Takeshi Takaji's memory.

Walk through this ancient ruins and leave behind those ancient, perhaps high-value artifacts.

The constant buzzing sound, always ringing in his ears, tormented his thoughts.

But at that time, Takeshi Gao Temple seemed to have been affected by some kind of unspeakable influence for a long time.

The mind and spirit are different from normal people.

Instead of being frightened and panicked, there was an unexpected joy.

As for the direction in which Takeshi Takaji is heading, he is attracted by things in the underworld.

Walk towards there and there

Then, the picture in my memory turned.

A door appeared in front of his eyes.

But Takeshi Takaji's gaze did not linger on it, but turned to the side.

"Great, I've come to understand everything!"

I heard these words coming from the mouth of the woman in front of me, if it was still her "mouth".

That's Miss Maruyama, and I can confirm that completely.

Most of her clothes were shredded, with only a few fragments of rags.

The white neck, the deep collarbones, and the tall peaks are exactly the beautiful scenery that I have dreamed of countless times, and I have dreamed of countless times in my dreams.

It's beautiful, beautiful

Miss Maruyama, it's really beautiful

It's just that except for those parts full of feminine charm, Maruyama Kotono's appearance is like the Ito Shu that Aono saw at the moment, and it has become a dark and weird image.

Even her change was even more thorough, and her whole face went blank.

"Takaji-kun"

Miss Maruyama said to me, her tone full of joy.

I'm glad it was the first time she had spoken to me in that tone.

"Will you join me in becoming His people?"

"If it's with Miss Maruyama, I'm willing."

At that time, Takeshi Takaji did not think twice.

For a moment, the fear that belongs to biological instinct and the strong warning of residual reason is abandoned.

It can only make Aono, who browses this memory, sigh and lick the dog, it's really scary!

Led by Kotono Maruyama after some kind of metamorphosis, Takeshi Takatera came to that door.

The shape and appearance of the "door" are only chaotic in his memory, like a mosaic on it, and all of them are not real.

There is only one concept called a "door".

It is very likely that this is due to the body's self-protection mechanism, which makes him subconsciously forget those things that should not be seen and remembered.

But at this time, Takeshi Takaji came to the "door".

The fears and fears that had been shielded by some kind of substance finally rose again like a tide and overflowed his heart.

Looking at his mood during that time, it was more of a mess than a mess.

He suddenly remembered Nakagawa-kun's phone call.

Inexplicably, I can understand the true meaning of what I want to say in those noises

"Stay away from her, stay away from Maruyama Kotono!"

"She's no longer in the category of humans!"

"She's a monster!"

The terror that had been stored for a long time was like a landslide and tsunami, and almost instantly, it destroyed Takeshi Takaji's fragile nerves.

Since then, Takeshi Takaji has actually gone crazy!

His mind was at a loss, but his body instinctively made what he thought was the right choice, and he turned and fled out of the passage.

This is definitely not out of his original intention, if Takeshi Takaji is still sober, where will he care about any monsters and humans, as long as he can stay by Maruyama Kotono's side, he will rush to great happiness, right?

This is the self-cultivation of being a qualified licking dog.

Maruyama Kotono did not stop Takeshi Takatera's movements.

just looked at him calmly and indifferently with that faceless face, and seemed to be slightly regretful.

Just "slightly".

Takeshi Takaji's footsteps were flustered, he tripped over a pale bone, staggered a few steps and fell to the ground, falling into a benevolent coma.

That's the end of the memory for now.

Aono faced the blur of flesh and blood in front of him, recalling what he had seen earlier.

The ground was full of blood.

Flesh and blood are sprinkled all over the ground, and the degree of bloodiness should not appear in a TV series that can pass the trial.

It's obvious that it's Shu Ito.

Ito Shu, who gradually understood everything, did not change much in combat power for Aono.

It's just that it can be killed in one instant to it takes a few hits to be crushed.

There isn't much difference in essence.

You have killed an ancient race that is not completely alienated!

Experience 1!

Aono saw this sentence on the panel to determine that Ito Shu had indeed died at his hands.

That's his experience.

Even if the panel will be unreliable, but most of the time, it is still more credible.

It's like a stitching monster born in the Lost Mist, and even if it is destroyed, it won't prompt anything.

Just because they are only physically destroyed, they are not actually "dead", and naturally there is no such hint.

As for the monster itself, there is actually nothing to say.

Removing the influence of that weird temperament, that is, there are a few more hands than ordinary people, and the self-healing ability is a little stronger!

The two team members on the side were trembling.

Just looking at the monster's indescribable appearance, they developed a strong sense of fear, and it took a lot of courage to look at it.

But just as they cowered, Aono had already divided the guy by two, and beat that guy into a puddle of meat sauce.

Rao is a transcendent person's psychological quality, and it is difficult to accept this bloody picture.

"Is he really Shu Ito?"

The Qilin Arm member asked in a trembling voice.

In his impression, although Ito Shu is not good-looking, he is relatively short, and his personality is also very bad, which is not likable at all.

Either way, he's still a human being, and a former colleague of theirs.

How did it become what it is now?

"As you can see, that's exactly what happened."

Aono groped briefly in a blur of flesh and blood, and found a document that could prove his identity.

Wipe off the filthy flesh and hand it to the two of them.

This is the ID of the Nagoya branch, and the name on it is "Ito Shu".

Even if there was a long guess, but it was proved from here, the two team members couldn't help but shudder.

"How could he?"

The two still couldn't figure out why Ito Shu had such a change.

What's even more strange is that the previous stone gate was obviously closed, so how did Ito Shu get here?

