Connecting the heavens from the principle of the circle

"What do you mean a man? Does my gender surprise you?"

If the intruder's expression was just surprised when he saw Zhao Hun, then after hearing Zhao Hun's words, the intruder's expression could already be regarded as shock. That distorted to exaggerated expression made Zhao Hun I felt that even if I saw the pig talking one day, I would not be so shocked.

...What do you mean, does this guy think I am inferior to a pig?

Fortunately, thanks to his death, Zhao Hun's mood swings are relatively small now. Even if he feels offended by the other party's expression, he is not angry, but keenly aware of the meaning of the other party's reaction, and continues to ask questions.

"Looking at your reaction, you seem to think that I shouldn't be able to speak. You seem to be familiar with an existence like me? That's right, your soul state is very similar to mine. Compared to me, you should be regarded as a pioneer on this road."

The logical and well-organized words made the intruder's distorted expression even more weird. This kind of expression made Zhao Hun realize that although the souls of both parties had turned into gems, the other party's state was clearly different from his own. Not only is there no emotional scarcity like myself, but it seems that various emotions have been magnified instead.

After all, when a normal person is under siege, even if they are shocked when they see a pig speak the first sentence, that emotion should pass quickly, and when the pig speaks again, even if the pig still feels It's unbelievable, but he can react quickly and deal with the enemies around him as soon as possible.

But this intruder, she was shocked for a lot longer than ordinary people.

Zhao Hun raised his eyebrows, trying to control the group of little monsters in his mind, making them stop attacking and just surround the intruders.

The monsters born from Zhao Hun's soul and emotions really obeyed his order and stopped attacking.

After confirming his control over the monsters, Zhao Hun spoke again.

"It seems that you are not in a state of being able to communicate well now, so I will only ask one question first."

"Can we get along peacefully? It doesn't matter if it's only temporarily. I think we all have a lot of questions to ask each other, don't we?"

Hearing Zhao Hun speak for the third time, the intruder seemed to have finally adapted to the reality in front of her. She casually glanced at the monsters surrounding her, her expression became calm again to the point of indifference, and she nodded slightly.

Such a reaction made Zhao Hun frown slightly. From the other party's reaction, it was not difficult to see that she didn't pay attention to these monsters at all, even if she was surrounded, she didn't think that these monsters could hurt herself.

He silently increased the threat level of the other party in his heart, Zhao Hun dismissed the idea of ​​approaching the other party for a conversation, sat down on the spot with a smile, made himself and the other party's eyes level, and raised his hand to the other party in a friendly manner.

"As the beginning of a friendly exchange, you can start by asking questions."

The intruder was not polite and asked directly.

"What is 831 plus 375 times 472?"

Zhao Hun was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to throw such a question, but he immediately came to his senses and answered with a smile.

"The answer is 177831. Are you asking this to verify whether I really have logical thinking ability and some necessary common sense? Then you can ask some more difficult questions, or..."

Zhao Hun paused for a moment, looked at the opponent's body shape, and with a little teasing, smiled and said tentatively.

"Your real age is the same as this body, just a primary school student? So you don't know how to do math problems in junior high school?"

"Do your eyes need treatment? I'm already a junior high school student. I hope you don't get me wrong. I'm asking simple questions just to take care of your possibly fragile sanity."

The intruder replied to Zhao Hun with a cold expression. During the reincarnation, she was snarled by the incubator countless times. She had already cultivated her mentality, and she didn't care about this kind of ridicule that couldn't even cause damage.

What's more, people who really have no money will get angry when they are ridiculed for being poor. Multi-millionaires and billionaires will only think that the joke is not bad. She is all-round in sports and has excellent grades. No problem, Zhao Hun said that she only knew elementary school mathematics, so she just took it as a not-so-funny joke and didn't take it to heart at all.

Zhao Hun narrowed his eyes, and it was not difficult to see from the other party's reaction that the body used by the intruder did not seem to be a weapon specially customized for the soul, but her own body, and her age was indeed young.

Making a quick judgment in his heart, Zhao Hun quickly apologized with a smile.

"Sorry sorry, I was rude. But next, it's time for me to ask a question. What I want to ask is that you seem to be familiar with people in my state. Can you introduce me? As you can see , I just became like this, I didn’t even understand my own state, and I was confused.”

Zhao Hun's question is indeed a bit cautious, and I hope that the other party can answer the two questions of "why I shouldn't be a man" and "why I shouldn't be able to talk" at the same time when answering.

However, to Zhao Hun's surprise, he didn't know whether his showing of weakness was too successful, or the other party wanted to find someone to confide in. He just asked such a question, and the other party began to talk about setting him up.

Chapter 5 Homura Akatsuki Has Hope

After the intruder's narration, Zhao Hun finally got a general understanding of the current situation.

