The four of them left the oasis and made their way towards the red light in the distance.

Looking at the smooth desert from afar, there are huge sand dunes one after another.

In the gaps of each dune, there is a negative consciousness of a human form in various costumes, which should correspond to ordinary pedestrians in the real world.

The four of them tried to touch them, and found that these negative consciousnesses were like projected images, which could not be touched, and reaching out to them also directly penetrated the past, and were not affected by them at all.

After several attempts to no avail, I can only regard these negative consciousnesses as a part of this desert and ignore them.

As the sand dunes went farther and farther away, the drop became larger and larger.

The four of them had to switch from running to climbing, and thankfully, with Nami's [Wind Wings], they were able to jump from the top of one dune to the halfway point of another, saving them a lot of time on the road.

The four of them walked in a hurry for 30 minutes, and when they turned around, the oasis had become a small dot, but the red glowing dot in front of them still did not tend to grow in the slightest.

"Wait!" Wu Sheng shouted.

"Huh?" "What's wrong?" The other three were about to jump out when they stopped.

Wu Sheng stopped the three of them, and pointed out a question with a little hesitation: "It's been half an hour now, and I don't know how long it will take to walk next, in case it takes us 4 hours to get there, then it will take another 4 hours for us to return." In other words, if everything goes well, we will be back in the real world at 12 o'clock in the morning. ”

In the meaning, it is more than 12 o'clock if it doesn't go well.

"......" The three of them remembered that they still had to go back.

"What then?" Luffy was stupid.

"Two ways, one is that we now start to use our soul power to hurry, if we can reach it within an hour and a half, it is best to reach it, and if we can't catch up with the acceleration, then we will also go back in one and a half hours." Wu Sheng took out his mobile phone and opened the APP, which marked the direction of their entrance, so that even if he ran farther, he would know how to return.

"The second is that we will return now and go back and find a way to make transportation, such as a bicycle sled or something?"

"Are you sure the bike can go faster than we can here?" Nami asked hesitantly.

"The sled seems pretty good?" Zoro rubbed his chin in thought.

"But we don't have mounts?" Luffy said.

"Chimera? Elig seems to have horses, too. Wu Sheng pointed at Luffy and then at himself, what a superficial man who only looks at the surface.

"Eh......" Luffy looked at him with disgust, obviously not wanting to use such a frustrating method.

"Ahh Pregnant! Sauron shouted, pointing to the sky, "Plane! ”

......

The scene was silent for a while, can you have a plane and still want to do this, isn't it good to travel around the world or do charity?

"No, no, a flying object, doesn't Nami have wind magic? For example......" Zoro said anxiously and quickly as he struggled to figure out the last blind spot.

"Hot air balloons!" Wu Sheng then shouted.

"Yes!" Zoro slapped his left palm with his right fist: "Hot air balloon!" ”

"I have fire! Nami has a wind! We just need to make a basket that can stand people, and the body of the hot air balloon, and that's it! "Wu Sheng is excited, let's make an airship and come out!

"Oooo Luffy instantly understood, and also shouted excitedly.

"Hahaha, that's decided!" Zoro was also happy, after all, he and Wu Sheng couldn't fly, and it would be great to be able to experience the feeling of flying in daily life.

"Wait, wait, how do you bring something that big?" Nami interrupts the cheering trio.

"That's easy, isn't the campus festival coming soon? We buy it, then assemble it, put it on the rooftop, hide it, and bring it in every time we come in. Wu Sheng waved his hand, indicating that it was too simple.

"Okay, so what do we do next?" Nami nodded and said it was doable.

"Go on, use your soul power to hurry, if you encounter a battle, return immediately, and return immediately when your soul power is half consumed." Luffy said.

"Yes, it's safe, Luffy also has a steady time." Nami boasted.

"Hehe, next time we come here, we'll just take a hot air balloon, so it doesn't matter this time." Luffy laughed.

After that, the four of them rested on the spot, drank some water, and each ate an energy bar to cushion their stomachs.

