In Liudong Temple, there is silence, only the blood-red moonlight shines on the desolate courtyard full of fallen leaves, the weeds on the ground are at least two feet high, and the broken bluestone slabs that have been around for many years block the door, covered with moss and unknown vine.
The bleak cold wind blows from a gloomy corner, making people feel chilly all over. The sound of the wind seems to carry a low whisper, like whispers in the sleep of the dead—well, this metaphor is well-founded. Erwanas traveled to Avalon, and she fell asleep in the fairy garden. When she was talking in her sleep, there was a 20-meter radius around her, and the wind was blowing.
Decisively digressed.
In short, the above scene is what we saw after opening the gate of Liudong Temple.
When we realized that the scene in Liudong Temple was so strange, especially when there was a huge bloody moon hanging in the sky, Sandora and I exited the gate of the temple at the same time, and the result was completely as expected. The scenery returned to normal, not only the moon in the sky restored its brightness, but even looking inside through the gate of the temple, the vestibule was normal, that is to say, this ancient temple is abnormal only in the eyes of those who enter it of.
"This is... Liudong Temple?" Wei Gong looked at the strange scene in front of him in amazement, and his tone was full of disbelief. He has been here several times, although he is not familiar with every plant and tree in the courtyard, but at least , he was sure that the real Liudong Temple should not look like this.
"The spatial coordinates are indeed Liudong Temple."
Sandora's face was no longer as relaxed and happy as before, but with a trace of dignity, "Vega, go out and watch that heroic spirit, don't let him run away."
"Yes, sir" Sister Scorpion agreed loudly, and then walked away from the weird temple vestibule.
"Is it necessary?" I asked in a low voice, "Sasaki cannot leave the mountain gate, we can go back to him at any time to understand the situation."
"If there is a time-space-distorted Liudong Temple, there will be a Sasaki who can leave the mountain gate," Sandora looked at me from under her bangs with bright sea blue eyes, "Ah Jun, maybe we have already begun to contact the distorted world. part."
After Weijia disappeared from everyone's sight, Tohsaka and Emiya showed an obviously relieved look, and then four pairs of eyes that strongly sought the truth shot over - including ber and red A, they Everyone is quite concerned about Vega's appearance.
"The one just now, is it yours?" Tohsaka carefully considered his words, for fear that there was a disrespect in his words that would make the weird scorpion jealous in the future, "Uh, are all the special races of centaurs like that?"
I scratched my hair: "It's my subordinate, the mechanical body is her combat attire, just like human armor, but for us, this combat attire can be integrated with the body, and even become the body Another form, and, even though it looks fierce, the little scorpion is usually quite easy to talk to."
"I don't think so at all," Rin Tohsaka curled her lips, she was still full of psychological shadows because of a blood-colored crystal with surging energy on her head just now, "Hey, Uncle Alien, that is also from your photography group? Or were you Centaur sent to destroy the wild Ultraman that endangered the safety of the interstellar?"
I looked up to the sky and smirked, hahaha.
I'm sorry I was wrong, don't continue to mention that nonsense reason, now in the entire Shadow City, there are several associations meeting every day to discuss how their heads of state thought of "photographers from Centaur" in the first place. Reason, this is almost becoming a daily routine in Shadow City
"Let's think about it, that kind of heavy and rough landing pod that looks full of military characteristics, everyone except you occasionally exudes the iron-blooded soldier temperament, and even this sister named Saiko is usually equipped with sabers and pistols , and then there is this mechanical scorpion that appeared today calling you and Sister Sandora sir, "Tohsaka looked like I knew the truth, and raised a finger dangling in the air, "Actually, you are here to invade the earth The vanguard of the alien force, right?"
"Don't make up your mind." I slapped Tohsaka's head, and then quickly withdrew my hand: Oops, I'm used to the unreliable pseudo-loli who usually beats Lilina, but now I see the one who is full of mouths and runs the train The little devil Tohsaka Rin subconsciously gave a chestnut.
Tohsaka looked at me stupidly. Obviously, this kind of experience of being slapped by someone is quite rare for her. After rubbing her head, she suddenly lowered her head and whispered in an almost inaudible voice. Said: "It's been a long time since Dad passed away, no one has been like this..."
Sandora leaned over and bit her ear: "Ah Jun, your dad halo has been activated by mistake."
Is it my fault that I have a dad face with an affinity of 3000+? And Ms. Tohsaka, as a high school girl with a healthy body and mind, don't you feel like a father in my amiable big brother.
The small episode also diverted everyone's attention away from Vega temporarily. Although Tohsaka's words were sensational, we all knew that it was just the girl using this topic to divert her tension in this weird atmosphere. People have their own secrets, especially for "interstellar friends from alien planets". On this issue, Tohsaka and the others have always maintained a silent understanding with us. Well, in addition, I think the more important thing is The usual elegant performance of our group is too intimidating.
"Is this the effect of magic? Or was there an enchantment set up in Liudong Temple?"
After going through Tohsaka's special training for the devil for a few days, although the level of magic has not improved much, at least some theoretical knowledge can be understood a little bit. To explain the strange scene in front of you.
