The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

Approaching the fox window made of vermilion pillars, Miyano Akemi raised her hand to block the evil wind blowing on her face: "It's a bit like leading to hell."

Tang Ze, who was also blown by this gloomy evil wind and had his hair flying around, raised his head and glanced ahead, vaguely distinguishing from the sound of the wind a cry that could not be told whether it was a cry or a scream.

The atmosphere is rendered quite well, and there is a feeling of keeping strangers away.

"Noah, is there any reaction from the shadows in front of you?" Tang Ze asked aloud.

"I can't tell," Noah, an all-terrain reconnaissance aircraft, gave a rare vague answer. "I feel dangerous, but I can't see the terrain behind at the moment."

"Looks like you can't cheat if you want to." Xingchuan Hui tentatively stepped on the nearest pillar, "There are quite a lot of weird places on this island. These overly friendly things outside are not very similar to shadows, but if they are all If it’s a cognitive doll, we are indeed entering the cognitive space of Moon Shadow Island, right?”

"There are some special shadows in the Impression Space." Tang Ze also stepped on the pillar and walked towards the window in the middle of the "Fox Window". At the same time, he replied, "Such a weird Impression Space sub-station , it’s not surprising that it has a special structure.”

What Karasawa is referring to here is the shadow in front of the dividing wall that is common in the subway in Impression Space. Although he is also an unknown person in the subway, but someone who can occupy the first floor of the platform is better than being squeezed into a small room. The guy needs a little more weight.

"So, this is the palace of someone who has not completely left the impression space, and it is combined with the real impression space?" Miyano Akemi guessed uncertainly, "You have explained that the palace is an independent space. , it is theoretically possible for multiple people’s palaces to exist in the same location. Then Yueying Island is both a certain person’s palace and also has an impression space, is it also no problem?”

"No, maybe it's the other way around." Standing in front of the passage, Tang Ze looked far away at the situation in the center of the passage. "It was the impression space of Yueying Island that gave birth to a certain person's palace. He is like an earthbound spirit. …Trapped on this island of hypocrisy, unable to escape.”

Saying this, Tang Ze took a step forward and stepped into the gray mist that gradually filled the passage. A fishy wind mixed with the smell of sea water and the gray mist that slowly filled the entire field of vision swept over his body.

"Who is it?" A cold male voice came from the front. Tang Ze, who was slightly prepared, was not frightened by the voice. He just calmly raised his head and looked towards the front of the passage.

At the exit of the passage, a man leaning against the stone wall with his eyes closed was startled by these sudden visitors. He opened a pair of golden eyes and stared at them coldly.

"...Narimi Asai?" Looking at this silent man with his hair tied up in a bun, wearing a Heian era kimono, holding a bow and arrow in his arms, Karasawa tentatively called his name. , "Oh, no, maybe I should call you Lieutenant Aso?"

"No matter who you are..." Narumi Asai, the shadow whose real name was called out by Karasawa, narrowed his eyes, and the sharp look on his face became more obvious, "Don't come forward again."

"Are you the guard here?" After hearing his words, Tangze did not approach immediately, but looked past his figure and looked behind him.

This place is like a cave entrance on a cliff somewhere. Through the cave in front, you can see groups of crows circling in the sky, making squawking sounds. The cries of night owls can be heard far and near, as well as the cuckoo’s cries. The shrill cries, like cries, echoed one after another in the high night sky.

I'm afraid it was these sounds that were heard outside the passage just now.

"No...if I could be the guard here, this place shouldn't be like this." In response to Karasawa's question, Shadow Asai Narumi sneered, "This is a purgatory of thorns, and as for me... I'm just an insignificant gravekeeper."

Gravekeeper...sounds really unlucky.

Tang Ze, who was aware of this, took two tentative steps forward with his teammates behind him.

As if he understood their intention, Asai Narumi laughed twice and did not stop them.

He pulled out an arrow from the quiver and placed it on the bow. He did not aim it at Tang Ze and the others. Instead, he turned around and pointed the bow in the direction outside the cave.

A sound of "咻——" was heard in the air, and a dark humanoid creature that had climbed onto the cliff was pierced by the arrow and fell down without making any sound.

Immediately, the birds circling in the air quickly chased the thing and swooped down, lying on the motionless humanoid creature, and began to share the food.

Tang Ze, who stepped forward, finally saw the whole world outside the cave.

On the red and black ground, some pitch-black human-shaped objects are either wandering aimlessly, or wrestling with each other, entangled crazily, or falling to the ground motionless, as if they have been dead for a long time. From time to time, carrion birds appear from the sky. It fell down and pecked at those things.

These are alien enough and creepy enough, but what is more terrifying than whether they are shadows or something that cannot be explained is the lush gray-green thorns that seem to cover the entire world.

Those huge roots and vines seemed to have consciousness and life, stirring and rolling deep in the cracked earth, dragging the shadow's corpse into the ground, as if they were using these things as fertilizer to absorb the nutrients needed for their own growth.

Those thorns were covered with gorgeous flowers. The cascading double petals made Tang Ze distinguish them at a glance.

"Poppy flower." Karasawa said firmly.

"No wonder it is said that this is the Impression Space." Xingchuan Hui, who tried hard to distinguish it for a while, pointed to the land in the middle of the vines, "I saw a little shadow of the railroad tracks... This should also be part of the Impression Space."

"No wonder there is no rancid smell." Smelling the strong and sweet aroma, Miyano Akemi frowned and covered her nose with her hand.

"I told you, this is a purgatory of thorns." The shadow with a bow and an arrow, Asai Narumi, shot another arrow out of his hand, shooting a shadow that had climbed halfway, and said to them, "outsiders, Don't stay here, you will be attracted by the beguiling aroma, walk in unconsciously, and become the nourishment of purgatory. Stay away from here, hurry up."

"Are you not letting them leave to prevent them from polluting the islands outside?" Thinking of the peaceful and joyful Yueying Island outside the passage, Tang Ze asked, "Are you protecting this island?"

"No, because these things have been tainted with the atmosphere of purgatory. If you let them leave, they will take the pollen and buds of these things to anywhere in the world." Different from what Karasawa expected, so far nothing has happened. The shadowy Asai Narumi, who had shown aggression towards them, tugged the corner of his mouth sadly and smiled nostalgically, "The outside is not a paradise... the outside is what it used to be here. That is my hometown, the place where I once grew up. Big place.”

Tang Ze's eyebrows jumped slightly at his words.

It's really what he guessed...

That paradise version of Moon Shadow Island is actually the palace of Shadow Asai Narumi.

It's just that the master of the palace is not inside the palace, but is nestled at the entrance of this impression space, guarding the door.

The monarch is offline and belongs to...

"We can help you solve these problems." Pointing to the disgusting and twisted scene below, Tang Ze suggested, "We can solve these shadows, even the vines, and you can regain your freedom... …”

The shadow of Asai Narumi, who had already put away the bow and arrows and held the bow in his arms again, heard his words, the gold in his eyes became a little brighter, and he once again silently drew an arrow from the quiver behind him.

"Don't come forward." He repeated this once, and Tang Ze watched helplessly as the warning value on the interface suddenly went up. "Foreigners, get out of here."

"Hey, we have to help you get rid of these ghosts." Hoshikawa Hui, who picked up the kunai in his backhand, went into alert mode and said loudly, "Why do you have such an attitude?"

The bow and arrow in his hand were steadily aimed at the leader, Karasawa. The voice of the shadowed Narumi Asai revealed a deep and cool breath like a moonlit night: "Because... this is my hometown. I will not let them leave, but I And don’t let anyone hurt them.”

"I told you, I'm the...gravekeeper here."