Living in a high-risk world

But seeing the chandelier on the top of the hall, Zaoyue felt that there should still be electricity here.

After entering the main entrance and walking in the dark for a while, sure enough, she was allowed to find the electric switch.

Turn on all the switches, and the originally dark house instantly becomes brightly lit. The light dispels the darkness, and also makes the old house that feels eerie and weird when you entered it just now become everyday.

Probably because of the sense of security brought about by the lights illuminating the room, Weber felt that this place was not as scary as when he first came in.

It's just that before he had time to relax, when he inadvertently looked back at the corridor opposite behind him, he saw an old man standing there at the end of the corridor where the lights couldn't shine.

Under the dim shadows, the old man who had a strange appearance appeared even more ghostly and frightening, as if he was a ghost crawling out of the rotten soil to the human world through the night.

"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Hearing this movement, Zaoyue also turned her head, and soon noticed the old man who appeared quietly at the end of the corridor, and became vigilant.

It seems that this should be the weird old man from the Matou family that Kondo said earlier.

The other party may have been standing here long before they came in, but they didn't notice it.

Jiantong Zouyan let out a strange laugh from his throat, and said coldly: "Hmph, do you want to come in to search for leaks while the master is not at home?"

Being regarded as a thief who wanted to take the opportunity to steal the secret technique, Weber blushed suddenly.

At this time, Zaoyue looked at Matou Zouken with some caution.

Although the old man on the opposite side seemed to be alive, he could hardly feel the breath of a living person on his body, just like a piece of dead wood whose interior had already decayed and left a layer of bark on the surface, but it seemed that he was still alive in form.

"Be careful." Zaoyue reminded the teammates behind him, "This old monster doesn't know how many methods he has used in order to survive until now."

While speaking, Zaoyue paused for a few seconds after using Sharingan to observe it.

"No...or it's better to solve it by the way."

"Hey?!"

Before Wei Bo had time to ask why, Zaoyue suddenly jumped up and retreated while holding his collar, and threw a fireball by the way.

When Landing had a chance to take a closer look, he realized that the place they were just now was covered with insect corpses.

Matou Zouken, formerly known as Maqili Zorgen, was once a great magician with the dream of "eliminating all evil in the world", that is, eradicating the "karma" of human beings themselves.

It was precisely for this reason that he visited the house of Einzbern, which possesses the Holy Grail system, and then, with Tohsaka Nagato and Justisa, constructed the "Heaven's Cup" ceremony in Fuyuki City.

However, on the eve of the completion of the ceremony, because the people of the three families had different purposes and wanted to monopolize the Holy Grail, they fought and killed each other for this. Coupled with some external and objective factors, the final ceremony failed, so this became The first Holy Grail War is also the beginning of the future Holy Grail War.

Since then, Yusanjia has become nothing more than a contestant competing with other involved magicians for the right to use the Holy Grail. In order to see the day when the dream comes true, Maqili uses magic to extend his life.

The magic characteristic of the Matou family is absorption. Using this characteristic, Maqili turns the body into a worm, parasitizes the body of others, and absorbs the vitality of others to prolong life.Whenever the current parasitic human body is about to decay, the real worm will be transferred to the next body of another person for "resurrection". In this way, Matou Zouken has survived for more than 500 years.

To put it simply, the human form of Matou Zouken is nothing more than a mimicry. His original body has decayed and disappeared over a long period of time. Now he is just a collection of bugs. Compared with humans, his form of existence is probably more like a monster.

Although theoretically, as long as his own soul is not defeated, he can survive forever, but it is just like Zaoyue complained about Orochimaru back then.

It is theoretically possible, but how could the soul not be lost during the transfer process.

However, the form of longevity adopted by Matou Zouyan finally showed its flaws more than 200 years ago, and the soul was gradually eroded by time. Now only the obsession of "not wanting to die" remains. No matter what ambitions he had in the past, he cannot deny it. It has become a crooked existence, and the ideal spirit that used to be Maqili has disappeared in the long river of time.

As for what he looked like in Zaoyue's eyes just now, he was just a polymer of obsession, probably similar to Li Gui.

Thinking about it, it fits well with this dilapidated and gloomy old house.

According to the thinking mode of Zaoyue as an ordinary flower grower in the past, it is better to get rid of it earlier, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

But Matou Zouken is so obsessed with "survival", so naturally he will not sit still, and any magician with a little common sense knows that the heroic spirit, as a product of belief praised by the world, has comprehensive strength that ordinary people cannot deal with.

So after summoning bugs to attack and interfere to buy some time, he immediately fled.

However, Zaoyue has already made up her mind to do justice for the sky, so naturally she will not let him go so easily.

After sensing that the other party hadn't escaped from the range of Matou's house, a tree world was formed to surround the entire territory in a blink of an eye.

The branches of the trees that grow infinitely upward overlap and intertwine with each other, and finally cover the Matou house like a hood, and the roots of the underground trees are also woven together, forming a barrier composed of trees.

