Neverland

The moment Xu Muzhou left the room, the sunlight outside the castle window suddenly disappeared. The sunlight that entered through the narrow window seemed to be wiped out of the world in an instant, and the whole castle sank into darkness in an instant. middle.

The sticky and foul-smelling black sea water spread up from the coast silently, slapped the coast after washing over and over again, and splashed into the castle through the cracks in the windows.

The wooden railings on the second floor were covered with black mottled stains, and most of the railings were riddled with holes due to damp and rot, and they swayed left and right on the floor.

The hands of the clock on the gate moved forward slowly step by step. Due to the lack of maintenance for a long time, the hands moved very hard, and the subtle sound of metal scraping could be clearly heard.

The floor under Xu Muzhou's feet was covered with a thick layer of dust. Looking around, there were potholes and damaged marks everywhere, especially when he was near the window. The floor under the window was corroded by something ugly. The potholes are densely concentrated in a small area under the window, and the scalp is numb at a glance.

The wooden boards on the windows were extremely messy, and there were sharp scratches beside the iron nails. The thumb-thick iron nails were deeply embedded in the wall from the wooden boards, carrying a ruthless force to seal people here.

The originally old but clean castle changed its appearance in an instant, as if it had finally peeled off the whitewashed coat of peace, revealing the real appearance underneath.

—is stale and dark.

This is a good thing, Xu Muzhou thought, it means that they finally found the focus of the mission.

Xu Muzhou looked at the "witch" impartially. The other person didn't look as delicate and good-looking as Toya. He could barely call it ordinary. It was a face that people would not remember much after seeing it.

But she's too thin - although Toya is also very thin, she can only be regarded as a thin figure.But the girl in front of her was obviously a little too thin. Her wrist exposed outside the cuffs seemed not much thicker than the wooden railing on the second floor. Her chin was pointed, and only a pair of eyes were big and slender. Infiltrate.

The crystal ball that Toya had been holding was not in the girl's hands. Xu Muzhou scanned around subconsciously, only to find that the ball was floating under the ceiling of the attic, floating in the air in a way that defied gravity.

It is no longer dusty, but emits a slight fluorescence like every time it "works" before.

But that ball is too small after all, this light is just a drop in the bucket for the entire castle, it is useless except to illuminate itself.

Yan Cen stood half a step behind Xu Muzhou, he squinted his eyes and looked at the people upstairs for a while, and faintly sensed something was wrong.

Xu Muzhou may not be able to see it, but Yan Cen can see it very clearly. Although the girl in front of him does not have the slightest resemblance to Toya in appearance, she actually has the same fate and shares the same fate line as Toya. .

——So in other words, she is also "Tuoya".

The girl looked at Xu Muzhou on the second floor for a while, then turned around in silence, walked to the next stairs, and walked downstairs step by step.

Seeing her getting closer, Xu Muzhou subconsciously tightened his body, Yan Cen took half a step forward, and stopped between Xu Muzhou and the witch without a trace.

If Toya was present, seeing Yan Cen like this, he would probably have stopped a long time ago and dared not come over.But this girl seemed to be the complete opposite of Toya, she walked over without even looking at Yan Cen, and walked straight to Xu Muzhou.

She stood two steps away in front of Xu Muzhou, her eyes fixed on Xu Muzhou's face, and she looked at him inch by inch, her eyes seemed to have hooks, trying to get out of Xu Muzhou's face. It's like a layer of skin under the hook.

Xu Muzhou was not very happy with her view of adultery, frowned, and asked, "Who are you?"

Xu Muzhou asked very rudely, but the girl was indifferent, still staring at his face, as if she could see a flower from it.

Not to mention whether the person in front of him is a "witch" or something else, the clay figurines would be irritated by such a view.

Xu Muzhou took a deep breath, and was about to say something, but Yan Cen pulled his wrist.

"She can't speak." Yan Cen said suddenly.

Xu Muzhou was startled.

His gaze subconsciously landed on the girl's throat, and his vision could only be vaguely seen in the dark night, but even so, he could clearly see an obvious scar on the girl's throat.

The scar looked very hideous. It must have been treated poorly. The wound was curled and turned outwards. After healing, the scar was bumpy and twisted together, looking like a thick and long earthworm.

The scar wound around the girl's neck in an almost arc shape, so Xu Muzhou thought she was wearing a different necklace at first glance.

The girl didn't know if she heard Yan Cen's words, she suddenly pulled the corners of her lips, revealing a silent and exaggerated smile.

