Chapter 487: The Anomaly of Liudong Temple

In the Liudong Temple, there was silence, only the blood-red moonlight shone on the desolate courtyard full of fallen leaves, the weeds on the ground were at least two feet high, and the broken bluestone slabs of unknown age stopped in front of the door, and they were crawling with moss and unknown vines.

The cold wind blew from some gloomy corner, making people chill, and the wind seemed to have a low murmur, like the whispers of the undead in their dreams—well, this metaphor is well-founded, the last time she led Sylvanas on a trip to Avalon, she fell asleep in the fairy courtyard, and when she was talking in her sleep, there was a twenty-meter radius around her.

Decidely digressed.

In short, the above scene is what we see after pushing open the gate of Liudong Temple.

When I noticed that the scene in the Liudong Temple was so weird, especially when there was a huge blood-colored moon hanging in the sky, Sandora and I invariably withdrew from the temple gate, and the result was completely unsurprising, the moment we left the gate, the surrounding scenery returned to normal, not only the moon in the sky was restored to its brightness, but even looking through the temple gate, the vestibule was normal, that is, this ancient temple is only abnormal in the eyes of those who enter it.

"Here it is...... Liudong Temple? Wei Gong looked at the strange scene in front of him in surprise, his tone was full of disbelief, he had been here several times, although he was not familiar with the grass and trees in the courtyard, but at least, he could be sure that the real Liudong Temple should not be what he was looking like.

"The spatial coordinates are indeed Liudong Temple, yes."

Sandora's face was no longer the relaxed and happy she had been just now, but with a hint of solemnity, "Vega, you go out and look at that Heroic Spirit, don't let him run away." ”

"Yes, sir," Scorpion replied loudly, and then stepped out of the strange temple vestibule.

"Is it necessary?" I asked in a low voice, "Sasaki can't leave the mountain gate, so we can go back to him at any time to find out the situation." ”

"If there is a time-lapse confusion of the Yanato Temple, there will be Sasaki who can leave the mountain gate," Sandora's bright sea-blue eyes looked at me from under her bangs, "Ah Jun, maybe we have begun to touch the distorted part of this world. ”

After Vega disappeared from everyone's sight, Tosaka and Emiya showed a clear sigh of relief, and then four pairs of eyes that strongly sought the truth were cast in unison - including Saber and Red A, they were all quite concerned about Vega's appearance.

"That one just now, it's your guy, right?" Tosaka pondered his sentences, for fear that there would be a faux pas in his words that would make the weird scorpion jealous in the future, "Well, are the special races of Centaurs like that?" ”

I scratched my hair: "It's my subordinate, that mechanical body is her combat attire, just like human armor, but for us, this combat attire can be integrated with the body, and even become another form of the body, and, although it looks quite fierce, the little scorpion is usually quite good at talking." ”

"I don't think at all," Rin Tosaka pursed her lips, just now she was pressed against her head by a blood-colored crystal with surging energy, which made her still full of psychological shadows, "Now, Uncle Alien, that's also from your photography group?" Or are you Centaurs sent to exterminate the wild Ultraman that endangers interstellar security? ”

I looked up to the sky and giggled, hahaha.

I'm sorry I was wrong, don't continue to mention that nonsense reason, now there are several clubs in the entire Shadow City every day who are idle and bored to meet to discuss how their head of state came up with the "photography enthusiast from the Centaur" in the first place, which is almost the daily affairs of the Shadow City

"I want to think about it, that kind of heavy and rugged landing capsule that looks full of military characteristics, the iron-blooded military temperament that everyone except you occasionally exudes, and even this sister named Tear is usually armed with sabers and pistols, and then there is this mechanical scorpion that appeared today called you and Sister Sandora, sir," Tosaka put up a finger and dangled it in the air with an expression that I knew the truth, "Actually, you are the forward officer of the alien force that came to invade the earth, right?" ”

"Don't mess around." I snapped it on Tosaka's head, and then quickly withdrew my hand: Oops, I'm used to beating Lilina's unreliable pseudo-Lori, and now I see the little devil who runs the train with a mouth full of Rin, Tosaka subconsciously gives a burst of chest.

