Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 126 Light Source
Doris returned to her room and threw herself on the soft big bed.

"That's great. If you kill someone here, you don't have to clean up the mess yourself." Zheng Fan said sarcastically.

"Killing someone at unselected times will be punished." Doris's face was buried in the quilt and her voice was muffled.

"What kind of punishment?"

"Extra duty or cleaning the yard, feeding the livestock or being locked in the black well."

"It's a bit subtle. It's a really severe punishment." Zheng Fan said calmly.

This punishment doesn't sound very severe, and it even seems absurd when compared with something like murder.

Doris turned her head and showed half of her face: "Just 'subtle'?"

"What is the Black Well?" Zheng asked back.

"It's a place where hallucinations or fantasies that accidentally leaked into the town's defenses are imprisoned. It's in a well under the lighthouse. Only those whose seeds are slightly mature will be sent there when they are punished. It can also be said to be a test." Doris explained.

"you've been to?"

"..."

"It seems he has been there." Zheng Fan said.

"Hallucination, thank you for what happened today." Doris stood up and said to Zheng Fan with her back turned.

"Well, I'll accept it generously." There was no way Zheng Fan would be polite.

"But." Doris turned back: "Don't do this to me again."

Zheng Fan's smile did not change: "Why? I felt that you accepted it very quickly at that time. After that kind of irritability came up, it directly brought the person who was also lost to you. The execution ability can be said to be quite strong."

Zheng Fan noticed the person peeping outside the door earlier than Doris did, and had the effect of making the other person lose his way in advance.

The opponent's anti-tracking ability has indeed been practiced, but it is still relatively immature, and there is a chance of luck in the dark.

The real reason why Doris couldn't find her was that Zheng Fan was interfering.

When a person is lost, it is very difficult to be easily found by others and get out of the lost state. The only person you can meet when you are lost is usually another lost person.

This simple attempt also slightly deepened Zheng's understanding of the force that opposed it.

This force is not simply a trick of circulation in space, but a "logic" that actually combines multiple factors such as psychology, space and even time.

During this little stray moment, Doris quickly woke up and set a short-term goal for herself, which helped her get out of the stray path.

Although Zheng Fan played a guiding role to a certain extent, and her pure white factor probably also had an impact, her performance was definitely much better than when Zheng Fan scared himself at the beginning.

"Next time, I may not be able to get out." Doris lowered her head, her hair falling to cover her face, and the candlelight in the room could not illuminate her expression.

Zheng Fan didn't dwell on this matter any more, but instead asked, "As a thank you for tonight, how about you tell me about what happened between you and those little brats just now?"

Hearing this, Doris raised her head again and said, "We just met during the blessing test. The children who just joined will be implanted with seeds in the first week, observed for a week and initially learn various skills. The blessing test is a unified test of the initial formation scale of the seeds of light in a few days, and a preliminary rating will be conducted."

"It includes intelligence tests and physical tests. During this period, those of us who are relatively mature will also take part in the test, which is equivalent to a supplementary test. For management and some other possible purposes, there are no restrictions on harmful actions during the physical test. Only killing is prohibited in principle... If you make a mistake, the punishment will still be the same as I mentioned before..."

Doris's voice grew fainter as she spoke.

She usually doesn't talk much, but now she tells Zheng Fan everything. She has the urge to say something, but she feels like she can't breathe if she says too much.

Zheng was afraid that if she said a few long and difficult sentences, she might suffocate him.

"You saved that boy." Zheng Fan touched his chin.

"Yeah." Doris did not deny Zheng Fan, "It was just a casual kindness, and he naively gave me hope. He even tried to bring me into the small group he formed."

Doris looked at her huge room. Living in such an environment, even if she was not a princess, she could be called a daughter of a noble family.

"My living conditions are very good because of my status. As long as I say I want something, the nun will satisfy me. Even so, she can only accept "entertainment" such as literary books and classical music. Let's not talk about the lack of conditions for the children below. Although they have free time, their entertainment activities are still subject to stricter restrictions. The nun hopes that everyone can use their free time to practice and do things to improve their literacy."

Wow, that sounds like the exact opposite of the stereotypical elitist parent.

"It is definitely unacceptable to stay up all night and play together." Doris lowered her eyes, her delicate face with a sad expression, which was quite lovable. But after listening to it, Zheng Fan was more concerned about the situation of the monastery itself.

"You seemed to have mentioned that nun, who is the one that keeps most of the secrets here?"

Doris nodded: "So she must know what they did at night."

Zheng Fan almost realized something: "She will let this happen, but at the same time, it will lead to an unhappy outcome, right?"

Doris nodded slightly.

"You are an eyewitness of the last batch, and you may even be the last one to survive." Zheng Fan raised his chin slightly.

Doris's hands crumpled the quilt.

"Although I don't know the exact details, I have a general understanding of the situation. It's not easy for you, little lamb."

Doris shook her head and buried her head in the quilt again: "What's difficult... I have lived this kind of life, it must be much easier than the dead people and the other children down there."

Zheng Fan stared at her silently for a moment: "That's true."

After that, the silence in the room lasted for a long time.

Suddenly, Zheng Fan felt something was wrong.

"lamb?"

he shouted.

He was answered with the sound of gentle breathing.

He actually fell asleep just lying down like that.

She may also have a bit of a natural element.

……

In the dark night, Zheng Fan flew over the monastery, watching the white light of the lighthouse sweep past his eyes.

He moved closer to the lighthouse, but the white light from the lighthouse had no effect on him. It was as if he always crossed some boundaries inexplicably and still easily approached the top of the lighthouse.

Here he finally saw the light of the lighthouse.

It was a person with a smooth body, seemingly without any hair, limbs spread out, and a perfectly proportioned body, but his sexual characteristics could not be seen clearly. Apart from this, the human-shaped light source in front of him gave Zheng Fan a sense of déjà vu.

“The Vitruvian Man?”

The light source of a lighthouse is something like this?
Zheng Fan didn't know how to describe this, whether it was concrete or abstract.

Apart from anything else, even Zheng Fan felt that being naked and shining brightly was a bit too advanced.

He walked through the outer wall of the lighthouse and tried to get closer.

There is not only this human-shaped light source here, there are also some people active on the top of the lighthouse. This is actually a place with sophisticated and advanced equipment.

In contrast to the religious and magical atmosphere of the monastery below, it looks like a science fiction research institute.

The people walking around were monks from the monastery, wearing black or white robes.

"Lighthouse No. 7 has applied to withdraw our light source again, Sister." A monk came over and reported to the old man who was praying devoutly beside him.

"Rejected. We are about to make a selection. We need to consume a large amount of light sources at one time, and we cannot provide more to other lighthouses at this juncture." The nun stopped praying and said with her eyes closed.

"I understand. But Dadu also sent a notice before. Because our lighthouse's efficiency in training lamplighters is too low, there has not been a lamplighter in the past few years. If they can't find a satisfactory person in the near future, they plan to close the monastery and hand it over to someone else to manage."

The old man clenched his hands, which were clenched like dry branches.

She opened her eyes, empty and ruthless, and said slowly: "Doris will convince them and prove it to us."

(End of this chapter)