Volume III, Chapter 19: The Observer's Perspective
1 [Renqing River perspective]
The wind is blowing from the west.
Looking up, I don't know if it's the starry sky of that constellation, whether it's Orion or Big Bear in this direction, I don't know anything about the starry sky, and I don't even know when I can see the famous 'Big Dipper'. Constellations named after the shape of the stars – although the book says that it looks like a 'bear', it can also be seen as a horse, a donkey, or a wolf. Those who like to observe the starry sky must be very romantic, sleeping on the top of the mountain at night, setting up long guns and short cannons, but unfortunately after modernization, there are fewer and fewer mountains around Sensugi City. In movies, there are sometimes scenes like this—a windmill-like Western-style hut with a skylight open, and a family sitting cross-legged on the roof, tasting snacks, looking at the stars, and waiting for the sunrise.
- It's really interesting. It's just that in this season, I definitely won't do it.
Pull your neck into your coat, pull your knitted hat down to the back of your neck, cover your ears tightly, and insert your hands deep into your coat pockets.
"As for that cold?"
Lianwen looked at my formation and said puzzled.
"I just came out of the hot springs, and the wind blew all over my body."
"You're not a hibiscus out of the water, I think this year is a warm winter."
Lianwen complained, the word hibiscus is not used like this.
"Fortunately, it's a warm winter, otherwise I would have stayed at home forever."
It was still cold in my coat pocket, and I reached out and put it in front of my mouth to breathe.
"Do you want to warm up with my body?"
Lianwen said with a wicked smile.
"That's amazing."
I said, and Lianwen took my hand and put it in the pocket of her white coat.
It's really warm, but girls are 'hot animals'.
The inner layer of the jacket is as smooth as silk, and I can't help but touch it back and forth.
"Itchy—"
"Ahaha."
Lianwen's itchy expression is also great.
"Qinghe-san, I take the liberty of asking, why are you going in this direction."
Lianwen pretended to be respectful and said, this is our usual opening line for sketch jokes.
Today is Christmas, and the two of us have made an appointment to come to the 'West End Hot Spring Entertainment Center' together. It was already night, and we came out of the entertainment hall and were supposed to get on the bus stop in front of the door, but now I was walking with her down a dimly lit path.
"Are you questioning my genius sense of direction? Miss Love. ”
"That's really not true, Mr. Qinghe. It's just that I don't know why you're bringing me to this deserted path—"
There are no street lights here, and when I heard Lianwen say the words 'empty', I remembered a lot of images from that time.
I'm a man who's lived in No Man's World for more than half a month.
"I have my own ideas."
I gave a perfunctory smirk.
"Ahh I don't think it's okay today. I didn't expect you to want to do that kind of thing, so I didn't put safety in my bag today ○. ”
"So you usually carry it all the time?"
"Well, of course, be prepared."
She had a seductive expression, like a mischievous little devil.
"And—not just us."
I looked at a 'figure' in the distance of the path.
At this time, Lianwen frowned, and after a long time realized that it was a person, and then pretended to be frightened, widened his eyes, and took a few steps back.
"Do you want to play three people here? - No, Mr. Qinghe, it is immoral to do this in such a public place. ”
"Isn't it immoral for two people to be in public?"
I said.
"You have a point."
"You've finally found out about this problem, congratulations."
"By the way, your eyesight is so good, I didn't even see it was a person."
Lianwen praised.
"Thanks for the compliment, you really complimented me."
"I initially thought it was just ghosts."
"Then it gets even worse."
I calmly complained that this should be my daily life with Lianwen. After many days of daily life, I miss it a lot.
"What is he doing here......
"I don't know, but it should have something to do with [her]."
"She'——?"
"A girl named Xi Ning."
According to the intelligence, she is supposed to be a high school junior who goes to school in Minato City and only haunts Qianshan City on weekends.
"That man is going to have a tryst with Xi Ning here?"
Lianwen said, she can see that she is a man, and her eyesight is not bad.
"No, this man should be his brother."
"Wouldn't that be worse, brother and sister's forbidden love—"
"Go back and talk to my sister to see if she's willing to come with me in the middle of the night for a tryst on the path without street lights."
I complained.
"So、What's going on?"
"[God of Wrath]'s mission."
I said a name that made Lianwen unhappy-
"Angry...... The gods? Have you seen him? ”
"Ah, sort of, yesterday."
