Infinite Horror: The Strongest Zhongzhou Team

After Kanna Hashimoto finished speaking, the room fell silent once again.

Time began to pass slowly.

Cheng Xiao, perched on Xiao Honglu's shoulder, had a strange expression on his face and finally couldn't help but say:

Aren't you worried about our captain and the others?

“If we are powerful enough, we can kill you before the rest of Hogwarts finds out.”

"After all, only the dead can truly preserve..."

The duet, with different notes on the same track, was spoken by Hashimoto Kanna immediately after Cheng Xiao finished speaking.

"………secret!"

"………secret!"

Just as Cheng Xiao spoke, Hashimoto spoke again, uttering the same "line" as Cheng Xiao.

It's accurate to the second, but if Moss were to judge it, he would find that...

Hashimoto's voice was even slightly forward.

When Cheng Xiao sensed something was wrong for the first time, his eyes widened in surprise.

Looking at the woman who said the same thing as him.

"You're mimicking my speech!" *2
"Wait, you!" *2
Cheng Xiao put his hands on his hips, wanting to say something more, but wisely shut his mouth in the end.

Kanna Hashimoto laughed and said, "Sorry, I couldn't help myself many times, but it's really interesting."

After saying that, he looked in the direction of his hand.

He then gave a very helpless look and tapped his forehead with one hand.

"Alright, alright, let's complete the process then."

"Xiao Honglu, are you asking what a vase is? It's simple, a vase itself is nothing special."

"But it's a door key, and it hasn't been anchored to its destination yet!"

Kanna Hashimoto didn't say the rest.

However, both Cheng Xiao and Xiao Honglu understood what it meant.

The door key—they even had a door key from their last vault raid?

This is a unique magical item in the Harry Potter world.

It appears as an ordinary item (such as an old boot, a broken tire, an empty medicine bottle, a trophy, etc.) and has a directional group teleportation function.

Compared to individual apparitions, this item-based teleportation is more stable and suitable for long-distance or group use.

Although it may be a one-time occurrence.

However, in certain situations, this thing can play a significant role in changing the outcome.

Moreover, Xiao Honglu instantly realized that the magic the other party exchanged was just a bonus; what they were really exchanging was a piece of information.

It consists of three loli girls.

The so-called exchange is just a different way of saying it.

Moreover, from the very beginning until now, the woman who has appeared in front of Xiao Honglu has always given him a vague and unclear feeling.

Especially after she clearly repeated Cheng Xiao's words and guessed his thoughts.

These two points, plus the strange place I mentioned at midnight a few days ago.

Xiao Honglu already had a guess in his mind.

At this moment, Kanna Hashimoto of the Japanese team exuded absolute confidence in her eyes.

This confidence was extremely peculiar, but it was clearly perceptible to Xiao Honglu and Cheng Xiao.

She is waiting.

According to the "trajectory," Xiao Honglu, the wise man of the Zhongzhou team, would grant this request.

Give her the slanted vase that will serve as the door key.

The silent Xiao Honglu reached into his spatial bag, but what he took out was not the slanted vase.

Instead, it was a silver Roman coin.

Upon seeing the coin, Cheng Xiao, who was on the shoulder, immediately twitched his already tense face.

He wanted to speak again.

And that's about it.

The confident Kanna Hashimoto suddenly heard a series of buzzing sounds.

When she picked up her phone and saw the new text constantly being deleted and then reappearing, her expression instantly froze.

By the time she realized what was happening and looked at Xiao Honglu again, she hadn't even had time to do anything.

Then I saw a coin that had been tossed into the air leap into the air.

No sign.

Even now, Xiao Honglu has never uttered a single word about it.

From taking out the coin to tossing it, he acted without the slightest hesitation, displaying extreme decisiveness.

miracly.

This coin has nothing special about it.

But at that moment, it attracted the attention of all three people present.

It was as if, in an instant.

There is nothing else in this world but this rolling coin.

What Cheng Xiao and Hashimoto Kanna, who were focused on the coin, didn't see was...

In Xiao Honglu's bewildered eyes, scenes that had not yet appeared at this time of time were flashing by.

