Now that the scene was under control, Yarn and I began to look for companions in the scattered crowd. Because it was closer, I found Mika and Rina at once; The two girls were next to each other, Mika covered her right shoulder with her left hand and sat down on the ground, looking like she had been hurt by the hailstorm just now, while Rina stood beside her with a blank expression, completely lacking her usual confidence and calmness.

My heart tightened, and I hurriedly pulled up the veil and ran towards Mika and the others in her whispered exclamation.

"Mika, I'm sorry...... Sorry ......"

There was still a short distance between the two of us, and Saya and I heard Rina apologize, she covered her mouth with her hand, let out a slight sob, and couldn't stop apologizing to Mika. Mika, on the other hand, tilted her head to look at her with some annoyance, with a smile on her face that seemed a little far-fetched because of the pain: "It's okay, it's just that it's just smashed in the hand, and it will get better soon." ”

"But if it weren't for the fact that I was holding you on, you wouldn't have been smashed, and you protected me...... I'm sorry, it's all my fault! ”

Rina's voice was full of self-reproach, she looked panicked, and she didn't even think to ask the adults around her for help for a while. At this time, Mika had already seen me and Sa, let go of her right hand covering her shoulder, tried to hang up a light smile, and waved at us: "Sa, this way, this way." Rina ...... They all said don't cry, Oriwa and yarn have already come, so that they will laugh at you when they see you like this. ”

The latter sentence was whispered to Rina beside me, but she underestimated the sensitivity of my hearing. I pretended not to hear her whisper, pulled the yarn and ran to the two of them, only then I looked at Meijia's shoulder, and pretended to be puzzled: "Meijia, what's wrong with you?" Was it hit by the hailstorm just now? Does it matter? ”

"Mika, does it hurt?"

Saya saw the situation from Mika's face and uncoordinated movements, and clenched her fists worriedly.

"Fold, you have too many questions."

With a wave of her hand, Mika tried to pretend to be nonchalant, but through the gesture of inhaling cold air from the corner of her lips, she revealed that the injured area was still painful.

Due to the hailstorm just now, many people present were injured of varying degrees of severity, and now that the security meeting has taken action, they have expanded the gate of the ice palace, and then stood at the door and shouted to the people with a megaphone: "In order to avoid a second attack, please bring the injured and children to the ice palace, and we will provide treatment for the injured." Repeat......"

"Mika, can you move? Let's go to the Ice Palace. ”

I pointed to the Ice Palace, and out of the corner of my eye, I looked at Zao Ji and Mariya who were running towards this direction, and at the same time, I also noticed that Instant and Jue were walking towards the Ice Palace behind an adult.

"But what about the others...... Ah, they're here in the early season. ”

Mika hesitated and looked around, but her eyesight was obviously not as good as mine, and she only saw Morning Season and Maria who were coming this way.

"It's okay, everyone will go to the Ice Palace later."

Rina finally regained her composure, wiped the cold tears and melted snow from her face, and stopped sobbing slightly.

"That's what I said, then when Zaoji and Truth come over, let's go to the Ice Palace."

Meijia nodded, and then looked at me: "Fold, wait for me to help me down, my foot seems to be twisted." ”

"Okay."

I can imagine that in the same way that the two of them danced just now, it must have been extremely inconvenient to dodge the hail, and it was quite possible to twist the foot—but it was inconvenient to ask.

After patting some of the fine pieces of ice between the snowflakes and the hailstones, I stepped forward and handed my hand to Mika on the ground, pulled her up from the ground with a little force, and then wrapped her left arm around my right shoulder, using her shoulder to bear her weight - luckily, Mika was not shorter than me, so neither she nor I had to struggle too much.

When the early season and Truth came over, they were "shushing and asking for warmth" to Meijia. Seeing Mika squirming slightly with a far-fetched smile on her face, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and hurriedly reached out to stop the action of reaching over to touch Mika with concern: "Okay, let's hurry to the Ice Palace." ”

"Gone, gone."

Mika grunted and tugged at the corners of my clothes, so I carried her like an anti-sandbag to the Ice Palace, and the veils followed behind. After driving Mika a few steps, the unexpected feeling was not effortless, so I sped up and soon came to the gate of the Ice Palace.

"What's wrong with her?"

Standing at the door, the female staff member in a thick leather jacket glanced at Mika. I replied, "I was hit by hailstones", and then she stretched out her hand and pointed to a corner of the ice palace: "Take her in first, it's not convenient to check here." ”

There is about two hundred square meters of space inside the Ice Palace, and dozens of round fluorescent lights are hung overhead, fixed to the ceiling with ice cubes, and the light emitted makes the inside of the Ice Palace look as bright as daytime.

The ground was improvised with a large number of wooden planks covered with cotton cloth, and some of the wounded were helped in and rested on the boards. Several women, who appeared to be nurses, spontaneously cared for the injured, and several doctors-like adults were asking about their conditions or treating wounds.

I carried Mika to the corner pointed out by the female staff, and as soon as Mika sat on the wooden board covered with thick cotton cloth on the ground, Mamura, who was brought into the ice palace by the adults, ran over nervously: "What's wrong with Mika?" ”

"It was smashed in the hand. Mamura, are you alright? ”

Meijia tentatively moved her right hand, and as soon as she moved, she "hissed" and inhaled several breaths of cold air.

"Here, let me see where the wound is."

