Takakawa looked into the distance of this wilderness, and the horizon was connected with the night at the end of the view, making people feel as if the vault of the dome rose from that side and fell from the other side, with a clear sense of arc. The night was also far clearer than the wilderness before, and it was clear that the light came from the rising sun, but time seemed to freeze at this moment, and there was no rhythm of complete brightness. The dotted stars and the cold crescent moon make this world seem more and more lonely.

The terrain is relatively flat, there are almost no undulations, not even hills, so you can see far away, and the western-style mansion that the driver thinks is the place where the witch lives stands within the range of the naked eye, and the visual distance is thousands of meters, but it can still be seen clearly in the night, making people feel that it is not only the outline, but even some details, as long as you open your eyes to see it clearly.

This is no longer the region it used to be, and it can even be said that it is a disjointed and unrelated region. The only thing they have in common is that they are both wilderness. As far as the eye can see, there are more gravel and mud blocks than turf trees. The weeds are separated by clusters, each clump is higher than a person's knee, the grass is withered and yellow, a bleak scene of late autumn, and the trees are also more branches and fewer leaves, the whole crown looks bare, the tallest trees are only a dozen meters, most of them are only three or four meters, the interval between trees and trees is farther than between the grass and the grass, about every 100 meters, you can roughly see a plant.

There was an indescribable smell in the air, not bad, it felt like the smell of natural grass and earth, but it also made people feel that the smell was abnormal, and what kind of abnormality it was, it was completely indescribable.

The driver walked in front of him with great interest, his eyes kept nailed to the mansion, and Takakawa could hardly believe that this was a normal performance, even if listening to what he said, the starting point for his interest was not for himself, but for his daughter. Takakawa has seen too many fanatical people, and they have never claimed to be for themselves, but for some other person or thing, or even a thought. The driver's sudden interest made Takakawa feel that this was an abnormal fanaticism - he should not have been like this, but was interfered with by a mysterious force.

In the Doomsday Illusion, although there are not many forces that can interfere with consciousness, Takakawa has already encountered a lot. Not every one of them directly interferes with "consciousness" as an independent thing, but by interfering with physiological operations to guide emotions and thus interfere with thoughts.

Gao Chuan felt that in the air he breathed, it was impossible to tell whether it was natural or unnatural, and it was likely to interfere with human physiology.

Speaking of which, even if you look at the environment as a whole, if you are a little sober, you can easily detect that something is wrong - it is not only desolate, but there is no other sound.

Gao Chuan walked behind the driver and had been paying attention for a long time. Except for the footsteps and breathing of the two of them, the other creatures that should exist in the wilderness seemed to have disappeared completely, not even a single bug. Such silence is really strange, but against the backdrop of the quiet night, this strange silence merges into the scenery and becomes a part of the bleak and beautiful night wilderness.

So, if you immerse yourself in this beautiful feeling, you may not notice anything abnormal.

Gao Chuan had thought that this was another temporary data hedging space, because the way he and the driver came here was very abnormal. He drove into the strange thing, only to penetrate its body, and to this place - it was more like a door in terms of process, or rather, it turned itself into a door.

Earlier, it had felt more like some kind of alien being than a door.

The transition from life to the door, only at the moment of hitting it, reminded Takakawa of the "living temporary data hedging space", the so-called Valpurgis Night. However, the night of Valpurgis is special because it is the predecessor of the repeater, and what is the reason why this wilderness is special? Just in what the driver said "witches live here"?

In any case, the most conspicuous thing on this flat terrain that gives people a core feeling is the Western-style building. Takakawa had already tried, going backwards from the strange "door", and it turned out to be just a delusion, and the thing was gone like a piece of cloth - maybe dead, maybe not dead, like molting. All in all, there is no way to return the way you came.

"What other stories have you heard about witches?" Takakawa asked. Now he felt that the mysterious incident he had encountered at the moment might have nothing to do with the "witch" at first, but when the driver fell into a daze and recited the witch's story, it should be reconciled, and it became like a witch's story. Even so, Takakawa knew very well that it would not be a witch.

Strictly speaking, the story of the witch is no different from the story recorded in the occult of other countries, it is only a part of the occult, but it is divided geographically, and it belongs to the strange story of Australia. And from the perspective of the whole world, there are actually many similar stories.

All mystical phenomena may always seem to have a clue relationship with the occult, but the feeling of this relationship is completely just an illusion of the person concerned. The personal experience of occult experts has proven that interpreting mystical phenomena entirely from occult sources ends up in a dead end, and it is impossible to react correctly to sudden changes.

However, it is death.

Those who believe in "a deep relationship between the occult and occult phenomena" are long gone.

Gao Chuan doesn't want the driver to end up like that, even if the two have just met, although the two are a little estranged, but even if they are strangers, Gao Chuan will not want him to suffer misfortune from the perspective of goodwill, not to mention that the two are also companions who are temporarily walking together. He wanted to convince the driver not to believe in witches, but at this point, it was impossible to convince the other party with words alone. The driver's state makes him unable to listen to anyone's refutation of the witch's story, on the contrary, the more bizarre the situation here, the more it makes him feel that the witch is real, and that it is the witch who causes everything in front of him.

