Stray Chapter 162: Visit Everlasting Pavilion at night

"Eh? Let me go at this time, is this appropriate?"

Xia Ran was stunned for a moment and looked out the window, even though the depths of the lost bamboo forest always seemed to be like this, shrouded in mist, the visibility was extremely poor, and it was not clear whether it was day or night.

But he wouldn't be affected. Naturally, he knew that it was the early hours of the night, and Gensokyo was completely silent. Only a few people would still be active at this time...

For example, the monster sages who come out at night, such as the night sparrow monsters who set up stalls at the beast road every night, such as the vampires in the Red Devil Mansion... Well, if you calculate it like this, it seems to be true There are many nocturnal creatures.

But at least now Gensokyo is indeed late at night. Is it inappropriate for him to visit the princess at such a time... After all, no matter whether the other party has a rest or not, this kind of late-night visit I always feel a little weird.

"Is there anything inappropriate? After all, if you come back during the day, the princess may sleep instead. If you are lucky, you may be able to meet her time to go out in the first half of the year..."

Bayi Yonglin put down the test tube and picked up another strange thing like a thermos. While observing the contents, she said casually.

"And aren't you all interrupting me now?"

"Well... it seems that what you said makes sense, but you don't go out for half a year. Isn't this a bit too homey?" It's just that this sage has said something amazing in an understatement?

——If you are lucky, you will have to guarantee it for half a year before you can meet the princess and go out during the day?

——So this is Kaguya Hime, or Hime?

"After all, Her Royal Highness usually has nothing else to do. If the phoenix in the world comes over sometimes, she will be interested in going out for a walk..."

Bayi Yonglin disagreed and said without looking back.

"It's just that they don't get out of the bamboo forest at the farthest, and the two of them will hit the ground every time. It's really troublesome for Ling Xian to collect the corpse, and it always delays the task of testing medicine for her, so I don't really care. I hope the princess can go out and do activities in this way..."

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Xia Ran pretended not to hear, and nodded solemnly: "That's right, this kind of atmosphere can't be encouraged, and it also delays Lingxian's task of testing medicine, it's really inappropriate... …”

"Well, you think so too? Well, Ling Xian has come over now, you can just go with her now."

Bayi Yonglin frowned, as if she was not willing to talk to him distractedly, she waved her hand and said so, looking at the various test tubes and flasks in front of her, thinking carefully about the experiment problem like.

At the same time, the bunny-eared girl just walked in from the door.

"Lord Xia Ran, please come with me..." After taking a few deep breaths, the bunny-eared girl seemed to have restrained her emotions, but she couldn't help but stare at him with a resentful look and spoke. said.

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Xia Ran looked at Bayi Yonglin suspiciously, not sure if the other party did it on purpose, but it didn't look like it at all. It seemed that Bayi Yonglin was really just immersed in her own research, not at all. Get tangled up in the minutiae.

But he also knows that in order to get along well in Gensokyo, the most important thing is to abandon the morality first, so he continued to pretend that he didn't see Ling Xian's expression, as if he just said that kind of thing The man is not him.

"What a huge change..."

After the footsteps of the two gradually faded away in the corridor, Bayi Yonglin shook her head and said this to herself.

She was keenly aware of the difference in this person, and she felt that she had not had the time in the past few days, as if she had completely changed. Of course, this doesn't mean that it's not just the change in appearance. If it were these factors, the Sage of the Moon wouldn't make such a fuss.

Accurately speaking, it should be the strength, breath, energy intensity... and so on, all of which are different.

As for the situation where magic power has turned into spiritual power, it is not a problem worth caring about. After all, these things are actually similar in nature, and their nature is a small source transformed from the great source of heaven and earth.

Spiritual power, magic power, demon power... In fact, in the final analysis, the so-called difference is just a difference in the inclination of nature attributes, but there is not too much estrangement, just like Hakurei Reimu and Kiryu Marisa .

The former mastered the spiritual power as a witch, and the latter mastered the magic power naturally by practicing magic. Obviously, they are all human beings, which is enough to explain the problem.

What Bayi Yonglin noticed was of course a more fundamental problem than Xia Ran's pure spiritual energy. If it was said that the other party had relied on powerful magical attainments and entered the ranks of Gensokyo, and could be called the most powerful magician...

Now, it looks like there's more than just magic.

