The loneliness fabricated in despair brings not only confusion, but also powerlessness that penetrates into the bone marrow.

I gazed at Yao's clean face, blue-purple spots mixed with the scarlet of blood, like the dye that a mad painter had sprinkled on the white cloth, swaying to draw a mysterious and broken shape.

Everywhere I went, I was the only one left.

"You say...... They were—"

My lips and teeth trembled, and the grief in my atrium grew wildly.

I don't know if this emotion belongs to me, or if it's the weirdo who lives in my mind.

"Ahh

My shoulders shook as he spoke, and I quickly closed my tongue and cried out in my own consciousness,

"Do you remember what happened before I and them lost their amnesia?!"

Sure enough, shortly after I finished asking, Kushi's affirmative answer sounded from a deeper position,

"Yes, but so what."

"How?!"

Hearing his nonchalant attitude, the blood that had been driven to the apex suddenly gushed up, and when I realized that I had lost my temper, a bleak disappointment also diffused from the bottom of my heart.

I heard the soft hum of the Ten in my ears,

"Even if I told you everything, what could you change? Besides—"

He paused suddenly, as if chewing air from the past, and it wasn't until half an hour later that he sighed weakly,

"And this is our sin, which we deserve to atone for,

Sin that can never be paid. ”

At the same time as the voice of the old man drifted left and right, I only felt as unshakable desolation as the mountains and seas, covering the sky and the sun, and pressing down, making me kneel on the ground for a while, almost suffocating.

I held my trembling arms in front of me, and my vision was blurred into a colorful curtain that filled my brain like dirty mottled cotton. In this maddening rush, I bit the tip of my tongue desperately, barely able to trap my sluggish spirit.

Perhaps it was because I noticed that I was strange, and with a kind of snow collapsing comfort, those emotions that did not belong to me retreated into an untouchable abyss in an instant.

"I'm sorry."

The hoarse voice of the ten people sounded at the right time,

"I'm just too long...... I haven't felt this way anymore. ”

While wiping the remaining cold sweat on my forehead, I stood up against the rock wall, and did not forget to seize the precious time to complain,

"Then you can't put me to death."

But soon, something in the ten chapters of the Zodiac piqued my curiosity, and before he could use his perverted favorite mind-reading technique, I preemptively asked,

"Don't feel that way? Is it inability or opportunity? And honestly, how the hell did you do it, like a ghost in my head? Could it be—"

Unfortunately, before the remaining doubts could be exited, the fear that Yu Shi deliberately created suddenly sealed my mouth, and with this coldness that seeped into my pores, I held my breath, my eyes shrank, and my hands and feet were numb and leaned against the hard stone wall behind me, and he also took the opportunity to lower his voice and threatened,

"It's better that you don't know something."

However, just as I was trembling over this, a strange thought came to me out of place—his extreme horror could not have been pretended.

As if to confirm my point of view, after the disintegration of the fear of the Lord, Yu Shi prevaricated as if he had changed people,

"When you should know, you'll understand. Now I'm going to find my way first, I haven't been here for a long time, and I can't remember how to go. ”

I knew I didn't need to explain anything, and I was afraid that he already knew what was going on in my mind and what I was thinking.

And now I'm waiting for an opportunity that he can't shirk.

"It's just this kind of opportunity that you have a chance to ask if you live."

Maybe that's the disadvantage of not having privacy, I shook my head helplessly, and for the time being, I ignored the haze behind the hiding, and walked to the other side of the stone platform.

From the mouth of the cave, the breeze stopped, and in the dead light, all you could see were huge stone bricks with all the lines, piled up around the cave buried deep in the ground, like a coffin.

I tensed my muscles, cautiously raised my hand, and tapped it against a stone brick in front of me, but there was a dull sound that showed no hope.

But looking around, except for the place where I fell earlier, every corner was covered with this thick and stable building material, no matter what perspective you look at, it has become a fantasy to go out, let alone bring an injured and weak Yao.

"Don't worry, look for it again."

Just when I was about to get used to anxiety again, Yu Shi's calm words rang clearly in my ears,

"You're too susceptible to emotions, always."

I frowned, and I couldn't guess whether this was an accusation or an encouragement. But in any case, it is better to have an experienced old man by my side than to fumble around alone.

So, I pressed my forehead against the cold stone brick surface, took a deep breath of the earthy air, and when I spit it out again, the impatience that enveloped me was mostly gone.

"Huh?"

Perhaps the cold cold washed away my vision, and the truth that had been hidden in front of me was inadvertently revealed to my shocked eyes—right in front of me, there was a circular groove about the size of a coin, which stood out in the interlaced stripes.

"It's ......"

I muttered as I slowly poked my fingers through. But with the movement of his gaze, not far away, another groove of the same shape suddenly appeared ten fingers wide.

"Is it ......?"

