After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

"Excuse me...what's the situation now?" Jiang Yu bit the cigarette handed by 207, with a bad feeling in his heart.

"I'll check it." 207 connected to the backstage of the Nightmare system for a while, only shook his head with a deep expression, "The ghost tunnel mark was not found in the copy, and the broadcast just now was not within the program setting range."

"It shouldn't be... Could it be that another instance has crossed the line..." She scratched her hair irritably.

You Yu connected to the main system and calmly said: "The bug registration manual of Dream World shows that there was a bug that existed in the nightmare dungeon in the form of a tunnel."

207 curled his eyebrows: "bug? Can it be fixed?"

You Yu shook his head: "The records show that the tunnel bug is also called the Unknown Time Domain, because it is impossible to predict the time of occurrence, the impact and the resulting danger, and it cannot be repaired. It is classified as one of the uncontrollable dangerous bugs. One, but the most absurd thing is that there is a note in the record: no dream maker has seen the appearance of a ghost tunnel with his own eyes."

207 wondered: "Isn't this very contradictory? How could the ghost tunnel appear in the bug list if the dreamer hadn't seen it appear with his own eyes? Could it be that it registered and wrote it for itself?"

You Yu shrugged: "It's possible."

207: "...Are you serious?"

You Yu nodded: "Maybe the bug has self-awareness?"

207: "..."

You Yu: "There is another possibility, which was entered by the Dream Maker himself."

"Hua," 207 suddenly smiled, "I now doubt whether this guy is real, after all, no one has seen it."

You Yu bends the corners of her lips: "I have never doubted the existence of the Dream Maker, after all, the world is still functioning normally."

207 shook his head indifferently: "I don't care about anything else. I only care about whether this bug will cause the copy of Highway 404 to collapse."

"It's really hard to tell." You Yu never offered meaningless comfort, only telling the truth.

207 speechless.

Chi Nan could perceive the uneasy atmosphere in the car and sincerely apologize: "Sorry, I made the bug. If I can, I will do my best to compensate."

You Yu glanced at 207, and 207 waved at him: "Come on, who is willing to ask your little evil spirit for compensation."

Chi Nan:? ? ?

He glanced at You Yu suspiciously, and then smiled: "It doesn't matter, it takes talent to find hidden bugs."

"I am looking forward to seeing the legendary bug with my own eyes." You Yu added very interested.

207: "..." This colleague was not saved but was very good, so I can only choose to forgive.

"...I'll try again if I can tune it back." Chi Nan continued to turn the radio frequency modulation button, but no matter how he adjusted it, it was the same radio——

[EM00404 The vehicle is approaching the ghost tunnel, which has a total length of 80km and an estimated travel time of one hour. ]

"Forget it, since you have encountered it, let's see what the situation is and find a way to fix it." 207 has no other way.

Everyone in the back seat straightened their backs unconsciously, and the tense air filled the narrow compartment.

Pei Mo, the most fragile in heart, even wanted to cry loudly at this moment. In the first few minutes, he was immersed in the joy of breaking his dream. Now he poured down a basin of cold water and made him fall from heaven to hell.

Why is it so unlucky? Let him encounter a legendary bug that is completely out of control? Pei Mo hides his face to suppress the urge to cry.

"Are you afraid?" You Yu glanced at Chi Nan from the corner, and asked with a smile.

Chi Nan shook his head and nodded: "I'm afraid to cause trouble for you."

While he was talking, a long tunnel suddenly appeared in the gray wilderness, covering the entire 404 highway.

Everyone held their breath, and You Yu stepped on the accelerator and rushed over at a faster speed: "Sit down."

The moment the car entered the tunnel, the car fell into an unprecedented level of absolute silence.

Silent darkness shrouded in, as if someone had pressed a button that shielded the world, and all senses disappeared in an instant.

The disappearance of the sense organs gave Yu Yu an illusion of death again. All perceptions melted and disappeared in the bottomless darkness. The soul turned into foam and washed ashore by black waves. When the sun rose, everything turned into nothingness.

Is he real? You Yu asked herself again in the void.

People who have died once have difficulty distinguishing the boundary between existence and nothingness, as if they cannot accurately answer whether they are still alive.

