In the suite of the hotel, several people finally relaxed.

Aurora happily carried the mutant's head and was about to fall on the old lord's face, while several merchants went to find a place to heal, and Babu and Monica finally returned to the inn with Anna, and collapsed on the soft carpet as soon as they entered.

In the face of the mutants in the dance hall, although there were only a few attacks and defenses, whether it was reaction or cooperation, it had already consumed all the energy of the two of them, and at this time they relaxed, only feeling sore, and just wanted to lie down and do nothing, well, maybe they could do something else?

Unfortunately, the voice coming from the servant's room, which was destined for nothing to happen, pushed open the door and found that Judy had woken up, with a pair of big eyes shining under the bandages, staring at the three people at the door.

"You haven't forgotten my existence today." Judy's tone and eyes were quite serious, "I thought you would have to flirt for at least half an hour before you remembered me." ”

Actually, it was almost, but Babu didn't say this, but was silent for a moment with an expressionless face, and suddenly raised Anna: "Up, Anna, go and slap her." ”

Of course, Anna couldn't hear it, but she had to do something when she was lifted, so she danced happily, and her fleshy little hands crackled and slapped back on Babu's head and face, not to mention how easy it was.

Looking at Babu's tragic experience, Judy's tone was still serious, but there was a hint of a smile in her big eyes: "Anyway, congratulations on your smooth return, how does the life of the treasure merchant feel?" ”

"Let's not mention this yet, I have a question for you." Monica asked eagerly, "Today we found out that the city has several edge entrances, and it is said that the bigger the city, the more edge entrances and exits. For some reason, we didn't, uh, it was inconvenient to continue to ask, and we remembered that you had lived in the royal city of Vera since you were a child, so we hurried to ask you. ”

"Well, that's true." Judy asked rhetorically, "Is there a problem?" ”

"Well, no, it's just the first time we've seen more than one entrance." Monica suddenly patted the head of the bed, "What's wrong with less knowledge." ”

Judy didn't say anything, just adjusted her head slightly, and squinted at the two of them, as if to say that you are businessmen from the big city.

"Really......" Monica rolled her eyes and said angrily, "Anyway, we don't quite understand why this is happening, it's kind of subverting what I've known about the edge over the years." ”

"Well, for those who haven't studied it, it's really hard to understand, and it's not easy to explain." Judy pondered for a moment, then looked up and said, "First of all, what kind of form did you think the edge and the present world were in before?" ”

Monica hesitated for a moment, then ran out suddenly, and when she returned, she had already brought a basin of water and placed it on the bedside stool, and then threw a round nut into it, which was a snack for guests in the suite.

Looking at the nuts floating in the basin, Judy nodded, then shook her head: "It's kind of similar, but not quite." ”

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand with difficulty and grabbed a handful of nuts, just when Babu and Monica thought she was going to throw them into the basin, she first peeled a few and put them in her mouth, and then she seriously faced the twitching corners of their mouths, raised the nut shell and said seriously: "This is this world." ”

He pointed to the basin of water again: "That's the illusory world." ”

Then throw the husk into the basin of water, and then gently touch the basin with your fingers. Several large bubbles suddenly appeared in the water, wrapping a handful of husks in several bubbles.

"Hey, you're ......" Monica was startled and couldn't help but stop her, "Don't mess around." ”

"Rest assured, this level of small spells is almost not consumed, and it will not aggravate the degree of pollution." Judy shook her head absently, watching those husks rise and fall in the bubbles, and continued, "And those bubbles are the edges, generally speaking, there will be a lot of entrances to the present world in each edge, but the edge is too big, a few or even a dozen entrances to the present world, for the size of the edge is no different from dust, according to the five hundred meters of the most perceptive observer discovery radius, the probability of encountering the entrance is not high, before I fled into the edge with the people of the town, that is, I want to bet on this odds, Pity...... Scold. ”

Monica took Judy's hand and gently stroked it in a whisper of comfort while Babu ...... After thinking about it, he grabbed a handful of nuts and handed them over, and after being glared at by the two women at the same time, he aggrievedly held the nuts and ate them himself, and stuffed a few into Anna's mouth from time to time, but his eyes kept staring at the basin in a daze.

