The Death Knell

In the dark and narrow stairs, Leo tried to push the door open again, but the door was locked again. He could only hear the sound of his father fighting with others outside the door.

He looked at his hands. He actually didn't know what his superpower was. Even if his whole body was transformed into an astral state, the only ability given to him was to slowly levitate, and his combat effectiveness was almost zero.

But now Tesla blocked the pursuers just to let him go up the stairs to the rooftop. He couldn't let his father's efforts be in vain.

With his bare feet, he held on to the cold wall and moved upward step by step.

What will you see on it? A summons from above? Who could it be?

What appeared in front of him was a huge dome, like a starry sky, with twelve constellations outlined by bright lines. He felt like he was in the sky.

But there was only an empty platform around him, and there was flat ground under his feet. No one was waiting for him.

Just when he was wondering, the dome above suddenly cracked, and the patterned sky cracked, revealing the real night sky above and the real stars.

A winged figure slowly fell from the sky and landed in front of Leo.

Upon closer inspection, it was a human being. He had a thick beard and long blond hair, and was wearing Renaissance clothes, such as a puffy shirt and very tight pants.

However, in addition to this period-style clothing, he also wears a round glass helmet, and the wings on his body are a set of mechanical wings connected to the half-body armor.

It is pieced together through gears, leather, cloth, wood, and some unknown hoses. It is these things that allow the person in front of you to fly freely.

"Wake up the alarm, wake up everyone, I am Leonardo da Vinci, and the object in my hand is the hope of saving the world."

Leo heard his words and turned his eyes to Leonardo da Vinci's hand, which was a small metal ball, but at this time, the ball with complicated patterns was blooming like a flame, and the golden flames were dancing.

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At the same time, while Tesla and Howard were fighting, Leonid saw Da Vinci, and Su Ming and Zheng Xian were hiding in the shadows of the sky.

The leader of the Holy Shield, the Speaker, Brother, is currently heading to a secret place.

It was once a deep well, and what flowed in the well was infinite life.

It is the fountain of life formed by Newton's great science, silent mathematics, silent truth, and future mixed alchemy.

Once upon a time, these springs were constantly gushing out of the walls here. As long as you drank them regularly, you would never die or age.

But now, this place is dry, because the truth is exhausted. Without raw materials, the elixir cannot be produced.

Pursue the truth, and the truth will be as you wish. Without spring water, the immortal becomes a joke.

The deep well that was once used to hold the elixir has now become a dungeon. There is only a small puddle on the ground in the center of the deep well, which is filled with some orange-red liquid.

Not much, almost as much as a washbasin.

On the wall not far away, several thick iron chains fixed a shriveled and ugly man. He was skinny, unshaven, and kept talking about something as if he was delirious.

In the darkness, Newton walked forward slowly and came to the bottom of the dry well. He stopped from a distance and looked at the people hanging on the wall.

"Drink, drink hard, and live forever..."

Not knowing whether the people on the wall heard him or whether they could understand him, Newton walked to the mechanism nearby and pulled a lever.

With the sound of gears and machinery, the iron chains clattered out of the wall, and the people who were bound fell to the ground.

Extremely hungry and thirsty, he subconsciously crawled towards the small puddle in the center of the cell, while Newton just watched quietly.

After knowing that the man drank several gulps of the elixir and spit out a mouthful of blood because he fell to the ground, Newton continued.

"Now, Nostradamus, speak to me..."

As if he had developed a conditioned reflex, or Newton's authority was irresistible, the shriveled prisoner sat up on his knees, raised his hands, and covered his eyes with his palms.

In an instant, strange runes lit up on the back of his hand, and strings of black tattooed letters began to glow as if powered by electricity, spreading from the back of his hand to his wrist.

The most obvious ones are the two largest patterns on the back of his hands. The Eye of Horus is tattooed on his right hand, and the scarab is tattooed on his left hand. At this time, they both emit strong light.

And Nostradamus seemed to see something through his palm.

"The sound of war echoes in the sky. Soon the Son of Eternity will appear. The Son of the Star will be born. Destiny or freedom, all will be revealed."

Newton propped his chin up with his fist and quietly thought about the meaning of the prophecy, but Nostradamus had not finished speaking yet.

"Change is not coming! It's happening! It's happening now!"

Before Newton had time to ask, he heard a strong explosion, and even the bottom of the cell was shaking. He immediately tightened the chain and left in a hurry.

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Su Ming and Zheng Xian were still in the air, sitting on a 'flying carpet', as if they had nothing to do, both smoking cigarettes with indifferent expressions.

"It turns out that the Eternal City is here. It's really interesting to use the space bridge as a turtle shell." Zheng Xian blew out the smoke gently.

"Yeah, it's actually quite ironic that the forces that say they want to protect the earth are hidden in a pocket space." Su Ming was the same, sitting calmly cross-legged next to Zheng Xian.

This old boy's cigarettes have no brand, and the cigarette box is just a piece of white paper. It is probably a special gift. I will have to find a way to get more from him in the future.

