When Randall returned to the windy mountain in his dream, he knew that the nightmare of his mother's death would haunt him for the rest of his life like a maggot attached to the bones, and it would never fade away.

Looking at the skeleton hanging from the old tree with a crooked neck, Randall sat down on his knees with a pale face and a blank face, and muttered something as if he had lost his soul.

"Why do humans ...... So afraid of the aliens?"

An abrupt voice suddenly came from the mist, causing Randall to look up.

The male Shadow Dreadclaw came from the darkness, stared at Randall with dark eyes and said, "Humans, even if they are their own flesh and blood, will be abandoned and hated if they are different from themselves in the slightest. ”

Randall asked softly, "Why are you here?"

Standing under the old tree, Phantom asked, "You should ask yourself why you are here?"

Randall asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"

"We like to absorb the negative emotions of other creatures, and for us, fear, sadness, jealousy, doubt, ...... It's like a good wine guy meets an old wine, but my favorite emotion is guilt. ”

"Your Holy King, the single being who confronts the Rulers of the Four Directions, once said to me that guilt is the strongest of all human emotions, and it is more than fear. ”

Randall frowned and asked, "Commander of the Quartet, who are they? Wait a minute! You said that the Holy King used to talk to you?, you think and talk like humans?!I always thought that war beasts were all ......"

"War beasts are a bunch of stupid pig-like animals that can be slaughtered?" Phantom Shadow laughed suddenly, "Thousands of years have passed, and humans are still so arrogant and arrogant. ”

"The Eye of Hell in your mouth leads directly to the world 10,000 meters deep underground, where the environment is harsh, resources are scarce, and tens of thousands of powerful and diverse biological races are fighting and devouring each other. ”

Randall's throat was a little dry, "Why don't you come up to the ground?"

Shadow explained, "We, the race known as War Beasts, had to flee underground to escape the war. Some of us have slowly degraded intellectually and become creatures like wild beasts, desperately trying to climb to the ground, while others have clearly known what fate is, and have stopped hoping for light and have fallen into darkness altogether. ”

"The Holy King of your mouths has brought with him the instructions of our old gods, who, as a member of the gods, wanted to build a world in order, where all races could coexist peacefully without fear of extinction. ”

Phantom sat cross-legged and whispered as he stroked his tentacles, "Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?" Humanity is a cunning, brutal, and untrustworthy race, which has become the consensus of almost all races in the underworld. ”

Randall shook his head and said, "Times are different. ”

The shadow shook his tail: "You can't blame the caution and vigilance of the underground race, after all, the painful memories of the past have imprinted fear and pain into our souls. ”

"In such a situation, your Holy King has made a suggestion. Let the underground race send some observers to the human kingdom to investigate what the world is like now. ”

The Phantom pointed at himself with his paws, "So, I'm here." ”

Randall said sadly, "Then why do you want to follow me and let me experience the sufferings of the past again and again?"

Phantom was stunned: "Do you think this nightmare is my work? No, no, no, you are wrong, I am not your god, I have no ability to create a spirit world." The dream itself exists in the depths of your consciousness, and I am only a guest here at best. ”

Randall looked at the old tree in front of him in a daze: "What do you mean, everything here is my own thoughts?"

"After the Quartet Commander made a pact with the Holy King, I mixed with those low-level war beasts and came to Dusk West City, pretending to be tamed and controlled, but in fact I was carefully observing the world with my eyes. ”

"The Holy King has given me a certain amount of freedom, so that I can move around with the army without harming the people of his kingdom. And out of so many objects to observe, you are the most satisfying result for me?"

"Me?"

The shadow shook his head: "In you, I see the incredible side of humanity. ”

"Your holy king, when he met with the rulers of the four directions, said this. He said that human beings are not pure evil, nor are they purely good, just like the heads and tails of a coin, there is both light and darkness. ”

Phantom nodded in agreement and said, "At first, I didn't understand these words, but through your observations, I gradually figured it out. ”

The Shadow stood up and turned towards the darkness as he said to Randall, "Human, I'm leaving. ”

"Wait!"

Randall hurriedly asked, "If you absorb negative emotions, then tell me, how can you escape this nightmare of guilt?"

The Shadow turned back and looked at Randall with dark eyes, "Escape? You can never escape guilt, because you can never get rid of your past." ”

"So what should I do......?"

"Wait, wait for the fateful moment to come. ”

"What?what does that mean?!"

"Wait...... When the time comes...... Know. ”

The ghost's voice vanished into the darkness entirely.

Randall snapped his eyes open, sweating profusely, and he woke up from his dream, sat up on his bed, and looked into the nothingness of the room.

Barbara, who slept next to Randall, was awakened by his movements, opened her eyes in a daze, and asked while covering her uncovered body with a futon, "What's wrong?"

Randall's ears still seemed to echo with the nightmare wind, and he rubbed his hands against the bases, trying to get the hallucinations out of his head.

"I had a nightmare...... But that's all in the past. ”

Barbara took Randall's arm and helped him lie down slowly, resting her head on the other's chest and asking, "Or is it the past that has to do with your mother?"

Randall hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Barbara's pointed ears twitched slightly, and her white arms wrapped around Randall's neck, pressed her body against the other's chest, and whispered, "You have to try to get out of the past." ”

Randall closed his eyes and let out a long sigh: "Wherever I go, the past is always with me." ”

Barbara put her mouth close to Randall's ear: "It won't be long before you and I will have a gift from the future that can dispel all the gloom of the past." ”

Randall opened his eyes: "A gift for the future?"

Barbara kissed Randall's side cheek lightly and said gently, "When the time comes, you will naturally know." ”

After she said this, she moved her right hand down and gently covered her lower abdomen.