Chapter 35 The real ones

"quick!"

Hyde pushed open the window and jumped off the outer wall of the castle dozens of feet high without hesitation.

Ella was stunned at first, but there was a loud noise from the door, and the smell of sulfur seeped in through the cracks in the door.

Ella felt her scalp go numb for a while, she took two steps back and stepped on the window to make another observation.

"Leave quickly."

Shadow also reminded aloud that since entering Hyde's dream, Shadow had voluntarily given up her body and returned to the bronze mirror. In this environment, she could easily reshape her body.

The wooden door was slammed again, and the wardrobe was pushed back a few inches.Aila saw the amber vertical pupil through the gap in the door, this time the sulfur breath that poured in was already mixed with a lot of sparks!

This time she didn't hesitate anymore, she jumped out, chanted the floating spell in mid-air, and left the main building.

Hyde was standing at the bottom of the castle, looking back at the window of the bedroom with a somewhat complicated expression. The noisy human voices were mixed with the clucking of pigs. He looked back and walked towards the periphery of the manor.

"Let's go find Mephisto."

Ella nodded and walked behind him without saying a word.

Dreams are memories and emotions buried in the subconscious. In other words, although there are some distortions, the experience just now should be Hyde's real memory.

"What happened next?"

When Hyde heard this, he was stunned for a moment. He did not make any customary provocation, but he did not fall into the confusion of memories at all.

He straightened up again, and returned to the annoying arrogance unique to the Belusay family, and replied,

"Nothing, you wouldn't want to know."

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The boundary of Hyde's dreamland is the wine cellar outside the White Rose Manor. The parts of the manor other than the main building are mixed with Glamis Manor.

On the way, Ella discovered the stone hut that once belonged to Anderson. It had not been remodeled by Adolf and still retained its original appearance.Hyde was involved in that incident in the first grade, and was cast an oblivion spell by Kleist afterwards, but subconsciously, this place was still shrouded in a depressing cloud and filthy flesh representing fear.

In other places, such as Glamis' classroom, Ella saw the unreserved jealousy of the dream master towards herself.

Hyde seems to have a lot of obsession with beating her once, but Ella didn't care about this at all in school.But after thinking about the disgraceful way she had defeated the young Hyde, Ella felt a little sorry for him.

"Maybe after this incident is over, I can find something to show weakness, such as losing a chess game or something else."

This might ease her guilt for bullying children.

After reaching the edge of the dreamland, thick white fog, bridges and blank spaces appear in the field of vision again.

"This is the bridge. There should be Ling's dream world over there. Let's move faster."

"Wait a minute, Williams, breaking into someone's dream when the owner is unconscious, isn't it a bit like a thief or a robber?"

Ella looked at him strangely,

"Yeah, that's right."

Hyde's face was full of contempt and he said in a disgusting tone,

"That's not the style of the aristocracy.

"..."

The little guilt Ella had felt suddenly disappeared.

Soon, she experienced the illusion of being forgotten by time again, crossing the white bridge, where the fog gradually dissipated, it was a sunny scene.

Faust Manor, Glamis Town, Ella's Cabin, which are much brighter than reality...

This place is just like how Ling usually behaves, sunny and positive.

Even some of the real-life gloominess of these environments is noticeably embellished, with the world looking like an oil painting painted with lots of warm tones.

Ella did not notice any obvious distortions. The students and professors at the school, the maids in the manor, the adoptive father Fred, and Ella Williams in Ling's dream did not show any obvious abnormalities. at.

But only one thing -

Ella didn't find Ling, and everything was normal here, but the most important thing, the owner of the dream world, was missing.

She tried to go to the student dormitory in Gramisberg, the wooden house she rented in the town, Ling's bedroom in Faust Manor, or the shops and bars they often went to...the dream host did not appear in any of these places. figure.

The two of them searched the entire dreamland separately, but did not find Ling.

At the border of the dreamland, there is only thick white fog and large blanks. Except for the bridge leading to Hyde's dreamland, there is nothing.

"Williams, look here!"

Following the sound, Ella found Hyde standing next to the carriage in front of the gate of Faust Manor. It was a richly decorated black carriage that once brought Ella and Ling to Faust Manor at Christmas.

Hyde pushed open the car door with one hand and looked at the scene inside with a look of astonishment on his face.

After Hyde stepped aside, Ella saw the scene inside. There was a dark passage at the bottom of the carriage.

Although from the outside, the carriage compartment is still quite far from the ground.But there is a sudden hole at the bottom of the carriage, and the steep stone stairs spread downwards, with no end in sight.

Ella and Hyde looked at each other, it was certain that Ling must exist in this dream world.

They had searched all corners of the outside world, leaving only this strange unexplored area. No one knew where the passage in the carriage would lead, but Ling must be inside.

Ella entered first, without hesitation.

Hyde gritted his teeth, chanted a spell to form a small ball of light, and let him float in front of him, and then entered the interior of the car.

The length of the stone staircase exceeded the two's expectations. It spiraled and extended underground, just like the stairs leading to hell described in myths.

The atmosphere here is obviously different from the outside world. The sunlight cannot penetrate the carriage and enter this passage, and the sound of birdsong and wind gradually disappears.

In addition to the darkness in the passage, there are only clear footsteps and breathing left.

I don't know how long I've been walking, but in this environment, the sense of time confusion is even greater than that on the bridge in the thick fog.

The environment in front of her suddenly changed. Ella stood on a wide street in astonishment. Hyde on the side also had the same expression.

A second ago, they were walking down the stone stairs in the dark passage, but now they suddenly appeared in a certain port city.

People were coming and going on the passage, and a large number of ships were moored in the harbor in the distance. The shouts of newsboys and the chirping of seabirds echoed in the rows of buildings and alleys on the streets.

Ella noticed that there was a huge rusty iron anchor on the stone platform in a conspicuous place in the port. This was not like a handicraft such as a statue. It was covered with traces of seawater rust. It should have served a certain ship. After some time.

Ella had an impression of this anchor, having seen it before sailing to San Francisco.

"This seems to be the Port of Liverpool..."

Everything here is too real, not like a dream.

Chapter 36 Deep Dream

"This is also... Mephisto's dream, but how can we find her?"

It's like the real Port of Liverpool. Shrouded in white mist, there are hundreds of buildings, large and small, countless streets, docks and ships.

The shadow's voice sounded from Ayla's consciousness again,

"This should be your friend's deep dream... This world is buried in the deepest part of her consciousness. Be vigilant. The deep dream world is very dangerous."

"Danger?"

Ella looked at the scene in front of her. There was no sign of anything here being distorted by dreams. Could there be anything in this seemingly peaceful world that even shadows would be afraid of?

"Find your friend as soon as possible and get her to wake up. Only she can get you out of here. She is very likely to be lost now."

"What's wrong with being lost?!"

At this time, a huge bell rang from high in the world, interrupting Ella's communication with the shadow in her consciousness.

The sound attracted their attention. Ella and Hyde looked up at the direction where the bell rang. It rang from the horizon, heavy and long.

With the sound of bells, night falls, and the world is shrouded in darkness. There are no stars in the sky. Behind the clouds, blood spreads, and the strange crimson light makes the dream even more strange.

The dark, fuzzy shadows of flying birds hovered in the crimson light, but they were so far away from the ground that their size seemed astonishingly large when viewed this way.

The pedestrians on the street disappeared in an instant, and the pier was as quiet as a huge cemetery.

The shadows of flying birds fell on the eaves, and Ella could see their appearance clearly. They were the images called devils that often appeared in architectural reliefs or religious classics.

The monsters are similar in size to adult humans. These slender humanoid creatures have bat-like wings, curved sharp horns on their heads, and blue-black skin like smooth whale skin.Their slender tails have sharp barbs growing on them, and where their faces should have been there are no facial features, just a smooth, blank surface.

More and more monsters appeared on the eaves. They silently observed the two people on the street, but did not take any more actions, like harmless birds.

Shadow sighed in Ella's consciousness,

"This is what the deep dreams really look like."

"What are these monsters, and what did you mean by being lost just now?"

"These creatures are the aborigines of the dream world. They are night-gaunts, a cunning monster. They feel threatened and will not easily attack creatures stronger than themselves."

Shadow paused, then continued,

"Just like Hyde Beluse, people usually don't realize that this is a dream when they are in a dream. Rather, they neither regard it as a dream nor as reality. This is normal. phenomenon. In this case, as long as a little stimulation will make them wake up and escape from the dream. But the lost are different... they will treat this place as the real world, and their consciousness will sleep deep in the dream world, and it is almost impossible to return to it. wake up."

Ella stood stunned on the spot as if she had been struck by lightning, her face quickly turned pale, and she asked anxiously,

"Is there any way to rescue the lost ones?"

"Yes... that is to make them sober before they are completely lost."

At this time, the nightmares on the eaves began to twist uneasily, their sharp claws rubbing against the bricks, making a harsh noise.

At the end of the street, there was the sound of chains dragging on the ground.A strange bird about the size of a colt was walking hard on the ground. It held an iron chain as thick as a thumb in its curved beak. At the end of the iron chain, it was dragging a tattered black coffin.

The night-gaunts started to move at this moment. They flapped their bat-like wings and swooped silently towards the strange bird that was dragging the coffin.

The gray-feathered strange bird screamed sharply, its strength was astonishing, and every time it flapped its wings, it could repel the night-dire, but for some reason, it still refused to let go of the iron chain in its mouth.

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