Master of Kaidan
Chapter 33: Are High School Girls Nowadays All So Calm?

Chapter 33: Chapter 33: Are High School Girls Nowadays All So Calm?

In less than a second, a new tag had already coalesced. When he became aware of the existence of this tag named "Gatekeeper," a voice—or rather, a consciousness, a thought—just appeared out of nowhere in his mind—

"You have witnessed a door opening before you. Whether you claim it for yourself, make it public, or simply ignore it, it all depends on your choice."

"A door?" Feng Xue looked at the ordinary door in puzzlement, but since he had already formed two tags, simply by thinking about it, endless information burst forth. For example, each person had to wait a day to cool down before they could cross through the door again, and, for instance, if the girl before him died in Infinite City, the consequences would be terrifying...

Directly invoking a tag allowed one to access internal knowledge. However, compared to reading with a browser built into an employee card, this method was crude and direct, and it was even difficult to identify the main points. But currently, Feng Xue was still restraining a girl, and naturally didn’t have the time to leisurely pull out and peruse the details openly.

However, this didn’t really matter because the most important issue had been captured by Feng Xue at the first instance.

The girl being held in a standard chokehold by Feng Xue couldn’t tell what kind of change had happened to the man’s expression, but she could clearly feel that the arms binding her body were trembling slightly.

"If you don’t want to die, then shut up and listen to me!"

A completely unheard language rang in her ears, but the girl understood the meaning of the words clearly. It was simply such an incredible thing that immediately made the girl think of those protagonists in novels who mysteriously learned a magical language after crossing worlds.

"Could it be... I’ve crossed worlds?"

Seeing that the girl in his arms had stopped struggling, Feng Xue relaxed his grip slightly, but he had no intention of letting her go completely. If she showed any sign of trouble, he would immediately knock her out.

As for why not kill her...

It wasn’t because of her soft black hair, nor was it because of that goose-egg face which fit with Feng Xue’s classical aesthetic. It was because, in this world, such people cannot be killed!

According to the knowledge transmitted by the "Gatekeeper" tag, he roughly understood what the so-called door actually was—

It was the pathway to the Real World that he had always been curious about!

The Kaidan known as Infinite City exists within the Real World yet operates outside of it; it’s like an imaginary number that can be plotted on a coordinate graph but can never be found on the coordinate axis.

But unlike imaginary numbers, Infinite City occasionally overlaps with the Real World. At such times, if someone happens to open something with a "door" element, a temporary channel connecting the two worlds would be constructed, and the person who opens the door becomes the anchor that fixes the two coordinates together.

In other words, this girl, she’s a real person!

Not the Immortal from Taoist immortal cultivation, but a real, flesh and blood human being that requires eating, sleeping, and using the toilet—the biological sense of a human!

And humans are not only the source of "Identity" but also the carriers of massive amounts of "Identity." Because of their connection to the original world, their "Identity" is fixed while they live, resembling Pseudo Artifacts, but once they die, that vast "Identity" inevitably mutates into ominous signs of terror, and at the highest level.

Feng Xue did not know the extent of what a "top-level ominous sign" was, but he was very clear that it was definitely not something he could handle.

Fortunately, after regaining her freedom, the girl in his arms did not scream again, which gave Feng Xue some relief. He stepped back a bit, packed everything that could fit into his Storage Bag, and put the rest into a backpack, which he then shouldered. As he did so, he said:

"We’ll explain more later. There are two things you need to know for now—first, you’ve crossed worlds; second, you’re of great value in the eyes of the people here."

"I understand. We need to escape, right? No problem. Shall we start now?"

The girl’s reaction was much more adept than Feng Xue had anticipated. Her expression was even excited and thrilled.

"Is this what the young people of the Real World are like?" Feng Xue suddenly felt a bit out of touch with the times, but after all, her cooperation was a good thing.

Having tidied up all his belongings, Feng Xue did not let the girl touch the door but instead pushed it open himself. Then, he grabbed the girl by the waist and hoisted her up like a sack of potatoes.

At this moment, he once again felt fortunate about his choice back then. If he had chosen a home closer to the Cross Sword Union, he might have ended up like that Doctor who had mutated into a Suture monster!

That’s right. Feng Xue had completely figured out now, the woman who had been taken away before was undoubtedly a real person from the Real World!

As for why the Manager wanted to capture people from the Real World, Feng Xue had not yet had the chance to find the answer among the jumbled information from the Gatekeeper, but one thing he did see—

The people of the Real World, or rather the channel to the Real World, are a necessary condition to become a Kaidan!

Just this fact alone is enough to drive the Managers mad, not to mention she also brings along a door that leads to the Real World?

Even if the "Identity" consumed for survival on the other side of the door is a thousand times more than that in Infinite City, the desire to become truly existent is the deepest wish etched in the hearts of all "Infinite" beings.

They have nothing, so they are always at risk of vanishing. Even with enough "Identity," that unsettling feeling still drives one mad.

To live is to be at peace, and those within Infinite City who are the "Infinite," are precisely the least peaceful "people."

"I can walk on my own!" suggested the girl carried on Feng Xue’s shoulders like a sack.

Feng Xue was quite satisfied with her for not making a fuss even in such a situation. Suddenly, he grabbed onto a nearby wall with one hand, leveraged himself with a jump, and together with the girl on his shoulder, they both flipped onto the roof.

As for why he didn’t take the road and instead traveled over the rooftops...

Of course, it was because the houses in the landfill area were built very irregularly, with uneven heights and disparities in elevation. This structure allowed him to hide at any time, and if it came to it, he could even find a house with a leaky roof and jump inside.

Watching Feng Xue move almost noiselessly across the rooftops, the girl immediately swallowed her previous question. But as she stopped asking, Feng Xue suddenly explained in a low voice:

"Look to the north."

"North? Which way is north?" The girl demonstrated her lack of sense of direction characteristic of a high school girl living a life confined to two points and one line. Feng Xue just slightly adjusted the direction to make her head face the north, and at the same time, the girl also saw the lights approaching from the direction of the city’s north.

"Are those coming to kill us?"

"More precisely, coming to kill you..."