old dream

Chapter 118 The Withered Plenty

It cannot be said that Giovanni alone chose this train.Because this is the result of discussions between Colin, Giulio, and Giovanni.

With Julio on this side, he has the initiative to choose the location of the battlefield.

Combined with time to prepare, targeted traps can be set.

The location of the battle must not be north or east of the Stade.

They are more convenient for Arecio to go to the hinterland of the alliance, and they are more densely populated, mainly Anhe people.The chance of the battle being detected by the alliance authorities or the order will increase.

So only the south and west are left.

South Stade and surrounding suburbs are the traditional territory of the Five Hands. According to Ke Lin's original idea, it has always been relatively safe to "do business" in this area.

This is what he has always done, just like two weeks ago, he used rumors to lure Giovanni to an old factory building in the southern suburbs.

But just as he was about to make a decision, Giovanni interrupted intentionally or unintentionally.

It probably means that if Aresio starts to attack blatantly, does it mean that he has more conclusive evidence.

Colin suspected of bootlegging, or evidence of the assassination of the shooter.

At that time, all five hands will become Colin's potential enemies.

Going south at that time, is it a bit like throwing yourself into a trap?

Giovanni's speculation was somewhat problematic, but it also made Colin start to worry about this situation.

In the end, he chose the western suburbs as the venue for the battle.

There is only one inner-city railway line leading to the western suburbs, and the train runs every four hours.

The direction was confirmed, and Giovanni issued an alarm at a specific time, which made the three of Colin board the train.

But this carriage is the most suitable position for "reappearing in a foreign land" that has been tampered with long ago.

Colin thought that he was the hunter who prepared the trap in advance.

Unexpectedly, on the way to the trap, he was intercepted and killed by Aresio halfway.

And judging from the results, Giovanni was the one who caused them to step into this carriage.

After realizing this, Colin's heart sank a little.

Arecio tried again, slamming his body against the wall.

But at the last moment, Colin released the lock on his shoulders and right hand, rolled over in mid-air, and landed firmly on the ground.

The cross is unfastened.

If Giovanni can't be trusted, then it's pointless to restrain Arecio's movements by himself.

Colin was still staring at Arecio, only glancing at Giovanni out of the corner of his eye.

But I found that Giovanni was also confused:
"You hinted at me?" he asked uncertainly.

Not sure because Giovanni had firmly believed that he was by no means a person susceptible to hints and the like.

Because the shell of his heart remains intact.

This is a natural barrier that makes people's minds not easily shaken.It is difficult for the outside world to change his will through mental operations such as hints.

Arecio turned his neck, which was sore from Colin's cross:

"Yes, I gave you a hint."

Giovanni can't believe it:
"No, how is this possible..."

"Why not?"

Aresio sneered:

"Because your heart shell is 'intact'?"

Who told you about this?

Me, and only me.

Are you able to prove it yourself?No, because you can't see it at all.

Giovanni stopped involuntarily, his pupils shrinking slowly.

If there is always a gap in the shell of my heart...

Aresio probably has had countless opportunities to exert a mental influence on himself.

So, will it be the first time that "bringing Colin and the others onto this train" will be the first time?

Could it be that earlier...

"Think again, Giovanni."

Aresio said bewitchingly:

"That old man Nevio, has he really entrusted you with anything?"

"..."

Giovanni put his hands on his head unconsciously, trying to recall the details and emotions of that incident.

He clearly knew the whole picture of this matter.

The room deep in Capello's mansion, Nevio's sad face when he was dying, and even the stains on his pajamas.

He knew all the details, but he couldn't imagine his state of mind at that time.It's like watching someone else's mime.

The matter of "reviving Capello" seems to have been engraved in my heart out of thin air.

Why do you want to do this?To put it bluntly, he didn't know the reason at all.

"..."

Giovanni rested his forehead and fell silent.

Ke Lin secretly moved aside, lowered his body and picked up the dagger he had dropped on the ground.

The second vajra has already started.

Arecio rubbed the joints on his wrist, making a series of crisp sounds.He walked towards Giovanni:
"I made this hint three months ago just to keep you in the same position as me. Not biased towards any leader."

"But I didn't expect you to be so persistent. You almost killed Julio..."

"When Luca traded with me at 'Naler House', you must have been the one who leaked the news."

He gave the news to Aonzo, the "mangy dog" who hated Julio the most, in order to get rid of Capello's confidant, Luca Chestalo.

If Colin had indeed brought Julio to the scene, perhaps she would have died.

"So I have to raise Julio's rank in your heart, so that you feel that she is the hope of revitalizing the family."

Then go to protect Julio, or lurk beside Colin.

It implies that it is impossible to achieve such a precise control, but when people are put in the right position, there will be a wonderful chemical reaction.

The lampkeeper walked up to Old Fang.

Giovanni, who has experienced many battles, is obviously much taller and stronger than Arecio.But Aresio grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up with just one hand.

