Chapter 616 Fire
I thought that when the timeline came to the invasion of the abyss, the existing social order of the original waking world would fall apart in an instant. However, similar to the law enforcement system, royal family or rule class, and the standing All this continues in some eerie way in the church bell tower of the South.
Maybe, I mean maybe.
Perhaps the chaotic order of the abyss is not necessarily a scourge. At least for now, the waking world has not entered an era of national madness as predicted.
Who would have thought that in the "apocalypse" law enforcement officers are still trying their best to catch bad guys?
Of course, the main reason is that there is a wanted list with a reward in place.
And when people discovered that after crushing the "received" bounty (that is, those green crystals), they can obtain some kind of power that can be superimposed infinitely, they gave this crystal substance such a name - - "Dripstone".
In addition to ordinary dropstones, there are also dropstones, ancient dropstones.
Milo didn't even know who gave these classification settings, but no one questioned them.
Nowadays, people's acceptance limit of new things is ridiculously high. Even "lycanthropy" is no longer a big problem. It means that it is insignificant to other people except those with lycanthropy. The transformer himself cannot escape death.
Due to the existence of the strange bounty system, the real world has temporarily evolved into a fighting battlefield between the pursuers of Chaos Vision and the heretics.
It cannot be said that Milo created this alone.
But at least he deserves 80% of the credit.
To put it simply, the two sides fighting, whether they are wearing silver twilight or wearing three-cornered hats, no matter who loses or wins, in the end their faith is only for Milo.
Before Megao showed up, before Gherroth descended across the starry sky, and when many of the old days and ancient gods in the world were about to wake up, Milo had already taken the lead in launching the war of plundering faith. Schedule.
Apart from the relatively tasteless order revisions such as the famous "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" and "plank support attracts puppies", the main order of the waking world is not much different from the original one.
If this trend continues, it may not take too long before all the planks in the world will become extinct, and everyone knows why.
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However, although the main order has not changed much, the people living under the order have undergone drastic changes.
This was a very unpleasant disaster that Milo witnessed on the street early one morning.
The reason why the smell is strong is because it is essentially a fire, but the more reason is actually the reaction of people who pass by the fire scene.
That was the famous Rose Restaurant, where the old man of the Sherman family was blown up to the sky.
Now every window of the restaurant building with the founder’s face graffitied on the exterior is spewing smoke and fire.
In this era, the formal fire brigade has not yet been established, and the responsibilities of fire extinguishing are unevenly distributed on the shoulders of prison guards and law enforcement officers, but it is conceivable that these people only receive detection and killing training , the technology and knowledge reserves in extinguishing fires and rescuing people are so lacking that the law enforcement team once spent a lot of money to create a firefighting suit, just like that, the whole material is metal, and there is a 360-degree high water pressure on the head A device that sprays water on the body surface with a sprinkler head. Simply put, it is an iron can with its own water sprayer.
But after it was put into use, people realized how terrible the high-temperature water vapor was when water came into contact with fire. The seemingly impregnable iron can became the steamer of the fire extinguisher...
Of course this is just a useless extracurricular knowledge.
In the early morning, Milo did not see the scene of the law enforcement team rushing into the fire with metal steamers.
In fact, the law enforcement team did come, but they were just passing by.
Because the members of the Silver Dusk Cabin Club held a ceremony last night on the bank of the southern canal, it was said that they united with the Mi Go race to perform a sacrifice. It was not until early in the morning that the law enforcement team received the news and sent people to the scene. Go search.
So the fire at the Rose Restaurant was ignored.
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That picture is filled with a sense of harmony that should not exist.
Under the gray dome in the early morning, in a corner of the gray-blue city, the firelight on the building was particularly dazzling, and the rolling black smoke had already poured into the sky. What was strange was that passers-by and passing law enforcement teams were all It was very peaceful, and most people were just immersed in their way, and few people raised their heads to glance at the fire above.
If there is definitely no one in the restaurant building, then I can only sigh with emotion: "People in this city have big hearts."
But this is not the case, because as far as Milo knows, there are still people alive in the building, but looking at the intensity of the fire, they probably won't be able to survive for long.
Maybe this is another form of madness. It doesn't have to be nonsense or biting and dancing. Extreme calmness and indifference can also be madness.
