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Then she pulled on the rope, like a diver gripping a lifeline, and drifted through the city.
Tonight in Nikko City, the number of those unusual lights has decreased significantly. Due to the shrinking of the barrier, evil spirits and monsters have begun to leave in large numbers.
Soon, she found the light spot of Tamamo-no-Mae. At this time, Tamamo-no-Mae had changed her appearance back, so Huaiyin still could not recognize her as the Tamamo-no-Mae she had seen before.
With a flick of her fingers, Huaiyin also stirred up Tamamo-no-Mae's will, and then skillfully linked the wills of Doutang and Tamamo-no-Mae together.
As the radiance from the two beams began to merge, Huaiyin nodded and channeled her consciousness into them.
The scene before my eyes gradually faded away, swallowed up by a vast, sea-like white light.
When the light disappeared, Huaiyin was already in a dream.
This ability to enter other people's dreams... Am I a dream demon?
Huaiyin blushed.
The dreamscape before me seemed to be a bustling downtown area, with noisy people coming and going, their faces obscured. In the distance, an open-air performance was taking place on a stage made of steel frames, and behind the stage was a shopping plaza that had been closed due to darkness.
This seems to be a lively small city; judging from the people's clothing, it is summer.
Just as Huaiyin was about to look for Doutang, she heard a roar coming from a building not far away.
The roar was very loud and full of energy; you could tell it came from Dou Tang.
Huaiyin hurriedly ran towards the direction from which the roar came, but before she could get there, she heard a loud bang from the building, and a woman in casual clothes crashed through the glass and flew out.
Tamamo-no-Mae seemed weightless, floating in the air like a feather, swaying and falling towards the stage, landing with a thud in the very center.
"Hahahaha... Ren Doutang! Look, look, look!" Tamamo-no-Mae seemed very happy, spreading her arms wide and saying, "It's here! You remember, right?"
Huaiyin looked at Tamamo and jumped out.
Where they came from, there, Dou Tang stood on the windowsill, his brows and eyes filled with anger.
He jumped from the height of the third floor and landed on the stone brick ground with a thud, the stone bricks beneath his feet shattering instantly.
Huaiyin realized that there were too many ordinary people here... If it was a memory, then it meant that Doutang had openly fought Tamamo-no-Mae in such a bustling place?
As Dou Tang strode toward the stage, he roared, "Those people here will make you pay with your life!"
"Hey, don't get me wrong, I've already done it once, okay?" Tamamo-no-Mae shrugged. "You've already killed me once, why can't you let me go?"
"Impossible!" Dou Tang ran up quickly, roughly pushing aside the crowd on both sides, and rushed towards the stage.
"Sigh...Is that so? Well then, let me remind you again." Tamamo-no-Mae smiled helplessly, a wooden fan appearing in her hand at some point. With a gentle wave, her eyes shone with a dazzling light that blended gold and pink.
She whispered softly, "Let people kill each other."
"Hey!"
Suddenly, Huaiyin felt a splash of hot blood on her face.
She turned her head and saw a faceless person stabbing a family member in the neck with a key they were carrying.
One after another, faceless phantoms, suddenly, because of Tamamo-no-Mae's words, reenacted the tragedy of the past.
Wailing, screams, and howls... accompanied by the scalding heat of blood, assaulted Huaiyin's senses.
"Do not!!!"
Dou Tang roared and howled, pushing aside one tempted ordinary person after another. His eyes turned crimson, filled with murderous intent, as he charged toward Tamamo-no-Mae on the stage.
“Hehe... Haha, hahahahaha…” Tamamo-no-Mae burst into laughter: “This dream is really interesting, it’s amazing! It actually recreated the scene from back then? Look at your furious look, it’s so cute.”
Blood blossoms bloomed among the crowd as people fought with all their might, and chaos spread throughout the square.
Standing next to Tamamo-no-Mae, the person who was hosting the performance also knelt down and repeatedly pounded his chest with the microphone, as if trying to smash his own sternum.
The sound of metal striking flesh was amplified by the speakers.
The "thump thump thump" sound originated from the sound of killing oneself, sending a chill down the spine of anyone who heard it.
Dou Tang finally rushed to the front of the stage, leaped up, jumped onto the stage, and punched Tamamo-no-Mae hard.
