to see the joke. He was able to break away from this charm mainly because the appearance of Princess Nissa instantly appeared in his mind, which shocked him, so Only then could he break free directly.
"Let's sit in the pavilion over there for a while. I think your body still needs some rest now." Mia didn't wait for Dao Feng to nod. After she finished speaking, she walked directly towards the pavilion. Dao Feng saw this. , and could only choose to follow.
The two sat in the small pavilion. Mia clapped her hands and said, "Come here."
Mia's voice just fell.Under the porch in the distance, two girls wearing light pink kimonos walked quickly. The patterns on their clothes were different, and one of them had a bird.The other person's flower was flowers. The two of them bowed to Mia and said, "Master."
"The two of us are going to enjoy the flowers here, so get ready." Mia ordered the two girls.
"Yes." The two girls stood up and left the pavilion.
"What do the cherry blossoms in front of you remind you of?" Mia asked.Now that Daofeng was the only one in the entire booth, this seemingly inexplicable question could only be asked to him.
"I don't understand flowers. If you have any questions, just tell me." Dao Feng admitted his confusion generously.
Mia looked at the cherry blossoms in the courtyard with a look of reminiscence in her eyes. She said, "I have seen many warriors as good as you, but their appearance was very short, because they are just like you. They all rejected the invitation from the Hellfire Club."
"What do you mean by rejecting it?" Dao Feng still didn't understand, but he had already guessed a bit at this time, but he didn't intend to say it out loud.He wanted to see what Mia wanted to say.
"Eat something first." Mia saw that her servant had brought the food over, and she planned to let Blade eat something first before talking.
"Okay." Daofeng felt that he was also hungry.
There were two small plates, one with a little fish on it and one with a little beef on it. He picked up the chopsticks and ate all the food in front of him in three strokes. However, he was still hungry. He even felt that he More hungry.
Mia could see this, but she wasn't going to say it. She wanted to see if Blade would ask for food.
"I'm sorry. Can you give me some more food? I'm very hungry now." Dao Feng said apologetically. At this time, his dark face actually took on a different color.
"Hehe, hehe." Before Mia could say anything, her servant snickered from the side.
Mia glanced at the two people kneeling next to her, after they stopped laughing.Mia said: "Niao, Hua, you two go and order some food." She raised her head, looked at the embarrassed blade, and asked: "Is the tempura udon okay? This noodles tastes good." good."
"Okay." Dao Feng nodded, and he scratched his neck.He smiled with an embarrassed face, showed his white teeth, and said, "Can you give me two bowls?" Daofeng has been exposed to Japanese cuisine. If he said where he was exposed to it, Daofeng can only tell you, Japan There are vampires among people too.
"Are two bowls enough?" Mia asked with a smile on her face. "Plus a salmon sushi," she said to Hana.
"Yes." The two nodded.
After a while, Bird and Hana came back with food. They put two portions of tempura udon and salmon sushi on the small table in front of the knife. The whole table was almost full because they prepared it for the knife. What he got was an extra-large bowl of noodles. Daofeng picked up the chopsticks again and said to Mia: "I'm sorry." He started to eat the noodles with big mouthfuls, and he swallowed the fried shrimps in one gulp. Looking at the way he was eating, he must have Keep the chef satisfied.
"Master." Hua lowered her head. She was holding a small tray with two bunches of three-color dumplings and a straw cake on it.
"So good." Mia touched Hua's cheek.She picked up the two bunches of three-color dumplings on the tray and distributed them to the flowers and birds. "Eat."
"Thank you, Master." The two girls thanked each other in unison.
Dao Feng had already finished eating the noodles. He picked up the salmon sushi with chopsticks and took one bite at a time. The three sushis only took about half a minute. Dao Feng said with unfinished thoughts: "It would be great if there was wine." He knew where this was going. The line he said was Omuramasa. Oh, this game is good. I don’t just mean eating.
"You can't drink wine, your body is not well yet." After Mia swallowed the straw cake, she shook her head at the blade.
"Thank you very much for your hospitality." Dao Feng used almost all the vocabulary he learned in the Japanese club here.
Mia glanced at Bird and Flower, and the two girls nodded very sensibly. They packed up the dishes, took the small table and left the pavilion. Now only Mia and Dao Feng were left in the pavilion.
"I'll just tell you the truth." Mia planned to get straight to the point. "How is our alliance?"
When Dao Feng heard Mia's request, he was stunned. He really didn't expect that Mia, who seemed to have strong financial resources and military skills, would actually make such a request to him. He thought Mia would let him join her. "What kind of alliance?" Blade asked after thinking for a moment.
