Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

At the end of the street, on the left side of the sidewalk are several shops, and on the right side is the sea of ​​stars that the ruler said. Although it is like an infinitely extending void, it is dotted with dots of starlight, so that it does not seem so lonely, and it connects the end of this isolated town like this. The thoughts that sank to the bottom of the sea sometimes rolled up to the surface of the sea with the rolled up brilliance, and sometimes fell freely again.

A sea where the stars meet is really an unforgettable scene. This town is like a paradise hidden in the sky full of stars, but it's just that you can't see its starlight when you raise your eyes.

I regained my scattered eyes and searched for the so-called "Xinghai Tavern" in a blink of an eye, and finally found this decadent tavern beside an alley. I walked up the steps cautiously, and saw that the nameplate fixed to the door by rusty nails seemed to be decomposing at an accelerated rate, and fell to the ground after a while. ——At the same time, the whole tavern aged a lot in an instant.

No matter how I think about this situation, I feel something is wrong. It always makes me feel that there is a huge monster on the opposite side of the door, waiting for me to enter the tiger's den with its bloody mouth open. I swallowed, carefully held the handle of the door, and at the same time closed one eye and knocked on the door of the mind reading technique, but apart from Xue Xueer's surprise behind me, I couldn't hear any other sounds. Not being able to see other people's thoughts has always been the thing I fear the most. This made me stunned for a while, but I still lost the courage to open the door. I took a few steps back and went down the steps, but suddenly bumped into someone, and my back was covered in cold sweat. He quickly turned around and made a vigilant gesture.

Then, I found that the other party was looking at me with disgust, and there was clearly a disdainful sneer in his eyes. The nervousness also suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"Xiao Lulu, why are you staying behind others when you have nothing to do?" I complained to her. At this time, Xiao Lulu had changed into intact clothes at some point. However, according to my opinion, compared to now, the attire that was scorched to mutilated by the black mist just now shows a messy charm. Hmm... But if you say it, you will definitely be brought up by the tea cat again.

"If you haven't done anything wrong, why should you be so afraid?" Xiao Lulu looked at me with his eyes taken for granted.

"What a childish guy." I muttered softly, and looked towards the black cat again, this time she immediately met my gaze, I quickly lowered my head, "I remember you two are us You went down first, right? If you wanted to come to this tavern from the beginning, shouldn’t you be one step behind us?”

"Oh? You mean, you want my sister to wear torn clothes all the time~" Xiao Luoluo showed a strange look when she said this, as if I had some unreasonable thoughts about her sister.

"Hey, your sister is so difficult to get along with, and you get angry for no reason. I don't care about your sister at all!"

"What are you talking about?" Xiao Lulu paused subtly when he said this, frowned, and said solemnly, "Please find out, the reason I am not easy to get along with is that I am not interested in talking to you. Otherwise, I will not only It’s easy to get along with, and it’s so cute!”

This made me stunned for a while, and then I couldn't help but burst out laughing. This guy is really cute in some ways.

"But then again... isn't it gathering information? What are you doing here?" I glanced at Xiao Luoluo, seeing that she still refused to take her gaze away from me, I couldn't help but look away again . I asked this question not because I was really curious about what Xiao Luoluo was thinking, but because I might be able to figure out the reason why the man with the scar made me go here.

"Now we're talking about collecting intelligence. To put it bluntly, the rules are secondary, and the clues to find the dream thief are the main thing~ right?" Xiao Luoluo paused when she said this, and I nodded my head lightly. She finally Looking at the tavern in a blink of an eye, he continued, "Su Ruoyang and the others met the Dream Stealer here not long ago~ Don't know where to go here?"

I was silent for a while after hearing what the black cat said, and after thinking about it, I said, "But there seems to be someone inside. And... I mean, it's not particularly friendly."

"Have you tested it with mind reading skills?" Xiao Luoluo's words made me tremble. It is precisely because I can't figure out the other party's mind that I am so hesitant. I couldn't help but want to lie that I had tried it, but the black cat's eyes, as if it had seen my heart through my pupils, dispelled my idea.

"It's not..." I reluctantly compromised with her, only to see her say "Oh~" meaningfully.

