Walking out of the "non-existent" five meters and into the pine forest, Makoto's footsteps are getting faster and faster. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info originally took at least 20 minutes to go up to the top of the mountain, but it turned out to be less than 10 minutes.

Sitting on the stone bench in the stone pavilion, Makoto ignored the scene in front of him and didn't make a sound for a long time, until a warm voice reached his heart:

"Are you alright?"

"Sakura......" Makoto turned his head and found that Sakura had been sitting next to him at some point.

"Drink some water!"

"Well, thanks, Sakura."

Makoto took the water bottle from Sakura's hand and took two sips. The water in the bottle was sweet, and although it was already cold, it had a strange amount of heat. Falling into the abdomen, it radiates warmth all over the body, and before you know it, it suddenly warms up a lot.

"Give!"

"What happened to you?"

Taking the water bottle, Sakura continued with the question.

"What's wrong?" Makoto asked rhetorically.

"Your face was very bad just now! If you don't want to say something, don't say it, don't force yourself! Looking at Makoto's face, Sakura suddenly chuckled.

"I see!"

……

"Ah, welcome back, Moment, World!" Seeing Instant and the world coming from the east, Makoto sat on the stone bench and beckoned to them. Fujino Sakura stood up with a little regret, she didn't greet them first, but quickly prepared her drink.

Rather than etiquette, Sakura cares more about the moment and the body of the world.

What a good girl!

It seems that when Makoto didn't know it, they were already getting along very well! It would be nice if we could continue to develop like this, at least then nothing strange would happen!

"No, am I scared? Won't it......"

"Thank you, Sakura!"

In an instant, he took a few sips in quick succession, and after putting down the water bottle, he smiled gratefully at Sakura.

"Thanks, Sakura! Really saved! ”

Taking the water bottle, the world's unladylike Dadi took a sip and smiled contentedly.

"You look tired!" Makoto stood and spoke without backache, and said with ulterior motives.

"Hmm!"

"Yes! I hadn't been to the east to the mountainside before, but I was mischievoked and almost couldn't come back! With that, the world took another sip of its drink.

"Huh? What's going on? ”

The words of the world piqued Fujino Sakura's interest, and she looked at the world curiously.

"Hmm......" The world's eyes wandered around, and she began to avoid Fujino Sakura's eyes, and the expression on her face was very subtle. It's like feeling ashamed!

The world doesn't speak, and Fujino Sakura can't help it, so she has to turn her eyes to the moment when she goes all the way to the world, hoping that the moment can answer for her. But the moment he looked at Kamizakura, he just shook his head with an apologetic look.

"Actually, it's nothing, there are eight strange places in this fog mountain. These eight strange places are located in eight of the eight roads that extend from the top of the hill to the mountainside. ”

"Odd land? I didn't see anything! Sakura Fujino was amazed at Makoto's words.

"Which way are you going?"

"Oh, that's it!"

Fujino Sakura pointed to the mountain road directly opposite where she was now sitting, to the left of the east mountain road that came from the moment and the world.

"That's to the northeast, and there's a strange place on that road, but it's a little too peculiar, and it's normal that you don't notice it." Knowing that Sakura was on that mountain road, Makoto nodded. Coincidentally, he happened to know the secret of that mountain road.

"Why do you say that?" Hearing Fujino Sakurachi's question, Moments and the world moved closer to Makoto and secretly pricked up their ears.

"The trail you're walking on is the shortest of all the trails it seems, which is the fundamental reason why you haven't seen anything peculiar." Sincerely want to catch their appetite.

The actual effect is really outstanding, but it is ......

"Let's make it clearer!"

Sakura Fujino suddenly lost her temper and came to Makoto's side, grabbing his arm with both hands and swaying from side to side, and she was coquettish.

It seems that the "crowd" is overdone.

Sakura Fujino's unexpected move caught Makoto off guard, and he felt very embarrassed, after all, the moment and the world were here. Makoto glanced at the momentary expression in a bit of a panic, and found that she hadn't changed much except for a little surprise, and Makoto couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Makoto didn't bother with Sakura Fujino's hands holding his arms, because deliberately bringing it up would only make the atmosphere even more awkward. I didn't feel unhappy about this for a moment, so I just let her hold it like that, but I sincerely hope that she can stop shaking it.

