"what's your name?"
Looking at this girl who was caught in this strange house by Anya just like herself, Bai Qin moved her wrist and asked, "How did you get caught in here?"
"Lea Ke, just call me Xiao Ke."
Xiao Ke put away the seed in her hand. This was a vine seed crystallized using the energy in her body. It was very rare and precious. She sighed and said to Bai Qin: "I am a Muqi. Muqi encountered a void invasion before, and it was the brave who resolved the crisis. But the disaster affected too wide a range, and Muqi's leaders at all levels I am so dead and crippled, I was originally just an overseas student, but I became the Minister of Foreign Affairs out of desperation."
Looking around cautiously, Xiao Ke pulled Bai Qin to her side, and then whispered: "Then I had insomnia for a while, couldn't sleep well at night, and always felt my heartbeat was pounding. Then I wanted to go I went to the psychological counseling room run by the Emotional Church to see if I could relax my mood. Unexpectedly, after I entered, a sack was put over my head, and when I woke up, I was in this house. "
"How long have you been in this room?"
Facing Bai Qin's question, Xiao Ke poked his chin with his finger and thought for a moment, then said firmly: "Half a month."
Half a month, fifteen days.
This is completely impossible.
"If I remember correctly, the second invasion of the void should have happened four years ago."
Bai Qin looked at Xiao Ke and said these words solemnly.
I.
Grass.
At this time, Xiao Ke's face was written with these two big words besides confusion.
"Four four four four four?!!!"
Xiao Ke came back to his senses, his pink cheeks full of horror, "I've been trapped here for four years!"
Bai Qin wanted to know how Xiao Ke could express the emotions of "horror, disbelief, incomprehension, sadness, despair, pain and regret" in a very low voice in a panic, but she knew that it would be difficult for Xiao Ke to accept it. this matter.
When I close my eyes and open them again, four years are gone.
No one would be able to bear it.
"No, four years?!"
Xiao Ke took dozens of deep breaths and calmed down when she was on the verge of suffocation. Of course, not many calmed down, "Have I stayed here for four whole years?"
"To be precise, three years and three hundred and twenty-five days."
As if she felt pity for Xiao Ke, Bai Qin comforted him: "Actually, it's not enough four years."
It’s better to get it all together.
Xiao Ke, who had some obsessive-compulsive disorder, scratched her head irritably. She looked at Baiqin and asked in confusion: "No, what are they arresting for?"
Thinking of the abilities that her troubled sister showed to her, Bai Qin had already made up her mind. But she still wanted to be tactful and not touch Xiaoke's concerns, "Maybe, because you are too tired and want to help you with work?"
Seeing Xiao Ke's numb and questioning eyes, Bai Qin's face suddenly turned red, feeling ashamed for a moment.
"I know you want to comfort me."
Sighing, Xiao Ke asked Bai Qin, "I was the one doing all the talking just now, now it's your turn."
"I..."
Bai Qin was stunned for a moment and didn't know where to start. After thinking about it, she first introduced herself to Xiao Ke: "Let me tell you about myself first. My name is Bai Qin, and I am the Pope of the Church of Elements."
"Oh, big shot, big shot."
Xiao Ke belongs to the kind of optimist who is unparalleled in the world and does not show off her skills. When she heard that Bai Qin was the Pope of the Church of Elements, her eyes immediately lit up and she stretched out her hand to shake Bai Qin's hand. .
"Ah, no, just a pope..."
Bai Qin couldn't resist for a moment and said nonchalantly: "Actually, the person who captured us two is the Pope of the Church of Emotions, Anya."
"Oh, big shot, big shot."
Xiao Ke repeated it subconsciously, and then his expression changed, "Why did someone like her fall in love with me if she wasn't?"
"Um..."
Bai Qin thought for a moment, and then said to Xiao Ke: "This Anya has the ability to create an artificial person with the same appearance, habits, memory, and goals. So..."
"A brave man?"
No matter how you say it, Xiao Ke is still a minister of foreign affairs. Even if she was temporarily elected, she still has the wisdom that she should have. "Is it the Anya you mentioned who pretended to be me and infiltrated the team of heroes?"
