Ye Qingxuan woke up from a nightmare.

He got up from the iron bed, sweating profusely.

Right in front of him, a blood-colored conch hovered above a white palm.

The eerily delicate conch was covered with fine textures, like a huge chapter formed by small musical notes.

In the closed quiet room, there was only the sound of the teenager wheezing, and the faint wind blowing through the conch set off a faint echo.

The echo was like someone whispering in someone's ear, telling a dark secret that could not be heard. Listening to it, I can't help but put people into it with all my attention, and my heart is demonic.

"Failed again?"

On the chair, Lola played with the conch, and it was not strange: "You need to get used to it." ”

Ye Qingxuan was stunned for a long time.

"I had a nightmare. ”

"And rightfully so. I told you to be prepared, it won't give you a good night's sleep or a good night's sleep. ”

In her hand, the conch-shaped road marker released a glowing blood light, illuminating her cheeks, making the quiet and mysterious side face more charming and demonic, making people more and more fascinating.

This is one of the strengths of the road sign.

It was the crystallization of countless despair and madness, inherently connected to the shadow of Avalon.

It will transmit to the world a voice from the darkness.

Although it has lost the ability to open the blood path, as long as it is carved a little, it is definitely a rare and perfect instrument.

Using it as a medium, it is able to project one's consciousness into the dark side of Avalon, into the nightmares of others. And use it to explore and test.

It's just that the pressure is a little too much.

"Can't hold on?" Lola said lightly, "It seems that your endurance needs to be exercised a little more." ”

Ye Qingxuan turned a deaf ear, just recalling the dream in a daze.

"I just dreamed about it. Whose dream is it?"

"It's anyone's possibility. You are just a passer-by in a dream, don't indulge in it, or sooner or later you will go insane and die. ”

"I'm just sad. ”

Ye Qingxuan raised his finger and wiped the water from the corner of his eyes: "Pause, I want to rest for a while." ”

Lola threw a handkerchief into his arms:

"Give you five minutes. ”――

A few days ago.

Beneath the ancient mansion, in the dark room, frost swept through.

Ye Qingxuan was suffocated.

White frost poured from beneath his feet. Extend up your calves. The frozen blood turned into ice edges and pierced through the shell.

Thousands of Bloody Frost Blades tore through his shell bit by bit, pushing his will into the endless darkness.

Until finally, he screamed and woke up from his slumber. I found myself lying on the floor unscathed.

It's as if nothing had just happened.

In front of him, Lola lay in a chair, looking down on his embarrassed appearance. A mocking look on his face.

in her hands. The silver flute spun deftly, exuding a dissipating afterglow.

"As I said earlier, there should be a limit to not being able to do anything about yourself. ”

Lola said lightly: "Even if it's angry, it's better for you to bet on a place with a better chance of winning, okay?"

Ye Qingxuan straightened up with difficulty, sat on the ground, rubbed his face, dispelled the drowsiness in his brain, and gritted his teeth:

"Come again!"

"Okay. I'm here to help. ”

Lola lightly picked up the teapot and refilled it for herself. The black tea is faintly hot and fragrant.

It looks defenseless.

Collapse!

Ye Qingxuan's fingers fell, and the Nine Heavens Ring reverberate, but then it stopped abruptly.

He froze for a moment, instinctively wanting to retreat, but he couldn't move, only feeling the scorching heat.

The blood seemed to boil, and the scorching breath surged from the chest cavity and turned into flames.

The flames burned him into an empty shell, and finally erupted from his features, dissipating into the air.

He turned into a pile of ashes, scattered by the wind, and disappeared without a trace.

But in the next moment, he opened his eyes in horror.

In front of him, Lola was still holding the teapot, the black tea in the cup had not yet been filled, and the red color had the fragrance of roses.

"Have a drink?"

Lola asked softly, placing the warm teacup in his hand, her voice becoming gentle and concerning, "You'll feel better after drinking it." ”

Ye Qingxuan lowered his head, looked at the tea in the cup, raised his head, drank it all, put the teacup on the ground, and gritted his teeth:

"Come again!"

Lola shook her head and sighed, "I don't know if I'm alive or dead." ”

The sound of ropes tightening came from the darkness behind the boy.

Ye Qingxuan turned around suddenly, but saw a burly giant man with a hideous face putting a sackcloth on his head.

In an instant, there was a flower in front of me, and there was an extra rope around my neck. Through the linen cloth, he vaguely saw the light of the remnant sun.

"Hang him, hang him!"

There was an angry crowd yelling, "Hang this damned sinner!"

