Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

But now is not the time to think about these things; the most urgent task is to reunite with Sherlock.

Diya took out the tracker she had prepared earlier, adjusted the antenna, and pressed the power button.

Beep~

After a soft sound, the red dot representing Dia appeared in the center of the screen.

Diya held her breath, focusing intently on the images on the tracker.

The next moment, a green icon representing Sherlock lit up on the screen.

The icon trembled for a moment, and finally slowly overlapped with Dia's red icon!

Upon seeing this, Dia's eyes lit up immediately:

That means he's right here in the building I'm standing in!

As long as he goes down the stairs, he will be able to find Sherlock and Satchel!

If this conjecture is correct, it could also mean one more thing—

It's likely that everyone who entered through that earthen slope will end up on the same balcony when they enter the secret realm!

In other words, Nasby's hiding place for his country's treasures shouldn't be too far away.

Dia estimated that it was at least fifty meters from his feet to the balcony of another building.

Given that those soldiers are all ordinary people, and considering their work maintaining the treasures in the national treasury, they are most likely to store the national treasury in this building right under their feet!

Regardless of the facts, let's go down and take a look!

Dia summoned the [Atmosphere Maker], letting it expand, and then rode on this cloud, slowly flying over the edge of the building and sinking downwards.

If you don't want to run into anyone else on the stairs, this is the safest way to quietly observe the situation floor by floor.

Chapter 437 Miyazaki Architecture × Four-Person Shift

Boom! !

A muffled thud echoed continuously from the dark stairwell, reverberating towards the endless spiral bottom.

Uvogin slowly withdrew his fist, a rare look of seriousness appearing in his eyes. He turned to Kuroro beside him and said in a deep voice:

"The walls here are extremely hard, at least several times harder than ordinary granite, making them very difficult to destroy. If a war were to break out here, the narrow terrain and the difficult-to-destroy enclosed environment would easily turn it into a meat grinder."

Large enemies, especially Uvogin, are easy targets for concentrated fire.

The two stood by a spiral staircase and talked as if nothing had happened.

Above them, sharp sword flashes and the sounds of fists clashing echoed continuously. Several corpses were thrown down, their limbs and flesh torn to pieces by the impact on the steps, a truly gruesome sight.

Upon closer inspection, the corpses were wearing the uniforms of the Kakin Kingdom's army.

Kuroro didn't respond to Uvogin. Instead, he put his hands in his pockets, tilted his head back, and calmly surveyed his surroundings.

'Each floor of this building is approximately 40 meters long and 30 meters wide, and the structures are all different. This floor is divided into four diagonal rooms by a cross-shaped passageway; the structure is very simple…'

'In the center of the cross passageway is a spiral staircase built of some kind of extremely hard stone, connecting each floor and leading to the bottom of the building, if the building truly has a bottom.'

Suddenly the sound coming from above stopped abruptly.

Instead, there were faint, scattered footsteps.

Immediately afterwards, Feitan and Phinks appeared on the spiral staircase with a subtle sense of distance.

It's like that feeling when the elevator is crowded with office workers who know they've already had an accident and don't want to get close to anyone.

"..."

Kuroro looked at Feitan, who looked constipated, and asked with a subtle expression:

"What happened? Have the royal army all been cleared out?"

"It's all cleaned up, but he's fallen back into his old ways. He's probably holding his breath now."

"Finks said calmly."

As he spoke, he pointed to the wounds on Feitan's body.

Feitan snorted coldly, barely suppressing his urge to explode, his dry, cold voice emanating in a low, menacing tone:

"Alright, hurry up and find that damn artifact, then get out of here. I'm going to wipe out all the remaining royal soldiers!"

Ever since they entered this building, they've been constantly ambushed by these soldiers who seem to appear out of nowhere, it's incredibly annoying.

"But then again, does anyone know how to get out of this place?"

Phinks looked around in confusion and said:

“The buildings outside are all exactly the same as this one. We’ve gone down more than sixty floors and still can’t see the bottom. Could it be that this so-called secret realm is only for entering and not for leaving?”

Although the Phantom Troupe had traveled the world, they knew almost nothing about secret realms.

