Siren Blade

Chapter 46 Food in the Underworld

Joan immediately went to question the senior about the magic circle.The latter didn't say a word after hearing this. He also finished the last stroke of the magic circle at this time, then stood up from the ground, and walked over to close the door.

Seeing this, Joan bumped into it without hesitation.

However, his body is thinner than that of ordinary boys. In contrast, the senior is tall and burly.In Qiao An's memory, the seniors had excellent sports performance, good grades in cultural subjects, and were more courteous and courteous in dealing with others.

But at this moment, he showed a rough and cold temperament from head to toe, and he swept Joan to the ground with a swish of his arm.The other students who were still making arrangements in the activity room also stopped when they saw the movement here, and looked at each other in surprise.

Then, the senior closed the door.At this moment, Joan felt that the space of the activity room he was in had suddenly undergone an extraordinary change.Even though the scenery in front of him remained unchanged, he felt as if he was trapped in that strange space again, as if a chill was rushing up his tailbone.And the source of this invisible upheaval is undoubtedly the magic circle.

He supported his body while covering his cheeks, and asked again, "What is that magic circle? What did you do?"

The senior smiled and said, "It's just an ordinary transfer ceremony, it's today's event."

"Is that how you deceived them?" Joan asked angrily.The other students were even more inexplicable when they heard it.

"Joan..." The senior restrained his smile, "Who is that guy at noon today? I saw him kill the demons in the school. Did he come from the department in charge of dealing with demons in the country? You shouted here?"

"How did you know that monster..."

"Of course I know. Because it is the demon I summoned through the strange talk in school." He said, "Since you don't tell me, it's fine, anyway, he can't chase him into this different space."

"What are you talking about?" A girl in the activity room asked anxiously, "Isn't this an ordinary game?"

"Game? Huh..." The senior seemed to be wearing a cold mask, or this was his true face, he looked down at the students who were in the same room with him, "I and you... It’s not like a guy who has a storm of force destroying his life and lives by the rules, and I’m going to take that step myself.”

Joan forced himself to calm down, and then asked, "What are you going to do?"

"You will know soon." He said, "Anyway, in this place where no one can control, no matter what happens, it will not be reported. Those of you who died in secret incidents will soon be forgotten by society , and I will become a warlock and usher in my new life."

After speaking, he opened the door beside him.But this time, the scenery outside the door has changed drastically.The corridor outside the activity room should have been a corridor, but now it has become a deserted art gallery.

All of them came to the interior of this different space.

"—and then?" Hearing Joann say this, I asked, "What did he do after that?"

"He died before he could do anything," Joan said.
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Next, I asked Joan some more questions, and combined with the clues I had at hand, I roughly figured out the whole picture of the matter.

Joan's senior probably came into contact with the knowledge of demons circulating on the Internet by accident, and he himself was yearning for the various powers described in the knowledge of demons, and wanted to master this power.

The ghost story in school was his experiment on secret knowledge, and after verifying the authenticity of secret knowledge, he wanted to go one step further.But when it comes to going further on the road of demon knowledge, it is nothing more than sacrificing living people to demons in exchange for power.

However, he must have thought about the risk of being a killer for a living person. If he is caught by the security organization after gaining power, it will not be worth the loss, especially after witnessing the scene where I kill the demon, he is even more convinced of this. point.Therefore, he wanted to transfer the murder site to "a place where no one can control", that is, a different space.

This is the most surprising thing, he actually mastered the method of entering this different space, and this method must have been recorded in the demonic knowledge circulating on the Internet.

Reminiscing that there are especially many demons in this different space, it seems that there is indeed an overlap in the element of "devil".I don't know how much the Security Bureau has grasped about this matter?At least Qingniao and Qiao Licao didn't know much about this matter, I'll have to ask Lie Que later.

Closer to home, although I don't know how Joan's senior planned to sacrifice his classmates, but he obviously misestimated the danger and complexity of this different space.He did find and communicate with the demon afterwards, and the demon did mysteriously settle down and listen to him.But there were more than one demon in front of him.When he was still trying to communicate with one of them, the other demons directly killed those students, and treated him equally.

As a top student who had lived a well-behaved life before and was highly regarded by his parents and teachers, what kind of mental journey did he go through before he was so determined to send his classmates to the devil?It was too late to ask these questions now, and there was only one cold fact left in front of Joan and the others.

He put zombies into his campus life with his own hands, and was devoured by them.

After that, Joan and the others ran away and hid in a hurry, but died one after another in the next three days, and finally only Joan and the girls around him were left.

"Wait..." I said, "Three days? You've been here three days?"

"It's just a rough estimate. It might be two days, no, it might be one day..." Joan was also confused.

It seems his sense of time has been messed up.I asked again, "Where's your cell phone?"

"When I came to my senses, the battery was out." He shook his head.

The mobile phone can indeed be used as a timing tool to anchor your sense of time in a different space, but the premise is that your sense of time has not been confused.If you delay looking at your phone until you don't know how much time has passed, it will be too late.Joan and the others don't have the knowledge and experience in this area, so I can't blame them.

But at the moment I am most worried about another thing, "You... Since you feel that three days have passed, what are you eating?"

