After hearing this, she closed her eyes silently, as if she was omitting some kind of comment. Knowing that it could not be a good thing, Chen Wei still asked with great interest: "You have asked me so much just now, don't you have any feelings about this dream?"
"If you call this kind of dream a nightmare... you will be scared to sleep at night when you read "Alice in Wonderland", right? I can't tell from the past that you have such innocence, classmate Chen."
"I've never done anything that can be called out of line, right?"
"Is this what someone who has repeatedly visited crime scenes should say? Classmate Chen, when a normal person discovers a massacre in a subway tunnel, he will not continue to follow the traces of the murderer."
"Didn't I call the police normally? Besides, the person following him is not a murderer. He just wants to know the reason why his classmate appears in such a situation."
The other person frowned and looked at him. Although he didn't say anything, his disapproval was clearly revealed.
"Chen Wei, let me say it again, don't touch these things again."
"Don't make it so common."
He talked about the matter in an understatement, but he thought in his heart, ah, indeed, this is the real reason. Being late is not the main reason for getting angry. Even if we understand this, it is actually impossible to change anything. Therefore, I had no choice but to ignore the topic.
"Classmate Zhou, it's better not to quarrel tonight. If a ghost really appears later, he might catch us all while we are arguing."
"Really? I'd like to see how she does it."
Even though she was in such a dark and lonely place, she commented on the ghosts in a contemptuous tone. In the past, it might have been said to be the arrogance of an atheist, but now, even though he knows "there is indeed something here", he still has no self-consciousness about it. Chen Wei has no other choice but to admire this. He looked at the long black umbrella leaning on the leg of the desk and said in a friendly tone: "Classmate Zhou, I would like to take the liberty of asking you a question."
"What?"
"...Is this a transformation wand?"
Her eyebrows furrowed even more in confusion. Although he has a mental illness such as dissociative personality disorder that can be called fashionable, in fact, this person knows nothing about fashion. Regardless of his personality, he has no interest in popular celebrities or jokes, and he also has no friends he doesn’t know in real life.
Considering the life of this primitive man, Chen Wei decided to explain it in a respectful tone.
"That is to say, since we are a place where it rains all year round, there are many people who have the habit of carrying umbrellas with them. But except for you, I have not seen anyone deliberately not using the convenient folding umbrella, but holding this kind of wooden umbrella. An old-fashioned long-handled umbrella like a walking stick. As a weapon, such a bulky thing is not particularly conducive to swinging by a person of your size. After thinking about it, the conclusion is-"
"Yeah, that's right, there's a sword hidden in the handle of this umbrella."
"——This is your transformer."
The moment he said his conclusion, the malicious smile on the girl's face solidified.
"It's too outdated to hide a sword in an umbrella, classmate Zhou. Let's not talk about how you will pass the security check. Just based on the diameter of the umbrella handle, how wide can you hide a sword? Toughness requires too much craftsmanship. At most it can only be a stabbing sword. Ah, maybe you can find a way to customize it, but from a practical point of view, when facing an emergency with this kind of structure, just drawing the sword will already take extra time. ”
Chen Wei clasped his hands together and made his final conclusion.
"No matter how you think about it, it's more likely that it's a transformer. It fits your temperament very well, classmate Zhou. Although I have said before that you look like the kind of horror movie heroine who survives alone to the end. , but it has become even more different now. If you used to be a little wary of incredible events, now you are as confident as an top student when it comes to ghosts. Being called a horror movie heroine is no longer enough to describe you. This This kind of calmness gained from countless battles of life and death is undoubtedly proof that you are a former magical girl. Is that what it is? You have been fighting for the peace of the magical world before you became an adult, and you managed to live until the age of eighteen, but because of He was forced to retire due to overage. He has always been unable to let go of the psychological trauma left over from the past battlefield, so he was unable to integrate into ordinary society, so he disguised the wand used to initiate transformation as an umbrella, looking forward to meeting him again one day. When it came to transforming into a killing weapon, it even developed a male personality due to schizophrenia.”
After saying these words, he bowed to the other party solemnly.
"Thank you, classmate Zhou. Thanks to your fight, I was protected from the evil aliens, who was so weak that I was exempted from physical education classes. But now the world has almost returned to peace. There is really no need to fight anymore. Yes, classmate Zhou. From now on, please use the more convenient mortal society folding umbrella."
The opponent, who had completely fallen into a state of rigidity, did not move at all for half a minute. Although his lips moved repeatedly three or four times, he could only sigh tiredly in the end.
"Classmate Chen."
