The two walked under the crumbling "Tong'an Highway" sign, and slowly walked up the winding slope under the watchful eyes of the dilapidated high-rise jungle standing in the distance.The dark clouds are low and low, but they make the dusty road bright and vivid, like a huge snake entrenched on the ruins of the wasteland, raising its head and coveting the distant city.

In particular, the road seems to be malicious, and it is breaking down a few meters after the apex of the ramp.

The Yin wind roared like ghosts crying and wolves howling, but Ouyang Ji sincerely felt that it would be better if there were ghosts crying and howling wolves around him right now than this terrifying terror.

Looking at the very long pillars under the break, and the half-dry river passing through the pillars, she couldn't help shrinking her neck and backed away again and again. This height makes it easy for people who are not used to standing on a high place to look at it at first glance. dizzy.

"Are there any 'neighbors' you mentioned..."

"..."

Under the gloomy light, Bai Xuanxi's whole body seemed to be a bright color that was incompatible with the whole picture, staring at the empty and desolate scene in front of her, her long snow-colored hair tied into a high ponytail was like a sword's edge after the gust of wind passed Hanging straight down, the slender back in thin clothes looks very capable, and the black claws that are not in harmony with the figure under the thread left after the sleeve is torn off on the right shoulder are full of mystery.Ouyang Ji looked forward from behind her obliquely, and had a sense of déjà vu as he saw a hot-blooded young hero in a fantasy novel embarking on an adventure alone to defeat the evil demon god.

The vision made her want to laugh a little inappropriately.But Bai Xuanxi does look very young, probably no more than 30 years old, and there is a lingering sadness in her always shallow smile, which seems to be alienated from everything, this kind of burdened with a certain kind of deep The aura of complex secrets blurred her age again.

Ouyang Ji was about to lose his mind, when Bai Xuanxi turned around, with a very ugly expression on her face, and hurriedly said: "It's not too good, go back to the crossing station first."

"Did that thing move?" Ouyang Ji's expression also became serious, and he hurriedly followed her downhill, holding the butt of the gun tightly in his hand.

Bai Xuanxi had long legs, and walked ahead after a few steps: "Ouyang, we've been walking west, right?"

"Yes." Ouyang Ji glanced down at his right hand that was being held silently, his beating heart seemed to stabilize a little bit, although it was only a little bit, and his voice trembled uncontrollably, "Obviously it is On the west side, I saw a sign pointing to the fork in front and turning left to Tong'an Highway..."

That road sign, including the dead end road they were stepping on now, belonged to the Tong'an Highway that was supposed to be heading in the opposite direction to them in the impression. This extremely weird fact was enough to make one's scalp tingle without deliberately thinking about it.

"So, taking the crossing station as the origin, do you think we are now in the west or east?"

Bai Xuanxi's question made her feel even more terrifying.

No need to think about it, Ouyang Ji's legs will go limp after thinking about it for a while.The fact is that she tripped over a stone under her feet, and her right shoulder bumped into Bai Xuanxi's left arm, her voice trembling obviously: "I, I don't know anything about the plot of this kind of horror movie..."

Alpha, who has lived alone in the last two years, said that he was afraid that the horror element might sound like a joke at first glance, but Ouyang Ji is like this, and the ghost stories about undead ghosts and ghosts with real faces can be heard without any disturbance. No matter how ugly and scary the female ghost is described; but if anyone vividly describes some completely illogical and supernatural phenomena, she will cover her ears and shout to stop.

So when faced with an evil spirit that is weird but has a clear image and action patterns that can be followed, she is at most nervous and flustered because she is difficult to deal with and may be killed. Later, she disappeared for most of the time. During the days of hiding in the mountains, she was more worried about encountering robbers who murdered and robbed her than evil spirits.In other words, she is the kind of rationalist who is easily startled by sudden accidents, but once she discovers the reason behind it, she will naturally calm down.

Rationalists are not afraid of provoking undead and being cursed, nor are they afraid of conspirators who want to destroy the world; they are only afraid of inexplicable and unreasonable subversion.

For example, even the evil spirit disappeared and the direction was reversed, which was an uncommon situation that really scared her.

Bai Xuanxi stopped in time, and hearing Little Alpha's voice that sounded like she was about to cry, she silently grasped her hand even tighter, and took a step forward to take the girl who was half shorter than her into her arms.

"It's just a trick of the enemy." She lowered her head and said softly but firmly in Ouyang Ji's ear, "No matter what happens, I will protect you, don't worry."

The faint fragrance of laurel wafted into the nostrils, and his reason was pulled back to the sea of ​​consciousness. Ouyang Ji raised his chin slightly, and easily met the gentle gaze of the other party, and the rush of adrenaline slowly calmed down.

However, the shallow intertwined breathing also seemed to remind her that the two of them were getting too close now, almost as long as Bai Xuanxi lowered her head again, or if she moved forward, their lips would touch each other.

"Huh——ha——" After fully recovering his rationality, Ouyang Ji took a step back, kept a distance from Omega, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, packed his distracting thoughts and exhalation out of his body, and looked at Omega seriously again. The other party said, "Tong'an Highway should be to the northeast of the crossing station. We are now standing on the Tong'an Highway. Under normal circumstances, it should be on the east."

Bai Xuanxi hooked her fingers calmly, and touched Ouyang Ji's fingers that were still stuffed in her palm: "But we are obviously going west."

"I remember that there is no such fork on the way we came to the crossing station by car. Therefore, it is also ruled out that Mr. Wang misremembered the entrance of Tong'an Highway, and the possibility that this road is on the west side." Ouyang Ji raised his left hand and squeezed Keeping your chin, "The two roads have been 'grafted'."

"More than that." Bai Xuanxi took half a step back and turned to look in the direction of the passing station, then turned around, "That thing is now in the southwest."

Ouyang Ji was stunned: "It finally moved?"

Bai Xuanxi shook her head: "It's strange... When I was walking west, I didn't feel any signs of it moving, but the distance between us and it seems to be 'not getting farther and farther'."

"But now its position has changed—I'm afraid you don't think it's 'getting closer' to us, do you?" Ouyang Ji gasped, pinched his frowning brows, and forced himself to remain calm.

"En." Bai Xuanxi nodded, "We seem to be walking around it."

"So this road is a circle? Is this also a 'Sura ability', distorting space?"

"I don't know. Go back to the crossing station and have a look."

The implication is that the roads on the side of the accident have become very different, and the crossing stations may not be unaffected.If so...

Bai Xuanxi didn't let go of Ouyang Ji's hand along the way, perhaps because she was wary of the surrounding environment, or she was distracted to observe the changes in the environment, she deliberately slowed down her pace, keeping a step away from Ouyang Ji, Yu The presence of the latter can also be glimpsed in the light range.

It was only in front of the transparent hemispherical barrier covering the passing station that she took half a step back, let go, and swiped her arm out of thin air behind Ouyang Ji, and the blue spiritual light burst out like lightning along with the sound of tearing the air, Condensed into a long knife with a straight and narrow blade in his hand.

"What's the matter!" Ouyang Ji was taken aback by her sudden summoning of the spiritual weapon, "clicked" the gun was safe loaded, and looked around.

Seeing her quick and nervous reaction, Bai Xuanxi couldn't help but chuckled: "It's fine at the moment, just make preparations first to avoid accidents."

Even though she knew it was an oolong, the thin human girl didn't put down her weapon, but just gave her a sideways look: "Scare me."

Bai Xuanxi looked at her close to her hair, raised the corners of her mouth, and said nothing.

Entering the barrier by changing directions one after the other, the two first roughly circled the entire crossing station, until Bai Xuanxi shook her head to make sure that she did not find any abnormal changes in spiritual power, and finally returned to the grocery store.

But as soon as Ouyang Ji stepped on the threshold, he was shocked when he looked up.

She turned pale and yelled, "This is impossible!"

"What?" Bai Xuanxi immediately raised the knife to protect her behind her.

But in front of my eyes are still a few rows of shelves scattered with things, and on the side counter there are still oil-stained paper boxes that have been used for instant noodles at noon, facing the red under the camera on the shelf at the entrance of the grocery store. The lights were still on and on; everything was just as it had been before the two left.

The only thing that has changed is the clock that is hung on the wall behind the counter.

The time displayed above is just after 02:30, the second hand sticks to its post da, da, da, and the minute hand is still sticking to the bold numerals at the bottom reluctantly.

"How could it be only 02:30!" Ouyang Ji took out the electronic watch in his pocket, trembling all over.

Bai Xuanxi glanced at the digital watch on the front with her wrist, and was also momentarily stunned.

The electronic watch that Ouyang Ji carried when he went out showed 23:[-].An hour had passed since they had gone out and returned.

Bai Xuanxi put away the spiritual weapon with a wave of her hand, grabbed the trembling hand that threw the electronic watch on the counter, and asked in a deep voice: "Did the two watches show the same time before we went out?"

"It's the same. I've checked the time specifically." Ouyang Ji answered immediately.

Because there is no barrier protection in the last days, outdoor activities are really dangerous, especially after nightfall.During the days when he lived in the mountains and the exact time was blurred, Ouyang Ji also paid special attention to observing the sky and never dared to go out at night.

