Saissus, tango bar.

An inconspicuous but indispensable part of the world of Gliese.

A young man was sitting upright on the relief stool of the Kara Seven Heroes made of fine phoenix wood at the bar, and he could hardly be moved by the choking steam from the mechanical half-humans who passed by.

Stella Avner, this is his title in this world, but the resolute and slightly uneasy eyes of the young man reveal two ordinary words buried deep in his heart that he has always been unforgettable: Ye Zhao.

It was late at night, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

Ye Zhao, a young man who had not been in the society for a long time, fell into a loan trap, and in order to escape the pursuit of the gangster-like debt collection gang all the way, the desperate Ye Zhao pried open the old manhole cover behind the house in a hurry, and jumped down without looking back.

Recalling the scene at that time, Ye Zhao's eyebrows tightened, and he couldn't help clenching his wine glass, but he was quickly relieved.

With mixed tastes in his heart, he picked up most of the half cup of Vulcanta fruit vine wine and said to himself: "I can't imagine it, it's really the road of the heavens!

As soon as you look up, the glass bottoms out.

Hiss...... The liquor brewed in this world tastes good, but it is a little bitter, but it is not as bitter as that world brought me......

Ye Zhao held his forehead with one hand, shaking the milky quartz wine glass glowing with a faint white light, his thoughts wandering between reality and memory.

Before jumping into the black underground, the manhole cover moved into the nasal cavity not with the foul smell of decay, but with an unusual feeling of warmth and the fragrance of matsutake mushrooms.

Like a forest in the suburbs in winter, the warm sun shone on his cold and decadent body.

It seemed that there was some strange magic in the human-sized dark round passage that could hold the life of those who saw it.

I don't have time to think about it.

The sound of footsteps was mixed with the crisp sound of breaking the window glass, and the scum was about to chase after him, according to the saying, he couldn't get the money, and today this group of people came to take his Ye Zhao's left ring finger.

Unexpectedly, the feeling of falling into a large pile of viscous solid liquid waste was not followed by the jump, but more like a rapid slide.

I only felt that the calf area was getting hotter and hotter.

Scald!

It's hot!

It's really hot!

The vertigo's brain seemed to be truly melting and distorting, and Ye Zhao in the chaos only felt that the heavens and the earth were flipping and his muscles were boiling.

It was as if the world was falling with him, falling...... He lost his sense of direction.

The chaotic moment finally passed, Ye Zhao had a splitting headache and wanted to stand up from the state of landing on his buttocks, but the pain that came first directly made him jump.

When his eyes adjusted to the light source, he found himself in an eerie, yellow-black cauldron with dry wood burning at the bottom and a limp white candle on the round wooden table as far as the eye could see.

Is this hell? Or am I dreaming......

He flipped out of the cauldron, ripped off the tentacle creature that was clinging to his shoulder, and pulled the half-haired cat tail out of his trouser leg.

There's quite a bit of something like this in the pot.

What the hell?

Is this what hell looks like? Or is it ...... I, crossed over?!

Ha ha...... Huh...... Ha, is there any mistake! How can I cross it! Am I crazy? I'm going to go back and clean up the mess, back to ...... Wait, stop, it doesn't look like a bad thing if it does cross over.

At least you don't have to worry about that miserable life, even if it's just a dream, it's better than walking alone in the quagmire of reality.

Ye Zhao calmed down briefly and straightened his messy clothes.

He touched his buttocks, which were a little red and swollen, and found that even the hair on his legs was curly from the hot soup in the cauldron.

At this moment, his gaze looked towards the corner of the round table, and with the help of the not-so-bright light, scrolls of map-like manuscripts were piled up, one of which was fully opened, spread out on the table, and each side was covered with elaborate striped black stones.

The lines on the yellowed manuscript paper are distinct and staggered, like a neatly arranged cosmic constellation, and like a profound array diagram of ancient soldiers.

Although I don't know why I crossed into the cauldron and almost cooked it with a bunch of strange chops, it seems that I should be a well-educated intellectual and a decent person in this world.

- At least, to be well fed.

Ye Zhao glanced back at the boiling cauldron and thought wildly.

Also on the edge of the round table are stacks of old, opened hardcover books, all of which are covered with a thick layer of ash and dust, and above them, a birdcage with exquisite wood is quietly placed.

Before he could continue to explore, a pungent smell slowly came from the yellow-black cauldron.

"Hmm. ”

It seemed that something in the pot had been boiled thoroughly, Ye Zhao covered his nose and paced to the back of the table.

As soon as the crumpled brown curtain was opened, the dazzling light poured in like a tide, and the aroma of matsutake mushrooms and the light fragrance of the green grass were refreshing.

"Hey, Stella, why are you messing with my stuff again, you said that the witch's boiler is for preparation, not for cooking. ”

This startled Ye Zhao suddenly, and when he turned around, a slender woman with cherry red hair was looking at him strangely.

What should I do?

He suddenly felt distraught, and things were going even stranger than he had imagined.

This...... Stella, me?

"Why are you dressed like this?" she tilted her head and searched for Ye Zhao with her charming eyes in confusion, "Hey, Mr. Pioneer, where are your wide-brimmed hat and cobalt diamond pendant......

What, trailblazer? That's what I did, he thought silently.

"Look, it's a rhombic lizard," she seemed accustomed to the strange things that happened around her, and after a while she withdrew her puzzled gaze and stopped asking.

She casually pulled out a stiff iron-black object from behind her ear with strange earrings, "I just bought it from old Mona for a lot of money, according to your request, it is a good ingredient for expelling foreign beasts, just change the order of spells on the original recipe slightly, and then put it in." ”

She smiled slightly, and the corners of her mouth were full of seductive vermilion moles.

"However, the price is going to increase several times. But this should be no problem for you, Mr. Stella Avner, who has just returned from the flint mines in the Saysus Mountains. ”

With that, the strange and charming red-haired witch in front of him walked straight to the boiling cauldron and stopped at a distance of about 10 centimeters.

Ye Zhao gradually became less timid, and out of curiosity, he looked into the pot.

I saw that the witch first said something in her mouth, her bright red hair was flowing and entangled, and then she raised her right arm flat and threw herself into the lizard.

"Phew!"

As the dried lizard was completely engulfed by the scorching solution, the long-handled stirring spoon leaning against the wall of the pot moved as if it were an appendage, stirring back and forth in the rich, bubbly formula solution.