Chapter 47: Sleepwalking
In the room, Jonathan landed silently, crouching like a frog, he opened his mouth, the dagger in his mouth fell, and he was caught by his right hand and held it with his backhand.
He fell forward, his body clinging to the ground, and he squirmed forward like a worm, and silently, he slowly "flowed" to the girl's bed.
Jonathan soon discovered that his caution was in vain.
On the bed, the girl lies on her back, her hands folded on her abdomen, her eyes closed, and her expression serene, as if she is deep in a sweet dream and cannot wake up.
What Jonathan didn't know was that the girl's appearance was as quiet as a lake, but her inner soul was turbulent and agitated like a deep purgatory!
Alice had slept for a whole week.
Even though her meditation technique "Sleep" has always had the bizarre property of "not waking up for a long time", this time the sleep was extraordinarily long, and the boundless nightmare was like a huge cage, binding her soul.
"It's so beautiful...... Jonathan greedily took a deep breath of the girl's fragrance, admiring the quiet sleeping face, with some regret on his face.
He decided to get his hands dirty.
Although Jonathan refused to admit it, the contact with those freaks just now had left him with some psychological shadows, and he didn't want to get involved.
He stretched out his hands, his left hand covering the girl's mouth, and his right hand slashing neatly, ready to cut the other's throat. He had used this trick too many times, and he had become so proficient that it seemed to be instinctive, and the blade was sharp and cut through the air.
The girl suddenly opened her eyes!
Jonathan's movements froze, and his face looked horrified.
The girl's pupils are silver and white, and there is a deep darkness, vicissitudes and indifference floating in the cross pupils, and there is a strong malice that is not aimed at anyone, but the whole world, it is like the terrifying gaze of an evil god!
"βNightmare Gate?" Alice said slowly, her expression confused, her tone confused, as if she was still half-asleep, "Is this my new title?"
"Kill!" Jonathan shouted, slashing his throat instead of stabbing downward, stabbing the girl with all his might.
He realized that he had lost his eyes.
The beautiful doll-like girl in front of her may be the real monster!
His movements stalled again.
Jonathan looked down and shuddered.
His whole body was covered with bloodless white palms, like a chaotic swarm of pale spiders, rolling upwards like a rising tide, completely encircling him, and even his eyes were drowned by fingers.
"Die. The girl spat out a word, and there was no emotion in it, no hatred or hostility, just a casual whisper after waking up.
Ahh
Sting!
Terrible screams echoed through the night sky, and minced flesh, internal organs, and blood exploded like fireworks, forming a mist of flesh and blood that drifted in all directions. Although Jonathan's skin turned into a shadow, the inside of his body was no different from that of a human, and countless pale palms were torn at the same time, forming an alternative Ling Chi, tearing him apart alive, leaving only a skeleton with little flesh and blood in his place.
"-Malicious entanglement?" Alice muttered to herself, her pupils unfocused, "This spell is from 'Nightmare'?"
Knock! Knock!
There was a sharp knock at the door, it was Michelle.
"Alice, are you alright?" I heard the screams......" she asked as she slammed the door in a concerned tone.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. Alice froze in place, her pupils were focused, and she put on her glasses at the head of the bed and walked in the direction of the door, "It seems that someone is trying to kill me, and I have killed them." β
The door opens.
There was not only Michelle outside the door, but Levi and Vincent were also there, and the two looked inside the door, their expressions were stiff, and their hearts were slightly cold.
"I want to kill people in my dreams?" Levi said with a strange expression and a secret heart.
Alice stood in the doorway, her face, body, and silver hair covered in crimson, while the walls and floors of the room were splashed with blood and flesh, and there was a skeleton kneeling in front of her bed, more bloody and strange than the evil ritual.
The girl's expression is the same as before, but in this environment, the blank and ethereal look on her face no longer gives people a feeling of beauty, but horror.
"It's okay, just change the room. Michelle breathed a sigh of relief and put her arm on the other party's shoulder and said, "Let's go to the bathroom and take a shower first, and clean up the blood stains on my body." β
"Well," Alice nodded obediently, adding "I have a new title,ββ the Nightmare Gate." β
"Nightmare Gate?" Michelle's eyes moved, revealing joy, "Sounds good......
"Title?" Levi interjected at the right time, asking his doubts, "What exactly is this title?"
He had been wondering about it for a long time.
"How so? It is a reward from the world, so to speak. Michelle thought for a while and said slowly, "When you have certain conditions and pry the rules of the world, there will be a corresponding reward, that is, the title." For example, if you kill a certain number of heretics, you will receive the title 'Herestalker', which has the ability 'Stalker's vigilance', and can briefly predict the next move of a heretic when confronted with it. β
"There is also the title of 'gravedigger', which requires the burial of corpses by hand and up to a certain number. Vincent added in a whisper, "The title ability is 'Gratitude of the Dead', and it has a special affinity for undead creatures such as resentful spirits, ghouls, and dripping mouths, and can also hear the whispers of the undead that ordinary people can't hear." My brother worked for a long time in a public cemetery for this title......"