Tosaka looked at me dumbfounded, it was obvious that this kind of experience of being picked up by someone was quite rare for her, rubbing her head, she suddenly lowered her head and whispered in a barely audible voice: "It's been a long time since my father died, no one has ......been like this for a long time."

Shandora leaned over and bit her ear: "Ah Jun, your daddy's aura was activated by mistake." ”

Is it my fault that I have a daddy face with an affinity of 3000+? And Miss Tosaka, as a high school girl who is physically and mentally healthy, don't you find a father's feeling in my amiable big brother

The small episode also made everyone's attention temporarily divert from Vega, although Tosaka said it was quite sensational, but we all knew that it was just a girl using this topic to divert her tension in this strange atmosphere, everyone has their own secrets, and even more so the "interstellar friends from alien planets", on this issue, Tosaka They have always maintained a wordless tacit understanding with us, well, In addition, I think what is more important is that the usual elegant performance of our gang is too unscathed.

"Is this the effect of magic? Or was someone set up an enchantment at Liudong Temple? ”

After a few days of Tosaka's special training on the devil, although the level of magic has not improved, at least some theoretical knowledge can be understood a little, Emiya experienced the initial shock and quickly calmed down, and began to try to explain the strange scene in front of him from a mysterious point of view.

"I don't know what to do," Tosaka couldn't explain everything in front of him, "you won't gain anything from standing here stupidly, don't separate, start looking in the room on the left to see if anyone is there." ”

A safe plan, before knowing the principle of this strange space, Tosaka's proposal was obviously very wise, and everyone did not object, and began to carefully search the ancient temple.

No one, nothing, completely surprised us.

Several doors were pushed open in a row, and they were all empty, not only was there no one, but it even looked like no one had lived in the past few decades: the dark brown wooden floor was full of black spots from disrepair and decay, the dim corners were covered with cobwebs, the messy furniture had fallen to the ground due to partial decay, and from behind the cracked wooden planks could be seen the withered yellow paper and other debris that had almost broken into pieces, and there were huge cracks about a finger wide in the walls. Blood-colored moonlight poured in through the cracks, casting eerie shadowy shadows on the ground.

"Abnormal decay," a faint golden glow floated in Sandora's eyes, "the molecular composition of each object presents a time fault span of great spans, the broom is millions of years old, and the floor beneath our feet is in a state of freshness, that is, time here is an illusion, and everything that decays has nothing to do with the passage of time, it seems that it has been rotten since birth." ”

"But on the surface, it seems that this is what it will look like about 80 to 100 years after the Liudong Temple was completely abandoned," I added, crouching down and picking up an iron nail, "There is no rust at all, there is a contradiction in the details here, and it is not a natural distortion space in the world." ”

"But what about the people here?" Emiya was nervous about the ordinary people living in the Ryudong Temple, "Those monks, and ......"

Sandora glanced at the other party: "It's not that bad, the real Liudong Temple should just be replaced, at least that's what my experience tells me." ”

"If Sister Qianqian is here, maybe she can see the direction of time here, right?" Tears leaned over a little frightened, and reached out to grasp the hem of my dress tightly, "Brother...... I feel a little cold......"

"Hmph" On the other side, Pandora saw Tears snatching her brother so blatantly with herself, and immediately snorted dissatisfiedly, and then decisively came up and squeezed between me and Tears.

Okay, okay, this little hairy girl is jealous.

"It doesn't make much sense to be shallow," Sandora shrugged at Pandora, who had been thoroughly trained into another creature, and turned her face to the corner of the roof, "what she can see and control is tangible time, but time in this place is obviously chaotic, and it would be easy to destroy this space in shallow...... Jun, did you notice anything unusual? ”

I followed Sandora's gaze and found nothing but a cobweb.

