[Comprehensive] Demon Fox Hiding Horse

Underneath the central city, tangled pipes and narrow passages are densely tangled like a spider web.

Few people know their specific uses, what's more, many residents of the central city don't even know that there are so many passages with unknown meanings and uses under their feet, just like it is completely impossible for them to know that in the near future, their own It will become a part of the huge national land refining formation, and it will be used as the necessary "alchemy material" for refining the Philosopher's Stone.

At this moment, Zangma was standing somewhere in these intersecting pathways and pipelines, with his eyes slightly closed, earnestly receiving the information from the dandelions from the demon world.

The ability of the transformed Demon Realm plants is extraordinary, but the "traffic network" in the central underground is too complicated and huge. Even the Demon Realm Dandelion of Kurama's family has to connect these pathways and pipes to the specific destinations and intertwined with each other. It took a not-so-short period of time to investigate the situation clearly.

Fortunately, it is still too early for the so-called "appointed date", and because Zangma is a missing person, he does not need to appear in front of people every day. It is good for the commander to pay attention to keep in touch, even the Mustang where Hughes and the others gathered The ancient army was stationed temporarily, and Zang Ma only needed to show up once or twice a week, so he had a lot of time to control his own dandelion to compete with this messy underground passage.

The efficiency of the concentrated demon foxes and dandelions must not be considered low. In just three days, Zangma has almost completely grasped the distribution of these passages and channels.

So he chose a sunny day, and Yaohu took his own Baituanzi and sneaked into the ground through one of the entrances and exits.

According to Zangma's somewhat vague memory, there are actually guards here.

The guardian is the prince of the new kingdom, Yao Lin, who has just merged with the Philosopher's Stone some time ago and has become the new artificial man "Gulid".

In terms of force value alone, Zangma is certainly not afraid of colliding with the opponent, but the purpose of his action this time is to get the maximum benefit without attracting anyone's attention, so avoiding Gullid's action is the best choice.

And counting the time, in fact, Yao Lin captured the lizard man who used to be a companion with his predecessor Gullid in the underground passage. The plot of President Kim Bradley happened recently, and Zama doesn’t want to change this plot because of himself——

Gullid...Yao Lin's betrayal was one of the important boosts to the battle against the artificial man, and he couldn't just be dropped by the butterfly.

Said it was very important, but in fact, he still thought about it a little casually. Zangma bypassed the route that Gullid was on a routine inspection, and his figure was as light as a breeze, and disappeared into the depths of the passage.

***

The underground of the Central Military Headquarters.

After a lot of strict defense, it is necessary to pass through at least three solid metal doors-each of which requires a special key to open. Under this deep underground, there is a room full of the most important secrets of the military.

In a pitch-black room, hundreds of white figures hang upside down from the ceiling.

No eyes, naked body, what is exposed is not the healthy flesh-colored skin that normal people have, but the strange and permeable pale skin like marble, and the protruding ribs are clearly visible on the thin, exposed chest cavity...

——That's right, this is what the military is secretly developing, and it is finally expected to use the power of the Philosopher's Stone to manufacture and drive a large number... the undead army.

Strictly speaking, these "produced" soldiers are not artificial humans, they are just killing machines endowed with incomplete souls by relying on the Philosopher's Stone.

Because the experiment has not reached a stage sufficient to support the real awakening of these "soldiers", this room is often sealed, as the biggest secret of the high-level military department, and also as... one of the darkest secrets in this country.

And here is the final destination that Zangma's operation is aiming at.

In the soft light emitted by the unique fluorescent vines in the devil world, Kurama looked at this creepy and strange room without changing his face.

The white human figures hanging upside down from the high ceiling are densely packed together. Even if Zangma doesn't have trypophobia, it feels a little numb at such a glance, so Yaohu silently spurned the group in the military department again. The bad aesthetics of senior officials.

Reaching out his hand to cover Mokona's eyes considerately, Kurama lowered his head and rubbed his chin on the top of Baituanzi's head: "Mokona is not afraid."

Hearing the words, Bai Tuanzi twisted his soft body and rubbed against the Tibetan horse's neck a few times: "Well, Mokona is not afraid. There is a Tibetan horse."

As he spoke, he turned around consciously, and buried his little face in front of the demon fox's chest so as not to show it.

Seeing this, Zangma couldn't help but smile and dote on his face:

"Well, Mokona is the bravest! Can you be patient a little longer? Let's leave after we get the things."

Bai Tuanzi said "Mmm" in a low voice, and lay on Tibetan horse's chest without moving.

The demon fox stretched out one arm to support his limp little body. With the light of the fluorescent vines in his eyes, he glanced lightly at the rows of glass jars around him that reflected the bloody red light in the darkness——

This long line runs through the entire room in a straight line from the door to the two rows of glass jars at the end of the wall opposite the door, each of which is filled with Philosopher's Stone and some kind of special liquid.

At a critical moment, as long as the hand brake under the jar is pulled down, these sage stones will become a source of energy in an instant, awakening the white figures in this room and giving them "life".

And there is no doubt that these Philosopher's Stones, which were originally used to activate the energy of the white dolls, are the only objects that Kurama planned to absolutely capture from the beginning and until now.

