Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"First of all, this is a different dimension called darkness, filled with a large number of demons. If you attract their attention, I can't protect you. Do you understand?"

Zhixing knew that the people on the opposite side should be rescued. In order to prevent a new round of witch trials, Zhixing changed the name and introduced them.

"So, what should we do until help arrives?"

Tanaka asked quietly to the paper trader who was the only one who knew the situation.

"There are so many of you here, I'm not watching you all one by one. I can see more clearly than you, so I'll pay attention to the situation outside. Before that, you just stay here honestly."

"Who can stay here in this situation? I'm fine, but there are so many people here. If we are expected to just stay in the dark and do nothing, I'm afraid some people won't be able to bear it."

Tanaka recalled the experience of being locked up in a small dark room before, and felt the slight trembling of the hand he was holding, and couldn't help but say:

Zhi Xing glanced at the people in front of him, thought for a moment and said:

"Wait a moment, I'll go check out the situation."

After saying that, he walked back a few steps and disappeared from everyone's hearing range.

Suddenly, everyone who had been behaving quite well before started to panic.

We were not mentally prepared in the first place, and were suddenly surrounded by monsters. We couldn't see clearly and couldn't hear clearly. Everyone was holding hands and hugging each other, but except for the parts where their hands were touching, the rest of the area was still blurry, so that everyone felt isolated.

Zhixing came to the door of the room and looked out. He could clearly see the outline and appearance of the familiar. Although it was still black, the light source in the witch's barrier could still be received by Zhixing.

"Ugh~hiss, it hurts."

Zhixing touched his ear with his hand, then felt a pain and withdrew his blood-stained palm.

He shook off the fresh blood, watched the familiar pass by indifferently, nodded slightly, and then turned to look at Tanaka and others.

Just after leaving for a while, some of the 16 people began to feel restless, and even separated the hands of others and prepared to cry.

Fortunately, the people around reacted quickly and put their arms around each other's shoulders again, preventing the person from being separated from the crowd.

Zhi Xing looked at the familiar that hadn't approached the door, then quietly retreated back to the front of the group and said,

"Everyone, listen up! I'll try to explain it in a way that everyone can understand. I won't add too many terms. Let's just call it the blackout rules."

"1. It's normal not to be able to see anything during a power outage, so please don't scream. Someone will come and fix it."

"2. There will be no internet during a power outage, so don't try to turn on your phone, listen to music, or snore, as the sound will reveal your location;"

"3. Power outages do not discriminate, so when you see light, don't be impulsive and stay away from the room where it is shining;"

"4. Each room here has more than one door. Please follow the main group and don't be alone, because you don't know which door is safe."

"5. If you are moving slowly and are unfortunately left behind by the main force, please lie down on the ground and try to get close to the wall so as not to block the passage;"

"6. Don't get too nervous if you hear an animal roaring. Crouch down and stay alert. Don't stand up if you hear a knock on your head. No claws will be extended to locate you."

"7. This is just a nightmare. When you wake up, the darkness around you will dissipate immediately. If there is still clear and abnormal darkness around you instead of shadows, then please do not move until someone comes to tell you that you are safe;"

8. Don't believe whispers. If someone around you suddenly starts whispering something, shake them. The person being shaken should move their hand up and down to let them know they're fine.

"9. Do not do anything other than shaking people, shaking your hands, or squatting. If you feel any other sensations, please raise your hand to signal and I will come over to check the situation.

"10. If you see a circle made of a yellow ribbon, a blue sword, or a red chain, then that is a safe place. Enter the circle and you will be safe."

Zhi Xing pondered over and listed 10 rules, asked everyone to check them, and repeated them again before leaving the crowd and starting to check the condition of each door.

As Zhixing observed, he felt that what he had just done was a bit embarrassing. After all, it was something he improvised on the spot, so there must be various loopholes.

But Zhixing looked at the familiar wandering along the road outside, shook his head, and thought indifferently.

