At eight o'clock, the underground library of the Red Devil Pavilion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The long table and the cluttered mountain of books have been removed by the little devil, and the place where it was originally used to read a book and drink tea and enjoy peace is now only a large smooth black marble floor and two figures.

"Hey!"

Pache stood up, put the chalk back in the pen holder behind her, patted the chalk dust on her hands, and began to pound her own back. Her small waist had become a little stiff from the long squatting, and as soon as she straightened up, she made a "rattle" sound, as if it was about to break.

"You should go out and do activities", Nalan always advised her. Now, rubbing her aching waist, she recognized what he had said.

A few meters away, Nalan Twilight was holding a piece of chalk and squatting on the floor to paint. Pache looked at his diligent appearance, suddenly frowned, and said:

"You guy...... Isn't it better than mine!"

"It's a must, okay," Nalan said without looking up, "Anyway, I've been playing magic for more than eight hundred years. Although he is now old, obsolete, and can't keep up with the times, he hasn't lost any basic skills. ”

Beneath his hand was a very detailed aerial view of Gensokyo, five meters wide, drawn in pure chalk, covering all the places known to Nalan and Patchouli.

In addition to this, there were scattered around the edge of the map with a number of totems of the stars, the sun, and the moon, as well as some other strange patterns—the magic circles that Patchouli would use to cast spells. A huge ring totem surrounded the entire magic array, and there were several blank spaces on it, I don't know what to do.

"You know, if someone comes to me, I'm not going to help me. Patchouli looked at Nalan Twilight and said suddenly.

"Why?" Nalan stopped what she was doing, looked up at Patchouli's face, and asked, "Am I special to you?"

"No, you're not special at all!" Patchouli looked away, her cheeks flushed slightly, "It's troublesome, this spell." ”

"Is the mana consumption huge?"

"No, there's nothing wrong with the magic, it's just pure tediousness. "The larger the range, the larger the magic circle to be drawn, and the workload will be." ”

"Oh, that's right. ”

Nalan Xiao lowered his head again and continued to draw his picture, but his mouth was not idle:

"Actually, drawing a magic circle on the floor, such a classical method, is rarely used by magic envoys nowadays. ”

"And where are they drawing, on the wall?"

"No, they just print it out with a printer. Nalan Twilight said while drawing the map, "Last time I asked a magician friend to help, he took me directly into a printing room, turned on the computer, listed a large number of magic array .jpeg, and asked me which one to use." To be honest, I was shocked. ”

"Uh......"

After listening to his words, Patchouli asked half-incomprehensibly:

"Printers, that's the kind of ......"

"Think of it as the one used in the village bookstore, but it's a hundred times faster, and it prints everything. ”

"yes, that's ......"

"If you're interested, I can get you one, or you can go to Korindo and bring one back, I guess that kid must have a lot of stock, but he won't use it, it's all piled up in the warehouse to collect ashes." But now, ......," Nalan stood up, "I'm done painting here." ”

The head of the chalk was flicked by his hand, spun at high speed, drew a parabola in the air, and finally landed exactly as it fell into the pen holder on the small square table. He clapped his hands twice and said to Patchouli:

Next, please start your performance. ”

Pachouli nodded, turned around and picked up the magic book wrapped in leather on the small square table, and spread it out in the palm of her hand. She opened her mouth, and obscure incantations poured out from between her lips. The voice was not human-like, but it had a song-like rhyme.

The magical sound reverberated through the air, causing a faint pain in Nalan Tso's eardrums. Even though his magical talents were all gone, he could still feel that a huge amount of energy was converging from all directions, and he couldn't breathe. If he could still see the flow of magic, he was sure that what unfolded before his eyes would be an astonishing sight.

Pache slowly let go of her hands holding the magic book, but instead of being pulled down by gravity, the book floated in front of her. The intricate but beautiful symbols printed on the pages of the book heard the sound of the spell and rose like a cobra under the hand of a snake charmer, freeing themselves from their restraints and escaping from the pages.

These symbols, glowing with a faint white light, float above the blank book, sometimes converging, sometimes detaching. In fact, they can even dance hand in hand if Pache wants to.

Eventually, the runes formed a circle and spun. With each turn, the shimmering ring grows larger, and it spins a few points faster. Before long, the rings had grown large enough to cover the entire map on the floor, and the runes had become indistinct from the rapid movement.

Strings of runes flashed before Nalan Twilight's eyes over and over again, like a roller coaster that had broken off the railroad tracks. He stood there, looking up at the slowly rising aura, watching it stop spinning in mid-air and fall heavily, smashing every rune into the blank space on the edge of the magic circle with unmistakable precision.

