Ten Days End

Brother Yang has disappeared for a few days.

Just as I expected, I never saw him again after that time.

The entire "Elysium Bank" was empty overnight, leaving only some broken statues.

Jiang Ruoxue and I spent a few days looking for Brother Yang in the whole city, but we had no idea what Brother Yang would become.

Would he become more like a "sheep" or more like a "human"?

If it was a sheep, what kind of sheep was it? If it was a human, what would he look like?

Finding Aries was not an easy task. Jiang Ruoxue and I were like two headless flies running around in the city, and our mood changed from slightly expectant at the beginning to dead in the end.

The freshness brought by the "next plan" only lasted for a few days, and we returned to our previous state.

We lived numbly, and the road ahead began to be gradually filled with fog.

We even walked through alleys that we had never entered before, and found various "Zodiacs" hidden in the corners, but we never saw Aries.

"Zhichun... don't you think it's too quiet?" Jiang Ruoxue asked me with her head down.

We rested in a narrow alley, and a human-level "Zodiac" stood not far away.

"Quiet..." I looked around the street, "Are you talking about here? There are really not many people."

"No." Jiang Ruoxue shook her head, "Zhichun, since Aries left, everything here is too quiet..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the "Zodiac" a few steps away suddenly started to take on the work. He cleared his throat and said to us: "Do you two want to participate in my game?"

Jiang Ruoxue and I looked at him, and no one said anything. This kind of "Zodiac" is everywhere. His game is set up in a hidden alley, and it is estimated that there are few "participants".

Jiang Ruoxue looked at me again and said solemnly: "Zhichun, don't you think the atmosphere is a bit weird now...? The "upper level" is quiet, the "Zodiac" is quiet, and even the "participants" are quiet... It seems that no one has made any big moves. Are they waiting for something or guarding against something?"

I feel that Jiang Ruoxue is right. Since Brother Yang disappeared, everything seems to have quieted down. Even the most powerful "participants" in the past have made much smaller moves.

"Heaven's Mouth", which has been attacking the "Zodiac", has recently stopped gambling with the "Zodiac". Instead, it seems to be gathering strength.

What are you doing? Why is the atmosphere here different from before?

"I really feel something is wrong..." Jiang Ruoxue frowned and said to me, "Zhichun... The current situation is like the calm before the storm. It seems that some huge cause and effect is about to be born... This place will be turned upside down..."

Yes... This was originally Brother Yang's plan. He will come back here one day and turn it upside down.

But where is he now?

I sighed, turned my head, and my sight just happened to bump into the monkey-man a few steps away.

He has been looking at me and Jiang Ruoxue.

His mask is a bit strange. Although it is a "monkey-man", it is a rotten baboon face.

"Do you two want to participate in my game?" he asked again.

"No." Jiang Ruoxue said, "Don't waste your time. We are not here to find the "Tao". Let's save some words."

I frowned slightly, as if I thought of something.

"You two, if you participate... I will give you a fake flower made of plastic." The monkey-man said again, "Really don't want to try it?"

"Fake flowers made of plastic...?" Jiang Ruoxue slowly raised her head and stared at the monkey-man in front of me with me.

His figure overlapped with someone in my memory.

"You... you are..." Jiang Ruoxue was about to speak, and I quickly pulled her back.

"Ruoxue, you can't call your name. "I prompted.

The monkey-man didn't call out our names, fearing that we would suddenly recognize him.

He really came here and became a monkey-man in "Dao City".

This means that he gambled the previous monkey-man to death, and it also means that "Yu City" has completely failed.

Even if Gu Yu took everything he learned from "Dao City" and "Wo City" and went back to reshuffle the cards there, he would never be able to cure the seriously ill city.

But how long has Gu Yu been here? After all, it has been many years since I last met him. He appeared in this dark alley. Did he just come... or has he been here for many years?

Seeing the complicated expressions of Jiang Ruoxue and I, he knew that we recognized him.

"It's okay not to participate in the game." He said again, "but I still have to give you the flowers."

He took out the familiar black stick from his pocket, and then handed it to me.

"Human monkey... Aren't you going to give us flowers?" I said holding the black stick, "We are not magicians, we can't use this prop."

"Let it bloom." The man monkey said with a choked voice, "If possible, please help me..."

"Help you..."

"The flower can't bloom... The iron wall around is too hard..." said the man monkey, "I can't break this hard iron wall, but there is a very beautiful flower inside... If you can't bring the "flower" out, can you find a way to bring the "seed" out... That is the seed of "hope"... I beg you, if you can really take away hope... I will definitely find a way to repay you. "

Jiang Ruoxue and I are not stupid people, and we understand the meaning of this sentence clearly.

"You should be kidding, right? "I sighed and said, "That's not our "flower" or our "seed". This iron rod has been with you all the time, but you can't make the flower bloom. Why do you expect others to do it for you after handing it over to outsiders?"

"I have tried all the methods..." the monkey said with his head down, "but the flower and the seed are stuck tightly... This hard black iron wall is shrinking inwards, and sooner or later it will flatten the flower and crush the seed. My thoughts have stopped, but maybe others will think of something I can't think of..."

"But the iron wall is too hard." I said, "Jiang Ruoxue and I are just two ordinary people. Our nails will break on the iron wall, so I won't take risks, nor will I let Ruoxue take risks. We have done enough for a magician."

Gu Yu's eyes looked like death after hearing this, and then he slowly lowered his head.

He should also know how rude his request is. No matter who else in "Yucheng" has not escaped, they are people who have nothing to do with us.

We have already told Gu Yu a lot about the "Land of the End" and the "Zodiac", and took him on this relatively safe road to escape. Now he wants us to go to the "Jade City" to take risks. I will not agree to it this time.

"I'm sorry." The monkey lowered his head with a little disappointment, "I was just imagining... Thank you."

"What does the flower think?" Jiang Ruoxue suddenly asked on the side.

"Flower?" The monkey looked at her.

"Does the flower want to bloom?" Jiang Ruoxue asked again, "Does she want to bloom by herself, or does she want someone to take the seeds away?"

"Ruoxue..." I reached out and pulled her, "What are you going to do?"

"Zhichun, everything is "cause and effect." Jiang Ruoxue said to me, "What we are facing now has been destined a long time ago."

The monkey sighed deeply and said, "I don't know whether the flower wants to "bloom", but she must want someone to take the seeds away."