"Good afternoon." When Matthew led Sloan into the North Park, he nodded to a patrolling man wearing a security jacket.
The other party did not answer, but picked up the walkie-talkie and announced, "The Grande people brought a stranger into the North Park, Matthew."
Matthew frowned, "You don't need to inform him, he is Grande's guest..."
"Did you register when you came in?" The security guard ignored Matthew and glanced at Sloan.
"He doesn't have to, he is our guest." Matthew tried to explain.
"That means there is none." The security guard snorted, "So I need to report it."
Matthew pursed his lips and glanced at Sloan, who was silent, as if admitting his mistake, "I will register next time, but I forgot this time. I'm sorry, I will get used to it as soon as possible."
The security guard didn't want to let Matthew go, "What are you going to do?"
"Uh..." Matthew glanced at Sloan again, "He's going to visit a friend."
"In Beiyuan?" It was a confirmation tone, "Friends in Beiyuan, huh."
"Yes." Matthew's tone was always sincere, "We can stay here and won't disturb your patrol."
The security guard glanced at Matthew and Sloan again, then looked around the North Park, and left without saying anything else.
"I see that you Grande are becoming more and more..." Unable to think of the right words for a moment, Sloan frowned, "It's become more regulated."
"Yeah." Matthew responded softly without making any comments, "Going this way, Lip's cemetery is entrusted by his father, Mr. Green, so it's a little, um, better. But of course it's still not as good as other parks. Cemetery." Matthew said as he counted the strange-shaped tombstones and determined the direction. Walking towards the short tombstone, it was Lip's grave.
"Green's commission." Sloan repeated, although his tone was a statement, "Do you mind telling me how Lip died this time."
this time. Well, people who know a certain future version in advance will speak so strangely.
"Didn't Zach tell you?" Matthew asked naturally.
"Zach. You call vampires by their first names." Or the abbreviation.
"Well..." Matthew blinked. He answered in a daze, "It's forbidden to call me boss. He said he's used to being called Zach, and Benjamin doesn't like me using the word "superior or subordinate"... "
"Benjamin." Sloan twitched his lips, "Just call your Alpha by his name."
"Yeah. They asked me to call me that." Matthew seemed to have thought of something, "We are in Newton..." But he immediately shook his head. After all, this Sloan was not familiar with Grande, so there was no need to say anything more. "We're here." Matthew looked at the cemetery in front of him. "Li Pu, um, it's right down here. We used a pretty good coffin, and I even read a passage from the gospel." It means that other people in Beiyuan don't have this kind of treatment.
"Mr. Green came to visit a few times, but then no one came. After all, it was a secret funeral..." Matthew trailed off. He looked at Sloan as if he had reacted, "Oh. Lip committed suicide. Mr. Green didn't want other people to know, so he gave us a commission, a secret treatment, and a secret funeral."
"Suicide." Sloan seemed to like repeating what others said, and maybe that was the point. Sloan squatted in front of the tombstone. Looking at the monument with nothing engraved on it, I didn't know what I was thinking and kept silent.
After a moment, Sloan shook his head, "So this time. No one knows that the Green family has no heirs and Lip is dead." Is this to express that reality is different from the future? yes.
Matthew opened his mouth as Sloane said 'Heir of Green'. Our simple and honest young wolf Matthew, when he received the order to bury Lip, did not think about the significance of Lip's identity. It turned out that he was Green's heir. Inherit what? Mr. Green is the director of the sanatorium, so what do you think he can inherit
"Yes, um, right. Except for our Grande, Mr. Green." Matthew frowned. He felt that the topic was a bit beyond his ability, so he could only keep up, "and you."
"Matthew." Sloan casually pulled the weeds around the tombstone, "What do you know about the incubus?"
"Uh... not much." Matthew was assigned the task of accompanying Sloan, so if the other party wanted to chat, he could only accompany him. "Benjamin told me that because our souls are dead, we rarely enter dreams. , so you just need to know that there is such a thing as incubus, and you can ignore it. Even if you encounter people who are suspected of not becoming incubus, you don't need to worry about it, and you don't need to participate in their life process."