With a muffled thud, Tamamo-no-Mae was sent flying by a punch from Tou-Tang, but she floated up lightly and landed on the steel frame that was used to build the stage.
Tamamo-no-Mae rubbed her cheeks, a mocking expression on her face: "How does it feel to recall your most powerless moments, Ren Doutang?"
"Nikko City...maybe it will be like that too, hahahahaha..."
Chapter 308 Left and Right Dreams
Seeing this scene, Huaiyin finally understood why Du Doutang hated Tamamo-no-Mae so much.
Tamamo-no-Mae is a creature that, apart from her appearance, is completely unrelated to humans.
Just like the race she represents, she harbors bloodthirsty and murderous genes deep within her. The carnivore's desire to plunder life, after being empowered, becomes an uncontrollable vice.
She disregards the law and is unbound by morality; what drives her to treat the world is nothing more than mere instinct.
If you want happiness, then seek happiness; if you want to kill, then kill. You don't need a reason to do things; just follow your heart completely.
This may sound somewhat comfortable, but this comfort is fundamentally different from the comfort that most humans understand.
For example, some people's understanding of freedom might be living in society without having to think about any trivial matters, eating whatever they want every day, and going wherever they want.
But all of this is built upon the order of humanity.
Tamamo-no-Mae, on the contrary, despises this kind of order. If she were to live in the world without any worries, she would probably just want to eat whichever part of a human she wants every day and kill a few humans for fun.
Amidst the infighting, Huaiyin sensed the same hatred as Doutang.
This is precisely why she hates evil spirits the most.
Because kindness exists in a girl's heart.
She wouldn't feel excessive pity for the killings in the farms, but she would definitely hate the poachers.
She opposes the waste of meat products and is strict with herself because it involves the sacrifice of lives, but she will not become an extreme vegetarian because that is anti-intellectual hypocrisy.
Despite not having experienced much in life, she already knows how to view the world with a gentle and innocent gaze.
Within Huaiyin's heart lies a balance of moderation.
This balance comes from Dou Tang's influence. During the time she lived with that man, at an age when she was most easily influenced by the outside world, Huai Yin drew nourishment for survival from that man and developed her own values and abilities.
Therefore, she also felt anger towards what Dou Tang was angry about.
An uncontrollable anger.
From below the stage, Huaiyin looked at Tamamo-no-Mae, who was sitting high on the steel frame, and slowly raised her finger.
No one saw her, but she stood in a pool of blood, in the middle of the fighting crowd, raising her slender, delicate finger as if accusing Tamamo-no-Mae.
And so, the dream began to boil, and the two wills awakened in the dream could not shake her position.
In the distance of the city, things began to churn, like molten paper, melting and twisting as they rose and swirled toward the square.
Dou Tang and Tamamo-no-Mae seemed completely unaware.
But soon, Huaiyin's hostility shifted to a different form, directed at Tamamo-no-Mae.
Suddenly, the steel frame where Tamamo-no-Mae was standing began to tremble, and then it collapsed with a bang. The steel frames, which were originally firmly fixed together with screws, suddenly burst out of their sockets, as if an invisible magnetic force was driving them to disintegrate.
One of the screws accelerated to a speed that even Tamamo-no-Mae couldn't react to, and with a "thud," it struck her forehead, sending a chunk of flesh flying off.
"What..." Before she could even exclaim, the doutang in front of her moved.
One by one, the broken steel frames slowly fell from the air, as if they had been slowed down. As they fell, these steel frames created a clear path for Dou Tang.
Almost instinctively, Dou Tang's legs moved. He instantly disappeared from his original spot, stepping on the steel frame floating in the air, and quickly ascended, transforming into a streak of black light.
In the next instant, he had already rushed in front of Tamamo-no-Mae, leaping high into the air, his crimson eyes filled with nothing but killing intent.
A fist shrouded in black mist slammed down. Tamamo-no-Mae could only raise her hands to block in haste, but she was no match for Dou Tang in strength. She was sent flying by the punch and crashed into the backdrop behind the stage. The backdrop shattered, and she deformed a steel frame behind the stage, hanging from it.
Still not satisfied, Huaiyin gritted her teeth, reached out her hand to make a grasping motion, and then twisted it hard.
