Nick and Ballast were separated when they returned to the Fourth Incinerator. Rick was very, very sleepy. He didn't sleep last night, and he fought with Sao Ling again, because he accompanied the supervisor to the hospital, he didn't eat breakfast or lunch, and now he has no strength left. He almost crawled to the staff cafeteria. The bowl of meat he didn't take seemed to have been eaten by someone else, so he left a little fried haode meat slices for him. He ate the meat without heat, in exchange for a little energy enough to avoid being burned by the water. He relied on this spirit to boil water and cook dumplings.

As he boiled water, he recalls how he spent the last winter, the last time the house he worked for exploded, he lost his job at the same time, and he had a posthumous request to finish after his roommate's death. He sold all the books and scraped together the travel expenses to go to Xiao Horn's house. Xiao Horn's family left him behind to attend Xiao Horn's funeral, so he ate and drank for nothing at someone else's house for a long time, and successfully survived the rest of the snow season, until he was no longer embarrassed to eat and live in vain before leaving.

Winter.

After the fourth incinerator is gone, how can he survive this winter?

After putting a bunch of dumplings in his stomach, he crawled back to his upstairs room, kicked off his shoes, climbed into bed, and got under the chicken quilt. The pure cotton quilt, which has no magic fluctuations at all and does not contain any magical materials, is slowly warmed by his body temperature. He was glad that the quilt wasn't magical, he really had enough.

In a daze, he heard the queen's voice again. The voice that flickered and flickered, as if it would move away at any moment, said, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so cruel to you. It's so important. I've been lying under the stove for a long, long time since I existed in this place, and no one came looking for me, no one knew I was here.

"I'm so lonely, I want to get out.

"Now that the time has finally come, I can't wait any longer.

"I'm sorry to tear down your home. 」

Rick found himself standing next to the bed, watching himself sleep in the chicken quilt.

This is the phenomenon of out-of-body consciousness. This is what happens when the mage is overtired. The body is so tired that it feels annoying to the consciousness, so I drive the consciousness out and let the body rest. In such a place where spirits are shaking, consciousness is more likely than usual to accidentally fall out of the body.

Consciousness out of body is not dangerous, and it is quite fun, so Xi Ke decided to go with the flow.

The shijie seen during the out-of-body consciousness is not the same as the real material shijie, and does not obey the laws of the spirit space. The out-of-body shijie is a synthesis of reality and fantasy, and can be strongly influenced by residual consciousness, or even completely dominated.

Rick opened the door, and it was supposed to be a hallway, but what he saw was a shopping street. The sun looks like an afternoon, and the houses are not high, about three or four storeys only, but they are beautifully decorated. There were a lot of pedestrians on the road, and Rick saw that they were dressed quite beautifully, but they were what would be called "retro" in this era. Nick knew intuitively that this was the view of the past.

Rick saw a beautiful woman approaching. It was the perfect woman he had seen in the supernatural photo. They look exactly the same, but their temperament is different. Now this woman is wearing too much makeup, wearing exaggerated and gaudy clothes, showing off her beauty. Although she pretended that she was just walking, she kept observing the way passers-by looked at her. Xi Ke originally thought that she was a woman who liked to be paid tribute to her with other people's eyes, but after looking at it for a long time, she realized that something was wrong. She seemed to be making sure that what others saw was what she thought she was.

She walked into a clothing store to pick out clothes. Nick followed in and stood beside him. None of the people in this shijie can see Xike, and Xike does not exist for them. When the boss saw the woman, he smiled and greeted her: "Beauty—why are you back? You have changed your costume? 」

The woman smiled in surprise. I don't seem to understand what the boss is saying.

At this time, another person walked in at the door of the store and said, "Boss, I think I should buy that trouser just now—"

When Xi Ke saw the man's appearance, he immediately gasped.

That person also has the appearance of a perfect woman. It's just that she dresses elegantly, and her makeup is aimed at not being able to see makeup.

Two perfectly beautiful women screamed madly when they saw each other.

Rick ran out of the store, and as he passed through the middle of the doorframe, the scenery changed. He stepped into a gray room. Probably because of the atmosphere, this room looks dirty, but when you look closely, it is so clean that it feels deserted. This room was only a little larger than Syck's. There is an iron desk with two chairs next to it and a row of chairs by the wall. Behind the iron desk sat a man in a windproof mage robe, with heavy black hair and black-rimmed glasses, who was short in stature and sharp-eyed. There were two other younger mages next to him, one in a blue mage robe, the other in dark green, presumably his subordinates. Nick felt that the two robes seemed to be public uniforms, but he couldn't recognize them. Perhaps this style of uniform is no longer visible.

The three of them spoke in a circle. The man in the windproof mage robe said, "This is an exaggeration. 」

"I'm going to have nightmares when I go back. The man in the blue mage's robe rubbed his hands together and said, "Is this really- oh my God- what the hell are those women thinking? There must be something wrong with such a powerful beauty weapon, and they didn't even notice it halfway through it?"

"It's because the effect is so good, I keep self-hypnosis saying it's okay, just use a little more, a little more, a little more, and before I know it, I overuse it. The man in the windproof mage robe said.

"I see that they have used every corner of their bodies, and they want to restore it, but I don't know if they can get the original blueprints. The man in the dark green mage robe said.

"The effect is so long-lasting, it must have become the blueprint of Yvina Sasson. The man in the windbreaker robe said, "I don't think those merchants would be kind enough to prepare a reversal mechanic. Forget it, let the doctor worry about this, maybe not only the plastic surgeon, but also the psychiatrist should also worry about it. Huh, are you two mentally ready?"

