In the city of Guanbuzi, which has no characteristics, there is a very special building, and the name of the building is "Ogawa Apartment". Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is special not because it is a rare high-end condominium in the Chimihama apartment area, nor because it was built by three companies, but because of its unique design.

Let's take a look at the two designers of the apartment: Soren Araya and Orange Aosaki.

Needless to say, these two names alone are enough to tell the story.

This apartment is actually made up of two adjacent apartments, two neat half-moon ten-story buildings, built opposite each other. If you take a helicopter view from above, you will be surprised to see that the whole apartment is a standard circle, completely different from the surrounding featureless traditional square buildings.

The walls inside the apartment are uniformly painted in a milky color and are extremely clean. The walls are full of strange shapes, and you will feel dizzy and tight-chested after looking at it for a long time. The lobby is the only space that connects the two buildings, and it is not possible to go directly from the east building to the west building above the second floor, so you must first return to the central space and then pass through the hall.

Although it is divided into two separate condominiums, the east and west buildings are identical. However, due to the nature of Ogawa's apartment itself, few people even the residents of the apartment are aware of the fact that the two sides are perfectly symmetrical.

to refine a few keywords.

Perfect circle.

Split in two from the center.

The two sides are independent of each other.

There is also the text used to write these keywords.

Have you thought of any ancient, familiar patterns for everyone who can write this kind of text?

That's right, if you twist the lines a little, it will become a Taiji diagram known as "the first picture in China".

Taiji diagram expounds the most basic truth of Taoism - easy to have Taiji, the first birth of two instruments, one yin and one yang. In the Western magic world, this is known as the "spiral of contradictions".

This is the secret of this Ogawa apartment. Based on the entire apartment, Araya Zonglian constructed an otherworld, a man-made barrier.

The families who live in the Ogawa apartment are all people who have collapsed. People who are going to collapse in the first place will undoubtedly only come to the end of their lives - death. It was supposed to take decades to come to an end, but it was accelerated by special circumstances such as the unchanging scenery around the apartment and the strange patterns that pressed the retina, and it came to an end within a month.

These lost lives were concentrated in the west building of the apartment.

The brain marrow of these beings was taken out by Araya, and with these brain marrows, they imitated the dead lives to make corresponding dolls, and let them live in the East Building, repeating the last day of the end every day.

The east building is life and yang, and the west building is death and yin, which are symmetrical with each other, and together constitute the two instruments of life and death, forming a spiral of contradictions.

This is a simple experiment, and Araya Soren wants to see if humanity can usher in a different death than the end.

Man will surely die. But that was nothing but the doomed death of each man.

There is only one so-called final death of a person. A person who dies in a fire in any form is nothing but a person killed by a fire, and a person who is killed by a family member in any form is nothing more than a person killed by a family member. The first time I got out of the predicament of death, but that was only a way to usher in the second and third deaths. This finite way of dying is what we call lifespan.

Even though the way of man's death is predestined. However, if the same knot is repeated thousands of times, the spiral will also be incorrect. It doesn't matter if the error is even the slightest accident, and the misfortune of being run over by a car on the way to death is good - nevertheless, the result is the same. The two hundred uninterrupted repetitions only made Aguya Zonglian see the fact that the fate of people cannot be changed.

This is the world that ends in one day, and it is called "The Sixty-fourth Floor of the Bonna Temple." Although it is not an inherent enchantment, it is also the embodiment of the scenery of the lotus mind of the Wild Sect. It is the embodiment of Araya, and it also represents Araya's consciousness and pursuit—his purpose is always to record the death of mankind, and reaching the root is only a means.

The building itself is a mantra, an altar to make the consciousness of Araya Soren stronger.

The high level of magic, combined with the power of the land itself and the lives sacrificed within the barrier, made the "Ogawa Apartment" transcend the level of the magic workshop and become a "temple" above it.

In the temple, the owner of the temple can exercise the mystery beyond magic and exercise power beyond human power, which is the realm of "magic".

If the workshop is the home of the magician, then the temple can be said to be an extension of the magician's body, and the impossible is possible.

