On that gate, there was a similar flash of Epiphany, and then the gate parted in both directions.

Another world appears in Shigeaoi's sight.

In this world...... There were a lot of people, they were standing in a long corridor, lined up, but they were all expressionless.

Most of them are made of wood, but they all have carved facial features and look like real people.

The road was very long, with hundreds of huge black stone pillars standing on both sides, and the dome was curved, and something shimmered with a faint light, as if it were some kind of pattern.

But since there is no fire here, nothing can be seen clearly.

After walking out of the road, there is a turquoise lake, the space is extremely open, the ice and snow above the head are crystal clear, and the reflection is in the lake water, so the lake water is so clear blue.

There is a long passage in the middle of the lake, carved out of white jade, like a white snake winding through the lake.

They walked through the white jade passage, and on the other side of the lake, there was a stone town.

The stone city built by white jade is built along the upward snowy mountains, like a mythical sky city, and the high place seems to float above the clouds.

If she had been here at any other time, Chongkui would have sighed that there was such a beautiful place in the world, as if the gods lived in the mythological stories she had read in her time.

Tan Jiu walked in, and several wooden puppets quietly greeted him and opened one stone door after another in the stone city for him.

This is a very large city, built in the middle of a huge snow-capped mountain, except for these walking wooden puppets, there are only two flesh-and-blood people, her and Tan Jiu.

The whole stone town was silent, and there was no sound except for the sound of their footsteps.

There was something indescribably terrifying about the feeling, and the empty echoes filled every corner of Stone Town, as if they were spirits whispering in the shadows.

Was Tan Jiu born here?

"Where is this?" Shigekui couldn't help but ask.

"Puppet Country. Tan Jiu said.

Chongkui looked at the lifeless wooden puppets and asked, "Who will control them?"

Tan Jiu paused, shook his head and said, "I don't know, they were here when I was born. ”

In this puppet country, I don't know how many puppets there are, and I don't know how many puppeteers have worked hard.

Those puppets are just a bunch of emotionless guys, who can't think, don't wonder, and just act with power that they don't know where to get.

Countless stone doors opened, and Tan Jiu led her into a room with a high dome that opened directly to the sky outside.

He placed her on a bed of ice made of cold ice and slowly stepped back.

Her back was full of coldness, and Chongkui looked at her puzzledly: "What are you going to do?"

Tan Jiu tilted his head to look at her, his gray eyes reflected the color of ice and snow, and it seemed to be a melancholy aqua blue.

"Aoi-......," he muttered, "do you hate puppets?"

"It's not annoying. Chongkui said that he was a puppet, and she had never hated him.

"Then why don't you want to be a puppet?"

Chongkui was stunned and said, "Because puppets are always restrained by people, I don't want to be bound." ”

"Kill the person who made you a puppet, and you will be free, and no one will bind you. After Tan Jiu finished speaking, he added, "It's like I killed the old man." ”