Chapter 42 Opening the door to their hometown,

everything they saw, heard and felt was upside down.

This is the nature of Xina.

Sherlock Holmes knew that this was an extremely terrifying ability. If you want to get used to everything about him, it means a complete dissociation and reversal from reality.

Xina sat down quietly, picked up the cup, and drank the milk that Luna poured for him slowly. He did not speak, because it was very inconvenient for other people's senses to capture him. As for the person he wanted to see, Holmes' eyes fell on Luna's face, and as expected, he saw the pattern that lit up in her eyes.

She could read her friend's thoughts without words, which might be why Xina chose to come to see Luna.

"Ah." Luna raised her hand to cover her mouth, revealing a surprised expression, "What did you say, your king's key is lost."

Xina blinked, unhappy and helpless.

Holmes certainly understood what the loss of the King's Key meant, which meant that there was now a human being who could use the same inversion ability as Xina.

"What will the price be for the usurper who picked up the King's Key?" Holmes asked. Luna's eyes moved over for a moment, then moved away again. "It's terrible. I don't know how to describe it. Anyway, the loss of Xina's King's Key is really a terrible thing."

"Compared to Gold's?" Holmes asked.

"That's still worse for Gold," Luna thought for a while, "but Xina's is also bad."

"Inversion," Holmes lit a cigarette for himself, "it doesn't sound that bad. It is said that if humans keep looking at an upside-down world, they will correct it in their cognition."

"Is there such a function?" Luna asked, she blinked, "Xina's inversion is a complete inversion."

"In fact, complete inversion is not terrible." Holmes said, "Can his ability be paused and restored at any time?"

"He can't." Luna said, she raised a finger and touched her cheek, "but it's hard to say about the human who holds his king key."

"Anyway, I have to send Xina to Sean first." Luna decided, "The rest of us will find a way to get your king key back."

Xina agreed.

"I think," he said, "it would be better to let Half handle this matter."

Half's nature is average, which is one-half. Holmes thought that this is indeed the most favorable attribute for the inversion, because the inverted world will be naturally corrected by Half's cognition, and does not need to be corrected by itself like other creatures.

"No," Luna retorted.

The two men looked at the girl at the same time. She thought hard about her wording and said, "Anyway, Half can't."

"Although I can't explain why," she said, "but the next step after taking your key is to meet Half."

"So I think it's definitely wrong to follow his wishes," Luna said, tapping the milk cup in his hand nervously. Ripples spread out of the white liquid, like fluctuations in some chaotic state. "According to the path he predicted, although there will be elements of chaos, it is very likely to lead to his result." "

He," Holmes said softly, "do you think the key of Xina fell into Moriarty's hands?"

"No." Luna shook her head. "He couldn't have taken the key himself."

"In short, Half can't," she said firmly. "I think there must be other ways to get the key back."

Holmes took a puff of cigarette and watched the smoke rings gradually rise and disappear into thin air. He remembered his conversation with Frey, why Luna kept repeating his fate, and they were still waiting.

"Have you ever seen a toy?" Frey asked, opening a small drawer and throwing him a toy made of strong metal wire. "This is called the Nine Rings. Although they are buckled together now, you can try. It can be untied and taken apart."

"Theoretically it is impossible," Frey said. "Their shapes and structures are locked, but they can indeed be untied."

"Topology," Holmes said, "Have you decided to rely on some possibility in chaos? A path that was blocked before will definitely be accessible at some time and moment by chance." "

Because our time is infinite," Frey said, smiling slightly. "Although waiting is hard, we have time after all."

Therefore, the ancient books on alchemy and black magic may not be nonsense, Holmes thought, it's just that the road is not always smooth, and the knowledge he possesses is also mastered by Moriarty.

He walked to the desk and sat down, looking at the symbol wall in Moriarty's office that he had copied onto white paper. If there was any clue he could see last night, it was that there were too many elements mixed in.

There were ancient Egyptian gods, runes, runes, and ancient gypsy or Jewish symbols. Holmes couldn't understand why he used the mystical elements of various nations so widely. Maybe he created a code himself.

Now he seemed to have a little guess of his plan.

Since the road is likely to be open only occasionally under certain circumstances, as long as he collected enough roads and kept throwing stones to test the water, he would definitely be able to find the contingency and reach the other side of the road.

Achieving dimension upgrade, or some other term, in short, it describes the same phenomenon.

Many ancient heroic legends ended with a king key. Of course, they have various names in fairy tales, but now he knows that the holy relics that the ancient heroes saw at the end were all king keys.

Holy Grail.

Libra.

Ring of the Nibelung.

And so on.

"Speaking of which, Luna," he began, "do you know where King Arthur went?"