It was the night I met the god of joy, and I was so lucky to see two gods in one day.
"What did he say?"
"He rounded out at least one thing – he said he gave me a blank 'shadow world'."
"Eh......"
"In other words, I now have two [No Man's Worlds] in my hands, one belonging to the God of Joy and the other to the God of Wrath."
“……”
["I don't know why, but both gods are particularly fond of giving me a blank [No Man's World]. ”】
"Maybe you seem to be particularly suited to survive in an uninhabited world."
"Really...... The [No Man's World] of the God of Joy belongs to the territory of the God of Joy and connects to the world of the God of Joy, and the other [No Man's World] belongs to the God of Wrath. ”
However, only the 'Shadow World' of the God of Joy can have the ability to interfere with [Keyframes]. The 'shadow world' of the God of Wrath is nothing more than a simple empty world.
“…… Can you tell the difference between the two worlds? ”
"Coincidentally, both worlds are the scene of Qianshan City, and to be honest, I don't know very well. It can only be judged from [emotional orientation]. ”
"Emotionally oriented?"
"In the world of the God of Wrath, you can feel obvious anger when you go inside—maybe that's just how I feel."
But in fact, there is a better way to distinguish - the 'shadow world' of the god of joy, where the little black cat lives - the warbler lily of the valley.
"Is that all [he] said?"
Lianwen doesn't seem to like the god of anger too much, after all, she is the victim.
"And he please- to [save] someone today-"
"[Save]? Will the god of wrath save people? ”
“…… I don't know his intentions, it's harmless to me anyway, you squat down first. ”
I jumped into the bamboo forest next to the path and hid in front of the big tree, I hugged Lianwen and let her position be lower than me.
However, why are there big trees in the bamboo forest, this place seems to be planted with bamboo, but it is strangely interspersed with some large trees with thick branches.
I put on earphones and glasses and probed the situation ahead.
"I should be able to see Xi Ning here, although I don't know what they are going to do, but there should be no danger......
My words haven't fallen yet—
dududududadara——
“……”
How could there be gunshots, or that old-fashioned machine-gun sound.
Glasses zoomed in – I could see what was ahead.
A girl with short blond hair, expressionless, with a rifle in her hand.
"Rifles make the sound of machine guns——? This is so unreasonable. ”
How many bullets there are and how many heavy modifications this thing has undergone - of course it's unknown.
"Three people...... The blonde girl seems to be in the same group as the tall royal sister. ”
"Tall royal sister? Where did it come from......"
Lianwen looked puzzled, of course, because she was completely out of the situation.
"Hmmm......"
"What kind of expression do you have?"
I don't know what I'm looking like right now, and I don't want to get involved in it.
"Seventh, ask the system to give instructions."
The blonde girl said with a blank face, as if she were a machine.
"System, give the command to kill the target."
The girl said very scary words very mechanically-
Kill ......
Oops, it looks dangerous, the yellow-haired boy - I've seen him in the entertainment hall. Although I think he also has some kind of [gift]. As far as I could see, his emotions were missing the element of fear and were filled with more anger, but if you want to ask how it feels, you can only say that it is in the dark.
Will he be able to handle the scene?
I became suspicious. But I am not very willing to do anything other than [the mission]—I am not willing to interfere with them.
But even if I don't want to interfere, I don't want to see a fatal incident happen.
Sure enough, let's do something......
At that moment, my [target] appeared, wearing a black bodysuit, with his head raised like an ancient assassin, not tall but with a rather explosive figure.
"She's Xi Ning."
"Really? I thought it was a killer. ”
Bang bang –
Xi Ning fought back with a flowing pace and lightning speed, holding two modified weapons in both hands - although I don't know what they were, the reason why I think it was modified is because the gun glows blue and looks like a futuristic weapon in the movie.
"Hey, stupid, you can't even run?"
"Xi Ning......? How do you dress like this? ”
"I haven't seen you yet. You're really not afraid of things. ”
["Seventh, shot. The source is Xi Ning of the 'Hong Kong Association'. ”】
The two people on the opposite side were both shot, and the bodies that were shot not only shed blood, but even more strangely, the core like a computer part was exposed-
"What's that—parts of a robot?"
Lianwen said in surprise.
"Be quiet."
"Aren't you surprised?"
"I was surprised. But I've taken it lightly, after all, there are even gods in this world. ”
This is true.
