Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The light is just the right brightness, and if it is darker, it will be difficult to see the surrounding environment.

I lowered the brim of my hat, trying not to meet the eyes of those nearby. This is a lecture hall that is almost full of seats. I ignored the dream's instructions to leave the lecture hall and chose to sit near the corridor to avoid being noticed while looking at the nearby audience passing the corridor.

Just as my eyes drifted back and forth following the passers-by, a red short-sleeved figure suddenly blocked my vision.

I shrank instinctively, and after a closer look, I realized that it was someone I knew.

The clothes on her upper body seemed a little too short, and Xia Yinci wore a navel-baring dress, and I don't know if she did it on purpose. In addition, the upper and lower body is also stockings with shorts, the absolute domain is completely exposed in my field of vision, I had to quickly move up the line of sight, and landed on her clear eyes.

"Well, just a thought...it feels much more natural this way."

"What are you talking about, Su Huohuo?"

Xia Yinci gave me a strange look, and sat beside me with her arms around her.

In other words, she seemed to be wearing strange ears on her head, and her beautiful black hair was tied into two ponytails.

It was a dress she had never worn before.

"Although I know that this time is a target that is very close to the Dream Thief. No matter how we say it, we have fought many times with the Dream Thief. It is very likely that we will be regarded as objects of vigilance. It is necessary to change the image appropriately. ...But how do I feel that you are deliberately giving me benefits?"

"What... what? Are you sick?"

Xia Yinci blushed, glared at me fiercely, and moved a little towards the corridor.

I always feel that since the zero-distance contact in the laboratory of the Core Research Association, Xia Yinci has begun to have some changes compared to before.

No, it seems to go back to an earlier time.

It seems that this change started when I recovered my memory and met at Xinghai Sea.

The rhythm of my heart accelerated for no reason, and I scratched my cheeks, pulling away the distance from her.

Maybe I'm overthinking it.

But I always have a feeling that the relationship is developing in a further direction.

But, am I eligible?

no?

forget it.

"You two... have you finished your thoughts? Can you get down to business?"

Suddenly, a voice abruptly pulled me back to my eyes, I hurriedly looked to my left, and Lin Yu, who appeared at some time, raised his eyebrows and looked at me with raised eyebrows.

He didn't wear the vampire earl's costume this time, he was dressed in a neat suit, and his hairstyle was deliberately turned back. Although it is a bit impolite to say so, his current image has an inexplicable villain temperament.

"Thank you for reminding me, I didn't think about anything, I was just looking for a breakthrough~"

Xia Yinci answered Lin Yu's words word for word, with a hint of malice in her displeased tone.

Through the information provided by the black cat and the channel of the dark knight, we took action against 18 targets in just two or three days, and 12 of them successfully stole the power ring. However, our targets generally focus on some lower-level dream stealers. After all, we still lack information on management-level dream stealers.

"The number of times I have met the Thief of Dreams is not rare, but most of them are in the cracks of dreams. The remaining few exceptions are all in my dreams. He came to me through the world gate placed in my dreams Yes. The owner of this world gate is the ruler of invisibility——"Invisible".」

According to the Dark Knight, the King of Pirates of Dreams never invites them into his dreams, and when something happens, he directly notifies them in the cracks between reality or dreams. Some top-secret tasks are to directly reach the lower-level dreams, and they always pass through other people's world gates.

"Another time, the King of Pirates of Dreams gave a mission to my friend, "Star of Light Speed". This time, he passed through my world gate."

Having said that, the Dark Knight suddenly stood up from the table, stepped back to the table, and suddenly bowed deeply to us.

"Forgive me for not being able to provide information on the Lightspeed Star, and... there is one thing I want to ask everyone!"

No one expected that the Dark Knight would do this suddenly, even Su Erin had a puzzled look on his face.

"Please... you guys!"

Su Huilin's eyes trembled, and she adjusted her tone and said:

"Can you stand up first... you have to tell us, what is it?"

