[Zhongyingmei] Goblin Detective

"here it is……"

Barnes obviously recognized this place: "I still miss it."

"Let's say in advance that one of us must continuously input magic power into this shield. This is a necessary means to maintain the inherent barrier in the world. Otherwise, it will be like a submarine in the deep sea suddenly enters the shield. Just like water, this unstable space will be shattered all at once.”

Lindell reminded: "At that time, you and I may still be able to barely save ourselves, and humans will definitely not be able to survive."

"I know, in short, this shield must be held by Steve and any one of us. The former maintains the form of the inherent barrier, and the latter provides magical support for the inherent barrier itself."

James nodded: "It's easy to understand, no problem."

The three of them huddled behind a shield that couldn't block even half of their bodies looked a little funny, but the whole school building was empty and lonely, and there were no people who laughed at them.The three of them slowly moved around the campus. Because they had to hold the same shield, their movements were very similar to sports events such as "two-person three-legged" in elementary school. They searched the whole school.

"Do you still need to go into the teaching building to check each classroom in detail?"

Bucky asked, "But there's nothing here."

Compared with the inherent barriers I have seen before - such as the small world surrounded by the sky - this place is a bit too simple and ordinary.There is no element related to occultism, just the projection of the past school building. Even Lindell, after walking around the campus in the form of a goblin, still did not find anything related to Lungomigniad. information.

"It would be great if this submarine could open an 'observation window'..."

Bucky sighed while walking: "It's really hard to imagine that we are on the inside of the world now."

"Even in the inherent barrier, you should be able to see the projection of Rungomigniad—after all, that thing is just a shadow that can cause damage at the level of a Noble Phantasm on the surface of the human world."

"There's got to be somewhere we need to dive a little deeper," Lindell said.

"Excuse me, you two, I don't understand."

Steve said: "I thought I could see the scenery of Fairy Town here, but I didn't expect it to be like this."

"There is nothing to see here. There is an endless sea of ​​flowers and a tower directly connected to the sky. There is no sun in the sky but it is always bright. There are no stars and no night. There are no four seasons and the temperature will not change. .”

Lindell said: "It's much more boring than the human side-except for the amount of magic power, it's nothing special."

"It sounds like a more suitable place for tourism."

Steve concluded, "What does Bucky think? You must have been in Fairyland for a while, too?"

"I do not remember."

James said very sincerely: "Before I left, I was told that it is meaningless to write down these things with a heart that is closer to humans. Although I am a half-elf... But if I really want to look carefully, about three-quarters of me are biased toward humans. Here, the few remaining memories are similar to Lindell's description, very bright, and there are large seas of flowers."

That is indeed a very beautiful scene, but it has remained unchanged for a hundred years and a thousand years.The inner side of the world gathers too many things that cannot be surfaced, such as the immortality brought to the inner side, such as the immutable future, such as the silent watch for thousands of years, as well as the evil dragon and the undefined in fairy tales. Good and evil leprechauns.

"At a time like this, it should be..."

Lindell suddenly let go of the armrest of the shield, jumped on the spot and broke off a branch from the top of the tree. Using sharp nails to add a cutting effect technique, he chopped the branch into a thin stick three times.He stood the wooden stick on the ground, and then, the improvised wooden stick fell down with a snap, and after rolling twice on the ground, the end pointed in one direction.

"Go this way."

Lindell said in this direction: "The divination stick method is used by adventurers in the past to find groundwater, but in fact, the essential principle is to detect the leylines of the earth."

Bucky: "...I don't think this method sounds very reliable."

Steve also nodded in sympathy, but he was concerned about another thing: "Like just now, let go of your hand casually... Let me know in advance next time."

"Look, the input of magic power has to be temporarily switched to let Bucky maintain it."

"Actually, the inherent enchantment doesn't collapse in a second without the magic power..."

Lindell put away the branch, stretched out his hand and folded it on the back of Steve's hand again, "Generally speaking, it can last for three to five minutes, after all, a unit of magic power is stuffed in at once."

What is transmitted is the temperature of the fingers and the soft touch brought by the fingertips.This guy's nails can split the tempered glass under full enchantment, and draw clear finger marks on Stark's tungsten steel defensive curtain wall, but after putting away all the sharp edges, it is as warm as any human finger.

The fingers are connected together.

"Are you okay? The support of this inherent enchantment will consume the 'heart' of human beings. If you feel tired from the beginning, the entire battle will not continue."

Lindell reminded: "Your heart rate has exceeded 30.00% of the resting state."

"No, it's not exhaustion!"

Steve replied reflexively, and felt that his words might cause ambiguity: "It's just, like now..."

"I really can't stand it anymore."

Bucky covered his face, let go of the shield, and made room for this crowded "three-person four-legged activity": "Anyway, Lindell's magic power is relatively sufficient, and if there are no accidents, I shouldn't be used Fill it up, I'll do the divination stick. My stomach hurts when I'm next to you two."

"But your stomach can theoretically digest concentrated sulfuric acid."

Lindell pointed out calmly.

"—so it's not a stomachache in the physical sense!"

The blond goblin was punched on the top of the head, and the latter was holding his head innocently, his eyes widening.They used to take walks together like this when they were children, gagging each other, but no one dared to knock Lindell on the top of the head.Three grown-up guys wandering around the campus is a little weird, but it makes people feel very nostalgic.

