tokyo creator

Chapter 40 Doors Are Textures
Huiyuan was thinking, when exactly did they enter this space without making a sound?

He has determined that the "theater" they are in now is not the real world.

It's more like a poor set that replicates some elements of theater.

Huiyuan had already explored the area as much as possible, but he soon discovered that the area where he could move was extremely limited.

Probably, there is only the courtyard outside the entrance, the grand staircase from the entrance to the second floor includes a rest platform in the middle, and the middle theater on the second floor at the end of the grand staircase.

He cannot enter any other place.

He couldn't walk through the thick fog outside the courtyard. Once he got close to the edge of the courtyard, an invisible boundary that seemed to be only a few meters away from the thick fog, no matter how long he walked, he would find that he was just standing still.

In addition to the large staircase leading up to the entrance hall, there are elevators and some workshops and power distribution rooms on both sides.Except for the east stairwell, which Hui Yuan would not open again even if he died, Hui Yuan tried all the other doors, but found that none of them could be opened, and the elevator did not respond when pressed.

What's outrageous is that Huiyuan initially tried to pull out a gun and shoot at the door lock...but after the gunshot, the seemingly fragile door panel was unscathed.

Then, he simply gave up the idea of ​​activating the power to forcefully break in.

The situation now feels like an isolated scene in the game.Those inaccessible areas... are not actually "inaccessible", but "do not exist at all".The doors that cannot be opened are just textures, there is nothing behind them.

You can enter the Chinese Theater on the second floor.But the theater was empty.

When they left, nearly a thousand students and parents were still trapped in the theater, filled with the depression of unknown life and death.

But at this time, the theater was brightly lit, spacious and comfortable, and the atmosphere was new.

Even if it could be explained that everyone really evacuated within half an hour, it still couldn't explain why the seats and corridors were all as clean and tidy as if they had just been cleaned.

The entire theater does not seem to be an abandoned place after the chaos, but it seems to be waiting for the audience to enter.

Yumiko Tamaki was so frightened by this ordinary yet strange scene that she collapsed while holding the door.At first, Hui Yuan wanted to help her to the side to rest, but she again showed strong opposition with fear and asked to stay away from the theater, and further away... In the end, the two of them retreated to the middle platform of the grand staircase before stopping in the rest area. down.

Tamaki Yumiko sat on the sofa, saying nothing, holding her shoulders and shaking.

Huiyuan originally wanted to ask her why she had such a big reaction, but seeing how she was acting now, he could only let her calm down for a while first.

At this time, if you take a sip of hot drink... Hui Yuan looked around and found that the light of the vending machine next to it was still flashing.

He walked up and pressed the button without any hope...

Unexpectedly, the product selection interface popped up on the machine's screen as usual.

Hui Yuan initially tried to throw a coin in... but the vending machine actually spat out a bottle of Coke with a clang.

...But, can I still drink the drinks in this strange space?
Haiyuan thought for a moment...

who cares!
Anyway, I have been breathing in this space for so long, and I have been exposed to other things. There is no reason why only water has changed its nature.

He unscrewed the cap of the bottle and drank it down.

Sure enough, there was no strange smell.

So Haiyuan bought another can of hot coffee, then walked back and handed it to Tamaki Yumiko.

Tamaki Yumiko took the coffee with trembling hands and drank it silently.

Hui Yuanchu also sat down next to her, drinking Coke while sorting out his thoughts.

The space of the current circulation theater, just like the circulation corridor encountered in the teaching building for the first time, was created by Yumiko Tamaki.Moreover, compared with the circulation corridor, the circulation theater is larger in area and lasts longer.This should be related to Yumiko Tamaki's condition.Compared with before, it is obvious that Tamaki Yumiko's spiritual ascension is deeper now.Then, perhaps the greater the degree of separation of this true spirit, the more stable the vision space will be.This is explainable.

The appearance of the cyclic illusion must be related to Tamaki Yumiko's emotions.Because both hallucinations appeared when she encountered huge frights.

——"The body is a prison, and the spirit is a shackles."Therefore, when there were gaps and flaws in Tamaki Yumiko's spirit, the originally sealed true spirit was ready to move and leak out its power...

It's a pity that although Hui Yuanchu prevented Yumiko Tamaki from watching the last scene of the play, it only prevented the "means of Orokuoi".

However, the Crusaders stepped in at exactly this moment, but used another method to stimulate Yumiko Tamaki again, pushing forward the process of ascension by mistake and making the situation a mess.

Haiyuan sighed deeply... Yes, it seems that is what happened.

However, this space should not have reached the "final stage" yet.In other words, Yumiko Tamaki has not completely turned into an evil spirit.

On the one hand, because of his timely intervention, Tamaki Yumiko did not see the final act of the play.Secondly, at least she herself is still here intact.

Besides, the mission system, which had never made any mistakes, told him that they were "still on the journey" and "don't relax".

In other words, the critical node between Tamaki Yumiko's final change - a node that once crossed can never be returned - has not really arrived yet.

Moreover, Haiyuan had been observing Yumiko Tamaki all the time, but did not notice any obvious changes in her.Based on this, he judged that this last node did not change according to time.But it requires some kind of opportunity.

...By the way, what does "messenger's voice" mean?Huiyuan was a little sensitive to this word at first.But after thinking for a while, he found that there was nothing interesting about it, so he had to put it down temporarily.

At least, what he has to do now is clear.

While the process of change is temporarily stuck, while comforting Yumiko Tamaki and stabilizing her emotions, she can break this illusion as soon as possible...

"Haihara-kun!" Then, he suddenly heard Tamaki Yumiko's exclamation.

Haiyuan turned his head hurriedly and saw Tamaki Yumiko looking down at the half-drunk coffee in her hand, her face pale: "Coffee...is this coffee?"

"...Yes, what's wrong?" Hui Yuanchu wondered, "What's wrong with this coffee?"

"The coffee is fine, but where does it come from?"

"I bought it from a vending machine..."

Tamaki Yumiko then asked: "Where did the vending machine come from?"

"Isn't it over there?" Hui Yuanchu pointed.

Tamaki Yumiko immediately looked back, and then her expression went through a series of changes.I was extremely nervous at first, then suddenly turned into confusion, and then gradually panic.

She closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and said, "Haihara-kun, I'm sorry...can you tell me where we are now?"

Huiyuan had a bad premonition at first, but still said according to the actual situation: "...in the rest area between the first and second floors of the theater."

Although he didn't understand what Tamaki Yumiko meant, he deliberately did not mention his judgment: this is a completely different space from the theater.He was just afraid of irritating Tamaki Yumiko even more.

Tamaki Yumiko was silent for a moment, her expression becoming even more ugly.

Finally, she said with a wry smile: "Mr. Huiyuan, I just discovered one thing... I don't know when it started, everything I saw was different from yours."

"In my eyes." She looked up at the top of the long ramp and sighed: "Here... is the Tower of Babel."

(End of this chapter)