Chapter 11: Broken Dreams
The sky in the distance is faintly bright, the silent night begins to fade, there is a dead silence in the town camp, the scarlet blood soaked the whole land, and the remains of corpses can be seen everywhere, in order to resist the impact of the fog beasts, human beings have paid a painful price, with an extremely exaggerated battle loss ratio of one to thirty, leaving more than thirty fog beasts, and more than ten wounded and fled the scene, and there are less than 100 soldiers left in the camp who are still alive, they stand silently in place with their guns in hand, like iron sculptures sticking to their camp, but, The war is over.
Humanity, fiasco.
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In the ruins, Cen Yu forcefully pulled out the boning knife inserted into his chest, the black markings at the wound were still spreading, his eyes flashed, a large amount of black mist was attached to the markings, and after a while, the wound healed, and the butcher was standing not far from him at this time, the dry skeleton arm was still in an assassination posture, but his eyes had turned dark red at this time.
[Juggernaut Mirage - First use fraud to establish a self-derived illusion for yourself, and then transfer the ownership of the illusion to others through the master, and the person who falls into the illusion will experience the pre-established illusion of Cen Yu from the five senses, but the trigger condition is that the two parties must make eye contact. At the same time, the stronger the enemy's mental power, the easier it is to break free, and the shorter the illusion exists. 】
If it was just a simple illusion, for the butcher who was already a complete body mist beast, it would only take less than a second to break free, but now this illusion was specially created for the butcher by Cen Yu, and the smile of the girl named Su Tang would be the grave from which it could not escape.
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The butcher opened his eyes blankly, looking at the girl beside him who made him feel unusually familiar, it tried to reach out and touch her face, the warm body temperature, the delicate touch of the skin, and the heat of the girl's shyness, at this moment, the butcher's hands trembled, it didn't know why it was crying, it could only clumsily accept the girl's wipe, and the edge of the world that was not far away began to shatter.
And feeling the gentle wind, this endless grassland, and the girl who snuggled up to her, the butcher gradually forgot that he was fighting with Cen Yu, and it sank into this illusion.
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And in reality, Cen Yu gasped slightly, and there were more than a dozen condensed burst spears floating around him, all of which were aligned with the butcher's head, but just as he was about to bombard the butcher, a chain suddenly appeared from the butcher's body, and the other end of the chain was linked to a piece of nothingness, and the familiar darkness was like a stream slowly flowing out of the void, and the ruins were about to descend, dragging back the fog beast that dared to betray.
At this time, Cen Yu's heart set off a monstrous wave, he was too familiar with this chain, this is the blockade of the fog beast in the land of the ruins, as long as he breaks free, he can find his past, and become an outlier who has the power of the fog beast and the emotions of humans at the same time, after a simple trade-off, he decided to take a gamble, the original preparation of the explosive spear shattered into a huge black mist at this moment, and then surrounded the butcher, forming a black cocoon, and although the erosion of the ruins was not as strong as Cen Yu at that time, it should not be underestimated.
Cen Yu exited the overclocking state and fed all the black mist in his body into the black cocoon, which he estimated would only resist the erosion of the ruins for three minutes, and after three minutes, if the butcher did not break free, then he could only watch the darkness drag it into the ruins.
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In the illusion, the butcher and Su Tang hugged each other, neither of them spoke, the butcher lost the past, and it didn't know what to say, and Su Tang didn't speak because Cen Yu knew very little about the story between them, so he could only adhere to the principle of saying less and making fewer mistakes, and try to let Su Tang only be a listener, anyway, originally Cen Yu just hoped that the illusion could drag the butcher for five or six seconds to give him time to prepare for a one-hit kill, and now this situation is really beyond his expectations.
However, here's the problem, the speed of time in the illusion is different from reality, when a second or two has passed in reality, half an hour has passed in the illusion.
So, after three or four hours of silent hugging, the butcher gently asked, "Oranges... I've got you your favorite stewed ribs..."
But Su Tang in the illusion didn't know what she liked to eat at all, so she could only smile and nod, and then she saw the remnant soul that was constantly wailing in the butcher's hand, and the butcher looked at her nervously, looking like a husband who had made a big meal for his wife and was looking forward to compliments.
However, when Cen Yu set up this illusion, the setting for Su Tang was a normal persona, so she flashed to the side in fear when she saw the black mist that kept appearing distorting people's faces.
The butcher looked at Su Tangerine who kept retreating in horror in a daze, at this time its heart was broken, for the first time it had a wife who loved it to the bone marrow, and it also had his wife's favorite ingredients, the two joys overlapped each other, and this double joy brought more and more joy, it should have had a dreamlike moment of happiness, however, why, it became like this...
