13 Mink Street

Alfred was inside, but he was not inside, because there was only a dim yellow light in the workshop. It was very weak, like a flickering candle, but it was unusually strong.

Leaning against the door frame, Karen grasped her arms with both hands, listening to the prayers coming from the tiny halo of light, and smiled.

"Ha ha ha ha ha……"

Smiling, Karen breathed a sigh of relief.

The feeling of drowsiness in his head that almost overwhelmed him, no, had already overwhelmed him, finally completely disappeared at this moment.

When you are confused, even if there is only a light beside you, you will feel warm; when you look up at night, even if there is only one star shining for you, you will feel beautiful.

Life is like sailing in the sea. In fact, most people's boats have no sails or oars, and they just passively follow the direction of the current and drift.

At this time, if an anchor could fall down and remain still for a moment, it would be enough to make people envious and grateful.

Karen looked around, and he finally understood why this illusion was so difficult, because he was actually the one who built this cage.

Sobriety, direct gaze and conquest in the ordinary sense are challenges that oneself, as a single individual, launches to the other party.

But here, your awakening to yourself, looking directly at yourself, and conquering yourself... are equivalent to your confusion, avoidance of yourself, and defeat of yourself.

Ashley's father, Mr. Santos, described it well in his diary: When it appears alive, it will be everywhere.

This sentence summarizes Pousien's ability extremely accurately. Based on himself, he is really... everywhere.

It's just that this description is a bit too concise, and even rises to the level of ultimate philosophical understanding. If you haven't experienced it or really walked through it, you can't understand the true meaning of this sentence at all.

"So, in the future, when writing diaries, it is better to write in plain language, and it is best to add notes."

Karen turned and left, waving to the faint light behind her.

Coming up from the basement and walking to the first floor, the Throne of Order was still placed on the morgue.

Karen walked up the steps to the throne and sat down without hesitation.

"I have already sat down, but why am I not the God of Order?"

No voice answered him.

Karen touched the armrests of the throne with both hands, feeling the delicate touch:

"The throne itself actually has no meaning. It makes no difference whether you sit on it or not. The reason why it is admired is not because it is the Throne of Order, but because it is called the Throne of Order, and it is the chair where the God of Order once sat. .”

Karen stood up and looked back at the throne behind him:

"The more exquisite something looks, the less practical it is. It might as well be an armchair, no, a rattan rocking chair."

After walking off the morgue, Mr. Hoven was still sitting on the sofa next to the coffee table, drinking tea.

Karen walked up to him, bent down, and said:

"Grandpa Huofen, it wasn't until I got a lot of experience after I went out that I realized how powerful you really are. It's a pity that you are dead, and what's even more pity is that you have been awakened.

Otherwise, I will really go back one day in the future, pick you up from the graveyard, and ask you about formations. I originally thought that learning formations was as simple as learning spells, but now it seems that I thought it was simpler.

Even if I have the key to the Rubik's Cube, learning the formation is still a complicated and long-term process. If you were still here, I could specifically ask you to teach me.

But it's okay, you walked away very freely and without leaving any regrets. "

After speaking, Karen reached out and helped Mr. Hoffen adjust the hat on his head.

Immediately, Karen walked up the stairs, and the golden retriever was still there, sticking out his tongue and showing a silly smile.

Karen put her hand on the golden retriever's bald head and rubbed it.

road:

"There's something I've always been curious about, but I don't have the nerve to ask you, and that is, is there any relationship between Goddess Mills and Poseidon?"

The golden retriever still smiled innocently, but this smile was a little frozen.

Karen stepped over the golden retriever and walked upstairs, where the black cat was still sitting. Karen naturally reached out and rubbed the hair on Pu'er's neck, and said, "When I go back, I will cook fish for you. No matter how big the Allen Manor is, there is no cook who can cook the fish you like."

The black cat's tail stood up, and its white finger seemed to want to point at Karen.