What is the evidence of being alive? breathe? Heartbeat? Or the butterfly effect caused by every move?

Chaos thoughts constantly scoured his subconscious mind like ocean waves, and Yu Yu was like a corpse floating on the sea, quietly waiting for the chaos to ebb.

Until the noisy human voice awakens the sense of hearing.

Youyu's vision, smell, and touch are revived one by one.

He found himself outside the door of an old house where he had been imprisoned since he was a child. It had just been a rainstorm in the summer afternoon, and the ground was wet and slippery. Aunt Mei was trimming the leaves and spikes of roses in the yard.

"Aunt Mei?"

As You Yu expected, Aunt Mei, who was busy repairing the dead leaves, didn't respond to his voice.

This is not a copy of his dream world, but a tunnel bug that brought him to a real timeline.

As mentioned in the bug list, the tunnel bug is also called the unknown time domain.

Like a ghost, he opened the door of the old mansion. Bai Yingzhi sat in the living room to entertain a psychic, and was planning how to use Xiao Youyu's soul to meet the needs of worshipping evil spirits.

There was an unpleasant smell of burning and blood in the room. You Yu was lazy to take a look at their disgusting deal and went straight to his bedroom on the second floor.

All the confusion and doubts disappeared instantly, and he knew his purpose for coming here.

The so-called ghost tunnel does not mean that there are many evil spirits and ghosts in the tunnel, but that the person entering the tunnel will become a ghost that crosses the time line.

In this timeline, all the memories have not been passive, he just needs to confirm it.

The bedroom door was locked, and You Yu tapped gently.

Xiao Youyu's immature and vigilant voice came from inside the door: "You are not Aunt Mei, who are you?"

You Yu deliberately didn't speak, Xiao Youyu asked again: "Are you a new doctor? I don't want to take medicine today."

You Yu separated the door and said warmly: "I just want to come over and tell you the way you never need to drink medicine."

Xiao Youyu did not speak, and You Yu said: "You can trust me, and I believe you will choose to believe me."

Xiao Youyu asked suspiciously: "Who are you anyway?"

You Yu understands himself when he was a child, and said straightforwardly: "You can help people who leave here."

After a moment of silence, Xiao Youyu asked coldly: "What price do I have to pay?"

Since he was young, he has understood that there is no free lunch in the world.

You Yu secretly took a breath, his heartbeat was a little chaotic.

"You just need to open the door," he said, "let me confirm one thing."

The moment Xiao Youyu opened the door, You Yu looked towards the west wall in the direction of memory.

There is a picture hanging on the wall, sinking in the light of overlapping shadows. This is the biggest difference between the whole house and the dream world.

"Can I enter the house?" You Yu asked for Xiao Youyu's consent.

Xiao Youyu nodded, and her eyelashes trembled: "Please come in."

As You Yu approached, there were tears on the face of the teenager in the painting calmly, a pair of faint green eyes staring at the world outside the frame, as if he was outside the event without any emotions, but let the person staring at him personally perceive the self. Small, no one can look away, in the solemnity that makes people unable to breathe, they have gained some kind of redemptive power.

These eyes have colors that are not human, full of divinity.

Two moles of tears were born on the corners of the young boy's eyes in the painting, which were wet by the rolling tears, which diminished his solemn divinity a bit and gave birth to another unique melancholy.

These eyes Youyu are so familiar to him that he unconsciously stretched out his hand and tried to touch the boy's tearful mole in the painting.

I see.

It's you... brother. Say it early.

The invisible Xiao Youyu seemed to perceive his movements and warned the impolite guest: "Please don't touch him."

You Yu's hand hung in the air, and the corners of her lips raised imperceptibly: "Sorry, I won't touch your brother."

Xiao Youyu's face changed slightly, but he didn't go deeper into the topic, and said straightforwardly: "Please fulfill your promise and tell me how to leave."

"Let me ask you first," You Yu smiled at her childhood self, "Are you afraid of death?"

Xiao Youyu firmly shook his head: "Death is the value of my existence. I know that Bai Yingzhi gave birth to me to sacrifice evil spirits with my death."

