Chapter 23: Bad Visitors
Even in the place where Kashimihama is built in the sea, Ogawa Apartment is a very high-end building in the nearby apartment area.
This apartment is actually composed of two adjacent apartments, two quite neat half-moon-shaped ten-story buildings built together opposite each other.
If you can look down from the sky, the result must be amazing - because it is really a circle.
Looking at the apartment standing in front of him as if he was violating some law, although the two rituals kept walking, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The circular apartment is surrounded by cement and has a tall wall. There is only one way to extend from the main entrance into the apartment, like the trail in front of the Taj Mahal. There is only one road that extends to the lobby of the apartment.
“Hmm—!!”
As she stepped into the walls of the apartment, she suddenly felt dizzy.
Although it was only a very short moment, she did capture the sudden, quite inconsistent dizziness that appeared... That's right, there was indeed a big problem with this place.
"Did you feel like you're going to spit it out just now? Ordinary people probably have really spit out it out long ago, the moment they passed through the outer barrier..."
While the girl's pace was slowing down, Orange Aozaki came over with a cigarette. She looked completely as if she was just silly, and her tone was as relaxed as if she was commenting on the evening TV program.
"But your reaction is very mild, and it's good, it's just an outer barrier. If you feel uncomfortable, my suggestion is that it's better for you to turn your head and go back."
"...This is really a disgusting place." Liang Yi Shi frowned slightly and curled his lips, but he had no intention of turning back.
"So, let's go."
With a gentle smile, Aozaki Orange took the lead in opening the main entrance of the apartment and walked in.
The moment I entered the apartment, the two rituals felt a strange chill. The air outside was obviously cool at night, but the air in the apartment seemed very stuffy.
In this early summer, it is impossible that the heating is turned on too strongly, and she feels like something is breathing.
That's right, the stuffy heat was like the air surrounding the skin, for some reason... as if I was in the body of some huge creature.
“…!!”
Such associations made the girl unable to help but feel chills on her back, which was almost disgusting, so disgusting that she was about to get goosebumps.
"Like a haunted house, the air is filled with ominous aura that cannot be hidden. However, such a building is not uncommon, because it is easy to build a crazy building."
The puppet seemed to be unaware of anything, and seemed to disagree with this feeling. She walked straight to the direction of the elevator, and the sound echoed in the empty apartment hall.
"For example, the color of the wall or the change in the position of the step will cause people to feel dissonant. But speaking, it would be really amazing if you live here every day."
The two rituals did not respond to this question that was not part of her common sense. She just frowned and looked at the surrounding environment.
The inner walls seem to be painted milky white, which looks extremely clean.
This apartment is a building that divides a circle from the middle into two and a half moon shapes, and then puts it together.
The hall maintains the central space of the two buildings. You cannot go directly from the east building to the west building above the second floor. You must first return to the central space and then pass through the hall.
There is no management room or security room for managers here, because it is said that this building was originally intended to be used as a staff dormitory or something, and the first and second floors are used as office facilities.
However, it is no longer used now. Perhaps because of the recession, it can only be used for rent, so it cannot waste electricity so much.
In the center of the space of this rotunda on the first floor, there is only a huge column that looks like the spine of an apartment—
This is an elevator for moving between the first and tenth floors. At the same time, there is something like a staircase on the sides of the column. The elevator and the staircase surrounded a column-shaped object against the wall. This kind of column makes people feel very creepy.
“How many layers are better?”
The elevator door slowly opened, and the two walked in. Then, while Aozaki Orange looked at the elevator floor buttons, he asked the girl behind him.
"Everything is OK. Time is too tight. Hei Tong only found some superficial information... Are there any choices we have except to find it layer by layer?" Liang Yishi frowned slightly and said.
"If that happens, won't you fall into the other party's rhythm?" Orange Aozaki said so naturally, but the movements in her hands were not vague and she had already pressed the button.
The first and second floors were once designed for office facilities, so no one lives there. If you want to search, you have to start from the third floor.
"I still want to remind you that from the moment I entered the apartment, this place has been an artificial alien..."
Then the puppet master turned around and said to the girl.
"As for that man's barrier technique, as long as he makes up his mind to pay the price, he can indeed create this kind of mystery in another world. This is no longer a realm of magic."
That's right, this is a mysterious realm that is impossible based on the common sense of the world today.
Only by exercising taboo powers that are beyond the reach of others can it be called magic.
Just as the two rituals were about to say something, they heard a "buzzing" sound, the elevator under their feet began to operate, and the unnaturally loud mechanical sound also sounded.
At the same time, a strange feeling came. The body was clearly rising, but it felt like it was falling to the ground.
“…”
“…”
Almost at the same time, both women frowned. They didn't speak in a tacit way, but just looked at the design of the elevator seriously.
In the elevator, the four corners of the wall were bent slightly, like twisted pillars.