Karen reached out and grabbed the finger,

road:

"Don't worry. One day, I will go to the place where the Allen family found your finger to look for you. I hope you have more things left there, so don't make my trip in vain."

Karen loosened her fingers and walked towards the study. At the door, she stretched out her hand to knock on the door.

"Duoduo... Duoduo..."

"Enter."

Karen opened the door and looked at Dis sitting inside.

"grandfather."

"Um?"

"I know you are tired and want to have a good sleep and rest. You go to sleep first and I will wake you up when I get back.

I can feel your pride. In your bones, you are as proud as me, so our love and hate are so casual.

Pu'er said, you see your former appearance in me.

In fact, I have been learning from your pride and freedom.

I am lucky to have an elder like you when I open my eyes in this world.

I believe you really care for me as your grandson,

because,

I have long regarded you as a real grandpa. "

After saying that, Karen exited the study and closed the door.

When passing by the window sill, I found that "Karen" was still standing there, but this time it was facing me instead of the window.

"I have seen your pain from Mr. Eisen, so I feel that death is a kind of relief for you. I am not snatching your body, and it is not me driving you out of the house. I am here." At that time, it was an empty house.

I don’t want to say to you that I take on your responsibilities for you, because I am Karen now.

By the way, if you are weak, don't stand on the window sill, it's very windy there. "

Immediately afterwards,

Karen opened the bedroom door, and Uncle Mason, Aunt Mary, Aunt Winnie, etc. were still inside.

Opening his arms, Karen hugged Uncle Mason: "Uncle, I miss you. You are a funny elder. You also taught me a lot of principles of life."

Karen hugged Aunt Mary again: "Aunt, you are really beautiful. I always think that uncle is very lucky to marry you."

Next, Karen hugged everyone, and finally, looked at everyone:

"My grandfather asked me several times if I really thought about it. At that time, I just wanted to go out and see the scenery.

If I could do it all over again now, and my grandfather asked me the same question again, I don't know if I would still be willing to leave home, leave the Immelais Funeral Society, and leave Mink Street.

I miss you so much.

I will return,

After I am strong enough. "

After this time, there will no longer be a gap in my heart.

Karen raised his head, raised his hand, and snapped his fingers in his ear.

"Snapped!"

…

Karen opened his eyes. Next to him, Ashley stood there motionless with her eyes closed. The other members of his team also stood there motionless.

Not only his own team, but all the other three teams were also still there.

slowly,

Karen set his sights on the big walnut Pusien.

Pousien's heart was in despair.

Phantom beasts are also intelligent. Although their race does not possess human ethics and social outlook, they possess the instinct of life.

What Karen saw, Pousine saw too.

Pousien could only curse fate, which allowed it to choose one of four choices, and it ended up here.

Why is it me and not the other three-headed Puxien?

Karen lowered his head and saw a white silk thread at his wrist, and the other end was on Psion.

If you observe carefully, you can see that everyone is tied with a white thread, which is also connected to all the selectors in their respective boundaries.

Karen used her other hand to untie the white thread and hold it in her hand.

Pusien couldn't speak or move, but Karen sensed the other person's pleading from the white line.

They were not begging him to spare their lives. They knew that if they were sent up, they would have a high probability of death, because they themselves were consumables in this trial.

It is begging not to punish it with anything more terrifying than death.

Karen let go of her hand, and the white silk thread quickly returned to Puxien.

"woo woo woo woo………"

A whistle-like sound came from Pousion, full of relief and gratitude.

Then,

"boom!"

The big walnut exploded.

It chose to commit suicide, and committed suicide without hesitation and impatience, for fear that Karen would regret it.

After the explosion, the others did not wake up, because Pousion's ability was only a catalyst, and their reaction was not over yet.

Karen guessed that there was probably something wrong with him, which caused problems for both himself and the Psion.

As the first person to "wake up", Karen chose to sit quietly and wait quietly.

Five minutes later, the second person who woke up appeared, the sleepy girl next door Philomena.

