Sugiyama Risu and Inahara Ayano sat in the room, relatively speechless.
The two have always cooperated well, but this time they began to become increasingly unable to read their best friend's mind.
"Inahara, can you swear that your secret is harmless to me?" In the end, it was Sugiyama who couldn't bear the stiff atmosphere.
"...We have been alone a lot, and I didn't do anything to you."
"Of course I know you're not a demon!" Suiyama couldn't help but stand up with his hands on the table, "But that doesn't mean your secret mission won't lead to some changes! You've always been smarter than me, Inahara, I don't want to be with you You play this mind-guessing game!”
"Then you have to adapt. If you don't learn to guess other people's hearts, you will die."
"What did you say?"
"Remember what Tachikawa just said to us. It was probably Karl who told him, and he told us...it seems you didn't understand the meaning of the words." Inahara shook his head slightly, "That's good, at least not Need to get your hands dirty.”
"What does it mean to have dirty hands or not? Please speak clearly! Uncle Tachikawa is also the same. What does it mean to just drop a sentence and say nothing else!"
"You need to understand it yourself, and then do it the way you think is right. Suiyama, what is your ultimate goal in this confrontation scene?"
"Of course he survived!"
"Then use this as a basis to continue your actions."
At this point, Sugiyama finally understood the meaning of Inahara's words.
"You're saying... everyone's benchmarks are different, so the conclusions drawn from them are also different, right?"
Inahara nodded and stood up.
"What are you going to do?" Suiyama asked loudly when he saw her walking towards the door.
"...Act according to my benchmark." Inahara threw two paper figurines, and the palm-sized white paper flew in the air, glowing, and scattered two huge shadows. Sugiyama, who is also good at onmyoji, was able to See clearly the true appearance of those two shadows.
There is a tall, slender humanoid wearing a cyan smiling face mask and crane-patterned robes, holding a wat board in his hand; a burly humanoid wearing a red scowl mask and unicorn heavy armor, with two halberds on his back.
"Hey! Inahara, don't do anything stupid!"
"I knew exactly what I was going to do."
Inahara's tone was decisively cold, and Sugiyama had only heard her tone like this once before.
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Karl's plan took effect faster than he expected, or in other words, someone in this chain chose to act early instead of passing the information on.
Lu Ning, who was thinking about Mi Nan's next action plan, never expected that the usually quiet Inahara would be the most ruthless one, even faster than someone like Mi Nan who acted secretly.
She watched helplessly as a line of fire passed two streets away from her, opening a small hole in the door of a house. There was a delay of about one second, and the whole house seemed like a gas explosion. Flames spurted out from the inside, and the doors and windows were torn apart by the flames and burned to ashes at this moment. Of course, anyone in the house would not be spared.
Then, Ayano Inahara walked out from the direction of the flames.
At this time, she looked no different from usual. The only thing that made Lu Ning feel a little bit frightened and frightened was the sparks that were constantly rotating around her neck like a star ring.
Inahara also glanced sideways at Lu Ning, and then gave her a smile, the meaning was obvious.
【Do you want to stop me? 】
The flame explosion had attracted the attention of people nearby. Two young men rushed out from the nearby house. They also showed surprised expressions when they saw the burning house. However, the next moment, Inahara also raised his hand.
Lu Ning felt something flicker violently from above. She squinted her eyes and subconsciously looked up. However, she was shocked to find that there was an inconspicuous dark red star moving slowly near the sun during the day. !
"Youxing Shiranui."
With a chant, two lines of fire shot out from the V shape between the fingers, accurately penetrated the eyebrows of the two young people, and then disappeared into the house behind them.
Lu Ning stood relatively close to the two young people, and even smelled the right smell of cooked meat, but she couldn't care so much anymore. She rolled and hid on the other side of the road, and the two houses that were covered by the fire line happened at the same time. The same explosion as the previous house.
