There was silence in Liudong Temple, with only the blood-red moonlight shining on the desolate courtyard filled with fallen leaves. The weeds on the ground were at least two feet high, and a broken bluestone slab of unknown age stood in front of the door, covered with moss and
Unknown vines.
The bleak cold wind blows from a gloomy corner, making people feel chilly all over. The wind seems to carry a low whisper, like the whispers of the undead in their dreams - well, this metaphor is well-founded. Last time I led the
Sylvanas traveled to Avalon, and she fell asleep in the Fairy Courtyard. While she was talking in her sleep, there were gusty winds within a radius of 20 meters around her.
Definitely off topic.
In short, the above scene is what we saw after pushing open the door of Ryudong Temple.
When we realized that the scene in Liudong Temple was so strange, especially the huge bloody moon hanging in the sky, Sandora and I exited the temple gate at the same time. As expected, the moment we left the gate, the surroundings were surrounded by
The scene has returned to normal. Not only has the moon in the sky returned to its brightness, but even looking inside through the temple gate, the vestibule is normal. In other words, this ancient temple is only abnormal 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 astonishment, his tone full of disbelief. He had been here several times. Although he was not familiar with every plant and tree in the courtyard, he
At least, he was certain that the real Liudong Temple should not look like this.
"The spatial coordinates are indeed Ryudong Temple."
Shandora's face was no longer as relaxed and cheerful as before, but had a hint of solemnity, "Vega, go out and watch that heroic spirit, don't let him run away."
"Yes, sir!" Sister Xiezi agreed loudly, and then walked out of 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 find out the situation."
"If a Liudong Temple with chaotic time and space can appear, then Sasaki can appear who can leave the mountain gate," Sandora's big bright sea-blue eyes looked at me from under her bangs, "Arjun, maybe we have begun to come into contact with the twisted world.
Partially."
After Vega disappeared from everyone's sight, Tohsaka and Emiya looked obviously relieved, and then four pairs of eyes that strongly demanded the truth turned towards them - including Saber and Red A,
They were all very concerned about Vega's appearance.
"That one just now is yours, right?" Tohsaka carefully considered his words, fearing that there was something rude in his words that would make the weird scorpion jealous in the future, "Well, are all the special races of Centauri like that?"
I scratched my hair and said, "It's my subordinate. That mechanical body is her combat attire, just like human armor. But for us, this kind of combat attire can be integrated with the body and even become the body."
It's another form, and although it looks quite fierce, the little scorpion is usually quite easy to talk to."
"I don't think so at all," Rin Tosaka curled her lips. She was still filled with psychological shadows just now when her head was hit by a powerful blood-colored crystal. "Hey, uncle alien, is that also from your photography group?
Or are you Centaurs sent to destroy the wild Ultraman who endangers interstellar security?"
I looked up to the sky and giggled, hahaha.
I'm sorry, I was wrong. Please don't keep mentioning that nonsense reason. Now every day in the entire Shadow City, several clubs have idle and boring meetings to discuss how their head of state originally came up with the idea of "photographers from Centauri".
Reasonable, this has almost become a daily routine in Shadow City!
"Let me think about it, that kind of heavy and rough landing cabin that looks full of military characteristics. Everyone except you occasionally shows the iron-blooded military temperament. Even this sister named Leizi's usual equipment is a saber and a pistol.
, and then there is the mechanical scorpion that appeared today, calling you and Sister Sandora, sir," Tohsaka said with an expression of "I know the truth" on his face, raised a finger and dangled it in the air, "Actually, you are here to invade the earth.
The forward officer of the alien force, right?"
"Stop making up your mind." I slapped Tosaka on the head conveniently, and then quickly retracted my hand: Oops, I'm used to hitting Lilina's unreliable pseudo-loli, but now I see that she's talking about cheating.
The little devil Tohsaka Rin subconsciously gave a hakugan.
Tohsaka looked at me stupidly. It was obvious that this kind of experience of being slapped by someone was quite rare for her. After rubbing her head, she suddenly lowered her head and whispered in an almost inaudible voice.
Said: "Since dad passed away, no one has been like this for a long time..."
Sandora came over and bit her ear: "Arjun, your nanny halo was activated by mistake."
Is it my fault that I have a daddy face with an affinity of 3000+? And Miss Tohsaka, as a physically and mentally healthy high school girl, don’t find the feeling of a father in my amiable older brother!
This small episode also temporarily diverted everyone's attention away from Vega. Although Tohsaka's words were quite sensational, we all know that it was just the girl using this topic to divert herself from the tension generated in this strange atmosphere.
It's just a feeling, everyone has their own secrets, especially the "interstellar friends from alien planets". On this issue, Tohsaka and the others have always maintained a silent understanding with us. Well, I think the more important thing is
The usual elegant performance of our group really makes people feel no sense of crisis.
"Is this the effect of magic? Or is Liudong Temple set up a barrier?"
