【Lenke】Old Box

In the wilderness where Chernobyl is located.

The Amons wearing pointed soft hats who guarded Klein's place of death pushed their monocle at the same time.

"He doesn't look like someone who can come up with such a way..."

"In that tarot-related party, the person who erased his memory in advance to avoid me was Pales?"

"No, Pales won't do this kind of thing, it will make it easier for me to find him."

"Maybe he hides a secret that I can't discover compared to the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1."

"Heh..." Amon looked at the direction where Origin Castle's breath disappeared, and chuckled softly: "It's getting more and more interesting."

……

In the land abandoned by the gods, in the ruins of a certain city-state.

In front of Klein were freshly baked Dixie pies, a cup of sweet iced tea, a small piece of ribeye steak, and a cup of creme brulee.

Since getting rid of Amon's control, the poet student began to sacrifice a portion of food to the gray mist on time for three meals a day.Only he can make Klein not have to worry about the image of "The Fool", otherwise he can't even imagine the scene of having Mr. "Fool" deliver food to "The World" every day.

Looking at the food in front of him, Klein thought about it, raised his hand to grab it, and grabbed a slender and well-articulated hand in the pores of history.Immediately afterwards, Klein held his hand like that, and pulled out Leonard Mitchell's historical pore image.

It was really a one-time success... After a short period of sluggishness, the captured figures regained their eyesight, and then Leonard's historical images immediately covered the ruins with "secret" power.

Klein smiled and raised his hand in an invitation gesture amidst the ruins, just like a Loen nobleman inviting friends to lunch in his manor.Leonard shook his head helplessly, found a relatively complete stone slab and sat down as comfortably as possible, and said, "I'm just a historical image, and inviting me to dine together is a waste of food."

"Who said I want to eat with you?"

Seeing Leonard's froze expression for a moment, Klein burst out laughing. Without teasing him for too long, Klein grabbed another glass of iced Coke from the hole in history, and placed a beef pizza with double cheese on Leonard's face. In front of Germany.

Leonard looked at the dark cup of suspicious liquid with a lot of foam in surprise, always thinking that it was a potion of an unknown sequence.

"Try it, this is the food from my hometown." Klein looked at him expectantly.

He wanted to confess to Leonard that he was a time traveler, but he hesitated for a while, so he decided to make some preparations and give himself some "psychological preparations".

Leonard was a little strange: "Isn't your hometown my hometown? Why haven't I heard of this kind of food?"

"People don't have to have only one hometown." Klein explained vaguely.

"I understand, I understand, just like one person can be the favored person of two gods?" Leonard nodded "understanding".

You know what you know!Do you know how to chat?Klein rolled his eyes inwardly.

Out of trust in Klein, Leonard still took a sip of the suspicious black drink.In an instant, the bubbles exploded in the mouth, it was clearly the potion!However, the potion should not have such a sour-sweet taste, and as long as the initial stimulation passes, it will unexpectedly have a very refreshing feeling. This drink seems to be very suitable for drinking with greasy food.

Then, he picked up a strange pie that he had never seen before. Compared with the cup of mysterious liquid, this pie was much more normal, and it was ordinary and delicious.The thick milk aroma is mixed with the roasted wheat aroma, and it is also mixed with juicy beef. The layered aroma will fill every corner of the mouth after one bite.

"It's delicious." Leonard commented objectively: "There are so many things in this world that I haven't seen. If the battle can end, I really want to travel to every corner of the continent like a bard."

"This is also my dream." Klein replied with a smile, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Even if you go to every corner of this planet, it is impossible for you to find a civilization that was lost ten thousand years ago.

While sipping Coke, Leonard looked around: "This place is really desolate."

Originally, Klein stayed alone in this kind of place for a year, and he still had to face Amon's endless pursuit. If he had been himself, he would have had a nervous breakdown... Leonard felt a slight blockage in his heart.No wonder even with Klein's strength, he would go to the gray mist to seek treatment from Miss Justice from time to time, and to chat with himself.Although he could imagine the predicament that Klein encountered, in any case, it was not as straightforward as what he saw with his own eyes.

