Next, Shen Er, what's your business?

Chapter 244 Contradiction Spiral
In the unremarkable Guanbuzi City, there is a very special building named "Xiaochuan Apartment".

The reason why it is special is not because it is a rare high-end apartment in the Maojianhama apartment area, nor because it was jointly constructed by three companies, but because of its unique design.

Let’s take a look at the two designers of the apartment first: Mune Ren Araya and Orange Aozaki.

No need to say much, these two names alone are enough to explain the problem.

This apartment is actually a combination of two adjacent apartments. Two fairly neat half-moon-shaped ten-story buildings are built facing each other.If you take a helicopter to look down from above, you will be surprised to find that the whole apartment is a standard circle, which is completely different from the surrounding, non-characteristic traditional square buildings.

The walls inside the apartment are uniformly painted in a creamy color for extreme cleanliness.Strange shapes are mixed everywhere on the walls, and you will feel dizzy and chest tight if you look at it for a long time.The hall is the only space that maintains the two buildings. If you are above the second floor, you cannot go directly from the east building to the west building. You have to return to the central space first, and then go through the hall.

Although it is divided into two independent apartments, the east building and the west building are identical in structure.However, due to the nature of the Ogawa apartment itself, even the residents of the apartment rarely know the fact that the two sides are completely symmetrical.

To refine a few keywords.

perfect circle.

Divide in two from the center.

The two sides are independent of each other.

There is also the text used to write these keywords.

Any idea of ​​some ancient pattern that is familiar to everyone who can write this kind of writing?

That's right, if you distort the lines a little bit, it will become the Taiji diagram known as "the first diagram in China".

The picture of Taiji expounds the most basic truth of Taoism - Yi has Taiji, and two appearances are born, one yin and one yang.In the Western world of magic, this is called a "spiral of contradictions".

This is exactly the mystery of this Ogawa apartment.Based on the entire apartment building, Araya Soren built a different world, a man-made barrier.

The families living in Ogawa's apartment are all broken people.People who were originally going to be destroyed will undoubtedly only come to the end of life-death.This was an ascetic practice that was supposed to take decades to come to an end, but because of special circumstances such as the unchanging scenery around the apartment and the strange patterns that oppressed the retina, it accelerated its collapse and ushered in the end within a month.

These lost lives were gathered in the west building of the apartment by Araya Soren.

The brains of these beings were taken out by Araya, and the corresponding dolls were made by imitating the dead lives with these brains, and let them live in the east building, repeating the last day of the end every day.

The east building is for life and yang, and the west building is for death and yin. They are symmetrical to each other, and together they form the duality of life and death, forming a spiral of contradictions.

This is a pure experiment, and Soren Araya wants to try whether human beings can usher in a death that is different from the end.

Man must die.But that is nothing but the doomed death of each.

The so-called final death of a person is only one.A person who dies in a fire is no more than a fire in any form, and a person killed by his family is no more than a murder for his family no matter what form.The first time I got out of the predicament of death, but that was just a way to usher in the second and third death.This limited way of dying is what we call lifespan.

Even though the way people die is doomed.However, if the same knot is repeated thousands of times, errors in the spiral will appear.It doesn't matter if the error is an extremely slight accident, and the misfortune of being run over by a car on the way is also good-even so, the result is still the same now.The [-] uninterrupted repetitions only let Araya Soren see the fact that people's fate cannot be changed.

This is a world that ends in one day, called "Bongnaden 64th Floor".Although it is not an inherent enchantment, it is also the manifestation of the scenery of Araya Zonglian's lotus heart image.It is Araya's incarnation, and it also represents Araya's consciousness and pursuit—his purpose is always to record the death of human beings, and reaching the root is only a means.

The building itself is a mantra, an altar to strengthen Araya Soren's consciousness.

The high level of magic power, coupled with the power of the land itself and the lives sacrificed in the barrier, made the "Ogawa Apartment" surpass the level of the magic studio and become a "temple" above that.

In the temple, the owner of the temple can exercise the mystery beyond magic and exercise the power beyond human reach, that is the domain of "magic".

If the workshop is the magician's home field, then the temple can be said to be the extension of the magician's body, where the impossible becomes possible.

