From the end of the world

Chapter 123 The next day
It is said that people do not dream during deep sleep. Dreams occur because parts of the brain are still active during light sleep. Frequent dreaming is considered a symptom of poor sleep quality.

From this perspective, I slept well that night. No dreams, no getting up at night, no waking up in the middle of the night, it was a high-quality sleep of eight hours. Before going to bed, I was worried that the random thoughts I had when sleeping in the same bed with Ma Zao would induce me to fall into some indecent dreams after falling asleep, and then cause me to say some indecent sleep talk in reality, or even unconsciously do indecent behavior. Now it seems that there is no need to worry about that.

However, since I failed to enter the misty dream, it meant that the crisis of the second bowl could not be resolved for the time being, which was destined to disappoint Ma Zao. After I woke up, I found myself still lying on the bed, and this was my first reaction.

Then, I found myself being held by someone.

It was early morning. Before falling asleep, she and I were still lying side by side on the bed, holding hands. The bed was a double bed, which I had put in the bedroom when I rented this house. There was enough space. Our feet might accidentally touch each other, but there would not be any other unnecessary contact.

But now she was hugging me tightly, her petite and soft body pressed tightly against my arms, I could clearly feel her body temperature. She buried her face in my neck, her warm and slightly moist breath regularly blowing on my skin, her legs straddling my body, the quilt was kicked under the bed.

What an amazing sleeping position. She never slept like this before. Actually, I also like to pile up the quilt and hug it when I sleep. Did she unconsciously treat me as a quilt or a large doll?

Last night I asked her if she was afraid of me touching her, but now I really don’t know who is touching whom.

I was originally thinking about getting away from her and getting up quickly, but I couldn't help but lie down for a while longer. During this process, I paid special attention to whether I had any indescribable physiological phenomena unique to men when they wake up in the morning. If so, I would have to reshape that part of me into a dormant state by elementalizing it separately. Fortunately, today is not that kind of day, so it's safe.

After a long time, I finally managed to get up. When I broke free from her embrace, she woke up. Maybe because I broke free too quickly, she didn't seem to realize that she was sleeping in the same position as before.

But our hands were still held together, and she held my hand very tightly. Then she stood up and slowly loosened her hand. The fragment of the divine seal was still in our palms.

Unlike many people who need time to start their brains after waking up, Ma Zao's brain starts up very quickly.

She first looked down at the fragment of the divine seal, then looked at me nervously.

I shook my head slowly.

I once doubted whether I would enter the foggy dream once every four days, but now this doubt has been dispelled.

She lowered her head in disappointment.

"We still have five days. As long as we can enter the misty dream one day in the next five days, we can save Xiaowan." This is all I can say to comfort her.

She nodded reluctantly: "I hope so..."

This situation is indeed not optimistic. No. 2 Xiaowan said that she could "hold on for ten days at most". Since it is "at most", it is an optimistic estimate. She might not hold on for the seventh or eighth day, and now five days have passed. If there is a way, I naturally hope that I can meet Ma Zao's expectations. It's a pity that this is the only thing that cannot be changed by my will.

We got up. Ma Zao went to the living room to watch the morning news, but her attention was obviously not on the TV screen. I took out my clothes from the dirty laundry basket and planned to wash them. The most convenient way was of course to let Ma Zao use her omnipotent blessing power, but I didn't want to trouble her with such an insignificant matter when she was injured.

On the shoulder of the shirt that he took out, the red marking sticker where Ma Zao had stepped barefoot was still stuck on it.

Last night, during the battle with the Monster Maker, Ma had already been teleported to my side with the marking sticker. It is worth mentioning that even in the elemental form, the sticker did not disappear, but followed me into the fire elemental form, and was still able to continue to function as a marking.

Not only stickers, but also my clothes, pants, personal belongings, etc. will be elementalized along with me, even after using fire teleportation.

Even the fragments of the divine seal are like this.

The basic principle of flame transmission is to decompose and reassemble oneself. The fragments of the divine seal will follow my flame transmission, which sounds like I can decompose and reassemble the fragments of the divine seal at will. In fact, it is true, but it is not as powerful as it sounds.

This is just my own intuition - for something like the fragments of the divine seal, existence on a material level is probably irrelevant, and even if one can decompose and reassemble the fragments of the divine seal at will, it doesn't mean anything.

Just like when humans throw stones into a pond, they can break the moon reflected on the water surface at will, and then watch the calm water surface reflect the moon again, but no matter how many times they repeat this process, it cannot affect the real moon hanging in the sky. This feeling becomes more and more vivid when I can touch the metaphysical level with my hands.

