Laplace and Angor looked at each other.
They already expected that Parrot would ask them to fulfill the contract right there and then.
And now, it really happened.
Still, they could understand why Parrot was being chased by Rice God, who also had Little Red's help. If Parrot didn't leave the mirror domain as soon as possible, he wouldn't be able to escape.
Laplace considered and didn't answer right away. Instead, he looked at Ning Tai's clone and said, "Give Parrot a Condensing Mirror."
Ning Tai's clone yawned and nodded noncommittally.
She gently stretched out her finger and drew a circle in the air with her fingertip. A palm-sized mirror appeared in her hand.
This was the Condensing Mirror that Laplace mentioned.
Parrot didn't know what the Condensing Mirror was, but he assumed it had something to do with whether he could leave the mirror domain or not. Therefore, he stared at the mirror eagerly as soon as it appeared.
Ning Tai's clone glanced at Parrot. "It's not that I don't want to give it to you. You're just a few wisps of consciousness. You can't handle it."
Ning Tai's clone paused. "If you want the Condensing Mirror, you have to return to your body first."
With that, Ning Tai's clone walked toward the small room behind the curtain where Parrot was kept.
Parrot glanced at Laplace, who nodded, and followed Ning Tai's clone out of the room.
When Parrot returned to the room, he saw that the glass orb that contained his body had fallen to the ground.
The blood net that held the orb was slowly shrinking, as if it was turning into a "ball".
Furthermore, on this blood ball, one could faintly see the struggling facial features.
"What's that?" Parrot asked with a cautious look.
Ning Tai's clone was not surprised at all by this blood ball and said indifferently, "What else could it be? Who else could it be other than Blood Calamity?"
Parrot thought for a moment and understood what was going on. Blood Calamity's body was bound, but it wasn't giving up. When Blood Calamity realized that it couldn't fight Laplace's clone directly, it decided to use a roundabout way to save itself.
The so-called "roundabout way" was the blood net left behind by Light Shadow Goblin.
The blood net was also made of Blood Calamity's power. It wasn't strong enough, but it could hold a part of Blood Calamity's consciousness.
In other words, Blood Calamity was preparing to use the blood web to regenerate a new body.
This body might not be powerful, but don't forget, there was still the power of the Blood Calamity that had been intercepted in the void. If the Blood Calamity could use this new body to regain the power of the Blood Calamity, he might be able to make a comeback.
This was the Blood Calamity's indirect method of saving the country.
However, Blood Calamity was also unlucky. Just as it was about to revive on the blood web, it encountered the return of Ning Tai's clone …
Now, the Blood Calamity had yet to revive, and he had to face Ning Tai's clone. The outcome was self-evident.
Ning Tai's clone didn't even use any big moves. He just flicked his index finger and thumb, and a bullet formed by Ning Tai's power rushed into the blood ball.
"Bang!"
The blood ball didn't even say a word. It wasn't that it didn't want to say anything, but its consciousness hadn't descended yet, so it couldn't say anything. Then, it exploded, and the Blood Calamity's backup plan disappeared instantly.
In this compartment, Ning Tai's clone continued to act as if nothing had happened. He took the parrot to pick up the glass ball on the ground and motioned for the parrot to enter.
On the other side of the hall, the Blood Calamity had already begun to curse. Obviously, it had also discovered that the backup plan in the compartment had been broken. However, cursing was just cursing. No one paid any attention to it, so it could only give up.
Back at the curtained compartment.
With the help of Ning Tai's clone, the parrot's consciousness returned to its body.
With a piercing sound, the glass ball was smashed into pieces by Ning Tai's clone.
The parrot in the glass ball finally regained its freedom. Its body slowly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, it returned to its normal size.
The parrot checked its body. After confirming that there were no accidents, it quickly flew to the seat near the compartment.
Under Ning Tai's clone's puzzled gaze, the parrot explained, "Previously, after the Light Shadow Goblin captured me, he took my storage bag. After he took out the Blood of the Gods, he threw the storage bag nearby."
