In the white room, Lu Ning sat quietly and turned the pages of the book.
"This tea party should be scheduled for the two chapters [Return of the Witch] and [Dislocated Rubik's Cube]." Lu Ning gently turned the pages of the book, "First of all, we should invite the guests. If the Witch returns, Carl and Fujii?"
Two figures appeared on the seats. Fujii was at two o'clock, right next to Lu Ning, and Karl appeared at seven o'clock and immediately raised his hand and said hello with a smile.
"Karl, long time no see."
"Oh, it's true. After all, I have already left the show and I probably have no chance to show up except here." Karl sighed, and a large glass of beer appeared in his hand.
Fujii Yukine smiled and summoned a glass of water in front of him, with ice cubes floating in it.
"The main purpose of inviting you two here is to discuss the story of the witch's return," Lu Ning said.
"Isn't this story about your identity as a demon? Many things are very clear from your perspective, right? On the contrary, from our perspective, there are a lot of strange things that are unclear." Karl said, "For example, I couldn't think of anything in the plot. How did Milly die?"
"I took the initiative to kill someone but was killed in reverse... This makes our detection more difficult..." Fujii Yukine shook his head, "In addition to dealing with internal demons that were not known at the beginning, there are also internal ghosts on the human side. This is not Are you causing trouble for me?"
"Yes, Miss Detective, it's really hard work." Lu Ning said with a smile.
"Aren't you taking advantage of this and acting like a good boy? For example, on the human side, the four brothers hugged each other, but there was a devil inside who caused trouble. Milly and Mi Nan didn't even care that this was a confrontation scene, they just wanted to watch and kill you, ah I am indeed right about these two people. You are a demon. The problem is... Sigh." Fujii Yukine rubbed his head, "Xia Xinhe and Duan Qing... are not traitors, and this role-playing is also amazing."
"Hahaha... Thinking about it on the other hand, if there weren't so many problems, the distribution center wouldn't have designed such a task. If humans are all united, it won't be difficult to deal with the demons with our skills." Karl explain.
"Okay, then if you have any questions, let me explain it a little bit. Hmm...I don't know how many people have noticed? This time I started to introduce the plot. I didn't finish it when I was reading. That's the first person who asked about my identity. The reminder was given, although it didn’t take long for the identity to be directly revealed." Lu Ning said.
"Well, that ellipsis, right?" Fujii Yukine said.
"Yes, the previous plot introductions all ended directly at the end. If you notice this, you may have some doubts here. But it is just to create suspense. Of course, I will encounter it later. When there was something weird in the cabinet... it was a little reminder. At that time, I was wondering [why it was me], right?" Lu Ning said.
"Because those weird things should only be found by normal humans, so what's the use of scaring the devil?" Karl said.
"Well, it turns out that the background of the witch involves so many things. Even the demon is not completely safe...relatively." Lu Ning nodded.
"But that first night at the lakeside cabin... there were actually two humans and two demons in the same room. If you, Lu Ning, killed us at that time, Inahara and I would be dead." Fujii Yukine said.
"How could it be? I tried my best to avoid a bad ending. To be honest, Carl's final give-and-take was beyond my expectation."
"Hahaha, then I'm flattered."
"Then that led to Mo Ningyan targeting me later." Lu Ning shrugged, "Mr. Karl, why don't you tell me what's going on here?"
"Aren't you already aware?" Carl's glass of wine was already halfway down at some point, and even Lu Ning didn't notice.
"Please cooperate."
"Oh, I understand. Mo Ningyan and I accidentally entered the same scene, but at that time she seemed to have been hit hard by something and had no desire to survive at all. I felt that this was not good, we This rare second life is not to be wasted casually. Even if you die, you must at least do something meaningful." Karl said with a smile, "So, I simply took that girl with me and took her well. I felt what positivity is, what the vitality of a second life is, what it means to cherish the present and welcome the future... Oh my, it is really a sense of accomplishment to bring a gloomy girl out of her psychological shadow in one scene."
"You...okay. No wonder Mo Ningyan values you so much."
"I don't want her to take this too seriously, because I didn't teach her that." Karl picked up the wine glass and drank the rest of the beer, then immediately filled it up again.
"Mo Ningyan's story has to come later. Let her tell it by herself when the time comes. Carl, you can be a special guest then." Lu Ning said with a smile.