(…Transaction successful…Hashimoto Kanna, having obtained the key, immediately activated…teleportation. It turns out she was lying; this wasn't…a key without an anchored destination…)
(...Zheng Zha and Li Xiao, who rushed over, found nothing... She vanished in an instant... She successfully escaped the Japanese team and gained her freedom.)
(However...)
The coin tumbled and rolled, tracing a cold, silvery arc in the cool morning air.

Its upward trajectory seemed to freeze time, instantly crushing the absolute confidence in Kanna Hashimoto's eyes and replacing it with incredulous astonishment and a hint of barely perceptible panic.

The text on her phone screen was still frantically jumping, disappearing, and rearranging.

It's as if her meticulously crafted plan is being brutally dismantled by an invisible force.

"Wait! That's not...!"

Kanna Hashimoto cried out in alarm, trying to stop the coin that was about to decide her fate from falling.

However, an invisible and immense pressure suddenly descended, not as a physical impact, but as a kind of freezing of "possibility" itself.

She felt like a flying insect that had crashed into amber, her thoughts and movements becoming extremely sluggish.

Just as the coin hovered at its highest point—

hum!
An indescribable, silent shock suddenly spread outwards from the coin.

The space itself is like a mirror tossed with a stone, suddenly distorted and rippling with visible waves.

On Kanna Hashimoto's phone screen, as the coin rolled, lines of text appeared one by one.

The coin eventually fell, and Xiao Honglu caught it again.

All the text on the phone screen disappeared.

When Kanna Hashimoto looked at it, only one sentence remained.

"Xiao Honglu of the Zhongzhou team discovered what you had through... "

Kanna Hashimoto knows perfectly well what the ellipsis represents.

It must be a prop related to time, or something that can predict the future.

"Future Diary, huh?"

With a blank look in his eyes, Xiao Honglu uttered his first words after meeting Hashimoto Kanna.

Upon hearing this name, Kanna Hashimoto's face turned deathly pale.

She finally recognized the true nature of the silver coin; the Zhongzhou team also possessed a tool that could predict the future.

And by sheer coincidence, you happen to run into the person who possesses these items.

At this moment, her greatest reliance, her meticulously planned escape route, was easily severed by a coin in Xiao Honglu's silent counterattack.

Xiao Honglu tilted his head slightly and looked at Hashimoto Kanna, who was almost frozen in place.

A cold smile curved his lips, and his voice was chillingly calm:

"It seems your 'trajectory' has deviated a little, Ms. Hashimoto."

Or rather, in the future you 'see,' is there a scene depicting what would happen after this coin falls?

Xiao Honglu, who had already traveled through the future once, was vigorously rubbing his scalp.

After retrieving the Death Coin from the Main God Space and witnessing its effects and functions, the entire Central Continent team reached a consensus.

That means you absolutely cannot use this item, which has huge side effects, lightly.

But there's always an exception to everything.

And that's what Chu Xuan stipulated for this coin.

It can only be used if you encounter another reincarnator who can interfere with the future, or if someone possesses a similar item.

For example, right now.

Xiao Honglu expressed his feelings:
"I never expected that someone would actually redeem such an item."

"If I remember correctly, the Future Diary, a side story of A-level value, is a kind of device in the form of a keypad phone, which can predict information about the future on that day."

"One of the side effects of this item is that if the Future Diary is damaged, the holder will also die."

"And it seems your teammates don't know about this item."

After saying that, Xiao Honglu looked up at Hashimoto Kanna: "Now I have some extra information in my hands, which seems like it would be good to exchange with you."

"What do you think we should do?"

Kanna Hashimoto looked at her phone, which was constantly displaying text, with a complicated expression.

Her day changed completely from the very beginning.

But she knew that this future was not fixed and would change depending on her answer.

This is the side effect of the clash between two future items.

From this moment on, everything has changed.

Xiao Honglu and Cheng Xiao's attention was focused on Hashimoto Kanna, who was staring at her phone.

Kanna Hashimoto, however, focused her attention on the Future Diary.

She is now trying to use this tool to choose what is currently the best future for herself.