The bubbles in the basin are not static, but have been moving back and forth in the basin, almost every bubble swims to every position in the basin, and when the two bubbles meet, the nut shells closest to the bubble wall suddenly break through the bubble wall and enter another bubble passing by.

"Huh, edge switching?" Babu gasped.

"Hmm." Judy nodded approvingly, gesturing to the fruit bowl in the reception room, "Help me get a sand fruit." ”

"You're not going to eat nuts this time?" When Babu handed it over, he still remembered what happened just now, "Eat sand fruit instead?" ”

"No, it's to keep your mouth shut and you from arguing."

Judy glared at him, and threw the sand fruit into the basin, the size of the sand fruit was much larger than ordinary nuts, and even bigger than those bubbles, the bubbles couldn't hold it at all, but a few bubbles came to the side of the sand fruit, and carried it with the sand fruit.

"This is the situation of the large-scale present world, but let me first explain that this is just a brief description of a relative image, and there is no such thing as space or distance at the real edge, nor does there exist such an entity as a bubble, let alone a relative position, it is just a conceptual thing, and the brief description cannot be taken seriously. If you want to really understand, the 720-hour course ......"

"Wait, why did it double again?" The Báb protested immediately.

"Because your foundation is so poor." Judy sighed deeply, speaking earnestly, but once again there was a smile in her eyes, "No kidding, to be honest, these are just some of my personal research experiences, and standard answers from time to time." I believe there will be no standard answer, because there should be no human being in this world who can systematically and accurately understand the edge. ”

"Humans?" Babu reacted immediately.

Judy didn't answer, her eyes turned to Little Anna, who was clutching a handful of nuts to amuse herself, and sighed softly.

"That's right, the Lord of the Illusory World." Monica also understood, and suddenly remembered something, and asked, "By the way, they have a temple here." ”

"Huh? Since it is a city, there must be a temple. Judy asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's a deity supposedly called Ira." Monica asked, "Have you heard of that?" ”

"Ira? Is this the city of the Illa believers? Judy nodded, "Although the royal city of Vera does not worship Ira, I have heard of her from travelers, and she is said to be a relatively gentle deity, and several cities worship her. ”

"Gentle?" Babu immediately remembered the towering tree, and the horror and despair that came from the soul.

"Relatively speaking." Judy smiled bitterly, "Compared to the other gods, Ira should be considered a relatively gentle one. ”

"Maybe." With her eyes still on the basin, Babu said casually, "But Ira's apostle said that she didn't say that Ella was a god, so what the hell are they?" ”

"Your question...... I'm sorry, but I didn't make the worlds and edges, and there are a lot of questions I can't answer. Judy's eyes were quite helpless, "And your question is too dangerous, for those cities or churches that believe in gods, you ask their most core secrets, and many times, even if you don't get an answer and just show your interest in it, you will be hunted down by those who believe in it." I suggest that this kind of question should not be asked in front of outsiders in the future. In addition, what have you been staring at this basin of water, are you reluctant to give up the sand fruit inside? ”

"No, I'm pondering a question." Babu looked at Shaguo a little distracted, "This world is so big, it looks like even the edges are attached to it......"

"Again, this disguise is just a figurative metaphor, and there is no such thing as attachment."

"It's not important, it's important, it's so big, will there be mutants in the edge climbing on it, and it will run around or even complete the edge switch?"

"Well, if you are dominated by the Illusory World...... Judy glanced at Anna secretly, "If you catch it, unless the other party lets go, the present world will be like being anchored and will never move again." It's a lot like nodes, because nodes are alternative anchors that don't dominate the source. ”

"Not the Juggernaut, I know the Juggernaut can grasp the world." Babu hadn't forgotten the huge black shadow and the dot he had seen in Tanuki Town, "just plain fringe mutants." ”

"Ordinary mutants don't have this ability, their existence is not enough to grasp the present world that only exists conceptually, even if they stare at the entrance of the present world, it is impossible to complete the edge switch with the current world. However, as soon as ......" finished speaking, Judy paused, thought for a while, and added, "But if the mutant is stronger, it is difficult to say, at least the boss-level mutant is possible, and even needs to be at the hero level to do it." ”

"Boss?" The expressions of Babu and Monica became extremely strange at the same time, and the sense of foreboding grew stronger.

