Throne of Radiance

A coin was thrown high into the air, and then fell down like a shooting star. Bai Yi caught the coin with his left hand, and quickly covered it with his right hand.

"Snapped!"

He squatted on the ground and looked at the kid standing in front of him with a smile: "It's your turn. Guess if it's head or tail?"

"Negative?"

"Dangdangdangdang, congratulations...you guessed wrong!"

Bai Yi opened her palm bit by bit, and announced in a tone of surprise as if she had announced the lottery prize: "——it's positive."

In the eyes of the child who couldn't believe it, he casually threw the coin into his pocket, and stretched out his open palm in front of the child: "I would like to accept the bet, and your bet will be mine."

The child's round eyes were suddenly full of reluctance.

Reluctantly, he stretched out his hand, and put the candy in his palm over Bai Yi's open palm with extreme entanglement. He was still reluctant to let go of the fingertips holding the candy, and looked at Bai Yi eagerly with his small eyes from time to time. Meaning, "Can't you go back on your word?" written brightly in those round eyes.

"No, it's forbidden to be cute." Bai Yi snatched away the hard-to-drop candy between his fingers, peeled off the candy with a speed that even the children couldn't see clearly, and quickly put it to his mouth.

"……Wow!"

Watching his own candy get into someone else's mouth was a cruel scene that could be called face-to-face NTR, and the tears in the children's eyes could no longer hold back.

Just as he opened his mouth and said "Wow", Bai Yi suddenly reached out and stuffed something into his mouth, the sweet taste spread on the tip of his tongue, and the voice in his mouth stopped abruptly.

It's just that a pair of eyes are more rounded by surprise.

His round eyes reflected the boy's smiling face.The boy who was squatting on the ground stood up, and rua brushed the boy's soft hair: "I'm kidding you. Do I look like the kind of childish ghost who deliberately snatches the child's candy just to watch him cry?"

"It's not like." A voice came from behind, and Bai Yi turned around to meet the visitor's eyes, "Because you are."

The visitor was dressed in gray casual clothes, with a peaked cap on his head, and the hair exposed under the brim of the hat was slightly damp. It was obvious that he had just come back from jogging, and his face was rosy after exercising. Candy, I must have eaten it just now, it is impossible to give it back to him with a feint."

"Ah, although I really want to follow the rules of willing to bet and admit defeat, I can't do it if I sacrifice my taste buds." Bai Yi didn't refute the latter sentence, but had a lot of opinions on the first sentence, "However, I'm not because it's interesting to watch a child cry, but I just want to tell him that if he casually bets his beloved on the gambling table, it will hurt his heart when he loses it."

Speaking of this, Bai Yi said solemnly: "I have taught the children to stay away from gambling. After this profound lesson, he will definitely remember it in the future."

Watching the lucky kid who randomly came from the street because he was too bored while he was waiting ran away, Bai Yi's eyes showed three points of relief and three points of expectation and three points of satisfaction.

At this moment, his whole body seemed to radiate the light of righteousness.

"Sounds very reasonable." The other person nodded, and seemed to be convinced by Bai Yi's philosophy. The next second, he changed the subject and continued to complain, "But after all, there are so many reasons, in fact, you You just don’t want to admit that you’re naive?”

When he was speaking, something seemed to meow out of the corner of this person's eyes, and his expression suddenly became a little weird: "This is it? You still carry fairy tales with you? You are more childlike than I thought."

Bai Yi looked down at the book of fairy tales tucked under her elbow.

"Oh, it's not my book, it's my mother's."

"So it's not yours... Wait, your mother?"

The other party's expression suddenly cracked.He stretched out his hand in disbelief, pointing tremblingly at the worn-out book of fairy tales.

"You said, this is your mother's book?!"

Bai Yi narrowed her eyes suspiciously: "It's my mother's book, it's a gift someone gave her when she was in the orphanage. Why do you look like you saw a ghost?"

"No, no, no, this is scarier than seeing a ghost, okay?" The other party took a big step back subconsciously, "Could it be that you suddenly came to me to investigate the origin of this fairy tale?"

Bai Yi shook her head and denied it: "That's not true."

Xu Jian breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good."

·

Xu Jian, male, 29 years old. Eighteen years ago, he was sent to the No. 18 Hospital by his stepmother and his own father because of mental problems. He lived in the No. [-] Hospital for seven years before being discharged from the hospital after being diagnosed by a doctor.

In the years after he was discharged from the hospital, he occasionally returned to the Seventh Hospital to visit. It is said that he is now a well-known detective in the other world, and he specializes in taking on some commissions that are not suitable for the police, especially those whose service status is not easy to talk about. client.

When some of Bai Yi's skills hadn't been honed through the nightmare dungeon, he also asked Xu Jian for some commissions.But since three years ago, he has rarely looked for each other.

——With his current level of hacker, as long as there is an Internet connection, there is nothing that he can't find in vain.

Anyway, what he asked Xu Jianxia in the past was not an illegal commission, and he didn't worry about what the other party knew.

This time he contacted Xu Jian suddenly, of course not to investigate the origin of the fairy tale book - the origin of this book is very clear, it was a birthday present given to Bai Xin by Yuan Yao's mother.

In fact, even Bai Yi himself didn't know what he was going to do when he asked Xu Jian out.

——This is the guidance given to him by "Magic Suan Su Huaijia".

The moment he got the Celestial Master's Magic Card, Bai Yi thought of the fairy tale book he took back from the Seventh Hospital two days ago.

Although reason told him that this should be just an ordinary gift, but the intuition in his subconscious always reminded Bai Yi that there was an unexpected secret in it.

And the system also reminded him at the right time [he has obtained important clues for special reality tasks x1].This is a bright reminder!

Bai Yi: When things happen, you can't make a decision.

Now that you have the magic vest, what are you worried about?Put on Su Huaijia's shell, do the math and it's over.

And the result of divination, after Bai Yi's professional interpretation, actually pointed to an acquaintance he hadn't seen for a long time.

——That’s why he asked Xu Jian to come out.

Originally, Bai Yi didn't know how Xu Jian could have something to do with the gift Bai Xin received before he was seven years old, but now Xu Jian's overly strong reaction told him that it really had something to do with it.

...As expected of a divine fortune teller, this card is too strong.

Having fully experienced the power of the new vest, Bai Yi admired it in his heart, and at the same time looked at Xu Jian probingly: "So, what kind of shadow did the combination of my mother and the fairy tale book cast on you to make you show such a damn expression? "

Xu Jian's expression became indescribable: "It's a long story."

"Then make a long story short."

The two sat side by side on an open-air bench in a nearby park. Xu Jian took a deep breath, and then recalled: "You know that too? When I was sent to the Seventh Hospital, I didn't even have my 12th birthday. Man. At that time, my mother died less than a year ago, and then my father married the stepmother, and the stepmother was pregnant with the child... Anyway, children at that age are like this, and they still long for maternal love. "

Xu Jian, who was gradually sinking into memories, didn't realize how soft his voice was: "Originally your mother was only eighteen or nineteen years old at the time, and she was considered my elder sister in terms of age, but women have different temperaments when they have children. The first time I When I saw your mother, she was basking in the sun in the small garden separated by herself, and her stomach was already slightly distended."

"At that time, she was touching her belly while telling fairy tales to the baby in her belly, her voice was very gentle..."

At that time, the child who wanted to escape pushed through the grass, and was immediately attracted by the voice of the woman telling fairy tales. He saw the sun shining on the woman's face and on the slightly protruding belly of the other party. The expression on the other party was indescribable. tenderness and hope.

That is, as if he had left his mother...

That kind of wonderful emotion made Xu Jian rarely calm down, and he even felt inexplicable envy in his heart.

If only this was my mother, if only my mother was still there, I really envy that unborn baby...

All kinds of emotions surged in his heart, longing, he subconsciously pushed aside the grass, and was about to walk towards that person.

But at this moment, he saw an incredible scene.

With the gentle voice of the woman, the scene in the fairy tale seems to be realized in reality...

"Rose said: 'Please let go, kind little lady. Don't take me off the branch, I'm about to bleed to death.'…"

Accompanied by her voice, countless flowers in the garden fell from the branches, as if they were really broken by invisible hands, and endless blood gushed out from the "wound", flooding the entire garden and flooding the The little boy among the flowers.

"Have you ever experienced the feeling of suffocating in the deep sea?" Xu Jian's eyes flashed with lingering fear, he really left a psychological shadow, until now he doesn't like to be near the seaside, and he is seriously dizzy, "And still The bright red sea of ​​blood with the smell of blood... I really felt it at the time."

"...But when I struggled to swim out, the feeling of suffocation disappeared, and the sea of ​​blood disappeared. My eyes were bright, and all the flowers were still blooming on the branches. That person was already lying on the deck chair I fell asleep on the bed... as if everything I saw before was my hallucination."

"Maybe this is my hallucination. Later I stumbled and ran away, and told the doctors and nurses in the hospital about it. They all said it was my hallucination and diagnosed me as getting worse."

Xu Jian smiled wryly and shook his head: "Up to now, even I suspect that it was an illusion caused by my mental problems at that time. But after all, the psychological shadow is really a bit big, even if I know it has nothing to do with your mother, I still bear it when I think of what happened back then. I can't help feeling a little flustered. So if you want to entrust me to investigate this matter, then I really can't do anything."

"not necessarily."

"What do you mean?" Xu Jian's face turned pale.His rich associative ability made him a little hairy.

Bai Yi raised her index finger and shook it: "It doesn't have to be a hallucination."

Xu Jian smiled a little stiffly: "Stop joking, don't you want to take revenge on me for teasing you just now?"

"Really?" Behind the raised index finger, Bai Yi's dark eyes stared at him quietly, with an indescribable mystery in his eyes.

Even the surrounding atmosphere was rendered a bit gloomy.

"Hey, don't scare me, I'm afraid of this little thing..."

"Clap~"

The sound of the coin being flipped was crisp and clear, and the high tossed coin fell heavily, and Bai Yi caught it in the palm of his hand.

The gloomy atmosphere around was broken in an instant, and the corners of the teenager's lips were raised high, revealing a mischievous smile: "Ha, of course it's to scare you."

"You bastard..." Xu Jianwei subconsciously let out a sigh of relief.

"Since nothing has changed in the garden, then the previous scene must be your hallucination." With Xu Jian gnashing his teeth and wanting to hit someone, Bai Yi said nonchalantly, "It is impossible for the scene in a fairy tale to be realized. In reality, because of insufficient energy, it disappeared in an instant, right?"

"Alas—" he sighed a long time, as if an old father was looking at his son who was addicted to fantasy and refused to wake up, and said in a super annoying tone: "Although the spiritual energy has recovered to the present, extraordinary is no longer a legend, But you will not be an older middle-school youth who still believes in such unreliable fantasies, right?"

While he was speaking, distorted fonts emerged silently one after another in midair that Xu Jian couldn't see.

They were silently reflected in the boy's dark pupils.

[Important clues for special reality missions x 1 have been obtained. 】

[Please continue to look for relevant clues. 】

[The clues are collected, and a special reality task will be triggered. 】