The clear and soft moonlight shrouded a young girl, reflecting a bit of silence and indifference.

She stroked an aqua blue sword placed in front of her, the body of which exuded a cold air like solidified ice. The moment she touched it, her fingers were also stained with a layer of cold crystals, but despite this, she didn't care, stroking the sword over and over again.

It wasn't until the sudden knock on the door that she woke up from her deep thought.

"Come in. ”

The person who came in was Qiao, and Qiao reported to her about Xiao Tie.

"Little Iron woke up for a while and had just fallen asleep again, and before they returned, they had encountered Lillian Kling at the border of Remirabel, and there was a good chance that the other two would be caught. ”

“…… I got it. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Change the itinerary and leave early, but don't tell my brother about it. ”

"Understood. ”

Immediately, Bridge's gaze fell on the sword of water.

"There's something wrong with this sword?"

"As you can see, unlike other divine swords, the water sword is very unstable, and the effect has been lifted until now, but there is no response at all. ”

"Well, I'll take care of it on his side. ”

Bridge withdrew his gaze from Excalibur and looked at her again.

Christian gave a slight smile to a smile that didn't last long, but it was moving enough to make her mind trance, and it was almost impossible for everyone who served around her to refuse this charm.

Putting aside her true identity, this beautiful smile can't be bought even if all your wealth is used.

"I'm really glad that only you know me best. Xiao Tie's matter is very unpleasant to me, Qiao, thanks to you, my mood has recovered. ”

"No, I don't have that power...... In short, you can rest assured that in half an hour, the carriage will be in the old place. ”

"Go ahead. ”

Smile again and watch the bridge leave.

When he left, his smile narrowed, and his expression showed a hint of distress.

"Who the hell am I trying to comfort, deliberately smiling......"

"Both of them were caught because I was too confident and thought Luke was going to surprise me...... However, the arrival of the sword of water is not the worst outcome. ”

“…… I really want to go and see Xiao Tie, but unfortunately I don't have enough time. ”

"It's useless to think about it now, so let's hurry up and get ready. ”

She said to herself, and came to the large window, where the soft silver moonlight added to the charm of a pot of flowers placed on the side, which seemed to most people to be just a beautiful pot of flowers, but in fact there was a secret that only she knew.

She plucked one of the petals, put the pink petal on the palm of her hand, bowed her head slightly, opened her mouth, and blew, and the petals fluttered up in the small breeze, flying lightly in the air, and immediately fell back to the ground, on the dirt, and did not leave the edge of the pot to go to the windowsill, and the little journey of the petals ended briefly.

"Blue?"

The petals turned from pink to blue.

"This time it's the blue key. ”

Turning to the bed, he removed the pillow from the bed, and under the pillow were three keys of the same shape but different colors, red and blue, and one gold. She picked up the blue key, walked over to a wall that was nothing, and used the key to insert it into the wall where there was nothing.

Almost no one knew that she had raised a spatial monster in this makeshift break room.

The space monster created a secret room space for her, and in the secret room, there were some things hidden that people couldn't know.

"Found it. ”

In the secret room, she was looking for a magic mask and a maid outfit.

Change your clothes, put on that mask, and become a different person.

She became Frena, the older maid who had been serving her.

Why hide these things? Because her only brother never gave up, and every once in a while sent men to search her, to prevent her from hiding things in plain clothes in these places, that is, to prevent her from running away from home from time to time.

******

The clock was ticking, and the man lying on the bed suddenly woke up with a look of obvious fear.

He looked around at the white room, the walls, the floor, and the bed, all spotlessly white.

"I'm still alive......"

I reached out and touched my chest, and I didn't feel anything, was it because of the anesthetic? All in all, it was no different from usual, was it treated? But......

There was a suspicion in my heart.

Can you still be saved from that kind of injury?

Also, the knight chief...... That guy?

"Why, exactly. ”

He couldn't think of a perfect answer to this question.

