"...Anyway, we just need to find Osier Road first."
After listening to Hongye's words, Zhou Yu could only say this comment.
"It won't be smooth sailing. Since Auster sent that person here, it means that he is deliberately avoiding me. Zhou Yu, you will understand after you follow me for a while."
After saying that, Hongye finally took steps towards the direction of the light. Zhou Yu followed closely behind her. The two of them walked to the intersection together and turned left onto the next street.
"...Are there so many streets without street lights in this area?"
After three consecutive turns, Zhou Yu completely confirmed the abnormality. Although they clearly felt that the lights and noise were right in front of them, the two of them could not reach the commercial street area, and encountered a situation similar to that of a ghost beating a wall. The buildings you can see when you look up are as out of reach as the mountain peaks across the river.
At this point, Zhou Yu gradually understood the meaning of Hongye.
"This is the same as the Vanishing Alley on Yongning Road. It will change the terrain, right? That fat man wants to stop us from going to Ausier Road. Can't the people on the street notice this kind of movement?"
Hongye nodded in agreement.
There was almost no interest in asking about the reason. Zhou Yu nodded and said, "Then let's go to the higher ground."
He pulled out the switchblade and thrust it hard into the trunk of the sidewalk tree. He planned to use the trees to get up to the roofs of the shops on both sides, and then go all the way through the straight line of the roofs. So far, the terrain changes had been beyond his reach. So he had a stubborn idea.
——As long as you keep your gaze fixed, you won't encounter the situation where you just hit the wall.
For some reason, he came out tonight wearing dark trousers, which made climbing the tree extremely easy. Within ten seconds, he had reached the top of the tree and was about to jump to the roof of the shop two meters away.
Hongye looked at him dully under the tree, neither following him nor stopping him.
Zhou Yu stepped on a thick branch and slowly moved towards the roof. Before the branches showed signs of breaking, he jumped with all his strength and barely managed to catch the edge of the eaves. Only about a third of his feet touched the ground, but he easily stabilized his balance.
"Hongye, this seems to work..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw a house rising from the ground in front of him.
Like a dozen paper towels that have been pulled out, the buildings grow out of the ground. The first thing that rises is the rooftop with the shadows of flowers and leaves, then the top floor with a cat lying in the window, the middle floor with billboards and private clothes hanging, and the bottom floor with anti-fall nets and shops. In one of the windows of the building, there was a little boy sticking his head out of the security window to look.
An entire building complex appeared in front of Zhou Yu's eyes. There was no sound during the process, and even the figures walking around the room seemed not to notice that their positions had moved.
Zhou Yu, who had just stood on the roof, looked at the little boy. The little boy screamed in surprise, and shouts and curses could be heard in the room. A woman opened the window and looked around. Her eyes swept over Zhou Yu many times, and then she grabbed the little boy's ear and retracted it. Faintly, she could be heard scolding the little boy for lying because "there was no one on the roof."
Zhou Yu withdrew his gaze.
"...red leaves."
Hongye sighed again: "That's it. Except for the two of us, ordinary people will not notice what happens in this space. A few talented people will not be believed even if they see it."
"...Can't you even notice that your position has changed?"
"In their opinion, the position has not changed. The scenery from the window and the path when walking out will all match their perception. The folded appearance of the space can only be seen from the inside...that is, from here."
"Do you have any idea?"
"Not if you can't use force."
Zhou Yu recalled the words of the short fat man. He didn't remember that the other party emphasized that he couldn't use force, but looking at Hongye's worried expression, it was obvious that it was prohibited.
"Anyway, Zhou Yu, let's go inside the house first. It will be more difficult to use his abilities indoors."
Zhou Yu returned to the ground from the roof. In front of him, Hongye kicked open the iron rolling door of the street shop.
"...Didn't you say that you are not allowed to use force?"
"Well, if you don't hit someone, it doesn't count as using force."
Hongye answered without any shame. It seems like this isn't an excuse, but she actually thinks so.
The two got through the rolling door with a huge hole in the middle and arrived at a hardware store. After using tools from the hardware store to break open the window and climb over to the adjacent street, Zhou Yu couldn't help but ask: "Will this store be restored to its original state tomorrow?"
"No." Hongye said skillfully, "But the surveillance video tonight will definitely be black."
So when he used the same method to invade restaurants and jewelry stores later, Zhou Yu didn't mention it again.
Using the shops as turning points, they gradually approached the lighted streets. The smallest distance from them is a business building. However, when they were only about ten meters away, the business building with more than 20 floors slipped silently away in front of them like a ship in the sea. That quiet and no-nonsense attitude seemed to refuse to carry the two passengers.
As an alternative, a shopping building covered with neon lights floated over a hundred meters away and stopped in front of them. The automatic door at the bottom opened as an invitation.
"...Hongye, two questions."
"Please tell me."
"Can that guy spy on us? He knows what we are doing, saying, and where we are going at any time and at any time?"
"It's not that serious. He can roughly know our location, but he shouldn't be able to know what we say or do. If there are scouts nearby, I will also notice it."
"Then, second question, do we want to enter this building?"
The shopping building parked in front of them was obviously deliberately parked in front of them, so it would not be a free ride to Ausle Road.
"Well, let's go in. Indoors are better than outdoors anyway."
Hongye said, almost sighing again. Judging from her helpless expression, it seemed that this was not the first time she had been tortured by a similar situation.
"Why do you have to go indoors?"
"It's to weaken his authority. Although Osier is the manager of this area, the house is the owner's private space. A residence will be safer than a business building, shop, etc.
"This is because the concept of ownership is clearer... I am not referring to secular laws, but human cognition. The more the owner and user are inconsistent with the building, the concept of ownership will become chaotic, and the easier it will be to be It is considered to be public property. As a manager, Ausier is more able to intervene."
"What about a completely private building? Can he influence that?"
"You can do it if you must. But I think it will be very difficult, and it has to be done by Osel himself, so the power transferred to the servants will not be so strong. In short, if you go outside, you will definitely be stopped. Only if you go indoors Travel quickly to move a little bit.”
At this point, there is no other choice. Zhou Yu took the lead through the foyer and walked into the building.
Unexpectedly, it was not an empty room inside, but a real shopping building that was in operation. Because the next day was not a weekend, the building was not crowded, but there were still many customers coming and going. Seeing such a crowded scene, Zhou Yu was a little unable to recover. He put his hand into his pocket, and his fingertips touched the coldness of the knife handle and the chips.
"Go through the back door. That's towards Orshall Road."
Hong Ye said this and pointed towards the aisle ahead.
Zhou Yu had completely lost her sense of direction just now, and I don't know how she judged it. The two walked through the stores that were neatly arranged like comb teeth. When they reached the end, they saw "Accessway maintenance, please go to the second floor" written on the wall in front of them. Although it says it will be repaired, in fact, I don’t even see the door opening. They had no choice but to turn up the side stairs leading to the second floor.
The exit from the stairs on the second floor is the utility room. The two of them bypassed the mop and stepladder and walked out of the front door. Go through the long corridor and open the only door at the end.
Behind the door is the men's restroom with attached urinals.
Before the two of them could react, the compartment on the other side opened. A young man with yellow hair walked out listlessly, trying to lift his belt.
...His eyes were fixed on the water-filled tile floor, and then he slowly, slowly raised his head.
After seeing the two people standing at the door, his eyes widened and he screamed hysterically.
Although it was very noisy, the five-year-old girl's scream sounded familiar to Zhou Yu. He took a closer look and found that Huang Mao was Cai Ji.
