Curse this wonderful world

The third atrium, the fourth, the fifth...

When Shen Yu emptied another building, opened the paper sliding door for the seventh time, and saw the seventh wide atrium paved with white sand outside the wooden corridor and stairs, she knew that she had finally found her place.

Different from the atriums we have passed so far, the atrium in front of us is not only wider - the first six places are all rectangular, but here is a square with twice the area - there is an extra plant in the middle surrounded by stone pillars and Shimenawa thick cherry tree.

The height of the cherry tree is only four or five meters, but the trunk is so thick that at least three people need to hug it.Under the zenith that is also constructed of dark and rugged stone walls, the flowerless and leafless treetops look as if the already dead tree crowns are covered with dense red threads.From a distance, it looks like a thick blood-red spider web.The bright red that is extremely disproportionate to the dark tone of the surrounding environment, combined with the slightly deformed and weird proportions of the cherry trees, the dilapidated stone pillars and the rotten yellow Shimenawa, the whole picture makes people feel uncomfortable. .

And under the tree...

"Fuken Feather." The black-haired boy standing outside Shilian rope turned around and raised his hand.

"Xia You!" Shen Yu breathed a sigh of relief, raised her smile and raised her volume.He grabbed the "rabbit" on his shoulder and ran over with the knife in one hand.

As if he didn't expect her to be so "enthusiastic", Xia Youjie was stunned for a moment, then his expression suddenly changed, "Hey, you first—"

However, as soon as he started talking, a huge "sea anemone" with human legs suddenly sprang out from behind the tree.The barrel-shaped body is as thick as half a tree, and the upper part of the "barrel mouth" is covered with sharp teeth and tentacles.A fist-sized eyeball dangles from the tip of each tentacle like an anglerfish lantern.

The entire enchantment is filled with all kinds of chaotic mantras, and Shen Yu doesn't have the six-eye device of the enemy detection radar, so I really didn't notice that there is such a thing hidden behind the tree.At this moment, it made such an abrupt jump, and Shen Yu, who had hit too many curse spirits along the way, immediately had a conditioned reflex, braked without thinking, and raised his head to stare at a certain eyeball that was facing him.

[Looking] Activated in an instant, at this time, Xia Youjie had just finished speaking.

"—Don't come here! Ah..."

While the human leg "sea anemone" suddenly exploded like a squeezed water polo, a "big earthworm" that Shen Yu was particularly familiar with broke through the ground and bit the human leg "sea anemone" fiercely with its huge mouth full of sharp teeth. sunflower".It's a pity that it was a step too late, and only bit a loneliness—the flesh and blood of the human leg "sea anemone" turned into magic power in mid-air, and rushed into Shen Yu's body.

All this happened in a blink of an eye. When Shen Yu realized it, the human leg "sea anemone" had become a tattoo on her back.

"Ah—" Oolong!

The black-haired girl who stopped halfway looked embarrassed, and quickly apologized with her hands together, "I'm sorry! Xia You, I overreacted!"

Isn't this "big earthworm" the curse spirit that Xia Xia used to save the singer in the original work-so this is a trapping plan.

Whoa!This is too embarrassing!Shen Yu wanted to cover her face.Come to think of it, Xia Xia is also super powerful in close combat.This is not a super class, even if it is not trapping, Xia Xia will definitely be able to react and solve it by herself.

"Really sorry!"

Boo!Do bad things with good intentions!The black-haired girl suddenly drooped her head, even the tip of her hair was written with frustration.Xia Youjie was a little surprised that she cared so much, but he immediately laughed.

"It doesn't matter at all." Walking forward, he reached out and rubbed the top of the girl's hair. He looked at Fukaha who raised his head again, and said with a smile. "You don't need to say that. You are also worried about me. This kind of 'accident' is normal." As he spoke, he gently lifted a few strands of hair stuck to Shen Yu's cheeks, and helped her pinch them back behind her ears .After a pause, he continued with the second half of the sentence: "...care makes chaos."

"But……"

"No but." Xia Youjie's smile remained unchanged, he reached out and recalled the "rabbit", and casually put away this useless gadget. "It's just a curse spirit. You can have as many as you want. Fukaha, don't apologize for this kind of thing."

— but a curse spirit.Encountering the same situation, Wu would not feel that he was at fault.

"That's five."

"Then what do you think," he raised his eyebrows, "I'm such a stingy person?"

"Of course not!" Shen Yu immediately retorted, "I [can see] eh! How could I misunderstand." After speaking, she also laughed. "I know. No more apologies."

——That's right, as Xia Xia said, there are as many curse spirits as you need.Next time she will catch a more powerful one to make up for it.

Thinking of this, Shen Yu made a note of the matter in the small notebook in his heart and turned over the matter, not in a hurry to clear the debuff, turned around and began to carefully look at the surrounding environment.

