"Are you looking for death?! This is the devil's territory!"
The gangsters shouted eagerly, "Don't cause trouble for the big guys, stay away from here!
"
They didn't look like they were bluffing, but they looked like they were really afraid of something.
Before Shigurei could collect his thoughts, there were explosions and animal roars behind them. Everyone turned around at the same time, and they saw a terrifying-looking monster rampaging crazily. It was a biochemical experimental subject that broke through containment in the central area!
Humans understand the words on the sign and listen to the warnings of experienced people, but animals do not care about these. The biochemical cat jumped up like a corpse and crossed the boundary of the dead zone amidst the gasps of air from the gangsters. It satisfied its own curiosity, and it paid a price.
As if some kind of defense mechanism had been triggered, the ten-meter-tall beast froze in the air. Its body was divided into countless squares, and whether it was hard bones or sharp nails, they were all cut neatly in front of the invisible blade. The pieces of meat that were once ferocious beasts were compressed and crushed by powerful force, like squashed green fruits. Blood fell from the sky, and a small green acid rain fell.
This bloody scene is enough to make anyone lose their appetite within 24 hours, and the gangsters' faces turn pale.
"The devil is in a bad mood today! Run!
"
The gangsters ran as fast as they could, and Gongsun Ce grabbed the unaware female hunter and hid behind the car. Invisible power surged out from the depths of the dead zone, bringing terrifying storms and kinetic energy. The front cover of the car shattered into twisted pieces in the blink of an eye, and was destroyed by telekinesis before the explosion could occur. The entire car body was twisted, crushed, and torn apart at a uniform speed behind them, like an invisible disintegration show!
This violent behavior stopped after three seconds. At this time, only a trunk was left in the machine that was once a car. Rei Shigure, who was hiding behind the trunk, looked unhappy.
"Your telekinesis before seems to be different from what it is now."
"Have I ever told you that superpowers get better the more you have a bad attitude?"
"You only said that the worse your mentality is, the easier it is to go berserk."
"A truth."
They stood up from behind the half trunk, Gongsun Ce taking the lead and blocking the front. He hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand to the huntress, and said slightly awkwardly: "It's just, you know... for safety reasons..."
Shigurei pouted and grabbed his palm.
"Of course, for safety reasons. You must have had the same consideration when you lifted up my skirt. What a polite gentleman."
Gongsun Ce lamented: "I really just said it loudly and let's not mention this matter, okay?!"
"Ah, the little villain is shy."
"Okay, stop talking..."
The gray-haired young man took his companion and stepped into the entrance of the dead zone. They felt great resistance when they took steps, as if they were blocked in front by an invisible wall of air. The boy's voice came from deep inside, with the stubbornness and youthfulness unique to adolescence.
"No."
"How old are you?" Gongsun Ce sighed, "Enough is enough. It's not time to stay in the alley and make trouble, as if the whole world owes you eight million. That won't make things better."
The child deep in the dead zone whispered: "...she can't do it."
"She can. She got you on the boat."
The child stopped talking, but the telekinetic resistance remained. It was as difficult for them to move forward in a Category 8 gale, and they were forced to take a few steps back from time to time. Gongsun Ce's patience ran out after five minutes, and he roared: "Stop being so angry!"
The surrounding environment changed instantly. They moved from the entrance to the dead zone into an extremely deep and extremely long dark alley. Like the corridors of a hotel, there are countless doors of different colors on both sides of the dark alley. Criss-crossing wires divide the narrow sky above into irregular grids.
It seemed like heavy rain was coming. The dark gray sky and dull low pressure made people breathless. The humid weather caused large drops of water to condense on the walls, and the liquid slid down drop by drop, as if the city was crying.
When they looked back, they couldn't see the entrance to the alley, and there was only a thick black behind them.
Gongsun Ce said blankly: "It's not like this in the dead zone...and it's the end of the year, so the weather shouldn't be so humid."
"This is your dream, your soul. It is the manifestation of the state of mind and emotions of this dead child at that time." Rei Shigure was used to it, "Don't copy dreams and reality, let's go."
The two continued to move forward without encountering any resistance. Finally they saw the end of the alley. A child in black was sitting against the wall in the deepest part, with his hands on his knees. He seemed to have grown up compared to when he first arrived. There was no sadness or helplessness in his eyes, only an emotionless turbidity.
"So... why here? I have a house in the dead zone..."
Shigure Rei thought of the Sky City in the rain and the child crying in the alley.
"Up to this point, all your experiences have only made you sink deeper and deeper into the alley." She said softly, "You have never walked out of that alley."
Gongsun Ce smiled and cheered up the atmosphere: "You make me so fragile, every day is a bad day..."
