The girl slept peacefully in the empty secret room, quietly, motionless, leaving all her astonishment and doubts to the people beyond her dreams. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Alright Alice," Reimu stood in front of Alice, blocking her gaze, "I think you should calm down." ”

"But..... The person ......" Aili** stopped talking, but the meaning she wanted to express, Reimu had already understood.

"She's not purple, although she looks alike, but ......" Reimu said, glancing at the girl behind her from the corner of her eye, she suddenly changed her tone and asked:

"Tell me, Alice, have you ever seen a purple eye? I mean, with your own eyes. ”

"Sort of...... I've seen it once. Alice looked away, and after a moment's thought, continued:

"About two years, or three years ago? When I passed her on the streets of Renzhong, I just looked back at her out of curiosity, and then I never forgot this person. How do you say how she feels to me...... It's different from other youkai. ”

"For example," Alice raised the index finger of her right hand, "if the demonic power of other youkai is a fountain, gushing out from the inside out. Then Yakumo Zi's demonic power is probably a whirlpool. No one knows how deep it is, and no one wants to go down and try it. ”

"I feel the same way!" Reimu nodded vigorously, "I felt the same way when I first met her. At that time, I thought that this guy was not a monster at all, but a phenomenon. Whether it is a human or a demon, it is just the appearance she uses to show people, and her inner is pure chaos. ”

"So, back to the question," said Alice, "why are you asking me this?"

"If you've seen Yakumo and have a general idea of her, that's easy to say. Reimu didn't answer Alice's question directly, but stepped aside and made way for the passage at the door of the secret room so that the people outside could see the girl inside.

"If you look closely, does this person have those 'things' that Zi usually carries?" she asked, pointing to the girl's unsuspecting sleeping face.

Following the direction Reimu was pointing, Alice took a closer look. This time, she said "whirlpool" and "fountain", and all she could see was a pool of clear water - a human being who had nothing to do with demonic power or anything, and could no longer be pure. After learning this, she finally shook her head and said:

"Indeed...... It's not the same. Sorry, I was too excited. ”

"No, it's nothing, so what's next......"

"Why is she still sleeping?" At this time, Yuzang suddenly came up and interjected, "Although it is late at night, we are so noisy around her, don't she turn over?"

"Hah-" Reimu sighed, "yes, that's the question I wanted to ask. This guy can't wake up. ”

"Can't wake up?"

Questioning, he stepped forward, crouched down in front of the sleeping girl, and then reached out and pinched her nose.

This kind of prank, which is usually only done by schoolchildren, appeared on such occasions, and Alice was puzzled, and asked:

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

Yuzo turned around, smiled slyly at Alice, and replied:

"Give it a try and see if she is really asleep or pretending to be asleep. ”

In a few moments, a loud snoring that did not match the girl's appearance came out of her mouth, and Alice could not stand it anymore, and urged:

"Have you finished trying?"

"It's over, it's over, hehe!" "Yuzo stood up, grinning and scratching his head, a bit of a naughty air, "Now the old man can be sure that she is indeed asleep." ”

"I've said it a long time ago," Reimu said lightly, "this thing is sleeping to death, let alone pinching her nose, even if you block her nose and mouth together, you won't wake her up." ”

"Wait a minute," Alice sensed something in Reimu's words, and asked, "Did you just try?"

In this regard, Reimu did not hide it, and directly confessed:

"I tried it for a little while, about a minute or so, and I saw that her whole face was purple, and she still couldn't wake up, so she gave up. ”

"Haha!" Hearing this, he laughed and said, "Aren't you more than me!"

"What if this guy is a hidden vampire, I'll suffocate her to death and get rid of the people!"

"Vampires can't be suffocated!"

"Really? I'll try to bury a vampire in the soil next time. ”

"Well, you two...... Alice held her forehead, not in the mood to pay attention to the witch and the tanuki who were chatting hotly, but walked quickly into the secret room, sat down beside the sleeping girl, and put her hand gently on her neck.

Pulse, breathing, flow of energy...... All the information came through my fingers. Alice's skillful hands, which she usually used to pull the threads, now came in handy in this way.

"Two, stop!"

After a moment, Alice interrupted the discussion in a loud voice, and the small cabin immediately fell silent, leaving only Alice's voice:

"This man is asleep, no, I should say that the cause of the coma, I may know. ”

"I don't know very well, but ......" Alice stood up, patted the dust behind her buttocks, and continued:

"There's some anomalous flow of magic left in her body, and I think she's been cast some kind of magic. ”

"Magic?" said Yuzo, narrowing her eyes, "Are you saying that she wasn't paralyzed by the bricks that fell from the sky, but was she spelled? Is this a sleeping beauty?"

"What is Sleeping Beauty?" asked Reimu.

"It's the princess of a certain country in ancient times, who was accidentally cursed by a witch one day, and she had to be kissed by the handsome prince charming to wake up. ”

"Wow, good or bad!"