It was the same when they agreed to come out to investigate the situation this time. It was impossible for them to wander outside until nightfall.On the second day after arriving at the crossing station, Ouyang Ji found an electronic watch in the storage room that might have been left behind by the previous owner. At first, the time on the electronic watch was inaccurate. She compared it with the clock on the counter of the grocery store. That's right, the time has been adjusted, and it has been confirmed in the past two days that the speeds of the two watches are almost the same, there is no problem.

And regardless of whether the electronic watch is accurate or not, the two of them also felt that it was impossible for them to stay outside for more than a quarter of an hour.But if you want to say that the clock on the wall didn't run out sooner or later, it just stopped when they left, and now it starts to go again... Isn't this too coincidental?

Ouyang Ji took two more deep breaths to calm down, then picked up the electronic watch, and turned to Bai Xuanxi: "I want to do an experiment, stay here alone and look at this clock, and take this watch to the barrier Stand outside for 3 minutes, then come back and compare the time."

"It's too dangerous to act separately." Unexpectedly, Bai Xuanxi dismissed it immediately.

"Only 3 minutes! Otherwise, 1 minute, half a minute is fine, it doesn't take long, it is enough to determine whether the time has changed."

Bai Xuanxi looked at her: "No, it's still dangerous. It takes one or two minutes to walk from the grocery store to the edge of the barrier. If I am an enemy lying in ambush nearby, I can use this time to immediately assassinate the fallen ones." You, that's enough. Besides, we don't know what kind of 'trick' this is."

Ouyang Ji rubbed his forehead: "Should I search the store more carefully... Wait, can't you sense the movement of living things and evil spirits; is there an ambush nearby?"

"No. The induction enchantment I set up between the storage has no spiritual power changes."

"That's good!" Ouyang Ji slapped the table, "Finding out the time issue will also help confirm our current situation."

"It's still very dangerous." Bai Xuanxi didn't change his face, "I don't have the spiritual control technique of monsters, let alone the shadow technique of humans, and I don't have any good materials for shadow techniques. The crudely made spiritual barrier is inherently fragile. Although there is this protective barrier outside the crossing station, it is enough to use its fragility to catch the movements of spiritual power manipulators of my level and below; It is possible to cross these two layers of barriers and directly make some arrangements that I can't even detect for a while."

As soon as she said that Ouyang Ji realized it, and looked at her with a subtle expression: "You can also make a spiritual barrier..."

Compared with most human beings, monsters are born with powerful spiritual power, and can easily resonate with the natural spiritual power scattered in the natural environment. With a little practice and guidance, they can manipulate spiritual power in the form of spiritual waves.But even if they can concretize spiritual waves, it is difficult to completely control their thoughts and actions, and there is no need to use a lot of spiritual power in life, so the use of spiritual power by ordinary goblins mostly stops at concrete spiritual waves for the rest of their lives.

But it is also because it is easy for them to manipulate concrete spiritual power, and because of the universality of concrete spiritual waves, monsters traditionally focus on the purpose of using spiritual power to preserve health and fight. Compared with the human beings who try to use tools to master it and develop it into energy, and the demons who use the mutated spiritual power called "magic power" as a tool to explore the truth of the world, research is far behind.The so-called "imperial art" of manipulating Lingbo to weave complex spiritual power textures such as barriers is also under the influence of the prosperity of demons and human spells. The demons gradually divided concepts to study in modern times, but until The results of the end of the world are not obvious.

The reason is very simple. The human shadow technique, which uses spells and other tools to indirectly use spiritual power, is already the pinnacle of fine spiritual power manipulation. Strength - "Humans love to use tools because they are weak", and the strong do not rely on others. This is the concept of monsters since ancient times (while humans think that monsters are stupid and stubborn. Infatuated Meijiao Niang) - besides, they don't need it.

For a big monster whose spiritual power is so simple and rough, since he can use a powerful and destructive spiritual weapon, why bother to make a "fancy" enchantment?

Perhaps this is why the monster country, which once looked down upon humans very much, immediately came to ask the human Shadow Mage for help when the "God of Destruction" hit the past.Many monster towns on the front line do not have human shadow weapons to participate in the formation of enchantments. I am afraid that no matter how many monster "masters" can defeat one hundred in the traditional sense, they will not be able to withstand the impact of the army of evil spirits.

But the demons who played the enchantment to a high degree of proficiency were wiped out first. How long can the united front of humans and monsters last... This is a question that all living beings in the world cannot be optimistic about.

