Chapter 287 Camouflage? octopus? mysterious black robe woman
"Ophelia?"
Slowly opened his eyes, and found Ophelia appearing in front of him, Ichigo suddenly became refreshed, "Why are you here so late?"
"I know you must be very worried about your partner, so after the teacher asked for the pass, I sent it to you in a hurry." Ophelia took out a letter-like thing in her hand and shook it .
"How? Are you going now?"
"Of course!" Ichigo said excitedly, "Thank you so much, Ophelia!"
"Let's go." Ophelia accepted Kurosaki Ichigo's gratitude, then smiled and said
"Oh? Are you going too?" Seeing that Ophelia seemed to be about to leave, Ichigo was taken aback, and then said curiously
"Of course! Do you know how to get to the Treant Forest?" Ophelia shrugged, "And there are many places on the road that are forbidden by the 'gbl sect'. I'm afraid that if you enter it by mistake, then you won't be a 'gbl sect' The members of the Sky Veil Behemoth will also violate the rules of the Sky Veil Behemoth, maybe Uncle Marcel will expel you."
Hearing what she said, Ichigo understood, and after thinking about it carefully, it would not be good to let someone of unknown origin wander around. It is normal for someone to follow him.
"Okay, let's go now!"
Ichigo followed Ophelia to the door of the library, but at this time the administrator, Isadora, seemed to be still reading a book in front of the desk.
"Be careful, next to the Treant Forest is the 'Purgatory', if you accidentally go in, you will die." Seeing that the two were about to go out, Isadura raised her head and reminded
"Don't worry, Ichigo doesn't seem like someone who will break in." Ophelia nodded, and then walked out with Ichigo, and asked curiously outside
"Purgatory? It sounds scary, what is that place?"
"Those who violate the precepts, if their crimes are unforgivable, will be imprisoned by Uncle Marcel. It can be said that it is the place where all the most vicious and vicious people in the history of the Sky Veil Beast are imprisoned. Over time, it has the name of purgatory. It's not that the environment inside is so bad, it's that the sinners are too vicious."
She said that, but made Ichigo more interested in that place, a dangerous place...
Isn’t the place where the apostles are located a dangerous place?
Could it be that the apostles were hiding in that purgatory? So the 'gbl religion' doesn't know?
With doubts in their hearts, Ichigo and Ophelia shuttled through the temple and arrived at the purgatory in the moonlit night.
The entrance to Purgatory is a closed gate, in which is engraved the head of an evil spirit with its mouth wide open, as if it is always ready to devour people outside.
When he saw the entrance of this purgatory, Ichigo’s heart skipped a beat. He seemed to feel a familiar wave here. It wasn’t the Reiatsu of Orihime and Yoruichi, but the feeling of someone else in his memory...
who?
Ichigo raised his eyebrows, he wanted to feel it carefully, but he didn't notice anything the next moment.
Could it be that I think too much?
Or did you say that you had something in your heart and let yourself have an illusion?
"Let's go, the Dryad Forest is not far away." Ophelia noticed that Ichigo was in a daze here, and she quickly reminded, "Purgatory is very dangerous, don't even think about entering it."
"..." Ichigo glanced at Ophelia, then nodded, "Well, I won't break the rules."
No matter what's inside, it's better to follow the rules now. Ichigo glanced at the entrance of purgatory again, and then followed Ophelia again.
Sure enough, the Treant Forest is not far from Purgatory, and the dividing line from the outside buildings is a huge swamp, and there are many trees on the swamp.
"Elder, this is the passport of the leader, please let us in."
What surprised Ichigo the most was that Ophelia walked up to the biggest tree on the edge of the swamp, respectfully handed over the pass, and then...
The huge tree raised vines, and the trunk opened a pair of eyes like a human being!
It made a strange sound, then rolled the pass with vines, opened its eyes under the eyes, and swallowed the envelope.
After that, the swamp seemed to be forcibly separated by someone, revealing a gap, which was also full of vegetation, which seemed to be specially designed for people to pass through.
