It was late at night.
It was quiet in the Southern Suburbs. Not a single light could be seen in the houses. Not even a dog or cat could be seen in the streets. Aside from the street lights that were still on throughout the night, the entire city was completely immersed in the quiet night, as if frozen in the night.
The dark clouds in the sky covered the crescent moon. Behind the thick clouds, only a glimmer of light leaked through the gaps between the clouds. The half-covered moonlight seemed to have a trace of scarlet color. It barely shone on the roof of the Hao family's mansion with a vague and illusory texture.
A flapping sound suddenly broke the silence of the night, which seemed to have frozen forever. The clouds in the sky seemed to have suddenly retreated, and the clear moonlight suddenly shone through the clouds. In the moonlight, a swarm of black bats circled down from the sky.
The swarm of bats circled the Hao family's mansion twice in a surprisingly orderly manner, and then flew into the house through the open skylight. The faint moonlight that shone through the skylight into the corridor suddenly dimmed and was cut into pieces by the swarm of bats. These bats quickly gathered in the corridor, and in the blink of an eye, they had gathered into an elegant and slightly cold black-haired girl.
Vivian returned from her 'walk'. She looked back at the moonlight outside and saw that the moon had been covered by the clouds again. This time, even a glimmer of light was hard to find.
The house was quiet, which was normal. It was almost half past one in the evening. Rollie, who was a night owl, and Y 'lisabet, who did not like to sleep, should have already gone to bed. Only a' vampire 'with a different biological clock could stay up at this time and go out for a walk. In fact, if it were not for the fact that she felt that she had not been sleeping well for the past few days, Vivian would have gone out for a longer walk.
Thinking of her sleep problems, Vivian could not help but stretch and yawn. She was ready to go back to her room to rest.
But before returning to the basement, she first went to the kitchen. First, she added rice and water to the automatic rice cooker and set the cooking time for the next day. Then, she went to the water room and filled a large basin of tap water to dry in the open space in the kitchen. The former was to save time for cooking in the morning, and the latter was because Lil Pea preferred to swim in the tap water after a few hours of drying. It was more effective in dispersing the strange smell in the tap water.
After she was done in the kitchen, she checked the water in the water dispenser. A certain careless dog often drained the last drop of water from the water dispenser and did not even bother to change the bucket. She cleaned up some biscuit crumbs on the coffee table, which should be evidence of Rollie sneaking out to eat in the middle of the night. If she did not clean it up, the silly cat would probably be scolded by Hao Ren by the ear until noon.
Vivian looked around the living room with her hands on her hips. She felt fulfilled and satisfied.
Finally, she returned to her room in the basement.
She did not turn on the lights. She only hummed a simple melody. Even without dark vision, the sound waves around her were enough for her to detect all the details in the dark. The electricity bill was actually very little, but Vivian was very used to this frugal way of living. Even if she did not have to worry about food and clothing, some of the habits that had been formed were not that easy to change.
She waved her hand again, and a swarm of bats appeared out of thin air and surrounded her. They transformed her clothes into a black nightgown. She then lay on the bed and prepared to sleep.
But soon, she sat up again and frowned slightly in the dark, listening attentively to a sound coming from a certain direction.
She heard someone calling her name again, and it was still the same inexplicable auditory hallucination.
This was not the first time these auditory hallucinations had appeared. They had appeared at least seven or eight times in the past few days, and each time, it was so real that it was difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
Vivian shook her head and placed her hand on the amulet that she received from Raven 12345 in front of her chest. A sense of calmness gradually came over her.
The auditory hallucination was only a momentary thing, and it soon disappeared as if it had never appeared. Under the forceful calming effect of the amulet, she felt a little sleepy. So, she put those unimportant things aside, lay on the bed again, and slowly fell asleep.
The basement returned to silence. Only the medical pods and teleportation devices in the cubicles occasionally made a few soft sounds when they were on standby. Deep darkness gathered from all directions, and everything was silent in the dark.
After a while, some blurry, indistinguishable things gradually emerged from the darkness.