Several pieces of broken masonry and glass hit Lu Ning, but it didn't hurt, but this choice was completely beyond her expectations.
She predicted that someone among the tourists might start a massacre because of the information from Karl, but that candidate was either Mi Nan or Iroh. Even if Fujii Yukiyin or Ye Chuqing did this, it would not make them angry. She felt strange, but she didn't expect that the first person to be stimulated would be Inahara Ayano.
"Lu Ning, you are over there, right?"
Inahara Ayano's voice came across two streets, and the flames were burning on the opposite side. Lu Ning did not intend to talk to her before the re-evaluation of Inahara was completed.
"I understand the meaning of what Tachikawa said to me, and I am in the right position to do this."
Another fire line detonated the house farther away. Fortunately, it was daytime, there were not many people staying at home, and no one escaped from the surrounding houses.
The dark red star in the sky flickered again.
"The logic is incorrect, right? With my intelligence, I can only think this far. If the demons want to spread the witch's will, then they don't want the people in the town to die. It is enough if some of the deaths cause panic. , the witch needs the people here alive to let the painful past reappear, and the dead will not suffer."
Lu Ning gritted his teeth but did not act rashly.
"Then, if the mission of the Majin side is to protect this town, it's self-evident what our mission is as the opposition. It's ridiculous that we thought we were the heroes who came to save this town at the beginning... This is purely false It’s just the arrogance of ‘outsiders’ like us.”
Her words were not only meant for Lu Ning, but also for other tourists observing here.
"Find and solve the root cause of the demon. I can't find it, but I can solve it."
At this moment, Lu Ning heard the sound of footsteps coming from far away. People from other parts of the town heard the sound and rushed over. When the two sides met, there would definitely be a fierce conflict.
If this was her plan, she would probably be in a state of panic by now. However, although Inahara was right, he had only unearthed a small part of the hidden content of the mission. As long as he knew this, the rest would be a headache for others.
"What nonsense are you talking about!!!"
Another voice screamed from the other side of the rice field. Huge earth walls rose from all sides of the rice field, shutting her in. Sugiyama's petite figure picked up the edge of the earthen door and climbed directly in to see. Come on, the two of you have to solve something on your own.
Lu Ning stood up and left this land of right and wrong first, but she still raised the danger level of Inahara and Suiyama a little in her heart. As expected, she was still not very good at figuring out other people's personalities.
But neither Carl nor Tachikawa Ryo came forward, which is very telling. They both understood the superficial meaning of the message and acquiesced to others' actions.
After all, tourists' goodwill is limited, and they will become merciless once tasks are involved.
She made a circle, left the town through the southern exit, and then turned to the forest in the southwest. With such a situation in the town, she might not be able to live peacefully for a while. She needed to take this time to prepare the necessities for the witch's return.
The key and the Witch's Heart have been obtained, but the other four needed items have not yet been found, so let's start with the Witch's Oath, which has a few clues. And if nothing else, there should be more clues to be discovered in the mine.
When Lu Ning reached a deserted place, she started running. This is the first time she has let go of using her demon body to fly. She has the convenient skill of Shadow Leap at night, and she often encounters people during the day. She has never tried the convenience of the demon body.
Even without the quadruple enhancement, the powerful quality of the body in front of her is obvious. She ran at a sprint speed of 100 meters for almost a kilometer without feeling tired at all. Occasionally, she could take off and even swing on a tree branch. kind of action. You must know that although Lu Ning has experienced combat training, it was mostly close combat and various body training, and this kind of parkour-like training was not among them.
It only took two hours, and she reached the mine near noon.
No judgment was needed this time. Lu Ning quickly walked to the location of the sacrificial site. After knocking around the wall to confirm that all six secret chambers indeed existed, he transformed into a demon and cut open several other walls in the cave.
This was indeed the place where the demon tried to complete the ritual last time. Corresponding to the location of the wooden puzzle in his memory, Lu Ning found out what was in those rooms one by one.