The former self could only help him with small talk, but the current self can only help him with small talk, Leonard smiled self-deprecatingly.

"The game among the gods will bring such disasters to ordinary people." Klein couldn't help sighing, and suddenly thought that Backlund might not be optimistic at this moment.

Leonard immediately realized that he came here to help Klein improve his mood and fight against depression, loneliness, and depression.It really shouldn't be discussed at this time, so I quickly changed the subject and said: "Klein, how did you escape from Amon? You never told me the details last time, and you all pushed it to 'The Fool' gentlemen."

Klein nodded, and immediately began to describe everything in detail.You can't know too much about Adam, but when facing Amon, the more information you know, the better.After all, what is most needed to fight against "fraud" is experience, and experience is the firewall to face viruses and Trojan horses.

During Klein's thrilling narration, even though he knew the ending, Leonard's heart was still suspended several times.He is like a prank left by the Creator, wisdom and strength are vulnerable in front of Him, and perhaps the only thing I can rely on is the goddess' favor.

In the end, Klein frowned slightly and said, "Although you let Miss Justice seal my memory in advance, Amon should have noticed you, but you haven't locked your identity yet."

As Klein said that, he couldn't help but think: Is this why he couldn't make a move in the hunt for "Saint of Secrets" Botis?

"Don't worry, as long as I keep secret, He shouldn't be able to find me. He can't just waste time on a 'Servant of Secret'." In fact, Leonard felt his scalp tingle when he heard those words. But he still comforted Klein.

But this topic seems to be getting heavier... Just like the last time, as Klein's sequence became higher and higher, the relaxed topics between them became less and less, until one day, I couldn't catch up with his back at all up.

Shaking his head and getting rid of unnecessary thoughts, Leonard said to Klein with an expression as relaxed as possible: "Speaking of which, you seem to have traveled a lot when you were dressed as Gehrman Sparrow, and I only know you The taste in Tingen and Backlund, if you want to eat some local delicacies you encountered during your travels, you can also tell me through the gray fog."

Hearing what he said, Klein immediately remembered the elf's "Blood Prosperity" that he couldn't get in Bansi. Unfortunately, Banxi has been destroyed now, so he thought about it and said with a smile: "Bayam's 'Tyatiwa' and grilled fish with various spices, the hard-core grilled meat of Hagarti on the southern continent, and the murloc meat around the Mad Sea are all very special, if you have the opportunity to go, you can also try it."

In fact, Mrs. Doris' cooking is his favorite, and he doesn't know how the black cat named "Brody" is doing now, whether he still likes to play hide-and-seek with Mrs. Doris in the cupboard.

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly realized one thing, Leonard's historical pore image hadn't disappeared yet.It should have been more than half an hour since I caught him, and the unfinished pizza and the empty coke cup in front of him have all shattered and disappeared.

Is this the increase in maintenance time brought about by the close relationship... It's a pity that I can't summon him to help fight in the Land Abandoned by God.However, Klein didn't feel any regrets. In his opinion, being able to summon fellow poets to chat with him was more important than fighting in a certain sense.

With Leonard's acquiescence, Klein would summon Leonard's historical image to chat after lunch every day after hiding himself with anti-divination methods.This is equivalent to opening up a new safe house outside of Origin Castle, which has greatly weakened his rejection of the Land Abandoned by God.

After thinking about it carefully, he asked Miss Justice to leave a long-term psychological hint for himself. As long as he met Amon's clone, he would no longer think about any psychological hints related to Leonard.

……

XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

The hunt for the "Saint of Secrets" Botis went very smoothly. Klein used the "Box of the Old Days" he had harvested to exchange for a "0"-level sealed item - the "Star Staff" from members of the Abraham family.

……

A land abandoned by gods.