Rules have always been used to prevent the weak from provoking the hostility of the strong. After all, this place is not really weird, but it can be called the territory of monsters. Compared to weird things that can still be communicated and interacted with, monsters cannot be discovered or contacted. In fact, there is nothing special to abide by.

Especially since the witch's existence period is actually very short, and she will be "defeated by force" after a few hours, so the rules themselves are useless. They just allow everyone to calm down and have a suitable solution. What's more...

Zhixing touched his ear, which was still in pain, and recalled the scene he had just had with Kyubey.

Looking at Zhi Xing who was covering his ears, Kyubey nonchalantly increased the frequency of the vibration, raising the sound waves to a level that Zhi Xing's palms could not block at all.

"Next, let's take a look at the * section of the translation test data. I'd like you to share the specifics, or try to see if you can attract the Witch's Kiss of other distant witches within the familiar barrier."

Kyubey asked Zhixing to prepare himself. Based on Zhixing's reaction, he adjusted the intensity of the sound waves so that Zhixing wouldn't be shaken to the point of being unable to hear clearly. Then he looked at his phone and simultaneously performed a voice translation on the *-marked part of the information:

"After testing the differences between witches and familiars and discovering that only fully grown witches can communicate effectively, a question arises."

"The Witch's Kiss seems to be spread by the familiar, so why can I understand it?"

"With Homura's help, I saw the difference between a witch's Witch's Kiss and a familiar's Witch's Kiss."

"Because witches have families to support, their Witch Kiss basically guides people to their location and then deals with them collectively."

"And familiars are only interested in feeding one person, so they often force their victims to resort to extremely violent means, such as harming others or causing car accidents. This allows them to obtain the souls of others as food."

"When the witch was still alive, the Witch's Kiss could only spread through a familiar. However, even though it was planted by a familiar, and the magical power didn't differ significantly, in actual experience, the Witch's Kiss from an independent familiar didn't have any words of persuasion or even the ability to mobilize memories to guide it."

"It's more simple. It triggers the secretion of hormones in the human body, making people more prone to extreme thoughts."

"Because I'm different from magical girls, I can't communicate with you telepathically. Even during the Witch's Kiss, Homura couldn't communicate with me telepathically."

"Then, without a doubt, the thing that can communicate with me in the Witch's Kiss should be the Witch's Language that comes from it."

"But Homura has also experienced the induction of the Witch's Kiss. ​​Homura obviously cannot understand Witch Language. For this reason, tests have been conducted on other victims of the Witch's Kiss."

"As a result, telepathy is unimpeded. Even if it can block Kyubey, it still can't stop the transmission of the Witch's Kiss."

"Just when I was at my wit's end, Homura said something like, 'It's just a familiar, so it shouldn't be impossible to block it.' After saying something to that effect, I made an outrageous judgment."

"If I'm truly constantly within the Witch Night barrier, and can remotely attract the Witch's Kiss, it's because a familiar of Witch Night is nearby."

"Given that Witch Night's familiars are as powerful as those of ordinary witches, is it possible that the one communicating with me through the Witch's Kiss is actually Witch Night?"

"To verify this hypothesis, I had Homura specifically remind herself to ask the same question without interrupting the Witch's Kiss state. This way, we can test whether different witches' Witch's Kiss give the same answer."

"Based on the data from the past two rounds, I can basically conclude that it was Witch Night who was communicating with me online, because the answers given to the first and second questions were different, but the first question of the next round was the same as the answer of the previous round, and similarly, the second question was the same as the previous round."

"The difference in answers isn't due to the witch being different, but rather to whether the other person has answered the same question before."

"After knowing for sure that the dialogue in Witch Kiss was the witch language from Witch Night, although I'm still not sure if the voices Homura could hear were the witch's telepathy, I at least figured out one of the reasons why I could bring Witch Night forward."

"So, you must control your Witch's Kiss state. Even though you might lose control of your emotions and follow your instincts, you must not let despair lead you to subconsciously request Witch Night to come, which would put you in a desperate situation."

