Chapter 332 Little Butterfly
“Nightmare Butterfly… hatched?” Saul first calmed himself down, recalling the scene from his dream.
“If that Nightmare Butterfly really hatched in my dream, its ending won't be good… but why does it call me Brother Saul? Penny clearly died in Mo Fan Town.”
He recalled that at the end of the dream, Penny seemed to be asking him for help, and he had originally wanted to observe his own history, as if he had seen something incredible.
After that, he had no impression. When he opened his eyes, he thought he had just had a long, beautiful dream.
“Could it really be Penny in my dream?” Saul took a test tube from the shelf.
The glass surface of the test tube was not damaged in any way.
The fingers holding the test tube tightened slightly until the glass surface made a groaning friction sound, then he suddenly relaxed.
“Perhaps… it’s time to look at the notes I got from Haywood.”
Saul obtained Haywood's research on the Nightmare Butterfly in exchange for finding Heidi—the curse parasitizing Haywood, or rather, his sister.
However, because of Haywood's warning and Saul's own fear of the Nightmare Butterfly, he had not opened it to read it yet.
But now that the cocoon was missing, and likely hatched, Saul could no longer wait.
He held the test tube in his hand and walked straight to the Nightmare Butterfly research notes stored at the other end of the warehouse.
But after getting the notes, he didn't immediately flip through them. Instead, he returned to the experiment table and meditated to check his condition.
“Now that I think about it, when I tried to check my history, I should have been contaminated by something. At that time, I also heard the sound of pages turning, which should have been the diary warning me.”
“But I didn’t react at all at the time… Is this beyond the safety alert range of the locator?”
It was like stepping off the platform extended for him by the glass window.
After meditating for an hour, Saul confirmed that his mental state was stable, and the contamination he suffered in the dream had not been transmitted to his real body.
Opening his eyes, Saul's expression was a little strange, “It seems that all the influence I received in the dream was absorbed by the Nightmare Butterfly.”
“Did she die directly in my dream?”
Thinking too much was useless, Saul solemnly opened the notes in front of him.
On the title page of the notes was written a sentence.
【This is a dream you will never wake up from.】
Ten minutes later, Saul closed the book.
“Nightmare Butterfly… it really hatched in the dream. But the ‘historical reproduction’ that Haywood mentioned is a bit strange.”
He didn't read the entire notebook.
Because after only reading the first few pages, Saul felt sleepy.
This was very abnormal. He had clearly just woken up, and after an hour of meditation, his mental strength was very strong.
Therefore, he immediately put the book down and meditated again to stabilize his mental state.
“Sure enough, you need to be very careful when reading this book.”
Saul put the notes back away.
If what the book said was basically correct, then the Nightmare Butterfly's egg had indeed hatched in his dream.
“I clearly sealed the Nightmare Butterfly's egg, and there had been no signs of hatching before. Why did it suddenly hatch after I came back? Could Penny have done something to me?”
The power of the Nightmare Butterfly had obviously exceeded Saul's control.
But something unexpected happened at the end of the dream, and Saul did not immediately report this to the Tower Master.
Moreover, the diary had not yet issued a warning.
“Wait, the diary?”
The dark red hardcover book opened in response.
It flipped through the gorgeous golden pages, numerous white pages, mottled black pages, and finally came to the back cover.
“This is…” Saul looked in surprise at what appeared in the book.
It was no longer a page… but a bookmark.
A silver, shimmering, hollowed-out butterfly bookmark.
Just as Saul was about to touch it with his consciousness, he saw the bookmark suddenly disappear.
“What?” Before Saul could search, he suddenly saw a silver butterfly appear in his eyes.
It was as if the bookmark had come to life.
But when he reached out to touch it, he only touched a mass of air.
He immediately frowned, and a wisp of black light appeared in his palm. The black light suddenly constricted and shot towards the butterfly's location.
This was one of the Tier 1 wizard spells that Saul mastered, Negative Energy Ray.
But this energy ray still did not touch the butterfly, directly passing through to the other side, and finally Saul dissipated it halfway to avoid hitting other things.
But the silver butterfly was still in Saul's sight, and even flew around his head twice.
“Xiao Zao!”
Saul summoned his beloved pet.
Xiao Zao responded and appeared.
As soon as it came out, it also saw the butterfly.
Perhaps it had never seen such a peculiar butterfly, like a silver metal hollow carving, it immediately rushed up.
The butterfly leaped upwards and landed on Xiao Zao's head.
Xiao Zao immediately twisted its neck to look back, but it couldn't see the butterfly on its head no matter what.
In desperation, Xiao Zao stuck out its black tongue and licked its forehead.
But its tongue tip also did not touch the butterfly, passing through as if it were air.
“You can see it, but you can't touch it. It's like a three-dimensional projection, or something that only exists in the retina.”
Saul's heart moved, and he released another Tier 1 wizard spell, Light of Darkness.
This wizard spell could release a special darkness that could not be seen through, and the vision of people inside was not affected.
But when the butterfly was shrouded in the Light of Darkness, Saul could still see the butterfly's figure.
“It's not light imaging.” Saul recalled that this butterfly had once hidden in his left eye before it emerged from its cocoon.
He slowly closed his left eye.
The butterfly disappeared, and only Xiao Zao, who was constantly twisting its head, was left in front of him.
“Does it only exist in the field of vision of my left eye? But why can Xiao Zao see it?”
At this time, Xiao Zao suddenly stopped moving and turned to face Saul's left shoulder.
Saul also felt a slight coolness on his left shoulder, as if something had appeared there.
He opened his left eye again and saw the silver butterfly landing on his left shoulder.
But when he reached out again to gently stroke the butterfly's wings, he still couldn't touch it.
“That's right, Xiao Zao can't see either. It doesn't have eyes, it only tracks the aura of death. But the Nightmare Butterfly is not a dead person.”
“Don't stick your tongue out at me. Even if you can't touch me, it makes me uncomfortable!”
At this time, a little girl's voice came from the Nightmare Butterfly, scolding the approaching Xiao Zao.
Saul was not too surprised that the Nightmare Butterfly could speak, “Penny?”
The little butterfly briefly took off and landed again, “Brother Saul.”
This voice sounded somewhat like Penny's, but more childish, like a four- or five-year-old child.
“Brother Saul.”
It called out again.
“You are not Penny. Who exactly are you?” Saul's face turned cold, “I know you have consciousness. If you don't speak, I'll lock you up forever.”
Since it was already a bookmark in the diary, Saul had the right to control it. He believed that no matter what kind of life form it was, it would not want to be a bookmark forever.
“Brother Saul.”
But the butterfly still only said this sentence.
“Xiao Zao, lick her!”
“Ah, ah, ah, wrong, wrong, wrong!”
The butterfly immediately screamed and dodged nimbly.
Then, it slowly fluttered its wings and hovered next to Saul's left ear, “Brother Saul, I'm not Penny. I should have been, but I'm not now.”
“On you, I lost a part of history.”
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