Chapter 67: Hanging View
That door was completely different from the door next to it, and the surrounding dormitories became quiet after the lights were turned off.
I rubbed my face and resolutely resisted my brother's assimilation. I am an upright adult and cannot become a war fanatic who gets excited when hearing about fighting.
【……】
[This is a bit of an attempt to hide the truth, dear host.]
Zhou Tianqi pulled me forward, and when we got closer, we realized that the door was a little too high - we were both about 1.45 meters tall, which was less than half the height of the door.
"Watching it hanging upside down."
Zhou Tianqi said, looking at the door.
"What's that?" I asked him.
He glanced at me and said, "...Didn't you tell your uncle that you had finished reading the book?"
"The fifth anomaly in the Black Book, impossible for humans to eliminate, is called the Upside-Down Observation. 'Eight hundred miles square, there is a Observation Tower, with the dome as the ground and the sky as the spine. The living stand upright, while the dead hang upside down.' It hasn't appeared in over a hundred years."
When he mentioned a hundred years, he paused, and I understood. He had killed someone in his previous life, so he was not sure if he had said the right time.
——But it doesn’t matter. I haven’t read the book carefully, so I won’t be able to expose my brother no matter what he says.
[…Host, you clearly said before that you would never slack off again!]
Who said it, I said it?
I, Zhou Tianying, never said this!
【? ! 】
[Host, you—you've learned bad things, sob sob sob sob—]
"Luckily, Ying's here. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to handle this on my own." He placed one hand on the door, his other hand firmly grasping me. "It might feel a little strange for a while, but it shouldn't be a big deal for you, sister."
Then a suction pulled us both in.
The door on the wall trembled and disappeared, and the white wall returned to its original state.
When I opened my eyes again, Zhou Tianqi's hand was holding me tightly, really holding me tightly - only one hand was left.
Grass?!
No, where is the owner of the hand???
"Day One."
A ethereal voice sounded, and it was impossible to tell whether it was male or female.
I looked around. It was night and I was alone in a forest. The trees around me were all black. They were aquatic trees. Their roots were all soaked in water, and I was standing on the water.
It's like standing on flat ground, but when I move, ripples appear on the water.
It was like I was being denied entry into the water.
In the sky was a moon that was much larger than its actual size, facing me, emitting a cold air.
[Host——Tongtong just conducted a scan. This is a spherical space, with another half under the water.]
I see. No wonder they refused to let me into the water.
Zhou Tianqi is on the other side.
I looked at the hand in my hand. How on earth did this hand follow me here? The cut surface didn't look like a normal hand being cut off. It looked more like it was deliberately left here by some secret method. The way I was holding a hand now really made me look like some kind of hand fetishist.
From now on, I changed my name to Ji0 Jiying, right?
[…Is this the time to complain?!]
However, Zhou Tianqi must have his reasons for leaving this behind. My side is the moon, and his side might be the sun.
The day won't be over until the two of us meet.
However, we must first deal with the "thing" in front of us.
The red rope on my hand has lit up. Because my left hand is holding my brother's hand, the red rope has turned into a sword in my hand.
I don’t like holding a sword because it hurts my hands, but I started practicing sword with Zhou Tianqi when I was three years old.
The Zhou family practices swordsmanship. Every member of the Zhou family may not be good at it, but they must know how to do it.
Even though I was raised as a young lady in this world, I still have to learn swordsmanship.
I walked forward with the sword in hand. The trees became denser and denser, and the branches became more and more numerous, some of them even shaking uncontrollably.
They were walking towards me slowly, the water was rippling, and I was also walking forward.
The red flame slowly extended from my wrist to the sword.
The moment the vines flew towards me, my sword also moved. The red flames in the sky followed the momentum of my sword and wrapped around the vines the moment I cut them, burning backwards.
Zhou Tianqi and I have a secret. We secretly exchanged our natal fire when we were very young. We can't tell it to others, because at least our elders would beat us up if they found out. But since we have already exchanged our natal fire, we don't want to exchange it back.
