Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

A strong cold current swept in through the open glass door. The skeleton, which seemed to be several sizes too big, rushed into the hospital with heavy steps moving faster and faster. He lifted the heavy bones around his elbows and swung them lightly, and immediately smashed the radiator fan installed above him that just blocked his sight.

"This guy is a bit weird!!" I muttered, while taking a few steps back. He raised the sickle in his hand, as if he was holding a big flag symbolizing victory, and waved it back and forth several times towards his front, and a dark purple mist that revealed uneasiness was released from his hollow and shriveled mouth as he roared. As if taking this as an order, countless undead roared so hoarsely that it made people shiver in the back in an instant.

Without the blessing of the invisible barrier outside the hospital, the glass door was obviously overwhelmed, and it was instantly broken by the huge weight, and crystal glass shards instantly flew everywhere. Such momentum made me unable to move for a moment, as if several vines were entwining me fiercely under my feet.

The sickle flashed several sharp lights and hit my forehead straight. A magic circle glowing with orange light appeared in front of my eyes, and the sharp tip hit the center of my field of vision. I hurriedly closed my eyes instinctively, the bone-piercing fear powerfully awakened my dazed consciousness, I hurriedly moved my feet back a few steps, turned around and ran towards the corridor filled with pale lights.

Elus held up the magic staff with a strangely shining tip in her left hand, and her pointed hat in her right hand, and ran ahead clumsily and earnestly. Unexpectedly, her short legs ran quite fast.

"You really lost the chain at a critical time!" Elus murmured to me who was following her with a bit of resentment in her tone. The roar of the undead behind her was endless, as if to deafen us, so that her soft voice was quickly swallowed by the loud noise.

"Okay. I admit, I really thanked you just now..." As soon as the words fell, I stepped forward and quickened my pace. When Elus saw the distance between me and her, the panic in her eyes suddenly flowed, as if I was the kind of person who would cruelly leave her behind as a bait for the hungry undead of. I sighed and held out my hand to her.

"Hey, hold my hand if you don't want to be thrown away." Noticing that Elus's eyes were twinkling, I quickly squinted to the side and whispered. At this moment, I suddenly felt a slight weight on my head. I hurriedly turned my head in confusion, only to see a pair of long crimson hair fluttering beautifully with the running posture.

Seeing what was missing from her head, I realized that she took off the pointed hat and put it on my head. I froze for a moment, and then felt a trembling coolness rushing to my palm. I turned my head and continued running forward. From time to time, there was a gleam of warmth in that cold little hand, which seemed to be the magic power that often passed through her fingertips. She looked at my strange palm playfully and touched me curiously.

Although the group of skeletons has difficulty moving, they will not be able to catch up with us two living people for a while due to the lucid dream... But if they continue to run forward, they will circle around and return to the hall like just now, right?

Who the hell made such a strange design for this hospital! However, this place is a dream after all, no matter how unrealistic it is, I have no choice but to accept it silently. I couldn't help becoming more and more worried. Judging by the number of skeletons, it is more than enough to surround the entire corridor. If I go back to the hall, I will definitely bump into the skeletons that continue to break into the hospital.

Just as I was thinking, I passed a half-open door along the road, which seemed to tempt me to shift my gaze to it. It wasn't until Iluth and I missed it and turned to the corner that I suddenly stopped and quickly let the passing time freeze in my ears with the loud noise. I breathed a sigh of relief, picked up Elus and ran towards the door just now, pushed open the door just now and broke in.

——The other side of the door is a completely different scene from the outside. The oil stains formed by the white paint are dripping all over the place. For a moment, the scene of bloody liquid climbing down the stairs unhurriedly flashed through my mind. I shook my head hastily, endured the grudge that passed through my heart, and while looking at the stairs extending upwards, I pushed hard on the door of the emergency exit, isolating the space outside the door from here.

The hustle and bustle flowed into the ear with the time that started to turn again, even through the thick door, it seemed that the loudness of the sound could not be sharply reduced at all. Elus, who was held tightly by me, was still resisting, but she seemed to realize the current situation and settled down. I dragged in the handle desperately, trying to suppress even the sound of my fast-paced heartbeat. Elus looked at the door with flustered eyes.

It was impractical to wait for them all to leave, and it would be better to go upstairs while the footsteps were loud enough to drown out our voices. Thinking of this, I quickly let go of Elus, took her hand, and ran upstairs. I ran to the highest floor that the stairs could reach, and Elus and I stopped one after another, panting heavily. gruff.

