Vita did not cover her right eye, which was divided into four parts, or the umbilical cord inserted in the center with countless eyeballs rotating.

The lion walked through the thick fog and subconsciously wanted to close the carriage door. After all, Vita's current appearance was not good. The umbilical cord shaped like a tentacle was gently fluttering and squirming in the air; and he also had petal-like eyes on his head.

Or maybe an eye-shaped flower?

It may be a little far away from humans.

If the lion hadn't placed absolute trust in her own partner, the prophet Abyss, when she saw Vita's figure clearly, she would have taken out her close-fitting gun and emptied the magazine in an instant.

Then he used his little hammer to blow open the inhuman skull in front of him.

However, even if she has considerable trust in Abyss' prophecy, Lion still doesn't know how she should get along with an out-of-control person who has lost control to an extremely dangerous level and whose mutations have clearly appeared in his body?

The atmosphere actually turned cold.

"Oh," it was Vita's sigh that broke the silence: "Don't be so embarrassed. If you have concerns, I can walk by myself."

The lion looked at him, thinking a lot for a while, but suddenly grinned: "Humph, you want me to treat my allies like this? It's like putting me on the fire to roast."

Then, she opened the door of the carriage, jumped down from the carriage, put her right hand on her chest, and bowed: "I hope you can forgive me for being rude."

"This is not rude, it is necessary for you to be vigilant as an investigator." Since they reconciled with each other, Vita boarded the carriage unceremoniously: "Also, I need to talk to you about our covenant."

The lion shrugged and got on the carriage.

But they didn't realize that under the cover of the fog, a red stream flowed out of the passage hole Vita had made in the palace wall. The stream was so thin that it could barely soak a corner of the horseshoe.

It dries down completely and blends in with the dark ground.

Accompanied by the sound of whips breaking through the air, the horses took a deep breath of fog and drove forward somewhat staggeringly, disappearing behind the fog.

On the palace wall, a jade-like elf suddenly poked his head out, almost biting his lips: "Dog human, damn, bastard, pig, I almost fell into trouble again in your hands... Hey

, Hahaha, after staying with you, a human dog, for so long, I actually forgot that I still look good."

Behind her are two palace guards who were caught off guard and were charmed. Now, her illusion magic has been exposed. With targeted prevention, the effect will be greatly reduced or even zero.

A sharp whistle sounded, and the two guards showed an expression of bravery to die, facing the wall, intending to use their bodies to guard the hole in the palace wall.

Tita left, and gunshots rang out. The elf's mind was filled with Vita's disgusting face. From the beginning to the end, she never looked back at the two guards.

…

The carriage was leisurely and slow. The shadow driving it waved to Vita, while the orange-haired lion sat opposite Vita and Abby, holding his hands with a complicated look on his face: "Are you wearing perfume? Why are you like this?

fragrant?"

It turns out that she really smells good, and Vita thought it was just the elf's teasing before. After all, theoretically, like herself, Tita saw everything that the Emperor of Heaven experienced through her own darkness, and there was a layer of darkness between them.

, but I can’t smell it.

Pressing down the doubt in his mind, Vita pointed to his right eye: "It probably smells like this."

The lion showed a clear look: "To be honest, except that it looks a bit...a bit special, I don't hate the taste."

Abby poked Vita's waist: "She is saying you are ugly."

Vita grinned, rubbed Abby's head, looked at the lion, and said seriously: "So, about our covenant..."

"If you want to say something like breaking the covenant, just stop it." The lion crossed his legs and waved his hand.

Vita shrugged: "It's useless if you don't want to cancel it. Now I just want to live quietly and wait for Xue Yan to come and kill me, but I have no intention of killing the female governor in Hereford and the unknown person."

The missing emperor."

"It doesn't matter, as long as our covenant is still there," the lion smiled: "I will arrange a place for you to stay in the imperial capital as agreed. I will also help you when you decide to take action."

"What if I never take action?"

"Then I will do my best to ensure your safety in the imperial capital."

"Thank you, just protect Xue Yan and the others until they come to the imperial capital." Weita nodded, it was a contract with all benefits, why not continue?

The carriage was a little bumpy, but the lion seemed to have gotten the result she wanted. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he even hummed softly.

Vita listened to the lion's song, and when the singing gradually stopped, she finally couldn't help but asked: "Is my reaction also in Abyss' prophecy?"

"How is that possible?" The lion narrowed his eyes slightly: "Again, the favor of Abyss is to find the best thing we can do within our capabilities when we want to achieve a certain goal. As for after doing it,

There is no way of knowing how the situation will develop and whether the final result will be successful."

Vita thought of Abyss, who committed suicide once in a certain world line at the previous auction. It turned out that the nervous old man didn't know that he could be resurrected?

"You are really a bunch of gamblers." Vita sighed.

The lion shrugged: "There is someone in my team who dares to pretend to be the god of gambling. Maybe he has infected us into crazy gamblers."