"Let's go." Ophelia said to Ichigo, and the latter thought that as expected of something from another world, plants can still become spirits.
He followed, and then came to the forest of dryads, which is full of strange trees. As a tree, they can move, communicate, and some are even playing!
Really...
There are no surprises.
Ophelia took him to the deepest part of the jungle, where he met the biggest tree he had ever seen. The tree exuded a majesty. After seeing Kurosaki Ichigo coming, he said slowly
"I have seen what you are asking for, but for thousands of years, no outsiders have ever entered the Dryad Forest."
Hearing his words, Ichigo was disappointed, and Ophelia said, "Dear Lord Rodin, your tentacles are all over the giant beast of the sky, so there are no outsiders in places other than the jungle?"
"Unfortunately, as long as someone enters the Skyveil Beast, I will definitely feel it, but I don't feel anyone else entering except you."
"... I see, thank you... Master Rodin." Ichigo was a little disappointed, and it was almost dawn at this time, so Ophelia took Ichigo to the distribution of the temple in the tree spirit forest, and let him stay temporarily. Stay here.
"Don't be discouraged, after all, the Sky Veil Behemoth is still very big." Ophelia comforted Ichigo at the door
"I won't give up, but maybe... Orihime and the others are really not here."
Yihu still believes in Yun Mi more in his heart, but the 'gbl religion' treats him very well, and he doesn't want to break the other party's rules or suspect them for no reason.
After Ophelia left, he was lying in the room, and he could still see the dimming moon through the window. How could he sleep in this situation?
well…
Sighed deeply, could it be...
Really want to go to Purgatory?
Compared with Ophelia who met for the first time, Orihime and Yoichi are obviously more important in his heart, and he also feels that there will be some gains in purgatory...
When I was passing through Purgatory, I also felt an inexplicable and familiar fluctuation...
His mind was a mess, and just when Ichigo was about to thread his thoughts into a thread, he suddenly saw a black figure appearing outside the window!
That black shadow glanced at him, and it was this glance that made Ichigo notice the most obvious feature of the opponent!
That’s a pair of…
Purple eyes!
Isadollah?
No, Isadura's eyes are just a little purple, but these eyes are like purple gemstones!
Emanating psychedelic and ghostly magic light in the dark!
"who!?"
Ichigo said in a low voice, but the black shadow disappeared in an instant. Ichigo hurriedly chased after him, but there was no trace of the person outside the temple.
Ichigo frowned tightly, amplified his Reiatsu perception, and found a very obvious trace of Reiatsu, just like...
It's just that at this time, even a little abnormality will make Ichigo extremely excited, because abnormality means there is a clue!
He rushed over quickly, until he came to a cliff, the place was extremely deep, without any flowers and trees, and it was desolate.
And on the edge of the cliff, stood a man in a black robe with a black hood on his head, looking mysterious.
As if sensing Ichigo's arrival, the man in black turned around slowly, with the hood covering his face. Strange to say, he didn't cover his face, but Ichigo couldn't see his face clearly.
Ichigo held Zanyue with one hand, and asked cautiously, "Who are you?!"
"..." Unexpectedly, the man in black robe didn't answer Ichigo's question, she said softly, "It's time to wake up, Kurosaki Ichigo."
! ?
It was a woman's voice?
The possibility of Isadura seems to have increased again?
Ichigo thought to himself, and said calmly on the surface, "Why should you wake up?"
"Follow me..." The woman in black robe slowly descended from the cliff, and finally her feet floated above the swamp. Seeing this, Ichigo followed her and jumped down, stepping on the spirit son on the swamp.
The woman didn't care whether Ichigo followed or not, she just walked straight, Ichigo followed closely behind carefully, and finally Ichigo found that they had come to the place where the tree spirit king Rodin was again.
"Rodin, the guardian of the giant tree, it is the first life bred from the magic power combined with the seeds on the giant beast of the sky, isn't it..."
She walked in as if no one else was there, and the surrounding giant trees seemed to have not seen it!