Although the seemingly huge number of Philosopher's Stones is still not comparable to the number of Philosopher's Stones contained in the body of the little man in the bottle, the uncertainty of the final battle is too great. The final destination of the Philosopher's Stone is also unclear, and Kurama will not stubbornly take it as a target——

And compared with that, the current guarding power of these Philosopher's Stones is weaker, and it is easier to obtain them. Most importantly, although their number is not as good as that held by the villain in the bottle, they are actually It has also been considerable.

Although Zangma will not take all these Philosopher's Stones because of the needs of the plot, even so, the number of stones he will obtain is already amazing enough-according to Mokona's estimation, Zangma took six of these stones. If it reaches [-]%, it is enough to exchange some precious treasures from Yuko.

The demon fox itself is not greedy. After all, the humanoid weapons here will have some uses in the later stages of the plot, so it is not good to reduce their number too much.

So after making the balance, Zangma took away [-]% of the total number of Philosopher's Stones from the glass jar, and then, like when he came, he didn't go through the gate of the military headquarters at all, but took the underground passage route of the central city. He got away easily without being noticed by anyone.

And when Zangma delivered another Philosopher's Stone to Roy under his astonished gaze, it was already three days later.

In the living room of Hughes's house, holding another Philosopher's Stone that was a little smaller than the one he got from the android Rust before, the expression on the Colonel's face is quite wonderful.

It's not that he doesn't want to ask about the source of the sage's stone, Zangma, but facing the half-smiling eyes of the demon fox opposite him, he thinks of the sage's stone that just broke in Gossett's hand a few days ago , Colonel pursed his lips, finally clenched the bright ruby ​​in his hand silently, and put it in his pocket...

Kurama raised his eyebrows knowingly.

"Which piece was broken by Dr. Gossett?"

He knew that uncle was unreliable.

Although he has the strength of a national alchemist and is a doctor, the research on the Philosopher's Stone should be of great benefit, but the uncle seems to be reliable, but he is actually more crazy than anyone else in researching mysterious things.

In addition, Roy's request is to try to see if it can be reconstructed by other methods using materials that are not human life without changing the general properties of the stone...

I believe that the irascible uncle will definitely play off.

And sure enough.

When he asked this question, a look of helplessness and...flesh pain flashed across the Colonel's face.

"That fellow Gossett..."

——Although there was no direct answer, the tone of gnashing of teeth was enough to indicate the answer.

Seeing this, Kurama couldn't help but reached out and patted the other person's shoulder:

"It's better to keep this piece away and hand it over to Dr. Gossett after the 'appointed date'."

In this way, if there is any accident in the war, they can make up for it in time with the Philosopher's Stone.

Roy's eyes flickered slightly at Zangma's proposal, but he didn't say no to it after all.

And after that day, Zangma returned to the state of life that was so leisurely that Hughes and Hubock almost wanted to beat someone.

I sleep with Bai Tuanzi in the small rented apartment every day until I wake up naturally, and occasionally go to Hughes and their garrison point to visit the class with condolences.

Twice a week at the Hughes' home, I met with Big Zoro unshakably, exchanging information and relative thoughts and opinions with each other.

Time passed so quickly, and one day Kurama suddenly realized that the "promised day" was... close in sight.

With an indescribable sense of subtlety and complexity, Kurama followed Roy all the way, witnessing from the beginning of the decisive battle until Roy taught Eunbi a hard lesson, but in the end it was because the other party didn't really kill Hugh. Therefore, he was not occupied by hatred, and he desperately killed the other party...

However, Enbi, as a cyborg, was understood by Ed, which made him feel ashamed and humiliated. After trying to sow discord between Ed and Scar through words, Zangma temporarily released himself and Hughes. The phantom plant enchantment on his body allowed Embi to see Hughes' figure, and at the same time, it also aroused his real memory of the day "killing Hughes".

Eunbi, who felt that he was played around by humans, could not bear such "humiliation" in the end, and ended his life by himself.

But after that, Zangma did not continue to go on the same road with Roy. After receiving contact from the ground troops, he learned that the president had returned to the central government. Because Hughes was worried about Second Lieutenant Ross and others who were still on the ground, He offered to go up to see the situation, but Roy, who was worried that his friend was alone, chose to let Kurama accompany him.

The moment Yaohu turned around, he caught a glimpse of the expression on the black-haired Colonel's face.

It was an expression that held firm beliefs and would burn everything for it.

...ahhh.

So... is it called the "flame" alchemist?

The demon fox thought about it in a daze, and then rushed to the ground with Hughes.

After reuniting with Second Lieutenant Ross and the others and confirming that they were all safe and sound, before Zangma had time to return to the ground, the sudden total solar eclipse showed that the villain in the bottle was dominated by the Elric brothers, their teacher and father, as well as the fifth captain. The action of opening the door to the world for the "Pillar of Man" is almost complete!

And amidst the spreading black dirt, seeing the people around him lose their lives one by one, Kurama stood alone in the darkness, looking up at the sky as if a huge hole had been opened——

There, the villain in the bottle is trying to bring down the god, and he himself... ascends to the god's throne.

However, the moment he pulled the "world" into his arms, Kurama froze suddenly...

--over there.

On the so-called "Altar".

He sensed a...familiar breath.

——A breath that belongs to Mokona.