[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

60: The Astrologer 14

Suddenly the street light above them flickered and went out.

At the same instant, Zong Yan cut through space and tightly grabbed the Night Watchman persona card. On the fingertips of his other hand, a golden flame magic pattern burst out—just in case.

"W-what's wrong?" Ye JingMing asked. His face was vigilant and fearful.

He took a few steps back, shrinking behind Zong Yan, and stared at the glittering magic pattern on the other teen's fingers.

After the previous incident with the shoggoth, Ye JingMing almost suffered from PTSD. For a long time, the slightest unexpected movement put him on alert.

But Zong Yan had helpfully reminded him that since he wasn't Awakened, the probability Ye JingMing would run into an otherworldly monster was as low as winning the lottery. Even if there were a lot of extra-dimensional creatures in Jiangzhou right now, they rarely attacked ordinary people, but focused on the Awakened.

The flesh and blood of Awakened people was more effective than eating the bodies of a hundred ordinary people. In addition, the Awakened possessed an inherent attractiveness to aliens, which was the reason Zong Yan had been forced to move out of the tube building.

"There's a situation." Zong Yan crushed the Astrologer's card, and a levitating crystal divination ball appeared above his palm.

"Is it, is it the type of situation I'm thinking of?"

"Yes, but I don't think it's too serious. Don't worry," Zong Yan reassured him. The next moment his eyes turned an arcane shade of purple, flickering with stars of light.

Thousands of information streams invisible to human sight converged in the sky and coalesced in his eyes, just like a high-tech projection. A vast star map unfolded before his eyes.

"There seems to be something above that street lamp."

Ye JingMing thought of the close encounter at the school and suddenly felt a little more courageous.

He dared to take the basketball out of his schoolbag, weighed it in his hand for a moment, then hurled it through the air. But nothing happened. The ball rolled into the nearby fountain.

There were a lot of people in the street. After all, they were in the city center. Not far away was a large shopping mall filled with luxury stores, and before them was a square with a fountain in the middle.

By the time they'd finished rehearsal it was almost seven o'clock, the usual time for people to go out to eat. White collar workers who'd just left work sat under the umbrellas of a café to one side.

"It's too populated here. Let's head to the mall."

Zong Yan made a clear decision. He and Ye JingMing exchanged a glance, then turned their heads to the fire escape of the shopping mall.

The emergency exits of the shopping mall were almost never used. If you could take the elevator, you certainly wouldn't decide to climb the stairs. Only the emergency lights were on inside.

Ye JingMing saw a flash of light, and then the black-haired teenager wearing a Qingyang High School uniform transformed into a gray-haired Night Watchman with a top hat and black umbrella.

"Do, do you feel like you're taller now?" he stammered a bit and hesitated before saying.

"Taller?" Zong Yan paused for a moment and instinctively glanced at his feet.

Although the Night Watchman's costume was a bit retro, it didn't actually copy the short high heels that men sometimes wore in the 17th century. His footwear resembled the Martin boots popular in modern times.