Behind the red door, there was a giant twisting. Various lights intertwined, overlapped and intertwined …
It was like there were two different memories clashing but at the same time, they intertwined with each other.
It was like an old television with bad signal, the images appeared, blurry, rustling …
Gu Jun felt a sharp pain in his head. Peacock, who was pressed on his right hand, started to sway. Her struggle became more intense. She was waking up from the hypnosis.
"There is a song, you can hear it …" He immediately guided her. He did not really hear the song but since Peacock liked songs, then there had to be these markers in her memory bank. They could help her find a clear and stable point in the chaos.
"I … can … hear … it …" Peacock mumbled, "It is a song that I like very much …"
"Yes, you are right." Gu Jun continued to hypnotize her and he carefully used his mental power to help her. "It is when you are listening to this song."
Those chaotic lights and shadows were condensing, and it seemed like a song was gradually being sung. Suddenly, a clear memory flashed past.
A small white car drove down the road at a high speed. The driver was a young girl about 16 or 17. Her face was made up and she was wearing a fashionable dress. As she drove, she sang loudly. She had an air of arrogance about her, if not arrogance.
The girl's face … was Peacock's but younger.
Gu Jun frowned. This was not something that happened in the dream world and the girl could not be a land's traveller.
He could hear clearly that Peacock was singing an English song …
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift.
This song was once very popular but it should have been released about 8 years ago. Was this part of Peacock's memory from that time? Was it on Earth?
"Where are you going?" Gu Jun suppressed the agitation in his heart. This might not be a simple lie, there was more to it than that …
Because he sensed that these memories were hidden so deeply that even Peacock herself did not know about them …
"It's Judy's birthday party …" Peacock mumbled. Her voice changed amid the confusion. She was speaking in English, fluent English. Even her voice had changed, it sounded like a different person. "Tom will be there. I know that little bastard is going to beg me to forgive him. Fuck him! I gave him a chance, and I will never give it again! "
The scene changed. There was a house with a garden and swimming pool, loud music, and a noisy environment. Many boys and girls of this age were playing.
Gu Jun frowned even more. This wasn't China. No, China wasn't like this …
He saw Asian faces, mixed race faces, white and black faces. This was definitely not China.
Where did Peacock grow up? America? Europe?
"Is Tom here?" Gu Jun asked darkly, "Which one of you is Tom?"
"That one is …" Peacock mumbled. In the scene, she was chatting happily with a few girls. Then a boy walked over. Peacock glanced at him and gasped in shock — she then spoke in the language of the land's travellers, "Malachite, where are we?!"
Gu Jun could see clearly now, the boy 'Tom' was Malachite, the Malachite from his youth …
The memory started to waver like it was going to collapse at any moment. Peacock hugged her head and screamed in pain, "Where is this, who are these people … Our people are waiting for us to return, we have to bring back the Pnakotic Manuscripts, we cannot let the Ossarians get away with it …"
"Kate, Kate?" The girls gasped in shock, "Kathlyn, are you alright?!"
They could hear her. Gu Jun felt chills run down his spine. Was this a real memory or a distortion?
At that moment, the boy's expression shifted. He gripped his head in pain, "Ah … no, Peacock, we might have fallen into an illusion …" The first half of the sentence was in English but the second half was in the land's travellers' language.
"What's wrong with you guys?" "Something is wrong with them. Call 000! "
Gu Jun listened to the girls' screams. 'Which country's emergency number was 000?' 'Australia, yes, Australia … 'He had been there to seek medical help.
These 'Kathlyn' memories of Peacock all happened in Australia.
But the hypnosis was about to break. Gu Jun quickly said, "Kate, Kate!" He stopped calling her as Peacock, he needed to stabilize her other identity. "There is another song, you heard another song. It's not here. Kate, what song is it? Tell me. "
"Song?" Peacock mumbled as she struggled. Another consciousness fought for control. "It's a song about the Phecda Hero …"
"It's not this song." Gu Jun interrupted her and gave a direct order. "It's an English song. You can hear it, just like how you've heard it before. You heard it on the way here, it's that song. "
He had no idea what he could dig up. How did Peacock and Malachite end up in the dream world?
When? In what way? What organization did they belong to?
"An English song …" Peacock's voice changed. She turned back to speaking in English. "Yes, yes, that song …"
Gu Jun used his mental power to stabilize the scene but it was like trying to calm the raging waves of the sea. The scene was tumbling and her memory was surging.
It was a yellow desert, just like the one he was currently in. However, there were densely packed stone houses, clean lakes, and tall statues … Suddenly, the adorable face of a little girl flashed by. She was holding a ceramic puppy with a curious gaze. Little Sugar …
The City of Kindle, was that the City of Kindle … It really did exist …
But suddenly, the desert scenery changed drastically. It was still desert land, but there were some short trees and shrubs. He saw some houses and a road. There was a brown English road sign by the side of the road.
Geikie-Windjana Way
LED - 155km. "
"Hmm." Gu Jun was about to get a clearer look when the scene changed again. There were no more houses, roads and telephone poles.
In the boundless desert, there were five young people walking on the yellow sand.
Peacock, Malachite and the other three, they were the people he once met at Dylath-Leen. They were all of their age and appearance now.
They were expressionless, as if they were machines in a trance, but their footsteps were steady as they walked forward.
There was a messy pile of boulders before them. Three of the boulders formed a gap that looked like a door. There was a strange light coming from inside the gap.
"That is …" Something clicked in Gu Jun's mind. He saw the five walk towards the stone gap one by one. Their figures disappeared into the blurry light. The last to leave was Peacock. Once she stepped into the gap, the scenery twisted madly.
"Ah!" Peacock's eyes flew open. The muscles on her face twisted as she screamed in pain.
Gu Jun recovered. He took a deep breath and hurriedly ordered, "Peacock, it's over! Wake up, it's over! "
They were still in the 'City of Kindle'. Malachite, who was further away, did not seem to notice. She was holding her head like she was suffering from a headache; the Zoogs were patting themselves and pointing at each other in confusion.
"It's over." Gu Jun ordered again but Peacock was still in pain. Her curled up body shivered.
He frowned and yelled at the Zoogs, "Where is the channel that you mentioned?!" The Elder Zoog said it was in this desert but for the exact location, they had to get here and rely on their sense of smell to identify the scent left behind by the Zoogs.
"Erm." The Elder Zoog immediately patted his stomach and said, "What a coincidence, it's not that far from here. We'll be there in another 500 steps."
Gu Jun's head sank. He looked at Peacock who was in pain and then at Malachite who was asking the Elder Zoog who he was talking to.
A bigger whirlpool of fog was pulling him in …
Peacock's group, these five people, they did not come from the past or the future, they came from the present.
They must have entered this dream world through a tunnel in the desert of Australia, the City of Kindle. Then they departed for Ulthar to search for the Pnakotic Manuscripts and then met the nightmare man at Dylath-Leen.
At least that was what their bodies were.
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