"Did he reach his Avalon?" he asked.

"Not yet," Luna replied, "he should still be in the bronze coffin. We will carry him on the day of our return."

The idea of ​​the inner side of the world and the outer side of the world is too abstract. Holmes thought that it would be better to say that they are now in three-dimensional space, and the inner world with a transportation method like a hub is a non-Euclidean space, which is also closer to the so-called high-dimensional world, but it is probably just a gap in the cracks.

The inner world is just a temporary shelter for these creatures whose dimensions have been reduced, and the hometown they are thinking about returning to, the so-called utopia that is more suitable for their survival, is where they come from.

A higher-dimensional world.

The source of the power of fairies and gods, the real hometown.

"Bronze coffin, can you show it to me?" Holmes asked.

If he guessed correctly, the so-called bronze coffin should be something like a specimen holder, so that these poor low-dimensional creatures can be kept intact when passing through the passage and reaching the utopia,

so as not to be crushed into powder.

However, it is actually not necessary.

If the purpose of taking them away is to destroy the relevant memories of the people in this world and correct their cognition, then it is also fine to let them shatter in the passage.

So does the bronze coffin have other uses?

"Has anyone tried to steal the bronze coffin recently?" he asked.

Xina and Luna looked at each other.

"I haven't heard of it." Luna said vaguely, "Frey didn't say anything about it."

"Are all the bronze coffins stored with Frey?" Holmes asked, his gray eyes still fixed on the symbols he copied, and the symbol of the Holy Grail undoubtedly occupied a very important symbol.

"Yes." Luna nodded.

Xina sat quietly, and Holmes suddenly realized something from the corner of his eye. His appearance had changed, from the original white hair and blue eyes to black hair and red eyes.

"What is he doing?" he asked.

Luna looked at Xina, "Xina said that someone was using his King's Key and was listening to us from far away, so he corrected that person's inversion."

"How much did he hear?" Holmes asked softly.

"Probably because he heard Xina's suggestion to Halfu." Luna replied, "Humans can be so familiar with using the King's Key so quickly." She spoke incoherently, and Holmes sometimes felt that her ability to express herself was enough to reverse things even if she didn't have the power of inversion.

Xina's red eyes looked out the window, and he clearly revealed a hint of displeasure. Perhaps that person had given up trying. Xina's hair and eye colors returned to their reversed colors. He picked up the cup and continued to drink water.

"Then I'll take you to Sean, and we'll go find Frey?" Luna suggested.

Xina agreed. Luna reached out her hand and took out her king key from her neck. Holmes knew that Luna's king key was in the shape of a real key. He guessed that the function of each king key was related to its shape.

Then Luna's biggest mission was probably to open the passage.

Open the door for them to return home.

They had obviously never seen their hometown, so why were they so eager to return home? Holmes thought, if he was a child born in the inner world, would he have such a desire for the outer world?

Maybe not. Humans are creatures with possibilities, which means they can adapt to any kind of life.

The thought flashed through his brain like lightning.

Humans have possibilities and can adapt to any kind of life. Doesn't that mean that humans have the possibility of living in a higher-dimensional world, and can even live like the natives of Utopia?

Then the role of the bronze coffin needs to be investigated even more.

The gray-white inner world slowly unfolded in front of him, and ashes fell silently from the dome. There was no sound, no creatures, and the streets were too quiet.

Luna was obviously shocked by the lifelessness. She looked at Xina, who silently reached out and touched the ground.

Luna saw a figure appear not far away. Her scarlet hair was still as bright as blood in the ashes. Lilith appeared on the other side of the street. She raised her hand and grabbed Xina's wrist, and then a light red color like a cell membrane covered several people.

"What happened, Lilith?" Luna asked softly.

"Frei has accepted refuge from all creatures," Lilith said. "For some reason, they started to get restless a few days ago."

"Although Frei's fragrant garden is infinite," Luna blinked, "I think this move is too risky."

"Will there be any strange things sneaking in?" she asked, "Is anyone protecting Frei?"

"Gold is there," Lilith said, "Don't worry too much for the time being."

"Gold is an absolute natural enemy and destroyer of humans." Lilith patted Luna's shoulder gently. "After all, we are a whole. If one is lacking, the other can definitely make up for it."

"Aren't you going to Frei too?" she said, "You can stay there for a few days."

"A few of us will check the other world to see what the abnormality is." Lilith said, "Xiuna will go with you, after all, his king key is lost."

"No," Xiuna said, "The king key is lost, I need to be with you even more."

"Luna said that the other party has set their sights on Half, so you can't count on Half to offset my king's key." Xi Na said, "I have to handle it myself."