The Terra Travel Diary of Neither Sacred, Rhea, nor Terra

It is just a forced application of the situation of Emperor Napoleon and the French Empire.

"What about the two emperors, um, what do the two paintings say?" Christen felt it was very strange. Although these words of Miku were also things that were often discussed by later generations, when they were put here, Christen just felt it was very strange, very strange.

"Not much to say, it's down. After all, it's just a question-and-answer machine like Afterimage, and it doesn't have a real soul." Miku said with a disappointed look.

Noticing that Kristen still looked a little strange, Miku continued:

"If you also want to talk to those two paintings about these things, you can do it again, but you have to use a different approach given your current situation."

"My current situation?" Kristen didn't understand what Miku was talking about.

"Your current body is not your body. It is only your soul that is being driven. And I have placed your soul in the Soul Stone. With the protection of the Soul Stone, the power of this castle cannot affect you."

Miku explained a lot to Kristen in a very eloquent manner.

"Oh, I see." After understanding what Miku said, Christen turned around and looked at the magnificent hall. She was a little surprised that she could see such a scene. Did she feel affected?

"Of course not. I designed this layout myself." Miku said, knowing what Christen was wondering about.

"Did you design it yourself?" Christen immediately withdrew her "gaze" and moved her featureless face towards Miku.

It turns out that this hall was designed by Miku himself. No wonder I felt a sense of familiarity when I came in just now.

"Yes, in order to make the speed run faster and better, I designed a room that directly accommodates all the entrances. If you want to see what it originally looked like, it's also very simple."

As he said that, Miku took Kristen's hand and pulled the earth spirit up once again.

The earth spirit, whose mind had not yet completely faded after experiencing twenty-three different kinds of death, subconsciously dodged, but unfortunately it could not escape Miku's clutches.

The earth spirit could only accept his fate and tried hard to divert his attention, trying not to think about what would happen next.

Where's that cane that turns into a whip?

While Di Ling was thinking about all this, Miku's voice rang in her and Kristen's ears:

"It's time to start the show."

As soon as Miku finished speaking, the originally magnificent scene around him turned into a distorted scene, as if some huge force was repeatedly kneading this space.

This distorted and dizzy feeling did not last long. As the space gradually stabilized, Miku and his party once again came to a corridor.

But unlike the magnificent corridor before, this time the corridor was narrow and dark.

The only light sources were the few torches on the walls.

The faint light emitted by the flickering fire was not even as bright as the portable lantern on Miku's waist.

The sculptures and paintings have all disappeared, replaced by doors with different decorative styles.

There was only darkness at the end of the corridor, and the road could not be seen at all.

The two of them turned around subconsciously and noticed that the hall that was not far behind them had disappeared, replaced by this seemingly endless corridor.

"Is this what this place originally looked like?" Kristen asked after retracting her gaze.

"I guess so." Miku replied.

"..." What do you mean by "count as"? Kristen was a little confused.

"What we are seeing now is the truth, but this truth is also built on the falsehood of this castle. If we face this falsehood completely, then there will not be so many choices. At most, there will only be a few doors and forks in the road."

Without caring whether Christen and Di Ling understood what he said or not, Miku said a bunch of true and false things.

"...Oh, so that's it. In other words, we have now entered the most basic layer of the combined witchcraft of this castle?" Compared to Christen, the Earth Spirit understood it a little faster.

"What's at the end of this corridor?" asked Christen, who almost understood what the earth spirit meant by his question.

"That depends on our choice." Miku spread his hands again and said, "There are several possibilities at the end of this corridor. We can't see it now because we haven't entered these rooms."

"??"

“Not entering these rooms means we haven’t made a choice, and not making a choice means no results,” Miku said.

"..."

"..."

"...Have you seen all those results?" Christen asked after a long silence.

"No, but we can roughly guess what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a comedy or a tragedy, a finale or an ending." Miku said with experience.

"We're in charge of the show?" Kristen asked.

"We are in charge of the Deus Ex Machina."