Really. Since this kind of incredible labyrinth hospital appears in the dream, the feedback that you will feel tired when you keep running up the stairs can be deleted, right? Now, the laws violated and observed in dreams are not good for us. I complained silently in my heart, and stretched out my hands to support the wall next to me to adjust my breathing.

"Hey~ You are too anxious to run~" Elus put her little hand on her chest, swallowed hard, and complained to me.

"Isn't it because you have short legs that you can't keep up..." I glanced at her and muttered in a low voice.

Well, I hope she didn't hear me, if I did, she would definitely not let me go easily... But just thinking about Elus, she raised her staff and beat my stomach ferociously——

"What did you say!? Say it again if you have the ability!" Elus pouted angrily and stared at me fiercely. In the end, she still heard it!

I gave a dry cough and rubbed my abdomen, waved my hands seriously, and shook my head to show weakness. Although Elus had a brooding look on her face, she finally just snorted and stopped fussing with me.

Elus passed me, and seemed to be looking at this place curiously. I stared at her back and breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was knocked hard, it was not painful. It seems that Elus is the type who is completely crushed by others in terms of physical skills. Do you still insist on showing off fiercely?

However, thinking about the things that happened in her dream world before, she can still smile like before after going through these things, which really makes people can't help but raise the corners of their mouths.

"Hey. Speaking of which, didn't you say that only authorized people can enter this place?! What's going on with that big skeleton!!"

"I don't know either... Well, I'm not bored enough to mess with this kind of guy in advance! It's possible... It's the Dream Keeper of the Dream Palace or something?"

"Are you asking yourself? Absolutely! That guy is obviously the boss of those skeletons, okay?!"

"It seems that there is also this possibility~" Elus dodged me pretending to be stupid. However, I almost guessed that she would respond in this way, so I simply stopped asking.

Elus seemed relieved to see that I stopped talking, and walked towards a very solid door ahead. There are blue vines everywhere in the vicinity, mixed with the milky white paint water, which is extremely annoying, and there is always a creepy feeling in my heart. Everywhere the footsteps passed left obvious footsteps on the thick layer of dust on the ground, like stepping on snow.

Obviously no one has passed by here for a long time, right? Although it is a dream world, it also makes me feel this way. I carefully pushed open the sliding door in front of me, and with a "squeak", I poked my head out cautiously, and the scene opposite the door was the corridor of the hospital again. It's just that compared to the place downstairs, there is no living person's anger, and there is a terrifying atmosphere of "no approaching" rushing head-on.

"Well, let's not go in..." I turned around and glanced at Elus, my voice trembling slightly. I saw that glowing purple circle just now appeared in front of her at some unknown time. The white dot represented by Elus and I has been traveling along a straight line. Basically, several straight lines form a neat hexagon. It seems to have been wandering outside the hexagon without touching the space inside.

"Huh? But this place seems to be very close to Su Erin~ Are you sure you don't want to go in?" Elus's words made me hesitate for a moment—I walked around the hospital lobby just now, and I was always with Su Erin was separated by a great distance. And the corridor downstairs close to here seems to be the closest location to Su Huilin. Although still a long way off.

However, before I had time to make a decision, there was a loud crashing sound from downstairs, and dull collisions from dozens of skeletons pushing and shoving. Then there was the noise of something sharp piercing something hard. I realized that it was the group of undead who rushed in, so I had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush through the other side of the door with Elus, and then tiptoely closed the door.

No matter which side of the corridor is on both sides, the scene is almost exactly the same, and it seems to lead to the infinite distance. Elus and I looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Where should I go?" They asked each other at the same time, so they were stunned for a few seconds, and they got the unanimous answer, "Wherever you want."

In this way, I chose one of the directions and walked forward hesitantly. At every interval, a door similar to a ward would appear on the right, and a window on the left.

Looking out of the window is really a great torture to my fear of heights. After seeing it once, I turned my head away and stopped doing this kind of self-abuse.

Cough cough... but Elusi still wants to play tricks on me at this time. From time to time, he threatened me with shouts like "Hmph! I've got you! Now you have to listen to me, or I'll throw you out of the window!", but of course it didn't work at all. Just imagine who is as light as a rabbit, who can be picked up and thrown out of the window with a flick of the wrist? No matter what you think, she is right.

Elus and I would open the door of every room we passed to check carefully. It's just that the room is all the same arrangement - a blue and white hospital bed, a sickly white bedside table, a lonely LCD TV hanging on the wall, a tea table with an electric kettle, and unexplained medical equipment scattered on the ground. There was no sign of anyone else.

Hitting the wall everywhere, we continued to walk forward and searched for a few more rooms, but gave up searching at the same time.

If you want to talk about why you gave up so easily, it's because—"No matter how you look at it, these rooms are actually the same room!"