Weber looked confused, wait, isn't formation building a Caster class skill?Why can Rider also be used? ?

Zaoyue opened her eyes and said nonsense: "This is my inherent skill Penglai Yuzhi."

Weber believed it.

After sealing off the scene, the remaining steps are like catching a turtle in a jar.

In the end, in the flames, Matou Zouken has survived until now, and the remaining obsession and hatred of 500 years have been reduced to ashes.

Looking at the flames devouring everything in front of him, the process was probably too fast, so that Weber felt that he didn't have much sense of reality.

Thinking of Rider digging out the other party's previous ideals through the magic eye, Matou Zouken, who recalled his original dream, finally gave up his obsession with survival.Unexpectedly, this old man with strange appearance and alienated and distorted by time was once a person with great ambitions.

For a moment, Weber had a complex mentality that he didn't know whether to say sigh or regret, maybe it was Matou Zouken, a living case of degeneration that had been distorted by time.

After sighing with emotion, Weber couldn't help but think of Heroic Spirit's previous advice.

Just like a scientist who does not have enough spirit of exploration, innovation and pragmatism, it will be difficult to make breakthroughs, and a magician who does not research with the goal of root cause, it is difficult to achieve outstanding results in his career as a magician.

However, ordinary people's scientific guesses are verified by external equipment.

For example, building a particle collider, through a large number of experiments, data collection and analysis, so as to verify whether the theory proposed by the predecessors is possible.

The research of magicians is similar, except that they have to use themselves to realize these guesses.

If one's own aptitude cannot meet the standard of realizing the conjecture, then look to the offspring. Through the accumulation of bloodlines from generation to generation, the offspring will become better and better, and they will be closer to the answer. One day in the future, enough people will be born. Future generations who have the aptitude to realize the theory will fulfill the long-cherished wish of the family for thousands of years.

As for Weber, who has somewhat begun to accept his mediocre magic aptitude, although his self-esteem still has a reluctance to accept his fate, on the one hand

……

After taking back the tree world, Zaoyue and the others left from Matou's house.Taking advantage of the signal at night, Zaoyue asked a third-party audience outside the venue for help and asked about Caster's information.

[Shinpachi: It's the Waidou pill summoned from the TV. 】

[Zaoyue: ... who is this? 】

[Xinba: The Shikigami of the anchor of Yuno, it is said that she wanted to come to find A Yin through the TV for something, but when she hit the magic circle, it took effect, so she became one in the scrap purchase station, hoping to be bought by someone and not to be Dismantled and recycled old TVs conjured up. 】

[Zaoyue: ...]

Feeling that there was too much to talk about, Zaoyue silently hung up the connection.

Then when he was walking outside on the road, he saw figures of acquaintances, Gintoki and Kondo.

Thinking of the old man who was no different from a walking dead that he met in the old house of the Matou family just now, Zaozuki roughly guessed the purpose of their visit.

Just as he was about to have a conversation in the past, indicating that he had already done it first, suddenly Gui rode a bicycle speeding through the middle of the road, and at the same time, accurately and quickly poured a plate of hot curry on everyone's faces on both sides.

"Shit! Garbage cops, lackeys of the shogunate, tax thieves!!!"

???

Caught off guard, Zaoyue was also covered in curry. The only person present who did not become a victim was Kagura Rabbit, because she ate all the curry on the plate in one gulp before being hit by the curry.

The plate slipped and fell to the floor.

After wiping curry on his face, Yinshi, who was about to complain, suddenly fell silent.

Because Zaoyue, who was standing on the opposite side of the road, was already emitting black air visible to the naked eye.

But when he reacted, his mind was in a mess, and he wanted to ask Lancer if he was the sick Weber. After he broke down and finally wiped off the curry on his body, he was shocked when he saw the heroic spirits around him.

Zaoyue didn't say anything, just made a motorcycle with a blank face.

But sometimes silence is the scariest thing.

After throwing his teammates into the backseat, Zaoyue rushed out with maximum horsepower, chasing and killing Gui with the mentality of vowing revenge.

Gintoki and Kondo who were subtly silent on the spot, after a brief period of relative silence.

Yinshi suddenly said: "Speaking of which, I remember that the rules of the game are that the last remaining group can win the grand prize."

Kondo just folded his arms and nodded, expressing his certainty.

Immediately afterwards, the eyes were full of gold stars, and Yinshi put Lake Toya on his shoulders, showing a wry smile.

"Since this is the case, Ah Yin, of course I have to do whatever it takes to win the big prize!"

[Fuck!How shameless! 】

The two people in the small black room said in unison.

The author has something to say:

The shortest Holy Grail War (.

After completing the fate dungeon, I will go back to my hometown and continue to develop

The final stage is probably the star war caused by Xu, and the problem of Otsuki and Xu can be solved at one time