So, put the question aside for a while, turn your head and continue to look around.

This room is a separate lounge, and although it is not big, it has all the things that should be found in a normal room.

Near the bed was a small white coffee table with a clear glass teapot and several cups, and Samuel lifted the quilt and gently got off the bed.

He was suspicious, he was wary of it.

The clock on the wall continues to tick.

After walking a few steps, I came to the coffee table, found a sterling silver bead in my trouser pocket, picked up the teapot and poured a little water into the cup, and threw the silver bead into the cup, and there was no change.

No poison.

This habit was unknown to no one else, and it didn't usually come in handy, but in the past few days, he couldn't do without this silver bead. A very small silver bead, placed in any pocket, is inconspicuous and will not be noticed.

He poured out the little water in the cup, and the silver beads in it also fell into his hand, and he recovered it, poured a new glass of water, and drank it immediately, which relieved the tension a little.

There's no other way, let's get out of here first.

Walking to the door, put his hand on the handle, and was about to twist the handle, the door opened from the other side first, Samuel was hit by the door, covered his face in pain, and scolded angrily.

"What the hell, you guy! Won't you say a word first when you open the door?!"

After scolding, he raised his head to look at the other party, and saw a face that was still fresh in his memory, and the owner of this tightly knit face was the original culprit who almost killed him, the knight chief Cyrus.

Seeing him, Samuel's voice was immediately choked and he couldn't say anything.

Or rather, he tried to make a sound, but he couldn't get anything out of his throat.

Cyrus saw that he was awake, and his tense face softened.

"You're finally awake. ”

Samuel tried to make a sound, ahhh

"Uncomfortable?"

“…… Are you really the chief knight?"

"What do you mean?"

Samuel took a few steps back, staring at him vigilantly, his body tense and his whole body full of guard.

"Why did you kill me?"

Cyrus's expression became more and more displeased, as if he couldn't understand what he was saying.

"What do you mean by that?"

Samuel was also unable to comprehend the current state of affairs, and felt that this fact seemed to have a sense of absurdity and confusion. He hadn't been far out of the branch when he saw her......

"No, wait, am I dreaming?"

"Dreams?"

Samuel held his forehead, it must have been a dream, otherwise she would not have been there, it was definitely not a coincidence, she appeared at that moment, and then, he turned back to return to the branch, only to meet the knight chief who drew his sword to him at the door of the branch.

"No way. ”

"What are you muttering? Haven't you woken up yet?"

Cyrus's tone was full of dissatisfaction, and there was a hint of annoyance in his eyes, "Haven't you woken up yet? Recognize the reality and take a good look at where this place is, it took so much effort to wake you up, did you sleep for too long and even your spirits became confused?"

“…… Wait, wait. ”

Samuel almost stuttered as he spoke, and looked at each other with a confused face, "Wake us up?"

The chief knight didn't speak, his eyes glancing at Samuel like sharp knives, and finally realized that there was a problem between the two of them, and they didn't agree on their thoughts and perceptions of the current situation. What worries Cyrus the most is what the phrase "why kill me" means.

Ten minutes later, it was Cyrus who gave an explanation of the reality, and then, Samuel told everything that had happened in the past few days, and the two fell silent.

“……”

“……”

The room was quiet and the ticking of the clock on the wall was particularly clear.

"What time is it?"

Finally, Samuel asked the question.

"Do you mean how long you've been asleep? You've been asleep for four days, just like them here, falling into a coma and not waking up no matter how much you scream. For this reason, Cyrus, who was once again helpless about the situation, had to contact the guy, took a moment to explain everything that happened here, and finally decided to come over himself.

The Temple of the Four Directions could not be left without it, and in exchange, Cyrus returned to the temple headquarters.

Then, two days later, he returned to the temple, and there was still some finishing work to be done on the branch side, so he handed it back to Cyrus, who came to the branch again, and it was exactly this time.

Because the guy said that by the time Cyrus got to the branch, the men would almost wake up.

