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Chapter 552 Death and the Chariot

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    Various high-end steam cars are parked in front of the Black Rose Theater, and there are civilian security aircraft patrolling everywhere.

    The three-meter-wide "Lake of the Giants" poster in front of the theater was torn a long hole by troublemakers, and the drooping poster pages were creaked by the wind.

    Some biting comments and provocative thugs also had a certain impact on the performance scene.

    Those fanatical fans who followed Dorothy all the way to San Francisco from all over the world, their enthusiasm has not diminished, but there are still many empty seats in the theater, and many local audiences refuse to watch the performance of Lake of the Giants to express themselves  dissatisfaction.

    Even if many locals come to the show, they will inevitably make loud sarcasms in the auditorium. They think that a French woman (Dorothy) performing in San Francisco is a disrespect to this vibrant emerging city.  With veiled sarcasm, it was actually an original commentary in an Irish Labor Party newspaper.

    "Damn Chinaman."

    Li Yan sat down in his seat and stretched his waist. On the seat next to him, an old woman with a black lace hat, gray hair and few teeth left muttered in a low voice.

    Li Yan threw his elbow to her side, looked at his hat and said with a smile: "Do you want me to knock out all your remaining teeth? Kefu's dead old woman?"

    "you!"

    The old woman was so angry that her veins were throbbing like crazy, she couldn't catch her breath and almost passed out.

    "Everyone, today is the last scene of "Lake of the Giants", let Thalia take a break, and I will open for everyone."

    The lights converged on Dorothy. She was wearing a smooth and graceful silver soldier, and her long rose-red hair hung down to her waist. As soon as she finished speaking, there was warm applause in the theater.

    The accordion sounded melodiously, and Dorothy took a deep breath and sang: "Clear Giant Lake, Mysterious Giant Lake, Calm Giant, countless adventurers come here especially, some of them face the clear lake water empty-handed, some  and never came back"

    Several headlights scattered from Dorothy's body. Li Yan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he was sitting on a steam car, and the scenery of the wilderness quickly reversed.

    "wake up?"

    Jane glanced at Li Yan.

    The back seat of the steam car was completely disassembled, and the trunk was also discarded to house the huge hunting crossbow. The hunting crossbow only had one bolt, so Jane cherished it very much.

    The steam car came to a cross road and had to stop. The original road sign was chopped off with an axe, and a tavern stood beside the road.

    The sign of the tavern reads the English letters of "House of Robbers".

    Jane stroked her forehead: "I'm sure that Giant Lake is on one of these three roads, but I don't know where to go."

    Li Yan was much more straightforward. He jumped out of the car and said to Jane: "I'll go to the tavern to ask for directions. Come and see the car."

    Jane looked at Li Yan suspiciously: "This store doesn't look like a friendly place."

    Li Yan pulled out the revolver that Jane gave him: "After staying with His Highness for a long time, I don't think I am a friendly person."

    Jian rolled his eyes at Li Yan, then watched Li Yan walk into the tavern.

    Like all taverns in western movies, people here wear pistols and look fierce, sitting around the barrels to gamble or drink.  And when Li Yan walked into the tavern, they all focused on him in unison.

    "I can smell the stink of strangers from far away! Hey, boy, get out of this place, this is the hometown of the Cyclops. The sanctuary of the most vicious gangsters is not a place for a little boy like you to come."

    A scarred beard growled loudly.

    Li Yan opened a chair and sat down, and smiled at him: "Although you are ugly, your aesthetics are not bad. So, I would like to ask, does anyone know the whereabouts of the Cyclops?"

    The tavern roared with laughter, scarred beard covering his belly, and joked to the white-haired old woman at the bar: "Hey! Goddess, your business is here, and another idiot is going to tell you about the whereabouts of the Cyclops!"

    The sorceress he was talking about was an old woman whose teeth were about to fall out, her head of white hair was braided into twisted whips, and her body was covered with shells and bone ornaments. The tavern was very noisy, but she dozed off every now and then.

    Li Yan moved the chair in front of her and knocked on the bar table: "Madam, do you know the whereabouts of the Cyclops?"

    Li Yan turned his back to the guests in the tavern, and felt that the scarred beard who was being ignored was furious. He picked up the pistol on the table and pointed it at Li Yan, roaring: "Take your Cyclops to hellgo!  "

    Jane was bored waiting outside the door, when suddenly there was a burst of violent gunshots in the tavern, like fried beans, and it took a long time for the dust to settle.

    ""

    Jane waited for more than a minute, but no one came out. She couldn't sit still for a while, she flipped out the car door vigorously, wearing two steam gauntlets, and rushed into the tavern aggressively.

    "grim Reaper!"

    The sorceress held up a tarot card, and Li Yan sat opposite, the mess and corpses all over the floor were incompatible with the two who were divination.  Jane stepped on the blood and walked to Li Yan's side: "Are you okay?"

    "It's okay, this lady knows tarot cards, and I'm asking him to divination for me."

    Jane looked around: "It's really yours. I don't remember that your revolver has so many bullets."

    "My hometown says that if you haven't met an ambitious man for three days, you should reevaluate his abilities."

    "Death card!"

    The sorceress, who had been left hanging for a long time, repeated it dissatisfied.

    "What did you divination?"

    Ask briefly.

    "I asked her how to kill or expel a historian."

    Jane tilted her head and asked suspiciously, "What?"

    "That's absolutely impossible." The sorceress replied blankly: "But you can go ahead anyway, there is what you want."

    "Divination for her too, ma'am. She wants to know the whereabouts of the Cyclops."

    Li Yan pointed to Jane.

    Jane looked at the sorceress suspiciously, but sat down at Li Yan's insistence.

    The witch reshuffled the cards for her and asked Jane to draw four of them.

    "Choose one."

    Without hesitation, Jane chose the one closest to her, which was the chariot among the twenty-two major arcana cards.

    "Reversed, chariot. It represents failure, stubbornness, and breaking the rules. If you can learn to give up your persistence, the ending may be more perfect."

    "it's out of the question."

    Jane blurted out.

    The sorceress closed her eyes in dismay: "You only have one chance, since you insist, please keep going."

    "Phew! I don't want to offend. I never believed in these things. In the age of steam, science is prosperous, and the mystery of monsters in the old age has long been lifted."

    The sorceress Jiejie laughed strangely: "You know? Little girl, they used to think so too."

    "who?"

    "The monsters you laughed at."

    "It's inexplicable."

    Jane ignored him, and turned to look at Li Yan: "Let's go, it's a big deal to make a detour."

    Of course Li Yan had no reason to refuse, and the two boarded the steam car and set off again.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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