"It's something I picked up here." The girl said, "For example, last time I passed by a place that looked like a company's office area. Although I still couldn't see anyone, I could find snacks and water at the workstation."

Joan added, "In order to avoid encountering monsters...in order to avoid encountering demons, we always hide in the same place. Let alone go out, we dare not even make a sound. But that can't solve the hunger, so we have to Go out and search for food."

No wonder they survived for so long in such a ghostly place.Although I will frequently encounter demons here, it is because I move frequently; on the other hand, as long as I don't move, the encounter rate will be greatly reduced.

"That... Is it really good for us to eat the food here?" Joan asked anxiously, "Although we must eat it, but the things we pick up in this kind of place..."

After weighing, I still told them the truth: the food and water here are not edible.

Since I had an adventure in a different space yesterday, I have supplemented the texts related to different spaces in the general knowledge textbook of the Security Bureau, so I learned this knowledge.Of course, even as a layman of warlocks, I knew this common sense a long time ago, but let's take the words in the textbook first.

The first thing you need to know is that the matter in the different space, or to be precise, the matter in this kind of different space independent of the real world, once transferred to the real world, it will disappear like an illusion.

Therefore, if one eats this kind of food and water and absorbs nutrients from it to turn into one's own flesh and water, then after returning to the real world, that part of flesh and water will disappear directly.It would be fine if it happened in the flesh, but if it happened in the brain and vital organs, the outcome would be needless to say.

In myths and legends around the world, there have also been taboo sayings that refer to this knowledge.For example, food in the underworld cannot be eaten, otherwise it will be left in the underworld forever.In ancient Greek mythology, Persephone had to stay in the underworld for half of the year because she was deceived by Hades and ate the pomegranate seeds in the underworld. She later hosted a banquet in the underworld for Psyche with the same idea. The princess, but failed to frame the latter; and Izanami in Japanese mythology ate more things in the underworld, so she could never return to the world.

Myths and legends are often abstract echoes of history, reflecting the results and changes of ancient people's thinking.In ancient times, when a strong tribe conquered a weak tribe, the gods of the weak tribe would become concubines, subordinates, or monsters conquered by the gods in the myths of the strong tribe; some awareness of space.

If the uncanny valley effect is a hidden inheritance imprinted in genes, then myths and legends are hidden inheritances engraved in culture, and they are "secret knowledge" that can be accessed and recognized by a few people with low awareness.

"Why is this..." Qiao An and the girl turned pale after hearing this, and the former asked quickly, "Is there nothing I can do?"

"I need to go back and consult the organization behind me about this matter." I shook my head, "But you can't leave this different space for the time being."

I think this rule should not be absolutely impossible to break through.

After all, the spirit body and spirituality are also matter and energy, but the spirit body fragments I got from killing demons in this different space last time can also be absorbed by the siren blade and brought to the outside world.

And if as long as it is the substance here, it cannot be absorbed, then how can the air be explained?Blue Bird and I, as well as Qiao Licorice, breathed here for so long last time, and nothing unusual happened after we went out.

There should be some way around this taboo... But what exactly this way is, is beyond the scope of my knowledge.

The girl was still wondering about the organization behind me, but Joan explained to her that I came from the national department, and asked calmly: "That is to say, we still need to restore the means of contact with the outside world first, or at least let you Go out...how to do it?"

"To open the exit of this different space, you need a key." Speaking of which, I described the shape of the mirror fragments.If their eyes can be used later when searching for mirror fragments, the efficiency will increase a little.

It's best to find mirror shards before the middleman.Qiao Licao said that there is only one key to leave this different space at a time, and the second one can only be found after the first one is consumed.If I take half of them, the middleman will have to come to me in order to leave the different space-provided he has no other way to leave the different space.

But is that really good?I also need to protect Joan and the girls now, will this bring them danger?
Maybe I don't need to expect to find the mirror fragments first. With the speed of the middleman, I probably have found all the fragments at this moment and walked away.

However... Joan's next behavior was beyond my expectation.

After listening to the description, he immediately took out an item from his pocket.Looking at that shape, it is the mirror fragment that I have been looking for so hard.

He asked expectantly, "Is it this thing?"

"You actually have?" I was surprised.

"This is something I found on the way to escape." He explained, "When I saw this thing, I was always worried, so I picked it up and kept it with me all the time."

"I see..." Although it sounded rather vague, I believed it.

This is also the advantage of high awareness, it is easier to find a way out in dangerous places, or to find a strategy with a wonderful intuition when facing a difficult problem.When he was trapped in the strange space last time, he also relied on his own awareness to forcibly observe the exit that had disappeared, thus escaping from the different space; this time he also found the key item to escape from the different space inconceivably.Could it be that he has the talent to explore different spaces?

"Just in case, I will keep this thing for you." He handed it to me voluntarily.The girl next to her seemed to want to say something, but held back.

I took the pieces and solemnly kept them close to my body.

But then you have to worry about how to deal with the middleman while protecting them.Should they find a place to hide first?But if they act separately from them, each other's sense of time is different, and the flow rate of time will also vary greatly.Maybe I have only passed by here for a few hours, and they have passed by for several days.

It still needs close protection... Just as I was thinking this way, the wall in the distance shattered.

A strong malice swept over.

(End of this chapter)