He reluctantly curled up the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't smile. They looked at the silent child and took a step forward.
At this time, a strange feeling appeared. A door on both sides of the alley opened and closed, as if there were countless invisible people walking back and forth, but they had physical bodies but could not touch anything - as if they had become A real lonely soul!
Gongsun Ce recalled the helpless experience at the end of the Node Dream, which was like a cutscene. He heard his companion beside him say: "It's begun."
Countless doors closed in unison, and the ghosts returned behind them at the same time. Then a red door opened, and a blond girl wearing a school uniform and a long skirt walked out.
Caldesia carried her schoolbag on one shoulder and walked towards the silent young man like a little bad girl.
"Hey, I'm talking about you! Do you really plan to stay here for the rest of your life? Now that the school has been built, we can return to normal life."
The young Gongsun Ce spoke slowly, as if he hadn't communicated with anyone for a long time.
"School? We? Going to hurt innocent classmates?"
"We've got it under control—"
"I heard that you destroyed a teaching building last week. I can work harder to surpass your record, destroy the playground, or tear down the entire campus and kill a few shady guys along the way."
Caldesia was so angry that she was shaking all over. She stamped her feet fiercely and threw a dozen fireballs at her former inmate.
"You're going to mold and rot here until you die!"
The flames were blocked by the telekinetic barrier. The red lion walked back to the door angrily and closed the door with a bang.
"You speak so beautifully."
"I...sigh."
They stopped talking and watched quietly. After a while, a door with a wing pattern opened, and a young man wearing a skull mask walked into the alley. He said coldly: "Long time no see, devil."
"John Garcia. I heard you were disfigured."
"Now I am Kushou." Kushou just stood in front of the door and did not move. "I established an organization, an organization born for resistance. I want to take revenge on this city, on what happened to me, on all of this."
"You have made this city worse." The child deep in the alley said disgustedly, "You and Aurus are the same as each other, and I will not fall in love with you."
"Then the next time we meet, we will be enemies."
Gushou seemed to have expected it, and he simply closed the door without taking any notice.
"I'm not surprised that Gushou would develop like this. What I'm more surprised about is that he would come to invite you."
"You know we are in the Fierce Wing area now... Both wings are Death Wing's territory."
The door that opened later had a smiling face painted on it, and the new visitor was someone Shigure Rei had never seen before. He looked to be a young man several years older than Gongsun Ce, with a handsome face. His black hair was shaved into a square inch, he was wearing a black school uniform, and he wore a long knife at his waist.
"Hey, devil!" the black-haired boy whistled, "your new nickname is pretty cool."
"Chi Zijing...you dyed your hair."
"Fancy hair doesn't look good." He walked out of the door and stretched out his hand, "I have a few friends who plan to build a small platform to provide a channel for everyone to help each other. They said that the organization needs a supporter and they forced me to come here. As a billboard, I just want to invite you to try it together - if you have more combat power, I can catch fish."
"My presence will scare everyone's mind."
"Everyone is less timid now."
"No, thank you." The young man deep in the alley said as coldly as ice, "The environment is like this, I can't see the meaning of this action."
Chi Zijing tried to persuade him a few more times, but failed. He shrugged and said, "At least we are not enemies?"
"no."
"Ha... just do what you want. One day you figure it out, I'll have tea with you again."
Chi Zijing also left, and no more doors opened after that. They stood beside the child like two unnoticed ghosts.
Shigure Rei commented: "You don't intend to be a perpetrator and a dominator, let alone do something different; you refuse everyone's hand extended to you and just huddle in the depths of darkness; you think you The existence of others will hurt others, so they are unwilling to get out of the prison they have created - not hurting others, but not doing anything, just living alone in self-loathing."
"Your comments are so considerate that they warm my heart."
Shigure Rei lightly pricked the back of his hand with her nails.
"Of course, big sister, how many bad days have I watched with you?"
A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, thunder rang in the distant sky, and heavy rain poured down, passing through the two people's transparent bodies and wetting the child's black hair.
Every day sucks. There is no hope of improvement. Therefore, he used a cage to separate himself from others, escape from the outside world in the dark, and paralyze himself.
Gongsun Ce said nothing. An unknown fire arose in Shigurei's heart. She wanted to grab the dead child by the collar and drag him out of this boring alley. Just when she was about to take action, she heard footsteps.
Da da da. Regular footsteps came from behind the two of them, but no door opened. She turned around and saw a human figure stepping out of the shadows blocking the entrance. This time the visitor came from outside the alley and was a mysterious figure. His whole body was shrouded in black shadows, and his specific appearance could not be seen.
But Rei Shigure knew who it was.
She had seen this superpower in intertwined dreams.
You are a genius, remember in one second: Red Oasis:
