Episode 5 The Butterfly Effect (Part II)

Peng Jun entered Xu Rui's dream. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's a night-shrouded but not entirely dark dream, with streetlights lining the streets and flying fireflies. Xu Rui lay in the middle of this road, holding his head and moaning in pain.

"Xu Rui!" Peng Jun hurriedly ran over to help him up, "Xu Rui!"

"Again...... Do it again......" Xu Rui opened his empty eyes and gasped and muttered, "Let me do it again...... I'm going to ...... It must be able to stop ...... I can stop ......"

Peng Jun noticed the abnormal magnetic field around him, and then the scene in front of him changed, from night to day, and the deserted street also became a lively school gate, and junior high school students wearing school uniforms came out of the school gate in groups of three or five.

Xu Rui also became fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a loose school uniform, looking childish and eager.

Several boys ran towards him, as if to greet him, and before they could speak, Xu Rui yelled at them: "You all get out of here!"

Peng Jun had never seen Xu Rui who was so out of control, he had always been a gentle, polite, and gentlemanly person, and at this moment, his emotions completely exploded.

The boys were so frightened by him that they didn't dare to move, but Xu Rui ignored them and ran directly to the school gate, stopping a girl who ran out of the school gate in a panic.

Xu Rui grabbed the girl's hand, and his deep and hoarse voice carried a hint of threat: "No matter what you know, don't say it!"

The girl began to struggle, and then another long-haired girl ran out, Xu Rui let go of the girl, and went to pull the long-haired girl again, as if he wanted to take her away from this place, but the long-haired girl was unwilling to go.

Peng Jun didn't know what happened in Xu Rui's dream, he only knew that when the long-haired girl came out, a van suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, and the people in the dream, including Xu Rui, did not notice its existence. The two headlights at the front of the car are like a pair of eyes, coldly watching everything that happens in front of them.

Peng Jun saw its true body at a glance - the cosmic nightmare monster Gastin.

The crowd on Xu Rui's side suddenly made a commotion, and it seemed that the long-haired girl named Zhu Siyan was revealed to be a man dressed as a woman. Peng Jun sensed that Gastin, disguised as a van, was ready to take a person's life at any moment.

And its target is Xu Rui.

Gasteen is an evil monster that lives by eating the lives of others, because their abilities are very weak in reality, and they can't take lives directly, so they can only invade the target's brain when they are unprepared, and then constantly create nightmares to make the target fall into despair and lose the sense of survival, and then kill the target in the dream.

Once the target dies in the dream, he becomes an unconscious vegetative state in reality, so that Gasteen can easily take his life entirely.

Xu Rui was trapped in a nightmare and had lost himself, he didn't notice Peng Jun at all, so Peng Jun directly transformed into Charles, jumped up, his body flipped several times in the air, with the help of inertia and combined with his own mental power, he fell violently, his right foot ignited a blazing flame, and kicked the van fiercely.

Charles Fly Kick!

With a loud bang, the van bursts, and Gasteen takes on his original form and turns into a giant monster. Charles landed a backflip.

All the surrounding scenery and people suddenly disappeared, and the dream returned to the original night. Xu Rui looked around blankly, completely unaware of what was happening, and when he heard a strange roar, he looked up and followed the sound as if he were awake, only to see a huge black and white striped monster with an irregular shape all over his body roaring in his direction with its head down.

Xu Rui found that the monster's gaze was not on him, but on-

Xu Rui tilted his head, but saw that Charles, who was the size of a human being, was also turning his head to look at him, as if to confirm his safety.

"Charles?" Xu Rui was puzzled, he couldn't tell whether it was a dream or a reality at this time.

Charles nodded at him, then became gigantic and stepped forward to fight the monster.

Xu Rui took out the Ice and Fire Ray Gun he was carrying, switched to red mode, and attacked by fiery rays from the ground to support Charles.

Gastin's abilities are extremely weak in reality, but he is very powerful in dreams, and every punch Charles throws is easily defused by him, and every kick he throws is easily dodged by him.

Its body seemed to be solid, yet ethereal, and the rays of fire shone on its body, and it did not react at all. Xu Rui switched the body of the gun to blue mode and fired frozen rays at it, but it had no effect.

Charles threw a punch again, Gasteen stretched out an arm and slapped it lightly to remove all his strength, but Charles's move was not to really hit it, but suddenly a short body bullied Gastin, hugged it, tied it down, and violently exerted force, a move "hugging and falling" and threw Gasteen to the ground.