"Benjamin is right." Sloan twitched his lips, "Incubus demons are not threatening in any way. The only thing that makes them special is that the so-called reality and illusion coexist." He shook his head, "Incubus demons in reality Before he was born, he already existed at the same time as the living person. The timeline was confused among the dream demons and people who coexisted." He raised his head and glanced at Matthew, who was already confused, "You know the result of this is What?"
Matthew didn't even try to think about it, just shook his head.
"People thought that guy was crazy." Sloan circled his finger around his head. "There's something wrong with the brain."
Matthew pursed his lips and could only try to understand, "You mean, the living, human part is still in reality, but the dream demon part is already living in the dream. And then, well, the spirit Are the patients the same?" Matthew still modified his words.
Sloan did not confirm Matthew's words, but nodded, "People living in reality are the only connection between the incubus and reality. What the incubus does in the dream will be reflected in reality. But..." He shook his head again He shook his head and said, "Have you ever had a dream? Matthew, when you were still human."
"Yes, of course I have, and I should." Matthew frowned, being reminded. It's not that he would miss dreaming, but he had never thought about it. "But I don't remember much. Well, it's the same for everyone. Bar."
"Dreams are not reality. There is no time, space, people or things. Everything is infinite after getting rid of the constraints of reality. When you dream of a place, you may meet people or things from ten years ago here, but only If you need to turn around, you may see people or things ten years from now. In the blink of an eye, you may see the soap opera protagonist you glanced at on TV before going to bed. Everything in reality is bound by time, space, and laws. Things. In dreams, infinite. Can you imagine that infinite world?"
Matthew shook his head, and Sloan continued, "What you do in such an infinite world cannot be recognized by the reality with restrictions everywhere. But dream demons are this kind of existence. When the ever-changing time of dreams occasionally meets reality, . The overlap happened when the incubus was still a human being, and what the incubus did in the dream was reflected in reality..." Sloan shook his head, looking very regretful.
"Lipp is treated as a patient." Matthew pursed his lips.
"A patient who does not exist in any written records." Sloan raised his hand and his expression changed, "Green's heir cannot be a lunatic." Suddenly, the topic became realistic, "Zach mentioned the aftermath of the nursing home fire. He looked for me, and I guess he looked for Lip, but he didn't find anything."
Matthew was still changing his mood and nodded blankly.
"Are you curious about the future, no, what it will be like now? If Lip hadn't set a fire in the sanatorium to help Grande, how would things have developed now?"
Matthew shook his head. The logic is very simple. It’s useless to know, that’s already a changed future. The possibility of being abandoned by time.
Sloan frowned, as if he was a little disappointed. Obviously, he was very expressive now, but Matthew didn't want to hear it. Why.
But we should be clear, if the sanatorium did not catch fire at that time. Now Lip is also dead. That's right, that's what Sloan said to Zach on the bus. In the future that didn't happen, Lip died at this time. Sloan missed his friends. So come back at this time to try your luck and pull Lip (the succubus) who has lost contact with reality from the endless dream.
"Then I'm going to start." Sloan stood up and glanced at Matthew, "Don't let anyone disturb me."
"Oh." Matthew nodded and looked to the south of Beiyuan. The patrolling security guards had disappeared. Everyone should still remember that because of the traditional significance of North Park, whether it was the arrangements for Grande's new employees or the security company's arrangements, this place was ignored. This was both a loophole and a convenience.
Matthew looked around safely and said, "No one will come. What are you going to do..."
Light blue light spread out from Sloan's body, Matthew blinked, and the blue light took a step forward. Sloan, there are two.
"Just say something like a congratulatory message." Sloan, who seemed to have just peeled off a blue shell, glanced at Matthew, "We are here to see our friends, aren't we."
Before Matthew could answer, the blue 'shell' had already stepped onto Lip's grave. "I don't want to be treated as a suspicious person by your security guards." The blue Sloan spoke to Matthew!
Sloan, who was standing there, lowered his head and clasped his hands in front of him, "The Holy Lord told us..." and actually started to pray.
The blue Sloan has begun to sink! Sinking into the graveyard, "I hope I get it right the first time."
