Chapter 582 Interlude Destiny Headquarters: The Only Friendship

"Miss Su... Miss Sushang? If I remember correctly, it happens to be the Spring Festival in China. You..."

Arvette looked at the flawless smile two steps away and felt that her luck was extremely bad.

It's not that I'm afraid of the legendary leader of Taixu. You can figure out what kind of person he is by just getting along with him for ten minutes.

It's just that the complex situation Tianming is facing now cannot be summarized in one sentence. China's actions two months ago were not in line with the status of "Destiny's ally". This time Su Chang visited the Tianming headquarters without even issuing any form of warning in advance. Notified that her ship did not send a visit signal until the warning airspace a hundred kilometers away from Destiny. The Valkyrie in charge of patrol did not dare to make her own decision, so she brought her to Arvite, who was on duty today.

But what attitude should be taken towards the head of Taixu is really a headache.

"Well... Arvette! You should have heard that a big event happened in China two months ago - the Herrscher of Knowledge actually descended directly on Taixu Mountain. Although we responded in time, nothing happened It was a heavy loss, but it still took a lot of effort to clean up the mess afterwards..."

Su Shang straightened her hair, which was messed up by the strong wind from high altitude, and gave her answer in an orderly manner. But from Arvette's point of view, something seemed strange - it seemed that Miss Su Shang's gaze was not focused on her, but behind her.

Is there anything behind you? Arvite didn't want to cause any further trouble, so she could only bite the bullet and continue asking.

"Miss Sushang, is there any necessary connection between this and your sudden visit?"

Arvette asked cautiously.

If another person had said the same thing, Arvite would definitely think that the other person was taking advantage of Shenzhou's proper response to ridicule the miserable situation that the Destiny Headquarters faced earlier when it faced the sudden arrival of the Second Herrscher.

But since it is Miss Sushang, she will never have such intention - this is a judgment that anyone who is slightly familiar with Li Sushang can make.

"Hey! On New Year's Day, because I had to deal with the aftermath of that incident, I didn't come to visit you... Uh, how do you say that word? A routine state visit in the New Year... But Tianming and Taixu are not countries. , Forget it, can you understand what I mean? Isn’t this just a way to make up for the previous visit during the Chinese New Year!”

Su Shang smiled and spread her hands, a series of words came out of her mouth softly, but each word was clear, like the crispness of a string of beads falling into a jade plate, even if she was often teased by her comrades. Arvette, who had a lot of thoughts, had no choice but to comment deep down in her heart that she was "ashamed of herself".

"Well……"

Arvette hesitated.

Putting aside all personal emotional factors, Miss Sushang's words are not without flaws. At least there is one point - since it is to make up for a routine visit that should have come a month ago, why not inform Tianming in advance? If she hadn't happened to bump into the Valkyrie on patrol, maybe the Shenzhou spaceship had been shot down by a missile. Although Miss Su Shang went to the meeting alone, there was no need to worry about the harm to her entourage, but as soon as she thought of Miss Su Shang's car being shot down, then The way a man with frizzy hair and a sword flew to the headquarters of Tianming...

"Hehe...hehehe..."

"Arvette, what are you laughing at?"

Su Chang tilted her head and looked curiously at the B-level Valkyrie who suddenly started laughing non-stop.

This kind of thing reminded her of the prank played by the Herrscher of Knowledge a few days ago - thanks to this young man, she saw Uncle Ma smile so freely for the first time in five hundred years, and that smile appeared The face that had gone through many vicissitudes of life and was no longer as handsome as before became inexplicably wretched. It wasn't until Master Lin couldn't stand it anymore and went to complain to his master that the farce came to an end.

Of course, for Arvette, who didn't know Su Chang's inner activities, this simple greeting was a disastrous accusation.

"Ah...I...I..."

"Okay Su Shang, you also know how reckless your behavior is, so let's forgive Arvette's rudeness for the time being."

Suddenly, an all-too-familiar voice familiar to every destined Valkyrie sounded from behind her, but it was just a little more tired that was not easily noticed.

"Ahhhhh! Lord Bishop! When did you come!!"

"The Rakshasa has been here since the first question you asked. It's just that he asked me not to remind you. I'm sorry, Arvite."

Su Chang waved her hands grandly, as if she wanted to forgive Arvette, not the other way around.