Then, igniting the soul power on her body, Nami opened the music box, and in the crisp bell of the end of class, the four of them rushed towards the red light.

After using their soul power, the speed of the four people has changed qualitatively.

Under the gray clouds of the Sin Realm, above the sea of sand and the sea of negative consciousness connected by hills, four small dots kept flickering on the peaks of each hill, rapidly moving towards the red glow on the sand sea.

At first, the four of them were not very familiar with each other, and they often landed one after the other, and the people behind were always blown up in sand.

After the tacit understanding came up, those who were as fast as Luffy and Nami both deliberately slowed down their rhythm and consciously cooperated with the two Takekatsu, who were a beat slower.

Slowly, the four of them rose and fell together, moving towards the red light very rhythmically.

Running and running, Wu Sheng had an inexplicable sense of immediacy, and after a while, he understood.

Aren't the four of them like members of the Naruto squad, flashing through the desert of the Land of Winds?

As soon as the heart was distracted and complained, the rhythm changed, and the sand that was blown up by Luffy splashed again.

"Takeda, are you alright?" As she taxied in the air, Nami turned her head and asked.

"It's okay, it's okay." Wu Sheng hurriedly adjusted his rhythm in mid-air, no longer thinking nonsense, and concentrated on the road.

......

It was right to rush with soul power, the distance of each step of the speed flicker jump was extremely long, and after another half an hour, they turned back and could not see the oasis at all, but the red light became brighter and brighter, proving that they had indeed pulled the distance in.

It was already 5:30 p.m., and there was still an hour left before the time they had set for themselves, and if they didn't make it within an hour, they could go home.

The consumption of soul power becomes very small with the help of the music box, and if you consume 1 soul power in one step, then with the help of the music box, it can be reduced to 0.6.

Of course, it also depends on each person's soul power attribute, because this attribute affects not only the total amount of soul power, but also the recovery speed of soul power.

For example, Nami, with a soul power value of up to 43, the consumption can be as small as 0.4, and there is even spare energy to renew the buff for four people.

Although the other three have lower soul power than her, they still have their own ways to reduce their consumption as much as possible.

In this way, he hurried silently, and when the total amount of everyone's soul power was about to drop below 60%, he finally reached the periphery of the red light.

At this time, the four of them realized that the red light turned out to be a giant tree nearly 200 meters high!

Unlike real-world trees, the trunk and branches of this tree are not wooden, but more like a cluster of giant transparent infusion tubes, and then split in mid-air, turning into branches, and then extending the branches and branching out into branches, and then hanging red dots on the branches.

Because they're still on the outside, they can't see what the red dot is. But even from such a distance, they could see that the huge infusion tube that had penetrated into the ground was constantly flowing black and red energy liquid back and forth.

The four of them couldn't help but stop, shocked by this strange and cyberpunk scene, and looked at the "giant tree" that exuded a hideous aura from afar, and didn't dare to approach for a while.

"Is this a temple?" Luffy asked.

"It's not." Wu Sheng said that he had already confirmed with Elig in his heart: "This is the 'transmission network' site of the criminal world, that is, the subway station in reality. ”

"A subway station? So what station is this? ”

"Maybe it's the station near the school." Wu Sheng suppressed the emotions stirring in his heart and said, "Let's eat here to recover our soul power, and there may be a battle in a while." And this matter is a bit complicated, and it is not clear in one sentence or two. ”

"Okay."

It's almost 6 o'clock and it's dinner time, and everyone is a little hungry.

So the four of them sat on the floor, took out the energy drink and bread in their backpacks, and ate them.

And Wu Sheng repeated Eriger's explanation while everyone was eating:

"We all know that the realm of sin is born out of the negative consciousness of all human beings.

Usually, our school, home, and commercial street are filled with a happy and relaxed atmosphere, and there is less negative consciousness. So we will see that the school corresponds to an oasis in the world of sin, and of course the same will probably be true of residential areas and shopping streets.

