18. Crisis!

"What are you doing?"

Teng Xi took off his blue trousers and revealed his slender legs like lotus roots, and his willow eyebrows frowned slightly.

I'm a spirit, so don't turn around.

White, white, white......

With this information boiling in my head, my throat was dry:

"But I don't have a change of clothes......

"That's ...... There seems to be a set of discarded workers' uniforms pressed under the planks over there, which should not have been found when the warehouse was cleaned up a few days ago. ”

Wearing only a bra and panties, and bare-white feet, she stepped aside.

Grunt.

swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and in a trance, there seemed to be a black shadow smashing it, and he quickly subconsciously took it.

When I put it in front of me, I recognized it as a camouflage coat and trousers, tattered and smelling musty.

Forced to endure the discomfort and put this thing on his body.

Keep your head up.

Seeing that the rattan seal was neatly dressed in neat clothes that were convenient for activities, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

"This way."

Her temperament was as plain as a real plant, and she pointed to the crate of broken wood stacked on the other side.

I was still a little dazed, when I saw the huge debris that contrasted with her slender body shape being gently pushed open, revealing the blue-painted wooden door behind it.

I remember the last time I saw this kind of door was when I was ** years old.

"Warehouse...... There is even a small door? ”

"It's been there since it was built."

The rattan seal pushed open the rusty locks, and the door that had been hung haphazardly on one side revealed a narrow, old path sandwiched between the warehouse and another red brick wall.

"Because of the expansion of the school more than ten years ago, this trail has become a dead end, and no one wants to come inside. The door is locked from the inside, and even the occasional discoverer is considered an abandoned dead door. ”

Step into a gap that barely allows one person to pass.

Even the air was filled with the smell of dust.

"No wonder that before, Aya Yue looked extremely familiar with the warehouse......"

I can't help but suddenly feel that even the school has forgotten this dusty trail by now.

The cramped environment seemed to oppress the air.

The silence lasted until I emerged from the inconspicuous crevice, reaching out to block out the somewhat glare of the sun, and I looked at her:

"Where do we go next?"

"Over there!"

Without hesitation, she pointed the way, passing through the scattered buildings of the old residential area, and she followed the trail of Ayayue and the others in a way that I could not understand......

Just when I was a little dazed, suddenly the noise of traffic came to my ears.

The autumn daylight is already a little golden at this time, and the buildings of different years and new stand on both sides of the road.

The thin branches struggle in the decaying knots, abandon the yellowed leaves, and lie dormant and introvert the last bit of vitality in their bodies.

The metabolic city is an ordinary sight.

In the next moment, as if the hands of time had been turned up, every qiΔ“ quickly decayed and decayed......

The cacophony of voices died down abruptly.

The world is quiet.

The overly abrupt changes contrasted with the tall, userless urban buildings, and the extremely incongruous void came to mind.

"Boundary! …… Is this a battlefield? ”

My nerves tightened, and the thought came to me.

Boom, boom – hum!

Tens of millions of volts of electricity flowed uncontrollably, making people feel sadly noisy.

Rumble!

Suddenly, there was no trace of anyone in the distance, and the roulette wheel woven by the stars above the pavilion appeared as if torn apart from time and space, and the tone of labor and urgency was distorted by an invisible force:

"Let's go! It's a trap! ”

The darkness that had disappeared from the light suddenly appeared, and the ink dripping into the clear water generally spread on the surface of the vast barrier in the shape of a semi-arc in the Decay Realm......

Just seeing this scene, a deep suffocation of an instinctive unprovoked instinct filled my chest.

But it's just too fast!

So much so that the contraction of my pupils could not even match the change of the scene reflected in my iris!

"Let's go!"

Suddenly, the voice of green leaves pulling branches with new power sounded.

It was as if I had escaped the shackles of timeβ€”no, the darkness had slowed down suddenly!

And until the next moment.

I just noticed the dings that appeared above me at some point.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it 'furnace'.

The flat furnace body, with three tripod feet and two ears on both sides, is surrounded by cloud-like mountains and rivers on the surface, and the fresh smell of plants and trees escapes from it, as if standing above my head is not a metal creation but a whole abundant jungle......

I instinctively manipulated the body in reality to retreat according to my words, and the body of the mind was staring blankly at the entire figure of the vine seal that had disappeared into the furnace.

"Be sure to find Aya! She is the only one who can break the game at this time! ”

It was the last voice I ever heard.

Stumbling back and throwing himself into the alley, his consciousness instantly returned**, the pitch-black Ze boundary barrier closed behind him like a monster's giant mouth, and I couldn't care about palpitations, and my eyes were focused on the figure of the vine seal on the side of the road in reality.

The expressionless face was still walking along the sidewalk as before, but the gaze that passed by from time to time was indifferent and unfamiliar.

A chill ran down my heart.

That's an instinctive program that's stuck in the body.

This is only possible when consciousness is completely isolated from the body.

Once it hasn't been back for a long time.

Even if the consciousness is not yet shattered, the body will wither as if it were 'brain dead' after consuming the remaining mental matter!

"Damn it!"

In vain, he slammed his fist into the ground.

Loneliness, the unknown and helplessness seem to be entangled, dyeing my life as their color.

"Wait for me ......"

Muttering to nothingness.

Turned around and ran in the direction of the school......

……

"Ayayu ......"

"Isn't it Ayayue's ritual?"

It was only at this point that I sadly discovered my strangeness to Ayayue.

Because you were forced to sign a contract?

I thought I had accepted it, but I realized that it was nothing more than a ridiculous lie to deceive myself.

"She saved me."

"Obviously there is no position to resent ......"

However, he stubbornly attributed the repression and fear to this cause.

In fact, it's just that he doesn't want to admit his cowardice!

I have never taken the initiative to understand, and I have never taken the initiative to integrate.

It has always been a passive receiving.

It was as if an invisible wall separated me from the mysterious unknown world, the name of the wall was 'Yin', and it came from my heart.

"It's sad!"

Sure enough, a guy like me can only find pleasure in the depravity of self-spit, and the throbbing pain of guilt calms me down.

"Speaking of which, Ayayu has really never appeared in Ayayue except for school......"

I never cared.

The sober mind made me smile bitterly.