The sirens just stood in front of me. To say that this is an illusion, the young girl's body in front of her is so real, as if she is really alive and well in reality.

I went around in circles, looking at her from different angles, and sure enough, I couldn't see the slightest flaw. I couldn't help but be curious, and tried to poke her cheek. As a result, it was naturally untouchable, and her fingers penetrated her cheek without resistance as if it were passing through a mirror, without even causing the illusion to disturb in the slightest.

"This illusion is just a fabrication of your sight and hearing, and you can't touch it." She reminded.

"Since you can fabricate my sense of sight and hearing, can the senses of touch, taste, and smell also be simulated?" I cite three other senses.

"Yes, but I still need time to practice." She said.

"That's right." Although this experience of being able to touch a person standing in front of me felt a little fresh, but when I thought about my current behavior, I still withdrew my finger.

She whispered, "If you really want to touch me, I can speed up the practice." ”

"That's not in a hurry." I watched her apparition and fell into thought.

It's like a siren in the real world, but it's still a dimensional difference from the picture I've sketched in my mind. Once upon a time, when I first met her, she walked with me through the crowded streets in my dreams, and even talked happily with me, ate delicious food, and shared the after-viewing experience of the movie. Although it was just a fake play that she deliberately played for me, I wanted it to be true.

I hope that one day she will be able to step out of the woods of that dark night and smile in the sunlight of reality. Occasionally, I can glimpse that longing from her. But for some reason, she always has a strange resistance to the real world.

When she saw that I suddenly didn't speak, it seemed that she had misunderstood something, so she suddenly panicked and hurriedly defended, "That, I won't use it to do bad things......"

"What's the bad thing?" It took me half a beat to realize that she had misunderstood something.

Since she can fabricate my perceptual information, a different perspective can also allow me to see only what she wants me to see. Although she can only fabricate visual and auditory information now, she still has a lot of room to grow. In the future, not to mention other physiological perceptions, even the soul perception of consciousness may be fabricated.

Even, she has the computing power and analytical power like a supercomputer, and it seems that she has met the prerequisites of "brain in a vat".

If she wanted to, she could take me to a dream that was deeper than all the previous dreams combined. How can this not be worrying?

However, even I felt that there might be something wrong with me, and I really didn't worry about that kind of thing. I am willing to trust her with all my heart and believe in this girl who promised me that she would always stand firmly by my side.

And, although I don't think it's possible, even if she really wants to dominate me, to get rid of the subordinate identity of "weapon", and in turn turn turn turn me into her "puppet", I will willingly accept it. So far, she has endured too many dangers with me under my willfulness, and has saved my life from the brink of death countless times, always answering my call, incarnating as my blade, fighting for me.

So, if she asks, I will not hesitate to respond to her call, incarnate as her blade, and fight for her.

In order to reassure her, I told her all my thoughts.

It's like this to dissect my state of mind in front of her and pour out my true words, even I feel embarrassed. But she's the closest friend to me, and it's not an exaggeration to say that she's all in one mind, and I'm going to let her know my truth no matter what. She reacted much more than I did, though. After listening to this, she froze for two or three seconds, and then her phantom was as violently disturbed as the reflection on the surface of a lake that had been hit by heavy rain, and finally disappeared. It was a long time before her apparition reappeared before my eyes, and she seemed to be as calm as ever.

"I, I see." "But I'm really not going to do that kind of bad thing, really." ”

"I believe in you." I said, "So, how are you going to show me Naruyoshi's memories?" ”

"It's like the last time you looked at Wei Chi's memories, let you read his memories from his perspective. Because the perceptual information is ready-made and does not need to be fabricated, it can also simulate all of his perceptions at that time. "However, because your perception is covered, you will become unable to perceive the changes in reality." Even if a demon appears and attacks you, you can't see or hear it. So, well......"

I took her words and said, "I'll leave the vigilance to you, okay?" ”

"Okay." She seemed a little happy.

"So, let's get started." I say.

"Hmm." As she responded, my vision changed.

Instead of ruined streets, the scene turned into muddy ground under the rainstorm.

"I" was pressed to the ground by two sturdy law enforcement warlocks, unable to move no matter how hard I struggled. In front of "me", a pair of black high-end leather shoes appeared. "I" struggled to look up, trying to stare at the person in front of me, but even my head was pressed down so hard that the door slammed into the puddle on the ground.

"This is what happens to you for disobeying me, Narutoi." The man's voice rang out from above.

"I" couldn't hold back the anger that erupted in my heart, and roared hoarsely: "The sentence is heavy! ”

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As I read step by step, I finally grasped the ins and outs of Mingyi's fall to such a point.

As I know in the past, Naruyoshi used to work in secular society as a law enforcement worker, and was paranoid about fairness. He grew up like most people, and was instilled with a lot of conventional education from his surroundings since he was a child, such as not lying, not harming others and benefiting himself, being obedient and obeying the rules, otherwise he will reap the consequences sooner or later.

Then, like most people, he gradually discovered as he grew up that the world seemed to be different from what he thought when he was a child. Instead of reaping the consequences, many people who lie and harm others and benefit themselves have become more shrewd, to the point of being sincere and selfless, and some have even become pillars of society.

When there is a conflict between one's imagination and the real world, some people will feel that there is something wrong with them, and some people will feel that there is something wrong with the world. The latter is generally regarded as a fool, and Mingyi is such a fool. Generally speaking, even a fool like him will make some compromises under the blow of reality, not to say that he has to compromise to the point of giving up the bottom line, but he can also make his way of thinking a little more flexible and learn some "skills for dealing with the world".

