Listening to his words, I looked at the two brothers again, and found that both brothers were pale, and even Ya Koi, who had a bad character, did not immediately refute it.

"We thought he was a karmic demon, so we turned around and ran away. But after a few steps, I saw the strange plants, deep pits, and sea water around me...... All of them were gone, and like the rest of the place, they were snow-covered mudflats, white with snow. ”

Koi Mi, his expression was complicated, and his well-combed hair dripped a little splash and hit his equally pale face: "Do you believe it? Everything I saw just now changed in an instant—not mana, even mana, couldn't change the environment of such a range in an instant without any changes. Process...... There's going to be a process, and we're just blinking our eyes, and it's completely different. ”

"Hallucinations?"

Sasha frowned, and glanced at me casually, although it was hidden, but I could easily feel her action, and even faintly perceive her thoughts—she was wondering if this matter had something to do with me.

In fact, Yarn had told me before that Miss Liuzhi had already known about the leakage of my fantasies, and even specifically told Yarn not to mention it to me, and not to tell anyone else.

So when she heard Brother Koi's words, it was natural for her to suspect me. Rather, even if she didn't doubt me, my own heart would be just as uneasy, because the phenomenon that Brother Koi spoke of undoubtedly coincided with the phenomenon when my faith was activated—making everything real instantly false, and in an instant all unrecognizable, and even impossible to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Mana must have a process of changing reality, which may be rapid, but it will not disappear - this is the theorem of mana. In other words, to carry a stone from point A to point C with mana, it is necessary to pass through point B on the way, rather than suddenly appearing at point C.

Only my faith can achieve this kind of "no process or principle" change, because it only interferes with the senses and thoughts of the observed object, causing a hallucinatory effect, so there is no need to follow the laws of physics.

This made me secretly wonder if faith was not only leaking, but also contagious, and could enable others to gain the ability to create illusions.

"Perhaps, but that's all too real...... And...... And my brother and I saw it. ”

Xiao Jingxu gritted his teeth and shook his head: "There are still ...... We were scared and wanted to run back and tell the adults, but suddenly we couldn't run. Many hands grow from the ground...... It was human hands, they grabbed my brother and me's feet, and no matter how much we struggled, it was useless. ”

"What did he do to you?"

In my impression, although the character of Liren is introverted, it is not extreme, but belongs to the more docile type. He is not strongly aggressive, and he never gets into trouble with others when he is usually playing, and it is hard to believe that he would attack strangers, and even kill Mr. Kawakami, as Koi Yu said—perhaps it is possible that he has suffered a sudden change in personality that has caused him to have a distorted personality.

"No...... He just kept laughing, laughing so happily, like crazy. After that, he asked us to help him find someone, Mr. Kawakami...... We didn't dare to tell the adults, so we helped him find Mr. Kawakami...... When Mr. Kawakami died today, he must have been nearby! It was he who killed Mr. Kawakami! Not ......"

Xiao Jing looked excited, and his lips were blue and trembling again.

With a "bang", a column of water gushed out from the surface of the river, crossed a parabola, and swirled and slapped Xiao Jingxu's body, easily knocking him unconscious, and his body fell on the polished smooth and shiny plank with a dull sound. Seeing this scene, Koiya's eyes widened, and he pointed at the yarn in disbelief, his still childish face became distorted with fear, and his teeth trembled up and down: "You...... You...... Evil...... Evil ......"

"That's enough, let's go."

After knocking Koi unconscious, Saya ignored Koi's appearance and clenched my hand again, isolating all emotions from her delicate face that seemed to be shrouded in a hazy veil under the moonlight.

"Yes."

I answered, looked thoughtfully at Koi Xu, and then at the four children including Tsuyoshi Wada, who were still a little confused and uneasy, smiled at them with a soothing smile, and gave them an order in a slightly tough and commanding tone: "Gang, you stay on the boat for the time being. Wait a minute, if an adult comes to you, you can tell them everything that has happened, and you can't hide anything! ”

Tsuyoshi Wada hesitantly stood on his right foot and drew lines on the board—small movements he was used to when he was reluctant.

"Do you hear me clearly? Your mom and dad will be worried. ”

I strengthened my tone again.

"I ...... I know. ”

He finally nodded with a grunt.

"If you could...... Koi, can you please pull the boat to the shore? If you continue to stay on the lake, you won't even have room to escape if you encounter danger, right? ”

I then slowed down and nodded pleadingly at Koi, then squeezed the veil's hand with my backhand to show "it's OK to go."