Charles took the opportunity to ride on Gastin's body, clenched his right fist, and the energy in his body surged into the brave bracer in his right hand, and after accumulating energy, he concentrated it into his right fist again.

The brave punch right!

The whistling fist landed on Gastin's head like Tarzan, and the monster actually took the blow, howling in pain, twisting its body frantically, and throwing Charles out in a few blows. Gasteen roared and stood up, the black and white stripes on his body flashing alternately, and then he took a big mouth, and a huge black ball of light brewed in his mouth, and spit out at Charles.

As soon as Charles, who was thrown out, stood firmly, the black ball of light was approaching, he kicked on his feet, and a side flip was avoided, but the ball of light circled around a corner and rushed again. Charles propped his hands and drew energy from the brave's bracers to form a white square barrier in front of him.

The black ball of light slammed into the barrier of the brave with a ferocious momentum, and the ball of light embedded in the barrier, and the barrier was torn apart.

Charles let out a low shout, the brave bracer burst out, the energy was multiplied, and the brave barrier showed a trend of repair.

The black and white stripes on Gastin's body flashed alternately again, and the black ball of light swelled several times suddenly, and its momentum soared, unstoppable, breaking through the barrier in an instant, and hitting Charles in the chest.

"Charles!" Xu Rui shouted urgently.

Charles flew upside down, fell to the ground, and was tossed several times by the residual force before he could stop. The color timer starts flashing red, and the warning is beep.

Gasteen took advantage of the situation and rushed towards Charles in great stride, Xu Rui kept attacking its feet to try to prevent it from getting close to Charles, but unfortunately to little avail.

Seeing the monster approaching, Charles clutched his chest and barely stood up, struggling to cope with Gastin's fierce attack. The blow just now hurt him a lot, and at this time, he was in the dream created by Gastin, he couldn't exert 100% of his strength, and the energy consumed during the battle was faster than usual, if he couldn't solve this monster as soon as possible, he and Xu Rui would have to die in the dream.

Dream?

Charles's heart suddenly lit up. Although this is Gastin's dream, it is also Xu Rui's dream! Since monsters can do whatever they want in their dreams, Xu Rui can also do whatever they want.

Charles couldn't care if he would be recognized by Xu Rui at this time, and said to him directly: "Xu Rui, please listen to me, we are all in a dream now, this is a dream created by the monster Gastin, it has become very powerful in its own dreams, and my strength has been limited." But here is also your dream, and you can do many surreal things. So, please help me deal with the monster in the best way you can imagine, and if we defeat it together, we can get out of the dream and return to reality. ”

"Original...... Am I still dreaming?" Xu Rui muttered, and then closed his eyes.

Was there the best way he could think of to defeat the monster? It could only be-

Xu Rui opened his eyes suddenly, and a dazzling light enveloped his whole body. The brilliance receded, and a huge red figure appeared, which was Charles's appearance!

Charles: "......"

The way Xu Rui can think of is actually to become him?

Xu Rui's transformed Charles "bang" strode over, Charles thought he was going to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the monster, and was about to shout to stop him, but he suddenly stopped when he saw himself, and then his hands were in an L-shape, actually to emit light like him.

Charles, who was still fighting with Gastin, hurriedly pulled out and retreated, and Gasdin also made a defensive stance.

Time seemed to stand still for two seconds, and there seemed to be a bleak wind blowing in front of Xu Rui.

Xu Rui: "......"

Charles: "......"

Gastin: "......"

The light was not emitted successfully.

Thinking that he had been teased, Gasdin roared angrily and rushed towards Xu Rui, who used his fighting skills to dodge the monster's attack. Although his presence did not bring substantial help, it did earn Charles some respite.

After a slight adjustment, Charles went into battle again and teamed up with Xu Rui to deal with the monster. Although Xu Rui couldn't use Charles's skills because he didn't know how to use them, he was able to barely fight monsters with just hand-to-hand combat moves after becoming huge.

However, if it is only fists and feet, there is no way to defeat Gastin. Charles is running out of energy right now.

"Nepera Rays." Charles spoke out suddenly.

"What?" Xu Rui wondered.

Charles explained to Xu Rui while dealing with the monster: "That move is called Nepera Ray." The emission principle is to convert the positive and negative ions in the body into electric sparks and then carry the Nepera energy to emit it, which has a high temperature of 400,000 degrees Celsius. Our Ultraman's energy comes from solar energy, but instead of using solar energy as a means of attack, it absorbs solar energy and then converts it into its own energy to use, each Ultraman has at least one major energy, which corresponds to the major light skill, my major energy is Nepera energy, and the corresponding light skill is Nepera light. ”

"Nepera Energy...... Nepera ...... "Xu Rui's movements slowed down, as if he was carefully understanding Charles's words.