If you want to describe it in detail, there is only one room on this floor from the beginning, but there is a passable mirror at the front and back, which creates the illusion of infinite extension.

At this moment, we found another painted iron door that appeared on the left side, which was completely different from the previous door that appeared exclusively on the right side. But just when Elus was about to open the door happily, I suddenly thought of something and stopped her immediately. Elus quickly cast a displeased look at me.

"Hey, wait! Did we enter this floor through this door just now?"

My words made the displeasure on Elsie's face shake for a moment. She put her index finger to her mouth and thought for a while, then hummed with a hurried look. I pulled my hair painfully.

"After working for a long time, this hospital is a maze at all!" I scratched my head irritably. The door through which we entered is another decisive piece of evidence for the mirror conjecture. Suddenly, he felt chaotic footsteps coming from outside the door. I hurriedly put my hand down in a panic, and looked at Elus, I didn't expect her, a little guy, to laugh at the messy hair I was scratching at this time.

"Didn't you hear the noise outside?"

"I heard it." She raised her eyes and responded with a glance at me, so she tried her best to hold back a smile, raised her eyebrows and moved her pupils to one side, and couldn't help laughing "poof". I simply had to ignore her. I looked around a few times irritably, and finally decided to grab her hand and run forward. If you hide in the room, you don't know how long you can hide, it is really a situation where you take one step at a time.

"Okay. I can only find a random room... I hope this room is different from the previous one!" I kept muttering, turned my hand and pulled Elus into it. However, it is unbelievable that the room actually has a completely different layout, rather it is not a room at all - because there is another corridor at the other end of the door!

However, this time, it is no longer the sickly white walls with no aesthetic sense that are exclusive to hospitals. Instead, the owner here is very stylish and arranges the place quite elegantly. The crystal-clear chandelier that now hangs above my head is the perfect example. In addition, all the doors I saw were inlaid with a circle of gold, which was extravagant to a dazzling degree.

"Sure enough, this is not a hospital at all. Not only is it a complete maze, but there is such a mechanism." I lowered my head in frustration, and simply squatted down and leaned against the wall rather dejectedly. No matter how messy and chaotic, there must be a limit, right? How can I find Su Huilin if this continues! Simply helpless, right?

Faintly seeing Elus's slender feet approaching, she raised her right foot and shook it in front of my eyes, probably seeing that I hadn't moved, so she also squatted down. Hmm... little guy, you should know that the clothes you are wearing are a little dangerous, right? I was almost seen as fat just now. do you really not care No, if you say it, you will be beaten.

I was thinking wildly, avoiding her clear and crystal pupils, and asked her with flustered but fierce eyes: "What are you looking at? What's so interesting?"

Elus was not angry at all, she didn't say anything, she just glanced at me and flicked my forehead lightly, as if she expected that I would talk to her in this way. I was very confused when I saw her standing up, humming a little tune, moving her feet, moving away gradually with the sound of footsteps.

What is this guy! Whether it's Elus, Xia Yinci and Qianyan! Doing things that I don't understand...I buried my head between my arms and knees in depression. Then again, Elus is full of energy like this most of the time, as if as long as her companion is still around, no matter what happens, she won't be knocked down. I'm a little envious of her...Of course I mean her character.

"Hey! Why don't you get up~ Don't you still want to save Su Erin? How can you save her while sitting like this~" Elusi's provocative voice came from a distance, and she was subtle He paused, "Or, did you give up so easily? So you are the kind of person who likes to accept the consequences clearly~"

"It's so annoying... shut up, you." I said angrily. Inexplicably, I was told my mind by Elus, and I will inevitably feel ashamed. However, even Elus, who has little relationship with Su Eirin, didn't show any lack of motivation because of this. As Su Eirin's older brother, how could I lose to her?

I struggled for a few seconds, and finally I was encouraged by her strange way and raised my head. Elus is staying not far away. Probably noticing my movement, she walked forward again. I stood up quickly, ran forward three steps and followed her in two steps.

Arriving at her side, Elusi glanced back at me subtly, took off the pointed hat covering my head behind her, pinched both sides of the brim of the hat to put it on, and looked at me gently "Hey ~" let out a sound.

"Oh~ So that's how it is~"

"What... what do you mean by that?"

Elus opened the door next to her while aiming at the white dot in the purple circle floating in the air. It seems to be a place like a hotel room, but it gradually adds some surreal elements, such as the bed floating in the air like a thin cloud, and when approaching the room that seems to be the bathroom, it is blocked by someone from nowhere. The incoming water poured cold water all over my face...

