181 Eternal Nightmare

“Carlot Doctors,

In the times of peace, you fight for harmony.

When the whole world is collapsing and imploding and when humanity has nowhere else to turn but horror,

You will not turn back.

You shall use your sharp surgical knife to slice through the darkness.”

As the shadows materialized into being, it burned through Gu Jun’s store of mental power. To pour the notes and illusion from the incomplete spell page into this dream, it weakened his heart and halted his breath. Some of the illusions were awakening within his mind. The great Carlot Academy, the young faces, he seemed to be hearing them learning this little ditty. The cold rain drenched the faces that had come into details. Teacher Orlem appeared to be a serious-looking middle-aged man, his beard was meticulously trimmed; there were 11 students following him, the guys were handsome and the girls imposing. Raybundy was a picture of honesty and kindness while Landon…

“Dirty-minded Jun, that guy looks so much like you.” Wu Siyu commented in surprise. After the swirl in the whirlpool, her face was now a bit pale. The person she was referring to was the ‘Mr. Landon’ on the young watcher’s lips. He had the facial feature of the foreign race but there were features of his face that were startlingly similar to Gu Jun. And even his name tasted salty on Wu Siyu’s lips!

In that moment, Gu Jun was given snatches of his memory. There were sounds of familiar music, it tingled repeatedly like the beeping from an answering machine. No, it was not just a normal beeping, it was Meeping… Glibbering…

‘No wonder I can use the spell of the zombies, this explains it, no? The resentment Chandler has towards Landon is yet another ploy for these people to draw out the Son of Misfortune within me…?’

“Ah!” The pain in Gu Jun’s mind eclipsed the pain from his pinkie. His mind was fraying. The group of Carlot Doctors stood there motionlessly like mannequins and their shapes started to blur again.

“Dirty-minded Jun, Dirty-minded Jun…” Wu Siyu wanted to do something but she was in the grip of the darkness herself.

“Child, it is this nightmare who brought you into this world.” The dead bodies said, “Your soul is derived from a part of this nightmare.” Gu Jun and Wu Siyu watched helplessly as the nightmare continued to unfold. Behind the second floor window of the old manor that was expanding, more shadows walked out. They were children less than 10 years old, some of them were just toddlers. They shuffled to the window expressionlessly, there were tens of them, hundreds of them, no, thousands of them.

“They are those ESP children…” Wu Siyu confirmed, she could recognize among them the faces of the children who were used to harm Elder Tong inside the classroom so many years ago.

‘Try to listen to the voice of the dream… Is this nightmare part of that dream?’ Gu Jun could feel his mind swaying… Even the spirit of the ESP children had arrived at this place…

“Gu Jun.” The children said in unison and their tone was equally devoid of emotion, “Mother is very disappointed in you.”

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“Shut up…” The pain was still increasing. His mother’s gentle smile flashed across his mind…

Only the Great Ones rule everything!”

Gu Jun was pulled deeper into the chanting and he could feel himself sinking. But at the same time, he heard some other voices cutting through. “Ah Jun? Ah Jun?””I am Zixuan, can you hear me?””Are you there? Ah Jun?” He heard Cai Zixuan, Wang Ruoxiang, he heard Xue Ba, Uncle Dan, Lou Xiaoning, Elder Tong… What a weird time to start missing them… There were also Dirty-minded Yu, Prof Gu, Prof Qin, Brother Qiang and many more…

‘When the whole world is collapsing and imploding, someone needs to stand up to the horror.

‘This nightmare has to be destroyed, and this darkness has to be vanquished.’

“So everything is just an illusion…” Gu Jun said slowly. Gradually he stopped hanging his head in pain, instead it was held high staring at the group of shadows gathered behind the second floor window. “These Carlot Doctors might just be an illusion to you but that matters not, because a real Carlot Doctor is here and Gu Jun is his name!”

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