Suddenly, an obscure flash of light crossed my mind, and with seven points of guessing and three points of gambling, I stepped forward and slowly stepped back from my sore tendons.

A messy wind swept by, and the candle flame curled like a long snake of eerie blue light.

I leaned against the edge of the stone platform, my mouth slightly open in amazement, and the whole wall became an incomparably regular dot matrix diagram in this enlightening epiphany, and the smooth shallow pits were neatly arranged on it, which could never have been formed naturally.

"Twenty-five long, fifteen wide."

Juten said, with confusion in his voice that did not match his character,

"What does this mean, and how do I ...... I don't even remember. ”

Maybe it was because I had been suppressed for too long, and after finding out that he was also clueless, I was a little inexplicably proud, so with the blessing of this self-confidence, I let go of my imagination and guessed at will,

"Don't you think this thing looks like a secret door? It could be looking for some parts, putting them on, and then it opened on its own. ”

I vaguely heard Yu Shi snort thoughtfully, like a fire pouring oil, and the pleasure of reversing the guest in my heart immediately became out of control. So, I simply propped up my arms and pushed myself in front of the stone wall, and explained while patting the undulating lines on it,

"If you want me to analyze, we are really bad now, even if we are lucky enough to find a way to open it, I don't know the password, take another 10,000 steps back, if we can really open this broken door! Who knows what's behind it-"

But just as I slapped the stone wall and my mouth became more and more energetic, Yu Shi interrupted me violently.

"Stop, don't move!"

His anxious and urgent tone startled me, and before I had time to think about it, I immediately froze in place like a corpse with a soul drawn,

"What? What's wrong? ”

Perhaps because of the sudden silence, I only felt that the skin of my whole body was nervously wrinkled, and even the words that came out between my teeth could not be suppressed.

However, at this moment, Yu Shi completely ignored my thoughts, and commanded in a low voice,

"Put your index finger in."

"Clams? Why? No way, no way. ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately shook my head in a creep, and then pulled the palm that was still attached to it to my chest like an electric shock.

But after perceiving this situation, Yu Shi immediately reprimanded him,

"Tsk, what are you afraid of! The wall will eat you, will it? ”

"Ha, haha, too."

I was ashamed to hear his merciless taunts, and as I walked through the circle, I lifted a finger and pressed it to the center of one of the grooves.

However, the moment the fingertip crossed the top of the pit, something strange happened. There seemed to be an unknown force in the motionless groove, and it slammed my entire knuckle through!

"Damn!"

I was taken aback, reflexively retracted my hand, and while my heart was beating violently, I said confidently,

"Sure enough, I know what's missing here."

"What is it?!"

I asked in a shrill voice. At this time, the old man who seemed to know everything also regained his lofty posture again, and there was a bit of a taste of perseverance and openness in his words.

"Water."

"Water?"

Holding one hand on my chest, I turned to look at the lilac liquid on the edge of the stone platform, and was about to ask a question, but Yu Shi was the first to speak,

"You'll find out if you try."

Confused, I walked quickly to Yao's side, stretched out my fingertips and dipped a few drops of relatively clear water into them, then returned to the foot of the wall, and cautiously pointed to the nearest shallow depression.

I saw that a few centimeters from the bottom of the pit, the crumbling clear water seemed to be lifted and sucked into the center of the flat shallow pit.

"To be precise, it should be 'fall'."

Yu Shi explained to himself,

"If I want to build a secret room that won't go unnoticed, that's the only way."

Although he touched the secret hidden in it, I was still confused, so I had to pull down my face and ask reluctantly,

"Explain?"

But Yu Shi is obviously not the kind of person who is willing to share everything with me, so his next reply is exactly what I thought,

"Hey, what's the hurry, I don't know the password yet."

Although I was a little displeased, I had no better way at the moment, so I had to raise my brows and mutter, trying to find some clues,

"Passwords, passwords, passwords......"

Following an ethereal thread, distant memories suddenly penetrated my inexplicable thoughts, connecting the past and the present in a strange way.

I turned my face to look at such a regular pattern, and the noisy mechanical sound that I heard in Yu Jue's inn at that time sounded in my ears again......

"I know the password."

"How is that possible?"

Yu Shi sighed in surprise, but immediately admitted in a daze,

"Yes...... You do. “

I didn't dare to slack off, I got up and rushed to the edge of the stone platform, reached out and scooped up half a handful of clear water, and then came to the lower left corner of the stone wall non-stop, while recalling, while muttering to send the water droplets to the corresponding position,

"It seems to be five squares to the right, then fifteen to the top. Then there is the sixth ...... from the left No, it's the fifth from the left, then the next five, the right fifteen, the next ten, and finally the ...... Right ten! ”

As a thin line of water droplets drew on the wall, I slowly stepped back, and as far as I could see, the blue and white lines formed an indescribable pattern under the light of the candlelight.

