You tell me, this is called daily youth?

But there was nothing there. Looking from inside the door, there was only a corridor outside. If one had to do some reading comprehension, Yuki could only read the vicissitudes of time and a sense of decadence from the visual picture alone.

"Everyone, be careful. There must be something wrong with this abnormal situation." Yuki did not take it lightly and immediately looked at Hiyori. The girl understood and immediately sent out the Void Puppet.

The puppets are used to explore the way. Once there is danger, Yuuki will close the door immediately. Everyone will stand at the door and wait. After a few seconds, they all look at Shiina Hiyori.

The girl's face flushed red, and she pointed to the door: "I sent it, but the puppet disappeared."

Disappeared? A spatial barrier?

Everyone was an old player and immediately thought of many possibilities, so Yuuki looked at Kaguya again, and the latter immediately released the bowstring.

call out.

The arrow brushed past Yuki's ear, and the whistling sound of the air seemed to be cut off manually and disappeared without a trace. The people staring at the door were confused for a moment.

The arrow didn't hit the opposite wall and just disappeared.

"What a weird place! Neither the Void Puppets nor the bows and arrows are effective?" Yuki simply stood in front of the door, but he couldn't tell that the corridor outside was an illusion.

"How about I give it a try?" Mai volunteered.

"Don't always think about being a sex detective." Yuki refused without thinking, called Hiyori over, and the two continued to circle around the door.

It was indeed strange, because he didn't come here in a normal way, and the game didn't give any hints at all. He didn't want to take the risk and try it out. What if his previous guess was wrong?

After observing for a few minutes, Yuki suddenly had an idea. He took off his shoes and threw them out the door.

pat.

The leather shoes landed steadily on the corridor. Yuki quickly changed several angles to observe, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I understand. Chaos items cannot be used outside the gate, just like in real life."

This explanation made sense. Then, he gathered his soul energy into an arrow and shot it out of the door, but in an instant, the long red arrow disappeared without a trace.

"I saw it. The energy was annihilated the moment it passed through the door." Hiyori's eyes gleamed, and she had already activated her special ability. "It seems that besides Chaos items, even extraordinary skills can't be used?"

"That should be it. Hold my hand and I'll go out and take a look." Yuki suddenly felt more confident and leaned half of his body out.

There was nothing strange about it; it was just like walking through a door, with my left foot on the red carpet and my head spinning rapidly.

There are corridors on both sides, and there are several doors of the same style on the opposite side, but there is a gap not far away. Judging from the traces, it should have been blasted out by something.

Without Hiyori's help, Yuki stepped forward with his left foot and retreated back into the door without any hindrance.

"No problem, there's just a shabby corridor outside and no one is around." Yuki relaxed, but his mind was full of questions.

This shouldn't be the case. Didn't Ayanokouji Kiyotaka say that some players had already come up? Could it be that I didn't come to the same place?

"Is there any danger?" Kaguya Seiya asked, still a little worried.

"Chaos items and supernatural skills cannot be used. As long as they're not targeting us, any danger can be contained." Yuki showed a teachable look and waved his hand. "Everyone, get out. We'll do a few tests in the corridor first, then slowly explore outside."

......

Two hours later.

Yuki sat by the dilapidated eaves, staring blankly at the street scene in front of him.

The world is grayish white, with only wide streets and densely packed high-rise buildings extending to the end of the horizon. Apart from being too monotonous and with a large number of ruins, it is really similar to a real city.

No, there is still some difference. In reality, no city exists only in gray and white tones, and no city is so huge. Here are high-rise buildings over 30 stories high, densely packed, like a steel forest.

The pure white room we saw before is in this building. There is no need to worry about getting lost. You can go back automatically just by thinking about it.

"After binding, the exclusive rooms are infinitely large. Doesn't that mean this forest can accommodate hundreds of millions of players?"

Yuki slowly raised his head and found that he had made an impossible assumption. At least there was no one in his sight, no, not a single living creature.

It was monotonous and deadly. If I moved my nose slightly, I could smell the dust in the air. After years of accumulation, the dust looked like thick snow.

The 'snow' kept falling, and Yuki had been sitting there for over an hour, with a thick layer of snow already piling up on his shoulders.

It smells like the ashes of something.

Yuki didn't have any professional tools and couldn't tell the structure of the ashes, so he shook them off and looked out at the dead city again.

