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

"who are you!?"

Hino Mino finally seized the opportunity, he stood at the door of the roof, and angrily reprimanded the boy, as if he wanted to vent all the uneasiness these days.

"What's your purpose?!"

"Purpose? That's an interesting question." The boy tilted his head and looked at him, his immature face looked a little surprised after hearing the question. But he seems to be in a good mood today, and he didn't say those incomprehensible words, but smiled and looked at Hino Mino, and said slowly in his mouth:

"I thought I had made it very clear. I didn't expect you to understand it?"

When the black-haired boy said this, with a slight smile, he looked at Hino Mino with clear and empty eyes. It was only at this moment that Hino Minoru suddenly realized that the boy was dressed differently from yesterday. Today he was wearing a neat suit with a white flower on his chest representing a funeral.

This is a dress that represents "formal". But Hino really didn't know why the boy was so formal. Against the backdrop of the bustling night scene of Xuejian Ze, this boy is as mysterious as an abyss, and the lights from his back fall on him brightly, bringing a "sense of alienation" that deviates from reality. You can see the light shining from the buildings in the distance, clearly falling on the boy, but there is no shadow on the ground.

It's as if all you can see of him is a phantom. In fact, he is high above, but cast a substitute to show mercy.

This is also the first time that Izumi Saori and Minamoto saw this boy with their own eyes. Before that, they only knew him from Hino Mi's description. After looking at each other for the first time, they felt the obvious unusualness from each other. Just looking at him, as if his soul was about to leave his body. In an instant, they understood that the other party was what they were looking for-the other party seemed to have no intention of hiding it. The boy stood on the roof, surrounded by dim lights, light and shadow centered on him, cutting each other like sharp blades, the scene had a strong surreal visual impact, definitely not a scene that should appear in reality.

"What should I understand? You captured these people, right?" Hino Minority then asked, "What is your real purpose? Why do you want to keep everyone here!"

"Shut up here?" The boy really smiled this time, and the corners of his calm mouth curled up clearly, and it wasn't a mechanically stiff smile, you could even feel a trace of childishness in that curve. sly.

"Aren't these people all well outside? Maybe you just had a dream and saw some phantoms in the dream? Asking me such a question... Isn't it a bit inappropriate?"

"Don't play dumb!"

That smile made Hino subconsciously feel uneasy. He didn't know what the other party was happy about, but he instinctively felt that this was definitely not a good thing for him. Moreover, the other party's expression today was a bit too rich, the "Longtai" he met yesterday spoke incomprehensible words with a blank expression from the beginning to the end. But today the other party seems to be full of desire for performance, like an artist longing for an audience.

"The real everyone is obviously trapped here by you! Those outside are just puppets controlled by you! What do you want to control so many people? What is the purpose of doing these things?"

"Huh? So you think so?"

After hearing Hino Minoru's words, the boy was obviously stunned for a moment, and he smiled again after a while, this time the corners of his mouth were more obvious than last time, and his eyes were full of pride in the success of the scheme.

"So according to your point of view, you also think that they here are the real them? You also admit that this is the real beautiful place, and wanting to stay here is the choice that the real them will make... What I said Is it right?"

"I……"

Hino paused for a moment, only to realize that he was trapped in a pit. But soon, he realized that the root cause of this situation was that he never expected the other party to answer him like this. When they met last time, he was terrified of the other party's unpredictable and incomprehensible words. But this time, the two parties actually chatted leisurely on the rooftop like this.

"But that's just an illusion!" So this time, his response was much more cautious, "It's just a lie you spun!"

"Lies...but aren't human beings living in lies?"

The boy seemed to be emotional, he withdrew his gaze, and turned his head to look at the night scene in the distance. As he watched, the scenery there changed dreamily, sometimes turning into majestic skyscrapers, sometimes turning into a colorful playground. All this happened without any scruples in front of the three of them, it seemed that the boy had no desire to hide his thoughts at all.

"Human beings have been deceived since birth, haven't they? People who don't believe in justice are taught what justice is, and people who only have interests in their eyes are taught what faith is. People who are in the same position are at odds with each other, and people with different plans flatter each other... …After Yong Ye, Xuejian Ze has long been a hopeless place, unable to find a way forward, unable to find a way out, and even unable to escape."

