Stray Chapter 25: From the past
Comic Con.
People come and go, bustling and lively.
The works, surroundings, colleagues, and the quality of the various exhibitions are inevitably a little uneven, but they are all very hardworking Coser, these are the highlights... But Miss Ouyang obviously does not understand this kind of appreciation. Advanced culture that has never been touched before——
"Teacher, are these people...are they dancing big gods?"
looked around the venue with great interest, the girl in the palace dress felt a little dazzled, her eyes swept across the people in "exotic clothes", and after thinking about it, she turned back and asked curiously.
"God Jumping..." Xia Ran shook her eyebrows, although she knew that her students would definitely ask some strange questions.
However, this is still a little too subtle.
"Yes, it's like the Dragon Boat Festival. In many places, there will be people pretending to be Zhong Kui to fight ghosts. They are all wearing costumes, masks, and makeup..." Miss Ouyang nodded again and again, feeling that she had found the key The law is clearly the case.
You can tell at a glance, it seems that there are still rules to follow in this new world, and she will definitely be able to adapt to this world quickly!
"Well, purely from the point of view of acting, your idea is correct... They are indeed playing certain roles." The magician raised his index finger and scratched his cheek lightly, pondering the sentence to try to explain Be clear about this.
But this seems a little troublesome, after all, it is not something that can be finished in one or two sentences.
"Why no Gundam..."
, the blue-and-white shrine maiden looks a little lost, because she didn't find a booth with the theme of giant robots, or should I say, let alone giant robots, there is not even a theme of robots .
"Even the concubine knows that the subject of robots has long been out of fashion in the outside world..." Penglaishan Kaguya, who was next to Dongfenggu Sanae, said. After thinking about it, she felt that this was actually a A matter of course.
After all, even the Cosplayers of the Comic Con have not seen anyone who will go to the cos machine...
cute, pretty, cute...
These are the so-called popularity that people are pursuing, and they can just set off the charm of the Cosser themselves. It can be said that they complement each other.
"How come, is there anyone who doesn't like robots?"
Dongfenggu Sanae's eyes widened in disbelief. She couldn't imagine how someone could resist the charm of such a beautiful thing—
"And wasn't this subject very popular before? Robots fight robots, robots fight monsters, robots fight people... Is there really no such element now?"
"It's not that there's not at all, there should be such elements now, such as people fighting robots, do you want to go and see?"
Penglaishan Kaguya thought about it for a while, and answered with great certainty, telling Miss Miko that the robot subject would not die, but just wither.
"How could this be..." Sanae-san's eyes suddenly widened, she seemed to become even more angry and unacceptable, "Disassembling the machine with bare hands is a heresy! I will never accept this kind of cult. Yes!"
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"Yes, yes..."
Probably because at this moment, Miss Miko's aura was too intimidating, so that Princess Princess could not help but flinch a little, took a half step back, and let out a dry smile with a little shame.
Why do you feel that Miss Fengzhu's belief in robots is so firm, even more firm than that of the two gods in her family? Could it be that this is the main reason for the crisis of belief in Moriya Shrine?
After all, even the shrine maiden in her family is not firm enough to believe, so how can they have higher requirements for ordinary believers?
And obviously, Sanae classmate, you can disassemble the machine with your own hands...
is not only yourself, but the entire shrine behind you, any member of the entire "sect" can disassemble it with empty hands!
"Then let's just take a look around, and we don't have to force ourselves to see giant robots. After all, today I want to bring Miss Ouyang to learn about the characteristics of this world, not just here at the Comic Con..." Drifting away, the princess changed the subject.
She is a very rational person, so naturally she won't argue with the stubborn Sanae at this time, so she can only change the subject.
"Eh? Yes, I almost didn't remember..." Dongfenggu Sanae was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this was not the point at all, and immediately his cheeks turned slightly red, originally because he heard the unforgivable heresy. His anger was also instantly cooled down as if a basin of cold water had been poured over his head.
How to say it, I'm a little ashamed.
clearly agreed to accompany Miss Ouyang to visit Chiba City. After all, I am the person who is most familiar with this city, so I volunteered to help.
In the end, I didn't know what to do, and inexplicably twisted the building, and it became that she and Princess Kaguya exchanged their preferences and prepared to come to the comic exhibition to make a pilgrimage... What a shame! How could it be like this?
The Sanae-san, who felt that she must have made a mistake, immediately decided to make amends. She was like this sometimes, she would do whatever she thought of, so it seemed strange sometimes.
just like she is now, she ran to Ouyang Mingzhu's side: "Miss Ouyang, I'm sorry, I almost forgot about you..."
