I was lying in the courtyard, basking in the sun. I was happily playing games with the fox and the dog. Suddenly, I heard the sound of a car coming to a screeching halt outside the courtyard. I was bewildered.
Miss didn't come for lunch today, and it was already past lunchtime. So, in theory, Lin Xue wouldn't appear at this time. Her biological clock was basically in sync with our family's mealtime. It had never been an exception in the past few years. But who would come to our house? Shadora had set up a wide-area mental interference in this area. Unless we invited them, no one would notice that there was a house here. In fact, they wouldn't even approach this place. However, from the sound of the car's brakes, it was obvious that it had come from the entrance of the courtyard. It was obvious that a guest had arrived.
"Fox, retract your tail." I got up and grabbed the fox deity's tail. My hand was covered in oil. "Can't you use your hands properly when you eat? Isn't washing your tail more troublesome than washing your hands? "
The fox deity rolled on the ground. She didn't even retract her tail. She sniffed in the air and looked at me lazily. "It's okay. I can smell it. It's someone I know. Go open the door. Also, using my tail is my specialty. I like it. Bite me if you can. I bet you can't bite me … "
"…" Who would be stupid to compete with a canine? Who would be able to bite her!
I went to open the door with black lines on my forehead. When I opened the door, there really was someone I knew. Ding Ling and Lin Feng were standing outside. Ding Ling was holding the magical Chinese rural dog named XO in her arms. Lin Feng was reaching out his hand to look for the doorbell. Seeing that I opened the door first, Lin Feng smiled. "Brother Chen, why is your doorbell gone?"
"It was torn down a few days ago. Who would use the doorbell?" I rolled my eyes at the sky. I hadn't expected the two of them to visit. It made sense. Ding Ling and Lin Feng were on the list of people who were exempt from mental interference. It wasn't strange that they could find their way here. "There might not be anyone visiting this place for a year or so. Occasionally, when Father God comes to visit, he would stand at the door and shout."
The two of them were shocked by the majestic name of "God Father". Their expressions were filled with fascination. Ding Ling tactfully mentioned that she wanted to see what the Divine Realm was like when she had the time. I was too embarrassed to remind them that the City of Shadows was actually one of the God Realms in the void …
I asked them to come in. Lin Feng nodded and turned to press his key. I heard the sound of the car's anti-theft mechanism. Ding Ling shot Lin Feng a strange look. "Why did you lock your car in this place? Do you think someone stole a car at the entrance of Heavenly State? "
I laughed and pointed at my big house. "Even Heaven has a security door. What do you think?"
I welcomed the two of them into the courtyard. When I turned around and closed the door, Lady Fox Immortal swayed as she walked over. No matter where this lady with a bunch of big tails went, her presence was astonishing. Ding Ling and Lin Feng immediately warmly greeted the fox. Lin Feng muttered, "The last time I saw her in the park, I couldn't believe she had a bunch of tails. How did she disguise herself so well?"
Ding Ling stepped forward and wanted to touch Lord Fox Immortal's ear. "Furry … No matter how many times I see it, I'm so envious! This is a real ear! In the morning, you wouldn't let me see your ear no matter what. Is that okay now? "
Lord Fox Immortal easily dodged Ding Ling's paw. "You can look, but you can't touch. I am Lord Fox Immortal. You have to respect me! Let the dog you're hugging talk to me! "
The little black dog XO instantly jumped out of Ding Ling's arms and onto the ground. Then, it lowered its head and stood in front of Lord Fox Immortal. The latter squatted down and picked up XO's paw. He said earnestly, "I haven't finished talking to you this morning. Next, I'm going to talk to you about the professional ethics of canines. Also, there are a few tricks to cultivating your body. If you want to become an immortal like me, you have to learn how to control your beastly nature … Come, bark for me first."
XO pitifully raised its head and looked at its master. Realizing that no one could help it, it could only obediently bark.