Eyes - There was a gray gem hanging in the center of the room. It did not make Lu Ning feel any strange aura, and it might have died like the Witch's Heart. Lu Ning took off the gem and wrapped it slightly. Put it in your pocket.
Tree - a crude jar made of clay was placed in the room. There was nothing in the jar, but there was still a fragrance of natural vegetation. Lu Ning felt that it should be the witch's oath, but If it takes too long, it will evaporate completely.
Broken Cross - There is a rusty iron box placed in this room. The box is about the size of a hearth. It is filled with mixed black, white and gray ashes. What is strange is that the three kinds of ashes do not dye each other. Rather, it is mixed yet distinct.
Finally, it’s people.
There was a coffin in this room. Lu Ning opened the coffin. Inside, there lay a corpse that had turned into wax. A simple black robe was worn on the corpse. What shocked her was that there was a face on the corpse. The mask is made of pure metal, leaving only a slit for the eyes.
If it weren't for the black hair of this corpse, she would almost think that the woman who commanded the crows she met in the forest crawled out from here.
After reading them all, Lu Ning was still not sure what they all represented. The person must be referring to the person in the coffin, but did this person have any special requirements? She didn't know. The tree is basically the witch's oath. The origin of the gem still needs to be explored. As for the last cross, it may refer to the ashes in the box, but can the ashes still be used directly?
Just in case, she took some ashes and planned to go back for examination. She also scraped a piece of corpse wax from the corpse, but there was no way to sample the Witch's Oath.
But there should be a way to copy it. After Lu Ning left several secret rooms, he picked up some gravel and filled the small holes dug out. Then he left the sacrificial site and walked to another passage.
When she approached the echo channel, she did not continue walking forward, but transformed into a demon and moved directly to the echo channel.
The attack that would come back from anything didn't fall on her, and she didn't even feel it. Lu Ning continued to walk along the low, damp tunnel. At some point, she realized that the road had turned upward.
The monster hiding in the darkness that was expected to exist did not appear.
As she went up, the moisture gradually receded, and the tunnel gradually became easier to navigate. Everything was as safe as the place she came in. Gradually, she saw the light.
Is there an exit at the other end of the mine?
Lu Ning was a little unbelievable. Not to mention that the townspeople did not inform them of this information. Even based on his own somatosensory measurements along the way, this section of the road was far from enough to get through the continuous mountains where the mine existed.
And there is also a mine tunnel structure here. Has such a deep place been visited by miners? Although it is relatively close from the entrance on this side.
Lu Ning noticed something and walked step by step towards the entrance of the cave where the light shone in.
There is a gray sky in front of me, and the condensed clouds seem to never disperse. The pale sunlight penetrates the clouds and still shines on the earth, but it looks chilling and desolate.
As far as the eye can see, there is a wasteland nearby, with a few giant trees that look like they have withered standing on the wasteland, like tombstones randomly placed on a mass grave. A large group of crows flew across the sky, occasionally making a hoarse call.
But aside from these, the scene here was familiar to Lu Ning.
However, the wasteland should be a dense forest, and the sky should be clear in autumn. Walking through this land and heading northeast, you can reach Baihu Town.
She had seen the scene here at the lake house, but she had never tried to come to the world here - the real present, the future of White Lake Town that tourists were exploring.
This is the meaning of Lima's words before his death.
"Look out the window..."
What exists at a certain point in time is never a small space, but the entire world.
Lu Ning raised her hands, and the cold wind blew through her fingers. It was so real that there was no doubt about it.
"So, using that position as the dividing line, the thrown stone will return."
she whispered.
"But who launched the counterattack from the future? That kind of accuracy cannot be a simple time phenomenon. In other words..."
The crows landed not too far away from Lu Ning. The sound of flapping wings attracted her attention. When the birds dispersed, the woman with light blond hair and the mask appeared again, only this time her One hand became feathered.
"Sela, I need an explanation." Lu Ning said to her.