"There is another title, which is related to the heart contract, which requires an understanding of the rules. Michelle added, "For example, my 'Dragon's Throat', Pasquere's 'Corpse Quilting Hand', etc. Titles can be repeated, different people can have the same title, but when we become 'celestials', the title will grow into a title, and it will become a unique label for us in the whole world. β
Levi bowed slightly.
However, after all, he has no personal experience, but he has some vague cognition and does not feel deeply.
......
Alice goes to take a shower.
"This house...... What should I do?" asked Levi, turning his head to stare at the walls and floors that looked like impressionistic paintings.
He asks "how to deal with it", but in fact he asks "who will deal with it".
"Who's the landlord?" Michelle glanced at him.
Levi was dumbfounded.
He had already brewed in his stomach the candidates and the justifications that stood up, such as "who pollutes and who cleans" (Alice), such as "let those who are good at do what they are good at" (Vincent), but he did not expect Michelle to end the debate simply and rudely with just one sentence. This feeling is as if you have prepared a big hand of "truth", "story" and "season", but you don't know that the other party doesn't play cards according to common sense at all, and the opening is a "big drink".
Levi had no choice but to raise the white flag and surrender.
"Wait," he said, holding his breath as he was about to clean up the lump of meat, when he thought of something and turned to ask, "this guy is also a heretic...... In that case, there's an honorarium, right?"
Alice is also going to be a permanent resident, and this honorarium is incorporated into the renovation money. Unexpectedly, Michelle was open-minded and decided to give a sweet date after a stick, but she still didn't forget to warn, "Levi, don't come nonsense, I'm staring at you!"
"Yes, sir!" said Levi, who replied satisfactorily, and made a gesture of salute, holding the garbage basket in one hand and throwing the pieces of meat into it with the other.
How does it feel like going to prison? He stole a glance at Michelle and felt the urge to sing "Tears Behind Bars."
Airplanes~~
Li Weiqiang endured his nausea, lifted a piece of broken tongue and was about to throw it into the garbage basket, when a green-headed fly flew out from under his tongue and soared high!
The fly was the size of a thumb, had a turquoise body, and had a strange texture like a demon totem, and after passing through an erratic trajectory, it was about to fly out of the window.
Swish!
At that moment, a line flew out of the strange tale codex, like a frog's tongue, sticking to the fly and flying into the codex.
"Huh?"
Not only Levi, but the other two also froze, not understanding what was happening.
"I'll take a look at ......" Levi flipped through the strange tale codex, and sure enough, on the page of the codex, a strange insect-shaped rune floated and floated, like a flying fly.
"What?" asked Michelle.
"I don't know," Levi asked, turning the page to the two of them, "what that fly was, do you know?"
Both shook their heads at the same time.
"It may also be related to the Pale Worm,......" Michelle pondered, uttering his analysis, "I remember that the Pale Worm also has the god name of the 'King of Worms'. β
"Another old god?" Levi frowned.
"Maybe it's two ......," Vincent's eyes sharpened, and he pulled out a dagger from the shredded corpse and blood, "Look at it, the aura emitted by this thing really resembles a pain blade." β
Levi took the dagger and gestured casually, the dark dagger blade slashed through the void, leaving a shallow dark trail, indeed similar to the Blade of Pain, like its unfinished prototype.
"Pale worm, the sin of ambush......" he was even more surprised, feeling troubled, "two old gods joining forces?"
"No way!" Michelle shook his head and said with a determined expression, "According to records, the old gods are all hostile to each other, and many of them are mortal enemies for ten thousand years......!
As they spoke, a terrible wail rang out from the dagger, which vanished and disappeared.
"Hmm, what's going on?" Levi became more and more stunned, feeling a fog in front of him.
In addition to this, he had another doubt.
Could this guy be one of the four people who disappeared from the Black River Manor?
Numerous mysteries came over him, giving him a headache.
By this time, Alice had finished her shower and walked over with a snow-white towel to wipe her hair. She wore no glasses, her hair was as white as snow, and her slender legs loomed between her robes, which combined innocence and hotness, holy, but also enchanting and charming.
"Clear water out of hibiscus......" Li Wei secretly praised in his heart, and an ancient poem came to his mind.
"What are you looking at?" said Michelle, who was furious, stepped forward and blocked the sight of the two teenagers.
"Thank you very much, Richard. Alice looked at Levi and bowed down in thanks.
"Uh," Levi said with a dry laugh as the corners of his mouth twitched, "Miss Moore, my name is Levi." Also, as a landlord, it's my responsibility to clean up my room. β
"I'm not thankful for that. Alice shook her head and said softly, "I thank you for giving me a 'nightmare'." β
"Oh, this one......" Levi shook his head suddenly, "It's just a little thing, not enough to worry about." β
"It may be a small thing for you, but it's important to me. Alice looked solemn, "In order to thank you, I decided to give you a 'sleepwalk'. β
"Sleepwalking?" Levi tilted his head.