Lord Fox Immortal nodded in satisfaction. "En, this is beastly nature. You see, I don't bark because I haven't barked for thousands of years. I've already forgotten how I used to speak. This is controlling your beastly nature. So, if you want to cultivate your body and become an immortal, the first step is to live for a few thousand years and forget how you usually bark … When you're successful, I'll take you as my disciple and teach you how to grow a second tail … Hey! Who's grabbing my tail … Master, let go, let go of me! I am Lord Fox Immortal. You can't be so rude. I'm taking in a disciple! "
I grabbed the fox's tail and ignored her scratching and scratching all the way. Finally, I threw this fellow, who had been bored to the point of eating the wrong medicine, to the side. When I returned, XO was still affectionately rubbing against me. It was obvious that it was thanking me for helping it chase away that scary preacher.
"Tell me the truth, did she eat something wrong?" Ding Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she looked at Lord Fox Immortal who was grinding his teeth and wagging his tail. "This morning, when I was shopping with Lin Xue, she talked to XO for half a day. My unlucky dog almost vomited because of her."
I let out a long sigh. "Don't mention it. A few days ago, she read Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and Journey to the West. She felt that her fox life had been wasted for thousands of years. Now, she wants to open a cave and walk the path of youth. Last night, she even brought Journey to the West and excitedly asked me to find her a Tang Seng. She wants to cosplay as a Jade Faced Fox — — where am I supposed to find her a Tang Seng? There was a Master Xuan Zang in the Shadow City, but he didn't have a monkey with him! "
Ding Ling and Lin Feng looked at me in shock. After a while, they said in unison, "It's not easy for you either …"
"That's enough. I'm used to having this bunch of clowns in the house." I waved my hand wearily and led them into the house. "It's only the fox and the crow that are causing a lot of trouble. I really shouldn't have let them watch too much TV and novels."
When we entered the house, Lin Feng and Ding Ling finally understood what it meant to be lively. A bunch of wild Jingle and Little Crow were fighting on the chandelier, fighting for the highest point. The crystal chandelier, which was over a meter in diameter, was creaking and swaying. It was frightening. Maddy was squatting on the sofa and learning to sing along with the TV. The lyrics of the song were all 'ga's'. Shallow Shallow was playing poker with Monina and had basically turned into two mummies. The remaining four members of the Protoss Cop Squad were playing mahjong. They were using Dragon Scale Mahjong that they had taken from Lin's body. They looked like they were about to cry.
The most lively place was the staircase. Puppets and Little Bubble were running up and down the stairs, waving their little lightsabers and acting like warriors. I knew that there would be people who would say, "Isn't this a very childish scene? We used to have fun like this when we were young." But the swords that normal people used when they were young to pretend to be super warriors were all made of plastic — —
But the lightsabers these two brats were using were f * cking real! Even when they slashed at the super alloy staircase railings, sparks would fly off! Also, the superpowers they used were real. When Little Bubble and Puppets fought, balls of lightning would fly everywhere. The only thing missing was a miniature black hole in the living room. I was deeply glad that I had already changed all the building materials in my house to starship alloy and star gold stone. I also had Icetis's divine protection on the furniture. Otherwise, just the brats' fighting would be enough to rebuild K city once a week.
That was why I had to sunbathe in the courtyard like a retired veteran after dinner — — I couldn't stay at home. I also didn't know what was going on. Why did other people's kids get sleepy and sleep after eating, but my brats were so bored that they jumped up and down … As I spoke, Little Bubble pulled out an RPG!
"F * ck …" Lin Feng and Ding Ling said in unison. Then, the two of them scurried behind me. At the same time, Little Bubble ignited the RPG and fired it at the staircase on the second floor. A pale golden holy barrier instantly enveloped the explosion. This was a divine protection spell that Icetis had specially set up for the brats. But even with the holy barrier, the explosion of the rocket-propelled grenade was not small. "Boom!" The entire living room quietened down. Then, Puppets waved their special mini lightsabers and shouted, "You cheated! There are no RPGs in Star Wars! "
Little Bubble's voice became even louder, "Chirp!"
