Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 410 Chapter 93 A common dream
After thinking for two seconds, Alice found that she didn't know what to say, so, in order to ease the embarrassment, Alice held out the hand holding the lantern.

Ouroboros looked at the lantern in her hand, thought for a moment, and then shook his hand holding the lantern twice, as if to say that he had it.

During this brief interlude, Alice quickly thought about her next course of action—she was already halfway there, and she was ready to go to the sanctuary to take a look.

The time in the "God-Forsaken Land" was too vague compared to the outside world. Alice was not sure what time it was outside. As an angel who would not feel sleepy or hungry, she had no way of judging the time through her body, otherwise she would have asked for a meal or a nap.

I wonder what is eatable in the “God-Forsaken Land”... Well, I remember that Xiao Taiyang and his friends were eating black-faced grass... Uh, did I not say hello to Xiao Taiyang?
Alice blinked twice and decided to focus on Ouroboros. She tilted her head and said in Ouroboros' tone:
"I will always follow Mr. Fool."

"......?" Ouroboros looked at her quietly, thought for a moment, and nodded, as if to confirm her words.

Alice finally felt a slight sense of collapse. She realized that if she didn't do something, Ouroboros would see her here until she agreed to follow Him.

As for escaping, in the "God-Forsaken Land" where she had lost her ability to teleport, Alice raised her hand and compared her waist with Ouroboros, thinking that she would not be able to outrun Ouroboros.

No, shouldn't it be longer than a snake? But wouldn't it be weird if I asked Him to become a mythical creature now? And He might not agree...

Alice lowered her head in thought, spinning her right foot on the ground.

Perhaps fate felt that something was needed to break the awkward silence, and the monster swooped over from behind Alice, bringing with it a gust of strong wind.

Ouroboros glanced up indifferently, and the monster was dragged back into the darkness by an unknown force. Alice turned around and happened to see this scene.

The monster in the dark was a humanoid with short black hair. Alice remembered that she had seen this kind of monster before. It was a "resident" in a certain house. Now it seemed that this "resident" seemed to have... something wrong with his brain?
Alice turned around thoughtfully and asked Ouroboros:
"Do you know what's going on here? Why are some houses tall and some short? Why are the... um, 'residents' inside like this?"

She had only intended to ask a question, but she didn't expect Ouroboros to actually give her an answer:

"This place is tainted by the power of corruption.

"Before it was polluted, this place was inhabited by both giants and ordinary people."

Wow, it seems like He really answered whatever he asked... Alice suddenly had a good idea, and she continued to ask Ouroboros:
"If I don't want to go to the sanctuary with you, how can I escape without being caught by you?"

——She had asked a similar question once in front of Amon.

"......?" Ouroboros's eyes fell on her. Alice thought He must be confused, because He did not answer Alice's question, but asked a new question, "Why don't you want to go to the sanctuary with me?"

"What's the difference between that and committing suicide!" Alice asked with her eyes wide open.

She was so excited that Ouroboros looked at her for a few seconds and then said slowly, "I said, I'm not here to kill you."

But that's your base camp. You thought I would just think nothing of it like before... uh, wait.

Alice remembered the first time she left Pritz Harbor. She followed Charlie King in a daze and let Charlie King lock her in a spiritual barrier.

But Charlie King died in the end. If I follow him without thinking about anything now, will He also...

Alice raised her head to look at Ouroboros, who was looking down at her.

After staring at Ouroboros's face and thinking for more than ten seconds, Alice praised sincerely:

"You have such a beautiful face!"

“……?” Ouroboros looked at Alice quietly, as if he was thinking.

After a few seconds, He seemed to realize that this was supposed to be a compliment to His appearance, and He responded, "Thank you."

Alice weakly raised her hand to support her forehead and vowed to be nicer to Klein when she returned.

It really took him a lot of effort to talk to me.

She took a deep breath with difficulty to calm herself down, then rephrased her question and continued, "Then why do you insist on taking me to the sanctuary?"

Ouroboros replied without changing his expression: "This is the guidance of fate."

"?" Alice opened her eyes wide again. "Don't you have anything else to say? Do we have to go to this sanctuary? What's the matter that requires you to take me there?"

Ouroboros still looked at her gently and indifferently, as if he was looking at an ignorant child, without any emotional fluctuations, and just said to her quietly and peacefully:
"follow me."

Alice felt as if her breath was stuck in her chest. She gritted her teeth and said in a very fierce tone:

"lead the way!"

Ouroboros was not affected by her tone. He held the lamp, turned around decisively, and continued moving forward.

Alice followed Him with a lantern in hand until they passed through Afternoon Town and reached the foot of the mountain. Alice finally couldn’t stand the boredom of the journey and tried to go crazy:

“Wow, wow, I’m so pitiful. It’s my first time going on a long journey and I ended up in this godforsaken place, and then you caught me here, wow, wow, wow, wow…”

She shed tears skillfully. Ouroboros stopped, looked back at her, and said nothing for a long time.

Alice felt something strange. She stopped crying in confusion and looked up at Ouroboros's expression. She was surprised to find that his eyes were dull and his expression became dazed.

He seemed to be trapped in a long-lost memory.

"Hey," Alice called out to Him boldly, "what are you thinking about?"

Ouroboros came back to his senses, glanced at Alice who had returned to normal, shook his head and said:
"fine."

“How can it be okay!” Alice glared at Him. “This is the first time I’ve seen you with a different expression in such a long time. Just like when Amon doesn’t look at me with that annoying smile, there must be something wrong!”

Among all the examples, Alice chose Amon, who Ourolius might be familiar with. This made Ourolius dazed for a moment, and soon he shook his head again and said:
"fine."

