After Lumian failed to blow up Charlotte with a fireball, he saw countless branches and vines drilling into the Golden Rooster Hotel from all directions, crawling all over the walls, floors, windows, and ceilings, intertwining brown and green, airtight.
With such changes, the scenes around him were instantly illusory and returned to substance.
He saw a huge brownish-green tree, its roots deeply embedded in the earth, its crown growing slowly high into the sky.
Lumian's pupils dilated sharply, and he found that he had been unknowingly shifted, as if he had entered the "other world" without noticing it every time.
He was no longer inside the Golden Rooster Hotel, he was stepping on the roots of the knotted trees all over the ground, looking up at the giant tree and oil paintings that seemed to come from myths and legends.
The giant tree was covered with disgusting, wet tumors, and each branch seemed to carry a building, a road, and something.
The Golden Rooster Hotel is one of them, located at the top of a brownish-green tree trunk upwards, entangled with a large number of branches and vines, revealing only a dozen windows.
Through those windows, Lumian saw the eloping couple verbally abusing each other, moving wildly, and the intelligence dealer Anthony. Rhett was occupied by fear and shrank under the wooden table, trembling......
On other tree trunks, most of the things wrapped in branches, leaves and vines present a wonderful sense of blur and haze, just like watching a drama recorded by a magnetic field through the fog:
There are ancient buildings with triangular friezes, herringbone roofs, and windows with lead bars; there are women holding on to gas street lamp poles and being held from behind; there are priests standing in front of naked men; there are men who jump out of the glass window with their buttocks covered; there are graceful curves that are carried to the dining table by the tray; there are happy parties with laundry thrown everywhere; there is an evil beauty who suddenly turns sideways and grows two black horns; There are bishops who receive confession from believers naked in front of the emblem......
In different scenes, the architectural style, the clothing of the characters, and the hair styles are all different, some are full of age, and some seem to have happened yesterday.
While burning the wound to stop the bleeding, Lumian condensed a semi-illusory red fire crow behind his back, and quickly looked around, but couldn't find Franka.
Franka was not transferred to this place between the real and the unreal!
On the chaotic street, the vendors and pedestrians between the roots, branches and vines, some ate the food they sold in large mouthfuls, and continued to eat until they vomited and did not stop......
Outside these streets, pedestrians and carriages passed normally, and there was nothing unusual in their eyes - the vendors were still selling, and the shops on both sides were all open, and the people shuttling between them seemed to be addicted to such excitement and were reluctant to leave.
What they didn't notice was that no one who entered the area came out again.
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Market Avenue, the fourth floor of the earthy yellow building of the congressman's office.
Yuge. Artois looked at the streets not far away, not knowing what he was thinking.
The red-haired Cassandra looked back at the door and asked with a little curiosity:
"What exactly does Susanna of 'Bliss Society' want to do?"
Yuge. Artois smiled and said:
"They said a lot, but I didn't have enough knowledge to hear it very clearly, and I only remembered that they planned to let the divine tree underground plunge down into the depths of Trier in the Quaternary Age, and extend up into a place called the astral realm."
Cassandra, Rhone, Marguerite, and Baudouis looked at each other, and said with confusion and worry:
"Will this cause too much noise? There is still a big gap between our strength and the official extraordinary, it is best not to conflict with them directly, you may not know very well, but I am from the Sauron family, I know the official situation very well, and I know how exaggerated and terrifying their strength is.
"Everything we did before was carried out in secret, trying to avoid investigation, really exposing ourselves to the sun, and it is likely that we will be greeted by the saints, which are '1' level seals, and above that, there are angels, and '0' level seals."
Yuge. Artois pressed down with his right hand and said with a smile:
"Don't worry, they can't implicate us.
"I didn't instruct them to do this, and I didn't even hint or help, I could only be regarded as knowing their plan in advance and acquiescing to their actions.
"In the whole thing, the only thing that can have anything to do with us is the explosion of the chemical plant that brought more gifts of decay, but that was Bono. Goodwell misunderstood what Rhone meant, he committed an unforgivable crime, and what does it have to do with us as for the various emotions and desires brought about by the accident being exploited, magnified, and snowballing to accumulate the nutrients they need?"
Seeing that the expressions of the team members were all relieved, Yu Ge. Artois left the window and laughed in a low voice:
"If they succeed, it means that our cause has taken another solid step forward, and we are closer to ushering in the arrival of great beings, and if they unfortunately fail, then we will restrain ourselves a little during this time, and try not to be found by the extraordinary people of the two major churches, we are still the rulers of the market area.
"Whether they succeed or fail, it's our opportunity.