Immediately after, the plank under his feet opened, causing his body to plummet. But the winding noose strangled his neck and pulled upwards sharply.

Quack.

Maybe it's the sound of a broken cervical vertebrae?

Immediately after that, a long suffocation came......

When Ye Qingxuan opened his eyes again, he almost forgot how to breathe.

"Continue?"

Lola's smile was pleasant.

Ye Qingxuan almost didn't have the strength to grit his teeth.

"Go ahead. ”

......

By the last time he woke up, it was already dawn.

In the early morning birdsong, in the living room of the old house, he wore a butler's dress, half-knelt in front of Lola, and recited with great enthusiasm the poems that even the bard would blush when he heard it.

And the whole body is sore-

"What's wrong with me?"

He looked around blankly and found that the whole living room was as clean as washed, and the floor was bright enough to reflect his own shadow.

Lola smiled and said nothing.

Beside him, the Rat King handed over a crystal prism. Show him the recorded footage.

In the moonlight, the boy reveled in singing and ran in circles around the house while undressing. Immediately afterwards, he carried water, chopped wood, brushed pots and washed dishes, and then tidied up the entire ancient house tidied up.

In the end, he changed into the uniform of a butler, and was called to drink like a loyal dog, serving the noble Miss Lola diligently, serving tea and water, and being meticulous......

After Ye Qingxuan finished reading it, he only felt powerless. sat down in a chair and shook his head: "I admit defeat and don't fight." ”

"Oh? That would be a pity. ”

Lola tasted the breakfast made by Ye Qingxuan. Nodding with satisfaction: "The breakfast you made tasted good, and I plan to let you make another lunch." ”

"You're so short of cooks here!"

"What do you mean by that?"

Lola thought for a moment, and then smiled elegantly and charmingly: "-I will." ”

This damn woman......

Ye Qingxuan glared at him, and secretly slandered himself in his stomach.

"Sooner or later, one day I will let you rub your uncle's shoulders and legs. Play the harp and sing a little song to listen to ......"

Lola is like a mind reader. He read what was on his mind.

"Should I praise you for your ambition or can't support the wall?" she looked at Ye Qingxuan, who looked embarrassed, and shook her head pityingly:

"Don't you even dare to think about anything excessive?"

Speaking of this, she paused meaningfully, and a vague smile appeared on her fair and charming cheeks, which made people's hearts suddenly warm.

“......”

Ye Qingxuan clarified his thoughts, killed the heart ape in his mind, and didn't dare to think about it again.

This story teaches us to never think anything strange in front of a musician of the Psychic faction. I don't know when I was being spied on.

Hell yes, though!

She used to be a professor. No matter how you fight, you control the situation by yourself, you can fight if you want, and you can run away if you want to. As a result, now that she has revealed her true identity, she has become herself......

This doesn't make sense!

"That's giving up?"

Lola asked, "I thought the same trick wouldn't work on you a second time." It really scared the hell out of me. ”

She patted her chest exaggeratedly, feigning relief.

"Don't shoot it, your breasts are so small, what should I do if I can't shoot it?" Ye Qingxuan sneered, "It's just that you won me, what's there to be proud of?"

"But it's nice to win Black Musician Sherlock Holmes. ”

Lola pretended to regret and shook her head, "It's a pity, you're a soft-footed shrimp, and you've been unilaterally pressed and beaten by me, and I really can't take it seriously." ”

Ye Qingxuan almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood.

"You're a fourth-order musician at least the resonance level, at least a big level higher than me, two stages, okay?

And I can't use any equipment on my side. If you can't win in this way, what else are you going to be a musician? ”

"Really?"

Lola chuckled, "If I told you that all along, I used the musician level, only one rank above you, and I didn't use any heart sounds and other powers......

Do you think it's your own problem?"

“......”

Ye Qingxuan was stunned, recalling the process of the duel between the two, and in the end, he frowned: "-Are you kidding?"

The answer to him was the flash of the ether ball.

In Lola's hand, an ether ball embedded with gold wire and jade emitted a flash of light.

This is the easiest way for musicians to determine their rank with each other, mapping their own spirit into the ether orb, and judging the superiority through the ether ball's elite sensing ability.

The nine ranks of musicians are different, and depending on the faction, the signs are not exactly the same. But the reference as a basis is quite sufficient.

It's just that now, Ye Qingxuan fell into consternation.

"It's ...... What's going on?"-

In the ether sphere, the light lit up.

The light flickered and flickered, like a candle in the wind. Even Ye Qingxuan is inferior.

