Time moves forward slightly and comes to the dreamland on the other side.
Gongsun Ce has already seen two points in Shigure Rei's dream. On 8.27, at 3:30 in the afternoon, Xiao Yuling welcomed his father who came home; at 10:30 in the morning of the same day, he controlled Xiao Yuling to decrypt the code in the bungalow and found the fairy tale book, mirror, cat and stickers saying "Eat me" and " Drink me” food.
After eating this weird snack, the surrounding environment became like a fairyland. A white rabbit with the Wuhui and Junfeng emblem embroidered on its robe took Xiao Yuling away from the mansion...
The next dream begins.
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After a few seconds of somatosensory time, the dizziness disappeared. Gongsun Ce covered his head and found himself standing in a dirty corridor.
The air was full of the smell of blood and disinfectant, the lighting source was a gloomy green light, and strange symbols were painted with blood and dirt on the walls, much like a mental hospital in some ghost movie.
One moment he was staying in a cozy mansion, but now he was in such a sneaky place. But Gongsun Ce felt that this place now looked more like the real thing in a dream... because someone's last name was Shigure.
"I guess this is the institute."
Where is Rei Shigure? He immediately looked for the girl but could not find her. This time Xiao Yuling left his side, and Gongsun Ce heard a man's voice coming from behind.
"That damn kid...what a look in his eyes, Tsk..."
He looked back and saw a man in a white coat walking out with his back to him, holding a bloody dagger in his hand.
Gongsun Ce looked back in front of him. In front of him was a locked door with no iron windows. The sign next to the door read in Lingdao characters: Experimental Subject 01.
Experimental Subject No. 01 of Shigure Research Institute.
He thought of the countless wounds on his friend's body, quite a few of which were stab wounds with sharp blades.
The man who just walked away had a knife in his hand.
The knife was dripping with blood, as if it had just been used.
Impulsive emotions dominated his brain for a moment. Gongsun Ce turned around, ran, and used all his strength to knock the researcher to the ground before he could react. "Who?!" The researcher turned over and was greeted by a punch full of anger!
"Guwa-!" Boxing. "Guwa-!" Boxing. "Guwa-!" Kick. "Aba-!" Hold the hammer with both hands and smash it down!
Gongsun Ce beat the opponent until he completely lost consciousness, then snatched the knife away and stabbed it into the researcher's back.
"Huh..." After doing all this, he breathed heavily. Gongsun Ce searched the researcher's body for a long time, found a key card in his pocket, and confirmed the time through the person's electronic watch.
1999/8/26, 20:30.
This time he arrived a day earlier.
Gongsun Ce straightened his collar, walked back to the end of the corridor, reached out and knocked on the door.
"Is there anyone there? Can I come in? Well, I guess your voice can't be heard, so I'll open the door first..." Gongsun Ce mumbled and swiped his card, "If you're not happy, I'll close the door."
The door opened inward, and a stench came out. The smell of blood, feces, vomit and rotting biological tissue mixed together, overpowering the smell of disinfectant water in the corridor, making it truly disgusting.
It was pitch dark in the prison, without any light. Gongsun Ce squinted his eyes for a while to adjust, and found a naked and bruised boy curled up in the corner of the room. His hair seemed to have never been cut, it was all dragged to the ground, and his nails were even longer and curled. There was no emotion in the boy's eyes. His lips moved and he made a very weak sound.
"……Who are you."
"I know there is no point in saying this here. This is not even your dream." Gongsun Ce shrugged, "But I am your friend."
As a child, Reiichi Shigure slowly lowered his head.
"I do not have friends."
"You will have it in the future." Gongsun Ce corrected, "Want to go out? I don't have super powers now, but I am still a young man. I can stop one or two people without any problem. If you have a plan to escape from prison, I can help you. .You have to go out, at least find a place to bandage the wound first."
Gongsun Ce stepped into the door. The child didn't make any reaction and only whispered.
"Pointless."
"Why not..." Gongsun Ce stopped mid-sentence, as if there was a blockage in his throat.
This is Rei Shigure's dream, everything has happened in the past. He can't change anything in a real sense, and all actions are meaningless.
He himself is a prisoner trapped in a dream, and what he has to do is find a way out.
"You're right, it's meaningless." Gongsun Ce rubbed his head irritably, "Damn it! Do you know where Shigurei is? I have something to see your sister. Don't worry, I won't harm her."
Reiichi Shigure seemed to be touched by the word "sister" and raised his head.