Under the influence of the spell, Yarn floated me into the air again, perhaps to find traces of Rito, this time she only maintained a floating altitude of about fifty or sixty meters above the ground, and flew towards the southwest direction pointed by Koiyu at a much slower speed than before—although it was much slower, but in fact it was at least sixty or seventy kilometers per hour, so soon the punt disappeared behind it.

In the process of searching in the air, due to the protection of the magic power, the oncoming air is like being cut by a sharp blade, not only can you not feel the slightest air resistance, but even the sound of wind and waves cannot be transmitted from the outside. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I exhaled a sigh of "ha", no longer suppressing my doubts and thoughts: "I have some questions, can I ask?" ”

Mana flight seemed so easy for Yarn that she still had the energy to talk to me while she scanned the ground below, and even easily guessed the question I was trying to ask, "Attack suppression?" Or is it shame to die? ”

"It's all — can you slow it down a bit? At this rate, I am afraid that no one will be found at night. ”

I looked at the sky, and although there was a bright moonlight and starlight in a cloudless sky, the brightness was limited to what I could see at close range. In addition, there are many obstacles such as trees and buildings on the ground from the time you enter the watermill from the Spear Wheel Township, and it is almost impossible to find a person on the ground with your eyes.

"Do you think I'll not know about such a thing?"

She asked rhetorically in a very different tone from the yarn, and at the same time turned her head to look at me with a heavy scrutiny, as gray as the light refracted by the snow: "Attack suppression (こうげきよくせい) should be unambiguous in the literal sense of the word—translated into kanji, then needless to say, you should understand what it is." ”

"If you want to say understanding, of course, you can say understanding. But what you said about attack suppression and the performance of the Oi brothers just now ......"

I carefully considered and chose the right words to describe the doubts in my heart: "Especially as an elder brother, Koi Xu, he looks like a ...... A child who listens to a horror story at night, is scared so blue that he lies motionless in bed - is this because of the inhibition of aggression you are talking about? ”

This analogy is interesting, and there are certain similarities between the two, at least they can be classified as stress reactions. However, to be more precise, attack inhibition is a more subjective negative reaction, because once the attack inhibition occurs, the control of logical thinking will affect the left side of the brain, which is manifested as an inability to concentrate, and at the same time, cognitive ability and sensory sensitivity will be reduced, and occasionally accompanied by limb weakness, dizziness, dry mouth, drowsiness, heart rate reduction and other effects, which vary from person to person. ”

If she was looking at a child of normal age, then what she said was undoubtedly playing the harp to the cow. But she didn't seem to think that I wouldn't understand, and continued without pause: "Probably magnify the situation you said tenfold, that is, to the point where you can't move because of fear, and the blood supply to the brain is insufficient. ”

I easily understood the meaning of her words, and combined with my own knowledge, I realized that the attack suppression attack she described had a lot in common with the symptoms of low blood pressure - speaking of which, Jing's symptoms of hypoglycemia also seemed to be somewhat similar, could it be that I had misjudged that she was actually not hypoglycemic, but hypoglycemia, right?

After all, I am not a professional medical professional, and I don't have the tools to test blood pressure, so as long as there is not much difference, errors in judgment are inevitable.

When I think of Jing, I can't help but worry, and this worry is due to what Koi said just now. Koi said that someone had attacked the boat they were on, and Rito chased after him. In the current situation, it's hard not to suspect that that person is Jing - and even with my own strong intuition, I am almost certain that the person who did so is her.

But why would she do that?

I didn't think of the reason at all, so now I'm in a state of uneasiness that I have a premonition but no clue.

By the way, Ted has been gone for so long, he should have found Jing, right? Judging by its speed and ability, it should have a result now.

My mood became slightly agitated, and the thought of "it must have found stillness by this time" began to rise, and no sooner had this thought arisen than the world on the side of the fantasy realm echoed with Ted's dull roar of rolling thunder, and a huge body emerged in the violent wind and snow of the fantasy world.

"If you don't want to hear it, don't ask me questions in the first place."

Just as I was recovering from my thoughts because Ted had appeared so "timely", I heard the voice of displeasure in my ears, and when I turned my head, I saw that her lips were pursed stiffly, her face as white as ice and snow was carved with a slight flush of anger, and her eyes that were as moist and shiny as water waves seemed to have a sense of anger.

If this expression is placed on Miss Liuzhi, it is probably a threatening expression, but on the face of the veil that has not yet grown, it looks extremely childish, so that I can't help but touch my mouth, and I almost want to laugh, but fortunately, I endured it in time.

