Vol 6 Chapter 3174: Changhu

   Chapter 3174 The Long Confused Clan
  How are you getting old.
   This is what the new Crystal Eyes said to Cassata.
   Literally, he seems to be "feeling" or "puzzling" why Cassata is suddenly getting old.
   However, the deeper meaning is interesting.
   First of all, he must know Cassata. That is to say, the "old friend" that Cassata murmured at the beginning should be this one.
   And an old friend means an old friend or an old friend. Generally, it refers to friends who have been with each other for many years, and Cassata has become a member of the Elder House six hundred years ago, and the natural lifespan of the Crystal Eyes is generally seven hundred to one thousand years old. Cassata has obviously reached the end of his lifespan. His old friend is probably a few hundred years old?
   But this crystal eye with unilateral earrings looks more like a young man than an old man in terms of appearance. This is one of the doubts.
   Also, since Cassata has reached the end of his lifespan, if he does not interfere with any external force, his appearance "getting old" is a natural law.
   That is to say, at his current age, Cassata should have shown his old age.
   Considering this, the words of the Crystal Eyes who wear unilateral earrings are very interesting.
   Combined with the previous speculation, he doesn't seem to understand why his "old friend" Cassata has suddenly become so old-fashioned?
   It is as if he has been asleep for too long, or has been isolated from the world for too long, living in a utopia where time is frozen, completely unaware of the passing of time outside.
   In this regard, there is a lot of room for blind thinking.
  Where was he before this? Why doesn't time fly by? Why do old friends grow old, but they are still young?
   and...why does his appearance require rituals? And this ceremony location, also chose to be in the ring fort that should have come to the network?
   Further conjecture, did the ceremony choose the ring fort, or did the Jingmu people build the ring fort originally to serve the ceremony? If it's the latter, it's terrifying to think about.
  You must know that the internal structure of the Crystal City is connected by a series of ring-shaped forts.
  When Angel was thinking, Luigi on the side got a new message: "Gleipnir re-engraved the appearance of the Crystal Eyes just now by mirroring it."
  The so-called mirror mapping is to present the image in the form of a mirror.
"Gleipnir's original intention was to determine the identity of the Crystal Eyes through Fada's identification. But unfortunately, Fada didn't know this person, and she didn't even see him at all. "
   "In Fada's own words, it's—"
   "He is very distinctive, especially his pair of long ears like an elf, which is extremely rare among the Crystal Eyes. But it's strange, I haven't seen him in the Crystal City."
  Fada's words actually mean that he is very recognizable by his appearance, and has extremely rare long ears, which should be the object of discussion among the Crystal Eyes. In other words, he can become a man of influence in the gossip world.
   But it was such a unique existence, but Fada had never seen it in Crystal City, which made her very puzzled.
  Fada was puzzled, but her words made Angel confirm his guess.
The Crystal Eyes, who manifested through unknown rituals, may have really been "isolated" for a long time. When he saw Cassata, he would wonder why the other party was getting old, and Fada was in the Crystal City for a long time. People who have stayed for nearly four hundred years have never seen each other's appearance.
  Angol said his guess.
   Laplace raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything; while Luigi was silent... Not because Luigi thought of anything, but simply because he was communicating with Gleipnir through psychic synchronization.
Half a minute later, Luigi said: "Your guess should be right. However, there is obviously a phenomenon of chaos in his body, and this phenomenon of chaos in him is: time stops passing, or time stops. The passage slows down. And isolation doesn't bring chaos, so there must be a deeper secret here."
   "Gleipnir already has a guess, and this guess may be the core piece of the 'puzzle' she's looking for."
  Luigi paused: "Wait a moment, the answer should come out soon."
  Hilda's study, if nothing else, hides the rest of the puzzle. When all the puzzle pieces are put together, it is the moment when the secret is revealed.
   Even though Gleipnir actually has a guess, she still has to find the remaining puzzle pieces and find important evidence to support her guess.
  …
  While waiting for Gleipnir to find the puzzle, Angel and the others set foot on the road to the siege party again.
