Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk

"Cough cough cough—!"

Hino Mitsu knelt on the ground, his eyes were red and swollen, and tears flowed down his cheeks. He struggled to raise his head and looked at the boy opposite, stretched out his hand and grabbed his calf forcefully, tears still flowed out of his eyes uncontrollably.

"what did you do to me?"

"Didn't do anything."

However, the boy's expression was calm, elegant and calm, even though his thin body was almost unsteady due to the shaking of Hino Mino, he still had that indifferent tone.

"These sorrows are yours, but you forgot. I helped you remember, that's all."

"Help me...remember?"

"Man is a kind of animal that is very good at self-deception... No, maybe I should be gentle and call it 'self-protection'?" The boy tilted his head and let out a mocking sneer, "When you meet When the impact is too big, your brain will automatically help you forget those painful things. So the sadness is forgotten like this, and you can go into battle lightly and move on to the next stage.”

He looked down at Minoru Hino from a high position, and there was sarcasm and pity in his gaze.

"It's fine to forget the things that are too sad, and just treat the things that are too regrettable as if they don't exist. You just need to be able to deceive yourself to live with peace of mind, and even...to deceive yourself that you are alive."

"But the forgotten things are still hidden there after all. What's the use of escaping? One day your past will catch up with you, and on that day you have nothing to hide in front of sadness."

"Escape? Forget? How is it possible?"

Hino's voice trembled in grief, but his mind was still clear and he did not accept the accusation. He tried his best to raise his head and glared at the boy, struggling to growl.

"The blood feud of parents, the hatred of so many relatives, the depravity of Uncle Yuan... I have never forgotten these things! One day I will find the root of these disasters, one day I will..."

"Your hatred..."

However, before the boy's roar was finished, the boy interrupted his words coldly, with a contemptuous and disdainful tone. He leaned down to get close to Hino Minori, and looked at him with those pitch-black pupils, his eyes were as deep as an abyss.

"Is it limited to this?"

"..."

In an instant, the boy's roar stopped abruptly. He stared blankly at the boy opposite, not so much hesitant as he was confused. It seemed that it took him a while to hear the boy's words clearly, with an expression of ignorance appearing on his face. Is it a funny or absurd expression.

Since human beings have written records, parents and relatives are the deepest blood feud... His words are "nothing more"?

"How can a selfish creature like a human being have the deepest hatred for someone else?"

"Boom—!"

The boy straightened up slowly from his gaze, and looked up at the sky. The cloudy dome was full of thunder and thunder, and it was a deep blue. The thick clouds rolled up like a dragon, and the army was oppressive. There was another drizzle of rain in the sky, falling from the misty sky, and it hit the two of them with a heavy sense of weight.

"This kind of sadness that springs from the soul...of course it is your own."

Mine?

Hino Minoru, who was kneeling on the ground, was shocked suddenly. He really wanted to refute that there was nothing to be sad about himself, but the boy's words were like a key dropped, and for a moment, turbulent emotions flowed from his body like a tidal wave. The bottom of my heart welled up. He really couldn't help but began to grieve and hate, bitterness and rage seemed to emerge from the bottom of his soul, as if he had really forgotten something, the bloody vendetta that happened to him.

I hate it so much, that kind of sadness stretches down my spine and penetrates my heart. Hino cried bitterly, as if he heard his own destruction and decay, as if he heard the wind and sand penetrate into his dry skull. For a moment, there seemed to be some memory in his brain. In a catastrophe where he was powerless to struggle, he was destroyed without any resistance, leaving broken bones falling between the sand and sand. On that day, the sky rained fire, Sand rolled up on the ground.

But in the midst of the calamity, he can do nothing, all he can do is hate, endless hatred, blood and tears flow out of his burning eyes, which are dried up into blood scabs by the scorching wind. The burned ground did not grow grass blades until many years later, only the withered yellow sand was blown by the wind and knocked on the hollow skulls.

How could he have such a memory? Hino held her head in a daze. Absolutely not wrong, it really belonged to his despair, so thick that it seemed to burst out from the bottom of his heart, flustered, uninhibited and uncontrollable. At that moment, he actually felt that what the boy said was right. The greatest hatred of a human being is always on him, just like the final despair of a person who jumped off a cliff and fell in mid-air. Cells are trying to survive, but you can't catch even a speck of life in mid-air. In the end, before the consciousness disappears, the only thing left in your body is hatred, the hatred that is so deep that it is difficult to erase it even if it is broken into pieces.

It was his own funeral - he suddenly remembered the boy's words. The funeral was meant for himself.

"I don't understand." Hino yelled at the other party, his voice was hoarse as if blood was dripping from his throat, "What's going on here?"

"Those are things that you have forgotten. I just think it's too hard for you to live with those burdens." The boy said calmly to him, "Eternal night, chaos, navi's struggle... Since it is already a dream, why do you still have it?" To live so hard?"

"Boom boom boom—!"

The thunder in the sky continued, and the thunder became denser and clearer, and in the end it even showed continuous vibrations. Hino Mino gradually heard a different meaning from the thunder, as if it was not thunder, but...

Who is knocking at the door?

But who can knock out such a thunderous sound? Who can knock on the door in the sky?

"Your friend has come to see you."

The boy glanced at the sky again, lowered his head and said softly to Hino Mimi, his figure also seemed a little illusory because of the thunderous knock on the door, but the voice was still very calm, and there was no disturbance from it.

"my friend?"

