"What will the liberated world look like?" Roland tentatively asked, "What benefits will you get? Get rid of the world of consciousness and become a physical existence?"
"Honestly, I don't know." Lan laughed. "But no matter what, it's better than being imprisoned here forever. At least the future is full of infinite possibilities."
Roland stared at her for a while, and the other party's expression was very natural, as if he had made an unusual choice.
It seemed that there was basically no hope of finding Lan's flaws through dialogue, he thought to himself, unless he could bring Nightingale into the dream world. And the next inquiries also yielded little results. The answers to the gods were all silent, and she couldn't help the battle of divine will.
Even restricted by the rules of the dream world, she can only act as a martial artist here, and secretly transmitting information is the limit. According to Lan, different areas in the world of consciousness have different rules, which is difficult for even gods to tamper with. It is through this that she can get a chance to breathe and secretly find a savior who can stop the battle of divine will.
But until all this is over, she is not really free. Those shackles that bind her still exist, and they may turn her efforts into nothingness at any time.
When sending Lan to the door of the store, Roland asked the last question.
"By the way, you said at the beginning that you didn't expect me to open a cafe myself. Is there really a place for Rose Cafe in this city?"
"Yes," Lan said with a slight smile, "it's in Prism City."
"But I clearly asked Garcia"
"The cafe is located in the middle of the city vertebra, and only the senior officials of the Martial Daoist Association can enter there. At that time, I already knew that the association intends to issue a hunting license to you. After getting it, you can pass through the central area. But what I didn't expect is that you I have no interest in the association at all, and I haven't been to Prismatic City for so long after obtaining the license." Lan paused, "By the way, the central storage vault that stores the core of the fallen demons is at the lowest level of the city vertebra. Generally speaking, there are only Only guards and above can enter and exit it."
So that's what happened... Roland finally knew why he couldn't search for the appointed place all the time. Emotional Rose Cafe is a welfare facility for internal personnel, and it must be a high-level person.
"Then for the next meeting, I mean, if necessary, which cafe to choose? After all, there are two roses now."
"It's still the old place," she said softly, looking at the towering Tongzilou, "Garcia lives in this building, right? It's good to visit occasionally. I... Maybe I like it here."
maybe? Don't you know if you like it or not? Roland raised his eyebrows and didn't answer.
After saying goodbye, Lan's back gradually disappeared into the streets.
Roland leaned against the door of the store, digesting the huge amount of information obtained from this conversation.
Whether it is the dream world or the real world, it seems to have become clearer than ever before, magic, divine will, consciousness, dawn, bottomless abyss... These words are no longer just a simple concept, but through the newly acquired information connected into a whole.
Just as he was contemplating, he suddenly felt a strange trembling across his body!
Roland raised his head abruptly, and found that a twisted ripple appeared in front of him, as if an endless transparent wall was sweeping the entire street, and after passing him, it quickly expanded into the distance.
what's going on
He looked at the other people in the community in surprise, and those aunts and uncles didn't seem to notice any difference at all, and they were still talking and laughing and doing their own things.
If he hadn't had a similar experience, he almost thought he had hallucinated.
That's right, Roland clenched his fists. This is a change that only he can feel, and the fluctuations are quite similar to the sensation of heaven and earth when he reclaims the core of magic creatures. Although the former made him feel comfortable and warm, the latter made him faintly uneasy.
Could it be that something had an impact on the dream world, and such a vision appeared
It's a pity that Lan has already left, and he didn't go to Prism City to pick up the association's mobile phone, otherwise he might be able to ask something from her.
Roland suppressed his distracting thoughts, locked the door of the cafe, and returned to the package.
He had planned to cut off the connection with the dream and return to reality. Who knew that as soon as he opened the door of 0825, he would see Zero's sneakers still at the entrance.
He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. The conversation with Lan lasted for more than an hour. It was already past school time. Why didn't Zero go out yet
Looking at the living room, Roland was surprised to see that the little girl was lying motionless on the ground with two broken water glasses beside her.
"No way… "
He walked quickly to the other side, crouched down and held the other side's wrist.
The pulse is still beating.
Looking at the other person's face again, she saw that Zero's eyes were closed, her brows were slightly furrowed, and her cheeks were flushed, as if she was enduring some kind of pain.
Roland tried to touch her forehead, and there was a burning sensation in his palm.
This is... a fever
Judging from the way she fell, she probably suddenly lost her balance while clearing the coffee table.
Hell, she'll be fine tomorrow morning.
However, Roland's high-hanging heart also fell a lot. It's better to be sick than to be attacked by a fallen demon. The moment he saw the little girl fell, he almost thought that the gods had sent his men to seek revenge.
Roland picked up the other party without hesitation, ran down the building in three steps and two steps, and got into the van.
It was probably because of the bump that Zero regained some consciousness. She opened her eyes and murmured in a low voice, "I broke the... cup on the table..."
"I saw."
"I'm sorry... sorry, I'll pay... yours, don't drive me... to the country."
Is this guy... burnt out
Roland put her in the passenger seat and fastened her seat belt, "Shut up and don't say anything."
Just as he pulled away to start the car, Zero suddenly reached out and grabbed his sleeve, "Uncle... don't go."
For the little girl who almost always turned her brows at him, this was the first time she had seen it. Looking at the other party's almost pleading expression, Roland couldn't help but think of the words she wrote in her diary. It was probably because the high fever made her unconscious that she revealed her most vulnerable side, and she didn't know how her family treated her in the past. Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing, "Don't worry, your rent hasn't been paid yet, I won't let you go."
Hearing this sentence, Zero slowly closed her eyes, but still did not let go of her hand.
After being sent to the hospital, there was another tossing, registration, diagnosis, hospitalization, hanging water... It was basically the afternoon after the set was finished. Although the condition of the girl has not yet been found out, the little girl's condition has stabilized.
Until evening, the attending doctor found him.
"Are you really a martial artist?"
"That's right, what's wrong?" Roland asked.
"Please don't tease us next time." The other party said angrily, "The girl is not sick at all, but has awakened the power of nature. Although there are not many cases like this, there will always be one or two among hundreds of people. Unwell, has the Martial Daoist Association never told you about this?"
"What?"
"Awakening. Really, if it wasn't for the fact that a martial artist in the hospital noticed this situation, I would have thought it was a rare disease." The doctor's tone was full of impatience, "You can go through the discharge procedures and take her with you. home."
…
After tossing for a long time, Roland returned to the tube building with Zero who was still asleep.
Looking at the little white-haired girl curled up in his arms, he sighed... Awakened? I didn't expect that she, who was once pure, would still be unable to escape the favor of magic even in this world. This can only be said to be fate. But anyway, with him watching in the dream world, she shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the previous life.
At this time, the sky was already shrouded in darkness, and only the dim light from a row of old chandeliers and flying insects that occasionally hit the lights remained on the long corridor. When he approached 0825, he unexpectedly saw another familiar figure, Garcia. The other party was sitting in the aisle with his back against the door of his house.
What is the situation today? One by one, they came to look for things, and they agreed with Nightingale to only sleep for a while, and now it is almost time for dinner there.
"Yo," Roland crouched down in front of her, "why are you in the mood to wait for me here? Could it be that I lost my key and want to spend the night at my house?"
Garcia didn't sneer for the first time, which made him feel a little wrong.
And when the other party raised his head, Roland suddenly didn't say a word.
I saw that she was already in tears.
"Prism City... was attacked by a large group of fallen demons... I heard from those who escaped, my master... master, she was killed by the fallen demons in order to block the enemy and protect everyone from retreating..."