   The passages they took before were basically bleak. The only advantage was that there was only one passage. There will be no fork in the road, just keep going forward, and you will always reach the end.
   And now this passage, the first half of the road is the same as before, but as they move forward, not only are the passages wider and brighter, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and there are even forks.
   However, although there are forks, there are signs at each intersection to ensure that you don’t get lost.
   As for why this happened suddenly, according to Luigi's explanation, as the distance to the main station of the siege party gets closer and closer, the various passages will converge. After all, if they don't merge, wouldn't the main station of the siege party be full of passages, even more sieves than sieves?
   And hundreds of channels will eventually merge into ten main channels.
   They should now be walking one of the ten main passages.
  So, will you meet people from other channels? Angel looked at the fork in the road and thought so in his heart.
Before the idea of ​​   fell, Angel heard the sound of "噔, 噔, 噔".
  The source of the sound came from a fork in the road ahead.
   "Someone is here?" Angel whispered.
  Luigi nodded: "It's hard to say whether it's a 'human' or not. Although there are many humanoid races in the Daylight Mirror Domain, the mainstream ones are still non-human races."
   For example, mirror dragons are not humanoids.
   However, the loud sound of "噔噔噔" was obviously not made by the mirror dragon.
   This sound is not the same as the footsteps in Angel's impression. In terms of hearing, it is a bit like... the sound of a blind stick.
  The blind man holds a stick, and when the tip of the stick touches the ground, the sound is so crisp.
   However, today’s sound is only the sound of a blind stick hitting the ground, not the sound of a blind person landing. So, it may not be a blind stick.
  While Angel was guessing silently, the sound got closer and closer, and finally, 'he' came out of the crystal-like fork.
   When 'he' appeared, Angel was obviously stunned for a second, because the appearance of the other party was too much like a wood spirit.
   To be precise, it is the "stickman" of the wood spirit.
   However, this one is more stout and taller than the "stickman", and can be called an enlarged version of the stickman, or "bamboo man".
   literally means "bamboo pole".
   His body is a pitch-black stick, like a fire stick, and like a black iron bamboo pole. The hand is also a slender rod, section by section, and his legs... well, there are no clear legs, the rod goes straight from head to toe.
   Therefore, what he called "walking" was actually a jump and a stick fell to the ground, so the sound was so similar to a blind stick.
  Although his body is a black stick and has no clear feet, he has facial features.
   After he came out of the fork, he obviously noticed Angel and the others behind him. He turned around and looked back, so Angel saw his face.
   Similarly, he has no so-called head, and his face is also on a straight stick. He can't see his nose, his mouth is split open, and he can see a row of dazzling fangs, his eyes are upside-down meniscus, and the inside is scarlet, giving a sense of malicious treacherousness.
When the    Bamboo Pole Man saw Angel and the others, his upturned scarlet eyes flickered, as if he wanted to get closer.
   However, before he could move, he saw Laplace's pair of indifferent eyes.
  Laplace didn't say anything, just stared at him lightly.
   Those eyes... as always, they look at people like scorn.
   Being stared at by such eyes, according to his character, he should be angry, but this time, he did not have a trace of anger. His emotions were frozen by an inexplicable coldness.
  Although he didn't know why, he already understood that these people were not easy to mess with.
   He was silent for a moment, showing a self-kind smile to Angel and the others, and then disappeared in the next second.
   He didn't disappear out of thin air. Angel could feel that his power was somewhat similar to that of the wizard Kanter. What he called disappearing was actually merging into the darkness and leaving quickly along the darkness.
   However, compared to the ability of Wizard Kanter, the fluctuations in his body are much more obvious. At least when Wizard Kanter merges into the darkness, Angel cannot perceive his existence. And this one, that fluctuation can be found across the barrier.
   But I have to say that although his body fluctuates greatly, his speed is quite fast.
   left Angel's perception range almost instantly, and at this time he had gone somewhere.
   "Oh, it's so unlucky to meet the Changhu clan!"
