Barrier of Light

I got there in time.

The important character in this dream, "Ai Li", did not die.

Mu Wanqiu, whose head was held down by Gu Shen's hand, had a cold evil aura covering her pretty face.

In the "Fire Vision", there was a black mist lingering behind her——

The judge has awakened!

"These extraordinary beings... are probably only at the elementary level."

Gu Shen glanced around the room, "Well, this one named Zuo Wu is a little stronger, about the strength of the second level of the deep water area. These guys are too weak. As long as the 'Judge' awakens, they can all be killed." "

There are strong and weak abilities.

Zuo Wu's "Fire" has extremely low attack power.

It can be used to attack ordinary people and frighten ordinary people. It can only complete a few arson cases at most.

The initially awakened "Judge" can crush it. The "fire" thrown by Zuo Wu hits the black evil and makes no waves at all. It only throws up a few scattered sparks and then dissipates.

"boom!"

The silence of the cabin did not last long.

A red-silver bullet rang out behind Gu Shen, penetrating and shattering the wooden door, leaving a narrow bullet hole.

Gu Shen stood up expressionlessly.

He looked back.

The next moment, the wooden door was kicked open violently, and the only remaining "treasurer member" of the seven-man gang rushed into the house with a fierce look on his face. The noise just now was so loud that it could be heard over there in the church... No need. Even if you think about it, you know that this is the little boy's extraordinary awakening and he is trying to resist!

However, when he saw the bloody scene of the black shark surrounded by flames, he was frightened by this horrifying scene.

Gu Shen stretched out his palm and pressed the little girl's head involuntarily, asking her to turn her head away.

Then he snapped his fingers.

"Peng——"

The guy who crashed into the house had his head exploded.

He blocked Mu Wanqiu's view.

But Ai Li saw this scene.

"Don't worry...I'm not a bad person."

Gu Shen spoke subconsciously, then paused and added: "I may not be a good person, but compared to them, I am much better."

Aunt Ai covered her lips to prevent herself from making any sound. She looked at the direction of the black mist in horror.

"If you want to vomit, just vomit."

Gu Shen said considerately: "There is still an unsolved guy over there. I'll go and get back."

Gu Shen carried Mu Wanqiu and walked towards the outside of the church.

The little guy roared like a lion.

After awakening, the judge continued to attack Gu Shen... The black evil energy fell like a violent storm, but Gu Shen looked calm and walked calmly. He held Mu Wanqiu's back collar with one hand and put the other hand in his pocket , can even be considered "elegant". In the storm, he is like a lightly fluttering willow leaf, always dodging perfectly at the moment when the black evil attack is about to arrive.

Of course, when killing people, they have to take Mu Wanqiu with them.

After awakening his talent, this little guy became so murderous... that he killed an entire room of extraordinary beings in just one minute.

If she wasn't taken with her, she would probably kill everyone in the church.

"Your 'S-level' awakening... seems to be more powerful than mine."

Gu Shen looked at the masses of evil energy lingering in all directions, and murmured: "Can you really kill so many people when you first awaken? It's really enviable."

Of course Mu Wanqiu did not respond.

Gu Shen smiled, "However, I probably understand why you hate 'light'... This church is indeed disgusting. How about we kill Virgil now?"

The little girl struggled desperately. When she heard this, she suddenly stopped moving. She just turned her head and looked at Gu Shen in confusion.

Gu Shen lifted her up to eye level with him with one hand.

"I'm afraid of trouble." He said warmly, "So I can leave that scum to you."

There were strong winds and rain, accompanied by torrential thunder.

Perhaps it was due to disrepair, or perhaps the appearance of Gu Shen "modified" the world line of the dream. The main glass of this high cathedral shattered at this moment, and the colorful holy light was torn apart by thunder. Thousands of pieces The broken glass reflected the reflection of a man carrying a little girl moving forward resolutely... Gu Shen stepped on the broken holy light all over the ground, leading to the sacred and solemn main church. Virgil held the holy book and pretended to be calm as he stood praying. In front of the holy platform, he saw the blood seeping out and the little girl hanging in the air wrapped in black mist.

"You...freak! Evil seed!"

Virgil chanted scriptures of light. He raised his voice, trying to calm himself down...but it had no effect at all, because the louder he was, the more deserted the echo in the church became, and the more suffocating the fear in his heart became.

Mu Wanqiu just looked at him calmly.

"boom!"

A flash of fire exploded in the pages of the book held by Virgil. He picked up the revolver and pulled the trigger. The red and silver bullet shot a long straight line in the wide church.