"Okay, Arvite, you did a great job...but next, can you let Miss Sushang and I be alone for a while?"

"oh oh!"

Arvite finally reacted, and after a hurried salute, she consciously left the scene as quickly as possible.

"Pfft...he is really an interesting kid."

Chasing the Valkyrie's retreating back, Su Chang crossed her arms and deliberately used the mature tone she learned from her master and master.

What's the purpose of this? Is it to show your maturity to another person? Su Shang couldn't accurately grasp her own mentality.

But the Rakshasa didn't respond to her - not respond to her in any way.

Pushing aside her long hair that was blown again by the wind, Su Shang turned around, took two steps slowly, and walked to the man who had been alone for five hundred years.

Neither of them spoke. Su Chang was patient enough to stand with Otto at the hub of the floating port, feeling the strong wind filtered by the Destiny Shield, watching the transport planes coming and going, listening to the noise, but not being able to hear any of the human voices.

In fact, it might be good to keep it like this at this moment - knowing that if this assumption really happened, she would definitely regret it in the future, but she still couldn't help but let this thought fly for two or three seconds.

There was no cloud in the deep blue sky, and her mind was no longer supported in an instant. It was not until her sight gradually flattened that the observer realized that the clouds were only under her feet.

Recalling the time when she was just born, there were always people who fantasized that they could fly like birds. Humans are such arrogant creatures. There are always people who refuse to admit the species limitations brought by being born as humans, and instead pursue the impossible goal. Even if this goal will bring him to pieces...

But for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years, humans have indeed done this. God seemed to have bestowed some kind of blessing on human beings that was not obvious - in the long time, as long as human beings wanted, there seemed to be nothing they could not do in the end.

Isn't this the case? Just a few decades after human beings mastered the ability to fly, they flew to places that the birds they once envied could never fly to.

But how much meaning does this have for human beings?

"Heh..."

Otto Apokalis sighed helplessly, as if it was a signal, and the girl standing next to her also relaxed.

"Hey Rakshasa! Are you... a little bit wrong today?"

"Is there? Why don't I feel it?"

The man's voice was floating, no longer with the indispensable arrogance in the past, but like a rootless duckweed.

Girl - even if the other party was a thorough old girl, Otto still preferred to call her a girl or a girl in his heart, as if the other party had already known his real name, but still liked to call him [Rakshasa].

He actually knew the reason very well. In other words, Otto Apokalis is a name for everyone, but the Rakshasa is a secret between him and her.

Otto knew this very well, but he never took it to heart in the past five hundred years.

Only today was different.

He couldn't tell what the emotions that were surging in his heart were, just as he couldn't tell where the surging clouds under his feet would appear tomorrow morning.

"Hmm..."

The Rakshasa's reaction - he claimed that he was fine at the first time, but sighed between every breath, which made Su Shang sure that he really encountered some unsolvable problems.

After all, this was the first time she saw him like this since she knew him.

"You..."

[Speaking], such a simple thing became so difficult in an instant, not because it was impossible, but because it needed to be carefully polished to ensure that there would be no irritation in the language... In the end, she didn't know what was wrong with the Rakshasa.

"In the past, when you encountered this situation, you would definitely encourage Yalvette in the end, and give her some material rewards."

She could only say this.

"Oh. Was I so disgusting before?"

"?"

Unexpectedly, Su Chang's hand unconsciously grabbed Otto's sleeve.

As if he had expected the girl in front of him to have such a reaction, Otto turned sideways, loosened his blood-red tie, and asked with a smile on his face:

"Don't talk about me, what about you, Miss Su Chang. If it was a formal visit, you would have informed me in advance, and you would not come alone, right? Now is the Spring Festival of your Shenzhou. I heard that the Red Kite Immortal has returned to Taixu Mountain and summoned all the former Taixu Seven Swords, including your mother. Don't you Shenzhou people pay the most attention to reunion during the Spring Festival? Why did you come all the way to me?"

After saying this long string of words, the smile on Otto Apokalis's face had long disappeared. Not only did the thick-skinned Su Chang see that he was not right, he himself was not completely ignorant of it, or rather, he knew very well the reason for the change in himself. But he didn't expect that even his tone of voice had changed so much.

"My mother went back to Sichuan a long time ago."

Su Chang spread his hands indifferently.

