Chapter 20 Hey, now you see it
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't want to answer Gojo Satoru's question, because no matter how she answered it, it would be wrong, very wrong!
"I think that school uniform over there is pretty good."
In line with the moral standards of not looking at what is indecent and respecting the privacy of minors, Cheng Xiaoyu used her magic power to blindly throw the pile of free-flying horns into a floating short-sleeved shirt and wrapped them into a tight cloth bag. She continued to prepare the spell she would use later and pretend that this incident had not happened.
Nanami Kento resisted the urge to dig his toes into the ground and asked, "Is it okay? After all, Haibara's life is more important. If it can really come in handy, he will definitely understand."
Cheng Xiaoyu's scalp tingled. "Let's try the school uniform first. I see you guys wear it every day, so the effect shouldn't be too bad."
After hearing this, the three teenagers breathed a sigh of relief. Geto Suguru's cursed spirit quickly rolled up the cloth bag, stuffed it into a plastic bag and placed it in a remote corner.
They were not perverts who coveted other people's underwear. They just didn't want to miss any chance of saving their companions, so they took these things with gritted teeth.
Through the infinite space in the shadow, Cheng Xiaoyu always carried with her a large amount of magic materials, ritual instruments, semi-finished magic potions and other things. In addition, she had used this searching spell many times, so she quickly completed the preparations.
Following waves of obscure spells, the neatly laid out standard sorcerer uniform slowly stood up amidst the flickering and bouncing blue-purple light, spreading out its uniform trousers and pacing in a small circle.
Cheng Xiaoyu explained: "It's working. The spell is searching for its target."
This is good news, proving that Haibara Xiong has not been released into another universe, otherwise the search engine of the curse would not be able to be opened at all.
However, the magic spell has not given the specific coordinates for such a long time, it seems that Haibara Yu is not in this timeline.
Seeing this, Cheng Xiaoyu cast another spell, implanting the cosmic timeline and map that No. 233 could detect into the search range of the spell.
This time the clothes stopped pacing and began to slowly rotate in place in a very abstract way. Finally, they squatted down, pinched a branch handed to them by Cheng Xiaoyu with their sleeves, and wrote a few strings of numerical symbols on the ground.
"Is this the year and longitude?"
Most people don't pay attention to longitude and latitude so they don't know them, but the year is easy to convert. After everyone finished the mental calculation, their hearts skipped a beat, and they were even more shocked after searching for the string of English numerical symbols on their mobile phones.
"So, Huiyuan is now in Neon during the Taisho era? 95 years ago at the earliest?"
Cheng Xiaoyu checked the experiment several times before retracting the spell. Just before the school uniform lost its support and fell to the ground, she caught it firmly and threw it onto the mattress, where it reunited with its other brothers and sisters. She replied:
"Judging from the results, yes."
Everyone's heart skipped a beat.
It is known that Haibara Yu is 15 years old this year. If he had been alive there...he would be at least 96 years old now, and at most 110 years old!
Shocking! A young boy turned into a centenarian overnight!
How should we explain the results of this investigation to Haibara Yu's family?
Should we say, "Hey, your son might have met his great-grandfather and great-grandmother?"
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't have any special feelings about the detection results and subsequent handling. After all, if you work for a long time, you will encounter all kinds of strange people and things. What she cares more about is how to deal with the current situation.
She could use the air magic spell for time travel, but because of the infiltration in this universe, the timeline was as chaotic as the wired headphones just taken out of the bag. The success rate of time magic would be greatly reduced, so she needed more precise data.
While Cheng Xiaoyu was thinking about a solution, she had the ghost soldiers label the remaining materials and spells and put them back into the shadows. She also collected a few hairs from Huiyuan Xiong's comb, intending to make a smaller tracking spell. However, she turned around and found the three people still there. "Anything else?"
Nanami Kento seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Although we have determined the area, the time span and search area are too large. If you search alone..."
The Taisho period lasted 14 years! It's impossible to know which mountain or year Haibara fell on. It's too easy to miss it.
"Achieving this kind of range in this flooded environment is already a limit," Cheng Xiaoyu added deliberately, "and it has nothing to do with the search material used."
"No, no, that's not it!" Nanami Kento quickly shook his head to dispel the misunderstanding, so quickly that it made people worry that he might have twisted his neck. "I just wanted to ask if you needed help. I can help you!"
Every time one more person searches and rescues, the friend has more hope of survival.
"Aren't you afraid? If you follow me, your mortality rate will be even higher than being a sorcerer, you know?"
Cheng Xiaoyu noticed that the boy's fists were clenched white, his pupils were slightly shrunken, and the corners of his mouth were stiff. His heart was obviously not as calm as his words.
"Honestly, I'm scared to death." Nanami Kento said, "But Haibara and I went on the mission together, so we have to go back together!"
Cheng Xiaoyu was amazed.
What a sunny, positive and healthy child he is! In the world of magic where barbecued pork is everywhere, Nanami Kento is simply a breath of fresh air.
A very heartwarming answer that makes the office worker's body spin with warmth.
"Children should act like children. Leave the hard work to the adults."
Cheng Xiaoyu rejected Nanami Kento's request to form a team and instead persuaded him.
"I sincerely suggest you change schools and careers. This neon magic world, filled with workplace PUAs and invincible line exploitation, is even more difficult to survive in than a sewer. Compared to those lunatics, you are too normal, and your life will be even harder."
Gojo Satoru: "That makes sense. Nanami, although I used to say you have a talent for spells, it doesn't matter if you change schools or careers. After all, you can't be stronger than me no matter what. I will work hard with you."
