The black umbrella was raised, revealing a pretty female face. The strange thing was that even though the other party had raised the umbrella, Tian Yang and the others still couldn't see it very clearly. It was as if there was a piece of glass between them and the woman. They could only feel that the other party looked beautiful and elegant, but it was difficult to see clearly, like seeing flowers in the fog.
"who I am... "
"I have had so many names that I have forgotten my original name."
"But once, I met a very interesting person. He said that I had 'red lips like vermilion, and a voice like a blue phoenix'..."
The woman holding the umbrella had misty eyes, as if she was recalling the past: "He said again, 'When will the blue phoenix from the sky come back to the human world?'"
"I liked what he said very much, so I used 'Qingluan' as my name, and it remains so until now."
Tianyang exchanged glances with his father. After hearing this, he was certain that the girl in front of him was the dream goddess Qingluan!
This was somewhat different from their plan.
They have seen Qingluan, but Ah Li is nowhere to be found. Is the little girl still in another projection world? Or has she been trapped by Qingluan
Before they decided how to respond, they heard the woman holding the umbrella say, "You are not residents of Xingdu, how did you enter the Infinite Maze?"
Without waiting for Tianyang and the others to respond, she continued, "Forget it, now is not the time to talk about this. You can't stay here. This infinite maze is full of hidden dangers. If you stay here for too long, you will be polluted, your mind will become distorted, and you will not be able to retain your self."
"I will send you out now and return you to your original world."
Tianyang was stunned.
I couldn't believe my ears. Wasn't Meng Shen crazy? Wasn't his mind twisted
But now it seems that she is not crazy at all, but also very kind.
At this moment, the light around suddenly dimmed, and then the shadows in the tent seemed to be endowed with living creatures. They rushed towards the dream goddess and tried to wrap her up!
The woman named 'Qingluan' exclaimed softly, lowered her hands, and put down the umbrella. Many symbols suddenly lit up on the umbrella, emitting a bright but not dazzling light.
The light came on, the shadows retreated, and those shadows quickly shrank back to their original places.
However, at this moment, the 'people' who were originally moving in the tent suddenly made wild beast-like noises, and dense black hairs appeared on their faces and bodies. Their shapes became distorted, and they turned into monsters in the blink of an eye.
These monsters didn't even look at Tianyang and the other person. They focused on pouncing on Qingluan, but as the woman in the plain skirt turned her umbrella, these monsters, including the scene in the tent, suddenly blurred and turned into a ball of rotating light and shadow.
When the light and shadow stopped moving, Tianyang found that they were in a house. There was unfinished food on the table, soft carpet on the floor, colorful paintings on the walls, and a soft white light on the ceiling.
They arrived at another place in an instant.
Before Tianyang had time to ask what happened, the door of the house opened, and a child's voice was humming an unknown song outside, followed by a small shadow bouncing in.
It was A-ri with her hair tied in a bun.
She blew happily, opened her arms, and ran towards Qingluan, as if she had seen a relative she hadn't seen for a long time and wanted to hug her tightly.
But the carpet under everyone's feet seemed to have a life of its own. It rolled up, wrapped up Ah Li, and rolled towards the door.
When they stopped, Ah Li was wrapped up like a big rice dumpling, with only her head sticking out. She pouted and said, "Sister Qingluan, do you really dislike me so much?"
"But don't forget, we are one. If you hate me, it's no different from hating yourself!"
Looking at the little girl wrapped in the carpet, the woman holding the umbrella sighed: "You finally found me."
"So you were the one who sent them in. Besides, who else but you could open the entrance that I closed myself?"
Ah Li smiled innocently: "Because I know that you are a good person. You can't bear to see others get hurt or suffer. If it weren't for that, you wouldn't have built the Star City and attracted those bugs to your dreams."
"So I know that if we send them in, you will definitely show up because you can't bear to see these two bugs who know nothing trapped here."
"I told you before, even if you hide yourself in the maze, I will find you."
"Now, I have found you."
Tianyang and Su Lie looked at each other. From the conversation between Qingluan and A'li, things didn't seem as simple as they had previously understood.
Su Lie tightened his grip on Juque's hand, turned around and looked at A'li, and said with a gloomy face: "So, it's not Qingluan or Mengshen who's crazy, but you?"
“Hahahaha… ..” Ahri laughed so hard that tears rolled down her cheeks. The carpet on her body suddenly turned into dark shadows, and her body passed through the shadows and fell to the ground.
