This time, Gongsun Ce heard a girl humming first.
"I'm sure you've never spoken at the same time."
"If you're nice to it, it'll make the clock listen to you."
"You can make the clock not move as long as you like, and the hands can still jump as long as it likes!"
This ballad has been changed a lot compared to the original, but Gongsun Ce still recognized it: another element of "Alice in Wonderland", the crazy words of the Mad Hatter.
"Mad Hatter...it's time for the tea party, isn't it?"
Gongsun Ce muttered gloomily and looked at the new scene.
He saw an extraordinarily wide and extraordinarily long table. The table was as big as a giant's furniture, and there were stools that were also more than one size larger on both sides. Xiao Yuling carried a basket of snacks, hugged her kitten, and jumped on the snow-white tablecloth. The rabbit in a white robe walked in front of him to lead the way.
"Who do you want to see today, Miss Zero?"
"This table is too big! Let me see the map." Shiyu Ling took out a hand-drawn map from the basket. It was exactly the same as the one he saw at Shigure Research Institute. "Let's go find Xiao Qi first. Come on! She has a great relationship with me."
She jumped up to the stool corresponding to "17", and Shigure Seventeen was indeed sitting there. Her stool was dirty and broken, and it smelled like someone had spilled the tea and milk and ran away without cleaning it up.
"Sister!" Shigure Seventeen shouted in surprise. Xiao Yuling came to her sister, hugged the kitten and talked to her. "Xiao Qi, look at the snacks I brought you~"
They spoke passionately, like true sisters. Shigurei told her the stories in fairy tale books, the beautiful furniture in the bungalow, the programs on the TV...about the gifts her father bought her, and how good her father was to her.
"But, sister." Shigure Shiqi whispered, "Dad has never been that kind to me."
"Dad has too many children and too little money. He can only give love to the best one!" Xiao Yuling puffed up his chest proudly. She was very proud when she said this, with a sense of superiority to her sisters in her eyes. Seeing Shi Qi becoming more and more sad, she quickly added: "But you still have a sister! You see, although you are not as good as me, I still take care of you. Let me show you an interesting trick!"
Xiao Yuling lifted her cat up again, and Dana was grinning. "Off your head!" Xiao Yuling shouted, raising his hand and patting the kitten's neck.
"Meow!" Dana's chubby cat face rolled down like a ball and fell on the big stool, but she was still smiling. "Look, it won't die even if its head is beheaded." Shigure Seventeen smiled happily, "It's so awesome!"
Gongsun Ce stood behind the girl and watched all this quietly. Until the girl and her sister finished chatting, they were ready to find the next sibling.
"That's enough." He walked up to Xiao Yuling, "Stop, let's stop here."
Xiaoyu Ling acted as if he couldn't see him. The gray-haired young man knelt down and looked directly into the girl's eyes.
"I know what time it is now, August 27th, between 10:30 and 3:30. I completely understand why you have the personality you have now and what you have experienced at this point..."
Gongsun Ce said softly: "So there is no need to continue. Stop having this dream that tortures you and me."
Shiyu Ling stopped laughing.
Her eyes became sharp, as if they had grown up. She stared at the young man and said coldly: "No."
The scene in the dream changed at a dizzying speed, and the institute turned back into a cozy bungalow in less than a second. This time there was no clock, no calendar, and nothing else that could allow him to confirm the time in the bungalow. Shigure Rei was sitting on the sofa, and Shigure Genya was beside her, holding a fairy tale book in his hand and reciting the sentences to her.
"I don't want to be among madmen," Alice answered.
"Ah, there's nothing we can do about it," said the cat. "We're all here."
They are all crazy, I am crazy, you are crazy too. "
"How do you know I'm crazy?" Alice asked.
"Of course." said the cat, "otherwise you wouldn't be here!"]
Shigure Genya vividly imitated the tone of the characters in the book and spoke absurd dialogues, making Shigure Rei giggle. She laughed for a while, almost to tears, and finally noticed the gray-haired young man standing in the living room.
"Stop." Xiao Yuling said.
So time stopped obediently, and only she and Gongsun Ce could still move. She jumped off the sofa, raised her little face proudly, and looked at Gongsun Ce with a gloomy expression.
"What do you understand? You understand nothing! I have a father, gifts, and wonderful candies in fairyland. My life is wonderful, and I am as happy as the protagonist in a fairy tale!"
Gongsun Ce closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
He wants to say that you are right, you are a spoiled little girl who grew up in a good family. But he can't do this. Not only because he needs to interpret the dream and escape from it, but also because everyone should face the truth, no matter how cruel or sad the truth is.
You're always right, Alandia. He remembered the silver-haired woman's advice and smiled bitterly.
"Well, it's time to unravel the secrets after a long time. It's time to reveal the truth of the dream. Where do we start? It's all the same. Let's talk about your magical cat first."
Gongsun Ce walked into the girl's bedroom and lifted the quilt. The blue-haired cat was lying on the bed. It smiles like a human, with a big smile on its chubby face.
"Dina, your cat. You gave it the name of a kitten in a book, and it behaves like a Cheshire cat. It has blue hair, laughs, and can't die even if its head is cut off... It's amazing, isn't it? "?" The superpower shook his head, "But there is no such cat in reality."
Shiyu Ling argued: "Dina is a creature in Wonderland!"