Alice stared at Him for two seconds, then began to wipe away her tears:

"Wuwuwu, you are always like this. You never tell me anything. When something happens you say it's okay. When I ask you you say it's okay. And in the end you blame me for not caring about you, for not knowing anything. Wuwuwuwuwu..."

Ouroboros stared at her for more than ten seconds, then handed her a handkerchief.

"...Why do you have a handkerchief?" Alice stopped crying in confusion and took the handkerchief.

"I don't know." He shook his head good-naturedly, his expression still gentle and indifferent.

This, this is normal...

This answer was not surprising in a sense, but Alice still looked at Him in surprise, frowning and asking doubtfully:
"...You won't get angry, will you?" Ouroboros shook his head and replied softly, "I'm used to it."

...?
Alice was stunned for a moment, then asked with self-awareness:
"Who else is so crazy besides me... I remember Amon didn't like to play like this, right? Could it be Medici...

"The dignified Red Angel actually has a crybaby behind her?!"

Ouroboros did not speak, but just looked at her with his soft and indifferent eyes. Inexplicably, Alice felt that she understood what He meant.

——If you get to know two such people, your temper will become very good.

Actually, it makes sense. An Angel King from the Hunter Path, and a mischievous incarnation raised by an Angel King from the Hunter Path...

The information about the correspondence between the "Red Priest" path and the "Hunter" path came from Klein. Of course, this was just a guess. After Alice heard it, she became convinced of this possibility - after all, Amon really deserved a beating.

Alice completely ignored the possibility that she might be more likely to be beaten at some point. Facing Ouroboros's silver eyes that were so calm that they made her embarrassed, she pretended to be calm and said:

"You continue to lead the way."

So Ouroboros obediently turned around and continued to lead the way.

Alice was silent for two seconds, then quickly followed with the lantern in hand, reaching out to grab Ouroboros' robe.

A cool hand rested on her wrist, stopping her from taking the next step.

The force was so strong that Alice tried to move and found that the other party was really using all his strength. She frowned and looked up in confusion.

Ouroboros's expression was still gentle and indifferent. He lowered his eyes slightly and looked at Alice, but his voice finally lost its gentleness and was only indifferent:
"No."

Alice was completely confused.

Ouroboros was clearly angry, if he still had that emotion - how wonderful it was that even her madness and impostorism couldn't make him angry, but just a single action did.

"Why?" Alice asked tentatively.

Is it mysophobia? No, that shouldn’t be the case. “He” even reached out and grabbed me, and hasn’t let go until now…

Ouroboros continued to look at her, and replied in the same voice:

“This is the clothing the Lord has given me.”

……Neuropathy!

Alice opened her eyes wide, and once again felt the speechless feeling of wanting to curse but not knowing what to say. She stared at Ouroboros for several minutes before closing her eyes and said weakly:
"sorry.

"I don't know about this."

Ouroboros looked at her quietly without responding. He just let go of her hand, turned around and continued walking towards the top of the mountain.

Alice gritted her teeth and followed, cursing the fanatic eight hundred times in her heart.

You people in the "Aurora Society" are all sick in your brains!
Alice cursed everyone along the way in her heart, and when she was forced to stop because of Ouroboros, they were already standing in a corridor full of murals.

Alice looked at Ouroboros blankly, only to see him walk towards an unfinished mural, pick up the paintbrush on the ground, dip it in paint, and continue to add to it.

"?" Alice began to think about why she was standing here.

Her eyes scanned the murals in the hall in confusion, from the ceiling to the walls, and finally stopped on one of the murals.

——Unlike the obvious religious paintings around it, the mural depicts a pure black tower.

Alice was slightly touched by her spirit, and she followed the guidance of her spirit, walked over, reached out to touch the mural, and slowly closed her eyes.

She did not resist, and a dream appeared just like that.

In the dream, she was wearing a black hooded robe, walking slowly from nowhere and stepping into a dark tower.

Then Alice saw chaotic and irregular stairs, some in front, some behind, some on the left, some on the right, some up, and some down.

In her dream, Alice saw herself stepping on the messy stairs, spiraling up strangely, and finally reaching the top of the tower very smoothly.

On the top of the tower, there was a giant white scaleless snake hovering. The snake had a pair of cold and red eyes. It leaned its head down from the top of the tower, opened its toothless bloody mouth, and swallowed her who had just climbed to the top of the tower.

The dream ended here. Alice woke up in a daze and vaguely realized one thing - she had had this dream.

She had had this dream the night she first met Will Auceptin, when he was not yet a fetus in his mother's womb but a little boy of about ten years old.

Soon after, Will Auceptin abandoned his body and was reincarnated as Dr. Allen's child... No, that's not right, wait.

Alice recalled the two dreams again and suddenly realized the key problem - the perspectives of the two dreams were not the same.

Although the content is the same, in the original dream, she was speaking in the first person. She watched herself climb up the tower, and finally saw the giant white snake on the top of the tower opening its bloody mouth towards her, also in the first person.

And here, she saw everything from the perspective of a bystander!
Alice looked at Ouroboros suddenly and asked in a lost voice:
"How is this going?"

Ouroboros did not stop painting, but explained calmly:
"I just felt like I should let you take a look at this dream."

It feels... okay.

Alice felt a little annoyed. She didn't want to discuss such things with the angel of destiny, so she began to think about new questions.

This should be Ouroboros' dream, or the revelation Ouroboros received.

Same dream, different perspective...

Alice narrowed her eyes, thinking of Will Auceptin who swallowed her in her dream, and asked Ouroboros:
"What about Will Auceptin? Did He also have this dream?"

"I don't know." Ouroboros didn't care at all and concentrated on painting.

Alice was silent for a moment, then asked tentatively, "You probably just want me to see this... Can I go now?"

(End of this chapter)