Rain

"Hey, isn't that the captain?" Mr. Gray's tone had strange ups and downs, which interrupted my memory.I followed his gaze, and I really saw Ace walking side by side with a soft-looking woman on the street.

Ace?This is my first reaction.

Ah, it's Ace.My second reaction.

Ace has grown up!My first response.

Really Ace?My final reaction.

So these several reactions are so confusing cycle.

"Don't be stupid." Mr. Gray glanced at me with a half-smile, as if he could see through my thoughts, "Look." He pointed to his eyes, and then pointed to Ace.I got a cue and continued to look, what I saw dilated my pupils and froze in place.

Ace's eyes were flat and numb, without any fluctuations.

I just felt a chill running up my spine behind me, and my fingers were cold.What's going on here?I locked my eyes firmly on Ace's godless black pupils, my eyes didn't blink, and I couldn't move them away.

Ghost upper body?Manipulated?Drugged?

Crazy thoughts popped up in my mind one after another, and I didn't know what to do.The fear and worry in my heart gradually expanded, like ripples on a calm lake, wave after wave, which could no longer be calmed down.

"Hmph, it's really powerful." The ship doctor's calm voice sounded, awakening the dreamer with a single word.I moved my eyes and looked around hurriedly, only to find that the street that was still crowded just now was empty.And the surrounding area also began to be filled with mist strangely, making it blurry and unrecognizable.The doors of all the shops were closed, and it was desolate.

Reminiscent of the scary puppet doll before, I subconsciously grabbed the sleeve of the ship doctor next to me and held it firmly, not letting go.

He looked at me, who was obviously shivering and scared, and didn't comment. He shook his head contemptuously, just looked at Mr. Painter, raised his eyebrows slightly: "What do you think?" Far worse than that."

Who asked you about your art!I almost wanted to growl, but I bit my lower lip and didn't make a sound.

I broke out in a cold sweat suddenly, wait, where is Ace!

I hurriedly looked again at the place where he was just now, but it was only for a short moment that he disappeared as if out of thin air.It was just foggy and deserted.My pupils shrank sharply, the captain... only looked forward and ignored the future, I was too careless!

"Ace is gone." The ship doctor was noncommittal, smiling playfully as always, raised his thumb and index finger, flexed and stretched with the explanation, "Now we have two options. One, find the captain. Two, go back to the ship. "

But it's not cold here... Is it really ghosts? "Go back to the ship." My face was pale, but I said without hesitation, "We must confirm everyone's safety." If you don't know the purpose of fighting for it, hesitation in battle can be fatal.

Eric, Mr. Swordsman, and Wein are all on board... The three of us are non-main combat forces. The ship doctor and Mr. Painter are all inclined to assist, and I will only hold back.The most urgent task now is to join up with the main combat forces on the ship, and then help Ace.We can't help by staying here like this!I bit my lip, my face pale.

"Since the manipulator made Esther appear in front of us on purpose, it's useless to go back to the ship. Wasn't he also on the ship before?" The ship doctor curled his lips, his eyes full of contempt, and knocked my head with his free hand , "Do you think it's safe to go back? Our general

They were all robbed. "

I didn't care about explaining, because of the fear of ghosts, my calves were weak without any trace.I grabbed the boat doctor's sleeve and refused to let go. I shook my head desperately and insisted: "Go back to the boat and find Eric and Mr. Swordsman."

"What's your opinion?" Mr. Ship Doctor seemed astonished by my greed for life and fear of death, and turned to Mr. Painter with a calm face.

Mr. Painter didn't even blink his eyes, and his voice was calm and simple, but I could feel the hidden raging fire: "He is challenging my art." Idiot Nilo, this is not the time for blood competition, this is A bad habit that must be corrected...

"It's a pity." The ship doctor shook his head at me, and smiled badly, "Two against one, the minority obeys the majority, you accept your fate."

I wanted to cry, but the ship doctor looked at me, smiled and said, "If you don't want to go, don't force yourself, stay and wait for me."

Let's. ’ So I was democratically dragged forward, following the direction Ace had left.

I took out the dagger pinned to my trouser leg with one hand and held it firmly.At the same time, he touched the small bag of coarse salt that he had been carrying in his pocket, gritted his teeth, and his eyes became sharp.If it's because of me... Captain, you must be safe...

"Ah, you are here." A familiar voice sounded from a high place, like thunder in the dead silence.We looked up and saw a teenager sitting on a roof who had just met once.He tilted his head and looked at us with interest like a child, with the novelty of seeing a new toy.Then the corners of his mouth turned slightly, looked down at us condescendingly, and said unhurriedly, "Of course, your captain is in my hands."

