Overturned Tower

After his red shift broke through the Leviathan Wall, Russell could clearly feel that his personality began to undergo some irreversible changes. He gradually began to transcend mortals and become something aloof...

In other words, he began to be gradually transformed into some kind of "immortality" by his spiritual energy.

Just like an [Elf].

Just like elves don't need sleep - Russell also thought that he might not necessarily need to sleep or rest.

But in order to maintain his humanity...or, in order to let his brain think that he is still a human being, Russell will still live according to the way of ordinary people.

Russell is very satisfied and adaptable to who he is now, and he doesn't need any major "makeover" updates. Just like after you get used to an old computer system, you don't want to update it to a new and unfamiliar system.

Russell was quite sleepy when he and Delphinium were walking outside. After all, he had slept for less than ten hours in the past seventy-two hours. And there were more than six hours inside, where he was deep in the sea of ​​collective subconscious, wiping everywhere like a janitor.

Of course, this kind of sleepiness is not because his body is tired and starts to alarm, but is just a psychological effect... In a sense, it is essentially the same as "synths think it's time to sleep".

So, after Russell got home, washed up, and lay in bed, he suddenly felt energetic again.

"Speaking of it, sleeping is certainly a daily routine for ordinary people.

"But I think the same goes for staying up late playing fish and playing games!"

——I don’t need to sleep anyway, so why not save time and go play games with Lang Yin!

But as soon as Russell sat up, he was pushed back down by Delphinium, who was waiting by the bed.

"Don't go."

Delphinium's attitude was quite firm: "If you're not sleepy, just sleep with me. I'm sleepy anyway."

"...Then after you fall asleep, can I go play games?"

Russell asked cautiously.

Delphinium dragged Russell over and held her in her arms. She covered Russell's legs with her big furry tail and replied with a chuckle: "It's okay if you don't wake me up."

It's not that it's completely impossible. Russell thought.

But before he put the delphinium to sleep, Russell himself fell into a deep sleep.

Lying on her childhood bed, hugging her loved ones, Russell's spirit was completely at ease.

But this time, Russell didn't even dive into the sea of ​​collective subconsciousness to work overtime, nor did he fall into the dream world. He had an extremely rare sleep that was completely dreamless. When he woke up, he stretched a lot before opening his eyes.

Russell rolled over and lay on his back on Delphinium's lap.

Delphinium was looking at the bed sitting on the outside side, next to herself, leaning on the upright pillow. There was a stream of blue light flashing in her pupils, and she was obviously watching some news.

Seeing Russell approaching, Delphinium glanced down subconsciously, then stretched out her left hand to touch his chin, while the other hand was playing with the warm cat ears.

"How did you do it?"

Russell asked curiously.

He didn't ask clearly what he wanted to ask, but Delphinium already understood what he meant.

"Because this isn't exactly natural sleep for you."

"...Could it be possible that you drugged me?"

"Well, you can say that."

The corners of Delphinium's mouth raised slightly.

She reached out and touched Russell's nose, her fingertips turned slightly blue.

Russell immediately smelled the faint fragrance of roses.

He immediately reacted: "So that's it, it's a new poison..."

"Because even if you fall asleep, you still can't sleep well. So 'Lethal Love' gave me the third poison. This new poison can block others from entering the dream world, or the ability to sense the sea of ​​group subconscious. …”

Delphinium said with a smile: "A trace amount of poison is medicine. When combined with the poison that can make people coma and lose consciousness before, it becomes a poison that can make you sleep peacefully and will not force you to sleep after falling asleep." Overtime medicine.”

Delphinium's eyes full of love used to look at the subordinates of the execution department.

What she fears most is that they will lose control and turn into demons. That's why she was able to secrete the poison that "forcibly increases the blue shift by one level".

Later, Delphinium fell in love with Russell. After discovering that Russell always stayed up late, she was worried about Russell's physical condition... so she began to be able to secrete a new poison that can make people fall asleep quickly.

As for now, it is already the third poison. In the past five months, Russell has never been able to sleep well.

The visible feeling to the naked eye is that the cat gradually stops jumping around and plays games less.

Although Russell didn't say anything or yawn... Delphinium just felt that he was starting to get a little tired.

It is a kind of exhaustion that comes from the depths of the soul.

With this worry, Delphinium secreted her third poison - the ability to temporarily seal and isolate others from interacting with the "sea of ​​group subconsciousness".

If used by ordinary people, the devil will not be able to sense him and thus cannot awaken his psychic powers; if used by ordinary psykers, there will be no reaction; if used by mages, it will prevent them from entering the dream world...

And if it is used on Russell, it will prevent him from falling into the mental maze every time he falls asleep.

"That way, you can have a good night's sleep."

"...Then, thank you."

Russell expressed his gratitude sincerely: "This is indeed the most solid sleep I have had in the past six months."

"Do you want it in the future too?"

"No, I still have to help others clean up their minds polluted by dusk. But if I'm too tired, I can use your ability to take a rest."

"Then tell me when you are tired."

Delphinium said casually: "Otherwise, if I thought you were tired, I wouldn't have informed you."

She also used Russell as an anchor, stretched out her slender fingers to lightly brush over his face, and used gestures to turn the page of the news in front of her.

"I know... By the way, watching the news first thing every morning when I get up is a unique lifestyle habit of middle-aged men."

Russell complained.

The next moment, his mouth was gently covered by Delphinium's left hand.

"Don't make any noise."

Delphinium whispered: "This is crucial."

"What's the matter?"

Russell opened his eyes curiously: "Is there something big going on? Let me take a look too!"

"It seemed like a lot of big things happened last night, and people died."

Delphinium said, reaching out and holding the news video that was playing in the air, gently throwing it towards Russell, and then shared it with Russell.

"...According to the latest analysis of the Zambia Association, the movement trajectories of the iconoclasts are highly coincident with the damage traces of cameras around the school streets. Through integrated analysis of other relevant data, it is concluded that the main executive members of the 'iconoclasts' are high school students. The probability is more than 62.8%, and this incident is strongly related to the 'werewolf'.

"A stern warning to the imitators of the 'Werewolf' again. More than 30 imitators have been arrested this month. The Zambia Association has decided to increase the penalty level for imitators by one level from now on.

"Continue to broadcast today's major news. Last night, the central food warehouse in Hestia District was damaged again, and some of the fermented foods stored inside were contaminated by sewage poured into them with syringes. The killer whale gang that had been frequently operating in this area before Once again announced that they are not responsible for this incident and will assist the Executive Department in jointly investigating this bad incident.

"This is the sixth time in three months that a food warehouse has been vandalized, and it is also the first time that a food warehouse has been vandalized twice. Two months ago, the 'werewolf' claimed to insert sharp objects into the bread, and finally in More than 200 steel needles and 2,000 toothpicks were inserted into the bread, causing a total of 482 people to be stabbed.

"The suspected imitator used discarded disposable medical supplies to contaminate cola that was about to be sold at the Demeter District Central Video Warehouse last month, causing a vicious incident that sent nearly a hundred people to the hospital. To this day, about 8% Coke has not been recalled, causing extremely bad social impact. This time, the central management manager of Hestia District has sent all food for inspection as soon as possible. The research department of Sogo Group will use the concentration of bacteria in the sewage to analyze The specific sewage areas sampled by the vandals were analyzed.”