[Hunter] The Meteor Legend after Lydia's Life Record

Kurolo slapped me across the face.

Loud, hot, distinct pain.

I opened my eyes and saw his solemn face, and the desk lamp cast a warm light on his face.

I stared blankly at him, and the souls scattered in the sky gradually gathered together.

I completely forgot to breathe. I was suffocated by the overwhelming despair. My heartbeat had never been so violent. It was stronger and stronger, like a herd of bison running across the ground, like a war drum beating wildly!

"Breathe!" Suddenly I heard Kuroro snarling in my ear, and at the same time squeezed my jaw hard.

I shivered, and did what he said reflexively. The stuffy air rushed into my lungs, and I let out a piercing gasp. My eyes were fixed on him, and my body began to tremble slightly.

He stroked my hot cheek back and forth with the hand he just hit me, and whispered in my ear: "Lydia, wake up! It's okay!"

I greedily and almost unbelievably stared at his face, it was moist and lively!He looked at me with bright eyes, so vivid expressions of anxiety and concern!He keeps talking to me!

It's...alive...Krollo...

As if reading my eyes, Kuroro leaned over and hugged my head, and kissed my forehead, eyes and cheeks like raindrops, and clasped me tightly in his arms.

He repeated: "I'm here, it's okay. Don't be afraid, you're having a nightmare. I'm here..."

"Ku..." I tried to call his name, but I could only make a hoarse "ho ho" sound in my throat.Gathering all my rationality, I stiffly raised my hand and pressed it on his chest with all my strength.

Bang, bang, bang...

The vigorous and powerful heartbeat lasted endlessly, his warm, violently pumping heartbeat was like a booster, and finally pulled me out of the terrible, no, desperate nightmare!

After a long time, I finally regained my strength. My whole body was drenched in cold sweat, as if I had been picked up after walking through hell.

I looked up at him, the lacrimal gland seemed to be broken, and the tears flowed out unconsciously, running around my face without making a sound.

"I, Meng...dao, you..." Her lips trembled too much, her throat was completely frozen and blocked.I was so scared that I almost lost the ability to speak.

"I am fine."

Kuroro fully understood what I wanted to say, he held my hand and pressed it on his beating heart, his eyes were as dark as the sea and as bright as a blade, and his voice was strong and unquestionable: "You are having a nightmare."

"Wake up, I'm fine."

He's ok he's ok he's ok he's ok he's ok he's ok - I keep carving that concept into my mind, banishing the previous hallucinations.

Of course Chrollo is fine!I'm still alive, so he won't... die.

Kuroro, who was quiet, serene, and lightly closed his eyes, was so pale and weak.

He will never open his dark eyes that are too deep to see through, never look at me with warm and smiling eyes, never have bright childish innocence and curiosity, never open his lips again speak to me.

His eyes will no longer open, his heart will stop beating, and his body will become colder and colder... There is no Kuroro in the world who can hug me, even move his fingers!

Unbounded fear.

Overwhelming despair.

He is still alive.

It's just a nightmare... just a nightmare.

He must not die before me.I swear... I promise.

"Boom——" a muffled thunder sounded suddenly.

Sparse rain followed.

I vaguely heard someone's voice say: "It's raining."

"Awake?"

Kuroro and I pressed our foreheads together, staring at me from a very close distance, our warm breath blending together.

I closed my eyes and let out a whimper, hugging his neck, rubbing my tear-stained cheeks against him, my breath finally became quiet and deep.

"...you scared me to death." Kuroro said in silence for a while.

Still speechless, I hugged him tightly and shook my head, as sorry.

"It's okay, it's okay." Kuroro's voice was gentle.He patted my back gently and rhythmically, held me in his arms and coaxed me in a low voice: "Okay, go to sleep. Don't be afraid."

I really couldn't say a word, the tears drained by myself, holding him with my heart drifting, as if floating in the boundless universe.

A déjà vu feeling of dread and emptiness.

Kuroro stopped talking, just changed to a slightly more comfortable position, and then just hugged me like this, patting and patting, quietly and patiently waiting for me to fall asleep.

A fist with my fingers curled up was still stubbornly on his chest, only the vigorous, steady and clear heartbeat could calm me down.

The patter of the rain outside was distant and persistent.

It's been a long, long time... so long that I feel like I'm falling asleep.

Suddenly, Fei Tan's voice was very soft: "What are you thinking? You can't keep coaxing her."

I shivered reflexively.

"...Are you not asleep?" Kuroro paused, lowering his head and asking softly.

I curled up, buried my head in the gap between his jaw and chest, and only slightly moved my fist on his chest in response.

His hand on my back began to gently stroke up and down my back again, and said in a breathy voice as if avoiding something: "Go to sleep."

The air is getting hotter and hotter.