And in the realm of sin, which is hundreds of times larger than the earth's area, each negative consciousness gathering place is far apart, just like the school we walk to in 5 minutes from the subway in reality, and it took us about 1 and a half hours here, or when we were in a hurry.

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is that the subway, as a transportation network for modern people, transports an excess of people every day, and people will take the subway to and from work, to and from class.

The resentment that arises from people's lives gathers in the subway every day, day after day, year after year, so that a huge 'transmission network' of negative consciousness is also formed in the criminal world.

And this scarlet tree is a small site. The energy in the giant infusion tubes is the resentment generated by negative consciousness. ”

"Then why don't some office buildings form this kind of thing? Those places seem to be more prone to negative feelings and resentment, right? Nami asked.

Wu Sheng took a bite of bread and replied:

"Because I am very busy at work, I don't have time to complain, and only before and after work, during this time in the subway, people have time to complain about the day's life in their hearts.

Therefore, most of the concentrated outbreaks of negative consciousness have formed this network one by one. ”

"I see." Nami nodded, deeply aware that because she was hurt by cold violence and rumors, she also had a lot of resentment in the subway during the commute to and from class: she didn't want to go to school to escape, she felt that life was boring, and she felt desperate fear of the future.

"Well, there are many more such sites in the Sin Realm, and we can also use this site to quickly travel to other areas of the Sin Realm." Wu Sheng said, "If we don't go to this site, we will walk on foot by ourselves, and it is estimated that it will take more than half a year to get to the next site." ”

"What's in the site? Are there any monsters? Zoro was curious.

Wu Sheng pointed to the red hideous giant tree: "Of course there is, the monsters inside are the essence of human consciousness, do you see those branches shining with red dots?" ”

"Uh-huh, see, those are all monsters?!" Nami was shocked and looked at the red dots that shone like stars, and at first glance, they had become dense into a red light.

"It's not." Wu Sheng sighed and shook his head.

"Oh, that's fine......" Nami patted her chest.

The other two were a little disappointed.

"Those, they're boss-level monsters.." Wu Sheng said to Nami with a little solemnity, "The worst of the combat power is above the monster formed by Aaron. ”

！！！

"Shhhhh Nami's eyes widened, her pupils dilated, and she gasped.

Luffy Zoro was also shocked by this information for a while.

"Are we still close to that site?"

"That's the case at every site?"

"How many such sites are there in the Sinful Realm?"

Nami asked a series of questions, and it seemed that she saw countless Aaron-like tentacles rushing towards her.

Wu Sheng pressed his hands forward, and made a slightly calmer movement: "You continue to listen to me." ”

"Aaron's gluttonous eaters have only squeezed the negative consciousness of the total number of people in our school to generate resentment and soul power every day.

How many people are there in our school? The total population of the Tokyo metropolitan area is nearly 40 million!

The number of people carried by the subway every day is tens of millions, and under the resentment generated by this level of negative consciousness, Aaron is really not worth mentioning. ”

The three of them compared it and found that this was indeed the case, so they nodded one after another.

At this time, compared to Wu Sheng, who was hiding his excitement in the calm, the three of them had different expressions:

Nami is worried, Luffy is indifferent.

Sauron, on the other hand, is a monster with bright eyes and as many stars as there are, and there will be countless battles to improve his kendo.

Wu Sheng saw that none of them were afraid or flinching, nodded lightly and sighed secretly, and continued: "These monsters are different from Ah Long in that they are ......"

As he spoke, he paused, clapped his hands, and regained the attention of the three of them: "It's different from Ah Long! They are not gluttonous eaters, they are not monsters born in the temple.

They were born in the collective consciousness of the masses! They come from the mythical grotesques that the public consciousness recognizes and believes: gods! Buddha! Monster! Angel! Legendary elves! Heroes in history! ”

"What's more!! As long as our will is approved by them, they can join us and become our partners, just like the rakshasas!! ”