Tick, tick, tick, the sound of the wall clock beating was clearly audible in the dark room.
I don't know how long it took, but Lumian seemed to finally break free from a nightmare.
He hurriedly leaned over, grabbed Aurore's shoulders, and shook it vigorously:
"Wake up! Wake up!"
He held his voice and did not dare to let the three official investigators on duty hear it.
Aurore's eyes were closed, his mouth was slightly open, no matter how Lumian shook, he didn't react, like a living dead who had lost his soul.
Lumian's shaking movements became slower and slower, and finally stopped.
He looked at Aurore, who was "asleep", and did not move for a long time.
He didn't understand why this happened, he didn't know when the problem arose, and he was so terrified that he felt like he saw his grandfather die that night.
After that day, he began to wander.
Lumian's hands became tighter and tighter, and his body trembled slightly.
Suddenly, he turned his body and looked at the window.
The transparent and fuzzy "lizard" returned to the room.
Lumian stepped off the bed and stretched out his right hand directly, grabbing the monster creature who was a little stunned because he saw him wake up.
The next second, he stuffed the "lizard" into his mouth and roared with a distorted expression:
"Don't you like to drill other people's mouths?
"Come on! I'll give you this chance!"
While stuffing the "lizard", he bit frantically, his eyes were blood-red.
The "lizard" seemed to be frightened and did not resist.
At this moment, a voice came from behind Lumian:
"What are you doing?"
That was Auror's voice.
Lumian froze, slowly turned his body, and looked at the bed.
Aurore had woken up at some point, her blonde hair disheveled, her light blue eyes full of confusion and doubt.
Lumian subconsciously lowered his head and found that the "lizard" he had caught had long since disappeared.
For a moment, he didn't know whether what he had just seen or happened was a nightmare or a real thing.
"What's wrong with you?" Aurore frowned.
Lumian forced out a smile:
"You just had a nightmare and kicked me out of bed."
"Really?" Aurore looked at her brother suspiciously, feeling that he was playing a prank.
She recalled for a moment:
"I had a nightmare, I dreamed that I was grabbed by a huge monster and stuffed it in its mouth, which scared me so much that I struggled desperately and finally woke up."
Lumian listened and listened, his body began to chill, as if he had been sunk into an alpine ice lake that had not yet completely melted.
"Maybe, probably, I really kicked you......" Aurore was a little embarrassed.
Lumian closed her eyes and smiled:
"Just kidding, I woke up because of another thing."
He then suppressed his voice and said:
"The mysterious lady appeared in the ruins of the dream, helped me separate the extraordinary characteristics of 'Provocateur', and gave me the correct recipe for the magic potion."
"So, you woke up so happy that you wanted to ask me if I had any supporting materials?" Aurore suddenly realized.
Lumian said with a smile on his face:
"Yes.
"Well, do you have honeysuckle hydrosol, vine powder, and water fern powder?"
He smiled much more naturally than just now, but there seemed to be some sparkles in his eyes.
Aurore thought for a moment and said:
"I have both grapevines and water ferns, one is ritual material and the other is a spell medium.
"Honeysuckle, I always have it at home, I use it to soak in water to drink, don't you know?"
She said as she rummaged through the hidden pocket of her skirt.
"That's honeysuckle?" Lumian looked at his busy sister and smiled deliberately, "Why don't you ask me if it's free help this time?"
Aurore took out a short piece of the vine and said with a smile:
"Grind it into powder yourself!"
She didn't seem to hear Lumian's question just now.
"Okay." Lumian also pretended that he hadn't asked.
He then said to his sister:
"The 'Provocateur' magic medicine still needs distilled wine, I'll go to the cellar to get it now, and strive to be promoted to sequence 8 tonight."
"It takes some time to make hydrosol from honeysuckle." Aurore frowned slightly and said, "However, the auxiliary material requirements for low-sequence magic potions are not so strict, you can use the whole honeysuckle flower instead, as long as the extraordinary characteristics can finally dissolve, you can take it."
She then glanced at the open door and asked in a low voice:
"You went to get distilled spirits in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid that Ryan and the others will suspect you?"
Seeing his sister's reaction, Lumian barely kept his smile from stiffening:
"As a regular at an old tavern, it's normal to wake up in the middle of the night and suddenly want to have a drink.
"Although alcohol has many disadvantages, it can at least relax my spirit to a certain extent."
What he meant was that "the Lenten celebration is over, the mental stress is too much, I wake up in the middle of the night a little sleepy, and I need to relax with spirits."
"Yes." Aurore said there was no problem.
Lumian turned and walked towards the door, the smile on his face fading away.
His hands were clasped tightly throughout.
Leaving the door and coming to the hallway, Lumian saw Ryan wearing a brown duffle top and light yellow trousers standing diagonally opposite, and Leah and Valentai were at opposite ends of the corridor.
"Don't sleep anymore?" Ryan with a kerosene lamp looked at Lumian.
Lumian smiled:
"Go to the cellar to get a bottle of spirits, how about it, do you want to take a sip and relax?"