What exactly he did, Cyrus didn't fully understand, maybe he could ask something from Vance's mouth, but now, after these people woke up, there was really no problem?

Cyrus first had to find out about it, so he immediately came to this room.

The affected people were arranged in separate rooms.

The first to wake up was Samuel.

"It turns out that I slept for four days......"

"Yes, again, you all fell asleep after you left the slums and came back here, first with you, Lilil, and Rosema, and finally with Hima. ”

Rosema was carried back by Samuel, she was deeply poisoned, and after almost thinking that she was hopeless, she accidentally found that she was unharmed, as if all the toxins in her body had been transferred to someone else, and she was restored to health. However, after regaining her health, she fell asleep, and everyone generally thought that she needed to rest, so she didn't care.

As for Samuel and Lilil, the people in the branch also thought they were tired and went to rest, a very ordinary rest.

Hima was the last, returning from the slums, wandering outside for hours, and coming back with a puffy appearance as if she was arguing with others. When she glanced at Lustma and saw that the other party was still resting, she left to find the other two people in the branch, Lilil and Samuel.

What Jima didn't expect was that the two were also sleeping, trying to wake them up, and trying anything to no avail.

After discovering this fact, she went to the corridor to find someone else, but what she didn't expect was that she herself was inevitably affected, but only a relatively late one.

Hima falls to the ground in the hallway and is found by Danica passing by.

In the later development, the first to wake up was Samuel.

"I can't figure out which side is a dream and which side is reality......"

Samuel shook his head in annoyance, feeling only strange to the reality he had heard from Cyrus.

It all happened after they came back from the ghetto.

That is, they fell into a coma sometime after returning from the ghetto, and this slum fell into a slum without warning, and they were completely unaware of it. Everything that happens during the period of slumber is false, the correct reality is that their bodies are sleeping, but their spirits are active.

Was that really a dream?

Really, really a dream?

“…… I can feel pain in my dreams. ”

"Who knows if the pain you feel in your dreams is real or fake?"

"At first it was the people from the branch, then the four of you, and by the way, Danica, who found Hima in the hallway, was also involved. "In a moment, Cyrus will go see the others.

Of course, those who fell into a deep sleep at the beginning have already woken up one after another.

They received the same description of the event, like Samuel, who fell asleep without warning at all, and after falling asleep in reality, their spirits continued to be active, as if they were having a dream that was so large that it was almost like reality.

Dreams are the conclusions reached by a waking person through analysis.

This dream is also so real that it is completely different from reality, the body is sleeping, and the people who enter the dream mentally do not feel the obvious strange place. Until, when the dream is abnormal, it is almost the time to wake up.

"The dream is unusual...... That's why I saw Vivian in my dream, and I was killed by you at the end of the dream......"

"According to other people's recollection of things in the dream, from nothing strange to something strange, this should be the case. ”

"It's unbelievable......"

"That's the reality. ”

As hard as it is to believe, what Cyrus says is reality.

What is reality?

Samuel was at a loss, very dazed.

Or is it possible that the current Cyrus is fake?

This one may be even more ridiculous and ridiculous.

This dream...... That's ridiculous.

Her face came to mind, and her heart seemed to shrink, tight and uncomfortable.

"Please give me some time. ”

Samuel closed the door, leaning his back against the edge of the door, covering his eyes, his head still confused.

He had to calm down and wait until he had completely and thoroughly digested the matter before thinking about anything else.

******

It was night, and Luke woke up, and when he woke up, he felt pain all over his body.

He was now being tied with ropes, wounded up and down, whipped wounds, punched with fists, and though it hurt, it didn't actually bleed. glanced at the person next to him, he was still unconscious, and his condition should be similar to his own.

With this cognition, it is already obvious what is happening in reality.

The hope of exit is not really the original hope, because when looking at it, people tend to be ecstatic, lose their original defense, ignore what is behind them, and thus hope to break in front of them, and leave the mouth to change the incomparable rumors, and even fall into the dark abyss.

