Inside Willow Cave Temple, all was quiet. Only the blood-red moonlight shone on the desolate courtyard filled with fallen leaves. The weeds on the ground were at least two feet high. Broken stone slabs that had been broken for who knew how many years stood in front of the door, covered with moss and unknown vines.
The bleak cold wind blew from a gloomy corner, making people shiver. The wind seemed to carry a low murmur, like the murmurs of the undead in their sleep. Yup, there was a basis for this metaphor. The last time I took Sylvanas to travel to Avalon, she fell asleep in the Fairy's courtyard. When she talked in her sleep, the wind blew within a radius of twenty meters around her.
I digressed.
In short, the scene above was what we saw after we pushed open the gate of Willow Cave Temple.
When we noticed that the scene in Willow Cave Temple was so strange, especially the huge blood-red moon hanging in the sky, Sandora and I retreated from the gate of the temple at the same time. As expected, the moment we left the gate, the surrounding scenery returned to normal. Not only did the moon in the sky return to its original brightness, but even the front yard looked normal through the gate of the temple. In other words, this ancient temple was only abnormal in the eyes of the people who entered it.
"This is … Willow Cave Temple?" Wei Gong looked at the strange scene in front of him in surprise. His tone was full of disbelief. He had been here several times. Although he wasn't familiar with the plants and trees in the courtyard, at least he was sure that the real Willow Cave Temple shouldn't look like this.
"The spatial coordinates are indeed Willow Cave Temple."
Sandora's face was no longer as relaxed and cheerful as before. Instead, she looked solemn. "Vega, go out and watch the spirit. Don't let him run away."
"Yes, Madam!" Scorpion answered loudly. Then, she walked out of the strange front yard of the temple.
"Is it necessary?" I asked in a low voice. "Sasaki can't leave the mountain gate. We can go back and find him at any time to understand the situation."
"If there's a Ryodong-Ji with a space-time disorder, then there's a Sasaki who can leave the mountain gate." Sandora's bright blue eyes looked at me from under her bangs. "Ah Jun, maybe we've begun to touch the twisted part of this world."
After Vega disappeared from everyone's sight, only then did Enban and Takemiya let out a sigh of relief. Then, four pairs of eyes, including Saber and Red A, turned to look at Vega. They were all very concerned about Vega's appearance.
"That person just now was your man, right?" Yuan Ban chose his words carefully, afraid that if he said anything rude, the strange scorpion would hate him in the future. "Oh, are the special races of Centaurus Constellation all like that?"
I scratched my head. "She's one of my subordinates. That mechanical body is her combat attire, just like a human's armor. However, to us, this combat attire can merge with our bodies and even become another form of our bodies. Also, even though she looks quite fierce, Little Scorpion is usually quite easy to talk to."
"I don't think so at all." Rin Harasaka curled her lips. She was still traumatized by the blood-colored crystal that was surging with energy. "Hey, Uncle Alien, is that also part of your photography team? Or was she sent by Centaurus Constellation to exterminate the wild Ultraman that endangers interstellar security? "
I looked up at the sky and laughed. "Hahaha.
I'm sorry, I was wrong. You don't have to bring up that bullsh * t reason anymore. Nowadays, there are a few clubs in Shadow City that have nothing better to do. They hold meetings to discuss how their leader came up with the stupid excuse of 'photography enthusiasts from Centaurus Constellation'. This has almost become a daily routine in Shadow City!
"Let me think about it. That heavy and rough landing capsule that looks like a military. Apart from you, everyone occasionally exudes the aura of an iron-blooded soldier. Even that little sister named Teardrop is usually armed with a military knife and a pistol. And then there's the mechanical scorpion that appeared today, calling you and Sister Sandora sir." Yuan Ban had an expression of 'I know the truth'. He raised a finger and waved it in the air. "Actually, you guys are the vanguard of the alien army that came to invade Earth, right?"
"Don't let your imagination run wild." I casually smacked Yuan Ban's head and quickly retracted my hand. Oh no, I'm used to beating up Liliana, that fake loli with an unreliable mouth. Now that I saw the little demon Rin who was full of nonsense, I subconsciously smacked her head.
Yuan Ban looked at me blankly. It was obvious that this kind of experience of being smacked on the head was rare for her. She rubbed her head and suddenly lowered her head. Using a voice that was almost inaudible, she said in a low voice, "Ever since my father passed away, it has been a long time since someone did this …"
Sandora leaned over and whispered in my ear, "Ah Jun, your daddy aura was activated by mistake."
Is it my fault that I have a daddy face with an affinity rating of 3000 +? And Miss Yuan Ban, as a physically and mentally healthy high school girl, please don't feel like a father to this kind and friendly big brother of yours!
This small interlude also temporarily diverted everyone's attention away from Vega. Although Yuan Ban's words were sensational, we all knew that it was just the girl's way of distracting herself from the strange atmosphere. Everyone had their own secrets. This was especially true for the 'galactic friends from another planet'. On this issue, Yuan Ban and the others had maintained a tacit understanding with us. Yup, more importantly, our usual elegant behavior didn't make people feel any sense of danger.