Zhixing lowered his hands that were covering his ears, unable to believe that he would force others to do such a thing.

If the control is not interrupted, you will not realize that you are being controlled. If the control is interrupted, the sound of the Witch's Kiss will basically disappear.

But now Zhixing already knows the option of letting Witch Night come early. How can he guarantee that he will not make such a decision next time he is desperate? Can he rely on his own self-control?

Zhixing took a deep breath and suddenly found that the Seed of Sorrow wrapped in the stone behind him seemed to feel stimulated, and emitted a little light from inside, as if it was about to be stimulated to hatch by Zhixing's mood.

Zhixing clenched his fists, but then let them go weakly. Then, he touched his pocket and was reminded by the coins in his pocket.

Taking out two coins, Zhi Xing looked at Kyubey who was looking at him, and the stone that was hatching the witch, and said with a smile:

"Since you can't control your thoughts, let's solve the problem from the root."

The two peaks penetrate the ears!

Chapter 70 Actions of All Parties

"I didn't expect you to do something like this even though you weren't under the control of the Witch's Kiss."

Kyubey put down his phone and walked over to Zhixing, who was twisting in agony, covering his ears. He looked at the Seed of Sorrow, which had just been emitting a bright light that even stones could not block, and then returned to silence. He said to Zhixing:

"Although your body's survival instinct made you hold back a bit, it's still really dangerous. The ears are very close to the head, don't you know?"

After waiting for a while, seeing that Zhi Xing was still rolling around with his head in his hands, Kyubey changed the subject and said:

"Just when you're suffering the consequences of your own actions, the person you've implicated is about to be discovered by the familiar."

After hearing this, Zhixing, who had been pretending not to hear, could no longer pretend. Although he still covered his ears with his hands and looked painful, it was completely different from before.

"The witch has been stimulated and her progress has sped up. Now, you should be able to see the door to the room. Go from this direction, the third door on the right, then the second door on the left, and you'll see them."

Zhixing gritted his teeth and stood up. After looking around and seeing that he could clearly see shapes of different levels, he realized that he was standing on a straight cliff. No, it should be a stone diving platform protruding from the cliff.

With the help of this environment, Zhixing realized the true identity of this witch, the Shadow Witch, a rare witch who was not a huge body, but had the shadow of an ordinary girl. Now it seems that she had just hatched not long ago.

Zhixing ran in the direction indicated by Kyubey. Before leaving, he looked back at the location of the Seed of Sorrow and found that behind the stone, there was a towering tombstone-like thing, which was probably the sunlight in the original plot.

Kyubey walked over to where Zhi Xing was originally, looked at the amount of blood on the ground and analyzed:

"I clearly exerted so much force, but the damage I inflicted doesn't match the actual damage. My hearing isn't damaged, and the coin that should have been in my right ear isn't visible. It's as if it's been transferred to the familiar's barrier. How could this be possible?"

Kyubey looked in the direction of Zhixing. Unlike the naked eye, where Zhixing would be blocked by the wall, Kyubey could clearly know that Zhixing had not deviated from the designated path, had chosen the correct door, and had come into the crowd.

"I can't handle just one of them. It seems I still have to follow Homura Akemi's pace. Anyway, Edogawa Conan will finish reading this information before Witch Night. Then, new information should be added. With the comparison, we can basically decipher the previous information."

Kyubey shook his tail and then lowered his head. After a few seconds, he cleaned up the blood at the scene, looked in the direction of the Seed of Sorrow, then took Zhixing's phone and chose another way to leave the familiar's barrier.

The paper shop on the other side took 16 victims and moved rooms twice before they were temporarily safe again.

Zhixing comforted everyone and once again emphasized the need to abide by the rules and keep quiet, then returned to the door and looked outside.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that outside the doors around him were still the same snake-like bodies, but with heads of different animals as familiars.

