As these words fell, Douglas suddenly felt his eyelids sink and his consciousness became confused. A sense of tranquility permeated him from the inside out, making him unable to resist any thoughts, and gradually lowered his head, closed his eyes and fell into a deep dream.

After using his ability to put Douglas into a deep sleep, Soster first turned around and told the team behind him a few words to keep them vigilant.

Although this is the basement of St. Samuel's Cathedral, and although they have checked that each other has not been contaminated by the seals, Sost always reminds the team members and night watchmen that they should not take anything lightly when it comes to extraordinary events.

When he was ready, Sost leaned back in his seat in a more comfortable position, closed his eyes slightly, and strolled into Douglas's dream.

People's dreams are always bizarre and full of all kinds of chaotic thoughts, and it must be 200% meticulous to peel back the cocoon and find the most real part of the other person. As a Red Glove who has been promoted step by step from the bottom of the night watch, Sost is already familiar with this, and soon guides Douglas's dreams to construct a relatively stable scene.

This is supposed to be a private house somewhere in the East End. The small single room is divided into two parts by a curtain, and the space is slightly cramped, but it is also warm because of the abundant life atmosphere.

In the dream, Douglas seemed to just stand in the room and look around, until Sost entered the room and sat down on the edge of the bed as guided. The subject of the dream will be a little sluggish in the dream, but Sost didn't care, and after confirming that the other party was mentally stable, unpolluted, and showed no signs of losing control, he started to ask according to the plan: "You and Peter. How did Thomson meet? ”

"An underground party." Douglas touched the back of his head and explained truthfully, "He likes stargazing and astrology, and I often help him acquire relevant information in other places." Well, he's very generous, pays well, and we have a good relationship. ”

"Recently, did Thomson give you a commission to help him hide something?"

"Yes. He said he bought something in exchange for a potion recipe from an organization and asked me to keep it for him......"

As Douglas recalls and narrates, Sost secretly guides the development of the dream, presenting images from the other party's memories and scrutinizing them closely.

The images are somewhat blurry and choppy, but generally conform to the facts currently known to the night watchers, and there are no contradictions in the details. Sothworth nodded and continued, "What about later?" What happens when you take the commission? ”

Douglas showed a somewhat confused look: "Later, I ...... I seem to have forgotten ......."

As if to confirm his words, the dream took on a white expanse without any images.

This is believed to be the result of Seal "2-061...... Sost already knew that the other party had used the seal at least once, and was not surprised by the situation: "Say you remember. ”

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In the depths of the dream, which the red glove had not noticed, a wisp of gray mist spread, swirling, and quietly covering something.

-

It turns out that the way of your interrogation is to dream, good occult. Douglas was thoughtful.

He was really asleep, he really dreamed of the room at No. 8 Black Olive Street, and he was still wondering why he dreamed of this, shouldn't he dream of the bedroom with air conditioning, snacks, Coke, computers and games in his previous life?

As a result, as soon as Sost entered the door, Douglas immediately felt as if his consciousness had been split in half, half of which was following the guidance of the red glove, and the other half of his eyes were floating up as if he were out of his body, watching the interactions that took place in the dream.

He subconsciously looked at himself, but saw no entity, only an ethereal gray mist swirling slowly, like a silent nebula in the depths of the universe.

As Sost interrogated and looked at his memory, Douglas almost understood the mystery. The muddy half of the consciousness is more like the original "Douglas", and the half composed of the gray mist is the "Jing Wenying" who has crossed over.

Perhaps because of the crossing, the consciousness of the two has been fused, and it is obvious in the dream that the original owner "Douglas" has a deeper impression of this world, which suppresses the consciousness of "Jing Wenying", so that there is no mobile phone and computer that is not in the other world in the dream.

However, he can clearly see that after all, the original owner has died, and the consciousness belonging to "Douglas" is gradually wearing out, and may one day disappear completely. Even now, the consciousness of "Jing Wenying" can forcibly influence the other party.

For example, just now he urgently "possessed" to prevent "Douglas", who was being questioned by Sost, from telling the truth about his access to potions, and forcibly swallowed back the "I became an extraordinary person because the boss introduced me to a Gnosis member" part of the sentence.

"I became an extraordinary person because of the boss."

The dream took on the face of the gang boss as the words followed.

Sost asked, "Where did he get the potion?" Is he affiliated with any organization? ”

"I don't know."

"Where is he now?"

"The boss died a few years ago during the 'Great Smog'."

It was because of this fact that Douglas dared to dump the pot directly at the gang boss, treating his own becoming an extraordinary person as a dead accident, covering up his previous dealings with the Gnosis Society and the Aurora Society.

It's just that in this incident, Douglas felt that he was not guilty of death, and he could even be regarded as a victim. But if you add in the dealings with the Aurora Society and the Gnosis Society, two secret organizations in the name of cults and bloody sacrifices, the matter is a big deal.

Sost had no doubts. After all, in the depths of dreams, people usually only follow the most instinctive and primitive subconscious actions, and there is no room for lying.

