Tianjin people will never lose SAN

Chapter 383 Ring

An ominous premonition came to Botticelli's mind. Could it be that someone had eaten the strange fish behind the house?
Saint Bernus looked normal, as he had returned with a great harvest today, and he had already guessed who was cooking in the house.

"boom!"

The broken door was kicked open by Saint Bernus.

"Hand over all the food! And you, be obedient, or I'll chop your neck off with a knife!"

"what!"

St. Bernus's mischievous roar frightened the people in the house and caused them to scream. The voice was clear and sweet, that of a young girl.

After the person in the room saw Saint Bernard clearly by the weak candlelight on the table, he took off the pot lid that was protecting him:
"Brother, you are really boring!"

Botticelli, who followed him into the house, also guessed the identity of the girl in the house. It was Castalana, the sister mentioned by Saint Bernardus before.

"Why are you here? Didn't I ask you to wait for me at home?"

Saint Bernius proudly threw five loaves of bread on the table and went to the stove to see what was cooking in the pot.

"I saw that you hadn't been home for so long, and I was worried that you had done something adventurous again.

Don’t take it! It’s not ripe yet!”

Castalana hit her brother's hand with the wooden spatula.

"Then at least tell me what you did."

Just now, when Saint Bernus picked up a piece of black meat and almost put it into his mouth, Botticelli's heart was in suspense, and that ominous premonition emerged again.

"Puffins. My neighbor's aunt caught two puffins this morning and kindly gave me half of one."

Like a deflated ball, Botticelli let out a breath and sat down softly on the chair.

"Boyce, what kind of work have you and my brother found? We can earn five loaves of bread!"

The girl put the meat from the pot into a plate and brought it to the table. Only then could Botticelli see the girl's face clearly under the orange candlelight.

"Snapped."

The wooden spoon in his hand fell to the ground.

She was wearing a patterned robe woven with thick brown thread, had long reddish-brown hair, and had a pair of bright eyes that were unforgettable.

I have sketched her face countless times on sketch paper, canvas, and church domes, so there is no way I would make a mistake.

"Saint... Saint."

……

"Su San, don't wail. Hey, Su San, don't wail. Come with me to Guangxi, and run with your pipa..."

In Jacob's dream, Liu Yonglu was sitting cross-legged on the ground and singing!

"Stop singing! You're still singing even though you're asleep! If you keep singing, I'll feed you medicine!"

Mili Tang pushed Liu Yonglu, and Liu Yonglu finally stopped talking with a hint of unsatisfied meaning and turned to ask Ling'er:
"This kid fell asleep, how come there is no change at all?"

"Hush, after all, this is not a dreamland created by the will of the gods. It will react after a while."

In fact, Ling'er had already felt the slight vibration in the dreamland, but this feeling was very weak and could not be captured by the five senses of human beings.

Ling'er slowly stood up, walked to a small puddle and looked down at the situation inside the puddle.

Normally, the ugly faces of those deformed monsters should have been reflected in the turbid puddles of water, large and small, but at this moment, the scenes in the puddles were extremely clear.

A vast ocean with roaring waves! Every puddle is like this!
"its not right……"

Liu Yonglu followed behind him. When he heard Ling'er's words, his hands started shaking. He thought that you are just talkative but not practical. You said everything well outside that as long as Botticelli had a dream, you would be able to use the overlapping of dreams to spy on the world over. Now you are wrong again.

I thought this in my heart, but I couldn't say it out loud. I had to encourage Ling'er with kind words:
"Don't be afraid if it's not right. Ling'er, you'll know what's going on with your little brain, right?"

"I do know, because Botticelli's dreamland and the dreamland before me are one and the same in a way..."

"What do you mean by integrated? Our school is the main one, and theirs is a branch school? There won't be any..."

Before Liu Yonglu finished speaking, he felt a strong wind suddenly blowing in the dream! The wind was so strong that Liu Yonglu's pockets were bulging with things, and the wind lifted up his clothes.

But the wind was also strange. Liu Yonglu could hardly open his eyes. Every blade of grass and tree in the dream, including the water in the puddle in front of him, remained motionless.

Jacob and Bill also felt something was wrong, especially Jacob. He had been using this dreamland well before and there had never been any problems. Why did the situation change so suddenly now?

Yes, I guess it was because of Saint Barlan taking those two kids to pick the fruits. I told him not to pick them, but he insisted. So something bad happened!

Jacob and Bill immediately knelt on the ground and began to pray, asking for the saint's understanding and forgiveness. It was Saint Balaam who came up with the idea just now, and we didn't do anything.

Liu Yonglu raised his arms to cover his eyes. After a while, he felt the wind stop without any warning.

"Ling'er, the typhoon is also within your calculations..."

Liu Yonglu opened his eyes and found that he was no longer standing in an open space in the forest. What came into view was a small living room with simple decoration. There was a table, four chairs and a few paintings hanging on the wall. These were not the exquisite oil paintings seen in churches and palaces, but rough sketches painted on tree bark.

In addition to the hanging paintings, there are also several fishing nets... It's really new. Liu Yonglu walked around the table alone. Millie Tang and Xiaohu Ling'er were not there.

Interesting... Liu Yonglu took out the black stone and held it in his hand. The other party was able to kidnap him right under Xiaohu Ling'er's nose, so he must have bad intentions.

