Chapter 267: Old Friend

Ziwei returns to the familiar city.

When I passed by a candy store, I unexpectedly discovered that my favorite sandwich cookies were also sold there.

Standing outside the shop window, Ziwei looked for a long time.

A little girl who was selecting candies in the store curiously glanced at the little bird with a purple tail, followed its gaze, and hesitantly put a few sandwich cookies into her shopping bag.

"Mom, that's enough."

"Is it just that little?"

"Well, that's enough."

After paying the bill, my daughter rushed to carry the snack bag and went out. Seeing that Ziwei was still there, she mustered up her courage, took out two sandwich cookies from the snack bag, and tentatively held them in front of Ziwei: "Little bird, do you want this?"

Ziwei tilted his head and seemed to look at this timid yet courageous girl.

The girl put the packaged biscuits on the windowsill, and her mother watched with a smile without stopping her.

"Can you open the package? This thing is sometimes difficult to open, but your pointed mouth should be able to open it. The outer layer is not edible." The girl taught Ziwei using the words that adults taught her before.

Ziwei didn't say anything, just jumped a few times, grabbed the two sandwiches with his claws, then flapped his wings a few times, soared into the air in the blink of an eye, and soon turned into a small black dot in the sky.

The little girl opened her mouth and pointed to the sky: "Mom, look, the bird took my cookies!"

"I see. Okay, let's go back." The mother rubbed the child's head, took her hand and prepared to leave.

"Mom, this is what the little bird just left behind." The girl held up a banknote and handed it to her mother excitedly.

The mother took the money in astonishment. It seemed... Really? There are actually crows that know how to use money to exchange for food?
In the sky, Ziwei grabbed the biscuit tightly and didn't plan to stop any longer. He flew towards the nest of the wise crow in one go.

"Ang Ang, you're back as expected." In the nest, a soul crow that had been following the wise crow for many years did not feel strange when seeing the appearance of Purple Tail.

"Does Wise Crow know that I'm back?" Ziwei asked curiously.

"The wise crow knows everything!" The soul crow raised its head, spread its wings and flapped them, then looked at the biscuit in Ziwei's paw, "What is that? Is it delicious?"

"Not as delicious as French fries." Ziwei replied.

"Yeah, forget it." The Soul Crow was no longer interested after hearing this. "The Wise Crow left a message. If you want to find him, go to that place."

"That place?" Ziwei repeated, "Which place?"

"That's the place! That's what the Wise Crow said." The Soul Crow flew up, "I'm hungry. I'm going to get some fries."

After saying that, he left without paying any attention to Ziwei.

Ziwei lowered his head and looked at the biscuit. He probably had the answer in his mind, so he flew up again and flew in a certain direction.

After spending some time, Purple Tail arrived at a cemetery. After hovering in the sky for a few circles, it descended to the location it vaguely remembered and soon saw the presence of the Wise Crow.

"Wise Crow!"

Landing on the treetop, Ziwei called out slightly nervously.

The wise crow looked at it and nodded. After a long while, he said, "It seems that you have found your favorite food."

"Yes, Wise Crow, would you like to try it?" Ziwei handed one to Wise Crow.

The wise crow shook his head: "This is your favorite food, not mine. In all these years, you are the second soul crow to escape the 'French Fries Curse'."

"French fries.Curse?" Ziwei didn't quite understand the word, which made it temporarily forget the question it originally wanted to ask.

"That's right, the French fry curse." The wise crow looked at it quietly and said slowly, "We were born in the highest heaven, and our favorite food is French fries. This is an instinct engraved deep in our memory by the Supreme Being, but it is also a shackle."

"But in fact, this shackle is not unbreakable, just like most of us Soul Crows cannot feel the existence of friendship and love. But I can vaguely feel that the Supreme has left us a gap, but it seems that not many Soul Crows have been able to touch it."

"Only by guiding the Soul Crows to realize what emotions are can we become a race in the true sense. This is also the purpose of my establishing the Patrol Envoy system."

In Ziwei's memory, this was the first time he saw Wise Crow speak so many words at once.

Moreover, these words contained a lot of information, and it took Ziwei a long time to digest them before he could barely recover.

"Can't we just tell the tribesmen directly? Let them all understand friendship." Ziwei remembered the look on Fedra's face when she timidly called him Mr. Crow.

