Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 144 Mission: 08-7 Waiting for Nero
All this happened in an instant, like a flash of lightning.

Just as Nero fell into the dream, Nagasaki Soyo appeared silently behind her, and the scissors in his hand gently closed before anyone could react.

The two abilities of this magical tool, the Shikoti, seemed to be born for this moment. Shuangshi first quietly retreated and retrieved the magic tool without being noticed. Then, using the black mist emitted by the magic tool to reduce his presence, he quickly appeared behind the sleeping Nero.

Then, the two swords combined and closed in an instant, cutting the "thread" between Nero and Chuhua in half.

"Shuangshi, you?!" Li Xi looked at his old acquaintance in shock, unable to believe that she would suddenly turn against him at this moment. Aiyin was still bewildered: she had no idea what Shuangshi's strange behavior meant.

Why did Shuangshi appear behind Nerolo? And what did it mean to cut the air with scissors?
The above is what Aine is thinking at the moment.

Hai Ling instantly appeared beside her through the shadows, trying to take her down, but Shuang Shi had already disassembled the scissors, strengthened himself with the black mist in the form of his twin swords, and quickly approached the planetarium exit.

"I'm sorry, Aine."

Her voice came from afar: "But I have to do this."

Then, Shuangshi jumped out of the planetarium and disappeared into the night.

"damn it!"

Li Xi grabbed Lenai who was about to chase him out, turned around and shouted to Hai Ling, "Don't worry about that guy for now! What's Nero's situation now?"

She only had a vague understanding of Shuangshi's abilities, but it was clear that something had gone wrong with that scissor cut. The key now wasn't to bring Shuangshi back, because even if she did, she wouldn't be able to reverse time and make everything impossible. Stabilizing Nero's situation was the top priority.

Faced with Shuangshi's betrayal, Lixi wanted to be angry, wanted to yell, wanted to chase Shuangshi out and catch him and beat him up, but he couldn't. As the strongest, Nero didn't know what situation he was in. There had to be someone calm enough to stabilize the situation.

Aine and Lenai are obviously unreliable. The expressions of "sadness" and "love" make Lixi unable to fully trust them. This task can only be completed by her and Hailing.

A voice came faintly from under the starry sky: "It's too late."

“Eh? Eh?” Aine looked at the people around her in surprise and asked, “What happened to Neroro?”

"Tell me more carefully." Hai Ling also took a deep breath, returned to her original position and asked slowly: "Maybe there is something else we can do."

"It's too late." Chu Hua paused for a moment and sighed, "The connection has been cut off. She must have been lost in another dream. I can't find her."

Aine gasped: “What—”

Only then did she realize what Shuangshi had just done, and she was stunned and absurd. Because Shuangshi should have no reason to harm Nero at this moment - after all, Nero was helping them!
Not only does he help them protect the city, he even helps them try to save their former companion "Xiao Xiang". Aren't these two things what Shuangshi expects?

"Shuangshi her? Why..."

Deng was the one who was most deeply hurt by her companion's betrayal. She was completely bewildered, clutching Aine's hand like a lifeline and asking, "Aine, what should I do?"

What should I do? Aine wanted to ask the same question. Even though she made a wish and gained power, she still seemed powerless in the face of her friend's crisis.

"Calm down, all of you."

However, Li Xi bit his lip anxiously as he said this: "Then there may be only one way. Let's go find her in her dreams."

This wasn't even a solution. "If someone's missing, go find them"—anyone could say that. But at this moment, it seemed like their only chance of success.

Hai Ling nodded silently and looked at the sleeping Chu Hua: "Is there any hope if we do this?"

"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack." Chu Hua's answer practically sentenced this method to death: "She was just driven out of Xiaoxiang's dream. In this situation, she could appear anywhere."

Chu Hua then added, "You should know that there are hundreds of thousands—no, millions—of people sleeping in the dream world right now. So many dreams exist independently, and there are only four of you. Finding anyone is completely impossible."

At this moment, Le Nai, who was caught by Li Xi and listened with his head tilted, suddenly asked: "Why is it so troublesome?"

Chu Hua was speechless for a moment. What kind of question was that? Why were there so many dreams? But there were so many people in the New City! Even Chu Hua's "millions" seemed to be an understatement, as the entire New City's population was said to be well over ten million.

Of course, this dream world is quite special. People who are closely connected in reality may actively or passively visit other dream worlds. In that case, their dream worlds will merge and become larger. But even if this is taken into account, there are still millions of different worlds. How can one find someone lost in them?

"Why do we have to look for her?" Lenai asked, as if she had no idea what was going on. "She'll come back."

These words left everyone present speechless, and they all speculated whether Lenai simply didn't understand the severity of the situation, or was simply too blindly trusting of Nero's abilities.

Le Nai looked around and found that no one answered her, so she frowned.

She walked silently to Nero's side, also reclined a seat, and lay down comfortably.

It's like going to sleep.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed through Li Xi's mind: "Wait, I get it! You are really amazing, Wildcat!"

Then she found a seat without saying a word and began to adjust the back of the chair.

"Eh? What? Explain it!" Aine asked hurriedly.

Li Xi didn't answer her directly, but raised his head and asked Chu Hua: "If it's that guy, even without your help, he can actively move between different dreams, right?"

"Yes, but this requires a certain connection between the dreamer and the dreamer in reality..."

At this point, Chu Hua also understood what Lenai meant by "she will come back": "I see, you want to wait for her to find your dream through the connection?"

Aine understood now: "So if we fall asleep too, she might find us on her own initiative, right?"

"Yes."

This time, even Chu Hua felt that this operation had a high chance of success: "I will monitor your dreams, and if she really appears, I will be able to bring her back."

The remaining two people also lay down one after another.

"Nerolo, come back soon."

Aine prayed like this and quickly fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)