"Yeah, we can't afford you to do such a big gift all of a sudden."

The dark knight clenched his fists, seemed to think that what we said was right, and slowly stood up straight, his eyes still as firm as before.

"At the subway station that day, the master... used the Demon Lord's command on me. Do you remember?"

For some reason, when Su Huilin heard the word "devil king", her whole body seemed unnatural, and her cheeks turned slightly red.

"Well...that time was also my most effective order."

The effect of Su Erin's order depends on the willpower of both parties. Once Su Huilin's willpower is weaker than that of the party to whom the command is cast, she will suffer backlash, and in turn be manipulated by the other party, which is a self-destructive tactic. But if you are stronger than the opponent, you can make the opponent listen to you.

"Actually, I have long planned to leave Dream Thief and withdraw from the war of domination, but there is no opportunity. And your command, Master, was an unexpected opportunity. It may be the idea hidden in my heart, and your command The overlap is what makes it so effective.”

"What does this have to do with what you asked us to do? And since you have the idea of ​​leaving Dream Thief, why didn't you do so earlier?"

"Because... for us on the other side of reality, the stolen dreamer restricts our freedom, and we can't leave if we want to."

"Once you betray Dream Thief, or do something against the Dream Thief's direct organization "Mother's Anonymity", you will be killed..."

"Early when I became the master's dream maker and didn't go back to report, I realized that I... could never return to reality."

This time, the words of the dark knight left all three of us speechless, not knowing how to respond to him.

There is no doubt that the meaning behind his words is that he has been killed by the Dream Stealer in reality.

"Why...why? They probably didn't know about your situation at the time!"

"I didn't report back on time, which is enough for them to believe that I betrayed the Dream Thief. What's more, I had fought with you before and failed. If I didn't report on time, it meant that I failed again. They There is no need to spare the life of a person who has failed twice and is in danger of betrayal."

"This kind of thing..."

"The King of Dream Thieves kept me until now because he saw that my ability to control was considered superior! Those who were unwilling to accept the Dream Thief would find it difficult to save their lives. Who would believe that I am ready to escape at any time? What about people? We people have been living under their threat."

I quietly paid attention to Su Huilin's expression, it was obviously the first time she had heard about this, and her trembling pupils were still somewhat unacceptable. She put her little hands on the table lightly, stood up suddenly, and bowed seriously to the dark knight.

"I'm sorry... about this, I'm really sorry."

The number of times Su Erin apologized can be counted on one's fingers, things like bowing and apologizing are obviously not what she is good at, so her movements seem a little clumsy.

"No...you didn't do anything wrong. Instead, you liberated me. I should thank you."

"Even if I continue to stay there, there is no guarantee that one day I will be used as a shield, or even a tool for venting, and then die meaninglessly."

"People like me can't leave any mark. If it wasn't for the strong willpower placed on your command, master, I should have disappeared now. Is it not a dream to continue to exist in your dream as a dream maker? A way to be free?"

"Although the place you live in is just a dream?"

I couldn't help asking him a question, but the dark knight shook his head left and right, and helped Su Erin who was bent over to stand up.

"In my opinion, the place to live is reality."

His words were like a whizzing hurricane, and my heart suddenly throbbed violently.

So for us now, dream or reality, which side is "reality"?

"The thing you asked us to do should have something to do with your companion, right?"

Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief, although there were some fluctuations in his tone, he was still calm.

"Yes...if you can meet dream stealers like me, I ask you to set them free...either way!"

His thoughts were broken at this moment, and his wandering eyes fell on the podium in front of the lecture hall.

Recalling what the Dark Knight said at the time, it is inevitable that he did not mean to force us to help him at all, it was just his appeal.

"The appeal of a 'dead person'...is it?"

"I said classmate Su Luoyang... what are you thinking about?"

"Ah... sorry."

