Chapter 3: The Unbreakable Ten-meter Restriction 1
"I don't know. It seems that when the Soul Binding Cage was thrown out, it suddenly..." Zhou Mian paused in the middle of his words, "Could it be?"
I looked at Zhou Mian, and a bad feeling came into my head. He and I rushed to the window and leaned down to look down. Hongze's figure was slowly emerging with a puff of light smoke.
"Ah! Can't let anyone see him!" I shouted and rushed downstairs.
Fortunately, it was the time when all the teachers and students in the school gathered in the cafeteria to eat lunch. The few people in the experimental building area were running wildly with their heads down, so Zhou Mian and I who were also running wildly were not so conspicuous.
As soon as I walked around the back of the laboratory building, I saw a navy blue figure under the only big tree on the lawn, revealing an inexplicable decadence.
I ran closer and found that Hongze was kneeling on the ground, his clothes were covered with grass roots and branches, his beautiful hair was scattered on the grass, and a few pieces of bark fell beside him. Looking closely, there were four suspicious claw marks on the trunk of the big tree he was leaning against.
"How come he became like this in just a few minutes?" I muttered in a neither loud nor soft voice. I was prepared for Hongze to yell at me immediately, but to my surprise, Hongze did not react at all.
I was startled and realized that the situation might be serious. I carefully bent over and approached Hongze. I saw that his eyes were dull and his mouth was opening and closing. He seemed to be talking, but I couldn't hear any sound. Even when I waved my hand in front of his eyes, he didn't react at all.
"Is this... a shock? This shouldn't be the case." I pondered for a while. Hongze didn't seem to want to pay attention to me.
"I don't know. I'll watch over him." Zhou Mian, who followed, stretched out his hand and tried to pull Hongze up from the ground, but failed after several attempts. "Stand up first. What's the matter with sitting on the ground all the time? Lingmiao, don't you want to find the Soul Binding Cage? Why don't you find it?"
I had been leaning over to watch their actions, and was a little confused when Zhou Mian suddenly called me out.
"Hmm? Oh, let me look for it."
Although I said I would look for it, I didn't really have much hope. I didn't know the trajectory of the parabola when it was thrown from the third floor, and I didn't see the landing point. If I suddenly said I wanted to look for something the size of a fingernail in such a large grassy area, I really didn't know where to start looking.
I glanced around casually. The grass looked extremely messy, with fresh dirt in several places. No way! I turned my head back to look at the claw marks on the tree, and a vague idea came to my mind.
I shook my head desperately: "Impossible, impossible, this is too weird!"
I decided not to think about it, and my eyes were involuntarily fixed on one place. I clearly didn't see anything, but my intuition told me that the Soul Binding Cage was there!
I walked closer step by step, the feeling in my heart gradually became stronger, I bent down and looked, and it was the Soul Binding Cage that appeared in the gap between the grass. It was really magical, and I couldn't help but curl up the corners of my mouth. This must be the unique bond between me and the Soul Binding Cage after it recognized its master.
When I thought that this was something unique to me and the Soul Binding Cage, and that the Soul Binding Cage belonged completely to me, I felt an indescribable satisfaction in my heart, and I clenched my right fist tightly.
I secretly said to myself, this time, I will definitely hold you tightly.
I paused, and reached out to pick up the Soul Binding Cage. As soon as my fingertips touched it, Hong Ze behind me shouted without warning, "Don't touch it!"
"Eh?" I was startled and wanted to turn around to look at Hongze, but my body leaned forward and lost balance due to the shock. My finger heavily poked a corner of the Soul Binding Cage, and the Soul Binding Cage, which was unevenly stressed, bounced forward.
I lost my support in an instant, my hands were still struggling to flap my arms, but my body fell to the ground with a clean "bang".
I was lying on the ground in a weird position, looking at the Soul Binding Cage that just fell in front of me, and I couldn't help but close my eyes. Isn't the ability to fall flat on the ground only possessed by heroines in anime? I really want to rest in peace!
"Lingmiao, are you okay?"
"Human! Are you looking for death?"
Two completely different voices intertwined in my ears, pulling me back to reality. I got up from the ground as quickly as possible, rubbing my face, and said to Hongze who appeared in front of me with great dissatisfaction: "What did you just shout? You scared me."
Hongze listened to my questioning but didn't take it seriously. He didn't say anything, just stared at me with a frown. I was confused by his look, so I followed his example and stared at him with a frown. At this time, Zhou Mian had already run over.
"Let me see, is your face scratched?" Zhou Mian held my face without saying a word and looked at it carefully.
If it were any other time, I would probably take the opportunity to act like a spoiled child to Zhou Mian, but now Hongze's eyes seemed to be showing me off, and Zhou Mian holding my face like this made me feel a little uncomfortable. I turned my head away and said, "It's okay, I just rubbed it a little."
"Yeah, I'm glad you're okay." Seeing that I was okay, Zhou Mian asked Hong Ze, "What happened to you just now? You were sucked in even without touching the Soul Binding Cage?"
I was shocked when I bent down to pick up the soul-binding cage. I quickly stuffed the cage into my pocket, thinking "It's over, it's over". Just as I thought, although Hong Ze had escaped from the soul-binding cage, he seemed unable to leave it too far . While thinking, I secretly moved towards Zhou Mian.
"I can't seem to get out of its restriction." Hongze spoke after a long time.
"What does it mean to be unable to get out of the restriction?" Zhou Mian asked me my question considerately.
Hongze, who had been lowering his head, suddenly looked up and glared at me fiercely: "I can't leave its range."
I trembled as I hid behind Zhou Mian, and shrank back desperately, trying to completely shove myself into Zhou Mian’s shadow. I wanted to shout, “My Lord, it’s injustice.”