37: Speedrun Scarlet Castle

After removing all the false appearances and leaving only the real castle, Miku demonstrated to Christen and Di Ling the basic qualities of a speed runner.

Although Kristen repeatedly told herself that Miku had already entered once, it was normal to go faster.

But Miku's speed still surprised Christen.

He was even unwilling to walk properly, and was either floating or running, and in some places he even used sliding movements, which were very demanding on clothing materials.

Kristen was very curious about how Miku was able to perform such movements in this blood demon style dress that didn't look very suitable for sports.

In the space that requires fighting, no matter what kind of enemy or what the environment is, as soon as you show your head, you will be cut off by Miku who passes by.

Some of the characters have very fancy appearances, such as a pair of Sami snow priests holding a bow and a scimitar respectively, a stone colossus that hammers the earth spirit to death twenty-three times, a violent infected person covered with Originium crystals, and a flying soldier flying around with a jetpack on his back.

These should be considered as powerful enemies guarding the level. When they were easily killed by Miku, their struggle time was not much longer than that of other ordinary enemies.

As for those that did not require fighting, such as the space discussing the two paintings of Corsica I, Miku directly announced the result without waiting for the people inside to finish speaking.

The only one that took a while to look at was a rag doll riding a circus unicycle and blowing a trumpet.

The trumpet played by this doll is not only piercing and loud, but also fills the air with a sickening red mist.

When Miku encountered the unicycle doll, he did not rush over and kill it in seconds. Instead, he also rode a unicycle and put on a clown mask.

With an attitude of destroying everything, it started from a standstill and accelerated to nearly the speed of sound, then smashed the rag doll into pieces at the moment of breaking through the sonic boom.

Christen, who was holding onto the earth spirit in the strong wind caused by the sonic boom, was somewhat confused.

She didn't know why Miku used such a "complicated" way to clean the little doll.

He also deliberately put on a clown mask, which is synonymous with horror in Colombia.

Could it be that there is some special meaning?

In response to Kristen's question, Miku took off his clown mask, cleaned up the doll fragments on the unicycle and said:

"Yes, a little bit. I can't help myself when I see someone riding a unicycle."

Although Kristen was very curious about why Miku was so obsessed with the unicycle, she thought about it and decided not to ask in detail.

Christen and Di Ling, who had followed Miku all the way, raised their arms at the same time and looked at their timing devices after walking out of the last space.

"Ten minutes and eleven seconds, two minutes faster than just now." Seeing the actions of these two people, Miku immediately made a scissors hand gesture.

“…” Kristen and Di Ling were both speechless at Miku’s reaction.

Because Miku traveled so quickly, neither Kristen nor the Earth Spirit could figure out what was in those rooms.

Especially in those conversation spaces that should provide clues, before the two of them could finish listening to each other, Miku hurriedly took them to the next room.

"After all, this is how the game is played." Miku said as if it was a matter of course.

Said the expression.

"Are you just treating this as a game?" Kristen asked immediately.

Christen also knew how to speedrun games, but the video game industry in Colombia was not as developed as that in the East.

Basically the same as the animation industry in Colombia, since the collapse of Yalida, the game industry in Colombia has been almost completely dominated by Eastern-style games.

"Isn't it? Or did you not realize that the rooms we passed by were just a set play?" Miku spread his hands and said:

"We are now going back and starting from the first door again, and we are encountering exactly the same thing."

"I see." Christen said perfunctorily, because she wanted to complain that with Miku's speed run, he had no chance to notice this.

Instead, the earth spirit at the side said with an expression of enlightenment:

"No wonder I feel so out of place. The ancient tower wizards used to have this kind of preset mechanism to select successors... well, I mean in ancient times."

The Earth Spirit emphasized the ancient times because modern tower wizards select their successors by first auditioning, then taking a written test, and finally an interview. After a large number of people are eliminated, the rest will follow for internship.

Compared with the method of using Originium technology to form a test space, this method is simple, convenient, and safer.

The ancient tower wizards didn't have the leisure to install life support systems in their own testing organs. Those being tested were gone, and they could only blame themselves for not having learned their skills well enough.