"I will accuse the extraordinary people of the two major churches of being corrupt and mediocre during the congressional discussion, and have allowed the cultists to destroy the market area again and again, getting worse and worse every time!
"I would ask the Eighth Board to set up a branch directly in the market area to help the incompetent Church Extraordinary people share the heavy lifting.
"The Eighth Innings, which have always been keen to expand their power, will definitely support me in doing so.
"At that time, there will be three different official forces in the market area at the same time, and there will be many conflicts between them, which will be more conducive to our work.
"Compared with the orthodox extraordinary people of the two major churches, the people of the eighth bureau belong to the type that can win over, erode, and induce a change of faith little by little.
"This is my plan, and in the long run, victory will definitely belong to us!"
Secretary Ronne, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses and her hair was neatly combed, laughed:
"This is what I do best."
Co-opting, eroding, and corrupting, allowing an organization to gradually decay and degenerate.
Yuge. Artois tidied up his tuxedo and bow tie on his chest, and walked towards the office door, preparing to go to the banquet hall.
Before leaving, he looked around, his eyes moving from the faces of Cassandra, Rhône, Baudouis and Marguerite, his heart unusually confident and determined.
All four of these minions have extraordinary abilities that are not weak, and the red-haired Cassandra is particularly strong, making him feel a sense of security.
And outside the door, near the stairs, there was an official Extraordinaire squad responsible for protecting him.
——Not every member of Congress can be protected by a three-person squad, some members themselves are powerful extraordinary people, some are from noble backgrounds, with their own extraordinary bodyguards, some have a certain strength, and only need to provide an extraordinary person to follow is enough to ensure his safety, only Yuge. Only people like Artois, who have neither extraordinary abilities nor family support, need this level of protection.
According to the regulations, the "Eternal Sun" Church, the "God of Steam and Machinery" Church, and the Eighth Bureau will take turns sending a three-person team to protect Yuge. Artois is safe, today it is the turn of the "Eternal Sun" Church.
In addition to the extraordinary level, there are ten highly trained professional security personnel with firearms in the entire building, all from the Seventh Bureau of the Intis Intelligence and Homeland Security Commission, the Special Service Bureau, which is responsible for providing basic protection to members of Congress and senior government officials.
Yuge. Artois stood at the door, waiting for his secretary Rhone to open the door, then smiled, raised his head slightly, straightened his chest, walked out, and went down the stairs.
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The earth was full of knotted roots.
Lumian, who was surrounded by a half-illusory fire crow, saw the heroine Charlotte of the Old Pigeon Cage Theater again. Calvino.
She strolled performantly among the illusory scenes of different tree trunks, sometimes wearing long tunic skirts and old-fashioned buns, sometimes tight skirts, small coats and boots as is popular now, and sometimes as if returning to the reign of the Sauron royal family, priding herself on her masculine dress, which perfectly fits the corresponding background.
In the process, as soon as she leaves an illusory scene through the fog, she will flash to another place, as if she is walking through Trier in different eras.
Under the light of the misty gas street lamps, Charlotte smiled at Lumian:
"You should feel honored that you are the first heretic to enter the interior of the Divine Tree and become one with it."
The crimson fire crows around Lumian remained silent, as Charlotte kept flashing, haunting different illusory scenes, "changing" different costumes.
Her voice came from all over the place, combining into words.
Lumian's palms were quietly put on black gloves, and his right palm was in his pocket, holding Mr. K's fingers tightly.
Charlotte introduced in an aria way, as if this was not enough to satisfy her inner desires:
"This 'Shadow Tree' was planted here before the current construction of Trier, planted underground.
"It nourishes the people of Trier with joy, and with the help of the demon family and all the devout believers, the atmosphere here is gradually transformed in the direction that the gods want to see, and the Triers have lived up to it, depravity and enjoyment are human nature, and they water it with all kinds of desires that exceed limits year after year, providing it with nourishment.
"More than a thousand years have passed, although Trier has not yet developed to the expected appearance, joy is supreme, and indulgence is to death, but it also has a certain prototype, and the growth of the divine tree has reached a critical moment.
"In this case, simple desires and emotions can no longer play a major role, they can only be used as firewood, we need a sacrifice, a sacrifice of sufficient weight, and you with angelic level pollution and lack of matching power are the best choice!"
Hearing this, Lumi was shocked, her pupils dilated instantly, as if she wanted to see Charlotte's appearance clearly.
Does she know that I have the power of fate sealed in me?
Charlotte smiled:
"The first time High Priest Suzanne was summoned by you, she found that there was a terrifying power of angelic persons sealed in your body, and she didn't dare to attach it to you.
(End of this chapter)