The moment they passed through the border gate, all the pictures and lights in the field of vision began to distort, showing a gray color. Everyone seemed to be in deep water and had lost all sense of gravity and direction, but there was a heavy weight on their shoulders.
It's like a pair of hands is holding me down so tightly that I can't move.
Dong dong dong—!
Dong dong dong dong—!
Higashinohara, who controls the "Nine Eyes and Six Paths" senses far beyond those of ordinary people, could very clearly hear the accelerated heartbeats of the other eight people in the group with him, and some of them were constantly taking deep breaths to try to stabilize the accelerated heartbeats.
Obviously, even though the Seven-Star Hunters of "The Scarlet Dawn" are experienced in many battles, they are suddenly sent to a completely unfamiliar world called "Hell". No matter how calm they appear on the surface, they are still nervous inside.
Still can't be concealed.
In contrast, only Kimura Hakutaku, who was standing at the front with his back to everyone, had a very slow heartbeat.
He was the first person to step into the boundary gate above the sky, but judging from his motionless back and steady breathing rate, there was no nervousness at all.
Higashinohara wasn't nervous either, because he knew exactly where the "hell" they were heading to was. Without the sense of unknown and uncertainty, it would be difficult to be nervous.
But this man in front of me.
Is he also "familiar" with that place?
At this time, a man in the nine-man team, who was wearing standard Saint-Malo Empire clothing and looked a bit like an English gentleman in his previous life, suddenly took the hands of the nervous-looking woman with a pink peacock feather mask and put them into his black
In the pocket of the woolen coat, he said softly:
"Don't be nervous, I'm right by your side. Think of it like when we were performing underwater missions at Shangjing Port. You can treat this like a dive. You will see a whole new world soon."
The woman subconsciously held the man's hand, her breathing suddenly became much calmer, and the tension in her heart seemed to be relieved a lot at this moment.
Are they a couple?
Seeing this, Higashinohara felt thoughtful.
But unexpectedly, at this moment, a sneer suddenly came from the air around him.
The voice was very soft, and the people around him seemed to be minding their own business without even turning their heads.
Higashinohara also didn't turn his head, but he still recognized that the voice was the woman he met when he arrived at Sky Tree East Plaza this afternoon and took the initiative to greet him named "Theresa". She was wearing a sea-blue peacock feather mask.
, she seemed to be disdainful of this scene at this moment.
The woman wearing a pink peacock feather mask froze slightly when she was grabbed by the hand. Then she, who was a little nervous about the unknown before, seemed to have overcome this nervousness in an instant, and immediately straightened her body not to be outdone, and remained calm.
He glanced sideways at the other party and said nothing.
Higashinohara's eyes suddenly twitched.
What plot unfolds here?
The man dressed as a gentleman seemed a little embarrassed. He rubbed his nose and put his hands back in his pockets. After looking around, his eyes fell on Higashinohara.
He was not surprised by the white-fanged mask on Higashinohara's face, and nodded with a gentleman's smile.
Higashinohara did not respond.
But in my heart, I forgot to take a look at the man's back.
His position was completely in the blind spot of that gentleman man's field of vision. Even if he felt sorry for smiling at the people around him, there was no reason to smile at Higashinohara first.
When this happens, there is only one truth, and that is that the man in front of you may have mastered the ability of eye magic, otherwise there is no reason to see him at a glance.
That's what Higashinohara was thinking in his mind
Suddenly, the ubiquitous gray color in the field of vision peeled off and faded like a large area of tide. At the same time, once again down to earth, the scene that appeared in front of them made everyone's expressions slightly startled!
It was a bloody sky.
The dusk was like blood, and the edge of the sky as far as the eye could see seemed to be on fire, and further away was the boundless darkness rolling in like a black tide.
Just under the dividing line between blood red and dark light and shadow, a tall tower that does not belong to the sky tree in everyone's eyes stands diagonally between the sky and the sky. The countless mottled marks on the tower silently describe the experience of this tower.
