"Of course, these days, there are very few fights to the death. Any species that survives is strong enough. So, most of the time, containment is far more than elimination. Natsume continued to teach.

"What do you mean...... That three-dimensional civilization can be contained? Can be locked up? Miss Editor asked.

"Uh-huh." The cat in her arms snorted, indicating that her guess was correct. As for more hints, as well as containment protocols, there is no mention of them.

After all, if you have to rely on cats to do everything, what else do you need people to do?

The editor didn't think about this, but focused all her energy on how to contain the three-dimensional text life.

She first remembered everything she had seen since she came to this world.

From the very beginning of those who love to read and desire to read, to the words that cover the walls and floors, and the clouds that fall down to shovel the life of the city.

The thickness of the paper is negligible, and the words on the book can be counted as two-dimensional.

The graffiti-like text on the walls and floor is also two-dimensional.

But...... What if you shoveled down the text and pinched it into a three-dimensional shape?

Is it possible to become the "soul" that carries the three-dimensional text of the clouds, so that it has a substance, so as to become stronger?

If that's the case.

So...... If it is trapped in a "book" with an infinite two-dimensional plane, will many of its powers due to its three-dimensional nature disappear?

Then you should make a Möbius strip yourself? Use its distorted plane, which has no distinction between inside and outside, to trap the clouds?

No!

No way!

The Möbius strip has its own borders. It's just a flat surface, and it may be able to trap ants in two dimensions, but it's not enough to contain three-dimensional text!

That......

Klein bottles?

If the Möbius strip is a piece of paper tape flipped and glued together, there is no longer a positive aspect.

Then the Klein bottle is to glue countless Möbius tapes, so as to achieve the effect of no inside and outside in three-dimensional space.

This has a limited but boundless effect on the creatures within.

It's like a turtle walking along the inner wall of a ball that will never get out of the ball.

Such a structure should be the key to the cloud of containment.

But!

The Klein bottle is not real, but simply a topological concept.

Therefore, it takes math to contain the cloud zigzag!

It's the first time that Miss Editor has felt that the high number she hated has such an effect.

In her cerebellum, a bottle of Klein based on a mathematical description is already being built.

And her hands, like a 3D printer, make the Klein bottles.

The word of the clouds seemed to sense the danger.

It was originally going to hibernate, but it began to rush wildly.

One cavity after another was opened, and the clouds in the cavities still merged, gathering more power.

However, it was already too late.

A transparent but tenacious magical substance has enveloped the space where the cloud zigzag is located, and everything inside has been "contained".

Loaded into the cloud zigzag, he began to rush back and forth, trying to escape from this space.

However, it easily reached the surface of the "Klein Bottle", but it was firmly anchored to it, and it could not break free at all.

A moment later, in the editor's hand, there was a delicate, transparent gadget shrouded in fog both inside and out.

【Ding! Complete the hidden main quest! Contain the "Word of the Clouds" and get 1,000,000 points! 】

[Time remaining in the main quest: 6 minutes and 41 seconds.] 】

The huge book above the heavenly dome no longer had any scruples, and began to devour this piece of world in a big way.

If, at the beginning, it was as crisp as biting into a snow cake, now it is as wild as swallowing a light bulb.

The whole fragment of the world, like a giant chocolate block, was uprooted by the tentacles of the book and pushed into a huge mouth like an abyss.

Miss Editor stood on the spine of the book like a demon god in the last days, looking down at the endless void under her feet, "We...... Is this the destruction of a world? ”

The editor was a little stunned.

No matter how crazy and disorderly this world is, it is still a world after all!

If the world here can disappear so easily, what about the "real world"......

For the people here, this is the real world.

Just when the editor was sad, the huge book at her feet suddenly burped.

"Wow!"

[Synthesize a super-super-super

Main quest completed. 】

"Ahh

The huge book that had just finished hiccuping actually sneezed.

A chocolate cube that appeared to have not melted erupted.