"Hahaha, thank you very much."
"So... indeed, everyone has no problem with this chapter. What about you, Fujii? What do you think?"
"Well, confrontation is really a test for teammates, especially when you don't have much fighting ability." Fujii Yukine said helplessly, "As long as I, a detective, have some combat-type abilities... it won't be like this."
"You are actually pretty good at it yourself."
"Your opponent is an ever-changing demon. Your teammates can jump through time, do divination, and use shikigami and astrology. There are also two traitors who are trying to catch fish. Your ability is observation and analysis." Fujii Xueyin lamented, "The most important thing is that I already know what the distribution center gives me. I don't understand why I am treated differently."
"What a sad story..." Karl said, "If the distribution center gives you such a disadvantage, then there should be an advantage... Ah, no, our numbers are our advantage."
"I had more initial information, but unfortunately I couldn't turn it into my own influence. You guys have been assigned corresponding tasks behind your back. It's very difficult for me to unify you. This is probably a balance." Fujii Yuki Yin shrugged, "It was also me who couldn't find anyone completely trustworthy at the beginning. Assuming that I could gain mutual trust with Karl right from the start, there would probably be fewer problems. But after I got the information, I feel like all of you are like suspects. ...Ahem, professional habit."
Indeed, at the beginning, the demon side was at a disadvantage and always had to set up many misleading conditions for the human side. Fujii Yukine was the easiest one to discover the truth, but even if she discovered it, it would be possible for Carl and the others to fight with her. Working together, most others have their own plans. Karl was pulled away by Lu Ning as soon as he came up.
"When we didn't treat this as a confrontation scene at the beginning, we were already lagging behind." Karl said with emotion, "Coupled with Milly's personal hatred and the two traitors, the human side Information can easily get confused, which is an opportunity for the Demon Party to take advantage of. However, it can be seen more clearly from your perspective, so there is no need to say more. Lu Ning, finally explain to us the background of this scene."
A book appeared in Lu Ning's hand, and she opened a page.
"In the history of this White Lake town, the person who was initially killed by people as a witch was indeed just an ordinary person, but she had a very high level of medicine. This was just a foolish operation similar to a witch hunt in the Middle Ages. , it itself has nothing special. What is really special is the few that come later. They are the 'reincarnations' forcibly brought by the real 'witch' through timeline observation. These will make this town a fulcrum of a ritual. , of course, what the witch can do at this time is only to shape the fulcrum through its super-time ability...it does not have such a strong dominance over this world. It is these fulcrums that create the 'Demon'."
"I have a question, are demons considered human beings? Not counting our special situation." Karl asked.
"In fact, the devil is a human being. Although the devil will focus on bringing the witch to the world, in most cases the devil will retain his original habits. Our acting is also in line with the situation. This time, the devil is being As a result of the deliberate arrangement of the distribution center, demons were supposed to be born randomly in the town, and the number was not necessarily only six... On the timeline when Xia Xinhe blew himself up, more than thirty demons appeared in the town, and even one of them was born. It’s a town that has a completely bad ending.”
"But this group of demons...how come they can't successfully return the witch after occupying the town?" Fujii Yukine asked doubtfully.
"Because the real demons don't have clear mission instructions for the distribution center like tourists." Lu Ning said with a smile, "You can hear some gibberish and learn many secrets, but just relying on the super-dimensional method of the witch in the demons It’s nagging in the ears, if we don’t use some method that humans can understand, I’m afraid it will take hundreds of years to wait for them to figure out what to do.”
"...How should I put it..." Karl scratched his head.
"What happens this time is that if we don't come, nothing will happen?"
"That's not true. The birth of the demon will still cause chaos in the town. Of course, the final return of the witch will not happen, and it will not touch so many timeline issues."
"What happened to the lake house?" Carl asked again.
"One of the venues for the ceremony was shaped by the previous demons according to vague instructions. Similar places include mines, cemeteries and other places. Normal people would be affected by witches in the past and cause horrific phenomena, but demons used to be able to hear There is some vague information. But you have also seen the situation in the cemetery from my perspective. The witch's ravings are simply something that is difficult for humans to understand."
All three laughed.