Gu Shen moved half a step sideways very gently.

The long line rubbed against the girl's cheek, and the hot air blew her hair.

He moved on.

"Bang bang bang——"

Virgil continued to shoot. Gu Shen walked in a straight line, and he shot in the same straight line. His marksmanship was very accurate, but he could never hit the target accurately.

Even if it hits...

It won't have any impact.

The strength of the red and silver bullets was too weak for Gu Shen... Besides, this is the spiritual world, and he is the supreme "king" in the dream!

Killing someone is not torture.

Death is just a moment.

But watching "death" come, step by step, and finally oppress you to the extreme... This is the most desperate thing.

When Gu Shen brought Mu Wanqiu slowly to the holy altar.

Virgil couldn't even hold the gun anymore. He pressed the trigger desperately, and the bullet was empty. His elbows were placed on the table, supporting the body that was unable to stand and trembling crazily... Snot and tears poured out. .

"The Illuminati will sanction you..."

"Evil seed..."

"Evil seed..."

Virgil stared at the black mist, wanting to yell. Those words were the words that came to his mind just now, but he couldn't say a word at this moment. His last strength was just to stare at the black mist...

Gu Shen stood still and stopped moving.

He gave Mu Wanqiu the opportunity to kill "Virgil".

Except nothing happened in the church.

"boom."

A few seconds later, Virgil... fell backwards and fell heavily to the ground.

"..."

Gu Shen looked at the man lying on the ground in silence.

Is the judge so scary?

Virgil was frightened to death.

"etc--"

At this moment, Gu Shen realized something was wrong... He didn't know how Virgil died in Mu Wanqiu's real experience. This way of death was really weird.

But before Virgil died, he kept staring at "himself".

"Logically speaking...this dream should have ended after the death of 'Virgil'..."

Gu Shen stood quietly. He held the little girl up and asked "Mu Wanqiu" who was lifting her to slowly turn around.

The two looked at each other.

Gu Shen looked at the little girl in front of him. From beginning to end, his spiritual power enveloped the church to ensure that no tragedy would occur.

Virgil is dead.

Zuo Wu also died.

Ai Li is still alive...

"The reason for Mu Wanqiu's 'inner nightmare' is that she lost control of her awakening. While killing these gangsters, she accidentally killed 'Ai Li'... But now the dream is still going on... Did I neglect something? I Did you guess Mu Wanqiu's 'inner nightmare' wrong?"

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, feeling that something was wrong.

"Squeak."

The small door of the wooden house was slowly opened.

Aunt Ai looked pale and came to the church hall. She retrieved the jade talisman from Zuo Wu's corpse, and holding the jade talisman, she came to the holy altar filled with black evil energy.

"Xiaoqiu..."

She looked at the blood splattered on the holy platform, her voice trembled, and although she was afraid, she still slowly moved forward.

Gu Shen turned around.

Aunt Ai's eyes are very similar to Virgil's... they are both looking at "himself", but their eyes actually pass through "himself".

They...can't see themselves.

The desperate woman held the jade talisman and said with difficulty: "Wake up... Xiaoqiu... don't be controlled by the 'evil ghost'..."

The rolling black evil, like the tentacles of an octopus, covered the vaults and pillars of the church.

The judge looked down at the woman.

After seeing Aunt Ai, Gu Shen immediately realized what was "wrong" about her.

It's a jade talisman.

The mascot that Ai Li always carries with him to ward off the "Judge Black Evil"... This jade talisman cannot play the role of "evil protection" at all. It is just a beautiful-looking one. The jade talisman contains a little bit of extraordinary source material, that's all, it doesn't have any special effect.

Theoretically speaking.

There is absolutely nothing the Jade Talisman can do... to protect the host and resist the [Judge].

So later Zuo Wu got the jade talisman, and the ending was the same... Even if he didn't interfere in the dream, he would be directly tortured and killed by the [Judge] in the hut just now.

Since the jade talisman is useless.

So why has Aunt Ai been safe and sound for six years...

Gu Shen could only think of one possibility.

Countless black demons rushed towards Aunt Ai. He let go of the hand that suppressed Mu Wanqiu. In an instant, the girl flew over Aunt Ai's body and crashed into the woman's arms... There was no [Judge] murder. In such a scene, those black demons almost surged into the sea, but they retreated around Aunt Ai, and the source of the jade talisman exuded a faint fluorescence.

It looks like the jade talisman drives away disaster.

But in fact.

The disaster never goes away.

Calamity is just... firmly controlled by its master.