"Even you know that they prefer to immerse themselves in dreams, don't you?" The boy leaned on the railing and said softly, his face was immature, but his words sounded like a philosopher, "Since it was just a struggle to survive wrapped in lies from beginning to end, Why not just choose a happier dream?"

"Closed, chaotic, strange talk... the days of struggling with these things are too hard." He began to repeat the sentence that Hino had heard.

"Some of them have lost their loved ones, some have lost their lovers, some have lost their health, some have lost their status and property... That's why they chose these illusions, why do they want to deprive them of even this little tenderness? I just want to I want to give them a remnant dream to comfort them."

"But……"

Just as Hino Mitsu opened his mouth to refute, he was interrupted by Gentaichi next to him. The blond-haired boy could see the wavering in his family, so he directly reached out his hand to stop Hino Minoru, interrupting their conversation. Hino looked at him in astonishment, only to see Genta shaking his head slightly at him.

"That's enough, Shit. He's weird, and there's no point in talking to something like that."

When he was speaking, he slowly pulled out the sword at his waist, and the sword reflected a bright arc under the light. From the moment he saw the other party, the blond boy seemed very silent, but only then did Hino Minori understand what he was silent about. It was Minamoto Taichi who was suppressing his wariness and excitement. Seeing Hino Mino's wavering at this moment, he finally couldn't hold it back anymore, and when he spoke to Hino Mino, his tone was full of restlessness that could not be concealed.

"For this kind of thing, just use the swordsman's way of dealing with it." He said slowly, "It's the easiest way to directly defeat them."

"If I were you, I would choose to wait a little longer, at least not now." At this time, Izumi Saori also joined the conversation. She stared closely at the boy opposite, but she didn't agree with Yuan Taiyi's handling method, "Its body is not here, it is not it here, it is an illusion."

"..."

After saying this, Gentaiichi and Hino Minoru were taken aback at the same time, they turned their eyes to the boy opposite, and frowned at his shadowless body.

"No, no, I'm real, I'm real Longtai." But the boy who had been exposed took the initiative to speak. He shook his head repeatedly at the three of them, and actually seriously defended, "At least I think I'm real. Believe me, I'm serious."

"But I probably know which Longtai you are looking for." He smiled again as he spoke, "Do you want me to send you to see him? According to the rules here, all you need is to answer three questions correctly."

"What do you mean! What Longtai? Which Longtai?" Hino was dazed by the vague words, "What are you talking about?!"

"I am Longtai, and the person you are looking for is also Longtai." The boy raised his eyebrows and said, "We are all Longtai, but I am not the Longtai you are looking for."

"It really disappoints me." The boy sighed sadly, "You have been chasing me for so long, but you didn't come to find me. Is that Longtai better than me?"

"..." Hino really didn't know how to answer this question. The other party seemed to be in a crazy state. For a while, he couldn't even judge whether the other party still had the rationality to talk.

"But it doesn't matter. After all, everyone likes that Long Tai better. I'm used to it. But according to the rules here, if you want to meet him, you need to answer three questions correctly. You should know it too, right? Some kind of 'path', a certain way A kind of 'rule'. There is only one road leading to him, and only those who follow the path can reach it."

The moody boy suddenly laughed again, raised his hand and snapped his fingers while speaking, and the three of them were shocked to find that everything around them began to distort with his smile, and the rooftop under their feet shattered as the words fell.

"Actually, no one has chatted with me for a long time. Since you have been chatting with me for so long, the first question..." He beamed, "Let me do it."

"Stop it!"

Seeing that the other party wanted to leave, before Minoru Hino had time to speak, Gentaichi next to him had already reacted first. He galloped forward, drew his saber instantly, and the saber's light bloomed around the young man like a flower. In the blink of an eye, the tip of the knife pointed at the boy.

But still slow.

There has been a change in the venue. With the rooftop where they were standing as the center of the circle, the ground under their feet was distorted like ripples, and the change had been completed in an instant. When Genta stepped forward, the scene was still the night sky and the rooftop, but when the sword light arrived, it had turned into a warm room with a fireplace. The blond boy's slash was as clear as snow, as lonely as cherry blossoms, and the moment he drew his sword, he had an indomitable power. But the slash was missed, and when the tip of the knife arrived, the boy's position had already turned into a thick wall, leaving only the hollow-splitting blade deeply sunk into the wall.

