The world is restarting

There is nothing in this space that records the passage of time, and the people in the maze don't know how long they have traveled.The vision in the mirror did not cover the complete picture, so Sawada Ya didn't know whether the path her brother and the others had chosen so far was right, but she had great confidence in them.

"Speaking of which," Little Lolita thought for a while and asked the person sitting at the head of the long table, "What's your name?"

The other party was taken aback, "Huh?"

Sawada Ya: "You have never introduced yourself."

She paused, and suddenly remembered that she didn't seem to introduce herself either.

"..."

She pretended to forget about this, and said very naturally, "My name is Sawada Ya, what about you?"

"..." The other party was silent for a long time before answering slowly, "...Alice, my name is □□Alice."

The little girl who calls herself Alice has a very delicate and lovely face, and she has a fairy-tale and dreamy temperament around her. No one will doubt that she is the protagonist in any fairy tale.

Sawada Ya: "Is Alice alone here?"

Where they are now is the center of the dense forest, the fluffy grass is laid out as a natural carpet, and a European-style oval dining table is placed in the central open space.

Beautiful hand-woven tablecloths with long tassels hanging from the edge of the dining table, silver teapots, black tea, sugar cubes, pastries, fruits, and a variety of picture books.

The host of the tea party prepared quite well, but there were very few guests participating in the tea party, to be exact, only Sawada Ya and herself.A circle of mahogany chairs was placed around the dining table, most of which were empty, so even if the meals on the long table were rich, there was no way to support the lively atmosphere.

"Because I can't wait for anyone else to come..." Alice said softly holding a book of fairy tales.

Ya Zetian picked up a picture book on the table and flipped through it. It was a fairy tale by Andersen. As soon as she opened it, she turned to the scene where the Little Mermaid turned into foam on the seashore.

"Has Alice seen all these?"

"Ah."

"Feeling..." She picked up another book, with "The Snowman" written on the cover, which was also a fairy tale by Andersen.

The snowman fell in love with the stove in the house. He looked at his lover through the glass window for a whole winter, and finally embraced his love and melted safely in the arms of the stove.

It is indeed a poignant and sad story, like a cup of bitter tea, the light tea fragrance flows from the lips and teeth, leaving a lingering astringency... But from the perspective of a child, it is not pleasing.

Because the protagonist of the story did not get a good ending in the end.

"...It's a tragedy."

Alice also lowered her head and opened the book in her arms, but her expression seemed to be normal, "Children's fairy tales are indeed full of sad stories."

"..." Sawada Ya looked at her slightly lowered face, "Alice, don't you have any other friends?"

The little girl opposite didn't seem to understand why she didn't smile anymore, she tilted her head and said seriously, "Yes."

Sawada blinked.

"Although the big brother left later..." Alice's voice gradually lowered as she seemed to be lost in memory, "Although I waited for a long time and felt uncomfortable, the big brother did remember me in the end. And Alice... ..."

Although, Alice died long ago...

Sawada Ya: "..."

Instead of continuing to ask, she turned her gaze to the screen.

"Hey, brother and the others are coming out soon."

The little girl who called herself Alice was startled, and subconsciously looked up.

Sure enough, the group of people in the mirror was about to reach the exit of the maze at some point.

She opened her eyes wide in surprise, "...really, she came out."

Without Ariadne's ball of thread, those few people actually walked out of the maze that only Theseus had walked out of.

However, the guests invited here by her didn't seem to be surprised at all, looking at the mirror and smiling happily, "I knew my brother and Conan could come here."

There was something in her smile that Alice didn't quite understand, just as she didn't understand why she could trust them so much.

"Is it because of... bondage?" Alice asked without understanding.

Sawada Ya: "?"

"Did your friend do what the legendary hero did because of the bond of bond between you?"

Sawada Ya: "..."

No, they can come out of the maze purely because her little friend Conan has a high IQ.

However, saying this seems to have broken the other party's good expectations for human beings?

She hesitated for a while, "Well, you can think so if you want..."

"That's great," Alice said softly, "If it's you...you must be able to keep the promise and meet again."

"I lost. According to the rules of the game you proposed, after they come here, I will tell you the information you want to know, and then let you go."

At this time, the group that had just come out of the maze, Tsunayoshi Sawada, who had accomplished a feat that only the hero Theseus of Athens had accomplished, was blankly blank.

To be specific, only Tsunayoshi Sawada had a blank face. His friends who had a younger sister before would not be imagined by ordinary people, but he never thought that the time to see him would come so quickly.

His sister's little friend, Edogawa Conan, led them through the entire maze by himself. He answered all the questions raised by the sphinx in the maze, and did not weigh the legendary master. The scary monster of human intelligence has no face, he feels that the big cat with wings and a human face will not want to see him again for a short time.

A wave of operations can be called Tianxiu.

"It seems to be different from the slabs of the Trojan Labyrinth."

Tsunayoshi Sawada was still in a daze, but when he heard Conan's voice, he turned his head subconsciously.

The black-haired boy was throwing away a branch casually, squatting in front of a piece of sandy soil, under his feet was a winding and complicated maze drawn at some point that made people dizzy.

Sawada Tsunayoshi: "Huh?"

"The labyrinth we just walked through looks like an ancient Greek building. There were two most legendary labyrinths at that time. One was the first labyrinth in Greek mythology, created by the famous ancient craftsman Daedalus. The labyrinth of Minos designed by King Minos of Crete to imprison the king's son, the half-man half-bull monster Minotaur..."

Conan briefly told the legend of the Milos labyrinth, "But this is a fairy tale. No one has ever seen what the Milos labyrinth looks like. The other one is recorded in history. The courtiers of a palace in Troy are on clay tablets. The labyrinth drawn on the back is world-famous because the clay version miraculously lay underground for more than 3000 years and was completely excavated by later generations."

