Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

The torture from the spiritual world was excruciatingly painful, Bai Yi slid down like a convulsion, his whole body trembling, his pupils were dilated and out of focus, cold sweat was dripping on his ice-white cheeks, and intermittent broken moans came from his throat.

An arm wrapped around his waist and held him tightly in his arms.

The icy touch touched the skin, and the breath brushed the skin behind the ears soothingly. Bai Yi's mind was in chaos, and his five senses dropped sharply. He could hardly distinguish reality from illusion, but he still subconsciously wanted to avoid it and struggled violently.

"Quiet—" Putting his palm on the back of the boy's head, Conrad showed no expression on his gloomy face, and the arms around his waist almost crushed him into his arms.

A warm liquid fell on the side of the neck and slid in along the neckline. The vampire's keen sense of smell immediately caught the subtle salty smell in the air. The right hand in the boy's hair made a movement that was not obvious to appease.

Bai Yi couldn't sense everything in reality at all, and was on the verge of collapse, tears pouring out of his eyes unstoppably.

"—it will be over soon."

The man's voice sounded from the depths of his brain, and there was an imperceptible softness in his indifference.

The strange echoes spread deeper and deeper layer by layer, Bai Yi almost stopped breathing, and kept falling in the darkness. He raised his head blankly and faced the blood-red eyes at the end of the darkness.

"don't want--"

Conrad's fragile resistance made Conrad's heart tremble. A thin film of water was covered in his absent-minded eyes, and his eyes were flushed. The young man clung to his front, as if he was desperately grasping the last bit of reason before losing control.

Thought reading at 70% strength, he can still maintain a dissociated consciousness.

Sticky sweat was rubbed on the combat uniform, and the colonel, who had always been obsessed with cleanliness, didn't notice it.

Conrad stretched out his hand to push away the wet hair that was blocking his forehead, and gently stroked the outline of his lower lip with his thumb, a little light in the darkness at the bottom of the boy's eyes kept gathering and dissipating.

"stop!"

Conrad held his breath, hesitation flashed across his eyes, and then he invaded more forcefully.

Ordinary humans without brain training are often weak-willed, basically have no resistance to brain invasion, and their sea of ​​​​consciousness is often simple in level, and in front of them——

The young man's sea of ​​consciousness was extremely complicated and messy, and the defense he built was out of order. Conrad looked at the stars and dust flashing around him and the four-dimensional space that was constantly distorting and disintegrating, so he had to allocate more mental power to break through the defense.

The reading intensity of thoughts increased to 85%, a glimmer of light appeared in the chaotic sea of ​​consciousness, and the sky collapsed in an instant, and the boy's spiritual world erupted with terrifying tremors.

He finally came to the depths of Bai Yi's spiritual domain——

In the cramped dark space, there are rows of old and decayed shelves, and thousands of memory balls are displayed on the shelves, emitting a quiet blue-white light.

The endlessly extending darkness can make people feel suffocated and depressing. It was the first time Conrad saw such a closed spiritual world. The aisle between the shelves was extremely narrow. He walked slowly through the world in the consciousness of a teenager.

The sensory triggers spread out and carefully searched the contents of the recent memory balls.

Suddenly, Conrad stopped, his eyes froze, and he looked to the side.

Under the shelf on the right, the boy sat on the ground with his knees hugged, his body shrouded in a hazy light, his furry head buried in his arms, revealing a fair neck, wearing an old T-shirt and jeans, and forest It's exactly the same as when they first met.

Conrad walked over and knelt down on one knee in front of him. As soon as he stretched out his hand, the boy looked up at him in response.

It was clearly the same face, but the boy in front of him exuded a strange aura that strangers should not get close to. Conrad couldn't help but frown, and said coldly, "Who are you? Why are you in Bye's spiritual domain?"

"Who am I?" The young man murmured and repeated, his ink-soaked black eyes rolled slightly, looked around in a daze, and asked, "Where is this? Where is Father?"