Ichigo couldn't help being surprised by the woman's means. He followed the woman closely, as if invisible like her, and in the jungle before, he saw Rodin again, and Rodin was still the same as before. Huge, but still majestic.
But the woman just waved her hand lightly when she came to Rodin, and everything changed immediately.
Then…
Ichigo also widened his eyes!
"A octopus like this..."
Hearing the woman's last words, Ichigo couldn't believe his eyes, the huge tree suddenly...
turned into an octopus? !
"?! What is this?!" Ichigo said in disbelief, and the woman just smiled softly
"Use your own eyes and heart to judge..."
The next moment, her figure began to slowly dissipate.
"Wait a moment!"
Ichigo roared loudly, and he rushed over to grab the black-robed woman, but just when he was about to touch her, he suddenly woke up!
"Hoo...hoo..."
Ichigo sat up from the bed suddenly, his back was soaked in cold sweat, and he was panting heavily.
Just now…
Is it a dream? !
When did you fall asleep?
He covered his face with his hands, and then slowly released them. He stood up, walked to the window, looked at the sky that was about to brighten, and frowned.
Own…
Why do you have such a dream?
Who is that mysterious woman? Rodin is an octopus?
He felt a move in his heart, then quietly opened the door and walked out.
It’s not about going to purgatory, it’s too late now, if you go there, you won’t have time to come back, and you will be discovered by Ophelia.
He doesn't want to break the rules yet...
One is that no one can fall asleep now, so why not go outside for a breath of fresh air to relax, and the other is that he wants to take this time to see if there are any clues around him.
In that dream, Rodin suddenly turned into an octopus, which made him have some guesses. You must know that Rotes is a huge octopus-like monster in the records, and the octopus must be inseparable from him.
Could it be...
Rodin has been controlled by Rotes?
It's just that when he opened the door, he saw Ophelia walking towards him. If he didn't have that dream, Ichigo wouldn't think too much about it, but after experiencing that dream, Ichigo frowned.
Now that I think about it, Ophelia seems to be by her side most of the time since she came to the Skyveil Behemoth?
Especially now, when I wake up at this time, would someone come over under normal circumstances?
"What's wrong?"
Seeing his frown, Ophelia looked at Ichigo with some doubts, and the latter said immediately, "It's nothing, I'm just worried..."
"After all, I don't know what happened to Orihime and the others..."
Ichigo sighed, he was always paying attention to Ophelia's expression when speaking and sighing, but he still didn't see anything wrong.
Forget it, Ophelia is good to herself, she can help a stranger like this so hard, but she still suspects that he is simply too beastly...
Ichigo shook his head in his heart, and asked again, "What about you? I see... are you coming to find me?"
"Oh, I'm here to inform you that we're going back. Although there is our branch in the Dryad Forest, people like us who don't live here can't stay here for a long time." Ophelia said quickly, "And After one night, maybe Uncle Marcel has some clues."
"O...Okay, let's leave then, by the way, don't you want to say goodbye to Lord Rodin?"
In fact, Ichigo still wants to see Rodin, the guardian of the giant tree. He is very concerned about the dream last night no matter what.
"No need, Lord Rodin actually doesn't like being disturbed."
Ophelia rejected the proposal, and Ichigo couldn't force it anymore, so he had to leave with Ophelia.
He left by the same way again, and this time when passing through Purgatory, he didn't feel any fluctuations anymore, as if it was really an illusion at the beginning.
Ichigo's heart was heavy, and after returning to the headquarters of the 'gbl religion', he learned that Marcel was still looking for it, but he didn't get any clues, so Ichigo sighed again and said to Ophelia that he wanted to go outside to find it by himself. Look, although Ophelia also wanted to follow him, but Ichigo refused because he wanted to relax by himself.
At night, Ichigo finally started to act, but he didn't go to purgatory...
Instead, I came to the highest temple of the 'gbl religion' headquarters, which is where the leader is.
And here it is...
He finally saw part of the 'truth'...
(end of this chapter)