I met Lin Yu's gaze and put my palms together to express my apology for being distracted. At this moment, I suddenly thought of something again. I glanced at Lin Yu and Xia Yinci respectively, and found that there was an inexplicable arrogance in Xia Yinci's eyes looking at me. In the end, I lowered my voice and chose to ask Lin Yu.

"By the way, are you sure that this lecture hall is where the power ring is?"

"I don't know. You should ask that black knight. Tch, that guy..."

Lin Yu took a deep breath. His expression became serious for no reason.

So far, we have been able to draw useful conclusions from the dreams of the 12 dream robbers who succeeded in stealing dreams, and some information obtained from the dreams of those who failed to steal the dominance. The dreams of these 12 dream stealers showed a strange regularity.

A's dream places the world door leading to B.

B's dream can lead to C...

Next, two different paths emerged between their dreams.

One is the path of "A→B→C".

The second is the path of "C→?→D".

The "?" here refers to the dream thief who has not yet stolen the power ring.

The two paths can be connected through a third relationship chain.

Because the first path ultimately leads to E's dream, and the second path eventually leads to F's dream.

"A→B→C→E" and "C→?→D→F".

The so-called third path is "E and F lead to K at the same time".

In addition, except for the first and second paths, G and H lead to E at the same time, and I and J lead to F at the same time.

According to the information provided by the Dark Knight, there is a door in his dream leading to the dream world of the Dominator whose dominance ability is invisible. So this form is definitely not a coincidence, it is a relationship network intentionally formed by the Dream Thieves, and it is also a proof of a certain affiliation... That is to say, if we keep going up this network, we should be able to find the dream of the Dream Thief King .

The difficulty is that our intelligence is concentrated on some dream robbers with low authority, and the breakthrough is that there is definitely an entrance to the dream of the dream thief king.

"The ruler of invisibility, the authority of "invisibility" is upstream among the dream robbers. Even if you can't get to the dream of the dream king, you can definitely contact the executioner of the dream king. If you can get the executioner's dream right quit, then the problem of the Thief of Dreams will be easily solved.”

I thought about the words of the dark knight again, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Now we have indeed come to the "invisible" dreamland through the dark knight. As long as we break through here, we will be one step closer to the dream king.

The problem is, the Intangible's authority is not low, but it has not reached the level of more than one person, and many subordinates lead to his dream... I have seen more than one ruler other than us appearing and haunting! Unsurprisingly, those people were the dream stealers who belonged to him.

Counting down, there are at least 3 different dream stealers here.

The commotion we have caused these days is enough for the Dream Thieves to notice. Therefore, now the dream stealers from the lower level will climb up the stairs, probably because they want to report the situation.

"I figured it out... In this class map of Dream Thief, the middle class is the easiest target to find, but also the hardest to break through."

We have captured 12 targets below this, and as for the targets above this, we will reduce the entrances to the lower level accordingly to avoid unnecessary danger because they are getting closer to the dream of the Thief King.

"Let me make it clear first, William asked me to go over to help at any time. When Chart and the others are replaced, I will leave you and rush over, so if there is anything I need to help...as soon as possible."

Hearing what this arrogant guy said casually, I couldn't help complaining in a low voice:

"To put it lightly..."

I moved my eyes away from the chattering NPC on the podium of the lecture hall, and quietly peeked at a dream stealer in the front row. His attention was not on the podium, but he glanced at the hall door behind the lecture hall intentionally or unintentionally.

like in...

Suddenly, a strange inspiration flashed through my mind like lightning.

If the dream stealers at the lower level want to report the situation to their superiors, then it is enough for them to entrust one person to deliver the information? There is no need for so many people to squeeze in, right? Moreover, even though we acted in secret, the 12 rulers had their power rings stolen, and the commotion caused was enough to reach the ears of the Thief King, right?

Why after so many days, they still have no obvious precautions?

"The one in the lecture hall is ready to go out~"

Xia Yinci gently tugged on my sleeve, and saw the Dream Stealer sitting in the front row rushing through the corridor. I quickly lowered my head to avoid meeting his gaze. I didn't raise my eyes until the sound of footsteps faded away.