And it is still rapidly weakening, all the way down to the introductory apprentice level, and even worse, it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

It's just jaw-dropping.

"It's ...... What's going on?"

Ye Qingxuan pressed a finger on the ether ball, and after making sure that Lola was not cheating, he fell into a daze.

Now she is really not as good as an apprentice!

"It's simple. ”

Lola said lightly. "If your Chapter of Destiny is defeated, you'll be like this too. ”

"Impossible!"

Ye Qingxuan resolutely retorted-

On the path of musicians, 99% of musicians are stuck. The 'obstacle to knowledge', which makes people trapped at the musician level all their lives and unable to make progress, is only the first level.

This was followed by a succession of tests.

Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, this road will only get narrower and narrower, and the more you go, the more thrilling it will be. Because sooner or later, you will go into the darkness that no one has explored before, and walk alone.

Resonance, interference, distortion......

Each level is a moat that requires massive resources and secret rituals to break through until the end. This is the end of the road.

So far, it's the limit of humanity.

Ahead are thousands of cliffs, dark abysses.

Only one in ten thousand musicians can break through the abyss. Forge your own 'scepter' and rank among the saints!

These people are all shocking powerhouses and amazing geniuses.

And what they are trying to break through the abyss is the power brewed by their own souls - the 'Chapter of Fate'!

It is a unique movement that is sublimated by the musician's heart and will. It represents the soul of the musician.

Will, idea, core. It's all included.

Once defeated, it is not only the music that is defeated, but the musician himself, including his life and mind, all the essence.

This represents the subversion of reason, the negation of personality.

The mental breakdown is just the beginning, and immediately after that, the whole person will die in the backlash of the Fateful Chapter.

There is no cure, there is no cure.

For hundreds of years. The musicians tried to break through this hurdle one after another, only to lose themselves and their own 'Destiny Chapter'.

Countless people have left behind negative teaching materials. It's all a bloody lesson from the past.

If Lola's Chapter of Fate was really defeated, then what Ye Qingxuan would have in front of now would only be a cold tombstone.

Not long ago, Ye Qingxuan just saw a living example - the royal musician: Claude.

It's just that the heart sound is defeated, and it instantly becomes a cripple, and if you don't go to the doctor of the Chant faction, you will have to worry about your life.

What's more, it's a chapter of fate that encompasses everything?

"Don't bluff me, Molyati!"

Ye Qingxuan looked at her pupils and said in a cold voice: "After the Chapter of Fate is defeated, the best case is to die of madness. ”

Lola smiled.

"It's normal for you to have suspicions......"

She said lightly, but Ye Qingxuan only felt that there was a flower in front of her, and her neckline was grabbed by her and pulled in front of her, and she didn't have time to react at all.

He saw Lola's pale face and gloomy eyes.

There was a faint color of blood in her eyes, and the violent blood was like a flame, burning her reason, day and night. She's on the verge of madness anytime and anywhere.

Immediately after, wisps of cyan blood veins emerged from the white cheeks, looking hideous and fragile, as if they would fall apart at the slightest touch.

"Madness to death?"

She smiled, grim and distorted, without the slightest grace or grace:

"--How far do you think I'm from being a madman?!"

Ye Qingxuan was silent.

Maybe this is the real her?

Tormented day and night by the backlash of the Fateful Chapter, reason and body are on the verge of collapse anytime and anywhere.

On this tightrope, death is on the left, madness is on the right, and the abyss is under your feet.

They were separated from her by a thin line.

In the long silence, Ye Qingxuan took the lead in removing his pupils and admitting defeat:

"I'm sorry. ”

"It's okay, I forgive you. ”

Lola slowly released her palm, straightened his clothes, and her eyes became gentle.

"Don't worry, I'm the only companion left in this world - I'll forgive you for whatever you do wrong. ”

Ye Qingxuan was silent.

"Aren't you curious, how did I survive?"

Lola sat back in her original chair, took a sip of the black tea mixed with the potion, and her trembling fingers finally stabilized.

"Don't forget, I'm not like a normal human. The gift of the moon spirit kept me from dying on the spot. ”

She smiled, revealing her slightly sharp canine teeth, "To be honest, I've never been so grateful for my demon bloodline.

I'm here to stay alive. Signed a contract with the Blue Moon. But the strength can never return to the original level, and can only fluctuate according to the moon phases, which is strong and weak.

Until now. My old wounds have not healed, and most of my strength can only be used to maintain my sanity.

Don't you think it's funny? Ye Qingxuan.

When I was at my strongest, I was only one step away from the Scepter level, but now I am sometimes as weak as a child.