"It seems that your mind-reading ability is not unlimited?" The black cat's words made me raise my head involuntarily. In my opinion, the shortcoming of my ability is that I will fall into an overload state after not using it many times. , but I always feel that she looks like she knows more than I do. She didn't seem to want to continue this topic, she turned her eyes and pointed her finger at me happily.

"Then we can't just go in like this, right? Like this~ Lin Yu, go inside and have a look. If there is any trouble, tell Lulu through mind reading and let her use her space manipulation to send you to safety. place ~ then there will be no problem.”

"Hey, why me? I don't want it!" I protested loudly at the black cat. She didn't say anything, but just stared at me with that itchy eyes.

"Why don't you go, you bastard! Are you questioning my ability?" Xiao Lulu gave me a displeased look, and I gave her a blank look. Does this guy really know anything in his heart?

"No, no, I'm too lazy to question your dominance. I'm just worried about you idiot! Maybe you accidentally made a mistake and got that cloud of black mist on me and you're complacent..." As soon as I said this, Suddenly a strange guess flashed through my head, and I couldn't help but stare at the door in front of me and meditate.

"Say it again?!" Probably seeing that I didn't speak, the white cat's tone became more anxious, "Speak? Why are you pretending to die?"

Ignoring Xiao Lulu's unreasonable troubles, I squatted down and picked up the rotten wooden sign. The text on it was so blurred that I couldn't read it clearly at all. If you think about it carefully, even the ability to "manipulate space" exists, so why can the manipulation of time only stop at "time stillness"? No matter how you look at it, the phenomenon of accelerated decay of the wooden sign is related to the manipulation of time.

On the other hand, if everyone in the room is affected by the acceleration of time, the speed of thinking will also catch up with time. From this, the inability to read the other party's mind may be the reason. Thinking of this, in order to prove something, I stepped forward to the door of the tavern, held the handle of the door, and gently pushed the door open, but the door turned backwards quite exaggeratedly. The scene in the room Then came into view...

——The pale boy was lying on a hospital bed made up of several dining tables pieced together, and a checkered tablecloth was used as a bed sheet.

The boy's body was only covered by a white cloth, and his half-opened eyes revealed a sense of despondency on the verge of the end of his life. Other than the boy, there were three people surrounding him, and one of them was a girl wearing a peaked cap who was stretching out her arms, and a turquoise light was shining from her palm. There were corpses everywhere near the hospital bed, and there were still some small flames on the wooden floor.

Seeing that the door was suddenly pushed open, the two other than the girl cast their gazes one after another, their eyes full of vigilance and hostility. Instead of staring at each other for a long time, I couldn't figure out what happened. The barrier of time still seems to lie between us, making it impossible for me to read each other's minds.

"Guys who don't look like dream stealers, and they seem to be in trouble." I conveyed my thoughts to the minds of the three people behind me, and took a step back carefully.

Neither the white cat nor the black cat wanted to respond to me. On the contrary, Xue Xueer coughed lightly, walked slowly to the door, and asked in a soft voice, "I'm sorry. But it seems that you have encountered some trouble. Do you need help?"

What is this guy thinking? Instinctively I wanted to grab her shoulders, but I noticed she turned to look at me, shaking her head from side to side. This unhurried calmness made me lose the meaning of questioning her for a moment. On the other hand, I also want to see what she wants to do.

"Damn girl, why should we trust you?" The boy who was dressed in a rather "bad" way asked Xue Xue'er in a cold voice. Xue Xueer didn't mean to be angry at all, but smiled instead.

"Even though we're not the rulers of the same ruler clock, it's never a good thing to make enemies everywhere, right?"

The delinquent boy was silent for a while after hearing this, squinted his eyes and looked at us for a while, then looked at the boy with glasses next to him uncertainly. He looks tall and thin, and exudes a kind of gentle and elegant atmosphere. It seems that he should be a commander-like character among these few. He sighed slightly and frowned.

"We have no other way to choose now, right? We can only choose to trust them." As soon as the words fell, he looked at us again, and bowed politely to us, "I'm really sorry to trouble you all. ...Let me introduce myself—I am ruler number 2 of clock number eight. If you can help, we will help you too."

