Title page [Night on Fire] and the first page
Chen Senran felt that the surrounding temperature was just right, a bit like being in a sauna. He was even interested in taking a bottle of red wine from the target's wine cabinet to have a taste.
"Beep." The phone rang. Chen Senran turned on the speakerphone and poured himself half a glass of wine.
"Do you have any last words, Director Sen?" A man's voice flowed from the phone. Chen Senran could even imagine the proud face of the man on the other side of the phone who was trying his best to restrain but couldn't stop himself.
"You are very proud." Chen Senran actually has no interest in wasting time with such a person before his death. This man has been his deputy for five years. Chen Senran is very clear about his dissatisfaction and fear of himself, a leader who is ten years younger than him.
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"Do you know where your biggest weakness is?" He finally couldn't help laughing, like an old maid who had been depressed for decades and had her body broken, and maybe even shed a few tears.
"Tell me about it." Chen Senran shook the goblet in his hand with great interest. The 82-year-old Raphael exuded a charming fragrance. He clearly knew the weakness of the man on the phone. He was very fond of success and bullied the weak and was afraid of the strong.
"Conceited, proud, cold-blooded, I know you have always looked down on me, but now you haven't been killed by me? Hahahahaha." In fact, there is another point, his drake voice is very annoying.
Chen Senran took a sip of wine and let the smooth liquid swim in his taste buds, "Are you done laughing?"
"Do you know what I hate most about you? It's this way of thinking that everything is under control. You're going to die. Can't you act a little more scared? Can't you just cry? You're really disgusting.
Guy." Chen Senran could imagine that his face was now red, and even looked a little ferocious.
"Beep~" Chen Senran had lost interest in talking to this guy and hung up the phone directly.
The temperature in the room was still rising, ferocious flames came in through the Baroque windows, and the fine Turkish carpets already gave off a burnt smell.
Chen Senran couldn't help but frown. In fact, no one is afraid of death, but Chen Senran has become accustomed to this inhuman calmness in the past twenty years. He knows that he will die, but why should he be afraid?
It is said that people will continue to recall the sketches of their lives before they die, but Chen Senran found that there was nothing worth remembering in his life. Before the age of fifteen, he had been living in the secret base of the Presbyterian Church in Central Asia for training. In the next five years, in addition to layout
Killing people or planning to kill people, the only hobby seems to be... no hobby.
This time there was no flaw in the assassination of the Italian Mafia family boss, but Chen Senran, who had not practiced firearms for a long time, suddenly wanted to brush up on his marksmanship, so he played the role of the sniper, but he did not expect to end the target.
After his life, he was betrayed by his deputy.
Maybe it means the Presbyterian Church? In fact, Chen Senran had noticed the Presbyterian Council's dissatisfaction with him a year ago, but he didn't care. As a humanoid weapon, Chen Senran could not find the meaning of his life.
"This day seems to have come at the right time?" Chen Senran smiled self-deprecatingly and drank the last trace of wine in the goblet.
Fire snakes licked the velvet curtains, and the light of the full moon poured in, with a hint of scarlet.
Chen Senran turned on the gramophone at the table, and the high-pitched voice of the Italian lady poured out, and the world was dim. He slowly opened his arms and faced the raging flames, like a great sacrifice.
"Goodbye, boring world."
The goblet exploded in the extremely intense heat, and the whole room was bathed in a sea of fire. The high notes boiled, intermittent and continuous like a hymn, and a faint light flashed through, as if the kingdom of heaven was near.
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Rune Continent, the land of voodoo. The moonlight fills the land.
The wind began to blow in the barren wilderness, and the flames spread with the wind. The weeds burned and made a "squeaking" sound. Unknown ground animals swarmed among the weeds, flickering in and out of sight in the moonlight.
This rotten place, which is usually dead quiet, felt strangely uneasy tonight.
With one hand on the dry ground, the man slowly sat up and looked around blankly, his consciousness still stuck on the previous moment, the Italian soprano, Lafite in 1982, and the entire Baroque blazing fire.
villa.
