Stray Chapter 238: A new copy is about to begin
Evening.
Xia Ran is studying the two blessings she has obtained at her home, thinking about what kind of help they can bring to her.
By the way, these two permanent effects appear on his property page, indicating that even the benefits obtained in the real world can still be recognized by the space, and there will be no incompatibility The problem.
""The protection of mountains and lakes"...Well, does this permanent effect allow me to gain home field advantage in a certain environment? Maybe the effect of walking on the water can be used to pretend at a critical moment..."
"The "Blessing of the Indigenous God"...it should be the **** of luoli, right? But why does the effect feel a little vague, increase the affinity of "spirit", not limited to undead, elves and even gods..."
Xia Ran thought about it seriously, and felt that she probably understood something. After all, according to animism, everything has animism - this is how the saying of "eight million gods" in this country came from.
And according to Sanae, that luoli is the pinnacle of the indigenous god, and used to be the leader of various "gods". It's not surprising that her protection can have such an effect, just like a real dragon can control the spirits of hundreds of tribes in the water...
It's just that in this era of the real world, don't expect to rely on this effect to catch Pokémon everywhere. There are not so many spiritual bodies for Xia Ran to drive. Perhaps what this blessing can affect at present is to possess How healthy and lucky is the person?
Because "spirits" always exist in the environment, the only difference is whether they condense into a spirit body and whether they have consciousness.
However, this blessing should still be able to affect the surrounding phantoms, so that the development of things tends to be beneficial to the owner...
Well, that is to say, if it is in its heyday, perhaps the effect of this blessing is to allow the owner to directly drive some low-level and intermediate-level spirit bodies, and it also has a certain influence on high-level spirit bodies.
At present, due to environmental constraints, it is equivalent to being slashed by the version, leaving only the ability to affect the surrounding Animus... um, +20 luck value? Probably like this?
It doesn't feel like it's completely useless, but the effect is relatively small. Maybe when the world is changed, it will be able to shine again?
"Jingle bell--"
At this moment, the phone next to her suddenly rang, interrupting Xia Ran's thoughts.
He just glanced at the lit screen, then laughed unsurprisingly... but then again, wasn't he sending an email today? While thinking about this, I reached out and took the phone:
"Good evening, Yukinoshita-kun."
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"...Good evening." After a moment, the same calm voice came.
"Well, is there anything I can help you with? If you really can't sleep or have nightmares, I can provide bedtime stories, or sing lullabies..." Xia Ran asked casually, thinking quickly It wasn't when he parted with the girl in the evening that the appeasement technique he released didn't have the desired effect.
But that shouldn't be possible, and he didn't think Yukinoshita would actually call himself for help because he couldn't sleep or had nightmares.
"Thank you, but I don't need this, I think I'll have a real nightmare after listening to it..." Yukinoshita said calmly, completely unmoved, "I just follow the previous agreement and come here. Just to say good night to you."
"That's it... so good night." Xia Ran was not disappointed, he knew that was the case.
"Well, good night..."
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Next, according to normal, it should be the end of the call, Xia Ran smiled, and just took the phone away from her ear, she heard Yukinoshita's subtle voice, which was very low-
"Although I think about it now, it still seems like an absurd dream, but it's interesting enough. It's not so bad if I think about it this way... Thank you for protecting me today, Xia Ran."
Her voice was so low that even someone's keen hearing could barely hear.
Xia Ran was stunned for a moment, wondering if he heard it wrong, but at this time, there was only a busy tone on the other side of the phone - Yukinoshita had hung up the phone extremely quickly, so he was also a little unsure.
After a long silence, he put down the phone, narrowed his eyes slightly and spread out his palm, a coin appeared on it.
Xia Ran stared at it for a few seconds, then threw it up and caught it again. However, he didn't open his palm to see if it was heads or tails, nor did he read it, but just put the coin away.
One is not necessary, and the other is that he has not focused his magic practice on the prophecy department, nor has he mastered any simple divination, even the binary divination of two alternatives is not so simple. of.
His current behavior is just to find a reason for himself, like flipping a coin to decide something, not really relying on the coin to make a decision, but relying on the coin to recognize his heart.
Because at the moment the coin was tossed, I was already expecting what kind of result, and naturally I understood what my inner thoughts were.
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Time flies by.
Soon, the school's regular exams are coming, which will last for a week. Coupled with the fact that after the regular exam is over, it is a job apprenticeship activity, which makes many students even more nervous than before.
But Xia Ran still doesn't have any real feelings. Anyway, he doesn't plan to take regular exams. This kind of thing depends entirely on his mood, and he has skipped so many exams of various sizes, which is not bad. This time.
So, he does what he does, paddling leisurely every day.
