According to what Blue Bird said in the past, the "inner ghost" was obviously a person with bad intentions for me, so he implanted a malignant factor in the dreams that were generated to heal me, so that the dream of healing turned into a dream of horror. I accepted this and formed a stereotype in my mind that the inner ghost was there to interrupt my treatment and trap me in a nightmare to torment me.

But is that really the case?

Was that really a nightmare of transformation to torment me?

It is true that I would unconsciously sleepwalk to the Nameless Mountain every night in my nightmares, and be forced to accept the slaughter of the demons. But then, at the end of the nightmare, I realized the truth. The reason why I unconsciously sleepwalked to the nameless mountain was because of my instinct to seek the truth. Taking a step back, the reason why I took the initiative to go to the Nameless Mountain in the dream in the first place was also because I was unconsciously aware of the truth that everything was there.

And this kind of pursuit of truth, let alone an "inner ghost", even I can't predict it.

So, if I hadn't chosen to go to the Nameless Mountain in my dream, and I hadn't sleepwalked to the Nameless Mountain at night, what would have happened?

The demons will be sealed on the nameless mountain by the mountains and forests that symbolize the lost, and I will live a happy life as a wealthy college student who knows nothing about my own reality. The effect of the "malignant factor" is only to reverse the power relationship between me and the demons, and make me an ordinary person who lacks awareness in line with the dream setting. It's as if you've never been lost on a nameless mountain, and you've never encountered "it". The only misfortune was the front table Nguyen Van Truck who appeared as a virtual background character in the dream world, and she disappeared from the secular society as if in my place.

If the "inner ghost" is someone who has malicious intentions towards me, then this kind of plan is obviously too gentle on me. The "inner ghost" is more like a person who has strong kindness to me. She tried to turn the dream of healing, which was supposed to end soon, into a dream that would not end easily, and turned the condition of breaking away from the dream into a "defeat the demon" that was almost impossible for me in the dream. She wanted me to stay in that dream, and live an ordinary life that I had no chance to live long, without distortion and madness, without sin and pain.

In my cognition, the only person with this kind of motivation and ability is the blue bird.

The sirens have told me before that the time for the "inner ghost" to implant the "malignant factor" is only before the formation of the dream; And even a long time ago, she also told me in a dream that the blue bird, as a monitor of the dream, might be able to do something even greater if the dream was not yet formed.

“…… I've told you in the past that the dream is both your psychotherapy plan and your final psychological test. Originally, I didn't need to dive into your dreams to ask you questions and answers, I only needed to observe your formed dreams from the outside, and it was enough to know all your deep psychology. "But because the blue bird did superfluous things, the reference significance of that dream became almost zero, and I had to use the backup plan of talking directly to you." In terms of results, it doesn't make a difference, you are indeed a victim of misguided by evil external forces, as I thought. ”

"And then you left the bluebird alone in my dreams?"

"Since she violates the rules of ethics and manipulates the dream realm without authorization, and wants to set up other people's lives in a false time and space on her own initiative, then I will stop her. But I decided to give her a chance first. If she realizes that she is lost and frees you from the dream by herself, I will not be guilty of her misconduct. ”

"Even if it's possible for your students to die in my dreams?" I asked rhetorically.

"She has already been trained from me, and she is the main force of the Security Bureau who is enough to take charge on her own." He said unwaveringly, "Since you choose to carry the lives of others, you must have the courage to risk your life." ”

I gradually realized that I really didn't seem to know enough about the columns. Is this a human or impersonal statement?

He sat behind his desk and looked at me, and after a while, he suddenly asked, "Would you hate her?" ”

I shook my head.

Imposed kindness, sometimes indistinguishable from malice—that's what the sirens said to me in their dreams. At that time, the sirens didn't even know about the existence of malignant factors, but this sentence was crooked. But even if I knew it, I couldn't feel bad about what the blue bird was doing.

If you change positions, it is not the "Demon Li Duo" who fell astray five years ago, but the "Witch Blue Bird", and I stand in the position of the Blue Bird now, and it is difficult to guarantee that I will not do that.

Even if you impose kindness on others, you want them to live a healthy life...... Maybe I'd think the same way.

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The task given to me by Lieq is to continue the pursuit of the succubus, and I have no problem with the mission itself.

Compared with the middleman who is inseparable from the bite of the blood, the relationship between the succubus and the bite of the blood seems to be closer, more similar to the relationship between superiors and subordinates in the popular sense. This means that if I have the chance to kill the succubus with my own hands, I will be able to get more information about the bite from his memory.

Even if you put that aside, it is possible to get clues about the mysterious forces that spread demonic knowledge through succubi. Recently, I have learned a lot of information from the internal publications of the Security Bureau, and the demonic knowledge spread by the mysterious forces has brewed more disasters than I could have imagined.

I heard that some of the demon sorcerers who have increased because of what they have done have summoned powerful demons in neighboring cities. The demon is known as the "Demon of the Mist", and as the name suggests, it has a fog-like body, and its mere existence is enough to cover a large part of the city. As soon as it was summoned, it killed all the warlocks who had summoned it, and went on a killing spree in the city. But the city's security bureau reacted quickly enough that the casualties did not escalate further.

However, the Demon of the Mist escaped the blockade and secretly moved to the outskirts with the demon's unique hidden powers, slaughtering two villages in quick succession, and now his whereabouts are unknown again.

Seriously, every time I see this kind of hidden world news, I wonder if I'm getting the wrong "newspaper". Am I really not reading the news of a war-torn country? Is it common for casualties of this magnitude to occur in a hidden world? Death so casually that the death rate of the entire population exceeds the birth rate every year, right? Or are these numbers hidden in the annual mortality rate of the past, but the secular society is not aware of it?

