Fantasies That Descend on Collapse

Although the location of this bush was a bit too coincidental, there was no way for Ji Zi to have complete doubts about it.

There is no other reason, because this bush is too natural, so natural that no one can see any artificial traces from it.You must know that if a person wants to take another unconscious person to hide in a bush of this scale, it will inevitably leave traces of being squeezed on it.

However, Ji Zi couldn't find any unnatural place on this bush that had been artificially added, as if it had grown here alone from the beginning, and there was nothing wrong with it.

But... take a look inside, it shouldn't take too long, right?

For some reason, Ji Zi, who had already lost doubt and interest in the bushes blocking her, suddenly came up with such an inexplicable idea.

No reason, no benefit, you just have to do it.And this is the order that Ji Zi's brain gave her.

"It's impossible for someone to be stupid enough to hide in this kind of place, right?"

Although Jizi spoke words of denial, her hand violated the words she spoke, and grasped the branch full of green leaves in the bush with all her strength.

The hand that grasped the branch started to exert some strength, accompanied by the sound of the leaves rubbing against each other and the branch breaking, after only a moment, Ji Zi was lucky enough to get a glimpse of the whole interior.

"Jizi! Jizi!"

The sudden call interrupted the movement of Ji Zi's hands. Holding the branch in her hand, she slowly looked towards the source of the sound. What she saw was a figure emerging from the darkness with an anxious face, yelling at herself. Shout out to Teresa.

"Here! There are new bloodstains here!"

Teresa waved her hand, signaling her discovery to Jizi, and before the other party had time to respond, she turned around again and broke into the dark woods.

"Ok Teresa! I'll be right there!"

Looking at his friend who was no longer visible, Ji Zi could only respond loudly with some headaches, then let go of the bushes he had previously held on to, stood up and followed Teresa's pace.

But at the moment when Ji Zi was about to break into the darkness, she suddenly stopped, and then looked back at the bushes that she had pulled into but had returned to their original state.

Looking at the dense bushes, she thought about it, and finally decided to follow Teresa's pace to pursue the clues her friend had discovered.

"After you catch that Miss Hunter, come back and have a look..."

Chapter 36

The cold evening wind blows the leaves on the branches of the trees in the forest. Kiyana, who turned herself into a bait, is surrounded by the noise made by the leaves, standing alone on the branches derived from the trees, sitting A short thought and fix.

Standing on the tree trunk, she leaned her body completely against the tree trunk while maintaining her balance, using it as a temporary resting place that only belonged to her.

She let herself breathe desperately, and the turbid air of the woods at night was filtered by the mask and sent into her body, calming down her aching lungs and heavily loaded heart from excessive exercise.

The palm cut by the sharp weapon has been wrapped with white gauze, and her tired body is leaning against the only tree trunk that can be used as a support. At this moment, she is using all the time available as a bait to recover her exhausted body. body.

Although the rest time is so short that it can almost be said to be fleeting, it is enough for Qiyana who has been trained as a Valkyrie in her early years, enough for her to continue running desperately for a few minutes.

However, the sense of security that this slightly recovered body brought to Qiyana was completely wiped out by her thoughts during the rest.

For some reason, she suddenly regretted why she made such a choice.

Facing her mother who had lost consciousness due to serious injuries, she came up with such a coping method almost in a flash of inspiration in desperation.

At that time, because of the urgent time and situation, Qiyana did not seriously think about this method that she came up with out of necessity.

But now, after she had a short rest time, when she went back to think about the method she had come up with, she was horrified to find out how unreliable the method she had worked out hastily was.

"Really...why did I make such an idiotic mistake...!"

After tidying up the whole process, Kiyana tapped her forehead with her hands in self-blame, and then kept scolding herself for making that decision before.

Leaving the unconscious wounded in place alone, then using rough methods to erase the clues, and creating new, rougher clues with no confidence...

In this way, not to mention the purge team that Tianming is responsible for tracking, even the most ordinary Valkyrie team, as long as they search carefully, they can find the crappy camouflage they created.

"What to do... what to do..."

Thinking of the outcome of the situation, Qiyana, who lost control of her emotions, just covered her head with her hands helplessly, and the black box containing the black abyss and white flowers on her back also turned into pressure at this moment. Oppressing her will that has begun to become fragile.

The guilt of hurting relatives, the self-blame of misjudgment, and the panic caused by being unable to deal with the problem, many negative mixed emotions oppressed this 16-year-old child at this time.

"I'm so... so bad..."

Facing the ending in front of her, which was almost hopeless for Qiyana at this time, she who was swallowed by despair just lowered her hands and lowered her head, accusing herself of being useless.

Now she doesn't have the ability to snatch her mother back from the other party, and escape from the woods smoothly.

But even if they forcibly used weapons to repel the other party, at best they would give themselves the status of traitors, and then delay the time for the two of them to be hunted down by the destiny.

After all, Destiny is not yet big enough to give away a weapon like the Heiyuan White Flower, not to mention whether she can successfully use the Heiyuan White Flower to repel the pursuers in her current situation is still unknown.

Either choose to stay here and choose to accept this ending, or turn around and expose your identity, in exchange for an ending that is almost the same.

Whether they stay where they are and remain indifferent, or turn back and expose their identities and then both are arrested, these two endings are unacceptable to Qiyana.

Wait... reveal identity...?

Suddenly, Yiga was standing on the branch with the trunk of the tree, and Qiyana, who was constantly thinking about the coping method and the ending, suddenly realized something that she had subconsciously ignored.

"Why should I... worry about my identity being exposed...?"