One big and one small, hugging each other.

Aunt Ai hugged the child tightly and cried bitterly.

"Rumble..."

The entire dream world began to shake at this moment.

Gu Shen slowly came to the door. He looked out of the church's floor-to-ceiling windows. The roar of machinery could be heard in the distance, and the "aura of light" he first felt gradually came... Countless crowds of crows took off around the church, dancing wildly. , roaring, carnival.

It rained heavily, the sky opened, and a blazing "sacred light" fell in the distance.

The saint, the Holy Judge, riding the white horse of the church, followed the skylight and arrived in front of this dilapidated church surrounded by crows.

The tall man at the head was wearing a red bishop's robe, with a gorgeous long sword inlaid with purple silver hanging from his waist. He turned his white horse and read out the crime loudly.

"With the will of light, we will hunt down sinners——"

"Mu Wanqiu and Ai Li committed murder in the north of Qiaxik Town in the year 626 of the New Calendar. They killed seventy-four people. In order to avoid responsibility, they fled many places in the borders of Beizhou. Their crime is unforgivable and they will be punished today!"

The red-robed archbishop drew his sword and raised it high.

The church surrounded by crows, inside and out, was enveloped in black evil aura.

Aunt Ai held the child tightly.

Mu Wanqiu's expression changed from indifferent to confused.

Year 626 of the New Calendar...

Gu Shen glanced at the calendar hanging on the church wall.

six years ago.

He felt this "rich" and "suffocating" darkness... and finally understood why Mu Wanqiu killed Zuo Wu and the others effortlessly and with ease.

Because today is not her first awakening at all.

Her real awakening was six years ago.

If what the red-robed bishop outside said was true, then the seventy-four people in the small town of Qasik probably died in that awakening.

It's just that in Mu Wanqiu's dream, no relevant information appeared at all.

Because the memory of the bloody night six years ago was sealed away.

For a mature spiritual transcendent, it is not difficult to do this... That person should be the figure who appeared in the opening scene of Mu Wanqiu's dream, with arms spread wide, resisting artillery fire in the war.

Her father?

No matter what, that figure in this dream... is always a nameless person.

That man gave Mu Wanqiu six more precious years.

The extraordinary power of [Judge] continues to increase, impacting the "memory seal", and Mu Wanqiu gradually learned how to control this power of disaster during the six years of "buffer time". Facts have proved that she is indeed worthy of " S-level" talent, she has traveled to many places in the past six years without any teacher's guidance. She only relied on her own will to complete the initial control of [Judge].

She didn't hurt Aunt Ai in the slightest.

And the reason why this "heart nightmare" came to be... is very simple.

Six years of wandering, only for one day of recovery.

Just today.

Her "memory seal" was completely shattered.

…

…

"So... the real nightmare is Qasik six years ago."

After realizing this, Gu Shen looked back at the two people embracing behind him.

He murmured: "This massacre in the name of light cannot kill Mu Wanqiu... That red-robed bishop will be stopped at a critical moment, but my arrival has modified part of the world line. .”

The world outside the glass is filled with murderous intent.

At this moment, the Holy Inquisitor of the Evangelical Church has surrounded the church with water and water... and the Lin's security forces are still on the way.

If the guess is correct, the final outcome is that the big shot of the "Lin Family" rescued this gifted child, and after overthrowing the Red Emperor, handed him over to the hands of the Survey Corps for training.

"It seems that I came... just in time."

Gu Shen turned around and asked softly: "Those guys you hate, they were still alive until the end...right?"

Mu Wanqiu was stunned.

Her memory at this moment still remains in her ignorant and immature years.

After the Red Emperor's War.

The Lin family has established good relations with Guangming City. Many Holy Inquisitors and Archbishops have evacuated Beizhou... Some of them are sincere people, but there are also some who do "filth" in the name of "Guangming". thing.

They praised the pure gods, but they turned into hell and returned.

For people like them, Beizhou in peacetime is far less valuable than in war-torn times. If they stay in this land, the crimes they committed in the past will be discovered sooner or later... Beizhou people never forgive, and they never forgive. No compromise.

So after the war, they withdrew from the border areas and returned to Xizhou.

Those sins, those filth, those dirty past events eventually became the dust buried by history.

The church glass began to tremble.

A hundred meters away.

As the red-robed Bishop Qu drew his sword, the array of Holy Inquisitors began to load cannonballs. Of course, they would not go into battle in person to kill... It was recorded in the Chasik file six years ago that the extraordinary power awakened by this little girl was quite strange. , the war against the Red Army is coming to an end, and they will return home soon. To deal with the "heresies" at this time, all they need to do is bombard them with artillery fire.