Whether it's a perverted murderer who kills people at every turn, or a powerful demon who slaughters a village, there doesn't seem to be a rare enough thing in the hidden world to cause turmoil. I've been exposed to this kind of news a lot, and I really feel like I'm in another world where life is like a mustard. Some of the ideas that we take for granted are also faltering.

Without further ado, I quickly ran into a bottleneck in my pursuit of the succubus. It's easy to say, I don't know where the succubus is.

It would be best if she was still in Liucheng, but like this kind of warlock criminal, she didn't know which city she would run to. She doesn't even need to take a train or other means of transportation, her own body is the strongest means of transportation. With her physique and athletic ability to cross the country, just those feet are enough to travel all over the country in just a few days. For many wilderness survival enthusiasts, the mountainous terrain is no different from the forbidden area of survival, but to her, it is just a small hillside.

I asked if the agreement to "not take on other tasks until the succubus is solved" would be nullified if she ran away to another province. Lie Que is "generous", he told me that if I encounter that kind of situation, I will go directly to the province to hunt down.

"I ran to the territory of the security bureaus in other cities to arrest people, and some, eh...... Is there a contradiction between rights and responsibilities? "I don't know much about this either, so I asked about it.

"The local security bureaus are acting cheaply in this regard. Sometimes there are some conflicts, but generally just say hello. "We also have people here who travel to other cities on business, and law enforcement warlocks from other cities occasionally travel to us...... It's very common, and you just need to get used to it later. ”

Fortunately, within a few days, I got a clue about the succubus's whereabouts. And it didn't get to the point where it was necessary to travel to other provinces on business, and the succubus seemed to be in a remote town not far from Liucheng.

The town is called "White Sun Town", and the clue is provided by a local person.

I didn't know what the succubus was doing when it was left there, so I went to the dream on the eve of my departure and asked the mapping of the middleman. He told me that it was the succubus' permanent base for the past two years.

"She seems to be very disgusted with her seductive talent behind her back, and yearns for pure violence. So in that remote rural place, the demonic ritual is repeated repeatedly, and the demon is asked for more power. The intermediary vaguely revealed disdain when he mentioned the succubus, "But her most powerful talent is still charm talent in the end." Whenever your violence doesn't work, you still have to rely on the skills you despise the most. ”

The next morning, I took the train to the town of White Sun. The blue bird had already heard that I was going after the succubus, and was quite tempted to follow me. But as the main force of Liucheng, she doesn't come and go as freely as I do. In the end, she could only support me with a lot of healing talismans, and she also made me three more of the anti-charm talisman she consumed last time, just in case of emergency.

Once I reached the town, I made a beeline for the clue provider's residence.

The lead provider is a grey people.

In the Hidden World, the "Greys" are a group of people who are somewhere between the average person and the Warlock. Although these people have a perception beyond the average person, they may not be able to learn spells due to reasons such as disagreement with their worldview. Burdened with the curse of being involved in secret events from time to time, he has no power to resist hidden events, so he has to accept the protection of organizations like the Security Service. For example, Joan last time, if he was never able to learn spells, he would end up being classified as a gray citizen by the Security Bureau.

Many of the covert incidents were not discovered by the relevant personnel of the Security Bureau, but by these gray people who were easily involved in the incident and reported to the Security Bureau. Some Greys will use this quality to volunteer as "investigators" of the Security Bureau, actively exploring more hidden incidents and reporting them to the Security Bureau. For example, the succubus's whereabouts were also discovered by investigators.

However, the investigator had a different request, and he wanted to be able to interview me and give me clues about the succubus's whereabouts with his own hands.

I smelled something weird about it.

Could it be some kind of trap? For example, could the investigator have been controlled by a succubus, and that a net of succubi has been laid in his residence? Will the succubus have prepared a new charm spell waiting for me this time?

The succubus's combat power is nothing more than that for me, but her charm spells are something I have to be doubly wary of.

I walked through the streets and alleys of Daytown. The town has a half-old, half-new feel, with retro-style brick houses in some places, but close to new buildings with a strong modern style. Sometimes it's a brick road, sometimes it's a concrete road. It seems to be gradually transforming from an ancient township to an intermediate form of a modern township.

When he was about to arrive at the investigator's residence, a somewhat familiar voice suddenly came from behind him, "Li ...... Li Duo? ”

When I turned my head, it was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy who called out to me.

It turned out to be Joan.

That's right, it's Joan. He was standing not far away with his backpack on his back, looking at me with a look of surprise on his face. It seems that he was surprised that he would meet me here. But if you want to talk about accidents, I'm not inferior to him here.

Since the last incident, Joan has been in and out of the Security Bureau from time to time to undergo medical examinations to ensure that the alien matter in her body is being properly replaced with real matter. In this regard, he recovered quickly, perhaps thanks to his superior awareness, his body seemed to know where to be occupied by extradimensional matter. Therefore, in the real world diet, those parts of the substance will be metabolized preferentially. It didn't take long for him to be back to normal.

In the process, he probably heard about me from my sister and the others, and the gaze he cast on me became quite complicated. I can understand his feelings, although I have already told him that I used to be a wicked person, but just listening to it like that does not produce any actual feelings. It wasn't until he really understood what I was doing that he completed his "change" of me. On the other hand, he was indeed saved by me, a man full of evil. It may have left him torn up in his heart whether to hate me or be grateful.

Maybe he once longed for me like I dreamed of a blue bird, and even asked "can I become like you", but now he can never have the same feelings for me again.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

(End of chapter)