"What's wrong, classmate Zhou? Have you finally decided to confess your battlefield trauma to me?"
"If you say something inexplicable again, I'll just let you wait here alone for the ghost."
"I'm sorry, it's my fault. It was all nonsense. Please continue to stay here. If there are no helpers present, I don't know what the result will be if I encounter a ghost again this time. As we all know, I can't do any strenuous exercise Heart disease patients, weak people cannot speak freely."
She started sighing again. Although he sighed, he had no real intention to get up and leave. If you want to say why, this "ghost" is really dangerous in some way.
If you come here alone, you might die. He evaluated it in his mind. This is the only reason why the other party will show up without saying anything. After dropping out of school and disappearing without warning, his mysterious friend did not seem to have encountered any financial difficulties. Not only could he not see the dilemma, he was as well-informed as if there were informants all over the city. One has to suspect that this is the power of overage magical girls.
"—that dream."
She said: "What is it that makes you feel like a nightmare?"
Chen Wei paced, walking along the edge of the floor tiles like stepping on a single-plank bridge, and slowly returned to the window sill.
"You really care about this dream, classmate Zhou."
"It's just for reference. After all, you are a person who has been attacked by ghosts, so you need to pay attention to your subsequent physical symptoms."
Since the other party has said this, he has no reason to object. So, he thought briefly on the windowsill and said: "It's hard to point out which part made me feel horrible, because there was neither a bloody picture nor anything that could threaten 'me' in the dream. It made me It’s the atmosphere that feels scary.”
"Atmosphere?"
"That is to say, it seems that something bad is about to happen. Although the characters in the dream are alive and well at this moment, they may die tragically the next second. Burned to death by fire, drowned by water, or watered by stars in the sky No bones are left. If they did something wrong, they would end up like this. Although it doesn't make sense, that's what I thought in the dream. What does their fate have to do with me? ? If I were awake, I would probably think so, but when I was dreaming, I couldn't help it. Because I thought, 'They alone can't win,' and 'They will definitely die in the hands of the final BOSS,' so I was anxious as I watched. It's incredible. I'm thinking about how I can help them win. I really want to take over the command in place of one of them. Oh, please let some star fall down and smash one of them to death, and then let my soul possess you. ——But in fact, it was useless for me to go up. This problem was completely ignored when I was dreaming. In short, before I woke up, I probably didn’t have time to do anything, I just helped them block the stars flowing down. "
"...Stars, are they flowing down?"
"It probably feels like that. As I said before, the starry sky in that dream looked very strange - speaking of strange, classmate Zhou, I recently heard another urban legend about the stars. You want it too Do you want to listen to it?"
"When you say that, you are ready to talk, right?"
"Indeed. I can't understand that someone would refuse after hearing me say this. This is an injury to my dignity. Classmate Zhou, please don't refuse."
The other party exhaled tiredly again and turned his face away from him as if resigned to his fate. Chen Wei, who had no sense of guilt, said with a smile: "I heard that someone recently saw a pure black star when they were doing astronomical observations in the city. Because it was darker than the night, so instead of Can be seen. Those who saw Black Star also heard the star speaking to him, saying that he was going to be eaten alive."
"Yeah. That's it."
"Doesn't that sound interesting?"
"If there really were man-eating stars, it would be reported on the news, right?"
"Only things that adults want to believe appear in the news."
"Really? In that case, please now ask the childlike classmate Chen to find this man-eating star. Anyway, the window is behind you. Please go back and make a wish to those stars, and let them hide it in Identify the cannibals in the group."
"It's a solution." Chen Wei said seriously. He jumped off the window sill, clasped his hands facing the starry sky outside the window and said, "Dear residents of Sky City, please identify the criminals among you."
The stars shone quietly, melting into a dazzling wave of light.
"Ah, it seems I don't understand. I can't help it, Mr. Zhou, because I don't understand Star Language."
The girl at the table turned her face away as if mocking.
"Is this all you have, classmate Chen? What the stars heard when they accepted the wish must be the voice of their hearts, right?"
"I disagree. The voice of the heart is such a fickle and hazy thing that it is too unstable to be used to make wishes. It is necessary to invent a star language to make formal and professional wishes."
"Ah. Then let me ask you, an expert in the sociology of stars, to invent it."
"That can't be done. Inventing a language is amazing. I don't have that level of knowledge yet. However, if you want to know what Star Language is like, Mr. Zhou, I can roughly describe it."
"Yeah?"
Facing her distrustful gaze, Chen Wei calmly adjusted his collar and walked towards the podium.
