White waves and the black sea at your feet, a broken moon overhead, and a towering black tower in front of you.

The girl's heart was like a little mouse crawling, squirming, and uneasy emotions were always quietly scratching her in the dark.

However, Ji Chunzao felt that he couldn't do anything.

The only thing she could do was to stare blankly, and her hands subconsciously clenched into fists, and then let go after a while.

Suddenly, some kind of shredded voice sounded in her ears.

If you are in the real world, this sound that seems to tickle the pinna of the ear may be easily ignored; But this place was so quiet that Ji Chunzao only heard a crisp cracking sound at the moment when the moon broke at the top of the Black Tower.

Beneath my feet was the vast sea, but I couldn't hear the sound of the waves, not even the wind.

The girl's ears moved slightly, catching the voice. She realized that there was a turning point, and she immediately focused.

With the thought of "longing to hear" surging deep in her heart, the voice was really loud, clear enough that she could hear it clearly-

"Haruzao, Harumo, can you hear me?"

"Ah......h

Hearing the boy's familiar voice, Ji Chunzao's eyes widened in surprise, and the panic and loneliness that had been haunting in his heart disappeared at once.

"I can hear you! I am here! Jing Xing, where are you now? I—I want to see you! ”

She shouted eagerly.

"I know, don't worry."

The voice seemed to come from her heart, and Yan Jingxing said:

"Chunzao, calm down and listen to me, you're actually dreaming right now."

"...... dreaming?"

His voice seemed to come from the radio, and there was always a floating noise in the background when it was disturbed by radio waves.

"Hmm. Yuzhi and I are with you, but you are asleep. ”

"That is, everything that happens here is not reality......"

Sure enough, she was dreaming, she thought.

"Not really, but your dreams have the potential to affect reality."

"Huh? What does that mean? ”

"Time is limited, I won't talk about the specific principle, in short, the most important thing at the moment is to wake up. But how to get out of the dream, we can't help you, you can only control it. ”

Yan Jingxing's tone was serious and serious, and after the first pause, it seemed that someone was talking to him next to him, and he repeated word by word:

"Someone asked me to tell you that there is only one thing you need to learn: you are the master of your dreams, and in your dreams, you can do anything. Did you hear that? ”

The noise in the background of Yan Jingxing's voice was getting louder and louder, and it was almost drowning out his own words. Ji Chunzao panicked in his heart, and nodded desperately in agreement.

"I—I know! Don't go ...... yet."

"That's good."

The other party seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Ah......h That's all I can do...... Ulla...... I will protect you in reality, but if you want to solve things, the key is still on you...... Blalala......"

The girl put her hands on her chest, her eyes widened nervously, she began to try to concentrate her attention again, but this time no matter how much she repeated, it no longer had an effect, and Yan Jingxing's voice was gradually moving away from him.

Is she the only one left again?

At this moment of extreme sadness and loss, Ji Chunzao's mind had a flash of inspiration.

Although Yan Jingxing only had time to say a few words to her, there were still a few messages in his words that made her feel concerned, Ji Chunzao let go of her worries, but was even more worried about the situation of her partners opposite.

"Yes, yes......! You have to watch out for other creatures, I just saw that the power of the pillar will-"

*

"Yes...... What will be? ”

The voice of "over there" was interrupted suddenly, and Yan Jingxing "Hey, hey, hey!" He shouted several times, but never received a reply.

He pressed his temple in regret, then turned his head.

Xie Yuzhi was still behind him, except for them in the ward, only the priest was left, and the group of children who had been experimental mice were guarding the door.

The man in black sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes closed, like an ascetic monk. His face was pale, his face was dripping with sweat, and his facial muscles twitched, as if he was engaged in a fierce wrestling and entanglement with some terrible opponent in the realm of consciousness.

The reason why Yan Jingxing was able to connect with Ji Chunzao—to be precise, her consciousness that was deeply immersed in a dream—relied on his strength.

Since the encounter, the priest himself has not shown any combat effectiveness, relying on the protection of the young people around him. He thought that this person was just an adult sent by the intellectuals to appear with them simply as an adult who commanded the group of children, but he didn't expect to have this ability.

Considering that their original purpose was to help the "Savior-sama (Ji Chunzao)" master the power of the Divine Pillar, it can be said that the priest himself was the core person who carried out the plan.

After the connection was severed, the priest opened his eyes and sighed with relief.

"Will there be a next time?"

Yan Jingxing was a little embarrassed to see his weak performance, but the questions that should be asked still had to be asked.

The priest smiled bitterly and reluctantly closed his eyes, but after a moment, he still opened Shuangmu and opened his eyes helplessly.

"I'm afraid it's difficult. With my ability, it is not easy to be an antenna that relays signals from two worlds. ”

Yan Jingxing remembered that when he and Ji Chunzao were not friends, the girl explained to him in her own way the operation mode of her own ability: it was like being able to touch a receiver of radio signals from other channels, so she could "see" and "call" alien creatures.

It seems that the so-called "sacrifices" all have similar abilities, but they are stronger or weaker in intensity.

"According to the plan, when the Divine Pillar first appeared, there was a gap in the process of penetrating the two worlds...... "The priest continued, "In fact, only by grasping that gap will my 'sacrifice' ability take effect, and it is already the result of the smooth progress of the plan. It is impossible to enter the space where the Savior's consciousness is located again, which has been sealed by the power of the divine seal. ”

"Next, we can only hope that the Savior will break that shell from within."

“…… Can it really be done? ”

"It was a dream belonging to the Savior, and if the owner of the dream could not do it, it would be even more impossible for others to interfere."

