Approaching the fox window made of vermilion pillars, Akemi Miyano raised her hand to block the demonic wind that couldn't stop her face: "It's a little, it means to hell." ”

Tang Ze, who was also blown by this gloomy evil wind, raised his head and glanced ahead, and vaguely discerned a cry that could not tell whether it was a cry or a scream from the wind.

The atmosphere rendering is quite in place, and the feeling that people are not close to is there.

"Noah, is there a shadow reaction ahead?" Tang Ze asked aloud.

"I can't see it," Noah, an all-terrain reconnaissance aircraft, gave a rare vague answer, "I have a sense of danger, but I can't see the terrain behind me clearly for the time being." ”

"Looks like you can't cheat." Teru Hoshikawa tentatively stepped on the nearest pillar, "There are quite a few weird places on this island. These overly friendly things on the outside don't look like shadows, but if they're all cognitive dolls, we're really entering the cognitive space of Lunaris Isle, right? ”

"In the impression space, there are some special shadows." Tang Ze also stepped on the pillar and walked towards the window in the middle of the "Fox Window", and replied at the same time, "It's not strange that such a weird impression space sub-station has a special structure. ”

Tang Ze here refers to the shadow in front of the dividing wall that is common in the subway of the impression space, although it is also an unknown miscellaneous fish in the subway, but the guy who can occupy the first floor of the platform is always a little more weighty than the guy who is wronged and squeezed in the small room.

"So, this is the temple of someone who hasn't completely departed from the impression space, and combines it with the real impression space?" Akemi Miyano guessed uncertainly, "You explained that the hall is a separate space, and the hall where there are multiple people in the same place is theoretically valid. Then Moon Shadow Island is both a temple for a certain person and an impression space, so it's no problem, right? ”

"No, maybe it's the other way around." Standing at the front of the passage, Tang Ze looked at the situation in the center of the passage from afar, "It was the impression space of Moon Shadow Island that gave birth to someone's hall, and he was like an earthbound spirit...... Trapped on this island of hypocrisy, there is no way to detach. ”

Saying this, Tang Ze took a step forward and stepped into the gray mist that gradually filled the passage, a fishy wind mixed with the smell of sea water, and the gray mist that slowly filled the entire field of vision, swept through his body.

"Who?" A cold male voice came from the front, and Tang Ze, who was slightly mentally prepared, was not frightened by this voice, but just raised his head calmly and looked at the front of the passage.

At the exit of the passage, a man leaning against the stone wall with his eyes closed, startled by their sudden visitors, opened a pair of golden eyes and stared at them coldly.

“…… Narumi Asai? Looking at this man with his hair tied up in a bun, wearing a Heian period kimono, and holding a bow and arrow in his arms and was silent, Karasawa tentatively called out his name, "Oh, no, maybe I should call you Aso Lieutenant?" ”

"No matter who you are......" Asai Narumi, who was called out by Tang Ze's real name, narrowed his eyes, and the fierce look on his face became more and more obvious, "Don't step forward again." ”

"You're the guard here?" Hearing his lines, Tang Ze did not immediately approach, but crossed his figure and looked behind him.

It was like a hole in a cliff somewhere, and through the cave ahead, you could see flocks of crows circling in the sky, croaking and croaking, the crows of night owls far and near, and the cuckoo's crying and screaming crows, rising and falling high in the night sky.

I'm afraid that's what I heard outside the passage just now.

"No...... If I could be the guard here, this place wouldn't be like this. In response to Tang Ze's question, Shadow Asai Narumi sneered back, "This is the Purgatory of Thorns, as for me...... I'm just an insignificant grave keeper. ”

Grave Keeper...... Sounds so unlucky.

Tang Ze, who was aware of it, took two tentative steps forward with his teammates behind him.

As if to understand their intentions, Asai Narumi laughed twice, but did not stop them.