This chocolate chunk, falling from the sky, is embedded in the void. Aside from the vanishing City of Sacred Books, nothing seemed to have changed.

【Ding! Complete the hidden main quest! Purify Innsmouth and get 1,000,000 points!

The World Fragment has been successfully purified.

Get ready to return to the real world.

Plane coordinates to anchor.

Three......

Two......

1. ......]

"Ahh

The scream of the editor when she jumped into the wellhead rang out again, and her body "bounced" out of the wellhead and fell to the ground as if it were being played upside down.

"Am I dreaming...... the editor touched her face when she saw the scene playing back in front of her, as if to confirm that everything that had just happened was her imagination.

However, when she wanted to comfort herself that nothing had happened, she found that she had an extra book in her hand. Underneath the books, there is also a delicate ornament.

"Miss Editor, you didn't dream, everything just now was true. I'm going to file them both now, your probation in Persona Division has passed, and you can sign a formal contract with me. ”

Natsume walked in front elegantly with a book in his mouth.

Enter the inner hall from the backyard and place your paw on the decoder to sweep through the Hearsi's containment chamber.

A serious book is inserted into the bookshelf with "C" written on it.

[C9841 Book of Madness: 20 ■■ Year ■ Month ■■ Day Containment, looking at the text of this book will produce ■■, ■■, ■■ effect, the text ■■ enters the observer's brain through ■■ to reproduce, and after ■■ time, the observer's head becomes larger, and will hammer his own brain. Characters ■■ will multiply in large numbers and become inactive when left alive. 】

[C 9842 Yin Yun Zigzag: 20 ■■ Year ■ ■ Month ■■ Day Containment, C 9841 Inner Creature, the appearance is like a cloud, ■ dimensional characters, can be divided indefinitely, and each part maintains the performance of the body. When facing C.9841, a humanoid shovel cloud will be generated in an attempt to collect text■■, for unknown reasons and unknown effects. 】

After the cat entered the information, he took out a contract, "It's good to sign your name here, and after signing it, you can get an anomaly with the highest resemblance to you here as a reward." ”

"That'...... Will they ever be resurrected? ”

"As long as you sign it."

"Okay, I'll sign it."

The signed name shines brightly.

The contract was signed!

Natsume put away the scroll with one paw and placed it in the box as he said, "Go forward from here, and the foreign body with the highest compatibility with you will bind you." But don't stop, don't look back. ”

"Binding? Is that book and that bottle something tied to me? Miss Editor asked.

Natsume nodded, although his fingerless hand was not suitable for writing, but beside him, a pen that looked like it had been around for some years was floating, recording everything that had just happened in the fragments of another world.

[C 237 • Never-ending pen: ■■ Contained in March 19, Western fountain pen, composed of copper, nickel, rubber, and iridium, with black and red interwoven stripes attached to the pen body, the style is ■■. However, the production yearbook does not have this fountain pen scheduled.

The pen is said to have been in the possession of a well-known writer ■■■■■■, and after the writer's death, the output of the work was still found.

The pen has been in a state of writing since its discovery, and it has never stopped, and when it comes into contact with ■■■■, it can write thoughts into words. 】

The manuscripts submitted by Natsume were all written by this pen, and the pen flying in the air flew lightly, just like the magic in Disney animation.

The editor walked in the cramped aisle between the shelves and the shelves in the Foreign Objects Pavilion.

The floor of the hallway seemed to be a little damp, as if it could be clouded at any moment. There are also green marks on the bluestone bricks, which look like moss from a community, but you can't see them if you look closely.

On the shelves on both sides, there are many strange-shaped items.

Some of them look like products of the Cambrian era, while others look like future technological creations that humans may not be able to grasp centuries later.

Do you want to choose between these things?

"That fan seems good. Do you want to walk back? Miss Editor noticed the fan she had just seen, and when she wanted to turn around, her mind echoed with Teacher Cat, "Don't look back." Warning.

