47 Lust and shame
The anti-charm amulet given to me by the blue bird had no effect on this enchanting dream. At the end of the day, Bluebird's true strength is fighting, not crafting amulets; And the strength of the succubus is charm, and to use the talisman to deal with her is to use her own shortcomings to be longer than others. Perhaps this talisman is useful to deal with the ordinary charm of the succubus, but at the moment, this dream is obviously a trick that the succubus is very prepared to use with all his strength, and the anti-charm charm charm is instantly turned into charcoal in the confrontation.
Still, even the charred amulet was enough to make me realize that I was in a dream.
At the same time, I also understood the way of thinking of succubi. I'm afraid she still can't understand what I'm interested in the opposite sex, but she should think so, it's okay if she can't understand, even if she doesn't understand, I myself understand after all. So she weaves this dreamscape in which "I want to see what I want to see". She wanted me to charm myself, and the flesh in front of me was the "it" in my memory.
But she was mistaken.
What really charms me is what I can't even understand.
In the five years that have passed with "it", I have never been able to distinguish the sincerity of "it", nor can I distinguish my own sincerity.
The physical bodies in front of me were just things I could distinguish, especially when I realized that this was a dream, and the flesh seemed even more illusory. It's not "it" at all, it's my hopeless humanity.
I silently closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, the flesh was gone. On the opposite side, there was another black figure. Like a demon in a dream, his whole body is black, as if the shadow has changed from flat to three-dimensional.
"Are you waking up from your dreams again?" He could actually speak, and he made the same voice as me.
"If I drag my feet here, the middleman will take the opportunity to kill me." I say.
He replied in the negative, "No." No matter how long you have been in this dream, it will be a moment to the outside world. β
"Do you think I'm going to believe that?" I asked, "You are the embodiment of succulent magic?" β
"I am who you are. You've realized that only what you want to see will appear in this dream. I'm there because you don't want to wake up. "At the same time, you know that what I say is true, and that you can't fail to notice something like that." The passage of time in another dimension depends on the perception of time, and this dream specializes in this nature. You may still die at the hands of an intermediary, but you can stay in your dreams for as long as you want before you die. β
His voice gradually became demagoguery, "Don't you want to die in battle with a vicious enemy? The situation is just right. The story of the demon Li Duo has long ended in this rainstorm, and even if it continues, it will be nothing more than a dog's tail and a mink, so you might as well stay on this last page forever and close it again until you get tired of it. β
"In that case, the two people outside will also die." I say.
"At the same time, you're going to be able to get that hand back again...... That's what you're really thinking and selfish, right? He said, "What's the use of recovering that kind of thing, and what is dead won't be resurrected by it." Even if you can be resurrected, you don't want to go back to your old self. It's better to stay here, you can satisfy all your desires without hurting anyone. β
"You actually regret very much, why you didn't listen to the blue bird, why did you wake up from that dream...... How good it would be if you continued to be a college student who didn't know anything. You can become a demon hunter in your dreams, fight against the unforgivable bad guys and monsters, and finally become the hero of your dreams with flowers and applause. The moment you die, you are content because you have not done anything that is worthy of your heart. He continued, "But what now? Li Duo, a college student with a clean net worth, has become a demon Li Duo with bad deeds, and he has made himself disgraced. What sins are so great that you have no shame to live again, and what you haven't been brainwashed is all voluntary? I've had enough and don't want to torture myself anymore. The murder was all done by hypnosis and brainwashing, and those victims also broke their teeth and swallowed them in their stomachs, so don't come to me. Even the Security Service acquitted me, so I'm certainly not wrong. β
He "stared" at me with a facial feature devoid of facial features, "βthese are your real thoughts, aren't they?" β
"Yes, these are my true thoughts." I admitted it without hesitation, and went on to say, "But if these ideas are true, are the vile and deeply ashamed ideas of realizing them false?" Is it true that only the desires of my heart are my own things, and the shame of my heart is not my own thing? Far from it. Since you are myself, you cannot deny these words of mine. β
"But don't you think it's tiring to live like this?" He asked, "It's better to stay in the dream than to be so entangled." β
As he said, it would be easy to accept this kind of dream. But my life is definitely not frivolous enough to rely on such things. If you can never distinguish your entanglements, then you can't tell them apart. That was also a punishment for me.
Besides, if I were to covet these superficial things, I would have chosen to indulge in the dreams of the sirens.
And the reason why I didn't indulge in it was because I had already been captured by a much greater dream. The grotesque dream of being lost in the mountains and forests in the middle of the night, under the gaze of the silver moonlight, and having a crazy relationship with the seemingly and inhuman things.
However, whether it is the dream of the bluebird holding me, or the dream of the siren, or the dream of "it", there is only one outcome in the end.
Although a thousand words went through my mind, in the end, I only said one sentence, "Dreams will wake up." β
Hearing this, the demon man fell silent and immediately smiled, "-Aren't you also able to understand?" β
"Are you ......" Before I could finish my sentence, I saw him summon a black shadow axe and slash at me.
I hurriedly parried with the siren blade, and the moment I blocked the blow, the world in front of me shattered. From the ruins of the building and the torrential rain, I returned to the previous dimension, and the demon in front of me became an intermediary, and the weapon that attacked me changed from a black shadow axe to a bone knife.
I woke up from my dream.
Everything that happened before was a self-question and answer that happened within my consciousness, and "Demon" was nothing more than another thought in my mind. However, I still want to believe that I was approved by someone and gently pushed from behind.
