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Ethereal singing echoed in my ears, as thin as a gossamer, but extremely penetrating, and could be clearly discerned in the endless sound of waves.This is the song of the sea monster, which echoes in the dream world built by the power of monsters, and will forever trap the souls confused by the song.

Lu You was sitting on the edge of a protruding rock, with his feet dangling in the air, and the blue sea water was almost black under his feet.Looking from a distance, the undulating waves present a breathtaking jewel purple color under the sunset light, and white seabirds fly past the water waves.

This picture is quiet and magnificent, and the light has a sense of twilight that is about to burn out and come to an end, but it also has a tender and tender meaning.The orange-red fireball that was burning and about to sink was half submerged in the sea-sky junction, and it seemed that it would disappear completely soon... But it felt like a long, long time had passed, but the actual position hadn't changed at all.

There will be no hunger, thirst, or weariness; the sea will flood the bottom of the reef, and the tide will never really come up.This world is not completely static, but under the never-setting sunset, the stagnant time has lost its meaning.

Lu You felt that the picture in front of him looked familiar.I always feel like I have seen similar scenes in albums or photos, or a combination of many similar scenes.A little rationality that was still able to function made a judgment: this is a "seaside scene" that he searched for materials from his own memory and built, rather than an illusion that was simply implanted by others.Because he has never really been to the seaside... That's why this picture is like a scroll painted with oil paint, with magnificent and beautiful colors, but lacks a sense of reality.

The siren's singing surrounded him, as if he was bound by invisible chains—not that he could not move his hands and feet, but that he couldn't escape or fight from the bottom of his heart.Lazy all over, relaxed and peaceful, even though he clearly knows that this state is not normal, he doesn't feel the need to change at all.Just sitting here, blowing the moist sea breeze, listening to the sound of waves and the chirping of seabirds...

There was no smell of sea water on the wind.You can't smell the fishy smell of sea creatures at all.This is also untrue evidence.

How long has it been like this... Lu You realized the abnormality of the sea water under his feet.Such a deep color is not because of the dim light as he thought it was approaching night, nor is it because the sea water in this area is extraordinarily deep... Under the water surface, there is something huge and silently dormant.What he saw on the sea was the dark shadow of that thing.

At first Lu You thought it was a large reef, a coral colony inhabited by seaweed and shells; then suddenly at a certain moment, he thought of it.

It's the monster...

He stayed on the reef suspended above the sea, and the monster sank quietly under the water.If it is still as a watchman, it is completely unnecessary to exist in this impossible-to-escape dream cell; if it is a reflection of his thinking, but he is very sure that he has nothing to do with what the monster has done so far. The intention to accept or forgive.

If so, why does it appear in this scene?

As if in a silent confrontation, they stood still on both sides of the water.It's just that the water waves are floating on their own, causing the shadow to fluctuate with it - when Lu You was watching the shadow on the sea, the monster must also be looking up at his shadow at the bottom of the water.Obviously they are all creatures that can make sounds and express their wishes, but no one is willing to speak.

The sea surface extends flatly into the distance, and the sky covered with gorgeous clouds bends downward from the top of the head to meet it.The curvature of the sky is so obvious that people seem to be standing in a world like a small glass ball.The siren's song made the prison sentence painless no matter how long it was, but it couldn't change the closed nature of the cage.

I don't know when, Lu You changed from staring at the shadow of the monster under the sea for a long time to looking up at the sky for a longer time.He even forgot the existence of the monster for a while, immersed in the tranquility forced by the siren's singing, and recalled the real world outside the glass ball ecstatically.Later, even the memories gradually stopped, as if the pupils and thinking had become completely transparent, leaving only the images of clouds and clouds in the sky directly projected in his mind.

Until the sound of shattering glass interrupted the singing.

The clear crackling sound was transmitted to every corner of the dream world.A black crack appeared in the sky, and then the never-setting sunset and the calm sea were also separated by the crack.There was no violent reaction that triggered landslides and tsunamis, and the collapse proceeded silently. Those fragments were completely melted in just a few seconds, as if they were really drawn on paper—no, they were pictures drawn on ice. In the gloom behind the crack.

Darkness is the color of the real world...

When Lu You opened his eyes, he felt as if he didn't wake up from a dream, but just blinked.It is indeed a bit strange to suddenly change from the sitting position in the dream to the lying position on the bed, but the body does not have the stiffness after a long sleep - rather, the whole body is very relaxed, and the heart is also calm to an abnormal degree, as if the singing voice The echo still lingered in his heart, and it still continued to have an impact.