"Do you want to crack walnuts with a rock?"

The girl's voice came from the stairs. Liu Yonglu looked carefully and saw a girl in a white dress and long reddish-brown hair walking down from upstairs.

He had an impression of this person, the little girl who lived in the house in Egg Hill before! It turned out that he was in her room, and he did not leave Jacob's dreamland, but just moved to a new place. "No, I just... sat on the ground for a long time, and my arms were numb, so I exercised."

Liu Yonglu pretended that the black stone was a dumbbell and exercised his biceps twice.

"Do you know why I called you here alone?"

The girl walked to the dining table, poured a glass of water and pushed it to Liu Yonglu. Liu Yonglu didn't dare to drink it and he didn't even sit down.

"I don't know. I don't even know who you are."

The last time he entered the dreamland, the girl only showed her face in front of him for a moment, and then quickly went back to the house. The two of them were far away from each other, so Liu Yonglu only had a vague impression of her.

At this moment, the girl was standing in front of him. Looking at her clear eyes, Liu Yonglu always felt that he seemed familiar with her. He must have seen her somewhere before except in the dream world!

"Have we met somewhere before?"

"It happened once. Let me make it clear first. Since I called you here alone today, I am not going to hide anything anymore. Let's cut to the chase. There are people out there looking for you."

The girl frowned and looked out the window. She could clearly feel the manic aura of Xiaohu and Ling'er. If it weren't for this dreamland, these two probably wouldn't allow her to take the person in front of them away.

"I am a saint."

"Ah? Jie admitted it..."

Liu Yonglu remembered where he had seen her before, in the basement of Lucy's monastery! He had seen the portrait of the saint, but the portrait still retained some religious color, and the temperament and demeanor were slightly different from the girl in front of him.

"Like I said, time is of the essence, not only for this conversation between us, but also for what is happening outside of the Dreamworld."

"Oh, OK...then go ahead. By the way, let me say a few words first. I have a very good relationship with the people of your Saint's Sect. I have eaten egg tarts in your monastery before. Those judges outside are all my brothers in the alliance.

I am planning to open a porridge shop in your name in the near future. As for why they all call me Saint Barlan, don't listen to their nonsense. That's all nonsense. I don't admit it."

Liu Yonglu spilled the beans, telling everything that was on his mind. He was mainly worried that the old saint lady would misunderstand him and think that he was doing evil things outside under her cover.

"I've heard a little bit about your story. Do you have any cigarettes?"

"Ah! He really smokes."

Don't hesitate, light them up quickly. Liu Yonglu lit up four cigarettes, handed two to the saint, smoked one himself, and clamped the remaining one on his ear.

The saint was stunned for a moment, then she also followed Liu Yonglu's example and put the cigarette on her ear.

"Huh... I don't smoke, but I don't have many opportunities to interact with the real world, so I have to cherish every bit of it."

The saint was not very experienced in smoking and she frowned as she exhaled the smoke.

"What do you mean? I don't understand."

"Ahem... Let me get to the important part first. You call me the Saint, but my real name is 'Castalana'. I was once just an ordinary human girl.

Later, for various reasons, at some time in the past, I was cursed by... the Holy Mother, you should call her the Holy Mother... "

"Earthly preacher?"

Liu Yonglu has worked as an investigator for more than half a year, and he is not a complete idiot. At least he knows some technical terms in the mysticism.

"It's more complicated than that. The Virgin Mary is a very high-level deity, namely Uposas. It became incomplete before entering this space."

"Incomplete? Crippled? Missing an arm?"

Liu Yonglu found an empty cup and flicked the ash from his cigarette.

“No, her physical body is still there, but her consciousness and wisdom have been taken away. As for who did it, I don’t know.

Since then it has become blind and stupid, retaining only certain extreme instincts, and my existence is to help it awaken consciousness and wisdom."

"You give it extra lessons? As a tutor?"

The saint blinked her eyes, as if she felt that the guy in front of her was more suitable to be a saint than herself. What was he saying? It was so weird.

"No, it just takes over my will. I will lose my consciousness at some point, but the process is extremely long and complicated, and will be disturbed at the last step."

"Oh...that's pretty terrible." Liu Yonglu nodded.

"My body is not here. It is behind the Holy See's Gate of All Sources. A part of the Virgin Mary's entity is also behind the gate. I can only open the gate at a specific time to accept the Holy See's prayers."

The saint put out her cigarette, then took the one from her ear and lit it.

Liu Yonglu roughly knew what the saint meant by her previous words. The other party had been locked behind a dark door for a long time, so when the door was opened, she had whatever was available to eat and drink... Of course, she had to smoke sparingly, after all, everything in the outside world was hard-earned.

"Smoke slowly. I'll ask Jacob to bring you two more later."

"Cough cough cough..."

The saint coughed and waved her hands.

"The Virgin Mary is about to awaken. We must not let her notice it. Do you still have the note I gave you before? Did you see the coordinates?"

"Look, don't worry, I'm a very disciplined person, and since I have this responsibility, I have to bear this heavy responsibility.

Oh, by the way... Sister, what if, I mean what if... something goes wrong here, what will happen?"

“It will start over.”

The Saint looked up and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, then drew a circle in the air with her hand:
"Because this space is essentially a loop, and it has been repeated countless times before."

(End of this chapter)