However, he is very strong in this area and believes in the "broken window effect". He believes that it is much more difficult to break the bottom line and then stick to the bottom line again than to always stick to the bottom line and have no bottom line at all. From this point of view, his paranoia also reflects that he is actually a person who lacks self-confidence. Many times he doesn't know that it's better to take a step back, he is afraid that if he takes a step back, he will retreat again and again in the future.

In his mind, a truly powerful person is a person who is both angular, sleek, and can instinctively grasp the balance and walk on the tightrope of the soul, while ordinary people can only choose one of the two. His former colleagues have called him a weirdo, but they have no idea how vulgar he is in his eyes.

After joining the Security Bureau, he still insisted on his own style, and even dug up the black material of his superiors as he did in the past unit.

The person who dug up the black material by him this time was Ju Chong, the director of the Mirage Property Security Bureau, and the black material dug up was a dark transaction between Ju Zhong and the fanatical believers.

Just last month, Juzhong applied for a batch of high-precision equipment from the headquarters, but was robbed by a mysterious main-level warlock. The latter and the "mysterious main warlock" who was later active in the fog of the mirage are two different characters, whose real identity is that of a fanatic. And the truth of this matter is that Juzhong sold those high-tech equipment to fanatics, and dealt with it as a result of "accidental robbery" in order to hide the truth.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be stunned. Because it doesn't correspond to the facts I know.

It is absolutely impossible for Juzhong to collude with fanatics, because the investigation team has already done an extremely thorough investigation. In order to prove Juzhong's innocence, the members of the investigation team even claimed that they had used necromancy to summon Juzhong's remnant soul and ordered the remnant soul to tell the truth. Is there more ironclad evidence than this?

Unless......

Unless that member of the investigation team is lying.

I'm afraid that the investigation team itself is not innocent. Headquarters sent them over to investigate the equipment hijacking, and it was a joke from the beginning.

Their task is not to find out the truth, but not to let the truth be found out.

In Mingyi's memory, although Juzhong was also a researcher, his professional field was not in dreams, and the equipment related to dream technology was intended for fanatics from the beginning.

In addition, if nothing else, I am afraid that the investigation team should have determined that the equipment was seized by the Liucheng Security Bureau after the Liucheng collective sleep incident at a very early stage of the investigation. There was something on his lips that "I was thinking about whether I should talk to Lie Que in Liucheng, but at that time, the super main force level warlock appeared", and it is estimated that there is no such coincidence, most of them don't have the courage to talk to Lie Que.

The existence of corrupt elements within the Security Service who collude with the Demon Warlock Organization is no longer news, and it is clear that Ju Zhong and the investigation team, as well as the people behind the dispatch of the investigation team, are of this type. What these people fear most is the lack of the Security Bureau who once used them as prey to wash blood.

To get back to the point, Lieku once praised Mingyi's tracking and investigation ability, and the reason why Mingyi was able to investigate the collusion between Juzhong and the fanatical believers was also because he gave full play to this ability. Unfortunately, Juzhong, as the director of the Security Bureau, is not a waste, he immediately realized Mingyi's abnormal movement, and immediately launched a hunt for him.

At that time, he colluded with the Demon Warlock Organization in the Mirage Market Security Bureau, in addition to Juzhong himself, there were also several of his cronies. Although Naruto escaped their first wave of pursuit, in the end he was still planted in Juzhong's hands.

Narutoshi's tracking and investigative abilities are largely the result of his experience working in law enforcement in the secular world, as well as his talent as a detective. He used to shine in law enforcement with this ability, and he also knows how to turn it around from being tracked and investigated by others. And this skill of the common sense world can sometimes search for clues from its own unique perspective that even spells can't find, but it is still too naïve to use it to compete with unreasonable spells.

Juzhong didn't kill someone immediately after he caught him, and he was going to ask Mingyi if he had told anyone else about the black material, or if there were other "accomplices".

The answer to both questions is "no", but of course Naruyoshi will not say it as the other party wants. Neither Jushige nor his cronies were good at torture, so they handed over Mingyi to the "professionals", the demonic sorcerers who were operating in the mirage at the time, the men of the fanatics.

For warlocks, especially demon warlocks, whether or not the subject of torture will reveal the secrets of their hearts has little to do with the willpower of the subject of torture itself. Truth-telling, mind-reading, soul-searching...... Even those who have done high-intensity confrontation training dare not say that they will definitely be able to withstand the torture of demonic warlocks, let alone Mingyi, a half-monk warlock.

And after digging up all the details of Naruyoshi, the demon warlocks were not in a hurry to kill him, but continued to torture the law enforcement warlock cruelly. After ten hellish days, Naruyoshi broke down mentally and physically, and the demon sorcerers decided to kill him.

But just then, someone rescued him. He saw in a dazzled sight with his remaining eyes: in the dim and foul-smelling basement, a silver light flashed, and the demonic sorcerers around him were torn apart, and pieces of flesh and internal organs fell to the ground with blood plasma. He couldn't see who had saved him, and could only dimly see a black and white figure stomping on the blood plasma and walking towards him. Then he passed out.

When he woke up, he found himself thrown into a wasteland. It seemed to be late at night, and the cold wind was blowing like a ghost crying. It seems that someone has done a simple hemostatic treatment for his injury, but his whole body is still filled with bone-eating pain. And next to him sat a man on a large rock.

It was a girl in a black dress, with impressively long white hair and a silver sword at her side. Originally, she seemed to be still recuperating with her eyes closed, but when Naruto looked at her, she opened her eyes. It was bright red eyes reminiscent of demons, shining in the dark like nocturnal animals.

(End of chapter)