Joan immediately went to question the senior about the circle. The latter did not say a word, and by this time he had finished drawing the final strokes of the circle, and then he got up from the ground and walked over to close the door.

Seeing this, Joan didn't hesitate to bump into it with her body.

However, his body is thinner than that of ordinary boys, and in contrast, the senior is tall and big. In Joan's memory, the seniors had excellent sports grades, beautiful scores in cultural classes, and were even more courteous and courteous, and were highly praised and expected by teachers and elders, like textbook-like honor students.

At this moment, he exuded a rough and cold temperament from head to toe, and swept Joan to the ground with a swipe of his arm. The other students who were still decorating in the activity room also stopped when they saw the movement here, and looked at each other in disbelief.

Then, the senior closed the door. At this moment, Joan felt that the space of the activity room she was in had undergone an extraordinary change. The scenery in front of him had not changed, but he felt as if he was trapped in that strange space again, as if a cold air was rushing straight up along his tail vertebrae. And the source of this invisible upheaval is undoubtedly the magic circle.

He covered his cheeks to prop up his body and asked again, "What is that circle?" What exactly did you do? ”

The senior smiled: "It's just an ordinary transfer ceremony, it's today's event." ”

"Is that how you deceived them?" Joan asked angrily. The other students were even more inexplicable when they heard it.

"Joan......" the senior retracted his smile, "Who is that man at noon today?" I saw that he killed the demons in the school, did he come from the department of the state that deals with demons? Did you call it? ”

"How do you know about that monster......

"Of course I do. Because it's the demon I summoned through the strange talk at school. He said, "Since you don't tell me, that's it, anyway, he can't chase him into this other dimension." ”

"What the hell are you talking about?" A girl in the activity room asked uneasily, "Isn't this an ordinary game?" ”

"Games? Hmph...... "The senior seemed to be wearing a cold mask, or, this is his true face, he looked condescendingly at the classmates who were in the same room with him, "I and you...... It's not the same guy who is expecting a storm of external forces to destroy his life while living by the rules, and I'm going to take this step myself. ”

Joan forced herself to calm down and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"You'll find out soon." He said, "Anyway, in this place where no one can control it, no matter what happens, it won't get out." You who die in the secret will soon be forgotten by society, and I will become a warlock and usher in a new life of my own. ”

With that, he opened the door beside him. This time, however, the scenery outside the door has changed dramatically. What was supposed to be a corridor outside the event has become a deserted art museum.

All of them came to the interior of this alien dimension.

"—and then?" Hearing Joan say this, I asked, "What did he do after that?" ”

Joan said, "He died before he could do anything. ”

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I then asked Joan some more questions, and combined with the clues I had at hand, I roughly figured out the whole picture of the matter.

Joan's senior probably accidentally came into contact with the demonic knowledge circulating on the Internet, and he himself yearns for the various powers described in the demonic knowledge and wants to master this power.

The strange talk demon in the school is his experiment with secret knowledge, and after verifying the authenticity of secret knowledge, he wants to go further. But when it comes to going further on the path of demonic knowledge, it is nothing more than sacrificing the living to demons in exchange for power.

However, he must have thought about the risk of killing the living, and it would be more than worth the loss if he was caught by the security organization after gaining power, especially after witnessing the scene of me killing the demon. Therefore, he wants to move the killing place to "a place that no one can control", that is, another dimension.

The most surprising thing is this, he actually has the method to enter this alien space, and this method must be recorded in the demonic knowledge circulating on the Internet.

Thinking of the fact that there are many demons in this different space, it seems that there is indeed an overlap in the element of "demons". I wonder how much the Security Service has grasped about this matter? At least Bluebird and Qiao Licorice don't know much about it, and I'll have to ask Lie about it later.

To get back to the point, although he didn't know what process Joan's senior originally planned to use to sacrifice his classmates, he obviously miscalculated the danger and complexity of this alien space. He did find and communicate with the demon afterwards, and the demon did mysteriously settle down and listen to his words. But there was more than one demon in front of him. While he was still trying to communicate with one of them, the other demons went on a killing spree directly at those classmates, treating him as well.

As an honor student who had lived a well-behaved life and attracted the attention of his parents and teachers, what kind of mental journey did he go through to send his classmates to the devil? It was too late to ask about this, and all that was left in front of Joan was a cold truth.

He personally put the zombie into his school life, and then was devoured by the zombie.

After that, Joan and the others hurriedly ran away and hid, but they died one after another for the next three days, and in the end, only Joan and the girls around him were left.

"Slow down......," I said, "three days?" You've been here for three days? ”

"It's just an approximate estimate, maybe it's two days, no, maybe it's a day......" said Joan herself confused.

It seems that his time feels like a mess. I asked, "What about your phones?" ”

"When I came back to my senses, there was no electricity." He shook his head.

The mobile phone can indeed be used as a timekeeping tool to anchor one's sense of time in another space, but only if one's sense of time is not out of order. If you put off looking at your phone until you don't know how long it has been, it's too late. Joan: They don't have the knowledge and experience to blame them.