Hearing the word 'Father', even Conrad, who has always been calm, was unavoidably startled.

The young man fell into deep thought, his empty and inorganic black eyes seemed to have withdrawn his soul, as if he was just a lifeless body, suddenly, a sly smile slowly rolled up on the handsome face of the young man, and said: "Think about it." Yes, Father asked me to wait here."

"What are you waiting for here?!" Conrad asked.

"It's not something you should know, and you don't have the right to stay in other people's spiritual domain for too long." The boy said sinisterly: "The time is up——Colonel Conrad Statham."

As the ending sound fell, the world shook again, the shelf collapsed, the memory ball fell to the ground and shattered, and memories like stardust rose up, overwhelming the entire world like a flood in an instant.

The backlash attack from the spiritual domain was extremely damaging, and Conrad quickly cut off the invasion. The young man in his arms pushed suddenly, and he was caught off guard and took two steps back.

Regaining control, Bai Yi fell to the ground, panting violently, his clothes were drenched in cold sweat, his body curled up in pain, and his brain hurt so badly that he collapsed.

"Don't, don't come here..."

Conrad's movements froze, but he still squatted down and stretched out his hand to brush away the boy's bangs. His eyes were calm, but they were more frightening than resentment.

"It's my job," he said.

Bai Yi flinched back to avoid that hand, and said in a trembling voice, "You... duty... finished, done, Colonel, stay away from me...stay away!"

Conrad looked down silently, and Bai Yi met his eyes without flinching.

The communicator on his wrist beeped, and Conrad looked away and read the text.

"I'll take you back to the hive later," Bai Yi's heart sank, and Conrad continued, "Sill...Major General Fan Zhuo is back, and he wants to see you."

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The side effects of the in-depth invasion were very serious, and it took a long time for the brain to recover, and Bai Yi was in a state of confusion along the way.

Every time he was sober, he saw Conrad Statham's handsome and cold side face. He struggled subconsciously, but the opponent's arms were as immovable as iron clamps.

His brain was in chaos, and he felt like he was sinking continuously during his deep sleep, and finally he was trapped in a black space full of shelves. Thousands of crystal balls gave off a quiet luster, and in front of him was an identical self.

Bai Yi didn't know how long he stayed in this weird world, until at a certain moment, there was a very weak cracking sound, he looked around in panic, the space gradually filled with dense cracks, light leaked in through the cracks, and became more and more beautiful. hair dazzling.

With a final bang, the chamber burst into shimmering stardust.

The sea of ​​consciousness changed again, but it was not like before when the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed. A strange spiritual force dominated everything, gently enveloping the spiritual world deep in his consciousness.

The sound of calm waves suddenly sounded in his ears, and a delicate touch came from under his body. Bai Yi subconsciously grasped something with his fingers, and something was held in his palm but slipped out from between his fingers.

The waves pushed up the beach, and the cool moist feeling spread over the calves, and Bai Yi stood up while supporting himself and swaying.

The cool sea breeze crosses the sea, the sound of the waves is distant, and there are dots of fluorescent creatures floating in the deep blue water. The night is full of stars, densely covered with constellations, and two full moons, one red and one white, and the moonlight is shining on the snow-white beach.

Bai Yi raised his head slightly, his empty eyes gathered a gleam of expression, and his thoughts that had been scattered for a long time gradually gathered——

What about the secret room with the glass balls?

Why am I at the beach?

Countless memory fragments engulfed him, and his brain ached like it was tearing as he was thinking. Bai Yi pressed his temples hard, trembling all over, but he couldn't recall what happened before anyway.

Someone stood behind him—

"Bye..."

"Did you miss me?"

The author has something to say: Regarding the settings of these two chapters:

Sea of ​​Consciousness (Surface) > Spiritual Domain (Inner Layer)

The person who is exactly the same as Xiaobai, you can guess~