I choked my throat, and said with difficulty and dryness: "What's wrong with me?"

Kurolo didn't answer.

Fei Tan was on the other bed, passed him, and said to me in a deep tone: "When you were having nightmares, you sent out a force that swallowed our Qi."

I did not understand.

Kuroro let out a breath and reached out to turn on the light.

Then, he hugged me and sat up against the head of the bed, calmly said: "Lydia, your power to make thoughts invalid can be released."

I slowly understood what he said and nodded.

Kuroro continued: "When you lose control of your emotions, that kind of power will also lose control." He reached out and pulled out the necklace of power stones from my collar. Transparent gems.

"like this."

He held the transparent power stones until they were dyed a deep purple again, looking into my eyes and said, "Before, you would only consume the qi that was in direct contact with you, but just now, that power has been spreading throughout the room... ..."

"Come to me." Franklin said at the end of the room, near the door.

"I also feel it here." The knight at the other end of the room, the innermost one, also said.

"It's a very domineering force, completely irresistible." Lan said with a wry smile in his voice.

"Brother?" Yan was out of state.

"It's like a moment, ahem! The Qi in the whole body is gone." Pike was gentle and a little panting.

"Ah, I feel like I've been washed clean from the inside out." The knight said in a half-joking tone.

With so many voices at once, everyone was clearly awake.

"And..." March hesitated, "Lydia, this is not the first time. The last time I slept next to you, I felt the disappearance of Qi, but it was not as serious as this time."

"The point is, for a person with open pores, qi is the entire life force." Feitan said in an indifferent voice what everyone had said: "When the qi is exhausted, we will not be far from death."

so serious? !

Could it be that - I almost killed everyone unconsciously? ! !

I was hit on the head, and I was almost terrified. I looked at Kuroro with wide eyes, scared and blank, and stammered: "I, I don't know! I don't know anything!"

What kind of power... I really don't feel anything about what they said!

"I know."

Kuroro's black eyes looked extraordinarily warm under the light.He touched my sweaty forehead and said softly: "So it's useless to tell you this."

"But..." I was a little anxious, is this a problem that can be solved by covering my ears? !

"fine."

Kuroro's expression remained the same, the hand covering my forehead slipped down, rubbed the tear stains on my face with his thumb, and said again: "And it's not as serious as what Feitan said. If you lose all the energy in your body, you don't necessarily die. .It will also generate new Qi.”

"Tsk." Fei Tan's ridicule hit his face.

"This... also makes sense." Lan's tone was dumbfounding.

"Uh……"

"Ahem!" "Pike, are you alright?"

There was booing in the bedroom.

I was so anxious that I was about to cry.

At this time, I can feel it, because my emotions are extremely unstable, and the inexplicable power begins to float again... just like my mood.

The more chaotic I am, the more irritable it is.

Nervously, I kept looking down at the necklace around my neck to see if it had faded—fortunately, it hadn't.

"It's okay." Kuroro said again, "I already have an idea."

I looked at him urgently.

Kuroro was still so calm, as if everything was under control.Except for the anxiety I showed when I was woken up from the nightmare, the next... thing that everyone can't ignore, it seems that there is no need to worry about it at all.

Maybe he already knew... no doubt about it.

I don't know what Kuroro is thinking, I can only nod without hesitation when he asked, "Do you believe me?"

Believe me, even if Kuroro says now that he needs to take my heart out and put it back, I can nod without hesitation.

"Then, go to sleep." Kuroro said calmly, covering my eyes that were hesitant to speak, and his calm voice flowed in my ears: "Everything will be fine when I get up tomorrow."

I gently nodded my head, lay down and said, "I...can't sleep."

"Close your eyes. Relax."

Kuroro still covered my eyes with one hand, wrapped his arms around my head and held me in his arms, and said softly like a tired bird, "I'm here."

I closed my eyes obediently, and my mind was still sober and active at first, but after a while, sleepiness like a white mist floated up, bringing me into a dark dreamland.

When I woke up the next day, it was still raining.

The air was filled with the stench of rainwater, and it was getting hotter and hotter.

Because of the late rain, when I woke up, everyone had gone out, Pike was sleeping when he was not feeling well, and only Kuroro was sitting on the bedside reading a book, waiting for me to get up by the way.

I was still thinking about what happened last night, and sat on the bed with a heavy heart. He handed me a biscuit, but I shook my head and refused.

Kuroro put down the book and the biscuits, moved over and touched my face, and the first sentence he said was: "You have to keep your mood happy."

"???" I was full of question marks.

"Your ability," Kuroro thought for a while, "I can only understand part of it now."

"What is it?" I asked immediately.

Kuroro's first sentence is astonishing: "Your speech ability itself has two abilities: ordering others and asking for items. In addition, making other people's thoughts invalid is the third ability, and your own quick recovery is the fourth ability. kind."