After a few days of special devil training from Tohsaka, although there was no improvement in the level of magic, at least some theoretical knowledge could be understood a little bit. After Emiya experienced the initial shock, he quickly calmed down and began to try to learn from a mysterious perspective.
to explain the strange sight in front of me.
"I don't know." Tohsaka couldn't explain what was in front of him. "You won't gain anything by standing here. Don't separate. Start looking in the room on the left to see if anyone is there."
A solid plan. Before knowing the principle of this strange space, Tohsaka's proposal was obviously very wise. Everyone did not object and began to carefully search the ancient temple.
No one, nothing, nothing at all beyond our expectations.
Several doors were opened in succession, and they were all empty. Not only was there no one, it even looked like no one had lived there in the past few decades: the dark brown wooden floors were covered with black spots from disrepair and decay.
, the dark corners were covered with spider webs, and the messy furniture had been dumped on the ground due to partial decay. What could be seen from behind the cracked wooden boards were the withered pieces of paper and other debris that were almost broken into pieces. There were various stains on the walls.
Huge cracks about a finger wide were opened in several places. Bloody moonlight poured in from these cracks, casting strange shadows on the ground.
"Abnormal decay," a slight golden light floated in Sandora's eyes, "The molecular composition of every object shows a huge time gap. The history of that broom is millions of years, and ours
The floor under your feet appears to be in a newly born state, which means that time here is an illusion, and everything that decays has nothing to do with the passage of time. It seems that they have been decaying like this since they were born."
"But from a superficial analysis, this seems to be what Liudong Temple looked like about 80 to 100 years after it was completely abandoned," I added, while squatting down and picking up an iron nail. "There is no rust. The details are here."
There is a self-contradiction in it, and it is not a distorted space naturally produced by the world.”
"But what about the people here?!" Emiya was nervous about the 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 have just been replaced. At least that's what my experience tells me."
"If Sister Qianqian is here, maybe she can see the direction of time here?" Leizi came over with some fear, reaching out her hand to hold the hem of my clothes tightly, "Brother... I feel a little cold.
…”
"Hmph!" Pandora on the other side saw Leizi competing so blatantly for her brother, and immediately snorted in dissatisfaction, then decisively came up and squeezed between Leizi and me.
Okay, okay, this little girl is jealous.
"It doesn't make much sense to come here," Sandora shrugged at 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 extremely chaotic, and it would be quite easy for Qianqian to destroy this space... Arjun, have you noticed any abnormalities?"
I followed Sandora's gaze and found nothing but a spider web.
Tohsaka showed a slight curiosity about the word "Qianqian" we mentioned, but seeing that our topic did not extend to this, he focused his attention on Sandora's sight for a long time.
, she shook her head: "Isn't it just a spider web?"
But at this moment, I had vaguely thought of something. With Sandora's mind connected, I could easily guess even some things she didn't say. With an uncertain tone, I asked: "Spider?"
"
Yes, there are only spider webs here, but no spiders!
Tohsaka and Emiya were all frightened by the weird atmosphere we created. The former hugged his shoulders and shouted: "What riddles are you playing! It's just that you didn't see the spider! It's very strange that there are spider webs left but the spiders are gone."
Normal situation, right?”
Sandora shook her head and waved it 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 magical scene attracted attention, and everyone came together.
"This is my life-sensing radar. These little red dots are us. Then..." Sandora adjusted the scanning object and excluded a few of us from the scanning range. "Except for us, all wavelengths are
All life responses are silent, and the accuracy of this scan has been set to the life response of a single cell."
An absolute dead zone! In this "Liudong Temple", even single-cell life does not exist!
"But those leaves and grass outside..." Tohsaka was stunned by this sensational fact, but he immediately found a counterargument, but the next second, Viska ran into the yard and held up his hand
Two leaves of grass jumped in front of me.
As soon as the blades of grass were separated from the bloody moonlight outside the house, they dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a few seconds, they turned into gray-white ashes.
That's a fake.
"No matter what is going on in this space, we'd better leave now," Sandora raised her head and stared at the huge bloody moon through the broken tiles on the roof. "Our vitality has been assimilated by the death here.
Before!"
Emiya and others were eager to leave this strange space. They nodded immediately after hearing this, and I asked Sandora through the spiritual connection: "Do you know how this scene is formed?"
Sandora's knowledge has always been what I trust most, so now I have no doubt that she has seen similar scenes.
"Of course I know the reason for the formation of this kind of space," Sandora shook her head with a depressed expression, "but there are more than a hundred reasons, natural and man-made, and there are various situations. Before getting more information, I can't analyze anything.
.”
Um, is this a side effect of being too well-informed?
After locking the sniffing system of Avalon Death Garden to the coordinates of Ryudou Temple, we exited this alienated space together. Vega was waiting for everyone in front of the mountain gate, while Sasaki was tightly locked with energy shackles.
, was hung on the tip of the little scorpion's tail with his hands behind his back, and was helplessly rippling in the air as the latter turned around.
Scorpion's occasional bad jokes are so heart-wrenching.