Geto Suguru: "Me too, so Nanami, just do what you like."
Nanami Kento said: "Thank you all for your advice on my career plan...but can you please save Haibara first? The child is dying! Really dying! Why aren't you three in a hurry?"
"I know you're anxious, Nanami-san, but don't worry. I have to figure out how and what to do before I start."
Cheng Xiaoyu was not angry at being urged. After all, she had never met Nanami Kento, an intern who was regarded as a low-level cannon fodder in the Japanese magic world, before. Now her companion's life and death were in danger, so it was normal for her to urge him a few times out of anxiety, and there was nothing impolite in the words he used.
Moreover, judging from Nanami Kento's current mental and physical state, Cheng Xiaoyu felt that it was possible that he would suffer a cardiac arrest due to anger in the next second.
She had experience with this. After all, when she was about the same age, she had a similar situation while trying to finish her homework. As a result, she found herself in the hospital the moment she opened her eyes and closed them. If she had woken up a few seconds later, her elders might have been scared to death.
After glancing at the scan image displayed by No. 233 and confirming that the progress bar was almost completed, Cheng Xiaoyu explained to the anxious Nanami Kento:
"Look, before boarding a plane, you need to check the aircraft's status and weather before taking off. I've already traveled through time and space, and I have to accurately locate myself in the already chaotic space-time. It's like a team's job. It makes sense to be fully prepared before taking action, right?"
Acting rashly not only fails to save others but also gets yourself into trouble. This is really lame.
Knowing that she had spoken out of turn, Nanami apologized sincerely. Together with Geto Suguru and Gojo Satoru, she reported to Cheng Xiaoyu in detail all they had seen and heard on the mountain. After answering a few of her questions, they quickly left the scene.
They also took away the auxiliary supervisor who was on standby in the car and had no idea about the appearance of the "Ghost Queen". It was not until the auxiliary supervisor sent them back that they told them that the "Ghost Queen" had arrived at the scene and taken over the case before they notified him.
This move gave Cheng Xiaoyu at least three hours of preparation time without being monitored or interfered with by the high-level curse masters - surveying before traveling through time and space, this job sounds very delicate and mentally exhausting. What if a few more high-level lackeys with bad intentions are sent over, and they are not known to be controlled by unknown creatures, what if they cause trouble and affect the rescue?
For three hours, everyone caught up on sleep on the return bus. Facing the reprimands from their superiors, they all looked innocent: "We thought you were the ones who brought the Ghost Queen here, so we didn't report it. So that's not the case? Then how did she get here? If we had known she was coming, we wouldn't have come."
If the old oranges sent people there at this time, they would no longer be able to see the shadow of the Ghost Queen, who had always had a bad impression of the high-level magicians.
By staggering them in this way, it won't be too suspicious or too rebellious.
After spending an hour completing the external survey and basic protection, Cheng Xiaoyu entered the mountain.
Originally, Cheng Xiaoyu had not expected the high-dimensional creature to give him a "free ride". After all, the high-dimensional creature's thought process was full of twists and turns, and was as difficult to understand as the strange ideas of fellow enthusiasts and players of the Fourth Disaster. No one dared to assume their thinking mode.
So Cheng Xiaoyu just found a weak point in the area where time and space disturbance had occurred in this short period of time, opened a time and space channel and manually positioned it.
But the same thing goes - how dare you assume the thinking mode of higher-dimensional creatures!
Cheng Xiaoyu had barely stepped into the mountains when the alarm in No. 233's brain about time and space fluctuations rang immediately, like boiling white mist coming from all directions. The scene was as intense as throwing a handful of feed into a fish pond that had been hungry for ten days.
Well, it saves the trouble of finding a place to open the door.
So Cheng Xiaoyu simply gave up on running away and happily took a ride...
After a series of thrilling maneuvers like grabbing the steering wheel with the turbulence of time and space, Cheng Xiaoyu landed safely within the correct time range.
"Grass."
It's real grass.
Cheng Xiaoyu looked at the wooden shelves filled with bottles and jars of dried herbs and sighed at the Western-style decoration and laboratory layout of the room.
"What are you doing to me? Is this still in Neon territory?"
"What's the big deal? It's just a geographical error. As long as the timeline isn't too far off, it's fine." Number 233 shrugged. "Just now it was like we were trying to wrestle the steering wheel of an out-of-control dump truck going 180 mph in freeway traffic. Not only did we manage to pull it off, we also managed to pull off a perfectly parallel parking maneuver at our destination. At times like these, you shouldn't worry about a few millimeters of misalignment or whether the left or right wheel is in the garage."
Cheng Xiaoyu announced that she was convinced.
“Click.”
This was the sound of the door opening, and it was also the beginning of the awkward atmosphere in the room.
"Who are you?"
A woman wearing a gorgeous black patterned kimono with her long black hair tied up behind her head stood at the door. Her wine-red eyes with needle-shaped pupils were filled with cold anger and murderous intent.
Oh no, I accidentally broke into a private house and was caught by the homeowner.
Cheng Xiaoyu, who didn't steal but still felt a little guilty, gave a polite yet awkward smile: "Sorry, I went to the wrong place."
"Wrong way?"
The woman - no, the veins on Muzan Kibutsu's forehead bulged in the female disguise, and he immediately attacked the rude person who had invaded his secret lair that had never been discovered for hundreds of years and dared to fool him.
"How could you go the wrong way like that?!"
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