Afterwards, the group was taken to a building in the town not far from the tower by two guys in armor who looked like guards.
This place looked like a pub, and behind the bar, a transvestite dressed in a effeminate manner was standing there. After everyone came in, he started to laugh.
"Welcome, little cat. I'm Brittoni, the director and receptionist of the Red Moon Office of the local Orudana Border Army Volunteer Corps..."
"I have no interest in any of this, Mr. Pervert."
However, the shemale man was interrupted by Ellie before he could finish his words. She stared at him with a smile on her face.
"I just want to know one thing, how do we get back to our own world?"
“…”
Hearing this, the shemale man's expression changed slightly, and a red-haired girl with braids next to him asked uneasily.
"Eh? What? What does this mean?"
"I think you have discovered that we do not belong to this world, but come from another world. You can understand this by looking at the clothes you wear and comparing them with the people here. And the people in this world summoned us here by some unknown method and erased your memories."
"According to you, your memory hasn't been wiped?"
At this time, a white-haired man in a black T-shirt asked coldly, and Ai Li nodded.
"Of course, I am a witch. It is not so easy to erase my memory."
"But why do that?"
At this time, another man wearing glasses frowned and asked.
"According to you, someone summoned us to this world and then erased our memories? Why would they do that?"
"As of now..."
As she spoke, Ai Li looked at the shemale man.
"Maybe they want to use us as cannon fodder."
"cannon fodder?"
"That's right. The world you all came from was much more peaceful and developed than this one. Imagine if you still remember the life in your own world, wouldn't you feel resentful for being inexplicably brought to this backward and dangerous world? Even if you don't say it, you will have such thoughts in your heart. But as long as your memory is erased, you will have no choice but to obey them. Even if you have doubts in your heart, because you have no memory and know nothing about it, then what can you do?"
“…”
Hearing this, everyone's expressions changed. This time, they looked at the shemale man with a little more anxiety and anger. When he heard what Ai Li said, the shemale man laughed.
"You seem to be quite capable, but let me tell you, none of those who dared to call someone a shemale would survive to this day!"
Before he finished his words, the shemale man suddenly jumped up from behind the bar and stabbed Ellie's neck with the dagger in his hand - then he stopped in mid-air, his eyes rolled back, and his neck began to twist.
"I'll tell you one thing, Mr. Pervert. If you attack a witch easily, you won't end up well."
“Uh… uh…”
At this moment, no one spoke. Everyone looked at the shemale man hanging in the air in surprise. Ellie just raised the black magic wand in her hand and stared at him with a smile.
"I'll ask you again, who summoned us here? How can we return to our own world?"
"I don't……"
"Um?"
"I have no idea……"
"I see."
Hearing the shemale man's answer, Ai Li raised her eyebrows, then she stared into his eyes, a gleam of light flashed in them.
"You are just a poor creature whose memory has been wiped."
As she spoke, Ellie gently waved her magic wand, and the next moment the shemale fell heavily to the ground. He held his neck, gasping for breath, and then he got up from the ground and looked at Ellie with lingering fear. The latter narrowed her eyes and looked at him with pity.
"I don't know who I am, nor do I know my past. Am I just living in this world in a daze until now?"
“…”
"Again, who could possibly know about all this?"
“…”
"So, who is the ruler here?"
"What do you want?"
Hearing this, the shemale man suddenly became nervous.
"It's very simple. Generally speaking, this kind of thing is closely related to the upper echelons, so as long as we find the person who manages this area, we should be able to ask for some clues."
"You, if you do this, you will be considered a wanted criminal! But you will be an enemy of the Kingdom of Balabagia!"
“That really surprises me.”
Ellie smiled.
"Don't you think that forcibly bringing people from their original world here and erasing their memories is not an act of hostility? I thought we were already enemies."
Hearing what Ellie said, the shemale man's face turned pale, but the latter didn't care. She just glanced at him, then turned around and looked at everyone.
"Sorry, if you don't mind me taking a look."
As she spoke, Ellie walked over to the group of people and carefully examined their clothes.
"Well, um...what are you looking at?"
Being carefully looked at by Ai Li, a purple-haired girl asked in a low and anxious voice.
“Oh, I was looking at your clothing brand.”
"…Huh? Clothing brand?"
"Yes, just by looking at the brands of your clothes, I should be able to tell whether you are from the same world... Well, this is really interesting..."
Because he often accompanied the little girls to buy clothes, Fang Zheng was quite familiar with the popular clothing brands in this world. So as long as he checked the brands of clothes these people were wearing, if he knew them, he could at least confirm where this world should be.
But the result was beyond Ellie's expectations.
Not only did she discover brands from the collapsed world, she also discovered the world where Lala and the others were and...
Looking at the trademark on the back of the collar, Ellie was silent for a moment.
I really didn't expect that there would be people from Akane Shinjo's world... Come to think of it, if I remember correctly, Akane Shinjo once said that those killed by monsters would be erased in the subsequent repair process, so were they really erased?
Wait, could this be... the core world of the Imaginary Number Tree?
If this is the case, then these people from different worlds can be understood. After all, among these people, there are not only people from the Honkai world and Akane Shinjo's monster world, but also people from the Earth where Lala is. The only thing that can put people from these two completely different worlds into one world at the same time is probably the Imaginary Number Tree.