"Dong, Dongfenggu girl?" The Mingxiu Fairy, who was listening to her teacher's explanation, subconsciously turned her head to look at the shy girl, hesitated for a while, and then chose the name that still made her feel a little awkward. speak out.
"What do you want to see, I'll take you there now..."
"Hey, wait, wait, girl from Dongfeng Valley, I..."
Caught off guard, probably out of compensatory psychology, Dongfenggu Sanae, who burst out with 200% enthusiasm, didn't think much about it at all, grabbed Miss Ouyang's wrist without any reason, and immediately pushed the back towed away.
"Wait! Wait..."
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The magician, who was still carefully explaining to his students, looked at the two people who were leaving, and couldn't help but froze for a moment, and then laughed out loud.
How to say, Sanae is still a tiger.
But this is also her kindness. This girl sometimes looks like a muscle, and there is nothing to do.
"Let's go quickly, Your Highness Princess..." Proposing to Penglai Shan Hui Ye, Xia Ran wanted to speed up to catch up, although he also believed that Sanae must be measured, or should be said that the current crowd The most trustworthy one.
is more trustworthy than himself.
But, he is not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, he still wants to watch, lest his three good students encounter those bad things...
"What's there to be afraid of, your good disciple is over a thousand years old this year, you really treat her as a child..." The princess was a little reluctant, she simply He didn't look at Xia Ran, but his eyes started to patrol the nearby stalls.
She's here to play, not to be a nanny.
And should this person be so protective of his students! People who are already thousands of years old, do you still need to be so careful?
"Even if she is thousands of years old, she is still the same girl in my eyes..." Xia Ran coughed softly and said in a serious manner, "Princess people like you will not understand, After all, compared to you, we are just very immature young people..."
"Stop, stop! If you go on, you will get angry..."
The frowning girl stared at him with an indifferent gaze, "What is a person like a concubine, what is it compared to a concubine, you are still young, isn't the concubine very old? "
"This is what Your Highness the Princess said, I didn't say the word..." The magician blinked, "I'm just expounding an objective fact, that is, from an objective point of view, Your Highness the Princess, you are indeed older than us..."
"My concubine is only... 16 years old this year." Interrupting the man's words coldly, Penglai Shan Huiye told the truth in an unquestionable tone.
Yes, this is the truth, and it has to be.
"The reason why you have to pause is to avoid crashing with Zi? Don't say seventeen, just say sixteen, does that mean you're younger?" The magician said he had seen everything, " And just ten minutes ago, Your Royal Highness, the Princess, told me that there will be no major events in the eternal pavilion for 1,300 years..."
"It's definitely your mental hallucination."
The girl said indifferently, taking this incident as nothing happened, and directly blaming the cause of the magician's own illness.
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"Maybe, I still have to watch the two of them..." Xia Ran realized that he was stupid and tried to reason with the woman. He glanced ahead and found Dongfenggu Sanae and Miss Ouyang. The figure of the person has been obscured by the hustle and bustle of other people.
He turned and walked forward, waving his hand.
The two Mianyue Yiji, who had been silent all the time, still maintained a cold expression, but turned their eyes, and the sassy girl with purple hair and single ponytail always smiled gently when she pulled her. Sister, just follow.
The opportunity has come.
"Hey, you bastard, we agreed, do you still want to eat both ends?" Penglaishan Hui Ye was very dissatisfied, and directly reached out and grabbed the magician's clothes.
"Huh?"
The next moment, she found that the person's body swayed a bit, and it seemed that he stumbled and lost his balance, and fell directly backwards, facing her own direction...
at the same time.
on the other side.
"Are you interested in these, Miss Ouyang, do you want to buy a figure or something?"
Dongfenggu Sanae, who was dragging Ouyang Mingzhu in front, was very enthusiastic about selling any goods he saw along the way, of course the ones that were normal.
"No, no need, these...I have no interest in these..." Miss Ouyang really felt dumbfounded, this girl was too enthusiastic, and her hands were a little too strong, so she dragged her as she said it. Came here by myself.
She looked at the publications, figurines, and various peripherals on the booths around her, feeling that she couldn't see it for a while.
is too fancy, and many things are very novel to her. She doesn't know what it is or what it does. Buy it and talk about it.
"Hey, don't you?" Dongfenggu Sanae didn't think too much, she looked around and quickly found a new target, "What about this, look..."
"No no no, no need... I really don't need it."
Miss Ouyang smiled bitterly, trying her best to express her rejection, but she also hoped to be more euphemistic, so as not to hurt the other party's good intentions.
Sometimes this is the case. Rejecting a friend's kindness is more tiring...and troublesome than dealing with an enemy's malice.
At this moment, in the distance behind the two, there was a sudden commotion.