"Aimed at the Hellfire Club's alliance." Mia explained.
"The Hellfire Club is so strong, I guess you don't need to be afraid of him." Blade directly raised the question in his mind.
"Very strong. The people who invited you last time should be the knights in the Hellfire Club. They also have bishops and castles. Queen, how many do you think I can deal with?" Mia asked Blade.
"But, I am only one person." The implication of Dao Feng's words is that I can't do anything by myself.I can't help you much.
Mia blinked her eyes and said meaningfully: "You are not alone. An old person in a family is like a treasure."
"Whistler" Blade's eyes became alert and sharp.
The change in Blade's eyes could not escape Mia's eyes. Mia waved her hand and said: "Don't be so nervous. I think Whistler should know a lot of vampire hunters."
"Probably." Dao Feng said uncertainly.
"You can stay here for a few more days and wait until you are well before going back. I hope you can talk to Whistler then." Mia got up and left the pavilion. After she left, Lin appeared in the pavilion. Outside the pavilion, he greeted Dao Feng: "Let's go. I think you might want to drink some wine. Medicinal wine is also considered wine."
"Yeah." Dao Feng nodded. It wasn't that he had changed his attitude towards Lin, but that he had something he couldn't figure out, so he decided to drink a little wine.
Mia returned to her bedroom. There was a person sitting in her bedroom at this time, and that person was Ai Lan.
"Yo" Ai Lan waved to Mia. Some crumbs fell from the chocolate in her hand, leaving some black stains on the floor. "You still like to play the role of a female general so much. But let me tell you, after all these years, your understanding of Japanese culture is still so superficial, or it's just pure imagination." Ai Lan complained mercilessly about Mia's style of doing things.
"That's what makes it interesting." Mia chuckled and ignored Ai Lan's complaints. "Master, I don't understand." Mia knelt down in front of Ai Lan.asked humbly.
"Oh, I don't understand." Ai Lan put the chocolate in her hand into her mouth. After chewing hard for a while, she said, exhaling a burst of sweet and slightly bitter aroma.
Mia's nose twitched slightly. After getting used to the fragrance, she asked: "Why do you still not take action even though you have so much power?"
"Because someone is secretly watching me. I can feel it. This kind of surveillance has been around for a long time. Also, RPG games are my favorite games." After Ai Lan answered Mia's question, she started He pulled out a bar of chocolate from the space and ate it in small bites.
"That's it, I'm leaving first." Ai Lan leaned back and disappeared into the air.
"that's it"
"that's it."
"Colson, can't you tell me more?"
"No, Stacey, what do you mean by giving me this hot dog? Although I am indeed hungry, I won't eat it."
"Take it." Sheriff Stacy forced the hot dog into Coulson's hand.
"Wow, it tastes good." Coulson praised after taking a bite.
"Of course, this is the best hot dog in my jurisdiction." Sheriff Stacey was very proud. "We police officers all know what you are looking at, okay?" Chief Stacey saw that Coulson's eyes were so suspicious, so he naturally wanted to clarify himself.
"I didn't say anything. It would be better if there was some hot sauce on this hot dog." Coulson took another bite of the hot dog in his hand.
Sheriff Stacey smiled. He ate the hot dog in his hand and said plausibly: "I don't know how much hot sauce you eat, so I bought the one without hot sauce. If you want to eat the hot dog with hot sauce, you can eat it yourself." Go buy it.”
"Sir." A SHIELD agent walked up to Coulson and whispered something in Coulson's ear.After hearing this, Coulson nodded, indicating that he understood.
After the agent turned around and left, Coulson ate all the hot dogs in his hands. With a smile on his face, he said to Chief Stacey: "Stacey, don't rush to get your police officers to evacuate. We have received the call According to the news, eight media outlets are rushing here now."
Sheriff Stacey ate the hot dog in his hand and asked vaguely: "What does it have to do with me?"
"We need you and your officers to stop them." Coulson drew a line with his hand, "Keep them out."
"Didn't you already set up three blockades?" Sheriff Stacy finished eating the hot dog in his hand and wiped his hands with a paper towel. Coulson was better at eating than him, and there was no trace of sauce on Coulson's hand. Not touched.
"Fortunately, I didn't add hot sauce to mine," Coulson said with a smile.
"Then tell me first what exactly happened. It will be easy for me to make it up in front of these reporters." Sheriff Stacey still wanted to know what exactly happened.