Let's say now...... You can strangle me with your hand. ”

She lifted her chin and showed the boy her neck, which was slender and white, as if it could be held in one hand.

Just tighten it slowly. And she died.

It's easy.

"How's it going?

Lola smiled defiantly.

Ye Qingxuan didn't look at it, but asked softly, "You were injured because of my father?"

Lola was silent.

After a long time. She sighed softly, "That was in the past. ”――

"As you know, I have the blood of the moon spirit in me, and I was born to be the child of demons, which is my original sin.

My original name was long. You can simply call it 'Moliyati'. Lola is a later pseudonym.

Before I was born. My father was killed.

My mother was human, and the musician thought she was forced by her father to send her back into the human world, not realizing that she was pregnant.

Later, there was me.

When I was three years old, my mother died and I was taken away by the elders of the clan. Go back to the clan and stay there for a long time before coming back out.

And then later. I became your father's student. A person with demon blood, since he has become the heir of the demon's natural enemy, the 'Purification Moon'...... It sounds like a ridiculous joke.

For this reason, I broke with my people, and I designed a battle so that they thought I had been killed.

Since then, no one has known that I am Yue Ling except for the teacher.

After a while, the teacher got married, and I went on a trip.

When I returned, I found that the teacher had disappeared, and you and your mother had been banished to the border.

At that time, my mind was full of trying to find out the truth, but in the end, it fell to this point. I can only change my face and quietly return to Avalon to re-investigate what happened back then.

Until now, there are still not many things that have been clarified. It's only known that he has some kind of relationship with the Shadow of Avalon. ”

There was a long silence.

“...... Finished?"

Ye Qingxuan was confused.

"It's over. Lola nodded: "It's that simple, where can there be so many complicated past stories to say?"

"But it's too brief. The young man frowned slightly: "It always makes people a little suspicious." ”

"Do you think I'm lying?"

"I can't lie, but something I wasn't told was true. ”

Ye Qingxuan shook his head: "How did you and my father meet?Why did my father accept you as a student?What did you find?"

And, who exactly defeated your chapter of fate?

You don't say any of these things, don't put them in the category of irrelevant past. and ......"

He looked at Lola with a strange look in his eyes.

"You have a crush on him?"

“......”

Lola was stunned for a moment, and her expression became annoyed.

Ye Qingxuan nodded clearly, "It seems that I have taken a fancy to him." ”

"That was one of the many mistakes I ever made. ”

Lola looked away, looking for a reason for herself: "Superstitious power is a creed engraved in the bloodline of demons, not to mention, I was still ...... young at the time"

Ye Qingxuan was speechless, and he didn't want to dwell on this embarrassing matter, so he could only change the subject: "After so many years, have you found anything from the house?"

All I know is that he taught at the academy back then. ”

"That's right. ”

Lola's face was slightly pale, "Later, he worked for the Royal Academy, but the Royal Academy did not have his files, and the files he worked on were in the Arkham Mental Hospital. ”

"Where is it?"

Ye Qingxuan's expression became gloomy: "He participated in the forbidden technology of human body transformation?"

"It used to be a secret branch of the Royal Academy, specializing in the study of the habits and structure of demons, with the intention of solving the nature of the Scourge.

Later, he was transferred. That department was also abandoned by the Royal Academy, and the human body modification was after that.

And his whereabouts, I will never find him again. ”

Lola sighed regretfully, "You should know that there was a time when he was away from home all year round. ”

"Where did he go?"

"I don't know. Lola's eyes were cold, "But there is no doubt that it was the place where he died." ”

Ye Qingxuan shook his head and corrected, "He's still alive." ”

"He's dead. ”

Lola's voice raised, and her eyes were complicated: "Ye Qingxuan, accept the reality, I saw him with my own eyes......"

"He's alive, I can feel it. ”

Ye Qingxuan repeated it again, with a firm expression: "This is not a refusal to accept reality, nor is it delusional.

All I can say is: he must still be alive, living somewhere in this world. ”

Lola was silent for a long time and asked softly:

"Are you sure?"

"For me, the only benefit of the blood of the dragon vein may be the 'induction between the bloodlines'. When I entered the apprenticeship level, I could feel the empathy between him and me.

So, rest assured, Lola.

Sooner or later, I'll go and get him out with my own hands. ”

"Dig it out?"

She felt as if something was wrong, "And then?"

"And then?"

Ye Qingxuan smiled, pinched his knuckles, and his face was full of anticipation.

"--Beat him up first. (To be continued......)