We were able to find it thanks to Melina.

According to her at the time, the person who discovered this secret place was also her companion, but unfortunately, he was later secretly executed by the Kakin royal family.

Kuroro glanced at him, about to speak.

"Secret Realm".

A calm and composed female voice suddenly came from downstairs:

"Of course there are in and out, and it's the same here. You can go out through the back door."

Finks was startled and quickly peered down.

It turned out to be Melina with her companions, slowly walking uphill with an oil lamp in hand!

'How is that possible...'

Finks looked at Melena and her group, who were actually below them, with utter bewilderment.

Logically speaking, they were the first to enter the secret realm and immediately began exploring the building from below.

Therefore, everyone else should be behind them, or, from a vertical spatial perspective, "above" them.

After all, there was only one spiral staircase running through the building, and Kuroro and his group were firmly stuck in the middle. How could anyone else possibly get in front of them or "below" them?

Did they descend from the outside of the building to below us and then climb in through the window?

Finks looked at the small window on every floor, through which he could see the light drizzle outside.

That makes sense.

It just makes Melina and her group look like idiots.

What's the point of risking falling to climb the outer wall?

After all, what they're looking for must be inside the building.

Seemingly sensing Phinks's confusion, Kuroro thoughtfully looked up at the floor above and then at the floor beside him.

If the future building is a rooftop, with the top of the building considered the first floor, and each subsequent floor is counted by one, then their location would be the 65th floor.

'Building structure...'

Kuroro suddenly smiled, a knowing glint in his eyes, and looked at Melena, who was walking towards him below, and asked:

"Miss Morina, from which floor did you change your route?"

Melena finally stopped a few meters away from Kuroro and the others on the next floor, and chuckled softly:

"You can change it when you reach the 41st floor."

"Change route? What do you mean, Kuroro? Are you playing riddles with her?"

Uvogin, who had listened in on the whole thing without saying a word, finally couldn't sit still any longer and couldn't help but ask a question.

Kuroro turned to the three of them and began to explain:

"You may not have noticed, but the structure of each layer here is not static. There are actually some differences between the layers above and below."

“These differences are not obvious, but they accumulate little by little and are enough to make this layer quite different from the first layer when you first enter.”

“300 years ago, there was a very famous architect named Miyazaki, who was particularly good at building buildings with a paradoxical spiral theme.”

"What makes his work special is that he designs unusual routes in the ordinary through techniques such as guiding the eye, subconscious illusions, and connecting staircases and rooms. He deliberately places these hidden routes in blind spots. If you take a normal route, you may never discover the other hidden routes."

"Through a hidden and complex route arrangement, with staircases and corridors intertwined and connected between upper and lower levels, plus a little bit of seemingly insignificant psychological suggestion, this building becomes like the other party's amusement park, full of secret passages and side paths."

"It seems that the interior space of this building is much larger than it appears on the surface."

Kuroro looked at the floor beneath his feet with great interest.

This is a masterpiece by a master architect; it could be considered a treasure, but unfortunately, it cannot be stolen…

But that's not the point. The point is—

"Miss Morina, you seem to know this building very well?"

Kuroro subtly launched a probing attack.

The other party was able to see through the problem before him, which shows that their eyesight is quite amazing, or perhaps they had already conducted in-depth research on this building?

This is not impossible, after all, she knew about the existence of this secret realm in advance.

In that case, shouldn't they also know where the royal army put the artifact?

However, Melina seemed to have seen through Kuroro's thoughts and gently shook her head:

"I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you. I only know a few floors of this building. That's the result of the discoverer of this secret realm's solo exploration. He successfully escaped the secret realm on the 50th floor and told me everything in advance."

“After that, the royal army secretly executed him.”

Escape the secret realm...

Kuroro's heart stirred slightly, and he and the others who had heard Melena's words all looked up at the dark ceiling.

You can escape the secret realm at level 50, which is a relatively short distance. However, if you continue to explore downwards, the distance will be much longer.

The most troublesome thing is that the King's army also knows this.

If they continue downwards without paying attention to their surroundings, the royal army that enters the secret realm later might lie in wait, block off the fiftieth floor, or lay traps or something similar.