Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Well, well, you might run into something you shouldn't, but just hide. I'll take care of it as soon as possible."

"Are you going to another hall? I remember you entered someone's coordinates into your phone before?"

Mona recalled the location of the barrier, a strange place that had no corresponding location in the real world.

"Well... that's not the case. I have a different kind of power than the cognitive world. Anyway, you'll find out when someone goes with me."

"Is it going to be life-threatening?"

Amamiya Ren raised a crucial question, causing Zhi Xing, who wanted to avoid the consequences, to think for a few seconds before speaking:

"If I die, the other party won't be able to survive either."

Seeing everyone becoming more cautious, Zhixing had no choice but to tell them the reason he had just made up:

"Don't worry, this is a paradox. I need to pay a price to change the future. If the price is death, it will cause a reduction in volunteers, and this behavior will have an even greater cost. This price is obviously not something I need to bear right now."

"So, as long as someone comes with me, they will be the key person to ensure that I can survive the cost since I can't change so many destinies."

Chapter 243 Accelerated Exploration Progress

"Although I don't quite understand, but you need someone to help you, right? Then let me help you."

After calming down, Gao Juanxing volunteered.

"You? That's fine too, as long as it's not Ryuji or Mona."

Zhixing was still explaining his reasons to Amamiya Ren, but after hearing Takamaki An's application, he stopped talking.

"Huh? What do you mean you can just leave me and Mona alone? Are you, looking for trouble?"

Long Si suddenly found out that he was an outsider from the beginning. Although he didn't quite understand Zhixing's request, he was still a little unhappy. After all, he had been speaking in favor of four people before, but in the end it was an internal decision with only two people to choose from.

"It seems that Mr. Sakai's ability requires touch to be triggered, and this touch seems to cause something to happen, so he wants to choose from those who have already touched him."

Amamiya Ren patted Ryuji's shoulder and explained.

"What about me? I also want to see your strength. Take me with you."

Mona didn't care too much about the unclear reason. Instead, she knew that Ms. Xing seemed to be hiding alone in another hall to avoid something, so she volunteered to go with her.

"No, there's no way I could touch you. Even if Ryuji wanted to, I'd be fine with it, but not you."

Zhihang shook his head and rejected Mona's volunteering.

"Why? Does it have anything to do with my identity? Can you explain?"

"can."

"?!"

Mona just followed up the topic and asked, wanting to know how she could find out her life experience, but she never expected that the paper bank that had made a transaction yesterday and had to keep it confidential would suddenly agree.

"I've tested it. If the power I have is limited to this level, then it's okay to tell you. After all, my personality mask wasn't directly granted by this power."

"But, you have to wait until I get back."

"Really? Then it's a deal! When you're done with your work, you must tell me my life story!"

Mona shouted happily, but then looked at Gao Juan, feeling that he was a bit of a betrayal, so he warned:

"Don't hurt Ms. Xing, otherwise, I would rather you not tell me, I won't let Ms. Xing be in danger!"

"Thank you, Mona, but it's okay. I just wanted to confirm what kind of power is affecting my friend."

Gao Juan An waved her hand, telling Mona to relax, then looked at the paper and said:

"Shiho, is she really okay? That fate thing really won't affect her, right?"

"Don't worry, she's fine now. It's just that we need to speed up the search of Kamoshida Hall. Otherwise, Suzui Shiho, the victim, will face real-life retaliation."

Zhi Xing looked at the Phantom Thieves who had no other objections, and extended his hand towards Takamaki An.

Gao Juanxing also took a deep breath, and then the hand in the leather suit grasped Zhixing's hand.

After Zhixing pondered for a few seconds, he and Gao Juanxing disappeared from the sight of the two people and the cat.

"Ms. Xing is really strange. It doesn't feel like any other palace at all."

Mona rushed forward a few steps to the place where Zhixing had just stood, but felt nothing.

"Tsk, we're already here, but now we have to wait for them here again."

Ryuji was also dissatisfied with this. He had clearly come to the hall, but he had to wait here in vain doing nothing. This reminded Ryuji of the last experience when he was trapped in Kamoshida Hall.

"No, we can use this time to explore the maze first."

Amamiya Ren heard Ryuji's complaints and made a decision immediately.