He patted his porcelain-like hands casually, and figures immediately appeared in the vast mist around us.It was the villagers from before, but at this moment their eyes were empty, their expressions were numb, and they stopped rigidly in place to form a circle, and they no longer had the vitality they had just now.

I subconsciously placed the dagger on my chest, frowning in a defensive posture.Isn't this a peaceful town?When did Resident Evil start!

"Like a walking dead, obey all orders." The ship doctor's eyes were surprisingly sharp under the plain mirror, but he still smiled gracefully, "How did you do it?" It sounds like he is quite interested in this method , Occupational diseases of doctors...

"My fruit is a puppet fruit. People I touch can become puppets and obey my orders unconditionally." The young man tilted his head and smiled. He was as seductive as a goblin in the mist, and he slapped lightly. Snap your fingers, "Like this."

As if they had received some instructions, the villagers began to walk towards us slowly, step by step, with extremely stiff postures and empty eyes.But I have calmed down now, since no ghosts are involved, and since I am still within the cognition of human beings, I will not be afraid!

In the crowd surrounding us in all directions, I searched with my eyes, scanning the insensitive faces, with a glimmer of hope in my heart, would Ace be among these people?

Mr. Painter finally opened his mouth, and his flat voice was even more lifeless in this situation: "The puppets in the shop before are also human, right?"

"Ah, I was seen through by you." Although the boy who became the villain boss said so, his tone was not at all surprised, and he sat on the roof and swayed his legs, "But it doesn't matter, you will join them soon .”

"It turns out that your ability can be adjusted in size." Facing the approaching puppets, Mr. Ship Doctor remained unhurried and calm, as if he had nothing to do with it and said with emotion, "It's really a convenient... inflatable doll." I glanced at the ship's doctor in surprise. He was trying to... irritate the boy?

I saw that the boy sitting on the top of the building seemed to froze in his smile, and then laughed softly. Although the corners of his mouth were maintained, his eyes were still cold: "You guys are interesting."

"Mr. Gray, stop talking..." I finished looking around and confirmed that Ace was not in the group, with a blank expression, "This is his choice and his freedom. Some people just prefer Inflatable dolls, I guess there is something unspeakable... Refusing to socialize, most people without friends are like this, indulging in their own small world..."

"Idiots use inflatable dolls." Mr. Painter's calm voice said this kind of sentence without the contempt it should have.

Finally, the fake mask-like smile no longer hung on the boy's face, replaced by an expressionless face.The light purple eyes are as cold as the best gemstones, and the tone is also cold and indifferent: "You guys just take advantage of your stubbornness now, and enjoy the last scene..." He snapped his fingers again, and the crowd dispersed to both sides, And the one accompanied by two villagers, one on the left and the other on the right, isn't it the captain?My eyes froze for a moment, fixed on the young man with black hair and dark eyes wearing an orange cowboy hat in the crowd, his voice gradually became louder from the initial dryness, and the tone was urgent: "Ace...Ace !"

Mr. Gray and Mr. Painter immediately followed my gaze to see Ace standing between the crowd, and saw that he did not respond to our call, and his expression was still blank, and his eyes were dull.He just stood there, facing us, without moving.

"The former companions are now enemies..." The young man looked down at us with cold eyes, and once again had that seductive smile on his face, "Say, how should this play end?"

"Then, let's draw the curtain..." He looked down at us like a god, his violet eyes were neither sad nor happy, and he clapped his hands lightly, "Let's start this farce."

The villagers who were made into puppets began to approach us, and Ace followed them step by step.

I don't know if it's my illusion or what, but the surrounding fog is getting heavier and heavier.

Mr. Painter has drawn out the Langhao pen that he carries with him, and it has been dipped in thick ink at some point.He boldly drew messy lines on the bluestone floor, then closed his pen, and said in a flat voice, "Get up."

As if alive, the black lines began to twist and shake, and then the vines gushed out and grew wildly.Those tough and huge vines bound the puppets overwhelmingly, entangled layer by layer, ignoring the fierce struggle, and fixed them to the ground.

Even though he was controlling the movement of the vines at the moment, Nilo still didn't put down the goods and ingredients in his hands, and with a dead face, it was so inconsistent that it made people want to laugh inappropriately.

It's just that with the rising fire, all the vines dissipated, turned into steaming water vapor, and disappeared.Mr. Painter's eyes were so dark that it made people panic.Even the ship doctor's face became serious, and he looked sharply at a certain part of the crowd.It's impossible for me to pretend that I didn't see the signature Yan Shanggang, and followed them to look at Ace with a numb expression.