We have talked about similar divisions before, but it is somewhat different from what Kuroro is saying now, and he is far from as sure as he is now.Obviously he has more clues——

"Currently, I don't have a clue about your [request items] and [self-healing] abilities. But I have some ideas about the other two-these two can be boiled down to one. The situation yesterday can also be fully explained .”

"Speak quickly!"

"Before, in order to study your ability, we found a lot of information to read... I basically read it." As I blinked in shame, Kuroro said: "I have read a lot of ordinary people's opinions of supernormal people. The description of the ability, most of which can be judged as reading. Finally, I found a clue in an article introducing science fiction. After that, I read several similar science fiction novels, and thought that this ability can be used as a preliminary It boils down to... mental power.”

Mental strength?I stopped for a moment.

"Spiritual power, or mind, generally refers to the supernatural power released from the brain and based on human thinking. From a macro perspective, mind power can also be attributed to a kind of spiritual power, as well as magic power in fantasy novels, Magic power... But the spiritual power I am talking about, let's talk about the source first, is directly linked to your mental state - your mental state is stable, and this power is stable."

Kuroro looked at my form and said again: "Don't understand? For example, you feel anger, anxiety, fear, sadness... When these negative emotions are too strong, your emotions are out of control, and your mental power will riot , what happened last night.”

"In other words, this happened because I was emotional? But it didn't happen every time...not every time, right?"

It's embarrassing to say that, but I've lost control of myself quite a lot.

Kuroro looked at me hesitantly, and said, "If it only erodes my mind in a small area, it will happen every time you have a bad dream."

Seeing that my face turned pale as expected, Kuroro took a breath and said comfortingly: "But it was only to a very slight degree, not considered a riot. I don't care, and you don't have to care. As for things like yesterday... "

"That's what I'm going to say next. I deduce that agitation is a condition, mental violence is a phenomenon, and the real event in between is a breakthrough."

"Breakthrough? You mean, my spiritual power... advanced?"

"That's right. When you told me that your control over Illumi's words and spirits increased in the sixth district, I had this guess." Kurollo surprised me again—so early?

Ignoring my surprised expression, he said calmly: "As I said just now, this ability can be attributed to mental power. Therefore, I judge that after reaching the sixth district, your mental power has advanced again."

"Three times."

He raised three fingers at me, showing a little carefree and self-satisfied look on his face: "Not counting this time, your spiritual power has advanced three times. These three times are enough for me to deduce the general situation of your spiritual power advancement. "

I immediately counted back in my mind which three times...

"The first time, in the eleventh district. After you were specially trained by Robin, your ability has greatly improved."

When Kuroro mentioned Robin, I was in a bad mood, and I pouted and stretched out my hand to him.Kuroro was a little disgruntled when he was swept away, but he still skillfully hugged me and rubbed and patted me to show comfort.

He's really calm - the first time I broke through, it was clearly when Kuroro was hung up and beaten by Robin...

"That's it," he said, rubbing my back. "That incident caused you a lot of psychological stress, hatred, fear—extreme emotional fluctuations."

"That was your first breakthrough."

"Then the second time, in the eighth district, the night we just found Feitan. You said that you retrieved some memories from the past, and then you burst into tears. The mood fluctuated abnormally."

"That was the first time I felt that your spiritual power really existed."

"By the way," he said, "when you first arrived in the eighth district, you were hit by an arrow in the shoulder, which was the first time you showed extraordinary self-healing ability. I think the serious injury stimulated your potential and activated this ability... That's not a good sign, considering you haven't used this ability before, either through injury or illness."

"Lydia, nothing is free." Kuroro touched my face and said, "I think you feel it too. I won't hurt you in the future."

"Well...you can continue talking!" I was so moved by his sudden incitement that I almost cried out holding him, so I had to urge him to continue talking about the business.

"Well, the third breakthrough is basically when you crossed that valley."

Kuroro has been holding me all the time. At this time, he touched the back of my neck that was reflexively cold with his warm hand, and said clearly: "Fear, extreme fear. At that time, your emotions should be on the verge of collapse... I Guess your mental power must have been violent at the time, but no one felt it. After you came out, your mental power advanced."

"Now we can conclude."

Kind of cute - Kuroro made me sit upright on purpose so I could see his reasoning face.

"When your emotions fluctuate to a certain critical point—presumably coupled with other unknown conditions—your spiritual power will advance. At the same time as you advance, your mental power will riot."

"This kind of riot should be the dissipation of the mental power that was strengthened in an instant. More or less, it may be related to your mental activities at the time. But don't worry, because breakthroughs need accumulation and opportunity. Mental power riots like last night , will not happen again for a long time.”

"As for everyone's short-term loss of memory, that is the characteristic of your mental power."

"characteristic?"