But at the moment I am most worried about another thing, "You guys...... Since you think it's been three days, what are you eating? ”

"It's something I picked up here." The girl said, "For example, last time I passed by a place that looked like a company office, and although I still couldn't see anyone, I could find snacks and water at the workstation. ”

Joan added, "We wanted to avoid encountering monsters...... To avoid encountering demons, always hide in the same place. Don't even dare to make a sound, let alone go out. But that didn't solve the hunger, so I had to go out and search for food. ”

No wonder they can survive in such a hellish place for so long. Although I encounter demons here frequently, it is because I move a lot; On the other hand, as long as you don't move, the chance of encountering enemies will be greatly reduced.

"That...... Is it really good for us to eat what is here? Joan asked uneasily, "Although you have to eat it, ...... you can pick up something in such a place?"

After weighing it up, I told them the truth: the food and water were not edible.

Ever since I experienced an adventure in another dimension yesterday, I learned this knowledge by mistakenly supplementing the texts related to the alien dimension in the general knowledge textbook of the Security Bureau. Of course, this common sense was known to me a long time ago, even as a layman of warlocks, but let's take the textbook first.

The first thing you need to know is that the matter in the alien space, or to be precise, the matter in the alien space that is independent of the real world, once transferred to the real world, will disappear like an illusion.

Therefore, if you eat this food and water, absorb nutrients from it and turn it into your own flesh and water, then after returning to the real world, that part of the flesh and water will disappear directly. If it happens in the flesh and skin, it's fine, but if it happens in the brain and vital organs, the outcome goes without saying.

In myths and legends around the world, there are also taboo metaphors for this knowledge. For example, food in the underworld is not allowed to be eaten, otherwise it will be left in the underworld forever. In ancient Greek mythology, Persephone had to stay in the underworld for half of the year because she was deceived by Hades into eating pomegranate seeds in the underworld, and she later held a banquet in the underworld to entertain Princess Psych in the same way, but failed to frame the latter; In Japanese mythology, Izanami ate more in the Yellow Springs and never returned to the present world.

Myths and legends are often abstract echoes of history, reflecting the results and changes of the thoughts of ancient people. In ancient times, when a strong tribe conquered a weak tribe, the gods of the weak tribes would become the wives and concubines, subordinates, or conscripted monsters of the gods in the mythology of the powerful tribes. The taboo of not being able to eat food from the underworld also reflects some of the ancient people's cognition of other places.

If the uncanny valley effect is a hidden inheritance engraved in genes, then myths and legends are a hidden inheritance engraved in culture, and it is a "hidden knowledge" that a few people with low awareness can access and recognize.

"Why is this ......" Qiao An and the girl turned pale after hearing this, and the former hurriedly asked, "Is there nothing that can be done?" ”

"This matter needs to go back and consult with the organization behind me." I shook my head, "But you can't leave this alien space for a while. ”

I don't think it's such a rule that it is absolutely impossible to break.

After all, spirits and spirits are also matter and energy, but the fragments of the spirit that I obtained from killing demons in this alternate dimension last time can also be absorbed by the Sirenblade and brought to the outside world.

And if nothing here can be absorbed, then how can air explain it? Bluebird and I, as well as Joe Licorice, have been breathing here for so long last time, and nothing unusual has happened since we went out.

There should be some way around this taboo...... But what exactly this method is is beyond the scope of my knowledge.

The girl was still puzzled by the organization behind me, and Joan explained to her that I was from the state department, and asked calmly: "In other words, we should restore the means of communication with the outside world first, or at least let you out first...... How? ”

"To open the exit to this alien space, you need a key." Speaking of which, I have described the shape of the mirror fragments. If you can use their eyes when searching for mirror shards later, then the efficiency will increase a bit.

It is better to find the mirror fragments before the middleman. Qiao Licorice has said that the key to leaving this alien space only exists at the same time, and the second can only be found after the first one is consumed. If I take half of it, then the intermediary will have to come to me in order to leave the other dimension - provided he has no other way to leave the other dimension.

But is that really good? I also need to protect Joan and the girl now, will this be a danger for them?

Maybe I don't have to expect to find the mirror fragments first, at the speed of a middleman, I'll probably have found all the fragments by this time and walked away.

However...... Joan's next behavior was beyond my expectations.

After listening to the description, he immediately took out an item from his pocket. Look at that shape, it is the mirror fragment that I couldn't find for a long time.

He asked expectantly, "Is this the thing?" ”

"You have?" I was surprised.

"This is something I found on the way to escape." He explained, "When I saw it, I was always relieved, so I picked it up and kept it with me. ”

"I see...... "I see" may sound rather vague, but I believe it.

This is also the advantage of high awareness, making it easier to find a way to survive in a dangerous place, or to find a way to solve a problem with wonderful intuition. The last time he was trapped in a strange space, he also relied on his own awareness to forcibly observe the exit that had disappeared, so as to escape from the other space; This time, he also unexpectedly found the key item to escape from the other dimension. Could it be that he has a talent for exploring other dimensions?

"Just in case, you'll keep this thing." He offered to hand it to me. The girl next to her seemed to want to say something, but she held back.

I took the pieces and solemnly stored them close to me.

But then you have to worry about how to deal with the middleman while protecting them. Should they be told to find a place to hide first? But if you act separately from them, you will have different perceptions of time, and the speed of time will also be different. Maybe I've only been here for a few hours, and they've been for days.

Or do you have to be close to the police...... Just as I was thinking this, the wall in the distance shattered.

A strong malice swept over.

(End of chapter)