We know that fire overcomes water, Ace's ability and Nick's ability to overcome each other, but we didn't expect that one day they would stand on the opposite side.

"Please don't resist..." The boy's beautiful voice stated the desperate content, he rested his chin on one hand, his violet eyes were cold, "Please be infected, and let's go together..."

At this critical time, my heart felt chilly, but doubts arose along with it.Infect?

"By the way, as long as you get hurt by them, you will become my puppet." The young man in the puppet shop sat on a high place to watch the show leisurely, and gave the answer without hesitation, smiling again. Snapped his fingers, "Then you will be mine..."

What kind of heavy game is this, bastard!Not only NP but also SM?I felt my forehead twitching.

"Girl, if you pull me like this again, I won't even be able to take out the medicine, I'll die." The voice of the ship's doctor came suddenly, and I realized that I was still holding on to his sleeve.The knuckles of the fingers turned white due to excessive force on the fabric.I blinked and realized I was still terrified. "If you can't take it out, then you can't take it out." The group of puppets approached step by step, and I held the blade back in my calm tone, and continued to hold on to Wally's sleeve with an indifferent expression, "We must die together." In fact, my indifferent expression Facial paralysis

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"I don't want to die with you!" The ship doctor was inexplicably upset, snorted coldly, took out the medicine from his inner pocket with his left hand, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Too useless..."

The young man was sitting on the top of the building, his eyes were covered by his hair, and he couldn't see his emotions. Even under the bright sunshine, the tone of the young man who was as beautiful as Mo Lan was a little lonely: "Please come and accompany me..."

I suddenly noticed that the puppet who was close to me was shaking violently, and looked straight at me with empty eyes, reflecting my pale face.A milky white mist slowly rises from those empty eyes, strange and lively, tumbling, carrying a vitality different from its body.I couldn't move my eyes, I just held the knife and stared blankly, dumbfounded.

The hairs on my body stood on end, but I couldn't run or move.Something is approaching, something is calling.

It is a young woman with a gentle face, but her face is so stiff that she doesn't look like a human being. She just moves step by step, as if weighing a thousand catties.

In front of me, it may take an hour, or it may only be a second. I completely lost my concept, and then my whole body became colder and colder, as if even my breathing was frozen, and I couldn't move for half a minute.When its fingertips almost touched my cheek, the doctor yelled, "Rain!"

The next moment, I was yanked by someone, and I fell to the ground beside me. There was a big depression in the ground where I was just now, and it was still smoking.The young woman's body was tilted to one side strangely, and she never got up again.The medicine bottle in Wally's hand has been replaced, and he also holds a scalpel in his hand, scanning the puppets forming a circle of encirclement sharply.

After a long, long time, when I knocked firmly on the ground with an earthy smell, this sentence was conveyed to my brain and I could distinguish the meaning.But I didn't have time to take care of it, my whole body trembled like a convulsion, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't shout, and my pupils dilated.The tearing pain in my body and brain made me want to die instantly.I want to scream, but I can't make a sound, I can't open my mouth, every cell, every cell

A nerve seems to be cut open by a knife, torn apart, bit by bit, gathering into a sea.

I wanted to open my mouth to breathe, but my mouth was closed tightly. I didn’t listen to my brain’s instructions at all. My face gradually turned blue due to lack of oxygen. Beating regularly, excruciating pain.

It's not the body, it's a certain place in the body, not an organ, not a sense, but a more subtle thing, filling every place, from the tip of the hair to the fingertips, and now being squeezed.

There is something clamoring, similar, malicious, suppressing me with coldness, fighting for control of the body.

Get out!

My eyes were wide open, my body was curled up in pain, and I completed the bow with my back facing the sky.

The blood stained the fingertips red like this, but I couldn't feel it, the anger almost burned my eyes red, and it was scalding hot.

I yelled at the outsider in my head: Get out!

A burst of more severe pain came, I wailed, my body trembled nervously, I clenched my teeth tightly, blood spilled from the corners of my mouth, but I ignored it, desperately focusing on my thoughts that were almost distracted by the torture just now: roll go out!

I couldn't hear Wally kneeling on one knee next to me, wanting to help me, and I couldn't see the boy sitting on the top of the building looked surprised and stood up, and I couldn't see that all the bags in Mr. With a pen in hand, I quickly draw lines like a god, soaring up the picture, using all kinds of black beasts and vines to separate us from the puppets and the monstrous fire.

The sharp pain did not go away, as if someone was roughly tearing away something deeply rooted from my bone marrow bit by bit, connected to the sensitive nerve endings, and the unimaginable cold froze everything from inside to outside.

