The moment they passed through the Boundary Gate, all the images and light in their field of vision began to distort, showing a gray color, and everyone seemed to be in deep water, losing all gravity and direction, but there seemed to be a pair of hands on their shoulders that held it down so that people could not move.

Knock knock!

Knock knock knock!

Higashinohara, who controlled the senses of the "Nine Eyes and Six Paths" far beyond ordinary people, could clearly hear the heartbeats of the other eight of the nine people in his group beating faster, and some people were constantly taking deep breaths trying to stabilize and increase their heart rate.

Obviously, although the Seven Star Chasseurs of [Scarlet of Daybreak] have experienced a hundred battles, they are unprepared to let them go to a completely unfamiliar world called "Hell", and no matter how calm and breezy they appear on the surface, the inner tension cannot be concealed.

In contrast, only Kimura Shiraku, who was standing at the front with his back to everyone, had a very slow heartbeat.

He was the first to step into the Gate of the Boundary High in the Heavens, but judging by his immobile back and steady breathing rate, there was no nervousness.

Higashinohara was not nervous, because he knew very well what the "hell" they were going to was right now, and it was naturally difficult to be nervous without that sense of unknown in the fog.

But this man in front of me...

Could it be that he is also "familiar" with that place?

At this time, a man in the nine-member team, who was wearing the standard Saint-Maro Imperial costume and looked a bit like a British gentleman in his previous life, suddenly took the hand of the woman in the pink peacock feather mask who looked very nervous next to him and put it into the pocket of his black tweed coat, and said softly:

"Don't be nervous, I'm right there for you, think about when we were on an underwater mission in the port of Shangjing, you treated this as a dive... Soon we will see a whole new world. ”

The woman subconsciously clenched the man's hand, her breathing suddenly calmed down a lot, and the tension in her heart seemed to have disappeared a lot at this moment.

Is it a couple?

Seeing this, Higashinohara thought thoughtfully.

But unexpectedly, at this moment, a sneer suddenly came from the surrounding air.

The voice was very soft, and the people around him seemed to be flawless and nosy, and they didn't even turn their heads.

Higashinohara also didn't turn his head, but he still heard the voice that was the woman named "Teresa" who took the initiative to greet him when he arrived at the Sky Tree East Square this afternoon, wearing a navy blue peacock feather mask, and she seemed to be very disdainful of this scene at the moment.

The woman who was grabbed and wearing a pink peacock feather mask stiffened slightly, and then she was still a little nervous about the unknown, but at this moment, she seemed to have overcome this tension in an instant, and immediately straightened her body unto be outdone, and glanced at the other party obliquely without saying a word.

Higashinohara suddenly twitched out of the corner of his eyes.

What is this plot unfolding?

The gentlemanly man looked a little embarrassed, rubbed his nose, put his hands back in his pockets, and looked around and his eyes fell on Higashinohara.

He was not surprised by the white-fanged mask on Higashinohara's face, and nodded with a gentlemanly smile.

Higashinohara did not respond.

It's just that in my heart, I thoughtfully forgot to glance at the man's back.

The position he was in was completely in the blind spot of that gentleman's field of vision, and even if the other party felt sorry and smiled at the people around him, it didn't make sense to smile at Higashinohara first.

When this happens, there is only one truth, that is, the man in front of him is likely to have mastered abilities such as pupil techniques, otherwise there is no reason to see him at a glance.

Higashinohara was thinking so...

Suddenly, the ubiquitous gray color in the field of vision peeled off and faded like a large tidal wave, and while he was down-to-earth again, the scene that appeared in front of him made everyone's expressions slightly stunned!

It was a blood-colored sky.

The twilight was like blood, and the edge of the sky seemed to burn as far as the eye could see, and beyond was the endless darkness rolling in like a black tide.

Under the dividing line of light and shadow between blood red and darkness, a towering tower that does not belong to the sky tree at all in the eyes of everyone stands between heaven and earth, and the countless mottled traces on the tower wordlessly narrate how many desolate years this tower has experienced.

However, at this moment, what really shocked everyone who stepped into this world was...

Just above the sloping tower, hundreds of meters in the air, at the junction of the twilight light and the darkness in the distance, the young man who had glanced at them across the boundary line stood quietly alone at the point where blood light and darkness separated.

The hollow and lonely gaze of the young man passed through them, and he threw himself straight to the door of the border behind them, which had not yet closed, and did not blink, making the scene before everyone's eyes full of an indescribable strange feeling.

What is the situation?

Who the hell is that guy?

Just when these confusions involuntarily appeared in everyone's hearts, the figure of the young man on the tower suddenly disappeared like a nightmare, and everything in front of him seemed to be an illusion.

But there was a hallucination en masse...

Maybe barely acceptable.

But after they crossed the door, they had a collective hallucination again in this strange and strange world, which was a little unacceptable.

"Wait! What is that? ”

Suddenly, someone pointed upwards and exclaimed.

After coming to this world, Kimura Shiraku, who hadn't looked up at the young man from beginning to end, couldn't help but raise his head slightly when he heard the voice of others.

In the field of vision divided by the broken hair on his forehead, under the bloody sky, I saw a black dot rapidly enlarged in his field of vision...