With this formation, Xi Ning could completely suppress the two opposites by herself, and the tall girl did not show combat effectiveness from beginning to end.
It seems that Xi Ning's combat effectiveness is not low, she can already cope with this scene by herself, and it seems that she doesn't need me to [save] her.
It's just a good thing to watch from the sidelines, it's a great gunfight movie, and I wonder if anyone sells popcorn and Coke nearby.
There was a fight.
Xi Ning took the boy and fled in the opposite direction.
This is the legendary 'go for the best'.
Soon she disappeared from my view.
The two injured robots here were muttering something like a spell in their mouths.
The eyes are red, and the forward projection resembles something like the system interface.
"Seven, damaged, impaired mobility. System - Request system support. ”
"Positioning, target location. - Eh, Seven, can you still stand up? ”
The tall girl was different from the blonde girl, she was more like a human being, more emotional, if not looking at the steel exposed on her arms.
"No, it's hard to move."
"I'll carry you on my back."
"Request permission from the system."
"There's no need to request the system for such a trivial matter—"
The tall girl grumbled, crouching down and motioning for the blonde girl to sit down.
"No, request system permission."
The blonde girl said stubbornly.
“……”
But the so-called 'system' never responded to her, and the tall girl stood up and forcibly hugged the blonde girl.
"Run ahead a little bit and catch up with Xi Ning."
Although I was interested, I didn't have much time to observe them.
I took Lianwen's hand, and regardless of whether I would be spotted or not, turned on the night vision and search system of the glasses. Run in the bamboo forest.
"—I seem to hear a terrible sound."
"What......
"Stop—"
After a while, I found the target.
It was about a few tens of meters away from me, at least at a safe distance.
"Why did they stop here?"
"Qinghe, did you hear the voice?"
Lianwen said.
"Uh-huh——?"
"The sound of people walking in."
"Isn't that our voice?"
"It's not — it's another voice, and there's a sense of danger."
That's when —
A deafening voice came—
Bang ————————!!!!!!!
“?!”
A strange and powerful energy came, as if it raised all the dust and dirt around me, and I couldn't open my eyes.
"Why, what's going on?"
I clung to the frightened love letter.
"Ah—————— what are you doing?"
I whispered.
"Little Lemon...... Xiao Ning......?? ”
"Brother, run, run...... Come on...... Run......"
After a while, I forced myself to open my eyes, and a teenager in a large pure white shirt and black trousers walked out, his pupils glowing a terrifying red, and he was wearing headphones-like things on his ears and a collar around his neck. A sickly twisted smile on his face.
This person is very dangerous-
Just looking at it, even I have a chill when I have nothing to do with it.
A strong explosion just now - was he the one who caused it?
If so, his strength is not trivial—even, not inferior to the black undercurrent.
"Hahahahaha-"
The young man in white smiled sickly.
"What to do—"
"You know what? In an instant, if hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of air were injected into every pore of a human being, he would explode like a balloon, and boom, boom, red fireworks would bloom here, and the sky would be bright red, and that would be wonderful. Would you like to see such a view—"
“……”
Which side is the world of the God of Wrath?
"It's better to start with who to start with - Xi Ning seems to have seen such a beautiful scenery. Then leave this viewing right to the new guests, and you can see the most wonderful red in the world during this time - no matter how many times you want to get tired of it. That sound, that feeling, that picture of the sky – it's the most perfect work of art in the universe. ”
The boy approached Xi Ning—I stood up, took Lianwen's hand, locked on Xi Ning and the boy, and [stretched out his right hand]—
You can only look at luck -
save——
Zizi Zizi Zizi Zizi -
There was a murmur -
I immediately squatted down, and while the noise was still not gone, I hid with Lianwen -
"Whew-"
The sickly boy in white disappeared, and the world seemed to have suffered a magnetic shock.
There was a rush of anger in my heart, anger without a clue or for any reason.
"Don't make a sound."
I whispered, making a 'shhh' gesture to signal to Lian Wendao.
Lianwen nodded slightly.
No sound came, and it seemed to have succeeded. This should be the [No Man's World] of the [God of Wrath]. It's a blank world without keyframe effects, and if it looks like they've disappeared out of thin air in the eyes of the 'present world'.
“……”
After a while, Xi Ning and the boy left the bamboo forest together, and Lianwen and I also followed, and after more than ten minutes, I estimated that everything was safe, and then lifted the [No Man's World].