"This seems to be ......"

As I spoke, I stepped to the stone platform in the center of the house, and the picture of a man tall was fully displayed at this moment.

"It's a man on his knees."

Yu Shi concluded, and there was no longer any arrogance between his words.

Click-

Suddenly, the entire stone wall shook strangely for a moment, and a crack visible to the naked eye appeared at the junction between the top of the wall and the ceiling, and the sand and stone debris immediately poured down without hindrance.

However, the strange thing is that almost half of these sand and dust falling with gravity are abnormally clinging to the surface of the stone wall, as if they are completely ignoring the existence of gravity, or that it is not the world under my feet that controls them.

In the rumbling noise, the gray-black wall slowly opened in an invisible arc with the ground as the axis, revealing the strange darkness hidden behind it. But when the stone wall and the ground reached the same level, this huge transformation was not over. The wall remained in an incomprehensible form, and continued to rotate slowly over ninety degrees, until it finally bent completely and stuck to the bottom of the room I was in.

The dull sound gradually faded, and I stared at the darkness in front of me in amazement, and there was an indescribable panic in my heart, is this the way I got to live in Jue? A cliff hidden behind a wall?

"No, no, you go first."

Just when I didn't know how to feel, the voice of Yuten suddenly sounded. Savoring the composure he instilled, I had no choice but to gamble again, so I rubbed against the edge of the dark hollow with great care.

"Look down."

I gasped at the command, but after a little struggle, I obediently lowered my center of gravity, half-knelt on the ground, and poked my head out to look under the wide open ground.

After a while, I could no longer utter half a continuous sentence.

"It can't be, this, this shouldn't be! Obviously—"

Because what appeared in my vision was a picture that could not be described by common sense - it was another room.

An identical room centered on a stone wall and stuck at right angles to the other side.

The only difference was that on the stone platform in the center of the room, which looked like a replica, a silver-white sphere was floating, and a cold glow was emanating from the darkness.

Speechless, I tentatively stretched out my arm, and as soon as my palm crossed a non-existent line, a different gravity pulled it toward the side of my impression.

Two centers of gravity, not belonging to the same world, intertwined, pulling my elbows perpendicular to each other.

"What's going on?"

I whispered and retracted my hand, my gaze stretching from the floor I had stepped on to the mottled stone wall that lay across the floor of another room.

After the pupils settled, Yu Shi opened his mouth gloomily,

"Get in."

"Are you sure?"

I asked in a loud voice, but all I had to wait for was dead silence.

Maybe in order to prove myself, or maybe I was somewhat sure of Yu Shi's judgment, I simply stood up straight, closed my eyes, clenched my fists and stepped out!

It was an amazing experience, like a plaything being held by a giant's legs, and after a dizzy spin of my soul, my body had already slid through an arc and landed firmly on the ground.

I cracked a gap in the corner of my eye, and looked behind my shoulder in fear, only to see a blue-purple glow gushing out from between the pit-like walls, illuminating a small circle of floating darkness around me.

"Okay, now for the past."

He said cautiously, as if he was also disturbed by this vision.

I lifted my head, and there was a dormant darkness all around me, except for a faint invisible glow a few centimeters near the metal ball.

Coughing twice, it can be regarded as giving myself courage, I lifted my stiff legs and walked towards the stone platform like a puppet.

A few meters away, suddenly became out of reach.

With each step, my breathing slowed down a minute, and my eyes kept scanning the boundaries that the light couldn't reach, and sweat still crawled all the gaps in my cheeks, causing pins and needles in pain.

About half a meter away from the stone platform, I slowed down and stopped in place, and then whispered in my mind,

"What now?"

But as if he had disappeared, there was no response.

Panic and anxiety took turns destroying my fragile nerves, like a sharp blade hanging over my head, ready to slash down at any moment!

Just when I couldn't help but want to pull my legs and run back, Yushi finally spoke,

"Pick it up! I'd like to see what's inside! ”

With the determination to retreat at any time, I quickly reached out and grabbed the floating metal ball in front of me!

"What?!"

But what awaited me was an unbearable sight.

All I hold in my hand is a cloud of dry, cold air.

The ethereal existence like a phantom has completely disappeared.

Even I understand what that means.

"Run! It's a trap!! ”

Yu Shi's exclamation suddenly exploded! In an instant, I went crazy and twisted my upper body! Pull out his legs and rush towards the light of the hole behind him!

However, reality doesn't always give people a chance.

The heavy walls had covered most of the void, keeping all the things and people I knew familiar with behind the dust and shadows, leaving only a distorted despair.

The wriggling darkness swept in in an instant, tearing and swallowing the bleak blue light into his belly.

Like the other side, there are intricate ravines on the surface of this side of the stone wall.

Before the light dissipated completely, I could see the pattern drawn on it—

It was a screeching Hayabusa.