"Clang."

"Clang."

The whole world was filled with this sound.

All colors gradually faded away... These colors were actually the reflection of Zhou Yexin's inner world of emotions. The fading of colors meant that the subjective consciousness of the dream's owner had dissipated.

This dream about the broken pocket watch had probably reached its limit in terms of useful information.

Gu Shen could finally move his "body" freely. He looked at his own hands, and his palms were filled with blazing flames.

It was the power of the blazing fire that immersed him in this dream.

"So... am I now a little flame?" Gu Shen scratched his head.

He looked at the villa that had been burned to ruins and murmured softly, "I only wanted to explore the origin of the 'pocket watch', but I didn't expect to see such a terrifying dream..."

The blood-red fire that ignited the villa was definitely a disaster caused by transcendent abilities... and it was of a very high sequence.

The red flames that burned everything.

Although they were both fire, they were different from his own blazing fire... This was a fire that had a strong offensive erosion towards matter.

His own flames were more like a spiritual fire.

After staring at the blood-red flames for a moment, he actually felt a slight tremor in his "blazing fire". Through the ethereal dream, the transcendent arche of the blood fire seemed to have attracted his blazing fire?

"The rabbit doll... Father... Pocket watch..."

Gu Shen connected the useful clues in the dream.

The events in the dream may not necessarily exist in reality. Perhaps Zhou Yexin had never bought a rabbit doll in reality. However, the metaphor of these objects was reflected truthfully in the dream, and this required the dreamer to explore it themselves.

"Why doesn't 'Father' have a face?"

Gu Shen couldn't understand why the most important character in this dream didn't even have a face.

"Is it because, in the fire, he lost everything... all traces of his existence were wiped out." Gu Shen looked at the villa with some trepidation. There were still remnants of the blood-red flames lingering there. "Father fulfilled his daughter's wish by repairing the broken doll. He did it using the 'pocket watch'. Is he also a transcendent?"

After watching this dream, Gu Shen no longer thought that the pocket watch was an insignificant seal.

To encounter such a terrifying wave of fire.

And yet, the pocket watch was not destroyed... and from a certain perspective, it saved the rabbit doll. Judging from the reflection of reality in the dream, this pocket watch seemed to have the ability to reverse time when it was intact?

But now, this severely damaged pocket watch had its hour hand frozen and no longer ticking.

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What remained was only a faint transcendent power, which could only be used to assist in "mental hypnosis" and help ordinary people fall asleep quickly.

Gu Shen turned his head and looked at the fading, porcelain-white girl in the dream.

This dream was about to end.

"Her persistence all this time was to find out the truth about the fire that year..." Gu Shen's gaze became complicated. Xiao Xinjie, like himself, was an ordinary person who had experienced a transcendent event. The only difference was that she was not as lucky as him. This transcendent event accompanied the departure of her most important loved ones.

At this moment, when he looked back at Zhou Yexin's file.

Gu Shen suddenly felt a bit sad. He finally understood why a girl could go to the Centre Continents at the age of eighteen, persisting year after year under the gaze of everyone's incomprehension... The fire had wiped out everything. If she no longer persisted in seeking the truth, then the man in the dream might have truly died.

"This pocket watch contains a trace of transcendent power and is related to the dream." Gu Shen murmured, "This is the only relic left by her father... and the only clue about that blood-red fire..."

The surrounding light began to dim.

The scene gradually returned to reality.

In the end of the dream, Gu Shen erased the memories related to his blazing fire and applied some suggestions to ensure that Zhou Yexin would not feel anything abnormal after waking up, and her life could return to its normal trajectory.

He sat at the table, waking up from this dream. The consumption of mental power by the Truth Ruler had been replenished to a large extent, and he could finally barely act normally.

He tidied up the cubicle, then walked out slowly, pretending that he had never been here.

Then he knocked on the door.

After a moment, there was a response.

"...Come in."

Zhou Yexin covered her forehead, her thoughts a bit confused.

The knock on the door woke her up.

The first thing she did after waking up was to check if the pocket watch inside her clothes was still there. It was a habit she had developed over the past decade. The pocket watch was still there, and she breathed a sigh of relief. She tried to think hard, but her mind was temporarily blank. So, she murmured in a low voice as if seeking help, "Little Gu... Have I been asleep for a long time?"

"Maybe you didn't sleep well last night. You said you wanted to rest for a while this afternoon." Gu Shen said softly, "There's nothing important this afternoon, so I didn't disturb you."

Zhou Yexin smiled bitterly, "Is that so..."

She suddenly remembered the banner she brought with her and the insomnia she had. These things that should have surprised or amazed her, for some reason, now seemed ordinary.

This was the genius young man recommended by Mr. Tang Qingquan. He should be able to do these things.

"Dr. Gu, thank you for your hard work." Zhou Yexin said apologetically, "Actually, I have something I want to tell you. I don't quite understand why Mr. Tang arranged for you to intern... You're still so young, maybe you should go to a better place. There are many top-notch institutions in the East Continents."

Gu Shen was taken aback.

In fact, the suggestions he had given to Xiao Xinjie were very gentle, probably just making her think that it was reasonable for him to treat the group's insomnia today.

But he didn't expect that after the hypnosis ended, Xiao Xinjie would say this to him.

"Mr. Tang has supported me for many years... With your talent and aptitude, if you ask him, he will definitely help you." Zhou Yexin said seriously, "Maybe you should contact him."

"...Thank you."After a moment of surprise, Gu Shen smiled and quickly said, "That's a good suggestion, I'll contact him during this period."

Tang Qingquan... has been sponsoring Zhou Yexin for many years?

This chief justice of the Yinghai District is indeed not simple. If he started sponsoring Zhou Yexin when she went to study in Centre Continents, it's reasonable to speculate that Tang Qingquan knew about that bloody fire disaster.

Entering the dream personally, he felt the girl's pain, despair, regret, and breakdown in the dream.

The dreamer is the player in the drama.

After coming out of the dream, Gu Shen decided to help with the investigation as much as he could.

"If she's alone, no matter how long she persists on this path, there may not be any results..."

Gu Shen murmured in his heart, "This case is too old, and the investigation will be a long process. I may not be able to find out the ultimate truth, but regardless of the outcome, consider it as helping her along the way."

Moreover, this investigation would also benefit him.

In the dream, he looked at the blood and fire from afar, and he felt a response in his heart.

A vague response arose in Gu Shen's heart.

Perhaps... if he swallowed that bloody flame, his own bright blaze would greatly increase?