Endless Silver Machine

The cleanup operation against the Nemesis Society has entered its fifth day.

According to the intelligence department of the Imperial City Defense Bureau, most of the Nemesis Society's strongholds in the Imperial City are located in the northwest district, which explains why they have the ability to manufacture so many super-standard magic tools.

The Northwest District investigated and dealt with some development agencies that had transactions with the Nemesis Association, but they only sold failed products to the Nemesis Association and did not constitute a direct threat to the security of the imperial capital.

In desperation, the Imperial City Defense Bureau could only readjust its plan.

"Then, let's go back first."

Aika left Ruth's office, and Lolo was already waiting for him in the hall.

Shun and Liuyin had already taken Ling and Wei Xi home first. During this period, there were no battles that required their assistance. Most of them were search missions for which they had no experience, so they spent most of their time in the headquarters building coordinating with the intelligence department.

"Will Shun come to pick us up again?"

"He said let's walk back slowly."

"Have you never thought about taking the regional train back?"

"I don't really want to do this."

Luoluo chuckled lightly, and Aika immediately knew that she must have a small calculation in mind.

But on second thought, this doesn't seem so bad. During this period of time, everyone rarely has time to enjoy their own time. It is also a common wish for Luoluo to want the two of them to be alone for a while.

"I see."

"Eh?"

Luoluo, who had long known that his little plan was exposed, did not expect that Aika would go along with the situation, but Aika held his hand, and this feeling of peace of mind was indeed by his side.

"Let's go."

"Um!"

The tears in her eyes showed Luoluo's mood at the moment. She had been waiting for this time for a long time.

Even Luoluo himself is not sure whether this feeling is just admiration for his brother or other feelings.

Because of fear of knowing the truth. If it was really something other than admiration, it would definitely trouble Aika.

Hoping to maintain such a mutually dependent relationship is the only wish Luo Luo has in her heart and what she wants.

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In the distance, one can see the towering roof of the Imperial City Defense Bureau headquarters building and the setting sun that is about to sink into the horizon. Aika and Lolo have walked a long distance along the street.

Although their work for today is over, the Imperial City Defense Bureau's operations are still continuing.

Luoluo's job in the Imperial City Defense Bureau was to take care of the returning wounded - although there were no injured people in the mission during this period.

The Nemesis Society was like an invisible giant hand, moving them from here to there, and then back to here. This war seemed to be just a chess game.

However, the core association has never revealed its true identity, which makes Luoluo feel uneasy.

"Miss Ruth thinks there is a problem with the intelligence."

Ruth and Aika just discussed this issue alone, and this possibility cannot be ruled out. The Nemesis Society was originally hidden in the fog, and all plans could only be implemented based on the intelligence compiled by the Intelligence Department.

Although this operation has achieved results on the surface, it has never touched the Nemesis Society in the slightest, and it is just hovering on the edge.

"Does that mean the current information is wrong?"

"That's not the case. The intelligence is not wrong, it just may have led us in the wrong direction. But I don't know exactly what happened. These are all Miss Ruth's speculations."

"elder brother……"

Hearing Luoluo's soft call, Aika looked at the girl next to her.

Her long sky-blue hair was dyed a layer of pale gold by the afterglow of the setting sun, and the blush on her cheeks was unclear whether it was due to the afterglow.

"Mom and dad don't know if they're okay..."

"It's been more than two months since we left home... But if they don't exist, we should be fine without us. And..." Aika hesitated for a moment, and finally decided not to avoid the question, "Although Our family may have had that background, but that's in the past. Whatever the past was, we're just living in the present time."

"...Brother, have you ever been afraid?"

"afraid of what?"

Aika cooperated with Luoluo and slowed down.

"It's the family background that my brother said..." Luoluo's words revealed her sorrow, "The human heroes during the 'Cross-border War' are now erased from history and live incognito in border villages. Why? The reason... Moreover, Sister Ling’s family has..."

"But the problem is just that if we think about it, we can't know anything. Dad never intended to tell us the truth from the beginning, otherwise we wouldn't have been kept in the dark."

"Although that's the case..."

This is an issue only discussed among family members, and Luo Luo felt a touch of melancholy in her heart at this moment.

It was as if he could already hear the beating of his own heart, and some words came out of Luoluo's mouth by accident.

"My parents must be very powerful people, right?"

"Maybe, but none of us have seen it."

Aika had never imagined his father picking up a weapon. In his mind, he was still just a village chief carrying farm tools on his shoulders.

Luoluo stopped, and Aika naturally stopped with her as she held her arm.

"If, I mean if... we are not real brothers and sisters, can we have children of our own?" Luoluo was looking down at his feet instead of looking at Aika's eyes, "Then they It will also be very strong, so strong that we no longer need to worry about the difficulties we are facing now?"