At first glance, it looks quite majestic. After all, hundreds of high-rise buildings are stacked densely together, which has a strong visual impact. However, the large amount of ruins destroys this magnificence.

Some high-rise buildings were cut in half, some were crushed into rubble, some had large holes with a diameter of tens of meters blasted in the middle, and some were simply twisted into twists.

The wide roads were also full of big potholes, and looking down on them looked like the surface of the moon. The city of Yucheng could not be seen in the distance because the ruins were even more dense and only the foundations of many buildings were left.

It was a huge cemetery, and every building was a tombstone, but no one had come to pay their respects for a long time.

"This is the outpost? This is the next stage of Adam's dream? Isn't it just a super-large prison?"

Yuki suddenly felt a little ironic, looking up at the gray sky. There was no sun, no clouds, only whirlpools.

Like a multitude of stars surrounding the moon, the central mass was enormous, emitting a brilliant purple-red glow and slowly rotating. The surrounding vortices, however, seemed to have been paused, remaining grayish-white.

Yuki looked back and forth and found that only one ball still had some color, and it was rotating at a slower frequency.

What is that?

Yuki had been feeling lost since arriving at this outpost. After standing on the rooftop and gazing out for a long time, he could only discern two features:

First, this place was once quite prosperous, otherwise there would be no need to build on such a large scale.

Second, there had been battles here, and many buildings were riddled with holes or cut in half.

Yuuki picked up a piece of gravel and placed it in his palm, using all his extraordinary strength to crush it.

Building materials that are far beyond human technology can cause such damage, which is beyond my reach. So can we assume that this place was once quite prosperous and then declined because of a battle?

That's not right. What kind of battle would kill everyone completely without leaving even a hair behind?

Not to mention people, the seniors have been searching for so long and can't find any trace of any living creatures. This cannot be explained by any battle or massacre.

As if he was caught in a tangled mess, Yuki couldn't find his direction, and even his thoughts were clueless. Apart from confusion, he was left with only boredom, as if there was a fire of ignorance stuck in his mind that was difficult to vent.

Just when I was feeling annoyed, Hayasaka Ai crawled out of the hole and jumped onto the roof in a few seconds.

"I walked east for two hours and finally found the city's borders."

"What does it look like?"

"It's a pure white space, a bit like where we just came, but there's still no one in sight." Hayasaka said slowly. At her speed, this place was already several times the size of Tokyo.

"Yeah, I see." Yuki nodded slightly, suppressing his irritated expression and comforting himself: "At least it's safe enough here. We don't have to worry about survival."

We have already tried it in the corridor.

All props, skills, and characteristics cannot be used, and only physical fitness remains, but players cannot attack each other, let alone trigger random copies.

"This is unscientific. The existence of Wu Lei'an proves that there are other players. Could it be a problem with the 'camp'? They are not here?" Yuki scratched his head. He had imagined many situations, but none of them involved going to jail.

"Don't worry, maybe there will be some results from Hiyori-san."

Hayasaka went outwards and Hiyori went downstairs. There were more than a dozen rooms on each floor, but the closed doors could not be opened. It was speculated that like the pure white space they came from, it was an exclusive area for players.

Everything was monotonous, right down to the lowest level of the building.

There was the entrance hall, with an even larger black door standing in the middle. Hiyori didn't dare to touch it and ran to other buildings to look for similar reference objects.

"Don't you want to go down and take a look?" asked Hayasaka Ai.

"Leave it to Hiyori. We'll talk about it after we get the preliminary results. I don't know why, but I always feel a little depressed."

"It's quite depressing here. Do you want me to make you a cup of coffee?"

"Thank you."

After a while, the aroma of coffee filled the air and his nose could finally smell another scent, and Yuki's mood improved a little.

He watched the maid carefully pack up the bag, not wanting to drop even a grain of powder, and he knew it would be difficult to replenish supplies here, and he couldn't waste his spiritual food.

Replenish supplies?

Yuuki's heart moved, and he whispered, "Hayasaka, don't you have anything to say to me?"

"I've already said what I should have said. Don't want to know what I shouldn't have said." Hayasaka looked alert.

Self-destruction, right?

Yuuki recalled the secret he had just come to, and shook his head slightly: "I mean to put aside your identity as a player and express your emotions to me as a 'human'."