"Yes, sir!" shouted the two young mages in unison.

"Go then, and ask them to come in in turns. The man in the windproof mage robe said.

The two young mages sat down in a chair and took out a pen and paper to prepare for the record. The other ran out of the room and came back with a tightly wrapped woman.

"Can you please show your face?" said the man in the windproof mage's robes.

The woman hesitated for a long time before untying the scarf that covered her face. It's the same perfectly beautiful face again. Her temperament is different from the previous two women. They are not the same person.

The man in the windproof mage robe confirmed the name of the other party and read out some of the rules, and Xi Ke realized that these people were supposed to be police officers, or they could also be members of the Staff of Light working with the police.

The man in the windproof mage robe began to ask the woman how she had come into contact with the "beauty magic weapon".

The woman said, "My friend bought one and recommended it to me. I originally thought it was so expensive and didn't want to buy it, but after seeing her use it, the effect was incredible, her legs became thinner, her whole body became slender, and her face became smaller...... So I bought one too. The effect is really good - as soon as you push it, it becomes beautiful, and even the shape of your hands and feet becomes beautiful. My eyes were originally small, but after using them, they became so big and beautiful...... I can't believe that the last time I met my friend, the two of us looked exactly the same!" she said Zuihou, and she fell on the table and cried.

Time passed at an irregular pace, and after the next woman who walked in took off her sunglasses and cap, she had an equally beautiful face. Third, Fourth, Fifth...... He didn't even know how many people he counted, and they all looked the same. According to Xi Ke's observation, their figures are similar, and they are simply copying each other's appearance.

One woman complained angrily to the mages, "If we all look the same, they should make it clear in the advertisement, and then I'll buy every single one!"

The man in the windproof mage robe asked her, "Our investigation has revealed that the material used in this thing contains the human body. 」

The woman said, "Whatever he is, I want to vomit at the thought of so many people who look like me, this is my face!

The other woman cried as soon as she came in, "It's not a beauty artifact, it's just turning us into someone else! I don't even dare to see people now! Who else can recognize me?" She carried her old photos with her, and she couldn't find any resemblance anymore.

Rick couldn't stand it anymore. It's horrible. The so-called "beauty magic weapon" gradually turns them into a beautiful woman, but the end point of it all is not that they become beautiful, but that they become another person. Because it does become beautiful when used in the short term, the skin becomes better, the face becomes thinner, and the legs become longer, so I think this is the beauty effect of the magic weapon, but in fact, it has been transformed without realizing it.

Syk rushed out the door, hoping not to get caught up in the middle of a whole group of similar-looking victims. He then found himself in another place.

The room was dark, but you could still see the surroundings faintly. Nick saw shelves nailed out of wood, and low tables with glass tops. There were many pieces of kitchen utensils with black spots piled up in the corners of the room. His gaze stretched to see a large plastic sheet on the floor deep in the room, on which was the body of a woman lying on it. Rick approached and looked down, recognizing it as the perfect woman. Probably, it's the real one, the first one on this shijie to have such beauty.

It lay naked on its back, lifeless, with a cut on its neck that no longer bleeds. Its eyes widened and could not be closed. It has neatly incisioned holes all over its body, each one cubic-centimeter-sized with a flat edge, and is distributed on its upper arm, thigh, and left breast. Some of them are close together to form large holes, while others cut small holes under the bottom of the big holes. Its eyes were covered with frost, and its hair was wet from the cold condensation, and it collapsed to the ground. This corpse had been frozen, which is why the hole was dug so neatly.

Next to the corpse, several people whose faces could not be seen were busy boiling magic ink in a cauldron, the surface of which shone with a special sheen of human grease.

Space and time are starting to jump. Rick saw the magic ink on the quill, writing spell symbols on the pulp core, red as blood.

He saw the parts in a white hemispherical artifact, which had been sent to the store and displayed in the window. It looks clean and sweet, like a sugar cube without impurities.

He saw that the user bought the magic weapon home, rubbed the magic weapon on his body, and the parts that came into contact with the magic weapon became more and more beautiful, and he became more and more like the perfect woman.

He saw the dusty beauty artifacts being dismantled along with the large bags of garbage into the fourth incinerator, and the core parts were brought into the main furnace with the conveyor belt, and reduced to ashes in the raging fire.

The inside of the hearth is blood-red with firelight, and the surface of the inner wall has irregular reflections that flow like liquid. In the middle were several faces elongated with tongues of fire watching all this, their eyes flickering on the fire.

After the core of the beauty magic began to burn, the faces closed their eyes, and a female figure wearing a long pink dress appeared in the flames. It stood in the middle of the fire with its back to Xike, but it didn't burn at all, and it looked up as if it was looking at the inner wall of the main furnace where there was no exit.

In front of the passage to the hearth, when the concrete roof and steps had not yet been covered, the staff of light mages in black mage robes stood in two columns, and men in trench coat-style mage robes stood in the middle of them.

He walked to the enchanted wall of silver that closed the passage, and with a magic weapon he burned the words "May Evina Sason, the soul of this lovely child rest in peace", then lowered the bouquet and all the mages bowed together towards the silver gate.

There was a blur in front of him, and the low roar of gas from the furnace as it turned around Xi Ke quickly calmed down.

Vick blinked, and found himself lying in a chick quilt, the sun outside the window ready to set. He was back in his body. He hurriedly got up and dressed. He had to go to the gate to meet the garbage truck, and it was impossible for Serian to substitute for him.