After the sixth lesson, he staggered to the special building and glanced at the afternoon sky outside while climbing to the fourth floor. People feel that the taste of summer is fully fermented.
It's been a hot day again today.
Yukinoshita Yukino sat in the depths of the activity room as usual, with the same indifferent expression on her face. But when Xia Ran pushed the door and came in, she still looked over with anticipation, and then quickly sighed, her eyes fell back to the book in her hand.
"...Xia Ran, good afternoon."
Although compared to the beginning, they couldn't even say a word to each other, and now she has started to greet each other, but Xia Ran can still hear the disappointment in the other party's tone at the moment.
Of course, he knew the reason: "Is Yuhihama-san still not here?"
"No." Yukinoshita shook her head and turned over another page of the book in her hand, "The day before yesterday, I took my pet to the hospital for a check-up. Yesterday, there was something at home. Today...it seems that she has made up her mind that she will never do it again. here."
"So..."
Xia Ran also knew what happened between Hikigu Hachiman and Yubihama Yui on the day of the previous book club, and it could even be said that Yukinoshita had a relationship.
The three people were linked by a car accident before they met. It was Yuhihama's dog who was in the accident, and Hikigu was the one who rescued the dog. As a result, he went to the hospital and lay down for a period of time, and the one who caused the accident was Snow The chartered car under the house.
There was no problem at first, it could even be said to be fate, but Hikigaya Hachiman's personality and thoughts are relatively... awkward. He never knew it was Yubihama's dog that he had rescued before, because he was sent to the hospital at that time.
I didn't know until that day, and then I felt that Yuhihama was just thanking him for saving her dog, because of guilt and gratitude, and felt that the girl's tenderness to him just stayed there.
So he told Yubihama-kun very directly that the two of them had been evened out, and he no longer had to care about him, sympathize with him, and feel owed...
Then, it became the current situation - Yuhihama-san basically stopped coming to the activity room. Although Hikigaya Hachiman still checked in every day, she always delayed until the last time to show up and leave. School.
The service department, which seems to have just improved, returned to its original path directly because of the first official internal club activity, and became a literary club with only Xia Ran and Yukinoshita.
"Wait until the regular exams, if it still doesn't work, think of a way..." Yukinoshita felt that this was the only way to go now. At least those two people had decided to form a team in the workplace apprenticeship. There is no such thing as specifically canceling the registered team list.
This may be an opportunity, let's see if the two of them will seize this opportunity to reconcile.
Xia Ran didn't say anything, just sat down opposite the girl. Fortunately, Yukinoshita didn't leave any psychological shadows because of what happened that day, although she didn't know if her worldview had been adjusted properly.
But after that day, Yukinoshita did not show any special alienation or rejection of Xia Ran, but everything was as usual, as if he had forgotten what happened that day.
But that's fine. If she doesn't say anything, Xia Ran won't take the initiative to mention it.
The service department was silent, no one spoke, only the ticking of the wall clock on the wall and the sound of two people turning the pages. Time passed silently in silence, and on the last day of this adjustment period, nothing special happened.
Of course this is a good thing. Xia Ran feels that there have been enough accidents during this adjustment period, and now she doesn't want any more surprises.
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This day and night.
On the huge platform, Xia Ran appeared under the illumination of the white light ball. He glanced at the familiar scenery around him, but still had no idea of changing the theme wallpaper. Too much trouble and waste of points.
That's good, and with such a distinctive theme space, I can make myself immediately immersed in the scene as soon as I come in, knowing that I have once again stood before the magnificent, difficult and treacherous Infinite World dungeon. Quickly adjust your mentality...
In short, from "vacation" to "work".
Quickly walked to the lonely wooden door on the huge platform, Xia Ran reached out to hold the doorknob and applied for access to the public area, and then an inexplicable thought flashed in her heart——
Could this door actually become the Whispering Door? Maybe Mephala was waiting for him behind the door?
Of course this is impossible, behind the door is the huge square, although the magnificent stone pillar in the center and the flash of energy like the majestic thunder in the dark cloud have disappeared at this moment, indicating that The previous space mainline copy has ended.
However, the square is still very lively, and the number of vendors is much higher than usual, not to mention the crowds flowing around the square.
For a moment, Xia Ran felt as if he was back in the center of Chiba City, in front of that large shopping mall... Shaking his head, he tried hard to dispel the strange associations in his mind, and then He looked at his inventory.
Including those two demon artifacts, as well as the alchemy potions that Mephala had manipulated...
Should I take advantage of this time and sell them all? After all, even after the sterilization of the space, he was still afraid that the magic teacher would do something to harm him...because his intuition was only very certain in this aspect, and there was absolutely no reason to think that Mephala was definitely successful.