This room may seem like a small room, but it looks like there is no end to it.

The editor walked forward, she felt that she had been walking for more than an hour, but the wall opposite her was still about twenty paces away from her.

And the swing frames on both sides of the body have not been interrupted at all, and have been extending forward.

She subconsciously touched the front of her with her hand, but she didn't feel the furry comfort.

Do you want to stop there?

Let's go back......

But I haven't tied anything to me yet!

Don't...... I shouldn't have come here, I shouldn't have questioned the cat teacher, I shouldn't have ......

Negative thoughts kept coming to her mind.

And when this kind of thought reaches an extreme.

The editor's legs were still moving forward mechanically, and suddenly she saw a glittering hourglass.

The moment her slender arms lifted and her white fingers touched the hourglass, she felt a tremendous suction, as if she had become the hourglass, fixed to the rack.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

She didn't want to stand on the shelf day and night, looking at the scenery that hadn't changed in the slightest, she wanted to get rid of this huge suction and return to the real world of people and bustle.

"Whew...... Whew......"

She bent over, gasping for air, not paying attention to the scenery around her. Suddenly, I heard a cat's voice ask, "Selected?" ”

"Natsume-sensei?" Full of surprise, the editor picked up Natsume, buried her whole head in Natsume's furry body, and rubbed it back and forth.

"Alright, alright, don't be coquettish." Natsume's paw patted the girl's head, "Let me see what the most similar foreign object is to you." You focus your mind and show it. ”

"Hmm!" The editor's eyes widened and she focused on her thoughts.

"Hmmm! ……”

In front of her, where her eyes were focused, an hourglass appeared.

Natsume was slightly stunned when he saw this hourglass, and then he took it for granted, he got rid of the girl's claws, stood his hair on end, and said, "Good news for you, from today onwards, you can live forever." ”

"And what's the bad news?" Miss Editor asked.

"The bad news is that from today onwards, every 12 o'clock at midnight, everything you have will be reversed to your current state, that is, from today onwards you have an immortal body, but you have lost your growth."

"Including memories?" Miss Editor asked.

The cat nodded.

The editor didn't speak again, but stared at her hands in a daze.

Mao Shun's Natsume comforted, "Every foreign body has its positive and negative effects, and the positive effect of the zero-hour hourglass is so powerful that its negative effects are simply negligible compared to it." And...... Although your own memories can no longer be stored, you can plug in a memory memory!

As long as the memories are stored in this memory, after each reset, it will be good to read it? ”

"How can you have that kind of memory?" The editor looked up, a little tearful.

"There are a lot of foreign bodies that have such an effect. But...... I'm going to find out which one is better for your situation. Natsume flipped through the foreign object catalog.

While flipping through it, he also said, "The so-called positive effect and negative effect are relative. Useful is a positive effect, and useless is a negative effect. Take the zero-hour hourglass as an example, if you are a person who does not want to have the latest memories, then its function of losing memories is its positive effect.

However, people who don't want to have new memories generally don't want to live anymore.

Therefore, its rollback function has become a negative effect.

Wait a minute...... Got it! ”

[C 1025 Stigmata Gemstone: ■■■■Year■■Month, contained in the ■■ mine, the main ingredient is alumina, the red color is derived from chromium element, and there is no difference in composition from the general trigonal ruby. Any contact with the gem will result in memories of the time being recorded in the gem, and the body will appear with more and more severe scars at random places on the body over time, every 5 minutes.

After testing by ■■personnel, if they come into contact with the gem again, they can only instantly read the memories of the person who came into contact with the gem before, and cannot read the memories of others.

■■ Hours after touching the gem, the contact person died. The autopsy found that the cause of death was excessive scarring of vital internal organs and death from failure. 】

Natsume handed the gem to the editor, "The cumulative stigmata damage within 24 hours will not be fatal, as long as you wear this stigmata gem, you can have new memories." ”