After getting information about the Western Continent from "The Hanged Man" Argel, and mastering certain information about the "Dark Demonic Wolf", Klein began to head east all the way, trying to see if he could reach the Western Continent.

In the dead wasteland with deep black and red weeds, streaks of lightning flashed from time to time.And a thing shining like a jewel lay abruptly on the grass, constantly releasing a strange aura to the surroundings.

After a while, a monster that could only crawl forward appeared nearby with black air all over its body and unnaturally bent limbs.It was very cautious and did not approach rashly, and stopped at a distance of 500 meters from the luminous object.Then it raised one of its paws and made a virtual grasping movement, but just halfway through that movement, its body froze in place, and then collapsed on the ground, losing its vitality.

After a while, a translucent spar with a cluster of flames in the center separated out from its body and fell to the ground.That is Sequence 6, the Extraordinary characteristic of "Fire Thief".

Klein manipulated the puppet to pick up the two Extraordinary characteristics, and sacrificed them above the gray mist.

Such a scene has appeared many times in the Land Abandoned by God in the past month or so. It was commissioned by a classmate poet. He asked Klein to collect the Extraordinary characteristics of the "Thief" pathway, regardless of the sequence, the more the better.So he began to hunt monsters in large numbers in the Land Abandoned by God, making secret puppets in other ways, throwing gray mist, killing directly in the "thief" way, and picking up characteristics.

It seems that he is going to help the old man recover. After all, Pallez was also an angel of Sequence 1. If he can recover, he will not be too passive even if he encounters Amon.

Klein originally thought that for thousands of years, the extraordinary characteristics of the "thief" path in Land Abandoned by God had all been reduced to Amon's snacks.But in fact, the land abandoned by the gods has a very wide range, and the area may even be larger than the sum of the outside world, and there are many monsters. Although the characteristics of the "thief" path are rare, there are still a lot of fish that slipped through the net.

Calculating the time, it was almost February 2th. Klein simply packaged the bunch of "thief" path Extraordinary characteristics as a birthday gift and gave it to the poet classmate, with a "Happy Birthday" as a gift.

Although there is no demigod level among those Extraordinary characteristics, there are also seven Sequence 5, nine Sequence 6, and countless Sequence 7 to Sequence 9.In the previous action to eliminate Amon's clone, the grandfather had already added a large number of Extraordinary characteristics. With these, he probably only needs a Sequence 2 Extraordinary characteristic to restore his peak.

In fact, Klein hoped that after the grandfather recovered, he could directly leave the body of the poet classmate and hide in the Church of Evernight, so that the danger of the poet classmate would be greatly reduced.

……

On March 3, above the gray fog.

After much deliberation, Klein still felt that it was awkward for two men to celebrate their birthdays together, so he simply called Miss Justice, and his fellow poet also supported his idea.

In fact, the two big men have no obsession with celebrating birthdays. It's just that they have been away from normal people's lives for too long. Occasionally doing things that ordinary people would do will help them always remember that they are human beings.

Hearing about this, Audrey the Justice was so excited that she waited in the room early.When the crimson tide submerged herself, she reappeared in the magnificent palace, and she found that... the palace was still the same palace, the long bronze table was still the same long bronze table, and Mister "World" and Mr. "Star" were sitting on their own. The sitting position, except that the appearance was not covered with gray fog, this is clearly a temporary meeting of the Tarot Society!

"Justice" Audrey walked between the two, and shook her head helplessly: "Mr. World, Mr. Star, you two really have no sense of ceremony!"

Klein was a little embarrassed. Although he had participated in many birthday parties since he came to this world, he still had no idea how to arrange a birthday party. He couldn't drag the housekeeper and maids into the fog.On Earth, his birthday is nothing more than meeting a few friends and eating out at any restaurant.

So Klein tried to throw the problem to Leonard. After all, he is also a poet, and he usually has a romantic flair in his actions. He must be very good at this kind of thing.

Noticing Klein's gaze, he immediately raised his hands in surrender: "Don't look at me, I don't even bother to remember what day my birthday is, and I haven't celebrated my birthday since I left home."