Zheng Xian looked at the brightly lit city below, with the same smile on his face: "So, Supreme Mage, what's your next step?"

"Take away the Holy Shield and get you a weapon?" Su Ming looked calm.

"Ahem, no, then there will really be a world war." Although Zheng Xian was still laughing, he couldn't help coughing twice, probably because he was choking on his saliva: "It's best to keep the agreement thousands of years ago as it is. I have different ideas from them, even if the Holy Shield is in my hands, it is still a piece of scrap metal."

"Oh? Tell me?"

"Whether it is the Holy Spear or the Holy Spear, they are actually weapons of the gods. In order to be used by humans, although their energy levels are high, their total energy is very small, and there are various restrictions. In the hands of inappropriate people, they It’s just ordinary iron, mind you, it’s not even steel.”

Zheng Xian said, and generously handed the holy spear to Su Ming, but after he let go, the gun instantly dimmed in Su Ming's hand, and it was light and airy, as if he was holding a sorghum pole. .

Let alone use it as a weapon, it is not even useful as a broom.

Su Ming returned the weapon to Zheng Xian. The holy spear seemed to be like an electrified light bulb, and the gun tip immediately lit up again.

"Ha, this thing is quite provocative." Su Ming took out the God Killer and immediately used the holy spear to transform it into an identical one, which was more gorgeous and dazzling.

Zheng Xian placed the spear across his lap and took a puff of cigarette: "That's it, just like you can't use the holy spear, I can't use the holy shield. According to my teacher Zhang Heng, it's because of the faith in my heart. "

"Is that so? Tell me about it?"

Zheng Xian did not shy away from it: "I don't know what Holy Shield's beliefs are, but what we are talking about is that the Great Dao is fifty and the Heaven's evolution is forty-nine. Humans can escape one of them, but humans can definitely defeat Heaven."

"Does this mean that we are pursuing a glimmer of hope in a crisis?" Su Ming understood immediately.

"The thinking of the God Group is almost entirely composed of 1 and 0, and the gun is 1 and the shield is shaped like 0. This is a huge difference." Zheng Xian puffed on his cigarette and squatted down like a village party secretary: "As a person, Outsiders are not shaped by our world, neither 1 nor 0, so..."

"So the treasure should not be with me."

"Haha, that's right."

"Well, I'm not here to pick up a shield anyway. The Holy Shield Brotherhood has a lot of good stuff. Lao Zheng, we two brothers can make five together?"

Zheng Xian's expression was very strange, and even his smile seemed to be stiff. It was really awkward for a foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes to call him a brother and brother, and also say a 50-50 split.

But he still nodded slightly: "Yes, we can't come here in vain. No matter what good treasure we find, we will share half of it each of us, but we can't go too far. If the bottom line is crossed, the Holy Shield will not stop fighting."

"Haha, their current troubles are enough for them to take care of themselves. Let's get some benefits secretly first, and then go on stage to help them. Wouldn't it be even?"

"What a plan."

The two high-fived and concluded the deal, and Su Ming began to tell his plan.

He can now basically confirm the plot. The Eternal City still exists, and Howard and the others are involved, plus Leo whom Doty met.

He understood what time this was, and at this time, he already had a plan on how to eliminate the crisis and gain benefits.

The purpose of recruiting Zheng Xian was to serve as a banner, and Director Zheng knew it, but he couldn't do it in vain.

"Come on, Lao Zheng, while there is still some time, I will tell you about the Holy Shield's plan." Su Ming dropped the cigarette butt from the flying carpet, and a red arc circled down.

"Oh? You know this too?" Zheng Xian also threw away the cigarette butt.

"I am the Supreme Mage." Su Ming smiled.

"Well, looking at your strong body, brother, I always forget this matter easily." Zheng Xian patted his forehead and smiled bitterly: "Since you have seen it with the Eye of Agamotto, then I will also listen to it. Their plan."

Su Ming did not correct his understanding, because what he saw was not a time stone, and there was no way to explain it.

"The Celestial Alien is about to hatch and will destroy everything when it arrives on Earth, so the Aegis Brotherhood plans to use human machines to fight it."

"Tsk, a time machine is just a time machine, what about a human machine?" Zheng Xian sneered. Of course he knew what it was, but the name was still so impractical and pretentious.

"That is indeed the case, and their plan is a clumsy way. They intend to use human machines to examine three possibilities and choose the one with a good ending, but at the same time, it will also create three different independent points in time."

From Aegis' point of view, there are only three possibilities for the future - getting better, getting worse, and staying the same.

"Intercepting the independent point in time and developing...it's a bit like Kang the Conqueror's method." Zheng Xian pinched his chin.

"To be precise, it was Kang the Conqueror who learned about human machines. Of course, that's another story." Su Ming waved his hand and changed the subject.

"So you're here, you can replace human machines by yourself, by using the Eye of Agamotto." Director Zheng already understood, he nodded slowly, with a look of appreciation on his face.

Su Ming immediately climbed up the pole: "I have examined all future possibilities. There is no need for them to play with the timeline anymore. I will directly point them to a clear path..."