Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

There was a sound of the sensor door snapping open from outside the room, and I hurriedly leaned back to look at the door. Xue Xueer walked into the all-white space thoughtfully with a laptop computer that I was quite familiar with.

"Are you all right? What did that professor Huan say to you? Wait... isn't this my laptop?" I stood up holding the edge of the door (I don't know if that counts as a door edge),

"I'm sorry...Senior, she... I actually always suspected that one of my seniors was the one I mentioned to you in a dream a long time ago, the blogger of the vampire blog, but I didn't have any evidence... Later, because I saw it in the information I only asked you for help when it came to you. I thought maybe we could be sure that they are the same person.. I'm sorry for lying to you and implicating you...I'm really sorry!!"

Xue Xueer tightly pinched the hem of the plaid skirt, bent down as if she had made great determination, her two braids drooped down naturally, and her eyebrows were trembling uncontrollably.

"Forget it. I didn't intend to help you at first, and I called you here for personal reasons. I should apologize to you for causing you to be locked up by them."

"But..." Xue Xue'er raised her head suspiciously, looking up at me pitifully.

"How can there be so many! Instead of getting entangled in this kind of thing, why not tell me what he said to you just now."

I stepped forward, reached out and grabbed her two slender arms, and pulled her up. Then I casually took the laptop she was holding tightly in her hand.

At this time, I felt that someone was watching me intentionally or unintentionally. I looked back in confusion, and found Xiao Lulu stared blankly and then staggered his gaze.

"Hey, what are you looking at..."

"It's nothing. I just didn't expect you to have such a side~"

After Xiao Lulu finished speaking, he smiled mysteriously at me, turned around and walked into the room humming a slightly pleasant tune.

"What, what an inexplicable guy."

"He said senior's blog...ah, I mean that vampire's blog! Senior as the operator is also locked here, and besides senior, there seems to be a religious organization helping to run the blog... the professor said It's their deadly enemy, called..."Mother'Anonymity"..."

The English that came out of her mouth suddenly made me caress my dry lower lip thoughtfully. This is a religious organization I have never heard of. I tried to translate this strange name. It should not be a name like "Mother's Anonymity". It seems more appropriate to translate it into "The Virgin Mary's Uniform Personality" or "The Virgin Mary's Vulgarity".

I suddenly thought of something, and quickly turned on the computer in my hand, and the previous blog was displayed on the screen. I closed the web page with a depressed mood, and opened the chat app. Fortunately, I didn't check the "Remember Password" option when I usually log in, otherwise I don't know what they will use it for. As soon as he logged in, he saw that Hui Chi's profile picture was shaking.

"It's hard to believe, but I can't find where this log was posted..."

"The address found out is a string of completely garbled characters, it's so annoying!"

"That's right, although I couldn't help you find it"

"However, I will still blame you for this."

"You owe me two meals now!"

His reply made me a little concerned. I sat down cross-legged on the spot, put the computer on my lap, and asked Xue Xueer to ask Hui Chi to help me find information about "Mother'Anonymity" while typing on the keyboard. Asked, "Did the professor just say this?" My words made Xue Xueer think hard, and she stretched out her fingers and tapped her chin.

I waited for her answer, thought about it carefully, and added a message to Hui Chi: "I'll treat you to three meals later," before closing the computer. Xue Xueer also looked at me at this time.

"He asked me a few questions about me and then said a lot of useless stuff... so basically no talk at all!"

"Hmm... It seems like the purpose is to confirm something."

Having said that, Xiao Lulu walked out of the room again. She glanced at each of us as usual, and said, "It's the professor's turn to ask me for something~ I'm going out, Lin Yu, you are not allowed to come into my room and rummage while I am away! Otherwise, you are finished! !"

Telling me fiercely, Xiao Lulu walked to the door with his arms folded like a lady from somewhere, and stretched out his palm to the sensing area.

"Who will touch your things!!"

She walked out of the room amidst my almost frantic complaints, and suddenly poked her head out again and made a face at me, then hurriedly closed the sensor door as if she was afraid that I would catch up.

"baffling..."

It was so inexplicable that I almost forgot that I was in prison.

At this time, I was actually a little lucky that I was locked up with Xiao Lulu.

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In an empty room, there is only a desk that blends in with the surrounding colors, and a black swivel chair that is only staggered in color from the surroundings. There seems to be nothing in the room, but in fact there is everything. A middle-aged woman with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. The white coat on her body seems to be covered with patches like it has been worn for decades. The strands of silver on her head have ruined the neatness of her hair.

"咚咚咚" came the sound of hitting metal materials. There was an entrance on the wall facing the desk, and two girls with the same appearance, distinguished from each other only by some deliberately manufactured features (such as the handcuffs on the left and right hands) appeared in front of the woman. They seemed to be very familiar with each other, the girls leaned down naturally without even looking at the woman, and two seats appeared below them in a second to support them in time.

"President, do you have anything to do with us?" Xiao Lulu always felt a little uncertain in his heart, and asked softly while lowering his eyes and daring not to look directly at the other party.