How many desolate years.
However, at this moment, what really shocked everyone who entered this world was.
Just hundreds of meters above the sloping tower, at the junction of the twilight light and the darkness in the distance, the young man who had looked at each other across the boundary line stood quietly alone in the bloody light.
The dividing point with darkness.
The young man's empty and lonely gaze passed through them, and went straight to the unclosed border gate behind them without blinking, making the scene before everyone's eyes filled with an indescribable sense of weirdness.
What situation is this?
Who is that guy?
Just when these confusions were involuntarily emerging in everyone's mind, the figure of the young man on the tower suddenly disappeared like a nightmare, and everything in front of them seemed to be an illusion.
But a collective hallucination occurred.
Maybe it's barely acceptable.
But after they stepped through the door, they had another collective hallucination in this strange and strange world, which was a bit unacceptable.
"Wait! What is that?"
Suddenly, someone pointed upward and exclaimed.
After coming to this world, Kimura Hakuto, who had never raised his head to glance at the boy from beginning to end, couldn't help but slightly raise his head when he heard the voices of others.
In the field of vision divided by the broken hair on his forehead, under the blood-like sky, he could see a black spot rapidly enlarging in his field of vision.
At this moment, others also realized that something was wrong.
That's not a black point.
It was clearly a man who fell from the tower!
Before anyone could react, the body crashed to the ground not far in front of everyone, splattering a large pool of scarlet blood like a smashed watermelon.
And under this high impact force, the ground quickly cracked into spider web-like irregular patterns in all directions at a speed that was as fast as the naked eye!
I have to say that this sudden scene completely exceeded everyone’s expectations!
Everyone looked at the mud-like corpse on the ground with a slightly awe-struck expression. Smelly and rotten blood was slowly leaking out in all directions. It didn't look like they had just died today.
"Eh? These clothes look familiar."
"It's the clothes of the West Sea Black Snake Pirates, with their logo on the back."
"I seem to have met people from the Black Snake Pirates in New Tokyo. They said that their leader entered the Border Gate a week ago, looking for treasures that can lead them to dominate the West Sea and become the new generation of 'Four Kings'. Could it be that
explain"
"He must be right."
"But who was that young man just now?"
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Hearing the whispers around him, Higashinohara's expression became serious.
From this body that fell to the ground and turned into mud, he not only saw "death", but also read a hint of "warning" from "death".
The boy was warning them.
The moment he realized this, Higashinohara immediately looked around.
Many hunters around also understood the meaning of the other party's "meeting gift", and their expressions became a little solemn for a while - the leader of the West Sea Black Pirates is just as powerful as most of the people here.
If the other party is not even a rival, then dealing with them will be even easier.
Higashinohara's gaze swept across the crowd, and when he looked back, he lowered his eyelids slightly.
At this moment, he could almost see everyone's reaction.
But I don’t know if it’s an illusion,
However, Higashinohara clearly saw a hint of displeasure in Kimura Hakutaku's eyes.
Yes, not serious.
It's displeasure.
Just like that young man, he shouldn't be like this, but he happened to be like that.
So inexplicably, a thought came to Higashinohara's mind, does this guy know the unknown boy on the Pearl Tower?
But how is this possible?
It must be the first time that the other party has stepped into this world. He was not among the group of people who joined the Judgment Division when the border gate was opened last time.
etc.
Is there another possibility?
That was the last time Higashinohara thought the border gate was opened "for the first time" and he stepped into this world.
In fact,
It's not really a "first time".
Just like many things in this world, due to the inevitable information gap, what you think is the first time may have been done countless times to others.
"Okay, we've arrived."
At this time, Kimura Hakutaku, the leader of this exploration operation who had been silent, suddenly clapped his hands and put a gentle smile on his face again.
Only then did everyone recover from the greeting they encountered when they first entered the door, but they were shocked to find that the hell in their depths also rose up in the gray sky after dusk gradually fell.
