A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

To me at the time, it might have all been meaningless. It was a fantasy made to fit into the plot, and even if others knew about it, it might be considered a bit childish.

"For me, fantasy is my inoculation, so in terms of time, I'm ready."

"But you don't seem to be as relaxed as you said."

Lapland's keen hearing allowed him to notice that although Yabu tried very hard to control his inner emotions, his voice was still slightly faster than at the beginning.

"Are you afraid?"

"I don't know, maybe, I can't tell... After all, this is my first time doing this. But thinking better, maybe after I die here, I will wake up at home. Woolen cloth."

"Maybe you will never wake up again?" Lapland seemed to want to stimulate Yabu intentionally, and deliberately went against Yabu's self-comfort.

"You should leave me a thought. It's true. I'm going to die anyway. I'll just fantasize about it to comfort myself. I'm also very panicked."

"Okay, okay, then I'll take action?" Lapland pointed to his weapon and said, trying not to laugh, and said seriously, "I ask you for the last time, are you really ready? ?If it starts, I will pay a heavy price for using a weapon once, so I will never stop."

"...Do you need to pay a big price? Forget it then. I'll think of another way to die."

"It doesn't matter. Since I said I'm willing to help you, I can still use it for you once. You just need to say whether you are ready."

"Ready." Because of nervousness, Yabu's hands were uncontrollably trying to hold something.

But after trying to reach out to everything around him, he found that he was already a soul and could not grasp anything in the world.

"Oh, by the way, wait a minute." Lapland suddenly interrupted.

"?"

"I forgot to ask what your name was."

Probably because it was so interesting, after chatting for a long time and preparing to execute him, Lapland remembered that he still didn’t know the name of the person in front of him.

"桠布."

"桠布...? Ah, okay, I remember, you can call me Lapland." Lapland took out the knife from his waist and tentatively held it in front of the person in front of him. After shaking for a few times, seeing that Yao Bu really had no intention of retreating, he continued to speak: "I'm going to take action?"

"Um......"

"Oh yes, actually..."

"Give me a pleasure..." Yabu clasped his hands together as if praying, and said bitterly, "If I hadn't been a soul now, I think I would have been shaking. It’s become a sieve.”

He was finally ready to die, but he got stuck three times in a row. Fortunately, Yabu didn't have a body now, otherwise he would have been frightened to death before he was beaten to death.

"Well, I'm sorry, I can't actually kill you."

"But didn't you just say you were going to take action...?"

"Here, look."

While speaking, Lapland poked Yabu with his own weapon. As if the weapon didn't touch anything, it passed directly through the soul and hit the wall behind.

"Then you said you are good at killing people..."

"That's right." Lapland showed a serious expression, as if he was saying some obvious fact known to all, "but you are a ghost."

"..."

Yaobu ​​had actually thought of ghosts being immune to physical attacks, so at first he asked the other party if he would mind if he could do it. After the other party said yes, Yabu thought it could be done. of.

But I didn't expect that the other party would play a word game with me.

"In other words, it's just a joke?"

"That's more or less the case." Lapland looked at Yabu's confused look as he asked, and while wanting to laugh, he still couldn't bear to explain, "Because I'm not sure what's going on with you either. ."

After all, there was a ghost who said he wanted to kill him as soon as he came up. Such a bizarre thing is really hard to make people take seriously. Although it was finally revealed that he was indeed preparing to die, the whole process before that was really funny.

"Then using that weapon will cost you a lot. It's a joke, right?" Yabu asked, pointing to the sword Lapland had pulled out and holding in his hand.

"Ah, of course it's a joke."

"That's good......"

"..."

Lapland suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

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Chapter 38 Yo, aibo

There are thoughts of death, in the final analysis, it is because from Yao Bu's perspective, his situation is too sudden.

Suddenly he came to a different world, and while his memory was incomplete, he also turned into a life form that was completely inconsistent with his previous one. Through questioning, he learned that there are creatures in this world that can completely mimic.

From this, he thought of several possibilities.

One is that he was mimicked after he came to this world but his body is still alive. On this basis, he can also extend the idea of ​​creatures that mimic him, whether he responds with kindness or malice, or the mimicry is just a simple way of survival, or something else. what reason.

The second, more extreme possibility is that after coming to this world, he was directly killed and replaced by those creatures that can mimic.

Although it is not ruled out that he has indeed traveled through time to look like this, but if not, it may cause harm to other people, so to be on the safe side, it is most reasonable to let him die while he still has self-awareness. choose.

It's actually very simple to get him to give up the idea of ​​dying.