Closer to home.Knowing that there are not many monsters who know imperial skills, Ouyang Ji was quite surprised: "Why do you know everything?"

Bai Xuanxi turned her face sideways: "It's just that I learned a few things by playing around casually before, so it's nothing to worry about."

Before the apocalypse, the human society that had just undergone a large-scale technological revolution in filming and technology was unprecedentedly prosperous, and the exchanges with foreign races were also unprecedentedly open and close, as can be seen from the blowout urban fantasy literature and art works of foreign races.For ordinary citizens like Ouyang Ji who came from the countryside to the city, most of their common knowledge about alien races comes from miscellaneous novels, film and television dramas whose values ​​are human-centered.

"Then if you don't trust me, can you add a protective barrier for me?"

So she was used to watching movies and TV dramas where big monsters and hermits casually used imperial techniques and spiritual weapons to kill the cannon fodder and shadow team with special effects. She didn't know that the pure spiritual power barriers of monsters in reality were generally of poor quality and not practical.

Bai Xuanxi dodged her eyes and turned her back: "I'm not worried about you."

Ouyang Ji didn't understand whether their focus was biased or what, so he spread his hands together: "That's all right? I also believe in your strength, so let's spend two or three minutes doing an experiment, just in case we can add another Enchantment."

"No." Bai Xuanxi rubbed her nose and turned her head, "I mean that the spiritual barrier I made is very poor, and it may have been tampered with here, so it's too dangerous to act separately."

"Okay." Finally, seeing that the vixen was also stubbornly unwilling to give in, Ouyang Ji sighed, but a new idea popped up as soon as he shook his head, and immediately pressed the electronic watch in his hand on the counter, "There is another way : If we don’t go out, we just stand inside and put the electronic watch outside the barrier, and then take it back after a while to check the time?”

What a little wit.

Now, Bai Xuanxi had no reason to say no, so she nodded.

First calculate the time it takes to walk from the grocery store to the edge of the barrier at a vertical distance, about 1 minute; then stand on the edge of the barrier, reach out and put the watch outside the barrier.

"Wait, you can do it more rigorously." Ouyang Ji watched Bai Xuanxi reach out and just put out the electronic watch, and suddenly opened his mind, "You don't need to take it back, you just put it there... yes. I Just thought of it, you can count the heartbeat as a reference first: put the watch inside and outside one after another, and compare it in the same heartbeat count; if the time changes inside and outside the enchantment are very different, it should also be reflected on the same watch .”

"That makes sense." Bai Xuanxi nodded, "However, the heartbeat might not be accurate enough. It would be better to wait a little longer for it to become clearer."

Ouyang Ji felt that he was used to staying in the weird atmosphere for a long time, and he could joke with others: "Is your heart good at changing speeds, so it is so easy to be inaccurate?"

Bai Xuanxi glanced at her: "I mean, there are too many times and it is easy to make a mistake."

Ouyang Ji rolled up his sleeves, grabbed her left hand, and put it on his right wrist for pulse: "Then let's count my heartbeat together, and count aloud. 1, 2, 3..."

Unexpectedly, Bai Xuanxi withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted, the movement was too fast, Ouyang Ji felt funny with question marks all over her head as if she was watching the slippery fish caught in her hand slip away.

"Isn't it because you're afraid of counting mistakes that it's not good to count together?"

"Not good." Bai Xuanxi coughed dryly, and said seriously, "Two people counting at the same time does not guarantee that the wrong number will be led astray."

Ouyang Ji snorted: "Then what are you going to do? The situation is not good now, the longer it takes, the harder it is to keep safe, and it will be even more troublesome when it gets dark!"

Maybe it was because she spoke loudly, and her tone sounded a bit aggressive, but Bai Xuanxi actually showed a confused and flustered expression like a puppy kicked by its master suddenly: "Are you angry?"

I always feel that this person is weird today. I can’t grasp the key points when I talk to her. There are so many nonsense and small actions that don’t make sense. It doesn’t match the impression of a gentle scum at the beginning. Ouyang Ji’s face is inexplicable but he can’t hide his anxiety : "Why am I angry? It's just one thing to say - you were right at noon, I'm just an ordinary human being who is timid and has no fighting power. Anyway, I can't rest well if I don't figure out what's going on. , not as calm as you."

Especially now that I can start looking for a solution immediately, I have to procrastinate!Diligents who don't like to procrastinate with clear goals say that they cannot accept it.

Glancing at the silent Omega, Ouyang Ji turned around and squatted back to look at his watch: "Then I'll do it myself... hey?!"

In front of him was a gray cement road leading to the highway. There was no wind, and the fine sand and gravel lay quietly on the ground, as peaceful as a deep sleep.

