Light Fortress-Chapter 78 - 76 Blood Fire
78: Chapter 76: Blood Fire
78 -76: Blood Fire
“Click.”
“Click.”
The entire world was reduced to that sound.
All the colors also gradually faded…
These colors were actually reflections of Zhou Yexin’s inner world of emotions, and their fading signified that the dream owner’s subjective consciousness had dissipated.
This journey back into the dream of the broken pocket watch, any useful information probably ends here.
Gu Shen could finally move his “body” freely.
He looked at his hands, and his palms were overflowing with blazing flames.
It was Fiery Fire Power that allowed him to immerse himself in this dream.
“So…
I’m a little flame right now?” Gu Shen scratched his head.
He looked towards the burnt-down villa and murmured softly, “I only intended to investigate the background of the ‘pocket watch,’ but I didn’t expect to see such a terrible dream…”
The blood-red fire that exploded the villa was definitely a catastrophe caused by Extraordinary Ability…
and one of a very high order at that.
Red flames that burn everything.
Although both involved fire, this was different from his own Fiery Fire…
This was an erosive fire with intense offence towards physical matter.
His own flames were more like a Spiritual Fire.
After staring at the blood-colored flames for a moment, he actually felt his own “Fiery Fire” trembling slightly.
Across the ephemeral dream, the Extraordinary Essence of the Blood Fire seemed to be attracting his own Fiery Fire?
“Rabbit doll…
father…
pocket watch…”
Gu Shen began to connect the useful clues from the dream,
The events within the dream may not necessarily be real.
Perhaps in reality, Zhou Yexin never bought a rabbit doll, but the metaphors behind these objects were indeed a true reflection in the dream, which required the dream-enterer to explore on his own.
“Why does ‘Dad’ not have a face?”
Gu Shen could not comprehend why the most important character in the dream lacked a visible face.
“Is it because, in the fire, he was stripped of everything…
All traces of his living existence were erased.” Gu Shen looked at the villa with some trepidation—where fragmented Blood Fire still roamed, “The father fulfilled the daughter’s wish by repairing the damaged doll.
Was this accomplished using the ‘pocket watch’?
Was he also a Transcendent?”
After observing this dream, Gu Shen no longer considered the pocket watch a sealing item unworthy of attention.
Having withstood such a fearsome surge of fire.
The pocket watch was not destroyed…
And in a certain sense, it revived the rabbit doll.
Judging from the reality reflected in the dream, did the pocket watch, when intact, possess the ability to reverse time?
But now, the severely damaged pocket watch, its hands frozen, no longer ticked.
What remained was only a faint trace of Extraordinary Power, probably only enough for the assistance of “Mental Hypnosis,” allowing ordinary people to fall asleep swiftly.
Gu Shen turned his head and looked at the fading girl in porcelain white within the dream.
The dream was nearing its end.
“Has she always been so persistent in seeking the truth behind the fire that year…” Gu Shen’s gaze grew complicated.
Sister Xiao Xin, like himself, was an ordinary person who had experienced an Extraordinary event.
Except she wasn’t as lucky as him; that Extraordinary event transpired with the departure of the most important loved one in her life.
It was time to look back on Zhou Yexin’s file once more.
Gu Shen suddenly felt a twinge of sorrow.
He finally understood why a girl, at the mere age of eighteen, could travel alone to Central Continent, persisting year after year under the incomprehension of everyone…
The fire erased everything, and if she too stopped insisting on seeking the truth, then the man from the dream may indeed have truly died.
“This pocket watch contains a trace of Extraordinary Power, related to dreams,” murmured Gu Shen.
“It’s the only thing her father left behind…
and the sole clue to that blood-red fire…”
The lights surrounding him began to dim.
The scene gradually returned to reality.
In the final moments of the dream, Gu Shen erased the memories related to his Fiery Fire power and imparted some suggestions to ensure that Zhou Yexin, upon awakening, wouldn’t feel anything amiss, allowing her life to return to its normal trajectory.
He sat at the table, waking from this dream, and his spiritual power depleted by the Truth Ruler, had recovered quite a bit, enough for him to finally move around somewhat normally.
He tidied up the partition, then slowly left, pretending he’d never been here.
And then he knocked on the door.
It took a moment before a response came.
“…Come in.”
Sister Xiao Xin held her forehead, her thoughts somewhat muddled.
The knock woke her up.
The first thing she did upon awakening was to check that the pocket watch inside her clothes was still there, a habit she’d developed over a decade.
The watch was there, so she breathed a sigh of relief, trying hard to think, but her mind was still blank, so she murmured helplessly, “Xiao Gu…
Have I…
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“You probably didn’t sleep well last night; you said you wanted to rest a bit this afternoon,” Gu Shen said softly, “There wasn’t much going on this afternoon, so I didn’t disturb you.”
Zhou Yexin gave a wry smile and said, “Is that so…”
She suddenly remembered the commendation banners and those with insomnia, the things that should have surprised or amazed her, yet for some reason, when they resurfaced in her mind, all that remained was indifference.
This was the talented young man highly recommended by Mr.
Tang Qingquan; it was only fitting that he accomplished these things.
“Dr.
Xiao Gu, thank you for your hard work,” Zhou Yexin said with a sense of guilt, “Actually, I wanted to talk to you.
I don’t quite understand why Mr.
Tang arranged for you to intern here…
You’re still so young, you might be better suited elsewhere; in East Continent, there are many top-tier schools.”
Gu Shen was taken aback.
The suggestions he had imposed on Sister Xiao Xin were quite gentle, basically just to make her think that curing the group insomnia today was a reasonable event.
But he hadn’t expected that after the hypnosis ended, Sister Xiao Xin would say this to him.
“Mr.
Tang has sponsored me for many years…
With your talents and abilities, if you ask, he will certainly help you,” Zhou Yexin said earnestly, “Maybe you should contact him.”
“…Thank you,” Gu Shen replied with a smile after a moment’s pause, quickly adding, “That’s a great suggestion, I will contact him during this period.”
Tang Qingquan…
had been sponsoring Zhou Yexin for many years?
This Grand Judge of the Yinghai District was indeed no ordinary figure.
If the sponsorship started when Zhou Yexin went to study far away in Central Continent, there was reason to guess that Tang Qingquan knew about that bloody fire disaster.
Stepping into her dream personally, he had felt the girl’s pain, despair, regret, and breakdown.
Those who enter dreams are players in the drama.
After emerging from the dream, Gu Shen decided to help investigate to the extent he could.
“If she’s alone, no matter how long she persists on this path, she may never see results…” Gu Shen murmured to himself, “This case is too old, and the investigation will be a lengthy one.
I may not be able to uncover the ultimate truth, but no matter the outcome, consider it lending her a hand.”
Moreover, this investigation would benefit him as well.
In the dream, as he looked upon the Blood Fire, he too felt a response in his heart.
A feeling began to stir within Gu Shen.
Perhaps…
by consuming that blood-red flame, his own Fiery Fire power, would see a significant increase?