Stimulant concentration, 215 mg/ml.

In the default replacement transfer method, there is still 1.64 kg of redstone.

Giovanni bowed his head, not responding.

"Navio has never entrusted you with anything. So your insistence is meaningless."

Arecio said:
"I've already planned to tell you the truth before parting. It's a little apology."

"It's over, go live your life."

"After working together for so many years, I don't want to kill you either."

If even the obsession and creed are implanted by others.

Then this person is the most complete puppet in the world, being manipulated from body to mind.

No one can accept this fact.

However, a sinister smile slowly emerged from the corner of Giovanni's mouth.

He raised his bowed head suddenly, so that the lampkeeper could see his face, the furrows in his cheeks looking terrible at this distance.

Aresio was surprised for a moment.

Not because of Giovanni's frighteningly crazy face, but because of his eyes.

There was no anger or frustration in those eyes, and they were even ecstatic.

Grasping the gap in Aresio's astonishment, Giovanni's forehead has been slammed forward and hit the bridge of Alesio's nose.

There was a muffled bang, mixed with a crisp click.

Arecio staggered back two steps, his nose bleeding profusely.

The bridge of his nose was broken, but he didn't care about his injury, and he didn't even let go of Giovanni's collar.

"what's so funny?"

Aresio said while suppressing his anger.

"Laughing is to thank you."

While speaking, the short knife in Giovanni's hand pierced from bottom to top.

But before the blade touched Arecio's chest, there was a sudden pause, and Arecio grabbed Giovanni's arm effortlessly.

The Lantern Keeper increased the strength of his left hand little by little, and he didn't know what the upper limit of his current grip strength was.

As if trying to find his limit, Aresio exerted all the strength in his arm.

The human skeleton seemed extremely fragile at this moment. Giovanni's arm bone was crushed after holding on for two seconds, and the bone fragments pierced into the muscles.

Even though there were stimulants to suppress the pain nerves, Giovanni still couldn't help but groan in pain, and blood oozes between the teeth because of the tight bite.

But the look in his eyes didn't change at all.

"Hint? Thank you for letting me know that there is still this way of playing."

The short knife held in the right hand was released, and the left hand that had been free took over the short knife that fell in mid-air.

Everything happened in an instant, and then the dagger pierced through Aresio's right wrist fiercely, and then picked it out fiercely, cutting off the arteries and nerve bundles in it.

Arecio's right hand loosened and Giovanni was freed.

The light keeper had to cover the wound on his wrist to stop the blood from gushing out. The wound would soon close under the squeeze of the muscles, but the nerves in it could not be reconnected.

Giovanni took two steps back, and he raised his right arm, half of which was already "weak and boneless", shaking in the air like jelly.

"Do you understand the feeling?"

He asked Arecio:

"Looking at my own body being mutilated, I was obviously about to pass out from the pain, but I didn't see joy or sorrow in my heart."

Giovanni was an emotional man in his youth, laughing wildly and crying openly.

The experience of disfigurement in childhood failed to destroy him, but instead made him more heroic.

But now, unless he receives the strongest stimulation, he can no longer feel any ups and downs in his heart.

"Is that so?"

Arecio seemed to have just discovered:

"You're almost 'depleted'."

As a side effect of repeated burning and filling of life abundance, it is almost a miracle that Giovanni can persist for nearly ten years.

The depletion of primordial vitality.

It wouldn't kill, Giovanni had told Colin that he was dying, and that didn't mean physically.

As early as six years ago, he had already had to use psychotropic drugs, morphine, opium.

But after two years of being heavily dependent, he weaned them without hindrance.

Because even with excessive use of these drugs, he can no longer feel any stimulation.

He abandoned his lover, and in the end he could only seek a trace of inner fluctuation from gambling and fighting.

Like moths to a flame, chasing the most thrilling occasions.

But the stronger the desire, the more numb the heart can feel.

He knew that in the end, he would usher in an extremely peaceful death.

It is eternal sleep without any impulse, a form that is both alive and dead.

"I don't care what I believe in or who entrusts me to act."

Giovanni glanced at his right arm. This tragic fracture was beyond repair, and it was impossible to recover even under the action of the stimulus.

He pulled out a short knife and cut off the stump, then tied a knot on the cuff with one hand.

What obsession itself is, doesn't matter to him at all.

He has no impulse at all, and is unable to find tired happiness anymore.

But just like eating every day, there must be a reason to move yourself.

But no matter how hard you try to move yourself and persuade yourself.Giovanni knew it deeply.

The entrustment given by Nevio before his death is like stepping on the right leg or the left leg first when going out.

There must be a "habit" that doesn't matter at all.

"But I really felt it when you said my mind was affected by you."

Giovanni said with a tinge of nostalgia:

"fear."

He is afraid of being manipulated.

This means that he still has something to care about.

