I am a reincarnation player.

"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.

Shiina Hiyori was reading the details on the door. When he saw Yuuki coming, he hurried to meet him.

"Mr. Yuki, I've looked everywhere, and every building has a door like this. Every detail is exactly the same. It doesn't look like it was man-made."

She is very observant in real life reading and can find the difference even if they are produced from the same mold.

Yuki nodded and walked around the door a few times. He found that this thing was much larger than the previous door. It could accommodate four or five people walking in side by side.

"Do you want to try it?" Hiyori was eager to try. She didn't dare to touch it before Yuuki arrived. It would be terrible if something came out of it.

It doesn't look like a sealed object, so it shouldn't be dangerous.

Yuki thought about it for a while and was not as cautious as before, for fear of taking a wrong step.

"Stand back, let me touch it first and see if I can open it."

Hiyori was very obedient and immediately jumped to the other side of the hallway. Then she saw Yuuki draw his knife and slowly stretched out his left hand as if he was afraid of electric shock.

Half a meter, one foot, one inch.

His hand slowly approached, and the moment his fingertips touched the door, Hiyori, who had been reading in the distance, widened her eyes.

The door opened, no, to be more precise, it disappeared along with the door frame, turning into a slowly rotating purple-red vortex.

gorgeous.

It was as if a galaxy was unfolding before his eyes. This was Shiina Hiyori's first thought. He quickly shook his head and opened his mouth anxiously:

"Mr. Yuuki, run..."

Yuki didn't run, or rather, he bent his knees and was ready to run, but he was unable to move as if he was under a spell.

But he was not controlled because he heard a strange murmur in surprise:

[Player Yuki, do you want to go to the junction of reincarnation? ]

Chapter 4: The Border? Feilun? ?

Yuki had been confused many times today and actually developed some resistance.

His legs seemed to be welded to the floor, and the purple-red vortex that was so close to him occupied his entire field of vision, turning his blood-red eyes into a brilliant galaxy.

What the hell is this...

Yuki's first reaction was that it was too beautiful. Even an art idiot would be shocked by the magnificence. He felt as if he had become a god, standing in a higher dimension, overlooking the operation of the galaxy.

It is so beautiful that one forgets time. Just admiring this whirlpool can make one stand there until the end of time.

No, this thing is very similar to the one in the sky. There is a blurry badge in the middle, and judging from the shadow, it looks like some kind of plant.

Yuki bit his lip, using the pain to wake himself up, and quickly turned his attention back to the whispering.

[Player Yuki, do you want to go to the junction of reincarnation? ]

Coincidentally, He reminded it again.

Junction? Old Man Ring!?

No, once you enter the dungeon, you will disappear immediately. How can there be any choice for the player? It must be another place.

"Pig head, are you okay?"

A call came from behind, and Sakurajima Mai, Hayasaka Ai, and Shinomiya Kaguya all came, each holding a bow and a gun, looking as if they were facing a great enemy.

"I'm fine. I'm not controlled or hypnotized." Yuki quickly took a few steps back. Looking at the gorgeous starry sky, he felt eager to try it out, but he quickly suppressed his curiosity with the method of hiding his curiosity.

"Hiyori, use the characteristics to read the details."

"I tried, and besides a blurry emblem in the middle, it looked like a vortex in the sky. I couldn't even read the galaxy. Just looking at it made my head swell and I felt like it was going to explode."

A girl's voice sounded somewhat painful. Yuki concentrated his attention and looked into the galaxy. Sure enough, his head felt dizzy, so he quickly looked away.

This thing can be appreciated but not read. Just by looking at it for a moment, an excessive amount of unknown information will flood into your mind, which is very similar to the feeling of unfolding the detailed panel when you first entered the Red Moon.

The human brain cannot process too much information. If you force yourself to read, the 'CPU' will be overloaded instantly.

But he saw the badge in the center of the vortex. It was blurry, somewhat like some kind of flower or plant, and its surface had been wiped away by something, leaving scratches.

What the hell is this?

No one could answer, Yuki just took note of the badge and decided not to continue his suicidal behavior.

He felt a little regretful. If he had known, he should have let Hiyori touch her first, so as to eliminate his own uniqueness. But it was too late to say anything now.

"Go and see if the same thing happens at the other doors."

"I'll go." Hayasaka turned around and walked across the street, coming back a minute later.

"Same thing. Then when I leave the hallway, the door will automatically close. And did you hear the whispering? It said it leads to some reincarnation junction?"

"I heard it. It seems that this thing should be harmless and it all leads to the same place."

With the reference object, Yuki felt much more at ease. Since the door would close automatically, there was no chance that anything would suddenly jump out.

Portal?

Yuki waved his hand, asked everyone to step back, and came to the front of the galaxy.

"Hey, do you want to try it?" Kaguya quickly called him.

"Are we just wasting our time here if we don't give it a try?" Yuki was determined and had already constructed a logical system based on what he saw and heard.

If each room is a team's base, then a tall building is enough to accommodate dozens of teams. The hall below is the passage, and through this door, they all go to the same place. Combined with the newly added points system...

"This place should be where players trade, but why do we have to do this?"

Yuki didn't understand, so he had to give it a try. Under everyone's nervous gaze, he took a decisive step forward. When his fingertips touched the whirlpool, he completely put his heart back into his stomach.

[Toll fee is 100 points, and every 24 hours spent at the border will cost 10 points]

[Player's city, points are 0, inaccessible]

No one in this world would pay to die, which indirectly confirms the guess.

"Come and try it, all of you." Yuki waved his hand, asking the alert Mai and others to come over, and then everyone touched it and found that it was really impossible to pass through, and the prompts were the same.

Ah, could it be that the outpost is just a relay point?

"100 points equals one enhancement point, but it can only be redeemed once per dungeon cycle." Hiyori was a little reluctant, but she knew what to do. "To be safe, I'll have to let Mr. Yuuki take a look."

"Then let me do the exchange." Mai said without hesitation, decisively exchanged the two enhancement points for 200 points, and then traded them to Yuuki.

Watching the number change from 0 to 200, Yuki touched it again, and sure enough, the prompt changed.

[Player Yuki, do you want to teleport? ]

Damn, a points recycling plan, right? Fortunately, enhancement points are not too difficult to obtain.

Yuki's eyes twitched, his desire to explore had reached its peak, he had to go.

"You guys keep looking around this city. I don't believe there aren't any clues."

"You should be careful too, you might meet other players." Mai felt that she had just said something nonsense, because it was inevitable that they would meet.