As she expected, the other side of the atrium was the same Japanese-style building as when she came.When seeing the atrium suddenly doubled in size, Fukaha felt something in his heart.At this moment, he pointed to the sliding door of the opposite Japanese-style building facing the courtyard and asked, "Xia You, where did you come from?"

"Yes." Xia Youjie also looked at Shen Yu's origin, "It seems that we are in two directions with you."

"Hmm. Then the place you came in the first time is also a wooden corridor and the same stone wall as the zenith here?"

"That's right. It feels like some kind of seal. I didn't break the stone wall rashly. The two ends of the corridor are endless. I tried it. After marking the paper sliding door, I found that no matter how I went forward, it was repeating. The only real way forward is through the building from the inside."

Then her guess was right.

"It is indeed a seal. To be precise, this is an enchantment. It seems that this enchantment is completely symmetrical with the number of seven, and you and I were just thrown at the two ends." Shen Yu briefly explained his guess just now.

"So, if you want to go out, you just need to break the barrier directly?"

"Well." Shen Yu nodded, "I didn't find any clues to open the enchantment along the way. Direct destruction is the fastest way." After all, reality is not a game, and no one in the three-dimensional world can make an enchantment. Kind enough to provide instructions on how to switch.

"Although this enchantment is useless after breaking it. But anyway, it's deserted now, and no one will come, so it doesn't matter, right?"

"Indeed." Xia Youjie nodded, then raised his head.According to Shen Yu, the "wall" of the barrier is the black stone wall that covers the entire barrier.So don't they need to go back, just smash the sky?

Although it was a bit high—Xia Youjie estimated the position of the stone wall that hung over the sky and extended to a great distance like a huge eggshell—but it was not impossible.

The black-haired boy narrowed his eyes and put his right hand into his pocket. In his left pocket was the harvest from the road just now.In the right pocket is a spell ball that has been carrying around recently.

——Exactly what they talked about before entering, the kind that can fly.

If you use that... Xia Youjie thought.

The height difference limited the field of vision, and Shen Yu couldn't see what Xia Youjie was thinking at the moment.But seeing him look up, she could roughly guess what he was thinking.

But why is it so troublesome.Deep Feather smiled.

"You don't need to hit the wall, that's the core of the enchantment." She tugged at the hem of La Xia Youjie's clothes, and pointed at the cherry tree covered with red lines, "Anyway, it's going to be destroyed, and it's faster to destroy the core directly."

After finishing speaking, he raised his head eagerly, "Xia You, I think it's ok. Let me try it first."

The girl's black eyes were shining brightly, as if there was no predicament in front of her, but a new and interesting toy.How could this make him refuse?Xia Youjie laughed, and reached out to pat her on the head: "Okay. Be careful."

"Received~" After getting the permission, Shen Yu suddenly became happy, "I will show you my highlight moment!"

She looked back and smiled, then turned her head, only the calm and sharpness remained in her black eyes.Licking her lips, the black-haired girl found a good position and stood up straight, with her right hand in front and her left hand behind her, with both hands raised across her shoulders, with the tip of the knife pointing straight ahead.

The sharp blade was on the side of her face.The cold light reflected from the blade was like starlight, projecting into the bottom of the girl's dark eyes.

Thin but straight shoulders, slender but powerful arms, black skirt and white clothes, black hair and silver-white blades.The contrasting composition of this scene is really beautiful, Xia Youjie's eyes flashed with astonishment.Under his admiring gaze, the petite girl let out a low cry, suddenly exerted strength, jumped up high with her knees bent, and slashed at the thick cherry tree.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a dull and heavy echo in the air like the sound of a bell.The red thread all over the canopy and the Shimenawa under it lit up with a blood-red dark light at the same time, blocking the blade's edge.In an instant, the entire courtyard was illuminated bright red.The red rope trembled, and the rotten yellow Zhulian rope kept shaking.The whole cherry tree is more like being wrapped in a bright red eggshell.From Xia Youjie's point of view, Shen Yu, who was blocked from the red light, even stayed in the air for a moment with a knife.

But only for a moment.

The next moment, there was a toothache "click" sound, and from the part where it meets the blade, a cobweb-like crack quickly spread across the surface of the "eggshell".It seems to have reached a certain limit, and after a very sharp and short explosion sound, the "eggshell" suddenly burst into crystal flying spots of light.At the same time, with a sound of "Boom!", the tree-filled red thread and Shimenawa burst into flames.

"Success!" The black-haired girl landed on one knee, holding a knife behind her with a particularly graceful posture.With the blazing cherry tree as the background, she stood up and turned around, smiling and making a "V" sign to Xia Youjie.

Xia Youjie also smiled, and compared the viewfinder frame with his cooperative hands.Looking at the flying skirt and hair of the girl in the "camera", he paused and said, "Crack."

And artificial dubbing!

