Chapter 18: Diverting the trouble
"No way!" Cheng Xiaoyu crossed her arms. "No matter how many conditions you offer me, I'll still lose money. I won't do a business that loses money. I've already taken care of enough children."
"All right."
Fushiguro Shier did not continue the topic. He did not expect Cheng Xiaoyu to agree at the beginning. He pinched the soft flesh on the cheek of Fushiguro Megumi, who was stunned by the excessive information, and chuckled.
"If the rich woman doesn't like you, you have to live with me."
"Do you think everyone is as shameless as you?"
Megumi Fushiguro rolled her eyes at her biological father, pushed away her cheap father's hand, and pulled Tsu Miki, who was also stunned by the excessive information, to jump off the sofa and run into the house.
Rasu clucked his tongue. “I thought you wouldn’t say that in front of the kids.”
Fushiguro Shier picked up the scissors on the coffee table with one hand and removed the unimportant bandages on his body that restricted his movements. "The situation is different now. I've thought carefully about your previous suggestion and it makes sense. I have to leave some insurance for these two brats."
After personally experiencing Gojo Satoru's strength and escaping death, Fushiguro Shigeru was not happy.
If even a powerful being like the Six-Eyed Godson Gojo Satoru cannot escape the clutches of that higher-dimensional creature, his concealment of the truth from his two children will not only fail to protect them, but will put them in greater danger.
It would be fine if he died, but the two little ghosts couldn't be used as tools by the guy hiding in the dark, and end up going down to meet their biological parents for no apparent reason.
Abnormal spatial and temporal fluctuations have been detected at the ■■■ location within the key area of concern, "Beihua Town."
The mental warning sent by No. 233 interrupted the silence in the air. Cheng Xiaoyu left a sentence, "The subsequent transfer and observation will be carried out by you, Lasu," and jumped into the night sky, flying at high speed towards the area where the abnormality occurred.
When he arrived at the scene, Cheng Xiaoyu discovered that the area where abnormal fluctuations were detected was very large.
Because it was a mountain, and the rows of peaks looked like the spurs of some giant beast crawling on the ground in the dark night.
The darkness does not hinder the shadow demon's perception. Even from a distance of several hundred meters, Cheng Xiaoyu can still see the lush green trees on the mountain.
But the weird part is that Cheng Xiaoyu can only observe the densely-leaved trees on the surface of the mountain with her eyes. She can't even perceive the situation inside the mountain by manipulating the shadows.
Something was blocking and affecting her perception. This was the second time Cheng Xiaoyu had encountered this situation since coming to this world.
What kind of difficult hell level had she drawn?
You have to know that Cheng Xiaoyu's magic resistance is not low. There are few things that can completely isolate her from controlling the shadows as a shadow demon, but she encountered it twice in a row during this overtime trip!
Even System 233 couldn't help but grumble after reporting the latest on-site survey data: "Why don't you buy a lottery ticket when you get back? The drop rate for high-dimensional creatures is so low, and you just pulled two out of a pool with no guaranteed winners. How impressive!"
Cheng Xiaoyu, looking through the test data, raised his finger in the air and said, "Roll, roll, roll. How about giving you this radiation?"
Over the years, Cheng Xiaoyu had grown accustomed to the sudden barbs from her intangible partner. After all, she mostly worked alone, and her personal AI 233 had been her comrade and partner through many life-or-death experiences.
Good news, according to the test report provided by 233, Cheng Xiaoyu can now confirm that this newly detected high-dimensional creature is in a deep sleep, and there is sufficient evidence to show that the abnormal state of Beihua Town is closely related to it.
Now his approximate coordinates have been narrowed down to this mountainous area. Cheng Xiaoyu only needs to find and move him, and then the abnormal state of Beika Town will disappear.
After roughly understanding what he was going to do next, Cheng Xiaoyu did not enter the mountain directly, but landed near the foot of the mountain first, preparing to explore the area around the mountain before entering.
Quiet.
This was Cheng Xiaoyu’s first impression of the mountain.
Common sense suggests that a variety of creatures should live on this green mountain. However, no matter how hard Cheng Xiyu held her breath and listened, she could not hear a single insect or frog chirp from the mountain just a few steps away during the few hours she spent exploring.
Cheng Xiaoyu felt nothing about this abnormal, even weird situation, except for the urge to kill something.
She knew that this ■■ world would not let her leave work so soon.
The area of this mountain is very large. Even though Cheng Xiaoyu didn't need to rest or sleep, he walked until noon before stopping.
Even when she stopped it was not because she had finished the journey, but because she ran into someone she knew.
Old acquaintances Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru, and a group of blond boys who were also wearing the Tokyo Technical High School uniform and whom Cheng Xiaoyu had never seen before.
"Ms. Ghost?" Gojo Satoru adjusted his sunglasses. "Tsk, this is annoying. Since you're here, it means this situation is extremely difficult. It's been a rough ride lately, with one troublesome thing after another."
Xia Youjie and the other boy nodded to Cheng Xiaoyu and said, "Hello, did you see the other black-haired Tokyo High School student on your way here?"