"Most likely."
Bai Qin nodded, and then told Xiao Ke about the Elnoa Glory Crystal Tower, and then focused on naming Anya, the crazy Ivan who wanted to detonate the crystal tower and fly into the sky with half of the Taric Continent. .
「…………」
Xiao Ke didn't want to talk much at this time, so she squatted there, stretched out her hands, and rubbed her cheeks vigorously, turning her healthy, white and tender cheeks red, just like Mrs. Xianglin, and whispered Said: "You have done evil..."
"Why am I so obsessed with this ghost activity of seeing one, getting one free?"
Bai Qin's face suddenly froze, and now she really didn't know how to comfort this poor girl.
I went abroad to study, my home was demolished by the void, and when I came back, I was appointed to a tedious position. I was so busy every day that I was almost depressed. I finally saved some money to see a psychiatrist. I was put in a sack. When I woke up, I found that I had disappeared for four whole days. Years of time, and now he is involved in the crazy Ivan incident that is preparing to destroy half the country.
What a misfortune, Bai Qin couldn't help but mourn for her after hearing this.
How unfortunate this is.
"never mind."
After feeling sorry for himself for a few minutes, Xiao Ke looked at Bai Qin, the sadness in his eyes was much less, and he cheered up and said to Bai Qin: "Our top priority now is to escape from this house, otherwise everything will be in vain."
"I think so too."
Saying this, a distressed expression appeared on Bai Qin's face. She stretched out her hand. The original three-color overlapping ring on her wrist was dim, "But I was sealed and couldn't use my elemental ring. And then this space..."
Looking at this room full of life, Bai Qin sighed and said distressedly: "There are very few elements in this space. I can only mobilize very few earth elements."
"I also discovered this."
Xiao Ke nodded. Her awakening was most likely an accident. She remembered that she slept for a long time after being put in a sack. Suddenly one day, she felt a throbbing in her chest and woke up suddenly. After waking up, Xiao Ke found that he seemed to be trapped in a room. The door to the room cannot be opened, and there are no windows, so there is no way to perceive the outside world. At the same time, water and food will appear in the room from time to time, and the most surprising thing is that the water and food will automatically run into Xiaoke's mouth for her to eat.
If Xiao Ke, as a child of nature, could not easily identify that the water and food were non-toxic, I am afraid that the first buttered bread to be sieved by a pea shooter would appear in the world.
And then just now, Xiao Ke finally obtained a vine by condensing the seeds of life, and used the vine to run out of that room the moment he was delivering water and food. Before she could see her surroundings clearly, she sensed the abnormal movement of the earth element, and that was what happened next.
"This room is so weird."
After checking the room again, Xiao Ke frowned and said in confusion: "No matter what, the house needs the two basic elements of water and earth. Even if they have the ability to paste a layer of mithril on the surface of the wall, they can't It’s impossible to seal all the gaps in the room with mithril, otherwise it would be impossible to survive.”
"And there isn't even the most basic magic element in this space."
Other professionals generally call magic energy by its name, but both the Elemental Mage and the Elemental Church believe that magic energy is one of many elements and is the original form of the element, so they call magic energy the magic element and also treat it as a magic element. The origin of all elements.
And in this space, as the most basic element, magic energy does not even have a slight content. This makes Bai Qin and Xiao Ke incomprehensible. For professionals, magic energy and air are equally important.
And ordinary. They suddenly entered a space completely devoid of magic energy, which made them very uncomfortable.
Xiao Ke walked to the door, looked at the ordinary light pink wooden door in front of her, stretched out her hand, and vines appeared from her hand and slammed on the door. But except for a trace of echo, this ordinary-looking wooden door was unscathed, not even a trace was left.
"I've tried it before."
Sighing, Bai Qin said with some seriousness: "I still had a certain amount of magic power before I entered here, but no matter how I control the elements to disrupt this place, it will return to this place without taking a breath, as if something It didn’t happen either.”
"Um..."
Xiao Ke frowned, and she began to communicate with the earth element. She began to look at the surrounding walls with a relatively crude elemental eye. The clues in her mind were so messed up that she couldn't understand them at all.
