Miss Zashiki

Fu Xiaoyue's idea was quickly confirmed, they had indeed not officially entered the dungeon before.The place guarded by the stone lion is the real entrance to this domain.

The entire small team hadn't even been able to pass through the bushes, but barely walked past the original position of the stone lion. In the next second, what they saw in front of them and where they were around them changed completely in an instant—the dense forest of trees, unexpectedly Suddenly transformed into a scene of the capital of the world.

Fu Xiaoyue was completely dazed on the spot - not only because of the sense of vision that was like passing through a portal, but also because of the weirdness of what he saw in front of him.

All kinds of stalls and buildings cover the entire long street, row upon row, with wine flags waving.Fu Xiaoyue had walked through many towns with Inugami and Jiumingmao before, but he had never seen a place as prosperous as what he saw before him.

If it wasn't for the fact that everyone around him was still standing next to him, Fu Xiaoyue would almost have the illusion that he had traveled to a commercial street in a large capital for no reason...

The strange thing is that every building, every street vendor, every brick on the ground, and even every tree lined up in the corner of the street—everything that can be seen, all present A monotonous and uniform color, which is exactly the gray and white tone of the material of the previous stone lion.

As far as the eye can see, everything is gray and white, and no matter how lively and bustling the long street is, it also shows a bit of coldness.

Moreover, the strangest thing is that a few of them appeared at the end of this long street out of thin air. Besides, there were no other figures in the whole field of vision, as if this was just an empty city with no one inhabited. A bustling show.

"...What, what's going on?" Fu Xiaoyue asked cautiously, resisting the feeling of guilt in his heart.

No one can give an answer except to secretly raise their vigilance.

The drug seller stood at the front, Fu Xiaoyue couldn't see the expression on his face, he just stood there for a few seconds, and then walked towards the long street in front of him.

Fu Xiaoyue couldn't keep up with him in time, because in the next second, she was completely confused again——

At the same time as the drug seller was acting, it seemed as if an invisible switch had been pressed by someone, and the long street, which was so still and dead in front of him, suddenly came to life.

——"General Kaga has returned from victory!"

As a long cry resounded in the sky, all kinds of figures suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the originally empty street—the stall owner shouting and selling, the group of relatives and friends traveling together, the busy and quick restaurant waiter... …there were so many crowds, it was so noisy and lively.

However, when Fu Xiaoyue saw clearly the specific appearance of each passerby in different clothes, she couldn't help but take a deep breath.

These big living people who are obviously talking and laughing freely, but when you look carefully, they are clearly a dense skeleton that moves freely.If you don't rely on the different clothes they wear, it is almost difficult to distinguish the difference between the gray and white skull faces.

——Until this time, Fu Xiaoyue finally realized why the gray and white tones all over her eyes gave her a strange feeling when she saw the stone lion and even this street earlier.

The texture looks exactly the same as the skeletons in front of me... It's not some unknown stone material at all, those are bones.

For a moment, Fu Xiaoyue almost felt that what they had just entered was a region purely made of white bones.At the same time, she subconsciously recalled the word Kuroba Akito said when she was still on the boat outside the island: living dead.

——Is it referring to the walking skeletons in front of you?

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These skeleton people, since they appeared on the street, have communicated smoothly, as if they had been active here in the first place—and all of them turned a blind eye to the four alien figures standing at the end of the street, as if they didn't exist. of.

After taking a step, the drug seller stopped, quietly watching the sudden change in front of him, and said nothing for a long time.

Perhaps in response to the unknown long cry just now, the crowd of skeleton men stopped what they were doing for an instant, cheered and jumped for joy, and rushed towards the same direction to gather together.

They are standing at the end of one side of the street, and the skeletons are heading for another entrance in the opposite direction of the long street.

What kind of sense of sight is it to watch the skeletons running wildly across the street—the countless dust swirling between them is like the ashes falling from the bodies.

The drug seller looked at the backs of those who were rushing to tell each other, and he didn't know what was going on in his mind. After a few seconds, he followed in that direction.

Fu Xiaoyue: "..."

She silently stared at the only beautiful ice-blue figure in that line of vision, but did not follow up immediately.

Before, Inugami and Jiumingmao followed her respectively, and because of her small steps, they all had to walk slowly in coordination, but now they saw her standing for a long time without moving——

Inugami stepped forward uneasy, and knelt down in front of her. At the same time, he immediately saw the unnatural panic expression on her face. When he spoke, he subconsciously and carefully lowered his voice: "Master? What's wrong?"

