Overturned Tower

Delphinium froze silently on the spot after seeing Russell's return, and moved over concerned and nervous.

"You... are you okay?"

"...Ah, it's okay."

Russell responded softly. He seemed to feel that his words were a little perfunctory, so he turned his head and lowered his voice to comfort him again: "I'm fine, there's no problem at all..."

Then why don't you seem to have the joy and excitement of defeating a powerful enemy?

There is also no relief and emptiness that revenge dramas are satisfied with.

Delphinium's expression became very subtle for a moment.

…Using an inelegant metaphor, she feels that Russell's current state is like a stomachache that is about to be pulled out, but there is still a long way to go home. So I can only hold my breath, speak softly, and walk slowly.

Although Delphinium was still worried, her trust in Russell made her decide to skip this topic: "Did the plan succeed?"

"Very successful, the most perfect kind of victory. Let's go home now, and you keep the cameras here unusable. When I get home, then I come back here... When I get back, you restore the cameras. Then I used the identity of Sai Lun to appear in front of the public on my own initiative, and then find a way to disappear..."

Russell said calmly.

In this way, it is tantamount to washing this identity.

Even if Sai Lun suddenly disappeared afterwards, it had nothing to do with Russell and Delphinium. Russell also had a way to make this identity disappear for a while.

But at this moment, the locked door of Sai Lun's office was suddenly opened from the outside.

Russell and Delphinium looked over at the same time—only to see someone who shouldn't be here.

That was the main output point originally planned for this mission, and it was supposed to meet their bad days in the distance.

He always has an unruly and insolent smile on weekdays.

But only this time, he frowned, opened the door and walked straight towards Russell without even closing it.

Delphinium went over and nodded to Milian who was standing in the road room waiting for the bad day, and then closed the door first.

"Are you really all right, Russell?"

"It's really all right."

"You don't sound like you're okay..."

On a bad day, I was a little bored. I picked up Russell's cup and wanted to drink Coke, but found that it had been completely drunk.

He looked back at Delphinium: "I said... don't you feel Russell's changes in the past few days?"

"Are you talking about the state after his redshift to level nine?"

"Don't you know that too?"

Bad Day grumbled under his breath, "There's something obviously wrong with him...don't you feel nervous?"

"Because Russell told me. He said don't be nervous, this change is normal."

Delphinium picked up the black tea she hadn't drunk yet and said calmly, "I just trust him."

"It is indeed normal..."

At this time, Russell on the side finally sighed: "You will be like this when you reach level nine. I feel it, and it should be soon."

"If you break through the wall of Leviathan, 100% will cause a person's temperament to change..."

Bad Day took a deep breath and said word by word: "Then I'd rather stop here. What's going on with you? I even felt...fear from you just now."

"It's not a big change in temperament...how should I put it...

"It's just that some things that I cared about and feared before have faded. It's like a glass of Coke with too many ice cubes in it.

"If you only add a little, as the ice cubes melt, you will feel that the weaker cola will taste better. But when the amount of water reaches a certain vague threshold, you will suddenly feel that the taste of cola has changed. It doesn't taste as good anymore."

Russell looked at his hands and said softly.

Seeing that Bad Sun and Delphinium fell into silence, he sighed and covered his face with his hands.

When he put his hand down again, he turned into the appearance of Chairman Sai Lun.

"Sailun" stretched out his hand with a smile, and stroked Bad Ri's hair.

Then, under his astonished gaze, Sai Lun sat back in his seat again. She hugged the delphinium beside her and put it on her lap.

In the arms of Sai Lun, who is more than 1.95 meters tall, delphinium looks so petite. She frowned and patted Sai Lun's heavy and plump breasts—because Sai Lun put it directly on the delphinium's head in a wicked way.

"Since you are all concerned, let's be more efficient, my friends. Among other things...Chairman, my desire for performance is still full."

Sai Lun stretched out her hand to support her chin, her light golden wavy hair like a cloak made her smile so bright at the moment.

"To put it simply," she replied bluntly, "When I crossed the wall of Leviathan, the boundary between 'self' and 'other me' became blurred.

"Before that, I could only 'imitate the dead'. After crossing this boundary, I began to be able to 'copy the living'."

She looked at the bad day and smiled deeply: "Even if it is you, I can directly copy it.

"I was still wondering why I crossed the wall of Leviathan...According to the theory of kinship, I broke through the realm of man and god. But my changes are still not enough...Divinity seems to be far from enough, and monster nature is more important than me. It's not intense. I feel like I'm still purely human.