"Don't be dazed ~ let's go."

Xia Yinci, with a milky tone in her voice, stood up, glanced at me, and walked towards the hall door. Lin Yu and I lowered our pace and followed.

It is normal for us to hide and hide. After all, we are sneaking into the enemy camp. But the dream stealer just now was also secretive, which seemed very strange.

Sure enough, I guessed correctly, they squeezed into this dreamland for the purpose of reporting the situation.

Why not entrust one person at a time? Because they don't want to leave the credit to others, everyone wants to be the first to report the intelligence. This can also explain why their work efficiency is so slow, and the matter may not have reached the King of Pirates of Dreams until now.

They are fighting among themselves now.

"The Alliance of Dream Stealers is not as harmonious as you think. There are actually many conflicts between them, and internal fighting often occurs."

I suddenly remembered this sentence that Lin Yu mentioned during the discussion before. Did he mean that?

From the overcrowded lecture hall to the empty hall, there was a dull sound when the hall door behind it closed.

I grabbed Xia Yinci's arm in front of me, ready to tell them my thoughts. Unexpectedly, Xia Yinci also just turned her head, as if she wanted to say something, seeing me looking directly at her and holding her arm, she simply didn't say what she wanted to say, and stared at me expressionlessly s eyes.

The moment my eyes met, I felt my heart skip a beat, and I also felt it was funny, thinking that Xia Yinci is really an unpredictable girl.

"Are we playing a game where whoever laughs first loses?"

I always feel that I can't show weakness and look directly into her eyes without avoiding it.

Xia Yinci didn't respond to me, as if she was expressing to me with actions that she would come whenever she came.

It's strange.

When we first met, she was still a natural dumb who had no words.

After a long period of time, my perception of her became a genius girl who can come and go freely. Although she is always interested in urban legends and other things without borders, she is very interesting and beautiful. Girl, I can't help but feel that she is my childhood sweetheart, which is a very lucky thing.

Later, I began to doubt whether I had really known him. I found that she has a little mysterious color, always hiding something from me, and likes to make my heart itch with those clear eyes.

What now?

I glanced at her pursed lips angrily, remembering the lingering warmth brought by that superficial touch, my heart was rippling, and finally I smiled and gave up.

"I lost."

Seeing that I couldn't maintain the calmness on my face, Xia Yinci snorted triumphantly.

"I said... you two can stop now!"

The sound of Lin Yu's runaway caused the tea cat on his shoulder to open his eyes in a daze, and narrowed his eyes lazily when he saw that there was nothing serious.

I scratched my cheek in embarrassment, and glanced at Xia Yinci with a wandering gaze.

"Sorry! I actually wanted to tell you...they might be wary of each other."

"What's the meaning?"

I briefly explained my idea just now, Lin Yu propped his chin in his hands and nodded thoughtfully.

"Xia Yinci, did you have something to say just now? What is it?"

After thinking about it, I still took the initiative to talk to a certain tsundere girl.

"Me. You took everything I wanted to say!!"

"Hey wait! I said, so I'm the only one here who didn't think of this?"

"Yes... I'm sorry!"

Accidentally ignored Lin Yu again. Xia Yinci was busy being arrogant with me, and I was busy coaxing Xia Yinci, but Lin Yu was put aside again.

"Humph. Going on aimlessly like this, I can't find where the dream palace is. Since these dream robbers want to claim credit, the target is likely to be directly on the dream king. Anyway, it is impossible to find this dream. Is the master asking for credit? That’s a big deal.”

These words made Lin Yu unsure why he clapped his fists and palms together with a "snap", and stretched out his index finger as if remembering something.

"Indeed! I know this invisible person quite well. If you report to the owner of this layer of dreams invisible, then invisible will definitely just tell them, "I understand, I will call you in front of the Thief of Dreams" or something like that , and then go to Thief of Dreams and take all the credit for yourself. Hmm..."