So he, who has an extremely yang destiny, uses an extremely yin flame, and I, who have an extremely yin destiny, use an extremely yang flame.
The extremely yin flame will freeze him, and the extremely yang flame will burn me.
But we changed it because it was fun.
...I still don't know why I agreed to him. I suspect he deceived me.
Looking at the burns on my hands, I doubted my own brain. Normally, it was no big deal when I used talismans to control the sword, but when I held the sword directly, the fire burned me and my right hand was a little red.
But if this is the shady side, then the fire is the natural enemy of these tree-like "things".
In just a few blinks of an eye, my flames had covered half of the dense forest.
Could it be that my brother had anticipated this day and exchanged flames with me?!
[…No, I think it’s probably not.]
[It's the host. Is it possible that he simply wants to balance yin and yang?]
Is he obsessive compulsive?!
The red flames look great in the night, and even the moon in the sky looks better.
I continued walking forward with the sword in hand. The trees in the forest that were not on fire automatically moved away from the burning trees, but I was not going to let them go. My hands were burned anyway, so this little bit didn't matter.
I started running on the water, and the trees started running the moment I approached them, as if they were pulling a root out of the water and running away.
...No, why are you running?!
【Who is the villain? 】
But the more I ran, the greater the resistance under my feet. I looked over and saw that my feet were no longer on the water like they were at the beginning. They were halfway in. Below the surface of the water, besides the tangled roots, there was also a person.
One by one, these "people" were sticking to the surface of the water, staring at me with their pure black eyes. They were everywhere on the surface of the water as far as I could see, and I couldn't even see the boundaries.
They were all looking at me, and the water was like a glass separating us. As long as the glass was broken, they would all rush towards me together.
Got it, I just walked on their faces.
Now I am slowly sinking.
I pried open my brother's hand, held it in my hand, and wondered if I could put it into the bronze mirror - no, the bronze mirror.
Villar!
Just a thought came to my mind, and Villar appeared in front of me. Then, in an instant, the "people" under the water showed expressions of horror, their facial features began to dissolve, slowly turning into black water and melting into the water.
[…You finally remembered me.]
There was a hint of complaint in Villar's voice, but I pretended not to hear it.
[Host, is it possible that we can hear your thoughts?]
Verar sighed, pulled me out of the water, and let me sit on his arms, and the two of us floated in the air.
Are we going to burn all those trees?
I nodded, grabbed Zhou Tianqi's hand in my left hand again, and then pointed the sword forward with my right hand. In the blink of an eye, Villar brought me to the front of the other trees, and then with a slash, there was another sea of fire.
I was just leading Villar here and doing whatever he wanted. Just when I was about to attack the last and largest tree, the moon fell on my head.
Then the whole world turned upside down.
The moon carried Veral and me into the black water.
Then I stepped onto the ice.
Wait a minute... ice?
The moon stopped the moment it came over, and then was frozen in the next moment. The moon wanted to struggle, but my sword stabbed it directly, and the red flames instantly swallowed it. In just a moment, the moon disappeared.
I looked around, and except for the place where the moon had just disappeared, the entire space was filled with dark blue flames, and the places where the flames passed were frozen - including the sun in the sky.
The flames froze the sun.
Zhou Tianqi was floating in the air with a sword in his left hand, and then he saw me.
"It's a bit slow." As he spoke, some cold air came out of his mouth. He landed on the ground and walked towards me. He also saw Villar behind me.
A line of spiritual energy connected between his right wrist and my right hand, and then he naturally took my hand after the connection.
It was so natural as if nothing had happened just now.
"...So what's with the hand? You're not trying to get away with it, are you?"
I was shocked, I was stunned, these were all my tricks——
"It's not that I'm worried that my sister won't be able to come over, so I can help you." He shook his wrist, "I'm helping you in the physical sense."
