"The nightmare has temporarily dissipated, but the mastermind behind the scenes may not be dead yet." Gongsun Ce said, "It felt weird when I killed him. The so-called terrifying demon seemed to be a clone rather than the original body."
After leaving the nightmare, Gongsun Ce immediately used telekinesis to search the entire city, conducting detailed investigations on every suspicious object, but found nothing. He realized that the prisoner was very good at hiding, so he went back into the room and briefly explained the situation. While listening to the description, Alandia sketched the appearance of the ugly monsters on the board as a reference. She made a guess first: "It may be the imitator of Wuxiang Shen."
"...Ah, yes, I think so too." Gongsun Ce's voice was low, "The technique is clumsy, but the idea is similar."
"It's not surprising, he probably has many followers."
Gongsun Ce took off his glasses and wiped his face: "Nothing else, Alandia. I hate rainy days, and I also hate these pretending things. I have been feeling uneasy since entering the Blade Rain State... It seems like we are back in that bad summer, when we were still hunting beasts and catching ghosts in Shadow Twist, but we didn’t know that someone’s net had been caught, and everyone was struggling in his drama.”
The Dawn Knight looked at him for a while, then reached out and touched his head.
"It's time for you to rest, Ce." Her voice was soft. "I have contacted the church, and the support team will arrive soon. Now that the crisis of nightmares has been temporarily lifted, please go to sleep first. Anxiety and exhaustion are caused by spiritual phenomena. The most commonly used weapon, a good rest is the best way to protect yourself.”
Qiluo looked at the ugly things on the whiteboard and couldn't help but shuddered: "Alandia, can we really sleep? What should we do if the enemy invades the dreamland with a counterattack?"
Alandia explained: "There is a huge difference between the difficulty of actively invading other people's dreams and setting a trap on your own home court. Miss Shigure's constant law provides you with protection. The active attack of the Horror Horror is equivalent to entering Her home turf, that was a suicidal act.”
"Understand, big sister, I will protect you." Shigure Rei walked into the bedroom first, "Go to bed first, good night."
She slammed the door and shut herself in the bedroom. Everyone looked at each other, and Kirara whispered: "I think Rei Shigure needs more protection now, right?"
"Ace, stay with her." Qin Qianbai patted Gongsun Ce's hand, "She needs you."
The girls went back to their houses, leaving a melancholy man in the living room. He came to Shigurei's door and knocked, but there was no response.
After trying three times without success, Gongsun Ce returned to his bed helplessly. He closed his eyes and fell into sleep, entering the dreamland that was once connected to her.
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The first intertwined dream was an unforgettable experience for Gongsun Ce. Although he knew little about impermanence and the mind at that time, he remembered the feeling at that time particularly clearly: it was like crawling in the dark until he finally reached the light. land.
Today, Gongsun Ce is no longer the novice who has not even completed the clear path. He can use his own way to reproduce the experience he once had. The point is not in the form, but in the recognition of reality. Their dreams were once intertwined by a man deep in the spiritual path. As long as that connection is not severed, he can visit Zero's dream again.
"The environment uses my room and the door as a hub to connect to the dream world..."
Talking to himself, Gongsun Ce created a crude dream. The environment is his bedroom in the Sky City, and the door connecting him on the other side is a reappearance of that connection. He raised his hand and knocked on the door, waiting for a reply. When knocking on the door, Gongsun Ce thought to himself that Ling, who had arrived in Chuangjie, could clear this connection at any time, but she might not be very willing.
There was no response from the other side of the door, so he raised his voice helplessly: "Dear and beautiful Miss Zero, would you please open the door for your loyal boyfriend?"
The door finally opened a small crack, and a childish female voice came from it: "But my dream is a fairyland, a good place that humans cannot enter."
You are such a narrow-minded woman...you still have the brains to do this. It seems you can adjust your emotions very quickly...
Gongsun Ce wiped his face fiercely, put his hand on his head, and turned himself into a gray rabbit the size of a rag doll. He jumped up and down on the floor: "I am your loyal rabbit follower."
"Ah, it's Mr. Rabbit!" The girl behind the door smiled and said, "Come in, let's have a tea party together."
The door finally opened wider, and Gongsun Ce, the gray rabbit, jumped in. The dream behind the door turned out to be his home in the Sky City. The living room was messy with all kinds of weird souvenirs. There were cute dolls on the sofa, and a miniature model of the Venus ship hung from the ceiling. , rotating to the rhythm of the waltz together with the hand-folded paper stars.
The little girl in a blue dress is sitting on the sofa drinking tea, her two calves wrapped in white socks kicking back and forth. Her eyes lit up when she saw the gray rabbit: "Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Rabbit, what gift did you bring me?"
Miss, are you a little princess or a little bandit? ! I have to pay a toll to enter your door, right? !
The gray rabbit Gongsun Ce smiled and stretched out his paws, turning into a white rag doll: "I brought you a little rag doll that girls like..."
"I don't want such a childish toy!" Little Alice immediately changed her face and said angrily, "I want a dress as black as night, dancing shoes as beautiful as crystal, and star-shaped hairpins."
"Next time, I will definitely..." Gray Rabbit waved his paws awkwardly, "Hey, don't step on people! Be civilized, little girl!"
The unlucky rabbit was jumping around on the ground, but was stepped on by little Alice. The white socks were sunk into the gray rabbit fur. The girl used the soles of her feet to trample the rabbit back and forth. Her eyes were extremely resentful: "Mr. Rabbit doesn't know how to please girls at all. His mind is full of strange thoughts. This time he was in a hurry." He came over so hurriedly, he must have wanted to lift up Alice’s skirt again.”
How long ago did it happen? As for whether you still hold grudges now? Can your mind be as big as your bust?
The gray rabbit raised its paws in surrender and scratched the soles of her feet: "Good girl, I was wrong. Don't hate me, okay?"
"How could it be? I like Mr. Rabbit the most~"
Little Alice was amused by him and giggled. She bent down, picked up the gray rabbit, and placed it on her knees. She hugged the rabbit tightly in her arms and hummed an incomprehensible song. The TV in the living room was turned on and an old black and white movie was played. The protagonist of the film is a beautiful female spy who manipulates men with her clever mind and her beauty. She gained people's trust, sneaked into important institutions to steal documents and treasures, and then escaped gracefully, leaving only the people who had been deceived regretting and crying.
"Little Alice, please don't watch movies that are not suitable for children when you are still young, okay?" Gray Rabbit said, "Let's watch robot animations with Mr. Rabbit. That one is more suitable for little girls to pass the time... Oh, it hurts, it hurts..."
Little Alice grabbed the gray rabbit's ears hard and said, "Mr. Rabbit obviously likes this kind of woman too."
"Mr. Rabbit likes good children like Alice, and he stays away from women who are only beautiful."
"I don't believe it."
They watched the movie quietly. At the end of the movie, the female spy returned to her home country, but was shot in the heart by her boss. The boss said that a cunning woman like you is destined not to be trusted. Who knows what evil intentions are hidden under your loyal skin? So the female spy who took advantage of everything was eventually killed by the person she trusted most. She fell pale in her own blood, like a withered white rose in the rose garden.
"This movie is really boring," said the Gray Rabbit.
Little Alice put the rabbit on the ground and stood up. She and the gray rabbit looked at each other for a long time, and suddenly showed his familiar evil smile.
"Mr. Rabbit, do you want to continue your last prank?"
She held the hem of her skirt with both hands and pulled it up little by little. The white socks only reached slightly above the knees, and the stockings slightly pinched the skin. The girl's thighs gradually emerged as the skirt rose, and the skirt was about to be pulled to the top...
"Wow!"
The gray rabbit jumped high on little Alice's head and patted her head with his paws. The little girl lost her balance and fell backwards, and her head just hit the wall, making a muffled "thud" sound.
"It hurts so much!" Little Alice fell back on the sofa, holding her head and bursting into tears. The gray rabbit fell back beside her, his furry face extremely serious.
"Mr. Rabbit is not interested in little girls' dresses. Wait until you grow up ten years before you play with them. This is not what a good boy should say, you know?"
"But Alice is a bad girl," she said.
The girl lowered her head and curled up her legs on the sofa. Her dark hair was messy and stuck to her back, making her look particularly fragile. "There are no murderous little girls in the world." Little Alice whispered, "Mr. Rabbit doesn't like girls with only skin, but sometimes I feel that I am that kind of woman. It is far from innocent, but it is far from selfish. Very close. A girl like this is not qualified to tell fairy tales to others, right? The words she speaks will smell like blood and make children afraid."
The gray rabbit raised his paws and wanted to scratch his head, but found that his paws were too short to do so. He simply changed back to Gongsun Ce, grabbed the girl's arm like a cat, and flew her out of the window and into the night sky.
The stars in the night sky were particularly shining, and the curved moon was a yellow boat. He held little Alice and sat down on the moon boat, and looked at the bright starry sky with her.
"I haven't told you the story of Criqui Hyde?" Gongsun Ce said.
Little Alice pinched his thigh hard: "Mr. Rabbit, you are talking about other women again."
"My emotional intelligence is low. I can't say anything to please a girl." Gongsun Ce smiled, "The story I told you is very simple and has omitted many details. In fact, I communicated with that woman many times. Yes, we meet often."
Gongsun Ce slowly talked about the past, how he and Criji were at war with each other in the troupe, how he was often teased by the woman, how the woman laid flowers on the grave of an old friend with an indifferent look, and how her sneak attack gave the Dawn Knight The last blow was to crush his heart with his own hands.
"...You see, I have actually spoken to her a lot. But I have never really understood her. I don't know her past or her mood. I only know that she has become a heinous villain. If If someone asked her about me while she was still alive, Crikey would probably say that she had almost forgotten that naive little boy, and so had I. We were all passers-by in each other's lives, even if we had a good conversation. If you can’t change the trajectory you are walking on, you will still follow the path you chose to the end.”
"What if it were you now?" Little Alice asked, "Can you save her now?"
Gongsun Ce put his chin on her head and hugged her tighter, like she was holding a rabbit.
"In the past four years, when I occasionally think about the past in the royal capital, I always blame myself. If I had seen Krikki's problem earlier, maybe nothing would have happened. If I could try my best to restore her to the right path, maybe everything would be better. Everything can get better... I think what she said is wrong. There is never black and white in the world. People can always choose where they should go, as long as they can bear the price.
But after experiencing more, I felt that what Crikey said made sense. Because some people go so deep into the darkness that they can never look back. Just like Shigure Genya, if you said that Shigure Genya would change his mind and return to the right path with all his heart, would you agree? "
"How is that possible?" Little Alice sneered, "No matter how hard he changes his past, I will definitely blow his head off."
"Yes, they have gone too deep, Shigure Wana is the same, and the same is true for Krikki." Gongsun Ce said, "But I am always a stubborn person, and I always feel that those who have not gone too deep are Some are saved, just like me back then, just like you before. I can’t say that Rei Shigure is a good person in the worldly sense, but I firmly believe that she is a teammate worthy of my trust and the one who loves me most in the world. One of the people.”
Little Alice covered her mouth with her hands and chuckled: "Why do you say that, silly Mr. Rabbit?"
"Because I understand her, just as she understands me. We have gone from passers-by to current lovers, and our lives are intertwined with each other."
Gongsun Ce asked her to turn around and look at the black-haired girl like when she confessed. He put his finger to little Alice's lips.
"He said you are bad and you are bad? Compared with those real bad women, you are as innocent as a village girl. I pulled you out of the darkness with my own hands, but don't even think about walking back on your own. I'm still waiting. You are telling me fairy tales."
Little Alice suddenly took his finger in her mouth, her petite body changing rapidly in the blue light. She changed back to Rei Shigure, but she was still wearing a blue and white dress, like a little girl in a fairy tale who grew up in an instant, but her heart was still the same.
"Talking sweetly to a young girl is really a bad man."
"I haven't seen that the little girl is a moral model under her skirt, okay?" Gongsun Ceyi said righteously, "What movies have you watched recently that have become so pornographic? Let me watch it too."
"Idiot perverted brat." Shigurei bit his fingertips, stood up on the spot, and turned around with the white skirt in hand.
"is it beautiful?"
"It's so fascinating, Miss Fairytale Witch." Gongsun Ce said sincerely.
Rei Shigure gave birth to a narcissus in his hand: "As I said before, I am not a good woman you like. If you want to pursue a good wife and mother, it's better to change your mind as soon as possible."
Gongsun Ce looked at the pure white flowers and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, Mr. Rabbit is also happy to serve the bad witch."
The common dream dispersed in laughter, and the two of them returned to their own hearts. In reality, Gongsun Ce opened his eyes and saw an extra piece of candy on the bedside.
He held the candy in his mouth and fell asleep peacefully.
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The next day, early morning.
Sister Lotta was a devout girl. She always got up at dawn to wipe the statues of saints in the church and do morning prayers every day. But her unshakable practice was delayed today. Three heavy sounds sounded in front of the wooden door of St. Bayonet Cathedral. The viciousness of the knocker was transmitted into the church through the sounds, giving the little nun goosebumps.
Thinking of the recent unstable situation, she quickly took out the standard automatic pistol and protective mask, and slowly opened the door a crack. "Who is it?" The nun glanced out, and this sight made her sit down on the ground in shock.
A total of twelve strong men carrying giant crosses stood in a row outside the church. They were wearing windbreakers and had cold faces, and the evil aura in their eyes was as fierce as if it could devour ordinary people. The leading man in red wore a pair of small round glasses and had an old-fashioned hedgehog hair. There was no trace of kindness on his friendly face, and his murderous aura was as heavy as an unsheathed sharp knife!
The man in red was carrying a silver nail that was as tall as a normal person. He took the initiative to walk into the church and helped the frightened nun up.
"Please also inform Father Andrew that Jago Drusus is coming to support you." The man said, "Thank you for your hard work. May the Saint protect you."
(End of chapter)