They are all smart people, and Hayasaka Ai certainly knew what this meant. She couldn't help but stand there in a daze, and a thin layer of mist appeared in her jewel-like blue eyes.

Yuki saw fear, regret and reluctance, similar to the emotions he had felt at the beginning of his time travel.

Come to think of it, I didn't say goodbye to my parents properly. Home is even further away than it is for them. Ten years later, through the reincarnation game, that world became my second home, but before I could even begin to truly live, I was forced to leave again.

How come I'm even more miserable than Hayasaka???

Emotions are contagious, and Yuki wanted to seek comfort in return, but at this time Hayasaka Ai suddenly clenched her teeth, raised her hand, and wiped her face heavily with her sleeve.

"I have something to say, but I can't tell you now."

"why?"

"Because of your sanity, you must focus on the current situation." The maid stood at the edge of the building and pointed at the silent city. "So much unknown surrounds us, like a sea of ​​fog. We must follow you and find the way home. Don't worry. The current situation has nothing to do with you. It was the reincarnation game that dragged me into this vortex."

As rational as ever, Yuuki seemed to be back under the crimson moon, remembering his first impression of Hayasaka:

This girl is very professional and reliable.

"Don't you want to have a good cry? My arms are always open for you."

"Do you think I'm a crybaby? Everyone is enduring it, but I'm the only one who needs to be more vulnerable?" Hayasaka Ai frowned.

Yuki didn't know how to talk to him, thinking, weren't there tears in your eyes just now?

But after thinking about it for a while, I felt that Hayasaka Ai should be fine, because she not only has Kaguya around her, but also new friends like Mai and Hiyori.

"I underestimated you." He bowed his head and apologized.

"No, you didn't underestimate me. If I had come to this damn place alone, I would have found a corner and squatted down crying." Hayasaka Ai blushed slightly when she talked about such an embarrassing thing, and simply turned around.

"Did you promise Mai-senpai that you would take us back?"

"Ah."

"Then keep your promise. When there's absolutely no hope, it won't be too late for me to hug you and cry."

The voice was crisp and firm, which cheered up Yuki, but then he felt something was wrong. It was Tiangang who was comforting him. Who was comforting whom?

"Hayasaka, I didn't expect you to be so good at comforting people."

"Practice makes perfect. There's still a fool who needs my comfort. I have to cheer up at times like this." Hayasaka Ai was as firm as ever, as if the mist in her eyes before was the greatest indulgence to herself.

No wonder you were so excited chatting with Kaguya Shinomiya, it turns out you were trying to divert her attention.

Yuki suddenly realized something, and the melancholy in his heart was cleared away. He couldn't say he was moved, but he was very relieved.

Who says that players coming out of the everyday world have to be filled with the sour smell of love? Can't they have hearts as strong as steel?

popping.

He patted his face, tilted his head back and drank all the coffee, saying hurriedly, "Hayasaka, search another two hours north and inform Kaguya to take up the high ground and hide. I don't believe there's not even a ghost in such a big place."

"What about you?"

"I'm going to go find Hiyori and figure out how to use that black door. She just said there's one in the buildings next to it. If they really want to touch it, let me do it."

Hayasaka did not leave. Seeing the man's hurried back disappear, she spread out her palms, and thick dust soon settled on her palms.

The air particle index here is off the charts and is not suitable for human habitation at all. She doesn't know where the dust comes from, it feels like the embers of something burning.

Full of the breath of destruction.

She raised her slender neck. The huge vortex slowly rotating in the sky made her feel uneasy. It was like an eye, staring at her.

Hayasaka Ai shook off the dust, slowly covered her face, squatted on the spot, and trembled her shoulders, venting all her longing, despair and pressure.

Accompanied by sobs that were restrained to the extreme, tears slid through fingers and fell to the ground like crystal pearls.

"Sorry, I'm really a crybaby."

......

Yuuki didn't know that Hayasaka Ai was such a good actress that even he was fooled. After some "talk therapy", he was putting all his energy into conquering the game.

The unknown is explored step by step. As long as people are not dead, they will definitely find a way out by moving forward.

He took a few steps to the ground floor of the building, where there was a wide lobby. Through the revolving glass door, he could reach the street, and in the middle of the lobby stood a pitch-black door.

It looks very abrupt, standing alone in the middle of the city. Not only that, its style is also different from that of the city. At least based on the information obtained through exploration, the architectural style of the city is similar to that of reality.