Tosaka was a little curious about the word "shallow" we mentioned, but seeing that our topic did not extend on it, she focused her attention on Sandora's gaze, and after a long time, she shook her head: "Isn't it just a spider's web?"

But at this moment I had already vaguely thought of something, and with the heart and soul of Sandora, even something that she didn't say I could easily guess, and with an uncertain tone, I asked, "Spider?" ”

True, there are only cobwebs here, but there are no spiders

Tosaka and Emiya were furious by the strange atmosphere we had created, and the former hugged his shoulders and shouted, "What are you guys doing, isn't it just that you didn't see spiders, it's normal for there are cobwebs left but spiders are gone, right?" ”

Sandora shook her head, and at the same time waved her hand in the air, and immediately a spherical light blue translucent projection appeared in front of us, and the projection showed part of the scene of Yanagidong Temple.

"This is my life sensing radar, these little red dots are us, and then ......" Shandora adjusted the scan object to exclude several of us from the scanning range, "except for us, all wavelengths of life responses, all silent, and the accuracy of this scan has been set by me to a single cell life response." ”

In the "Liudong Temple" of the Absolute Dead Domain, not even a single cell of life exists

"But those leaves and grass outside......" Tosaka was stunned by the sensational fact, but immediately found a point of rebuttal, but the next second, Viska staggered out into the yard and jumped in front of me with two blades of grass.

As soon as the blades of grass left the blood-colored moonlight outside the house, they dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after a few seconds, they turned into grayish-white ashes.

That's a fake.

"Whatever happens in this space, we'd better get out now," Sandora tilted her head, staring at the massive blood-colored moon through the cracked tiles in the roof, "before our life force is assimilated by death here"

Emiya and the others were already eager to leave this strange space, and immediately nodded when they heard this, while I asked Sandora through a spiritual connection, "Do you know how this scene was formed?" ”

Sandora's knowledge has always been my trust, so I have no doubt that she's seen anything like it now.

"Of course I know the reasons for this space," Sandora shook her head with a depressed expression, "but there are no less than a hundred reasons for that, and there are all kinds of natural and man-made situations, and I can't analyze anything until I get more information." ”

Uh, is this a side effect of being overly informed?

After locking the sniffing system of the Avalon Death Garden to the coordinates of Yanato Temple, we all exited the alienated space, Vega was waiting for everyone in front of the mountain gate, while Sasaki was tightly locked in energy shackles, and his hands were hung from the tip of the little scorpion's tail, and he rippled helplessly in the air as the latter turned around.

The occasional bad taste of scorpions is too cold to sweat.

Seeing Sasaki's current unlucky appearance and the strange image of the mechanical scorpion with a serious face but a personal figure hanging from its tail, even Tosaka forgot the strange scene he had just seen in the Yanato Temple for a moment, covered his mouth and laughed directly, while Vega also took two steps forward unconsciously and gave us a military salute.

"Hey, even if it's a victor, it's not the samurai's work to humiliate the prisoners of war like this."

Hung high on the tail of a three-meter-tall scorpion, Sasaki's tone was full of grievance, and I couldn't help but laugh and let Vega put the other person down, and then let go of the shackles that were actually completely unnecessary.

"What happened in Liudong Temple, do you know the way?"

"Inside?" Sasaki turned his gaze to the temple gate behind him, surprised, "What's going on there...... Wait, has it been broken through inside? ”

"Forget it, it seems that you don't know what to do."

Sasaki must not leave the steps and mountain gate in front of the Yanagito Temple, it seems that this restriction is really enough to die, and he can't even enter the courtyard, but now he can stand here (except for the trauma of the soul), and he doesn't feel anything strange at all, which at least shows that the person who summoned him is safe and sound, that is to say, the real Yanagidong Temple is only replaced by that strange space instead of being destroyed, and Emiya can be completely relieved now.