The digital watch is gone!

The wrist was immediately clamped: "Ouyang, stand still and don't let go of my hand."

Ouyang Ji obediently held Bai Xuanxi's hand back, and watched helplessly as she took two steps forward and walked out of the barrier.

Then he kicked a hard object to Ouyang Ji's toes, it was the electronic watch that he hadn't seen just now.

"27:14:27, the last thing I saw after you dropped it was 12:[-]:[-]..."

After putting down the electronic watch, the two almost quarreled about how to count the time like a joke. It is impossible that only two seconds have passed during this period.

"It only exists with you." Bai Xuanxi stepped back into the enchantment, bent down and picked up the electronic watch from Ouyang Ji, shook it in front of her eyes, and evoked a clear smile for the first time since leaving the passing station, "Then It's very simple, congratulations to our 'Guess [-]' being proved."

is a trap.

Unfortunately, this is really not something to be happy about.

Ouyang Ji took the electronic watch from her hand, held it upside down with a stiff face and looked at it upside down: "I don't quite understand...you mean that ominous 'thing' is a trap that Shura lured us to investigate ?"

In the official dialect of this country, the word "trap" has two meanings. The bottom meaning is the trap set by hunters to trap their prey, and its extended meaning mainly describes misunderstandings and illusions in people's thinking. wait.

"Perhaps; but I mean our feelings."

What Bai Xuanxi said was the extended meaning.

"Illusion?" Ouyang Ji suddenly realized and his heart beat quickened, "We were hit by an illusion? But when and by what method were we hypnotized? Are there other people lurking around us these days!"

You must know that in those third-rate film and television dramas and novels that were full of routines before, illusion stalks were also one of the elements of the plot that she hated the most. The lovers lose their memory and forget each other's stalks, the interveners replace the superior stalks, and so on.

Bai Xuanxi froze for a moment, then shook her head with a low smile: "Don't worry. I don't know what misunderstanding you have about illusions; but as a category of spell effects, the method of creating illusions is what you laymen call 'illusion' for short. 'Generally there are three types, but I have never heard of such a large-scale illusion created by hypnosis alone.

Ouyang Ji felt that this person's aura had changed again, as if he had been drunk for the past two days, and now he suddenly sobered up; or on the contrary, now is the time to be drunk and excited: "It sounds like Are you very 'expert'?"

"I understand." She led Ouyang Ji to the shallow steps that were originally a green belt, squatted down and picked up a flat stone, hung it on the soil and drew a rough outline.

"There's nothing to be afraid of if it's an illusion. There are two types of illusions and three categories." First, there are two divisions: virtual illusions and interference illusions. The most typical of the former is dreams, which means that what we perceive now is all false Yes. Since this illusion only affects us, there is also a dimension that is truly 'reality' to us now, where our bodies are most likely in a deep sleep or coma. Interference illusions directly affect the target A cognitive response to the real environment. If it is a dream, the virtual illusion spell can be assisted by a hypnotic spell."

Ouyang Ji ignorantly listened to the knowledge that was completely unfamiliar to her introduced by this man like memorizing the concept of some kind of textbook, and at the same time summoned a cluster of short spiritual power to cut through his thumb, staining the side of the stone with gray Under the light, it looked like dark red blood.

"Hey... what are you going to do?" Ouyang Ji's first reaction was to fumble for the medical tape from his pocket, but Bai Xuanxi shook his head and refused, and then saw her show off her wound that healed quickly with the naked eye as if showing off.

Like a schoolboy.

"First, let's verify whether the environment around us is a dream or reality. The phantom content of the virtual illusion spell can be fully controlled and pre-set by the caster. Although it is relatively accurate and the risk is small, it requires the caster to fully understand the caster, otherwise It’s easy to make mistakes.”

But Bai Xuanxi, who didn't know that she had been slandered, showed a confident smile with ease, using stone as a brush, blood as ink, and the ground as paper, she skillfully drew a formation composed of some strange characters on the soil .

As a washbasin-sized circular formation gradually took shape, Bai Xuanxi quickly murmured the mantra in a low whisper. The reclusive and flickering azure blue spiritual light scattered in all directions.And that group of tiny "fireworks" gradually turns black and shatters visibly to the naked eye after a certain accent, turning into a collection of tiny black particles that look like mist or smoke.

"For example, generally speaking, just looking at my appearance, no one would think that I know the spells of the demons, right?"

Indeed, who would have thought of this!

Facing the white-haired woman who stood up holding the flying magic shards and smiled like a fox, Ouyang Ji was dumbfounded: "You, you... are you a demon?"

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