"Eh?"

The surrounding sounds suddenly became quieter. This was because Aika's brain refused to accept the noise from the outside world.

Luoluo's modest assumption required all of Aika's brain cells to understand.

Her cheeks had become redder than the sunset.

Aika didn't move or speak. The silence made the time between them almost stop.

Luo Luo finally couldn't control her tears anymore. Something in her chest made her breathless, but she didn't dare to raise her head and see Aika's expression at this moment. So she could only hide in Aika's arms, bury her face in his chest, and let out the emotions buried deep in her heart in a willful muffled voice.

Aika couldn't say anything. He had never considered what Luoluo was thinking. This assumption would not hold true, Aika had never imagined another possible relationship between them.

Now Aika's mind is almost paralyzed, and Luoluo can only rely on himself at this time. She was crying, and the trembling of the petite body in her arms affected his heart every moment.

But Aika couldn't even raise her arms to hug Luoluo's petite body.

My head was very heavy, my arms were also very heavy, and I couldn't use any strength at all.

Aika kept scolding herself in her heart, she must do something for her! Luoluo is his irreplaceable sister, how could he let her shed tears of sadness in front of him!

He tried hard to drive his numb body, and finally felt a familiar touch on his fingertips. Warmth, tenderness, the most important person to me is here right now.

The moment Luoluo was touched by Aika's fingertips, his body trembled slightly, but then he safely put his whole body into his arms.

--give up……

——The lost things still need to be found by yourself in the end. What you should hold on to now should be the things that have not been lost...

The effect of psychological suggestion was very obvious, and Aika gradually let go of her confusion.

He put more strength on his arm, regardless of whether it would cause pain to Luo Luo, he just didn't want to let go of Luo Luo.

Such a scene must be a very bizarre sight in the neighborhood. But the brother and sister didn't care about other people's eyes and hugged each other tightly.

Time passes naturally, and this is an extremely happy time.

For Luoluo, this will be an unforgettable moment in her life.

Pah pah pah pah——

Untimely applause broke out without warning.

Aika opened her eyes suddenly. Not far away from the two of them stood a man in white. His exquisite white dress and his youthful face made him look like a gentle nobleman.

"Only through a touching scene, beautiful feelings will exude the same sweet flavor from the inside out."

Only then did Aika and Luoluo notice that there was no one on the street where people were coming and going just now.

The dishes on the open-air restaurant tables were still steaming, but the guests who were supposed to be sitting there seemed to have evaporated out of thin air.

Apart from Aika, Luoluo and the man in white, there is no fourth person in this area.

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Ling walked back and forth in the mansion hall several times.

Although he had just had dinner and taking a walk everywhere was really good for his health, Ling was not in the mood to take care of his figure at this time.

"What's going on, those two people? What time is it already!"

The source of anger is Aika and Luoluo who have not returned yet.

Of course, Wei Xi is also worried about the two people who have not returned yet. But under Liuyin's strong request, she was pulled into the bathroom without any resistance, and she didn't have time to worry about those two people for the rest of the time.

And Shun was in the cooking room, cleaning up the tableware used for dinner for Liuyin.

"What are those two people doing out there so late..."

Even the golden particles transformed by the Light Flame Sword seemed restless, floating around her. If Aika came in from the main entrance of the mansion at this time, she would definitely be shot dead mercilessly.

"Brother Shun!"

"What's the matter? Just tell me."

Ling's voice passed through the restaurant and reached Shun's ears, and Shun also responded to her across the restaurant. Probably because he couldn't make a move, Shun didn't come out of the cooking room to listen to Ling's instructions.

"Please bring the motorcycle out."

"Are you going to find Aika and Luoluo?"

"I can't drive, so I can only trouble you."

"Actually, don't worry. Nothing will happen even if you come back a little late. There are no loopholes in the security of the Eastern District of the Imperial Capital." But when Shun said this, he could also see Ling's persistence. It seemed that she had made up her mind, "Then you Wait for me, I’ll finish things here as soon as possible.”

"Wait, I'll go with you."

Liuyin's voice came from the bathroom.

After a while, she and Wei Xi came out of the bathroom, both of them blushing and wearing only a bath towel.

"At this time, they will definitely be holding hands and shopping sweetly on Zhongchen Street!" Liuyin puffed up his chest, which was not rising at all. "I suddenly wanted to disturb them."

"It's rare that Brother Aika and Luoluo can relax and don't disturb them..."

Wei Xi's dissuasion melted into the air like a breeze.

Ten minutes later, the motorcycle carrying everyone roared down the mountain road.

"Something feels wrong..." Liuyin, who was sitting in the passenger seat this time, frowned, "It seems like something is following us..."