The steel frames floating in the air suddenly changed direction and shot out like missiles, crashing down towards Tamamo-no-Mae.
Tamamo-no-Mae quickly dodged, grabbed the steel frame with both hands, and jumped through the gap in the broken set to the back of the stage.
The steel frames slammed into the set, some penetrating it, others striking the steel frames with deafening roars.
The steel frames that pierced through the set crashed to the ground beside Tamamo-no-Mae, but she quickly dodged and moved away, emerging unharmed.
Although he didn't know why the steel frame moved on its own, Dou Tang wouldn't let the opportunity slip by. He leaped out of the gap in the set and jumped to the back of the stage to continue his pursuit of Tamamo-no-Mae.
Just as Huaiyin was about to chase after him, she felt a sudden darkness before her eyes and a wave of shortness of breath and chest tightness.
Is connecting two consciousnesses and manipulating things in a dream really such a heavy burden?
She gritted her teeth and endured the pain in her chest, staggering as she ran backstage.
In the distance, unnoticed by the three, the city's already blurred edges continued to churn and slowly vanish.
Upon reaching the stage, Huaiyin saw that Doutang and Tamamo-no-Mae had once again entered into a fierce battle. In this dream, Doutang and Tamamo-no-Mae always seemed to maintain the same intensity, keeping their fighting power balanced.
Huaiyin speculated that this might be because in their memories, the battle that was taking place was inconclusive, so even though they both wanted to kill each other, they subconsciously believed that the battle was unresolved.
Huaiyin gently raised her hand, deciding to help her brother.
She envisioned the sword that Dou Tang possessed in her mind.
Thanks to her glimpse into Dou Tang's most primal memories, the image of the sword from Dou Tang's memories was imprinted in her mind. As she meditated, she felt the entire dream tremble slightly because of her interference.
Will to will, responding to its own call.
Before her, the illusory lines were coalescing and transforming into real matter.
Until, a sword appeared in mid-air.
At the same time, Huaiyin also felt an unprecedented burden. The feeling of suffocation increased sharply, and the darkness in front of her and the stinging pain in her brain were extremely intense.
With all her might, she pushed with one hand, and the long sword flew towards Dou Tang.
The last thing I saw was Dou Tang doing a somersault, sending the longsword flying beneath him, and catching it with his hand in that instant.
Then, the longsword slashed out like a dragon, accompanied by a clanging sound.
Chapter 309 Wake up
Huaiyin suddenly woke up with a start.
Then came excruciating pain in my brain.
The pain felt like someone was sawing her brain in half, wave after wave, making her eyes widen and her hands grip the sheets tightly.
Fortunately, the excruciating pain came and went quickly, and she slowly regained her composure. However, by the time the pain subsided, she was covered in sweat.
"I wanted to help my brother, but... it seems like something went wrong." She rubbed her head and looked out the window at the sky.
It seems that infiltrating other people's dreams and interfering with them would greatly deplete one's mental energy.
Manipulating existing matter is fine, but trying to create things in a dream that are beyond the notice of one's will is simply a form of mental torture.
Huaiyin rubbed her temples, feeling somewhat disappointed.
He thought that awakening his abilities would make him stronger and allow him to participate in the battle against Dou Tang.
I don't need to be a burden to him.
But I didn't expect it to be so weak...
Huaiyin sat up dejectedly, rubbed her face, and decided to wash it before going to sleep.
When she fell asleep again, she was unable to activate her abilities.
Dou Tang struggled to sit up.
Just now, he saw Tamamo-no-Mae again in his dream and even fought with her. During the battle, many strange phenomena occurred.
For example, why would the steel frame suddenly move to help itself?
And at the end of the dream, why did a long sword suddenly fly over to help him fight against Tamamo-no-Mae?
This dream was so strange...
At first, he thought that Tamamo-no-Mae had somehow pulled him into his dream, but what happened tonight made him suspicious.
If it wasn't Tamamo-no-Mae who pulled me into the dream, then what was it?
The Tamamo-no-Mae in the dream is undoubtedly the same Tamamo-no-Mae as she is now. Two meetings in a dream and one in reality have confirmed this to Dou Tang.
Damn it... Now we're in the same dream as her, what about next time?
Are we going to swap bodies?
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