Fu Xiaoyue's eyes straightened slightly, and he looked at him for a while, before murmuring a few times.

Inugami almost had to concentrate all his attention to barely hear the few pitiful sporadic words that were squeezed out:

"I... I, my legs are weak..."

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"...It should be a general surnamed Kaga. He won a battle outside, and he just wants his commander to return to the court today."

"Maybe entering the city from this street, they are all waiting for the arrival of the marching team."

"Ah, it turns out that Kaga is not a general yet. He was just a small soldier when he went out to fight this time, but during the battle, the enemy army secretly communicated with other countries and set up a trap. As a result, several top generals in command all died unfortunately... When the entire army was on the verge of annihilation, Kaga used ingenious schemes one after another, not only leading the remnant army out of the siege, but even counterattacked and wiped out several enemy groups that joined forces, turning defeat into victory."

"A few days ago, the battle situation came back, and they guessed that after Kaga led the army back, he would definitely be greatly promoted, so they gave him the title of General Kaga early on."

Holding the slender and light body tightly in his arms, Inugami played his voice very softly, as if he was going to tell her a bedside story before going to bed.

Fu Xiaoyue buried his face tightly on his neckline, while listening to the diligent information report in his ear, because he was too embarrassed to give any response, he responded awkwardly:

"……Oh."

After a while, she heard Inugami say, "Here we come."

The team is here?

Thinking in this way, Fu Xiaoyue immediately imagined the picture: hundreds of skeleton soldiers lined up in strict formation and marching in unison.

——She silently buried her face more tightly.

After pretending to be dead like this for a long time, Fu Xiaoyue heard the loud cheers around her, which suddenly became more enthusiastic than before—she guessed that the national hero, General Kaga, had appeared—but at the same time, Inugami's arm on her back also tightened suddenly, as if he was frightened by something.

"...Huh?" Fu Xiaoyue curiously sent out a monosyllable to express his doubts.

"Master..." The young man's clear voice was slightly depressed: "There seems to be something wrong with this Kaga."

When Fu Xiao heard him say this yesterday, the first thought he had was not "what's wrong with Kaga", but—how did he accurately identify this "Kaga" from a pile of skeletons wearing the same soldier uniform?

Silently gave himself some hints and encouragement, and finally curiosity overwhelmed the sense of fear. Fu Xiaoyue slightly turned his face to the side, and from the corner of his eyes, he looked towards the mighty white-skeleton army marching in front of him. Wu, sneak a peek at the past.

——Barely taking a glance, Fu Xiaoyue found Kaga's location in an instant.At the same time, she understood the meaning of "something wrong" that Inugami said.

Amidst the pale eyes, the figure at the front of the team on horseback looks very different: the proud eyebrows and the complacent expression, when he waved to both sides of the long street, you can still see the lines on his arms Scars all over the place—

Different from the skeleton soldiers around him, this "General Kaga" has a vivid flesh and blood body!

What's strange is that the skeleton soldiers walking with Kaga, as well as the skeleton people around him who shouted and cheered at him, seemed to be unable to see the difference between him and himself at all.

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It took a long time for the entire marching team to cross this long street and move towards the city gate at the end.

The initial shock was over, although Fu Xiaoyue still felt very puzzled, but seeing the gray and white skeletons that were densely moving, the idea of ​​covering his eyes once again came to his mind.

But this time, before she could take action, she suddenly met the eyes of the drug seller who turned around.

Ever since she tacitly allowed Inugami to hold her in his arms, Miss Nine-Life Cat, who was attached to the two monsters, would sneer intermittently from time to time—and all of this, Fu Xiaoyue did it all the way without any pressure. Ignore it down.

But what she didn't expect was that the pharmacist in this room looked at her situation, and his beautiful slender eyebrows frowned slightly in a rather serious manner.

Under that pair of cold eyes, Fu Xiaoyue felt some kind of sudden pressure inexplicably, and then he heard him say in a solemn voice: "...your body is a part that proves your real existence. You only need to firmly believe in yourself Truth, those things that cannot see you in front of you must be false. Since they are false, what is there to be afraid of?"

——It seems to make sense.

Hearing this, Fu Xiaoyue struggled for a while, and finally broke the can, avoiding the two cold gazes, turned his head and buried his face on Inugami's shoulder again, and the voice came out muffled:

"...I don't care...I'm still afraid!"