Chapter 1,042 Looking for Birds

In the cold weather of the twelfth lunar month, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Maybe I was indeed a troubled guy. This attribute has been deeply engraved in my destiny: even if I occasionally play with my children at home for a day, I will still encounter the world. The unlucky guy at the end of the world is probably talking about himself.

"Dingdang, please check again to see if the blade is buried too far away or in the wrong place. Your power is everywhere in this yard. It is possible that the connection between you and the blade has been disturbed." I hurriedly said to Dingdang, then turned to Anweina, "Medivine is also missing? When did she disappear?"

"I didn't see it at noon yesterday." Anweina was floating lightly in the air. The snowflakes passed directly through her body and fell to the ground. It seemed that she had completely entered a shadow state. "I thought it was going to It’s time to practice flying in the sky. Medivh’s body grows too fast, so she has to start learning to fly in advance. It is different from a normal crow. It has to explore its own flying method. Not long ago, it learned how to flap its wings. It has been flying frequently in the past two days. It flies out to play by itself. But it is usually very careful and will go behind the clouds where humans can't see... Oh, let's not talk about this, the important thing is that it did not go home last night! There is no trace of its energy left in the nest, nor You didn’t come to say good morning to me!”

"Are these two things related?" My sister already knew that Medivh had stayed away all night. She just met Dingdang who was looking for a leaf in a panic, and she suddenly became worried, "Could it be that that leaf was stolen by someone else?" Did Medivh take her away?"

"Probably...no way..." I couldn't help but become suspicious. "A crow scrapes leaves from the soil and then absconds with the stolen goods? What does it want? And Medivh is a crow that listens to Anweena very much. It will not leave without saying goodbye."

"There is definitely a connection," Lin Xue came over at some point. She also held a piece of black feather in her hand. The color of this feather looked like that of a crow, but it was larger than any crow feather I had ever seen. It has a dark blue metallic luster, and the edge is as sharp as a blade. And if you look carefully, you can even see a shadow cloud composed of energy slowly rotating at the base of its feathers. This is Medivh's feathers. "I found this in the snow under the eaves, which means it is Medivh below." The snow fell before. This feather tells me that the young crow god took away the jingle blade, but it is just a feather. There is really very little information linkage that can be produced. I can see that the crow is producing something It’s a huge change, but... I don’t know what it will look like. There are too many uncertainties about it.”

I looked into Lin Xue's eyes, and there was a mysterious white halo floating in her eyes: "What else? Will it come back? Can you see where it is?"

Lin Xue narrowed her eyes slightly: "It will be back soon, and it is very healthy. This is not a bad thing, but Dingdang may lose her leaves... I just suddenly saw a very powerful scene, guess what leaf What's wrong?"

I shook my head in confusion, but out of the corner of my eye I suddenly saw Shandora walking towards me, and I suddenly felt blessed: "Eat?!"

...Guess how this word suddenly came to mind for me? All right. No need to guess, don’t tell Sandora...

The corner of Lin Xue's mouth twitched: "You can answer quickly - yes, Medivh ate that leaf." As she said that, she walked half a circle around the uncle and pointed to a piece of snow-covered grass: "It's right here. Medivh accidentally dug out the leaf yesterday morning. Its habit as a bird has not changed, and the leaves of the goddess of life seemed to have a great attraction for it, so it ate the leaves Go down."

Anweina was a little stunned and asked cautiously: "Don't Medivh need to eat? It never eats food..."

"What if it's just for evolution?" Sandora's voice sounded next to her. "It just hasn't eaten since it was born. That doesn't mean it can't eat - and I've always insisted that creatures that can't eat are Incomplete…”

We collectively ignored the second half of Sandora's sentence, and then expressed various possibilities for the first half of her sentence.

"Is this the end of Dingdang's leaves?" Little Dot jumped on my shoulder with a snap, and said with a sad face, "Did the leaves that Dingdang replaced for the first time be eaten like this?"

I was immediately confused and thought, okay, the real trouble here has just begun. If what Lin Xue saw is not bad (this is almost inevitable), then Medivh will be relaxed and comfortable. He tried to improve his food, but he swallowed Dingdang's most precious leaves. Although in my opinion that thing is as useless as the baby teeth that were replaced for the first time, it is of great significance to Dingdang: the little thing was carefully planted into the soil.

Although she completely forgot about it within a few days of planting it in the soil...

"I think we should find the bird first," Bingtis glanced at Dingdang sympathetically, "There's nothing we can do about the smaller leaves, but I don't think we should be too disappointed. The leaves of the Goddess of Life can continue to regenerate, up to 50,000 Plant again after the new year. And they basically do everything with a three-minute heat, including planting their own leaves. After ten days and a half, they will forget about it. "

Xiao Douding suddenly jumped up on my shoulder, gesticulating and wanting to protest, but after thinking about it, she sat down honestly and muttered: "That's right. Hey, Jun, Dingdang is not in a good mood. Okay, can you eat two more toffees today?"

I felt a deep sense of powerlessness in my heart, thinking that even if I was short-sighted, I wouldn't be so obvious...