"Ah, bah bah!" I quickly fumbled for a few tissues and wiped my face, then took a few steps back and escaped from the room.

"Well, it's nothing." Although Elus said so, I always feel that the smile on her face is stronger, okay? Be convincing when you say "nothing"! ? "It's you~ why are you so excited to drink water? If your mouth is dry, tell me~" Hearing this, I feel that this guy is playing tricks on me.

The second room is not significantly different from the previous one, but due to the fact that it is right next door, the arrangement in the room is quite practical and placed in the opposite direction.

"Hey, what are you trying to understand? What are you trying to do with that smirk?"

Elus turned her head and glanced at me while holding the doorknob that was as clear as a diamond, and then let out a strange laugh like "Hmm~".

"Um, can't you just stop laughing? Tell me, you bastard...!"

Even though I have been following behind her, Elus seems to want to play tricks on me from the bottom of her heart. Seeing me wanting to know, she shook her head happily. Really! Why are all of them such appetizing types! Or are girls so mysterious?

I don't know how many rooms I checked ahead, but I came to the end of the corridor. Suddenly, a double door twice as wide as the other doors appeared on the empty wall.

Elus and I looked at each other one after another, and after getting mutual approval, we pushed open the two halves of the doors that were close together at the same time. Contrary to this high-profile door, it turned out to be a small compartment. There are miscellaneous racks scattered around, all of which are densely packed with brown file bags. And there was an unsealed file bag suddenly on the ground.

I don't know what the charm of this portfolio is, but I was instinctively drawn by it, stretched out my hand tremblingly to it, and picked it up. It happened that the opening was facing downwards, and the paper inside fell down unnaturally. I stretched out my hand quickly, and the paper fell into the palm of my hand as if deliberately fluttering towards my hand. It has the quality of a photocopied manuscript, with only one line of distorted writing on it.

"I couldn't believe it. She was seriously hurt. I didn't know what to do. It happened so suddenly, I never expected it to happen. So everyone felt that it didn't really happen. .Of course, they are also in a state of desperation, but there is this feeling in the eyes. And... I am very scared. I always feel that something has come to an end..."

It seems that they have just seen these contents. where is it I can't remember, and I feel that it's not just just now. I feel itchy eye circles. I stared at this line of writing like a maniac.

"Su Ruoyang...?"

The paper tightly squeezed in the hand reveals traces of distortion, and the monotonous words seem to be endowed with sound. Repeated over and over again.

"Hey! What's the matter? Su Ruoyang?!"

A splitting headache. Something was bursting in his head with a "Zi La Zi La". It was as if something that had been buried for a long time finally couldn't bear it anymore and planned to break free, so it beat wildly in the heart.

I read the words above over and over again.

again.

again.

The vision gradually became blurred, and the liquid dripped from the eye sockets and landed on the paper. Through the reflection of the teardrops I saw my distorted smile.

I don't know why I'm crying. I looked away and continued to focus on that line, but I couldn't recognize the words on it. But I still can't take my eyes off it.

"Su Ruoyang!!!" It was as if a voice from another world came to my ears, and I felt a wave of shaking in my shoulders. Suddenly, my vision became clear, and my vision was released from the paper in my hand. I feel itchy on my cheek. A line of hot tears. Elsie looked into my eyes rather worriedly. I took a few steps back and threw away the paper in my hand.

"What's the matter with you?" Elus' eyes met my constantly dodging eyes, I shook my head indiscriminately, and I didn't know what I was denying.

"Nothing happened, right? I don't know." Even the words spoken were so incoherent. I just vaguely understand that the long-lost childhood memories seem to be recovering. This is stimulated by the memory of Su Erin, who grew up with me. I might have to think of something.

I adjusted my heavy breathing and tried to calm myself down. I suppressed my trembling voice, looked at Elus again and said, "I'm fine. Let's go."

Else stared at me suspiciously. Although I said worriedly, "If you have something to do, you must tell me~", but I walked forward as I said. There is an unassuming little door between the gaps in the grocery shelves. I rubbed my temples and pushed open the door. After an incredible ray of white light flashed across my field of vision, I was surprised to find that the opposite of the door turned out to be a room similar to a surveillance room.

——Dense display screens cover the entire room. I'm not exaggerating - even the bottom of the feet and the ceiling are covered with monitors showing different images.

I couldn't even find a gap where I could vaguely see the walls of the room, as if the screens were the original walls of the room. Elus gently pulled the door behind me, only then did I realize that there were even two screens next to each other behind the door. When Elus closed the door curiously, I was suddenly occupied by the dizzying display screen.

"Hey~ What kind of magic is this?" Elus raised her head and glanced at me in disbelief. "I think~ This should be the environment that Uncle William is used to every day, right?"