The Wise Crow shook his head, as if to indicate that he had already made efforts for it.

“Only real experience can make us realize that some things cannot be explained.”

Ziwei lowered his head, remembering that the Wise Crow seemed to have hinted at it to him before, but he didn't understand it at all at that time, nor did he care about such things.

"Because there is no such emotion among us soul crows, we need to find humans to get along with, and then use humans to awaken. So that's how it is." Ziwei seemed to have realized something.

"But humans are divided into good and evil. Blindly letting Soul Crows get along with humans is not a very wise choice. My plan is to proceed step by step. Let the newborn Soul Crows take over the work of their parents, and arrange for the adult Soul Crows to become inspectors. After extensive contact, they will automatically learn to distinguish the likes and dislikes of humans, and then slowly approach the good people among them and learn their emotions."

The wise crow looked at a tombstone below and said, "I am very lucky. I don't know if it is the blessing of the Supreme Being, but from the beginning of my birth, I have more wisdom and emotions than other people of my kind. I also came into contact with a good human and learned a lot from him."

There was a brief silence between the two crows, perhaps they were both remembering their human friend.

"I know you came here because the Supreme has given me the management of the Soul Lamp. I can roughly know what you have experienced and where you are through the Soul Lamp. The reason you came back must be that you have some questions to ask." The Wise Crow summoned the Soul Lamp, but its shape was slightly different from that of other Soul Crows. It was bigger and brighter. Ziwei came back to his senses and cheered up: "Wise Crow, I want to know, in heaven, after the good people die, will their souls have eternal dreams?"

When the wise crow heard this question, he was stunned for a while: "I want to know the answer to this question too."

After looking at Ziwei deeply, the Wise Crow did not answer directly: "Once, when the Supreme was about to return to heaven and rewarded me with the Lord Soul Lamp, I asked a question, 'Are we Soul Crows considered an intelligent race?'"

This matter concerns the legendary supreme being. Ziwei has no time to envy and is eager to know the answer: "And then?"

"The Supreme said 'not yet', and then gave me this." The Wise Crow took out a pyramid-shaped object from the Soul Lamp carefully. "This thing is called 'Heaven Beacon'. The first divine grace magicians relied on the enlightenment of this object to comprehend divine grace and become extraordinary in human terms."

"I think the Supreme's intention was to let me comprehend this divine grace technique, and then lead my people to become a truly intelligent race. But I didn't have the courage at the time because I was afraid of failure and becoming a sinner of the Soul Crow Clan. But now, I have figured it out. This thing should not be prepared for me." The Wise Crow stared at Ziwei, "Tell me, are you willing to take on this responsibility? After becoming a divine grace sorcerer, you may be able to find the answer to your question just now."

Ziwei did not answer immediately, but just stared blankly at the constantly rotating pyramid tip of the Heaven's Beacon.

Rocky coast at dusk.

Ye Jie stood on a reef. The yellow light seemed to be dyed into white light after passing by her, forming a halo that was out of tune with the picture.

The Demon Lord lay carefully on the small reef, enduring the wash of waves again and again but not daring to complain.

After her careful and thorough search, she had almost run through half of Europe, and the clues she found left by the Soul Assembly were either traps or taunts, and many were temporary residences that had no reference value at all.

After all, it was she who proposed the suggestion with full confidence in the beginning. Now that the result was fruitless, she must not let herself be angry and make dog meat stew out of it.

Although generally speaking, there should be nothing in the world that can completely kill her for the time being, but making her into an immortal dog meat stew sounds even worse!
A crab climbed up along the reef and was about to touch Ye Jie's bare feet. The Demon Lord was so loyal and protective that he quickly used his head to hit the crab, causing it to roll back into the sea.

"Let's go back. It's time to go to Tokyo. Soul Assembly will not let go of this opportunity. You will need to be in high spirits when the time comes." After looking at the sea for a while, Ye Jie did not plan to continue searching. From the traces left behind, it can be seen that Soul Assembly has completely withdrawn from Europa and probably dare not come back for the time being.

"Don't worry, Lady Goddess! I will definitely hold them to death!" The Demon Lord responded quickly.

Ye Jie also understood the Demon Lord's character, so he didn't say anything about it. He just casually put her back into the holy water bottle.