Araya Soren's shrine is called "The 64th Floor of the Hall of Honor". Here, he is sure to realize his long-cherished wish; here, he has the confidence to repel all invading enemies.

Now, under the lure of the chess pieces he sent out, the two rituals of body and body necessary for his long-cherished wish have stepped into the "64th floor of the Hall of Blessing" and came before him.

Staring at the tall man who quietly appeared within five meters of her, there was undisguised surprise in the magic eyes that could see the death of all things.Anyone so far, without exception, has a thread of death.But, this man, that line is extremely weak.

What surprised Shi Shi even more was that this man felt very familiar to her.

"I remember you."

"Not bad. It's been two years since we met like this."

Araya Soren's voice was very heavy, as if pinching the brain of the person who heard it.

He slowly reached out to touch his temples.On the side of the head, from the forehead to the left, there is a straight scar.It was the last night before the two rituals fell into a coma, the deep scars carved by their own hands.

As early as that time, he had already set his sights on the two ceremonies, and everything he did was for today, to obtain the body that connects the "roots" of the two ceremonies.

"You are—" The expression is like facing the enemy.

"Ara Ye Soren. A murderous person."

Araya Soren asserted without even moving her eyebrows.

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The bright moonlight shone on the Spiral Tower. In this world shrouded in darkness, a red Honda car stopped in front of the main entrance of the apartment.

A young woman with long orange hair got out of the car. The tea-dyed leather coat she was wearing was not suitable for her slender figure.The coat is not like clothing, but it feels like armor.

She looked up at the apartment, then picked up the orange suitcase with one hand, walked through the atrium covered by green fur, and entered the apartment.

The glass-covered hall is covered with a layer of cool moonlight by the bright moon.Whether it's the floor, the walls, or the elevator pillars used to go to the upper floors, they all exude a haze.After a little consideration, she turned around and decided to change her destination.The goal is not the elevator, but the lobby that continues east.

At this moment, a rather sharp voice for a man sounded in the hall.

"Ah, Aozaki! Long time no see, how are you?"

Aozaki Touko raised her gaze.On the stairs leading to the second floor with a slow slanting line, there stood a man in a red coat and a red top hat in the middle.He was about in his early twenties, with dark blonde hair and blue eyes, and his face was as deep as a chisel.

"It really is you, Cornelius Aruba." Cheng Zi cast a cold gaze on the man with undisguised disgust on his face.

"Don't show such an expression, I'm here specially to see you." Aruba spread his hands exaggeratedly, making a smile full of goodwill.

"I don't have time to talk nonsense with you!" Chengzi's expression was the complete opposite of Aruba's, so cold that water could drip out.

"I'm really surprised, so you are so impatient? However, this is also a gratifying thing. Welcome to my hell, the strongest puppet user."

The magician Cornelius Aruba smiled happily, and made a deep salute with exaggerated movements like a play.

"Your hell? With your size, it is impossible to come up with an idea to make the Taiji diagram real."

Cheng Zi impatiently put the suitcase on the ground and made a "bang".

"Okay, tell Huang Ye to come out quickly, I'm not here to look for you today."

After finishing speaking, Cheng Zi began to pay attention to the surroundings, not focusing on the red magician who should be paid attention to at all, but began to look for opponents that did not exist.

The magician just looked at her.With eyes full of murderous intent, as if about to cry.

"you are always like this!"

It was as if he couldn't help but say it.

"That's right, you're always like this, you always give me such a low evaluation-it's me, it's me first, obviously I came first-whether it's the study of runes, the reputation of the puppeteer Good or bad. Even so, your attitude has deceived those low-energy guys. Your attitude of belittling me has made those guys think that I am inferior. Think about it carefully and you will know! I am Schopenheim Abbey The next dean! I have been studying magic for more than 40 years, why must I be ranked behind the little girls in their twenties...!"

When did his words so passionately resound through the entire hall.Facing this opponent who had always pretended to be friendly and began to spread curse words, Cheng Zi just looked at him with disinterest.

"Learning has nothing to do with age, Cornelius. Although you look young on the outside, you always only pay attention to the appearance, so the inside will not catch up."

Though a calm remark, there is no more provocative insult.After hearing this, the young man in his fifties twisted his handsome face full of hatred.

"—I haven't said what my purpose is."

