Virtual world, time continent.

"what's on your mind?"

Ash was slightly startled, and turned his head to see Sword Princess approaching him, very close. Their noses were almost touching, and their warm breaths kissed each other first. Ash could even see his own reflection in her cunning eyes.

In a flash, Ash used his strong mental strength to suppress the evasive instinct in his body, and just stared at her with his eyes wide open.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds, Sonia's egg-white face flushed with a light mist, but she seemed to be trying hard, staring at Ash without blinking. She suddenly stretched out a small piece of cherry tongue and licked her lips gently, and the smile spread out along the curved corners of her mouth, jumped over her cute face and jumped into her clear big eyes, which had a chemical reaction with the tension in her pupils, and along with her sight, it became a virus that invaded Ash's nerves, making him want to laugh a little.

Bang!

When Sonia turned to look at the source of the sound, Ash immediately raised his fist and declared victory: "I win!"

I'm not playing the staring game with you! You're so childish even though you're an adult!

The village girl was furious and looked at the witch who fell out of the car and interrupted them with a bad look, "What are you doing?"

"I, I was thinking about whether I should walk further away to make some space for you..." The witch said embarrassedly: "You see, the rain curtain of the countercurrent golden rain is actually very powerful in blocking. As long as I walk ten steps away, I can't see you at all. It's very safe! Sorry to bother you, I'll leave now!"

Diya wanted to leave quietly, but because she was too careful, she lost balance and tripped over the car door when leaving, and accidentally hit the ground with her head. In fact, she herself was very regretful - after all, she had only read the preface briefly in the fairy tale picture book before, and she and her sisters were very curious about the ten thousand words of the text that Sword Princess and the Viewer performed later.

Even though Sonia had practiced her acting skills in front of the mirror, the witch's words still made her face and ears burn. She quickly went over to hold her back and said, "I'm not disturbing you! Come back and sit down!"

"So what were you doing just now?" Diya asked curiously.

"We...we were just playing a staring game!" Sonia defended, "Whoever looks away first and blinks first loses!"

"Ah, Sword Princess, you are so childish." Ash sighed and shrugged helplessly: "You are an adult now, can you be more mature?"

The village girl's face turned red - this time she was angry. She felt like her anger was about to burn through her belly. She was sure that if she drew her sword and used a set of blood and water on the spectator, it would definitely be a 100% critical hit.

"By the way, I saw some interesting information in the magician's manual just now." Diya said, "It's about the investigation of the Seven-Colored Tail."

Just now, Ash and his friends drove over and killed a blind sorcerer's projection who was wandering around the road as if it were his own living room.

The magic spirits released by the magician's projection were given to Jian Ji to sell, and the magician manuals were basically read by Diya, and only some particularly difficult magician manuals were dealt with by Ash. To be honest, Ash was quite satisfied with the current garbage collection mechanism. After all, Diya would filter out most of the "ordinary" magician manuals, so Ash could only see some particularly explosive magician manuals, each of which contained at least a dozen R18 tags. Every time he read it, he could refresh his understanding of biodiversity.

Hearing the colorful tail, Sonia immediately put out the fireworks in her heart, and Ash also drove to chase the white bull.

"The owner of the manual collected a lot of information about the Seven-Colored Tail. After field verification and investigation, he disproved most of the hypotheses." Diya said: "Among the Seven-Colored Tail hypotheses he knows, the most likely ones are the Three and a Half Magicians Hypothesis, the Seven Magicians Hypothesis, and the White Bull Hypothesis."

"The three and a half magicians and seven magicians hypothesis are actually the same. The magicians believe that the "seven colors" in the seven-color tail refer to the color of the magician's virtual wings. Although we all have silver wings and gold wings, if we look closely, the color and shape of each person's virtual wings are different. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are different colors."

"Therefore, some magicians believe that if they can gather seven different virtual wings, they may be able to trigger the virtual realm mechanism to generate a seven-color tail. The three and a half hypothesis is a simplified version of this. If everyone is a fully condensed two-wing magician, then three and a half magicians can gather seven virtual wings."

"There is another version of the Seven Golden Magicians: only fully condensed golden wings can be counted as 'one color', and silver wings are not counted. Therefore, there must be seven magicians with two wings condensed to trigger the 'Seven Colors Tail'. This speculation is also based on facts - magicians believe that when they gather seven golden wings, they will become 'seven drops of rain' and fall upwards with the countercurrent golden rain."

