Blue Sword

Puppet theater?

In Nora's mind, a picture popped up for no reason:

Several little girl puppets were dancing stiffly, with silk threads connected to their arms from high in the air. With a bored expression on her face, Medea held her chin in her left hand and held the control board in her right hand, controlling them carelessly.

evil……

Nora felt a little uncomfortable for no reason. If this were the real world, she would have run as far as she could without Asik around.

But this was just a script after all, and it was necessary to explore the map, so she still let the spirit attach to the gate and slowly opened it a crack.

Then he quickly slipped in.

Huh?

It was actually empty.

Nora controlled her spirit body to look around and confirmed that the entire hall was empty. You can only see a shelf on the left hand side of the entrance to the room, with paper information about the contained object on it:

Deterrence Level: R3-Keter

Puppet theater.

Note: This unit is normally invisible, please use the [Data Erase] method for observation.

The puppet theater comes from [Data Erasure] and was left behind by a demigod who manipulated the law. It is currently uncertain whether the demigod has died.

This unit is invisible under normal conditions, and will subtly affect the surrounding living beings, spiritual bodies, and mental bodies, causing them to change in a specific direction.

Since the unit was contained, all changes in direction have been for a certain purpose, which is to [escape from containment]...

Seeing this, Nora was suddenly startled.

When she came back to her senses, she had lost control and vision of the spirit body and returned to the room containing the Sesame Tree.

Nora:! ! !

After waiting in the room with bated breath for a long time, she took stock of what had just happened:

From the moment the floodgates are opened, the puppet theater actually remains in the room and remains invisible.

At the same time, it implanted thoughts into the mind of Nora, who controlled the spirit body, making her think that there was no containment here.

In fact, I should have realized that even if I couldn't see any objects, it didn't mean that there was nothing in that hall... This wasn't carelessness, it must have been my mind being manipulated!

Nora was very sure of this conclusion. It's too insidious, this containment is too cunning.

The last and most critical step is to lure the spirit body to read the information next to it, thereby providing time for it to secretly seize control of the spirit body.

In other words, when Nora suddenly loses control of the spirit body, it means that the containment of the puppet theater has completely failed - because after that, it will definitely take the opportunity to manipulate the spirit body to open the unlocked gate. To achieve the purpose of escape.

It's definitely too late to go there now.

In reality, if she encountered this situation and had no companions by her side, Nora might find a place to hide and wait for Ask to come to the rescue.

However, considering that this was a script and her brother was monitoring outside (he would not let her die easily), Nora thought carefully for a few minutes and decided to send another spirit out to explore the way.

Summoning a spirit body from nearby again, Nora sent it out carefully.

The spirit floated slowly in the corridor, and every time it drifted forward for a certain distance, it stopped and scanned its surroundings carefully.

Of course, her overly cautious attitude was not necessary at all. Because after turning a corner, she heard a loud explosion in front of her.

After shrinking behind the corner for more than ten minutes and confirming that there was no movement in front of her, Nora controlled her spirit body to float out slowly.

Then he saw a large pit in the center of the passage. Something unrecognizable was lying in the center of the pit. It looked completely broken. The spirit body could even feel the extraordinary power escaping around it.

She carefully manipulated the spirit body to approach slowly, and after confirming that the other party was not moving, she began to inspect the pile of dregs at the bottom of the pit. It seemed to be some kind of metal creation, but it was now so broken that it was impossible to imagine what it looked like when it was intact.

Suddenly there was another loud noise, which scared Nora in the room. She quickly controlled her spirit body to retreat quickly and hid behind the corner.

Outside the screen, Varian was also speechless.

Of course he knew his sister's character. Let alone playing horror games, even if he watched others playing horror games, he would be easily frightened by sudden shocks. And this script, to her, is not much different from a horror game.

Bishop Chino came out of the monitoring room and walked next to Varian, looking at the screen speechlessly as well.

After falling over one after another with the previous two people, the bishop has completely given up the idea of ​​causing trouble - Nora is different from other mercenaries, she is the true successor appointed by His Majesty the Holy See, and even the script has been specially designed .

If he did anything else to prevent Nora from experiencing the Law of Script Sensing, he would probably be arrested by the Heretic Tribunal and shot with an aircraft cannon if the incident came to light.

However, even if there was no external interference this time, Bishop Kino was still shocked to find that the progress of Nora's exploration of the script was not ordinary slow, it was simply outrageously slow, almost reaching the end of the universe.

From the beginning to now, I have only explored two rooms, and I have not encountered a single battle. By the way, has she forgotten that this is just a simulation script? It is to help the experimenter feel and understand specific laws. The highly realistic false environment designed is completely different from reality!

Seeing that the spirit controlled by Nora was still hiding behind the corner, with no intention of coming out for a long time, Bishop Kino finally couldn't help it anymore and said:

"Sir Varian, your sister...well, she is indeed more cautious."

After much deliberation, he couldn't think of any good words, so he could only use "circumspectus" as a subtle hint.

"Yes, in this kind of environment, she always has to observe her surroundings for a long time before taking action." Bishop Varian said with a wry smile.

Bishop Kino was slightly startled, then realized that Bishop Varian meant a pun here:

Prudence, circumspectus, where circum- means "around" and -specere means "see", so when spelled together it means "look east, west, look around".

Looking at the monitoring screen again, Nora controlled the spirit body to slowly float to the top of the ceiling, and then carefully "squirmed" against the corner of the wall. She kept looking at the appearance in front of her. Bishop Chino suddenly felt that Nora at this time was absolutely perfect. Explains the meaning of the word "prudent".

"She... how could she become a transcendent with her character?" After thinking for a long time, Bishop Kino couldn't help but ask.

"Actually, we were also surprised because she had never said she wanted to become a transcendent before." Varian said helplessly, "I tell you, because her parents didn't take her on vacation last year, she boarded the plane to King's Palace in anger. The cruise ship in Constantinople told us that it was just for traveling and relaxing.”

"When I came back this year, I turned out to be a Level 10 transcendent."

"Speaking of which, it's probably because of your brother's failure to fulfill his duties." Bishop Kino said teasingly, "It's not like you can achieve Level 10 overnight. Don't you ever care about your sister?"

"She is usually close to Kapacilin, but after the first wave of demons came, she basically didn't call home." Varian shrugged.

The two chatted for a few more words. Although they have quite different political opinions, they are cardinals of the same class after all, and their personal relationship with each other is not much different. Since Bishop Chino has no intention of disobeying the orders of the Holy See, Varian will naturally not give him a cold face.

But after chatting for a long time, they gradually realized that something was wrong.

Nora, why is the spirit body you control still staying next to the pit and not continuing to explore?