If the purge force was a preparatory measure sent by the bishop to prevent the failure of his mission, then as the adjutant of the bishop, why didn't he directly reveal his identity to the other party?

As long as I reveal my identity to the other party, I will hand over the mission target from them with a good reason, and then order them to return to the headquarters first to report the progress of the mission to the bishop.

Although the purge troops belonged directly to the Immortal Blade, as the bishop's adjutant, there should be no problem ordering them to return after completing the mission.

And what she has to do now is to grasp the other party's mission goals in her hands. As for whether any unexpected situations will happen during the process of recovering the mission goals...

Who knows?

"Ah, I finally found you, my dear Miss Hunter."

But just when Qiyana was about to jump off the branch with the black box on her back and prepare to return the same way, the voice from the ground and belonging to the second party made her feel inexplicably panicked.

She lowered her head and looked down at the ground, seeing a mature woman with gorgeous red hair and...

Following that woman, with a restless expression on her face, she reached out and grabbed her sleeve. Aunt Teresa was familiar yet unfamiliar to her, and she hadn't seen her for five years...

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Just like in the memories of those years, the same body shape, the same appearance, and even the clothing habits are the same as back then.

Undoubtedly, what appeared in front of Qiyana at this moment was the great aunt, Teresa, whom she liked and loved her very much in her childhood.

The last time the two met was five years ago, and the long time has slowly worn away the impression that belongs to Teresa in Kiana's memory.

However, when he saw this relative whom he liked very much when he was young again, the memories that had been somewhat forgotten were inexplicably clear at this moment.

It was like the time for the two to be separated from each other, but it was only a short day.

Once upon a time, Qiyana, who was raised by Otto, thought about the day when she and Teresa reunited in her mind more than once.

But as time passed, as Kiyana grew older, the reunion that she was looking forward to had gradually lost its original feeling.

From anticipation to calmness, from calmness to avoidance, now she can no longer use the mood of anticipation to face the relative she once loved the most.

In five years, many things can be changed. However, the five years of silence between the two made Qiyana feel a little bit grudge against the relative who gave her name.

Why did the other party ignore me for five years, why did I never hear about the other party from the bishop for five years, why...

The other party treated the body that was given his name as his own without any doubt?

But now, this encounter that she was not prepared for, was thrown in her face by external force at the most inappropriate time.

She wanted to question, she wanted to vent, and she wanted to hear a satisfactory answer from her aunt, but it definitely shouldn't be now.

And what she has to do now is to suppress the feeling of becoming irritable after seeing the other party, and then turn around and leave, looking for another relative of hers.

Another relative who is closer than the other...

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"Really, that Miss Hunter, you run really fast."

Looking at the small and nimble figure shuttling among the trees, but his speed was not hindered by this, Ji Zi couldn't help but feel a little helpless in his tone of voice.

Since seeing her and Teresa, the lady hunter who was followed by the two of them and almost searched for half of the woods was like an animal that sensed danger, and without any thought, she turned back and introduced The densely vegetated woods.

And as if deliberately trying to get rid of the two people's stalking, the path that the hunter lady had to pass through to escape was almost the kind of environment that only a thin person could pass through smoothly.

As for Ji Zi, such an environment almost restricted her mobility to the extreme.

"Jizi, are you okay?"

Relying on her own body size, Theresa, who was running in front of Jizi, subconsciously stopped after hearing her partner's complaints, and then turned to check.

Then she saw Jizi, who was behind her, struggling through the complicated branches, and who could be said to be advancing at a turtle's speed.

"Really, these branches are annoying."

After reaching out and breaking a few branches that were hooking her clothes, Ji Zi's originally helpless face gradually became a little restless.

Judging from Jizi's previous personality, if the conditions at hand allowed, she might have an impulse to burn all the branches that blocked her progress.

Even if such an act would make her, who was already extremely poor, bear more debts again.

"It's so annoying, Teresa, find a way to drive that Miss Hunter to a more spacious place, and I'll go there to block her."

After tearing off a few branches that blocked her progress again, Ji Zi still followed the opponent's method slowly after all, and made a suggestion to Teresa who was in front of her.

"What? Me? Alone?"

When Jizi asked her to go after him alone, Teresa, who had an instinct for dark environments, almost subconsciously froze for a moment, and then made an unbelievable sound.

"Stop rambling! Hurry up, or the man will be lost!"

Seeing Teresa who stayed in place and hardly moved, Ji Zi just replied loudly, then left Teresa without hesitation, and ran towards the spacious place.

"Wait! Ji Zi! Don't...!"

But when Teresa wanted to keep Jizi back, the other party left the place where it was difficult for her to walk one step ahead of her, leaving only Teresa standing where she was, sinking into the darkness and getting better and better. far back.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Finally, Teresa, who was left alone in the dark environment, could only shout helplessly, then bit the bullet, and followed the figure that she had drawn a long distance away again.

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The bright moon, which exudes a cool light, gradually moves to the top of the night sky as time goes by, and in the dark woods under its cover, a scene of hunters chasing their prey is being staged at this moment.

Two figures of different sizes quickly shuttled through the dense forest, and as the length and speed of the running gradually increased, the distance between the original two figures was also constantly approaching.

Following the opponent's footsteps, Teresa, who followed the opponent's back relying on her size advantage, faced the figure carrying the black box and running as hard as possible, and she seemed to feel a strange sense of familiarity from it.

Wearing the standard equipment of Destiny, the age that a Valkyrie of Destiny should be, the black box on the back of the opponent, and the snow-white ponytail that reaches to the waist and has never been seen before.