Chapter 756: Chapter 756: Dreamy Tapirus
Scarlett Jennings and her companions went to the place Samuel Chalmers had arranged in advance.
It was the same villa they stayed at last time when they came to Peaceful City tracking down the Undying Bone.
For Gregory Xander and Kingston Jennings, it was their first time here, so they didn’t have much of an impression; each said a quick word and went to their respective rooms to rest.
When only Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalmers were left, she turned to him,
"You bought this villa?"
Samuel Chalmers owned property in Peaceful City, but this place wasn’t included; last time, it was a villa arranged for convenience.
This time, however, Scarlett Jennings keenly noticed some small changes in the villa.
Apart from the cleaning lady switching to the Chalmers Family’s uniforms, the decor of the villa leaned more towards Samuel Chalmers’s personal tastes.
As someone who often visited the Chalmers Family, Scarlett Jennings felt she had caught onto Samuel Chalmers’s preferences somewhat.
Samuel Chalmers hadn’t intended to hide it from her, yet seeing her guess it so quickly brought him a strange sense of joy.
"Yes, this villa is quite special to me."
Scarlett Jennings was about to ask him what made it special, but suddenly, as if she remembered something, her heart warmed.
She heard Samuel Chalmers say,
"This is where we officially set down the marriage contract."
It wasn’t because of the Peach Wood Mark on their palms, but rather her inner desire to form a simple contract with him.
Although it was due to Stella Gibson and the Undying Bone forming a contract, Samuel Chalmers still remembered the scene from that day.
She unexpectedly confessed to him.
Since that day onwards, they officially confirmed their relationship.
Such a place was naturally special to him.
"When did you buy it?"
Scarlett Jennings’s voice inexplicably softened.
Samuel Chalmers said,
"The day we returned to the Capital Metropolitan."
It was the morning of the day after they confirmed their relationship.
Scarlett Jennings’s eyes stirred slightly, her heart’s warmth seemed to spread to the tips of her ears, she asked him again,
"How much did it cost?"
Samuel Chalmers reported a number, and then he heard her say,
"I’d like us to split the cost evenly."
When she said this, her gaze was intensely focused on him, capturing his figure in her eyes.
Samuel Chalmers was initially stunned, then as if he understood, his dark eyes slowly transformed into gentle laughter.
He didn’t even ask why she wanted to contribute half of the money.
Just said,
"Okay, I’ll have someone add a name to the property deed tomorrow."
Add his name.
After all, when he bought the villa, he wrote her name.
Scarlett Jennings didn’t know this; hearing he wanted to add a name, she naturally assumed it was hers, and immediately arched her brows in satisfaction.
Samuel Chalmers watched her, and the Golden Light around him suddenly flickered slightly, then he leaned in closer to her.
Scarlett Jennings felt the Golden Light before her almost drowned her vision and instinctively reached out to hold his arm.
Their distance gradually closed in, now Scarlett Jennings felt wrapped by Samuel Chalmers’s Golden Light again.
Suddenly, a cold mechanical cough sound came from the staircase on the second floor.
Their movements paused slightly, and they looked over to see Kingston Jennings standing at the bottom of the stairs, holding a phone, typing with a calm expression,
[I’ve been coughing a bit lately.]
After saying that, he didn’t forget to play the coughing sound again.
Scarlett Jennings: ...
You’re just using electronic sounds instead of your voice, but that doesn’t mean your throat installed a voice system.
There’s no need for the system to pretend-cough with scenario sounds.
Faced with Scarlett Jennings’s slightly speechless expression, Kingston Jennings remained composed, continuing to type and play the voice message.
[We have to go out tomorrow, I suggest you rest early too.]
Pausing, as if thinking of something, Kingston Jennings seriously typed and added,
[Rest separately.]
Scarlett Jennings: ...
She now suspected that Kingston Jennings received some special instructions from Donovan Jennings.
Of course, it might be from their mother too.
Or even their father.
She thought of a bunch but hadn’t considered that Kingston Jennings was watching them of his own accord.
Even if it wasn’t for her aunt.
After all, he was still her proper brother.
Yes, a cousin is also a brother.
Anyway, thanks to Kingston Jennings’s interruption, Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalmers went to rest separately.
Just before parting, Samuel Chalmers swiftly and naturally leaned down and left a goodnight kiss on Scarlett Jennings’s forehead.
Then, before Scarlett Jennings and Kingston Jennings could react, he warmly told her, "Rest early."
Once Scarlett Jennings was sent back to her room, Samuel Chalmers calmly said goodnight to Kingston Jennings and returned to his room.
Kingston Jennings: ...
Sneaky!
The interruption of that night quickly passed, and soon everyone in the villa had fallen asleep deeply. In the master bedroom, Samuel Chalmers suddenly slowly opened his eyes.
Consciousness spread out, hovering over Peaceful City, a special aura circulated in a certain residential building.
It passed through walls, entering the dream of one of the sleeping spouses on the bed.
In just two minutes, it quickly left, passing through walls into the body of a child.
That night, it roamed in various households and then seemed to find it somewhat bland and left.
Just as it prepared to switch to another building, a peculiar aura suddenly appeared before it.
Before that aura could escape, it was wrapped in a cluster of Golden Light and brought before someone.
This person was Samuel Chalmers.
And this aura was precisely the other reason he came to Peaceful City.
"Dreamy Tapirus, it’s you after all."
Dreamy Tapirus, also known as the Dreamy Tapirus, feeds on others’ dreams, able to recreate eaten dreams, trapping people in slumber.
It was an ancient mythical creature; even if causing trouble, it didn’t particularly require Samuel Chalmers to handle it personally.
Strangely enough, Samuel Chalmers remembered the Dreamy Tapirus had once consumed a corner of his original body’s dream.
If that corner of the dream were released, it would cause considerable trouble, so he had to personally retrieve that portion of the dream.
The Golden Light surged, quickly tightening the aura, and Samuel Chalmers’s voice coldly asked it,
"Take me to find your true body."
Dreamy Tapirus excelled in concealing itself, even when feeding dreams, it only dispatched a wisp of its clone; what Samuel Chalmers caught was evidently just a clone used for hunting.
The clone sensed danger, the cluster of aura immediately trembled, and in the next second, it resolutely self-destructed.
The aura dissipated like smoke into the air, along with the dreams consumed tonight.
Samuel Chalmers frowned as he felt the Dreamy Tapirus’s aura completely vanish, a cold expression on his face.
A long while later, he recollected himself, taking advantage of the pre-dawn sky to return swiftly to the villa.
Meanwhile.
In a certain basement in the city.
The Dreamy Tapirus’s true body, sensing its clone’s self-destructive disappearance, suddenly seemed to detect danger, transforming into a light cluster and unhesitatingly drilling into the body of a person in a corner of the basement.
The Dreamy Tapirus’s aura perfectly merged into that person’s consciousness.
The girl lying on the ground slightly shuddered, then seemed to writhe in pain, curling herself into a ball.
In the darkness, her appearance was barely visible.
It was a face without features.
Along with the featureless soul inside her, now twisting and struggling painfully within the dream.
Such painful and desperate dreams were precisely the Dreamy Tapirus’s greatest delight.