Cheng Xiaoyu shook her head: "I have been exploring around this mountain since last night, and I haven't seen anyone except you."
The yellow-haired boy lowered his head: "Is that so... Thank you."
Geto put his hand on his shoulder and said, "Nanahi, you haven't slept for two days. You should go back first. Satoru and I will stay here and continue the search. We will tell you as soon as we have any news."
The boy named Nanami was pale, with dark circles under his eyes, his lips cracked and bleeding, and his body and mind were shaking. It was obvious that he had reached the critical point of collapse, but even so, he still insisted: "No, Huibara disappeared when he was with me. I can guide you and provide clues..."
"But you're of no use at all," Gojo Satoru said, his words tinged with cruel rationality. "You've led us searching from last night until now, and we haven't found the 'tree with white cocoons hanging from it' you mentioned, nor the 'strange mist' you saw. You might as well go back and rest. Don't let yourself die suddenly and the entire first-year class be wiped out."
As if he had suffered a heavy blow, Nanami staggered, and his already pale face became even worse. His eyes were red, his lips trembled, and his fists clenched and unclenched, and then clenched again.
Everyone present thought it was only natural for Nanami to faint or punch Gojo Satoru hard in the nose.
Finally, Nanami loosened her bleeding hand, lowered her head as if her spine was broken, and muttered "Yes, I understand", then dragged herself away like a zombie.
Xia Yujie frowned: "Satoru, it's very hurtful when you say that."
Gojo Satoru put one hand in his pocket and said, "I'm telling the truth. And you saw it too, Nanami won't listen to any advice. If I hadn't scolded him harshly enough to wake him up, he would definitely have stayed here until he passed out."
"That's not right. It's too hurtful."
"People with fragile hearts aren't suited to being sorcerers. You know the death rate of sorcerers, Jay. If you keep breaking down like this, you might as well drop out of school and go home."
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't intend to continue listening to them discuss the occupational risks of a sorcerer. "I hear you're saying a classmate has disappeared on this mountain? Would you mind telling me a little gossip?"
Gojo Satoru didn't care: "Just listen. Anyway, the incident happened in Beika Town. Those old guys will probably find you later."
It turned out that when Gojo Satoru and Geto Gaguru were busy with the Star Plasma mission yesterday, their first-year juniors Nanami Kento and Haibara Yu were sent to this mountain to exorcise several third-level cursed spirits because they "did not have the ability to stay in the high school to serve as protection."
Both of them are second-level sorcerers, and exorcising third-level cursed spirits is a piece of cake for them.
But before they had taken a few steps into the mountain, a grayish white fog suddenly appeared and approached Nanami Kento and Haibara Yu. Before the two of them could retreat, a severe dizziness made them lose the ability to escape.
They were like clothes stuffed into a washing machine with the spin cycle turned on. Even if they forced themselves to open their eyes by holding onto tree trunks, all they could see was a large, swirling mass of color that only made their dizziness worse.
After the two recovered, they found that the scene before them was completely different from what they saw before they were hit.
The trees here were obviously different from the ones they had seen when they entered the mountain. There were also several white silk cocoons hanging high on the branches, which were big enough to wrap up an adult. The network and mobile phone signals had all disappeared, and the way they came was nowhere to be found.
Nanami Kento and Haibara Yu immediately broke out in cold sweats.
This can’t be…a field.
They were all just freshmen, not even qualified as interns in the world of sorcery, and their families were ordinary people, so they didn't have much practical experience. Of course, it was impossible for them to see the field of graduate-level research topics in sorcery, so for now, they could only compare the current situation with the characteristics of the "field" described by the teacher in their memory.
........Then they discovered to their sorrow that the overlap rate between the two was very high, which basically proved that they had run into the realm of the cursed spirit.
There is no way a cursed spirit that can open a domain can only have level three strength. Isn't it said that the survey of the "window" is very detailed and there is a huge error?
This error is too much. An elite monster appeared in front of them right after the novice tutorial. Do you think this is reasonable?
"What should we do now?" Nanami Kento asked through gritted teeth, full of despair.
Kento Nanami and Yuu Haibara knew that everything they were taught in class was related to their lives, so they were always very serious about the theory. In this case, their brains were still able to clearly convey the relevant knowledge to them, but the more this happened, the more desperate they became.
The teachers, predecessors and textbooks in their memories all told them that "only the field can deal with the field" is an unshakable rule in this world.
Domains depended on both talent and luck, and sorcerers who could open a full domain were rare since ancient times. On the other hand, the probability of a curse spirit appearing in a domain was extremely high, and almost everyone possessed a special-grade curse spirit.
In order to deal with such situations, sorcerers who are unable to open their domains have discovered through thousands of years of research that they can deal with this situation by creating "simple domain" spells that are smaller in scope and simpler to use, which are accessible to most people. This has become the current common practice for removing, escaping from, and even killing enemies in enemy domains.
However, the two people who had only been in the world of spells for less than a year had not had time to learn how to use the more advanced practical knowledge of events such as the "Simple Field". At this moment, they were completely powerless to fight back against the field.
Kento Nanami and Yuu Haibara waited desperately for death to come.
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