"So, the next guests to be invited...Ning Yeyi, Yan Rong, Zhou Weiyuan." Lu Ning put down the book and clasped her hands slightly.
Ning Yeyi appeared at the eleven o'clock position, while Zhou Weiyuan and Yan Rong took their seats at the four o'clock and five o'clock positions respectively. As soon as the three of them appeared, they ordered drinks and snacks for themselves in a familiar manner, without taking any of them. Become an outsider yourself.
"Introduce yourself?"
"Yan Rong, the martial arts sect is about to appear. It's a pity that there is no second one here, otherwise we would like to communicate." Yan Rong got himself a large glass of Coke very simply.
"We are destined to meet each other. I, Zhou Weiyuan, am a tourist who has learned some miscellaneous magic, and I am ready to climb up the ranks all the way." Zhou Weiyuan said with a smile. He just ordered a cup of tea, and the strong aroma of tea soon filled the whole room. .
"Ning Yeyi, I was here last time." Ning Yeyi still chose green tea as his drink. He nodded to Zhou Weiyuan, who had similar hobbies, and started to taste the tea with a smile.
"Okay, before entering the next scene, we can also make a small expansion of the interlude story." Lu Ning clapped her hands, "Karl, in fact, the one who knows us better should be Is it you? Or maybe another Zhou Weiyuan?"
"Don't count me out. I'm tired just from studying. I know about the same level of understanding as Yan Rong at this level of organizational structure. We only know about relatively large forces at most."
"Indeed, it seems that this is the first time that high-level officials are involved in the intermission." Karl took a big sip of wine and grinned, "Of course, the relationship with you is just that little. I didn't expect Xiao Mo's situation. She is actually favored by others, it seems she has done some very surprising things?"
"She opened the door to hell in this scene called 'Hell Waiting Room', causing the entire world to fall into hell, which can be regarded as destroying the entire scene. Therefore, the mission was interrupted and settled directly."
"That's really amazing, but it's a pity that I didn't see it..." Karl smiled.
"By the way, Mo Ningyan is a Rose Cross person, but you don't seem to be?" Yan Rong suddenly said.
Karl nodded: "I am not from Rosicrucian. To put it in the clearest way, I am from the Oasis organization mentioned in this paragraph."
"As for the oasis... there are mostly people from North and South America." Zhou Weiyuan said.
"Ahaha, is that what you call that place? In short, the names are different. Geographically speaking, it does come from there. The management method of the oasis is very different from yours. We do not follow a strict pyramid structure of superiors and subordinates. This way, it is similar to a parliamentary system.”
"A place like the distribution center won't be as noisy as a vegetable market, right?" Ning Yeyi said with a smile.
"Then I don't know. I haven't reached the fifth level. In short, here we usually have various 'members' elected from below, and then jointly participate in the parliament. There are probably five or six times more decision-makers than you."
"Indeed." Lu Ning smiled, "By the way, the organizational form of the Tower of the Sun is the chiefs assembly system. It is more scattered and can even be said to be a collection of multiple organizations. The King Continent is a semi-dictatorship. They have A very wise leader, coupled with the staff group under his command, is the only large organization that can be said to be pulled up by one person. Polar Glacier is an organizational group like a guild, which is a group of top-level fifth-level people. The tourists, except for a few people in charge of the organizational structure, are all mercenaries. They will regularly exchange information with each other and publish team formation requirements. The supreme leader of Atlantis is the 'Three Kings Resolution' , the decisions of the organization are determined by the opinions of the three supreme leaders, and quick decisions are made based on the principle of the minority obeying the majority.”
“How did these organizations overthrow previous rule?”
"After all, the real battles for tourists are scattered operations. Even in the form of large organizations, they must rely on the capabilities of individual soldiers in the scene, even if the scale can be called a war." Karl Youran said, "These large organizations must be The place that houses the most elite talents.”
"Okay, that's it for this little expansion." Lu Ning waved her hand, and the next step is... the upgrading of the dislocated Rubik's Cube.
"In this volume of the Dislocated Rubik's Cube, everyone will be divided into nine souls the moment they leave the classroom. In the judgment of the distribution center, as long as any one of the souls completes the task, it is completed. In addition, the nine souls are just a concept, please Don’t confuse it with the concept of three souls and seven souls.”
Lu Ning took a sip of tea and began to introduce the scene.