千,'?!:寻.免",',!费,'.:小.''?说"裙:.;2!.:'5:.5.:"5:;";9,,:,5:.?!3?;:0?!".0　　“拉普兰德你的意思是说，能拟态的那种生物是实体，而不是像我这样的幽灵。”

"What I learned is this. Although I'm not sure, it's definitely not a ghost like you that can only follow the pendant."

If Lapland had told Yabu from the beginning that he was not just an independent soul, but also had a pendant and notebook that came with him, instead of letting him gradually deepen his suspicions in conjunction with Yabu's words, Then what he will probably think of is a plot similar to the spirit behind the scenes. The most outrageous thing may be a death note, not something like a mimic insect.

When he was ready to make this kind of joke at the beginning, Lapland admitted that in addition to his distrust of strangers, there was also some revenge for being hit inexplicably.

But before you know it, the joke goes a little too far.

In fact, when the incident developed to the point where Lapland realized that Yao Bu was really willing to die, she already felt that the joke was a bit over the line, and she was not the kind of person with a bad personality. Knew I should stop.

But sometimes it's like this. When I'm joking with someone, I'm vaguely aware that this thing may be going in a bad direction, but I just don't want to stop.

It is similar to the principle of commitment consistency, because people usually tend to maintain consistency and hope that their words and deeds will match to avoid internal cognitive conflicts.

Now that he's done it to this extent, let's leave it at that. The worst thing he can do is let him curse a few words or get angry.

But Lapland, who originally wanted to laugh and tell the other party that she was just joking, the first thing she cared about when meeting Yao Bu was whether the price she had lied about to scare Yao Bu was real. After finding out that it was also a joke, she looked so relieved that she really couldn't laugh at all.

If it was just an apology at the beginning, then now it may be that I can't sleep at night. If I don't explain this clearly, I will wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling in a daze.

"Say, Lapland." Yabu called Lapland beside him. She seemed to be preparing to take Yabu somewhere, and she did not stop while explaining.

"Ok?"

"Didn't you say that in addition to the pendant, there is also a notebook? Can you show me the notebook?"

"That thing..." Lapland looked a little guilty as he put his hand on his pocket and touched it. After a moment of silence, he decided to tell the truth, "Because it fell suddenly. So I just hit it a little bit, and then..."

Probably because it was a little hard to say, Lapland did not continue talking, but took out a few larger pieces of crumbs as a display.

Since Yabu couldn't catch anything, Lapland handed the fragments to Yabu for him to see. Those who didn't know thought she was showing off to Yabu so that he could experience her masterpiece for himself.

"Can you see something?"

"This thing, how should I put it..."

Yabu, who was floating beside Lapland, followed the other party's movement. He leaned over and took a closer look at the fragments before expressing his opinion.

"Is this world the kind of setting where you need to piece together pieces to piece together a complete plot clue..."

On the larger pieces, Yabu could vaguely see some words like memory, pendant, what can't be cured, and soul light, but just these words could not tell the meaning at all, and this It was still a few relatively complete pieces that Lapland took out from the fragments of the book. You can imagine how the other parts were broken into.

"I will find a way to fix it." Lapland was not very good at saying sorry, but she still expressed her apology in her own way, "But I'm not sure how much it can be repaired after it's broken like this. But I’ll find a way.”

"It's okay, accidents are inevitable, just treat it as safe." Yabu was not in a hurry about repairing the notebook. Instead, he imitated what the old man would say when facing a child who broke something at home, and vice versa. It calmed Lapland's mood.

Besides, there's no point in being anxious. After all, this kind of thing cannot be done ideally. If you don't rush it, you won't be able to fix it early. It's just like throwing the dice and losing a big failure. It's better to think about what you can do next.

"Say, aibo, where are we going?"

"Going to the monument, I always feel that your name sounds familiar. Maybe I can find something there, and... aibo?" Lapland shook his ears curiously and turned his head to look at Ya. Bu, repeated the word in a questioning tone. Although she didn't understand it, her keen intuition still made her feel that it seemed to be a friendly word.

"It means partner and companion. In a work I have read, there is a soul and his host who call each other this way."

When I think about it this way, it seems to be quite right.

The inexplicable golden jewelry has a pattern with unknown meaning on it, and there is also a soul that resides in the jewelry that cannot leave, and that soul is still in a state of amnesia.

Although it is not a complete amnesia, nor does it forget its own name as a hidden skill, but overall the elements are quite complete.

"Partner?" Lapland seemed to have remembered something, and stopped in place with a serious expression. He held his chin and waist and looked at Yabu carefully, until Yabu felt a little uncomfortable being stared at. She shook her head with a look of embarrassment and said, "You are so weak. You can't help me. We two can't be partners."