The black cat next to her snorted disdainfully, but the white cat grabbed the black cat's cuff and signaled her something earnestly. Even so, the disdain on Xiao Luoluo's face remained undiminished.

No. 2 obviously noticed Xiao Luoluo's attitude, but it was not easy to get angry. But the delinquent boy beside him couldn't swallow his breath, and made a gesture to rush up to do something. Seeing this, No. 2 quickly stopped him, and at the same time put his arms around his neck, forced a smile and said: "This is our No. 3 The number ruler. The girl behind is number 8."

"Damn it! If it weren't for those bastards who call themselves Dream Stealers, there's no need to humbly ask others for help..." No. 3 said angrily, throwing his fist against the wall and making a dull sound. I was really dissatisfied with this boy's attitude, but I was suddenly attracted by the three words "Dream Stealer", and even the disdain in the eyes of the black cat disappeared a lot.

"Dream Stealer? You mean..." I pointed to the boy lying in front of the girl, and asked, "He was attacked by the Dream Stealer, right?"

"It's more serious than what you said. The dream thief covets his dominance ability, and he is afraid that he will not be able to deal with it in the future... Everywhere wants to kill him. It seems that the dream thief has mastered the ability to completely kill him in this world." The way of the Death Ruler."

"You mean, if you let him die this time, he won't show up again in four hours..."

"Maybe it's equivalent to death in reality." No. 2 added. This made my spine chill suddenly. Although I also sympathized with the boy, it was more of a fear of this unfavorable situation.

"Wait! Do you have any clues about the Dream Stealers? We also need to settle accounts with them urgently." Xiao Lulu suddenly took a step forward and asked No. 2.

"It's not that they don't know anything, in fact, if they know that he is still alive and here," No. 2 pointed to the young man whose life was passing away behind him, "the Dream Thief will definitely come to kill him of."

"You guessed completely wrong." Suddenly, the girl's cold voice came from behind. The black cat embraced her with both hands, as if it had nothing to do with her. No. 2 was taken aback by her words. "Don't you know that this place was the stronghold of Dream Thief not long ago?"

After hearing this, No. 2 quickly calmed down again, and replied unhurriedly:

"Not only that, I also know that the group of Dream Thieves has been tricked by the ruler of clock No. 2 here. It is impossible for them to be vigilant. If they know that there are other guys who are evenly matched with them are also staring at this place, they must also You won’t come here rashly, right? It’s not safe to hide in other places, and there is no clock for alliances, so it’s safest to hide here.”

"Heh~ From the looks of it, you've been thinking in the wrong direction from the very beginning." The black cat made such an evaluation regardless of his feelings. Even though I vaguely understood what she meant, I couldn't help but look at her. "It's true that other places are not safe, but this is the most unsafe place for you, understand?"

"I see...it's true." Suddenly something broke into my brain. I narrowed my eyes and looked at No. 2, whose face was full of confusion, and continued following the words of the black cat, "It seems that you don't know that the clock of the No. 2 ruler has been destroyed by the Dream Thief, right? In fact, he was turned against the general.”

"What did you say?" No. 2 listened to my words with a hint of self-sarcasm, and confusion flashed across his frowning brows.

"Clock No. 2 doesn't have the time to worry about whose stronghold this tavern is at all. It's too late to repair your own clock, right? So, the Dream Thieves don't have to worry that Clock No. 2 will come and rob them of this stronghold..."

"No!" No. 2 interrupted me loudly, and the calm attitude just now disappeared completely, "If it is according to what you said, there is no need for the Dream Thief to evacuate from here, right? But I have repeatedly confirmed that there is no one but us here. There are no other rulers! That’s why we killed the townspeople here and stayed in this place with peace of mind!”

"Oh~ don't you understand?" The black cat rested its index finger on its forehead, its eyes full of ridicule towards No. 2.

I took a deep breath. Having said that, if it weren't for the fact that the Ruler of Clock Eight is here, I should not have expected this.

