Chapter 351 Something Terrible Is Happening, Ahua!

"But... it's ok, Otto, I can walk by myself."

After leaving the yard for a distance, Karen's strength recovered quickly, and she hurriedly broke free from Otto's arms, and the latter did not stop her.

"What happened? Who is that man... Do you seem to know him?"

Karen asked three questions in a row. For Otto, these questions were nothing. He could spend a few seconds to edit a half-true and half-false answer to cover it up...

But he looked at Karen, and a strange voice suddenly popped up in his mind: Look, the reason why your relationship with her is getting more and more distant is because what you did is unacceptable to her, or because you took the initiative to conceal it?

This is not an absolute choice between the two, but Otto feels that at least at this moment he thinks so-when facing questions that cannot be told frankly, instead of constantly burying the truth with lies and showing her a completely false "Otto", it is better to refuse to answer in the most direct way.

"I'm sorry... I may need some time to tell you a lot of truths... Karen, are you willing to wait for me again?"

Karen was caught off guard by this sudden honesty. After a brief moment of daze, she nodded vigorously:

"Then... you must keep your word."

Feeling that the distance between the two of them had narrowed a little again, Otto felt mixed emotions for a while - happy, of course, but when he considered that if he had been so honest from the beginning, the two of them might not have unconsciously pulled such a big distance apart, he inevitably felt sad...

He looked back at the yard just now. Since they left, there has been no movement from there. He breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Karen, you go into the house first to take care of Vera. She was scared just now. I'll take a look at the situation outside."

"Hmm..."

Karen wanted to refuse. As a Valkyrie, how could she let others stand outside to protect her? But she had some strength now, but it was just "some strength". The "constraints" imposed by the man on her still exist. Without the ability to control Honkai energy, her combat power will not be much stronger than Otto's.

Moreover, if the enemy is that man or the Red Kite Immortal, she will not be able to fight back even in her prime.

But Otto thought that she was adhering to the fine tradition of the Kaslana family and was going to continue to show off her strength when she was in deep thought. He only smiled bitterly and advised:

"Karen, I can't handle Vera's child. You still have to go..."

"I know."

Karen looked at him, blinked quickly, and then dragged her steps into the house alone.

Knowing that the wooden door was closed, Otto slowly turned around. He had a lot of questions to ask "Void Wanzang", and he had a lot of guesses waiting for "Void Wanzang" to confirm, but was this really the best time to face him?

The current situation is not very good. Although neither "Xukong Wanzang" nor the Red Kite Immortal, nor the Red Kite Immortal's apprentice, have any hostility towards them, who can say for sure about such things? For the existence of the former two, an ordinary person like Otto may just be an interesting toy. People certainly won't have any hostility towards toys, and of course they won't have any love for them...

And if they need to kill people for various reasons...then naturally there will be no hesitation.

"This is Taixu Mountain's own business. You two have special identities, so it's better not to get involved."

Well said, if things are really as simple as "Xukong Wanzang" said.

Since he went up the mountain yesterday, he noticed that the atmosphere of Taixu Mountain was a little abnormal. He didn't want to and didn't need to get involved in the master-disciple dispute in this distant Shenzhou, but now it seems that it is impossible to get out.

Not to mention other things, just the fact that he brought "Xukong Wanzang" to Taixu Mountain completely made him lose the possibility of staying out of it.

Otto certainly didn't like this passive situation of waiting for all the results. If he could choose, he would certainly choose to take the initiative to do something to gain a chance when he was destined to be unable to escape. But "Void Wanzang" didn't even give them this chance to struggle.

Whether it was "Void Wanzang" or the Red Kite Immortal, the power they showed had completely shattered Otto's cognition over the past twenty years. Before that, he once thought that no matter how powerful humans were, they were just at the level of Francis, Kallen's father. But when he saw Kallen, the strongest Valkyrie of destiny, was unable to fight back when facing the two of them, he clearly realized that perhaps he was stupid enough not to even see a corner of the world in the past twenty years.

And the void left by Void Wanzang... uh, the data stored in the golden cube also fully proved this point. When Otto put his consciousness into the cube, it was like being thrown into an endless sea, a sea of ​​pure knowledge. Strangely, it did not have any retrieval measures, but Otto did not care. The only knowledge he wanted to know was obtained as soon as he entered it - that is, the story of a destroyed civilization.

In this case, he had some guesses about the identity of "Void Wanzang" - the first Herrscher of the previous civilization, Mikael, had the same ability as Otto himself got from the golden cube. In addition, the similarity between his appearance and the description made it almost certain.

But he had only seen the beginning of the story, and the rest still required a long process of searching and interpretation. Now, Otto no longer dares to think about what Mikael's purpose is. Of course he is curious, but the most important thing now is to protect himself, Kallen, and Vera...