Perhaps, this is the current situation.

Should Luke be glad for himself?

He was more comfortable with pain than anyone else, or rather, in a way, he was numb to the perception of pain.

Is that a physical numbness, or a psychological numbness?

It's also possible that it's both.

Even if he was caught, even in the current situation, it was not the worst for Luke, and it was not something to be thankful for.

His mood, as before, was a large patch of gray, light gray, dark gray, gray, gray, black, one thing is certain, he was not in a mood of joy or joy.

If so, what kind of mood is it?

Isn't that a smile?

How far does it take to have a bright smile?

Unfortunately, no matter what happens, Luke always purses his mouth in a straight line, a straight line without any arc, no upward or downward direction.

When he woke up, he looked indifferently at the bonfire a few meters away, and the flames made him feel familiar.

It was an experience from his past.

If it weren't for that experience, he wouldn't be here now.

Remembering this, Luke also remembered why he had done so.

That's the voice of the heart.

He just follows his inner voice to perform the movements.

Why did he have that kind of heart?

There is no answer, and I don't want to pursue the answer.

He is a person with a hollow heart, and there is nothing called desire in it.

Luke, he has no desires.

As much as it is possible to think, it is more about living according to instinct.

Identity, status, things to do every day, relationships, he has this characteristic of human loneliness, but he is not a complete person, just because he does not pursue? No, he just doesn't even know what he is pursuing.

Christian brought him back, and he did whatever she asked him to do.

What the people around him want him to do, he will try to do.

Of course, he thinks occasionally.

The heart is empty, follow instinct and fulfill what others say.

It's like a winding puppet.

Even if he knew someone, he wouldn't have friends.

Unless someone asks him to.

He doesn't need feelings, he doesn't need desires, he just lives and lives.

Why are there people like Luke?

About this answer, no one knows.

Because, the one who knows is no longer there.

"What are you thinking?"

The woman sitting next to the campfire walked over, and she noticed that Luke's eyes were looking at this side without blinking, those eyes that had no emotion, and for some reason, she felt chills all over her body.

It's ridiculous that she's a dragon slayer knight, and she's nervous.

So, she threw that feeling out of her heart and walked over to Luke, staring at him coldly.

"Have you finally confessed the whole truth? If you confess earlier, you won't have to suffer this kind of torture, tell me quickly, who are you and where are you taking Xiaoshui?!"

"Still reluctant to say?"

Lillian looked at the two of them, and had used all the means she could think of, especially the truth elixir, so that they would definitely tell the truth after drinking it. But the strange thing is that one repeatedly said that he didn't know, and the other was like immune to the effects of the magic potion, and he didn't say a word from beginning to end.

She felt that it was not easy to deal with it, and there was no other way at the moment, so she continued to ask.

At that time, when she met these guys, Xiao Shui was on one of them.

It was a battle with no suspense, except for the guy who confessed his name and identity under the truth elixir, this guy named Luke was too good at entanglement, no matter how many times he was beaten, he immediately stood up and grabbed himself, and let the other person escape smoothly.

Originally, she also wanted to get rid of these two people and chase them immediately.

The first is that they are entangled like kraft candy, and the second is that she contacts Dominic, who listens to her about it and proposes a plan. Therefore, Lillian gave up on continuing to chase after her, and let Dominic arrange it on the other side.

"Lillian, they are very important evidence, you have to ask for testimony from their mouths, and I will leave the rest to me. In the next meeting of the Six Kingdoms, the Temple of the Four Directions will definitely be able to catch these people who stole the Excalibur. ”

Because the other party's identity is extremely special, in the absence of absolute evidence, the empty statement can only be regarded as slander, which not only cannot confirm that the other party is such a prisoner, but also damages the reputation of the Temple itself.

Just take this opportunity to take advantage of them to target the sword of water, and use the sword of water as a bait to lure the prisoner to appear.