Seeing Sasaki's current unlucky appearance and the strange image of a mechanical scorpion with a serious face but a person hanging from its tail, even Tohsaka momentarily forgot about the strange scene he had just seen in Ryudou Temple, covered his mouth and immediately threw himself into the air
He laughed, but Vega took two steps forward unconsciously and gave us a military salute.
"Hey! I said, even if you are the winner, humiliating prisoners of war like this is not what a samurai would do!"
Being hung high on the tail of a three-meter-high scorpion, Sasaki's tone was full of frustration. I held back my laughter and asked Vega to put him down, and then loosened the shackles that were actually completely unnecessary.
"Do you know what happened in Liudong Temple?"
"Inside that?" Sasaki turned his gaze to the temple gate behind him in surprise, "What happened there... Wait, has it been breached inside?!"
"Forget it, it seems you don't know."
Sasaki must not leave the steps and the mountain gate in front of Ryudouji Temple. It seems that this restriction is really severe. He can't even enter the courtyard. But now that he can stand here properly (except for the mental trauma), he feels a little strange.
None, which at least means that the person who summoned him is safe and sound. In other words, the real Ryudouji Temple was only replaced by that weird space rather than destroyed. Emiya can now feel completely at ease.
"Go back and have a good sleep. It's going to be a tough night tonight." After adding the continuous monitoring of the Liudong Temple space to Avalon's short-term mission, I stretched myself for a long time, and then I started synchronously.
Pandora yawned and nodded, each of them tapped their heads lightly and said, "Go back and sleep again."
If Xiaobupao, Pandora, Sandora, Leizi, four good babies who go to bed at midnight fall asleep together on the road, how can Sandora and I carry them back?
"Sir, do you want to take this prisoner away?"
Seeing that she was about to return, Vega immediately asked for instructions on how to deal with Sasaki. Her energy scanning radar had 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 the Law of Avalon.
.
"Forget it," I shook my head. I said before that capturing Sasaki alive was just to lure out his summoner, but now it seems that the secrets hidden in Liudong Temple are far more than just a long knife carrying psionic energy. This is a real
If the monk can run away, he can't run away from the temple, so it doesn't matter whether he takes the assassin with him or not. "Anyway, neither he nor the temple behind him can run away, and we will be back soon."
It needs to be mentioned here that on the way back, Viska and Little Bubble still fell asleep, so our dedicated Weijia had to act as a stroller and carry the two little girls all the way back. This scene was far away
Ban was amazed, and Vega successfully obtained the temporary buff of "Human Affinity +1"...
Since Emiya Residence is obviously no longer suitable for us to go back to our daily routine of having midnight barbecues, building a planetary habitat, and letting Sandra pick up steel bars and grind her teeth, temporarily staying at the Tohsaka house has become the only option. At this time, we can see that there is a certain poverty
The eldest lady is so sensitive to money issues that she actually gave each of us a list of ** bills in less than half an hour, and the items on it were so detailed that you wouldn't even need more than 20 lawyers to come over.
To the extent that I can afford to pay off the rent, I wanted to cry when I saw the "Comprehensive Valuation Act of Rent, Water, Electricity, Catering, Sightseeing, Entertainment and Study for Alien Uncle's Temporary Residence at Tohsaka's House, and Advance Payment for Tohsaka's Mental Damage" handed to me by Tohsaka.
Tears, I feel that the ancestors of the eldest lady with gray twintails in front of me may have been planning how to make a fortune from passing aliens in the 1970s and 1980s. The level of detail of this thing...
Are you sure this is really what you just thought of and prepared?
And it doesn’t matter if the name is detailed. I can accept the water, electricity, catering in this house, but what about the ridiculous sightseeing and entertainment? Are you really sure that we need these services when renting a house?
"This is the most important base camp for magicians," Miss Tohsaka said plausibly in the face of my confusion, "It is not a place that is open to ordinary people, and it is non-human beings like you. Don't you think you can visit another civilization?
Do I need to pay for the base?”
Since the opening of the infantry training ground in Shadow City, Thrall has not given me a penny for admission! Should I be inspired by this to go back and set up a card at the east entrance of Azeroth City to collect tolls?
"Then this study... okay, I think I understand, it is to learn the precious magical knowledge of mankind, right? Then where did you get the advance payment for mental damage? We pay such a high rent and you still suffer mental damage? And it seems like this
The entry is only on my quotation, right?”
Hearing this, Tohsaka glanced sideways at me first, and then said in a faint tone: "As a young girl in her prime, it is very risky to let an adult man live in her home rashly. Isn't it right to collect the money before you attack me at night?
"
That's right, your sister! Were you an unruly Hongbai in your last life?
"I'm going out to live in a tent!" I angrily threw down the stack of quotations that made my whole body hurt, and I turned and walked out the door.
"Hey, don't do it!" Tohsaka quickly stopped me, then grabbed the account book and crossed out the nonsense advance payment for mental damages, "I still expect you to help pay for this month's utility bills... Why are you so stingy?
Isn’t it easy to obtain 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 we have led such a good young lady to this?