Xiao Youyu never doubted or had any extravagant hopes about the purpose of her birth and life.

You Yu smiled and rubbed his head: "No, your death is not such a boring thing. It will become the most interesting existence in your future life, and you will understand it later."

The person you love the most will live in your body, You Yu said in his heart.

Now Xiao Youyu still couldn't understand, he pursed his lips and did not speak.

"Remember, before the Mid-year Festival at the age of 8, I believe you can steal her time from Bai Yingzhi's house," You Yu continued, "then tell her personally that you love her and want to be with you. She went to **** together."

"But that's not your hell, it's her hell."

Xiao Youyu was silent for a while and nodded: "I understand, thank you."

You Yu trusts herself, just about to leave the house and turn around and say, "There is another very important thing, please remember."

Xiaoyouyu: "What?"

You Yu looked at the "Crying Boy" on the wall with a distant and gentle voice: "When you are completely free, you must find the brother in the painting. He is very important to you."

Xiao Youyu's face changed: "Do you know him?"

You Yuxiao: "More than knowing."

Xiao Youyu is a little skeptical...or not so happy: "What is your relationship?"

You Yu: "For the time being, I don't want to tell you yet."

Xiao Youyu: "Oh, well, I will figure it out by myself, do you have anything else to tell me?"

"Remember what I want you to remember, complete one by one according to your own mind, and then... forget the irrelevant ones, such as ‘I’, goodbye."

When I was a child, I stood in the dark room, and You Yu walked out of the room and closed the door.

He sighed slightly, the timeline outside the door was rapidly distorting, and his bedroom was still in front of him, and the fire was surrounded by heavy curtains.

The tongue of fire quickly spread to the picture frame on the wall, and the picture frame made a "crack" popping sound in the blazing fire.

Xiao Youyu was lying on the ground with a pale face, and had lost her breath and heartbeat.

Chi Nan's soul was liberated from the painting. He squatted beside Xiao Youyu, reaching out and trying to hug the surviving corpse, but when his fingertips touched the opponent's skin, Chi Nan's soul was lost. Quickly sucked into Xiao Youyu's body.

You Yu, sent from the unknown time realm, witnessed this scene with his own eyes.

He walked over and squatted down, picked up the "self" with Chi Nan's soul from the ground and walked out of the fire.

Chi Nan, who was curled up in his arms, burst into tears, and said like a dream: "I'll wait for you."

You Yu was taken aback for a moment: "Okay, it's a deal."

...

The off-road vehicle crossed the tunnel at some point and stopped on the sun-burst and dry wasteland road.

Chi Nan opened his eyes in the familiar smell of industrial leather and dust. He looked around. Everyone including You Yu was still asleep. He was the first to wake up.

The so-called tunnel bug only teleported him to the night of the fire eleven years ago. It was not new to Chi Nan, who had experienced it once.

Every time he saw Xiao Youyu die in front of him and he was powerless, Chi Nan felt a lingering sadness in his heart.

These are not pleasant memories for him.

Excessive sunlight came in directly from the windshield. At this moment, You Yu was lying on the steering wheel with both hands, showing no sign of waking up.

This was the first time that Chi Nan saw a sleeping Youyu.

So he looked closer and found that the sickly fellow's eyes were damp.

Did You Yu cry in his dream?

Chi Nan took out a tissue from You Yu's pocket to wipe the wet traces of his eyes, but after a few wipes, You Yu's eyelashes trembled and his eyes split.

The two looked at each other for a moment in the bursting sunlight.

Chi Nan: "Have you had a nightmare?"

You Yu looked at him fixedly: "I dreamed of you."

Chi Nan: ...?

Seeing his expressionless confusion, You Yu smiled: "Brother, I finally found you."

As he said, he grabbed Chi Nan's hand to wipe his tears.

Almost instantly, two tears rolled from the corners of Chi Nan's eyes.

Chi Nan hurriedly wiped the tears with the back of his other hand. Who knew he hadn't had time to wipe a few times, and You Yu grabbed his other hand again.

Then he leaned down and lowered his head, pious and gentle, and kissed the back of Chi Nan's hands wet with tears.