My mind went blank, and I didn't know when I sat up.Several dolls slipped from the edge of the bed to the ground due to the pulling of the quilt, without making a sound, Lu You turned his head, stared at their blurred outlines in the dimness for a few seconds, slowly stretched out his hand, and bent down , as if trying to pick them up and put them back on the bed.It's just that the position could not be judged accurately, and his fingertips finally brushed past the furry ears of the doll rabbit and touched the cold and hard tile floor.

Lu You's movements stopped.His eyeballs moved, and a faint look suddenly appeared in his pupils.

The room was very quiet.There was only the slight sound of the breeze blowing the leaves of the potted plants, and a faint sound of collision from upstairs through the ceiling of the first floor.The rabbit doll lying on the ground was just next to the edge of the palm, but Lu You didn't pick it up, but straightened up little by little with the same slow movement as when he bent down.

The new point of sight is at the door of the room.With a little moonlight shining through the window, the room without the lights was not completely dark.The straight line of the door emerged into view, a short distance from the edge of the door frame: the door was open.

...a chance to escape...

escape.This thought flashed out quickly, completely unaffected by being controlled by the siren's song for such a long time, and it was as clear as every time when he was awake before.But Lu You looked at the narrow gap, and after several seconds, he just looked at it, and it seemed that he had no intention of taking this idea into action at all.Outside this gap, there was indeed darkness where nothing could be seen clearly, but in a trance, he seemed to see those undulating tentacles crowded behind the gap and wriggling unceasingly.

—It is impossible to escape.Once upon a time he had come to such conclusions himself.

It's strange... The ability to think seems to have recovered a bit, but there is still a feeling of emptiness in the skull.The siren's song echoed in this cavity, like an echo that can reverberate in an empty valley for a long time after the sound source is silent.This song, which calms all emotions, removes the courage that can encourage fierce resistance, but also removes the fear that can lead to hesitation.As a result, the two ends of the balance of resistance and compromise were delicately balanced again, and as the self-suggestive thought of "escape" flashed repeatedly, it slowly tilted to one side.

This may be a trap set up by monsters to test... But even so...

The wind suddenly increased, almost pouring in from the window at a right angle.The clouds cleared away, and the moonlight became brighter, casting the swaying shadows of potted plants on the motionless figure sitting on the bed.The shadow of the doll by the bed stretched long, surrounding him motionless, and the shape of the grotesque shadow was like some kind of small monster, frozen in a threatening shape.In the silence, precious time passed by every minute...

People who were covered and surrounded by various shadows suddenly took action.

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Qi Zhengyun pulled the tentacle as the murder weapon away from the flesh, brain and broken bones, flicked it lightly, and the droplets of stains fell from the tip of the tentacle, and the smooth scales became spotless again.He stepped back, lest the corpse that fell into his pool of blood splatter the dirty blood and contaminate his body.

A young girl who used "witchcraft" to fight—although the body is now beyond recognition, no longer beautiful, almost a bone wrapped in loose skin—there is a part of the blood that belongs to the monster .It seems that Qi Zhengyun has never seen a purely human being who can use extraordinary power so far. It seems that this kind of power cannot be obtained by learning.The so-called witches, exorcists, or people who are in collusion with monsters come here intentionally or unintentionally for various reasons, and the troubles they bring to him can be said to be no less than monsters...

The fragments of the disintegrated crystal ball glistened in the pool of the owner's blood. It seemed that it hadn't been completely destroyed, and there were only a few soul fragments left in it.Regarding this kind of wreckage, Qi Zhengyun had no intention of recycling it. He lowered his head and stared at it for a while, making sure that they would be completely destroyed in a short time, then retreated out of the room.

The corpse of the mixed blood, the corpse of the monster summoned at the cost of taking away life, plus the blood of another person before and the remains of various props taken from the monster, made the smell in this room quite complicated and wonderful. The remnants of these forces are conflicting and consuming each other, and the fluctuations that emanate make Qi Zhengyun feel quite irritable-too sharp perception sometimes has disadvantages.

The restaurant outside the bedroom was not much better.Here are two human corpses, one has been melted by the digestive juice, and is inseparably mixed with the "bundle" of monster remains after being broken and melted, and the other is lying far away on the wall near the living room. At the corner of the wall, there was a pool of blood under his body, and there was no trace of struggle—it was a weird scene that would make the police quite puzzled.