The illusion began to disintegrate on its own because of the butcher's collapse, the wind stopped, the grass was withering, and the girl in the dream was also disappearing, and the butcher looked at all this, the huge gap between what it had and what it lost made it fall into madness, it frantically used its strength to try to stabilize this illusion, even if it knew now that it was fake, it was unwilling to return to the reality without Su Tangerine, a large number of ghosts suddenly appeared in the illusion, they began to control everything in the illusion, and the withered grass became a small restaurant familiar to the butcher, Su Tang's originally transparent body was condensed again, but this time Su Tang appeared on the sofa on the second floor, and he was even older, still knitting a scarf in his hand.
A dusty memory began to surface in the butcher's heart, but it seemed that something was preventing it from obtaining that memory, so it had to go to the second floor by itself and try to communicate with Su Tang, who appeared again this time.
When it sat on the other side of the sofa, Su Tang did not snuggle up to it as before, but gestured the scarf that only had a beginning on it, and said naturally, "Na, when I finish this scarf, you won't cry cold this winter." ”
Before the butcher could speak, the scene began to change again, still on the sofa, this time Su Tang seemed to be more tired, the movements in her hands slowed down significantly, the scarf was knitted a quarter, she said with sadness, "Husband, forget it, let's not treat it, it's so expensive... I'll leave it to you. ”
The butcher's heart ached, and it stretched out its hand as if it wanted to hug Su Tang into its arms, but its hand had just touched Su Tang. The scene changed again, this time Su Tang didn't knit the scarf anymore, but kept coughing, and the bright red blood dripped on the white scarf, and now the scarf was half knitted.
With infinite remembrance, Su Tang fell asleep forever in the butcher's arms, and the butcher looked at his skeletal arms, and a strange memory suddenly surfaced in his heart.
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"Husband, when did you say we could buy a super soft pillow, I have a neck pain recently."
"Hmm... When the restaurant business picks up, I'll buy you the best pillow in the world. ”
"Hee-hee-hee, that's what you said, until you make good on your promise, your arm will be my pillow..."
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The butcher looked at his arms, which were only bones, and it turned out that when she died, I didn't keep my promise... These hands passed away with her, and they were going to be her eternal pillows...
The scene began to crumble, and a chain dragged it towards a place shrouded in black mist in the distance, "Return to the ruins...", the butcher muttered, and the great force pulled it there quickly.
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Cen Yu looked at the black cocoon that had been corroded by the darkness and sighed, it seems that the butcher has failed, yes, the alien is an accidental product, how can it be born so easily.
Just as he watched with regret as the darkness rushed towards the butcher along the chains, a transparent figure appeared beside the butcher, and when Cen Yu saw her appearance clearly, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"Su Tang?!"
The transparent figure didn't pay attention to Cen Yu, but stretched out his hands and put a half-woven scarf on the butcher's body, and the butcher, who had already given up struggling, felt the scarf and said with a crying voice.
"Tangerine... I'm sorry, I seem to have forgotten you, I can't seem to remember anything..."
Su Tang didn't speak, but wiped the blood and tears left by the butcher with his hands, Cen Yu sighed, and passed the black mist he had just absorbed to Su Tang, and Su Tang's body that had obtained the black mist condensed a little, and now she was finally able to speak.
"It's okay, Xiaodu, I'm already satisfied when you haven't forgotten my name even when you've become a monster."
"Do you know, yesterday, when I woke up from the black fog in a daze, how excited I was to see you."
"However, there is a chain that traps me, and I can only appear by your side as much as I can, but there is only a vague figure."
"Just now, the chain suddenly disappeared from me and appeared on you, and I was able to appear in front of you."
"It's a pity... Time is running out... Xiaodu, I really want to stay by your side all the time...."
The butcher had already burst into tears at this time, and began to struggle desperately, trying to get rid of the call to return to the ruins, but it was all in vain, he was getting closer and closer to the darkness, and at this moment, Su Tang made a move that surprised everyone.
She floated to the end of the chain, and with a tug of her hands, she circled the chain around herself, and as the chain contracted, she began to sink into the ruins, and the darkness that rushed to the butcher receded at this moment, and Cen Yu also tried to touch the chain, but he went straight through the chain, unable to touch and unable to open the destiny, and he was helpless about it.
The butcher watched Su Tang slowly disappear into the ruins, and shouted hysterically not to, but Su Tang just turned around and gave him a smile, like a blooming sunflower, and then the whole figure was swallowed by the ruins, and after that, the ruins disappeared, leaving Su Tang's last entrustment in the wind.
"Xiaodu, you are my proud husband, you are not a monster, I believe you will come to me, I will wait for you..."
Wang Du sat on his knees, the boning knife fell quietly beside him, he found the past, but also lost the past.
Beautiful and illusory dreams were also shattered.