“What does this design mean?”
"How do I know? This is obviously completely different from when I was in charge of construction before, okay?" Aozaki Orange said lightly, then she hesitated for a moment and added-
"Hei Tong said that the elevator had a malfunction from the beginning. The residents complained quite a bit about this, and by May, no one even used the elevator... I suspect this might be to make the residents get used to it and create some illusion."
After all, I am also a part-time architectural designer, so it’s fine no matter how you say it, and the knowledge and skills in this area are naturally pointed to a certain level.
So Aozaki Orange seemed to have some ideas, but there are too few things I see now that it is not able to confirm them.
At this time, the elevator door opened, and after the elevator came out, there was a corridor leading to the east building. Since the entrance to the apartment was facing the south, the corridor extended toward six o'clock.
This corridor leads to the outside. The end of the outer wall turns towards three o'clock, which is the outer wall of the west building. The entrances to each room of the apartment are on the outside.
The stairs are curved in a right-angle shape, extending upward and downward like entangled with an elevator. They are spiral stairs. They correspond to each floor, with doors open in the middle of the stairs, like halls leading to each floor.
The two rituals and Aozaki Orange walked out of it, and stood in front of the elevator door and looked at the scenery in front of you.
"From here, it should be 301 to 305, and then it's over... If you want to go to the west building, you seem to need to walk around from the back of the elevator." Aozaki Orange just took a simple look and knew the specific layout.
"Isn't it enough to connect directly? Why is it so troublesome?"
"That's too uninteresting. It's just that this is how you can clearly separate black and white..."
The puppet said thoughtfully, and she looked up at the ceiling, "The east building is living, but the west building is vacant... I'm afraid it's not just half of the residents, but the guy deliberately wants to keep it."
"——This is simply a concrete transformation of Liangyi, Tai Chi."
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"Senior Hei Tong, are we really going to wait outside?"
In Aozaki Orange's car, Asakusa Fujino couldn't help but ask.
"Probably... After all, there is nothing we can do to follow in, and it may drag them down." Hei Tonggan also thought for a while and would answer, "At least if something really happens, we can still ask for help from the outside world."
"That's right..." The eldest lady of the Qianshang family couldn't help but sigh, as if she was a little unwilling to accept it.
Her magic eyes are not as advanced as the two rituals, but in many cases it is more useful than the two rituals. However, at critical moments, the difference in the level division of magic eyes is indeed reflected.
She can only perform physical destruction, but the two rituals can "kill" the concept. Whether it is a distorted spiral or a future of measurement, she can "kill" it with a sharp edge by raising her hands and falling.
Just like a certain space is full of poisonous gas, it is useless for Asakusa Fujino, but the two rituals can directly "kill" the poisonous gas itself.
Therefore, Asakusa Fujino can only stay outside as a left-behind person. After all, if you follow in, there are too many sudden possibilities that she cannot cope with. Her ability only lies in offense, not in defense.
"After that being said, what is the relationship between you and Miss Liangyi?"
It seemed that because the atmosphere in the car was too dull, Asakusa Fujino, who was sitting in the back seat, spoke again after quieting for a while. She seemed to have found a topic casually, but her ears were raised in secret.
Hei Tonggan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was also slightly stunned, then hesitated and stretched out his index finger to scratch his cheek, then said, "It's a classmate... a friend I met in high school."
"Friend? This is not clear yet. This is not possible. Senior Hei Tong, you should work harder..." The girl seemed a little dissatisfied with this answer.
But just as she was about to continue asking questions, Kurokigan had already changed the subject. He looked at the rearview mirror and asked, "After that, Fujino, she also transferred to the Reiyuan area not long ago. Do you know her?"
"Is Senior Kuroki's sister? I do know each other. Flowers are a very good girl..." Asakusa Fujino replied subconsciously, "But I dropped out of school two months ago, and now I'm just a phone call..."
Her voice came to an abrupt end because she saw Kurokigan in the passenger seat winking herself through the rearview mirror.
Just as the girl turned her head and looked over to the side, the exaggerated footsteps also sounded, and she came straight towards their car without any pause.
A red shadow appeared in the darkness at the end of the road.
It was a man with dark golden hair and blue eyes, with a deep face like a carved one, and had an elegant temperament. From the perspective of age, he looked like a German in his twenties.
Wearing a red coat, a handsome man like a painting, came to the vehicle and raised his hands cheerfully as if he was greeting him-
"Good evening, you are the people on Orange's side."
"Miss Orange?" Hei Tonggan also looked at the man standing outside the car door. He noticed some unconcealed hostility.
"Yes, even if she knew about Huang, she probably didn't know that there was another old classmate here..."
The man's face was full of kind smiles, like a snake, full of malicious intentions.
"But it doesn't matter. Kill you guys and give her a meeting gift, as if she was greeting me."
Chapter completed!