"I didn't know the answer until I just swallowed Sai Lun."

"What's the answer?"

asked Bad Day.

Delphinium suddenly understood something: "It's... Dusk?"

"Yes. When I faced the essence of myself as Twilight, everything fell into place—the 'feeling of a monster completely different from humans' came back.

"Not only did it come back, but it became so clear. Like my instinct, my instinct..."

Sai Lun said, that bright smile also became a little lost.

Holding the delphinium in her arms, she sighed in a low voice: "If it's 'acting', I can still use the mask of 'Ultramarine' to communicate with you normally.

"But if it reveals its essence...it's what you just saw.

"I wouldn't even bother to say the words. An air of perpetual stillness, infinite serenity, deep and solitary hung around me.

"...it's turning me into a cold tombstone."

Looking at Sai Lun, Bad Ri frowned.

He finally sighed deeply.

"how about you?"

Bad Ri asked angrily, "What do you think?"

"I am afraid of that kind of change, but I feel that it is my future. Therefore, I am also afraid that you will be strangers and separated from me because of this... And what scares me the most is that I worry that my future will even gradually lose This 'fear'."

Sai Lun sighed: "Heaven and man are ruthless.

"I should be excited about revenge... I also thought it would make me happy. But after I devoured Sai Lun, all I could feel was the joy of having my 'appetite' satisfied.

"It's craving something alive. Not just eating corpses to get by..."

Now she has realized that... as the "vessel of God" becomes stronger, the dusk named "Tombstone" is also developing.

Or it might be the opposite—precisely because the baby named "Tombstone" began to grow larger, and the blurred outline became clear, and the abdomen that was the "vessel of God" became more and more swollen.

Bad Day was silent for a long time.

He opened his mouth and closed it again, before whispering, "Then do you think...you are the same being as it?"

Even the most vicious wanted criminal in the world, he still didn't dare to call "Twilight" by his name.

The more you know, the more you fear.

At that time, you will start to envy those who are ignorant and fearless... In a sense, ignorance is a kind of happiness.

"Sometimes, I do feel that way."

Sai Lun stretched out his hand and slowly caressed his face.

And just as she gradually put her hands on her face, Sai Lun's face also changed rapidly.

All the people copied by Russell, their bodies and faces flashed by. Delphinium could clearly feel the rapid change of the left arm around him... and in less than a second, he turned back into Russell again.

"But sometimes, I can't help but think...the personality named 'Russell'. Is it also one of the masks created by 'I'?"

Russell's voice became muffled and odd.

It's like failing to tune, or turning on a voice changer.

"Is this fear of 'twilight' a part of 'Russell'?

"What is it that I am afraid of? Is this fear real?"

Russell's voice was constantly changing, and his face was dripping like a melting oil painting.

His arm covering his face changed rapidly.

An old man's hand, a child's hand, a man's hand, a woman's hand...

"I thought I could see through other people's minds, but I couldn't even see myself. What if...the person I'm looking at is me in the mirror?"

Russell stretched out his hand and subconsciously touched it in front of him.

There seems to be a magic mirror ahead, leading to a psychedelic and unknown world.

The constantly flowing and changing right arm seems to be touching it, and it seems to be gradually sucked by it.

As if dreaming, he murmured in a low voice: "If I see me in the mirror, I don't know that it is me... What will I see?"

"—Don't think about it."

Delphinium's voice sounded steady and firm: "You are Russell."

At this moment, Delphinium suddenly reached out and grabbed Russell's arm forcefully.

At that moment, the constantly changing arm suddenly froze back to Russell's original slender arm.

When Russell woke up, he saw the delphinium sitting in his arms, with his back to him, tightly clutching his right arm, and the one in front of him who wanted to reach out to him, but had a complicated expression and dared not move. bad day.

Russell was stunned for a long time before his tense body slowly softened.

He crouched behind the delphinium and whispered.

"...It hurts a bit, let go first, sister... I'm going green."

"It's okay to be in pain."

Delphinium said indifferently.

She turned her head slightly, her face sullen. It seems to be rarely angry.

She didn't look at Russell, but looked at the air around her: "Just remember the pain - this pain is the proof that you really exist in the world.

"It's proof that we care about you."

—That is the proof that I am in love with you.

Russell stared blankly at Delphinium's pupils, and easily read her thoughts from them.

Seeing this, Bad Ri finally breathed a sigh of relief.

His equally tense body also slowly relaxed.

Don't be Twilight, or I might have a shot at you—that's what Bad Japan meant to say, in terms of Tower of Babel.

But the words had already come to his lips, and Russell, who was watching his "face" tick-tock-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-melting, was still unable to speak out.

Seeing that Russell suddenly changed back, Bad Ri was relieved.

"It seems that I have nothing to do here..."

Bad Ri reminded: "Remember to let the identity of Sai Lun come out and make a fuss later."

But neither Russell nor Delphinium paid him any attention.

The big dog shrugged, raised the sword and opened the door again, and returned the same way.

Delphinium released Russell's right arm only after Bad Day had left.

Sure enough, Russell's arm was already turning blue from the delphinium's terrifying grip.

She looked down at her masterpiece, and suddenly regretted: "...does it hurt?"

"pain."

Russell sat on Sai Lun's seat, and replied solemnly: "But this is proof that you love me."

"...no mind reading allowed."

Delphinium immediately realized where Russell's words came from.

She warned softly, and turned from being held by Russell. Straddling Russell, with his left hand on the shoulder pillow of the chair behind him, his right hand reached for his tie.

She stared at Russell's eyes for a long time, until she couldn't see a trace of yellowness in them, and she finally let go of her heart.

"Guess what... what am I thinking?"

"You want to kiss me."

The corners of Russell's mouth raised slightly, making a joke casually.

He flicked his arm—the right arm behind Delphinium melted into a candle-like gesture for a moment, then flowed back to its original shape.

The pinched blue arm also returned to its previous whiteness in an instant.

He was so obedient this time that he didn't read Delphinium's heart... because he didn't need to read his mind, and he could feel Delphinium's care and worry for him.

Delphinium only said softly, "I guessed wrong."

Although she said so, she tightened Russell's tie, leaned over and kissed Russell's lips lightly.

Russell was startled for a moment, but remained motionless on the spot.

After the kiss, she said seriously: "I want you to **** lip balm. Can you taste it?"

"I didn't pay attention just now... come again?"

The corners of Russell's mouth raised slightly, and the bottom of his pupils shone with a little light.

He whispered, and kissed the delphinium again.

"I think it's honey."

"It's obviously bitter."

"Every time I drink a cup of bitter wine, the remaining juice at the bottom of the cup is always honey syrup."

Russell recited Gibran's poems, and then kissed Delphinium again.

It took a long time before Delphinium raised his head and took two deep breaths.

She reached out to hold Russell's face, her expression unpredictable. In the end, her pupils revealed a real fear that could be clearly perceived without mind reading.

"...don't leave me, okay?"

Delphinium murmured in a low voice: "I accept everything about you. Even if you become a monster, into...the so-called 'Twilight'.

"But, don't leave me...please."

"I promise you."

Russell replied without hesitation.

He clearly agreed so lightly and promised so decisively, but it didn't give people the feeling of frivolity.

His indifferent emerald green pupils gradually became deeper, and the indifferent aura that was originally isolated from the world and seemed to disappear at any time gradually dissipated.

Instead, there is a genuine desire.

Outside the window, the rare bright sunlight poured into the room through the half-opened window.

The delphinium curled up on Russell, and Russell leaned on the chair. The two were hiding in the shadows, and Russell was slowly **** Delphinium.

"Aren't you going home first?"

"Maybe we can stay here a little longer."

Russell whispered, his voice became slightly hoarse because of emotion: "I can just sit here and be with such a beautiful sunshine for a while. Or I can choose to drink this slightly bitter wine right here... What we want There is only choice. Now we have the freedom to choose."

"Then you might as well sit here for a while."

A charming arc traced the corner of Delphinium's mouth, whispering.

She threw out her coat ~www.wuxiahere.com~ straightened up and looked down at Russell.

She suddenly laughed out loud, grabbed Russell's tie and gently pulled it towards herself, and touched the tip of Russell's ear with the other hand: "Now it's not as cold as before, like ice? Don't scare me anymore? "

"Because that ice is about to be melted by the love at the bottom of the wine..."

"Very good," Delphinium said seriously, "Then I will find a way to keep it melting."

Well, I'm working full time in October, and this volume is over!

The testimonials at the end of the volume will be posted tomorrow during the daytime (An Ning)

So the time to ask for leave this time is the 31st~

(I feel like I'm invited, but I don't seem to be invited)

(end of this chapter)