"It's a trap from the beginning to the end... They expected that the second clock would come to the door for revenge, so they simply evacuated everyone, making them think that this place has been abandoned by the Dream Thieves, which will make them occupy this place by the way. However, there is definitely a trap that you cannot leave once you step here. It may be some kind of mechanism, or it may be something else. Anyway, now..."

"We fell into this trap, right?" asked the clear voice lukewarmly. I couldn't help looking at the girl who hadn't spoken since just now, she just glanced at me slightly, then turned her head again. Xue Xueer was probably frightened by our words, and quickly stepped back a few steps, carefully away from the entrance of the tavern.

In fact, not only can't help much now, there is no need for Dream Thief to come to this place at all.

In their eyes, everything is ready, and everything after that will develop according to their script, it's just that they have been tricked and replaced by the ruler of the eighth clock.

"Is this the dominance of "Absolute Observation"?" I couldn't help muttering. The white cat probably heard what I said, and glanced at me for a while. That look clearly said, "You just now realize how powerful Uncle William's dominance is?" Generally speaking.

"Even as you said... I hope you can help us! As long as he can escape this catastrophe... Through the ability of time manipulation, even the mechanism can return to the place before it was deployed!"

"Then why don't you let him use this ability to return his body back to before he was injured?"

"You can't use it on yourself! If it was possible, we would have done it long ago, why don't you tell me?!" No. 3 scratched at his hair irritably, as if he was about to go crazy in the next second.

To be honest, it’s okay to ignore them here and leave directly; but once this happens, Dream Thief will have one less opponent, which is not good for us. What's more... Whether it's being seen through my mind, or unintentionally following someone else's script, it's the most uncomfortable thing for me.

But the one who finally made the decision was Black Cat. The white cat has no reason to support my decision, and Xue Xueer does not know why he always listens to the black cat's arrangements. Holding the idea that the black cat disagrees and there is no need to force it, I looked at the black cat. However, just when I was about to say something to the black cat, there was a loud noise like a galloping army behind me, which instantly made me turn my head.

I couldn't stop staring at the man behind him with thousands of horses and horses for a few seconds.

Immediately afterwards, I stared at those dark green pupils, and the two of them, who were several meters away, said in unison——

"It's you again."

The man standing in front of me was the previous owner of the "Ghost Legion"; and this time the guys standing behind him were all neatly dressed in camouflage uniforms, with black rifles in their hands. Before I could say anything, he suddenly raised his arm, as if there was an invisible rifle in his hand, and made a shooting motion towards this side.

For a moment, the ghosts behind him danced wildly under the reddish-brown nothingness, and the hail of bullets and the music of the gunshots also rushed towards this side.

Between the flash stones, a huge black mist stretched out as if it was going to break through the sky, swallowing the bullets flying in the air instantly, and then drifted away in a granular form. The dark green pupils were behind the smoke. Looking directly at me, he dropped his wrist at the same time.

"Shouldn't it be said that he is the ruler who killed 12 people by himself?" The voice was cold, and no one could feel his emotions at all.

I didn't respond to his words, but vaguely felt that Xue Xueer seemed to be about to move. This made me quickly push open the door of her heart, and hurriedly said: "Don't act rashly. You don't know how much your ability is limited. If the bullet is copied instead of his legion, then you are not evenly divided." .”

I don't know if he has seen through my thoughts, the dark green pupil nodded his head lightly, and stared straight at Xue Xueer's direction: "Why? Don't you plan to use the ability to mass-produce fakes this time?"

"That's because there's no need for it." I quickly stopped in front of Xue Xueer, and the dark green pupils looked at me with interest. I thought for a while and continued, "Although you can create an army, we are here There are 8 rulers. Just one "Copy Vientiane" can stop you, so you should understand who is at a disadvantage, right?"

Seeing his expression change, I couldn't help pulling the corners of my mouth triumphantly. However, I didn't expect that he didn't wait for me to continue, and raised his arms again, and the roaring gunshot instantly overshadowed all other sounds. I also instinctively stretched out my hand to block my eyes.

Although Xiao Lulu propped up the shield made of black mist again, the bullets fired this time were not as direct as before, but came along a strange trajectory, and nearly a quarter of the bullets bypassed the black mist towards Come straight here.