Puppets immediately put their hands on their hips and said, "You cheated! You think that no one can understand what you're saying?! "
At this moment, the big sister finally couldn't stand it anymore. She coughed at the bottom of the staircase. The two brats instantly shrank their necks when they heard the sound and obediently slid down the stairs to show that they wanted to be educated. This was the story of how the big sister beheaded the brats while drinking wine.
"Brother Chen …" Lin Feng's eyes were almost straight. He looked at me blankly and said, "I didn't believe what my sister told me about your situation … I haven't been here for a while and it's already so lively here?"
Ding Ling's expression was strange, but she still tried to be tactful and said, "They are the children of immortals … Actually, they are quite lively, right?"
"Let you raise them for two days?" I glanced at Ding Ling. "Or you can pick any one of them in this house and raise them at home."
Although she knew that I was joking, Ding Ling still looked around the living room with great interest. Then, she suddenly saw a few little crows holding eggshells on the coffee table to get juice. (Anveena was holding a big cup of freshly squeezed orange juice for the little ones.) The cute look of the figurine girls holding eggshells in line made Ding Ling's heart grow fonder. "Can you give me one of these?"
A figurine holding a small piece of a ping pong ball in her arms (you probably remember that the little crow hatched from the ping pong ball before) immediately noticed that someone was pointing at her. She hopped over and chirped. Then, she opened her mouth and spat out a small shadow arrow. It was just a greeting, but the shadow arrow still exploded in the air into a shadow magic ball with a diameter of almost one meter …
Cold sweat appeared on Ding Ling's forehead at a speed visible to the naked eye. "Forget it, no one in your house is safe …"
I pushed the figurine and Wild Jingle to the side. I gestured for Lin Feng and Ding Ling to sit down and said, "Alright, let's get down to business. From the looks of your eyes, I can tell that you aren't just here as guests today. Did you run into trouble? Another unflammable trash from the Empire? "
"Err …" Lin Feng instantly felt a little awkward. Normally, he would only come here when he ran into 'trouble'. Although he was usually too busy and didn't have the opportunity to visit, he still felt a little embarrassed when he brought it up. On the other hand, Ding Ling, as expected of the magical girl who could play with Lin Xue since young, didn't look embarrassed at all. "I really did run into some trouble. I was thinking that you should know about it. I originally wanted to discuss it with Lin Xue, but I don't know where she went this afternoon."
"Tell me about it," I said casually. At that moment, Anveena brought over the freshly brewed tea and desserts. I pushed them over to the two guests. "Try Anveena's cooking. The tea leaves were plucked from the World Tree and mixed with the divine grass in front of the Avalon Grand Shrine. The desserts were made from another world. Even the raw materials were brought over by the Void Financial Group."
"If there's a chance, I really must go to another world to take a look. With such a big backer like you, it wouldn't be my style not to take advantage of you," Ding Ling said as she carefully maintained a distance from Anveena. "Let's get down to business then. We did dig out something that might be related to you from somewhere two days ago, and then it activated on the spot … Of course, this isn't important. What's important is that your sister appeared in a projection-like thing. She was wearing your Imperial Army uniform. Her temperament and expression were completely different from the Sister Chen Qian that I know … I'm a little confused."
"Pfft!" I spat out a mouthful of tea. "What did you say?"
"Your sister appeared." Ding Ling calmly watched as the tea I spat out formed a rainbow in the air. It seemed that she had expected such a reaction from me. "Speaking of which, didn't your sister only contact the Empire at the later stages? Why would the ruins of the Empire that we dug out have … "
"All in all, this is a very complicated question." I quickly extended my hand to interrupt Ding Ling. "It would take a lot of time to explain, so to make it short, my sister was the Emperor of the Empire in her previous life and I was sleeping in the void in my previous life. Then, something happened to the Empire and my sister ran into the crib to wake me up to save the world. At that time, I was young and ignorant, so I readily agreed and ran to the front of the abyss to activate it. However, my level was too low back then and I didn't have any skills in my white equipment, so I died with a 'Ah'. Then, my sister, Shallow Shallow and Lin Xue floated through the void and landed on Earth. We rested on this planet for over seventy thousand years, and during that time, we might have even wandered around and watched as humans evolved. Only then did we recover our vitality and were born as humans. Now, the few of us have forgotten about what happened back then, and my sister isn't interested in the life of an Emperor. However, one thing we can be sure of is that you must have found a relic that we brought with us when we were stranded on Earth. Damn it, it's fortunate that I don't need to breathe to survive.
