Returning from the abyss

Chapter 276 Shock of Art
Sugiyama Riso and Inawara Ayano sat in the room, relatively silent.

The two have always cooperated with each other tacitly, but this time they began to fail to understand their best friend's mind.

"Inawara, can you swear that your secret is harmless to me?" In the end, it was Sugiyama who could not 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!" Sugiyama couldn't help but stand up while supporting the table, "But that doesn't mean that your secret mission won't cause any changes! You've always been smarter than me, Inawara, I don't want to be with you." You play this 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 Li Chuan said to us just now, it should be Karl who told him, and he told us... It seems that you didn't understand the meaning of the words." Inahara shook his head slightly, "That's fine, at least not Need to get your hands dirty."

"Dirty hands and not dirty hands? Speak clearly! And Uncle Li Chuan too, what does it mean to leave a word and not say anything else!"

"You need to understand it yourself, and then do it in the way you think is right. Sugiyama, what is your ultimate goal in this confrontation scene?"

"Of course he survived!"

"Then proceed with your actions based on this."

Speaking of this, Sugiyama finally understood the meaning of Inawara's words.

"You mean... everyone's benchmarks are different, so the conclusions drawn from them are also different?"

Inahara nodded and stood up.

"What are you going to do?" Sugiyama asked loudly when he saw her walking towards the door.

"...According to my criteria." Inahara threw two paper figurines, and the palm-sized white paper fluttered in the air, flooding with light, and released two huge phantoms. Sugiyama, who is also good at onmyoji, was able to See the real appearance of those two phantoms clearly.

A slender human figure with a high crown and a crane-pattern robe is wearing a blue smiling face mask, holding a wat board in his hand; a burly human figure in armor is wearing a red angry mask and a unicorn heavy armor, with two halberds on his back.

"Hey! Inawara, don't do stupid things!"

"I know exactly what I'm going to do."

Inahara's tone was resolutely cold, and Sugiyama had only heard her tone like this once before.

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Carl's plan took effect faster than he expected, or rather, someone in this chain chose to act early instead of passing the message down.

Lu Ning, who was thinking about Mi Nan's next action plan, never expected that Inahara, who is usually quiet, would be the most ruthless one, even faster than a person like Mi Nan who turned up to do things.

She watched helplessly as a cluster of fire lines slashed two streets away from her, opening a small hole in the door of a house. After a delay of about a second, the whole house was like a gas explosion. Flames spewed out from the inside, and the door and windows were torn apart by the flames and burned to ashes at this moment. Of course, no one in the room could be spared.

Then, Ayano Inawara came 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 of horror and fear was the sparks that circled around her neck like a circle of star rings.

And Inahara also glanced sideways at Lu Ning, and then smiled at her with obvious meaning.

[Want to stop me? 】

The flame explosion has attracted the attention of people nearby, and two young people rushed out from the nearby house, and they all showed surprised expressions when they saw the burning house, but the next moment, Inahara also raised his hand.

Lu Ning felt something flicker violently from above. She squinted her eyes and looked up subconsciously, but was shocked to find that there was an inconspicuous dark red star moving slowly near the sun in the daytime. !

"Demon Star Shiranui."

With a chanting, two lines of fire shot out from the V-shape between the fingers, accurately penetrated between the eyebrows of the two young men, and then sank into the house behind them.

Lu Ning stood relatively close to the two young people, and even smelled a just right smell of cooked meat, but she couldn't care less, one rolled and hid on the other side of the road, and the two houses that were submerged in the fire broke out at the same time The same big explosion as the previous house.

A few broken bricks and glass hit Lu Ning, but it didn't hurt, but this candidate was completely beyond her expectations.

She estimated that some of the tourists might launch a massacre because of the information from Carl, but that person was either Mi Nan or Yiluo, even if Fujii Xueyin or Ye Chuqing did this, it would not make people feel ashamed. She felt strange, but she didn't expect that the first person to be stimulated was Ayano Inahara.

"Lu Ning, you are over there, right?"

Ayano Inawara's voice came across two streets, and the flames were burning across the street. Lu Ning didn't plan to talk to her before the reassessment of Inawara was completed.

"I understood the meaning of what Tachikawa said to me, and my position is just right to do this."

It was another shot that blew up a house farther away. Fortunately, it was daytime, and not many people stayed 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 intellect, I can only think so far. If the devil wants to spread the witch's will, then they don't want the people in the town to die. As long as a part of the death causes panic, that's enough." , the witch needs the people here to live to let the painful past reappear, and the dead will not suffer.”

Lu Ning gritted her teeth, but did not act rashly.

"Then, if the mission of the Majin side is to save this town, it is self-evident what our mission as the opposing side is. It's ridiculous that we thought we were the heroes who came to save this town at the beginning... This is purely It's just the arrogance of our 'outsiders'."

Her words are not only for Lu Ning, but also for other tourists who are observing here.

"Find out and solve the root cause of the devil. I can't find it, but I can solve it."

At this moment, Lu Ning heard footsteps from far to near, and people from other parts of the town had rushed over when they heard the sound. When the two sides met, there would definitely be fierce conflicts.

If this was her plan, she would probably be overwhelmed by now.However, although Inahara was right, he only discovered 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 are you talking about!!!"