The moon behind the clouds.
Everyone turned around and looked around. Under the night, the high-rise buildings all around were almost entirely covered with green moss, like beasts in armor in the night. They stood darkly in the night, silently exuding a somewhat terrifying aura.
And all the dilapidated and desolate things in front of them are like the world they will live in countless years from now.
This is it.
The so-called lost world of hell?
And not far in front of them was a tower that was no less majestic and slanting than the New Tokyo Sky Tree. When they focused their eyes and stared at it, it exuded an aura that made people tremble in their souls.
"It may not be safe here at night."
Kimura Hakutaku said softly, "So, for the sake of our exploration mission tomorrow, please follow me closely. Let's get out of here now."
Having said this, Kimura Hakutaku glanced deeply at the Pearl Tower diagonally inserted into the sky, then turned his head and smiled at Higashinohara, who was wearing a Shiroyasha mask, and turned around to meet him at the "Border Gate" in the afternoon.
"The sky tree on the other end is always the first to take the lead and walk towards the night.
A fog began to fall in the night at some point, and after a while, Kimura Hakutaku's tall body disappeared into the night.
Except for Higashinohara, among the many hunters in [Breaking of Dawn] this time, no one else knew anything about this place called "Hell", so they quickly followed after seeing this.
Higashinohara turned his head and looked at the Pearl Tower, which was half obscured by the heavy fog at night. It looked like a tall tower standing in the black tide.
Although he couldn't see anything, he felt inexplicably that a pair of eyes were watching them from a distance at this moment.
He knew very well what this so-called hell world looked like countless years ago, and he knew even more clearly that the boy in the school uniform with the three-stripe armband on his arm was not a member of a "mysterious organization", but why did he appear in the third place of the Pearl Tower?
The area where level blue high-risk strange monsters are located?
If the rules of Pujiang Community are universal, then each area where strange monsters are located will have a presence similar to a "territory commander", and other low-level "unconscious" strange monsters will gather together.
Does this mean that that boy is the "territory commander" of the third-level blue high-risk area of Pearl Tower, just like Ling Wei of Pujiang Community?
By the way, thinking of Ling Wei, Higashinohara couldn't help but be slightly startled.
When he lost to Ling Wei, at the critical moment, he revealed the location of her husband who had gone out to seek medical treatment many years ago to disturb his mind.
After a successful attack, the opponent leaves without a fight.
I don’t know if she has found her husband now.
But even if he is found, judging from the description in Ma Baoli's diary, Ling Wei's husband seems to have turned into a low-level "unconscious" monster who only has the instinct to kneel and kowtow when he sees a white coat.
Higashinohara shook his head, not thinking too much about it, pulled up the collar of the windproof jacket issued by the Third Investigation Team, and followed him quickly.
The moon outside the window is very pale.
The world was gray.
The camp where Higashinohara and others are stationed tonight is the campus of a private elementary school called "Happiness Elementary School". The location was chosen by Kimura Hakutaku. It didn't seem to be a temporary choice. It felt like he had the answer in his mind before coming.
.
We found a dilapidated classroom near the playground, and a group of ten people stationed themselves in the open space outside the door.
Higashinohara remembered such elementary schools in his mind. In his previous life, private elementary schools like "Happiness Elementary School" were also called "Schools for Children of Migrant Workers". They were usually located in suburbs or urban-rural fringes, as well as in migrant population gathering areas with low rents.
, the main student source of the school is the children of migrant workers, and the source of teachers is relatively mixed.
What is a bit strange is that although they live under the same sky and in the same city, the children of migrant workers' schools like "Happiness Primary School" and the children of other schools have different colors.
Higashinohara put his hands behind his head. He was on duty in the latter part of the night tonight. His thoughts were a little complicated at the moment. He didn't know if there were any strange monsters in this elementary school.
If any,
Those strange monsters are probably just children.
