Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Across from the window was a corridor that looked pretty much the same. To be honest, Xiangzi didn't know how Miaomeng distinguished the routes. Even if he remembered the structure, the highly repetitive corridor made Xiangzi feel dizzy.

Perhaps the cat made a mark that only it could see, which would make it safer.

Xiangzi was once again relieved that she and Miaomeng had woken up in the same place; otherwise, she might have been wandering around until she found her way or someone found her.

Following Miaomeng through two more turns in the corridor, we finally saw the elevator door. The red carpet, the neat rows of room doors on both sides, and the lone elevator door standing at the end of the corridor—it was hard not to think of The Shining.

"You really have a really twisted sense of humor." Xiangzi smirked. "I hope there won't be a sea of ​​blood gushing out of the elevator when the doors open."

"Hehe, I've been found out." Miao Meng scratched her head cutely and pressed the elevator button. "Don't worry, there definitely won't be any blood sea or anything like that."

Ding dong.

The elevator doors are open to both sides.

Xiangzi stepped into the elevator and looked around. There was a security camera in the corner; she wondered who was behind it. The lights were so bright they were almost blinding, making everything else appear clean and white. The elevator buttons… she couldn't understand them, but she was utterly amazed.

There were far more than a hundred elevator buttons; Xiangzi couldn't even count them all. They were densely packed all over an entire wall, a true blessing for those with trypophobia.

The buttons on the screen are not simply numbers like 123456, but rather a complex sequence consisting of six letters (A, B, C, D, E, F) plus numbers. A large "L" button, placed in the middle, stands out prominently.

“What is L?” Xiangzi asked.

“L stands for lobby.” Miao Meng pressed the button. “Everyone will probably go there.”

"It looks so complicated."

"Isn't complexity what you requested?"

"It seems so."

"Because the hotel is shaped like a square box with six sides, the numbers A, B, C, D, E, and F in front of the buttons represent the six different sides, and the numbers after them correspond to different floors on different sides."

As Miaomeng spoke, the elevator began to move.

The first thing Xiangzi felt wasn't the vertical acceleration he usually gets when riding an elevator, but rather a feeling similar to the sensations he gets when riding a tram, coming from all directions.

"The lobby is right in the center of the box, and the elevator is moving towards the center; it will take a while." Miaomeng pointed to the ceiling. "Want to go up and take a look at the outside structure? You're curious, aren't you?"

"Well."

Xiangzi nodded, his face showing that he had been seen through.

“Then sit on my shoulders, and I’ll lift you up.” Miao Meng knelt down and patted her shoulders.

"Why are you suddenly being so enthusiastic?" Xiangzi looked at her with disdain.

I hope I'm not thinking anything dirty.

"No, no, I just wanted you to see my masterpiece with your own eyes." Miao Meng's eyes were shining with a "come on, come on" expression. "I've been holding back until now to finally have the chance to show it off to you."

"There's no need for that... Never mind." Xiangzi originally intended to refuse to sit on Miaomeng's shoulders, since she could easily climb up a ladder, but after thinking about it, she decided not to spoil Miaomeng's fun.

Xiangzi sat on Miaomeng's shoulders.

Even if a magical girl's physique is poor, she shouldn't be unable to lift a person. Xiangzi lifted Miaomeng up with ease, just like a doll.

“It feels like I’m carrying my little sister to watch a show,” Miao Meng said. “I did this once before I ran away from home.”

“I remember you must be an only child.”

“My mom’s second husband has two daughters, and their families are very well-off.”

"Hey...that's great, then why didn't you go with your mom?"

“Because there’s no place for me in that environment.” Miao Meng said with a matter-of-fact expression, lifting Xiangzi onto the ceiling. “The harmonious atmosphere wasn’t prepared for me.”

She tried to stay with that family for a while, but it turned out that no matter what she did, she just couldn't find a place to belong.

"I'm sorry," Xiangzi said.

"Well, it's all in the past." Miao Meng smiled indifferently. "It's fine as it is now, I'm very satisfied."