"Is there any cat that will sit in the quilt obediently and not struggle when you carry it around? What's even more strange is that I have never seen Dana move around on her own. There are only two ways for her to behave, either by you. Hold it in your arms, or lie alone without moving... The answer is readily apparent. It's very simple, it has nothing to do with the law of impermanence." Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses, "Your pet is a toy cat, but you regard it as a toy cat. Really."
When these words were spoken, Dana's appearance immediately changed. Its face lost its vitality, its expression became false, and it became a stuffed toy - a small doll that could twist its head off.
"..." Xiu Shuzhu
When Xiao Yuling stopped talking, Gongsun Ce walked to the mirror.
"The talking mirror is very magical." He squatted down, touched behind the mirror for a long time, and took out a tape recorder. "It's actually a brainwashing tool used in conjunction with the machine. Through repetition day after day, the concepts will be engraved into you. In my heart, it’s really a trick to deceive children.”
The gray-haired young man put the recorder aside: "Come on, let's see the highlight, your magical snack."
He walked into the kitchen with Xiao Yuling and took out the "eat me" snacks and the "drink me" bottle.
"Drinking me is a drink that makes people smaller in fairy tale books. What about in reality? Of course, it's the same..." Gongsun Ce crushed the bottle. He already knew the answer, didn't he?
Shigure-kun had told him before that the Impermanence Master should be cultivated from childhood. Because children’s dreams are simple, their hearts are simple, and they are easy to practice.
"This bottle contains drugs that inhibit growth. It will make your physical growth almost stagnant, thus affecting the appearance of your mind. Therefore, your past appearance does not match your present appearance, so Shigure Seventeen is still the same now. He looks like a junior high school student!”
The fragments of the glass bottle pierced the palm of his hand, and blood dripped to the ground. The superpower was unaware that he had to do this to suppress his irritation. He grabbed the "eat me" snack.
"This, in the fairy tale, let
A prop that makes Alice bigger. I couldn't figure it out at first what it meant in reality, they didn't make you any bigger or older. After I changed my thinking, everything suddenly became clear. Alice had to eat it to enter Wonderland, and so will you. "
What happened after Shiyu Ling ate this? Flowers and plants are growing in the environment, the hour hands of the clock are twisted, and walking feels like flying... What is hidden under the fairyland-like surface is the malice and viciousness in reality.
"This is also a drug! It makes you have bizarre hallucinations, allowing you to see all the tragedies in Shigure Research Institute as beautiful in the hallucinations, and making your sense of time confused, so that Genya Shigure can continue his shameful behavior Research!"
Gongsun Ce threw the jar aside, and the gummy bones rolled all over the ground. No one cared.
"Why did Genya Shigure take such pains to make these disguises? Why did he create an illusion of happiness for you? Why did he give you false love and let you come into contact with other Shigure with illusions? Because all of this is It’s part of the artificial biphasic method experiment!”
Rei Shigure's relationship with his younger siblings used to be very good. Shigure Rei's personality changed drastically once. Alice Adar, who often uses Shadow Blue, is an adventurer who longs for freedom; Rei Shigure, who stares at the Narcissus in the mirror, is a villain who only loves himself. Bipolar practices can easily collapse into monsters. Rei Shigure is a bipolar magic user. Rei Shigure's talent for the Brahma phase was better, but Genya Shigure decided to focus on cultivating her spiritual phase...
He should have thought of it earlier, he didn't even need the dream to come to this conclusion.
Gongsun Ce hammered the table: "He is afraid of your talent! He is worried that he will cultivate a truly powerful person, a Brahma Prime Minister who is full of malice towards them and wants to kill them! So Shigure Genya will cultivate Focusing on the spiritual aspect method, he carefully designed this new set of experiments - you will spend half of each week in the institute practicing Brahma form, and the other half of the time will live with Shigure Genya. Rely on There are hints everywhere that you have been deliberately cultivated to have the character traits suitable for the spiritual method and the love for him as your father!"
On August 27, Rei Shigure took medicine in the mansion. One day ago, on August 26, Rei Shigure had his memory wiped in the research institute. This kind of identity switching happens every week. As time goes by, the cultivation of bipolar practitioners gradually matures...
"The memory cleaning technology and psychedelic drugs create a sense of time confusion, so that you can't tell your true self no matter where you are. But there are flaws in the experiment after all. As time goes by, you find a sense of dissonance that is hard to ignore. . Your week passed too fast! So one day, you asked Reiichi Shigure for help... On the day he acted, you discovered the truth. "
Gongsun Ce didn't dare to look at the girl's expression. Gongsun Ce forced himself to look at the little girl.
"This is the truth, Rei Shigure. The truth beyond Wonderland."
"No." Xiao Yuling cried, "No, no, no...no!!!"
She ran up to the gray-haired young man and beat her body as hard as she could.
"You lie! My father loves me very much! He buys me gifts!! He tells me stories in books!!"
Gongsun Ce really wanted to deny his own inference, but he was overthinking it. In fact, they were once a close father and daughter. If there really was such a time, how wonderful it would be...!
He gritted his teeth and whispered.
"You like reading books, but you don't even have a bookshelf in your room. I haven't found a book in this room that can be read by children, except "Alice in Wonderland"! This book is your New Year's gift, but now It’s already the end of August…”
"For more than half a year, Shigure Genya didn't even give you a new book!"
Shi Yuling let go of his hand.
She stared at the gray-haired young man with tears in her eyes.
"No..." she said desperately, "no."
Everything has lost its color. The dream-like illusion was shattered.
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