Superpowers of Sky City

Chapter 425 The Rain Falls Like a Knife (3)

"There is no problem with the textbook." Rei Shigure said, "The recent news and TV programs are also the same, and there is no influence of spells or psychological hints."

Gongsun Ce glanced at the books, and responded, "Where are the toys? Have you checked the toys that children like?"

After leaving elementary school, the two went to the library of Shuidun City, searching for information on the local entertainment industry in the past six months.Gongsun Ce believes that the increase in rain is probably just an inducement, and the changes in the children are inseparable from the subtle influence of daily life.But this search was still fruitless, everything seemed normal, and Gongsun Ce couldn't help but wonder if his thinking was correct.

"There are no toys in the library." Shi Yuling stuffed the elementary school art textbooks in his hand back on the bookshelf, "Go and check the small shops near the school, and go back to eat if you don't get anything."

It was already seven forty in the evening, and the two who had been running around since arriving in the Blade Rain State had not had dinner yet.They found a suitable investigation target near the elementary school in the middle of the dungeon. A small shop called "George's Treasure Box" has not yet closed. In the shop window are children's favorite dolls, robot toys and comic books. The counter There are also many shoddy "local souvenirs" on the side.

The owner, Mr. George, is an overly burly middle-aged man. He has big shoulders and a thick waist. His palms are almost twice the size of ordinary people, but his facial features are surprisingly small. Compared with his body, his two small black eyes are like sesame seeds, bringing a strong Funny. "Sorry, we're closing soon..." His small eyes looked at the two of them, and a flash of enlightenment flashed across his face, "Baby products are sold in the supermarket opposite."

Gongsun Ce coughed hard twice, and Shi Yuling pinched his waist fiercely from behind.

"No, no, it's not that time yet. I want to buy a gift for my sister in my hometown. She just entered the second grade of elementary school."

"That's the time to be cute. Most of the children in elementary school are cute. When they go to junior high school, the three years of nightmares begin." Mr. George said cheerfully, "How about a Holy Grail? Children Everyone likes this, little wishing machine."

There are some poor-quality street stall products in conspicuous positions on the shelves, and the top row is painted in a dazzling low-quality gold, and the "holy grail" is about the size of a mineral water bottle.Shigure Zero grabbed one and took a look. In the middle of the cup was a small hole for putting coins. It was a coin piggy bank for children.

"The Holy Grail is our mascot here." Mr. George introduced enthusiastically. "You must have heard the story of the saint being injured. The State of Blade Rain is his battlefield." His holy blood flowed into the cup and became a healing The magic medicine for pain'. My mother played this for me when I was a child, and if you collect enough coins, you can make a wish come true."

"I don't want to offend, the Holy Grail of Wishing is the legend of the kingdom." Shigurei said, "Isn't the legend of the Holy Grail of the local belief more inclined to suffering?"

"From the Kingdom?" The shopkeeper rubbed his thick fingers, "It seems that there is such a saying. But things like culture are always passed on, and I guarantee that the saints will say the same. You are in Hezhong Listen to this story, it is a legend of Hezhong." This man has a childlike optimism, and he doesn't care about the trivial details such as the evolution of thought.

"It makes sense." Gongsun Ce picked up a small holy grail and put it on the counter.He walked around the store and found that the layout of the store had obviously changed recently. Many toys were placed on the shelf where the books used to be, while the books that were originally placed on the counter were covered with black cloth and placed at the end. inside corner.He lifted the black cloth, and the books that were replaced were old fairy tales, such as "The Wizard of Oz", "Snow White", "Alice in Wonderland"...

"The recent children don't like fairy tales much?"

"We are a traditional state, which is different from places like Shiyin and Xuanci. Our children still read old stories and stick to the habit of reading on paper." Mr. George replied very proudly, and he turned depressed , "But recently... alas... it's the rain. The heavy rain makes everyone not normal."

"Let me guess." Gongsun Ce said, "When the children read the fairy tale book, they are very excited and start crying, as if they saw a ghost?"

Mr. George's expression was as if he had seen a ghost.

"Are you investigators from the Ministry of Education?"

"I'm a college student who came to travel." Gongsun Ce said, "Thank you for your cooperation, I wish you a good night."

He paid for the little Holy Grail piggy bank and walked out of the store with Zero.Before he left, he saw a beautiful little notebook, an ink bottle, and a custom-made quill pen for those big hands. It seemed that Mr. George's hobby was practicing calligraphy or writing.

"What do you think, spiritualist?"

"Using common memes such as fairy tales and nursery rhymes to attack the mind, I can probably guess what it is." Shigure Zero said with disgust, "It's disgusting and wicked, what good will doing this kind of thing do them!"

"Indeed, it's a completely different style compared to before..."

Gongsun Ce also felt a little strange when he was angry, and his way of acting was too bad.Gaius' henchmen often use technology and the general environment to create advantages. Their actions can be seen with obvious purpose, the verification of a certain technology, and the development of a certain project.But what happened in the State of Blade Rain does not benefit anyone, it can only see the deep malice behind the scenes.

Maliciousness that triggers unpleasant memories.

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【The hatred is rising, triggering memories that I don't want to think about.

The clumsy acting skills of the little actor are enough to fool the secret agents, but they cannot hide from the eyes of the sword-wielder and his party.It took less than half a day for them to find out the tricks of the young actor, which was something that the agents took more than a week to do.

Naturally, they were ready to take action.But the little actor wasn't too worried.

Because it's been raining. 】

The thick hand put down the quill, and the writer struggled to get up, moving his burly body out of the small space.

He put on his raincoat and rain boots and walked into the night.

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Cathedral of the Holy Bayonet, foyer.

Gongsun Ce stared at the weeping virtual puppet with an indescribably weird expression on his face.

"Elandia, are you sure this thing is a phantom? This is a bit different from what I saw back then."

Gongsun Ce is very familiar with phantoms. Those ghosts made him suffer a lot when he had no special attack methods.They look like horrible gray-white wax figures. They are afraid of light and heat, hide in the fog, and are good at using electronic equipment to play tricks.And the thing in front of him is like an electronic ghost with epilepsy, which is far from the existence in his memory.

Elandia turned on the phone, and a call came in a few seconds later. After the automatic connection, she let out a hoarse laugh: "The nightmare will last forever, tomorrow will never be, fear the rain of blades..."

"Fear your mother's electronic ashes." Gongsun Ce said, "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will send you to Cyber ​​Hell to reunite with your virtual mother."

"Policy."

"Sorry I was wrong, we all know it has no mother."

The puppet phantom's mouth was opened stiffly, not daring to make a sound.A gray shuriken cut it in half in the middle, so that it no longer had to worry about being unable to speak.Gongsun Ce took back the seal of thinking alone, straightened his collar: "I'm sure this thing is a phantom... What's the matter with your expressions?"

The girls other than Elandia showed varying degrees of surprise, and Qi Luo, who looked shocked, spoke out for everyone: "Gongsun Ce, you are so aggressive..."

"I used to talk a little more than I do now." Gongsun Ce said, "Let's not talk about it, how could Usters have phantoms? The ghost dragon is dead, and the spirit hell world is over. The ghosts should have been extinct from the world long ago."

"Essentially, phantoms are creatures that rely on a special environment. If the enemy can reproduce the spirit prison world to a certain extent, then it is not nonsense to create phantoms."

"How does it create a pseudo-spiritual prison world?" Gongsun Ce pondered, "I heard from my elder brother that it is a purely spiritual space, like a subconscious ocean. It can't be reproduced in the material world at all... it Where can I find pure spiritual space..."

"It can." Shigure Zero said with a gloomy face, "Think about what the children said. I heard noises when I was sleeping at night, I felt someone following me when I woke up at night, and I saw someone in the cloakroom at night... The environment that triggers terrifying imagination is always at night. .What were the children doing before these things happened?"

"Sleep. Dream?"

"If the prisoner connects many dreams together, he can get a pure spiritual space that is easy to interfere at night." Dawn Knight pointed out, "Think about the practice of impermanence, dreams are a shortcut to the soul. We are in reality No trace of interference was found, because the real attack took place in the dream."

If the enemy can even manipulate the dream itself, it would be an extremely simple matter for children to forget the dream in reality.Gongsun Ce picked up the notebooks left by the agents and looked for the records he cared about.

"The two agents also discovered this problem in the end. Drowsiness is their self-protection plan. They found that they were attacked and wanted to take the initiative to fall into a dream to fight back. But the prisoner's strength was too strong and they failed. Unable to wake up." Gongsun Ce speculated, "The situation at that time should be very urgent, and the spirits of the two agents are already very unstable. If emergency measures are not taken, I am afraid that they will also suffer misfortune in reality."

Qi Luo felt a chill run up her spine.Everyone pieced together the truth about the Blade Rain State in a few words. There are evil pleasure criminals who do evil in their dreams and cause panic in reality. It sounds like the introduction of a bad horror movie.But clichéd horror films are made fun of because they are created to entertain the public. If the plot in the horror story really happened in reality, people’s feedback would no longer be ridicule but cry.

"Gongsun Ce, can you sneak into the dream?" Qi Luo asked.

"Ah Ce is the envoy of silence, and spiritual battles are not his specialty." Qin Qianbai raised his hand, "I am the daughter of the Qin family..."

"So you won't be pulled into the dream at all, you are the safest person at the moment." Shi Yuling pressed her hand down, "Is there anyone else who knows better than me? No, right? I'll take care of that then."

"Zero, don't be impulsive."

Huan Yuezun flicked his long hair: "Just kidding. I am Alice Adar, and the dreamland is my home field."

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Before formally taking action, the group evacuated the church and booked several high-end suites in the hotel in the underground city.Elandia designed a simple symbolic technique for Shigure Zero, constructing a "shrine" in the living room through the arrangement of furniture, and using Gengatsuzun himself as the god body that responds to prayers.As a "priest", Gongsun Ce performed the etiquette of "two prostrations, two clappings and one prostration" in front of everyone, and used a one-hundred-kilometer banknote as an offering to the gods.

"The founder who pursues freedom, and the Huanyue Zun who travels in the fairyland. In the name of fairy tales, dreams and love, please use your own aura to protect us from malice and give the guardian of peace to dreams."

Lord Huan Yuezun took out the banknotes from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket: "After the offerings are received, Big Sister will protect you all. Go to sleep after you break up."

Qi Luo was dumbfounded: "What a mundane god...and this prayer is made up in a common language!"

"We are now in Hezhong, we must pay attention to doing as the Romans do. No matter how sincere your heart is when you pray in Zero Island language in the North Continent, the effect will not be very good." Shi Yuling climbed onto the bed and pulled the quilt. , don’t move your hands and feet while I’m sleeping.”

"Go, go, Sleeping Beauty, I'll kiss you again when you wake up."

Shigure zero rolled his eyes at him, and quickly fell asleep after closing his eyes.This time she didn't take the initiative to build a dream, she looked at the world with the unique detached perspective of the creator of the world, which dyed the real world with the color of meme.She used these memes as material when developing moves, and this time she traveled between thought and reality, sending the spirit to a place a little further.

Shi Yuling came to the elementary school investigated today, and she found the children who were injured during the band performance, and there was no abnormality on their little faces.She brushed the face of a little girl with her palm.

"Sleep, girl. Show me your dreams."

Pure daffodils are blooming on the head of the bed, and the dream has turned into a tangible reality under her command, floating like a cloud of fog from the perspective of information.Shi Yuling stepped into the dreamland, her leather boots stepped on the wet ground, and she stepped on the scarlet blood in the mud.

It was raining in the dream, and the rain was as black as oil pouring down, painting a dirty picture with the blood in the ground.Countless thick old trees grew in the darkness, their leaves fluttered in the heavy rain, making strange cries.There are big holes eaten by moths on the branches of every old tree, and every tree seems to be showing a malicious smile.

A girl's cry came from deep in the forest, and Shigure approached step by step.The injured girl was crying helplessly under a strange tree, a scarlet shadow turned her back to Shigure Rei, coaxing the child softly.

"Come on, child, follow me. There are wolves eating people in the forest, and it will be dangerous if you don't go."

"I don't!" the girl yelled in horror, "Go away!"

"You must listen to the adults..."

Shi Yuling's heel stepped on a branch, making a harsh creaking sound.The scarlet figure heard it and turned around slowly. "Who's here?" Her voice was like an old man and a beast. "Who are you?" Her cloak was too red, like human flesh, and her arms were too white, like a child's skin.She approached Shigurei step by step, allowing the newcomer to see her face.

What a pretty little face!With innocent eyes, rosy skin, and a small mouth as cute as a cherry.It's a pity that the face was scratched by the claws, and the injury was so severe that she had to work hard to sew it up with thread, and then put the child's face on her head.

"Child, who are you?" The human skin mask covered with stitches was opened and closed, and the smell of a beast came out of his mouth, "I am Little Red Riding Hood, who are you?"

A short arrow nailed the clumsy mask to the tree, the monster's head exploded like a tomato, and the headless corpse fell slowly, and was stepped into the mud by the huntress!
The strange tree forest suddenly cried like thunder, and countless dry branches struck from all directions, trying to pierce the hunter's body.Shi Yuling snapped his fingers, and a sea of ​​pure white daffodils bloomed instantly, replacing the entire forest.There is no longer a strange tree showing its teeth and claws, only a witch with blue hair and black clothes standing quietly in the sea of ​​pure white flowers.

"I am Alice of Wonderland," said the huntress, "the hunter of nightmares."

(End of this chapter)