"What's going on, why is he moving? Didn't you charm him! The middleman shouted as he stepped back.
The succubus stood not far away, shouting to himself, "He broke through the dream by himself...... It's impossible! He should have seen what he wanted most, how could he refuse! β
I pursued the middleman while observing my surroundings. At this moment, the time is still the moment when I have just been captured by the enchanting dream, the girl is nowhere to be found, and Joan is still standing not far away, looking at this side dumbfounded, as for the middleman, he probably saw that I was seduced before appearing.
The succubus hurriedly took out his bone whip and attacked me, and from the other direction, another intermediary rushed to attack me. That's probably the ontologyβI'm aware of it.
He didn't choose to kidnap Joan first, probably because even if he succeeded, as long as the doppelganger was killed by me, the main body would die. The last suicide method could no longer be used against me, and he didn't have the confidence to use hostage tactics against me, so he had to focus on me first...... I didn't expect to be helped by my own moral disadvantage again.
However, it will be me who wins.
From the moment the succubus's enchanting dream tactics failed, they had already lost.
Even if three people besiege me now, it's useless. Although their numerical superiority temporarily equalized me, soon the bone knife of the middleman clone and the bone whip of the succubus were completely shattered in the collision with the siren's blade, and the situation quickly turned in my favor again. Seeing this, the succubus finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "I don't want to fight with this kind of inexplicable guy anymore, you like to fight yourself, I'm leaving!" β
After saying that, she ran away and disappeared into the depths of another dimension, never to be seen again. The middleman anxiously shouted: "Bastard! β
"How did you wake up from the charm? I can't accept how someone like you can break free! He turned to me through gritted teeth, "That charm will make you see what best meets your desires, as long as you have desires in your heart, you will indulge in them, without exception!" Don't you have desires? No way! What kind of spell did you use! β
"Desire is the true thought that arises from one's own heart." I said to him and to myself, "But isn't shame also a true thought that comes from your own heart?" β
He seemed to have been hit in the most sensitive sore spot, "Shame? That's just something that society has acquired, something someone else's stuff! β
"Didn't you say that before? No matter who it originally belonged to, as long as it falls to you, it is your thing. I said, "But now you want to be polite and thoughtful and label someone else and return it to society as it is, are you also a perverted murderer?" β
"Nonsense!" He went crazy, and the doppelganger next to him suddenly exploded and turned into a blood mist, and then turned into a blood-colored phantom that poured into his body, making his whole body expand even more.
Instantly, his explosive power increased dramatically, and he swung the bone knife at me with all his strength at a great speed.
In the other dimension, he could no longer use the tactics that trapped me in the other dimension, nor could he escape from my hands. The last path left for him was to gamble that his own sacrifice would defeat me.
The next moment, the winner is decided.
The in-between's skull was shattered along with the bone knife, and the headless corpse slammed into the far wall in an inertial motion, unable to move again.
ββ
After that, I found the other half of the mirror fragment from the body of the middleman, and found a safe enough place to hide Joan and them. Then he left the other dimension just as Joe Licorice had done last time, and contacted the Security Service to rescue them.
The girl who was previously replaced by the Succubus was found near the final battle venue. The succubus didn't kill her, maybe she wanted to use it elsewhere, but the unknown plan was gone, and the girl was lucky enough to get her life back.
The security officer in charge of rescuing the two was Joe Licorice, who reopened and entered the entrance and exit of my return to the real world under my escort, equipping them with some amulets and props that I couldn't read.
"Although the matter in the other dimension will disappear after being transferred to the real world, as long as a sufficient amount of spiritual energy is injected in the right way, it can be maintained for a longer period of time, and as long as the body is restored with a normal diet during this time, it will be fine. The reason why we are okay to breathe air in another space is because such a small amount of matter can be sustained by human spirituality. "Of course, there are limits to this method. Persephone was able to return to earth half of the year because she ate very little in the underworld. If you eat and drink in another space for too long, you will become a complete resident of that space, and you will not be able to return even if you use this method. β
"I have one more question." I said, "Why don't the spirits and spirits of the other dimension disappear in the real world?" β
"It's a question that even warlocks can't agree on, but there's a controversial argument. All spirituality is actually the outflow of the true spirit, and all matter is the illusion of the true spirit. Spirits are made up of spirits, so they don't disappear; Material hallucinations, on the other hand, disappear as a result of the transfer from one dream to another. She said, "For true spirits, the alien space is just a dream, while the real world is a much greater dream. β
"Dreams......" I was noncommittal.
Qiao An was shocked that his sister was also a warlock. And although Qiao Licorice panicked when he heard that his younger brother was trapped in a different space, he seemed extremely calm at this time, which was really amazing. After that, we found two mirror fragments in another dimension and used them as keys to return to the real world.
Under the effect of Qiao Licorice's talisman and props, neither Joan nor the girl had an accident. Seeing this, we can also be regarded as relieved. But just in case, the two of them must go to the Security Bureau for further processing, and they will have regular physical examinations for a period of time after that, until it is confirmed that all the alien space substances in their bodies have been replaced with real-world substances.
At this point, the incident can be regarded as the curtain has come to an end, but there are still many unanswered questions.
For example, why the middleman is so obsessed with Joan, and what motivates the succubus to support the middleman; More importantly, what is the connection between the intermediary and the old bones......
It's easy to get to know this, just ask the middleman about his memory.
Another night, I entered the siren's dream again.
(End of chapter)