Whether it's the bartender who sent her to a juvenile detention center and then found her homeless in the rain, or Xiangzi who tricked each other and became entangled in a messy situation, Miaomeng feels that the people around her now are not so bad.

"Hey, haven't you found it yet? You need to put the lampshade down first." Miaomeng subtly changed the subject.

"Why didn't you say so sooner?" Xiangzi bent over, moving the lampshade away as Miaomeng had instructed.

After removing the lampshade, a simple safety window was revealed.

Xiangzi used a little force to pry open the safety window, finally able to straighten his back and stick his head out.

A buzzing noise reached my ears, and the noise from the elevator running was everywhere around me. At the same time, a pungent smell of engine oil wafted into my nostrils.

These are just auditory and olfactory sensations; the most important thing is sight. The first impression Xiangzi got from the outside space was that it was spacious.

They were drifting in the middle of a hexahedral space. The six planes made of gray-white concrete were perpendicular to each other, and the points where they connected were almost at the edge of their field of vision. Compared to this huge hexahedron, the elevator car where Xiangzi was was just a small boat.

Each plane is inlaid with countless elevator doors, which are arranged neatly and divide the plane into neat cuboid blocks. The edges of the door frames are inlaid with dark red operation indicator lights, and the whole space is filled with the low-frequency noise of mechanical operation and a faint smell of machine oil.

Countless elevator cars float in this space. The tracks that should connect to the elevator shaft have disappeared. The cars float in the air, moving up and down, forward and backward, or left and right. When they touch the boundary of the plane, the floating cars will rotate to the corresponding direction on their own, and the direction of gravity inside will also change quietly. People riding the elevator will not feel anything at all.

Gravity is disordered in this space.

"How is it?" Miaomeng's voice came from below.

"So impressive."

"I was quite shocked when I first saw it myself," Miao Meng said. "A dream has become reality."

"Yes..." Xiangzi opened his mouth slightly, looking at the seemingly endless elevator cars in front of him.

but.

Xiangzi suddenly noticed that among the orderly sedan chairs, there seemed to be some small white dots, like termites, wriggling around.

"Meow Dream, when you were designing your dream, did you also put termites in it?"

Termites? What termites?

"I have a bad feeling..." Xiangzi squinted and realized he couldn't see very clearly, so he simply pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked at the small white dots.

It doesn't matter if you look at it.

Through the eyepiece of the telescope, a pale human face appeared. The eyes of the expressionless mask gleamed with a scarlet light, and their eyes met.

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Path of Fall, the Road of No Return: Chapter 623 - The Deception Begins

The moment Xiangzi met the masked face, he immediately lowered his head and hid inside the sedan chair.

The violent movement made Miaomeng stagger, and she lost her footing, falling to the ground with a thud.

Xiangzi struggled to his feet and closed the safety shutter on the top of the sedan chair.

"Why are you doing this so suddenly?!" Miao Meng lay on the ground in a very strange position, her butt sticking out, rubbing her bumped head. "What did you see that made you so excited?"

"When you designed the dream, you didn't design the termite lily (Part 1)? Qi Yi, 'It seems so.'"

"Termites? What termites?"

"When I peeked out just now, I saw a lot of small white dots on the wall."

“…What the heck?” Meow Dream rubbed her head and got up.

"I looked through the binoculars and found that those little white dots were actually white energy mask robots crawling on the wall. I don't know if they saw me."

"A white Noh mask... Could it be a subconscious defense mechanism for this level?"

“I prefer to call them familiars fallen from heaven.” Xiangzi sat on the ground, leaning against the wall, and breathed a sigh of relief. “Hopefully they didn’t see us.”

She looked down at the back of her hand.

There is no witch's kiss.

It seems that location tracking cannot penetrate dreams, which is good.

"..."

"..."

"...Xiangzi, what did you just say about the familiar?"

Xiangzi turned his head to the side and said = Easy (six) Suspect "Qi Yier〖("eight")?V Now Miaomeng stared at him with a dumbfounded expression.