In the corner of the basement, on the dark ceiling, and beside Vivian's bed, the phantom-like things gradually emerged. At first, they were deep and turbid black, almost blending in with the surrounding darkness. But gradually, these things gained more vivid colors, and quickly stood out from the darkness. These chaotic and blurry shadows became clearer, and began to show various forms: birds and beasts, people, horses and carriages, palace walls, pavilions, and even mountains, forests, lakes, and seas …
The basement seemed to have expanded countless times, and the surrounding walls and furniture seemed to have disappeared into thin air, transforming into a boundless world. In the darkness, other than the bed that Vivian was on, there were all kinds of phantoms moving around. They overlapped and stacked together, like scenes of historical absurdities with a distorted timeline and ridiculous logic. All kinds of things that had long been annihilated appeared in these scenes.
A Viking pirate walked out from the shadows. His upper body was naked, and the horned helmet on his head had a few fine cracks. He came to Vivian's bed, but one of his feet was in the air, as if he was looking into the distance. A wave of water splashed from his feet, and the wooden ship's railings and messy ropes appeared under his feet.
Then, a flame streaked across the sky, and the Viking pirate shattered like glass. A fleet caught up from behind the pirate ship. The fleet was flying the flag of a Greek city-state. An ancient Greek naval officer stood at the bow of the ship, unsheathed his long sword and pointed it at the terrifying sea monster that was surfacing in front of him.
Poseidon emerged from the head of Vivian's bed. The giant with thick seaweed-like hair pointed his trident at the Greek warships, and countless warships were instantly torn to pieces by the wind and waves.
In the next moment, endless yellow sand replaced the turbulent waves of the sea. Persians in long robes trudged across the desert. A merchant driving a camel stopped in front of Vivian's bed. He bent down, but his eyes did not fall on the bed at all. Obviously, he was looking at something else in his space-time continuum.
Suddenly, a long sword slashed through the illusion of the Persian merchant. Then, like a swarm of locusts, bolts covered the sky. The Persian caravan disappeared, and an army in black armor appeared in the distance. The mighty officer on the horse shouted, "The King of Qin has ordered that the enemy's head will be recorded. Regardless of your background, you are to fight the enemy bravely!"
However, the general's words were swallowed up by the sandstorm, and his army soon became an illusion floating in the yellow sand. In the sandstorm that covered the sky, a floating battleship that seemed to be made of gold slowly flew across the sky. Its giant sail was almost as bright as the sun.
Countless people appeared to worship. They prostrated in the yellow sand, beside the pyramids, and in the fertile soil by the Nile River. Both the nobles and the commoners were praising the name of Ra and the name of Horus in unison.
However, a powerful light struck from the west. The Sun Ship was torn apart in a huge explosion, and the whole of Egypt was plunged into a sea of fire.
The messy history was still playing in this absurd scene, but between heaven and earth, only the small bed was unaffected like an island. Vivian, who was sleeping on the bed, frowned as if she was dreaming of something bad.
She turned over, and all the illusions shook violently. It was as if the world was collapsing, silently falling into pieces. Mount Olympus collapsed, and so did Ra's temple. The ancient city of Pompeii, Troy, Asgard, Thinis, Babylon, and the legendary Tower of Babel … Everything began to collapse.
However, the silent collapse suddenly stopped because Vivian had calmed down again. She murmured a few words softly. Perhaps it was the menu for tomorrow, perhaps it was something to buy at home, or perhaps it was the name of a certain television program. In any case, she fell into a deep sleep again, and the illusion of the basement was preserved.
After maintaining a strange silence for a moment, the illusions retreated like the tide, and the original scene of the basement finally reappeared.
However, not everything had retreated. Beside Vivian's bed, some translucent things were still there. It was a circle of primitive people with disheveled hair dressed in animal skins. They formed several circles, and the fire from another time and space shone on their faces, making them look as terrifying and hollow as ghosts. They worshiped beside Vivian, bending over and kissing the ground beside Vivian. Their voices came from another time and space, faint and indistinct.
"The Great, King of Blood, the Great, King of Nightmares, the Great, King of Death …"
The dark night gathered in all directions, and finally, the last of the illusions disappeared.
The dark clouds in the sky had dispersed, and a crescent moon reappeared in the sky. It was about to sink below the horizon, but it still emitted an abnormally bright moonlight. The moonlight shone into the room through a narrow window above the basement, shining on Vivian.
Under the last ray of moonlight, Vivian turned over again. As if affected by the light, she frowned and murmured softly.
"It's time to get up …"
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