"The separation of souls will be biased, but it is not simply based on good and evil. After being distinguished, the time of each soul will also be separated, and each soul will be released earlier or later at six-hour intervals. The earliest is to attack Cutting, then in order are greedy soul, intermediate mind, final thought, Zhengshu, hatred of suffering, aversion to wrong, support of others, and universal love."
"But the world we enter is also different. Is there any rule for this?" Yan Rong asked.
"Except for not directly entering a world that will kill you, the rest of the world is random. However, this randomness is group randomness. People traveling together will enter the same world, just like what we experience in the story. "
"There aren't many doubts about Zhengshu as the protagonist. I think everyone is more curious about what happened to your other clones, Lu Ning," Fujii said.
"I can briefly explain this." Lu Ning nodded.
First, attack a group that belongs to the first to enter. As the group with the strongest fighting spirit, Lu Ning, Yan Rong and others quickly accumulated a batch of equipment due to continuous combat. The world that Offensive entered was a poisonous world with higher risks and better opportunities. Therefore, relying on the advantage of being one step ahead of others, Offensive's equipment was quickly updated several times. So in fact, the most honest way to attack is to kill monsters and upgrade equipment. However, in the process, she also lost several comrades in the attack, and even bumped into a reserve of colonial warriors while traveling through the world. As a result of the encounter, she was the only one to escape. The crusade, which was already manic and paranoid, immediately began to secretly launch revenge operations to kill all the instigators.
Before that, Greedy Po had already joined the principal's camp. Greedy Po, who has a clear purpose and execution ability, chooses to join a force to improve her abilities. As a tourist, she certainly has the corresponding "talent". After quickly smoothing the differences through breeding, she began to study how to use the principal's research results and those monsters. With the principal's information channel, she can easily know the existence of other fragments. Then the recovery of other fragments should also be included in the things that should be done. However, she is still under the principal's command and will not be able to escape for a while. body.
Immediately afterwards, the mind enters. The time advantage of the first two is not much here in Jianxin. She, who is quite suspicious, also gives priority to the study of worldview. She and Yan Rong found the library from the camp, and also asked many survivors in various worlds for information. With the door glue, she moved more easily, and she was also the first to find the clone of Zhengshu, but at that time, Jianxin did not He was sure of killing and did not launch an attack. The bottom line is that she didn't hunt much and didn't have any good equipment. Therefore, Ma Xin also did something that other clones could never do - joint doll party.
Relatively speaking, Mo Nian is the most indifferent one. As a person who inherited major emotions such as discouragement and loss, Lu Ning felt from the beginning that his emotions were not particularly high, and he was not interested in exploring the world too much. She quickly mastered the "Calendar Stone" she was born with. After discovering the many complex properties of the Calendar Stone, Mo Nian became a little curious about the truth of the world. However, for the character of Mo Nian, instead of understanding the nature of the world, she is more obsessed with proving "self".
Zhengshu and Henku have caught up with the last safe period. At this time, the other clones have not yet accumulated strength or have the ability to move freely, so the initial exploration of the two went smoothly. However, after knowing a little about the harshness of the living environment in this world, Zhengshu didn't feel much about it, but the kindness and compassion of Xinku made her choose the path of assisting in construction, and therefore missed going out to explore. some opportunities.
As for the last three, they were directly targeted by the previous splits. Greed chases the crowd to death, while love and disgust are harvested by the heart. Obviously, fairness does not exist in the visitor's own body.
"This is pretty much what happened before the splits met. The attack was directed at the principal and others, and the rest were fighting among themselves in various ways. Also because negative emotions have more survival consequences, these splits basically They were all thinking about killing each other, and never thought about anything else...for example, they could evacuate without killing all the other clones."
"This will cause a lot of problems, right?" Zhou Weiyuan said, "If you don't recycle all your parts, what will be the consequences? There should be soul damage that is inevitable in the upgrade scene, right?"
"Indeed, at the moment of separation, tourists will accumulate 45% of lysis damage. This is also the only soul damage caused by the opening of this scene. Every clone is destroyed by the main body, and every clone returns, 5% can be recovered. The theory is If this kind of battle royale between me and me ends, the damage caused at the beginning of the scene can be completely healed. But... it is basically not such a good thing. Even if I know this, I will probably think about killing other clones instead of Being killed, the end result is the same.”