"Okay, the following is my guess, it's not a secret." Coulson smacked his lips, savored the taste of the sauce, and then said. "There should be an ambush here. It looks like there should be superhumans on both sides. You should have noticed that the walls around you just now are full of bullet holes. But you can look at the bullets dug out. Only a few of these bullets are contaminated. There are blood stains on it, which proves that he has the ability to dodge bullets, or cut them open with that weapon. Also, you should notice the severed submachine gun on the ground. We have verified the ballistics and bullet marks. Inside the alley The bullets are from at least six submachine guns, and there are also bullets from sniper rifles in the alley. What a battle." Coulson shook his head with emotion.
"There are also dents on the wall. We checked the surrounding situation and found that the blood around the wall belonged to a person. The strength of this guy's body is comparable to that of a military vehicle. We did not find any bone stubble or anything else. Things, this proves that the superhumans who fought here should still be alive, or they were taken away by him." Here Coulson's face showed a trace of nervousness, because he still knew a little more, and because of him Knowing more, he realized how rare it is to have people or forces that can take people away without leaving any traces. Even SHIELD dare not say that they can do it without leaving any traces.
Sheriff Stacey swallowed. He got the news he wanted, but he regretted it a little.After thinking for a while, he said: "Okay, I know what I should say."
"What do you mean?" Coulson asked.
"Gangster melee."
The name is modeled on the Chinese on the tip of the tongue. Don’t let your imagination wander... Reinhard is so easy to use and the sledgehammer is so powerful.
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"Keep your voice down, don't scare these fish." Mia, who was standing on the bridge corridor, turned around and whispered to Lin.
"Yes." Lin nodded.
"Okay, I'm not scolding you, there's no need to put on the same face." Mia slowly walked towards Lin, she raised her hand, waved it to Lin and said, "Go down first. I'll call you if anything happens."
"Yes." Lin bowed and accepted the order. He slowly retreated and left the flower hall.
Dao Feng looked at the woman in front of him and the room she was in. He found that the so-called flower hall was really big. It was basically a Japanese garden intact on the first floor. He could see through the glass above his head. Seeing the night sky above his head through the window, he knew that his location should be on the top floor.
"The grace of saving a life will never be forgotten." Dao Feng said. This was the only sentence he remembered after Lin emphasized it to him again and again.
Mia smiled, looked at the somewhat restrained Blade and said, "You're welcome."
For some reason, Dao Feng felt that the smile of the woman in front of him was familiar. He felt as if he had seen such a smile before.Blade's intuition was not wrong. Mia's smile was very similar to Venia's. The moment the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, the charm that hit her face almost made Blade fall. Of course, this was also due to Mia's secret use of abilities. .
Blade secretly bit the tip of his tongue. He didn't want Mia to see the joke. He was able to break away from this charm mainly because the appearance of Princess Nissa instantly appeared in his mind, which shocked him, so Only then could he break free directly.
"Let's sit in the pavilion over there for a while. I think your body still needs some rest now." Mia didn't wait for Dao Feng to nod. After she finished speaking, she walked directly towards the pavilion. Dao Feng saw this. , and could only choose to follow.
The two sat in the small pavilion. Mia clapped her hands and said, "Come here."
Mia's voice just fell.Under the porch in the distance, two girls wearing light pink kimonos walked quickly. The patterns on their clothes were different, and one of them had a bird.The other person's flower was flowers. The two of them bowed to Mia and said, "Master."
"The two of us are going to enjoy the flowers here, so get ready." Mia ordered the two girls.
"Yes." The two girls stood up and left the pavilion.
"What do the cherry blossoms in front of you remind you of?" Mia asked.Now that Daofeng was the only one in the entire booth, this seemingly inexplicable question could only be asked to him.
"I don't understand flowers. If you have any questions, just tell me." Dao Feng admitted his confusion generously.
Mia looked at the cherry blossoms in the courtyard with a look of reminiscence in her eyes. She said, "I have seen many warriors as good as you, but their appearance was very short, because they are just like you. They all rejected the invitation from the Hellfire Club."
"What do you mean by rejecting it?" Dao Feng still didn't understand, but he had already guessed a bit at this time, but he didn't intend to say it out loud.He wanted to see what Mia wanted to say.
"Eat something first." Mia saw that her servant had brought the food over, and she planned to let Blade eat something first before talking.
"Okay." Daofeng felt that he was also hungry.
There were two small plates, one with a little fish on it and one with a little beef on it. He picked up the chopsticks and ate all the food in front of him in three strokes. However, he was still hungry. He even felt that he More hungry.
Mia could see this, but she wasn't going to say it. She wanted to see if Blade would ask for food.