Xiao Lulu hastily turned his wrist, and several parts of the black mist in front of him were suddenly stripped away, reflected in the nothingness in front of the bypassing bullets, swallowing it instantly. Even so, there were still remaining bullets shooting towards this side, and for a while, the bullets shuttled back and forth between the black mist, and Xiao Lulu's brows were already wearily furrowed.

I quickly looked at Xue Xueer next to me, stretched out three fingers, and used mind reading to signal her to use Vientiane to copy when she counted to zero. However, just when I was about to pull the last finger, a red flame from the tavern suddenly dyed red and revealed a silver bullet, which suddenly melted.

Just when I felt incredible and wanted to turn my head, suddenly the weight on my shoulders increased a little, and before I could react, a hand pressed down on my shoulder. As soon as the other party exerted a little force, I felt as heavy as a boulder falling from a landslide on my shoulders, and I could only go down with this force.

In the next second, the bullet grazed my cheek and passed backwards, and my back hit the ground in an instant, and there was a strong dull pain. I let out a long sigh of relief, rubbing the back of my head and sat up.

"Can you be a little gentler..." I said to Tea Mao with some complaints, only to see her clenched her hand into a small fist and lightly hit her on the head, her tongue sticking out playfully. If it was William who ran up to me and did this, I would definitely beat him up. I turned around and took a look. The bullet was stuck on the ruined wall of the tavern, causing a rippling scar.

Then, I saw the flames dissipating from the hands of the No. 2 Dominator standing some distance from the entrance of the tavern. Seeing this, I looked back at the pair of clear dark green pupils after the black mist dissipated, and saw that his face, which had been cold since just now, suddenly changed. It seems that this guy does not have any restrictions on manipulating this legion, otherwise he might as well not talk nonsense with us.

"You don't look like I imagined you can handle it like a duck to water?" I seized the right moment and asked him loudly.

I saw him staring at me without speaking, and gently put down his hands. I noticed that all the legions behind him also put down their hands after him. And Xiao Lulu suddenly took advantage of his unpreparedness to throw the black mist from their sides, the dark green pupils quickly flashed towards the bottom, and the whole army also leaned down like dark green pupils in unison, the same movements were so shocking. People think they are conjoined twins.

This neat movement suddenly made me realize that something was wrong—with such an army, he could assign them different tasks, and there was no need for them all to raise their guns and shoot at them, let alone dodge them all. Now his command method is too wasteful of such ability.

unless--

"When you raise your gun, all your legions raise their guns, and when you put them down, they all put down their guns." I rubbed my chin and looked up at this man slightly, "That is to say—you can do whatever you want. You can’t make them obey the instructions you gave, these guys can only imitate your actions, and you can only manipulate them in this way. Am I right?”

In just a few seconds, the expression of the dark green pupils who had been cold at first changed several times. The current expression can be said to be quite ugly. I thought he would finally admit it, but he still held back and didn't say anything, just stared at me viciously. Seeing this, I pointed towards Xiao Lulu through mind reading:

"Lulu, you first manipulate a part of the black mist to strike from the left, and then when they all fall in the same direction, manipulate the other part to devour them."

After hearing this, Xiao Lulu glanced at me, and then immediately stretched out his hands and raised the black mist to do so. Facing the approaching black mist, the dark green pupil dodged to the left as I expected, and the legion "obediently" mobilized their legs to move left at a completely consistent speed, and hit them in the next second. The black mist that suddenly appeared on the right side.

The dark green pupil hurriedly grabbed the shoulders of the person closest to him. For a while, they all put on the shoulders of the person in front of him and pulled them back, but they were no match for the tearing power of the black mist. People were drawn into the black mist and smashed together. Realizing this, the dark green pupils rushed down into the sky, dodging the black mist that was chasing after them one after another.

With the help of the black mist covering us, the dark green pupil turned a few corners, bumped into the black cat head-on, and was pinched by it on the right shoulder, and said goodbye to the back, and the legion followed him Pull the right hand to the back in a strange arc. It seems that as long as the black cat gently pushes back, everyone will break their arms in unison!