"Everyone, in the name of light——"

Bishop Qu’s angry shouts echoed through the sky.

"fire!!!"

He came here this time to take this opportunity to erase the "bloody history" of this church... What the Holy Inquisitor did in Deep Scale City must not be known to anyone. The Red Emperor was overthrown. It is a certainty that Lin's new policy is destined to come, and the young queen who is about to ascend to the top is said to be an iron-faced person who cannot tolerate any "dirty" in her eyes.

All the strongholds in Deep Scale City that abduct and traffic in extraordinary beings will be "cleaned out".

Now Virgil is dead—just in time! Save yourself the trouble!

Now is the best time to launch a bombardment. With just one salvo, the dilapidated church in front of you will be reduced to ashes along with the girl in "Holy Light Wanted".

No one knows what happened here.

With a command, countless shells were loaded.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The crows no longer surrounded the church, but scattered under the rolling pressure of the fiery waves.

A volley of artillery shells——

The huge floor-to-ceiling glass reflected the fragmented firelight.

Mu Wanqiu, who was held in Aunt Ai's arms, stared at this scene in a daze. How similar was the scene in front of her to the dreams that had flooded her mind countless times in the past six years?

Subconsciously, countless black demons surged through the soles of her feet.

The [Judge]'s power has fully recovered, and these black demons can rise from the ground at any time and condense into a perfect high wall.

But the next moment——

Time seemed to slow down.

Those cannonballs reached the highest point "slowly" in the air and fell "slowly".

"Make a deal."

The figure wrapped in countless black mist stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass. After seeing the salvo of artillery fire, he turned around.

Gu Shen turned his back to the gunfire and faced the girl.

He said softly: "I'll help you...get rid of them. Not just 'get rid' in the dream, but also 'get' done in the real world. No matter where they escape, they can't escape." Drop it. I will help you fill this nightmare."

"trade……"

The girl looked at the black mist blankly.

The confused voice echoed in the church.

"This word is not appropriate, let me think about it..."

Gu Shen rubbed his eyebrows. Could it be the influence of Pluto's fire? He actually used the word "deal".

"You don't need to change the words, I know what 'deal' means."

The immature girl suddenly said firmly: "I agreed, what do you need from me?"

"I need you……"

Gu Shen smiled and said, "Become my [apostle]."

apostle?

The girl was startled.

"You don't have to rush to agree."

Gu Shen said calmly: "Let's see my sincerity first."

Gu Shen stood up.

All his mental power was released in an instant, directly reaching the entire edge of Mu Wanqiu's dream!

Gu Shen's "field of vision" encompassed the entire church and the snow forest within a ten-mile radius. He saw Lin's security forces rushing outside the snow forest using "outer armor", and also saw a familiar face. Lu Zhe, the captain of the first team and the absolute pillar of the future investigation corps, is still a young man with an immature face.

This group of people was galloping through the snowy forest.

Because of myself, the world line has changed slightly...

They came out a little later.

"Sorry, the 'highlight picture' of this dreamland belongs to me."

Gu Shen whispered quietly in his heart.

next moment.

The frozen time returns to its original state.

The shells flew and the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the church were shattered. They were just smashed by someone. Gu Shen stepped out of the ground in an instant. He stepped on the rock pillars and climbed to the top of the vault. He jumped into the sky in a fraction of a second. , and the whip legs burst out ten times in a row.

"Rumble, rumble—"

The fire exploded over the church.

All these shells were detonated in advance, and countless smoke shook and shattered. The Holy Inquisitors who looked up from a distance looked confused. Logically speaking, the shells had not yet touched the church, so how were they detonated?

And the next moment.

The white horse neighed and suddenly raised its upper body.

"?!"

Bishop Qu's expression froze, and a strong sense of ominousness appeared in his heart. The moment the shells detonated and flew, a figure suddenly appeared behind him. Gu Shen appeared like a ghost in the array of the Holy Judge. He sat calmly behind Bishop Qu, held the reins for him with one hand, and said calmly: "I remember your face."

Gu Shen gently wiped it with two fingers, and a line of blood appeared in front of the red-robed archbishop's neck.

"bishop!"

"bishop!!"

This scene happened so strangely that before the Holy Judges had time to react, the tall horse fell to the ground with a crash. Gu Shen slid on his back, and he dragged the long line of blazing fire... among the Holy Judges' legion. "Cut".

This was his meeting gift to Mu Wanqiu.