But it was "laughing", from Xu Muzhou's point of view, this scene was more like a precursor to the climax of a horror movie.

The corners of the girl's mouth were raised high, revealing her white teeth, but her facial muscles were extremely stiff, and the malice in her eyes was undisguised, mixed with ridicule, disgust, and disdain, and she didn't look like she was smiling at all.

As they got closer, Xu Muzhou realized that the girl's pupils were more than two circles larger than normal people's, and the white of her eyes was only occupied by a pitiful corner. The pupils were pure and even in color, and looked no different from the glass eyes of a doll.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

At this moment, Xu Muzhou discovered that psychological quality can really be cultivated.

Because at this moment, he actually felt that he was very calm.

The girl couldn't speak, but it didn't mean she couldn't understand anything. When the waves washed up outside, Xu Muzhou clearly saw the girl's ears moving, obviously very sensitive to outside sounds.

Xu Muzhou didn't know if Yongwuxiang's "built-in language translation system" would work well for this situation, but Sima, as a live horse doctor, stretched out his hand and pulled Yan Cen, and asked the girl: "Tuoya is still here?" In the castle?"

Even though Xu Muzhou asked this question, he probably already knew the answer in his heart.

——[-]% are gone.

Xu Muzhou didn't know whether the mirror image of the castle was directly related to the crystal ball, but he could probably guess that this world might not be on the same axis as the world of "Tuoya".

Xu Muzhou suddenly remembered the women's nightdress he was wearing when he first came to the mission world, and the abrupt "she" in Joseph's diary.

Those discordant clues were suddenly connected by Xu Muzhou at this moment—in Joseph's diary, "she" appeared one day and disappeared for two days, and the frequency happened to be the opposite of what Xu Muzhou and the others saw.

Xu Muzhou still remembered that in the world of "Tuoya", the flow of time was twice as fast as the normal time. At that time, he asked Yan Cen how to maintain the balance if the flow of the timeline changed regionally. .

But now judging from this conversion frequency, the twelve hours lost every two days can just form a new 24 hours.

——So, the flow rate of the timeline has not changed at all.

This castle is an isolated island set up by the "bridge". Although it is bound by the big rules of the world line, it has its own "rules" under this standard.

It seems really interesting, Xu Muzhou thought.

So in fact, the "angel" that Joseph saw was not the "Tuoya" that Xu Muzhou had always thought, but the girl in front of him.

But no matter how Xu Muzhou looked at it, he couldn't see that the girl in front of him had any resemblance to the angel in Joseph's mouth.

And if it is said that the girl in front of him was what Joseph saw from the beginning, there seems to be something wrong.

Xu Muzhou saw it when he just left the house. After the mirror image, all the windows of the castle were tightly sealed by wooden boards. Not to mention a shipwrecked sailor, he was a strong and strong young man. If he wanted to come in through the window, he had to weigh himself physical strength.

——Then how did Joseph get in, how was he rescued...and even, how was he killed later.

Xu Muzhou quickly calculated in his mind, and felt that there seemed to be only two possibilities - one was that Joseph simply saw the girl in front of him from the beginning, just like they saw Toya earlier, living in this world for a long time. in the cognition he shaped.

Another possibility is that Joseph, like now, inadvertently crossed the gap between the two mirror worlds and saw two "people".

Xu Muzhou had always felt that Toya was full of contradictions before, but now it seems that this girl who appeared suddenly and this castle seemed to hide many secrets.

Yan Cen behind him has been silent all this time. Based on Xu Muzhou's understanding of Yan Cen, he probably already has some plans in his mind, and he is just verifying them.

For Xu Muzhou, the most important thing is to find out what the "girl" in front of him is.

The glowing crystal ball always made Xu Muzhou a little concerned, so that he couldn't see the girl in front of him as a simple undead like the previous "work experience".

In other words, if the castle is regarded as a subject, then the girl who can share the world with "Tuoya" must have a more special identity.

As soon as Xu Muzhou asked about Toya, the smirk on the girl's face disappeared instantly. She lowered the corners of her mouth and stared at Xu Muzhou expressionlessly, with a gloomy face without any expression.

Xu Muzhou's patience was almost exhausted, but since the girl in front of him could be the real task target, he took a deep breath, suppressed the displeasure in his heart, and let her watch.

Xu Muzhou originally planned to wait for her to see enough, maybe he could communicate with him in a good mood, but the girl looked at him, and suddenly pulled out a shiny long knife from her cuff, raised her hand without warning, and ruthlessly He stabbed towards Xu Muzhou fiercely.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

- what's wrong!This is too wild!