"So ~ they don't want to find the owner here at all! But, the superior dream robbers have always walked down the treasure map, I don't think they usually go up, and maybe they don't allow it ~ now who will find it first Whoever leads to the world gate above will be the first to report the information.”

It is usually not allowed to go backwards, but using the current commotion as an excuse, presumably the Dream Thieves King will reward the first person who comes up to report instead of punishing them.

"Then they are too arrogant, right? The next target may be me..."

"Everyone thinks that their own information is the most confidential. What's more, you won't forget the words of the black knight, right?"

Although Lin Yu raised the corners of his mouth, the colors in his eyes were still mixed with complex emotions, and I can actually understand his mood.

Before the Dark Knight told us these things, I could logically see the Dreamers as pure enemies. But now even if the request of the Dark Knight is not an order that must be obeyed, when facing the Dream Thief, he will still involuntarily confirm whether they are the kind of people the Dark Knight said.

However, I can't stop my pace just because of that. William must have been preparing for this plan for a long time, and even the ruler of clock number three was also involved, so he was too concerned about the Dream Thief and put the cart before the horse. As for the request of the Dark Knight, it can only be done without affecting the business.

The Dream Stealer who followed the previous lecture hall walked out of the lecture center, and the scene instantly changed to an abandoned construction site, and the Dream Stealer disappeared for an instant, only the noisy voices in the distance were getting closer. Xia Yinci and I couldn't help but looked at each other, but we didn't see Lin Yu.

"Where is this..."

Just when I was about to recognize the surrounding environment, suddenly there was a force on my shoulder, and the other party pulled me and Xia Yinci into the corridor next to me without saying a word. When my eyes hurriedly turned to the person behind me, The girl moved her index finger to her mouth.

"Shhh-"

My eyes stayed on the girl for a few seconds, I couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice:

"Su...Su Huilin? Why did you come here?"

In the dusty corridor, a sensor door that couldn't blend in with the atmosphere of the abandoned construction site stood abruptly in front of the compartment next to the stairs.

Why does this modern induction door feel more and more familiar the more you look at it?

As soon as the memory flashed back, the tall girl shook her purple hair and came out from behind the door with a playful smile.

"Aren't you welcome?"

"Hey, don't tell me that all your goals have been completed!"

"Where did you come from...?"

Lin Yu's voice suddenly sounded from behind, I couldn't help trembling, and looked at him with some resentment.

"How could it be so fast. Actually..."

Su Huilin curled her lips, did not continue, and looked at Charte unintentionally.

"Tsk... I admit that it was my negligence! But who knew that this guy would suddenly return to his dream and snatch the power ring?"

Chart scratched his head fiercely, squatted down against the wall angrily, took off his deerstalker hat and fiddled with it in his hand.

"Can anyone explain what's going on?"

I moved my eyes away from Chalt, and scanned the black cat and Su Erin one after another, and finally stopped at the black cat who took a step forward.

"Well, it actually went very smoothly, Charte also snatched the power ring, but you also know~ He swelled up for a while, but the owner of the dream suddenly appeared, and he snatched the power ring back. ~We followed him all the way here.”

The appearance of the Black Cat and his party once again confirmed that my guess was correct. The Dream Stealer below this layer of dream is indeed going up, that's why Chalt suddenly met the owner of the dream, and as expected, he also came to rush to report the situation.

"He went out just now, and it seems that there are more than one dream thief outside, so we didn't go out, and stayed here to observe the situation."

"I said...Since you have already joined together, this kind of thing should be settled, and there is no use for me, so I will go to William's side first...and the agreed time has come...It seems that there is still time late……"

"The last two sentences of yours are the key point!" I couldn't help complaining to Lin Yu.

"Shut up, someone who was busy spreading dog food just now has no right to speak of me!"

Lin Yu answered me angrily, turned around and snapped his fingers to call out his World Gate. A certain tea cat that had been sleeping on his shoulder for a long time stretched its waist and jumped down from his shoulder. It swayed from side to side and looked at Lin Yu sleepily with its head tilted.

