"What did you see?"
Her hair fell down on both sides, covering her face, and she could only hear the cold voice coming from below.
"Whatever you see, you'd better forget it, understand?"
Without waiting for an answer, she quickly stood up and rushed into the night fog like a gust of wind.
"summer……"
"take it easy."
A hoarse male voice came from the side.
When I turned around, it was Ethan.
His upper body and one leg were wrapped in thick bandages, and he was wearing a coat and sitting against a lamppost, fiddling with a revolver as he spoke.
"She's not leaving. It's probably just that some memories have been triggered and she wants to vent."
He comforted her.
"But you really should thank the captain, Hitzfeld..."
"I don't know how you did it. Before, you sank completely into the ground - into that shadow, as if you had completely disappeared."
"Only the captain has the ability to save you, but entering the dream world at a time like this, I don't need to tell you how dangerous it is."
"The most important thing is that this contact will allow you to touch upon her nightmares."
"And nightmares are the source of power for every extraordinary person."
"Nightmare...?"
Hitzfeld frowned at him.
It was said before that extraordinary people can control themselves from having nightmares, and this is what they said.
How come nightmares have now become... a source of power?
"I should have told you before that even the most powerful extraordinary beings are very limited in what they can do in reality."
Ethan snapped back onto the wheel.
"But there are exceptions, which are borrowing power from nightmares."
"The reason why the extraordinary are extraordinary is mainly because they can separate their spirits and go to the dream world to track down the traces of evil spirits in the dream world."
"This step is called 'Soul'."
"But going further up is called 'manifesting the spirit'. It means that the spirit is strong enough to manifest in reality. If you want to achieve this, you have to learn from those lunatics and touch the nightmare that you least want to recall."
"It's cruel, isn't it? Even so, not everyone can achieve 'appearance'. Because nightmares... there are not many that can leave a memory or deeply touch people, and even fewer that are suitable for drawing out power and making use of it."
"So." Hitzfeld said slowly.
"What I saw... and the knife..."
"uh-huh."
Ethan nodded.
"That knife was her nightmare."
“It has a name.”
"It's called 'Long Summer'."
Chapter 60: Continuing the Past
Half an hour later, several people gathered again on the front steps of the Glee family's house.
Putting the left eye patch back on, Hitzfeld sat on the steps.
Seeing the woman approaching from afar, she quickly stood up and wanted to say something but hesitated.
What can be said?
After all, it's someone else's private matter.
Saying it in front of other people, regardless of whether it was appropriate or not, would undoubtedly open the wound again and cause her even deeper harm.
So she thought about it and decided to just pretend nothing happened.
She was just rescued by the other party.
Nothing was seen—nothing was heard—in the meantime.
"One good news and one bad news."
Stopping in front of the steps, Xia Yibing stepped up with one foot and spoke to them in a deep voice.
"The good news is that Zafira has successfully contacted Wayne Port and reported the intelligence here truthfully. We only need to hold on for about 20 more hours to be rescued."
"What's the bad news?" Ethan asked.
"The bad news is that we don't have enough bullets. If things continue like this, we won't even last 20 hours, let alone 2 hours."
In fact, the situation was much worse than she described.
It was daytime now, and it was already 10 . But the sky was still as gloomy as if it was 5 ., all because of the fog blocking the sun.
The residents around here seemed to have accurately identified this place as their "target". Without exception, they were all infected by the curse and rushed towards this place like puppets without any sense of pain and without emotions.
If they get too close to them and "enjoy" the chanting for too long, many Shadow Lion agents with weak willpower will be affected.
In order to prevent this from happening, Xia Yibing had to order his men to shoot at the crowd. From last night till now, at least 3000 bodies have been killed.
Is it hard to bear?
It's very difficult.
Many young agents simply could not accept it and even refused to attack civilians.
Some of them are truly infected with corruption.
Some people suddenly woke up during that nightmarish process and began to join the killing camp.
Others realized it too late and had their throats bitten by frenzied police dogs.
Zafira and Muko brought a total of 302 people last night.
That number has now been reduced to 263.
All the mad dogs were shot and the streets were littered with their mangled corpses.
The most serious and worst thing is that these corpses have begun to show symptoms of "golemization".
"We have to find a way to break out."
Ethan reminded her.
The curse was successfully activated and Kuroki City fell.
It is meaningless to bother capturing Ni Riku at this time, and judging from the accident with the stone carvings, the Cathedral is probably in danger.
That building was in the very center of Blackwood City. If the curse was spreading from the cathedral to the surrounding areas, they would not be able to stop it at this speed.
It’s better to find a way to protect yourself and escape first.
"Detective Xia."
Hitzfeld finally couldn't help but speak.
"I want to talk to you privately."
"can."
Xia Yibing glanced at the policemen standing guard nearby and strode up the stairs.
"The rest of you stay here, let's talk inside."
Hitzfeld didn't talk to her alone to mention the sword named Changxia.
“…That’s probably what happened.”
Ten minutes later, in the backyard corridor, Hitzfeld finished telling what he saw in the dream world before being rescued.
"Isaac Rhodes...dead?"
The woman frowned, and the ponytail behind her head swayed.
"Yes."
"This information is crucial."
After thinking for a while, she raised her chin.
"This confirms that the source of all 'golemizations' and all 'curses' is that giant monster. Anyone who dies because of its power will have their life essence sucked away by it... That's why no other nightmares are hatched after they die."
"...Aren't you sad?"
"What are you sad about?"
"He seemed to be very familiar with you. I thought you two were probably friends."
"That's right." Xia Yibing nodded, "But he died a worthy death - his wish was to dedicate himself to the goddess."
"Besides, he's already 102 years old. Even if he doesn't die, he won't live long. He's lucky to have gotten what he wanted... It's better than dying with regrets."
"..."
Hitzfeld found it difficult to understand this friendship.
"correct."
Xia Yibing breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly looked at the girl seriously.
"Are you sure that the direction he mentioned is 'west'?"
"Yes...I'm sure!"
"West... Actually, it should be southwest..."
"What do you know?"
"Well."
Hitzfeld was a little puzzled because she found that the look in Xia Yibing's eyes when she looked at her became somewhat dangerous and full of scrutiny.
"Ok."
It sounded like he had made some kind of decision.
"In return for your honesty, I can also tell you some exclusive secrets about 'Hitzfeld'..."
A quarter of an hour later, the woman returned to the living room, shaking her ponytail.
"Captain." Mu Ke came over from the other side and rushed to meet her when he saw her. "Come on! Captain! There is a major discovery in the cellar!"
The two men ran away, leaving Hitzfeld in a daze.
...Is there such a thing?
She now has some doubts about life.
Xia Yibing told her almost word for word what she had read in "Family Secret History".
What shocked her most was not the "Secret Keeper", "Family", or "Shadow of God"...
After all, these things sound too far away and unreal.
What shocked her was - how come Hitzfell Manor already existed in this world?
Doesn't this manor only exist on Earth?
Are there two Hitzfell Manors, one on Earth and one here?
Or are they all the same place, but there is a portal to Earth on the outskirts of Blackwood City?
She was a little excited.
A little scared.
If it's the latter, then maybe she will have a chance to return to Earth.
"calm."
