Siren Blade

Chapter 12 The Watcher

The last person I want to meet at this moment is Qingniao.

I have been slightly shaken by Ren Sai's dream assumptions and the loss of memory that occurred in my own consciousness.If that was the case, I would not have doubted the reality, but long before I met Ren Sai, I had already doubted that what I suspected was not reality, but a precognitive dream.

To make matters worse, as I continued to retrace my memories, I found that I had more and more missing memories.

I know I'm 19 years old and a college student, but what college did I go to?Where did I study before going to university?Many things that were taken for granted are riddled with holes inside, and after a little scrutiny, they will fall apart.

Suppose, I am really dreaming, and the blue bird is what Ren Sai said, the monitor of dreams...

Where did this almost realistic dream come from, and what is the task of the monitor?
Blue Bird spoke first, and her voice pulled me out of thinking that even I thought was absurd.

"I've read your profile, you must be Li Duo." She said in the tone of a stranger, "What are you doing here?"

"This is my question, why did you appear here?" I asked back.

"Now I'm asking you. But that's right. I have to introduce myself first." At this point, she suddenly summoned the Thunderbolt Sword and pointed it at me. "I am a national first-level demon hunter. People 'Blue Bird', someone reported to the Wumingshan Police Station that you possess illegal weapons. It is also clear from the surveillance inside the train that what you possess is the 'Siren Blade'. But you must be a criminal People living ordinary lives are right, where did you pick up this weapon?"

It turned out that this was the reason why she appeared here. She followed the footsteps of me, a "dangerous element", up the mountain.

But this reason may still be a bit far-fetched.How did those ordinary law enforcement officers quickly identify the ax as the Siren Blade through the surveillance video and contact the blue bird?Why did the blue bird so coincidentally collide with me who was hiding my breath on the mountain?Although it is not completely impossible to defend him, once he pretends to be suspicious in his heart, he will be suspicious of everything.

I really don't want to believe that I'm living in a dream, but I can't treat Ren Sai's words as if I haven't heard them.

Perhaps the most rational way is to present your doubts on the table in the most direct way, and then use the answer from Jade Bird to clear up all your doubts.

Seeing Qingniao pointing the lightning sword at me, I felt unspeakably bored, and at the same time made up my mind to say what I wanted to say, "You should know the memory before going back."

"Before going back?" She frowned.

"Besides, all of this is probably a dream." I deliberately said in a confident tone.

"What topic are you talking about?" she asked rhetorically.

"Last time you joked with me and mentioned the love letter at my front desk in the past, saying that the love letter may have been written by the front desk. But I recalled it before, last time I didn't tell you about the love letter incident, just said The important event in the previous retrospective process. The love letter incident neither happened in the retrospective process nor is it important." I thought, if she really doesn't remember the memory before the retrospective, what I said is chicken and duck, I think Thinking about it is very embarrassing, but even if there is such a possibility, I still want to express my doubts in person, "Frankly speaking, although I told you about that incident in the previous retrospective, after I finished speaking I soon regretted it. Because instead of laughing at me, you encouraged me. This made me feel that I was given unnecessary sympathy, and I was not very happy."

"Although you said so many strange things, I'm sorry, I'm meeting you for the first time." She said, "Answer my question first, what are you doing here?"

Sure enough, saying that would not lead to any results, but I already had a plan in mind.I said, "I came here to find the young girl who disappeared on the mountain a month ago."

"What?" She looked surprised.

"Besides, I know that you are also investigating this incident." This is what Qingniao mentioned when I first met me, and I continued my temptation, "But do you know what the young girl's name is? You can't know , because this is my dream. If I don't know a person's name, it means I haven't made it up yet, and you have no way of knowing."

"Listen well, although I don't know if you came up with these ideas yourself, or someone instilled them in you..." she said, "These are too absurd, please tell me where the weapon in your hand came from first Yes. Did someone give it to you? And instilled these ridiculous ideas in you?"

I didn't answer her question.Assuming she is the so-called watcher, I must never tell her who told me these things.Because that is tantamount to exposing her own intelligence details, and it will give her the idea to weave the story.

But I hope she is not, so I also hope that she will be indifferent to what I say next.

"I've already thought of a way to prove it, which is to make up a name for the young girl now, and then confirm it later. Although I can't leave Wuming Mountain now, it doesn't matter if I go back and find someone who knows her to confirm it." I raised the ax a little, "For example... this ax is called 'Siren's Blade', then maybe I can name her 'Ren Sai', or something else... If after Confirming that her name is the same as mine, it means that this place is really my dream."

This is my last trial.Suppose I am the monitor, and Qingniao is the dreamer; and I have the intervention power of "adding new settings for dream characters that do not contradict the old settings" described by Ren Sai, and I don't want Qingniao to be able to prove that I am dreaming.So now I will make up a new name for that young girl, tell it to the other party, and then let the other party confirm it.

Judging from what Ren Sai said, the monitors couldn't detect our conversation here, so they probably didn't know that the young girl already had a name.

This is already the best strategy that I can think of by racking my brains with wisdom, and I can only resign myself to how far I can go.After all, I don't know the details of the abilities of the so-called monitors at all.Perhaps this approach is nothing more than cleverness.

Or maybe the story of dreams was a highly accomplished prank from the very beginning.

After I finished speaking, the blue bird was silent for a while.I waited quietly for her response, and her words shook my heart.

"Although I don't know what you're looking for 'Joe Licorice'..." She said a name I've never heard before, "but you'd better not have any wrong ideas."

I took a few deep breaths to sort out my mixed emotions, and then said, "Come with me."

"Where are you going?" She chased after her.

I went to the place where the little girl was hiding and hugged her down from the tree.Seeing this scene, Qingniao's expression changed obviously.