After she woke up, the Pousien on her side escaped directly into the ground and disappeared, giving her no chance to attack. Like Karen, she also cut off the white thread on her teammate. What he got was the same result as Karen, and his teammates didn't wake up.

Because the only value of doing this is that Pucine loses the power to monitor the content of the fantasy, which has the effect of protecting privacy in a timely manner.

Of course, if you can seize the opportunity to kill the Psion, it will be regarded as completely destroying the insider.

On the other side, the captain of the first team, Mu Li, suddenly flashed and appeared next to his Puxien. A flame of order directly hit the Puxien's body, and his body was immediately incinerated. .

Immediately afterwards, the bald captain Kane also woke up. He was about to attack Psion, but his Psion hid underground in advance.

At this time, Punk's voice came:

"There is still one hour left. During this hour, the top three teams with the highest number of awakened players will be eligible to advance to the next round of final testing.

If the last two teams have the same number of awakened people, then the four teams will enter the final round together. "

Ten minutes later, Bart woke up.

After a few more minutes, Ventura woke up.

Then came Mars and Blanche, and Ashley woke up nearly half an hour later.

The situation of other teams is almost the same, but because the Karen team consumes the least and everyone maintains the best condition, they generally wake up much faster than the other three teams.

Karen once again confirmed one thing, that is, he is really an extreme case.

He believed that if other selectors enjoyed the same treatment as him just now, most of them would never have the chance to wake up, and it would be the most normal result to even have their self-awareness closed for the rest of their lives.

In addition, Karen also saw that this level of Puxien is not so much a selection, but rather a benefit provided by the organizer, giving the young people who have come here a chance to improve their self-awareness. The difficulty is actually very suitable. .

So Pousion must be really expensive, and they may not even have prepared a large quantity, so they gave stimulants to the phantom beasts in the previous round to eliminate more teams.

By the fifty-fifth minute, all members of the first team, the third team, and the seventh team woke up.

As for Philomena's team, there are still three people who are still awake.

Their injuries are generally serious and their condition is so bad that they cannot even absorb this benefit at this time.

It seems that Philomena's team will be eliminated.

But at this moment, Philomena walked up to her two teammates who had not yet woken up, put her hands on their shoulders, and closed her eyes.

Two minutes later, the two teammates opened their eyes and woke up.

Philomena walked over to her last teammate and put her hand on his shoulder. At the last moment, exactly at the last minute, her last teammate woke up too.

The other three team members looked at Philomena's behavior in surprise. She actually used soul connection to forcefully enter the soul consciousness of the three people and wake them up.

Karen thought of her habit of falling asleep even while walking. Could it be that she was "invited in a dream"?

Finally, under Punk's announcement, the four teams collectively entered the next round.

"puff!"

After receiving the news that her promotion was confirmed, Philomena vomited out a mouthful of blood and knelt on the ground. There was blood overflowing from the corners of her eyes, nose and ears. Obviously, she paid a huge price to wake up her teammates.

In fact, it doesn't make much sense for her to do this, because this round is the Welfare Bureau, and it can't be the last round, because the last round can only be completed when there are only two teams left.

Her team, including herself, was in unimaginably poor condition, and it was impossible to pass the next round of competition.

In fact, Philomena herself knew this very well, but she just refused to do so.

The reason for her unwillingness was not to prove anything to Karen, but because of her pride. Even if she knew there was no chance, she would forcefully advance to the final round, even if she paid a heavy personal price for it.

Even Karen had to admire this. Although she was not suitable to be a teammate or a friend, her pride and strength made her an opponent worthy of being treated properly.

Above, dark clouds appeared again, heralding the beginning of the next countdown.

Karen looked at his team members and found that all of them were in a low mood. This was basically the same situation for other teams. They had just come out of the "self-examination" state, and their mood would definitely enter a low ebb.

"Cheer up!" Karen clapped his hands. "It's instinct to pick up emotions, but it's skill to put them down. At this time, focusing on useless emotions is the stupidest thing!"

