(a)

Eight Quarters Ugly, Red Devil Pavilion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Again—lose—la—"

Flandoro spread her hand full of cards onto the table, and leaned lazily back on the back of her chair, her little feet cocked high and swinging up and down.

"Ten wins in a row!" Melly, who sat across the table, raised her arms, looking very complacent.

Originally, Fran couldn't sleep, so she ran to Melly's bedroom and forcibly dragged her up to play a card game. However, in the middle of the night, Fran didn't win a single game. This ten-game winning streak can be regarded as an insomnia subsidy for Melly.

"Sister, sister, why are you so powerful?" asked Flandoro with her big blood-red eyes open, her neck crooked, and she asked coquettishly.

"What's the matter??, where did this little good cat come from?, and where did the perverse Miss Flandoro have gone?" said Melly, complaining in her heart, patting her chest:

"Of course, don't look at me like this, my friends used to call me 'Melly, the Queen of Duels'!"

"Eh, 'Duel Queen'......"

Fran looked at Melly with three more points of longing in her eyes.

"Okay, I've decided!"

Suddenly, Fran stood up, slapped the table, and said in a loud voice:

"I want to become the dueling king of Gensokyo, and the ultimate goal is to defeat you, sister!"

"I'm looking forward to your challenge. ”

Melly picked up her hand and looked at Flandrew, who was in high spirits, and smiled.

After all, it's better to be a rival in a card game than to continue to be a toy in a bullet hell game.

"I'll go to the kitchen and add some black tea, and then we'll have another game. ”

Melly lifted the empty teapot on the table and got up to leave, but heard Fran say:

"Wouldn't it be okay to ask Sakuya to come and add tea!"

"Miss Sakiya is busy expelling the invaders right now, besides, I'm a guest, how can I bother the master with everything?"

With that, she turned and pushed the door open.

As soon as the door was closed, Fran slapped the door on the head, as if suddenly remembering something, and hurried out, shouting as she chased:

"Wait a minute, Sister Melly, get me another plate of bread...... Dry...... Sister Melly?"

She stood in the doorway, with an empty hallway in front of her, and looked around, but not even Melly's shadow was visible.

The empty teapot that Melly had been holding now lay quietly at her feet, made of ceramic, but miraculously unbroken.

(b)

At the moment, the east gate of the people.

At the beginning, the three of Kamishirasawa Huiyin, Marisa Kiriyu and Alice Margot Royd, who were guarding the east gate, plus Fujiwara Meihong and Baili Bailing, who came to support later, a small team of five people, stood at the gate of the east gate of Renli. These five people fought zombies all night, all sweating profusely and exhausted.

In front of them, there were corpses everywhere, stretching from under their feet to beyond their field of vision.

At this moment, a white bird the size of a sparrow flew in from a distance, crossed the carpet made of corpses and stained with black blood clots, and finally landed on Bai Ling's shoulder.

When it flew closer, everyone realized that it was not a live bird, but a paper crane folded out of white paper.

As soon as the paper crane landed on Bai Ling's shoulder, it didn't move, and it seemed to have changed back into a real paper crane. Bai Ling took it off his shoulder, took it apart and looked at it, only to see a map printed in the middle of the white paper full of creases.

"Huh?" Sister Hong, who was standing beside him, leaned over and took a look, and said strangely:

"I remember you didn't fold it in a blank sheet of paper, how did you fly around and come back and it became a map?"

"The 'Painted Paper Crane' can record what you see along the way in the form of pictures," Bai Ling said as he stared at the map without raising his head, "one of my spells. ”

"That's a great move!"

Although Mei Hong couldn't understand the picture, she still knew that the skill of this trick was quite clever.

For example, a self-taught guy like her who paints a gourd can't understand the mystery.

Bai Ling held the map and looked at it for a long time, his expression was neither cloudy nor sunny, always putting on his iconic poker face, and he didn't speak. Huiyin saw that he didn't react for a long time, so she asked:

"How about Xiaobai, what did it see from the sky?"

"Teacher Huiyin, please don't call me that. Bai Ling closed the map, looked up at Huiyin who was smiling, and said with a straight face:

"Good news, bad news, which one to listen to first?"

"Good news!" Mei Hong said hurriedly.

"The good news is that it flew all over the city, plus some of the surrounding areas, and didn't find a single zombie still active. From this, it can be inferred that the zombies in the entire Gensokyo should have stopped their activities at that moment. ”

"That's good!" Mei Hong said with a relaxed face, "We don't have to go and clean them up again." ”

"I suppose," Alice said, "it's probably Reimu's side that decides the winner, and if these zombies are all manipulated by someone, it makes sense that once that person is defeated, they lose control and turn back into normal corpses." ”

"It's like a puppet with a broken string. She added.

"Reimu, this guy said he was going to find someone, and he solved the mutation easily!" Marisa said with a big grin, "Now, she won't be able to invite me to dinner!"

"You say that," Alice said, giving her a blank look, "as if someone was willing to invite you to dinner." ”

"Of course not, but you can't stand me from picking up a meal and going to your house!"

When she said this, Marisa looked very proud. Alice looked at her stinking and shameless virtue, and didn't know what to say about her for a while.

"Tsk," Alice smacked her lips, "you're really thick-skinned." ”

"Thanks for the compliment!"

"So what's the bad news?" asked Bai Ling, one of the only two serious people here.

"Zombies are dead, but corpses don't disappear on their own. Bai Ling said expressionlessly, "These corpses are scattered all over Gensokyo, and the number is extremely large, if they are not dealt with in time, the possibility of an outbreak of the plague cannot be ruled out." ”

"Leave it to the professionals!" Mei Hong said very indifferently, "Our job is to fight, and since we have already won, then we have nothing to do." Huiyin!"

She turned her head and asked Huiyin:

"There should be people in the world who specialize in this kind of thing, right?"

"No," Huiyin shook her head, "but it shouldn't be difficult to gather a group urgently, and you can also ask for help from the Monster Mountain." After all, it's a matter related to the whole of Gensokyo, and there's no reason why they shouldn't pay attention to it. ”

"That's it!"

"So, what are we going to do now?" Marisa asked, "The zombies are dead, should we ......?"

"Go back to your own home, find your own mother!"

After saying this, Mei Hong turned around and left, waved her hand a few times as she walked, and shouted without looking back:

"Before dawn, I'll go back and take a nap, bye-bye!"

Immediately afterward, Marisa and Alice followed. Mei Hong wants to go to the Lost Bamboo Forest, and if they want to go to the Enchanted Forest, they both have to go to the West Gate of Renli.

"Speaking of which, Alice, don't you have a big bathtub in your house?"

"Yes, yes, why are you asking this?"

"That...... It is...... I want to take a bath. ”

"No way!"

"Don't do that, Alice, you know I only have a broken wooden barrel in my house, and it's leaky. ”

"If you say no, you can't!"

"Okay, give it to me, just ten minutes, no, five minutes!"

"Not for a minute!"

"Stingy!"

In this way, the two happy enemies walked away in the noise.

"I'm here to stay. One of the remaining two, Baili Bai Ling, looked at the backs of the three and said, "If there is any accident before dawn, I can deal with it in time if I stay here." ”

"You have to take care of your body, don't be tired of yourself!" Huiyin touched his head and said, "I'll go and see the situation at the West Gate first, and I'll come back to accompany you later." ”

"Teacher Huiyin!"

Bai Ling tidied up his sister's head, which was messed up, and solemnly protested:

"Please don't think of me as a child who is afraid of the dark, okay?"

"Hehe, you kid......"

Huiyin smiled and left under Bai Ling's slightly dissatisfied gaze.

(c)

At two o'clock, the front yard of Hakurei Shrine.

"Hah-"

Reimu exhaled and bounced off the ground.

She didn't want to lie on the ground, but there was no place for her in the collapsed half of the shrine. She wanted to dig her usual cushion out from under the rubble, but she couldn't.

"Rest and rest, let's ......"

Reimu raised her leg and stepped on Nalan Twilight, who was lying on the ground, and shouted:

"Hey, Nalan Twilight, don't fall asleep!"

In normal times, this guy must have jumped up with a "whoop". But now, his eyes were still closed, and he didn't react at all.

"It's ...... Dead?"

As she spoke, she squatted down and probed Nalan Twilight's snort with her fingers, and found that he was still breathing, but he just fainted.

"Cut, don't scare me!"

Reimu breathed a sigh of relief, and helped Nalan Yu up, putting his arm on her shoulder, trying to carry him on his back, but he was so weighed down by his weight that he couldn't straighten his waist. I can't walk now, but I can still fly.

"Why is it so heavy!"

She frowned, complained, and then looked up at Kazuhiko Fujii, who was resting not far away, and shouted:

"Hey boy, get up!"

"Ah, okay!"

Kazuhiko listened to her words, and immediately got up and stood upright, not daring to slack off at all.

"Listen up, boy," Reimu said, "I'm going to take Nalan Twilight to the doctor next, and you're going to stay here alone and take care of the pile of meat, understand?"

"Good...... Okay!"

Kazuhiko looked at the pile of corpse fragments left behind by Radu III, and the puddle of blood that was flowing farther and farther away, and looked a little uneasy.

After all, no one wants to be alone with a broken corpse!

Thinking like this, Reimu took out a piece of rune paper, handed it to Kazuhiko, and said:

"It's unlikely, but if it moves, you'll tear up this rune paper and run away, as far as you want, understand?"

"Got it!"

"In a few hours, when the sun rises, the pile of corpses will turn to ashes on its own. At that point, you'll be able to go home. ”

"Hmm. Kazuhiko nodded vigorously.

After entrusting all the matters, Reimu carried Nalan Twilight on his back and flew away slowly. After she left, Kazuhiko was the only one left in the courtyard, looking down at the pile of corpses with his head down.

Suddenly, a piece of bloody flesh moved under Kazuhiko's nose, making him tremble and almost tear the talisman paper in his hand. But when he looked at it again, he realized that it was not the piece of flesh that had moved, but the unsteady left hand of Radu III that had rolled down from the pile of corpses.

Yes, his left hand. His body was cut into hundreds of square pieces of tofu meat, but his left hand remained, intact. Was it because Nalan was negligent when he killed him, or was there something else?

Looking at this blood-stained left hand, Kazuhiko's heart was beating fast and couldn't be calmed down for a long time.