Chapter 45: In a distant dream
It was as if a corner of the night had been torn apart, and then forced into this house, only the sparse star-dotted darkness occupied every place, and the breath of silence and tranquility gushed out from the crack in the pocket watch, and the old Neil, who was still standing in the room, instantly closed his eyes and fell asleep, and fell directly to the ground.
The eyes hanging above Esther's head immediately became blurry and hazy, and as the silent power grew stronger, it was like a pencil drawing of an eraser, forcibly erased.
After the night drove away those eyes, it was like layers of curtains falling on Esther's body, enveloping her inside, and as more and more black veil-like power surrounded, the unbroken points of light around Esther could finally slowly return to her head.
The light in Esther's eyes quickly dissipated under the soothing of this power, and when the darkness surging in her eyes subsided and turned back to a clear light gray, Esther closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
The power of the night enveloped Esther's body in layers, eventually merging directly into her body, even sealing the bleeding wound on her arm, leaving only a layer of darkness outside.
All the abnormalities in the house disappeared completely.
The three people outside the house could feel the pressure of light and darkness disappearing, and they quickly reacted, Luo Yao wiped his face with a handkerchief, and nodded at Dunn to indicate that he was okay, and after Klein also said that he was in a stable state, Dunn stepped on the steps in front of Old Neil's door again.
Dunn stood quietly in the doorway with his eyes closed for a few minutes before cautiously unscrewing the doorknob so that the scene inside the room was clearly visible to the three of them.
Old Neil's home was peaceful, save for the broken knot on the ground, a broken pocket watch, a circle that hadn't had time to perform the ritual, and two people who had just fallen asleep and were on the verge of losing control.
Old Neil looked good, the black hair on his face or both of his eyes were gone, but the corner of his forehead was red and swollen because he knocked on the edge of the piano bench when he passed out. Esther's hair was almost silvery-white, except for a few yellow hairs, the roots of which were still as pale yellow as osmanthus flowers, and there was no blood on her face.
The loss of control of old Neil and Esther, the strange scene of blood red and black hair in the house just now, is like a brief hallucination of the moment when the door is broken, full of unreality.
"Old Neil is drowning in a dream, Esther...... Also. ”
Dunn almost shuddered, trying not to think back to what he had just seen in Esther's dream. This was the first time he had successfully entered Esther's dream, and although it was only for a moment, the criss-crossing twists and turns, and the large number of repetitions and interlaced images had a huge impact on Dunn's spirit, making him still feel dazed and illusory after returning to reality.
In Esther's dream, Dunn saw dozens of old Neil's out-of-control endings in an instant, and the huge flow of information seemed to make Dunn experience all kinds of illusions, so it took him an extra two minutes to come back to his senses.
At least it's over, everyone is still alive and no one is dead......
Crane's arm holding the gun hung down weakly, and he looked at Esther's sleepy face, and only felt bitter in his heart. He never thought that in the end, it would be the fellow who broke out her "golden finger", almost to the point of exchanging her life for her life.
The Tingen Nightwatchman team guards the inhabitants with their lives, and Dawn guards them with the same philosophy, no, us.
Unexpectedly, she usually only thinks about food, and she still has such a side, but unexpectedly, Klein was deeply moved by such behavior. When the power of the light on Esther's body exploded, Crane always felt that the light felt familiar to him, but he didn't remember where he felt it other than the time he saw Ademisor.
Luo Yao's always cold face also showed fragile sadness, she helped Esther up and examined the wound on her arm, only to find that it had healed on its own, leaving only a long scar like a centipede.
Crane and Loyo brought Neil and Esther back to Blackthorn Security, and Dunn stayed at Neil's house to make a final search to make sure nothing else was left here.
There was only silence on the carriage, hooves kicking through the darkening streets, and the crimson moon opened its eyes from the sky.
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Roseanne sat at the back of the reception desk, unable to calm down at anything because she was restless, and at the slightest movement at the door, she wanted to stretch her head out to look.
But in order to calm people's hearts, Dunn specially told Klein and Luo Yao not to go through the main entrance of the Black Thorn Security Company. After the two took Esther Old Neil from the underground passage of St. Selena's Church to Chanis Gate, and directly under the sigh of the caretaker, brought the two into the door, Luo Yao went to Dunn's office to send an urgent telegram to the Templar.
Klein hesitated for a moment, but still made his way to the reception hall at the front door of the security company.
Roseanne didn't even notice when she saw Klein walking in through the stairs at the back door, she was staring at the window in the opposite direction, listening for any movement outside.
"Rosan, we've brought back old Neil."
