Rann:? Ha?

The kid asked as if he had already tacitly agreed that he was an evil god.

Oh wait.

Rann leaned in Albert's eyes, and saw clearly what he was now.

The face is shrouded in fog and he is dressed suspiciously.

Well, it's really wicked.

Thinking about the previous sentence that seemed to have been heard by Albert, Ran, who already had a wealth of experience in being misunderstood, suddenly understood.

Seeing Rann approaching, Albert subconsciously wanted to stay away, but when he noticed the ghoul lord in front of him who had been absorbed by the terrible plant, Albert swallowed his saliva, not daring to do such a thing that might anger the evil god, uneasy, like a suspect waiting for a verdict.

Then he heard the evil god say, "Why didn't you listen to me?" ”

Albert was stunned, remembering the specious words left by the evil god when he was a child, and his expression hesitated.

"I—I want to find out the truth about Archie's father."

Well, he knew that words alone could not change the trajectory of all this.

Rann sighed, at this time, just about to return to the normal distance, when suddenly a strong warning flashed in his mind, Rann didn't have time to think, subconsciously reached out and grabbed the back of Albert's head, forced to push it to his side, and leaned back at the same time.

Bang –

Almost the next moment, a bullet glittering with gold sliced against Albert's scalp, and Ran's pupils reflected the traces of the bullet as he looked out of the hallway.

A vague figure, standing by the window on the second floor of the library, seemed to be observing this side, and did not intend to continue the pursuit after noticing the mistake, and stepped back into the dark area.

Who's that?

Isn't the weird raid over yet?

Ran's mind was solemn, but Albert's whole mind was already confused.

In other words, after feeling the strength of the hand in the back of the head just now, when the whole person got closer and closer to Ran's side, it seemed that he had passed through something, and when he saw the scenery behind the fog for a moment, his brain had begun to stop.

Because the distance of the sticker was almost negative at the moment, Albert didn't even notice the bullet in the back of his head, the whole brain was congested, and the temperature of his cheeks rose.

"Get up."

Ran's voice woke Albert out of his trance, and only then did he suddenly react to the danger that had just occurred, he stood up and looked in the direction of Ran's body sideways, but could not see anything.

"It's gone." Rann said.

So, did He save Himself again?

Albert pursed his lips, apprehensive at the inexplicable help, and when he looked at Ran's haunting misty face, a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes that he didn't even notice.

At this time, the movement outside the window attracted the attention of the two, Albert turned his head sideways, and found that it was the dog that was dense before, and the other party dragged the injury to fight with other ghouls, but he was not injured again, but because of the claws of the previous ghoul lord, the wound was expanded, and he was bleeding at the moment.

Albert also reacted that the dog did not want to hurt himself before, on the contrary, he saved himself.

He was about to get closer, only to find that the dog lowered itself again, purring threateningly at Albert's side.

No, it wasn't Albert he threatened, but ......

Albert looked sideways at Rann beside him, and the dog's eyes were following Ran's side.

Rann looked at the dog as well, and the surroundings were as quiet as they had been in Albert's childhood home, but the dog was the only one who could break the shackles of memory, 'seeing' him and attacking the weird.

Why is this happening, and is there anything special about this dog?

Ran's mind moved, and the carnivorous plants on the ground moved again, rushing towards the dog with lightning speed, and the dog was slow to react because of the wound on his body, and was grabbed by the plant and presented to Ran.

The dog struggled frantically, seemingly trying his best to get out of the plant's confinement, purring menacingly, but as the plant approached Rann, the dog's purr grew quieter, and finally shrank its head a little cowardly.

Albert was a little unbearable, and subconsciously looked at Ran: "Can you let this dog go?" ”

He felt the unknown being glance at him, and then the red on the carnivorous plant suddenly pushed away, turning white.

The golden slurry appeared on the branches again, but this time it was not corrosive, but healing, and the dog seemed to glare, and then comfortably rubbed against the trunk.

By the time the plant lowered it, the blood hole in the dog's body had disappeared, and the dog wagged its tail and stepped forward to rub Rann's leg intimately.

…… For some reason, Albert suddenly felt a little unhappy in his heart.

Rann let out a chuckle, crouched down, and scratched the dog's chin with his fingers, "Good dog." ”

Again, Rann is a proper dog pie.

But why on earth is this kid able to attack weird? Not to mention the weirdness of these invasion dreams, except for Albert, everything here should be a fixed plot.

As soon as Rann thought this, the fog suddenly reacted, and two wisps poured into the dog's and Albert's bodies.

Albert's eyes suddenly flashed with confusion, and he covered his head: "Why do I feel this scene ......?"

He seems to have been through it more than once.

The confused memory flashed quickly, but in the end, he couldn't catch the white dove that flashed by, and at this moment, he found that the mysterious existence around him became illusory again.

"You ......"

Rann lowered his head and looked at himself, his tone still calm: "It seems that this time it will end here." ”

"What exactly do you want?"

"Huh? Didn't I already tell you what I wanted? Rann looked at him, his tone calm, "Get out of the Inspectorate sooner, Albert." ”

That's not a good organization.

After saying this, Rann's figure disappeared before Albert's eyes again.

The silence was shattered in an instant, as if the special space that had been isolated was restored to its original state, and Kerry gasped for breath to catch up with Albert, and of course he also saw the shattered glass in the hallway and the bullet holes in the walls.

"What's going on?"

Albert was still thinking about what Rann said before, and didn't notice that the dog didn't know when it was gone, he turned his head and asked Kerry: "Senior, have you heard of the inspection bureau?" ”

"Huh? Of course I know, the inspection bureau often comes to our school to recruit new ones, but I haven't been there, so I don't know what it is. Kerry said, "What, you're interested?" Then you can ask your mentor and ask him to get a letter of recommendation. ”

In fact, he is already a member of the Inspection Bureau. Of course, Albert couldn't say this clearly, so he slurred it casually and asked, "Did you take a picture of the dog?" ”

"Oh, I was just going to tell you." Kerry handed Albert the camera in his hand and played the video from the moment, "Look. ”

On the video, only Albert is running around abruptly, as if he is hiding from something, but what he is hiding from cannot be captured by the camera.

"You and I saw the dog, but the camera didn't shoot it, so my guess was correct." Kerry pushed his glasses, "The reason why the dog hasn't appeared in front of people all these years may be because it's not a real-world creature anymore in some way." ”

"But it can also be understood, generally speaking, the life span of a dog should be much shorter than that of humans, its owner, a professor at the University of California, has been dead for many years, if it is an ordinary dog, there is no reason to live until now, if the legend is correct, maybe something has really changed in it, I really want to study it......"

Kerry said as he kept looking at Albert, but Albert didn't receive his hints at all, because all he had in mind was the reminder from Rann before.

Why did he specifically remind him not to join the Inspectorate? What happened to the Inspectorate?

Sent on an undercover mission after only a short time on the job, Albert did not experience the internal atmosphere of the Inspectorate for long, and his impression of the organization remained in the official investigator organization.

Click-

Albert was stunned and watched as Kerry took out his camera and took a picture of him with a sad face.

"What? It's okay, it's my habit to take photos to commemorate the occasion, and it will remind me of the curiosity and drive of this moment when I do research. ”

"Then why shoot me?"

"You're pretty good-looking," Kerry said lazily, "and you're pretty good as a model, but it doesn't arouse my passion." ”

Although Albert didn't speak, he couldn't help but show a disgusted expression at this moment - who wants to inspire a man's passion?

Anyway, the night went by, and Albert went to his mentor Aldous, pretending to be an ordinary student who had accidentally heard about the existence of the Inspectorate and was longing for it.

"The Inspectorate? Ah, that organization, I would have recommended you if it had been before," Aldous said as he tended to his plant garden, "but something has been wrong in recent years, and it's up to you to decide whether or not to go." ”

"Is something happening in the Inspectorate?" Albert asked.

"It's not a big deal yet, but change is happening," Aldous pushed his glasses, "and no one knows whether it's a good thing or a bad thing for humanity when a person becomes a permanent sign, a flag, and a savior." ”

"Remember, Albert, when you look into the abyss, the abyss is watching you."

Aldous's words contained a warning, Albert went back and thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't come to a conclusion, and when the inspection bureau urged him to pass on the information again, Albert hesitated for a moment, but still sent the guess derived from his heart when he was chased by the dog.

Either way, the Inspectorate is currently the only person Albert knows of who can stop the stranger's conspiracy.

No matter what, he has to take care of everything around him.

Out of his sight, Rann quietly watched the development of things, not only destined to be unchangeable, but also because this was a dream, a memory, so whatever he did, he would move towards the final result.

But then again......

Both attacks appear to have occurred before and after Albert contacted the Inspectorate.

Rann remembered that the first bizarre attack had happened

, it was Albert who first contacted the intranet, and if it was unsurprising, this should be the opportunity for Albert to join the inspection bureau.

And the second attack was to hand over the clues to the inspection bureau that may be the identity of the leader of the strangers?

It seems that both incidents were related to the Inspectorate. Rann frowned, thinking, does the weird attack have anything to do with the Inspectorate?

No, no, it shouldn't be this line of thought, how to say that the power of the inspection bureau is not big enough to interfere with other people's dream gap test, assuming that the owner of the dream is Albert, why are there only these two nodes, and there is a strange attack?

At this moment, the bullet that had flashed Jin Yan before flashed through his mind, and a guess came out.

……

At this moment, just as Rann was immersed in Albert's dream.

Reality.

When the inspection team finally began to recover, Eugene couldn't wait to urge them to hurry up. The group tracked down Arkham Hospital based on a signal that was not disguised at all.

But here's the problem, it's full of people, and they haven't found anything except for a phone that is suspected to be sending text messages.

And the mobile phone was also taken to Kerry Chapman for inspection, it was a mediocre mobile phone model, it should have been bought temporarily, and the bound ID card was also bought on the black market, so it had no value at all.

Edmund said, "The clue is broken. ”

"No, not really." Eugene suddenly pulled out a golden pocket watch from his bosom, and the hour and minute hands on it were turning around, "On the contrary, we may have hit the target." ”

The gold pocket watch is a new type of instrument researched within the inspection bureau, the principle is not to talk about for the time being, its role is to search for special secret realms, the formation principle of these secret realms is very complex, it may be caused by the formation of special spells, evil gods or special terrain and celestial phenomena, the magic in the air pulls the human spirit, forming the kind of secret realm that is above reality and infinitely close to the dream world.

Strictly speaking, when Arkham City was surrounded by fog before, it also became a large-scale secret realm in a sense.

There, the barrier between reality and dreams is broken, the two are infinitely close, and the weird can easily appear in front of people, even ordinary people can capture the weird figure, and at the same time be hurt by the weird.

There are many similar secret realms in the world, only in special seasons, fixed, time-limited, because of the pollution of evil gods, all kinds, the inspection bureau began to study the secret realm a long time ago, and the gold pocket watch in Eugene's hand is one of the achievements in recent years.

Hearing this, Job couldn't help frowning: "...... Could this be a trap. ”

Let's not talk about whether the person who contacted them before was Albert himself, if so, then why did he guide them into a special secret realm based on reality, if the other party had malicious intentions, wouldn't this be a feast?

"Whether it's or not, that's all we have at hand," Eugene said lightly, "Oh no, I almost forgot about Archie in the game, so let's just let him go ahead." ”

“…… Mendri! Job tugged at Eugene's collar, "Don't go too far, our inspection bureau mission is ......!" ”

"Protect humanity, but if sacrificing one or two people can achieve the goal of saving humanity, then why not?" Eugene grabbed Job's hand, "Actually, you think so too, right?" Don't rush to contradict me, I've seen all of you've seen your mission logs, so I know you've made that choice too. ”

Eugene's eyes swept over Job and Dinah behind him, Dinah put her hands around her chest, and the whole person presented a defensive posture, Edie seemed to be indifferent, but her eyes were on the floor, only the newly joined Edmund and Eunice were dazed.

"You know what?" Eugene suddenly laughed happily, his delicate face was innocent, but the malice in it was like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, "When you try to convince yourself that you sacrifice other people's lives for the sake of righteousness, you will inevitably put human life on the scales in the future, and of course the large number will always sink on the side of the majority." ”

"What's so bad? You can never save the majority, sacrificing the minority to save the majority, it is enough to go on and so on. ”

Seeing that everyone present was silent, Eugene hooked the corners of his lips and turned his head and walked back.

"Then what qualifications do you have to make the judgment that a few can save humanity at the expense of a few?"

Eugene turned around and saw Edmund standing in the corner, the shadow hitting half of his body, an innocent look on his freckled face, and asked, "Are the few sacrificed really to save humanity, not to desire?" Was their sacrifice really for justice? ”

"Of course," Eugene said without hesitation, "because we are all following the orders of the Director, only that Lord will never go wrong, and everyone's sacrifice is meaningful." ”

"Well, can I say it, it sounds like an evil ......" Edmund's words were not finished, but he was stopped by Eugene who took off his glasses, Job was startled, and reacted quickly to block in front of Edmund, and closed his eyes at the same time: "What do you want to do!?" Mendry, do you want to do it to your companions? ”

"I just told him to take care of his mouth, and if he didn't want it, I could help cut it off." Eugene said coldly, "Let me hear this kind of disrespectful remarks about the director again, and you won't be lucky next time." ”

Eugene went to the other side to make a phone call, and the others present fell silent for a while, and finally Edie snorted coldly: "It's just a mad dog raised by the director." ”

"Edie." Job hurriedly stopped him and looked left and right.

"Captain, you don't need to be so jealous of him, do you?"