"Go back, get some sleep, it's a really tossing tonight." After putting the monitoring of the Liudong Temple space on Avalon's short-term mission, I let out a long stretch, and then gently tapped each of them on the head of Pandora, who had yawned and nodded their heads at the same time, "Go back and sleep." ”

Little Bubbles, Pandora, Sandora, Tears, four good babies who are sleeping at the end of the day, if they fall asleep on the road together, how can you let me and Sandora carry them back

"Sir, will you take this captive?"

Seeing that this was about to return, Vega immediately asked for advice on how to deal with Sasaki, her energy scanning radar had already discovered the dependence of this heroic spirit with the nearby space, and if she wanted to take Sasaki away, she would probably have to apply for the support of Avalon's law.

"Forget it," I shook my head, I said before that capturing Sasaki alive was just to lure out his summoner, but now it seems that the secret hidden in the Liudong Temple is far more than a long knife carrying ghostly energy, this is a real monk who can't run away from the temple, and it doesn't make sense to take the Assassin away, "Anyway, he and the temple behind him can't escape, and we won't be back soon." ”

It needs to be mentioned here that on the way back, Viska and Little Bubbles still fell asleep, so our dedicated Vega had to play the role of a stroller and carry the two little girls all the way back, this scene was amazed by Tosaka, and Vega successfully obtained the temporary buff of "Human Affinity +1......

Since the Wei Gong Mansion is obviously no longer suitable for us to go back and continue to engage in midnight barbecue, build a planetary habitation module for Shandora to pick up steel and grind teeth, etc., going to the Tosaka family to live temporarily has become the only choice, at this time, you can see the sensitivity of a poor lady to money issues, she actually listed an independent bill for each of us in less than half an hour, and the name on it is so detailed and clear that you may not be able to pay the rent if you find more than 20 lawyers. Looking at the "Alien Uncle in Tosaka's Family, Temporary Residence, Rent, Water and Electricity, Catering, Sightseeing, Entertainment, Study, and Tosaka's Own Mental Loss Advance Payment Comprehensive Valuation Act" handed to me, I wanted to cry without tears, and I felt that the gray lady with two ponytails in front of me had probably begun to plan how to get a good light from the aliens passing by in the seventies and eighties of the last century, and the level of detail of this thing ...... Are you sure this is really what you just came up with and are ready to do?

And even if the name is detailed, I can accept this house, water, electricity, and catering, but what is the sightseeing and entertainment of the pit father? Are you really sure that we still need these services to rent a house?

"This is the most important base camp for magicians," Miss Tosaka said in the face of my confusion, "It's a place that is not open to ordinary people, and it's a non-human creature like you, don't you think you need to pay to visit the base of another civilization?" ”

The infantry training ground in my Shadow City has been opened, but Thrall hasn't given a penny of tickets until now, should I be inspired to go back and set up a card at the east exit of Azeroth City to collect the tolls?

"So this study ...... Okay, I think I've learned the precious magical knowledge of human beings, right, so where did you get this mental loss advance? We pay such a high rent, do you still have mental damage? And it looks like this entry is only available on my quotation, right? ”

Hearing this, Tosaka first glanced at me, and then said in a quiet tone: "As an underage girl in the prime of life, it is very risky to rashly let an adult man live in the house, is it right to collect money before you attack me at night?" ”

That's right, sister, were you a red and white without discipline in your last life?

"I'm going to live in a tent," I turned around and walked out the door, angrily throwing down the stack of painful quotations.

"Farewell" Tosaka quickly stopped me, and then snatched the ledger and crossed out the mental loss advance, "I still expect you to help settle the utility bill this month...... So why be stingy, isn't it easy to get human currency with your skills? ”

In other words, because it was stolen money, there was no need to worry about plundering, it's only been a few days, has the eldest lady been brought like this by us?