He pointed to the road map he copied on the ground, "But you see, the parts we walked through are obviously different from the labyrinth on the Trojan stone."

Chu Xingxiushu squatted beside him thoughtfully, "Indeed, and the design idea is completely different."

Kokichi Sawada:"……"

I don't ask why Conan can remember the route they traveled so clearly, brother Chu Xingxiu, you!Shouldn't it be an ordinary person who was stunned like me?Why are you able to pick up his topic? !

The two kids over there were still talking.

"Is this labyrinth really a replica of the one that Milos used to imprison the Minotaur in mythology?"

"But if that's the case, we should meet a Minotaur with the appearance of a tauren, not a Sphinx?"

"Could it be something else..."

"...That," Tsunayoshi Sawada said with difficulty, "Can we go?"

"what?"

Edogawa Conan and Chu Xingxiushu came back to their senses at the same time, and then remembered that they seemed to have delayed their business, "Ah, sorry."

"No, it's okay, I can understand..."

Tsunayoshi Sawada stroked his forehead. He could fully understand their excitement when encountering such a famous puzzle in mythology.

Children with high IQs are all like this. This kind of headache problem is like a fun toy in their eyes.Although he can't see the same world as them, he can understand their behavior.

Sawada Tsunayoshi pulled the two children up one by one, bent down and patted the dirt on their clothes, and then rubbed their heads each, "Okay, we can discuss these issues later, let's go to Mi-chan first , she should be right ahead."

Chu Xingxiushu looked up at him, with a dazed expression on his face. The short hair combed neatly behind his head was rubbed and a few strands fell off, diluting the young master's arrogance. Cute for age.

Conan, who was also treated as a child, was held back a little helplessly, and he said in relief, "The person who put us in the maze can get the Sphinx, of course he can also get the Minotaur. If there is really malice, Put a Minotaur into the maze, and none of us can escape. Sphinxes are much less dangerous in comparison, so for the other party, maybe this is really just a game. From this Judging from the opponent's aggressiveness, they should be able to communicate with each other in a friendly manner, and Zetian should still be safe now."

After coming out of the maze, there is a dense forest outside, and a winding path protrudes from the forest, which clearly hints that several people should go this way next.

Tsunayoshi Sawada still took the lead and walked in the front. Although he really wanted to complain about his words about "Sphinx is much less dangerous", he was slightly relieved to hear that the younger brother of the humanoid cheater had the same judgment as his own. "Really? I thought so too."

The forest is so vast that it can't be seen at a glance, and the sky that occasionally reveals a line between the crowns of the trees is gray, like the gloomy and terrifying forest where the witches live in Andersen's fairy tales, the air is full of sad and gloomy tones.

The forest is quiet, there is no bird song, and there are no traces of animal activities. The whole forest seems to have been dead for many years, and the green leaves on the trees seem to be painted by people with paint and brushes.

"Does anyone really live here?"

Tsunayoshi Sawada walked on the forest path, looking at the surrounding scenery, feeling creepy.There was still a sentence circling in his mind, but it felt inconvenient to say it——is the mental state of people living in such a place normal?

I don't know if it was also affected by this atmosphere, the two children behind did not speak.

Fortunately, this almost tortured situation did not last long.

Turning through a beech forest, the front suddenly opened up.

Tsunayoshi Sawada had just walked out of the intersection between the trees when a petite figure rushed towards him like a cat welcoming its owner home.

"elder brother."

"Mi-chan!"

This scene was so familiar that he spontaneously went up to catch her.Holding his soft little sister in his arms, Tsunayoshi Sawada seemed to finally feel a bit of vitality in this dead space, and it was only then that he was really relieved.

"It's great that you're okay."

Ze Tianya was embraced by her own brother, and felt that he should have been frightened, so she touched his furry head buried on her shoulder very gently, and comforted him patiently, "I'm fine, I've been on the road all the time. Look at you guys."

Tsunayoshi Sawada hugged his sister and returned half a tube of blood, then raised his head, "Huh?"

He looked over the shoulder of the little loli, and finally saw the tea party table in the middle of the forest, the huge live mirror suspended above the table, and the little girl in a black dress standing beside the table.

Although he had expected that it would be a child who took his sister away, he was still taken aback by the similarity in appearance between the other party and his sister.

The same long silver hair, purple eyes, and even the style of the skirt he was wearing were somewhat similar. If it wasn't for the face of a child from European and American countries, he would almost have thought it was the shadow of his sister running out when he looked in the mirror.

She also feels like the opposite of her sister in the mirror, gloomy and empty, with eyes like holes that would drain even the light.

"My name is Alice." The child in Tsunayoshi Sawada's eyes who looked very similar to his younger sister said, his voice had a strange sense of emptiness, and his eyes fell directly behind him.

"Do you think this game is fun?"

How, how should I say it?Although the other two children seemed to be having a good time, it was a heavy blow to his IQ!

Of course, I always feel that if I really say that, it will trigger the instant death ending...

Tsunayoshi Sawada was still struggling, and Conan behind him answered the question instead.

"Very good, I think it's very interesting."

"Really? That's good." The little girl named Alice pursed her lips and showed a happy smile. She was quiet and delicate, like a wisteria blooming in the night.

"This game is won by you. According to the agreement, you can take Mi away. In addition, I will answer you what you want to know."

Zetian Tsunakichi was stunned for a moment, and exchanged a glance with Chu Xingxiushu behind him.The two of them didn't know how to reach a consensus in this gaze, he took a step back with Xiu Shu holding his sister.The two very consciously gave way to Conan in the middle.

Edogawa Conan: "..."

Fine.