The two girls turned their heads in doubt, and found that it seemed to be a corner of the venue. There was a small disturbance in the direction that they and the others had just come over. Many people were exclaiming, and some people rushed over there. , but the sound does not seem to be a particularly urgent matter.
Because many people are making envious noises and even whistling, it seems that they are more of a spectator than panic and riot.
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What happened?
The last thought flashed in his mind, Xia Ran almost instinctively remembered what happened before Qingming. It seemed that Kaguya stretched out her hand to pull herself, and she lost her balance and fell directly.
Because at that very moment, he suddenly couldn't perceive anything, and some sleeping emotion emerged from the depths of existence, tearing a small gap, slowly pouring out, and finally turning into Indistinct ambiguous echoes.
seems to be isolated from the future and the past, in an unreal long dream, as if the invisible shell is shattering, the invisible skin is fading, and "something" has reunited its will.
His first reaction was...
Mephala.
But then, it seems that this is not the case.
He seems to have had a long, long dream.
Familiar yet unfamiliar, seems to have had such an experience before, but... shouldn't it be a dream?
As the bells rang and the pure white color spread, time seemed to lose its meaning, and there seemed to be vague sounds coming from my ears, as if the ancient bells were ringing, and I could no longer feel the heat With the severe cold, endless pure white surrounded him, taking his consciousness beyond time and space to an infinitely vast world.
There are countless blurred lights and shadows flashing, and the noisy sounds of countless people overlap, many, many, and everything becomes very chaotic, almost like a buzzing beep.
seems to be the TVs and radios placed in the shopping mall, playing the content of countless different channels at the same time, because they are intertwined with each other, so everything becomes chaotic, but if you distinguish carefully, It was also possible to discern some fragmented messages from the beeping noise.
seems to be an auditory hallucination that appeared in his mind, and it seems to be a vibration transmitted from the end of time, from a far, far away place, and it seems to be surrounded by him all the time.
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"Your worries are superfluous...and you won't be alone in the future."
It seems that someone is whispering to him gently.
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"Our king has been crowned!!"
There seemed to be countless loud compliments and wild cheers.
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"The truth of the language, the peace of mind, get up and drink your light. Because you are yesterday, today, and tomorrow."
There seem to be countless priests singing hymns of praise.
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There are many, many more, like the roaring roar on the vast battlefield, like some dying person struggling to make a curse, like all kinds of prayers, petitions, wishes, there seem to be countless voices at this moment Chanting in unison.
In the sky, in the earth, in the distant time and beyond, in all the time and space of the universe, there are countless creations that have not yet been born or have long since died.
Even, he seemed to hear a particularly clear, familiar and unfamiliar voice.
seems familiar, just cold, calm and rational, indifference seems to carry a kind of force that seems to be taken for granted——
"I came from the end, I have no nostalgia, just stop here."
"The gate of the paradise slowly opened due to my knocking. From now on, I will show you the most wonderful, incomparably bright road."
"I am Alpha, I am Omega, I am the first, I am the last! The Almighty who was, is, and will be forever."
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In an instant, the thoughts that had just become clear were once again in a trance, and all the noises in Xia Ran's mind stopped.
, or rather, more clutter, and this time he couldn't discern any useful information from it.
The vision in front of me is blurred, Penglai Mountain Hui Ye's rosy red eyes and eager voice are in front of me, but it seems to be going away little by little, and finally completely turned into eternal silence, just like the whole world They've all gone away from him, no longer real or real.
Like a long sleep, he reopened his eyes.
The dark night is like ink that can't be dissolved. There is a large iron bridge next to the river, about 150 meters long, and there are no cars on the bridge. The simple steel-framed bridge has no lighting and is completely integrated into the eerie darkness like the sea at night.
Under the moonlight, the three spiral blades of the windmill can be seen everywhere. Under the blue and white moonlight and the night lights of the city not far away, it exudes strangeness like the tears of a single aristocrat. of light.
An unfamiliar yet familiar city.
"... a dream?"
stretched out his hand and pressed his still dizzy head, the magician muttered to himself.
At this moment, he couldn't tell whether it was real or some kind of hallucination or dream.
Have you crossed over? Or what happened? He has a way to confirm.
Xia Ran opened her property panel and saw a completely unfamiliar page——
【Number】：666
【race】: human (no blood physique enhanced)
[Attribute]: Strength 57, Agility 60, Constitution 50, Intelligence 19, Spirit 30, Perception 40
[Skill]: Basic Melee LV15, Swordsmanship Specialization LV7, Two-Handed Weapon Mastery LV3, Mind Eye (pseudo) LV1, Magic Release LV2...
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What version of the properties panel is this before? And when did you become such a strengthening direction?
Xia Ran watched everything in front of her in silence.