Shen Yu immediately cheered: "Wow! You understand Xia You too well!" Saying this, she jumped to Xia Youjie's side and raised her head to ask for praise. "How is it? Was I handsome just now?"

"Very handsome." Xia Youjie nodded with a smile, then narrowed his eyes and looked around, "So we now..."

"Yeah. Come out."

In the background of crackling explosions, stone walls and zeniths, Japanese-style buildings, except for the burning cherry trees and white sandy ground, everything around Xia Youjie and Shen Yu is rapidly becoming transparent.It's like changing from a three-dimensional object to a flat light curtain. Behind the translucent curtain are decayed and dilapidated buildings and dense trees.

——It was the courtyard of the shrine behind the torii gate where they "originally" were supposed to be.

According to the knowledge of Professor Kurosawa Hiroki.The essence of a spiritual enchantment is to use a certain method to strip or hide certain things or places from the present world, that is, an artificial hidden world.So find the connection point between the hidden world and the present world, untie or destroy it, and then "pull back" the hidden things back to the present world.

Fukaha's conjecture is correct, the atrium and the cherry tree are "real things" that exist in "two worlds" at the same time.It is the connection point between the "inside" and "outside" of the enchantment.

Seeing that the light curtain completely disappeared, Fukaba's expression also eased.The dead cherry tree burns so fast that the branches collapse and the core cracks.Amidst the crackling and detonating sound, Shen Yu suddenly saw a flash of light.She stepped forward quickly and picked up the tip of the knife, and pinched the "thing" under the shirt.It was a small black lacquered box, made of metal, cold to the touch, not at all like it was fished out of the fire.The talisman paper pasted on the box had long been burned to ashes.Shen Yu pushed open the lid of the box, and her pupils shrank immediately when the object entered.

It was a withered finger tightly wrapped by a talisman—everyone who has seen the original work knows what it is!

Well!Use Su Nuo's finger as a town object!She finally knew why this enchantment could attract so many curse spirits!

"Shen Yu?" Xia Youjie trusted Shen Yu's strength.Therefore, he just watched the girl's series of actions, and saw that she was silent at this moment, so he opened his mouth.

"It's okay." Shen Yu turned around, raised the box in his hand, "I found the town object. It's a curse object." What the hell is a super curse object—of course, this sentence can be omitted now.She stuffed the box into her pocket, and smiled as if nothing happened, "Go back and give it to Teacher Ye Moth, I guess we—"

The second half of the speech stopped abruptly, Shen Yu and Xia Youjie's expressions changed at the same time, and they turned their heads suddenly.

It was a huge and cold mantra that was rapidly approaching.With a loud noise of "Boom!", two huge pincers directly pierced the decayed hall of worship.Then, the bright red and swollen body that seemed to be covered with human flesh and blood crushed past the chelicerae. "Hey hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!" Accompanied by sharp and piercing laughter, a twisted alien appeared arrogantly on the stage as if eight spider legs were installed under the upright bright red ant queen.From the abdomen to the feet, it was nearly three meters high, and above the swollen and constantly wriggling abdomen was connected a female upper body that was the same size and appearance as a normal human.

"Little worm! Fresh! Fresh little worm! Give that to me! Give me to me! Hehehehehe!"

Its bluish-purple female upper body swayed, its pupils widened, and its trembling eyeballs were bloodshot.The curse spirit, who called itself "concubine body", was not in a hurry to attack. Its eight huge spider-like chelicerae undulated slightly, its eyes were condescendingly staring at the young conjurers, and it let out a crazy and piercing scream from its crooked mouth.

"Hey hee hee hee hee! Eat you, eat you! Chop up and swallow! Eat! Hee hee hee! Give that to the concubine!"

Whether it's the cold mantra surrounding his body, or the laughter when he appeared on the stage, they all indicate the identity of the uninvited guest.

——A superior curse spirit!

——Intelligent, talking superior mantra spirit!First-level, no, maybe even a super-level curse spirit!

Shen Yu gripped the handle of the knife with cold eyes.Right next to her, Xia Youjie's spell power instantly increased - he was performing a spell.At this moment, neither of the two attacked rashly.On the contrary, Fukaba became excited while being nervous.

And Xia Youjie was the same.The dark-haired boy's eyes were cold, and he glanced sharply at the body of the curse spirit in front of him, and then, the corner of his mouth suddenly curved.

"Oh. That's interesting." Xia Youjie didn't ask what the "that" in Cursing Spirit's mouth referred to - in this case, it was basically the cursed object recovered by Shen Yu.The important thing now is, "Shen Yu, do you want to fight?"

Although it is an interrogative sentence, this is not the tone of the question at all.Without [Looking], Shen Yu instantly understood Xia Youjie's plan.

"Of course it's—" the black-haired girl grinned ferociously, her obsidian-like eyes curved into happy arcs, "—hit me first!"

——Just now I was thinking of helping Xia Xia catch a good one, how could I let go of this opportunity!