Overturned Tower

Morgan's voice rang softly from his ear: "Crybaby always needs it."

He carefully wiped away his tears with the handkerchief.After that, he wiped the rainwater off his face vigorously, as if he wanted to wipe off his five sense organs at the same time.

When he took the handkerchief away, the barber's face was clean.

He literally wiped his features off.

When he raised his face again, it was Russell's face that emerged with a twist and blur.

He stared at the handkerchief, a pale transparent flame ignited in the bottom of his pupils.

"It's nice to still find a part of you..."

Russell murmured in a low voice, his voice filled with dreamlike satisfaction.

As the handkerchief was gradually burned, Russell felt his consciousness gradually drifting away.

He looked down at himself, his arms began to grow and shrink.

Old man's hand, child's hand, man's hand, woman's hand...

With his last rationality, he took out the chip that Delphinium gave him with trembling hands, and inserted it into his prosthetic body.

He inserted it three times before he managed to get in.

With the warmth like an oasis, nourishing his dry rationality, the flame finally spread into the handkerchief.

The world in front of him suddenly shattered—it turned into a sacred and solemn sanctuary.

At this time, Russell, who woke up, realized what had just happened.

—He almost turned into a demon.

"...The minister saved me once."

Russell's expression was a little complicated.

He stretched out his hand and lifted the red cloth on the latest mirror.

What was reflected in the mirror was Morgan as a girl.

She showed a gentle and helpless smile to herself in the mirror: "It's a pity, I can't become you now."

"But there will be a day."

Morgan in the mirror also responded gently.

"At that point, we...

"Lie down in the sun in a warm home.

"Feeling the warmth of the sun, slowly falling asleep, and dreaming about him..."

The two murmured in unison.

Like a young girl reading a poem to her lover in front of the mirror.

Keep repeating, keep chanting... until the power of the chip is exhausted.

Russell's consciousness exited the Temple of Mirrors.

It's like the dream is over.

Russell returned to his original form and passed out on the street full of stagnant water.

Silence

Chapter 1 The cat that was picked up

Russell half leaned on the bed, took off the gaming goggles, and sighed deeply.

"Boring..."

At this moment, the door of the room creaked open.

Delphinium, who had just taken off her coat and was changing into home clothes, came in from the door carrying a bag of buns.

"You are off work~"

Russell's voice immediately changed and became more obedient.

"Obviously you play games in the office when you go to work."

Delphinium said angrily, "Why can't I just lie down and play games now?"

"I do not know either."

Russell was also a little puzzled by the sudden burnout.

He finally came to a conclusion: "Maybe what is interesting is not the game, but fishing.

"Seeing you and the bad guy working hard, while I'm lying on the sidelines fishing - this feeling is even more enjoyable than playing games."

Delphinium heard this and threw the steamed bun in her hand to Russell.

With one hand on her hip, she said angrily and amusedly: "Don't say it in front of me!

"It pulls blood pressure, do you know that!"

If it wasn't for Russell's body not recovering well, delphinium would have rushed up to knock him on the head or pull his ears by now.

Russell imitated Delphinium's tone with an innocent face: "But I'm a cat."

Delphinium began to seriously consider whether to punch him.

It's noon on August [-]nd.

Russell passed out on the street in the early hours of yesterday.Less than thirty hours had passed.

Delphinium, who was still protecting Xia and the others in the lower city, suddenly sensed that Russell had used her chip.

However, the location is a bit strange——

Not in downtown, but in uptown.

She immediately realized something was wrong.

It wasn't that long ago that Russell was on camera.

If you calculate by time, he went uptown immediately after he appeared... so why did he suddenly appear in front of the camera?

— Make an alibi?

The clever delphinium immediately realized Russell's purpose.

She also probably guessed why Russell would use his own chip without warning in the upper city.

In addition to being used to explode when desperate, her psionic energy has another usage... that is to suppress the out-of-control psionic energy when she is about to lose control and become a demon.

Russell's psychic power was already blue five red four before, and it is possible to complete the transfer at any time.

It is very easy to get out of control with a redshift of level [-] and complete the shift - a level [-] redshift and a redshift higher than blueshift will completely transform into a demon.

For ordinary psykers, this process may continue for a while... But for middle-level psykers who have completed the surge, even a loss of control is not allowed.

She was very worried about the situation on Russell's side.

Fortunately, the overwhelming war in the lower city has basically ended at this time, and it should be no problem to hand over the remaining part to the inferior.

So Delphinium also followed Russell's example and deliberately flashed in front of the camera.