Following Xiao Ke's line of sight, Bai Qin also looked at the wall. However, when she did not use elemental vision, but looked at the walls with her naked eyes, she was suddenly stunned.
"Wood grain?"
Bai Qin seemed to have discovered something. She quickly ran to the wall, and then asked Xiao Ke on the side: "Don't use elemental vision to look at these walls."
Xiao Ke was stunned for a moment, and then released the earth element in his eyes. When she got closer to these light blue walls and took a closer look, she said in surprise: "Soul wood!"
"Soul wood?"
Looking at Bai Qin who was a little confused, Xiao Ke quickly explained to her: "Soul wood is a kind of tree produced in the Twilight Forest. It has the effect of stabilizing the soul. This kind of wood is difficult to buy outside, except for Magnum. Only Muqi has some reserves."
"Then can it block magic energy?"
"cannot."
Xiao Ke shook his head and said firmly: "I am the son of nature. If these are really soul trees, they themselves should be the largest source of magic energy."
Stretching out his hand and touching the wall, Xiao Ke continued: "The Son of Nature can communicate with all natural elements, and the Soul Wood should also be included. But..."
A trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, and Xiao Ke said in confusion: "I can't feel the existence of these soul trees at all, but the problem is, as a child of nature, I can feel the breath of them even if they are made into man-made objects, but These walls..."
"It's like it's just a projection."
"Soul Wood...Projection"
After hearing the name, Bai Qin fell into deep thought. After a long time, she raised her head, looked at the same pattern on the ceiling, and closed her eyes, as if thinking about something.
A house without magic elements, the projection of the soul wood, trapped Xiao Ke for four years...
When the disorganized clues come together and are connected by an element called soul wood, a clear clue points to the truth. Bai Qin opened her eyes, then looked at Xiao Ke, and asked seriously: "Xiao Ke, what kind of cell do you think is impossible to escape?"
"There is no escape..."
After hearing this, Xiao Ke began to think subconsciously. After a while, she gave the answer, "It is impossible to escape from a cell without an exit."
"Yes, a cell without an exit is completely inescapable, but it's not comprehensive enough."
Looking at this room that had a sense of déjà vu everywhere, Bai Qin looked at Xiao Ke and said an answer in a deep voice: "The real cell that cannot be escaped should be a cell that does not exist."
"A cell that doesn't exist?"
Xiao Ke was stunned for a moment, and then she seemed to have thought of something. Her eyes widened and she looked at Bai Qin in disbelief.
"Magic energy is the basic element of all things. No matter how isolated it is, magic energy should not be completely eliminated. And you just said that it was four years ago that you were captured in your memory, but until now, regarding control The professional ability of time does not exist at all, and as the Pope of the Church of Emotions, Anya cannot have this ability."
Standing up, reaching out and stroking the wood grains of these soul trees, Bai Qin continued: "The wood grains of the soul wood have no traces of the soul wood. It is more like a projection. So, is there a possibility?"
"The soul wood does exist, but it's not here."
"They are in reality."
Yes, that's not reality here.
In reality, no matter how one designs it or how much mithril one uses, it is impossible to completely dispel the magic elements. Moreover, there is no ability to control the passage of time in reality, so Xiao Ke's kind of living day by day is impossible to achieve. The wood grains of soul wood do exist, but Xiao Ke can't feel their existence at all, so a very bold guess emerges.
This world is false.
In other words, it is a person's soul.
Anya...
Looking at this room, Bai Qin finally found that lingering sense of déjà vu.
Yes, this is the original room where Anya and herself lived. A long time ago, they were adopted from the same orphanage, and the popes of the two churches personally picked them up. This was what the two of them's orphanage room looked like before entering the Pope. Because it was so long ago, the room in Bai Qin's memory had been forgotten a lot. Only after she understood that it was a fantasy world did she finally remember it.
"What are you imprisoning?"
Bai Qin understood that it was impossible for Anya to create this cage just to lock herself here. Judging from the wood grain of the soul wood, this prison should have been established for several years.
Therefore, this prison is not reality, but a cage that a girl named Anya has set for herself in her heart.