In the end, it was up to him, the captain, to mobilize morale, but he was the one who was under the most pressure before.

"Yes, Captain!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Everyone shouted in response and stood up straight.

"Mars, run the spiritual bridge formation now to connect us all!"

"Yes, Captain."

Mas took a deep breath and activated the formation. Everyone standing in the formation was mentally connected. Each other could sense each other's emotional fluctuations. When they actually encountered the attack from the artifact, they could also activate the formation. Overall spiritual defense.

The first team also ran a similar formation, and everyone also stood in the formation.

When Bald Kane, the captain of the seventh team, saw this scene, he slapped his bald head and cursed: "You're just bullying our team for not having an array mage, right?"

at the moment,

The first team and the third team entered to prepare for the arrival of the artifact. The seventh team was swearing. In Philomena's team, no one was even standing, and most of them were lying down.

However, when the dark clouds were about to dissipate and cracks appeared again above, a beam of light appeared on Bald Kane, the captain of the seventh team. He opened his arms and took the hands of two of his team members. The other team members also joined hands to form a circle.

They are betting that the power of the artifact only acts on the spiritual side.

Because the artifact is so powerful, if all the artifacts are released, all the teams present will be destroyed.

Therefore, this method similar to team building has a high probability of actually working.

At this time, an ancient aura emerged from the crack.

It hasn't entered the crack yet, but the terrifying pressure of the artifact has already poured down, followed by a spiritual storm similar to a pre-dinner snack.

Even though everyone in the first team was in the formation, their faces were still struggling with pain. Although they couldn't hear their voices, they could feel their misery and pain.

Everyone in the seventh team changed from standing and holding hands to squatting and holding hands, with painful tears and noses dripping down from each one.

Philomena's thorn-headed team had been judged by the formation master in charge of their area to have lost the ability to continue competing and teleported out of the barrier.

As for everyone in Karen's team, look at me, I look at you, and then look at the two teams next door. They all looked puzzled. Why don't they feel anything here?

Everyone thought of a possibility!

Ashley turned back, looked at Mas who was presiding over the formation, and exclaimed:

"Mars, it turns out you are the one who hides the deepest!"

The rest of the team all cast admiring glances. No matter what, at the last moment, the hidden boss in the team suddenly revealed his strength to protect the team as a whole. It was a surprise. No one would blame him at this time. He had deliberately hidden it before.

Mars: "Huh?"

Facing the praise from his teammates, Mas was the most confused. Not to mention that he didn't hide his level. Even if he did hide it, what does it have to do with him?

The formation I arranged did not encounter any mental storm at all, not even a small breeze!

"Karen...Karen..."

Because of the spiritual bridge, everyone is mentally connected to a certain extent, so this spiritual call is also transmitted to the ears of all team members.

Ventura asked in confusion: "Who is calling Captain in his heart at this time?"

Bart turned to look at Ashley and Blanche, and reminded: "You have to control yourselves now and don't call captain so softly in your heart, we can all hear it."

Because this voice is female.

Ashley immediately shook her head and said, "It's not me!"

Blanche immediately shook her head and said, "It's not me, it's really not me!"

"It's really not you?" Bart still didn't believe it.

Ashley said angrily: "No, I told you no, even if you want to be the captain, it's not at this time. You can't think about it when you go home and lie in bed after the selection!"

Blanche nodded: "Yes, yes."

Bart wondered: "Hey, if it's not you, who could it be? Ventura, Mars, which one of you two is a woman in the spiritual world?"

Mas said: "The sound did not come from within the formation, but came from outside the formation."

"Outside the formation?" Bart was even more confused, "How is it possible? Have you forgotten? We are in the team's barrier. Sound cannot be transmitted, and mental power cannot be transmitted, unless it is that god..."

Ventura answered: "Unless it's a spiritual message sent by that artifact."

"Brother Karen... I miss you so much...Brother Karen..."

Everyone: "..."