"Morning, Teacher Lin~"

"I don't want to complain, you asked in your dream what advanced operation it was... What do you mean by calling me a teacher?"

Lin Yu stepped forward helplessly, and stroked the messy hair on the tea cat's shoulders. The tea cat's eyes were warm and lively, and looked at Lin Yu with clear eyes.

"Thank you teacher~"

"Hey, I didn't mean to complain just now, I didn't mean to acquiesce that you called me that..."

Lin Yubi lightly hit the tea cat on the head with a knife in his hand, and the tea cat tilted its head back and let out a groan.

"Who the hell is throwing dog food..."

Fortunately, Lin Yu didn't plan to stay any longer, so he took the tea cat to the door of the world and held the handle of the door.

Suddenly, he seemed to have sensed something through mind reading. He turned his head and whispered to the tea cat, "When you go out, do this, do this again" and other words that I couldn't understand at all, and stepped forward and back with her. The World Gate disappeared from our view.

"Hey, it's finally time to go..."

Of course I didn't say this, it was Chatter who looked impatient next to me. However, the mood of the people present was very similar to that of Chart this time.

"Let's go to the second floor first~ we can see what's going on outside."

I acquiesced to the black cat's proposal, and everyone followed the black cat to the second floor. During this period, I explained to them the general situation of the Dream Thief.

"You mean... the Dream Thief and the others are fighting among themselves?"

On the second floor, the dust flying in the air became more intense. I bent down and leaned against the window, carefully looking downstairs from the window. The clearing surrounded by the forest is full of ice and holes, the flaming red-haired boy and the shirtless silver-haired boy are in a head-on conflict.

"Annoying fly, I won't let this chance go!"

The red-haired boy dodged the Frostbolt that was coming straight to him. Although the reaction was already quick, the Frostbolt directly brushed against his shoulder, plunged into the ground and exploded instantly.

He quickly bent down and slapped his hands on the ground vigorously. In an instant, the gravel on the ground vibrated and flew into the sky.

The boy stood up straight again, raised his fist, and slammed the silver-haired boy fiercely at the same place. The rubble gathered together in an instant, and a man-made hurricane suddenly carried the sharp rubble in the direction of the silver-haired boy.

"You don't want to pass up this opportunity, do you?"

The silver-haired boy put one hand on the ground, and the space touched by his palms suddenly froze, and an ice path spread towards the red-haired boy. When he was only three or four meters away from him, the ice path suddenly pulled up. It reached the distance and approached the red-haired boy's neck, and the sharp point instantly burst into blood on his body.

"Go to hell then."

After coldly throwing down such a sentence, the silver-haired boy turned around and left into the depths of the woods.

"Unexpectedly terrible dominance ability, it seems that there are still many monsters in Dream Thief..."

However, since he came up from below this layer of dream, it means that his position is not high among the Dream Stealers.

"Did you do something to get downgraded..."

"Hey, we don't have time to worry about the Dream Thief, let's go."

Chart put a touch on my shoulders, and without hesitation turned over and jumped out of the window.

This time Chart was right, I shrugged helplessly and followed.

Not counting the completely defeated red-haired boy, only the three dream stealers I saw in the speech center, the one that the black cat and the others were eyeing, and the silver-haired boy who left, there are already five people here.

"Although they are fighting among themselves and not focusing on us, we are still a bit conspicuous..." When they came near the forest, Xia Yinci suddenly suggested solemnly, "Well, let's act separately."

Finally, she added:

"Yes, I will go with Su Luoyang."

Why do I feel that after reuniting with Chart and the others, Xia Yinci's arrogance has faded a lot?

Rather, it's back to normal. Thinking about it carefully, it's a bit like... taking an oath of sovereignty?

The change in attitude probably has nothing to do with Lin Yu and Chart.

Su Huilin was also wrong, Xia Yinci was like this when she was there before.

So, because of the black cat?