I'm afraid it's not easy to find Medivh. If you lose an ordinary bird, it's easy to say that it can't fly beyond the five districts and ten counties in the suburbs. But once Medivh learns to fly, it will not fly twice as fast. The speed of sound is so simple, and it also learned space jumping from Anweina a while ago. According to Anweina's calculation, if Medivh wants to go all out, one day and night is enough for it to circle the earth more than three times, and the bird can also It doesn't necessarily fly in which direction - where can I find it?

True. We have experienced imperial agents, widely distributed floating probes in the atmosphere, and full-spectrum stealth satellites in space that can scan the world, but the premise of all of them is to know what Medivh has become now. Lin Xue's prediction showed that the crow was mutating, and the energy signatures recorded during the previous physical examination were no longer useful: We called the invisible satellite in orbit on the spot, but we could not find the crow's signature on the earth. Energy response. Sandora found something out after retrieving some surveillance data from yesterday. Several probes located on the edge of the city have recorded Medivh's fleeting figure. At that time, its speed was Mach 135 (this must have used the spell it just learned. Otherwise, you can use aerodynamics) This cannot be explained scientifically), and after that the probe lost its presence. Medivh is a special member of the First Family, and it is a creature that can fly around, so under normal circumstances our atmospheric surveillance equipment will not deliberately track it. If that weird crow god accidentally learns the invisibility skill, he will be in real trouble.

After a short discussion, Sandora and I both believed that this matter was actually very dangerous: Medivh is not very good at controlling her own power, but its growth rate has obviously exceeded its self-control ability, and its current shadow breath has almost completely Can kill a tank brigade head-on. Once out of control, the power is astonishing. It is very smart, but its current mind is no higher than that of a five- or six-year-old human child, and it occasionally behaves like a child. Do you know what is the most dangerous thing in the world? Let me tell you, they are naughty children. These creatures are the most unreasonable. Their main purpose of appearing is to destroy the world and drive their parents crazy. Today, Medivh is equivalent to a naughty child. Moreover, this naughty kid can spit out shadow arrows that can burn through tanks, and he is invulnerable at the same time...

I had given Medivh a seal before, allowing her to turn into an ordinary big bird outside of training, but now the seal has obviously failed. It may be that it experienced a violent energy expansion after eating Dingdang's leaves. Destroyed the simple "chain" set according to its original power.

The few kids were still playing in the snow carefree in the yard, while the rest of us went back to the house to study looking for birds.

Shandora first expressed her opinion: "Now I don't know what the bird has mutated into, so I can only investigate the places with strange energy reactions all over the world. As long as there are strange energy fluctuations, send people there to check. Situation, I have put the satellite online, and I estimate that I will be able to draw a global energy snapshot in a while. Many of Medivh's powers do not exist on the earth, such as shadow and arcane. Finding these energy hotspots can probably be confirmed. It’s Medivh’s place.”

"It's where it stayed," Lin Xue added, "The bird is still scurrying around. I just saw it passing over the Alps... But that was the scene yesterday afternoon. I was observing these extremes. There will be a delay in close events.”

I nodded to express my understanding. Although Lin Xue's power was strong, it had limitations, especially not suitable for the current situation. If Medivh stayed in one place, Lin Xue would definitely see her on the spot, but that bird was scurrying around the earth all the time, and Lin Xue was a little crazy. After all, activating the prophecy requires time and concentration. , and Medivh only needs to start and put into gear. This is equivalent to looking for a cat on the Xizhimen overpass with an astronomical telescope. If you can't find it, it's definitely not the telescope's fault...

"Now those idle imperial soldiers have something to do again," Lin Xue sighed, "We need a team that is widely distributed on the earth, well-connected, understands the environment, and is highly mobile to cooperate with the satellite to capture Medivh. There is only one The most suitable candidate..."

I nodded very heavily: "That guy...who is going to get him out of the solitary room?"

Lin Xue was quite surprised: "Wow! Sicaro was caught? I saw him quite active a while ago."

Shandora covered her face: "He had a big plan two days ago, but as soon as he left the house, Lingmeng led more than 400 urban management officials to stop him: Lingmeng was in a state of excitement when he paid his wages that day."

When the global satellite was launched to search for arcane and shadow reactions on the earth, Sicaro finally came out of the confinement room and saw the light of day again. He already knew the mission, so he first led his most capable men in the shadows. A swearing-in ceremony was held on the outskirts of the city, and the scene was very spectacular. Cicaro's special operations team has its own specialized organization and uniforms when performing tasks on earth. It is generally divided into CD team, palmistry team, train ticket team, certificate processing team, old Chinese medicine team, ancestral psoriasis treatment team, etc. More than a dozen teams. When we rushed over after hearing the news, we saw at least tens of thousands of people standing in twelve square formations in the square. Each square formation was neatly dressed in black super uniforms, Taoist uniforms, Chinese tunic suits, white coats or yellow vests. I almost I thought I was in Lanxiang...

These imperial soldiers are so bored that they spend their days when they are not fighting.

