Zhang Wushijiu: Black Petals(1/3)
Merlin was finally awakened by a pair of hands. He didn't know how long he had slept. Marquez could not remember everything before he fell into a coma, and only the feeling of powerlessness of falling into the abyss made him extremely unwilling.
"Son! Son! Wake up—"
That's... whose voice? It sounds urgent, and his tone is filled with panic and uneasiness. It's obvious that he cares a lot about himself.
"Um..." Merlin turned over and frowned slightly, "Umm..."
It feels so uncomfortable...it tastes so disgusting...it's sticky...it's...
He opened his eyes, and his gaze gradually changed from blur to clear. He only saw Sheldon in front of him who was almost crying. He suddenly had the idea of sniffing for a while.
"My God..." Sheldon's legs were so scared that he was weak, "Thank God! He wasn't dead at all..."
Merlin was discovered by Sheldon, who was rushed back to see him before dinner. Merlin covered his forehead at a loss and secretly felt something was wrong...
His temple was still pounding and painful, his neck was tightening, his ears were still sensational from time to time... He was just a child! A one or two year old! He shouldn't have endured so much...
"What, what? Yes, what's wrong?" Sheldon was frightened by this incident. "Is there anything uncomfortable?"
You know, No. 8's head is next to Meilin. The blood splashed because of the tough twist of his neck before, and basically the upper half of the guest room was affected.
Meilin slowly opened her eyes, and her eyes couldn't help but glance at the side. He remembered that the man before was still trying to pinch his neck? Then Nightmare helped him manage the business-
"You, you you, you!" As soon as Marquez saw the bloodstains everywhere in the room, big or small, he immediately knew that he had stabbed a big mess, "Hey! Merlin, what did you do! Why did you kill him..."
"Do you think if I didn't kill him at that time, we two still have the possibility of living?" In the sea of consciousness, the concrete image of the nightmare soul divided into two small tentacles and put on a chest-crowing posture. "I couldn't feel much about it with you at that time, and I really couldn't figure out what the so-called soul fusion mechanism is, but... this person has to be killed. If he is still alive, what do you think he will be?"
"He will run away, that's that simple." Marquez disagreed.
"No, he will continue to reach out to kill you, because he has exposed him in front of you that he is the [killer]." Merlin said coldly, "If we don't get rid of the two of us, the next killing will definitely not go smoothly. Besides, this also makes us very embarrassed. Do you want to expose your strength in advance?"
When Merlin thought about it, this is actually the same.
But he was still panicked. After all, this was his first time killing someone in his body, and the situation was still in such chaos. He did not have the ability to deal with it now.
"Don't worry, I'll help you with the mess after that." Nightmare smiled, "The only thing recognized in the world is power, and nothing else is worth mentioning. You just need to watch it from the side. With your current abilities, you can't control the magic power in your body, let alone look at the world from the perspective of Nightmare."
"Okay, okay..." Marquez responded weakly, "What should I do now?"
"Let's deal with it for a while."
"Okay." Marquez nodded.
Sheldon has finally settled down now. Anyway, the hope of Merlin's religion is not dead... But why Merlin's hair...
Pulling off Merlin's blood-stained hair, a cloud of light fog floated up from Sheldon's fingertips, quickly smearing the blood on his body. As the magic wand swung, all the blood on the ground floated up and raised it to the roof, but did not touch the roof, but just floated there quietly. After all, the protection of the murder case must be done well.
"What happened?" Sheldon couldn't say too much at once, for fear of hurting the child in front of him. "Do you still remember?"
Merlin's eyes were surprisingly dull, as if he had made an appointment with someone. As soon as Sheldon finished speaking, he continued, "I don't know anything, I have no idea, my head hurts a little..."
Sure enough... Sheldon sighed, his lips tightly pursed. It seemed that there was really no clue now. Except for No. 8 and Merlin, Sheldon, Martin, Peman, and everyone else were all having a meeting in the restaurant. They had a proof of absence...
But Sheldon didn't believe that a child as young as Merlin could kill a man who might be a murderer... or even kicked him gently and his consciousness had disappeared! Calmly analyze, there should be a nightmare in the child's body... But the power of nightmare is not as strong as this, right? According to Sheldon's understanding, if Nightmare injected all his magic power into a baby's body, then he should have exploded long ago...
He remembered that the main soul set at that time was the human soul... Sheldon felt a little disgusted when he thought of this, and he couldn't help feeling a little guilty.