"Trust her."

The girl, who had been silent since the beginning, gently tugged at his sleeve.

“…… Well. ”

Yan Jingxing nodded lightly after being silent. After sighing, he said:

"So what do we do next? Just wait, okay? ”

"Prepare yourself."

Xie Yuzhi held up a finger.

"Chunzao has already given us a hint just now, which is very important. I'm afraid we won't have a chance to rest, pay attention to our surroundings. ”

"Huh? But she hasn't finished her words yet......"

"Although I haven't finished speaking, I can still guess a rough idea." The eldest lady replied, "Mr. Priest has emphasized more than once that the so-called 'Divine Pillar' is the existence that holds the key power for the evolution of living beings, right? ”

“……”

"Based on the information we have received from other sources, we can basically confirm that this is correct."

Xie Yuzhi was talking about what they had seen on the alien ruins.

"Maybe those superpowers...... 'priests', 'kings' and 'warriors' are all from the Divine Pillar, but the premise of all this is that the power of the Divine Pillar can operate stably."

"That's right."

"What if it gets out of control?"

“…… It's going to be bad. ”

"How bad is it? I mean, the pillars symbolize the evolution of life, but it certainly doesn't just include us, or intelligent beings like the Alpha, right? ”

"yes."

The priest sighed.

"Your guess is sharp. In fact, there has always been a speculation among us high intellectuals that the 'invaders' that destroy the Alpha civilization - they come from all parts of the universe are actually born after being 'radiated' by the power of the Divine Pillar, and after the appearance of the Divine Pillar on the Alpha Star, they are all attracted to it. Because from the perspective of modern biology, it is difficult to imagine that there will be such an unimaginable monster as the 'overlord' in this world, especially since Alpha Star is still a terrestrial planet, and to find the root, it can only be pinned on some more transcendent supernatural power...... That's why we value the Pillar so much. ”

Xie Yuzhi asked again.

"So, the creatures on the earth may also be affected, right?"

"That's right......"

Before the priest could finish speaking, a scream suddenly came from outside the window, and his voice was filled with unbelievable fear.

The people in the hospital room invariably stopped talking and looked out the window.

It was late in the day, the light was dim, and the meadow, which had been shrouded in soft and glowing sunlight, was shrouded in dim shadows.

At this point in time, the patients, medical staff, and family members who were walking should have left, and the screams came from the direction near the entrance of the inpatient building.

After that scream, as if pulling the trigger, more than one person screamed one after another from the same direction, and then someone shouted loudly, and someone ran in the corridor in a hurry, "Help! "Run!" And so on and so forth, mixed with the sound of doors being slammed open and someone falling down the hallway.

The door to the ward, located deep in the hallway, was also pushed open, and the people who walked in were the young white-robed warriors guarding the door.

No. 7 looked serious, and he confirmed to the priest and Yan Jingxing:

"It's not good, someone has attacked the hospital, are we going to get out of here?"

Yan Jingxing's gaze turned back to the hospital bed.

If you want to leave here, it means moving to a new safe place with Ji Chunzao.

"Is there a better option?"

The priest shook his head slowly.

"When we first came here, we didn't know what was going on......

"Well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where it is. ”

Yan Jingxing said.

Unexpected changes followed, and before that, he couldn't help but worry and be anxious...... And when the crisis really hit them, his emotions calmed down.

All we have to do is to see the tricks.

"—The safest place is where I am."

The person to be protected is in front of him, and he will not back down.

"Bang!"

The glass of the hospital room was knocked out of the crack, and a black shadow entered through the open crack and pounced on the girl on the hospital bed at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to keep up with.

Seeing this scene, Yan Jingxing raised his hand expressionlessly and made a "snap of his fingers" posture.

Within hundredths of a second, his fingertips were encased in multiplying white bones—"partially dressed", and after repeated training, he had been able to achieve this level of precise control, thus greatly extending the time it took to control the prototype, because the white giant's power was so great that most of the time the whole body was wasting energy;

In a fiftieth of a second, the ejected finger of the body pierced the air, and the violent friction stained red and white; Just like a lit bomb releases huge heat, and even turns the air in different positions into different moving mediums that change violently, thus giving birth to a "cavity";

"Boom!"

In one twentieth of a second, the shock wave set off by Yan Jingxing's supersonic snap of his fingers shot out like a bullet out of the chamber, and the destructive force contained in it was precisely controlled within the sliding range of the cavity and swept over the hospital bed.

A tenth of a second later, the black shadow rushing in from the window was accurately hit, and in an instant the head was deformed and exploded, and steaming blood sprayed on the wall behind it; Then, out of thin air, the wind rose in the room—it was a raging wind from the aftermath.

……

Yan Jing walked to the window and took a deep breath.

“——！”

This time, it was his mouth and mouth that were "partially dressed", and the cluster sonic pulse cannon released from it swept along the courtyard outside the window like an indestructible torrent, and the terrifying impact blasted all the living creatures within a radius of hundreds of meters into powder, and dozens of plasma of different sizes splashed on the meadow at the same time.

After sweeping away the monsters that rushed to the hospital building like a tide, he casually wrapped the corpse on the ground with a curtain and threw it out.

Before that, Yan Jingxing glanced at the appearance of the black shadow.

Although the head had been shattered by the shockwave, it could barely be seen - it was a cat-based deformed creature, but it was mixed with the limbs of insects, the mouth of a mouse, and the hair of a dog.

"That's what it is...... ...... affected by the evolutionary power of the 'Divine Pillar'"

Yan Jingxing shook his head and closed the window.

(End of chapter)