Siren Blade

Chapter 119 Convergence
I feel like my thoughts and perceptions are slowly disappearing like snowballs entering warm water, but I don’t know the exact moment when they completely lose their shape, and all my judgments lose their outlines in the ambiguous darkness .Until a certain moment, I finally made an "ambiguous" judgment on the previous experience, and also judged that I had actually woken up.

I opened my eyes, sat up straight immediately, and then observed clearly that the scene I was in had changed into the interior of a certain room.I'm sitting on the bed, and this is a bedroom, no, it looks more like a hotel room.It's just messy and rundown everywhere.The lights flickered, the tables and chairs were crumbling, the sheets were dotted with unpleasant brown stains, and the air smelled of decaying wood.

The curtains are half open, and I cautiously move closer to observe the outside world.It looked like a city from the outside, it was in the middle of the night, you could see the lights of neon lights and street lights, but there was no trace or sound of people, just like a ghost town.And judging from the height, my room should be on the second floor.

Is this what the inside of the collective dream looks like?Although it doesn't seem to be dangerous, my perception has sent a faint warning. It seems that there are some things that are hostile to human beings lurking in the dark corners, peeping into the bright places with malicious saliva.

Where is Joan, and how can I find my father here?
I checked my ears first, and then fumbled in my pockets.The bluetooth headset given to me by the medical examiner is still hanging on my ear, and the healing paper talisman and the talisman against blood spells that Jade Bird gave me are still there, not even the black bandage.Bringing real objects into the dreamland is considered a preliminary dreamland technology. Of course, I can't do it. The medical examiner who helped me enter the collective dreamland has a way to do it for me.

It's just that in the process of checking, I found an obvious problem.For some reason, the clothes and trousers I wore became bigger, and there was an indescribable strangeness about my body, as if I had changed into a plausible body.I looked at the window again, and the light shadow reflected on the glass was indeed my own face, but there was something wrong with it.

The room also had a bathroom attached, and I looked at my face in the dusty and cracked mirror in the bathroom.What was reflected in the mirror was a familiar yet unfamiliar face of a 14-year-old boy.

It was the face of my 14-year-old self who just met "it" five years ago!

Why do I get smaller in my dream?Is it the setting of this dream?
I calm down for now.It is normal for people to have different appearances in dreams than in reality. Some people will become older and smaller in dreams, male and female, and may even become aliens that are not even human. It all depends on the dream. How to set.

Some people whose awareness is not strong enough may even be coerced by the setting of dreams and lose their original cognition.For example, if someone has a dream of wasteland, and he is set as a survivor in the dream, then he may naturally assume the identity of a wasteland survivor, without realizing that he should be a survivor in the wasteland. The average person living in a peaceful society.In the healing dream, I also accept the setting that I am a college student in this way.

And if I don't have enough awareness now, maybe I will retreat back to my 14-year-old self on the mental level, and understand the empty city outside from the perspective of the dreamer.

I try to summon the Siren Blade.No problem, Siren Blades can still be summoned at any time.My strength has not been diminished by my smaller body.It's just that my appearance is different.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from the Bluetooth headset next to my ear, "Li Duo, Li Duo, can you hear me?"

It was the voice of the blue bird.I immediately replied, "I can hear you."

"Can you hear me?" Qingniao seemed unable to hear my voice, "By the way, don't speak directly with your mouth, just think hard about what you want to say in your heart."

Just like the siren... I understood immediately, and then answered skillfully in my heart, "I can hear you."

"That's good." Qingniao heaved a sigh of relief.

"Now you are responsible for contacting me in reality?" I asked.

"Yes. Although I can't go in with you, at least I can help you in other ways. The communication between dreams and reality is actually quite labor-intensive, but I just have a lot of strength and don't care about this consumption. This task is just Leave it to me." She seemed to smile, and then asked, "How is the situation over there, is there any danger?"

"No danger." I didn't feel how strenuous this kind of call was, "Can't you see my video here?"

"It can only collect some information and data centered on the earphones you wear, without sound or picture." She said.

"Can anyone else hear what I'm saying to you now?" I asked.

"No, only I can hear it with the headset you paired with it," she said, "and they can't hear me because I'm sending my voice directly into your head the same way you do. .”

Speaking of this, she was a little puzzled, "But why does your voice seem a little weird..."

While talking to her, I had left the room and was out in the hallway.The corridors are also in disrepair and dirty.And when I heard her doubts, I confessed honestly, "I seem to have changed back to 14 years old in the dream..."

"What-what!" I don't know if it's my psychological effect, I feel that she was surprised when she said "what", but when she said "what", she revealed a feeling as if she only hated herself for not being there strong regret.

"You don't have to react so much..." I said, and quickly searched the hotel with my awareness.The hotel is only four floors high, and there is no sign of life activity in the range of awareness, and there is no other special feeling.Seeing this, I moved towards the exit of the hotel.

"Can you guys show me where Joan and my father are?" I asked.

"We are still analyzing here... Well, the relative position has been calculated." She said, "Because you are equivalent to being dragged into this dream by Joan, so the distance between you and Joan should not be too far That's right. Then you move according to my instructions."

Following her instructions, I left the hotel directly and moved on lonely streets.While instructing, she said to me: "And... well, Li Duo, the analysis department also told me something just now, and I think it is necessary to tell you too."

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"It is about the setting of this dream itself, we have already analyzed it." She said, "As expected at the beginning, this dream is also absorbing and preserving spirituality while trapping the sleepers, so it tends to To allow spirits and spirits to reflect their true colors in dreams."

Speaking of this, she seemed to bring a little smile, "However, for people, what is their true face is actually a very subjective thing. In other words, people who enter this dream will use An image in line with self-perception is presented."

"Wait, so my self-perception image is that of my 14-year-old self?" I was stunned.

"Probably so." She seemed quite happy, but I was wondering.

Could it be that my mental age is 14?No, it's too early to judge.Self-perception image and mental age should be referenced by different evaluation criteria.

But this is a bit embarrassing. When Joan was talking to me earlier, he said very seriously, "If only I had a brother like you", I turned out to be about the same age as him. .Although my appearance is still a year older than him if you think about it seriously, but if you don't emphasize it to outsiders, it will look like a classmate to outsiders.

"Is there no way to change back?" I asked unwillingly.

"Yes, but you haven't learned dream technology, so you can't use it." Qingniao said with a smile, "Okay, don't worry, I won't tell the people around me. As for how you want to tell Xiaocao's brother It's up to you to explain."

I changed the subject bluntly, "Speaking of which, since the plan I am implementing now is to bring my father out of the dream on the basis of protecting Joan, then after finding them, what should I do to leave this dream?"

"Just go back to the place where you first entered the dream, and then we will help you exit the dream," she said.

I looked back at myself, "It doesn't seem to be that easy."

According to my observations, this dream city has many traces of Liucheng, and I have also seen some shops and public facilities that are also present in Liucheng in reality. Perhaps the collective dream made use of the memory materials of the sleepers.But there are also many places that are very different from Liucheng in reality. First of all, the layout of the city is messy.

It's not even enough to describe it as a mess. The layout of this dream city is actually changing at any time.

Although I paid attention to the path I walked when I was moving, occasionally when I looked back, I would find that the street behind me did not match my memory.

The space here seems to be stable, but it is actually chaotic. No matter how good a memory is, no one can "return the same way".

This phenomenon often occurs in random ruins as well.There, if you close the previously opened door and open it after a while, what appears behind that door is no longer the original scene, but another strange scene.

And this dream city is like "an open world version of random ruins".

This is not just a metaphor. After I felt it seriously, I actually vaguely smelled a smell similar to random ruins from the surroundings.Is there any potential connection between this dream and the Ruins of Random Numbers?
Since it is so similar to the Ruins of Random Numbers, is it possible that there are also demons here?
Soon, I confirmed my hunch.

I reported the space chaos I encountered to Jade Bird, and she replied: "Don't worry, we have a way to guide you back the way you came."

As soon as I finished speaking, when I passed a corner, a black strange figure sprinted out from behind the corner, and attacked me with its bloody mouth exposed.It was a demon whose head was a random splicing of countless wild beasts.I swung my knife and split it in half.

"I met a demon." I reported briefly, and worried about Joan, who was helpless.However, at that time, he even had enough energy to lead the girl to survive in the ruins of chaos for three days, so he shouldn't have thrown himself to death so soon.Provided he doesn't run around.

I continued: "Also, I haven't found any traces of other sleepers in the dream. If there are really more than 5000 people scattered around the city, I should be a little aware."

"Received. We will analyze it immediately." Blue Bird's voice became serious, "A demon has actually appeared... It seems that this place is different from what we predicted before. The dream itself is not life-threatening."

On a whim, I took another look at the disappearing demon remains, "Isn't there any setting in this dream like 'sleepers will recognize each other as demons'?"

"Ah? Your question..." She was taken aback by my whim, and it took a while before she answered, "The analysis department said that it is impossible for this dream to have such a setting in terms of structure. And even if it did, It is also impossible to deceive your perception in battle."

"That's good." I also felt relieved and moved on.

"Compared to this, what you should worry about is what to do if you meet Yuchi and a fanatic at the same time in the dream." She said, "Just Yuchi, the main demon warlock who will burn his own lifespan to strengthen his combat power, is very troublesome Now, if you add that famous fanatic, how are you going to deal with it?"

Without hesitation, I said, "I will run away."

"Really?" she asked suspiciously.

"Do I seem so irrational?" I asked back.

She pointed out "resentful", "You obviously didn't say that when you dealt with blood-biting and evil moves at the same time last time."

This time it almost shut my mouth.Having said that, it is not empty words when I say that I will run away when the time comes.In fact, I don't have any belief in a deadly battle that "you can't run away from the enemy anyway". It's just that for me, running away based on the balance of pros and cons is okay, and running away because of fear is not allowed.I don't allow myself to do that.

The last time I faced blood-biting and evil moves at the same time, I chose to stay on the battlefield with no chance of winning in order to cut off the fear in my heart.I admit it was a stupid choice, but thanks to it, I got something inside.To romanticize it, I've proven myself to my heart.And if I encounter the same situation again next time, even if I turn around and run away, I will be able to convince myself that I am not "running out of fear".

"I will run away," I repeated, adding, "I will never lie to you."

"Well, since you've said it to this point..." It seems that my credit is still very useful to Jade Bird, as soon as the second half of the sentence came out, she really accepted it.

I then asked, "How far am I from Joan now?"

"Let's see...it's almost there." She gave the good news, "It's just ahead, turn left and you'll be there."

I moved as I said, and soon saw Joan in the direction she said.

I saw that Joan was hiding behind the abandoned car on the side of the street as a cover, and he carefully poked his head out from the side of the car to look out.In front of his line of sight, there was a demon wandering around. The demon didn't notice Joan, but seemed to vaguely smell a human scent, lingering nearby.

Qiao An looked around and found a soda can left outside the car, and then flexibly wrapped his slender tail to pick up the soda can without moving his body, as if he wanted to throw it out to attract the devil attention.

His appearance didn't seem to change... When I observed him, he turned his head and looked in my direction as if feeling something.

I subconsciously hid to the side.

Wait, what am I hiding?I first slandered myself, and then walked out generously.

(End of this chapter)