But if Merlin killed him, who else could it be? But the little guy in front of him said he didn't know without thinking...
Seeing Sheldon in front of him looking at him with a suspicion, Merlin's cold sweat was so scattered. But he couldn't retreat, and he would retreat all of him, and no one could live. Of course, this would not be difficult for Merlin and Marquez. After a brief discussion, they decided to act like they were not concerned about their own affairs, that is, to show a sense of fatigue.
"Haa--" Merlin covered her mouth and yawned, "It's a bit uncomfortable..."
"Where is uncomfortable?" As soon as she heard this, Sheldon immediately climbed onto the bed, carefully picked up his "son", frowned, "Do you have a headache? Alas... Why did this hair suddenly turn white? What's going on with your neck?"
"I don't know..." He knew very well how Merlin was pinched at that time, "I feel uncomfortable anywhere..."
"But what should I do now..." Sheldon always feels more collapsed than he thought he had killed Houston at the time, and now even the only information channel is cut off...
Since Sheldon was an eyewitness, he had the obligation to call others, after all, the members of the trial meeting were always composed of them.
"Do you want to sleep for a while? Let's change to another guest room..." Sheldon asked softly, while Merlin nodded silently. During the whole process, the two actually reached a strange tacit understanding. If others saw this, they probably would be afraid that everyone would not know about this matter on the spot... Now it seems that the two of them have made an appointment to be a thief...
"Don't you think your dad is strange?" Nightmare giggled, "I think he is quite cute now."
"But I think we're going to suffer..." Marquez was a little down. "I don't think it's so interesting."
"Okay, OK, I will help you with everything at that time." Merlin smiled unexpectedly, "I have tolerated him for a long time..."
"Why?"
"It dares to use my stuff..." Merlin said coldly, "this alone can crush it into the dregs..."
It seemed that Nightmare was still obsessed with the matter of that flower. Marquez didn't know what to say, and his curiosity about everything made him unable to wait to continue asking questions, but considering the mood of Merlin next to him, the matter was put on hold for the time being.
Soon, the uneasy child was finally put down, and Sheldon had no reason to hide it, so he comforted Merlin and went to bed immediately, walked out of the guest room, knocked on the doors of several other people, and told them about the new murder.
"It may not be very easy to solve this time..." Sheldon didn't even dare to greet Peman when he greeted Peman's incredible gaze, which made his boss feel a little strange.
"What's wrong with you?" But Peman thought again, the person involved this time was his son after all, and it is not impossible to do so now.
However, he is really a honest person. Thinking of this, Peman showed a look that made Sheldon even more guilty - the warm eyes like his mother, as if he had seen through everything. This made Sheldon not move forward or retreat, his face gradually turned pale, and his breathing gradually accelerated.
"Okay..." Perman smiled and patted Sheldon on the shoulder, making him relax. "Let's see again then. It's fine if your son is fine. You've comforted him now. As long as there is no big problem, everything can be solved slowly, right?"
It turned out to be this... Sheldon's cheek twitched, feeling the second collapse of his mistaken intention, and secretly scolded himself for how stupid he was, but he didn't even see this meaning...
But it did make this child Merlin suffer.
"By the way, No. 8 was killed in your son's room during our meeting?" Peman was still a little disbelief, "Do you think your son has the ability to kill people?"
"I think the possibility of killing No. 8 is even more likely-" Sheldon said halfway, his brows suddenly frowned.
He had never expected that... Because No. 8 seemed to have a very small chance of killing, he didn't even dare to let someone touch him! How could he kill an unarmed child...
"By the way, do you think No. 8 may be the [murderer]?" Perman looked at Sheldon beside him and said casually, "Of course I just guess it... Don't you think that the person who is the most unlikely to become a murderer is a murderer? Haha."
"I think this is the case, too..." Sheldon murmured, "If this is the case, it would be really strange..."
Merlin is likely to have been touched by the [Murderer] and is affected... It should be the nightmare in his body that saved his life, but this also made his hair whiter...
Under this premise, the logic is probably true. If Merlin says that he is uncomfortable, it should probably be because he is strangled... But the whitening hair cannot be caused by him, right? Also, if No. 8 really wants to attack such a child, he can be killed... Should this be said that he is too weak or a baby is too strong? The inherent impression is to kill people... Sheldon rolled his eyes for himself and said that he had not seen the world yet.