What else can we do besides placing our hopes on others...

Otto's footsteps froze in place, and then he suddenly slapped his head - yes! That’s right! If you want to pursue a glimmer of hope, why must you take the initiative to approach danger?

Can't we just run down the mountain now while no one on Taixu Mountain can take care of them?

Otto quickly followed his habit and made a "theoretical verification" of this sudden idea, and the result was naturally completely feasible.

They followed the immortal on the way up the mountain. As long as they returned along the original path, they would not fall into the phantom formation. When the immortal brought them to China, he gave them a special communication. Even if they went down the mountain, they would not be arrested by the local officials...

Of course, this also means that they may be wanted... But with the level of Mikael and Red Kite Immortal, do you still need to be wanted if you want to take their lives?

Besides, they...

"No...why do I think so?"

Otto leaned against the courtyard wall and gently held his head - many of his thoughts at the moment were not very coherent from the perspective of logical reasoning, and there were even contradictions. This was quite different from his usual clear thinking. A long way from each other...

"Is this...is this true? Mikael, what do you want to do?"

He quickly figured out the whole story - of course the abnormality in his thinking was not that his brain was broken, but that Mikael, who had mastered the ability of consciousness, had left some psychological hints for him in the encounter just now. The only way to explain it.

"But...why did he do this?"

Otto believed that Mikael would not be unreasonable. Since he had imposed such a psychological suggestion on himself, it must mean that he needed Otto to do this... He wanted Otto to do this...

How about this time, should we follow his hint?

Of course Otto didn't want to be another person's tool or puppet, but reality did not allow too much time for hesitation and thinking. He quickly made a choice - he quickly ran back to the door of the house and pushed the door open:

"Karen, take Vera, let's go down the mountain quickly!"

Otto's gloomy expression startled both Kallen and Vera, but Kallen had no reason to refuse Otto when it came to going down the mountain.

This was, before she had time to respond, she saw Otto rushing back to his room in a hurry, and quickly ran back with a scroll in his hand.

"Just bring the pass, come with me quickly!"

Kallen is still ignorant and knows nothing about what happened on the mountain, so naturally she can only obey Otto's decision.

She put Vera on her shoulders, but Otto snatched Vera away. They ran all the way, passing by the empty martial arts arena, and soon came to the edge of the trail that went up the mountain.

In order to prevent being disturbed by others, the road up the mountain was set up with hundreds of forks. If you take a wrong step, you will lose yourself in the illusion. This has successfully blocked Taixu Mountain in the past thousands of years. Too many visitors.

But the way down the mountain is different. All roads branch upward. This means that there is actually only one way down the mountain. Just go all the way to the end. It is easier than Otto thought before... Wait a minute, the fork. ?

Something flashed through Otto's mind, but he couldn't catch it immediately, so he could only take steps with a vague understanding.

The trail down the mountain was more than two miles long. In Kallen's current condition, it was hard to say she was not forced to walk down such a long trail in one go.

However, as time went by, the "restraints" Kallen was subject to slowly disappeared, and her physical abilities offset each other, rounding off to approximately no change.

After running like this for about ten minutes, he saw that the surrounding mountains were getting gentler and gentler, and not far away was the last fork in the road. Otto grabbed Karen, put down Vera on his shoulders, and sat down on the stone steps. He gasped for air.

Although he has done many experiments on himself, his physical constitution is not very good. Even if he is half Shaniyat blood, it cannot change the fact that he is weak and sick since he was a child, not to mention carrying a heavy weight on his shoulders. A Vera... He ran continuously for such a long time, and it was still downhill. He almost burst his lungs and his legs were shaking. After he sat down, he never wanted to stand up again.

It was such a short moment of respite that gave him time to look for the bright spots in his mind that he had not been able to find before——

Fork in the road?

A ridiculous idea came to mind: It couldn't be... that Mikael wanted to use him, the person who knew the route up the mountain, to lead the way for someone... right?

It has to be said that his intuition has been quite accurate recently. Before he could refute that ridiculous idea in his mind, he saw an extra... monster at the fork in the road not far away?

The man's face couldn't be clearly seen due to the hood, but the wagging tail behind him was a real presence.

"not good!"

Karen once again clutched the cross necklace on her chest, but this time, Otto held her hand down in time.

"Don't... don't. Let's observe first. She shouldn't be able to see us."

A deep sense of powerlessness flooded Otto's heart again. Why could Mikael's plan be so accurate in time? Could it be that, in the face of such a being, he could only be a tool and a chess piece?

The path was obscured by the phantom mist of Yu Duchen. Visitors could not see the specific situation above, and could only vaguely see two bifurcated roads. However, when Otto and the others looked down from above, they could see the movements of the "monster". Got it crystal clear.