"I'm sorry. Can you give me some more food? I'm very hungry now." Dao Feng said apologetically. At this time, his dark face actually took on a different color.
"Hehe, hehe." Before Mia could say anything, her servant snickered from the side.
Mia glanced at the two people kneeling next to her, after they stopped laughing.Mia said: "Niao, Hua, you two go and order some food." She raised her head, looked at the embarrassed blade, and asked: "Is the tempura udon okay? This noodles tastes good." good."
"Okay." Dao Feng nodded, and he scratched his neck.He smiled with an embarrassed face, showed his white teeth, and said, "Can you give me two bowls?" Daofeng has been exposed to Japanese cuisine. If he said where he was exposed to it, Daofeng can only tell you, Japan There are vampires among people too.
"Are two bowls enough?" Mia asked with a smile on her face. "Plus a salmon sushi," she said to Hana.
"Yes." The two nodded.
After a while, Bird and Hana came back with food. They put two portions of tempura udon and salmon sushi on the small table in front of the knife. The whole table was almost full because they prepared it for the knife. What he got was an extra-large bowl of noodles. Daofeng picked up the chopsticks again and said to Mia: "I'm sorry." He started to eat the noodles with big mouthfuls, and he swallowed the fried shrimps in one gulp. Looking at the way he was eating, he must have Keep the chef satisfied.
"Master." Hua lowered her head. She was holding a small tray with two bunches of three-color dumplings and a straw cake on it.
"So good." Mia touched Hua's cheek.She picked up the two bunches of three-color dumplings on the tray and distributed them to the flowers and birds. "Eat."
"Thank you, Master." The two girls thanked each other in unison.
Dao Feng had already finished eating the noodles. He picked up the salmon sushi with chopsticks and took one bite at a time. The three sushis only took about half a minute. Dao Feng said with unfinished thoughts: "It would be great if there was wine." He knew where this was going. The line he said was Omuramasa. Oh, this game is good. I don’t just mean eating.
"You can't drink wine, your body is not well yet." After Mia swallowed the straw cake, she shook her head at the blade.
"Thank you very much for your hospitality." Dao Feng used almost all the vocabulary he learned in the Japanese club here.
Mia glanced at Bird and Flower, and the two girls nodded very sensibly. They packed up the dishes, took the small table and left the pavilion. Now only Mia and Dao Feng were left in the pavilion.
"I'll just tell you the truth." Mia planned to get straight to the point. "How is our alliance?"
When Dao Feng heard Mia's request, he was stunned. He really didn't expect that Mia, who seemed to have strong financial resources and military skills, would actually make such a request to him. He thought Mia would let him join her. "What kind of alliance?" Blade asked after thinking for a moment.
"Aimed at the Hellfire Club's alliance." Mia explained.
"The Hellfire Club is so strong, I guess you don't need to be afraid of him." Blade directly raised the question in his mind.
"Very strong. The people who invited you last time should be the knights in the Hellfire Club. They also have bishops and castles. Queen, how many do you think I can deal with?" Mia asked Blade.
"But, I am only one person." The implication of Dao Feng's words is that I can't do anything by myself.I can't help you much.
Mia blinked her eyes and said meaningfully: "You are not alone. An old person in a family is like a treasure."
"Whistler" Blade's eyes became alert and sharp.
The change in Blade's eyes could not escape Mia's eyes. Mia waved her hand and said: "Don't be so nervous. I think Whistler should know a lot of vampire hunters."
"Probably." Dao Feng said uncertainly.
"You can stay here for a few more days and wait until you are well before going back. I hope you can talk to Whistler then." Mia got up and left the pavilion. After she left, Lin appeared in the pavilion. Outside the pavilion, he greeted Dao Feng: "Let's go. I think you might want to drink some wine. Medicinal wine is also considered wine."
"Yeah." Dao Feng nodded. It wasn't that he had changed his attitude towards Lin, but that he had something he couldn't figure out, so he decided to drink a little wine.
Mia returned to her bedroom. There was a person sitting in her bedroom at this time, and that person was Ai Lan.
"Yo" Ai Lan waved to Mia. Some crumbs fell from the chocolate in her hand, leaving some black stains on the floor. "You still like to play the role of a female general so much. But let me tell you, after all these years, your understanding of Japanese culture is still so superficial, or it's just pure imagination." Ai Lan complained mercilessly about Mia's style of doing things.
"That's what makes it interesting." Mia chuckled and ignored Ai Lan's complaints. "Master, I don't understand." Mia knelt down in front of Ai Lan.asked humbly.