I knew that she had explained the knowledge of attack inhibition and death while I was thinking about it, but I realized that I was in a "daze" and became angry because of it. Since this in itself was my fault, and I didn't want to anger this unfamiliar "yarn", I sincerely bowed my head and apologized to her: "I'm sorry. I'm just wondering when you said that attack suppression would happen. ”

"When everyone comes to the spirit, as long as they have the consciousness of attacking their own kind, they will have an attack."

"How can you ......?"

I subconsciously let out a small exclamation, but I suddenly remembered that in the nearly seven years I had spent in this world, I had never seen anyone with magical powers attack others. It's not that there are no conflicts between people, on the contrary, I don't think the village should be so peaceful in many things - for example, the families whose children are "treated", and their parents have every reason and possibility to retaliate against the village, but I have never seen such a situation.

In other words, everyone with mana in this Kamisu 66 town is a humanoid self-propelled bomb, and there are countless reasons why it could explode, but never one of them.

Such an unreasonable thing...... Why didn't I notice it before?

No...... It's not that I'm unconscious, but I take it for granted. I come from a world where the power of the individual cannot compete with the power of the organization, so if an individual's behavior violates the rules, it will be quickly and effectively arrested, punished, or even destroyed.

It is precisely because no one person can compete with the whole world, because he is only an insignificant drop in the ocean, and nothing he does is enough to affect the world. That's why I learned to make myself obedient to the whole world, to grind away all the water chestnuts of myself, and to become a smooth goose soft stone, which will not hurt others or myself.

Therefore, the perception that individuals should obey the collective, and if they do not, they will face a situation of being crushed, and for this reason, people maintain a fearful and free life under various rules - this kind of thinking is deeply ingrained in my impression, so I take it for granted that peace and calm in the village are also a natural gesture in a high-pressure society.

But this is wrong.

In this town where everyone can have magical powers, there is no strong form of restraint and punishment from the outside that can be a sword of Damocles hanging over everyone's head. In this case, from the perspective of human nature as I know it, the social order should have collapsed long ago, not the current peaceful appearance.

Thinking about it in another way, since this town can maintain peace, there must be a reason. In other words, there must be a mechanism of restraint and punishment, and if this mechanism does not exist in the outside world, then it can only exist in each person itself - that is, although everyone is a nuclear bomb, in fact it is a nuclear bomb that cannot explode without a button.

Because there is attack suppression?

"Impossible? Why...... You think it's impossible? ”

There was a hint of doubt in the cold voice, which made me lift my heart, and I realized that the negative meaning in my tone was too strong, and I quickly vaguely said: "Because I'm surprised, I haven't heard this kind of thing before." ”

"After all, it's not something worth discussing, as long as you go to school, you will learn something."

She probably accepted my explanation, and did not dwell on my "mispronunciation", but curled the corners of her lips to herself, showing a contemptuous smile: "But that's all, what I'm teaching now is just 'there is such a thing' and 'don't offend this kind of thing', just listen to it." ”

"Can you tell me, 'Why is there such a thing?'"

I could hear her implication that knowledge about the origins of attack suppression was allowed to be disseminated in the past, but now it is restricted.

"What do you say?"

She had already expressed her attitude with her unsmiling eyes: "Finally, let's talk about the death of shame (きし).,Neither a knight (ナイト),Nor banner (のぼり),What do you think?" ”

With only one word and no consecutive sentences, it is difficult for me to determine what the kanji and semantics of きし she said are, and I can only guess from the state of Koi's void at the time that this may be a stronger restraint mechanism than attack suppression, and even lead to death.

So I stared into her unsmiling eyes and tentatively said, "A ...... How to die? ”

"Death by shame (恥じるで死)."

There was no banter or joke in her expression and words, only seriousness and seriousness: "When the spirit comes, once you realize that you have hurt or killed your own kind, you will be killed by your own magic power—this mechanism to prevent the mutilation of your own kind is the mechanism of shameful death." ”

So that's it......

I kept my composure when I had already guessed about it. Besides, this kind of natural thing is not worth marveling at, after all, human beings are a kind of life that will lose control without strong constraints, and if external constraints cannot exist, then choosing a "golden hoop" that is specific to each person's body is undoubtedly the only choice.

If this method can be widely used, it will be extremely efficient. However, this approach is premised on the premise that everyone must wear the same "golden hoop", otherwise even one exception will be a terrible outcome.

If the other party becomes a dictator through violence simply because of the desire for power, it is a minor problem. The real big problem is that this exception has the ability to destroy everyone in one direction, but no one can stop it - this is the same as a certain tendency called "political correctness" thousands of years ago, to tolerate a certain religion, things, and words that will cause harm to ordinary people, and still choose to indulge, or even add fuel to it, even if it will cause devastating results.