   While Angel was still staring at the empty distance, Luigi's cold humming sounded beside his ears.
   "Longhu clan, you mean the big stickman just now?" Angel asked curiously.
Luigi nodded, showing obvious disgust on his face: "Yes, although the reputation of this race in the White Sun Mirror Realm is a little better than that of Piruxiu, in my opinion, they are actually more disgusting than Piruxiu. ."
"At least, when I went to find Babarregon, if I was in the mood, I would be willing to play the piano in front of Piluxiu. But the long confused clan, hehe, even if Hua Ningjing asked me to go, I would not go! Dog! Don't go to the show!"
   "The dogs don't go...you don't go...then you are..." Angel muttered in a low voice.
Luigi glared angrily: "Don't catch my word, I'm expressing my disgust for the Longhuo clan! I don't even understand why the major groups hate Piluxiu more, at least Piluxiu still has an aura. However, the Changhu people have nothing, they only pick things up every day, they are the mosquitoes in the Mirror of the Daylight, and they have nothing to do except blood."
   It was the first time that Angel had heard Luigi express such dissatisfaction with a certain race, which made Angel a little curious, how did this long confused race offend Luigi?
   "I didn't offend me, I just didn't like some of their actions!" Luigi still said angrily that apart from expressing emotions, there was nothing else in his words.
  Angol could only put his eyes on Laplace.
   Laplace also understood what Angel meant, and opened his mouth to introduce the "Long Confused Clan".
The   Longhu clan lives in the mirrored space: the Valley of Splits. They seem to be naturally close to the dark, capable of manipulating the power of darkness as well as the power of shadows.
   Their name has "enchantment", but it is not charm, but incitement.
   They are born to incite, love to sow discord, like to provoke confrontation, and divide races. But they don't just do this externally, they also criticize each other internally, split and oppose each other.
Originally, the place where they lived was called "Shadow Valley", but later the Changhu clan came out with a few crouching dragons and phoenixes. They provoked disputes externally, and the opposition between "darkness" and "shadow" internally, so Shadow Valley. It was split into the Dark Valley and the Shadow Valley, which led to a complete split within the Changhu clan, which is why it was called the Valley of Splits.
   The reason why Luigi hates the Longhus is also because of their demagoguery.
  Although the long-troubled clan did not incite Luigi, they provoked a lot of disputes in Buluowangcheng, one of which made Luigi very angry.
  This dispute can be summed up in one sentence: the Changhu people created an incitement performance called "elegant art".
   Sounds complicated, but in fact, the definitions of "elegant music" and "vulgar music" in the human world have been placed in the King City.
   A certain musical instrument is elegant music, and a certain musical instrument is vulgar music. So-and-so's music is as elegant as snow, and so-and-so's music is as vulgar as bad.
  Clan's methods are not very clever, but they are very good at grasping people's hearts.
   In the end, this dispute was really provoked.
   To Luigi, this incident is very unreasonable and a kind of sully. Therefore, he hated the Changhu clan extremely.
   Of course, the long-troubled clan did not really incite only for incitement, they also got a lot of benefits from the dispute. Every dispute can make them a lot of money.
   They now have a better reputation than Pilu, and they also use money to buy people's hearts.
   As for why they "buy people's hearts", of course, it's not really for the sake of fame. This is also their means of incitement: to provoke some people, to appease some people, to buy some people, and to suppress some people.
   Thus, the cycle of incitement is established.
   "However, the Longhus are not completely useless as Luigi said, they also have advantages." Laplace: "They are very aware of current affairs."
   When your strength is far greater than that of the Changwu clan, and you can even crush the Changwu clan, then the threat of the Changwu clan to you will become smaller, and maybe it can become a sharp blade in your hand.
   And Laplace has the power to completely crush the Clan, so she commented that the Clan's knowledge of current affairs is an advantage, which is completely fine.
   Angel recalled the long confused clan who quickly fled as soon as he noticed something was wrong, and nodded silently.
   Indeed, very aware of current affairs.
   (end of this chapter)