Veraer followed me and narrowed his eyes.
“…&%￥.”
He is lying.
"Fallen Angels—shouldn't they disappear after finishing their work?" He frowned and took me by the hand as we looked at Villar.
"Wei said you were lying."
Just kidding, I have never seen this hand-breaking skill in any book - even if my world is very chaotic, I have never heard of this kind of spell.
Zhou Tianqi sighed again, "Then take him back first." He pointed at Villar and said.
"I don't know why, but when I see him I really want to chop him—" He stared at me, "He is just your incarnation. I am the most important person to you, understand?"
Me: No, what kind of wild instinct does he rely on to survive?
Villar: This guy really has bad intentions towards Xiaoyu. He's treating her like an object! Call the police! Call the police as soon as you get out!
Then, in order not to embarrass me, Villar disappeared angrily.
「I’m crying my eyes out. How can you tolerate this situation with local specialties──」
No, Tong, please don't add fuel to the fire at a time like this, okay?
"You're such a foolish sister," he said, pulling my sword-wielding hand. "Can't you control my flames? I'm already very familiar with your flames."
Are you familiar with my flame?
You only knew that in your previous life. How dare someone on the second round laugh at me, a person on the first round!
He took out a bottle of medicine from his bag and sprinkled it on my hands. The cool ointment relieved the redness and swelling on my hands.
It was daytime here, but everything around was frozen, and there was no sign of struggle. How determined was Zhou Tianqi?
"I just heard a voice saying the first day, so what's next?" I asked him. Instead of guessing, it's better to ask directly because there is a reference answer.
"Then we just have to wait, until the flames burn this place out."
He looked around, "You've shattered the moon, and the sun is about to set. If everything goes well, we can see a platform."
"Liu Ke and his apprentice should be in there, but I don't know how many cycles it has been."
"Hopefully they're still alive."
He said this expressionlessly, without any fluctuation.
"So we haven't entered the real upside-down temple yet?"
"Yes, this is just the door, with two levels of Yin and Yang. Most people can't enter the Upside-Down Temple," he pointed at his feet. "The Upside-Down Temple has a hidden rule. At least two people must enter together, one Yin and one Yang, to undergo the tests of both Yin and Yang levels at the same time."
"After passing the test, you can enter the inverted hanging temple."
“Then you fall into an endless cycle and end up becoming part of the inverted view.”
Zhou Tianqi talked freely.
"Because no one who entered has ever left, it has been classified as an anomaly that is impossible for humans to eliminate."
"But it shouldn't be a difficult thing for me, right?"
I said calmly.
"Did you feel the moon was strong just now?"
I thought about it and shook my head. It seemed that the moon was not attacking me so much as it was trying to throw me here. After all, I had almost burned the tree.
"That's right, the real core of the inverted hanging view is the sun and the moon." He made a sword flower.
"As long as the sun and the moon disappear, the inverted pavilion behind will be vulnerable."
"But no one would have thought that the entrance would be the core, and once you enter the temple, there is no turning back."
"Then how did my brother know?" I asked even though I knew the answer.
Zhou Tianqi thought for a moment, then turned to look at me. "Maybe it's because I dreamed that I killed them once?"
"The sun and the moon are both too big, so I wanted to see what it would look like if they broke, so I tried—"
...and then it backfired and killed the core, right?
"But I didn't like that dream very much," he said suddenly.
"That dream didn't have Aying. I felt so lonely."
"I'm so lonely."
He stared at me for emphasis.
I sighed imperceptibly and hugged him.
This was a hug I had done a thousand times. "Don't be afraid, dear. With Aying here, brother is not alone."
I think I can change my career to be a kindergarten teacher instead of doing this job.
Zhou Tianqi hugged me back.
[Local specialties, learn from this, this is what a real Green Tea Brother is. ]
[…That’s not necessary.]
As we embraced, the sun fell down, hit the ice and shattered into pieces.
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