Although the time they had spent together made her very confident that the Demon Lord was truly surrendering to her, this kind of being with an evil background and powerful abilities would only make her feel that she was deceived even if she trusted him 100%, and she had to use the holy water bottle to limit his power at all times.

She still vividly remembers the consequences of the chaos in Mo City, as well as the lives that should not have died.
She collected her thoughts, put away the holy water bottle, took out her cell phone from the space earrings, and was about to contact Jennifer, but found that the other party had already called her.

I called back and Jennifer answered quickly.

"How is it going? Ye Jie, have you finished the search?" Jennifer asked as soon as the call was connected.

"The search is basically complete. The Soul Assembly has abandoned all their bases. They should have temporarily withdrawn from Europa." The holy water bottle enlarged and turned into a means of transportation in the blink of an eye. Ye Jie sat on it sideways and controlled the holy water bottle to quickly rise into the air, heading towards the city of Ba where Jennifer was to meet up.

"Oh, they are smart. I was warned about these guys when I was in North America. It's really unbelievable that I, an Ami, was warned when I returned to Ami." This was obviously not the reason why Jennifer called, but she started talking nonsense as soon as she started talking.

Ye Jie didn't remind her. She really liked listening to Jennifer complain about all these big and small things. After all, she was the only one who would get along with her like this.

"Ah, where was I talking about?" Jennifer complained for a long time before she reacted and forgot what she was going to say for a moment.

"You seemed to have just mentioned catching penguins in the Arctic." The wind was strong, but it didn't blow on her face and didn't affect her speech.

"Oh, that's right!" Jennifer shook her head fiercely. "I really found something interesting in Bacheng, but I can't explain it over the phone. Since you're back now and the gourd flew so fast, I'll tell you in detail when you come back."

“That’s not a gourd.” Before I could finish my sentence, I realized that Jennifer had hung up the phone.

In fact, the holy water bottle is only slightly curved, which is very different from the gourd.

It seems that Jennifer's mentality is a little unbalanced after traveling around the world and failing to find the sacred object of her family. Ye Jie rarely smiled.

It didn't take long for her to rush back to Bavaria from the Norwegian coast and find where Jennifer was staying, a luxurious five-star hotel.

"This hotel is owned by the Holy See. It's much safer to live here than in the place they provide. Besides, since Olivier committed suicide, the remnants of the Demon Lord were eliminated, and the Soul Assembly ran away, there is nothing else we need to do. We had planned to go to Tokyo as a group as soon as you came back, but when I was wandering around the city of Ba yesterday, I found something unexpected."

Next to this hotel, there is a multi-storey annex building with luxurious decoration. It does not receive outsiders and is only used to receive senior executives or extraordinary people.

Jennifer and Ye Jie walked among them, and the staff bowed their heads respectfully without causing any chaos.

Jennifer still has a strong preference for Bacheng. After all, it was here that she celebrated her first birthday with someone by her side. Unfortunately, her birthday this year has passed for a long time, and she still hasn't received any information from the scumbag Shiraishi Kou.

Jennifer walked into the elevator and pressed buttons randomly. The elevator started moving downwards, obviously passing the underground parking lot and arriving at a hidden underground floor that was not visible to the public.

There are no staff here, but the lighting is bright, the layout is simple, and it is just one room.

I walked to a more advanced security door, entered the password, and recognized my biometric information, and the door opened.

Then, Ye Jie saw that there was a living room inside the iron fence, and a thin man huddled in a corner.

For some reason, Ye Jie's heart moved slightly.

"Little girl, I know you're not asleep. Come here and let us take a good look." Jennifer knocked on the fence and said in a seductive voice.

But no matter what she said, the little girl in the corner still covered her head, motionless. If it weren't for her slightly rising and falling breathing, she would have looked like a corpse.

A light flashed through Ye Jie's mind, and his breathing quickened. He grabbed the railing and asked tentatively, "Swing the sword a thousand times, block five hundred times, whoever finishes first can have lunch first?"

The little girl's body trembled, as if with a little disbelief, and she slowly raised her head, revealing a charming face. She loosened her hands, and her two fox ears trembled nimbly, and the fox tail behind her also appeared in front of them.

"Sister Ye Yejie?"

(End of this chapter)