Tick, tick, tick, the sound of the second hand beating of the wall clock is clearly audible in the dark room.

It didn't take long for Lumian to finally break free from a nightmare.

He hurriedly leaned up, grabbed Aurore's shoulders, and shook it vigorously:

"Wake up! Wake up! ”

He kept his voice down, not daring to let the three official investigators on duty hear it.

Aurel's eyes were closed, his mouth was slightly open, and no matter how much Lumien shook him, he didn't react, like a living dead who had lost his soul.

Lumien's shaking, slowing down, eventually stopped.

He looked at Aurore who was "asleep" and did not move for a long time.

He didn't understand why this was happening, he didn't know when the problem had arisen, and his fear was like the night he saw his grandfather die.

After that day, he began to wander.

Lumien's hands clenched tighter and tighter, and his body trembled slightly.

Suddenly, he turned around and looked at the window.

The transparent and blurry "lizard" returned to the room.

Lumian stepped off the bed and reached out with his right hand, grabbing the monster creature who was a little stunned when he woke up.

The next second, he shoved the "lizard" into his mouth, and roared with a distorted expression: "Don't you like to burrow other people's mouths? "Come on! I'm giving you this chance! He stuffed the "lizard" while biting frantically, and his eyes were bloodshot.

The "lizard" seemed to be frightened, but did not resist.

Just then, a voice came from behind Lumian: "What are you doing?" It was Aurore's voice.

Lumian froze, turned slowly, and looked at the bed. Oroel had woken up at some point, her blonde hair sloped and her light blue eyes full of confusion and confusion.

Lumian subconsciously lowered his head and found that the "lizard" he had caught was long gone.

For a moment, he didn't know if what he had just seen and what had happened was a nightmare or a real thing.

"What's wrong with you?" Aurel frowned.

Lumian forced a smile: "You just had a nightmare and kicked me out of bed."

"Really?" Aurore looked at her brother suspiciously, feeling like he was playing a prank.

She thought back for a moment: "I had a nightmare, I dreamed that I was grabbed by a huge monster and stuffed it in its mouth, and I was so frightened that I struggled desperately and finally woke up."

As Lumian listened, his body began to chill, as if he had been sunk into an alpine glacial lake that had not yet completely melted.

"Maybe, probably, I really kicked you......" Aurore was a little embarrassed.

Lumian closed his eyes and smiled: "Just kidding, I woke up for something else."

He then suppressed his voice and said, "That mysterious lady appeared in the ruins of dreams, helped me isolate the extraordinary properties of the 'provocateur', and gave me the correct potion recipe."

"So, you woke up with joy and wanted to ask me if I have any supporting materials?" It dawned on Aurore.

He smiled much more naturally than before, except that there seemed to be a slight sparkle in his eyes.

Aurore thought for a moment and said, "I have one of the vines and the water fern grass as ritual materials, and the other as a spell medium. “

Honeysuckle flowers, there have always been them at home, I use them to soak in water to drink, don't you know? ”

"Okay."

Lumian also pretended he hadn't asked.

The 'Provocateur' potion still needs distilled spirits, I'll go to the cellar now to get it, and try to get to Sequence 8 tonight." ”

"It takes some time to make hydrosol from honeysuckle."

Aurore frowned slightly and said, "However, the requirements for auxiliary materials for low-rank potions are not so strict, you can replace them with a whole honeysuckle flower, and as long as the extraordinary properties can finally dissolve, you can take it." ”

She then looked at the open door and asked in a low voice:

"You go to get distilled spirits in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid that Ryan will be suspicious?"

Seeing her sister's reaction, Lumian barely managed to keep her smile from stiffening:

As a regular customer of an old tavern, it is normal to wake up in the middle of the night and suddenly want to have some drink.

"Although alcohol has many, many harms, at least it can give me a certain amount of relaxation."

What he meant was to use the excuse that "the Lent celebration is over, the mental pressure is too great, I wake up in the middle of the night and I can't sleep, and I need to relax with spirits."

"Yes."

Auroel said there was no problem.

Lumian turned and walked to the door, the smile on his face fading. His hands were clenched tightly throughout.

Out of the doorway, into the hallway, Lumien saw Ryan, wearing a brown tweed shirt and light yellow trousers, standing diagonally across from him, with Leah and Valentine at opposite ends of the hallway.