He took out a feather arrow from the quiver and put it on the bow and arrow, but he didn't aim at Tang Ze and the others, but turned around and drew the bow in the direction of the outside of the cave.

The sound of "huh-" was heard, and a pitch-black humanoid creature that had climbed to the top of the cliff was pierced by the arrow, and fell without making a sound.

Instantly, the birds hovering in the air swooped down after the thing, crouched on top of the motionless humanoid, and began to eat.

And Tang Ze, who stepped forward, finally saw the whole picture of the world outside the cave.

On the red and black earth, some black humanoid objects wandered athere, or scuffled together, entangled wildly, or fell to the ground motionless, as if they had been dead for a long time, and scavenging birds fell from the sky from time to time, pecking at those things.

These were heterogeneous enough, creepy enough, but even more terrifying than these shadows or what they couldn't tell, were lush, as if crawling with gray-green thorns that covered the whole world.

Those huge roots and rattans, as if there was consciousness and life, agitated and rolled in the depths of the cracked earth, and wrapped the shadowy corpses into the ground, as if they were using these things as fertilizer, absorbing the nutrients they needed to grow.

Those thorns were full of gorgeous flowers, and the cascading double petals made Tang Ze distinguish them at a glance.

"Poppies." Tang Ze said with certainty.

"It's no wonder that this is an impression space." Hoshikawa Teru, who had been trying to distinguish for a while, pointed to the ground in the middle of the vines all over the ground, "I saw a little shadow of the railroad tracks...... It was supposed to be part of the impression space as well. ”

"No wonder it doesn't smell rancid." Smelling the surging rich sweet fragrance, Akemi Miyano frowned and reached out to cover her nose.

"I said, this is Thorn Purgatory." The shadow of the bow and arrow, Asai Narumi, came out of his hand with another arrow, shot a shadow that had already climbed halfway up the road again, and said to them, "Don't stay here, strangers, for you will be attracted by the enchanting aroma, and you will walk into it unconsciously, and you will also become the nourishment of purgatory." Get out of here, hurry. ”

"Are you not letting them leave so that they don't pollute the islands outside?" Thinking of the peaceful and joyful Moon Shadow Island outside the passage, Tang Ze asked, "Are you protecting this island?" ”

"No, because these things have been tainted with the breath of purgatory, let them go, and they will take the pollen and buds of these things with them anywhere in the world." Unlike what Tang Ze expected, the shadow who had not shown aggression to them so far was Asai Narumi, who pulled the corners of his mouth sadly, and smiled wistfully, "It's not a paradise outside...... Outside, this is what it used to be. That's where I was from, where I used to grow up. ”

Tang Ze's eyebrows jumped slightly with his words.

That's exactly what he guessed......

That heavenly version of Lunaris Island is actually a temple of shadows.

It's just that the owner of the hall himself is not in the hall, but is nested at the entrance of this impression space, guarding the door.

The monarchy is under the system......

"We can help you with that." Pointing to the disgustingly distorted scene below, Don Ze proposed, "We can deal with these shadows, we can even get rid of the vines, and you can regain your freedom......

The shadow who had already put away the bow and arrows and held the bow in his arms again was shari Asai, hearing his words, the gold in his eyes was a little more abundant, and he silently pulled out an arrow from the quiver behind him again.

"Don't come forward." Repeating this again, Tang Ze saw the alert value in the interface go up a section at once, "Stranger, get out of here." ”

"Hey, we're going to help you get rid of this." Picked up the kunai Hoshikawa Hui with his backhand and entered a state of alert, and at the same time raised his voice and said, "Why do you have this attitude?" ”

The bow and arrow in his hand were firmly aimed at Tang Ze, who was in the lead, and the voice of the shallow well in the shadow revealed a deep and cool breath like a moonlit night: "Because...... This is my hometown. I'm not going to let them go, but I'm not going to let anyone hurt them. ”

"I said, I'm here...... Grave keeper. ”

(End of chapter)