Even if they can no longer be called human beings today, several years later, if they retain the appearance of children, Higashinohara doesn't know if he can simply harvest them as ability fragments and power points like he did in Pujiang Community last time.
I don't know if Hakutaku Kimura chose this place intentionally or not. Before Higashinohara lay down tonight, he clearly had no intention of sleeping.
But in the dead of night, unknowingly, his eyelids fell down bit by bit.
I don't know how long it took.
Higashinohara tried to open his eyes, but there was darkness between heaven and earth. Suddenly there was a knock on the door in his mind, followed by the voice of a middle-aged woman.
"Huaihuai, get up and get ready to eat."
"This kid stays in bed every day. I really don't know what to say about him." Another middle-aged man's voice sounded outside the door.
Feeling pregnant?
Higashinohara's consciousness seemed to be twisted and knotted.
Yes, my name is Jiang Huai.
A year ago, an accident caused irreparable damage to my eyes.
I'm blind.
My parents decided to move, to a place that combines urban and suburban areas in Jianghai. When I was about to graduate, I entered a primary school for the children of migrant workers called "Happiness Primary School".
For a moment, I felt that my life and my eyesight were completely plunged into darkness.
But just this morning, I found that I could incredibly see a faint light, and then everything in front of me became clear.
I have regained my sight!
I couldn't help but want to tell my parents the good news, and then we would move back to the old house and go back to the old school. I really had enough of this shabby place.
However, at this moment, the mobile phone placed on the desk made a "buzzing" vibration. I picked up the phone and found that it was a text message from an unknown number.
The content of the text message is very concise.
"Don't tell them you can see.
Definitely!"
I was a little surprised, a little confused, and almost subconsciously, I realized that the "they" in this text message referred to my parents.
But
Why?
Dong dong dong—!
There was another knock on the bedroom door.
The mother's kind voice sounded from behind the door, "Huaihuai, get up and eat to get ready for school. Mom made her favorite food today."
"Here we come." The moment I ran over and opened the door, my eyes suddenly shrank.
Standing outside the door was a woman with a face as pale as paper, her lips were dry and bloodless, and the large whites of her eyes occupied only the tiny black dots in the middle. She had no resemblance to the gentle mother in my impression.
At this moment, with a weird smile on her stiff and dry face, she said in a voice that was no different from my mother's:
"You kid, go wash up and get ready to eat. Walk carefully. Mom has already prepared toothpaste and towels for you."
At this time, my father, who was sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, also turned his head and looked at me.
My scalp suddenly felt numb like an electric shock, and I took a step back in horror, as if my whole body had been struck by lightning!
What kind of face is that?
It was pale and rotten like a walking corpse. There was almost no piece of finished flesh on the face. It seemed that the skeleton inside could be seen. There was a strange light like a dead fish in the eyes, but the voice was still as majestic as it pulled the mummy-like lips and said:
"Remember, laziness at any time can only lead to regression."
"I know."
Terrified, I backed away subconsciously and almost tripped over the chair behind me.
"Be careful."
Suddenly, my mother appeared out of nowhere, supported me, still had that strange dry smile on her face, and said in a gentle and kind tone:
"You kid, oh, you walked in the wrong direction when you were nervous. The bathroom is over there, go and wash up quickly."
Under the silent gaze of the two of them, I rushed into the bathroom as if I was running away and closed the bathroom door tightly.
I turned on the faucet, and amid the sound of running water, I slowly raised my head while standing in front of the mirror.
"Did you see that?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded in Higashinohara's mind.
He opened his eyes suddenly and suddenly woke up - he was still in the camp of "Happiness Elementary School".
And at the last moment before waking up,
The face of the boy named "Jiang Huai" that Higashinohara saw in the mirror was the boy who appeared twice today in the mighty wind hundreds of meters above the Pearl Tower, full of emptiness and loneliness.
What the hell is this?
The last two days at the end of the month are spicy, please give me a ticket lolulu~