By the way, you really can travel to places that make people speechless every time.
After silently looking at Lala, Ai Li didn't want to complain anymore.
"Did you find anything?"
At this time, a gangster with white hair and wearing a black T-shirt stared at Ellie and asked, while the latter smiled slightly.
"I did find something interesting."
After saying this, Ai Li kept silent. Hearing her words, everyone looked at each other in confusion. Although they all heard that Ai Li must be hiding something, due to the previous suicidal behavior of the shemale man, no one dared to go up to her and question her directly. Even the white-haired gangster just snorted coldly and stopped talking.
"Well, everyone, I'll take my leave now."
After saying this, Ellie smiled and nodded to everyone, then turned and left. She did not take the initiative to join the team of Lala and others. After all, based on what she observed, Lala and the other five people had obviously formed an independent small group, and there should be no problem for the time being. What's more, as a messenger of God, she also has telepathy with Xiao An and Kurosaki Meiya. If something happened on the other side, she could also rush there immediately.
Apart from that, the biggest reason lies in Mengmeng. Nana and Lala are fine, but Mengmeng's observation ability is too strong. Although Xiao Aili, as one of Fang Zheng's three clones, should be the least consistent with Fang Zheng himself, after all, compared with Red Ponytail who always chop with a big sword and Shizuku who devours souls with Frostmourne, Aili puts all her talents in magic. Therefore, even if she fights in front of Mengmeng, the other party should find it difficult to associate her with her from the fighting posture and other aspects.
But...it's better to be careful.
If we can completely break through this space, then we won’t have to worry about these problems.
After leaving the office, Ellie sat on her broom and flew all the way to the sky. As expected, just when she was about to break out of the atmosphere, a vague, bubble-like barrier quietly emerged and blocked Ellie's way.
It is true.
Looking at the barrier in front of her, the corners of Ellie's mouth curled up slightly, then she stretched out her hand and raised the magic wand, and the next moment, the twelve beasts of the Fourth True Ancestor appeared behind Ellie.
Well, let me see what the core of this imaginary number tree is capable of!
After Ellie left, soon, the others also learned about this world from the shemale man. This world is called Grimgar. It used to be a prosperous world where humans established many countries. But after that, an undead king with terrible magic power appeared. He created the undead and formed a force called "United Kings" with other non-human races to challenge the humans who dominated the earth at that time.
In the face of the alliance of kings, humans were defeated, and the Undead King became the emperor of the Undead Empire.
However, just when humanity was about to be completely destroyed by the Undead Empire, for unknown reasons, the Undead King, the emperor who was supposed to be immortal forever, suddenly passed away. Humanity took this opportunity to build the fortress city of Orudana in the north of the Tianlong Mountains - which is where everyone is currently.
What they have to do is to fight those monsters as volunteers and kill as many monsters as possible, so that the human forces can grow again. Of course, considering that these people have just arrived here, they can only start as trainee volunteers.
Of course, volunteering is a very dangerous job, and not everyone is willing to do it, but the shemale man also told them that it is their freedom to be a volunteer or not, but if they can't find a source of income, they will have no place to live and no food to eat...
It has to be said that for those who have just woken up and even lost all their memories, it is really an unimaginable predicament.
"It's just like what the witch said."
Walking out of the office, the white-haired thug spat. Although the other party said from the beginning to the end that the choice was in their hands, everyone knew that they had no choice at all. They knew nothing about this place, and they were completely in the dark. Even if the other party told them that they didn't have to be volunteers, they didn't know what to do.
"Um... what should we do next?"
The purple-haired girl from before asked again timidly in a low voice, but just when the others were about to say something else, suddenly... a loud thunder broke through the sky and shook the earth.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!”
The dazzling lightning almost penetrated the entire night sky and spread to the other side of the horizon, scaring everyone so much that they hurriedly ducked down.
"Thunder?!"
“How terrible…”
"No, it's not just thunder!"
As he spoke, the other curly-haired man pointed his finger at the sky in fear. At this moment, a dazzling fire suddenly burst out in the night, like the sun shining in the starry sky. Then, colorful, fireworks-like brilliance flashed from the sky. At the same time, the whole world seemed to tremble, the earth trembled, the air roared, and even the night became as clear as day.
“What on earth is this…!”
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but tremble. But the next moment, suddenly, everything disappeared, and then a meteor-like brilliance fell from the sky, passed through everyone's sight, and fell into the forest with a "boom".
"Wow... this is really troublesome."
Ai Li stood up from the pit and patted the dirt off her body. She wanted to break the world barrier directly to open the door, but she didn't expect that the whole world began to tremble as soon as she broke through the barrier. Not only that, even Fang Zheng outside felt that the world was cracking and was about to collapse.
So Ellie quickly withdrew her hands and stopped the last wave of attacks, but unfortunately the reversed power of the beast knocked her down from the air.
"The core is really troublesome, so I hate this."
With a helpless sigh, Ai Li scratched her hair. It seemed that she couldn't just charge in. If she continued to forcefully break through the barrier, not only would this world be destroyed, but the other worlds on the World Tree would also be destroyed. This was the same as if you cut down the trunk of a tree, the fruits on the entire tree would also suffer.
It seems... I have no choice but to find other ways.