As the parrot spoke, it pulled out a small, exquisite bag with a special logo from under the seat.
Obviously, this bag was the storage bag that the parrot was talking about.
The parrot checked the contents of the storage bag and let out a long sigh of relief.
As a merchant, he put all his goods in his storage bag, except for some old goods that were stored in his exile space. If something happened to his storage bag, he would have wasted hundreds of years of his life.
Fortunately, everything was still there except for the Blood of the Gods.
The parrot carefully put away the storage bag and looked at Ning Tai's clone.
It saw Ning Tai's clone looking at its storage bag. Angor and Laplace also appeared beside the clone and looked at its storage bag as well.
The parrot was a little uneasy. Are they going to split it in half?
Just as the parrot was on tenterhooks, considering whether or not to hand over the bag of holding, Ning Tai's clone suddenly said, "There's a symbol on your bag of holding. What symbol is that?"
Logo? So they're looking at the logo?
The parrot lowered its head and looked at the storage bag. On the surface of the bag, there was an emblem of a train with stars. However, the train was not traveling on the road. Instead, it was located in the dark void.
The dark void was in stark contrast to the bright train.
The parrot looked at the "train" logo and felt nostalgic. "That's … the logo of the caravan I used to be a part of."
The parrot's reply caused Ning Tai's avatar to frown. Laplace also revealed a puzzled look.
They thought the parrot was lying, but it didn't look like it was lying.
Ning Tai's clone and Laplace kept exchanging glances as if they were trying to communicate something.
Angor, on the other hand, didn't know what was going on. Shouldn't they be handing over the Ning Tai Mirror now? Why did they suddenly talk about the logo on the parrot's storage bag?
Ning Tai's clone pondered for a moment. "Are you sure this is the logo of the Void Caravan?"
The parrot shook its head. "No, not the Void Caravan. The 18th Caravan. It's the 18th Caravan. We were the ones who went to Drauna Plane to carry out the mission.
"Now, all 18 caravans were killed by the Blood Calamity except for me."
The parrot spoke in a low voice. Its eyes were filled with both nostalgia and hatred.
At this moment, Ning Tai's clone roughly understood that this emblem represented the merchant team that had gone to explore the God Domain. And this caravan was under the command of the Void Caravan.
"Who designed the emblem of your 18 caravans? Did the caravan give it to you? "Ning Tai's clone asked again.
The parrot shook its head. "No. Every caravan's logo is designed by its own members. Our 18th Caravan's logo was designed by our captain."
"Captain? The one you mentioned? The one who died in Ghost's Domain together with the Blood Calamity? "Laplace asked.
The parrot nodded. "Yes."
Ning Tai's clone: "When your captain designed the logo, did he mention why he designed the logo this way?"
The parrot shook its head again. "No. But I heard from Linnie that he was a train attendant before joining the caravan? Perhaps that's why he designed the logo of the train. "
The parrot looked at Ning Tai's clone curiously. "What's wrong with the logo?"
Ning Tai's clone didn't answer. Instead, he looked at Laplace and asked if he should tell him.
Laplace thought for a moment and nodded to Ning Tai's clone. "Speak. There are actually quite a few people who know about the Star Ocean Train."
Interstellar train? Was it referring to the train on his storage pouch?
On the other side, the parrot also heard the name of the train. Unlike Angor's confused look, the bird frowned as if it thought of something.
"Is it … that train?" Angor was confused.
"That car?" Angor was puzzled. Which train?
The parrot looked at Ning Tai's clone again.
"If you're talking about the 'conductor', that's it," Ning Tai's clone said in a plain tone.
The parrot's expression turned blank when he heard the name "conductor". Even his voice trembled a little. "It's really that train?!"
Judging from the parrot's reaction, Angor knew about the train as well. He just didn't know that the train had something to do with the logo on his storage pouch.
