Chapter 1 Lu II: Touching Childhood

Sheldon chatted with Mama Bear for a while, and after learning about Neem's situation, he sighed helplessly. Because he had to find out the marked nightmare before he could remove the mark from the bear's body.

"I'm not an employee of the Dream Division now, and the director of the Orc Management Division is my job......"

If Sheldon were to help them, he would first have to work hard to find the marked Nightmare, and second, he would have to force the Nightmare to pull it out by force at the risk of injury......

"I beg you, he's just a miserable child, he doesn't deserve to suffer so much......" Neem's mother pleaded, her hands curled up and the bear's face crumpled.

"I don't have the ability to help you solve your son's physical problems right now." Sheldon's words were to the point, "I can't spend a whole day doing these things with you, in fact, these more professional things should be left to the professionals next door to do the Dream Division." ”

"But, they won't help us, that's what you just saw!" Mother Bear cried, "You are so kind, it doesn't take much effort to help us......"

Sheldon waved his hand, he looked at Neem with a stinky face at Merlin, he didn't seem to like humans very much, even if they were now giving them favors.

He doesn't seem to have a very good influence on humans, and he's still a kid......

Merlin's little hand that wanted to grab the neem was already slapped away by the bear for the third time, and he barely said a word: Get out of here, damn human!

"I'm sorry, we really don't have what it takes to help you," Sheldon replied, "I've done my part. ”

The General Affairs Management Consultant of the Dream Division was the second, and this kind of thing was not supposed to be done by Sheldon.

"Nope! No, ......" Mama Bear rubbed her hands together fiercely, his tone becoming more and more cramped, "If you don't help him, he will ...... He's going to die! I really beg you......"

Sheldon frowned, even if he was kind, he couldn't have accepted such a ridiculous and unrewarding request, and if a beggar with nothing came to him with a child to ask for help, he would probably ignore it, let alone an orc. He has done his duty.

"Dad, I might be able to pull that thing out of his body." At this moment, Merlin raised his little hand, "But he kept pushing me, and I couldn't do it." ”

"Oh?" Sheldon's eyes flashed with a half-color, "How did you know you could?" ”

Merlin replied honestly, "There is such a big thorn on his head that he should be able to pull it out." ”

The little boy used his magic to see everything about the little one, and in Merlin's field of vision, a purple crystal stick about the thickness of his finger was firmly inserted into the top of Neem's head.

"I don't want you...... Don't want humans to ......" Neem looked frightened, her ass moved back little by little, and her mouth kept muttering, "Humans are bad......"

Sheldon spread his hands, his eyes full of surprise: "It's impossible for me to pull out the marker for your son, but since my son said yes, then let him try." ”

Mama Bear scolded sharply: "Neem! We have to seize this opportunity, you will die! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be there! ”

"I ...... I see......" Neem immediately softened, with reluctance written on her face, and little by little her body moved to Merlin's side.

In Merlin's mind, Merlin was telling Marquez what to do when he pulled out the other Nightmare Marquez.

"It's very easy to destroy a marker, the hard part is how to pull it out." Merlin said, "Because the mark acts directly on the host's soul, and if you destroy the mark directly with brute force, the soul will also be destroyed." ”

"So, just pull this thing off with your hands?" Márquez asked innocently.

"Of course not!" Merlin said, "This is just a appearance, you have to separate your mind, enter the edge of the other person's soul and pull out the mark." ”

"Then you say, I'll do it." Márquez was speechless.

"Let this thing come over first! Let him close his eyes. ”

Merlin immediately pulled the vigilant bear orc over, and the corners of his mouth were filled with a pompous smile: "You come here, close your eyes." ”

The other party glared at him fiercely, snorted quietly, and closed his eyes.

This guy is really unruly......

"Whatever I do to you, don't think about it." Merlin said as he listened to the Nightmare's words.

Sheldon watched with great interest as the little guy helped the bear orc to remove it, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion in his heart. It seems that this is the nature of nightmares, and the little one is not only smart, but also capable of it. Of course, he didn't quite believe that Merlin could actually take the marker out. If that were the case, he could even believe that Merlin had helped him survive the previous two deaths.

Merlin's eyes lit up with a faint crystal blue light, and next, he was about to dive into the mind of the orc......

"Hold your hand in his heart, and think with all your strength what it looks like to get into a small hole!" Merlin commanded.

The boy frowned, this kind of work is not easy to do......

