I, enter the zero world, change the ending

"Absolutely not. If I'm lying, let Wuhui come and strangle me to death immediately." Zhiyao looked straight into the deep red eyes with a sharp gaze, telling her that he was not guilty.

Seeing Shenhong nodded, Zhiyao continued, "Let me tell you a little more about why I came here."

It must be to change my own destiny, Shenhong thought silently in his heart.

But what I heard was——

"I'm here for Hinasaki Manfuyu, too. He's as important to me as he is to you. You're worried about him getting into trouble, but I'm ten times more afraid than you are. For me, no matter what he says, I have to survive. There can't be any mistakes."

"But I'm not in a hurry at all now, because he's alive and well. I can guarantee that with my life."

"Look, since even I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry?"

Chapter 27: [From this moment on, we officially become friends]

As soon as he finished speaking, Shenhong suddenly held his hand.

"Ok?"

Zhiyao was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

Shenhong must have wanted to verify whether what she said was true by looking at it. Zhiyao, who had a clear conscience, just looked at her quietly.

After a while.

"Did you see it?" Zhiyao asked, holding Shenhong's hand.

Shenhong lowered her eyes and sighed in defeat.

Zhiyao immediately understood this reaction and thought that it seemed like a failure.

"Then...if you can't see it, will you still believe me?" Zhiyao asked tentatively.

Shenhong didn't know how to respond, so she looked away and remained silent. After a moment's silence, she murmured, "My brother's safe and sound existence, is it related to your intention to change my fate?"

"Uh, you...so you already knew about this."

Crimson nodded.

"That's right, that's why he must survive at all costs."

After that, both of them fell into silence. No one spoke for a full minute, and only the occasional bird song could be heard from the depths of the dense forest.

Perhaps it was the atmosphere that made people feel at a loss, and gradually, the ancient capital began to become uneasy.

"I said……"

She had just opened her mouth when a deep red voice rang out.

"Sikong, tell me, why did I disappear?"

"Ah, you even think this is... okay." Zhiyao lowered his eyes slowly and smiled bitterly, "Because you have exhausted your vitality."

"Is it related to this trip to Himuro residence?" Shenhong asked.

"That's not the case... Actually, it can't be said to be completely unrelated. Anyway... Tsk, it's a bit difficult to talk about."

Such vague words completely aroused Shenhong's curiosity.

"Tell me what's going on!"

"This... I'm sorry, I've already spoiled too much..." Zhiyao gritted her teeth, "Please don't ask anymore, really. Anyway, you just need to remember that your brother is safe now."

After saying that, the two fell into silence again, looking at each other quietly. During this time, Gu Du didn't know what to say, sometimes looking at Shenhong and sometimes looking at Zhiyao.

Several minutes passed like this, and finally a deep red sigh broke the deadlock.

"Sikong..."

Shenhong slowly raised the corners of her mouth, and her quiet smile was as fresh as a lily blooming in the moonlight.

"Eh."

Crimson took a deep breath.

"Thank you for coming to a place like this for me."

Zhiyao felt a little embarrassed when suddenly being thanked. He scratched the back of his head and said, "It's nothing. I just disliked something and happened to have the opportunity to change the ending, so..."

"Anyway, it's brave of me to be able to come to such a dangerous place. You know, because I can see things that ordinary people can't, I've lived a very painful life since I was a child. This kind of pain is understood by no one except my brother who can also see. So gradually, I closed my heart and no longer wanted to have any intersection with anyone. I felt that as long as my brother was by my side, it would be enough, until one day my brother left me." Swallowing saliva to moisten his throat, Shenhong continued, "At first I thought he would be back soon, but there was no news for several days in a row. During that time, I was not only lonely and isolated, but also felt very uneasy every day. Until later, your appearance distracted me... I clearly warned you, but you still insisted on getting close to me, always doing annoying things, and even followed me all the way here, which made me panic for a while... But... now I want to say, it's great to know you and that you appear by my side."

Faced with Shenhong's heartfelt confession, Zhiyao didn't know how to respond. Out of embarrassment, he simply turned his back and avoided looking directly at her.

He knew that Crimson already considered him a friend, most likely the first one in his life.

"Are you willing to listen to me next?" Zhiyao asked, turning half of her face to the side.

"I'll listen to you." Shen Hong nodded without hesitation. "You know a lot of things that I don't, so next, please take me to my brother."

"Of course, hehe." Zhiyao rubbed his nose and smiled. "I swear here that when we leave this damn place, we must be four people together, and no one will be lost."

Stimulated by the bold words, the two girls began to get excited, and then, starting with Gudu, the three of them overlapped their hands.

"Well, Hinasaki, please fulfill your duty as eyes from now on." Zhiyao said, gently pressing Shenhong's shoulder with one hand.

Hearing this, Shen Hong slapped his hand away and looked up, "Hei Ze is your eyes. You asked for them yourself."

It's obvious that he's acting like a spoiled brat, but he's actually quite cute.

"Excuse me, are you suffering from dementia? You have two eyes, yours is the left eye and hers is the right eye." Zhiyao gently poked the deep red forehead.

Shenhong turned sideways, put her hands behind her back, and looked at me with sidelong eyes.

"You'd better be a one-eyed dragon."

Chapter 28: [Himero Kirie]

After the fun was over, the three of them were in a good mood and smiled at each other.

"Let's go, let's go." Standing at the front of the team, Gudu urged the other two.

"Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't rested enough." Zhiyao yawned and rubbed her eyelids. "Aren't you two sleepy? Time flows slower here than outside. At least according to our experience, it must be eleven or twelve o'clock now, right?"

"I'm fine." Shenhong replied calmly.

The other person was aroused by his sleepiness.

“Hua ...

Gu Du, who was originally full of energy, saw Zhiyao yawning and yawned too.

She thought about it carefully and thought to herself that she had been out for almost ten hours, and usually she should have turned off the lights and gone to bed by this time.

Seeing Zhiyao take out the cigarette box, she sat down again, bent over, hugged her legs, and rested her forehead on her knees.

"Let me refresh myself first, anyway..." Zhiyao yawned again beside him.

It was obvious that this person was really tired. Shen Hong then thought of something, "Sikong, this place is very far from the city. I took a taxi to the foot of the mountain. What about you? Did you also take a taxi and follow me all the way?"

"Get lost! Who's following you?" Zhiyao replied angrily, "I know the location of the Himuro residence. I came here alone. On the way, I was praying that you were delayed for some reason and that I would run into you unexpectedly."

"Really? Then how did you get here?"

"Of course I rode my bike. I rode a full forty kilometers."

Gu Du next to him suddenly stood up, his face full of disbelief.

“No way—?!”

"Why would I lie to you?" Zhiyao sneered.

Shen Hong felt a little sorry for him for riding so far just for her. "Well, that's really... hard work for you."

"Oh, don't mention it." Zhiyao waved his hands in boredom, occasionally rubbing his temples to refresh himself. "It's my fault that I don't know your exact departure time, so I can't prepare in advance."

Speaking of preparations, Crimson thought of another thing.

"I have another question. If it's convenient, would you mind answering it?"

Zhiyao nodded, lit the cigarette and took a light puff.

"I saw a scene in your memory, a horizontal plane at sunset. You were standing in the water, and there was a woman in white clothes in front of you. I saw the woman's face. That was me, wasn't it?"

Hearing this, Zhiyao was stunned and almost choked by the smoke.

He looked at Crimson in surprise, and then heard Crimson continue, "That me was older than the me now, but I'm sure we just met recently, so where did you see me?"

"Cough cough cough..."

This time I was really choked by the smoke.

"Things like this...it's better not to ask about them." Zhiyao coughed, laughed, and waved her hands.

"But I really want to know." Shenhong moved next to him, blinking innocently, and slowly moved her face forward.

The crimson face was getting closer and closer. Zhiyao leaned back repeatedly, and kept refusing politely, "It's not...it's mainly because...if I really tell you, it will subvert your worldview..."

"Then I want to know even more!"

"No, no, now is not the time to talk about it. Anyway, don't ask."

No matter how Shenhong insisted, Zhiyao was determined to pretend to be deaf and dumb. The two of them remained deadlocked until the cigarette burned out. In the end, Zhiyao could not stand Shenhong's soft and hard persuasion, so she had to make a promise.

"I'll tell you after we leave Himuro's residence, okay? Fine, fine, I'll tell you as soon as I find my brother. If I lie to you, I'll...I'll stay and marry Kirie after death."

……

Like the main house of Himuro, the ancestral hall has become almost dilapidated due to the passage of time because no one has cleaned it for many years.

On the left and right sides are two large, stained floor-to-ceiling mirrors, and directly in front is the altar.

As soon as they walked in, the three of them smelled a pungent odor. Compared with the two girls, Zhiyao's right eyelid twitched from time to time, and she always felt that something bad was going to happen.

"Ah ah!"

A deep red exclamation came to my ears.

"What a huge pool of blood!"

Gu Du then told the truth.

Zhiyao immediately went to check it out, first rubbed it with his fingers, then raised his head and stared at the ceiling.

There was nothing on the ceiling.

To confirm, he consulted Crimson and Ancient Capital, but received the same answer: nothing.

"It's strange. The blood is so thick. Where does it come from..." Zhiyao muttered to himself in confusion as he shone a flashlight around the ancestral hall.

"Or we should leave quickly. This place gives me a bad feeling!" Gudu hugged his arm, which had goose bumps on his elbow, and looked around occasionally.

"Wait, my camera is responding." Shen Hong looked around and quickly walked to the altar deep in the ancestral hall. "It seems that something is missing here."

Gudu and Zhiyao looked closely and saw a row of mini stone Buddha statues. Part of each statue was dyed a striking red. During this time, Shenhong also pressed the shutter at that place, and then the photo showed that there was a missing Buddha statue in the middle.

As for where to find the Buddha statue in the middle, no one knows, and even Xiao Wuhui, who might know the location, is not here.

"Wait, these five Buddha statues..." Shenhong suddenly remembered something, "I've seen photos of Mr. Ogata Koji before. Each red rope in the photo corresponds exactly to the dyed part of each Buddha statue."

“So what’s missing is a Buddha statue with a neck dyed red?” Gudu seemed to understand.

The question is where to find it, Zhiyao was about to say.

Just as he was about to speak, Zhiyao noticed something dripping on his head. He subconsciously touched that place, and when he took his hand away, he found a scarlet stain on his palm.

His intuition told him that it was blood.

He quickly raised his head to check, and found that the ceiling was empty. Gu Du, who was standing next to him, noticed his behavior and looked up as well. The next moment, his eyes widened in panic, and a cry of surprise burst out from his throat.

then.

"Bang"

Something landed heavily on the floor, right in the middle of the pool of blood.