A little bit of clarity began to appear in Hino Mino's mind. He seemed to think of something, but he couldn't grasp it. With the sound of thunder, he gradually had the illusion of waking up, as if his brain was gradually recovering from the chaos, and memories in his mind began to return.

"They want to get you back," the boy continued, looking at Mimi Hino as he spoke, "Do you want to go back?"

"Of course I..."

How could anyone be willing to stay in such a painful place, Hino Mino subconsciously wanted to answer, but when he was halfway through the sentence, he suddenly found that he couldn't say this sentence, his brain was in a mess, but he instinctively felt that this was The time he was the closest to a certain "truth", he couldn't refuse this temptation, and he supported himself to come here in pursuit of a certain answer.

And as the raindrops fell, the sadness gradually subsided from his body. In the heavy rain, he seemed to have experienced some kind of rebirth. He felt as if he had merged into this space, even the air made him feel peaceful, Xue Jianze, who had never experienced the eternal night, even the sea breeze was soaked with prosperity. He suddenly understood that if he got up from the ground and went home now, he would be able to eat delicious dinner and see the smiling faces of his parents. own home.

"I……"

He found that he really couldn't refuse the boy's invitation. This question has endless magic power, making it impossible for people to nod under this question.

"Since you can't decide, you might as well make a decision later."

But at this moment, it was the boy who interrupted his thoughts, slowly shook his head at him, turned around and wanted to leave from his side.

"Wait! What are you talking about? Speak clearly! What destruction? What disaster? What the hell do you know?"

Seeing that the boy was about to leave like this, Hino Mino panicked. He got up from the ground to stop the boy from leaving.

"I know that your life is too hard, and I want you to have a dreamland of comfort." But the boy just left, becoming more and more illusory as he moved away from his body, "I can let you go this time, when you want Understood, come find me again."

"Wait! Where are you going? You—!"

...

"Bang—!"

"right here!"

Gentaichi slammed down the iron door in front of him, broke into the door, and saw the unconscious Hino Mino on the ground inside.

"Xiaoshi!"

He rushed over quickly and fell beside Hino Mino, but when he crossed that door, he suddenly had a subtle feeling, as if he had passed through some barrier. Izumi Saori, who was outside the door, looked at the door in front of her delicately, and slowly stepped across the middle with a thoughtful expression.

At that moment, as if some barrier had been broken through, the surrounding mist gradually disappeared, and a certain sense of reality suddenly came from the environment. It was like stepping through the door and returning to reality. After Izumi Saori walked in the door, she tried to go back outside again, but she couldn't get back the feeling of being wrapped in the mist.

"Um……"

Hino woke up slowly, frowned at Gentaichi in front of him, and then at Saori Izumi behind.

"I seem to have a dream..."

"We did it too, but this is not the place to talk." Yuan Taiyi interrupted him, picked him up from the ground, and turned his head to look at Izumi Saori behind him, "Let's leave here first... Izumi-san , can you find a way out?"

"The way to leave?" Izumi Saori had a strange expression, "I think we are already outside now."

This is a secret room with no windows, so the moment they walked through the door, they were shrouded in shadows. Yuan Taiyi was a little too nervous, and failed to notice the subtle changes between the light and shadow.

"...Really?" Gentaichi's eyes were fixed, as if he had also reflected the change when he just entered the door, but he still didn't say much, just took a deep breath, looked at Hino Minoru, turned around and said go outside.

"Then let's go back first."

"Um."

So the three supported each other and walked from the door, trotted all the way through the corridor, and walked to the central hall. In the dim hall, they walked through the main hall without raising their heads, and walked towards the corridor where the exit was located.

Nothing happened during the whole process, and the dark hall let them go peacefully. It's just that when the three of them were about to walk out of the door that was kicked down by someone, Izumi Saori, who was walking at the end, looked back vaguely at the second floor behind her, and her eyes seemed to catch two figures in the shadows.

"..."

But after just a quick glance, she chose to leave without hesitation.

...

"Master, they are leaving."

Markesias, who was standing on the second floor, watched the three figures quickly pass through the hall below, and after watching them go to the exit corridor, turned his head to look at Jian Shenxiu next to him.

"Go where they just came out."

Seeing Shenxiu watching the back of them leaving, he didn't say anything, until there was no more sound from the other side of the corridor, and after confirming that they had left, he turned and walked towards the direction they just came out of.

"yes!"

This decision made Markesias' eyes light up, and he immediately understood the idea of ​​seeing Shenxiu—since the two of them couldn't find the way because they were rejected strangely, they might as well follow the path that the chosen person walked to find clue. But even so, Marchesias still had no confidence in his heart. Because just now they have explored the whole building in detail, no matter what kind of place the other party is going, it is probably the road they have just investigated.

This building has really been cleaned up many times - this is the biggest emotion for the two of them after investigating all the way. It's hard to imagine what kind of mentality the people had in cleaning up here. They really didn't leave any clues for future generations to extend.

Soon, the two of them entered a corner room - Gentai and the two just broke through the door. Like all the other rooms, it was empty and contained nothing. The only difference might be that the actions of the three of them disturbed the dust on the ground just now, making the air in this room more dusty than other rooms.

but……

As he searched, the sharp-eyed Jian Shenxiu suddenly focused his attention on the corner of the room. There were some unburned ashes in the place where the door was stuck in this room. Cut the hanging rope.

This is... unburned paper money and Shimenawawa?

Seeing that Shenxiu recognized the types of those items, his eyes could not help but froze slightly.

Judging by how rotten things are, they won't be used for long. A few years ago, someone did rituals here...

this room...

ever died?