Strictly speaking, how much water a wooden barrel can hold does not depend on the longest board, but on the shortest board. Xia Ran did not make rapid progress at his own height, but only made up for it. There are many deficiencies in other areas.

But because of this, Bayi Yonglin was surprised. If this person once again reached the pinnacle of what she was best at in a short period of time, and she made further progress, she might not be able to. so strange.

It was the current situation that made her curious.

And it's only been a few days, this speed is really a bit terrifying. Could it be that the other party really looks like the settings in those boring games played by princesses, and can directly upgrade and add points to strengthen their skills?

"Forget it, Yakumo Zi is not worried anyway, why should I worry about it..."

Shaking her head, the sage of the moon did not worry too much about this. After all, she has lived for too long, and naturally she has seen all kinds of strange things. Although this situation made her quite curious, But it wouldn't say it's unacceptable.

Besides, that realm youkai cares more about Gensokyo than anyone else, so you don't have to worry about what will happen to this recently-appeared magician...

Well, having said that, can the current opponent still be regarded as a magician? It seems to be exactly the style of those Taoist monks!

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Eitingei is a very large house. The structure of the house is the style of ancient Japanese houses, but for some reason, it does not look old. But this is not because it is well maintained, but because it is caught in eternity.

Just like the meaning in the name, this ancient building called the Eternal Pavilion has been handed down from ancient times to the present and will never change.

Just as Gensokyo is full of noise and noise, this peaceful place guarded by bamboo forests is unique, no matter what kind of aberration happens—

If you want to say why, it's because this place was shrouded in the eternal power of that Princess Kaguya from the very beginning.

It is not a complete time-stop domain, which completely freezes time and space, but is more similar to the water surface. No matter how many times it is broken and how many ripples appear, it will eventually return to calm.

More intuitively, the time-stop ability in the conventional sense is to freeze an apple in the process of falling, so that it cannot continue to fall and cannot fall to the ground...

The eternal power of Princess Kaguya is able to stretch the falling process infinitely, so that although it has been falling all the time, it will never fall to the ground...

Although the final result is the same, the form of implementation is different. Although the two have similarities, they are essentially different.

Xia Ran followed Ling Xian inside the Ever Pavilion. There was an endless corridor in front of her. This corridor continued straight forward, endless and endless, with doors, windows and screens on both sides.

Some of the screens are light-transmitting, and the pictures of bamboo can be vaguely seen on them, and through the screens, you can see the vast space outside, as well as the blue earth and the false moon, which is pleasing to the eye.

Xia Ran retracted her gaze and glanced at the bunny-eared girl in front of her. She felt that this corridor was probably the product of the combined abilities of the other party and that princess, perhaps a means of defense?

For example, let the enemy fall into the eternal illusion at the same time, unable to touch the real, and difficult to escape?

However, compared to Gensokyo, which has always been peaceful, group fights with more than two digits are extremely rare disasters, so this kind of defense mechanism is really unnecessary, and perhaps more practical.

At least it has opened up the interior space of Yongting Pavilion, and it will not appear monotonous as an interior decoration style.

"Lord Xia Ran, this is Her Royal Highness's room, please wait a moment, I'll go in and let me know..."

At this time, Ling Xian stopped in front of him, turned around and said this to him in a reasonable manner. Hearing her tone and looking at her expression, she had completely returned to normal. Depressed tangle seems and all disappeared.

Let's not say anything else, this ability to clean up and control emotions is absolutely first-class... Or are you used to being bullied? After all, it seems that her nickname is Shoutu.

Xia Ran nodded thoughtfully.

"Princess..."

The rabbit-eared girl stood in front of the door and called out softly.

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Without an answer for a long time, Xia Ran blinked: "Could it be a sudden death?" This is not very good. I was involved in this kind of crime scene just now, and I feel that I don't care about my reputation in Gensokyo. Great.

Would you like to leave the murder scene first?

"...No." The rabbit-eared girl's expression was a little subtle, but she still explained, "It's just that she was too focused, so Her Royal Highness didn't hear it, or she didn't have time to pay attention to me at this time... "

She seems to be used to this phenomenon, just sighed: "I can just go in directly, please wait a moment..."

As she said that, she opened the door, revealing a corner of the room, where there was no light, only pure darkness.

"Eh? Where's Her Royal Highness?" The bunny-eared girl was stunned for a moment.

At this moment—

Boom!

A deafening loud noise came from the far distance of the bamboo forest, and the fierce fire soared into the sky, illuminating the dark night sky!