"Tell this sister, what's your name?" I said.

The young girl said cautiously: "Hello, sister. My name is Ren Sai."

Bluebird fell into a long silence.

"So..." I looked straight at her, "Am I really dreaming?"

After a long time, her shoulders lost strength.

"Yes." She said, "This world, this nameless mountain... are all phantoms constructed within your consciousness, and they are your dreams."

With her own confirmation, my thoughts seemed to be frozen, and it seemed to be crushed by a heavy hammer, turning into fragments and scattered all over the place.

What Ren Sai said is actually true... No, there are other possibilities, such as Ren Sai and Jade Bird teaming up to deceive me... What is the motive?How can I explain my amnesia?Could it be that Ren Sai used some kind of consciousness to delete part of my memory...but...

"Did that outsider tell you? She is now separated from the role of the missing young girl?" Qingniao said complicatedly, "I have been tracking her, but I have never even seen her face once. She also told you What? You have to be careful, she may be the culprit who made this dream so dangerous."

"You haven't seen her?" I forced myself to think, "She said that her spiritual body was seriously injured, didn't you cause it?"

"Seriously injured? Was she injured? Who did it?" She was at a loss at first, and then said, "Compared to this, the devil hasn't come here yet... How did you avoid the devil's induction? The secret talisman I gave you should be Has it been backtracked?"

She no longer hides the memories she recalled before she knew it.

"It's backtracking, that's right. So now I'm avoiding the induction by killing the breath." I replied.

"How can the way of killing the breath avoid the induction of the devil?" She said in confusion, "Even the amulet I gave you can't avoid it. It was specially made by me for the induction of the devil. Ah... ..."

She seemed to realize something suddenly, and quickly covered her mouth.

But it's too late.

In the distance came the undisguised footsteps of the demon, like a cannonball landing, approaching at a very fast speed.

I realized that the reason why the devil didn't find me was not because I killed my breath, but because as a dreamer I thought it would be useful, that's all.

But now, this "magic" has lost its effectiveness!

"Wait, I'll give you the talisman right away!" Qingniao hurriedly took out her pocket, while worrying about the little girl beside her, "Your name is Ren Sai, right, hide quickly! Ahhh, it's too late, put it on my back first !"

"No, there's no need for that." I immediately carried the young girl on my back, grabbed Blue Bird's hand, and ran quickly in the direction away from the demon.

If this place is really just my dream, then I should be able to break through this forest.

Why did I get lost mysteriously when I climbed the unnamed mountain, and why once I entered the mountain forest, I couldn't leave again... Now I seem to have figured out the truth.Because this mountain forest is manifested from my memory.My memory of this mountain forest is such a "place where I can never turn back after I recover."

But is it really impossible to turn back?it's not true.Because I was finally rescued by the search and rescue team back then.While running fast, I also closed my eyes, recalling the feelings at that time.

A light like a searchlight faintly appeared at the end, which could be seen even with eyes closed.I ran to where the light was.The light became bigger and bigger, and when the entire field of vision was occupied by the light, I opened my eyes involuntarily.

Looking around, he has returned to the normal mountain road.But the time is not day, but night.The previous light disappeared like an illusion.

"It's really back..." Blue Bird sighed beside me.

Another fact that can prove that this is my dream... I let go of her hand silently, and then said: "I still have a lot of things to ask you, will you answer me?"

She looked at her hands, paused for a while, then nodded and said, "Yes."

We returned to the scenic spot at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, the scenic spot was empty, the shops and other facilities were closed, and the lights of the residents could not be seen.

It seems that only me and Jade Bird are left in the world.

When I thought of this, I suddenly found that the young girl was gone.Seeing my reaction, Jade Bird explained: "That character's activity area is probably limited to the Wuming Mountain."

"Character..." Her tone didn't describe people, but objects, and I asked with concern, "Will the devil attack her?"

"No. The devil's target is only you and those who prevent him from killing you." She said, "And you don't have to worry about that character, she is just something you imagined, not a real human being."

"Then you still cared so much about her before?"

"I..." She opened her mouth and her face turned red, "I just... Before I could think, my body moved first... Wait, what are you laughing at?"

Somewhere in me felt relieved and happy by her childish reaction.Maybe she has hidden a lot from me, but her true nature is still the blue bird I know.

"By the way, why did you discover my specialness? If you didn't deduce it yourself, but the outsider told you directly, I should be able to sense it." She asked.

"Because you and her use the same system of terms, such as spirituality, spirit body, awareness...these are all terms that I can't master, and only people who don't belong to this dream will bring this knowledge." Although I said "dream" in my mouth, but I still couldn't accept it in my heart. It seemed that there was a thick layer of glass between me and this word.

"Really... It seems that she didn't tell you much." She said while thinking, "But it's true, too much depth will trigger my attention, and I will be excluded from the dream before I finish speaking..."

She spoke as if my conclusions were correct but the process was all wrong.

Speaking of which, when Ren Sai heard my reasoning, he also said "your conclusion itself is correct".Do I know these terms in so-called reality?

"Why on earth did I have this dream?" I first asked myself the most concerned thing, "And why did you enter my dream?"

"This has to be explained from the beginning. First of all, my identity is not a 'national first-level demon hunter'. In the real world, I am the main law enforcement warlock affiliated to the National Secret Security Bureau. But the job I do It’s no different from a demon hunter, who is responsible for dealing with all kinds of secret incidents, as well as the warlocks and criminals who cause such incidents.” She said, “As for you... as an ordinary person living in a secular society, in real life The world was unfortunately involved in the occult and was a tragic victim. When we freed you, you suffered from a serious mental illness. To treat your mental illness, we used the The cure . . . is this dream that is now out of control."

(End of this chapter)