"Is it some kind of Originium technique similar to the one used by ancient wizards to assess their apprentices? Then why did the wizard here create these?"

With the guidance of the Earth Spirit, Christen also understood what those spaces were.

Moreover, as a Terran who was already accustomed to seeing Letania wizards playing with these strange Originium techniques, Christen was not too curious about how this was done, but was wondering what the purpose of the people who created these was?

"Of course it's for this." Miku raised his hand and made an elegant gesture, as if inviting the opposite sex to dance with him, and pointed to the end of the corridor to Kristen and Di Ling.

The two invited people looked in the direction of Miku's movements and saw that the gloomy corridor that seemed to have no end had suddenly become a twisting upward path. After about thirty steps, there was a dark red quaint door.

While Kristen and Di Ling were guessing what space was behind this door, Miku explained:

"The fixed scenes we just experienced were originally intended to be a kind of choice. The invited guests would walk into different rooms according to their choices. After completing some, they would no longer be able to enter others."

“After completing the whole process, the final door will open up a stage for the invited guest.”

"To experience a tragedy or a comedy."

"Or it could be neither sad nor happy, or both sad and happy, or happy with a hint of sadness, or sad with a hint of happiness, hahahaha."

At the end, Miku obviously burst into laughter.

"It sounds like some kind of live challenge variety show." Kristen thought for a moment and said.

Those variety shows set up various challenge elements, and then let the contestants choose the events by drawing lots or choosing on their own, and finally decide what the final competition will be based on points or results.

"It's a very appropriate description. After all, what we are experiencing now is a drama. It does not start when we enter this door, but from the first space."

Miku said that Kristen's description was correct.

"...Then the way you just passed the level..." Kristen felt that if this was really a live level-breaking variety show, then Miku's behavior just now was just ruining the show.

"I just demonstrated all the plays." Miku, who didn't think he was ruining the show, continued, "So the other party came out in person."

"Come out in person? Do you mean that the owner of this castle is behind this door?" Christen turned her gaze to the dark red door and felt that the originally ordinary door suddenly became eerie.

Although it was originally quite gloomy.

"It shouldn't be the master. If it was the god of wine himself, he wouldn't be so rude to me." Miku said calmly.

Although the god of wine in this world is more likely to blast Miku and his group out.

In that case, you'll have to try a different speedrunning method.

"The god of wine?" Christen remembered the gin cup that Miku had used to pour wine.

Terra has gods. In the eyes of Terrans, most gods are just stronger giant beasts... at least that's what Christen thinks.

"Yes, in the words of Xiuxian, this is the dojo of the god of wine, and drama is also part of the god of wine's duties."

Miku explained.

Although not all worlds’ gods of wine are also gods of drama, given the extent to which this world has been polluted by the memes of Earth’s human civilization, myths and legends that are at the forefront of pollution can simply follow the myths and legends of Miku’s hometown.

"So the person behind the door is a servant of Bacchus?" Hearing what Miku said, Christen touched the gauntlet on her arm. She had never fought against the messenger of God before.

"You'll know after you see it. Come on, hold my hand." Miku walked between the two of them, raised his arm as if to hold the two of them.

People's attitude.

“???” Neither Christen nor the Earth Spirit could understand why they had to hold hands. What was the point of doing so?

"When entering the opera house, there naturally has to be a sense of ceremony," said Miku.

Although they didn't know what the sense of ritual that Miku was talking about was, Christen and Di Ling hesitated for a moment and then took Miku's arm.

Fortunately, Miku is much taller than Kristen and Di Ling, otherwise this action would really be like escorting a prisoner.

After walking through the corridor and up the stairs, the dark red door slowly opened without Miku and his party knocking, revealing the scene behind the door to them.

The scene behind the dark red door was not some strange special space, nor were there any enemies.

It is the interior of a large opera house, with a double-layer curved auditorium and a circle of more ornately decorated private boxes on the higher level.

Surrounded by three floors, two floors of auditorium and one floor of boxes, is a classical stage where plays can be performed and music can be played.