Matthew's eyes switched back and forth between his side and the blue Sloan. When the blue Sloan was completely submerged into the ground, Matthew opened his mouth, glanced at Sloan who was lowering his head to pray, and then also lowered his head and joined in the prayer.
Thanks to his father staying in church every week during this period, Matthew actually succeeded in reciting three minutes of the Lord's words.
Sloan raised his head, crossed himself on his chest and fell silent.
"Exit, how's it going down there?"
Sloan glanced at Matthew and said, "I'm not down there anymore."
Matthew blinked and looked at the person in front of him, "Then where are you?"
"Someone's daydream."
"where?"
"Someone's spring dream."
"where?!"
"Someone's nightmare."
"where!!"
Inexplicably, Sloan took a few steps back with a frown on his face. The surrounding space seemed to be distorted, and blue light and shadow without warning crashed into Sloan's body from all directions!
"I'm here." He looked a little pale and glanced at Matthew. "I'm back." He raised his hand and moved his fingers. "Sorry, I didn't catch him. Try again." As he said that, he As he walked forward again, blue light and shadow spread out from his body again, about to step out and leave.
"Wait!" Matthew grabbed Sloan's arm anxiously, and the light and shadow froze. Matthew watched with some horror as Sloan turned his head, dragging the blue shadow that had not yet left to turn with him. After facing Matthew, the blue Sloane constructed by light and shadow and Sloane, who was pulled by Matthew to complete the overlapping of their faces, spoke together -
"What are you waiting for?"
"What are you waiting for?"
The same voice and the same tone, but because of the short time difference, did not blend together ideally.
Matthew shuddered unconsciously, "Uh... I, um... what you have to do is very, very difficult? Can I help?"
The physical Sloane frowned and lowered his head. Only the heads of the two Sloane were separated. This scene is even more disturbing.
"Can you grab the soul mark and the body's binding and climb to another world, the dream world?" Blue Sloan asked without lowering his head, his chin was half buried in the back of Sloan's head.
"I, I'll probably break it." The werewolf's blood also restrained the soul aliens, and there was no need to explain this.
"Then you can't help." The lowered Sloan raised his head and met the blue Sloan's again. You thought this picture would be better, no, when he spoke, the blue Sloan shook his head, and the shaking blue shadow even made it impossible for Matthew to see the face of the person in front of him!
"Li Pu is dead. His soul has been separated from his body, and his soul has begun to take on the life form of a dream demon. The only tie that still maintains the two is crumbling and decaying, and is very fragile." The physical Si Long tried to explain, which was considered as feedback to Matthew's kindness, "There is nothing you can do to help here. I accept the kindness."
Matthew let go of his hand and stepped away unnaturally, watching the blue Sloane step in, and the two Sloane completely appeared in front of him again. Just like before, the blue Sloane began to sink, sinking into the ground.
"We should go back." After about three minutes, the same blue light and shadow suddenly appeared when Sloan took a few steps back without warning, and crashed into his body. His face turned paler, " This is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time and we should not stay here for a long time.”
Although he said these words, blue still emerged from Sloan's body, and blue Sloan walked out again.
"Then..." Matthew wasn't sure who he should talk to, "What are we going to do now?"
"Go back to Grande." Sloan turned around directly, but Blue Sloan stayed where he was and finished speaking, "I will bring Lip's body back and go back to prepare first."
"Take, bring back Lip's body?" Matthew's eyes switched back and forth between the two Sloan, who was starting to distance themselves. "How to bring it back?"
The answer emerged after Matthew returned to Grande.
Alice and Yuehua Baiying were still grooming Lang in the basement on the east side. At Sloan's request, Matthew opened the freezer where the body was stored.
The three mourning banshees temporarily stopped what they were doing and watched curiously as Sloan bent down and hugged him. "Here he comes." Sloan reminded him.
The blue light and shadow suddenly appeared and crashed into Sloan's body. At the same time, Sloan's body, which was bent over and hugging him, sank. He was pressed by something that appeared out of thin air.
boom!
As soon as the thing was picked up by Sloan and placed like a freezer, Matthew pushed it in and closed it!
"Yes, I'm sorry, it smells so bad!" Matthew said. (.)