The temple of Araya Soren is called the "Sixty-fourth Floor of the Bonna Temple", where he is sure that his long-cherished wish will be fulfilled, and here he has the confidence to repel all invading enemies.

Now, the two rituals of the body that he had to make his long-cherished wish had been lured by the chess pieces he had sent out, and he had stepped into the "sixty-fourth floor of the Hall of Bonna" and came to him.

Shi stared at the tall man who quietly appeared within five meters of her, and there was undisguised surprise in the eyes of the demon who could see the death of all things. Anyone so far, without exception, has a line of death. But, this man, the line is extremely weak.

What surprised Shi even more was that this man gave her a very familiar feeling.

"I, remember you. ”

"Not bad. It's been two years since we met like this. ”

Araya Zonglian's voice was heavy, as if pinching the brain of someone who heard it.

He slowly reached out and touched his sideburns. On the side of the head, from the forehead to the left, there is a straight scar. It was the last night before the two ceremonies fell unconscious, and the deep scars were carved by their own hands.

As early as that time, he had already set his sights on the two rituals, and everything he did was for today, in order to get the body that connected the "roots" of the two rituals.

"You are—" as if facing the enemy.

"Araya Zonglian. Killers. ”

Without even moving his eyebrows, Araya Zonglian asserted.

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The bright moonlight illuminates the spiral tower, and in this world shrouded in darkness, a red Honda sedan stops in front of the main entrance of the apartment.

Stepping out of the car was a young woman with long orange hair, and her leather coat, which looked like a lizard skin dyed in brown, did not fit her slender size. The coat is not like clothing, but has the feeling of armor.

Glancing up at the apartment, she lifted the orange suitcase with one hand and walked through the green fur-covered atrium into the apartment.

The glass-covered hall is dyed with a cold moonlight by the bright moon. Whether it's the floor, the walls, or the elevator columns used to go up, there is a haze. After a moment's consideration, she turned around and decided to change her destination. The target is not the elevator, but the lobby that continues down east.

At that moment, a voice rather shrill for a man sounded in the hall.

"Ah, Aosaki, it's been a long time, but your body is okay?"

Orange Aozaki raised her gaze. On the stairs that lead to the second floor, as if drawing a gentle diagonal line, stands in the middle of a man in a red coat and a red top hat. He was in his early twenties, with dark blond hair and blue eyes, and a face as deep as a knife and an axe.

"It's you, Cornelius Aruba. Orange's face was undisguised with disgust, casting a cold look at the man.

"Don't look like that, I've come to see you. Aruba spread his hands exaggeratedly and smiled with kindness.

"I don't have time to talk nonsense to you!" Orange's expression is the exact opposite of Aruba's, cold enough to drip water.

"I'm amazed that you're so impatient, but it's also a delightful thing, welcome to my hell, the strongest puppeteer. ”

The magician Cornelius Aruba smiled happily and bowed deeply with an exaggerated gesture like acting.

"Your hell? with your strength, it's impossible to come up with ideas to make the Taiji diagram manifest. ”

Orange impatiently lowered the suitcase to the ground with a "bang".

"Okay, come out, I'm not here for you today. ”

After saying that, Orange began to pay attention to his surroundings, completely ignoring the red ** magician who should be paying attention, and began to look for an opponent that did not exist.

The magician just looked at her. With eyes full of murderous intent as if they were about to cry.

"You're always like that!"

It was as if I couldn't help but say this.

"That's right, you've always been like this, you've always given me such an underrated - it's me, it's me first, it's me who came first—whether it's studying the Rune script or the puppeteer's reputation. Obviously, your attitude has deceived those imbeciles. Your attitude of belittling me has made those guys think I'm inferior. If you think about it, you will find out! I am the next abbot of Schuppenheim Abbey! I have been studying magic for more than forty years, so why must I be ranked behind a little girl in her twenties...... like this!"

When his words were so loud that they resounded throughout the hall. Orange just looked at him with a vague interest in the face of his opponent, who had always pretended to be kind and began to spread curses.

"Learning has nothing to do with age, Cornelius, although you look young on the outside, you always pay attention to your appearance, so you can't catch up on the inside. ”

It's a calm word, but there's nothing more provocative than that. When the young man over fifty heard this, his handsome face was distorted with disgust.