The two saw the boy put his hand on Neem's chest. The little bear looked very unhappy, drooped his ears, and the temperature on his body gradually increased, he should be shy.

"This guy is hot when he touches it, and he doesn't know shame!" Merlin shouted in his head at this indecent behavior, "It should be disciplined!" ”

"Almost......" Márquez was speechless, imagining his body burrowing into a small hole.

There's really a suction force that's pushing his body forward! He felt his body involuntarily leaning forward!

Merlin opened his eyes, only to find that it was pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't even see his body clearly, only the only light in front of him was attracting him forward!

This is where the soul of the bear orcs lies! Merlin only felt like he was flying forward uncontrollably!

The light in front of Merlin's eyes grew bigger and bigger, and the color in front of him quickly changed from misty white to vibrant bright green, and finally changed from one to two, splitting into two completely different pillars of light!

The bright green pillar of light was full of vitality, and the off-white light bead that separated from it was relatively peaceful.

Merlin took a special look at what this pillar of light was, and saw that there were countless lights and shadows flickering rapidly, and the others could not see anything clearly.

"This green pillar has signs of infestation, and there are cracks on it." Merlin saw the oddity on the pillar beforehand, and quickly reminded Márquez, "It's actually the same as the last time the little girl was marked." ”

In other words, "Márquez used his mind to float upwards, looking for the source of the rift in his soul, "to find the pillar of crystal inserted in his soul......"

"On the other hand, because the power of that inferior species is still quite strong, it directly dragged the girl's consciousness into her dream world, so that kind of scene appeared." Merlin added, "Generally speaking, this is the majority...... Alas, as a nightmare, it will even be reduced to helping others pull out the mark......"

Márquez complained, "I'm still going to bear this hunger for the magic inside my soul, okay?" ”

"That's why I don't care......" Merlin smiled.

"You're shameless." Marquez had already seen a dark purple pillar as thick as his thumb stuck above the soul pillar, "That's it." ”

"You now exist in the spirit world of this little bear in an abstract way, without concrete shapes, so you have to imagine that you have hands."

Imagine yourself with hands...... Imagine yourself with hands...... I have two hands......

As a result, Márquez saw only two hands that could be manipulated freely, and nothing else. It's a horrific scene.

"Don't worry about so much, it's good to be able to gather your hands, pull out this damn thing and we'll call it a day!" Merlin urged.

“......”

Márquez struggled not to think that he only had two hands now, holding the crystal pillar and pulling it out little by little.

"Don't grind! The lighter you are, the more you can't pull this thorn out! ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier!" If Márquez had eyes now, he would have rolled his eyes four or five times in a row.

The Crystal Pillar was cold to the touch, as if it was about to frostbite his fingertips. Márquez held his courage and slammed it hard, pulling out the spikes from his soul with a chirp.

The moment this thorn left the pillar of soul light, it quickly disappeared from top to bottom, and there was not even a fly ash left. The cracks in the pillar of light also healed quickly and became intact.

"I guess the other pillar of light is his memory, do you want to check it out?"

"Won't it be discovered? This is his inner world! Márquez naturally thought.

"If you are discovered, you will be discovered, at most you will be kicked out, nothing will happen~" Merlin smiled, "Besides, you have done him such a big favor, can't you charge a little fee?" ”

"Have you read other people's memories?" Márquez manipulated his hand to touch a pillar of light of another color.

"I was asleep before, and I didn't need a high-level nightmare—"

Before the two of them could react, Merlin and Marquez's consciousness was sucked into this pillar of light! The volume of the off-white pillar of light suddenly increased, and countless scenes shattered into translucent tents, and Merlin's figure actually reappeared here!

"Uh-huh......!" The frantically flickering scenes made Merlin cover his eyes, and now he couldn't see anything clearly.

He felt like he was being frantically shaken inside a drum washing machine......

Merlin finally stops, and the scene freezes in a hot and humid woods.

"This is ......" Merlin looked around, he couldn't touch anything as he remembered from the hostess who had entered the magic item shop earlier, "where he used to live?" ”

All kinds of bears and orcs are almost completely naked, mostly covered only by cloth on their crotch and chest, and they carry out their daily production activities. Judging from their work, it should be a relatively primitive life of hunting and gathering.

This made Merlin even more strange how the hell they got here......