"You should have a good relationship with your mother, right?"

"Yes, but the older she gets, the harder it is to understand her thinking. She prays to the gods every day... Forget it, I can't say bad things about my mother. You know my master, I can't handle it. As for my master uncles, how should I put it, our friendship is not that deep."

"But these are all excuses, right?"

"Uh..."

Su Chang wiped the sweat from her forehead, nodded helplessly, and admitted it.

"Honestly, Luosha, I don't mean to provoke you, but... it was indeed Mikael who asked me to come."

"..."

"You know, he has some friendship with my master, so he is also... in Taixu Mountain, well, he has been there for most of this period of time."

"You, just said it so frankly?"

"So what? The covenant between Tianming and Shenzhou does not include a joint fight against the World Snake. This girl found it overnight and read it word by word."

"Hehe."

Otto suddenly felt like laughing, and seeing the girl in front of him deliberately making a heartless smile like the one five hundred years ago, he actually laughed out loud.

Unlike the various fake smiles that he was already familiar with, this time the smile came from the heart, but the reason was unknown.

But it didn't matter.

"So, what did the man say to you?"

No! There's a problem!

Otto himself couldn't explain why he was so alert after hearing the man's name for several seconds.

But after another two seconds, he thought again that at this moment, he seemed to no longer be qualified to be the enemy of the other party.

"Uh..."

Su Shang's face suddenly turned red.

"Hmm?"

Otto frowned, sighed quickly, then took Su Chang's hand and said softly:

"Let's not talk about it here. It's winter, and your face is frozen red."

"..."

Su Chang slowly raised her empty hand and covered her cheek. The warmth from her palm was in stark contrast to the chill left by the wind on the back of her hand.

Otto lowered his head and stared at his hand silently. His hand grasped Su Chang's sleeve, without crossing the line.

But with a slight force, Su Chang's figure remained motionless.

"He didn't say anything to me, but just said... you may need me now."

"...Puff! What does he think of me? Do his descendants have to follow his old path? It's ridiculous."

Su Chang didn't understand what the Rakshasa was saying. But she could feel that the Rakshasa didn't seem to be as angry as he said.

Of course, there was a little anger, but more of it was something suppressed.

Although she had no spiritual perception ability, Su Chang felt that the heart of the Rakshasa people at this moment was very much like the sky before a summer rainstorm.

Low and heavy dark clouds, the warm wind that chased a few plastic bags and a few fallen leaves through the streets, and the stuffy air that made people feel like they were covered with a quilt soaked in sweat after taking a deep breath.

In this situation, she could only smile awkwardly.

The man of the master also said that the Rakshasa people needed her, but she didn't even know what the Rakshasa people needed at this moment.

"..."

It seems to be... I don't know?

Confused, yes, confused.

Somehow, Su Chang actually saw through the thick clouds and accurately grasped what was in the heart of the Rakshasa people.

But she couldn't believe that such a Rakshasa people would actually have a day of confusion?

"And you, Sushang. Just because of that man's words, you came all the way to Tianming? You are no longer the Sushang of five hundred years ago. Think about the Shenzhou you are carrying."

When Sushang came to her senses, she found that Luosha was scolding her.

But compared to the shame and anger that the criticized should have, Sushang's face showed a look of as expected.

"Luosha, you... seem to be particularly concerned about me today."

"?"

Otto silently let go of his hand, his eyes gradually dulled, as if he was thinking about when he went beyond the rules in today's interaction.

"Forget it, forget it, I am too lazy to pursue these!"

As if time had gone back to five hundred years ago in an instant, Sushang raised her hand and patted Luosha's arm lightly, wanting to take his hand like normal friends, but took it back at the last moment and cleverly put it behind her back.

"Rakshasa, come and tell me a story?"

"What?"

"You don't seem like the type to do everything yourself, do you? Otherwise, Amber would doubt her efficiency. Well, since you have time... come and tell me a story! And that red wine you always brag about, let me have a taste! Last time you instigated me, I was not yet an adult, but now it's different!"

Su Chang patted her chest hard, as if she was showing her growth to Rakshasa in this way.

"Didn't I tell you those things five hundred years ago?"

"Please Rakshasa! Don't you remember what you said five hundred years ago? I only got a rough idea from beginning to end, and you didn't even tell me the name of 'her'!"

Indeed, Otto did not mention Kallen's name on his own initiative, but with Su Chang's status, he could get the name with a little inquiry.

"Besides, I just asked you to tell a story, not that story! Those things... If I remember correctly, you told me at the end of the last century - what I want to hear now is your current thoughts, your current mood, or what happened?"

"Is that so..."

Unconsciously, Otto bit his lower lip lightly.

"Let's go, Miss Sushang. No matter what you want to hear, I will satisfy you, but only today, only in my office. So... follow me."

Otto took a half step back, leaned over slightly, and stretched out his hand to Sushang.

Sushang hesitated for a moment and put her hand on it, but then she was dragged forward by the Rakshasa half-forced.

Otto... Otto Apokalis was a little dazed.

Five hundred years ago, he handed over all the mundane matters of destiny to Ottovilla, but he devoted himself to an impossible task. The whereabouts of the bodies of Kallen and Eleanor were unknown. Fortunately, he had left their body tissues long ago and was sorting out the knowledge in the void. With the power of the Sixth God's Key, he successfully reappeared. The bodies of the two were killed - unfortunately, they were just two soulless bodies.

In order to understand the mystery of the soul, even though he knew that he would probably get nothing, he resolutely embarked on the road to find the Red Kite Immortal who had once met him.

From Klosten to Taixu Mountain, it is more than 99,900 miles. He had walked this road once when he was young, but the second time, carrying two coffins on his back, it was naturally not going to be an easy journey.

However, everything has changed since I encountered that apricot color in the yellow sand in the Western Region.

The journey is no longer long, boring and lifeless.

Now that he recalls that past, Otto's memory rarely has other colors.

Even in the end, as expected, he got a futile result, but he never felt in his heart that the short one-year relationship was meaningless.

He suddenly understood what his annoying and troublesome "ancestor" meant when he said that he needed Su Shang at this moment.

It's his own thoughts that are dirty.

Putting aside the unconcealable throbbing in her teenage years, Su Shang was the friend who had been with him the longest in the world, and the only friend who had been with him almost from the beginning. And the same is true for Su Shang.

What lies between them is a special and unique friendship that has lasted for five hundred years.

Moreover, Su Shang's attitude is very special. She has a close personal relationship with him, but her attitude on "big things" is biased towards the anti-entropy side. The carrier of Eleanor's appearance, the Valkyrie Anna Shaniat, is still in the hands of Anti-Entropy. If he doesn't want to come forward directly, it is also a good choice to use Su Chang to insinuate.

Although he was very sorry for such use, this news was too important to him - no one had witnessed the end of Eleanor and Kallen, even "it was the two of them who saved Klosten". The instructions on that last note.

Since there were no witnesses, perhaps they were not dead at all, and Eleanor's [existence] confirmed this.

But in this case, what was the purpose of these long five hundred years that he spent?

It was only at this moment that he suddenly realized that his thinking had a strange differentiation - he actually put emotional friendship before rational gains and losses.

never mind……

The journey from the airport to the bishop's office was long, but in the eyes of the two of them, this long journey was somehow shortened to a moment.

Walking into the familiar office, Su Chang looked around at the changes to ease her embarrassment.

"Bang!"

"ah!"

A sudden explosion almost scared her out of her mind. When she turned around, she discovered that the Rakshasa man was holding a wine bottle, with white steam floating gently around the mouth of the bottle.

"Is this your red wine?"

Su Shang tilted her head and asked.

"No, I want champagne today."

Su Shang nodded. It wasn't that she really didn't understand, it was just because of some unspeakable psychology that she acted out her original appearance in front of the Rakshasa people.

The Rakshasa people always seemed to like to keep the curtains open, and the light in the room was dim. She could vaguely see the Rakshasa people holding the wine glass and handing it to her.

Su Shang took the wine glass and drank it in one gulp.

There was no bitterness from alcohol as expected, and the dense bubbles spread on the tongue with a slight sweetness, but it also took away the possibility of Su Chang to say something.

At this moment, Otto's dull voice sounded again:

"Miss Sushang, could you please put me in my perspective next time?"

Without waiting for Su Chang to answer, the Rakshasa man continued talking on his own.

But just the first sentence made Su Chang stunned:

"If... if, Karen is still alive, if you were me, what would you... do?"