All of a sudden, the totems of the sun, moon, and stars, as well as every line on the entire Gensokyo overlook map, lit up together. Magical light illuminates the entire area, bringing a limited amount of light to the gloomy underground library.

The chanting came to an abrupt end, but Nalan Twilight's eyes were still a little straight. His body is still here, but who knows where his spirit has gone.

Pache watched as the lost symbols resurfaced on the pages of the magic book, and without missing a single one, she closed the book, looked up and said:

"Alright, the magic has been cast without mishap, and now it's time for ...... Nalan Twilight?"

"Ah, I'm sorry!" Nalan was clever, coming back to his senses, very embarrassed, "You put this spell beautifully, and you are a little bit fascinated." ”

"Yes...... Really?"

"Of course, even when I'm at the peak of my magical abilities, I can't do this. After all, we are born in the wilderness, and everything we do depends on a flash of inspiration, which is not the same level as a well-crafted academic school like you. ”

"Thank you for the compliment. ”

With a smile on her face, Patchouli whispered a thank you, looking very shy.

"So, speaking of maps......"

Nalan Twilight lowered his head and took a closer look at the map with its own backlight. Compared to the original chalk drawing, the extra thing on this picture, except for the glimmer and runes, is a red dot.

Massive, dense red dots spread unevenly across the entire Gensokyo map. Like the map itself, the red dots are lighted, but some are bright, some are dim, and the brightness varies.

"These red dots, I think they represent objects with magical powers, right?" asked Nalan Twilight.

"Yes," Patchui nodded, "the brighter the red light, the stronger the magic." In addition, ordinary people who do not have any magical talents are not displayed on the map because the magic power in their bodies is too weak. ”

"Take me, right?"

Nalan Twilight saw that there were only two red dots in the library where he was, one bright and one dark, so he laughed and laughed at himself.

"Speaking of these dense red dots......," he said, pointing to the location of the Enchanted Forest, "if it's not a zombie horde, then it can only be a concert, right?"

In the direction of his finger, thousands of almost faint red dots could be seen, gathered in the enchanted forest on the map. These red dots are at the bottom of all the red dots on the map, and they wouldn't have gone unnoticed if they weren't for their sheer number.

"When you make a living dead with magic, you have to store some magic in their bodies, otherwise the living dead will soon become invalid. Patchouli explained in a serious way.

"It's like charging a battery, right?" Nalan smiled, "And the magic power injected into it is a little greater than the magic power of ordinary people, it seems that Radu III has invested a lot of money this time, but it doesn't make much sense." ”

Then, he shifted his gaze to the Nameless Hill beneath the Enchanted Forest. There was only one red dot on it, but it was the brightest in the whole picture. The difference between the other red dots and it is as great as the difference between a candle flame and the sun.

"This guy, you may not believe it, I just had a fight with her two days ago and lost. Nalan pointed at it and said.

"Kazami Yuka, right?" Patchouli looked at the little sun, pouting, and shaking her head, "It's really monster-like magic. ”

"Our night bug child seems to be in trouble, there are several zombie spots around her house. Nalan Yu looked at the map and continued to interpret, "I hope Yuxiang can go faster, otherwise it will be too late." ”

"Here, I've invited a few good helpers, and it should be no problem to survive tonight. The Lost Bamboo Forest is so clean, probably because there are ghosts. Xianglin Hall...... Let us observe a minute of silence in memory of Comrade Mori Rinnosuke. ”

"But how is the place of the Monster Mountain so bright as a lighthouse?"

"It was the residence of the tengus, and there lived a colony of crow tengu and white wolf tengu, and there was a kappa village at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"No wonder!"

Nalan Yu hugged his arms and moved his gaze from the mountain of youkai to the other end of Gensokyo. It was another mountain opposite the Yokai Mountain, but it was very unusual, and there was not even a dark red dot representing zombies.

And the bright red dot has a large patch, like a copy of the mountain of monsters.

"Now here's the problem," his tone was much more serious than before, "what's going on at Hakurei Shrine?"

"It's Reimu...... Is it?"

Halfway through her speech, Patchili immediately dismissed her conjecture. If there is only one bright spot, then it may be Reimu, what is the situation with so many bright spots, to be honest, she is also confused.

"Your Reimu has learned to shadow clones?"

Nalan smiled at her, and she felt a little stupid, so she couldn't help but lower her nightcap a little to hide her embarrassment.