The center of Merlin's gaze is a bear orc lying on a simple grass bed, holding a soft swaddling cloth in his hand, and the cub in the swaddling baby is of course the hero of this memory, there is no doubt about it.

Mother Bear lowered her eyes lovingly, carefully and earnestly rubbed the newborn baby bear, and said word by word: "Your name is, neem." ”

This is the end of the scene when Neem is born, and then it switches to another scene.

A glowing stone altar, the material of the altar is very special, and the spider web is crawling with mysterious lines of pale green. Looking closely, Merlin could see that the foundation at the bottom of the altar was twisted and staggered from time to time, and unnoticeably moved a centimeter to the left! It's as if the land itself is full of life!

Huge vines bent up from the edge of the altar, wrapping the center of the altar like a bun, and from time to time there was an eerie sound of rustling inside.

"Hopefully it won't happen...... But there are basically one or two 'ominous' ....... each time."

"This dangerous goods...... Try not to mention it, you don't want your son to be like this, do you? ”

It seemed to be some sort of ritual among the orcs, vine after vine spiraling upward, and the magic that emanated from inside the altar was quickly transported to the barrier made of these branches.

In Merlin's eyes, the huge sac was like a huge mouth, still squirming in a frightening way! The sound of gurgling is even more set off this digestive scene, and the sound inside is estimated to be blocked by the power of the capsule wall, and there is no way to penetrate it.

Neem's mother folded her hands and seemed to be praying for something.

"Neem should be inside this strange thing." Merlin said to Marquez.

"It's disgusting."

"I think so too."

After a long time, endless turquoise light burst out from between the cracks in the vines, and all the orcs present suddenly opened their eyes, as if they didn't want to miss the moment these vines opened.

It wasn't so much that it was open, but that the vines quickly withered, petrified, and fell down, and the magic in them was gone, and there was no reason to continue to exist.

Above the altar was a group of yelling bear orcs, all of whom looked about the same.

However, it seems that there is a little bear orc who does not look like them, and you can see it at a glance.

Because his body is galloping with this blazing cyan magic! The furious magic turned into one cyan pattern after another, smoothly laying on the skin on the bear orc's chest, and then flowing down like water, making a circle on the belly, but condensing into a small triangular mark.

"Oh my God! Hurry up, son! Hurry up and get away from him, hurry! ”

"No, whose son is it, hurry up and bring him back! It's so unfortunate, it's just too unfortunate! ”

"If it were my son, I would strangle him on the spot! Disgusting trash can...... This guy is going to ruin someone else's life, definitely! So don't leave him big! ”

The bear orcs also seemed to know who the aliens were, and ran away like a low tide.

"Mom!"

"Mom——! Whining...... Look, there's a freak! ”

All kinds of "mothers" are singing one after another, and they are running towards their parents one by one, repaying each other's kindness in the form of words.

This is Baptism, which can give wisdom to orcs.

In the end, only one baby bear remained on the altar, stunned and searching for his mother. This was the first time that Neem felt helpless, and he couldn't walk because of a force that was rushing through his body, numbing his feet.

Soon, however, he saw his mother walk up to the altar and pick him up.

It was the first time in her life that she had seen her mother look like this. He couldn't describe it, but he wanted to cry inexplicably.

Because he was afraid of his mother.

"Mother's ......" Neem wept and choked back tears, touching her mother's thick and powerful arms with her soft hands.

But his mother's eyes quickly turned from a piece of solid ice to gentle water, which seemed to be filled with something he couldn't understand.

"Let's go, Neem." Mother Bear kissed Neem affectionately on the cheek and walked down from the altar.

"Damn it, don't let him stay with us! Did you hear that? ”

"That's it, if I had to strangle him to death, damn it, there was such a natural scum among us!"

"I dare to pack a ticket, even if this kind of thing doesn't turn into this ghost, he won't live to be ten years old!"

When she got home, Mama Bear put her son on the bed, as he looked tired. Neem quickly fell asleep.

Mama Bear looked at the triangular mark on Neem's belly with a complicated look and sighed.

She pursed her lips tightly, took out a towel from the side, and silently wiped her back.

Her back was full of rotten berries that her fellow clansmen threw at her when she left, and if she didn't wipe them off in time, she would attract insects, and there would be a smell of wine that neem didn't like to smell.

Merlin followed Mama Bear back to his house and watched the whole thing.

The scene ripples out like a breeze in the sand, and the next scene is rapidly brewing.