Trying to calm himself down, the red magician changed his words.

"I don't care about Araya's experiment, and I'm not interested in any root vortex. It's really meaningless to pursue something that doesn't know whether it exists. If you want to touch the realm of God, you just need to pursue the truth. It is necessary to go back to the source."

Aruba took a step back, intending to climb up to the second floor and walk up slowly.

"I... came to this remote village just to kill you! Canozaki!"

With a sound that seemed to break his throat, the magician laughed and ran up the stairs quickly.

"By the way, are you here to look for the 'Liangyi' in this 'Tai Chi'? Unfortunately, you are one step late. That girl has already arrived at Huang Ye's place. Is she dying now? Or has she been captured by Huang Ye?" Did you catch it? Anyway, neither of them has anything to do with me, and it has nothing to do with you, because you are going to die soon."

The hall on the first floor has been completely filled with the magician's malicious manifestations.

Some were in human form, some in animal form. Although the scars and warts on the surface began to dissolve, their appearance was immediately reshaped, and there was nothing more real than that.Metaphorically speaking, it is like a person or a beast that is constantly rotting away, and it is something ugly and delicate at the same time.

"Are these slimes?" Cheng Zi described the surrounding aliens with an unprecedented insult and hatred, "You can only manifest these things here. Aruba, you really should switch from a magician to a movie supervisor, If you are here, you should be able to save a lot of monster props. However, you can only participate in some small-scale horror works, right? How about this job is more suitable for you than the dean!"

Surrounded by monsters filling the hall, she complained.

Indeed, the situation is a lot like a horror movie, with the difference that neither crucifixes nor shotguns are likely to work on these things.Obviously surrounded by only about two meters away, she still reached into her breast pocket without moving her eyebrows, and pulled out a shriveled red paper box.

"There's only one left, and it's time for Shen Er to replenish it for me."

Lighting the cigarette skillfully, the smell of nicotine made Cheng Zi feel a little better.As the strongest puppeteer, she is an out-and-out artist. She admires interesting things, but feels uncomfortable when she sees boring things, and has to smoke to relieve herself.The Alien that Aruba manifests is such a boring thing.

"No, it seems that you can't be a supervisor. The performance is too bad. This level can't make the current guests happy. There is no way. Speaking of strange, at least this level should be maintained."

With that said, Cheng Zi kicked away the suitcase at his feet.

"Come out!" That was an order full of majesty that could not be refused.

In response, the suitcase opened with a "click".

There was nothing inside the opened lid.

At the same time—a certain black object surrounded the magus named Aozaki Touko.

The black object is a typhoon holding its body, whirling around at high speed with the orange as the eye of the typhoon.The crazy momentum made the hall empty within a few seconds.

The monsters that kept overflowing in the hall disappeared without a trace.

All that remained was Aozaki Touko, the tightly closed bag, and the cat sitting in front of him.

"What!" Aruba never dreamed of such a scene.

The cat is bigger than Cheng Zi. Its body is all black, without the so-called thickness. It is a flat black cat made of shadows.

No, you can't even tell if it's a cat.Like the shadow of a cat, it has Egyptian hieroglyph-like eyes only on the head.

"That's, what!" Aruba looked down on the cat from the second floor.

When meeting the cat's painterly eyes, the cat begins to smile, and it erases the mouth part of its face to indicate a smile.

"I'm not watching a nightmare, am I?" Aruba couldn't help swallowing.

Orange didn't say a word.Only the sound of chirping chirping chirping came from nowhere.

"It's different from what I heard! Is it true that your familiar has lost to your sister?"

Perhaps unable to bear the silence, Aruba began to shout.

She just replied: "Who knows?" Then she turned her eyes to the black cat.

"I'm sorry, I let you eat something unpalatable, but it will be much better next time. Wait, it's not that kind of energy block, but real human flesh, and the storage of spiritual power is quite enough. Because he is mine. Classmate, so you don’t have to worry about it. I usually taught you well, as long as you are an enemy, eat it.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the black cat rushed out immediately.It seemed to be gliding on the marble floor, running across the hall to the stairs... Even so, the cat's feet didn't move, and it remained a sitting shadow, with only eyes rushing towards the magician in red.