The monster that can only secrete digestive juice from its skin exudes the smell of rotten kitchen waste, and it intensifies after death. Perhaps this is also one of its attack methods.Qi Zhengyun walked around the blurred, half-eaten corpse, and paused for a moment.The glasses of the dead young man fell to the side, and there were not many traces of corrosion on them. There were strange decorations on the temples of the glasses, which may be peripheral products of a certain comic book.

Qi Zhengyun noticed this detail strangely, and then it seemed that he finally realized the fact that "someone died".If that woman is not counted, the lives of two human beings have disappeared, even though they are two annoying human beings.He watched the whole process of the death of one of them, and didn't want to stop it; he casually ended the other one like sweeping up garbage, and then threw it behind him indifferently.

Qi Zhengyun stood at the scene of this tragic massacre, and unconsciously began to seek the reasons behind his actions.Recently, he always thinks about some messy things, and then diverges to more boundless places, and sometimes he will suddenly feel strange to himself.These doubts and anxieties have gradually accumulated to the point where they cannot be ignored and must be dealt with.

Is it to determine the real purpose of that mixed blood coming here?Or do you have plans to avoid scaring the snake and eliminate traces?

Actually...Qi Zhengyun didn't even think about these things.Perhaps a thought like this flashed through my mind, but the most fundamental reason...is really "it doesn't matter".It's okay to stop it in advance, or wait until the end to deal with it all together, make a choice as you like——I don't know when, the purpose of his actions has become weaker and weaker.

That girl... the props she used couldn't have been made by herself. If she was caught alive and questioned slowly, she might be able to get more news about the mixed-bloods who were doing similar things; the two followed them to the abandoned private house There must be some reason for the people who came here, but it is impossible to know now.Adopting the easiest method of killing, but ignoring the more dangers that may be involved, Qi Zhengyun could not accept the mistake he would have made if it had been earlier.

But before he shot just now, he didn't think of this step at all.And even now that a loophole has been discovered...

——Still no nervousness or concern emerged.

Upon realizing this, the monster's body suddenly began to shrink and shrink.The shadow twitched, tightened for a moment and then spread out, revealing the figure of a tall and broad-shouldered man in the center.

Transformed into a human form——faster than thought, driven by some kind of instinct, for the first time in a long time.It wasn't until the unfamiliar down-to-earth feeling came that Qi Zhengyun came back to realize his actions.His reactions did seem a bit sluggish, he seemed unable to determine the consequences of each action, and feared the unknown unnecessarily.

After standing still for tens of seconds, the man in the form of a monster lowered his head, and saw the liquid reflected on the monster "remains" that was sticky on the ground but had a smooth surface after standing still for a while. own face.

There was no expression on the man's face, but there was an expression in his eyes as if he didn't know where he was.

Just like when this form was first condensed on the sea, Qi Zhengyun and the person who didn't seem to be him looked at each other.

——He has wasted too much time on it, he should go back quickly to check on Lu You's situation.The purpose of these three people appearing here is indeed somewhat suspicious, and the possibility of making a fuss has to be considered...

Thoughts are running smoothly and well-founded, but at the last step, they cannot be turned into actions.Qi Zhengyun didn't even spread his perception to check, obviously the distance of one floor and the barrier of the floor were nothing to him.But he did nothing.At this moment, the sea of ​​memories surged unusually vigorously, and he thought of the moonlight on the sea—the moonlight bathed alone, the moonlight that he had looked up at with Lu You in the boat; The name "Guardian" means the end, but it seems to harbor an infinitely gentle sunset.

The body seemed to be shaking, but in fact it was only becoming stiff.The unpleasant smell of the monster's remains permeated the surroundings. This was not a good place for memories. People who had escaped from the fate of monsters but became monsters themselves no longer seemed to care about it.Qi Zhengyun blinked his eyes very slowly, seeing himself reflected on the liquid surface made the same movement.A ray of pale moonlight was like a thin and sharp blade, cutting from the living room window all the way to his feet, and the remaining blood in the human corpse was still flowing out, forming an increasingly larger darkness.