"Where is this?" Chen Senran frowned, and then calmly observed the surroundings. What is certain is that he did not die, but moved to this unfamiliar wilderness through some unknown method. Judging from the surrounding fires
, it seems that fire is the medium.
At present, this information was only available. Chen Senran stood up, but was embarrassed to find that all his clothes had disappeared with this movement.
Under the moonlight, Chen Senran discovered a person lying there not far from him, who seemed to have fainted. He walked to the person's side and checked his nose as a habit. He was dead.
Chen Senran carefully observed the dead man's attire and found that it was some kind of ancient Western clothing, which seemed to be the robe of a priest or a mage. The broken staff in the man's hand also confirmed this.
Chen Senran did not rush to take off this man's clothes and put them on. Instead, he sat down and began to think about the connection between all these. This man's clothes were not in his mind. Assuming that this man really knew magic, then maybe here
If this is not the world in which I live, then such a supernatural event that I suddenly moved here can be explained as - time travel.
To further infer, from the man's shriveled face, the raging fire around him, and the broken wand, it seems that he used the flame as a medium to perform some kind of summoning, but he died because he could not bear the power, and he happened to be affected by the flame.
A certain condition was triggered to travel through time. Although this explanation is strange, it is the only thing he can infer now.
Just when Chen Senran was about to take off the man's robe and put it on himself, he suddenly heard footsteps, very light and soft, it was a girl. He subconsciously judged.
Chen Senran slowly turned around and looked at the visitor, and then he saw a pair of eyes, bright and pure, as if he had seen a clear spring in the desert a long time ago.
Those eyes blinked, as if there was a hint of cunning, but the girl did not speak, but looked curiously at the naked man in the fire.
Even though Chen Senran was calm, he felt something was wrong under the curious eyes of the girl with long pink hair. He quickly squatted down, covered himself with the corpse in front of him, and tried to say in English: "Excuse me, where is this?"
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The girl looked at him blankly. Chen Senran was about to ask in another language when he heard the girl ask: "Um, have you seen my little bear?"
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Page 1 Xiao Sensen, do you want to go home with me?
Many years later, when Chen Senran was sitting in the Lost Summoner's Tavern drinking Heart of Fire with Annie in his arms, he would occasionally think of that night of raging flames.
"Um, have you seen my little bear?" Chen Senran could understand the pure voice, clear and tender.
This was not any language he knew, but he could understand it, so he put aside the question for the time being. Chen Senran quickly took off the clothes of the mage in front of him and put them on in front of the girl in pink.
"Sorry, I didn't see it. If possible, could you tell me where this is?" Chen Senran tried it on and found that the clothes were very wide. He shrugged and replied.
The girl flattened her delicate mouth and said, "This is the land of voodoo."
"The land of voodoo," Chen Senran muttered silently. In fact, his current interest in this girl is far away from here.
On such a night, in such a barren wasteland, it seems impossible to make sense that such an exquisite little girl is looking for her little bear wearing a dress similar to that of an ancient Western aristocrat?
Moreover, what is in front of him is a corpse, and this girl is not afraid?
The night breeze was slightly cool, the flames slowly extinguished, and the brilliance of the full moon swayed down from the sky, making the girl's long hair seem to be plated with silver.
"Well, can you help me find my little bear?" The girl held the corners of her skirt with both hands and asked a little embarrassedly, her pure eyes seemed to be dripping with water.
"I'm willing to serve you." Chen Senran bowed. Although he felt that everything was unspeakably bizarre, this girl was his only source of clues at the moment. If he continued, he might gain something unexpected.
The burnt grass gave off a strong smell, and the girl led the way with brisk steps. If you ignored the environment and time, it would give people the absurd feeling of walking in your own back garden.
"What does your little bear look like?" Chen Senran felt that he should understand the target. This kind of aimless waste of time was not what he liked.