"I don't know," Tohsaka couldn't explain everything in front of him, "Standing here foolishly won't yield anything. Don't separate, and start looking in the room on the left to see if anyone is there."
A safe plan. Before knowing the principle of this weird space, Tohsaka's proposal was obviously very wise. Everyone did not object and began to search the ancient temple cautiously.
No one, nothing, not at all what we expected.
After pushing open several doors in a row, the inside was empty, not only was there no one there, it even looked like no one had lived there in the past few decades: the dark brown wooden floor was full of black spots that had been left in disrepair , the dark corners are covered with cobwebs, the messy furniture is dumped on the ground due to partial decay, what can be seen from behind the cracked wooden boards are the withered yellow papers and other sundries that have almost shredded inside, and there are various pieces of furniture on the walls. Huge cracks about one finger wide were cracked in a few places, and the blood-colored moonlight poured in from these cracks, casting strange shadows on the ground.
"Abnormal decay," Sandora said with a slight golden light floating in her eyes, "The molecular composition of every object presents a time gap with a huge span. That broom has a history of millions of years, and ours The floor under the feet is just born, that is to say, the time here is an illusion, everything that decays has nothing to do with the passage of time, they seem to have decayed like this since birth."
"But on a superficial analysis, it seems that this is what Liudong Temple looked like about 80 to 100 years after it was completely abandoned," I added, and at the same time I squatted down and picked up an iron nail. "There is no rust, here are the details. There are self-contradictions in the world, not the distorted space naturally produced by the world."
"But what about the people here?" Emiya was nervous about ordinary people living in Liudong Temple, "Those monks, and..."
Sandora glanced at the other party: "It's not that bad, the real Liudong Temple should just be replaced, at least that's what my experience tells me."
"If Sister Qianqian is here, maybe she can see the direction of time here?" Renzi leaned over with some fear, while reaching out her hand to hold the hem of my clothes tightly, "Brother... I feel a little cold... "
"Huh..." Pandora on the other side saw that Saten was so blatantly robbing her brother, she immediately snorted in dissatisfaction, and then resolutely came up and squeezed between me and Saten.
Okay, okay, this little girl is jealous.
"It doesn't make much sense from a shallow perspective," Sandora shrugged to Pandora, who had been completely trained into another creature, and then turned her face to the corner of the roof, "What she can see and control is tangible time, But the time in this place is obviously abnormally chaotic, it is quite easy for Qianqian to destroy this space... Ah Jun, have you noticed the abnormality?"
I followed Sandora's gaze and found nothing but a spider web.
Tohsaka showed a little curiosity about the word "Qianqian" we mentioned, but seeing that our topic did not extend to this, he then focused on Sandora's sight, and it took a long time , she shook her head: "Isn't it just a spider web?"
But at this moment, I have vaguely thought of something. When I have a spiritual connection with Sandora, I can easily guess even some things she didn't say. With an uncertain tone, I asked: "Spider? "
Yes, there are only cobwebs, but no spiders
Tohsaka and Emiya were terrified by the weird atmosphere we created. The former hugged his shoulders and shouted: "What kind of charades are you playing? Didn't you see the spider? It's normal that there are spider webs left but the spider is gone. situation?"
Sandora shook her head, and at the same time waved her hand casually in the air. Immediately, a spherical light blue translucent projection appeared in front of our eyes. What appeared on the projection was part of the scene of Liudong Temple. Tohsaka and the others were immediately attracted by this The miraculous scene attracted attention, and they came together together.
"This is my life-sensing radar, and these red dots are us, and then..." Sandora adjusted the scanning object, excluding us from the scanning range, "Besides us, all the wavelengths of life The reaction is all silent, and the accuracy of this scan has been set by me to the life response of a single cell."
In the "Ryudong Temple" of the absolute dead zone, even single-cell life does not exist
"But those leaves and weeds outside..." Tohsaka was stunned by this sensational fact, but he immediately found a point of refutation, but the next second, Viska ran to the yard with a thump, and then held two A blade of grass jumped in front of me.
As soon as the blade of grass escaped from the bloody moonlight outside the house, it dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a few seconds, it turned into gray-white ashes.
That's fake.
"No matter what's going on in this space, we'd better leave now," Sandora raised her head, staring at the huge blood-colored moon through the gaps in the broken tiles on the roof, "when our vitality is assimilated by the death here Before"
Emiya and the others were already eager to leave this weird space, and nodded immediately when they heard the words, while I asked Sandora through a spiritual connection: "Do you know how this scene is formed?"
I have always trusted Sandora's knowledge and knowledge, so now I have no doubt that she has seen similar scenes.
"Of course I know the reason for the formation of this space," Sandora shook her head with a depressed expression, "but there are no fewer than a hundred reasons, including natural and man-made situations, and I can't analyze anything until I get more information .”
Um, is this a side effect of being too informed
After locking the sniffing system of Avalon's death garden to the coordinates of Liudong Temple, we exited this alienated space together. Vega was waiting for everyone in front of the mountain gate, while Sasaki was tightly chained by energy shackles. , was hung on the tip of the little scorpion's tail with his hands behind his back, and waved helplessly in the air as the latter turned around.