At this moment, others also realized that something was wrong.

That's not some black spot.

It's clearly a man who fell from the tower!

Before everyone could react, the body slammed into the ground not far in front of everyone, splashing a large pool of scarlet blood like a smashed watermelon.

And under this high degree of impact, the ground quickly cracked in all directions at the speed of the naked eye!

I have to say that this sudden scene was completely beyond everyone's expectations!

Everyone's faces were slightly stunned and they looked at the muddy corpse on the ground, slowly spilling foul and rotting blood in all directions, and it didn't look like they had just died today.

"Huh? This dress is somewhat familiar. ”

"It's the clothes of the Black Snake Pirates of the West Sea, and they have their logo on the back."

"I seem to have met the Black Snake Pirates in New Tokyo, and they said that their leader entered the Border Gate a week ago, looking for a treasure that could lead them to dominate the West Sea and become a new generation of 'Four Kings', can I say..."

"I guess he's right..."

"But who was that boy just now?"

“......”

Hearing the whispers around him, Higashinohara's face became solemn.

From this corpse that fell and fell into the mud, he not only saw "death", but also read a hint of "warning" from "death".

That teenager... It's warning them.

The moment he realized this, Higashinohara's eyes looked around for the first time.

Many of the hunters around also understood the meaning of the other party's "meeting gift", and their faces became a little solemn for a while-the strength of the leader of the Black Pirates in the West Sea was only higher than that of most of the people here, and if even the other party was not an opponent, then it would be easier to clean them up.

Higashinohara's gaze swept over everyone, and when he withdrew his gaze, his eyelids lowered slightly.

At this moment, everyone's reaction was almost all visible to him.

I don't know if it's an illusion,

Higashinohara clearly saw a faint displeasure in Kimura Hakutaku's eyes.

Yes, not solemnly.

is displeased.

It's like that teenager, he shouldn't be like this, but it's like that...

So inexplicably, a thought surged in Higashinohara's heart, does this guy know the boy of unknown origin on the Pearl Tower?

But how is this possible?

The other party should be stepping into this world for the first time now, right, the last time the border door was opened, he was not among the people who joined the Adjudication Division in Higashinohara...

Wait a minute...

Could it be that there is still a possibility.

That was the last time Higashinohara opened the door to the border for the "first time" and stepped into this world...

In fact

Not really a "first time".

Just like many things in this world, under the inevitable information gap, you think it's the first time, maybe people have been countless times...

"Alright, we're here."

At this time, Kimura Hakutaku, the leader of this exploration operation, who had been silent, suddenly clapped his hands, and a gentle smile was put on his face again.

The crowd had only recovered from the greeting they had met at the first foot of the door, only to find that a moon had risen in the grey sky of the depths of their depths as the twilight had fallen.

Everyone turned their heads to look around, and the high-rise buildings that were almost completely covered with green moss in the night were like beasts in armor in the night, and the black holes stood in the night, silently exuding a somewhat terrifying atmosphere.

And all this ruined and desolate things in front of them are like the world they live in countless years from now...

And that's...

The so-called lost world of hell?

And the tall tower not far in front of them, which was no less than the towering slanting of the new Tokyo Sky Tree, exuded an aura that made the soul tremble when they gathered their eyes to stare at the past.

......

"The night here... Maybe it's not very safe. ”

Kimura Hakuto said in a soft tone, "So, for the sake of our exploration mission tomorrow, please follow me, and let's get out of here now." ”

Speaking of this, Kimura Hakutaku's gaze took a deep look at the pearl tower that was slanted into the sky, and then turned his head and smiled at Higashinohara, who was wearing a white yaksha mask, and turned around to take the lead in the night as he did when he was in the sky tree on the other side of the "Boundary Gate" in the afternoon.

At some point, a fog began to fall in the night, and after a while, Kimura Hakuta's long body disappeared in the night.

Among the many hunters in [Dawnbreak] this time, except for Higashinohara, the others didn't know anything about this place called "Hell", and quickly followed after seeing this.

Higashinohara turned his head to look at the Pearl Tower, which was half-hidden by the night fog, and it looked like a tall tower standing in the black tide.

Although he couldn't see anything, he felt inexplicably that a pair of eyes were watching them from afar at this moment.

He knew very well what this so-called hellish world looked like countless years ago, and he knew even more that the boy wearing a school uniform with three armbands on his arm was not a person from a "mysterious organization", but why did he appear in the Pearl Tower, the area where the third-level blue high-risk alien demon was located?

If the laws of the Pujiang community are universal, then there will be an existence similar to the "Territory Commander" in the area where each demon is located, and other low-level "unconscious" demons will gather together.

Does this mean that that young man is the "territorial commander" of the third-level blue high-risk area of the Pearl Tower, just like Ling Wei in the Pujiang community...

By the way, thinking of Ling Wei, Dong Yeyuan couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

At the beginning, he was defeated by Ling Wei, and at the critical moment, he revealed that her husband, who went out to seek medical treatment many years ago, was located and disturbed the other party's mind.

After the blow is successful, the opponent leaves without a fight.

I don't know if my husband has found her now...