Roshan was taken aback by this call, and when she saw that it was Crane, she immediately asked anxiously, "How is old Neil?" Is he okay? ”
He ...... Fortunately, I'm asleep now. We caught up. It took a lot of effort for Klein to say the last sentence.
Luo Shan patted her heart and breathed a sigh of relief happily: "That's good, this is great." What about Esther? Didn't she come back with you? ”
Thinking that Roseanne was the closest person to Esther in the entire company, Klein didn't hide it, and used what Dunn told them to reveal: "Esther is also asleep, and may have to rest for a long time." ”
"Sleepy ......" Luo Shan fell back in astonishment, leaning heavily in the back of her chair, her always radiant face covered with a layer of gloom, "Is she seriously injured?" ”
Klein just shook his head: "I don't know, maybe I have to wait for the captain to come back...... Again. ”
The meaning of this sentence is obvious, he should not tell others about the superfluous content without the permission of the captain. Roseanne had been working here for several years, and of course she understood Klein's voiceover, so she didn't ask any more questions, just shook her head silently, and touched the ballpoint pen in her hand as she tried to grab a magazine.
Roshan stared at the tumbling pen, watching it spin around on the ground, but had no power to get up to pick it up.
Crane leaned over to pick up the ballpoint pen, put it back on Roxanne's desk, and left the reception hall for Dunn's office, waiting for the final end of the unexpected task.
Touching the braided bracelet on her left wrist, she held back the tears that swirled in her eyes, and drew the crimson moon many times in her heart.
"Goddess, please bless Esther from causing her ......"
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Esther was dreaming.
She had to admit that she hadn't had a normal dream ever since she came to the world of the red moon and started living as Esther, which made her hate the illusion of sinking into the dream.
But it wasn't until today that Esther realized that she could clearly tell whether what was in front of her was a dream or reality.
She was in a dream, experiencing something she had no memory of at all.
Esther didn't feel her controllable body, her consciousness tucked into tiny blobs of light, curled up in fluffy hair. Beneath him was a giant black wolf with eight legs, and the aura coming from his body made Esther feel familiar and made her want to get closer. So Esther rolled in her hair and fell between the claws of the wolf, rubbing gently against the little water stains on the wolf's paws.
It was tears, the giant wolf was crying silently, but what burned in those eyes was unwillingness, compassion and indignation.
"Esther Light Cluster" shook, and a song sounded in the giant wolf's head, which was an English pop song that she was also quite familiar with, "Rolling in the Deep".
The black, eight-legged wolf closed its eyes and gently rested its chin on the light, holding it tightly between its claws, which were still stained with blood.
The dream began to distort, and Asther thought that this was the end, but she did not expect that this was indeed the beginning of a longer dream, and she saw so many creatures, all of which were the strange races of the creation myth, and that humans were at the bottom of the food chain, struggling with the mighty and ferocious creatures.
And she has been staying with the black wolf as a small ball of light, and when the black wolf drives the bad luck, the ball of light clings tightly to her hair, and the power violently increases the spiritual power of the black wolf, so that the black wolf can show more powerful strength and escape from danger repeatedly.
A betrayal that affected several races appeared, the ancient race leader fell, and under the plot of the black wolf, the violent leader of the demon wolf clan also died in this disaster. The black wolf carried the power of the pre-demon wolf leader to escape, and with the help of Esther, he quickly controlled it, and slaughtered the other demon wolves in a frenzy.
The dream was drowned in the boundless color of blood as the ball of light swallowed the black wolf's uncontrollable madness and fell into a deep sleep.
Esther's consciousness was pulled from it, and even though she knew that these images as vivid as reality were the result of her strange dreams, Esther still felt uncomfortable.
The ball of light has no emotion, it seems to be performing some "duty", but Esther has emotions, she can feel the endless grief and confusion in the heart of the eight-legged giant wolf, and the pleasure of revenge on the wolves in the back.
Compared to the more animalistic wolves, Esther could feel a person in its shell.
Who is she?
Before Esther could think about it, the image that had sunk into darkness resurfaced.
In this dream, Esther finally had a "body", getting rid of the pure light polymer, and a woman wearing a black gothic cascading dress with stars on the skirt was holding Esther's hand and pulling her down a quiet corridor, the woman's face was also blocked under the black veil, revealing only faint lips and chin.
Esther immediately recognized the man, it was night.
Based on her height when she looked up, Esther speculated that she was no more than one meter two now, and her steps were pitifully small when she walked, and she had to slow down in the night so that Esther would not be able to keep up.
Am I a six- or seven-year-old at most? I had seen the night since I was a child, and I had no impression of it.
Is it all a dream or a ......
Sealed memories?