For example, the abolition of destructive punishment for the sake of so-called human rights and the respect for the human rights of the most heinous are carried out in defiance of the rights of the victims. Another example is when a certain religion affects the peace of various countries through various means, but uses the slogan of protecting religious beliefs and the purity of the whole believers to eliminate the essential errors and evils, just like a mutant cell that can be destroyed by the immune system, but is tolerated by immune surveillance under the slogan "This mutant cell is also a part of the body", and eventually becomes cancerous and causes the individual to die.

So I can't help but feel anxious about the so-called shameful death, because I don't think that everyone in this world who has the power of magic will wear the same golden hoop. In this case, the person wearing the golden hoop is undoubtedly tying himself in front of a group of thugs, and whether he lives or dies can only be determined by the mood of the thugs.

"Koi is empty...... He said that Rito had killed Mr. Kawakami...... And before the mayor said...... The enemy is most likely a demon......"

After getting the key information, it was easy for me to judge what I was about to face. In an instant, it was as if the whole body was immersed in ice water, and it was cold from head to toe, and it seemed to be a little difficult to breathe, and it was not clear whether it was because of panic or sadness: "In other words, if someone is not ashamed to die, it is...... Is that what everyone calls an evil ghost? ”

"That's about it."

She replied with a simple "gracious", still staring at me.

"That'...... What should I do? ”

I didn't know how suspicious she was of me, and I couldn't take a pretentious posture that would only make me look more suspicious, so I looked at her with a slightly nervous look.

"What should I do?"

She slowly leaned her face closer, her delicate lips and moist eyes gradually enlarged in her field of vision, and finally stopped when the tip of my nose and I were about to touch: "Kill him, of course, after all...... The two males will contend with each other. By the way, I forgot to tell you that I ......"

"It's a demon, too."

The delicate faces that were close at hand seemed to melt away from the snow, revealing a delicate smile like an ice flower in full bloom, but the dark eyes that could not be illuminated by the light because they were close in front of them were full of cruelty.

It was like a bomb exploding in my mind, and I subconsciously let go of the hand I was shaking with her, forgetting the fact that I was in the air, and leaned back. By the time he came back to his senses, his body had already begun to fall.

Are you going to die?

I don't know if it's because I've already experienced death, but at this moment, I didn't feel much panic and fear in my heart, but I felt a little calmer, floating on the water like a backstroke, trying my best to tilt my head and stare at the yarn that was slowly pulling away in my field of vision.

As if noticing my fall, she turned nonchalantly and looked not far down; The undulating slope was wrapped in a layer of silver, like a round steamed bun that had just come out of the cage, and at the top, there stood a low wooden hut covered in snow, and next to it there was a humanoid straw man erected with a stick—it should have been like this, but now it was the opposite, the wooden house and the straw man were gone, the gentle slope was like a rotten apple that had been gnawed several bites, and even the surrounding frozen paddy fields were full of cracks like smashed mirrors.

In the midst of this devastated scene, she reached out and took off her white soft hat, exposing the red hair, which was so gorgeous even in the drowsy night that people couldn't take their eyes off it, and some of the untied hair jumped up and down with the cold air circulating inward, like a raging red flame, giving people the illusion that the cold was expelled by this fiery red.

"Like...... Got it. ”

In a shallow murmur, the corners of her lips were casually outlined, and the red hair was reflected in her pupils, as if her black eyes had been dyed a slightly drunken dark red. Around her, ribbons of air that seem to be transparent, but vaguely outlined when viewed from below to upwards, spread across half of the sky like spider webs, as if they were a thin "afterbirth".

Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but hold my breath, and I was finally able to write a new line of answers for the guess in my heart - she was neither yarn nor Miss Liuzhi, but some kind of "thing" that stayed in their shells.

"Once, I heard my mother talk about Aunt Liuzhi, and she said that Aunt Liuzhi is a 'heavenly girl' and may return to heaven one day. So I often wonder, what kind of person is Aunt Liuzhi? ”

"I've also seen my mother's picture of a very beautiful girl inside a huge egg. I asked my mother who she was, and she told me that she was Aunt Liuzhi, the reincarnated goddess. The old shell is faded and a new life is ushered in from the new shell. ”

Suddenly, my mind came up with the childish fairy tale of Akizuki Mariana on the first day of the Snow Festival.

"Celestial Maiden...... Is it? ”

I was stunned, stretched out my hand to grab her who was already more than ten meters away, and then felt amused by my actions, so I unconsciously laughed out loud - speaking of which, this laughter is quite clear, and why hasn't it landed yet?

……