"I don't need it." Ryan nodded, "You haven't experienced anything like this, it's predictable that you're nervous and stressed, alcohol does play a role."
As he spoke, he walked towards the staircase with a flickering kerosene lamp:
"I'll accompany you, I can't act alone at this time."
"Okay." Lumian did not object.
As the two entered the stairs, Leah took the initiative to approach Aurore's bedroom and was on duty at the door.
One step, two steps...... Lumian and Ryan went down to the first floor in silence.
As the dim fire illuminated half of the stove, Ryan asked casually:
"It seems that something happened in the room just now? There is a certain movement."
Lumian opened his mouth and said with great difficulty:
"Auror, something is wrong with Aurore......"
The purpose of his proposal to go to the cellar to get wine was not to get promoted tonight - there was also a cellar with distilled spirits in the two-story building in the Dream Ruins, and he was mainly to avoid Aurore and communicate with Ryan and the others about what had just happened.
But when the words came to his lips, he almost couldn't say it, only to feel that those few words were more choking than the strongest spirits.
Ryan's expression suddenly became serious:
"What's wrong?"
Lumian took several breaths before saying:
"Aurore, like the priest of the dungeon hall, in his mouth, out of his mouth, the kind of 'lizard' suspected of being an elf."
Saying this sentence completely, he felt as if he had been drained of all his strength.
After a delay of seven or eight seconds, he recounted the matter as it was, but described waking up as waking up as a wake-up, and he happened to see it.
Lane listened quietly and did not urge him, and when he finished speaking, he said in a gentle tone:
"You handled it very well, and now you can't let her know that something is wrong, and I'm afraid that will make the situation worse.
"You continue to pretend that nothing happened, and when dawn breaks, I will use the excuse that 'Kordu Village has been polluted, we need to do purification every day to prevent it from being affected', and let Valentine try to see if he can get rid of the 'lizard'."
"Okay." Lumian replied with little strength.
He felt that the "lizard" had deeply integrated with his sister's soul, and it was not so easy to drive away and purify.
Ryan glanced at him and patted him lightly on the shoulder:
"I can understand your feelings, but if my relatives have similar abnormalities, I can't calm down.
"But you have to remember that impatience doesn't solve anything.
"I know, Valentine's purification is likely to be ineffective, but you always have to try it to be sure, well, that abnormality is most likely related to the circulation of Kordu Village, as long as we can finally break the cycle, your sister should be able to recover directly."
yes...... This is also equivalent to a kind of pollution, as long as I can recycle all the pollution when I break the cycle, Aurore will definitely be fine...... Lumian's eyes gradually lit up, and he regained his motivation.
Ryan was quite satisfied with his reaction and said gently:
"What I need to remind you is that in the next few days, you have to adapt to your sister's changes.
"She is likely to be like the priest of the Dungeon Hall, gradually leaving only instinct, acting differently according to her memories and strongest emotions, and not reacting to anything else."
Lumian was silent for a while and said:
"I'll adapt......"
His voice became lower and lower until he disappeared.
After going to the cellar to get the distilled spirit, the two returned to the second floor, as if nothing had happened.
Entering the bedroom, Lumian smiled again.
He shook the bottle in his hand at Aurore and whispered,
"Succeeded."
Aurore smiled back and pointed to the desk:
"Honeysuckle, vines and water ferns are all there."
Lumian nodded and put the wine bottle in his hand on the desk.
Then, he lay back on the bed and closed his eyes under the pretext of "falling asleep as soon as possible and going to the promotion in a dream".
He couldn't sleep.
During this time, the two of them were obviously together every minute and every second, even if Aurore went to the bathroom, Leah was with them, and vice versa, why did something go wrong?
If it's while I'm sleeping, why didn't I have a problem? Lumian tried his best to recall, hoping to find the source, which would help solve the anomaly.
Suddenly, he remembered something.
In the last cycle, the parish priest Guillaume. Bene said that the church wanted to kill all the adults here and harvest a ruin, saying that even if Aurore really wanted to deal with them, he had other options.
And at that time, he was still an ordinary person.
Lumian originally thought that he relied on the shepherd Pierre. Berry, but combined with the current situation, he had a guess, a crazy guess:
Perhaps from the beginning, most of the people in the village were parasitized by that strange creature that looked like a "lizard", including Auror!
As the time gets closer and closer to the twelfth night, the corresponding anomalies will become more and more obvious, and some people will show that something is wrong earlier.
The reason why he himself was spared was because he had that blue-black symbol on his body.
Thinking of the second half of the last cycle, Aurore showed a state of only talking and not doing many things, and Lumian felt that his guess might be right.
He couldn't help but grit his teeth.
At this time, Ryan was patrolling back and forth in the corridor with a kerosene lamp.
On the wall beside him, the shadow suddenly stretched.
Almost at the same time, the small silver bells on Lia's veil and boots made a sound.
She felt her shoulders become unusually cold.
ps: Ask for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)