In order to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents like Fujino Sakura's sudden coquettishness, Makoto decided not to fish for their appetite anymore, and directly satisfied their simple curiosity: "Sakura, you should have reached the end of that mountain road, right?"

"It's like that, but it's ......"

"That's a dead end in your eyes, isn't it?" Taking Sakura Fujino's words, Makoto asked her again.

"In my eyes?" Fujino Sakura looked at the mountain path she had walked incomprehensibly, and then looked at it again.

"Hmmm! At the end of the seemingly shortest mountain road to the northeast is a canyon-like place with high sides and low in the middle, and at the end of the road is a huge rock wall directly connecting the top of the two high walls. It was dark and dark, giving people an inexplicable pressure that made it easy to avoid approaching...... Sakura, you must not have really reached the end of that road, where you can reach the stone wall, right? Makoto told him about the situation at the end of the trail without hesitation, and finally he asked Fujino Sakura again.

"Hmmm! There...... How so? It's very depressing, and if you don't have a lot of courage, or if you're naïve and ignorant to a certain extent, you can't get close there! Listening to Makoto's words, Fujino Sakura faintly sensed the secret there, and she seemed very unwilling to pass by Naqidi.

"As you said, the average person wouldn't want to go near that stone wall unless there was a special reason. As for the reason, it's the same as Sakura said, that place makes people feel very depressed, and they don't want to go any further than that place. This can't be described well in words, I can only say that only people who have experienced, felt, and actually been to that place can experience and understand! Makoto continued to explain as he reassured Sakura Fujino with his eyes, signaling that she didn't have to pay too much attention.

"Is there really that peculiarity there?"

Listening to the conversation between Makoto and Sakura Fujino, the eyes of the world became a little wrong, and they shone with a strange light like stars.

"Hmm!"

Makoto nodded and continued: "After walking in front of the stone wall, according to the specific position you are in, you will see two narrow stone cracks formed close to the stone wall on both high walls that can only allow one person to pass sideways, and inside the stone crack is a relatively wide U-shaped passage. As you walk through the passage, you will go around the stone wall from the inside of the high wall and go to the back of the stone wall, where there is a valley full of flowers all year round. In the center of the valley is a naturally formed flower bed, and in the center of the flower bed is a giant tree of unknown species, with only branches and no leaves, surrounded by unknown flowers. This is the basic situation of the northeast, behind the stone wall, the strange 'year-round incense'! But that's what I knew about half a year ago! And ......"

"And?" Seeing that Makoto's words seemed to have a follow-up, the three of them immediately looked at it expectantly.

"Actually, when I entered the 'Fragrance of the Year', I did not walk through the stone cracks on both sides, but an invisible passage under the stone wall that is invisible to the naked eye. In the passage, all I saw was a hard rock like iron in front of me, and in a sense, I 'crashed' into the stone wall and walked into the 'perennial incense'. The sight of the eyeballs on the rocks is still terrifying in retrospect! In addition, when I went back, I searched the entire stone wall but could not find the invisible passage, so I had no choice but to come out of the stone crack through the U-shaped passage on the right. Then I walked through the invisible passage again, looked for it again, and came out of the U-shaped passage on the right again. At this point, it was concluded that the stealth was a one-way channel that could not have existed. So, this is another peculiar part of that place! ”

......After listening to Cheng's narration, the three of them were silent for a long time. It seems to be imagining the strange scene depicted by Makoto, as if trying to understand the mystery of the strange roots there. But either way it's just useless!

It's something you can't experience without experiencing it!

"So, what about the mountain road to the east where they walked?"

After a while, Sakura Fujino was the first to give up. She shook her head vigorously and turned her mind back to the question she had had asked before. And hearing Fujino Sakura's question, Momenta and the world also gave up thinking, adjusted their moods, and focused their consciousness on the topic in front of them.

"Simply put, it's a very weird labyrinth!" Makoto points out the secrets of the strange land in the east like the finishing touch.

"Labyrinth? Well...... What are you talking about? ”

As soon as the honest words were finished, a familiar voice came from behind. Makoto looked back and saw that it was Tsuba, Otome, and Apricot, who had come from the west step by step, and it seemed that they had consumed a lot of physical strength just as much as Akina and the world.

"Ah, thank you!"

"Thanks!"

"Thank you!"

The three of them took the water bottle from Akina and Fujino Sakura respectively, and each chose a seat to do it. Makoto and Akira sit together, the world alone sits on the right-hand side, Fujino Sakura and Hanama are now sitting on Makoto's left hand side, and Kanoha and Otome are sitting directly across from Makoto and Akina.