"Aren't we going to wait for them? That Sakai guy has no power, but the female leopard is a fighting force."

"You've just heard it, right? Kamoshida isn't here himself, but is ambushing Mr. Sakai in the hospital. So now is the best time to explore."

Amamiya Ren rummaged around in her pockets and quickly pulled out a paintbrush. She then said to her teammates:

"I'll mark the forks along the way. When they come back, we can just follow them. Gao Juanxun can clean up any enemies we might encounter along the way."

"You're amazing, Joker!"

Hearing this, Long Si immediately perked up, and Mona, thinking of Ms. Xing's concern for her friend's safety, also said with full fighting spirit:

"Then without further ado, let's get started now, Phantom Thieves, attack!!"

When the Phantom Thieves decided to explore the maze, Takamaki An, who had returned to her school uniform, was covering her mouth and retreating in small steps with some fear.

"No...don't...this kind of thing is weird no matter how you think about it!"

Zhi Xing, who was approaching Gao Juanxue step by step, shook his head and denied it:

"This is my territory, so be obedient and stop resisting. Our time is limited and your classmates are waiting for you. Let's finish this quickly."

"But it really makes people physically uncomfortable."

Gao Juanxing retreated to the conveyor belt of the assembly line. Seeing that she had no escape, she turned her face away and covered her nose.

"This is just to be on the safe side. I'm not afraid, so why should you be afraid?"

As Zhixing said this, he stuffed the blood-stained cotton ball in his hand into Gao Juanxing's arms.

Then he slowly pressed down his arm, which was no longer bleeding much, and turned and walked away.

"If you're in real danger, this will allow you to disguise yourself temporarily. After all, you've lost your Phantom Thief powers and are just an ordinary high school girl. I'd be sorry if I caused you to get into trouble because of me."

There was no time to prepare and explain the rules he had written in Liangshanpo, so Zhixing could only use the materials available. He took some cotton balls created by the witch's barrier scattered around as materials to cover up the smell, and then sprinkled them with his own blood, which contained an unknown amount of witch's magic power.

Then Zhixing communicated the little bear's name in his mind, directly crossed the barrier of space, and came to the witch's room.

Zhi Xing raised his head and looked at the huge but clumsy witch's body and the empty bowl beside it, and couldn't help but sigh.

Because of the cognitive space, witches can communicate normally to a certain extent. This is a good thing. It can even allow the Witch's Kiss to return to the barrier, which can be regarded as a solution to the negative effects that witches have always had.

But at the same time, Zhixing also knew that he had to come in and drink the soup on time and in the right amount. Otherwise, the thing that Zhixing called despair, but was actually the disaster of Kyubey's wish, would trouble the witch and force the witch to eat other people.

Even though the witch in the movie maintains Mitakihara's life for more than a month without harming ordinary people, that's because the witch herself doesn't need to use the souls of ordinary people to maintain the consumption of the barrier.

In order to reduce the disaster, we have to move towards the direction where people are.

Kyubey's barrier blocked the Principle of the Circle that relied on wishes in a small area, and naturally prevented the disaster that targeted the magical girl's wish.

Although this contains some speculation about the paper industry.

But when he saw that the little bear, who he knew could talk, still chose the colorful black soup, Zhixing realized that he could no longer cancel the witch's playful behavior as he had done before.

This is to prevent the medicinal power of the soup concentrated again in this cognitive world from being too strong, causing one to turn into a familiar by drinking it mouthful by mouthful.

To be on the safe side, the paper company decided to use the active activation and reset method they had just discovered to digest the soup.

"You can really enter and exit the witch's barrier freely, little bear."

[Although I can't go out, I can still go out from here! ]

Standing on the maintenance table, Zhi Xing looked at the empty bowl in front of him, then looked at the illusory figure of the girl Xiao Xiong who appeared beside him, and couldn't help but ask curiously:

"You seem to be just a projection. In this state, you should be the same as Sakura Futaba's. You can only talk and can't affect real objects, right? Except for touching me."

Squatting down and looking curiously at the gap between the bear's floating legs and the ground, Zhixing raised his own doubts.

[You underestimate me? Then I'll teach you a lesson!]

