(a)

"Seventy thousand people, seventy thousand corpses, all my relatives and friends, all those I know and those I don't know, piled up in front of me. ”

"At that time, I realized that death is a liquid that flows in the air. Opening your mouth to breathe is like drowning in the cold depths of the ocean, and with each inhalation, you are one point closer to true death. ”

"It turns out that despair has weight, and the soul has substance, and I even heard the sound of my own soul being crushed. It was like a steamroller running over an ant, and I didn't even try to resist it......"

"Anyway...... That's all, all I know, everything I know about this mutation, I've told you. ”

After that, Nalan Yu glanced up at the crowd and found that their faces were not very good-looking, but as a person who experienced it, he was the most relaxed, so he smiled helplessly and said:

"If you have any feelings, it's not too late to sigh when it's all over, now, we still have a war to fight. ”

He immediately clapped his hands twice, and the loud applause dragged the spirit of the big guy out of the bloody and gloomy time and space and returned to reality.

"Everyone, come with me!"

As he spoke, he walked one step ahead of the others, along the bluestone path in the courtyard, in the direction of the stairs leading to the bottom of the mountain. When everyone saw this, although they didn't understand what his intentions were, they still followed along. They stopped at the outermost edge of the shrine's front yard, at the foot of the vermilion torii. Standing there, you can see the entire Gensokyo scenery as you walk down the steps below. When Reimu is idle and bored and has nothing to do, she often runs there, sits on the steps, looks at the scenery and clouds, and consumes a whole afternoon with a cup of tea in her hand.

Green trees and white clouds, mountains and flowing water, and the vast and clear scenery of Gensokyo always make people feel good. However, tonight, when Reimu stood in that familiar position, looking through the red moonlight, she was shocked to find that the former paradise was now unrecognizable.

"It's just ......" she couldn't help but mutter, "Demon Realm, ......"

She didn't want to use words like "Demon Realm" to describe the land that nurtured her, this pure land that the gods loved, Gensokyo. However, she also had to admit that at this moment, the word "Demon Realm" could not be more commensurate.

Gensokyo's vegetation coverage is very high, very high, and as a land that has not experienced the baptism of industrialization, basically all the places where there are no houses and no farming are occupied by plants. In normal times, it should be full of greenery. But now, the blood moon has risen, and all the greenery has turned into red, twisted flesh. Viewed from above, the dense mass of large patches resembled a community of fresh red moss, attached to a large piece of strange stone. When the wind blew that night, all the "moss" swayed excitedly, pushing each other and shaking in patches, and Reimu's head was full of goosebumps.

Ah, by the way, she has a phobia of intensity.

"It's just mutated plants," Nalan said as she looked into the distance, "and even though they're huge, they're the least threatening. After all, he doesn't have long legs, he can only wait for the prey to get close before he can make a move, and he can't take the initiative to attack, even if he is caught, he will still die...... Well, be careful when you walk, you should be fine......"

"'Should'......" Reimu glanced at him.

"That's not the point, it's there," he said, pointing to a corner of Gensokyo, "the bamboo forest." ”

The crowd followed his fingers and focused on a corner in the southeast of Gensokyo, where the Lost Bamboo Forest and the Eternal Pavilion were located.

"Bamboo ......" Marisa whispered, looking at the bamboo forest in the distance, "no mutation......

The Lost Bamboo Forest, a forest with a complex structure like the Demon Realm, is the only bit of green in the Red Demon Realm at this time. A hemispherical transparent enchantment shrouds it, like a sci-fi movie stance shield, protecting the creatures of the bamboo forest from alienation under the maddening moonlight.

No one knew why the Forever Pavilion group didn't attend this banquet, but now, everyone felt that it was a wise decision.

"It's Yonglin's handiwork," Yakumo Zi said as she looked at the curved enchantment, "It's too obvious." ”

"It sounds like you know Yonglin very well again. ”

Nalan smiled at her, then beckoned to Patchouli Norreki behind her, and said:

"Patty, get ready, we've got to get a detection circle!"

"Big guys, let them all go, leave an open space to come out, thank you!"

(b)

Nalan Twilight and Patchouli, plus Alice who came up to help, took chalk and painted a sketchy map of Gensokyo, plus a large magic circle, on the stone pavement of the shrine courtyard.

It was a magic detection circle, and the detected mana radiation source would be marked with a red dot on the map, and the stronger the mana, the larger and brighter the red dot. When the Living Dead mutated last year, Nalan Twilight had used this circle to find Radu III's hideout, and now, he was going to use it to find something else.

Accompanied by a series of intricate and obscure spells, Pache infused the circle with plenty of magic, and blue and red lights lit up on the circle—meaning it was already working.

A large group of people gathered around this magic array, looking at it curiously, pointing with their hands and feet. In the crowd of onlookers, there were many fools like Cirno and Lumia, who stood there for a long time and couldn't see why, but their mouths were never idle, and they were very happy to find their own homes on the glimmering map. Oh, by the way, even though it's also a magician, Marisa can't understand this magic array on the ground at all. For this reason, she also pestered Alice for advice for a long time, and was blinded by Lao Duo.

However, Reimu could understand it, even though she had never learned magic and had never seen a similar magic circle, but she could understand it, it was really more popular than people.

Excluding the fools, the remaining big guys who could already see through what kind of thing it weighed a few pounds and taels when the two started to draw the map, although they knew everything well, they always smiled and refused to say anything. Nalan glanced at Yakumo Zi, her soft smile seemed to be telling him, "Smart you, even if you don't have my reminder, you can already see the problem, right?"

That's a bit arrogant.

"Purple," Nalan Twilight said, "I'm not going to provoke, or I want you to give me a ......."

"You and Yonglin, in terms of mana alone, which one is stronger?"

"If you're referring to the energy level in the two of us," Yakumo said, opening a folding fan and covering his mouth, "I can tell you clearly that I'm stronger. ”

"Oh roar, little purple purple~"

Yuyuko of Saigyoji, who was standing beside her, poked her cheek with her fingertips and said with a smile:

"When did you become as braggart as a young man?"

"This ......"

Yakumo's face suddenly turned red, so he turned his face away, and said coquettishly:

"This is bragging, to tell you the truth, that's how it is!"

"One-on-one, pure fighting, no tricks, that must be my strength. It's just that she's so much better than me in other aspects, so ......" When she got here, her voice volume dropped down all of a sudden, and she seemed to be seriously lacking in confidence, "The record so far is a negative ...... for the time being."

"Besides!" her voice rose louder again, "what do you mean by 'the same as young people'?

When she spoke, she deliberately straightened her waist, and through the thin skirt, she showed a body curve that was enough to be described as "proud" - convex, warped and lined, with an S in the front and an S in the back. Yuyuko almost thought she was hallucinating, as she seemed to vaguely see abs and mermaid lines on Purple's body.

"As we all know, the mermaid line is just a ridiculous urban legend that never exists in reality" - at least that's what Yuyuko thinks.

"Such a body," Purple boasted at Yuyuko, who had a smile on her face that was fading away, "Can you be an undead who either eats or sleeps all day long?"

By the way, this was all practiced by Nalan Yu. And her reward is that she sent a copy of "Fingertip Milk Tea" and a set of maid outfits of more than one meter and eight meters, which can be said to be a copy of "The Farmer and the Snake".

"It's so good, it's so good...... Yuyuko glanced at Yakumo Zi's body, touched her belly again, and sighed, "It's also a relaxed old man, why are you so good......"

"It's all said, it's not old, okay?"

"Two, two!"

Nalan smiled bitterly and gestured, signaling the two to calm down.

"I just want to know who has thicker mana in Zi or Yonglin, because the more magic power, the bigger the red dots displayed on this map, there is no other meaning, don't think too much!"

On the surface, he said this, but he actually had one sentence in his heart:

"Auntie, why is it difficult to be an aunt. ”

However, this ignores the fact that he is older than Yuyuko.

"Back to business. ”

Nalan clapped his hands, and then pointed to a place with many red dots in the map surrounded by the magic array.

"That's where we're at, Hakurei Shrine. Even if you ignore this large number of red points of light, you can judge it by looking at the contour line alone. ”

"Hey, Ki," Lumia asked in the crowd with a white face to Kirino beside her, "What is the 'contour line'?"

"I don't know," Qi Luno said, hugging her arms and pouting, "maybe it's a kind of rice noodles." ”

"Can you eat rice noodles?"

"I don't know, maybe I can eat it?"

"I want to eat contours, you buy it for me!"

"We don't have any money, go to Letty and ask for it!"

Ignoring the two fools, Nalan raised his steps and stepped into the magic circle. Carefully avoiding the chalk-drawn lines that were easy to fade, he walked over to the location of the Hakurei Shrine, stretched out his hand to one of the many red dots in the front yard of the shrine, and said:

"Purple, this second largest red dot is you. ”

Purple looked down at the red dot, then at the one not far from it, the "biggest" red dot, and then glanced up at Kazami Yuka who was standing across the magic array.

Well, that's right, the red dot that represented her was only the second largest of the bunch of red dots, and she had no objection to that. But the biggest red dot is bigger than all the red dots but itself combined, what kind of shit is that?

"To be honest, I don't know the true strength of Bayi Yonglin. I think everyone knows that she is not so easy to understand. Nalan Yu said, "But, since Zi said that Yonglin's mana is not as good as her, then we can at least be sure." ”

"That is, the big red dot floating on the Eternal Pavilion does not belong to Yonglin. ”

As he spoke, he took two more steps to the side of the Eternal Pavilion on the map.

An incomparably large red dot, several circles larger than the monster red dot that represented the fragrance of the wind and the fragrance, or rather, a red spot, lay not far from his feet. The red spot had completely covered the outline of the Eternal Pavilion, and the red dots that existed with it in the Eternal Pavilion, and at a glance, there was only a vague patch of red in the Eternal Pavilion, and nothing else could be seen.

In fact, it's so huge that most people take it for granted the red patch on the backdrop, as part of the map itself, or even as part of the stone bricks underneath it, without paying much attention to it. It wasn't until Nalan Yu reminded them that they realized in shock that "that thing" also represented a person.

How terrifying can this be? In contrast, the wind is the embodiment of nature, and can draw power from all things in nature, and its magic is so strong that all those present together are beyond the reach of dust. And the "certain existence" located in the Eternal Pavilion is even far above Yuxiang's.

If you think about it a little deeper, what else can be on this planet that can surpass the power of nature? Once you think about it, whoever you think about it will shudder.

So, the crowd fell silent. Whether it was a mischievous goblin or an older goblin, everyone had gloomy faces and looked at the big red spot like the little sun, and they couldn't say a word.

"At best, at least two facts are clearly laid out in front of us now. ”

Nalan Twilight said, holding up a finger:

"One, those people in the Eternal Pavilion don't seem to be of the same mind as us. ”

"She's never been with me......" Yakumo interjected, pouting.

"That's one, and two," Nalan twilight held up a second finger and continued, "Our enemy doesn't seem to have intended to hide himself from the beginning. ”