I haven't said what my purpose is. ”

Struggling to calm himself down, the red magician changed his words.

"I don't care about the absurd experiments, and I don't have any interest in the root vortex, and it's so pointless to pursue something that I don't know exists. If you want to touch the realm of God, you just need to pursue the truth, and there is no need to go back to the source. ”

Aruba took a step back, intending to climb up to the second floor and slowly ascend.

"I... But I came to this poor country to kill you!

With a sound that seemed to break his throat, the magician laughed and ran quickly up the stairs.

"By the way, you're here to find the 'Liangyi' in this 'Tai Chi', right? Unfortunately, you're a step late. That girl has already arrived at Araya, and is she dying? Or has she been caught by Araya? Anyway, it has nothing to do with me, and it has nothing to do with you, because you are going to die. ”

The hall on the first floor is completely filled with the magician's malicious manifestations.

Some were humanoid, some were animal, and although the scarred wart on the surface began to dissolve, their appearance was immediately reshaped, and there was nothing more like the real thing. Figuratively speaking, it is like a man or a beast that is perpetually rotten, something that is both ugly and delicate at the same time.

"Are these slimes?" Orange described the aliens around her in a tone that contained insults and hatred like never before, "and that's all there is to be here." Aruba, you should really change your career from magician to film supervisor, and you should be able to save a lot of money on monster props. However, you probably can only participate in some small-scale horror works, right?

She was surrounded by monsters that filled the hall, grumbling.

Indeed, the situation is very similar to that of a horror movie, and if anything, it is probably that neither the cross nor the shotgun are ineffective. Obviously surrounded by only about two meters away, she still reached into her breast pocket without moving her eyebrows, and pulled out a shriveled red paper box.

"There's only one left, it's time for Shinji to restock me. ”

Skillfully lighting a cigarette, mixed with the smell of nicotine, made the orange's heart feel a little better. As the strongest puppeteer, she is an out-and-out artist, she will be amazed when she sees interesting things, and she will feel uncomfortable when she sees uninteresting things, and she has to smoke to relieve them. Aruba's manifestation of the alien is such a boring thing.

"No, it seems that you can't do it as a supervisor, the performance is really bad. This level will not entertain the current guests, no way, and at least it should be maintained at this level, whichever is strange. ”

As he spoke, Orange kicked open the suitcase at his feet.

"Come out!" was a command, full of majesty that could not be refused.

In response, the suitcase opened with a "click".

The lid of the box was opened, and there was nothing.

At the same time, a black object surrounded a magician named Aozaki Orange.

The black object is a typhoon holding the body, and it is whirring at high speed with an orange as the eye of the typhoon. In a matter of seconds, the hall was empty.

The monsters that overflowed the hall disappeared without leaving a trace.

The only things that remained were Aozaki Orange and his closed bag, and the cat sitting in front of him.

"What!" Aruba never dreamed it would be.

The cat is larger than the orange, its body is all black, and it has no so-called thickness, it is a flat black cat made of shadows.

No, you can't even tell if it's a cat. It resembles the shadow of a cat, with eyes resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs only on the part of the head.

"That's, what!" Aruba looked down at the cat from the second floor.

When the cat's eyes are painted, the cat begins to smile, and it removes the part of its face and mouth to indicate a smile.

"I'm not watching a nightmare, am I?" Aruba swallowed.

Orange doesn't say a word. Only the sound of chirping and chirping came from nowhere.

"It's different from what I heard! Is it true that the rumor that your demon has been defeated by your own sister is false?"

Perhaps unable to endure the silence, Aruba began to scream.

She simply replied, "Who knows?" and turned her gaze to the black cat.

"I'm sorry to make you eat something unpalatable, but the next one is much better, and so on it's not that kind of energy block, but real human flesh, and the storage of spiritual power is also very sufficient. Because he's my classmate, you don't have to scruple. I've taught you how to eat as long as you're an enemy. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the black cat immediately rushed out. It seemed to glide across the marble floor, across the hall and up the stairs...... Even so, the cat's feet did not move, and it remained a seated shadow, only its eyes rushing towards the cardinal magician.