"Not sleeping?" Ryan, who was carrying a kerosene lamp, looked at Lumian.

Lumian smiled: "How about going to the cellar and getting a bottle of spirits, would you like to take a sip and relax?"

"I don't need to." Ryan nodded, "You haven't experienced anything like it, it's mentally tense and stressful, it's predictable, and alcohol does play a role." ”

"I'll go down with you, you can't act alone at this time."

"Okay."

Lumien did not object.

As the two entered the stairs, Leah approached Aurore's bedroom and stood watch at the door.

One step, two steps...... Lumian and Ryan descended in silence to the dark first floor.

As the dim light of the fire illuminated half of the stove, Ryan asked casually, "Something seems to have happened in the room just now?" There is a certain amount of movement. ”

The purpose of his proposal to go to the cellar to get wine was not to promote the Dream Ruins tonight, there was also a cellar with distilled liquor in the two-story building, he was mainly to avoid Auroel and communicate with Ryan and the others about what had just happened.

Ryan's expression suddenly became serious:

"What's wrong? ＂

Lumien took several breaths before he said, "Aurel, like the priest of the Replica Hall, comes out of his mouth, out of his mouth, the kind of 'lizard' that seems to be a pixie."

When he said this sentence in its entirety, it was as if he had been drained of all his strength.

It took seven or eight seconds for him to tell the story as it was, but he described waking up as waking up from sleep, and he happened to see it.

"You've handled it well, and now you can't let her know that there's something wrong with her, and I'm afraid that's going to make things worse. “

You continue to pretend that nothing has happened, and when dawn comes, I'll ask Valente to see if I can get rid of that 'lizard' under the pretext that 'Cordu is polluted, we need to do a daily cleanup to prevent it from being affected'." ”

"Okay."

Lumian replied with little strength.

He felt that the "lizard" had already had a deep fusion with his sister's soul, and it was not so easy to expel and purify. Ryan glanced at him; Gently patted him on the shoulder: "I can understand your feelings, but if my relatives have a similar abnormality, I can't calm down.

"But remember, impatience won't solve anything.

"I know, Valente's purification is likely to have no effect, but you have to try to make sure it doesn't work, well, that kind of anomaly is very likely to be linked to the cycle of Kordu Village, as long as we can finally break the cycle, your sister should be able to recover directly."

Oh, yes...... It's also a kind of pollution, and as long as I can get all the pollution back when I decycle, Oroel will be fine......

Lumien's eyes lit up and he regained his motivation.

"I need to remind you that in the next few days, you will have to adjust to the changes in your sister. “

It is likely that she will be like the priest of the Duplicate Hall, gradually becoming only instinctive, acting differently according to her memories and strongest emotions, and not reacting to anything else. ”

Lumien was silent for a while and said, "I'll get used to it......"

Going to the cellar to get the distilled spirits, the two returned to the second floor as if nothing had happened.

Inside, Lumian smiled again.

Aurel smiled back and gestured to the desk: "Honeysuckle, vines, and water ferns are all there."

Lumian nodded, and placed the bottle on his desk.

Then, he lay back in bed and closed his eyes under the pretext of "falling asleep as soon as possible and going to be promoted in his dreams".

He couldn't sleep.

He couldn't figure out when his sister was contaminated and was entered by the "lizard" during this time, the two of them were obviously together every minute, even if Aurore went to the bathroom, she was accompanied by Leah, and vice versa, why did something go wrong?

If it's while I'm sleeping, why didn't I have a problem?

Lumian struggled to find the source, which would help resolve the anomaly.

Suddenly, he remembered something.

And at that time, he was still an ordinary person.

Lumian originally thought that he would rely on the shepherd Pierre. Berry, but combined with the current situation, he has a guess, a crazy guess:

Perhaps from the very beginning, most of the people in the village were parasitized by the strange creatures that looked like "lizards", including Aurel!

As the twelfth night gets closer to the twelfth night, the corresponding anomaly will become more and more apparent, and some people will manifest something wrong earlier.

He himself was spared because he had that blue-black symbol on him.

He involuntarily clenched his teeth.

At this time, Ryan was patrolling back and forth in the hallway with a kerosene lamp.

On the wall to his side, the shadow suddenly lengthened.

Almost at the same time, the little silver bells on Leah's veil and boots rang out. She felt her shoulders become unusually cold.

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