At night, I lay down in the wooden tub, and the fluorescent lamps on the low bench next to me emitted a faint light, and I could see that there was not enough energy in it, which was the most common lighting tool in the town, and the main body was a round glass vacuum ball with no gaps. The glass walls inside are said to be coated with an unknown layer of paint called platinum indium, which is activated when a spell is injected into it, emitting a soft white light. The light lasts for about 30 to an hour, but after 30 minutes, the light becomes faint and then gradually fades out.

Because of the lack of knowledge and the wrong professional match, I can't make much analysis of this kind of so-called platinum indium, but after a brief thought, I can still draw some conclusions - from the point of non-reflective inference, this paint called platinum indium is probably a kind of luminous material. Judging from the fact that it requires the input of mana to glow, it does not seem to contain radioactive materials inside, which means that it is not a spontaneously closed type luminous material.

In the end, it was concluded that it was actually useless, and it was probably an unknown luminescent luminous material that glowed and shiny after being excited by mana as an energy source.

The water in the tub was getting cold, and the fluorescent lights that were still well-lit when they were brought in were about to go out—almost an hour.

Judging by the temperature of the water and the light, I realized that I had run out of time, and it took me some effort to stand up by holding the edge of the tub with my soaked arms.

Drain the water, dry your body, and put on your clothes...... By the time the follow-up work was done, the light from the fluorescent lights was only a candlestick, and even the low stool underneath could not illuminate it.

I draped the towel over my shoulders, lifted the wooden tray that held the fluorescent light in place, and walked out of the bathroom with it. As soon as he went out, a huge black shadow pounced on the world on the side of the fantasy realm, but the next moment it was knocked out, and it crashed through the wall of the courtyard with a "whoosh", and rolled in the snow several times.

But soon it flew back in front of me, muttering excitedly, "Ain! I've got you covered! ”

"Food? What is that. ”

I felt a little inexplicable, although it was only a creation of my spiritual world, it seemed to have the ability to think independently, and I could not easily detect its thoughts and memories.

"What are those two little rats, I found them! If I can't touch them, I'll help you get them back for dinner. ”

"Wait a minute...... Why should I use them as food? ”

Although I have never seen the rat with my own eyes, I have heard others describe its appearance many times; Crumpled skin, short body, ugly facial features...... Just looking at something like this is enough to turn off your appetite, let alone as food, so it's impossible to eat it.

"Aren't you trying to erase their existence from the world?"

"Not to mention how you know my thoughts, I did have similar thoughts of erasing, but never thought of eating them."

"But isn't it the easiest way to eat it in one bite? In the past, I would eat it in one bite when I saw anyone who was not feeling well, and they would disappear from the world forever. ”

"That's for you."

……

After this inexplicable conversation, I shook my head and tried to go back to my room to sleep, but the next moment I realized something, paused, and woke up to my drowsy head.

"You said you found the two rats, how did you find them?"

I turned to look at Ted, who was as large as a tiger, its tail flicking and its body disappearing into the darkness, except for a pair of lantern-sized eyes that blinked.

"Didn't you throw me out at that time? After a while, when the sky suddenly turned red, I heard your voice saying that you wanted to follow the two humans, who looked like you, to find the two little things called rats, and get rid of them. So I waited outside for the two humans, who looked about the same size as you, to come out, and then followed them. The two of them spoke there first, and then crossed the river...... Finally I found the two little things called rats. ”

Ted rambled on and on about his follow-up to Takashi Takeda and Takeuchi, and I didn't interrupt it, but listened intently. I have always believed that the world on one side of the fantasy realm is a reflection of my mind, and any fantasy is actually a reflection of what I have seen, heard, felt, thought, and had impressions in my memory.

So when I see something in reality, everything I see is copied in the world on the side of the fantasy realm, and things I don't know are not mapped in it. Unless I'm deliberately imagining, combining existing memories into fictional fantasies.