Moreover, when he checked the body before, it was obvious that his neck was broken by a huge force. Merlin's little hand could only hold his Adam's apple. How could he be twisted by the root like he saw... Moreover, this action looked extremely smooth, without any drag, and the muscles and bones inside were not even damaged. If all this was attributed to the nightmare in Merlin's body, Sheldon felt that he wanted to stuff a nightmare into his body... If a baby could do this, then what would an adult warlock who could use magic power be strong?
"Haha..." Sheldon didn't think about this for the time being, and called the others to talk about it... By the way, what's the use of calling? Basically, everyone was not present! The only two people present died, and the other one was actually a baby over one year old! Although he could speak fluently, he felt a little swaying when he saw him walking...
Of course, the premise of all this is that no one else knew that Merlin had a nightmare merged into her body. After watching the scene, everyone said that the murder happened extremely strangely, unless anyone among them used the clone spell - no one was willing to use this kind of thing that tear their souls apart.
"Oh oh oh?" To everyone's surprise, the puppets floating above their heads also made an incredible voice, "Murder? That's great! Then, wait a moment and hold a trial meeting quickly, that's right!"
Everyone was watching this somewhat overwhelmed puppet here, and this was the first time they discovered that Barbatos felt he couldn't control the situation.
"This murder case is also not done by the murderer." Babatos' voice quickly returned to a hint of teasing tone, "Then I'll give you two hours to discuss it. Today's affairs, today, isn't it good? Hehehe!"
"But the time given before is not a day-"
"The problem is, the [rules] did not give the judgement meeting to be held." A red light flashed in Barbatos' dark black eyes, and the illusory and distant voice was trembling, as if there was anger, "What's more, I am the leader of this dream... The game is over... It's not right."
After saying that, the shiny puppet disappeared under the dim lights in the guest room and disappeared.
"Huh... Huh..." Sheldon clenched his fists, resisting the idea of cursing, and finally turned around powerlessly and said to everyone who has lived to this day, "Then let's start."
Obviously, everyone present had absent proof that the remaining person was just a baby. No matter how he asked him, he would only say that he didn't know and everything was in a dead end. Looking at the dense blood spots on the wall like grapes, Peman could only initially judge that the deceased's blood was spurted out from his neck at once, and Sheldon could not make any further judgment on this.
So he sighed, took the lead in stepping out of the crime scene, walked to another room, woke the baby up, and saw the red handprints on his neck, Sheldon felt a little distressed again... The sudden "surprise" made him a little at a loss. If he was killed so cowardly, how could he explain to the Merlin School? Moreover, the child in front of him was really smart. From a humane perspective, he must also be responsible for Merlin.
"Merlin." In the quiet room, Sheldon held Merlin in his arms and stroked his pale hair, "You are smart."
Nothing happened, which shows that Merlin is still unaffected by the dream world...probably.
"Um..." Merlin's eyes were still squinting at his own eyes, half asleep and half awake, "Hmm..."
Sheldon smiled self-deprecatingly, and a hazy golden light lit up in his eyes: "I'm so sorry for you. I thought I could protect you, but with my current magic, I can't take you and me out."
【In my name】
【Break up the falsehood and tear the deceit】
【Reappear the light with my hand】
【Understanding my heart, consolidating my ambition, and strengthening my form】
Sheldon's hands lit up, and the magic pattern as thick as tentacles bloomed with rare silver-white light. The magic power surged to his fingertips and finally gathered together.
【Etching!】
Oh—!!
In an instant, the red ones were redder, the black ones were blacker, and the blue ones were bluer. Time was twisting and space was trembling, like a thin and crisp wallpaper falling in one touch. He actually opened a small mouth in the dream world that was originally solid!
Even though the surrounding environment was dull, you could see the familiar Hall of the Honours opposite the passage. Perman, Martin and others were lying side by side, and Sheldon smiled weakly.
If he had not reached the level of the Four Demon Patterns, he might not have the magic power to release spells that could break the dream world with force.
"So, see you later." Sheldon put on the gentlest smile and picked up Merlin. A light redness couldn't be stopped in his eyes, "Merlin."
Bo! My hand seemed to have been bounced open! The space outside the small mouth seemed to have turned into the water surface, splashing mottled ripples.
"What?" Sheldon's mouth was so big that he almost dislocated his chin.
Sheldon reached out again, this time he stretched his hand out of the window.
It was actually successful!
To be continued...