"...Does communication between people have to be so utilitarian and cold?"

"But this is the truth, after all, you see." While speaking, Lapland directly passed his hand through Yabu's body, "You can't even touch anything."

"Although what you said is right, don't say it anymore. You have made me gradually realize that I am really useless..."

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Chapter 39 Let me see the last page of your space updates

When she heard the other party say her name, Lapland felt a little familiar, but due to some pronunciation problems, she did not immediately connect him with the name on the stone tablet.

But once you think about it carefully, you will find that there is a connection between the two that is difficult to ignore.

When you come to Chernobog, it's hard not to be curious to see the monument, and Lapland is no exception. When following Texas, she also took a look at it.

And as long as she had taken a closer look at the monument, it would be difficult for her to have no impression of the name Yabu.

This is not to say that Lapland has a superb memory and memorized all the names on the monument after taking a look at it, but that this name has a conspicuous and special position on the monument.

"Look at that, is it your name?" Lapland pointed at the name at the beginning of the monument and asked Yabu beside him.

"It seems..." Yabu broke off the ground and floated in front of the name. He looked at the name at the front with uncertainty. It looked out of place with the surroundings.

In addition to the different background colors, what's more important is that among the characters like Da Xiongzi's, the name was first written in characters that Yabu recognized, and then he added a bracket at the end and added what should be are local language characters.

As for the background color, the monument as a whole is a thick rectangular piece of pure white marble, with names densely engraved on both sides from top to bottom. They are arranged in alphabetical order and the length of the names, so even though it looks dense, it is But they remained as orderly as a queue.

There is only one place on this white monument that is extremely special and eye-catching, and that is before the many names arranged, there is a small square black area, where Yabu's name is written.

"After carving the name on the black marble in advance, I dug out an area of ​​the same size on the stone tablet and embedded the black marble inside. It can be pulled out at any time with some special tools. This was done because the name could not be confirmed. Whether the owner survived in the end, if he is found to be alive in the future, he can pull out the black one and refill it with the white marble that was dug out from above."

Since Yabu couldn't understand, Lapland had to act as a translator and reading machine. With the furry tail swinging back and forth, Lapland was very amused and used the tone of a tour guide to follow his hands. The travel guide bought from Zhongzhong gave Yabu an introduction about the monument.

"The name has also been engraved on the piece of white marble that was taken out before. It has been carefully preserved somewhere, quietly waiting for the day when it can see the light of day again..." Lapland Glancing at the soul floating beside him, after trying hard to be quiet for a moment, he couldn't hold back and said what he was thinking about now, "...It's quite a pity. It seems that they It’s no longer useful.”

She seemed to really feel pity, but she couldn't tell whether Lapland was pitying the design or pitying that the person was actually dead.

"Is this a joke from hell?" The corners of Yabu's mouth raised a little uncomfortably.

I don’t know if laughing at my own hell joke will not diminish my merits.

"And don't say it here, even if you say it, keep it in a low voice." Yabu looked around. Since it was getting late and there was no one around, Yabu breathed a sigh of relief and continued to talk to Lapland. He said, "Didn't you see me on the way here? Although I don't know what the principle is, others can't see me. You are just talking to yourself now."

Talking to himself in front of the monument is weird enough, but he also made some remarks that are easily misunderstood.

Even if Yabu didn't care what Lapland said, he might even find it a bit funny. After all, Lapland could see Yabu, so this sounded more like a statement of fact to him.But for people who can't see the cloth, if they hear Lapland say such words, it will feel like standing on someone else's grave, pointing at the bulging small grave bag and cursing that the person died without a whole body.

"I know, I can feel if there is anyone around me." Lapland pointed to his ear towards Yabu, and then waved his hand, indicating that he was not so stupid as to make remarks in public that might cause misunderstandings and be disrespectful. , "So, what should I say?"

"Huh? What?"

"Name, name, do you think of anything when you see this?"

"How can I put it...not at all."

When I first saw it, I had no other feeling other than a sense of surprise that my name appeared in the textbook. It didn't happen like in movies and TV shows, where you hold your head as soon as you see your name. Writhing on the ground in pain, and then flashing some clips whose meaning is still unclear to attract people's curiosity to continue watching.

In the final analysis, Yabu cannot even confirm 100% whether the name on this monument refers to himself. After all, there are such things as traveling to different worlds and becoming souls, and it cannot be ruled out that there are duplicate names or other categories. The plot happens, such as some allotropes.

Moreover, to save so many people, from the magnitude of the number and the good self-awareness of knowing how much he weighed, Yabu felt that it was not something he could do on his own, unless he was on his own side. In addition to himself, there are many other Gundam pilots, so maybe he can do it.