"Tell you quietly," Yuzo whispered in Reimu's ear, "Actually, at the beginning of the fight, Sleeping Beauty used money to buy witches, and the black magic and so on were actually made to cheat marriages. ”

"Uh-huh," Reimu nodded, "she really looks like someone who would do such a thing!"

"You two!" Alice yelled, immediately stopping the two annoying guys, "don't always divert the topic......, okay? Anyway, listen to me!"

"Okay boss!" said Yuzo, pretending to straighten his back and give a military salute. Alice just glared at her fiercely, then ignored it, and began to explain to herself:

"There are probably hundreds of kinds of magic that can make people fall asleep in this world, and there are more than a dozen that a novice magician like me can use, and it is even more difficult to use the elimination method to sift out the magic applied to her. But, luckily, and unfortunately, she didn't have any of the magic, I mean, she wasn't sleeping. ”

"Huh?" Reimu tilted her head, "Are you blind?

"Ouch......" Alice shook her head, "I'm really hard pressed to explain the principles of magic to you, and there's no need for that. Anyway, let's draw a conclusion: this person's consciousness, under the influence of some kind of magic, left her body. ”

That is, lethargy is a phenomenon, not a cause. She didn't lose consciousness because she was sleeping, but she fell asleep because she lost consciousness, understand?"

"Sorry, I don't understand. Reimu turned her head and directly repudiated all of Alice's efforts to explain the complex magical theories in plain language, but the hidden ones around her seemed to have realized something.

"I think I probably understand," Yuzo put away his usual casual attitude and said, "If you explain it in local dialect, this is an out-of-body soul, right?"

"Out-of-body soul!" Reimu hammered the palm of his left hand and suddenly realized, "If you say that, I understand it too!"

"Whew-" Alice let out a long breath, "thank you so much." ”

"The so-called soul," she continued, "can be interpreted as a vehicle of consciousness. The girl's consciousness left her physical body, but she didn't do it on her own initiative, someone forced her to leave with magic. That kind of magic, I ......."

At this point, Alice froze, she wanted to say, "I happened to see it once in a book", but when she carefully recalled the contents of that book, she felt that her mind was a mess and she couldn't remember anything. It was strange to say that she had all that knowledge, but she didn't know where it came from, as if it had been engraved in her mind from the beginning.

"Huh?" Reimu asked, seeing that she was stuck, "and then? You haven't finished talking yet, have you?"

"I'm sorry, my mind is a little messy, let me ......slow down," Alice closed her eyes, rubbed her temples, and continued:

"For example, if all of our bodies are puppets, then our consciousness is the one who manipulates the puppet behind our backs, and the body and consciousness rely on those transparent filaments to connect each other. In the case of this girl, someone cut those silk threads with scissors, causing her consciousness to lose contact with her body. You all know what will become of a puppet with a broken string, right?"

"Well, why don't we get rid of her magic?" Reimu asked, "You're a magician, you should have some way, right?"

"Unfortunately, no. Alice shrugged, "I wanted to do something, but I couldn't do it, because there was no magic in her body for a long time." Cutting off consciousness was a one-off, and all that remained in her body was a small remnant of magic. ”

"Eh, what about her consciousness?" Reimu added, "Since the consciousness has flown away, why don't you just get it back?"

"So, where are you going to find it?" Alice said with a wry smile, "You are a witch, and you are more inspired, can you sense anything in this room?"

"Not at all. ”

"Since you can't do it, then we're even more out of the question. ”

"Alice, I have a question. This time, he asked, "If you connect the broken silk threads, will the puppet be able to move again?"

"Theoretically possible, but in practice...... The connection between the body and consciousness is not a real thread, and even if you find her consciousness back, it is impossible to reconnect it. ”

"No, no, no, you're too absolute. Yuzang said with a smile.

"Is there anything you can do about it?"

"Old, there's no way around it. ”

"Isn't that still!"

"Don't worry, young man!" said Mysteriously, "Although the old man can't help it, the old man has a way!"

"Doorway?" Alice didn't understand what she meant.

"I just have one, and it's not a friend, but it's someone I know. As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and pressed a number on it, "He's pretty good at that! ”

After more than ten seconds of long tones, the phone was connected, and without waiting for the other party to speak, he said:

"Hey, Xiao Hei, there's something I need your help with here, and the reward is an extra 'one' on top of the usual one, what do you think?"

After a long time, there was no reply, and he said:

"Hey, can you hear me?"

"Uh...... Hello?"

Finally, a voice rang on the other end of the phone, but it wasn't the voice that Yuzo was expecting—the person she was looking for couldn't be a little girl.

"Who are you and where did you find this phone?"

"I'm ...... Lianzi, Usami Lianzi, is the owner of this mobile phone, Nalan Yu's classmate. Nalan twilight, he has encountered something, and he may ......"