"Well, that's the little bear." The girl nodded affirmatively after thinking for a long time.
At this moment, Chen Senran even felt that the previous paradoxes had been explained. Maybe this was just a little confusion that had reached its limit.
And this guess got stronger evidence when the girl found the so-called bear.
Chen Senran has never seen such a huge bear. If a three-meter-tall giant bear with flaming eyes and fierce eyes can be considered a cub.
Chen Senran watched in silence as the girl reached out to touch the giant bear's paws affectionately, and secretly began to prepare to retreat. He was not sure that this girl was actually a dangerous person, because in the original world, he had many mentally abnormal killers, more than
It's not like he has never seen this before.
"Tibbers, come and say hello to your new friend." The girl greeted the giant bear sweetly and greeted Chen Senran.
The giant bear exhaled an uneasy breath and roared at Chen Senran a little anxiously, as if he was dissatisfied with this strange man approaching his master.
"Giggle, Tibbers, don't act nonsense and be friendly to your new friends." The girl laughed like a silver bell, "By the way, I don't know your name yet?"
"Chen Senran."
"Chen Senran, what a strange name. My name is Annie." The girl said while tapping her delicate little mouth with her fingers.
"Hello, Annie." Chen Senran frowned unconsciously, because the girl named Annie had just unconsciously played with a spark on her hand. This girl can do magic.
"Okay, Tibbers, let's go home." Annie patted the giant bear's paw, and then...
The exaggerated giant bear turned into a toy bear in a burst of light.
"Is my bear cute?" The little girl shook the bear in her hand at Chen Senran heartlessly.
Given Chen Senran's temperament, she unconsciously twitched her lips at this moment. She is really an...interesting little girl.
"Right." As if she remembered something, Annie, who had just taken a few steps, turned to Chen Senran and said, "Chen... well, um, Xiao Sensen, do you want to go home with me?"
Xiao Sensen... In the original world, Chen Senran was called Director Sen by others, and was also called a devil by countless people, but Xiao Sensen...
Chen Senran suddenly laughed, laughing unbridled. For the first time in twenty years, he felt that there were such interesting things in the world.
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"Xiao Sensen, when you see my father later, you must praise his magic. Only in this way will he let you live in my house. Well, also, you must praise my mother for her beauty, so that she will give
You make delicious food, and more..." Annie was like a little housekeeper, teaching Chen Senran what to do when he arrived at her house.
Chen Senran took a look at the place he was about to arrive. These gray-white buildings shaded in the moonlight exuded a rigorous atmosphere, with faint brilliance dancing between the eaves. It was an orderly and mysterious place.
"Ahem." Someone coughed, and through the moonlight, Chen Senran saw this figure standing under the gray-white building.
The off-white robe has no wrinkles, and the brown hair is meticulously combed. From the look in his eyes when he looked at Anne, it can be seen that this man is probably his father.
"Annie, have you brought back a new friend?" The man seemed to smile and looked at Chen Senran calmly.
"Yes, his name is Xiao Sensen. He has no place to live now. He is so pitiful." Annie pulled the little bear in her arms and looked at her father pitifully.
"Take him to the third room. Angre went to Demacia a few days ago, and the room happened to be vacant." The man seemed to have no intention of talking to Chen Senran, and actually let him, a stranger, move into his home.
"Thank you for your hospitality, the great mystical magician Mr. Gregory Hastur." Chen Senran already knew his father's title and name from Anne.
Seeing his daughter leading this strange young man into the house, the great Mr. Hastur had no intention of going in. After being silent for a while, he said to the shadow: "My dear, do you think this man from another world
Will young people surprise us?"
The shadows trembled under the moonlight for a while, and a woman in a robe came out. Her face was hidden under the hood of the robe, but Hastur could feel his wife's smile.
"Actually, as long as Anne is happy." The woman smiled so warmly that even the shadows couldn't cover her. "As for the surprise, maybe we should first think about how to deal with the parliament."
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Chapter completed!