At this moment, the female staff member who was guiding us at the door came over, and she crouched down in front of Mika and motioned for the wound to be exposed.

"Right here?"

Mika looked embarrassedly and squirmed—inadvertently, she glared at me and Mamura several times.

"You all go away."

Seeing her embarrassment, the female staff waved at us and asked me to go to the side with Mamura and Ryo Inaba, who had come with her. I shrugged my shoulders and walked to the side with Mamura, looking for others in the growing crowd while thinking about what had just happened.

Devil.

When the mayor of the town at the time said the name, the reaction of the adults around him revealed a surprising message that evil spirits seemed to be real and had always been familiar as a concept to people of a certain age, including some children who had already entered a whole-person class, and their faces changed when they heard the term "evil ghosts", showing obvious fear and disbelief.

From all of this, it is clear that the "evil spirit" cannot be just a non-human creature that exists in a scary story, but a very threatening real life that may be familiar and deeply guarded by everyone in the town - as for what kind of creature it is, it is not known for the time being.

But if a name can cause people to change color, and if it is called "unrivaled and the worst case", then the so-called evil spirit must have unimaginable power, which is even greater than that of many users of mana.

To be honest, it seemed almost unbelievable to me, and years of constant exposure to mana had given me an unusual understanding of mana. It is precisely because of this understanding that one has unimaginable thoughts about the idea of "power beyond mana"—mana, which is the fulfillment of thoughts, and with sufficiently coordinated imagery, anything that can be called impossible.

This ability is comparable to the power of the gods, so what kind of existence can make everyone who has this ability feel afraid, and even regarded it as a major threat, and make up a story to tell everyone from top to bottom, from old to young, so that everyone is afraid of the creature "demon".

Just like the nuclear bomb of a thousand years ago.

A thousand years ago, even people who didn't go to school would have known what a nuclear bomb was and how terrifying it was – and now I get the same impression that the demon is playing the role of a "nuclear bomb" a thousand years ago, if not more terrifying.

At least a thousand years ago, no one would have been afraid to change color when they heard the name of a nuclear bomb unless they were directly victims.

As you can imagine, the current situation in the town must be terrible, and there is a possibility that it may even suffer a major disaster.

When I think about it, I can't help but worry about my parents, because there is no violent organization in the town as an army, and every adult has the possibility of taking responsibility or fighting in the face of a major situation. And the sixty-six towns of Kamisu are not big in general, and if there is any threat, there is basically no way to escape - you can't leave the Zhulian rope, which means that there is no escape, and you can only swear to defend your homeland.

Like a beast trapped in a cage.

Suddenly, my heart was filled with a kind of fear; Note: Is the rope an enchantment that protects humans, or is it an iron cage that keeps prey in captivity?

"Fold! Do you hear me? ”

Someone interrupted my train of thought, and I realized that Jue and Instant had already found it. And I seemed to be talking to me about something, but I didn't hear it clearly because I was too distracted, so I had to smile apologetically: "I'm sorry, I was in a daze just now, and I didn't hear what you said clearly." ”

"Ah, I just saw your sister go outside the square, and I called out to her, and she ran out as if she didn't hear it."

Jue scratched his head, and his tone was a little reluctant: "I don't dare to chase it out, I want to tell other adults, but I don't think it's appropriate." So I thought of coming to tell you and asking for your opinion. She's your sister after all, and maybe you know what she's going to do. ”

"Are you sure you're right?"

"Of course not, if you don't believe it, he also saw it."

His words made my heart tighten, and an indescribable sense of panic permeated my whole body, and I almost immediately rushed out to find Jing. But the more urgent it was, the more I needed to calm down, so I forced myself to calm down and moved my gaze to the moment beside Jue: "You also saw it like him?" ”

"Yes, I see."

Nodding instantly, he held his chin and thought for a while, his eyes rolled around, as if looking for someone in the crowd, and after a while, he froze, and then raised his hand and pointed: "At that time, your sister seemed to have talked to that girl before leaving the square." ”

I looked in the direction of his finger and saw Suiko sitting on the ground with her back to an icicle, staring blankly at the ceiling, but Shizune was not beside her.

Seeing this scene, I already believed what Jue He said, but for a while I couldn't think of a reason why I didn't enter the Ice Palace, but went outside. So he nodded to Jue and thanked him instantly, and walked towards Suizi.

"Sister Suizi, have you seen my sister?"

When I came to stand still in front of Suiko, she was still stunned, sitting on the wooden board with her hands folded on her knees, as if she was immersed in thought just now.

Even when I stood in front of her and called out to her, she didn't respond, her eyes glazed over the brim of her brown cotton hat, ...... It's like being hypnotized – no, not just like, but hypnotized.

Discovering this, my already restless heart sank deeper and deeper, although I had known that Jing could gain knowledge through my thoughts, but I didn't expect that she had even learned the method of hypnosis.

But why exactly? Why on earth did she use hypnosis against Spike at this time?

The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't resist the urge to find stillness, and I paced my steps while looking at the exit of the Ice Palace; There are several security council staff on the lookout for possible enemies, as well as searching for the wounded outside and bringing them to the Ice Palace.

They won't stop people from entering the Ice Palace, but if the children in the Ice Palace try to run out to find their parents, they will stop them - how can I bypass them and go outside the Ice Palace?

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Sorry, because of the new book, this update has been delayed for a long time.