Then Zhixing began to recall what he knew about the witch's barrier.

The witch will form a barrier, enclosing herself and her separated familiars inside, and then act out the scene that the witch most desired in her life, or a distorted scene of realizing her wish.

Except that the witch's room is not fixed in the center, so after the magical girl comes in, she has to go through doors one by one to look for the witch in the maze, thus wasting her magic power on the various armies of familiars.

There are about 2-3 kinds of familiars walking around in the outermost layer, and then near the witch's room, there will be some elite familiars of different forms, and then the witch herself.

If it's just the outer layer of familiars that can't see or smell anything, it's enough to just keep silent.

However, the actions of elite missions are usually different from those of other familiars, and there is no restriction on being in the witch's room. Therefore, Zhixing still felt a sense of oppression brought by the unknown, so he ignored the pain in his ears and took everyone to escape.

Subtle footsteps sounded from behind. Zhi Xing turned around and saw that it was Tanaka Jiro who was stationed at the other door. He then asked:

"what happened?"

"Mr. Edogawa, I seem to have seen a different monster over there."

"Go back to the crowd and have everyone prepare to move. I'll go take a look."

The paper merchant sent Tanaka away and walked towards the door where he was left to observe.

Although the vision of the entire barrier began to improve because the witch was constantly recovering, except for Zhi Xing, others could still see some things. Now they could only clearly distinguish the outlines of the people around them, but they could not distinguish the colors of their clothes.

In order to reduce the noise of himself moving back and forth to other doors, Zhixing asked several people whose outlines could be seen and who would not be scared to stand guard at the door in his place.

Zhixing did not stick his head out directly, but turned the angle little by little. Suddenly, an arm appeared in Zhixing's sight.

Zhixing waited for a while and found that the arm just stood there motionless, and the familiar not far away did not attack it, so he slowed down his steps and began to retreat.

He raised his hand and waved a few times, signaling everyone to follow him and prepare to leave.

Then he took out a coin collected from everyone and threw it towards the three doors he had never been to.

The familiar was immediately startled and ran away. Zhixing observed the situation of the three doors, then chose the one where the familiar was farthest away, and told everyone to escape from the room.

Although their vision began to gradually return, everyone still held hands and followed the main group.

Soon, the paper merchant who was leading the way heard a scream from behind him, and then was interrupted by someone covering his mouth.

Zhi Xing was startled and then looked behind him, and saw that the familiar that was originally led away by the coin began to turn around and crawl towards him.

"Get down and be quiet."

Zhixing walked over quickly and soon saw a man struggling desperately with his face covered by two people beside him.

"You let go of your hand and covered your nose."

Zhixing patted someone's shoulder and asked him to let go of his hand. Only then did the person who was covered stop struggling.

Glancing at the familiar that was about to arrive from behind, Zhi Xing quickly said to it:

"Remember the rules we talked about before? Now, lie down and curl up until I tell you to stand up. Understand?"

After saying that, Zhi Xing tiptoed away from the source of the sound without waiting for the other party's reaction.

After walking a distance away, looking at the familiar right in front of him, Zhixing didn't dare to directly take out the pocket that was filled with a lot of coins, for fear of making a noise and being heard by the familiar.

Then he looked at the passerby who made the sound.

The dog-headed demon walked very straight to the place where the sound came from, or rather, the place where Zhixing had just spoken to Passerby A, and then began to look around.

The sound that was obviously approaching Passerby A and the increasingly loud breathing of the animal made Passerby A tremble.

Zhixing waited for a while and saw that the familiar was not searching, but it did not resume its previous trajectory. In order to prevent any wandering familiars from approaching, Zhixing was about to take the risk of taking out the coin from his pocket when he found that Passerby A carefully opened his eyes from the state of covering his head and took a look.

"Ah~"

The voice of Passerby A quickly attracted the attention of the familiar. The familiar opened its mouth and continued to tear down, opening a larger mouth and immediately holding Passerby A in its mouth.