William woke up surrounded by octopus tentacles. In reality, he hadn't even gone into the sea, but was just staying on the shore of the factory swimming pool.
Without rushing to break free from his current restraints, he just had a "friendly exchange" with Catherine.
"When did you fall asleep? Was it when I reached out my hand to touch the sea water and observed it?"
After William asked the question, a cold, pale female head slowly emerged from the octopus tentacles that wrapped around his body. It was Catherine.
But there was no ponytail and no makeup, and she looked like a head cut from a corpse.
"No, that's not right. You started dreaming the moment you were staring at the water while trying to analyze the structure of the swimming pool... That's really unlike you, William. You should be mean and cautious. You shouldn't fall for it so easily, right
Moreover, I can clearly feel that you are very tired today, especially on the physical level. After falling into the dream, you did not struggle at all but were completely immersed in it.
Could it be that before coming to me, he went to have fun with those two sisters for the whole day and got drained? "
"No, Mr. Rabbit is back. I was just about to meet you when you were invited to the Rabbit Castle. Fortunately, I was able to complete the training given by Mr. Rabbit before the end of the day."
"No wonder you smell so much sweat, it turns out it's because you're with the rabbits. It's really good, being favored by the boss and liked by the second in command of the circus."
Catherine's head seemed to exist independently, sliding freely among the octopus tentacles, sometimes appearing on William's side, sometimes on top of his head, and sometimes between his legs.
"Catherine, what's the matter with calling me here?"
"Hmm? Don't you want to know me
And you even sent that parasite here. You are really selfish... You knew that the Clown House was so dangerous, but you let Nash take the risk of being killed by Art to investigate me."
"I just asked Nash to investigate you externally. It was his own will to choose to go to the clown house."
"Okay, stop explaining... You're best at taking advantage of others, aren't you? Okay~ Let's not talk about that disgusting parasite for now. I feel sick just thinking about his fake human face.
The dream just now should have shown you enough information, right
I didn't expect you to be so kind and actually try to help the sisters.
But there is one thing I didn't expect, you actually saw the source of the fish, which made the subsequent dreams become extremely real, so real that you almost died in them."
As soon as the words fell,
William felt a stinging pain in his lower body as if something was being pulled out.
The real purpose of those octopus tentacles that were floating all over his body was to suck away the fish scales that grew on William's body, because this was not Catherine's original intention.
She had never expected that William had actually seen Yuyuan.
This directly led to a 'deep connection' between nightmares and memories, which gave rise to an alternative and impossible nightmare branch. As a result, William, who was already tired and not very prepared, was taken advantage of by the fish source created by the nightmare, and fish scales began to grow all over his body.
William didn't care. He could clean up this level of infection himself.
He was more concerned about some of the questions implied by what Catherine had just said, "Catherine, you can't completely control nightmares?"
"Let me borrow a description of 'nightmare' from a book - 'nightmare is not controlled by logic, and if nightmare can be explained, it will lose its original interest.'
Nightmares always exist, I just have a certain degree of control over them. Sometimes, nightmares will become chaotic and disordered for some reason, and even I can't force them to stabilize.
By the way, how did you see the source of the fish? Can you tell me about it? "
Catherine's head fell right between her legs, smiling as she waited for the story to begin. If the story contained any fiction or did not satisfy her, William would be subjected to some kind of physical punishment.
"That's probably it."
William directly described his experiences during the gentleman examination in the form of a short story, named "The Lake Town Horror".
The wonderful storyline made Catherine's eyes reveal her former innocence and she was completely mesmerized.
Especially when William reached the bottom of the lake with his human body and touched the giant eye, she almost cried out.
"Fish Eye! This is one of Nazjatar's favorite experimental creations. There are such eyes everywhere in the arc sea, monitoring every corner...
You actually reached out and touched me with your human body, you are really worthy of me, William! You are so strong that I don’t want to hit you. "
William used this topic to directly bring up something he was most concerned about, "Catherine, you are also one of the experimental creations... or the only experimental creation that escaped from the deep sea."
These words caused Catherine to laugh wildly. Sea water even continued to overflow from her dark mouth, and her tentacles floated back and forth inside.
"Haha, don't think I'm as awesome as you are~ I wasn't the only one who escaped, there were a whole group of people.
But in the end, I was the only one who survived under the protection of the circus, and everyone else was captured and taken back."
"So, you decided to 'escape together' privately?"
"It's not that easy~
The laboratory you saw in your dream is just a scene imagined by your subconscious mind based on the impression of "laboratory" and the keywords I gave it.
The real underwater laboratory is several times more complicated than that, and it is impossible to escape.
Even if we really escape from the laboratory, as long as we are still in the ocean, everything is controlled by the source of fish.
The reason why we were able to escape from the arc sea was that the failure of a certain experimental project caused turmoil in the entire deep sea, and the fish sources were implicated.
The deep-sea earthquake caused serious damage to the laboratory. The container that imprisoned us was damaged, the blocked door was completely crushed, and a large amount of seawater poured in from the top.
Even so, even though we broke free from all control of the fish source at that time, only 2% of the sisters participated in the escape, and some of the remaining sisters even wanted to stop us.
The moment they stepped onto land, many sisters thought they had escaped the clutches of the devil and relaxed.
I was the only one who was on the run. I fled to the farthest corner and lived in a small town disguised as an ordinary patient. By chance, a circus happened to come to this town to conduct trial operations and recruit talents.
"I have a question, Catherine. Since you are a 'survivor'... where does the deep sea water that fills your current swimming pool come from?"
"Well, I am a very cautious person.
I had long imagined how to escape from the laboratory and the sea... I was also considering whether it would have adverse effects on my body if I were to leave the ocean for a long time.
When I fled, I stole a water condensation device from the laboratory. The seawater stored in it is enough to fill the current swimming pool. In case I live on land for a long time and feel unwell, I can use this seawater to nourish my body.
Unexpectedly, there was no discomfort at all, and just taking a bath every night was enough.
I hid this thing deep in the cave behind the town. I took it out not long ago when I suddenly remembered it.
But… "
Catherine paused deliberately, her head moving upwards between William's legs.
Only when we reached the abdomen could we see clearly that Catherine had indeed separated her head, and the part below her neck was being carried by the slender octopus legs.
The head quickly came in front of William and stretched out its tongue with a suction cup to lick his chin.
"William, since you chose to help those girls you didn't know in the dream, are you willing to do me a favor?"
"What's the matter?"
"Help me bring some things back from my 'homeland'. Although I can still live normally without the help of the deep sea, in some aspects, especially regarding the in-depth development of the 'deep sea disease', it has become very slow.
Especially after I completed the path, my desire for the deep sea became stronger.
Bring me more seawater, deep-sea water that's high in pathogens, and if possible, some octopus essence, which can be found in the lab."
"If you want me dead, just tell me..."
"How can I bear to let you die~ Besides, we are colleagues after all.
Anyway, I invited you here tonight to talk about this matter. Whether you do it or not is your own business. If you want to go, I can personally take you to the beach and tell you some experience in the sea.
As long as you can bring me back the 'specialties from my hometown', I will be at your disposal from now on.
Even if you let me hide in the closet with a camera in advance to film you and the sisters doing things, or even training with Mr. Rabbit, I will definitely cooperate and even participate in it~"