However, now Ted's statement has subverted this perception of mine, if the experience it says is true, then is the fantasy world constituted by my fantasy realm really just a world of consciousness?

I can't tell what I feel in my heart at the moment, I am probably a little scared, but I don't know what I am afraid of, I just feel that I seem to have done something wrong, and I seem to be moving towards some irreparable road, but after thinking about it, I can't find the origin of these feelings. It seems that there is a bundle of thread in my heart, and no matter how I grope it, I can't find out where the thread is.

When Ted finished babbling, I still couldn't figure out what it said about hearing my voice could probably be understood as a fantasy leaking from the outside to the inside, but what about how it could see the real world without seeing through my eyes? Could it be that the ability of mind interference is not only emitting brain waves, but also recovering brain waves for analysis and transforming them into information that I can understand?

Just like bat echolocation, biological waves are emitted through the mouth and nose, and then the biological waves bounce back with the ears, forming an alternative sense. In other words, do I have an extra radar system in my brain? Or is this an extension of the more mysterious direction of the soul?

"Can you see what I can't see, know what I don't know?"

To confirm that what Ted said was true, I asked it, and it nodded without hesitation. So I closed my eyes and spun around in place a dozen times until I lost my sense of direction, and then pointed in a random direction: "Ted, what's the direction my finger is pointing into?" ”

"It's the wall."

Ted's voice came from the left, and I continued to ask, "What's on the other side of the wall, you go over and take a look." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a wall being smashed through his ears came to his ears, and soon Ted replied: "It's a room full of things, there are things that you call jars in Ain, and tables and chairs, a lot of boxes......"

"Stop."

I interrupted it, opened my eyes, and looked in the direction of my finger with the faint light of the fluorescent light, and indeed glanced at the wall, and then scanned the surroundings to confirm that the inside of the wall was a storage room, and that there were indeed a lot of miscellaneous items and wooden boxes in it.

"One more time."

……

After repeating it several times, I was finally sure that it had a perception that did not belong to me, which made me wonder what way to treat it—until then, my perception of it was just a fantasy creation born from my fantasies and acted on with the help of my thought patterns and subconscious judgments. However, current discoveries suggest that it may not be a dead creature made entirely of fantasies, but a truly autonomous sentient being.

These are two different concepts.

"You said you found the two rats, where are they?"

After thinking about it for a while, I still couldn't come to a conclusion that satisfied me, and then I remembered that there was something more important to solve. Although the matter between Mamura and the rat was over after Takashi Takeda's remarks, I still feel that the end of the matter is not complete - there is still the possibility of recurrence.

The reason why I want to follow Takashi Takeda and the others to interrogate the two rats is precisely to completely solve the trouble. It's a little difficult to do it in person, but as long as you know where they live, you can always find an opportunity to approach them in the next few days – so isn't that a good time to be?

"There are some trees there and a mound not far away with a big house on top of it......"

Since Ted did not know the names of the various places in the town, he could only describe the scene of that place. Listening carefully to the scene it depicted, I had a rough idea of the location - it was on the east side of the land of the Spear Wheel.

Wrapped tightly in his pajamas, which were not too thick, the temperature was still so low that it made my teeth chatter even if it didn't snow on a winter night. I put down the fluorescent lights that had been extinguished as I was thinking, covered my ears with the palms of my hands that were still warm, and walked down the dark hallway, fumbling my way open the door to the courtyard.

There was no moonlight penetrating the house, the outside world was as dark as the inside, and the earth was darkened by thick clouds that obscured the light of the moon, the only source of light. The town of Kamisu 66, located under the dark sky, is like a land of ghosts, and the howling night wind is the cheers of the spirits, and the living people are either asleep or curled up in their houses.

"Heh......"

I stood in the night and sighed, looking up at the dark sky, and two lines of poetry came to my mind: "The moon is dark and kills the night, and the wind is high and the sky is on fire." ”

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