Seeing that Xu Rui's gaze gradually cleared, Charles added: "When launching, aim at the monster, don't miss." ”

"Yes." Xu Rui is ready.

Charles concentrated most of the remaining energy in his body into the bracer of the brave on his left wrist, which shone brightly, and then concentrated the energy again into his left fist.

The Brave Left Punch consumes twice as much energy as the Brave Right Punch and is twice as powerful. Charles's left fist slammed into Gastin's head with a majestic and striking momentum, knocking him unconscious on the spot.

Charles snorted: "Launch!"

Xu Rui's hands made an L-shape, and a beam of red, blue and white colored light was emitted from his right arm, which accurately hit Gastin, and the light with a high temperature of 400,000 degrees Celsius instantly caused him to explode violently.

The monster was successfully destroyed, and the space in front of him suddenly began to distort and collapse, Xu Rui only felt that his feet suddenly became light, and the ground disappeared at some point, as if he had fallen into a cliff, and his whole heart was hanging.

……

"Ahh Xu Rui sat up from the bed abruptly, gasping for air.

"You're finally awake?" A familiar voice came from my ears.

Xu Rui settled down, turned his head and saw that it was Peng Jun.

"I ...... ...... am I?" Xu Rui looked around and found that he was still in his room.

Peng Jun asked knowingly: "What did you do last night?" It's ten o'clock and you're still asleep, and the captain asked me to call you when he saw that you hadn't arrived at the post. Are you having nightmares?"

"Nightmare...... Is it?" Xu Rui was still in a trance.

Peng Jun patted him on the shoulder: "Hurry up and report to the command room, don't let the captain and everyone worry." ”

"I ......" a hint of hesitation flashed on Xu Rui's face, "Can you help me ask the captain for a leave?" I still have a few things......"

Peng Jun understands that his story has something to do with the content of the dream - the nightmare created by Gastin, which is based on the host's real memories. In Xu Rui's heart, there was a knot that had not been opened.

So Peng Jun readily agreed, got up to leave, and habitually turned the handle when he walked to the door, only to hear a crisp sound of "click", but failed to open the door.

The corners of Peng Jun's eyes twitched, and he secretly screamed badly.

Xu Rui's voice came from behind him: "Oh, I have a habit of locking the door. ”

His voice didn't sound unusual, and Peng Jun turned his head to look at him, he seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts, and he hadn't reacted yet.

"Hmm." Peng Jun calmly opened the lock, then opened the door and walked out.

……

Cemetery Cemetery.

Xu Rui gently placed a bouquet of white chrysanthemums in front of a grave. In the photo of the tombstone, there is an immature teenager with short hair, and the name engraved on the tombstone is "Zhu Hengbo".

"You're visiting his grave for the first time, aren't you?" A clear voice came from behind him.

Xu Rui turned his head to look, although it had been ten years, he still recognized her at a glance - Liu Yuxuan.

"His mother died when he was 4 years old," she walked to his side and leaned over to lay down a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums in front of the grave, "His father loved his mother very much, and because he missed his wife too much, he changed his son's name to Zhu Siyan and missed Shen Yan." ”

Liu Yuxuan bowed deeply, with a sigh in her voice: "He looks very much like his mother, and it is because of this that his father has dressed him as a girl since he was a child, looking at the child as if he was seeing his wife." ”

Xu Rui did not speak.

In fact, I should have noticed that Zhu Siyan was a boy a long time ago, right? However, the girl he had a crush on turned out to be a boy, who can accept such a fact? Maybe there's hatred, maybe there's disgust, and more of that, there's unwillingness to face it. That's why he didn't want to attend his funeral or come to sweep his grave.

"When Zhu Hengbo confessed to me as a girl and told me that he was a boy, I thought he was very ......" Liu Yuxuan paused, and did not say the unpleasant words behind, "That day, it was actually me who killed him, if I were a little more sensible and not so superficial, he would not have died." ”

Liu Yuxuan stood silently for a while before speaking again: "When you don't know a person well enough, no matter how shocking things he does, don't be in a hurry to criticize him first." If you can't even understand him, who is in a position to judge what he does?"

She owed a slight debt to Xu Rui, and then left.

Xu Rui let out a long sigh, looked at the smiling young man in the photo, and a smile suddenly opened on the corner of his mouth: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Zhu Hengbo." ”