"I went to the east with the world before, and I was pranked! They were puzzled and asked me the mystery! The three of them sat in the back and said sincerely.

"'Weird apricot'? Don't want to hear that name? World, how could you want to go to that place? It's a sin there! Hearing "strange apricot", Hanama apricot shook her head with emotion.

"We were just curious, we didn't know what was going on there!" Hanama's words made the world and the moment speechless, but not saying something is not the style of the world, she can be regarded as explaining the reason why she chose to go to Wei Xing.

"Speaking of which, when Ito gathered us here, Ito and Apricot were the first to go to the east!" And at this time, as if he remembered something, he suddenly spoke.

"Speaking of which! So, does Apricot know the mystery of 'Strange Apricot'? Hearing the moment he spoke, the world immediately came to the rescue shot.

"Hmm...... You better ask sincerely, I don't know the specifics! Everyone's eyes instantly focused on Hanama's side, although there was no great malice, but it made her feel very embarrassed, and Hanama cast a look of help to Makoto apologetically.

"As I said earlier: 'Strange Apricot' is a weird labyrinth! However, unlike ordinary mazes, the actual factor that makes up the maze is not the terrain, but the eyes that are confused by what is in front of them! In an instant, what happened to you at that time? In order to facilitate the explanation, and to make the situation as clear as possible to people who have never been there, and to grasp the discrepancy between the actual situation and the expectation, I cautiously asked about what happened to her and the world at that moment.

"Well, at the beginning, the world and I went to the right at the first fork in the road shortly after descending the mountain, then the second fork went to the right, the third was also to the right, and the fourth tried to go to the left, and it turned out to be a half-circle and go back, and it was a dead end, and then we went back to the original way and took the right instead."

"The fifth also went to the right, and the sixth tried again to the left, but we met the same situation as the fourth fork, and we went back to the right again, and then after two more intersections, we came to a meadow that was not very large, and there we saw a huge ginkgo tree with a leafy leaf. Then we wanted to go over and have a look, so we walked towards it......"

"As a result, we walked for a long time, and until finally we couldn't get to its side, or even get close to it......"

After speaking, he lowered his head in disappointment, looking very depressed.

Makoto involuntarily touched Moment's head in front of everyone, trying to comfort her, but she lowered her head even deeper, and her face was crimson. Only then did Makoto react, he looked at the other people who were staring at his every move, and read their undisguised smiles and gazes, even Makoto couldn't feel it.

"Huh! Let's move on! Seongan laughed twice and returned to the topic.

"First of all, in the choice of the fork in the road, it is correct to choose to take the right, and the road to the left of the second fork is connected with the road to the left of the first fork in a semicircle. After that, all the roads on the left are dead ends that go back in a semi-circle. There's nothing special here, as long as you get it right. The point is that after crossing the eighth junction and coming to the meadow, it is actually feasible to approach the ginkgo tree. ”

Speaking of this, Makoto picked up the water bottle that he had drunk on the stone table and took a sip of water, and continued:

"In fact, it's a flat place, so as I said before, it's not the terrain that makes up the labyrinth, but the eyes that are confused by what is in front of them. The simple explanation is that Moment and World have been staring at the ginkgo tree and there are no other references around, so they can't notice the change in their position. If you look at the ginkgo tree, you are actually going around the ginkgo tree in a circle, so of course you can't walk around it. ”

Makoto paused slightly, giving everyone a moment to think.

"The key is the line of sight, so just remember the location of the intersection, visually see the approximate distance between the tree and the intersection, and close your eyes and walk in a straight line. Of course, if you close your eyes, you will feel unbalanced and unable to distinguish the direction, so there is a good chance that there will be problems if you keep them closed, so look back at the location of the intersection at a distance to make sure that you are roughly in a straight line with the intersection, and calculate the position of the tree by using the extension line of the distance you have walked. Once you walk in front of the tree, you will have no problem, and your view will not be affected there! ”

"No, there shouldn't be any way to affect it......"

After speaking, Makoto smiled faintly.

After listening to Cheng's narration, everyone was silent for a while, and they were all distracted.

"And what about the southeast side where Makoto goes? Looks like a cliff, right? ”

But there are exceptions! I saw Fujino Sakura continue to ask more energetically.