"Heaven has fallen, what...?" Xiangzi realized something was wrong as she finished speaking. She covered her mouth, her pupils trembling violently. "Strange... when did I learn the witch Alina's name?"

"Now that you mention it... it's like I already knew that." Miao Meng looked bitter. "It's like we should have known all along."

[Witch's Name: Heaven's Fall (HEAVENS DIVIDE)]

Its nature is one of encroachment, possessing a strong aggressiveness, yet it cannot exist in reality.

It's common knowledge that you'll naturally learn the witch's name after entering the witch's barrier.

But when was it?

At what point did they enter the barrier? When did they learn their names?

“By the way, dreams never seem to start,” Xiangzi suddenly said.

She seems to have a clue.

"Since the dream cannot remember the beginning, we naturally cannot remember when we entered the barrier set up by the witch that Alina had transformed into."

“Then wouldn’t that mean…” Miao Meng’s expression turned even uglier, “Doesn’t that mean we’re currently inside that green-haired person’s barrier? But the dream master of this dream should be Hai Ling.”

“The distinction between dreams and barriers has long become blurred. She might have already taken over the previous dream realm.” Xiangzi clenched his fist and slammed it into the ground.

She had just seen countless tiny white dots clinging to the wall; heaven knows how many familiars exist in this space.

It's almost certain that there are more werewolves than on the first level.

Just then, the elevator car shook violently.

"They've come looking for us?!" Miao Meng immediately drew her weapon like a cat with its fur standing on end.

However, the vibration only lasted for a short while before it disappeared immediately, and the elevator resumed its smooth operation. There was no sign of anything crawling outside.

"It shouldn't be." Xiangzi got up and leaned against the elevator wall. "It should be a horse-drawn carriage."

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The vibrations in the second layer of the dream lasted for more than ten seconds, but in the first layer of the dream, it was merely the carriage wheel hitting a stone.

The carriage jolted suddenly, and its speed dropped a few points.

A wild beast, running on all fours, followed closely behind the carriage, getting closer and closer. It soon reached a distance large enough to leap onto the carriage, and with a powerful push of its legs, it bounded forward.

The rotting skin of the hind leg revealed pink muscle fibers, which stretched to their limit in an instant, like a spring that sent the beast flying into the air.

It lunged towards the carriage, and it looked like it was about to pounce on it.

However, what awaited it was a blue iron fist.

Rain fell on the steam-bursting iron fist, instantly vaporizing from the high temperature. Rebecca's body erupted with steam large enough to cover her entire body, and the blue fist slammed into the werewolf who was halfway through his lunge, like a rocket.

Bang-!

The werewolf's upper body exploded like a bomb, with blood, flesh, and internal organs flying everywhere.

Rebecca stood on the roof of the car, watching several running figures slowly emerge from the rain behind her.

"cut."

The red and blue iron fists clashed together, producing a dull metallic clang.

"Come on, come on, let's see what you're really capable of."

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Mu looked down at the water in the cup, which trembled slightly before becoming calm. He then looked up at Hailing and Medien, who were talking, and frowned slightly.

She was dressed in everyday Lolita fashion, similar to what people usually wear in real life, like a doll. Hailing, on the other hand, was wearing a pure black suit and black sunglasses. The suit was a little ill-fitting, which made her look... well, not just like a bodyguard, but also a bit... strange, I don't know how to describe it.

He's more like a salesperson than a bodyguard.

For some reason, Miaomeng and Xiangzi could never wake up in the right place; instead, they always woke up in the restaurant in the lobby.

Medine was also there, which saved a lot of time searching for her.

Hailing was trying to negotiate with Medine, but she couldn't seem to gain his trust. So she changed her approach, keeping Medine there chatting about this and that until Xiangzi arrived.

The little girl with blue hair clearly showed signs of impatience.

She had no idea why she was there, but a self-pitying, cold-faced salesperson kept trying to sell her insurance.