It probably took less than ten seconds to get from the hall on the first floor where Orange was to the platform on the second floor where Aruba was, but Aruba, who reacted in time, was not an ordinary person, he was a magician after all.

“Go away the shadow. It is impossible to touch the thing which are not visible. Forget the darkness. It is impossible to see the thing which are not touched. The question is prohidited. The answer is simple. Ihave the flame in the left hand. And I have everything in the right hand――”

Vanish! Phantom, I will become invisible, forget, darkness, the invisible will not be touchable, there is no doubt, the answer is obvious, my left hand holds the light, and my right hand holds the truth.

Aruba calmed down and chanted the incantation at a near-limiting speed.

For magic, a spell is nothing more than an autosuggestion given to the individual. The magic of the wind is the same as a weapon, and the power of that performance is determined from the beginning. No matter which magician uses it, the potency does not change. It's just that chanting can make a difference. The purpose of chanting a mantra is to discover the magic engraved in one's body, and the content can profoundly express the nature of the magician, and in addition to containing the fixed keywords necessary for the discovery of the magic, the details of the chanting are also based on the preferences of each magician. Magicians who like to exaggerate, pretentious, and easily self-absorbed tend to sing very long. However, it is also true that the chanting will increase in power as a result. The stronger the hints given to oneself, the higher the ability to channel oneself.

In this respect, the chant of Aruba is excellent, neither exaggerated nor too long, with a minimum of rhyme and words that exalt one's spirit, and the chant cannot be pronounced for even two seconds. This fact made the orange feel admired with a "oh~".

The young man named Aruba seems to have grown considerably over the years, although he likes to sing more than necessary and in many useless texts.

The combination of the form and speed of the mantra chant, the circuit of the movement of the material world, is surprisingly dexterous. His chanting is a first-rate technique if it is purely based on the magic of destroying objects.

“I an the order. Therefore，you will be defeated securely――！”

I am the truth of all things, and before me, you will bring about your own destruction!

Aruba held out one hand. The moment the black cat reached the first step of the staircase, the atmosphere shook slightly—and the staircase immediately burst into flames.

Like a mirage rising from the ground, the blue sea of fire engulfed the staircase. It only took a few seconds for flames to emerge from the staircase and disappear into the ceiling through the floor of the second floor. It's like a geyser in a volcanic area.

In just a moment, the sea of fire that took away the oxygen in the hall only burned the black cat out of this world. And rightfully so,

The magic flame of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius can transform it from a solid to a gas like cream to any kind of animal. The process of turning into liquid in the middle is less than a thousandth of a second.

But Aruba saw it. He saw the strange appearance of a black cat that unexpectedly appeared after the flames burned out.

"It's impossible to !!"

Turquoise eyes stared at the stairs.

The black cat licked his shallower black body regrettably, and suddenly, turned his gaze to the red ** sorcerer. The strange black object sped away again.

Aruba didn't even have the time to see through the black cat's body.

"Repeat......!" Aruba repeated his magic in a tearing, high-pitched voice. "Repeat" means "repeat", and the magic of repeating the previous use with this word was the pinnacle of Aruba's chanting skills, and it was with this skill that he became a first-class magician.

The staircase caught fire again, but this time the black cat didn't stop. Perhaps accustomed to the flames, it rushed straight at the magician.

“Repeat!” The sea of fire sprayed again, then vanished. The black cat climbs the stairs.

“Repeat!” The fourth flame also ended without a problem.

When the black cat reached the second floor, he immediately approached Aruba and opened his mouth wide. The body of a cat the size of a man opens wide from the soles of its feet, and if you add a hinge to the top of your head, it looks like an open treasure chest.

There is no thickness, and it should be the alien residue that has just been swallowed in the body of a flat black cat, sticking to it like a mud ban. Aruba finally realized that it was just a cat, but it was actually a creature with a mouth.

"Repeat-" The horror of death made him repeat the last incantation.

But until then, the body of a black cat like a shark's jaws is sandwiched with a magician. Starting with the red coat, they were all swallowed together.

"If you don't get in the way, you'll live two more days - but you'll still be killed by me because you've touched a taboo you shouldn't. ”

It was the last word Aruba heard before losing consciousness.