It took less than ten seconds to go from the lobby on the first floor where Orange was to the platform on the second floor where Aruba was. However, Aruba who responded in time was not an ordinary person, he was a magician after all.

"Go away the shadow. It is impossible to touch the thing which are not visible. Forget the darkness. It is impossible to see the thing which are not touched. The question is protested. The answer is simple. I have the flame in the left hand. And I have everything in the right hand—”

disappear!Phantom, I will make form invisible; forget it!Darkness, the invisible shall not be touched; There is no doubt, the answer is obvious; In my left hand I hold light, and in my right hand truth.

Aruba calmed down, and chanted the mantra at a speed close to the limit.

For magic, spells are nothing more than self-suggestions given to individuals.The magic of the wind is the same as a weapon, and the power of this ability is determined from the beginning.No matter which magician uses it, the potency will not change.It's just that chanting can make a difference.The purpose of chanting mantras is to discover the magic engraved in one's body. The content can deeply express the nature of a magician. In addition to containing the fixed keywords necessary to discover the magic, the details of chanting are also according to the preferences of each magician.Magicians who love grandiosity, affectation, and self-indulgence tend to have long chants.However, it is also true that just by increasing the chant, the power will also increase.The stronger the suggestion given to oneself, the higher the ability guided from oneself can be.

From this aspect, Aruba's chant is excellent, neither exaggerated nor too long, with a minimum of rhymes, and contains words that lift one's spirits, the pronunciation of the chant does not even take two seconds .This fact made Cheng Zi feel admiration "Oh~".

Although the young man named Aruba likes chants that are longer than necessary and use many useless texts, it seems that he has indeed grown considerably in the past few years.

The combined form and speed of the mantra chanting, and the circuit connection that makes the physical world move, are surprisingly dexterous.His chants are definitely top-notch techniques from the purely object-destroying magic point of view.

"I an the order. Therefore, you will be defeated securely——!"

I am the truth of all things, before me, you will eventually destroy yourself!
Aruba held out one hand.The moment the black cat reached the first step of the stairs, the atmosphere shook slightly—the stairs immediately burst into flames.

Like a mirage rising from the ground, the blue sea of ​​flames engulfed the stairs.In just a few seconds, flames emerged from the stairs, ran through the second floor floor and disappeared into the ceiling.Like a geyser in a volcanic field.

In just an instant, the sea of ​​flames that robbed the hall of oxygen only burned the black cat out of this world.This is a matter of course,
The flames of magical power exceeding thousands of degrees Celsius, no matter what kind of animal it is, can convert it from solid to gas like cream.The process of turning into a liquid in the middle is less than one-thousandth of a second.

But Aruba saw it.He saw the strange appearance of a black cat that unexpectedly appeared after the flames burned out.

"impossible!!!"

Green eyes stared at the stairs.

The black cat regretfully licked its lightened black body, and suddenly turned its gaze to the red magician.The black strange object sprinted away again.

Aruba didn't even have the leeway to see through the black cat itself.

"Repeat...!" Aruba kept repeating his magic trick with a sharp, tearing voice. "Repeat" means "repeat," and the use of this word to repeat a previously performed trick is the pinnacle of Aruba's chanting skills, and it is with this technique that he ranks among the top magicians.

The stairs caught fire again, but this time the black cat didn't stop.Perhaps because he was used to the flame, it rushed towards the magician in a straight line.

"Repeat!" The sea of ​​flames sprayed on again, and then disappeared.The black cat climbs the stairs.

"Repeat!" The fourth flame also ended without a problem.

After the black cat reached the second floor, it immediately approached Aruba and opened its mouth wide.The body of a cat as big as a person is wide open from the bottom of the feet. If a hinge is added on the top of the head, it looks like an opened treasure chest.

There is no thickness, it should be the strange-shaped residue that has just been swallowed in the flat black cat's body, sticking like mud.Aruba finally knew that it only looked like a cat, but it was actually a creature with only a mouth.

"Repeat—" The horror before death made him repeat the last mantra.

But before that, the body of the black cat with the jaws of a shark trapped the magician.Starting from the red coat, they were all swallowed up.

"If you don't get in the way, you can live for two more days—but you will still be killed by me in the end, because you touched a taboo that shouldn't be touched."

These were the last words Aruba heard before losing consciousness.

(End of this chapter)