The knight took out a positioning device from his arms, looked around, and finally his eyes fell on the side pillar of the torii. A palm-sized pixel wind signal transmitter was quietly attached to it, and the indicator was flashing.

The knight removed the signal transmitter, his brows full of confusion.

"What's wrong?" Wu Xiangnan walked up to him, saw the device on his palm, and asked, "Is this the signal transmitter of the 'paratrooper'?"

“That’s right…”

The knight spoke hesitantly, "But since the signal transmitter has been installed, it stands to reason that the 'paratroopers' should be waiting here for us to join them..."

"But there's no one around here." Wu Xiangnan continued, squatting down and carefully observing the bluestone slabs under his feet, "And there are no signs of fighting or pursuit... Did he leave on his own?"

"That shouldn't be the case. The 'paratrooper' can't leave at such a critical time. If he doesn't lead the way, it will take us a lot of time and energy to figure out the form of the 'human circle', and there is also the risk of being exposed. He can't just abandon us like this."

"You mean... something happened to the 'paratrooper'?"

The knight did not speak. He stared quietly at the signal transmitting equipment in his hand. After an unknown amount of time, he looked up at the bluestone road ahead.

"Let's look around here first to see if there are any other clues."

The three of them walked straight forward along the bluestone road. The dark grey walls seemed endless. The further they walked, the darker the grey on the walls became, and the temperature dropped rapidly.

This strange change could not escape the perception of Jia Lan and the other two. Wu Xiangnan stopped and frowned as he looked at the surrounding walls. "Something is wrong here..."

Galan raised his head, sniffed the air, and unconsciously tightened the black box in his hand.

"It's the scent of 'mystery'." Jia Lan said confidently, "It's very strong, and there is more than one, but... the smell seems to be different from the usual 'mystery'?"

During the past two years of drifting, the number of "mysteries" that Galan has fought has accumulated to astronomical figures. Even with just a hint of smell in the air, she can keenly sense the existence of the "mystery", its approximate location, and even the strength of the "mystery".

"That's not right?" The puzzlement in the knight's eyes deepened. "The 'Human Circle' was created by the gods, how could there be 'mystery'? These things cannot enter the 'Human Circle' at all...

Isn't this a 'human circle'?"

After hesitating for a moment, the knight stretched out his hand and clenched it in the air. A ball of white waves rolled in his palm, and his brows suddenly frowned.

"The Forbidden Ruins can be used normally. This is really not a 'human circle'?" He thought for a moment and thought of a possibility. "I understand. We are still in the 'gap'."

"Still in the 'gap'?" Galan asked doubtfully, "Didn't we just pass through the 'gap'?"

"The size of the gap in each 'human circle' is different. Generally speaking, the larger the size of a 'human circle', the larger the 'gap' is likely to be. If the space we are in now is really a gap in Japan's 'human circle'... then the size of this 'human circle' should be at a very terrifying level!"

The knight continued solemnly, "So far, the largest 'human circle' we have seen is the Sphinx Kingdom in Egypt, which holds nearly 10 million people. Judging from the size of this 'gap', its 'human circle' may be even larger than Egypt's.

If this is the case, then the ‘human circle’ we are in may be the largest and most insane ‘human circle’ in the world.”

After hearing this, both Jialan and Wu Xiangnan fell silent.

Galan couldn't help but worry.

Such a dangerous place...will anything happen to Qiye and the others?

Galan held the black box tighter, a determination flashed in her eyes, and she walked quickly along the bluestone road. Her dark blue Han robe fluttered in the wind, and her black hair tied with a red rope swayed gently with her steps.

Feeling the change in Galan's temperament, Wu Xiangnan and the knight looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.

What's wrong with this girl?

Ignoring the gradually decreasing temperature around her and the spreading cold air, Galan walked directly to the end of the long bluestone road. The dark gray wall came to an abrupt end, and what appeared before her was a vast shrine ruins.

On top of the ruins, there were many black stone statues. Most of them were grotesque. There was a long-haired woman with two mouths, a short and ugly boy with a green lotus leaf on his head, a strange boy with a horn on his head, and a graceful girl with long light blue hair...

These stone statues are covered with cracks and moss, scattered here and there on the ruins, with stiff and strange expressions and very uncoordinated movements. Putting these stone statues together makes people feel inexplicably chilling.

"Stone statue?" The knight followed Galan to the ruins, looked around, and licked his lips, as if he could no longer suppress the instinct to blow up the shrine that was engraved in the bones of the Shangxie Society. "Is this the god enshrined in this shrine?"

"No." Wu Xiangnan walked to the front of the young boy's stone statue and observed it carefully for a while. His expression suddenly changed, "These are not statues of gods... These are statues of demons."

He stood up, his face gloomy. "From the outside, this stone statue looks very much like the Zashiki-warashi from Japanese monster legends. The girl with long light blue hair next to it should be a snow woman, and the boy behind it should be a kappa...

This shrine does not enshrine Japanese gods at all, but Japanese demons. "

"A shrine dedicated to demons?" The knight was puzzled. "How could such a thing exist? Who built these stone statues?"

“No one made it.”

Standing in front of the Snow Woman statue, the silent Galan suddenly spoke, "The 'mysterious' breath I just smelled comes from here. They are not stone statues... They are native Japanese 'mysteries' that have been petrified and trapped here!

They are...alive."

Just as the night watchman believed, most of the "mysteries" came from legends and unofficial histories from all over the world, and the stone statues in front of them were the embodiment of the legends of Japan.

"Alive?"

Hearing these words, Wu Xiangnan and the Knight's faces changed at the same time.

Things seemed to be different from what they had imagined.

This is a gap leading to the "human circle", but there is a shrine built here to worship demons, and all the stone statues of demons are alive... This matter itself is extremely strange, even the knight who has rich experience in the fog began to feel confused.

Where exactly is this place?

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