"This weird scene... there should be other dangers." Karl said.
"The final monsters later also have the ability to cause soul damage. The red dream mirror that Yoruichi encountered that made her gouge out her eyes can cause madness and erosion damage to those who witness it, while the subsequent screams are infected and decayed. Damage. As the basis for capturing other worlds, the Blood Cage is indeed a more high-risk world. Of course, the Blood Cage is the principal's base, so it is easier to be discovered even if it falls there, which can be regarded as reducing some dangers in disguise."
Yan Rong and Zhou Weiyuan also nodded in agreement.
"Okay, let's change the topic and let's talk about the worldview of this world. In fact, the story has almost revealed it, and our group is also a "alignment" supplementary who just happened to catch up with the world. Even without us, The same thing will happen in this world, but the results of the principal's plan may be different." Lu Ning patted the book.
"According to the recorders from the 'Archives', it seems that this world has already come to an end?" Fujii Yukine said.
"Melgan, Harold and Sodom, you have seen the names of these three many times in the story. In fact, the three of them are similar to the principal, who were attracted by the world of Red Nightmare. In their dreams, Or people who sense the conditions of those worlds deep in their consciousness and can clearly record what they see and hear. Generally speaking, such people are easily captured after death and become monsters attracted by the blood cage, but the archives will The three of them were incorporated.”
"Archives?" Karl raised his eyebrows.
"We won't get into this until later. It's just an introduction now." Lu Ning passed the topic lightly and continued, "For these three people, they can already see the ending of their world without interference - becoming The captured member, like the other eight worlds that have been captured, has become a world of death and death, with monsters everywhere and the end of the world coming."
"It actually sounds quite exciting." Yan Rong clicked his tongue, "If I weren't restricted to the campus, I would really like to go out and see what adventures there are in this apocalyptic world. I always feel that there will be a lot of unexpected fun. "
"I don't want to, it would be best to find a camp to hide in. Don't you think this scene is very unfriendly to me? I am a magic practitioner, but the core power of this scene is a bunch of hot weapons." Zhou Weiyuan said.
"Weapons like Judgment Day are quite fantasy..."
"Ha, magic weapons and magic are also different. At least I can't use any big magic in that world, and my physical strength is not very good. Running around all the time is really tiring."
"So I say you should exercise more physical fitness. You can't really be a squishy mage, right? Aren't real mages the ones who throw away their spells, pick up their flails and small shields, and then rush into the battlefield?" Yan Rong said.
"You should play less games..."
Lu Ning quickly changed the subject: "After the three people knew the result, they wanted to seek some possibilities for change. However, the archives would not get involved in such matters, so the matter was transferred to Distribution center. And this commission contract was treated as an upgrade scenario and thrown into it."
"What's the result? What's the result we caused?" Yan Rong asked.
"Generally, it can only be said that the integration of the world has been delayed, but the crisis of doomsday has obviously not been resolved. After all, no one has really destroyed the blood cage world, so the capture will still continue, but the time span may be extended for a long time. .”
"But a person like the principal will definitely do something, right? Especially after so many things." Karl said softly as he looked at the ending.
"That's true. Only if there are people like this who are always struggling and challenging, can this world still have a glimmer of hope. When the doomsday comes, the principal will probably lead people to build enough shelters and create something that can Weapons for survival in that kind of world. After all, they only relied on a campus before to survive. Looking at other worlds, those residents who survived in their own ways, things are far from over. "Lu Ning concluded with a smile.
"Ah, the only regret is the guy from the puppet party." Yan Rong said, "I will definitely find one next time to see how powerful these notorious lunatics are."
"Don't call me for this kind of fight..." Zhou Weiyuan shrugged.
"Hahaha! OK, OK." Yan Rong slapped Zhou Weiyuan so hard that he spurted out the tea he just drank.
Karl put the wine glass back on the table and stood up.
"It's really nice to know what happened next...Thank you for the invitation."
"nothing."
"Xiao Mo may cause you some trouble in the future, so I'll apologize to you in advance."
"I've said it all... don't confuse the inside of the story with the outside of the story. Goodbye, Carl."
"goodbye."
After saying this, the rest of the people disappeared.
(End of chapter)