Nalan Twilight stretched out his finger, first pointing to a bright spot in the Enchanted Forest, and then to the brightest red dot in the north of the human world, and said:

"One of these two points must be Reimu, she left the Red Devil Pavilion with Marisa and Alice before dark, and flew to the human realm, and now it is possible to meet the corpses in the human realm, or run into the enchanted forest alone to solve the mutation. But no matter what, there's no way she's going to stay in the shrine. ”

"So, who are the people, or people, who are the people who stay at the Hakurei Shrine?" Patchouli also wondered, and asked in turn, "Do you think that the main culprit of the mutation is hiding in the shrine?"

"It's called dark under the lights, and the most dangerous place is often the safest place. ”

"I thought he was hiding in the Enchanted Forest. ”

"Then you are too naïve, in this situation, even a fool knows that there is something wrong with the Enchanted Forest, and staying there will only be besieged to death by all the great gods. Gensokyo is so big, if I had to find a place to hide, if I were him, I would choose Hakurei Shrine instead of the Enchanted Forest. And you have to take into account his purpose of causing the mutation. ”

"Purpose?" Patchouli said, tilting her head, a little puzzled, "Do you know what his purpose is?"

"Of course I do. ”

Nalan took a step forward, walked in a circle around the magic array, and said as he walked:

"Coincidentally, I met the guy before the mutation started, so I knew that the zombie flock was just his means, not the end goal. What he really wanted to do was kill me, and that's it. ”

"Then why didn't he take the initiative to come to you to duel, why did he have to go to great lengths to get so many zombies out?"

"Good question, book, good question!"

As if to show off his own wisdom, Nalan made an analysis for Patchouli in an orderly manner:

"Why didn't he duel me? ”

"Why do you want to cause a horde of corpses? One is to create chaos that will distract others from helping those who are on my side. If I were going to die, I wouldn't dare say it, Remy and Flandor would probably tie themselves to a rocket and fly over to save me, and he obviously didn't want to see it. ”

"Second, in order to consume Gensokyo's living forces, we have to give up the protracted battle with the corpses and fight him instead. As long as he can push us out of the shelter, his plan will be half the battle. ”

Before she knew it, Nalan Twilight had already made a half-circle and walked to Pache Li's side. He stood beside Pacouli, looking at her face, which looked a little pale under the white light of the magic array, and asked:

"Now the question is, Pache Norregi, what is the best way to kill someone who is far superior to you?"

"Ambush!"

Pache looked at the large red dot in the Hakurei shrine and exclaimed reflexively.

"Correct, Gryffindor plus ten!"

Nalan snapped his fingers, then continued:

"The best way is to take your little friends, find a place to ambush, dig a few more traps, and then you can wait for work. Since there is no chance of winning by taking the initiative, it is better to dig a pit and wait for the enemy to jump. After ensuring the preemptive advantage, the strength gap between the two sides has almost been smoothed out. ”

"Using an infinite number of dead to consume a limited number of living people, if you don't go to him, your strength will be slowly exhausted, and taking the initiative to find him is tantamount to throwing yourself into a net. This kid is basically invincible!"

"It's a pity that his opponent is me. ”

With that as he said that, he turned around and walked in the direction of the library door.

"Wait a minute, where are you going?" Patchouli turned to him and shouted, "Are you going to ......"

"I'm going to Hakurei Shrine. Nalan gave the answer she didn't want to hear.

"Why?" she asked, "why go when you know there's an ambush?"

"Someone has to step on this trap, right? If I don't go, Reimu or Marisa will definitely go. Instead of letting them step on it, I'll step on it myself. Nalan Yu said, looking back and smiling, "After all, I am immortal!"

The Buddha said, "If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?"

But this guy is not a Buddha, he is a ghost.

Because of this, Pache developed respect for him. Maybe the word "respect" doesn't match the object of "vampire", but Pache doesn't care about these details.

She rarely respects someone from the bottom of her heart, and the last time she had this emotion was when she met Remilia. Can it be said that "where there is a father, there must be a daughter"?

No, because Nalan Yu forbade others to call him "uncle" or "dad", and it was okay to call him "brother". According to his words, "Call Daddy ten years old, don't hurt me!"

So, what should we say, "If there is a brother, there must be a sister"?

"Really, I don't know how to describe you two......" Patchouli smiled and shook her head helplessly. The thought of persuading him to give up only flashed through his mind, but it never stopped.

"If you really respect a fighter, please respect his right to be wounded. ”

Patchouli remembers reading this sentence in a book.

"Thank you for your help tonight, please have a drink when you get back!"

Nalan didn't reply, but raised his arm and waved his hand. In Pache eyes, his back was much taller than himself.

"Come back alive!"

"Nonsense, how could I die!"

The two words of farewell, which were not even two words of farewell, echoed through the empty library, and were interrupted by a heavy closing of the door, and everything fell silent.