I clenched my fist, ignoring the incomplete nails that sank deeply into the palm of my hand, driving my own will, using what I had never touched before.

Belonging to any organ, any part of the senses forms a sharp spear and savagely stabs at the intruder.

"Get out..." I coughed in pain, my lips trembled, and I finally made a vague sound with thin oxygen, my eyes were red, "Get out

go out! "

All of a sudden, the vision in front of him became clear, and the senses were finally no longer dazzled by pain. What was left was only physical exhaustion and injury.

pain.I gasped heavily, breathed greedily, collapsed on the ground, and saw Wally frowning tightly through my messy hair, I wanted to smile at him, but I choked on the corners of my mouth and coughed up some more blood foam.

"Rain, I have emergency painkillers here." Wally held a small white pill in his palm, with a serious expression, "The effect of paralysis is ten times that of anesthesia, but you will lose consciousness temporarily. You can choose to take it or not." ’ without saying it, we all knew that if that was the case, they would do everything in their power to protect me.Because we are companions.

I lay down, glimpsed the puppets and flames outside through the rapidly rising and fading ink.

"Worri, Nilo." I looked at the origin of the flames in the crowd, my pupils were still not the normal size, and my voice was broken and hoarse, "I can...bring him back...."

Just now, I was occupied by the approaching soul and scrambled for the body. I expelled that soul, but now I can clearly see the white soul in the eyes of each puppet. It was connected to the boy on the top of the building.The young woman lying on the ground had a serene and ruddy complexion, and the connecting wire was gone from her body.

Before, I happened to notice that the shadowless people around me seemed to be thicker and fuller.And those souls that are far away from me are lighter in color and have blurred outlines.Then I noticed that the living people in a hurry can pass through the dead souls without being affected.But I can have physical contact right next to me...

I think of the scars I found when I first woke up in the boat.On the left hand, there were bloodstains scratched by sharp nails, and the forearm of the right hand was the mark of being held vigorously by a ghost.At that time, the knees may have been injured when he fell while fleeing in a hurry.

All of this is like a jigsaw puzzle, piece by piece to piece together the entire image.

Is the reason why I subconsciously know that I can’t get close to others because the people close to me will be hurt?Is it because the body will be taken away?

I pushed myself up and got up, as if I couldn't feel the pain around me, my eyes were firm, there was no smile on my mouth, and my voice was hoarse: "Nick, open the way, I'm going to Ace!" The dagger that fell staggered because it miscalculated the distance.

Theoretically speaking, my proximity can awaken those sleeping souls and cause them to resist.And my proximity also allows them to materialize and thus be attacked.Maybe, I can cut those thin threads of nothingness...

There was no doubt, no question, Nick's voice was as calm as ever: "After three seconds, the channel will open, three, two, one."

I leaned over from the gap and jumped out, running in the channel that isolated the flames at a speed that exceeded the usual limit of my body, jumping

In front of the black-haired youth we are familiar with.

I took the knife and slashed hard, and cut the thin silver wire.It's not just my illusion or something, I heard a crisp sound of string breaking.

I saw our captain's eyes turn from emptiness to bewilderment, bewilderment to astonishment, astonishment to sharpness, and then I smiled.The palpitating heartbeat gradually faded away, the fear in my heart, and the slight trembling of my fingers were all suppressed, leaving only a piece of clarity.

It's a wonderful feeling to be on the verge of life and death, but to grasp the flashing door of life.

"Ace," I smiled wearily, embarrassed, "it's him..."

Ace turned into a flame and soared into the air, floating in the air and looking at the boy at the same level.The crackling orange flames were reflected in his black eyes, and a huge fireball condensed on his hands.There is no prologue, no dialogue, just such a hard bang.

What happened next was extremely puzzling. After a huge explosion, the house was burned to the ground, but the young man who looked like Mo Lan was nowhere to be seen.And all the puppets fell down, and their faces gradually became healthy and normal, and I could no longer see the thin lines.

But before the flames covered everything, the enchanting young man with purple hair reflected orange red, looked at me strangely, his violet eyes showed no emotional fluctuations.

Looking at Ace, I twitched the corners of my mouth in relief and forced a smile.You know, I'm ready to be taken away, that feeling, I don't want to experience it again in my whole life...

But it's time to give them an explanation...

It was night, after everyone left thoughtfully, I stood in front of the captain with a smile on my face: "Captain, I can see ghosts."

I saw his pupils shrink.

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Next, the so-called beauty saves the hero~

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Added a lot of plot.

confessed.