"By the way, I haven't asked yet. When Mr. World invited me, he only said it was a simple birthday party. May I ask whose birthday is it for the two of you?" Audrey asked.

"Our two birthdays are very close, so we decided to get together, but today is my birthday, and Leonard's birthday is February 2." Klein replied honestly.

……very close?Almost a month difference, not close at all!You know, Loen nobles can't wait to plan a festival every week!Audrey was stunned by the casualness of the two of them.

Audrey coughed lightly to calm herself down: "Anyway, we need at least some flowers, candles and cakes. Hmm... can we pray to Mister Fool for such things?"

Klein nodded: "Yes."

Audrey breathed a sigh of relief after being affirmed by the "world" who is the favored one, Mister Fool is indeed a great and benevolent god!

After Miss Justice prayed, Klein asked "Origin Castle" to slightly remodel the palace according to Audrey's imagination.The long bronze table was covered with a pale embroidered cloth, and at intervals were placed candlesticks, vases, and silver dishes; A chandelier hangs over it.

Next to the long bronze table was a silver dining cart. On the upper floor was a three-tiered birthday cake that is common in the Kingdom of Loen, and on the lower floor was an ice bucket with a few bottles of champagne in it.

Out of awe of "Origin Castle", Miss "Justice" has been very restrained, otherwise she could even dream up a dance, a band.

"Thank you, Miss Justice." Klein said sincerely.

Leonard thought for a while, and finally said: "If you really want to thank you, you can actually consider removing the disguise. Of course, if you don't want to, you can pretend that I didn't say anything."

Klein hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand to wipe his face, revealing a black-haired, brown-eyed, bookish face: "Let me introduce myself again, Miss Audrey, my name is Klein Moretti."

Is this the hidden true face of Mister "World"?With this face, who can believe that he is that ruthless crazy adventurer?But this Mr. "World" is very in line with the gentle, compassionate, and shy appearance she imagined!

"Hello, Mr. Klein, uh... happy birthday!" Audrey grabbed the hem of her skirt with both hands and saluted him, and then she also saluted Leonard: "Although it's a bit late, I wish you Happy birthday, Mr. Leonard!"

Afterwards, the two of them immediately got up and thanked each other.

Audrey thought for a while and said, "My birthday is June 6th. Can you two be invited to this year's birthday party?"

"Of course." Leonard replied casually.

"It's my honor." Klein still maintained his politeness.

Then Leonard also turned to Klein and said, "Happy birthday, Klein."

"Thank you." Klein smiled back.

"Justice" Audrey felt that all this was like a dream.Although in principle, members of the Tarot Society should hide their identities as much as possible, but Audrey prefers to become friends with them.The three of them were equally young, kind, and full of ideals. In the cruel and terrifying extraordinary world, Audrey longed for such a beautiful and even unreal partner.

Although the three of them are not in a very good situation in reality at the moment, this birthday party seems to temporarily isolate their troubles, allowing them to simply immerse themselves in this extremely peaceful atmosphere.

Sure enough, life still needs a sense of ritual, Klein couldn't help thinking.

……

The birthday party was over, and Leonard returned to reality. He is currently underground in St. Samuel's Cathedral.When he went to the gray mist, he couldn't keep his secret state, so he would participate in the church every Tarot meeting.But in fact, he has hardly left the church during this time, and even the Hunting Rose School has been put on hold for the time being, only here can he feel a little bit safe.

Concealing himself, Leonard walked back to the main hall of the church, but suddenly saw a familiar figure sitting on a pew in the church.

It was a gray-eyed police officer with deep eyes, and he was also the captain of the Nighthawks in Tingen - Dunn Smith.

However, immediately after, Leonard saw Dunn take out a crystal-ground monocle from his pocket and put it on in front of his right eye, revealing a deep smile that would never appear on Dunn Smith's face. .

"Come with me, will you?"

he said.

TBC