If you think about it, you can feel a deeper chill.

The members of the Kirin Arm team even thought of the missing Taiichi Kaneshiro and Chibon Yayoi.

Aono didn't speak again.

Rather, it is the first step on this long staircase.

And it's just one step.

The world around him has been turned upside down.

Two members of the Einsatzgruppen disappeared without a trace.

Here, he was the only one left.

I've been brought to that world too?

Aono quickly made a judgment, and was a little surprised by this.

Just now, even he didn't notice how that aura worked, and he let the space he was in change.

You're infested with the breath of antiquity!

Sanity 1!

The faint pressure, in fact, fell on Aono from the first moment he entered the passage.

It's just that most of the time, he can just ignore it.

But now, the pressure has suddenly increased a lot.

Aono did not panic, which means that there was no mistake in the direction he was looking for.

"Goo"

The stomach is empty, and it begins to make a thirsty sound.

It's been a long time since he's had a full meal!

The scene around him was unfamiliar, and the murals on the walls began to show some strange creatures.

It's not just humans with extra organs, but also an extraordinarily tall ape-like creature with a somewhat similar face to a human, but more rugged.

There is another animal that is even more disgusting.

They resemble humans who have completely degenerated into wild beasts, hairless and with limbs similar to those of humans, but hunched over.

Runs on all fours like a canine.

The mural depicts its face in detail, and it resembles a human more than any ape, but it seems to be missing something that makes the average person refuse to call it human.

These animals appear to be the pets of the Facelings.

The status is similar to that of a hound.

The mural depicts Facelings leading the hunt of "hounds".

It's just that to the creep of ordinary people, they hunt humans in ancient costumes.

It is the primitive humans of other tribes outside the cave.

This kind of discovery may make the average archaeologist feel creepy.

While cannibalism was not unthinkable in the early stages of human development, the act of hunting other humans as prey in this way can still be chilling.

More noteworthy.

Facelings do not see hunting humans as something special, and some peoples with cannibalistic habits often see cannibalism as an act of special religious or social significance.

And the Facelings don't.

Just like picking wild fruits from trees and hunting wild animals in the mountains and forests, hunting humans is just a part of their daily lives.

Aono understands the situation slightly.

After completing some kind of metamorphosis, i.e., transformation into Facelings, they are no longer humans, but just another creature.

It is not incomprehensible that it is natural to feed on human beings.

The origin of the white bones left in the previous ruins is already very clear.

Aono moved forward while observing the murals recorded on the rock wall.

This strange space is obviously no longer in the surface world.

As far as Aono's understanding of this kind of space is concerned, there is bound to be a core here.

If this core is unstable, then the space itself ceases to exist.

Now that I think about it, the swelling shrine where the god of a thousand eyes was located at that time was actually not particularly stable.

It's just absorbing the power of urban weirdos and ghosts, and that's the only way to do that for such a god.

However, in fact, it can also be understood that the surface world has its own resistance power, and will not allow too powerful and unspeakable forms to descend into the world, only such trash fish can pass through the barrier and develop obscenely in the dark corners.

So, what is going on with this ancient civilization right now?

Aono secretly speculated.

It is bold to guess that in a very ancient era, perhaps the corrective power of the surface world was not so strong, and it had not even been born, and at that time, this ancient civilization entered this deep mountain from the inner world and continued to grow. Later, some kind of accident happened that led to the demise of this civilization.

Oh no, it's not actually dead

It's just a change in the way of being.

It is also possible to understand the prophecy of the Nagoya Einsatzgruppen, the transcendent.

As the correction power of the watch world becomes weaker and weaker, there is a good chance that this ancient civilization will make a comeback and cause a great disaster!

Aono sniffled, his brow furrowed.

Smell.

He smelled the familiar scent.

It smells sour and unpleasant, with the smell of herbs and a lot of things that don't know the source.

It was the smell I had smelled in that wooden house and on the pottery shards.

Clay pots

"That's right, clay pot!"

Aono thought of something he had unconsciously overlooked.

What is the function of those clay pots?

Soon, Aono found the answer on the mural beside him.

The frescoes depict a kind of ritual.

A faceling with three pairs of bony wings, dressed in an ornate garment with ornaments such as necklaces and charms.

Apparently, it was a priest.

He looked at the human beings in front of him, usually teenagers of eleven or twelve years old, but there were also strong adults and old men, but the latter two were much less numerous.

During the ceremony, the priest would observe them carefully, stroke them with his hands, and then divide them into different kinds.

The first part of the human race then drinks the liquid from a clay pot.

Then he was led away by the tall ape-man.

The second batch was soaked in a liquid in another clay pot.

Different humans use different clay pots.

The next picture made Aono feel a shock.

The bodies of the first humans would grow taller and larger, tend to take on the form of apes, and take on the work of carrying them.

The second is to lose the hair on the body, sharpen the bones, and land on all fours.

Gradually turned into a "hound".

There is also a third batch, a fourth batch

Any kind of xenomorph creature that appeared on the previous mural can be found in this ritual.

"Hiss"

Aono gasped for a short time, it turned out that those weird and hateful images, terrifying and deformed bones, were all transformed from primitive flesh and blood compatriots?

Is there really such an unbelievable and mysterious technology that allowed these ancestors to transform their own kind into inhuman deformities, and the development lasted for so long?

As long as he has the empathy of being a human being, he may no longer be a human being, but at least he still sees him as a member of the human race.

Aono thoroughly understood the pots and the liquid in them.

Where is this civilization that belongs to human beings, this is clearly a terrifying race from an indescribable origin!

"La Click"