"Oh, I don't understand." Ai Lan put the chocolate in her hand into her mouth. After chewing hard for a while, she said, exhaling a burst of sweet and slightly bitter aroma.
Mia's nose twitched slightly. After getting used to the fragrance, she asked: "Why do you still not take action even though you have so much power?"
"Because someone is secretly watching me. I can feel it. This kind of surveillance has been around for a long time. Also, RPG games are my favorite games." After Ai Lan answered Mia's question, she started He pulled out a bar of chocolate from the space and ate it in small bites.
"That's it, I'm leaving first." Ai Lan leaned back and disappeared into the air.
"that's it"
"that's it."
"Colson, can't you tell me more?"
"No, Stacey, what do you mean by giving me this hot dog? Although I am indeed hungry, I won't eat it."
"Take it." Sheriff Stacy forced the hot dog into Coulson's hand.
"Wow, it tastes good." Coulson praised after taking a bite.
"Of course, this is the best hot dog in my jurisdiction." Sheriff Stacey was very proud. "We police officers all know what you are looking at, okay?" Chief Stacey saw that Coulson's eyes were so suspicious, so he naturally wanted to clarify himself.
"I didn't say anything. It would be better if there was some hot sauce on this hot dog." Coulson took another bite of the hot dog in his hand.
Sheriff Stacey smiled. He ate the hot dog in his hand and said plausibly: "I don't know how much hot sauce you eat, so I bought the one without hot sauce. If you want to eat the hot dog with hot sauce, you can eat it yourself." Go buy it.”
"Sir." A SHIELD agent walked up to Coulson and whispered something in Coulson's ear.After hearing this, Coulson nodded, indicating that he understood.
After the agent turned around and left, Coulson ate all the hot dogs in his hands. With a smile on his face, he said to Chief Stacey: "Stacey, don't rush to get your police officers to evacuate. We have received the call According to the news, eight media outlets are rushing here now."
Sheriff Stacey ate the hot dog in his hand and asked vaguely: "What does it have to do with me?"
"We need you and your officers to stop them." Coulson drew a line with his hand, "Keep them out."
"Didn't you already set up three blockades?" Sheriff Stacy finished eating the hot dog in his hand and wiped his hands with a paper towel. Coulson was better at eating than him, and there was no trace of sauce on Coulson's hand. Not touched.
"Fortunately, I didn't add hot sauce to mine," Coulson said with a smile.
"Then tell me first what exactly happened. It will be easy for me to make it up in front of these reporters." Sheriff Stacey still wanted to know what exactly happened.
"Okay, the following is my guess, it's not a secret." Coulson smacked his lips, savored the taste of the sauce, and then said. "There should be an ambush here. It looks like there should be superhumans on both sides. You should have noticed that the walls around you just now are full of bullet holes. But you can look at the bullets dug out. Only a few of these bullets are contaminated. There are blood stains on it, which proves that he has the ability to dodge bullets, or cut them open with that weapon. Also, you should notice the severed submachine gun on the ground. We have verified the ballistics and bullet marks. Inside the alley The bullets are from at least six submachine guns, and there are also bullets from sniper rifles in the alley. What a battle." Coulson shook his head with emotion.
"There are also dents on the wall. We checked the surrounding situation and found that the blood around the wall belonged to a person. The strength of this guy's body is comparable to that of a military vehicle. We did not find any bone stubble or anything else. Things, this proves that the superhumans who fought here should still be alive, or they were taken away by him." Here Coulson's face showed a trace of nervousness, because he still knew a little more, and because of him Knowing more, he realized how rare it is to have people or forces that can take people away without leaving any traces. Even SHIELD dare not say that they can do it without leaving any traces.
Sheriff Stacey swallowed. He got the news he wanted, but he regretted it a little.After thinking for a while, he said: "Okay, I know what I should say."
"What do you mean?" Coulson asked.
"Gangster melee."
The name is modeled on the Chinese on the tip of the tongue. Don’t let your imagination wander... Reinhard is so easy to use and the sledgehammer is so powerful.
Please recommend, please subscribe, ask for monthly tickets, please collect  ̄w ̄
This book is the first release of Qidian. I hope that capable viewers can come to Qidian to support it. If you are really helpless, please come to Qidian to collect it and give me a few subscription tickets or something: 3ゝTo be continued.
ps: Please recommend, please subscribe, ask for monthly tickets, please collect  ̄w ̄
This book is the first to be published by Qidian. I hope that capable viewers can come to Qidian to support it. If you are really helpless, please come to Qidian to collect it and give me a few subscription tickets or something: 3ゝ
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