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Perhaps the most ironic thing is that the person who can hear the wails and screams in the building most clearly is at this moment seriously considering the differences between sanity, fear and madness. Milo was immersed in this meaningless thinking, and for a time "forgot" what those wailing sounds represented.
And at the time when rain is most needed, the light rain in the early morning stopped untimely.
Standing with Milo on the side of the road to take shelter from the rain was a man carrying a briefcase. He stretched out his hand and found that the rain had stopped. He then lowered his head and looked at the time on his watch. It was probably I have already missed the morning shift, so I simply light up a cigarette and enjoy this moment of decadence for a while longer.
"Did you hear any prayers?"
The man stared at the black smoke-emitting building in the distance and asked Milo, who was not far away, such a strange question.
Milo did not look at the man. He listened carefully, then shook his head and said, "Not really."
"That's really strange."
The man blew out a puff of thick smoke into the humid air and said in a very polite tone: "Can I ask a question, sir?"
"Tell me about it." Milo said.
The man cleared his throat and began: "They say that the human body contains more than 70% water, so why don't people put out fires?" "This is good, this is good."
Milo must admit that even he was amused by the living King of Hell in front of him.
However, the man did not laugh. Instead, he looked at Milo with an expression of "What are you laughing at? I'm asking seriously." There was even a hint of Milo's answer in his eyes. A sense of anticipation.
After laughing twice, Milo began to feel something was wrong:
“So this is not a joke, right?”
“That’s really bloody.”
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……
The man had almost smoked two-thirds of his cigarette when he suddenly remembered that Milo next to him had been breathing fresh air, so he quickly handed over the cigarette:
"Oh, this is really rude, do you smoke? ?”
Milo waved his hand and said: “I can’t, thank you...”
But he didn’t even finish saying “thank you”.
Milo felt like he was hit hard by a speeding car.
No, at his level, cars would definitely not be able to hit him.
Hey, in short, I was hit hard and hit the wall behind.
And the thing that hit him was not a car, but a familiar figure.
The whole process is very...concise and powerful.
When Milo noticed her appearing in his field of vision.
Those fists had already hit his chest.
"What the hell are you thinking about?!"
The other party said these words viciously, then led people across the street, smashed open the glass door of Rose Restaurant and rushed in Fire scene.
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According to character design, this kind of resolute guy who dares to fight Milo is usually Rebecca.
But as mentioned before, the order has changed and the rules have changed. The real situation is that Rebecca has also been running for the bounty stone recently. She probably should or is vaguely aware that there is some kind of relationship between the bounty order and Milo. An inseparable relationship, or perhaps this is the kind of life rhythm that she most dreams of. Maybe in her perception, this is the job that Milo and Nero were doing before.
To go a long way, in short, it was Enid who pushed Milo aggressively and rushed into the fire after scolding him.
Sometimes it is so magical. A pure ordinary person gave a shadow-level old man a hard hit, and even made him fall into a trance for a moment.
Milo felt the anger coming from Enid.
How to describe it... It's probably an emotion mixed with disappointment, or more of a puzzlement.
Or, it could be considered a question.
She was asking Milo why he stood idly by across the street from the fire, and where his calmness came from.
In short, this is not pure anger, its ingredients are somewhat complicated.
However, what is strange is that when he felt the complex emotions conveyed by the other party, the first sentence that popped into Milo's mind was a line that was used to refute the other party but he did not have time to say it. But it was——
“But they clearly didn’t pray to me.”
But soon, Milo realized how outrageous this self-justification was.
He suddenly turned his head to look at where the strange passerby was standing before. However, the man who had handed him a cigarette not long ago was nowhere to be seen.
Looking around, the pedestrians walking in the gray streets and alleys were all wearing similar black coats and carrying briefcases. It was impossible to tell which one was him.
Milo frowned deeply.
He had a very bad feeling, as if he had been disgusted by something. It wasn't because of Enid's attitude. On the contrary, he was glad that Enid had yelled at him.
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Boom!
But soon, another explosion in the Rose Restaurant brought Milo's chaotic thoughts back to reality.
Soon after, the fire in the restaurant building went out without warning.
No one knows how the fire was put out, and most likely no one cares.
And that statement "They did not pray to me."
This is the first time Milo has felt fear since he became a shadow.
(End of this chapter)