Ash and Sonia both nodded repeatedly. Although the argument was ridiculous, compared with the secret poison of the golden fish, the hypothesis of the seven magicians was already very convincing.

Moreover, the advanced version of the Seven Golden Magicians hypothesis takes into account the largest-scale mechanism of the time continent, the countercurrent golden rain, which is very convincing. Even Ash feels that it is very likely.

Although he had only experienced the baptism of the secret poison of the golden fish, Ash had a vague premonition: the smuggling mechanism in the virtual world should be of the type of "brain teaser", "darkness under the lamp", "can't figure it out no matter how hard you try, but it seems very simple once you know it", as sophisticated and conspicuous as the killing methods in detective novels.

But this does not mean that it is easy to sneak into the virtual world. On the contrary, the magician must meet some extremely demanding conditions. Just like the golden fish, it has no requirements for your location, as long as you can fly, but except for the childhood magicians like Ash and Sword Princess who grew up together, other silver magicians must have extremely good luck to meet and persuade another magician to form a team to fly.

Therefore, the Seven-Colored Tail can most likely be triggered anywhere in the Time Continent, but the triggering conditions are extremely harsh, and it is almost impossible for a magician to meet the conditions. For example, the Golden Seven Magicians hypothesis has all the above factors, and Ash believes that this may be the truth, but...

"Three and a half is not a big deal, but seven magicians... isn't this threshold too high?"

Diya nodded: "The owner of the manual once gathered three and a half magicians by chance, but no matter how hard they tried, they still failed to trigger the seven-color tail mechanism until Jingyu caught up with them. Therefore, the three and a half hypothesis is basically wrong. The Golden Seven Magicians have not been falsified yet and are regarded by the owner of the manual as the second option with a high probability."

"Only the second?"

"Because the other hypothesis of the white bull that has not been disproven is more likely," Diya said, "The magicians believe that the four legs of the white bull are the channels for the seven-colored tail."

Ash and Sonia immediately raised their heads and looked at the white pillar far away in the sky.

"Oh, right," Sonia suddenly remembered something: "When white light shines into a prism, it will be refracted into seven colors... This is common sense in the light magic school!"

"Yes, the owner of the manual just wrote this point." Diya nodded: "The White Bull Hypothesis means that the four legs of the white bull are actually four tails. If the magician can run into the four legs of the white bull and use his soul as a prism, he can refract the seven-colored tail, and then the magician can fly along the four-legged light column to the third level of the virtual realm."

Ash decided to take back his words: the White Bull hypothesis was indeed more convincing than the Golden Seven Magicians hypothesis. After all, the latter required the gathering of seven magicians, which even Ash could not do, unless he bought four operators, and the ending of this hypothesis was just turning into raindrops falling into the sky; but the White Bull hypothesis even prepared the ascension channel, and the scientific reasoning of "white light refracting seven colors" was also deeply loved by Ash.

"So what prevents the manual owner from testing the hypothesis?" Sonia asked.

"The white bull is too fast," Diya said. "The white bull will not stop at all. It will move forward ten seconds every second. Moreover, its front foot is often the breaching area of ​​the Flowing Gold River. It is almost impossible for the magician to bypass the Flowing Gold River and enter the front foot."

Ash: "Then the hind legs..."

"The hind legs have a stillness zone." Sonia pondered, "Once the magician fails to keep relatively still with the hind legs and is thrown into the stillness zone by the hind legs, there is no way to save him."

"And no one knows whether the four legs of the white bull are lethal," Diya continued. "The most successful exploration by the owner of the manual was only to run ten meters away from the front legs. He has never seen the fate of others who ran into the four legs of the white bull. They might be trampled to death by the white bull."

"And... he feels that the four-legged white bull may not even exist."

"What's the meaning?"

"Although we can see obvious white pillars here," Diya said, "but once you get close to the four legs, the white pillars will become invisible. The owner of the manual can only determine the position of the front legs by the density of the golden river. He once chased the hind legs, but turned around and was thrown into the quiet area. The closer he got, the less he could see the hind legs. It was like..."

“It’s like a rainbow,” Sonia said.