The projected little bear pointed angrily at the paper line that had been lying on the ground to observe the contact surface.

Then, a shadow enveloped the paper and then lifted it up.

Only then did Zhixing understand the purpose of the little bear's fingers.

That was commanding the witch's real body to tie up Zhi Xing and lift him up.

Because the witch has no fingers, it feels like being tied up by senior Mami. Zhixing thought the witch was going to take him somewhere.

But as the paper line continued to rise, the horizontal distance did not change, and the paper line realized that it had guessed wrong.

Then, Zhi Xing looked at the witch and saw the big mouth with stitches on it, which was rapidly enlarging in his field of vision.

"Could it be that!!"

Before Zhixing could finish his words, he was swallowed by the witch in one gulp and was pulled inside by a rope.

After a while, the dark space suddenly lit up, Zhixing opened his eyes, and returned to the room surrounded by white walls.

The shadow bear sat across from the middle table, looking at the paper with a smile, and reached out to push the soup bowl on the table.

Zhixing shook his head, looked at his wrist where the wound had not healed, then sat down opposite Little Bear, picked up the bowl of soup and said to Little Bear:

"I'll be sorry to trouble you to take care of me in the future. I will also find a chance to help you get out of your current situation."

【You should protect yourself first. 】

The girl Xiao Xiong looked at the sleeve soaked with blood and responded with some dissatisfaction.

Zhi Xing looked at his wound and said indifferently:

"I will. I will do it."

After saying that, Zhi Xing carefully began to touch the soup, feeling the tasteless liquid. Just by contact, it began to be automatically absorbed into his body. He paid attention to the changes in height while feeling the changes in his body.

Sure enough, the demonization happened again.

Feeling the strange sensation coming from his body, Zhixing sighed, confirmed the remaining amount of soup, and then, while the change had not yet affected the position of his arms, he tilted his head back and poured the entire soup into his mouth.

Watching his body change as a result, Zhixing took a deep breath and repeated his belief.

"Fate is unchangeable, so Takamaki An won't die because of this, so I will definitely be able to recover. So please show up and reset it quickly! But please don't tell me that I need to wait until I'm near death before I can trigger it quickly!"

Time passed minute by minute.

After the Phantom Thieves decided to explore, they soon discovered that the number of soldiers was indeed much smaller, so the time originally needed to fight monsters was omitted.

In addition, as the original palace, Kamoshida was not as big as the palaces that the Phantom Thieves encountered later. After all, it had just established its own order. Kamoshida was just about to enjoy it when he was rejected by Takamaki An without hesitation.

Driven by Amamiya Ren and the others who were intent on exploring the palace, they ignored the corners where small things might exist and focused on decrypting and opening doors. The Phantom Thieves successfully found the desire hidden in the core of the deepest Kamoshida Palace.

After Mona gave some knowledge about the secret treasure to Amamiya Ren and Ryuji, she clarified the next strategy.

Send a warning letter, let Kamoshida materialize his desires into a secret treasure, and then steal the secret treasure to make Kamoshida change his heart!

After determining their next target, the Phantom Thieves returned the same way.

Without the interference of monsters and decryption elements, the few of them successfully arrived at the entrance of the castle, and then saw the unread message letter.

"Hey, hey, hey, didn't they say it would only take a while? We've been exploring for so long, why hasn't Ms. Xing come out yet?"

Mona was the first one to start worrying about Gao Juanxing's safety.

After all, it was a model-looking girl being alone with an adult man for such a long time, which really made Mona worried.

"Could it be that something unexpected happened to Sakai and he failed, and that led to..."

"Stop talking, this is absolutely impossible! He must be sure of what he did, yes, definitely!"

Seeing Mona start to discuss the issue of Jixing and Takamaki An with Ryuji, Amamiya Ren walked over, put away the message, looked in the direction where Jixing disappeared, thought for a moment, and said to his companion:

"Why did Yuuji Sakai suddenly realize that time in the other world was out of sync, and only start to verify this after arriving here?"

Mona, who has rich experience in other worlds, quickly understood Amamiya Ren's thoughts:

"You mean, Mr. Sakai's power also changes the speed of time?"

Amamiya Ren nodded, then gave the team instructions: