Yes, I did all this!

"What are you doing?"

Cangyuan's calm voice suddenly sounded. Duanmumo turned his head and found that she was lying beside him at some point, her long hair hanging on the beach, and her blue eyes looking at him.

"Look at the stars." Duanmumo said.

"Star......"

Duanmumo nodded and continued: "Can you fly into the universe? Or does a magical girl still need to breathe even at your level?"

"The universe..." Cang Yuan was silent for a while and said: "I tried this behavior not long after I first gained the ability, but when I flew up to the clouds, the whole village was blurred. , I started to get scared.”

"What are you afraid of?"

"Loneliness. No matter how deep it is in the sea, there will always be fish swimming with me. But there are no fish in the sky. Even the birds can't be seen." Cang Yuan's tone was empty, and no emotion could be heard.

"I see, even you don't know where your limits are, right?"

Hearing this, Duanmu was indifferent. He raised his hand and pointed to the sky: "The starry sky in your dream is too false. In the future sailing period, there will be sailors... You regard this profession as a high-level fisherman." That would be great, sailors would be able to confirm their direction by looking at the stars in the sky."

"Can you confirm the direction with the stars..."

Hearing this, Cang Yuan was a little surprised and stared at the stars shining in the sky.

In her opinion, these stars are at best candles hanging in the sky, and the moon is just a slightly larger candle.

"Yes, because of geographical reasons, the fishermen here prefer to use the surrounding islands to confirm their location, so it is normal that they don't know much about the stars."

After all, Cangyuan was only six years old when she was sacrificed. After gaining the power of a magical girl, she just wandered around the fishing village. In other words, she lived alone for more than ten years, and then sealed herself for thousands of years.

"In my opinion, it's really hard to believe..." Cang Yuan closed his eyes and thought about the scene of those fishermen raising their heads and looking at the sky to confirm their direction, but it was hard to imagine anything.

"The stars in the sky don't lie." Duanmumo pointed to the moon: "The sun and the moon rise in the east and set in the west, and the stars also change in a regular way. No matter how time passes, they will not change."

"..."

Hearing this, Cang Yuan also raised his hand and looked at the sea of ​​stars.

The sea of ​​​​stars is like a bright gem set in the night sky, lighting up the dark sky, making people intoxicated under this starry sky.

The sea reflects the light of the stars, shining brightly under the ripples of the waves.

——It is so beautiful, but under Duanmu Mo's words, Cang Yuan felt that this sky was unreal.

"...If it's false, does it mean nothing?"

Cang Yuan spoke softly and turned his arm, revealing the sapphire hanging on his wrist.

She is not a god, she is just an ordinary person who suddenly gained power. She just took the title of god for the sake of her tribe.

"No."

Continuing the unfinished words with Shen Wuling, Duanmumo suddenly held her wrist, making her body tremble.

"Look at the brightest planet in the night sky - it's the moon. In the dark night, it lights up the path forward for countless people."

"Well... I heard from my tribe before that if I accidentally caught fish late, I could only get back to the village by the light of the moon."

Looking at the ball of light, Cang Yuan nodded quietly, and the tension he felt when his wrist was held relaxed.

"But you know what? The moon doesn't shine at all. The light it emits actually comes from the sun."

"...Eh?"

"Indeed, its light is indeed false, but it also brings help to people. This is a truth that cannot be denied no matter what. Do you think it is meaningless?"

"I......"

Cang Yuan opened his mouth, looked at the sky, and then stopped at the hand holding his arm.

Wow...

——The sound of sea water spreading on the beach was heard, and the sound of footsteps suddenly came.

A man...a humanoid with tentacles hanging from its neck walked onto the shore.

The humanoid creature was slender, two to three meters tall, and its skin was an abnormally dark green color, like water plants floating in the dark seabed. Its eye sockets were sunken and no eyes could be seen at all.

It was all skin and bones, staggering on the ground, and the other end of its tentacles didn't know where it led, except that it was in the depths of the sea.

"Is that...the sea monster?"

The deep atmosphere was broken, Duanmumo sat up and frowned, looking at the hanged man.

"No need to stop it." Cang Yuan said, his eyes extremely calm.

"Why?"

"You can't change what has happened."

Cang Yuan stood up, recalled this humanoid creature, closed his eyes and sighed.

Then he looked at Duanmumo and stretched out his hand:

"Come on, let's see where this all goes."

"Okay." Looking at her extended hand, Duanmumo nodded and took it.

Volume One: Chapter 323: Lost

Holding their palms together, Duanmumo suddenly felt that he was surrounded by a layer of water waves, and then he saw that his arms became transparent.

He floated up unconsciously and followed behind it with Cang Yuan.

call--

As it walked, it made strange noises and moved forward stiffly.

Across the beach, it came to the house in the fishing village and walked past the door of every house.

"Hmm?" Duanmu Mo suddenly felt his eyes a little warm and couldn't help squinting.

Suddenly, he found that his eyes looked through the house and looked at the scenery in the house.

——Inside the house, a fisherman heard the sound and opened his eyes impatiently and sat up.

But when he listened carefully, his body shook violently and showed a look of fear, as if he remembered something.

"What's wrong?"

Beside the bed, his wife also opened her eyes and asked vaguely.

The next moment, the man suddenly covered her mouth, opened his eyes and shook his head violently, asking her not to make a sound.

The woman also seemed to remember something, and there was a look of uneasiness in her eyes.

"Huh..."

Another voice sounded, and when both of them heard this voice, the uneasy expression finally turned into fear. The two curled up in bed, shivering at the shadow outside the window.

Rustle...

In Duanmu Mo's opinion, the hanged ghost just stopped for a while and continued to move forward, and the sound it made was just the tentacles on its neck.

But even so, it was enough to bring people a strong sense of fear.

"Ah... It's back... He's back..."

In every family it passed by, someone made this frightened sound.

Even if someone mustered up the courage and quietly opened the door after it left, they would be scared by the tentacle on the ground and crawled back to the bed, trembling all over in the quilt.

As a member of the village, Duanmu Mo also "should" know what they are afraid of - ten years ago when people were still offering sacrifices to the sea monster, such sounds were often heard.

This kind of sound of bubbles coming out from the abyss of the sea, as if wrapped in the sea.

"......I see."

Duanmu Mo took a deep breath and turned to look at Cang Yuan with a complicated expression: "What were you doing at that time?"

"I fought with the sea monster, but it just ran away, and I didn't find any of its tentacles appearing here."

"So, Leviathan found an opportunity and planted the seeds of fear in people."

"Well-here, you can make some changes in some minor details, but it is related to important developments. No matter how you stop it, it will be useless. Instead of this, let me guide you forward."

"......"

Facing Duanmu Mo's silence, Cang Yuan turned his head and tightened his hand with Duanmu Mo: "I can feel that your spirit can't hold on. Let's leave now..."

"--No."

Duanmu Mo shook his head calmly: "Let me stay for a while, I want to see what this guy does."

"......Okay."

Cang Yuan nodded and stopped stopping Duanmu Mo's persistence.

She held Duanmu Mo and watched this humanoid creature walk from house to house, and finally stopped at the door of the village chief's house.

"Hu——"

Finally, the hanged ghost fell at the door with his head against the door, and the tentacles on his neck tightened suddenly.

Swish-Swish-Swish——

The tentacles straightened, and the humanoid creature was also dragged up, as if hanging by the neck and pulled back.

A more obvious sound than before sounded, and the awakened people were even more terrified. After the people who were not awake woke up after hearing this sound, they opened the door and saw only the dragging marks and a piece of residual mucus left at the door.

...Finally, the hanged ghost was pulled back into the sea and disappeared.

"You don't seem to be afraid at all."

The two stood on the sea again, but Cangyuan did not let go of Duanmu Mo's hand, and still held him.

"Because I know that all this is not true." Looking at the direction it disappeared, Duanmu Mo turned his head and stared at Cangyuan's face: "- and more importantly, I know that you, the Sea God, will always protect me, that's enough."

"Always protect me..."

Hearing this, Cangyuan's smile was already bitter: "You...knowing that all this is a dream, why do you say such things?"

"The words to attract you out-or maybe this is my answer from your perspective." Duanmu Mo paused, and said earnestly: "The truth and lies are not important, what is important is your own feelings, Cangyuan, what do you think in your deepest heart?"

"My feelings..." Cangyuan slowly raised his head and looked at the sky.

She opened her mouth, looked at Duanmu Mo and said with a wry smile: "Even if your words are false, it is enough for me. After all, I am also a false god in a false world."

"But as I said just now, the light of the moon is false, but it also brings real help to people, Cangyuan--"

Duanmu Mo said solemnly: "There must be something real hidden in this falsehood."

As he spoke, Duanmu Mo gradually felt a vague sense of dizziness, which became more and more obvious and stronger as time passed.

"The most real thing..."

Hearing this, Cangyuan raised his hand and looked at his palm, lowering his eyes.

After a long time, she spoke: "That kind of thing, even I..."

She turned her head and looked at Duanmu Mo, but found that he had disappeared.

The words he hadn't finished speaking stopped in his mouth, Cangyuan sighed and stared at the gem on his wrist.

"That kind of thing... Even I am lost." The lonely sigh came out in the dream, but no one knew.

......

"Um——"

Duanmu Mo opened his eyes, covered his head with difficulty, and rubbed his temples.

"Hiss... It hurts, is this what Cang Yi warned me about? It turns out that I can't enter frequently."

For a moment, Duanmu Mo felt that his spirit was torn apart, making him a lot more depressed.

Although he had slept, he felt more sleepy. This was the first time Duanmu Mo felt this kind of pain after becoming a cyborg.

He shook his head and stood up while looking at the clock.

"Two and a half... A little more, only this much time."

Wearing a windbreaker, Duanmu Mo sat back in the chair and looked at the ceiling, and let out a long breath.

"However, Cangyuan has made some progress, so it shouldn't be a loss to do this."

Recalling what happened in his dream, Duanmu Mo raised his feet and put them on the table, closed his eyes and rubbed his head lightly.