So neither side noticed that a row of ants carrying food had appeared in the jungle on either side.

Ants are a type of creature.

A sense of presence is arguably as essential as air.

Let alone reincarnators, even any magician or ordinary person wouldn't lower their head to look at them.

Because they are too ordinary and insignificant.

A large army of black ants is carrying away today's biggest catch: a pear core that looks like a skull.

Although the pear core had shrunk and withered, the remaining pulp was still a rare and delicious meal for the ants.

Especially in this kind of snowy weather.

In fact, logically speaking, even something like ants...

For Cheng Xiao, who has already unlocked his genetic potential, it is not something that should be ignored.

Coincidentally, there is also a beginner here who has released a spell to plug his ears.

I don't know if it was a pronunciation error or a mistake in the gesture.

The spell, originally intended for external use, also had an effect internally.

At this moment, Cheng Xiao and Xiao Honglu suffered from their lack of experience.

If it were Saito Hajime, Zhu Wen and the others here, the moment Xiao Honglu used the coin.

They would simply choose to run away.

They had no time to discuss deals or what to say.

Because anything they do next, even a single breath or a single movement, could become Death's cruel joke.

And this is true even in the real world.

In this magical world, the things that Death is capable of are unimaginable.

For example, now.

There is never just one gear in the wheel of fate.

At the same time that the ants were moving house.

In the spell class.

Newborn Neville was staring intently at a feather in front of him with a serious expression.

In the potions class.

Snape is on the podium demonstrating to fifth-grade students the consequences of a failed potion.

Outside the stone house, Hagrid, leading Buckbeak, was untying his chains.

(Buckbeak, also known as the hippogriff, is one of Hagrid's pets.)
The office window was opened, and Dumbledore, who had just left, used the Apparition spell.

Wait, wait...

From the moment the coin landed in Xiao Honglu's palm.

Everything in the academy seemed to come alive.

It's like the chain on a gear, the splash of water in a wave, or the snowflakes under an avalanche.

Everything is enveloping them in an invisible way.

"Alright, this time, your Zhongzhou team won."

Kanna Hashimoto revealed an expression completely opposite to her current mood: a big smile.

This answer led to the disappearance of the text in the future diary once again.

Everything changed again.

"As an apology, I think you should need instructions on how to use the door key."

"I traded this for an alchemical formula from my Charms class professor."

Hashimoto pulled a notebook out of his four-dimensional pocket and tossed it over.

But it was at this very moment.

The moment the laptop stretches out in mid-air.

A soft "pop" sound rang out from the previously quiet surroundings.

Then, the blurry scene in the three people's peripheral vision quickly became real.

The three spells suddenly lost their effect at the same time.

And that is, the same clear time in this world.

Xiao Honglu, Cheng Xiao, and Hashimoto all felt a strong pang of heart palpitation.

It was a gust of wind, a wind that blew through everyone.

The nerve response caused by palpitations begins to slow down the surrounding time.

When the eyes are closed and the incantation is stopped, the spell disappears.

A notebook suspended in mid-air.

Ants are carrying a "skull" on the ground.

Buckbeak stretches its wings under the white clouds.

A towering burst of flames erupted from the spell classroom.

All of this unusualness was stimulating the three instigators.

It was in that instant that Xiao Honglu and Cheng Xiao remembered the side effects of this coin.

Cheng Xiao had considered the possibility of death.

But no one expected Death to be so aggressive.

So radical that they can't wait even a moment longer.

The three people's perception of the outside world was scattered by various factors.

Unexpectedly, a sudden beam of magical light shot out from the wall on one side.

With a reaction speed exceeding everyone else's, it hit the white bag directly in front of the bridge itself.

That is, the four-dimensional space bag.

Yes, the magical ray that suddenly appeared did not attack Xiao Honglu, the instigator, nor Cheng Xiao, who was standing next to him.

Instead, they attacked Hashimoto Kanae, who had become an enemy in the past.

However, Xiao Honglu and Cheng Xiao did not feel any relief when they saw this scene.

Because after this magical ray of light entered... (End of Chapter)