First of all, the intruder's name is Akami Homura, a genuine second-year junior high school girl who also serves as a magical girl.

However, this kind of magical girl is different from the magical girl that children see on TV, full of love and hope, and able to use all kinds of cute magic. They are some girls with the special talent of [cause and effect], who are coaxed by an alien creature called an incubator, and after signing a very bad contract, they are transformed.

Once you become a magical girl, your soul will condense into a soul gem, and your body will become a "soul gem carrier" that can be repaired infinitely, even if you cut off your head. This seems to be a good thing, and your survivability is greatly increased.

However, the worst thing is always but.

Intelligent life will produce various emotions, and negative emotions are equivalent to the filth of the soul. A normal soul can expel these filth by itself to maintain the health of the soul.

However, the soul gem condensed into a solid form loses this function. Once there is a mood swing, the filth will accumulate in the soul gem, and when the filth accumulates too much and the soul gem is completely filled, the soul of the magical girl will be To degenerate, to become a monster that has no reason and only knows how to scream and devour souls—the witch, and those alien creatures can collect a lot of energy they need in the process of degeneration.

The only way for magical girls to expel the filth of the soul gem is to hunt witches, obtain their solid soul "seed of lamentation", and use the seed of lament to suck out the filth from the soul gem.

However, the capacity of the Seed of Lamentation is limited, and one can only be used a few times before being filled up, and cannot be recycled.

Therefore, if a magical girl wants to survive, she must continue to hunt and kill witches, and hunting witches will inevitably consume magic power, and consuming magic power will also accumulate pollution, further accelerating the fall of magical girls.

In other words, in fact, all magical girls have already entered the countdown to death the moment their souls become gems, but the time is different for each.

From Zhao Hun's point of view, this kind of hopeless situation where we can only wait to die day after day is already hopeless enough. However, according to Xiao Meiyan, the real despair will not come until two weeks later.

"Night of the Witch", an extremely terrifying super witch who can completely ravage the surface of the earth in a short period of time, she will come in two weeks and completely wipe out all life on the surface.

Zhao Hun was not very nervous after hearing this doomsday forecast.

For one thing, he still didn't fully believe Xiao Meiyan, whom he met for the first time, but of course, he still believed part of it.

After all, when general religious groups or scam gangs preach the end of the world, in order to seek long-term benefits, they usually say the end of the world is far away, at least a few years later, but Xiao Meiyan said that the end of the world will happen in two weeks. Arrival, this is a time that is easy to verify, but it made Zhao Hun believe her a little bit.

Secondly, when Zhao Hun discovered that Xiao Meiyan was talking about Witch's Night, although he was serious, he was not afraid.No matter how you look at it, Xiao Meiyan doesn't seem to choose to lie down after knowing the end of the day, so her behavior is probably because she has some means of surviving the end of the day, which means that the end of the day is not completely impossible to deal with.

The most important thing is that Zhao Hun's verbal description of the end of the world doesn't sound real, and the impact on him is not as great as that witnessed by parasites and microorganisms before. It's hard to make him feel emotional now. .

"In other words, the reason why you are surprised that I am a man and retain my sanity is because my existence form is exactly the same as that of a witch?"

While thinking, Zhao Hun summed up Xiao Meiyan's words. When he was thinking, he didn't have the habit of touching his head or nose.

When he was alive, he had all kinds of addictions. Once he lost his mind, he still made subconscious movements, most of which were either lighting a cigarette or starting a drink, so when he was thinking, not only would he not take any action, but he would stand up like a primary school student in class. Standing straight, with his hands firmly placed on his thighs, he looked a little too serious.

However, Xiao Meiyan is very satisfied with Zhao Hun's seriousness. In the past reincarnation, she tried to tell Madoka and other magical girls the truth more than once, so as to unite everyone to deal with Witch Night. However, every time those people either didn't take her words seriously and didn't believe them at all, or collapsed directly after believing them, gave up on themselves, and even committed suicide, so that everyone ushered in the end of extinction in advance.

Now, although Xiao Meiyan hasn't gained any actual benefits from Zhao Hun, and hasn't seen the hope of breaking the cycle of reincarnation, Zhao Hun's reaction alone has made her feel much better.

"Yes, there is no doubt that you are an outlier among witches. Do you remember how you became like this?"

"Sorry, to be honest, I only remember that I was crushed to death by a billboard, and then my consciousness appeared in the seed of lamentation."

Zhao Hun still sat upright, and continued to speak with a somewhat stiff expression.

"I think my business may not be that important. Can you talk more about the end of the world, that is, the witch's night thing? I don't seem to be very nervous, that is to say, you at least have a way to save your own life, Right."

Xiao Meiyan was silent for a moment, then nodded.She didn't worry about Zhao Hun's evil intentions after knowing that she had the means to save her life. She had confidence in the power in her hands, not to mention that she had the ability of reincarnation, which gave her countless retreats, and she could afford the cost of trial and error. .