Scorpion's occasional mischievousness is really too cold to sweat.
Seeing Sasaki's current unlucky appearance and the weird image of the mechanical scorpion with a serious face but a person hanging from its tail, even Tohsaka forgot for a moment the weird scene he saw in Liudong Temple just now, covered his mouth and immediately groaned Laughed out, and Vega still unconsciously took two steps forward and gave us a military salute.
"Hey, even if you are the victor, it is not the samurai's job to humiliate the prisoners like this."
Being hung high on the three-meter-high scorpion tail, Sasaki's tone was full of aggrievedness. I held back a smile and asked Vega to put him down, and then loosened those shackles that were actually unnecessary.
"Do you know what happened in Liudong Temple?"
"In there?" Sasaki turned his eyes to the gate of the temple behind him in surprise, "What happened there... Wait, has the inside been breached?"
"Forget it, it seems that you don't know."
Sasaki absolutely cannot leave the steps and gates in front of Liudong Temple. It seems that this restriction is really deadly, and he can't even enter the courtyard, but now he can stand here (except for the trauma in the soul), and it feels a little strange None, this at least shows that the person who summoned him is safe and sound, that is to say, the real Liudong Temple was just replaced by that weird space instead of being destroyed, Wei Gong can feel completely at ease now.
"Go back and get a good night's sleep. Tonight is really a tossing." After including the continuous monitoring of the space of Liudong Temple in the short-term task of Avalon, I stretched for a long time, and then after I had already synchronized Yawning Pandora and the others tapped lightly on their heads, "Go back to sleep."
Little Bubbles, Pandora, Sandora, Sagittarius, four good babies who go to bed at midnight, if you fall asleep together on the road, how can you make me and Sandora go back
"Sir, take this prisoner?"
Seeing that she was about to return, Vega immediately asked for instructions on how to deal with Sasaki. Her energy scanning radar had already discovered the dependence between this heroic spirit and the nearby space. If she wanted to take Sasaki away, she would have to apply for the support of Avalon’s law. .
"Forget it," I shook my head. I said that capturing Sasaki alive was just to lure his summoner, but now it seems that the secret hidden in Liudong Temple is far more than a long knife carrying psionic energy. The monk can’t run away from the temple, and it’s meaningless to take it away, “Anyway, he and the temple behind him can’t run away, and we will come back soon.”
It needs to be mentioned here that on the way back, Viska and Little Bubbles still fell asleep, so our dedicated Wei Jia had to act as a baby car and carried the two little girls all the way back. This scene was far away. Saka was amazed that Vega had successfully obtained the temporary buff of "Human Affinity +1"...
Since Emiya’s house is obviously not suitable for us to go back and continue to engage in midnight barbecues, build a planetary habitat, let Sandora pick up steel bars and grind her teeth, the only choice is to live temporarily at Tohsaka’s house. At this time, we can see that a certain poverty The eldest lady is so sensitive to money issues, she actually listed out separate bills for each of us in less than half an hour, and the names on the above are so detailed that you may not be able to find more than 20 lawyers to come over. Seeing the extent to which the rent was lost, I wanted to cry without tears when I saw the "Alien Uncle Temporarily Living at Tohsaka's House Rent, Water, Electricity, Catering, Sightseeing, Entertainment and Learning, and Tohsaka's Mental Loss Advance Payment Bill" handed to me. I feel that the ancestors of the lady with gray double ponytails in front of me may have been planning how to get a good fortune from passing aliens since the 1970s and 1980s. The level of detail of this thing... you confirm Is this really something you just came up with and prepared for
And it doesn't matter if the name is detailed, I can accept the water, electricity and catering of this house, but what is the stupid sightseeing and entertainment? Are you really sure that we still need these services to rent a house
"This is the most important base camp for magicians," Miss Tohsaka said plausibly in the face of my confusion, "It's a place that is not open to ordinary people casually, and it's a non-human creature like you. Don't you feel like visiting another civilization? Does the base need to pay?"
The infantry training ground in my shadow city has been open until now, but Thrall has not given a single penny of tickets. Should I be inspired by this to go back and set up a card at the east entrance of Azeroth city to collect travel expenses
"Then this study... well, I think I get it, it is to learn the precious magical knowledge of human beings, right? Then where did you get the advance payment for mental damage? We pay such a high rent and you still have mental damage? And it seems that this entry Only on my quotation, right?"
Tohsaka first gave me a sideways glance, and then said in a low tone, "As a young girl in her prime, it's very risky to let an adult man live in her home rashly, it's right to collect money before you attack me at night, right? "
That's right, your sister, were you unscrupulous red and white in your previous life
"I'm going out to live in a tent" angrily threw down the pile of quotations that made my body hurt, and I turned my head and walked out the door.
"Hey don't" Tohsaka hurriedly stopped me, then grabbed the account book and quickly crossed out the nonsense advance payment for mental damage, "I still expect you to help with this month's utility bills... why are you so stingy? Isn't it easy to get human currency with your skills?"
In other words, because it is stolen money, there is no need to worry about plundering it. It has only been a few days, and the good lady was brought into this by us? A