Just when Otto was still hesitating whether to obey the task assigned by Mikael again, he saw the monster take out a shiny silver coin from his arms.

She stood at the fork in the road and muttered something. Then she flicked her thumb and the silver coin rolled around in the air. Finally, she pressed it back into her palm with a "pop".

"Front left, tail right, front left, tail right, front left, tail right, open! Hey! Left!"

I don’t know if I should praise her for her good luck. She chose the same path that Otto and Kallen took.

She took a step towards the right path, then held her forehead, and when she raised her head again, her strange-colored pupils stared directly at Otto, Karen and Vera.

"Huh? You three are the one that Boss Mikael said...that...that what?"

Pado held her chin and whispered softly, but unfortunately she couldn't remember what Mikael said. In the end, she succeeded in shouting the title naturally with muscle memory:

"boss!"

"Who are you……"

Kallen was a little confused. Vera's eyes followed the tail of the cat that kept swinging behind Pado. Only Otto, even though the girl in front of him didn't finish what he said, he still understood what the other party meant——

"You want to say, guide, right?"

Otto said this word tiredly.

"Ah, yes, yes! In short, that's what it means! Fortunately, the three of you are here waiting for me! Boss Mikael mentioned it to me before, I will choose the first fork in the road after tossing a coin. Seeing you, I'm still thinking, if that's the case, why don't you just wait for me at the first fork in the road? Although we always have good luck, it would be bad if we make the wrong choice, Ah Hua. Yu Duchen will not be lenient to us... But after all, Boss Mikael is Boss Mikael, and he will take care of everything..."

Having said this, the girl in front of her suddenly lowered her head and uttered an imperceptible murmur:

"It would be great if such ability could come earlier..."

But she quickly raised her head again, with a smile on her face:

"Okay, okay, please, the two bosses and this little boss can help us lead the way!"

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"Mikael, you-"

Seeing Mikael constructing the Black Abyss White Flower, Hua finally couldn't sit still.

"The only good thing about the mountain today is that no one was bleeding."

Holding her breath, she said this wordlessly.

Of course she believed that Mikael had his own considerations and sense of proportion, and besides, she had given the power to make decisions into Mikael's hands. But she also knew that Mikael's sense of Su Mei was not much better from her perspective, and in the end, she still couldn't help but want to protect her apprentice, even though the two were already at war with each other...

After all, that is the instinct of being a master.

But she also knew that such feelings were somewhat silly from the perspective of Mikael or Su Mei, so she could only make such an obvious yet subtle hint.

"Okay, okay, everyone knows you protect your apprentice."

Mikael chuckled lightly, "But Hua, if I really want to take action, I don't need to take out a weapon, right?"

Hua pursed her lips, it seemed that was indeed the case.

In that case, why did Mikael take out the Black Abyss White Flower?

In fact, as long as you calm down and think about what he said before, Hua will soon understand what he wants to do.

"Perhaps for you now, what you get is more like a reward than a punishment, but only after you have truly been baptized by those times will you know what kind of torture you are enduring today."

Su Mei was still in a daze. With her intelligence, she even guessed what Mikael was going to do earlier than Hua, but she didn't believe that it was something that could be done with human power...

"No...don't!"

Seeing Mikael raising the spear high, the youngest Yanqing suddenly rushed out and stood in front of Su Mei resolutely. Then with a sigh, Lin Chaoyu stood in front of Yanqing again.

Soon, Wanxi, Wanru, and their junior sister Suyi came over and stood together with everyone. Only Lingshuang was still squatting in the corner, carefully looking at the fragments of the Key of Dominance. When she found that she was surrounded by It was only when no one was there that she could react. She didn't say anything, she just held the fragment of the Key of Control between her two fingers and stood beside her senior sister.

"One person is responsible for the work, and the fault for this matter is all mine. I will bear the responsibility alone..."

Su Mei raised her head and was roughly interrupted by Chao Yu in the middle of her words:

"Then, you live forever alone and watch us grow old one by one?"

Su Mei stared blankly at the back of her senior sister, not knowing for a moment whether she really wanted this "punishment" or just said it casually to lighten the atmosphere.

But Mikael did not give anyone a chance to go back on his words:

"Very good. At least you know that we share the same difficulties... Then, let's appreciate this 'gift' that no mortal can ask for!"

After the words fell, nothing happened in the room, but everyone felt that their bodies had changed.

Hua looked at the backs of his disciples with a complicated expression, but he was increasingly confused about what Mikael was planning. Could it be that in the future he wanted, he still needed their strength?

"Huh?"

Hua frowned and suddenly cast his eyes towards the closed door. The next moment, the door was pushed open unceremoniously, and a familiar loud voice overwhelmed all other sounds:

"Something bad is happening, Hua... Eh? Boss Mikael is here too..."