"After all, it's the director's secretary, if he really wants to put on small shoes for you, things will be a hundred times more troublesome." Job sighed, "And Eugene doesn't have a very good reputation in the bureau in this regard, you may continue to deal with him in the future, I don't want you to really have any accidents one day." ”

"Tsk." Edie smashed her tongue, but didn't speak.

"And Edmund too," Job looked at Edmund, "you are not technically a formal investigator, and then you go back to the bureau for review, and all formal investigators have to be reviewed by the director and the secretary next to the director, and if he wants to make trouble for you, there are countless ways." ”

"I see." Edmund said obediently, and the tone changed, "What are we going to do next?" ”

"Mendri has determined that there is a secret realm here, and it is estimated that he called Chapman to come over, and he is an expert in this area, and then find a way to enter the secret realm, and we can enter the investigation." Job replied.

Edmund's eyes flashed: "I see...... so"

After finding a casual reason to go to the toilet, Edmund turned and walked to the toilet cubicle, and after confirming that there was no one nearby, he closed his eyes and whispered a prayer.

But something strange happened, and no one answered the prayer words.

Edmund was stunned, and read it again, but still not.

This time his face finally changed, and he realized that the course of events might be out of his control.

Why didn't Lord Rann respond to him, what happened?

……

At this moment, Rann was still immersed in the dream, time flashed quickly in Albert, and another school and a half years passed, at this time Albert had mastered enough knowledge, coupled with his own hard work, Aldous finally allowed him to enter the laboratory to help, so Albert finally came into contact with Aldous's research core.

"Man-made secret realm?"

"Yes, to be precise, my research project is to build a near-secret realm, or a small dream world." "You know, Albert, about ten years ago, professors from various departments at the University of Uchi-U collaborated on a great project, which was to explore the greatest secret of mankind to date, the land of myths and legends—the dream world. ”

"Llewellyn of the Ancient Potions Department. Professor Foster has restored a lost potion from ancient texts, which we will call the Dream Elixir for the time being, and has now been shown to be effective in smuggling into the dream world. ”

Albert's eyes widened in shock: "Enter ...... Dreamland? ”

"Yes, the Phantom Grass you asked me to borrow before is one of the core materials of this dream potion, but it's a pity that the scale powder of the other core material, the Soul Eater Butterfly, is too difficult to find, and the difficulty of this potion is too high, no one except Professor Llewellyn can make it, so this potion is also equivalent to being lost."

Aldous's face was full of regret.

"What about Professor Llewellyn?"

"Well, I haven't finished talking yet, this is the end of the scene of the Ancient Potions Department, and then the professors of the Department of Geography, History, and Mythology will collect information, and then form a team of investigators from the strongest camp that Mi University can come up with." Aldous smiled.

"Through a little magic, we established a channel of contact with them, and obtained quite valuable information, including the geography of the dream world, the cultural landscape, and then do you know what kind of world it is? It's incredible, you would never have imagined that there is actually an idealistic world, and everything in the dream is determined by the will and spirit of the inhabitants of the dream world! This kind of world is too romantic and incredible! ”

Aldous showed a flush of excitement on his pale skin because he had been in the laboratory for many years, and danced to convey his excitement and yearning to Albert, "Everyone is a god of their own world, as long as they believe in it, gold can fall from the sky, and milk and honey will come from the earth, this is a real paradise!" ”

"I want to reproduce this paradise in the human world, this is the whole purpose of my research, I want to use the artificial secret realm to imitate a human paradise that is extremely close to the dream world, so that even if human beings live a mediocre life in reality, but once night falls, enter the dream world, they can become their own masters!"

"Half reality, half dream, two lives!"

Albert calmly listened to his mentor's ambitions: "If that's the case, then I guess no one wants to return to reality." ”

"No, no, no, you're wrong, there is an extremely important law in the dream world, the stronger the will, the more effective it is, I plan to apply this rule as well, if you have the idea of escaping reality, then you will not be happy in the dream world." Aldous shook his head.

Albert didn't really have much interest in this, and he still cared more about the project that Aldous had talked about earlier.

"What about the investigators on that team? They have made such great contributions, they will not be unknown. ”

"Huh? What are you talking about, they didn't come back. Aldous said in a calm, even somewhat envious tone, "Alas, it's a pity that I was a student at the time, and I didn't qualify for such a big project, otherwise I would really want to see that world." ”

His face was full of regret, and Albert could see that he felt from the bottom of his heart that it was a pity that he had not been able to pass.

The rumors outside are really not wrong at all, he thought, here are a group of weirdos who can drown for their ideals. ：，，.