"That's right, I do have a way to save my life in Witch Night, but you can't be too selfish, right? If possible, I hope to save as many people as possible."

This is a lie.

Xiao Meiyan actually doesn't care about other people's life or death at all, she only cares about Madoka, as long as Madoka is fine, she doesn't care even if the world is destroyed.

However, in the past reincarnation, even if Akatsuki Homura kept preventing the incubator from signing a contract with Madoka in the two weeks before the advent of the witch's night, preventing Madoka from embarking on the doomed hopeless path of the magical girl. No way out, after the witch's night came, Madoka saw the city ravaged by the witch's night and the people whose souls were robbed, and in order to stop the witch's night, she chose to sign a contract with the incubator and become a magical girl.

Madoka is the girl with the best aptitude since the birth of human civilization. After she became a magical girl, she was indeed extremely powerful. She could eliminate Witch Night with just one blow, but after that, she would immediately degenerate into the strongest girl since the birth of human civilization. witch.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Xiao Meiyan.

So a long time ago, Xiao Meiyan determined that if she wanted to save Madoka, it was not enough to prevent her from becoming a magical girl and take her to escape. She had to save those who died because of Witch Night, at least Save those who died in front of Madoka.

This is an extremely difficult goal with almost no hope in sight, but Xiao Meiyan will not give up.

Moreover, now there are anomalies that may bring about a turning point.

Xiao Meiyan looked at Zhao Hun, with a flame-like heat hidden deep in her eyes.

ps: Speaking of which, you may not believe what happened to me today. Last night I was dragged by a fitness friend and held dumbbells for half an hour to do squats. I didn’t feel it last night. I woke up this morning. The muscles in the front of the two thighs were completely numb. After standing up, as long as the knees were slightly bent, they would immediately fall to their knees. At night, the two thighs felt a little bit sore, and they could use a little bit of strength. But still can't stand still.

It was a blast.

Chapter 6 Let love a little more~

Xiao Meiyan regards Zhao Hun as one of the hopes to break the cycle of reincarnation, but Zhao Hun doesn't know much about his current situation, only knows what kind of "witch" he seems to have become.

When he first heard the news, even though he had already died and turned into a soul, Zhao Hun didn't need to think about the issue of family succession, Zhao Hun still secretly clamped his thighs, and after confirming that his brother was still there, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, Akami Homura, I already understand the relationship between magical girls and witches. Then, apart from the fact that witches can devour human souls and build witch barriers, what else can you tell me about witches?"

"Well, in addition to these, the witch can also create familiars, which are the monsters around you. The familiar can protect the witch and become a new witch after certain conditions are met. I haven't studied this situation in depth before. , I don't quite understand the principle, other than that..."

Xiao Meiyan touched the small round shield in her hand and fell into deep thought. In the reincarnation, she had fought countless times with the witch. In her impression, the witch seemed to have only these abilities and nothing special.

and many more!

In terms of being special, is there any witch that is more special than Witch Night! ?

"I thought of it, devour or fuse! I remember the incubator said when he introduced the witch's night, that the witch's night is an aggregation of countless witches, and even her familiars are witches. In this way, the witch may They have the ability to fuse with other witches, but after they are born, witches usually stay in place and guard their barriers without moving, and it is difficult to meet each other, so I have never met a fused witch before."

As she spoke, Xiao Meiyan's speech gradually slowed down, and finally she bit her lower lip resentfully.

In the past, she has complained in her heart more than once, how come such a horrible thing as Witch's Night doesn't appear sooner or later, but it happens in this era, no matter how hard she tries every time, as soon as Witch's Night comes, Madoka will have to Sign a contract with the incubator and become a magical girl to fight.

Thinking about it now, monsters like Night of the Witches, which require the gathering of countless witches to form, are simply impossible to be born naturally. Only incubators who can recycle the seeds of lament that magical girls have used up have thousands of years of human civilization in their hands. Only the incubators of the Seed of Lament that come down can pile up a Witch's Night.

Or even more precisely, no one can make a witch's night except the incubator!

After thinking about it a bit, and then looking back, there are not too many doubts about Witch's Night. For example, Witch's Night is obviously a collection of witches who have fallen from the earth's magic girls, but every time she appears in reincarnation, she always It descended from the universe to the earth, as if it was deliberately air-dropped.

For another example, a normal witch has a witch enchantment around her. Whether it is killing or destroying in the enchantment, ordinary people outside the enchantment cannot see the scene, and when ordinary witches devour their souls, they will give Human beings planted imprints, allowing human beings to die quietly in their sleep.