"Well, at least the boss level, but the chance of going out and encountering a leader-level mutant is no higher than encountering three or five big cities in a row on the edge, so there's no need to think about it." Judy felt that something was wrong, and couldn't help but look up at the two of them, "You guys are reacting to this...... What happened? ”

"Well, didn't you just ask us how life feels like for a treasure merchant?" Monica smiled awkwardly and whispered, "All I can say is that it's a little too exciting." ”

"So......" Judy squinted at the two of them, "Met a boss-level mutant?" ”

"Hmm." The two nodded vigorously.

"And led to the entrance of the present world?"

"Hmm." Continue to nod vigorously.

"You ...... What's going on? ”

After hearing the two of them tell what happened in detail, Judy sighed with a headache: "You can meet a leader-level mutant when you go out, your luck, will you really be abducted by you in the future?" But to be able to come back alive without any damage, should I say that you are lucky or not. That kind of thing is almost beyond the limit that normal humans can fight, and only humans who are also at the same level of the leader can barely deal with it, but how many humans in the world can have the strength of the leader level? ”

"So strong?" Monica and Babu looked at each other, glad that they had been able to flee before it could get out of the ground, buying precious time to escape, otherwise the smell alone would have smoked them to death if they got closer.

"I haven't seen it either, but I've heard it when I've traveled, and it's not a matter of how strong the leader-level mutant is, but that ordinary people can't do anything about it." Judy explained with a headache, "Maybe hundreds of them I got together and bombarded it with edge spells, but even the top cities can't find hundreds of elite-level edge mages." The edged mages with the strongest ranged attack power have this result, not to mention your melee attack class. ”

"What if you use the environment?" Báb asked.

"You mean what you did to that giant before?" Judy weighed for a moment and said, "Although there is only one stage difference between the commander level and the leader level, there is an essential gap between the two, I remember you said that the giant was not killed directly, and if you change it to the leader level, you may be able to hurt it." ”

"It's easy to hurt if you can get hurt." Babu said thoughtfully, "At least a normal attack would have an effect." ”

"Of course you can, it's just a mutant after all." Judy saw that Babu was distracted, but still comforted, "Actually, you don't have to worry too much, even if it really targets you, it's fine, it's a big deal to leave from the other exit, it can't cross the edge to catch up, the mutant is not the master of the illusion, and it doesn't have this ability." ”

"But what about the present world of East Valley City?"

Babu's subconscious question made Judy look at him in some surprise, and after staying for a long time, he said softly: "If you leave, it won't be staring for too long, and you don't have to worry about this world at all." ”

"Huh?"

"This is the city of the Followers of Ila." Judy sighed, "There's something like this blocking the doorway, and they're more anxious than you. You may not be able to solve the leader-level mutant, but with Ira's apostle in charge, she may not be able to solve it, and even if she can't, there is still Ella standing behind her. Although these mutants are powerful, they should not be worth mentioning compared to the gods. ”

"Actually, it's not that it can't be solved, it's just that the cost is a bit big, and the follow-up is more troublesome, let's study it again." Thinking of the divine shock released by joining forces with Anna in Tanuki Town, Babu nodded secretly, "As for Ira, don't think about it, I don't think she cares about it at all." ”

"Huh?"

"She said it at the beginning." Babu smiled bitterly, "If you want to watch me perform, I guess she already knew that there was a big guy hiding outside this time, and she specially brought me to perform for her." Well? What's wrong with you, you seem to be desperate. ”

"Her name is Anna, you let her eat me, I'm desperate for the days ahead, what are your daily contacts, which of you are telling the truth and which is nonsense......"

Unfortunately, Anna was not destined to be fit for a meal today, and the atmosphere had just become lively when she was interrupted by a knock on the door outside the suite.

"Excuse me, a few merchants from the Royal City of Vera, is it convenient now?" It's Carl yesterday, "His Highness the Baron wants to meet you." ”