"This is just my explanation, and the principle is unknown." Kurolo said rigorously, "Like thoughts are divided into six types: enhancement system, release system, transformation system, operation system, materialization system, and trait system. Different mind systems With different characteristics, I think your spiritual power can also be distinguished in this way."

"It's actually very similar."

"As we said before, your mental power can be divided into two types according to its function: [Command others] and [Immunity to mind power]. The former is easy to understand, half is the suppression of mental power strength, and half is the characteristics of your mental power .Thinking pressure to a certain extent will also produce a similar sense of oppression, and the characteristics are simpler, refer to the ability of the operating system."

"As for the latter," Kurolo said here, and took a special look at me. "Among those with the ability to read, there is a special and very rare ability, which is to eliminate thoughts. In other words, eliminate other people's thoughts."

"Of course, the biggest difference between Nian Shi and you is that the former is still a Nian capable person, but you are not. You can't even feel Nian at all, let alone distinguish between different people's Nian."

"Then... can I also de-mind others?" I asked.

I immediately thought of using the external power to erase the little bear manifested by Vinier, and in the pastor's illusion, using the scepter as a bridge, the blond man and I set up a private chat channel that blocked the pastor's perception.

"I'm afraid not." Kurollo said, "Pike told me before that there is a Psychic Master in the eighth district. His ability is quite restricted, and the actual operation is very complicated, but he can accurately expel a certain part of the Psyche in other people's body." .And you can only eliminate all the Qi in the opponent's body at once."

I blinked my eyes half-understood--the part involving reading is a bit unfamiliar to me.

"For example." Kurolo pointed to Pike who was sleeping on the bed behind me, "There is a contract in Pike's body that I signed with her before. If I ask you to cancel the contract—this is something a nemesis can do— -what will you do?"

I thought: "Release that ability - I can't control it, but it should be possible - and pour it into Pike's body..."

I kind of see what he means.

"The result will be the same as last night. Not only will the thoughts I left in Pike disappear, but her own thoughts will also be eliminated, and this amount is... all. It is actually quite dangerous."

I nodded again and again, and asked another more concerned question: "Then what will happen if all thoughts in the body disappear?"

This goes back to last night's question - what did I do to everyone.

Because I was too concerned, I stretched out my upper body towards Kuroro, and he naturally reached out and touched my face again.

"Nian is just a general term for this kind of ability. The unit you actually eliminate is Qi. Qi is life force. For people who have not opened Nian, Qi is life force stored in the body. But those who have the ability to read have their fine pores open, and Qi surrounds the whole body ——It’s entanglement.” Kuroro first said popular science.

"Last night, within the scope of your ability, all the entanglement we exposed to the outside disappeared, and the qi that made up the entanglement was eliminated. Because you didn't attack consciously, the qi left in the body during the circulation process still remained, so it didn't hurt. It's dangerous."

"But if your mental power is poured directly into your body, that is to say, if a person's qi is cleaned from the inside out, then it is very dangerous. If it is a person with strong vitality, you can recover after your power is withdrawn. New qi will be generated soon, and it will be extremely weak for a period of time, and will slowly recover with the accumulation of vitality, that is, qi. But if it is a person with weak vitality, the newly generated qi cannot keep up, and the original qi will be exhausted , then die."

"Forcing the chanting is also the same principle." Kuroro added, "The fine pores suddenly open, and if you don't immediately comprehend the entanglement and retain the released qi, you may die due to the collapse of your vitality."

"So," I murmured with my eyes straightened, "I'm using this as an attack method, not a support."

"That's right." Kuroro said.

"Then," I immediately looked at him nervously and asked, "I've eliminated so much of your qi, will it harm your body?"

"No." Kuroro comforted, "In fact, proper consumption of Qi can increase the power of mind. This is a very important practice. Of course, losing too many minds at once means that the self-protection ability is reduced to the minimum, so Fei Tan They're very sensitive about it."

"..." I nodded, "This kind of thing won't happen again?"

"No." Kuroro's fingertips brushed against my lower eyelids, and the warm touch soothed my last trace of anxiety. "That's why I keep you happy," he said.

"Last question." I grabbed his fingertips and asked with a smile, "Why do you keep touching my face? Half of my face is numb by you..."

"Do you think it's wooden? I'm sorry, but I didn't touch it." Kuroro's expression was a little weird, as if he wanted to laugh and held back, "Last night you had a terrible nightmare, and I slapped you when I was anxious .”

"Now my face is swollen."

The author has something to say: The analysis of the bunker here... basically guessed it right, all the unknowns are areas that Kuroro can't touch at this stage.I am convinced.

Kuroro's analysis of the incident and Lydia's feelings towards people can basically be seen as spoilers.

And why did you all guess that it was the plague? ?But I'm still tall~

In the future, the ability of PS will be represented by 【】~