"……time."
"8:30 pm on August 26, 1999."
The child looked at him blankly. Gongsun Ce was moved, thinking that it was difficult for the experimental subjects in the research institute to contact the specific time. There was not even a light in Shigure Reiichi's room, and he probably couldn't even tell the difference between day and night. The time he could feel should refer to something broader.
He turned back to the unconscious researcher, picked up the electronic watch, adjusted it a few times, and found a time that Shigure Reiichi might be able to understand.
"Today is Thursday, in Lingdao terms, Thursday is Thursday."
"...Sister Zero is in the research institute at this time." Shigure Reiichi said uncertainly, "Maybe on the left..."
Gongsun Ce was in no hurry to leave.
"At this time. Shigure-kun, what you said is very strange. The experimental subjects should have always stayed in the research institute." He pushed up his glasses, "Based on this, is it possible that Rei Shigure was not here at some point? Like, on Friday?”
Shigurei stopped talking.
"If you don't tell me, I can guess..." Gongsun Ce slammed the wall, "Okay, I'll hold the door for you first, and I'll go to your sister's place to check on the situation."
Gongsun Ce kicked the researcher aside and ran in the corridor. He didn't need to say anything more to the person in his dream, but... at least these words could make him feel better.
The exit of the corridor leads to a hall with a green floor. There are sofas, a wine bar and a smoking room on the left side. There are a few isolated hospital beds on the right side, and syringes and cigarette butts are scattered on the ground. No experimental facility would set up such an inexplicable place and have it directly connected to the room of a high-level experimental subject. This must be a distortion of reality caused by dreams.
Gongsun Ce searched in the hall for a long time, but found nothing useful. He turned into the corridor on the left and found a crude map taped to the wall. This map was drawn with colored crayons on white paper and taped to the wall with transparent tape. It was incompatible with the atmosphere of Shigure Research Institute.
"You were quite talented in painting when you were a child."
Gongsun Ce tore off the map and read it while walking. It was much cleaner here than near Shigure Reiichi's cell. There was no stench of filth, and there were no weird symbols. Only the smell of disinfectant and blood still lingered stubbornly in the air. He guessed that the bad environment was most likely deliberately set up by the researchers to cultivate Shigure-kun's impermanence, and this thought made him even more angry.
There were no researchers walking in the corridor, and he could see heavy doors every time he walked. The door here is better than Shigure Reiichi's door. There is an iron window above, allowing people to see into the room.
"It's very similar to the one used on the ship. This door has the same global standard..." Gongsun Ce cursed in the middle of his sentence, "Damn it, they didn't learn from the experience of Zero Island!"
He glanced at the hand-drawn map, his eyes resting on a familiar number. After entering the corridor, the seventh door on the right is marked "17" with a pink pen.
This is unreasonable. Shigure Shi7 looks like she has just entered junior high school. She should have been an infant 11 years ago. Such a young child can speak very eloquently. How can she practice impermanence!
Either the Shigure Research Institute was more evil than he imagined, or... Gongsun Ce ran to door 17 and opened the door with the key card.
The door opened. The small room was illuminated by electric lights. On the left was a hard bed covered with white sheets. The basin in the corner smelled of excrement. Opposite the bed was an iron shelf, and a thinly dressed black-haired girl was standing on it. In front of the shelf. She looked about 6 to 7 years old, slightly younger than Rei Shigure at that time, and also not the same as she would have been 11 years later.
"...Are you going to do today's experiment?" Shigure Shiqi whispered.
"No experiments." Gongsun Ce clenched his fists, "Have you ever drank purple water?"
"Yeah." Shigure Shiqi nodded.
The superpower cursed lowly, said no more, turned around and continued running. One of his speculations became a certainty at this point, and malice and hostility flowed in his heart like silt, leaving behind a black trace called murderous intent.
Gongsun Ce hadn't had the thought of killing someone for a long time. The last time was three years ago, when he held the black sword... He gritted his teeth and told himself to control his emotions and wait until the truth was completely found out before drawing any conclusions.
Finally, the corridor reached the end, and the last door stood alone. Gongsun Ce pushed the door open and entered. The moment he opened the door, he once again lost the ability to control his body and could only watch what was happening in front of him.
What he saw was a scene completely different from anything in his dream. Behind this door was an unexpectedly wide space. Paper documents were stacked on the table. Data and patterns he couldn't understand were displayed on the computer screen. A dozen researchers in white coats were holding instruments and reports, or whispering Have a discussion or take a brisk walk.
