The scenes flashed by, and Trist originally thought that the dream had ended, but when he opened his eyes, it seemed that was not the case.

He saw that he was lying on the bed, his clothes intact, covered with a thin blanket, and a handsome young man was sitting at the table next to him.

The man seemed to be processing documents and looked busy with official business.

Trist quickly recognized that the man was Stone.

After a little thought, he concluded that this was Liz's perspective.

I'm afraid that the monster saw her memories after merging with Liz and absorbing Liz's consciousness.

"Are you awake?"

Stone glanced at Drizzt. His tone was relaxed and gentle, not as restrained and calculating as usual.

"This wine is really strong. You passed out after only half a glass. You almost vomited all over me."

Stone said, pointing to the wine glass beside him.

Trist could feel that the owner of the body was a little shy. He heard a female voice, apologizing and asking if he still needed to work.

After all, it seemed that he was drunk before he even started serving the guests.

"No need, I just want to find someone to chat with. Tell me something interesting and I'll listen."

Stone put down his pen and looked over here.

The owner of the body began to stammer and talk about random things, clumsy and timid, but as the conversation deepened, she gradually relaxed and felt a kind of joy from the bottom of her heart.

She could also feel that this man seemed to be under tremendous pressure, and only this brief rest could allow him to relieve some of the burden.

"You don't have to continue your current job. I'm in need of a cleaning servant, and I think you're a good fit."

Stone said, surprising and exciting the owner of the body.

The dreams afterwards were somewhat fragmented, consisting of fragments of the two people getting along with each other. Stone talked about a lot of random things. He mentioned his journey to the Ruined City, his first murder experience, the complicated family relationships, his godfather, and his dreams.

"The society in Waste City is now completely fixed. The poor will be poor all their lives, and their descendants will always be poor. People like us can only become dogs of those upper-class people. I want to change all this, so that people like you don't have to sell your bodies anymore. We need to eradicate those bastards who sell illegal drugs. Even if we are a gang, we need to be a gang with principles."

Trist knew very well that to do this, Stone needed to become the godfather of the Catania family, needed this family to unify the underground world of the Wasted City, and needed to wage war against the upper class of the Wasted City.

This is what led to the deaths of Liz and Io, and the birth of the monster.

In an effort to save someone like Liz, Stone's actions killed Liz.

And he couldn't do anything. His dreams, career, everything were destroyed.

Trist even saw that Stone had someone pick out a well-fitting maid outfit for her, and he jokingly imagined Liz's embarrassed look when she wore the outfit, and her eyes filled with a mixture of surprise, regret, forbearance, and sadness when she heard from his men about the gunfight at Happy Home Apartments.

What he sought, that bright, glittering flower of glass, was in reality nothing more than the fetid muck of a sewer.

He was naive and believed that gangs were a rebellion against the existing order and represented the spirit of rebellion, but he did not realize that once he was stained with mud, he would never be able to return to the beginning.

Trist felt that his physical condition had undergone certain changes.

He seemed to have turned into the mud, with many consciousnesses in his brain.

In a trance, he said the other person's name.

"Io."

"She should be Liz's twin sister. She has been weak since childhood and suffers from a serious illness."

"After becoming the host of the sludge monster, her life has become more fragile."

"In the final moments, she became a monster, killing the gangsters and devouring everyone at the same time, blending their consciousness together."

"Stone and Liz knew each other, and Stone wanted to rescue Liz, but before that, the incident had already happened."

"Io used his consciousness to completely suppress the monster's madness, and Liz's consciousness controlled the sludge and found Stone."

"She wanted to help Stone realize his dream and make a brilliant glass flower bloom on this barren and dilapidated land."

A large amount of blood flowed from Trist's nostrils. He felt as if his brain was being roasted on fire. In his field of vision, cold and indifferent words from the system kept popping up.

You are corroded

[Sanity -1]

You are corroded

[Sanity -1]

Finally, his sanity stopped at twenty points, and Drizzt felt his vision distorted, and he fainted.

When he woke up again, what Trist saw was an unfamiliar ceiling.

"Are you awake? The operation was successful, and you are now a girl."

Lu Ban said this in a congratulatory tone while peeling an apple.

"???"

Drizzt immediately checked his pants.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

He shouted.

Lu Ban peeled the apple and put down the knife.

"Would you like an apple?"

"want."

Then Trist saw Lu Ban take a bite of the apple and eat it with relish.

“…”

Drizzt began to search for his revolver.

"You're awake? Great, it's time for dinner."

At this time, Xia Ya pushed the door open, holding a plate in her hand, which was filled with food piled up like a small mountain.

"Are you getting food for me or for yourself?"

Drizzt thought he might as well just lie back down.

"The food here is delicious, but a little bland. But bland is good. This is what patients should eat."

As she spoke, Xia ate her rice in big gulps and finished most of the food on her plate in one go.

"How long have I slept?"

Drizzt asked.

"About one day. Considering the erosion caused by pollution, this recovery speed is already very fast."

Xia replied, and finished a chicken leg in three seconds.

"Has the mission been completed?"

He checked his system interface and found that the task had indeed been completed and could be settled at any time - for Lu Ban and Xia, it meant they could return at any time.

"Congratulations, you are now a famous detective in the abandoned city. You solved the Glass Flower case single-handedly. The godfather of the Catania family was murdered by his adopted son. You fought off the monster but failed to capture the adopted son."

Lu Ban handed the newspaper to Trist.

"I don't want to do it again."

Trist felt that some changes had indeed taken place in his body, but he didn't know whether they were for the better or for the worse.

"Since you're okay, we should leave."

Xia licked the last bit of residue on the plate and put it down.

"You can ask the nurse to get you food later, or go by yourself."

"I'll leave this to you."

Lu Ban placed something on the table of Trist's bedside table and then stood up.

The two companions then disappeared, as if they had never appeared.

Trist picked up the thing Lu Ban gave him and looked at it carefully in his palm.

It was a pendant with an unknown flower pattern on it. The pendant was made of glass and there seemed to be a little gray mud in the middle.

He looked at the pendant and didn't notice that there was someone standing outside the door.

The man knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Drizzt looked over.