In addition, I have also tried to create different physical entities simply by relying on flames. Since I can decompose and reassemble my own body and belongings, it should be possible to create real flesh and blood and objects out of thin air, right? But this attempt also failed. The most I can do is to create flames of the same shape and with a "collision volume", but I cannot restore the color and chemical properties of the target creation. I have always been relying on instinct to decompose and reassemble myself and my belongings. Even I only know the results but not the reasons, so naturally I can't draw inferences from one example. The monster maker commented that I "use power very roughly", is this what he was talking about?
If one day I can really use fire to evolve all things in the world, wouldn’t I really become an omnipotent god?

Is this still considered "fire ability"?

I peeled the red marker sticker off my dirty clothes and stuck it back on my shoulder.

After returning to the living room, the morning news on TV broadcast something related to us.

Such a huge battle noise last night could not be treated as nothing happened, and it was even filmed by some "enthusiastic citizens" in the distance with mobile devices. In the picture, the streets at night were shrouded in mysterious black fog, and then flames suddenly appeared in the black fog. The raging sea of ​​​​fire engulfed the entire street, as if gas was ignited, causing a large-scale explosion.

Not long after, ten pillars of light that reached the sky and the earth mysteriously appeared in the distance. They instantly gathered towards the center and formed a huge and unstable ball of light, which went out and disappeared after a few seconds.

The host of the show simply called it an "unexplained luminous phenomenon" and said that "officials are still investigating." They call it an investigation, but they are probably just making up a story. And even if they can't make it up, it probably doesn't matter. After all, this incident was just a big deal, but it didn't cause any extra casualties. The only person who died was the creator of the monster.

Ma Zao looked at my shoulder strangely.

"Why do you still have that sticker?"

"Maybe it will be useful," I said.

"I see." She didn't pursue the matter any further and yawned again.

I asked with concern: "Are you sleepy?"

"I am a little sleepy." She said, "Maybe it's because I haven't slept in the past few days. In addition, I used too much blessing power yesterday. Even though I reset my energy, I still instinctively want to get more sleep."

"You didn't sleep the night before?" I was surprised.

She shook her head. Could it be that when I opened my eyes yesterday morning, I saw her standing by my bed like a ghost? It wasn't that she got up earlier than me, but that she stood by my bed and looked at me all night? That shouldn't be the case, right?
I persuaded her to go back to the bedroom and catch up on some sleep. Perhaps, even if we have powers beyond human duty, we are still limited by the human consciousness structure. Just like we do not need to eat but still instinctively pursue food, not needing to sleep does not mean that not sleeping has no effect on consciousness. In the end, invisible pressure will accumulate in a certain part day by day, and I also consider this aspect when I do not maintain the fire element form for 24 hours. And that may also have an impact on soul trauma.

"It does have an impact on the soul," she admitted.

After that, she did not force herself and went back to her bedroom to take a nap, saying that she would sleep for another two or three hours. It was now half past six in the morning, which meant that she would wake up around nine o'clock. Rounding it off, it was barely within breakfast time.

I went out, planning to have breakfast downstairs and bring some for Ma Zao. Unfortunately, the breakfast shop I usually go to was closed today, so I had to take a detour. Since I had to take a detour anyway, I planned to buy breakfast near Xianshui University. The breakfast there was better, and Ma Zao would probably be awake by the time I got back.

On the way, I checked my phone and found several text messages. Some were from Zhu Shi and some were from Lu Youxun. The latter was surprisingly numerous, probably because he realized that we had fought the monster maker.

I thought that most of Lu Youxun's text messages were complaints, but when I opened them I found that was not the case.

Actually, I did miss something last night, that is the "clinic" where the monster maker gives physical examinations to the monsters.

I just remembered that I had forgotten about that place. I shouldn't have not checked that place. This is my bad habit, I am easily distracted by the violent events in front of me. Although it sounds like an excuse, Zhu Shi's "Dad" last night really took away my attention from other "details".

I always find that I have forgotten something when I think I have thought it through. When I met Ma Zao again, I realized that I had not thought about how to explain it to Zhu Shi in advance. However, since even Ma Zao and Zhu Shi did not think of it at the first time, it also shows how huge the impact of that incident was.

Finally, Zhu Shi remembered it in time. After the group dispersed, she returned to the street again and called Lu Youxun over.

(End of this chapter)