Takakawa didn't plan to use his consciousness to interfere with his thoughts, because it was a very dangerous thing. The consciousness walkers he knew had warned him many times not to forcibly change one's consciousness without advanced experience and skill. Most consciousness walkers also interfere with the consciousness of others, and most of them are guided. "Guidance" is a relatively weak action, which has not caused much backlash, but it is not strong enough for people whose ideas have been tangled together. But even so, unless there is a last resort, the predecessors of the Consciousness Walkers are still discouraged from using more aggressive methods.

For Gao Chuan, the embodiment of his consciousness walking ability is a "bridge", these bridges implicate the human heart and the human heart in the most direct way, and its correct use should certainly not be used as a hammer with the bridge itself.

Gao Chuan's conscious interference with the driver has always been there, even if it is just a look, a pronunciation, or a small movement, all of which are transmitting certain information to the driver, intending to weaken the influence of the "witch" on him in this way. The driver's imagination and fanaticism, which turned the strange thing that acted as a "door", into something tangible and qualitative, did solve some problems, but it also brought some new problems. These new problems are no longer so easy to solve.

"The legend of the witch? Um, um, let me think about it -- I'm glad you're interested, because it's been rumored a long time ago, and not many people in Australia know about it now, right? I mean, since I was growing up, I hadn't heard anyone else say that. The driver babbled for a while, as if he was talking to Takakawa, but Takakawa felt that he was actually talking to himself, just like those hysterical patients in a mental hospital, but he said a lot, all on the topic of "why no one talks about witches", not "witches' stories".

Is there a story about whether there are witches or not? Takakawa was skeptical. Judging from the driver's description, many people do know about the rumors about "VV" and "W", but the source of this rumor, the "witch", is a strange story that only circulates in a small area, and it is a very out-of-the-way and uninteresting rumor - it may even be that the driver was a child, when he heard it from someone, and that person made it up by himself.

Because the original story material is very dry, no matter how enthusiastic the driver is, he can't tell more, but he has to say something, so he subconsciously tells those things that barely appear the word "witch" - this subconscious may be the result of some mysterious force interfering.

Takakawa soon gave up talking to the driver about witches. The atmosphere between the two became even stranger, and the driver walking in front of him kept talking, but his voice became more and more indistinct, and he couldn't hear what he was saying, almost making people think he was chanting a mantra. But his expression was so excited, he didn't feel that there was anything unclear about his words. Gao Chuan, who walked behind him, about a step behind, listened to his voice for a while, but quickly gave up, because even the prosthetic body could not hear clearly, and the brain and hardware could not extract the clear content from the sound information-it could almost be assumed that the driver's muttering words did not tell the content of his mind at all, but was just a simple pronunciation. Gao Chuan believes that the truth is not so simple, but since he can't even understand the brain hardware, his brain is even more incomprehensible.

This situation made Takakawa feel that there was a sinister surrounding the two of them. He was silent and kept up with the driver, who seemed to be completely unnoticed.

It seems to be only a kilometer away, but it has never been able to get close. Takakawa's retina screen showed the time, and more than ten minutes had passed, and according to the distance of the foot, at least he could feel that the Western-style pavilion was very close. However, as far as the eye can see, the distance does not feel shortened at all. Gao Chuan looked back, but he couldn't help but feel creepy, because behind him, there were obvious footprints, and they were not the footprints of two people—they seemed to be embedded in the dirt, or they were formed into the outline of a footprint by rubble, or the grass had been trampled down in large areas, or the branches of trees had been cut off in the breeze and fell aside in an unnatural way.

These unnatural movements, which he did not feel at all before he turned around, seemed to say that something was vaguely following the two of them. But what is it? It, no, rather, their silhouettes, neither with the naked eye nor from the chain judgment, could be filtered out of the wilderness background.

Sounds, smells, the flow of air, etc., do not serve as a warning at all when forming that strange footprint.

At this time, Gao Chuan felt that the thing was getting closer again, and it seemed that it was still some distance away from him, and it seemed to be about to stick to his back, and there was a feeling of "if he stopped, he would collide with something behind him".

So, Takakawa really stopped.

His arm was slightly bent, and his whole body was ready to attack. However, the thing that existed in the senses, and which had already shown definite traces, suddenly disappeared from the senses.

The night wind grew stronger, and Takakawa stared at the grass and trees, gravel and dirt, trying to find the anomalous movement lurking within, but this time, he still didn't get anything.

"What's wrong?" The driver finally turned around and found that Gao Chuan was stuck in place and looking, so he couldn't help but call.

"I think something is following us." Takakawa told the truth.

"Something? What is it? The driver looked around and said, "Maybe it's hidden, it's okay, we're almost there anyway." ”

"Didn't you find out? The distance between us and the Western-style pavilion has not shrunk at all...... Xiao ......" Gao Chuan said as he looked in the direction of the Western-style Pavilion, and suddenly couldn't speak, because the Western-style Pavilion was really just like the driver said, and it had reached a hundred meters away. Obviously, before these few words, the foreign pavilion he saw was still a sense of distance of thousands of meters.

It seems that this mysterious incident is really more in line with the driver's thoughts. Gao Chuan couldn't help but think so. In this story, the driver is like the protagonist, and he is just a supporting role. He drives the story, so the elements of the story, the core mysteries, will revolve around him.

However, this is not the first time Takakawa has encountered such a situation. (To be continued.) )