"Hey, why are you in such a hurry?"

And the boy's voice didn't move away. Although his figure was no longer visible in the space, his voice was still echoing around. In the void, you can hear his chuckle, playful and teasing.

"This kind of mentality can't solve the puzzles I have posed. I still suggest that you observe patiently."

"..."

Yuan Taiyi who was being ridiculed couldn't help being a little silent. After he glanced at the wall next to him, he couldn't help but lower his head and look down at the sword in his hand. Up to this moment, he can still feel the trembling feedback from the sword, still reminding him that what he slashed at that moment was an absolutely real wall—even though the wall just appeared in front of them a second ago .

The scene does change.

The blond boy looked around silently, the surrounding environment had changed into a warm and bright room, the fire source of the fireplace continued to emit warm heat, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt wood.

"Taiyi, are you alright?"

Seeing this, Hino hurriedly ran towards Yuan Taiyi. Yuan Taiyi turned his head to look at him when he heard that, and could see his face flushed by the light from the fireplace. The blond boy didn't need to look, he knew that he himself looked like this at the moment. In less than a second, the scene inside had been completely replaced, and even their own bodies had changed. The three of them who had been wrapped by the night breeze on the rooftop a second ago were completely surrounded by warmth, and even their bodies were scorched hot.

This is a terrible phenomenon. In occultism, "individual" is a "boundary" with a special meaning, and it is necessary to pay a heavy price to directly break through this boundary. But the other party did it silently, and even Izumi Saori's face showed faint shock, her eyes widened and she began to observe her surroundings.

"I'm fine."

The blond boy shook his head at Fa Xiao to indicate that he was fine, then turned his head and began to observe the room where they were locked up. Now that the accident has happened, the most urgent task is to find a way to break the situation, rather than continue to waste here.

So at this moment, they noticed what kind of room it was. For young people living in the 21st century, this building is old enough, and the retro design of the room itself makes it even more quaint. But even so, you can still feel that it is a modern product in terms of materials and structure. The walls of the house are painted with modern materials, and the broken parts of the walls expose steel bars and cement.

But the room in front of them at this moment is completely different. If the original building is just "an antique", then this one at this moment is a real ancient product. The layout of the room is in a typical medieval style. The four walls are painted with white ash that is slightly rough in terms of modern craftsmanship, and oil painting frames of various sizes are hung on it. The adjacent fireplace is made of beige marble, and the floor is hardwood with a knotted rug.

These things are old without being trite. The stone wall of the fireplace is full of traces left by years of smoke, and it is still increasing today. There are unburned wood in the wooden barrel next to it, showing a fresh light under the light of the fire. Yellow, even the corners of the picture frames on the wall were wiped clean and tidy, no dust could be found. A kind of "popularity" can be felt in this room, as if there were still people living in this room until just now, and they are the intruders from outside.

The only weird thing is the large and small blank picture frames on the walls. All kinds of traces indicate that there were paintings in the frame, but now there is only a bright yellow canvas hanging in the frame, with an inexplicable sense of emptiness. A person-high oil painting easel is placed in the center of the room. There is a prepared canvas stretched on it, but there is nothing on the canvas at the moment, and there is no painting on it.

"You say it's a puzzle?"

The first question was Izumi Saori. When Hino Minoru ran towards Yugen Taiyi earlier, she had already stood in place and began to observe the surroundings, and she was the first to ask questions at this moment, asking the boy in the void.

"But there's only one room here. What are we supposed to unravel? Find a way out? Find something? Or use what's in the room to piece together something?"

"Who knows?" The boy's voice chuckled, "Maybe it's one of the options you just mentioned? Maybe it's not~. In short, all the hints are already in this room. When you find the right direction, It’s natural to know what to answer.”

"What if we can't solve it?"

This is the worst answer and almost equals no hint. But Izumi Saori hugged the book in her arms tightly and forced herself to calm down. She then asked, considering the worst outcome.

"Ah... that might be a bit bad. There's no food or water here..."

The boy was taken aback by this question, as if he hadn't thought about this situation, and only started to think about it when he heard the girl's question.

"Then I'll probably die here~"

But he quickly laughed again, and the only thing he could convey to the three of them was the sound, but when it came to death, you could still hear the maniacal excitement in that voice.

"But it makes sense, doesn't it?"

"If you want secrets, you should pay the price."