"Is this the effect of magic? Or is there a barrier set up in Ryodong Temple? "
After a few days of Enaka's hellish training, although his magic level did not improve much, at least he had a better understanding of some of the theories. After the initial shock, Wei Gong quickly calmed down and began to try to explain the strange scene in front of him from a mysterious perspective.
"I don't know." Yuan Ban also couldn't explain everything in front of him. "We won't find anything if we just stand here. Don't split up. Start from the room on the left and see if there's anyone there."
It was a safe plan. Before we knew the principle of this strange space, Yuan Ban's suggestion was obviously wise. No one objected and began to carefully search the old temple.
There was no one. It was empty. As expected, there was no one there.
We pushed open a few doors, but they were all empty. Not only was there no one, but it also looked like no one had lived here for decades. The dark brown wooden floor was covered with black spots caused by years of disrepair. The dark corners of the walls were covered with spider webs. The messy furniture had fallen to the ground because some parts of it had decayed. Behind the cracked wooden boards, we could see pieces of yellowed paper and other junk that were almost broken into pieces. There were many cracks on the walls that were about the width of a finger. Blood-colored moonlight poured in from these cracks, casting a strange shadow on the ground.
"Abnormal decay," Sandora's eyes glowed with a faint golden light. "The molecular composition of every object shows a huge time gap. That broom has a history of over a million years, and the floor under our feet is in a state where it was just born. In other words, the time here is an illusion. Everything that has decayed has nothing to do with the passage of time. It seems like they have decayed since they were born."
"But from a surface analysis, this looks like Liudong Temple was completely abandoned for about eighty to a hundred years," I added. At the same time, I squatted down and picked up an iron nail. "There is no rust. There are contradictions in the details here. This isn't a naturally generated distorted space."
"But what about the people here?!" Wei Gong was worried about the ordinary people who lived in Liudong Temple. "The monks, and …"
Sandora glanced at him. "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 Shallow Shallow was here, she might be able to see the flow of time here." Tears leaned over in fear. She reached out and grabbed the hem of my clothes tightly. "Brother … I feel a little cold …"
"Hmph!" On the other side, Pandora saw that Tears was brazenly trying to steal her brother. She scoffed in dissatisfaction. Then, she decisively squeezed herself between Tears and me.
Alright, alright, this little brat is jealous.
"There's not much meaning in Shallow Shallow coming over." Sandora shrugged at Pandora who had been trained into a completely different creature. Then, she turned her face to the corner of the roof. "She can see and control the tangible time. However, the time here is obviously chaotic. It would be easy for Shallow Shallow to destroy this space … Ah Jun, do you see anything strange?"
I followed Sandora's gaze. Other than a spider web, I didn't see anything.
Enaka seemed to be curious about the two words' Shallow Shallow 'that I mentioned. However, seeing that we didn't continue the topic, she focused her attention on Sandora's gaze. After a long while, she shook her head. "Isn't it just a spider web?"
But at that moment, I vaguely thought of something. Since I was connected to Sandora's mind, even if she didn't say it out loud, I could easily guess what she meant. With an uncertain tone, I asked, "Spiders?"
That's right, there was only a spider web, but no spiders!
Enaka and Wei Gong had goosebumps from the strange atmosphere that we had created. Enaka hugged his shoulders and shouted, "What are you talking about! You just didn't see any spiders! Isn't it normal for there to be a spider web but no spiders? "
Sandora shook her head. At the same time, she waved her hand in the air. Immediately, a light blue, semi-transparent spherical projection appeared in front of us. The projection showed a portion of Liudong Temple. Enaka and the others were immediately attracted by the magical scene and gathered around.
"This is my life detection radar. These red dots are us. Then …" Sandora adjusted the scanning targets and excluded us from the scanning range. "Other than us, all other wavelengths of life signals are silenced. I have already set the scanning accuracy to single cell life signals."
It was definitely a dead zone! In this' Liudong Temple ', there wasn't even a single cell life!
"But the leaves and grass outside …" Enaka was shocked by this shocking fact, but he immediately found a point to refute. However, in the next second, Visca ran into the courtyard and jumped in front of me with two pieces of grass in his hand.
The moment the grass was removed from the blood-red moonlight, it dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. A few seconds later, it turned into ash.
It was fake.
"No matter what happened to this space, it's best that we leave now." Sandora lifted her head and gazed at the huge blood-red moon through the gaps between the broken tiles on the roof. "Before our life force is assimilated by the death here!"
Wei Gong and the others couldn't wait to leave this strange space. They immediately nodded. I asked Sandora through the mental connection, "Do you know how this scene was formed?"
I had always trusted Sandora's knowledge. That was why I didn't doubt that she had seen similar scenes before.
"Of course, I know the reason why this space was formed." Sandora shook her head gloomily. "But there are more than a hundred reasons. Naturally, there are all kinds of situations. Before I get more information, I can't analyze anything."
Uh, is this the side effect of being too knowledgeable?