Qi Zhengyun turned around suddenly, as if he wanted to go back to the room where the girl died, but he paused and gave up the idea again.He walked slowly towards the other body lying in the corner, stood by it for a while, and finally walked towards the door.Like a real human being without any power, Qi Zhengyun opened the door, then left it open, and walked down the dusty stairs by himself.

The next level is the "cage" he carefully built.All possible entrances and exits have been specially arranged, and it is difficult for humans or non-humans other than him to pass through, naturally including Lu You in the house... Qi Zhengyun still did not check the situation inside the house, but only checked that the door has not been entered or exited Mark of.He stood at the door for a while, his figure fluctuated slightly as if he had lost his shape, and he went straight through the door and came into the house.

The first thing I noticed was that the bedroom door was open.From the point of view of where Qi Zhengyun is standing now, he could tell with his eyes that there was no one on the bed, and those pillow dolls that obstructed his sight were all pushed to the ground, as if he had experienced some kind of emotional venting.

The girl's last act of withdrawing her life and waking up the monster to help in the battle destroyed the dream built by the sea monster on the first floor—Qi Zhengyun immediately thought of this possibility, but his emotions seemed to be controlled by the song of the sea monster. At this moment, there was no obvious fluctuation.He still walked towards the bedroom, as if he was about to check the failure, just walked back to the door and took a few steps back, looking at the sofa in the living room.

There was a black figure curled up in the corner of the sofa, motionless, seemingly unaffected by the movement of Qi Zhengyun walking not far away.He didn't bring the doll over, didn't move the pillow on the sofa, just hugged his knees and buried his face in the middle of his arms like those who are immersed in depression and loss.

It was so quiet.It seemed that the sound of breathing and heartbeat had all disappeared.It seems as if the world is starting to crumble from a distance.

Qi Zhengyun walked towards the sofa, reached out and grabbed Lu You's wrist.Lu You's skin temperature was a little low, but it was still warm, and the blood was flowing normally in the blood vessels.Lu You allowed Qi Zhengyun to pull his arm away without any resistance. He raised his head, obviously different from monsters and should not be seen in the dark, but met Qi Zhengyun's eyes accurately.

He looked very calm, looking into Qi Zhengyun's eyes, as if he was not the source of long-standing nightmares, but just an ordinary acquaintance.

"...Have you been to the door?" Qi Zhengyun asked.His voice was low and hoarse, beyond his expectations when he spoke.

"I've been there." Lu You said softly, "I can't open it anyway."

——He seems to have finally given up on fighting completely, and the barrier of his mind is no longer maintained.This should be good news for Qi Zhengyun, and it is the best form he has been looking forward to.But when this moment really came, Qi Zhengyun felt a choking sensation as if something was stuck in his throat, and a strong urge to stop something from happening.

Lu You narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at him for a while, and then raised the corners of his lips as if relaxed.It was an empty smile, but with a real smile.By dropping something completely, it is possible to rise to a height and look down. "Why does it feel like you're still unhappy?" He said softly, "I don't even understand it."

Qi Zhengyun tightened his grip on his wrist.Lu You didn't seem to feel any pain, so he turned his eyes away from Qi Zhengyun and turned to the darkness behind him.Even when Lu You expressed his resistance to him in the form of refusing to communicate before, Qi Zhengyun never had such a feeling. He felt that although he was here, he had actually left far away.

A voice inside him cried out.It seemed that it took a while for Qi Zhengyun to hear what it was shouting—it was shouting and begging for an "end".end it.Let's end it quickly.I can't take it anymore.In order to delay time and watch him self-destruct indifferently, it is better to let him die happily——

At the moment when this thought of putting the cart before the horse in the eyes of "reason" emerged, Qi Zhengyun realized it.This is the "end" - not this world, but the whole plan that has been going on until now - the plan to treat Lu You before the last reincarnation as consumables, ushered in a complete failure judgment at this moment.

He can't.

Even if it was to meet the "real" Lu You, he couldn't do it.

Is this a reversal of priorities?

Is this a betrayal of past memories, of feelings accumulated for so long in the past?

more importantly……

If he realized that he was wrong after reaching this level, then what did he do in those previous reincarnations?

Qi Zhengyun's lips moved slightly.Then, words that he never thought to say suddenly came out of his mouth. "I... have something to tell you. Please listen to me." He said, shaking Lu You's hand vigorously, as if the program of a machine was completely messed up, and began to pour out words that were not expected at all, "I met you a long time ago. You don't remember it because it hasn't happened to you yet..."

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