"You didn't know that until now?"
"You guys are so slow, but I'm not surprised at all, you bugs are always stupid, just like those guys in the shelter."
Tianyang looked at the woman holding the umbrella, then at the little girl with the bun, and nodded, "I understand. What you said is exactly the opposite. You are not the kind side of Dream God, but the crazy and twisted side."
"That's why you can move freely in Xingdu, and why you haven't been discovered by the Preacher for so many years, because the Preacher is basically your follower, your servant."
Ah Li clapped his hands: "That's right, you finally guessed it right, it's not easy."
Su Lie frowned again: "But why did you ask me to kill you? Aren't you afraid that I would really do it? Besides, what about the residents in the shelter? I can feel that they are normal."
This time, the one who answered him was the woman holding an umbrella behind him.
"Because Ahri knows that you are not a person who kills indiscriminately. As a part of me, she has seen too many people. She only needs to take a look at them to know what kind of person they are."
"Let's take a step back. Even if you really want to kill her, you can't kill her in Xingdu. She is fearless."
"The residents of that shelter were indeed not contaminated by her. She did that on purpose. As long as those people were there, I wouldn't dare to commit suicide. She used those people to threaten me and hold me back."
I see.
It turns out that the residents of that shelter were Ari's 'hostages'.
Tianyang further thought that when Master Xuan reminded him that "Lord Qingluan has gone crazy", he should have been referring to A'li. Perhaps Master Xuan had discovered something, but he didn't dare to reveal it, so he had to use this euphemistic way to remind himself.
On the other side, Ah Li nodded and said, "That's right, so Sister Qingluan, can you be with me now
"
The woman holding the umbrella sighed and said, "You took great pains to become complete. Knowing that I voluntarily hid in this maze, you deliberately created a projection, a sister who was looking for her lost sister, so that I could appear on my own and live with this sister."
"You try to use the projection to get closer to me. When I let go of my body and mind, you influence me and invade me, thus distorting and destroying my consciousness. In the end, the part of our 'essence' that was separated from us can be restored and become complete."
"But you probably didn't expect that we were once one, and we would influence each other. When you influenced me through the projection of that sister, I also influenced you in the same way. So in that world, the 'neighbors' around me were all normal. They all advised me to give up and leave that weird sister."
"If it weren't for them, I might really be lost, and I would really live in that little house forever, accompanying that weird sister."
Ah Li's face changed and she cried out, "This is impossible!"
"You mean you changed me?"
The woman holding the umbrella whispered, "Don't you realize? If you hadn't changed, even if you were used as a hostage, with your personality, it would be impossible for you to let the people in the shelter live so comfortably."
"You can imprison them. As long as you don't pollute them, you can even torture them to make me show up. In that case, you won't be able to rely on these two outsiders at all."
"But you didn't do that. Of course, this was an unconscious action on your part. But doesn't this just prove that you can be transformed?"
"No!"
Ah Li screamed: "I don't want to be transformed, I am me and you are you!"
"I want to become a complete dream god, but not the one from before, not Qingluan. But myself, Ari!"
Listening to their conversation, Tianyang roughly understood the situation.
Qingluan hid in this infinite maze to avoid the crazy and twisted part of herself, which is Ari.
In order to find Qingluan, Ari created a projection in the infinite maze. That sister must be her prototype, and Qingluan, as her other half, was inevitably attracted to her.
But when they are close enough, they will influence each other. When A'li makes Qingluan lost, Qingluan also changes A'li, making her, who was originally crazy and evil, develop a little kindness.
This trace of kindness, projected into the infinite maze, becomes those kind-hearted neighbors. Their behavior of persuading Qingluan to give up her weird sister can also be interpreted as the contradiction and conflict in Ari's heart.
At this time, the light in the room became dim, and terrifying pale faces appeared on the walls. The ground creaked, and a big mouth opened. A snake-like tongue stuck out from it, and on the end of the tongue were babies' heads, crying, laughing, or babbling... .
For a moment, the originally empty house suddenly became inexplicably evil and twisted. From this point of view, although Ahri has changed, the change is very small.
She jumped onto the snake-like tongue with a baby head. The girl with a bun raised her hands, and the walls around her were immediately covered with crimson mold, like a piece of rotten meat, emitting a disgusting smell.
"Sister, Sister Qingluan, I won't let you escape again this time!"
A'li laughed loudly, but at this moment, her eyes reflected Su Lie's silent and slashing posture with a sword!