Even Nevio's last wish was not so indifferent to him.

There was still a bit of humanity left in him.

Whether there is a gap in the shell of one's own heart is the most irrelevant thing.

"So I really want to thank you."

After tying the cuffs, Giovanni gripped the blade again with his left hand.

With this touch of fear, he found that he was still some distance away from that kind of complete peace.

It can last for a while.

…………

When Colin picked up the dagger from the ground, he caught a glimpse of Julio looking at him.

There was a soft and desperate look on her face, and she no longer tried to struggle.

"it is ready."

She lowered her head and said in a low voice:
"The address of that laboratory is in my pocket."

I'll give it to you, leave me alone.

"Did you hear that?"

Julio looked up and found that Colin was not looking at him at all.

He stared at Aresio's back, thinking about something.

give up?impossible.

Those letters sent to veterans have not been answered, and the outcome is unknown.If Capello's cover is lost, the bootleg wine sales will not start.

Now, Aresio has suffered losses in close combat twice, and now he will not make this mistake again.

He no longer approached blindly, but carefully kept a distance from Giovanni.Look for the one-hit-kill moment.

From the time he met him when he rushed towards him a minute ago, Colin already knew that there was no chance of such a confrontation.

For some reason, Aresio has mastered monster-like powers.

The figure of the Shuttle Demon reappeared.The thorns on its body instantly exploded, covering the entire carriage.

But nothing hits.

Colin knows that there are a large number of ghosts here, and if they can be eliminated, "Reappearance in a Foreign Land" can be destroyed.

At that time, it will be Alessio's turn to face the "invisible enemy".

But how can one see these ghosts with unresponsive spirit elements?
Ke Lin stared at the Shuttle Demon's back, feeling a bit of disobedience.

The dignified existence of Chier Xingtian seemed so aggrieved in his own hands.

Have you really learned how to control spirits?

…………

Even though his reaction speed was overwhelmed by Aresio, Giovanni was able to grasp the movements of the lantern keeper keenly and take countermeasures while guarding several key points.

The best defense is the offense.

For nearly 20 years, Giovanni has been fighting with people and non-humans.

His skills in dealing with this kind of unequal battle were obviously much higher than that of Colin.

Even if the bodily functions have been terribly strengthened, they are still flesh and blood.

Giovanni's response always made Arecio feel that if he wanted to forcibly kill the opponent, then some of his vitals would be exposed to Giovanni's blade.

The two fell into a stalemate because of this, and Colin knew that Giovanni was deliberately buying time for himself.

But he can't hold on for too long, as long as the opponent catches a flaw, everything will be over.

The most urgent task is to deal with the dead souls in the carriage.

Colin looked at the glass windows, several of which had been broken in the previous shootout.

But the "reappearance of a foreign land" is still going on, which means that the closure of the material level is not the reason for the ghosts to be trapped.

There is no other way than to eliminate them.

But he couldn't see anything, and it was impossible for the Shuttle Demon to act autonomously.

Colin suddenly understood the plight of the wizard "Horst" in the underground bar.

……

Now it can be clearly confirmed that there are at least two dimensions in the “frequency of consciousness”.

The difference between different civilization circles is a dimension.

Strength of force is another dimension.

Arranging countless frequencies of consciousness together forms the so-called "virtual frequency spectrum".

Colin has seen this term in some literature several times, but he didn't really understand its meaning until now.

Angles, and strengths of forces, form a polar coordinate system.

All the frequencies are on this plane, and this is the geographic orientation in the imaginary sense: the imaginary coordinates.

My own coordinates are written by the four sets of numbers of wind, fire, water, and soil, but that is just a fancy disguise. In essence, it is describing a frequency of consciousness composed of angles and forces.

So as the shuttle demon approaches its own coordinates, it will also approach its own frequency of consciousness.

Therefore, when the Shuttle Demon uses Shock Roar, he can still hear the roar.

But why is the effect so weak?

Because of the barrier of the heart shell, the frequency overlap is still not enough.

However, the cracks already exist after all.

When demons prey on humans, they need to pull them into their own frequency.

And this is the most powerful rewriting method that Colin knows so far.

Colin closed his eyes and saw the edge of consciousness, his image of the heart shell.

There is still some frequency overlap between him and the Shuttle Demon, even if it is only a tiny part.

But it was enough for the "capture" to take effect.

……

All thoughts flashed through Colin's mind in just half a minute.

Giovanni was already exhausted from parrying, his remaining right arm was only taken by Aresio's hand knife, and it was broken like a rotten wood.

But what Colin needed to do was already very clear, and he called the Shuttle Demon back to him with a thought.

Recalling the feeling when his consciousness was engulfed by its roar, Colin secretly gave an order in his heart.

"Prey on me."

　In the future, try not to ask for leave if you have nothing to do.

　　After a day's break, it becomes difficult to write and needs to be rehabilitated.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)