Did you faint? "Ding Ling looked into my eyes calmly." Can you say that again? "
I replied, "My sister was the Emperor of the Empire in her previous life, and I was in the void in my previous life …"
"Stop, stop, stop!" Ding Ling quickly raised her hand to interrupt me. "Alright, alright. I believe you. Everything you said is true … This amount of information, I didn't hear Snowy mention this to me at all! Are you really not joking? Does Xiaoxue have such a magnificent past life? "
I looked at Ding Ling in surprise. "You understood what I said just now even though I spoke so quickly?"
Ding Ling waved her hand. "Alright, hurry up and take your non-flammable trash away. That thing was discovered by my team, and I have already taken care of the information. However, I can't feel at ease leaving it at our place for even a day. Everything that you guys create is crazy. I'm worried that it might explode one day and blow my division to Mars."
My smile instantly turned awkward. The Empire Ruins didn't seem to have left a good impression on her. Of course, this was understandable. Due to some "historical issues", there were quite a number of Empire Ruins on Earth. Dark organizations like the Esper Organization often dealt with the strange phenomena on Earth. Among these strange phenomena, the most dangerous and most difficult to deal with were the Empire Ruins. Before the New Empire appeared, various organizations on Earth had been dealing with these dangerous things for a long time. There were historical records dating back to hundreds of years ago. There were paintings of church knights or exorcists fighting berserk robots on broken parchment scrolls and rock drawing boards. These paintings might have been distorted and "beautified", but the real situation was probably just an unlucky religious group that accidentally entered the Empire Ruins and was instantly annihilated. Regardless, these things revealed the fact that the non-flammable trash of the Empire Ruins had been tormenting Earth for many years …
Strictly speaking, they had been tormenting this planet since the era of Atlantis 700,000 years ago.
People in the past did not know what these ruins were. People hundreds or thousands of years ago thought they were the holy tombs of angels or the halls of Asura. People one or two hundred years ago thought they were the laboratories of Frankenstein. Ten or twenty years ago, the Dark World started to talk about "aliens visiting Earth" and "the last human civilization" (fortunately, this time it was a little more reliable). But it was only in the past two years that a small number of people in a human Esper Organization knew that these things were actually just non-flammable trash that a bunch of people who did not care about environmental protection once threw around …
Regarding these ruins, the New Empire also had a specialized agency, and each world (if there were ruins of the Empire Ruins in this world) had a specialized branch of the Aftermath Department. These departments were basically the responsibility of the local inspectors, and the corresponding Aftermath Department on Earth was Boundless Love (the only Aftermath Department directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family). Given that there were enough ruins on Earth, and Visca's rampage back then had made them fragmented and complicated, some of them even shattered from the mantle to the crust, and some of the ruins had been discovered by humans, it was a very troublesome project to clean up these ruins without affecting human life. So, apart from retrieving most of the dangerous excavated ruins, we did not touch the rest, but left them to Boundless Love and the Esper Organization to slowly deal with. After all, these things were safe before they were dug out. We had already scanned the entire planet's energy level, and those with huge energy reserves had been cleaned up. Those that were not found were completely asleep and had a good security system.
Now, it seemed that the people of the Esper Organization had accidentally found the most special kind of ruins, which was also a type of ruins that we had never found before.
Seventy thousand years ago, after I failed to open the Tower of Stride, I landed on Earth with a few remnant souls … Well, the coffin lid.
Why does it sound so weird?
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