"This is already the top speed, right? If anything can really catch up with this motorcycle, it can only be the legendary old woman."

Ling complained disapprovingly. At Liuyin's request, Shun increased the speed to the extreme. Thanks to Shun's driving skills, he did not overturn on the narrow and rugged mountain road.

Liuyin seemed to be prone to motion sickness whenever she sat in the back seat, but now she had no problem sitting in the passenger seat.

But this time, Wei Xi's face turned pale. Liu Yin explained that it was because she took a bath for too long and was on a motorcycle that was constantly being bounced by gravel on the road.

"But... Xiaoyin's feeling is correct, there is magic following us..."

"It's really not my imagination."

Wei Xi was able to detect the stalker in this situation, so she was worthy of being the strongest barrier magician in the Holy See.

"Then there's no need for us to continue hiding. Everyone, sit tight!"

With a flick of the steering wheel, the motorcycle turned into a forest path, running over countless bushes and rushing forward. Fortunately, this was a custom-made motorcycle bought at a large price, otherwise it would have broken down halfway.

At this moment, Wei Xi's eyes began to spin in circles, and Ling quickly touched her back gently, threatening her not to spit it out with a "ferocious look on her face."

“Stop, stop, stop!”

Liuyin suddenly grabbed Shun's steering wheel, jumped out of the driver's seat and slammed on the brakes. The motorcycle swayed left and right and rushed out of the forest path, and finally parked the motorcycle safely on the side of the road.

Immediately afterwards, a crimson ray of light passed by, and the path they were preparing to move forward was covered with lava with a temperature as high as a thousand degrees.

"that is……"

Ling noticed it first. This was the reappearance of the magic train explosion.

It's just that the scale this time is far smaller than that of that time, because there is no need to go to war like that to target motorcycles. If Liuyin hadn't braked in time just now, they would have undoubtedly turned into that pool of lava now.

They immediately gave up on the broken down locomotive. The next moment they left the locomotive, the parked locomotive was also hit by the same red-red bow and arrow, causing a violent explosion.

"Bastard," Liuyin immediately raised his hand and fired sharp ice pick projectiles deep into the jungle where the attack came from. "It seems that the other party has no intention of letting us go."

As soon as the ice pick shot approached the jungle, it was blocked by a red light strip. The light ribbon floated up and down in mid-air, showing its true appearance.

"chain?"

"No! That's not an ordinary chain, it should be a magic outfit!"

Unlike Shun, who was not a magic equipment holder, Ling immediately noticed the special magic wave emanating from the chain.

There seems to be some kind of magic resonance between the magic costumes, so the identities of the magic costume holders cannot be hidden from each other.

Ling had felt like this when Aika was using the Fiery Eyes. But at that time, I didn’t know that Aika’s twin guns were magic weapons, so I didn’t take this phenomenon to heart.

"Failed..." A childish and unmotivated voice came from the jungle, seeming to be just talking to himself, "Just try again..."

As if obeying the call of its master, the red chains like a steel snake raised its body.

The owner of that childish voice did not show up, but she put enough pressure on the four of them with just her magic costume.

Liuyin grasped the spear made of natural ice elements, and Shun raised the ice-condensed two-handed sword of the same structure.

"Let's hold her down. You two should take a shortcut to a safe place and notify the Imperial City Defense Bureau. Can you do that?"

Liuyin lowered his voice and urged Ling and Weixi. She and Shun have a master-disciple relationship, and their cooperation is better than if Ling and Wei Xi were involved. Moreover, the strength of the other party is unknown, and it is very likely that he is related to the Nemesis Association, so reinforcements from the Imperial City Defense Bureau are necessary for the two of them.

"but……"

"Nothing but!"

"Ah wu..."

Liuyin was cruel to Wei Xi for the first time, but she really couldn't give up her position.

"Let's go now. You can bring Aika and Luoluo back. Anyway, don't waste time here!"

At this time, several crimson arrows shot out from the depths of the jungle, and Liuyin casually constructed numerous ice shields. The blazing arrows collided with the ice shields, causing thick water mist.

"I'll get you out of that pile of weeds right now!"

"What are you going to do?"

Ling rarely asked Wei Xi for advice. She recognized Wei Xi's judgment. If Wei Xi said she wanted to stay, then it wouldn't matter if she ignored Liu Yin's strong request.

"Let's go first, leave this place to Xiaoyin and Brother Shun..." But Wei Xi did not give the answer she expected, "Although I am also worried, I also believe in Xiaoyin... Friends must trust each other, Right?"

Facing Wei Xi's innocent smile, Ling could only acknowledge her sincere confession.

"You can say nice things occasionally."

Hiding the unnecessary worries in his heart for the time being, Ling and Wei Xi quickly left the scene.

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