"The cleaning device parameters are set."
"Director, the latest analysis report on failed sample No. 0-05 is out."
"The injection of No. 3 potion has begun, and the dose is adjusted to 90%..."
On the other side opposite the door is a whole glass wall. Behind the wall, there is a black-haired girl in white clothes tied to the bed. She wears a helmet with dozens of cables connected to her head, and several infusion tubes tied to her hands. .
She is Rei Shigure as a child. But her eyes were completely different from her own a day later. There was anger and hatred in the girl's eyes, which definitely belonged to the innocent little princess in the bungalow.
"Continue, Genya Shigure." The girl's voice came from behind the glass wall, "Continue your experiments. When I have the power, I will definitely kill you all with my own hands!!"
In front of the glass wall stood Genya Shigure in a white coat and another young man in a white robe.
Shigure Genya whistled happily: "Oh! That's great. Children must be energetic. Seeing you so energetic, dad can feel at ease~"
"You damn scum!!"
Across the glass wall, Shigurei was still yelling and cursing. Genya Shigure picked his ears and took a report from his subordinates. "Sure enough, the problem is with the Dharma of Silence?"
The white-robed man next to him continued: "Shigure-sama, the collapse rate of artificial bipolar experimental subjects is actually extremely high, and the repulsion of the Silent Phase method is actually too strong. Yamazaki-sama believes that replacing the Silent Phase with spirituality The Prime Minister’s plan adjustment now seems wise.”
"Finally admitted that I was right, eh? Stubborn old immortal." Shigure Genya threw the document aside, "If memory control can be more flexible, the progress of new experiments will be faster. What do you say to Zuiyan?"
"Drunken Eye=san asked me to convey that there is nothing he can do. He is actually not good at this field."
"I'm not good at it yet. The peak spirit magician has such a bad excuse!" Shigure Genya sat on the stool and turned half a circle. "Forget it if you don't cooperate! It's the same as taking your time now. The focus is still on Let’s talk about the spiritual aspect.”
The man in white robe turned sideways, with the emblem of shuriken and fan embroidered on the back of his robe. "Lord Shigure, her Brahma vision talent is even better."
"Idiot, that's why we need to focus on cultivating the spirit form~" Shigure Genya waved his hand, "However, her mood swings have become worse recently."
The man in white robe said softly: "To be on the safe side, would you like to adjust it again?"
"Well... I'll come in person tomorrow afternoon. That's it for today, let's start cleaning."
"Yes!" "Understood!" "Thank you for your hard work, Director!" The researchers in white responded one after another, each operating the complex device.
Several new potions were injected, and the helmet on the girl's head made an electric sizzle sound. The curses turned into shrill screams, and tears and snot flowed out uncontrollably, flowing down her painful face.
Gongsun Ce couldn't bear it anymore.
The rage made his mind burn like fire, and the strong murderous intention overflowed from his heart, turning into black and red flowing fire and wrapping around his fists. At this moment, he actually broke free from the shackles of the power in the dream and rushed towards Genya Shigure with a roar.
"——I'll kill you!"
When he punched, the red-black light destroyed the world in front of him, and the unfinished dream ended abruptly. The familiar dizziness did not come, and his eyes became pitch black...
A few seconds later, Gongsun Ce saw a new picture in the darkness. The scene was very blurry, the field of vision was narrow, and even the sound could not be heard clearly.
What emerged from the darkness was the face of the young Shigure Reiichi, who seemed to be looking at the other side of the screen. Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yuling's voice sounded.
"I feel something is wrong, what they did to me...not an experiment...not the usual ones..."
"I...I feel so confused...time flies by...what day is it today? Tell me, Reiichi!"
Shigure Reiichi in the screen whispered: "...I don't know. Stop asking, sister."
"Please, Reiichi. Help me..." The girl's voice sounded extremely helpless, "I'm scared..."
"..."
Shigurei remained silent and no longer looked in the direction of the screen. The picture freezes at this moment, then breaks and returns to darkness.
"Is this so?"
The black-red light at Gongsun Ce's hand disappeared.
This light is very similar to the power of the Last Sword. If this power temporarily shattered Rei Shigure's dream, then what he just saw was...
"Shigure Rei's memory..."
The familiar feeling of dizziness begins to invade the brain, and the dream is about to change. He closed his eyes with complicated emotions and entered his final dream.
You are a genius, remember in one second: Red Oasis:
