After hugging each other with a shocked expression, Sean still looked at the moonlight without his hands in disbelief.
"It's quite sinister, isn't it?" Moonlight raised her bare arm, "I can't even roll tobacco now..."
"How could this happen?" Sean frowned, feeling uncomfortable in his heart.
"Oh, in this world..." Moonlight shook her long hair that reached her forehead, "I am a thief who was caught stealing, and my hands were cut off by the guards of the royal city...
"Don't talk about that yet," Yueguang tilted her head and motioned for Sean to sit on the side of the street with few people, "I really need you to roll a cigarette for me."
The two of them sat on the curb, and Sean took out an old cigarette box from Yueguang's vest pocket.
Rolling a cigarette tremblingly with his withered and old hands, Sean asked: "How do you know your story?"
"Remember it carefully." Moonlight seemed very calm, "Actually, our stories in this world are all hidden in memories."
Sean, who had been busy looking for his teammates without stopping for a moment, began to recall doubtfully.
In his mind, he saw an old man who drank alcohol all day long, scratching his chest while drinking.
Then, the ulcers on the skin on the chest began to spread, getting bigger day by day, becoming foul-smelling, and even exposing the bones...
Until one day, he was found to be infected with leprosy. He was ruthlessly abandoned by his family and could only make a living by begging on the streets.
"This..." Sean's cloudy eyes widened on his newly recovered old face, "Isn't this too tragic?"
"I guess Catherine's story is not much better..." Moonlight stood up and began to look around. "Why does that existence make us become like this?"
Sean is still wrapped up in the emotions of his character. He slowly turned his hands, looked at the traces of time on them, and murmured: "I don't know..."
Clamping the cigarette from his mouth with a pair of wrists, Moonlight spit out the tobacco in his mouth. A pair of sinister eyes suddenly widened as he looked in one direction: "Back! Back...my good baby!"
"Who? Who's back?" Sean raised his head irritably, his rosacea red, like an old man with a bad temper.
Moonlight turned back and raised his thick black eyebrows on his sinister face - even though he was completely unrecognizable, Sean could see the handsome pianist from this expression: "The captain is back."
"captain?"
Before he finished speaking, Sean saw a big black rat with a broken tail running out of the crowd.
One of its eyes is blind and covered with a black cloth.
"Miss White?" Sean stood up in surprise, his legs were a little weak and he staggered, "Became a big mouse?"
"Yes, the captain is my good partner!"
In Miss White's mouth, she held a bracelet inlaid with agate and emerald, which shone brightly in the cold sky.
"Our dinner is settled!" Yueguang's eyes were shining with the unique light of his character.
As soon as the tail-broken rat jumped into the thief's hand, the crowd not far ahead was pushed away.
A woman wearing a headscarf pointed in the direction of Moonlight and Sean: "That's the mouse! It stole my bracelet!"
The security captain wearing iron breastplate saw the severed hand's face clearly and immediately shouted angrily: "It's you again!"
Moonlight Sean looked at each other and started running in the opposite direction.
"Why do you want White to steal things?!" Sean felt that he couldn't control his temper.
"I don't know either!" White, who got into trouble, got into Yueguang's vest pocket and hid. "That's what I wanted to do!"
Compared with his real body, the physical strength of this old man's body, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was obviously insufficient. Sean couldn't run after taking a few steps.
He could only continue to move forward with steps that seemed to be filled with lead.
The security captain and a young recruit bumped into a passerby.
The man was holding a large basket in his hand. Various red, white, and purple flowers in the basket were thrown into the sky, attracting the attention of people around him.
The deaf-mute flower girl became anxious and held on to the security captain and the recruits, demanding compensation from them.
Sean and Moonlight were able to escape and hide in a narrow alley.
"Damn it!" The security captain waved his palm and slapped the flower seller directly on the face, causing the babbling and noisy mute girl to fall to the ground, daring not to make any more noise.
Realizing that he had lost track, the captain and the new recruits chased forward angrily.
The mute flower girl with a red and swollen face had no choice but to pick up the soiled flowers one by one from the ground...
After a while, I saw that the captain had gone away, and the flower girl carrying a basket of dirty flowers also walked into the narrow alley.
"Catherine!" Sean shouted towards the flower girl in a low voice.
"I can't speak." The playing cards vibrated, and Katherine Haley lowered her head, appearing to be in a bad mood.
Her character is a tragic girl who became deaf and mute due to a fever as a child.
She looked up at the old man and pickpocket in front of her, sighed helplessly, and the card vibrated rapidly: "The situation is very bad."
"What is going on, Catherine?" Moonlight put her severed hand in her pocket and gently stroked the bracelet with her wrist.
"Can you see? This is the world of the drama."
"You can guess, the key is - how do we get out of here?"
Catherine lowered her head in frustration and did not touch the card for a long time.
Normally, she would not show such emotion.
Likewise, the characters in this story also affected her personality.
"I've observed it carefully." After a while, the card started to vibrate, "Tonight is the 'wedding night' in the story.
"What if, in this world, the story still ends as described in the original work.
"The world line will be closed."
Yue Guang tilted her head: "What does it mean that the world line is closed?"
The poker vibrated, and the translated sentence made Sean and Yueguang relax their jaws, revealing an obviously frightened look:
"That is to say, we will always be trapped in these characters and in this world, unable to get out."
"Am I not mistaken?" Moonlight 1902's voice trembled slightly, "If we let George, the groom, wash away the wedding scene with blood, we will never be able to go back?"
Catherine turned around and nodded irritably.
Sean immediately understood why the three of them were assigned such roles.
No weapons, no spiritual power, not even a healthy body...
The God in Red does not allow them to tamper with the stories in the intellectual world, and wants to trap them here forever.
Moonlight's face turned a little pale - obviously, he could not accept the situation of never being able to play the piano again and never see Winnie again: "Then we must take action! We must change the direction of the story!"
Sean Dickinson was also in a panic.
He didn't want Aaliya to be at home and never wait for him to go back.
He also didn't want to die of old age in such a body and in such a world...
With his throat tight, Sean quickly said: "We have to find a way! As before, we want everyone to know the truth! We can't let George, the groom, be swallowed up by hatred!"
The deaf-mute woman next to her sneered - Catherine became a bit unlike Catherine.
"Did you think it would be that easy?
"Do you think it will be like on stage, with me playing the Grand Duchess and you playing the knight, and we will expose Martin's lies with our words?"
“Now we are beggars, pickpockets and flower girls, and we can’t even enter the royal city!
Obviously, Catherine has thought about this before, so at this moment, her emotions are the most intense, and the playing cards are shaking rapidly: "Moreover, we have no spiritual power, no weapons, almost nothing..."
All brilliance has been stripped away, leaving only the functions engraved in the soul, but it is difficult to function with such an identity.
As if realizing that her true personality was being controlled by the gray deaf-mute girl, Catherine suddenly stopped talking.
Knowing that the two teammates were in despair, Sean moved closer and lowered his voice and said: "Listen, young man...
“I still have some tools at my disposal.
"Or, we can just die on the way home - anyway, no matter what, I won't be willing to fight until the end."
After being cured of his leprosy, the old man's mentality also changed dramatically.
A few words calmed down the panicked pickpocket and the gray deaf-mute woman.
"Catherine."
The flower girl raised her head.
Her eyes changed, from the gloom and despair to the indifference unique to actresses.
"Under the current circumstances, it is really difficult to change the ending of the story...
"So we have to think long term."
