Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Palace of Bewilderment
Takashi wasn't going to leave Ibella alone, and if she hadn't come back in ten minutes, he would have to ask Takagi to send some people to find her. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Vera, where did you separate?"
Vera recalled for a moment and said: "When I came back, I originally wanted to go and see the fork in the road over there, if Mu Feng followed, would it be wrong, Ibela said that she would come back first, so I gave her the torch and stayed there to check the mark left by Gao Zhi, if Ibella didn't come back, it might be a mistake at the fork in front, and I found that the mark there was not very clear." ”
"Okay, I got it. Gao Zhi looked at the time, the current time is ten twenty o'clock, and the scope of the search has been decided, according to Vera's inference, Ibella should have accidentally gone to another passage. Since it is a labyrinth, it cannot be ruled out that there are other forked nodes on that road, so it is necessary to call at least four people to hope to find Ibera.
Ten minutes later, Ibera did not return to the camp, and Takashi couldn't help but wake up Serina and Jorim and tell them about Ibera's disappearance.
"Gao Zhi, don't wake up the fourth house, let her stay here. Serina glanced at Vera, counting him, this search team was exactly four people, and Ibella was nearby when he disappeared, maybe he could provide some useful information, "Vera, can you please come with us?"
"Well, let me do the same. Vera smiled and nodded, and followed the three of them out of the camp quietly.
Coming to the first intersection, this is where Ibera is very likely to get lost, Gao Zhi squatted down and looked at the mark he left, it was indeed the same as Vera said, not only the crack was a little narrow, but even the direction was a little sloping, and it was easy to see the wrong way to go on another road.
"Vera, is this the place?" Sirina lit up the surroundings with torches, the spotless walls, almost exactly the same as they had come.
"I guess this is it. Vera said, pointing to another fork in the road.
"Jorim, you go behind, if something appears in front of me, I should be able to handle it. Takashi motioned for Jorim to stay at the back of the team, Vera had not yet obtained Obsidian's weapon and had no way to protect herself, although Serina had barely awakened Obsidian under Sakurama's guidance, but until now she has not summoned a second weapon.
"I know, this labyrinth is not simple, I have felt it since I came in, and that very bad aura has always surrounded us. Jorim put his right hand in his pocket, his pocket bulging and stuffed with stones, so that he could activate the activated armament inside at any time to fight.
Under Sirina's torches, the light just shrouded the entire team, from Gao Zhi who opened the road to Jorim who was on guard.
A few minutes passed quickly, and there was no sign of Ibella on the straight road, and in front of them was a fork in the road that branched off to the left and right, and it seemed necessary to separate them here, otherwise it would be impossible to conduct a carpet search all the time together.
After some decision, Jorim and Serina went to the intersection on the left, and Vera and Takashi entered the passage on the right, where the smell of blood was very strong, and the moon in the sky was rarely covered by dark clouds, and the surroundings were suddenly a lot darker, and they could still see the road under their feet by the moonlight, but now it became unfeasible.
Gao Zhi ...... Ahead, it seems to be a dead end. Vera tugged at Gao Zhi's sleeve, and what she had stepped on just now didn't seem to be a good thing, soft and sticky, like a lump of flesh stained with blood.
"Dead end?" Just as Gao Zhi was puzzled, the dark clouds gradually faded, and the moon behind him was able to shine again, but its light only illuminated a disgusting scene.
"Hmm......" Gao Zhi choked his throat, the smell of blood and rotting here became easy to explain for a while, the dead end in front of him was full of monster corpses, this place was like their grave, or someone slaughtered them here, there were stumps and some air-dried internal organs everywhere, and the walls were completely blood-red, as if they were covered with a thick layer of red paint!
In this way, in addition to the complicated roads in this labyrinth, I am afraid that there is something hidden in a corner that they can't deal with, and the death of these monsters does not look like they were killed by humans, and they have not been dead for a long time, about a few hours ago.
"Vera, hurry up, let's go to the eldest lady and they must tell Jorim about what happened here. Gao Zhi turned his head and took a few deep breaths, and ran towards the road he had just come from with Vera.
The two of them panted back to the intersection where they had been separated from Serina, only to see that the two of them had also walked out of the passage on the left!
"Miss, why are you back?" Gao Zhi wondered.
"It's a dead end over there, but it's you, you ran so fast, did you find something?" Serina told Gao Zhi what she had discovered, and Gao Zhi suddenly gasped, if these two forks in the road lead to a dead end, then where did the missing Ibera go?
"Hurry up and come with me. Gao Zhi didn't bother with the matter of Ibera, if it was just to find her alone and put everyone in danger, it wouldn't be worth it, she was probably more than lucky now, and I hope that Jorim has a way to control the situation in the future.
Vera's face was not very good, and Sirina nodded seriously, and followed Takashi back to the passage on the right with Jorim.
And when they followed this road all the way to the end, the changes in front of them surprised Gao Zhi again!
The walls are clean, the smell of blood has disappeared without a trace, and the most terrifying thing is that there is a sudden fork in the road that was not there just now!
"How so...... You're still there, Vera, you saw that too, right?"
Vera frowned and said, "Eh, it was Gao Zhi who ran back talking to himself just now, and that's what I saw." ”
A thunderclap fell from Gao Zhi's heart, and he couldn't believe his eyes more and more: "But didn't you say just now that there was a dead end ahead?"
"Yes, I didn't say anything just now, you have something wrong with Gao Zhi at the beginning of the way, are you okay? Otherwise, let's go back, it's a little too weird here." Vera looked at Takashi worriedly, he also thought that he was really hallucinating, and now that even Serina and Jorim had seen this fork in the road, it was pointless to hold their ground on their own.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Jorim also felt uneasy, his ability to see the corresponding scene through the stone, but the stone wall here could not allow him to use this ability, if Sakuruma was here, he should be able to find a lot of problems, but Jorim knew very well that he was too much worse than her.
"Anyway, let's go back first, Vera is right, it's too dangerous for us to come out at night, Ibera's words...... It seems that I can only abandon her, hoping that her departure will not be too painful. Serina looked down at the fork in the road ahead, unable to go any further, the best warning her brain had given her subconsciously.
Jorim remained silent the entire time, constantly checking Obsidian's map and death list, and when he opened the list for the last time, the name Ibella Lawrence appeared on it, as expected.
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"Sister, the moon is out. As she walked, she looked up at the moon, which never changed shape, but the light it emitted was so similar to that of the present world that I sometimes wanted to sit here and watch it all the time.
"Do you miss your mother?" Chie stroked her sister's head, occasionally glancing up at the moon hanging in the sky.
"A little bit...... But I can't remember what my mother looked like. ”
"Yes, after all, it's been ten years since we were separated, and I can't even remember it......"
"Does Mu Feng have anyone in this world who is missing?" Sakuruma asked by tilting her head after hearing the words of the Jinguji sisters behind her.
Mu Fengye was stunned for a moment, and thought seriously: "Hmm...... My parents work abroad all the year round, and they haven't taken care of me since they sent me to Yokohama, and it's always been Silina and her parents who take care of me, and if you miss it, I'm a little nostalgic for Aunt Yingli's cooking~"
"Is it Sirina's mother?"
"Well, White Quartz Pear, this is the name of Silina's mother before, her father is German, what is the name...... It's a little hard to remember like hers. Mu Fengye was always smiling when he said this, all his happy memories were all over the other family of three, and it sounded a little bleak.
"What did the previous name mean?" Sakurama asked suddenly.
"Sakurama doesn't know? Japanese women always take their husband's surname after marriage, but there are a small number of people who don't do that. Chie in the back seemed to hear the conversation between the two in front of her, and she also squeezed in and interjected.
"This ...... There are no such rules in our country, and both parents are foreigners, and no one told me about such a thing. Sakurama's face flushed, there was such a thing in this world that she didn't know, Chie suddenly felt that the distance between her and her had increased a lot, it turned out that she was also an ordinary girl, but in some aspects she knew more thoroughly than others.
"Oh......" Chigusa bumped into Sakurama, who suddenly stopped in front of her, and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"Let's go this way. Sakuruma illuminated the mark on the ground with Mu Fengye's crystal scales, but the mark was clearly pointing in the opposite direction.
"Eh, why, shouldn't you go over there?" A big question mark appeared in Mu Fengye's mind, Gao Zhi couldn't keep the wrong direction to himself, but he also had to trust Sakura's judgment.
"This labyrinth is subject to change, and I've memorized the frequency of change, and it's about that time. ”