Ascension journey - 686. Chapter 681

The faint yellow sun approaching the horizon caused the trees to draw long and narrow shadows on the ground. In the intertwined forest, the elephant group that had lost the leader was wandering and wailing in a daze.

The higher IQs in the beast animal group do not allow these elephants to understand what happened before. They cannot simply equate the phenomenon of abrupt disappearance of the lead female elephant’s smell and sound with death, and can only be immersed in loss. The brief confusion and chaos of order.

And in the low voice of the elephant group, a gray-black parrot flew out from the depths of the forest. It seemed to be attracted by the elephant group’s abnormal movement. It flapped its wings to slow down and grabbed the elephant group with its sharp claws. A branch in the middle.

The parrot that stopped, folded its wings and bounced left and right on the branch, turned its neck and looked around vigilantly. Then it tilted its head slightly, and its black pupils dilated and stared at the insects on the trunk next door.

Vaguely, the peripheral light of the parrot’s sight quietly swept across the clearing in the center of the elephant group——

The empty space where the head elephant was originally located, with the traces of abruptly interrupted crushing, annihilated out of thin air.

After a while, he raised his head and squeezed the gray-black parrot that was swallowed by the huge insect in the beak, fluttered its wings again, and merged into the deepening sky.

……

Among the human settlements extremely far away from the elephants, it is the cleanest and tidy building that is closest to the hotel.

The blond man who occupied the house in awe and retreat from the original owner frowned slightly and walked into the simple bedroom that had just been cleaned. He hung the coat in his hand on the back of the chair, and then slowly sat down on his knees. Bedside.

The delicate-skinned palm rubbed the “clean” sheet that smelled of inferior detergent, and the furrows of the blond man named Kira Yoshikage became deeper——

…Not even running water…

After a silent complaint, Kira Yoshikage, who had planned to take a good bath and sleep, simply took off his shoes, put on inner clothes and pulled over the blanket and lay down.

If it hadn’t been for the fact that the double killer queen was close to the limit, Kira Yoshikage would actually like to directly use the powerful defeater Shichen to return to the time when he was in Japan and had not set off to Africa.

——Although the root cause of the threat has been resolved, the inexplicable pressure and costs accumulated behind the stand-in also need a process of mitigation. It is better to use less powerful capabilities involving the time axis.

In the erratic thoughts, Kira Yoshikage, who closed his eyes, gradually entered a shallow sleep. In this state, his instinctive perception and vigilance were enough to make him wake up and deal with all abnormalities in an instant——

Countless reincarnation battles made him unable to relax easily after solving the biggest threat. What’s more, the current human settlement is full of “bad guys” in various senses, even if those people were killed before. , He could not rest assured of them.

——A keen sense and a superficial sleep that can provoke a murder at any time… This is a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder. I don’t know how long it will take before my spirit can return to daily peace?

The moon rising up in the sky shed gentle light, stroking the worried, handsome face of the blond man on the bed through the window.

Above the simple house opposite the window, a dark shadow spread its wings and silently landed on the antenna on the roof below while the airflow was changing.

A pair of pupils, reflecting bright light in the moonlight, stared at the window on the opposite side of the house.

Kira Yoshikage suddenly awakened in the deep and bitter cold that did not know where it came from.

The inexplicable intuition tempered by countless battles, and the experience instinct accumulated from countless painful experiences, made him regain consciousness in an instant, and amidst the clicking sound of the violent movement of the neck and spine, he turned his eyes out of the window while tumbling and avoiding. .

Kira Yoshikage, who stood firmly against the wall with her back, her eyes met with the reflective pupils not far from the window.

Is that an…owl?

Without noticing any strangeness and danger around him, Kira Yoshikage, who quickly adapted to the dim environment by the moonlight, recognized the creatures on the opposite roof, and pages of African creatures atlas flashed across his mind.

The knowledge and experience accumulated in the past told him that the owl outside the window belonged to the biological species that should be in this area, and it is also the time period when such nocturnal creatures are active.

It seems that everything is normal.

Jiliang Jiying raised his hand to press his chest, sweat faintly oozing out of his forehead, and he felt the violent heartbeat under his palm, as if he was under great pressure on the body and mind, he lowered his neck and bowed and took a deep breath.

“He is dead… he is dead…”

Jiliang Jiying, who muttered to himself, tried hard to convince herself.

Use logic, knowledge, perception, and everything you can use to convince yourself that the owl on the roof opposite the window just stays there for a short time to make normal observations and hunting preparations for the small rodents in the settlement.

But in the brief moment of looking at each other through the window, that kind of unremarkable but heart-palpiting gaze… Kira Yoshikage, who constantly denies a certain possibility, has an instinct that is a little bit and irresistible. The things that caused him to wake up tonight are linked to some familiar things in his memory——

That is what I have experienced in Toowang, in North America, and in countless reincarnations.

That kind of… all the time, no dead ends, familiar enough to pierce the soul.

Gradually, Jiliang Jiying stopped whispering and gasping, his hand holding his chest drooped and slowly raised his head——

A pair of large reflective pupils immediately reflected in his eyes.

The owl that had originally stayed on the roof antenna on the opposite side had already stood on the window sill at some point, with its majestic and stern face, clinging to the glass, facing Kira Yoshikage.

The air in the dim room seemed to freeze, Kira Yoshikage stood there, quietly staring at the owl outside the window.

The shifted moonlight drove the shadow of the owl to sweep across the wall of the house. When the toe was about to be covered by the shadow, the somewhat dumb Kiraji Ying finally broke the silence.

He looked at the ordinary owl outside the window, and said with a voice like his throat was cracked by fire: “Why are you still alive… I clearly destroyed you the first time you came to the earth in the form of a blood eagle…

“No one can escape the annihilation of the destiny of the defeated, why…”

The owl outside the window tilted its head, then it slapped its wings, pecked the window twice with its beak, and then refocused its gaze on Kira Yoshikage, lifting its wings in a way that ordinary birds would never do. Rubbed the chin with the hard tip of the feather.

At the next moment, a deep human voice that is difficult to distinguish between men and women rang through the glass in the room: “You noticed the strangeness the first time you saw me. I also want to ask why…

“Well, if the information is okay, you should be Jiliang Jiying…Looking at your reaction, I can probably guess what happened to you…”

After a pause, the owl outside the window smiled softly: “Someone crouched on me where I was coming. To be honest, even if I had an expectation in this regard, I was very surprised–

“…According to my behavior and habits, I shouldn’t expose information to this level during the predetermined incubation period, and you should grasp the specific location of my arrival on the earth. Is your ability beyond the scope of my expectations, or you are here? Time has gained an unreasonable source of information like an old man playing with thorns?”