Showing a completely opposite personality to the professor, the middle-aged woman called "President" seemed to think that there was no need to chat. She knocked on the table with her index finger, and the surrounding brightness suddenly dimmed. atmosphere. A picture appeared behind the swivel chair, slightly blurred and colorless, and it was a video captured by surveillance.

The president seemed to have already seen the content of the video, but he just put his sharp eyes on the two girls. The black cat saw Xue Xueer's figure appearing in the picture, and after he followed her, he understood the woman's intention. She curled her lips with a disapproving expression, as if she found it very troublesome.

"The person in the video is not Lulu, but me. You can stop playing it."

Seeing that the black cat readily admitted it, the president sneered and slapped his palms twice, the video was cut off, the surroundings of the room gradually became brighter, and the atmosphere of the auditorium dissipated. Xiao Lulu understood that her sister meant that she would be punished, so she couldn't help biting her lower lip, her eyes were like continuous waves in a turbulent sea.

"This building is known for being heavily guarded. Do you think she could have come in if we hadn't let her in on purpose?"

"Oh? Looks like I made a mistake~" The black cat still had a careless expression, stroking its hair and showing a smile that seemed to deliberately provoke the other party.

"I might as well tell you that this is also a test for you. After you pass it, you could have been an experimenter for Professor Phantom... He used the word 'honored guest', right? Forget it. Then you can get your The freedom you want. But the reality always goes against what you want.”

"Wait...President!" Finally unable to bear the urge to hold back desperately, Xiao Lulu clenched her fists and stood up. She mustered up the courage to look at the woman in front of her with sharp eyes like steel knives, "Sister It’s just that I don’t think it’s necessary to report this matter! Besides, the intruder ran into the place where the professor was doing the dream experiment…”

"Hey, I put half of the video just now, and didn't put it in the position you mentioned. It seems that you also know about it?"

These words made Xiao Lulu's throat suddenly stuck in the words that Xiao Lulu originally planned to say while phrasing. She stared ahead with flickering eyes, and shook her head stubbornly from side to side.

"I seem to need to re-examine your free time." The president narrowed his eyes and stopped talking, and turned the swivel chair to face them. Only then did Xiao Lulu realize that she might not have the second half of the video at all—the professor’s experiment does not allow any equipment to enter the room, as if it would affect the facilities in the experiment, the president must have just deliberately tested them just now.

"No! I said it all because we don't think there is a need to report it, there is no other meaning!"

"No other meaning?!" Hearing this, the president suddenly turned the swivel chair, stood up in a growling posture, slapped the palm on the table, and then pushed the desk that seemed to have pulleys underneath to Xiao The road goes straight. Xiao Lulu was driven by the opponent's momentum to take a step back, and the black cat behind him gently stretched out his hand to stick to his back, so that she didn't fall on the chair.

"If it weren't for me, you would have the right to freely enter and leave the room now? You will use this kind of behavior to repay me now?" The president's eyes stared out fiercely at this time, and the wrinkles on both sides seemed to be scratched by a knife Same. Xiao Lulu didn't dare to say a word, and he didn't even have the courage to sit down and avoid the other party's gaze. The president sneered again, and slapped Xiao Lulu on the face.

"Show off the momentum that you just refuted with me!!" Before the other party could react, the president slapped the other cheek again.

Her hair was messily scattered around the corner of Xiao Lulu's mouth, and Xiao Lulu stared straight at the direction in front of her with a calm head, making it difficult to see her expression clearly. The three of them didn't seem to notice that a thin black mist hovered strangely at the height of the lower part of the room, and merged continuously towards the center.

"You will always be as useless as when you came here. I really hope that the professor will finish the dream image recording system quickly, so that I can see what your dream world looks like!"

After the president finished speaking, he looked away, turned around and walked away in the opposite direction. She stretched out two fingers to signal to the men who had been waiting for a long time at the door, neatly dressed in suits without any wrinkles, and they came to Xiao Lulu and the black cat with unanimous steps. The black cat seemed to have expected that the president would "invite" herself to go back in this way. She stretched out her hands casually, as if welcoming the other party to handcuff her, and the shackles on her hands made a crisp sound. , but Xiao Lulu on the side kept his head down.

The black cat first looked at Xiao Lulu in confusion, and then suddenly understood what was going on. When the handcuffs "snaked" and were clipped to her hands, she couldn't help showing a smile.

The black mist entrenched on the ground suddenly turned into a pitch-black demon, and stretched out those scorching hands to climb up to the person next to him. After a while, it wrapped around them like a bandage, and the neat suit was burned. A hole was opened, and the person wrapped in it was torn to pieces.

"What the hell did you do?!" The president noticed the strange scene in front of him, and yelled at the black cat who couldn't help laughing. At this time, the dark demon stared at her and spread directly towards the president. She quickly stepped back a few steps, reached out to touch the button on the desk behind her, and the ground suddenly raised upwards to form a wall, separating the black mist Outside the wall.

"Heh, I've thought this is weird for a long time. I didn't believe your words at the time! It really is like this...Xiao Luoluo!!"

The president kept muttering angry words, turned around and walked towards the entrance that appeared on the side at some point.