After locking the sniffing system of Avalon's Garden of Death to the coordinates of Ryodong Temple, we left this strange space together. Vega was waiting for everyone in front of the mountain gate. Sasaki was tightly shackled by energy shackles. He was hung on the tip of the small scorpion's tail with his hands behind his back. As the latter turned around, he could only helplessly float in the air.
The scorpion's occasional bad taste really made people break out in cold sweat.
Seeing Sasaki's current unlucky appearance and the strange image of the mechanical scorpion with a person hanging on its tail, even Enban momentarily forgot the strange scene in Ryodong Temple. He covered his mouth and burst into laughter. Vega unconsciously took two steps forward and gave us a military salute.
"Hey! I say, even if you are a winner, it's not what a samurai would do to a prisoner of war! "
Sasaki's tone was full of grievance as he was hung on the three-meter-high scorpion's tail. I held back my laughter and asked Vega to put him down. Then, I loosened the shackles that were actually not needed.
"Do you know what happened in Ryodong Temple?"
"What happened in there?" Sasaki turned his eyes to the temple gate behind him in surprise. "What happened there … Wait, has it been broken in there?!"
"Forget it. It seems that you don't know."
Sasaki could never leave the steps in front of Ryodong Temple and the mountain gate. It seemed that this restriction was really strict. He couldn't even enter the yard. But now he could stand here well (except for the trauma in his heart), which at least meant that the person who summoned him was safe and sound. In other words, the real Ryodong Temple was just replaced by that strange space, not destroyed. Wei Gong could be completely at ease now.
"Go back and have a good sleep. Tonight was really torturous." After continuously monitoring the space of Ryodong Temple was included in Avalon's short-term task, I stretched myself and then gently knocked on the heads of Pandora and the others who were yawning and nodding at the same time. "Go back and sleep."
Little Bubble, Pandora, Sandora, and Tear. If the four good babies fell asleep on the way, how could Sandora and I carry them back?!
"Sir, should we take this prisoner?"
Seeing that it was time to go back, Vega immediately asked for instructions on how to deal with Sasaki. Her energy scanning radar had already found the interdependent state of this spirit and the nearby space. If we wanted to take Sasaki away, we would have to apply for the support of the law of Avalon.
"Forget it." I shook my head. Previously, I said that I wanted to capture Sasaki alive to lure out his summoner. But now, it seems that the secret of Ryodong Temple is far more than just a long sword that carries psionic energy. This is a case where the monk can run, but the temple can't. It doesn't make sense to bring Assassin along. "Anyway, he and the temple behind him can't run away, and we will be back soon."
It needs to be mentioned that on the way back, Visca and Little Bubble still fell asleep. So the dedicated Vega had to act as a child's carriage and carry the two little girls all the way back. This scene amazed Enaka, and Vega successfully obtained a temporary "Human Affinity + 1" buff …
Since it was obviously not suitable for us to go back to continue our midnight barbecue, build the planetary living cabin, and let Sandora pick up steel bars to grind her teeth, temporarily staying at Enaka's house was the only choice. At this time, you could see how sensitive a poor lady was to money. She actually gave each of us separate bills in less than half an hour, and the names were so detailed that even if you found more than 20 lawyers, you still wouldn't be able to pay the rent. Looking at the "Comprehensive Valuation Bill of Rent, Water, Electricity, Catering, Sightseeing, Entertainment, Study, and Mental Damage Advance Payment for the Alien Uncle's Temporary Residence in Enaka's House" that Enaka handed to me, I wanted to cry but had no tears. I felt that the ancestors of this lady with gray ponytails in front of me had already started planning how to make a lot of money from passing aliens since the 70s or 80s of the last century to glorify their ancestors. The level of detail of this thing … Are you sure you really just thought of this and prepared it?
And if the names are just detailed, I can accept the house, water, electricity, and catering, but what about the damn sightseeing and entertainment? Are you sure we need these services for renting a house?
"This is the Magician's most important base," Miss Enaka said to my confusion, "It's not a place that is open to ordinary people, not to mention non-human creatures like you. Don't you think you need to pay to visit another civilization's base?"
Ever since the opening of my Shadow City's infantry training ground, Saar has never paid a single cent for the entrance fee! Should I be inspired by this and set up a checkpoint at the east entrance of Azeroth to collect road maintenance fees?
"Then this study … Alright, I think I understand. It's to learn the human's precious magic knowledge, right? Then where did you get the mental damage advance payment from? We pay such a high rent, and you say mental damage? And it seems that this item is only on my quotation sheet, right? "
Enaka glanced at me, then said faintly, "As a young lady in her prime, it's very risky to let an adult man stay in your house. Isn't it right to collect the money before you attack me at night?"
My ass! Were you a shameless redhead in your previous life?
"I'm going out to live in a tent!" I angrily threw down the list that gave me a headache and turned to walk out the door.
"Hey, don't!" Enaka hurriedly stopped me, then grabbed the account book and crossed out the mental damage advance payment. "I'm still counting on you guys to help me settle this month's water and electricity bills … Why are you so stingy? With your abilities, isn't it easy to get human currency?"
In other words, because it was stolen money, they didn't have any qualms about plundering it. It's only been a few days, and we've already brought the good Miss to this state?
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