"Who? God of Gamblers?"

"Oh, his name is Henry. Do you remember? The one who saved you once at the auction by digging a hole in the ground and drawing a false floor."

Favor is the Henry who made extremely realistic paintings?

"Of course I remember, he also joined your team?" Vita nodded, realizing that the smooth escape from the palace should be largely due to the lions and others: "Who else is in your team?"

"Tlazor, and her evil gentlemen with lanterns."

Oh, unknowingly, the lion's team has really grown: she, Shadow, Abyss, and Henry, and even roped in Trazor. But what about her side? Only she and Abby are left to depend on each other.

They are truly dependent on each other. I can think normally now only because of Abby's help. If I pull out the umbilical cord from my eye socket, I'm afraid it will be okay to become stupid, but I'm afraid I won't go crazy in an instant.

However, so what if the Lion's lineup is strong? The Emperor's ability has been confirmed to be playing with time, able to pause and go back; even if the remaining middle-aged Emperor's vitality is seriously injured, with this unreasonable ability to play with time,

What effect can it have?

Moreover, even if the Emperor was really seriously injured to the point of death, there would still be Stephanie who was still in full swing.

What's more, now that I am more desperate than ever, I am almost synonymous with waiting to die. I can't even raise any special hostility towards the elf Tita who is right in front of me, let alone the emperor who is so far away.

and the Governor.

If the lion feels satisfied, so be it.

Vita stopped talking and the carriage continued to move forward.

And it seems that because of the identity of the shadow and the orange-haired female investigator in front of them, at this moment when everyone was nervous, they did not encounter any special difficulties. The journey was smooth, and no one even came to search the car.

No, aren't these investigators equipped with equipment such as cannonball beacons to automatically search for out-of-control persons?

"Ah, there are very few cannonball beacons equipped now," the lion replied: "These are extraordinary times, and there are too many things out of control. If anyone has a cannonball beacon, the entire imperial capital will be demolished."

"There are a lot of things out of control? How many? There won't be so many that a monster like me can't be detected by some device in the Imperial City even if I walk on the road, right?"

During the chat, the carriage has been traveling very far, for a long time. Now, its speed is gradually slowing down, as if it has reached its destination. Some kind of noise is faintly coming from outside the closed window of the carriage, one after another, but it is not clear.

.

What is the sound?

"It's really undetectable," the lion smiled, throwing two crow masks to Vita and Abby: "Put them on, you will understand."

The crow mask can hide his inhuman face. Vita carefully put it on himself and Abby, trying his best to hide the umbilical cord as deeply as possible.

The lion opened the carriage door, like opening the curtain on the huge stage of the imperial capital.

Thick mist mixed with sounds that were not clear just now rushed in. Even with the crow mask on, Weta had the illusion of being suffocated.

Then, he got out of the car under the guidance of the lion, but at this moment, he was hit on the shoulder.

Vita heard the sound clearly and saw clearly what hit his shoulder.

The sound turned out to be coughing one after another.

The person who bumped into Vita's shoulder was just an ordinary pedestrian walking in a hurry.

This is a sidewalk where people are almost rubbing shoulders with each other. On the other side of the fog, traffic policemen wearing simple masks are trying their best to wave their light sticks in the gray, trying to divert the surging crowd to no avail.

Not everyone can have a mask at a time like this.

So Vita actually felt that the coughing and footsteps formed an unsettling symphony.

This is the center of a super city like the Imperial Capital. A busy and lively center, a center that never stops even on a strangely foggy day.

Vita was carrying Abby on her back and it was a little difficult to move.

So just because he wasn't paying attention, he was staggered around by the crowd, and was even almost carried by the crowd towards an unknown destination.

Fortunately, the lion reached out to give him a hand, forcibly separated the crowd, put his arm around Vita's shoulders, guided him, and said something in his ear, but it was caught in the coughs of passers-by who rushed towards him anytime and anywhere.

Not real.

In the sky, there is a rail train passing by, making a harsh rattling sound as it rubs against the rails. Someone on the high platform is shouting, trying their best to squeeze into the city train. Mixed with coughs, footsteps, and every pair of red eyes of passers-by passing by,

Vita suddenly felt like he was in a dream.

With this kind of weather and situation, 30 to 40% of people are coughing violently, why are you going out? Why don't you just stay at home?

Vita pursed her lips. Amidst the coughs, among the crowd, and between the lion and himself whispering incomprehensibly, Vita understood why this was happening.

Even though the coughing person is wearing a suit and leather shoes, he is just an ordinary person in the imperial capital, trying his best to work and live, that's all.

Live as hard as you can, work as hard as you can, and add their chaotic footsteps to this city that is faintly out of control.

What is out of control is the cough, the hidden plague within it, and the fact that the Emperor has overdrawn too much because of his ambition, and the country has become like a monster.

Perhaps because of this, the artillery beacon cannot find the bombing target at all.

Here, the residents of the glorious imperial capital;
Chapter completed!