Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Hourglass

After getting into the car, the two fell silent for a while, and Mr. X noticed that Star Swirl was trembling, and gently put his hand on the back of her hand, "How did you get out of the car?" Feeling the temperature in his hand, Star Swirl calmed down, "A girl stopped the car on the road just now, and she asked me to leave when she got in the car, I wonder if there will be danger now." "In this secluded suburb? What kind of girl is she? Mr. X also felt that something was wrong. Star Swirl recalled, "She was a very good-looking girl with a red string bell on her wrist, like the one I've seen before." ”

"Clotho intervened, and that person should be sanctioned." β€œClotho? Who is that? Star Swirl was puzzled. Mr. X's hand returned to the steering wheel and replied, "She can sanction fate, and when the negative energy reaches the point where it cannot be purified, she will strike." "Just like Liu Qianyu's husband?" Star Swirl dawned on her. "That's right," Mr. X replied, "Clotho has no physical body, but she can conjure up different forms, and her identity can only be identified by the red string bell on her body. "Then Liu Qianyu's non-existent son last time was also Clotho, and she gave me a dream before." Star Swirl remembered what the strange boy had said to her in her dream. Mr. X's expression became solemn: "If this kind of dream happens again, you must tell me." ”

Back at Mr. X's apartment, he promised Star Swirl to take her to Gu Yi the next day, and the two of them didn't talk much more. There was a familiar smell in the bedroom, which made her feel at ease, and she thought that she would not be able to sleep after what had just happened, but she did not expect to fall asleep after a while. In the dream, there was a wide river in front of her, Li Xingxuan walked slowly towards the river, she stepped on the sand and gravel barefoot, and the river overflowed the surface of her feet. Something had floated from a distance, and when she got closer, it was a head! Long black hair floated from the water, and pale skin was blistered so that it was unrecognizable. Li Xingxuan was terrified, she struggled to get back to the shore, but found that her feet were entangled in something, she couldn't move, and in a panic she heard Mr. X's voice: "Wake up......" Only then did she break away from the dream, and the familiar face was close in front of her. "I'm so scared, I'm so scared......" She suddenly threw herself into Mr. X's arms, tears pouring out of her eyes. Mr. X patted her on the back: "Don't be afraid, it's just a dream, I've been there." ”

After a while, Star Swirl finally calmed down, and she looked up at him, her beautiful eyes blue and tender. "Look, I've got this ready." Mr. X laughs as he turns around and grabs a cage containing a small black beast that looks like the Dream Eater tapir that had disturbed Star Swirl earlier. "Is this a dream-eating tapir?" Star Swirl stared curiously at the little beast in front of her, its dark eyes looking at Li Xingxuan, and it made a whining sound, as if it was aggrieved. "With it, you won't have nightmares anymore." Mr. X rests the cage next to the bed. "Isn't it in a dream? How can it come to reality? Star Swirl looks at the beast and wants to reach out and touch it. Don't touch it," Mr. X stopped her, "it will eat away at your energy." Star Swirl hurriedly withdrew her hand. Don't think it's a pet, this guy can travel between reality and dreams, and he has a lot of skills. Mr. X glanced at the dream-eating tapir, and the little beast lowered its head in fear and said no more. Let's sleep a little longer, it's still early. Mr. X covers Star Swirl, leaves a lamp at the bedside, and goes out.

When she wakes up, Star Swirl sits up from her bed, and the caged beast is nowhere to be found. In the living room, there was the voice of a news anchor, and Mr. X quietly turned off the TV when he saw her come out. "What are you looking at?" Star Swirl asked, sleepy-eyed. "It's nothing, you go freshen up."

After breakfast, Star Swirl follows Mr. X all the way downstairs to the school's boys' dormitory. "You mean, Gu Yi has already returned?" Star Swirl asks. Mr. X nodded, "You'll see him right away." After a while, she saw Gu Yi walking out of the dormitory, and Star Swirl greeted her happily: "Gu Yi, are you okay?" Gu Yi looked at her a few times: "Who are you?" He asked, his unfamiliar eyes full of questions. Who am I? You ask this kind of question, don't joke with me, okay? "Her heart sank all of a sudden, could it be that as Mr. X said, Gu Yi was erased?" This classmate, we should be meeting for the first time, are you playing some game of Truth or Dare? Gu Yi scratched his head and asked with a smile. Is that really the case......" Li Xingxuan lowered his head, "My name is Li Xuanyue, it's a pleasure to meet you, I hope you can remember me in the future." After saying that, she left without looking back, and Gu Yi shook her head in place.

"Didn't you say erase of memory? Why does he not recognize me at all? Star Swirl didn't expect Deer to be so thorough. Mr. X replied, "It should be that all of your contacts have been cut off, and he has forgotten everything about you, and there will probably be no more intersections in the future." Li Xingxuan looked at the dormitory building in silence, where Gu Yi's figure was gone, the friend who smiled a little childishly and was always worried that he would not eat well had become two parallel lines, and there was no longer an intersection. I want to be alone. Li Xingxuan left Mr. X and walked to the girls' dormitory, watching her leave, Mr. X looked at his phone, and there was a message from Lu Jingfan: "Clotho's sanctions have been completed. ”

In the empty dormitory, Li Xingxuan slowly squatted down, buried her face in the crook of her arm, and sobbed quietly. When will these things end, she feels that she is about to take it anymore, and she wants to go back, to see her family and friends. Li Xingxuan took off the energy lock on his wrist, instantly changed back to the form of a cat, glanced at Li Xuanyue who had fainted on the ground, and left the dormitory.

Li Xingxuan's mind came to mind the sentence that Li Leqi once wrote in his blog: If the body carries all the cruelty and blood, then can the soul still be free? She now somewhat understood her sister's feelings, and the thought of not seeing Li Leqi yet, Star Swirl's heart was full of helplessness, and she didn't know if she still had the ability to look for clues. However, she has a strong thought at the moment, that is, she does not want Mr. X to sense herself, she is angry, and she also understands that Mr. X may be able to comfort herself for a while, but he can never show her way back. I want to escape, I don't want to be exposed to any more events about purifying energy. Li Xingxuan wanders aimlessly on the streets, not knowing where to go, and the future is bleak.