But even if it is found, judging from the description in Marpoli's diary, Ling Wei's husband seems to have become a low-level "unconscious" demon who only instinctively kneels and kowtows when he sees the white coat...

Higashinohara shook his head, didn't think much about it, pulled the collar of the windbreaker issued by the third investigation team on his body, and followed quickly.

......

The moon outside the window was faint.

The heavens and the earth were gray.

The camp where Higashinohara and the others are stationed tonight is the campus of a private elementary school called "Happy Elementary School", and the place was chosen by Kimura Hakutaku, and it doesn't seem to be a temporary choice, it feels like he had the answer in his heart before he came.

Found a dilapidated classroom near the playground, and a group of ten people camped in the open space outside the door.

In his previous life, private primary schools such as "Happy Elementary School" were also called "schools for the children of migrant workers", which were generally located in the suburbs or at the junction of urban and rural areas, as well as in areas where the rent was low.

It is a little strange to say that they live in the same sky and the same city, but the children of migrant children's schools such as "Happy Primary School" and the children of other schools are plated with different colors.

Higashinohara put his hands behind his head, and his duty tonight was in the second half of the night, and his thoughts were a little complicated at this time, and he didn't know if there were any alien demons in this elementary school.

If anything,

I'm afraid those demons are children.

Even if they can't be called human beings a few years later, if they retain their childly appearance, Higashinohara doesn't know if he can simply harvest them as ability fragments and source power points as he did last time in the Pujiang community...

In this Kimura Bai Tuo, I don't know if I chose this place on purpose, and I obviously didn't plan to sleep until Higashinohara lay down tonight.

But in the dead of night, unconsciously, his eyelids fell little by little.

I don't know how long it has been...

Higashinohara tried to open his eyes, but the sky and the earth were dark, and suddenly there was a knock on the door in his mind, followed by the voice of a middle-aged woman.

"Huaihuai, get up and get ready to eat."

"This kid is lying in bed every day, I really don't know what to say about him." The voice of a middle-aged man sounded outside the door again.

Nostalgia?

Higashinohara's consciousness seemed to be twisted and knotted.

Yes... My name is Jiang Huai.

A year ago, an accident left an irreparable scar on my eye.

I'm blind.

My parents decided to move and moved to a place where Jianghai City and the suburbs are combined, and I entered a primary school for migrant children called "Happy Primary School" when I was about to graduate.

For a moment, I felt as completely dark as my vision.

But just this morning, I found myself unbelievably able to see a faint light, and then everything became clear in front of me.

I've regained my sight!

I couldn't help but want to tell my parents the good news and then we moved back to our old house and back to our old school... I'm really fed up with this place.

However, at this moment, the mobile phone on the desk made a "buzzing" vibration, and I picked up the phone to find that it was a text message from an unfamiliar number.

The content of the text message is concise.

"Don't tell them you can see it.

By all means! ”

I was a little stunned, a little puzzled, almost subconsciously, and I realized that the "they" in this text message were referring to my parents.

But...

Why?

Knock knock!

There was another knock on the bedroom door.

Mother's kind voice sounded behind the door, "Huaihuai, get up to eat and get ready for school, Mom made her favorite food today." ”

"Here we are." The moment I ran over and opened the door, my eyes shrank suddenly.

Outside the door stood a woman with a pale face, her lips were dry and bloodless, and the whites of her eyes occupied the sockets, leaving only the tiniest black spot in the middle, which had no resemblance to the gentle mother I remembered.

At this moment, with a strange smile on her stiff and dry face, she said in a voice that was indistinguishable from that of my mother:

"You kid... Go wash up and get ready to eat, walk carefully, toothpaste and towel mom has already prepared it for you. ”

At this time, my father, who was sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, also turned his head to look at me.

My scalp suddenly went numb like an electric shock, and I took a step back in horror, and my whole body was like a lightning strike!

What kind of face is that...

Pale and rotten like a walking corpse, there is hardly a piece of finished flesh on his face, as if he can see the skeleton inside, his eyes are shining with a strange light like a dead fish, but his voice is still so majestic that he pulls his lips like a dry corpse and says:

"Remember, laziness at any time can only make people regress."

"Know... Got it. ”

Feeling terrified, I subconsciously retreated, almost tripped over the chair behind me.

"Be careful."

Suddenly, my mother appeared at some point, and helped me, still with that weird dry smile on her face, and said in a gentle and kind tone:

"You kid... Alas... If you are nervous, you will make a mistake, the bathroom is there, and you can go wash up. ”

Under the silent gaze of the two of them, I rushed into the bathroom and closed the bathroom door tightly.

Turning on the faucet, standing in front of the mirror, I slowly raised my head...

"Did you see that?"

Coldly, a voice suddenly sounded in Higashinohara's head.

He opened his eyes suddenly, and suddenly woke up - he was still in the camp of "Happy Elementary School".

And in the last moments before waking up,

The face of the boy named "Jiang Huai" that Higashinohara saw in the mirror was the boy full of emptiness and loneliness who appeared in the mighty wind hundreds of meters above the Pearl Tower twice today...

What exactly is this... What the hell is the situation?

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