Another voice screamed from the rice field, and four huge walls of earth rose from all sides of the rice field, locking her inside. The petite figure of Sugiyama grabbed the edge of the earth door and turned directly in. The two of them have something to solve by themselves.

Lu Ning stood up and left this land of right and wrong first, but she still raised the danger level of Inawara and Sugiyama a little bit in her heart. Sure enough, she was still not very good at understanding other people's characters.

But Carl and Tachikawa did not show up to explain the problem. They both understood the superficial meaning of the message and acquiesced in others' actions.

After all, the goodwill of tourists is limited, and once tasks are involved, they will become merciless.

She made a circle, left the town through the south exit, and then turned to the forest in the southwest. In such a situation, the town might not be safe for a while. She needed to take advantage of this time to prepare the necessities for the return of the witch.

The key and the witch's heart are already in hand, and the other four items that are needed have not yet fallen, so let's start with the witch's oath that has a little clue.And if nothing else, there should be more clues to be discovered in the mine.

When Lu Ning reached a place where no one was around, she started running.This is the first time she let go of running with the body of a demon. 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 a demon body.

Even without the quadruple strengthening, the powerful quality of the body in front of her is obvious. She ran at the speed of a [-]-meter sprint for almost a kilometer without any fatigue. Occasionally, she would get up to run-up and jump and even swing on the branches. kind of action.You must know that although Lu Ning has experienced combat training, most of them are close combat and various agility training, and this kind of parkour-like training is not among them.

It only took two hours, and she ran to the mine near noon.

There was no need to judge this time, Lu Ning soon walked to the location of the sacrificial place, knocked around the wall to confirm that the six secret rooms really existed, and then carved out the other walls in the cave.

This is indeed the place where the devil tried to complete the ceremony last time, corresponding to the location of the wooden puzzle in memory, Lu Ning found out what was in those rooms one by one.

Eyes——A gray gemstone hangs in the center of the room. It doesn’t make Lu Ning feel any strange aura, and it may be dead like the witch’s heart. Lu Ning takes off the gemstone and wraps it up 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 scent of natural grass and trees. Lu Ning thought it should be the witch's oath, but It evaporates over time.

Broken Cross—In this room, there is a rusty iron box, the box is about the size of a bosom furnace, and it is filled with mixed black, white, gray and three-color ash. It is amazing that the three kinds of ash do not dye each other. It is mixed and distinct.

In the end, it's people.

There was a coffin in this room. Lu Ning opened the coffin, and inside lay a corpse that had been embalmed. A simple black robe was worn on the corpse. The mask is made of pure metal, with only a slit left for the eyes.

If it wasn't for the black hair of this corpse, she would almost think that the woman commanding the crow she met in the forest before crawled out of here.

After reading all of them, Lu Ning is still not sure what they represent. The person must refer to the person in the coffin, but does this person have any special requirements?She doesn't know.The tree is definitely the witch's oath, and the origin of the gem still needs to be investigated. As for the last cross, it may refer to the ashes in the box, but can those ashes still be used directly?
Just in case, she took some ashes and planned to go back for a test. A piece of wax was also scraped off the corpse, but the Witch's Oath could not be sampled.

But there should be a way to replicate it. After Lu Ning left several secret rooms, he fished out some gravel to fill the small holes dug out, then left the sacrificial field and walked to another passage.

When approaching the echo channel, she didn't continue to walk forward, but the demon turned into Shadow Leap and moved over.

The attack that anything returns didn't land on her, she didn't even feel it.Lu Ning continued to walk along the low and wet tunnel, and at some point, she realized that the road had turned upwards.

The expected monster hidden in the darkness did not appear.

And the higher it went, the damp gradually receded, and the tunnel gradually became easier to pass through. Everything was as safe as the place it came in. Gradually, she saw the light.

There's another exit at the other end of the mine?
Lu Ning was a little unbelievable. Let alone the fact that the townspeople didn't inform them of this information, even with the measurement of her body sensation along the way, this section of the road was far from enough to get through the continuous mountain range where the mine existed.

Moreover, there is also a mine tunnel structure here, such a deep place has been set foot by miners?Although it is relatively close from the entrance on this side.

Lu Ning noticed something, and walked step by step towards the hole where the light came 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 I can see, there is a wasteland nearby, and a few giant trees that seem to have withered stand on this wasteland, like tombstones randomly placed on a mass grave.A large flock of crows flew across the sky, occasionally making a hoarse cry.

But aside from these, the scene here is familiar to Lu Ning.

However, the wasteland should be a dense forest, and the sky should be a clear autumn sky. Passing through this land and heading northeast, you can reach Baihu Town.

She had seen the scene here at the lakeside hut, but she had never tried to come to the world here—the real present, the future of the 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 piece of space, but the whole world.

Lu Ning raised her hands, and the cold wind blew through her fingers, which was undeniably true.

"So, with that position as the boundary, the thrown stones will return."

she whispered.

"But, who launched a counterattack from the future? That kind of precision cannot be purely a phenomenon of time, in other words..."

The crows landed not too far away from Lu Ning, and the sound of flapping wings caught her attention. When the flock of birds dispersed, the woman with light blond hair and mask appeared again, but this time her One hand took on a feathered appearance.

"Sera, I need an explanation." Lu Ning said to her.

(End of this chapter)