But what about Witch's Night?She is completely different from ordinary witches. She has no enchantment, and she will not let ordinary people fall asleep. The damage she caused can be seen by everyone, and the people she kills will struggle and cry in pain before dying.

Isn't this just for the kind-hearted Madoka to force her to make a choice?

It's ridiculous that I believed the incubator's nonsense before [Witch's Night regards the whole universe as his own enchantment]. I think it's understandable that a monster like Witch's Night has a special enchantment!

Zhao Hun didn't know what Xiao Meiyan was thinking of, but seeing her gradually distorted expression, he coughed heavily.

"Xiao Meiyan! Pay attention to your emotions and see if the soul gem needs to be purified."

Awakened by Zhao Hun's voice, Xiao Meiyan realized that her emotions were out of control, and anger and hatred filled her heart, which would undoubtedly increase the filth in the soul gem rapidly.

Fortunately, the experience of reincarnation is not a decoration. After realizing this, she quickly adjusted her mood.

Of course, this kind of adjustment is not to completely calm herself down. After all, Xiao Meiyan is still an emotional girl. Even after going through reincarnation, she can't be completely rational. However, she has her own little trick, that is, her love for Madoka.

As long as she recalls the bits and pieces she used to be with Madoka, Homura's heart will soon be filled with deep love, leaving no room for negative emotions to survive.

With this trick, even in a battle where a lot of magic power is used, the growth rate of filth in Akatsuki Homura's soul gem will be very slow, which greatly reduces her dependence on the seed of lamentation. Undoubtedly a great advantage, and this advantage will only get stronger, because every time this method is used, her love for Madoka will become a little stronger.

Thanking Zhao Hun, Xiao Meiyan, whose heart was full of love again, quickly took out the seed of lamentation from the space of the shield, approached her soul gem, and sucked out all the filth that had just been added.

Seeing Xiao Meiyan take out the seed of lamentation, Zhao Hun suddenly had a strong impulse in his heart, urging him to snatch the black gemstone desperately.

However, Zhao Hun, who was plagued by various addictions during his lifetime, has long been used to restraining his impulses.And to be honest, Zhao Hun didn't know if it was his own illusion. He felt that this kind of soul impulse was far weaker than the impulse produced by the body's secretion of various hormones, and it was not difficult to suppress.

Zhao Hun waited patiently for Xiao Meiyan to finish dealing with the filth in the Soul Gem before speaking.

"Xiao Meiyan, the one in your hand is the seed of lament of a normal witch, can you let me see it?"

ps: Well, the comment area is back to normal, now you can’t deceive yourself and say [my book has no comments or complaints, it’s because of maintenance, not because it’s not interesting], try to update it

Chapter 7 Within the Seed of Lamentation

Xiao Meiyan didn't think there was anything wrong with Zhao Hun's request.

In fact, after realizing that Zhao Hun might have the ability to fuse with other witches, even if Zhao Hun didn't open his mouth, Xiao Meiyan would take the initiative to give him the seed of lamentation and let him try to see if he could swallow the seed of lamentation and become a witch. Become a monster at the same level as the Witch's Night, defeat the Witch's Night, and break the cycle.

For other magical girls, the seeds of lamentation are necessary to maintain the purity of the soul gem. The used up seeds of lamentation will also be handed over to the incubators around them for recycling. After Akami Homura recognized the true face of the group of alien creatures and their true purpose, she had already fallen out with the incubators.

Anyway, the space in her shield is almost infinite.

Xiaomei Homura has reincarnated thousands of times, and there is everything in the shield, stolen from the armory, including various weapons such as fuel tankers, fighter jets, and cruise missiles, daily necessities covering all aspects of life, and garbage that is too lazy to throw away , and even the corpses of incubators who were killed casually. After so long, there is no tendency to fill up.

Therefore, she naturally put the seed of lamentation, which is not easy to throw around, in the shield space.

Although it is not comparable to the stock of the seeds of lament accumulated by the incubator for thousands of years, but looking at the whole world, besides the incubator, Xiao Meiyan should be the largest holder of the seed of lament. You can take out hundreds or thousands of seeds of lamentation.

Therefore, giving a few seeds of lament was nothing to Xiao Meiyan, and she threw the black gemstone in her hand to Zhao Hun without paying attention at all.

With the seed of lamentation in hand, the impulse in Zhao Hun's heart became stronger, and the instinct of the soul seemed to be urging him to devour it quickly.

However, Zhao Hun still restrained this impulse very well. Xiao Meiyan said very clearly before that the witch is the fallen form of a human girl, so strictly speaking, the seed of lament is the human soul.

He doesn't want to devour human souls, so what's the difference between that and cannibalism?

It can't be said that becoming a witch is not considered human, right?If it is an analogy to zombie movies, if there is no risk of infection from eating zombie meat, can human survivors eat the meat of human-transformed zombies without any pressure?

impossible?