The black cat surrounded in the room smiled and gradually lost its smile, lazily leaned back and sat on the chair, Xiao Lulu also seemed to lose strength and fell down, the black cat embraced gently He stopped her, and gently stroked Xiao Lulu who had calmed down, but his eyes were filled with bitterness.

"Really. You, you exposed it too early."

The two young girls leaned close to each other, and staggered forward. The rain washed away the desire of the residents of the town to go out, and they were the only ones walking on the street with their own thoughts. Without relying on each other, they would have been unable to support and fell to the ground.

The young black cats knew they couldn't last long. In the end, as she expected, the bruised Xiao Lulu fell powerlessly on the sidewalk, and the black cat also fell down, hugging Xiao Lulu who was weakly squinting his eyes. They all have purple marks on their foreheads, which are constantly sending them pain.

Whether he fell asleep unknowingly, or still kept his eyes open, even the black cat didn't know. The two cuddled together in a dreamlike illusion.

"Ne...onee, I'm going to die, right?"

"No. We will be saved."

The black cat gently rubbed the purple spot on her forehead, then shook her head with a positive expression. A year has passed since the death of their parents, and my sister and I did not starve to death. The habitat of the two must have been taken away temporarily. The black cat firmly believes that he will snatch it back one day, and the injuries on his body will definitely let them Repay double.

"But...even if we survive this time...even if we drive those away...others will still show up, no matter how much we beg for mercy, no one will let us go..."

"Will not……"

"Dad did he tell us that before? Lies can sometimes solve problems faster, so people want to rely on lies...But lies don't work every time. We cheated for a day's food, a temporary shelter, But one time the lie will be exposed, and then we won't be able to survive. A 'wild child without parents' can't survive..."

"No! "Wild child without parents" or something... that's what they used to insult us! Believe me, next time you see those people who insulted you, you can definitely shut them up and kill them You can do it all! Not only them, but anyone who treats you like this in the future can make them irreparable. Even if it is a lie, as long as we can live."

"This kind of thing...how could it be possible..."

Xiao Lulu looked at the black cat who said these words seriously, feeling both funny and sad. He obviously wanted to smile, but when he raised the corners of his mouth, tears fell untimely.

"Because...a lie may not be exposed, it is a lie that is exposed...so...a lie that is not exposed is true!!"

Recalling that childish voice, the black cat couldn't help but smiled wryly, that day Xiao Lulu was hugged tenderly by him like this. That was the first time she lied in a dream, but she didn't even realize that she was dreaming at that time. When they woke up, they were no longer in the icy rain, but had come to the institution where they had been imprisoned for seven years.

When the black cat found that the first lie she uttered in her dream came true in this institution—Xiao Lulu tore into pieces those people in the room who insulted her because she refused to listen to her command, she realized this Lies might be the way to escape. So when the president first appeared in front of them, the black cat lied. She said she was responsible for the horrors in the room. The president didn't believe that the ten-year-old girl did it until she found out that all the people imprisoned with the black cat, except Xiao Lulu, had been brutally killed.

It's not just Xiao Lulu. And a boy who was imprisoned in the same room as her is safe and sound...

Moreover, he managed to escape from the Core Research Association afterwards. ——Sacrificing the black cat and Xiao Lulu.

"This scientific research institution seems to be close to somewhere, and has the characteristics of being highly synchronized with the dream... so that the lies in the dream can be realized here. Originally, I planned to let you unconsciously manipulate the black mist to kill her when she didn't care. Kill her. But with the "additional bondage" they put on us, even if the president is dead, we can't escape."

The black cat sighed. Xiao Lulu in her arms finally opened her eyes in a daze. The scene in front of her made her a little unclear, but she was weak and unable to utter a word.

At this time, the white wall made a "click" sound, like the automatic doors of a supermarket being pulled open on both sides. Nearly twenty people wore gas masks tightly and pointed their guns at the two people in the middle of the room. The black cat looked back at their mighty posture, not only did not feel oppressed, but thought they were too funny.

"Do you think this black mist is poisonous gas? It's really a group of idiots as always." Black Cat asked them leisurely, pulling Xiao Lulu to stand up.

"Don't move!! Hold your head and turn around slowly!"

"Otherwise, you will shoot, right? Alright, alright~ Hurry up and handcuff me. We are old acquaintances, so there is a need for such a big battle~"

None of the twenty people standing at the door entered the room, and seemed to be concerned about the possibility that the black cat would deliberately lure him in, and hesitated in place motionless.

"Are you...are you sure you don't want to come in? Then we'll go back to our room by ourselves~"

The black cat talked to himself and hugged Xiao Lulu next to him, freely as if the other party was the one who was threatened. No one fired until they left the room. They just kept a certain distance from them worriedly, and then followed them step by step carefully. But the two people who were pointed at by the guns walked into their room nonchalantly like the usual students walking home, leaving the twenty people standing blankly in the corridor, confused and hesitant. They looked at each other on the ground.

"Uh...I said Lin, shouldn't we...should go back?"

I don't know who was the first to break the silent atmosphere. The leading young man called "Lin" angrily took off his gas mask and wiped the sweat from his face irritably.

"Tch! I was tricked by this witch again! When she is useless, I must make her look good."