Elus' words made me turn my eyes to the screen again. Each display shows a different picture. And one of them is showing the picture of the entrance of the hospital first. Sure enough, as I expected, even at this second, the skeletons are still blocking the entrance of the hospital, which is really an infiltrating scene.

Then again, maybe we in this room can see any corner of the world as if we have William's "absolute observation"?

Thinking of this, I suddenly understood something - if this is the case, then I should be able to find Su Erin with the help of these monitors! I quickly raised my head and looked around, searching for the picture continuously, and finally locked my eyes on the display screen under my feet. The picture seems to be in a scene like a subway station. The girl with her incomplete black wings was standing face to face with another familiar figure on both sides of the track.

"It's Su Erin!" I said somewhat to myself. Elus didn't seem to care too much about what happened just now, she frowned, and gently drew a purple circle in the air, and three white dots representing the three of us appeared in the circle . We all appeared within the square formed by the straight line we walked just now, but at this time the three white dots unexpectedly gathered in the same position. This made me suddenly confused——Su Erin was not with us, and I only saw her through this strange room. Could it be that all we have been tracking just now is the position of this monitor?

"Hey! Be careful~" Elusi's urgent voice suddenly came from behind, and I felt a sudden tug on the hem of my clothes, and squatted down along with this force. Then, just a few seconds later, I felt a sudden sharp pain in my shoulder. For a moment, cold sweat came down his cheeks. Suppressing the excruciating pain, I lowered my head and looked towards the painful spot. There was a mark of being cut by some sharp thing on my right shoulder. And what made me feel extremely shaken... was my missing right arm.

Elus next to me widened her eyes worriedly and took a step closer to me. I hugged my arm, and the palm was immediately stained red, and the smell of blood filled my nostrils.

I turned my head hard, and there were two men standing behind me. And one of them is Kaede Watanabe.

A silver light that flew by at a speed that the naked eye couldn't catch pierced violently towards me, and then the colors within my sight suddenly dimmed, and the dizziness suddenly fainted in my vision.

Being forced by the force of the light, I took several steps back, and kicked my feet firmly, as if I could stand firm and not fall. There was the sound of metal falling to the ground. The white spot the size of a grain of rice in front of me was constantly fluctuating along with the fluorescent purple light circle, which seemed to symbolize that my white spot began to emit a faint red light flickering.

"Watanabe Kaede...why are you here...?"

I hugged my arm and turned my eyes away, staring closely at Kaede Watanabe, whose face was so pale that it was piercing, and he also stared back at me with those dull pupils.

The young man standing beside Kaede Watanabe was wearing a jacket with a darker color and a string of gold necklaces on his chest. His eyes were sharply staring in our direction. Suddenly he stretched out his arms towards his side, and dozens of silver lights swirled rapidly around him. After a closer look, he was found to be tightly surrounded by a ring of countless sabers, as if turning into the strongest defense.

Immediately afterwards, Watanabe Feng slowly approached the young man a few steps, stretched out his hands towards the silver light, and two sabers with broken fronts appeared in his hands. The original guess that "Watanabe Kaede will help us block that young man to appear here" gradually collapsed, and a sense of betrayal emerged spontaneously.

Watanabe Feng seemed to be muttering something silently, and the next second, the display screen below suddenly disappeared, turning into Watanabe Feng's figure. Just realized that he had used "Shape-shifting" and felt vaguely uneasy, Kaede Watanabe pushed the saber with both hands and stabbed at Elus and me, the tip easily pierced the skin, with severe pain. In an instant, it pierced into my chest.

The strong sense of being shaken by the further tearing of the wound replaced words as an answer to why he was here.

Even at the moment when I am absolutely conscious of Kaede Watanabe standing on the hostile side, I can't understand why Feng Kaede Watanabe is standing by this person's side. This kind of incomprehensible confusion and the feeling of being betrayed transcends pain and overrides all emotions.

Eluth obviously didn't expect such a development at all, and took the knife directly. There was suspicion in her eyes. It wasn't until the young man waved his fingers again that the flying broken blades came towards me and Elus, and finally Elus held up the golden hexagram to block the successive broken blades.

"Hey!! What are you doing?"

The magic circle scattered several sharp blades rushing forward. Seeing that Kaede Watanabe still had no intention of answering, Elus immediately swung the magic circle in the direction of Sato Kazuhiko and the young man, and Watanabe quickly avoided the magic circle that turned into a sharp blade.

The six-pointed star in the center of the formation rotated into a Frisbee shape at high speed, colliding with the ring of the youth's saber and making a crisp sound of rubbing.