Then she went towards the position where Russell last appeared in her senses.

As a result, I found Russell who passed out in the stagnant water.

His whole body was wet by the heavy rain, and his ears and tail, which were originally clean and soft, were also wet with muddy water.The whole person looked like a stray cat that was wet and soaked by the rainstorm, embarrassed and pitiful.

Considering that Russell deliberately created an alibi, there may be some secrets that he does not want to be discovered...

So Delphinium did not choose to take a taxi to send Russell home, nor did he call the emergency call to the hospital.

She gave Russell a pill to prevent angina, then texted her father to drive over and bring a blanket.

Fortunately, the battle in the lower city was very fierce. Delphinium's father was still awake and was lying under the quilt watching the live broadcast, looking very energetic.

When he arrived, he was shocked——

The "Qunqing" who was killing the Quartet in the video just now fell into a coma in the upper city?

But he didn't ask anything...the two wrapped Russell in a blanket, stuffed him into the trunk, and took him directly to Delphinium's own home.

Originally, Delphinium wanted to help Russell clean up.

But Delphinium's father dismissed her and asked her to take a bath first.

Before Delphinium finished washing, her father cleaned Russell's body neatly and put him in Delphinium's bedroom.

— Delphinium: What about me?

——Papa Delphinium: You and your mother share a bed, and let Quinqing sleep in your bed.

But in fact, until the end, Delphinium still didn't sleep.

Because until now, after such intense fiddling, Russell still shows no sign of waking up.

And shortly after lying down, he had another attack of angina.Then it started to get hot again... probably because it was soaked in cold water for a long time.

Delphinium gave Russell another dose of medicine.

I stared until 03:30 in the morning without falling ill again, and then I fell asleep next to Russell.

She woke up at eight in the morning and took Russell's temperature.Seeing that she had returned to normal, she got up and went to work in peace, and asked Director Dodgson for a leave of absence for Russell.

This was to keep his trauma from becoming known — it was also to protect Russell's alibi.

The reason is very reasonable... Russell mixed in with the fleeing downtown crowd, hoping to get more information.

When Quanshu was arrested before, Russell had already reported his behavior of "cross-dressing and sneaking in" to explain how he directly appeared in the hinterland.

Now is the time to use that excuse.

Not calling in sick because there was no way to explain why Russell wasn't going to the hospital.

After all, the medical expenses of the Special Operations Department have always been reimbursed in full.Calling in sick and not going to the hospital must be suspicious.

——Even though Russell was still in a coma, Delphinium helped him handle the follow-up matters safely.

At least he won't paralyze his previous preparations because he was unconscious for most of the day.

Not the same as usual...

Usually the delphinium will not go home until it can.I stayed in the office and ate directly at noon and night, and didn't go home until late at night.

But because she was worried about Russell's situation, Delphinium rushed back at noon to see how the kitten she picked up was doing.

Her dad also had his own job... Mom was able to spend some time with Russell because she was writing full-time at home.

But she has no professional knowledge after all.

Although delphinium told her that if there is any disease, what kind of medicine should be used, and even the bottle is written on the label as medicine for fever, cold, and angina pectoris, and a chip is left for dealing with psionic Out of control... But she still doesn't trust the reliability of her own mother.

But when she hurried back, she found that Russell had woken up.Although she still looks pale and physically weak, she looks good in spirit - she is sitting on the bed, having a good conversation with her mother.

They had a very happy conversation—meaning that the two were very happy when discussing the dark history of Delphinium's childhood.

After she went to work, Russell had another fever and angina, and the state gradually stabilized.

Although Russell claimed to have recovered and was able to go to work—

But his current mental state is still obviously not right.

His spiritual energy could not be suppressed at all... The pale flames in his pupils kept pulsating erratically, changing color from time to time.For a time, Delphinium's mother even thought that he was a modified prosthetic eye with RGB light.

So Delphinium still forced Russell to rest for another day, so as not to be found out that he was not in the right state.

Worried that Russell would be bored, Delphinium took back the gaming goggles that Russell had left in the office when she got off work at night.

As a result, when I went home the next day, I found that Russell was lying on his bed picking and picking fish, looking like "he didn't have the energy to play games when he was not at work".

A hard fist belongs to yes.

"Your mental state is recovering well."

Seeing that there was no glimmer of psychic energy in Russell's eyes, Delphinium folded his arms and commented: "In that case, come back to work tomorrow."

Until now, she has not asked Russell what he did the night before, and why he was overloaded with psychic energy yesterday morning and passed out in an unmonitored alley in the upper city.