But then again, what exactly was a train? He turned around and looked at Laplace.
Laplace flicked a spirit light spot into Angor's body in a timely manner.
As the light spot sank into Angor's forehead, an introduction about the train appeared in his mind space.
The introduction of the Star Ocean Train was very short, with only a few sentences.
[Space Train: A mysterious train that travels in the void. It is said that the track it travels on is always filled with dense starlight. As long as you had a ticket, the space train would take you to wherever you wanted to go, even if it was the center of a dangerous disaster, the depths of your dreams, the end of your sea of consciousness, or even the end of time. ]
After reading the introduction of the train, Angor felt that it was a bit too exaggerated.
Void disaster, the depths of dreams, the end of consciousness, and the end of time … each one was more exaggerated than the last. The first one was a "real train station", while the latter was just a conceptual train station.
Was it really possible?
"Is the train a Mystery item?" Angor asked in a low voice.
As far as Angor was concerned, there was no other way to reach a conceptual train station except for a Mystery item.
However, Laplace shook his head. "No, the Star Ocean Train is not a mysterious object."
Angor was puzzled. Not a Mystery item? How could it reach a conceptual train station? Was it fake?
Although Angor didn't say anything, Laplace already knew what was on Angor's mind. She pondered for a moment and explained in a low voice, "The birth of the train is a grand … miracle."
Angor didn't understand at first, but when Laplace mentioned the word "miracle", he was surprised.
"The train's controller is a … miracle?"
Laplace nodded. "Correct. The train was created and controlled by a miracle, and this miracle is known as … the conductor."
Angor finally understood what Laplace was trying to say.
Just like the Time Thief and the Mahogany Theater, the train was created by a great being. It was a miracle when it was born.
It didn't sound like a Mystery item, but it was even more so.
Only this kind of miraculous product could travel through the stars, through dreams, and even through the platforms of concepts.
Angor sighed in relief. No wonder Parrot was stunned when he heard the name of the train. Obviously, Parrot knew about the famous train as well.
"So, the logo on the storage bag is what the space train looks like?" Angor recalled how Laplace and Ning's clone reacted when they saw the emblem.
Laplace nodded. "Yes, I saw a similar logo in the images reflected in the Empty Mirror Ocean. It represents the Star Ocean Train."
It was precisely because it was related to the Star Train that Laplace and Ning Tai's clone had solemn expressions. They even put aside the matter of the Ning Tai mirror.
The parrot also heard Laplace's words. He swallowed his saliva and murmured in a low voice, "If the logo is really the Star Ocean Train, why did the captain design such a logo? And, why does the captain know about this logo?"
"Is it true that the captain is from a space train like Linny said?"
Actually, Laplace's guess was the same as Parrot's.
Since the logo of the eighteen business teams was designed by the captain, and he had designed the logo of the space train, either he had seen the logo of the space train before and designed it out of admiration or other purposes, or he had really come from the space train before.
The former was unlikely. After all, the train was related to the "captain". Any outsider who used the train emblem as an emblem could be interpreted as "offending" the captain.
Even a super organization wouldn't take such a risk.
Therefore, even if they wanted to avoid suspicion, they wouldn't use the same emblem as the train emblem.
The captain of the eighteen business teams, on the other hand, was suspected to be a former 'train attendant'. By inference, it was very likely that he was from a space train.
However, inference was just inference. There was no evidence.
Besides, the captain was already dead. There was no proof.
Parrot suddenly thought of something. "If we want to know if the captain is related to the train, maybe we can find some clues from his pouch."
As soon as it finished speaking, the parrot's expression became dejected again. "However, before Captain died with Blood Calamity, he told the rest of us to return to God's Domain through the mirror. Otherwise, once Blood Calamity died, the mirror channel to God's Domain would have disappeared."
When the captain died, his storage pouch was left behind in the Ghost Realm in the Mirror.
(End of Chapter)
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