The greeting gift should be made more beautiful.

Mud is flying.

And Gu Shen's body was spotless.

These holy judges, who were wearing bright holy robes and riding white horses, were cut off by Gu Shen alone in the roar of the artillery fire. Gu Shen killed them one by one, just like cutting a melon. Cai, this massacre has no meaning. The most important thing is that he needs to fulfill his promise, so Gu Shen remembers every face in this dream.

The reason why these people's faces are so clear.

It was Mu Wanqiu who conducted the investigation after the incident.

Everything in the nightmare.

She remembered them all very clearly.

And after everything is over.

Gu Shen returned to the church.

From the beginning to the end, it seemed that only a second had passed, because the artillery fire exploding behind Gu Shen was like fireworks, with only scattered sparks falling to the ground, and the splashing wave of impact, The church's floor-to-ceiling glass was "slowly" shattered, like waves rolling over a cliff.

"Who are you?"

Mu Wanqiu's real memories began to awaken at this moment.

She had a headache.

At this moment, she tried hard to look at "Gu Shen", but she couldn't see clearly. She just vaguely felt that the "human figure" wrapped in black mist was very familiar...

"I am……"

Gu Shen smiled softly.

"Hades."

The gunfire exploded, and countless broken glass sputtered into the church.

The shock wave roared in.

The crows screamed.

The Holy Cross fell.

Gu Shen took a step forward and opened his arms.

The girl stared blankly at the generous figure in front of her. The firelight from the shells engulfed him. This scene almost overlapped with the scene in the dream——

…

…

The town of Çasik ceased to exist after the war.

This town has been trampled on a lot.

The borderlands were torn by war, and many refugees were displaced and chose to embark on a long journey away from home...

There are no more people.

Naturally, the town is no longer there.

The whistle roars.

The steam train stopped at the border of Beizhou.

The little girl held Aunt Ai's hand and walked slowly towards her hometown in her dream. It was a rare sunny day with no clouds in the sky, and the snow reflected the warm and crystal light.

The two people looked at the strange yet familiar soil, stunned, not knowing where to go.

"What, don't you recognize me?"

An old man who was traveling with him on the train saw the reaction of the two and said with a smile: "You guys haven't been back for a long time. The Third Army Corps has been here...carried out post-war reconstruction, rebuilt houses, and planned After obtaining the land, it was merged into 'Ussuriysk County', and now the new policy stipulates that this place is 'Usuriysk South'."

"It's just that we are still used to calling this place 'Chasik'..."

He paused and said with a smile: "The people from before are still there, so how come the town isn't there anymore?"

"We...are here to pay homage."

Aunt Ai spoke softly.

The old man nodded, and the smile on his face disappeared a lot. He stretched out his withered hand, took the bag without any explanation, and whispered: "I guessed it... Come, I will take you."

The wind is blowing.

Dried grass clippings hit the girl's face.

She looked in the direction of the wind, and saw a layer of tangled weeds hidden in the snow, growing stubbornly.

soon.

They came to an empty hill.

There is nothing there.

There are no tombstones, no earthen bags, and no wooden signs.

"This is it."

The old man pointed to the silent mourners in the distance and said softly: "Whoever you want to mourn, let's mourn here."

Aunt Ai said in surprise: "The cemetery... where is the cemetery?"

"There's no cemetery. There are so many dead people that we can't even put them down. They're all set on fire. Many soldiers in the legion don't have tombstones, let alone us..."

The old man shook his head and said hoarsely: "But that's good, it means you left early... This ghost place has experienced a lot since then. In short, it is like this now. All the dead souls gathered together, waiting for me to die. I can join in the fun here.”

"Some days ago, I heard from the Third Legion that after six years of fighting, the Central City was finally captured. In the future, the Queen will build a large cemetery there to imitate the 'Qing Tomb' in Dongzhou..."

He smiled and said: "I don't have a chance. If you have time, go take a look for me."

The snow on the hill was cleared cleanly.

Weeds are flying.

Some come and some go.

There is a large oak tree growing here, with wind chimes, letters, and densely packed wishing papers hanging on it. The war burned out Qiasik, but did not burn this old tree... Many children in Qasik. He grew up under the protection of this big tree.

Aunt Ai held the "jade talisman" hanging on her chest.

She whispered a few words silently, then made up her mind to take it off and hang it among the many wishing papers.

The breeze blew and the wind chimes swayed.

The trees are covered with snow, and countless wishes are clanging.

There are no tombstones in Qasik.

This town has seen too much death.

After that, only new students remain.