A "Apprentice" Path Sequence 9 who has no mental resistance, no authority over dreams and consciousness, and is unlikely to lie in front of the professionals of the Night Path.

After doing the background check, he turned to asking more about the incident, such as talking to Friedman. Mir's meet and plan.

This part of Douglas just has to tell the truth. He cooperated with Sost's guidance to present scenes such as his meeting and conversation with Friedman, and explained his whereabouts cleanly.

When he "took out" the written note to help him understand the situation and handed it to the other party, he clearly saw the red glove hook the corners of his mouth, as if he couldn't hold back a smile.

…… Laughing hair! This is the one that saved me from fire and water! I'll frame it for the rest of my life when I get home!

In his belly, the interrogation continued.

"You're just a believer in Mother Earth God, why did you write letters to four churches at the same time to expose Friedman?"

"Praise the Mother Goddess." Douglas followed his persona in his dream, pretending to be heartfelt before explaining, "The East End is too big and too chaotic for me to risk letting him escape." He will definitely come and kill me. So I wish there were as many people as possible from the church, at least so that Friedman didn't have time to deal with me. ”

"What else have you done to prepare for this?"

"I hired a coachman to deliver a letter, hired a homeless man to reveal the deal between us to the Aurora Society, I went to the sewers in advance to inspect the extraordinary item, and after making sure it couldn't be used by me, I hid a button stained with my own blood in the box."

"Why?"

"After seeing the negative effects of the extraordinary item, I guess Friedman couldn't have picked it up and looked at it or worn it, so the items hidden in the box wouldn't have been discovered. I used my own blood as a medium to determine Friedman's location at all times using the 'Divination Rod' method. If he did escape, I would ......"

He paused and looked at Red Glove seriously: "I will use this to catch up with him and kill him myself." ”

It was the worst that Douglas could have thought of after all the preparations, and even that crowbar was prepared for it.

Regardless of whether he can do it in terms of ability, ideologically Douglas is indeed ready to fight or die together.

He wanted to settle the matter once and for all, and he couldn't let Friedman come back alive after he found out that he was in the middle of a fight. Who knows if Friedman and the organization behind him will in turn take revenge on themselves for their good deeds?

Furthermore, it was Friedman who used me first.

If someone doesn't offend me, I won't offend anyone, but if someone offends me, then what am I being polite to him?

In the end, he did not forget his character in this world.

Bounty hunters who have climbed all the way up from the East End, who have accidentally become extraordinary, and who have been dealing with wanted criminals for a long time.

Such a person can be easy-going, arrogant, and friendly, but his choices in the face of the enemy must be decisive, ruthless, and have a sense of killing.

Showing too much tolerance and too weakness will not win the trust of others.

Of course, the original character of "Jing Wenying" is not like this. It's just that after crossing over, he had to face this mess of chasing and framing, and he didn't have a choice, so he simply followed the identity of "Douglas" and learned a lot of experience in dealing with similar situations from the other party's memory.

Otherwise, with the little knowledge of the ivory tower college students in his previous life, he would have been deceived by Friedman.

Faced with his answer, Red Glove didn't look surprised, just nodded, and then asked for more details to find out the whole story.

At the end, Sost suddenly asked a question that had nothing to do with the incident: "Why did you adopt that little girl, Veretti. Cotton? ”

Douglas immediately made room for the original owner's consciousness to wait for an answer. From the moment he found out this memory, he became very curious about it.

If he were "Douglas", he might feel pity for Veretti and help him briefly in that kind of life situation, but he would never adopt him directly.

"Douglas" consciousness slowly spoke: "When I see her, I feel like I see myself...... When they threw my father's body out and took the pension from me for his death, when I was wandering the streets, starving until I fainted......

"I'm desperate for someone to take me away, take me home, take me out of here and never come back......

She ...... Veretti was only ten years old at the time. She took her younger brother and guarded her mother's body at the factory gate...... When I see it, when I see it, I think, that's me. No one will ever come to help me, no one will come to help her, not even the gods will look after us.

I walked over, but I couldn't help but look back...... The factory guards kicked and beat her, telling her to get out of the way...... I drank that day and I was drunk. So I went back, knocked the guard to the ground and beat him hard. ”

As "Douglas" gets emotional, the dream begins to vibrate, and many scenes are broken and reassembled, showing the chaotic and filthy streets of the East End, the thin arms and godless eyes of beggars and thieves, the blood that flows, the knives and guns that hurt each other, a coin that everyone fights for, and a cigarette that is secretly lit by the flame of a candle.

And Veretti's face. Crying, calm, laughing, serious, shy. Her every move, smile and smile are precipitated in the depths of the dream, like a treasure carefully hidden.

"I took her and Victor back...... From that time on, I felt like I had a 'home' and a 'family'......

"Victor was too young to survive that damn smog...... Fortunately, Veretti is still there. She was saved. She chose to become a nurse and a Night Cultist because it was the charity staff of the Night Church who saved her life......

"She can do whatever she wants. Anything goes. I want her to have a home to go back to, food to eat, and a school to go to...... I......

"I don't want to...... Living alone in this world......"