"...Could it still be in the sense of magic, there is absolutely no curse here."

Lindell retorted indignantly, but Bucky gave him a look of resentment, and let go of his hand: "Now I start to feel that the values ​​​​of goblins are really different from those of humans."

Just like this, the three of them stopped in front of a big tree.The direction pointed by the divination stick was blocked by the vegetation, and he could no longer move forward. Lindell only hesitated for a moment, then stretched out the vacated arm, put his four fingers together, and gathered magic power at the fingertips.

"This should be the 'door' on the next level. You guys move out of the way a little bit."

The inherent enchantment is a place that connects the landscape of human minds, and the temporary small world is also the submarine they sneaked to near Lungomignard.

"But let me say something first... Humans, there should be such things as personal desires, right? From now on, we have to dig deeper into the heart, right?"

Lindell swayed his arm on the tree trunk twice, estimating the magic power needed in his heart: "Is there any problem?"

"Since it's just the two of you here, it's okay."

Steve smiled gently, and looked at the tree with a nostalgic expression: "At that time, I drew a lot of sketches under this tree. From this angle, I could see the basketball hoop on the playground. Bucky often I will play in that position with other students."

"Ah, that's right, I haven't paid much attention to this perspective before—"

Lindell dragged his tone: "Because it was difficult to control the power at that time, so I didn't have much contact with other humans."

"Obviously you always like to sleep on this tree yourself."

Bucky looked up and looked at the movement of the branches above: "From the time I came to school in the morning, I slept until after school, and then I went home pretending to go to school normally."

"So in fact, Aziraphale and Crowley don't care much about whether I have studied with humans normally..."

They were chatting about past topics, Lindell stretched out his hand, and struck horizontally without hesitation, and Barnes immediately kicked on the section, breaking the originally thick tree trunk in the middle.

Destruction doesn't feel like destroying real trees, it feels more like breaking glass than the toughness of plants.Under the section is a distorted space similar to a portal. Lindell stepped on the outer edge of the tree trunk with one leg, and turned his head to remind: "Are you going to jump?"

"Seriously, why are you so calm in this kind of place..."

Bucky grumbled and rolled up his sleeves.

"After all, the last time I opened the Inherent Barrier, I was alone on the battlefield in Vietnam."

A strong wind of unknown composition blows from the section of the proper barrier.The wind blew through the long golden hair, revealing a pair of long and narrow ears hidden in the hair.

"—So this time the three of them came together to settle this matter, which makes me very happy."

The blond goblin turned around and suddenly laughed.

The three of them fell into the new passage together.

There is no concept of up and down, no breath and heartbeat.For a moment, Steve felt that all five senses had disappeared, but it was as if he was stuffed into a spinning washing machine in a weightless environment, and even the internal organs were cut clean.

After everything settled down, they had already appeared in a wider space.

This is also a familiar scene, obviously familiar, yet overwhelmingly abnormal.

——This is the ruins of the base left by Hydra during World War II, specifically, the huge well of light.But now, that huge deep well is not empty, but a majestic beam of light extends from the center, extending from the unfathomable bottom all the way to the bright sky without the sun.

"The amount of penetration of this magic power..."

Bucky raised his head in astonishment, even through a layer of inherent barrier, the impact brought by the beam of light can still penetrate strongly, illuminating the whole space brightly and dazzlingly, so that those pair of eyes that usually look similar Under the stimulation of the strong light, the pupils of the human eyes, which are indistinguishable from each other, shrank and stretched into thin lines.

Steve was held by Lindell's eye sockets before he opened his eyes. He let go of the opponent's wrist briefly, and took out the pre-prepared tactical eyepiece from the space pocket: "Wang and Daniel, if they want to move If it is true, the preparations are still very complete.”

The [-]-level shading tactical eyepiece is basically equivalent to the protective mask used in plasma arc welding. It's barely just right.

In the adjusted field of view, various complex and incomprehensible lines are engraved on the surface of the golden beam of light.

"This is, the projection of Rungomigniad..."

Lindell also showed a look of surprise: "It's the first time I've seen it from such a distance."

It's like observing the deep ocean through a layer of submarine glass.

"The next step is to release the seal carving technique on the shield, right?"

James pointed to the surface of the vibrating gold round shield, which was also messily complicated: "Sing out the command carefully."

"It's easy to say on my side, after all, I made an attempt last night..."

Lindell stretched dazedly, and as soon as his palms gathered above his head, his whole body stiffened.

James lay across in front of the two of them almost at the same time, unloading the assault rifle he had been carrying on his back.

A fourth figure appeared in the inherent barrier that should have been empty except for the three of them.Steve and Bucky saw each other for the first time, but Lindell was very familiar with each other's faces.

The goblin would never forget anything. The moment Lindell met his gaze, Lindell's original anger at the future Duggan had chosen, and his distaste for Hydra's long plan, came back almost instantly.

"—I'm still wondering why you didn't die like that from cancer."

He said: "It turns out that I chose such a distorted way of survival."

"It's been a long time, Lindell Carter, or rather, how many new identities have you changed so far?"

Zola, or something in the shape of Dr. Zola, waved at them lightly in the inherent barrier.

The author has something to say: Happy Double Ninth Festival for today’s update!