"Boss. Promise to complete the mission!" Sicaro expressed his determination to me with a glowing face and a righteous look on his face. If you didn't put subtitles on it, if you said that he was going to blow up the bunker, people would probably believe it. I was very interested in this guy’s activities in the past two days, and asked curiously: “Did Lingmeng catch him two days ago? He also got the stolen goods? What on earth were you planning to do at that time?”

Sicaro looked a little embarrassed: "No...it's actually a legal business. I haven't been on any missions recently, so I want to go to the outer world to sell some local products, grilled quails, etc. I just learned how to do it with a shaman from Azeroth. Grilled quail craftsmanship”

I suddenly became curious: roasted quail? Then it doesn't seem like a big mistake to sell this, and it's still in the outside world and won't affect the order of Shadow City. Why is Reimu so excited?

As a result, Cicaro then added: "I plan to sell it at the entrance of the Great Wall Station. It's very cold there. I think hot food should be popular there. I originally contacted two people who know how to make beef noodles and planned to work together. Come and go..."

Me: "..." You said those scientific researchers in Antarctica would open the door one day. Will you be scared crazy when you see a barbecue stall and two noodles sellers at the entrance of the research station? Lingmeng was too gentle at that time!

All in all, Cicaro and his group of veterans finally had something to do. That afternoon, he and a group of his most capable subordinates were ordered to go to Europe to find Medivh (according to Lin Xue's observation, Medivh stayed in Europe It took the longest, and there are more clues there. It is even possible that it hasn’t left yet: maybe there is something in Europe that attracted the bird’s attention). Visually, five can be seen at the entrance of the Louvre before 3:30 tomorrow afternoon. A system disk costs 1 yuan.

It was then that I suddenly realized that sometimes the things that make you scratch your head are not necessarily the end of the world. It is quite troublesome for some inconspicuous little guys to really lose control. No matter how powerful Medivh is, she is just a minor crow god. Without the word god, she is just a bird. However, after she suddenly disappeared, it caused quite a bit of chaos. Several groups of imperial soldiers have been sent out to search for a giant crow without attracting the attention of ordinary people. When they meet on the street, they all say hello: "Oh, are you looking for a bird?"

Then the other person nodded: "Well, the bird is gone."

If two female soldiers are okay, if two male soldiers meet, with such a greeting, there will be at least a dozen lonely uncles and aunts surrounding the roadside... Later, I asked Cicaro, who was in charge of this matter, to give his soldiers a It's an emergency meeting. It's best not to talk about looking for birds on the street...

However, I am still relatively optimistic about Medivh's disappearance. With so many people searching for her, and we have such advanced detection equipment, even if we have to find a crow on the entire earth without anyone noticing, it will be difficult to find one. Not too difficult. The only urgent aspect of this matter is that we don't know when that bird will cause disaster. Anweina said it well: It was just a child. Its personality was equivalent to that of a four- or five-year-old human child. Moreover, it had never been far away from home before. Even when practicing flying, it only hovered over the old city for a while. , such a childish magical bird who has never left home suddenly circled the earth several times and got lost outside...

Frightened children are most likely to get into trouble, especially those children who are less powerful than nuclear bombs.

We collected a lot of information in the afternoon. Although we still haven't found Medivh's figure, we have gradually discovered many traces of its activities: large scorched earth left by the Shadow Storm was found in the Alps, and half of the Andes Mountains. Four or five wandering crow spirits appeared on the mountainside. About three square kilometers of the Gobi desert in the central Taklamakan area was covered with glass. Apparently there was a plasma storm there. Some primitive African tribes were "inspired by the gods." After being contacted by their chief, the investigators determined that they saw a giant crow with a wingspan of at least 100 meters, which was lifted into the sky by thunder and storms. The crow hovered over the village where primitive tribes lived for a few minutes, and then jumped in space. Leaving there: Worst case scenario, Medivh has mastered space magic and is many times more powerful than before. Let us say something by the way: Those imperial soldiers who went to primitive tribes in Africa to promote new treatments for dieting and weight loss are really talented...

Within twenty-four hours, Medivh has left traces of her activities all over the world, and a small number of her activities have been witnessed by ordinary people. However, it seems that she still remembers the education of Anweina and me. That crow is definitely Most of its activities are in high mountains and other inaccessible places, as if it is trying to hide its presence as much as possible.

What's strange is that even though Medivh moves so frequently, we still can't catch it. All the imperial soldiers rushed to nothing. The traces of Medivh's activities they found were all left at least six hours ago. In other words, no sign of Medivh's activity in the last six hours has been found in the world. Including our satellite scans and intra-atmospheric probe reports, the results are the same.

"It may have really learned the hidden skills," Sandora said helplessly after reading a lot of reports in the living room, "I have long said that some skills cannot be taught to it in advance. As a mutant species, everything Learning should be done step by step.”

Anweina looked worried: "But since it learned how to surf the Internet, it downloaded the Dalaran Magic Encyclopedia in the xl navigation..."

I:"……"

Damn it, Medivh is already such a powerful guy? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)