Embers of Embers

Chapter 158 Nightmare
Countless snowflakes fell from the sky. They danced in confusion, passing over the dilapidated buildings and passing the dilapidated clock tower in the center of the town. It was blown by the wind, and finally fell on the girl's face, leaving behind after melting Next a shallow water stain.
I really couldn't believe it. Seliu was a little stunned. She was back here again, the place deep in her memory.
The human brain will subconsciously protect itself and forget those unpleasant things. No matter how profound it is, it will deliberately forget it. Even if the will thinks about it again, it will just sigh that all this has passed so long.
But now after so long, Seliu is back, or in other words, those forgotten things have come to find her.
The icy cold wind surged in the alley. The wild dog looked at her from a distance, exuding a strange and abominable ominousness. However, it did not attack rashly. Instead, it looked at Seliu quietly, as if admiring something. It was dramatic, and the expression was so human, as if there was someone's will hidden in that body.
Before Seleu could think more, a hand suddenly grabbed her hair and lifted her up.
"I finally found you."
The man said, smelling of alcohol under his heavy clothes.
"How much money have we collected today? If it's not enough, you won't have dinner."
Dragging Seliu on the ground, the girl tried to scratch the back of his hand, but it had no effect at all.
He had a shaky gait and looked drunk.
Seliu remembered this, followed by anger. She struggled hard, but her hands were as motionless as steel. Even after she exhausted her strength, nothing could be changed.
"Lo...Lorenzo!"
Seleu shouted, as if hoping for something.
She didn't know what was going on or why she was here, but now it seemed like she could do nothing but call Lorenzo.
Seleu is full of expectations. She believes that the demon hunter will definitely come to save her, just like he did in the beginning, or Dean Lawrence, he will always appear when a crisis comes.
But it was useless, no one in this long alley responded to her call.
Then weird thoughts couldn't stop coming from her mind. Even Seliu didn't understand why. She was actually thinking, what if there was no Lorenzo?
What if the man named Lorenzo Holmes hadn't found him in the first place?What if he had taken someone else from Gaulnalori in the first place?
A life staggered, with horrific repercussions.
Seliu suddenly didn't dare to think anymore. Extreme fear surged from the bottom of her heart, eroding her.
The wild dog at the end of the alley was still there, staring quietly, the cold world reflected in the scarlet.
Everything is so familiar, and then the memory becomes blurry.
She was about to forget something, and her memories began to collapse. Seliu tried her best to remember those memories that were about to be erased, but this was only in vain.
"Stop...stop!"
The invisible force was sweeping away her memory, tearing all the records apart.
Finally a blank.
In severe pain, Seliu slowly let go of her struggling hand... She began to lose track of how she got here.
His hands dropped to the ground, as if he had given up resistance, and he waded through the muddy ground.
Suddenly, all the dust-laden childhood flooded into his mind, completely burying past experiences. Seliu's demeanor changed slightly, and then he seemed to have changed into a different person, letting the drunkard drag him away.
She remembered that she had been living here as a beggar. Just like many people yearned for, Seleu also longed to go to the legendary old Dunling, but she couldn't do it and could only be trapped in Gaulina. In a small town on the border of Luo.
But suddenly, something was wrong. Seliu had an impression of the old Dun Ling that had only appeared in other people's mouths, as if she had been there before.
Is it a dream?
Seliu thought this, and then remembered more, but they were all covered with a mysterious power, making them blurry, like memories in dreams, false memories.
She suddenly smiled miserably, and she was really thinking about some unrealistic things again.
Slowly raising his hand, it was covered with frostbite and mud, which was different from the vague memory.
Seliu remembered that in the dream, he was very noble, with many people surrounding him, showing loyalty to him...
But it just feels like something is missing, as if something is going to happen today.
Not even paying attention to the pain in her hair, she looked at the sky.
What will happen?
In fact, for Seliu, it seems that nothing can change her current situation, her status as a beggar, and the dilemma that she cannot leave.
So the whole world began to alienate, the white snow melted into black water, first the buildings and dead trees, and then everything in the field of vision, they were all alienating, turning into black water flowing on the ground.
The hand holding her hair was also twisting. Human flesh and blood began to expand, bones proliferated and grew, and finally the heavy clothes were stretched open.
But none of this alarmed Seliu, or in other words, she was no longer aware of these "abnormalities" at this moment.
Her eyes were a little dull, and the wild dog that came stepping on the black water was reflected in her cold pupils.
The dark water overflowed her body, almost engulfing her completely. The next moment, the wild dog jumped up hard, all its terrifying canine teeth were raised, and the corners of its mouth cracked and continued to expand, as if it wanted to swallow Seliu whole in one breath. Average.
But suddenly the slender hand touched something in the black water. The texture was rough and hard, like a stone.
There was no time to think about that, and it was even unknown whether Seliu had the ability to think now, but suddenly a voice sounded, and he roared, making everything stop.
"Wake up!"
The splashed black water scattered into countless suspended black particles, and the twisted appearance of the wild dog was so close that it was clearly visible.
"Wake up!"
The familiar voice sounded again, and the world collapsed.
Seleu sat up vigorously, breathing deeply, while Lorenzo was supporting her, fiery fireworks flashed under those gray-blue eyes.
"I... what's wrong with me?"
There was severe pain in my mind, like being hit by a blunt object.
"You almost scared me to death!"
Regardless of Seleu's questioning, Lorenzo screamed.
He just wanted to teach this overly mature little girl a lesson, but who would have thought that Seliu was stunned halfway and fell into a coma immediately after.
"Wait... what's going on?"
Seliu breathed hard, not only the pain in her mind, but also the pain in her chest. She lowered her head as she thought about it, and her collar was torn open, revealing a piece of white snow with some blood on it.
"Florund Potion, I injected you with that thing. Merlin said that this thing is used to deal with erosion."
Lorenzo directly buttoned up her clothes to prevent Seleu from having a seizure.
When leaving, Merlin noticed Lorenzo's poor mental state, so he gave him a potion. After the Ranger Project, the deteriorated Florund potion can help humans resist erosion and enhance their mental resistance. In disguise, it can It was used to cheer him up, but he didn't expect it to be used here.
"I...why is my heart beating so fast?"
Seliu clutched her chest. She could clearly feel the thumping heartbeat, like a steam engine at full power. She even had difficulty breathing.
"It should contain some stimulant ingredients. You know, generally speaking, using this medicine proves that you have been corroded, and you are not far away from death."
Lorenzo said anxiously.
"Erosion? What's that?"
Seleu asked with difficulty. She now used up all her strength just to breathe.
"You are not good at being an investor. You don't even understand your competitor's number one product!"
Lorenzo picked her up, picked up the Winchester and hung it on his waist, picked up the knight's sword and broke out of the door.
Sure enough, Arthur didn't say much to Seleu, and he didn't reveal the more complicated side of the demon.
"Anyway, you'd better be honest for a while, and of course it's better to close your eyes. You don't want to see all the weird things being cut into pieces."
"What do you mean?"
Seliu's voice was a little weak, and the Florund potion forcibly dragged her out of the dream. With her unspecialized physique, it was still difficult to bear the potion.
"Monsters, strange monsters..."
“What about Yahweh?”
Seliu became concerned about the old housekeeper.
"I guess he must be having a nightmare somewhere."
Lorenzo held a cigarette in his mouth and said through gritted teeth.
"Are you so addicted to smoking?"
Seliu looked very weak, and his voice was muffled, like babble after drinking too much.
"I just rely on this to stay awake. After all, there is only one Florund potion... Damn it, why didn't Merlin give me a few more."
Lorenzo yelled and cursed. In his field of vision, the corridor became extremely long and twisted, as if there was no end.
He raised his foot and kicked open the window. Looking down from here, the street no longer existed, replaced by an endless abyss. Looking up, the walls of the mansion extended to the sky.
Like a nightmare that has descended into reality, illusion and reality overlap, intertwining with each other, torturing the people in between.
This feels too familiar, and it can cause a wide range of mental distortions.
The illusion of nightmare.
The hallucinations had already affected Lorenzo's mind. Fortunately, the demon hunter's resistance was relatively high. He didn't fall into a dream like Seleu, otherwise things would be even more troublesome.
"I have to find it."
Lorenzo whispered that this was an attack by demons, an attack against Seleucus.
For a moment, thunder flashed through Lorenzo's mind. After realizing that it was a nightmare, he suddenly understood the whole incident, the whole picture.
The details that everyone forgot tied the whole incident together.
"Selu, you are in big trouble."
Lorenzo said to the girl in his arms while running wildly in the long corridor.
"Of course before I can solve this problem, I first have to find the damn Dream Builder."
Then kill it.
(End of this chapter)