After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

The zenith of the platform blocked the only moonlight, the carriage was pitch black, and only the sound of wheels crushing the rails echoed in the darkness.

Puff, puff, as the last mechanical impact disappeared, the train stopped.

The carriage fell into an unprecedented quiet, as if the train was heading toward the depths of the mud, surrounded by suffocating silence.

Chi Nan sat in the seat, keeping his breath to the lightest, using hearing instead of sight to perceive his surroundings.

He reached into his pocket to confirm that You Yu's pocket watch was still there.

But what happened to the sudden ‘power outage’? Where did You Yu go?

About a minute later, the iron doors at the junction of the carriages opened up one after another like a key being pressed.

After being quiet for less than half a minute, there was a sound of footsteps from far to near, and the two people jumped off the platform and were approaching the carriage.

Now that the situation is unknown, Chi Nan subconsciously bent down and went into hiding under the green leather chair.

As the footsteps approached, Chi Nan could tell that the two people on the platform had just gotten into his car.

The light of two flashlights shone from the direction of the car door, and the light beam quickly illuminated the car back and forth.

"Is anyone here?"

"Squeak what someone said."

Because of the special circumstances, Chi Nan didn't intend to make a rush without confirming the other party's position and identity.

"Brother Xian, it seems you were dazzled just now. There is no one in this carriage."

It was the voice of a young man, and at the same time, there were a few tooth-wrenching sharp noises in the direction of the man, as if some sharp iron tool accidentally scratched an obstacle.

Chi Nan has a keen sense of hearing. He guessed that it was the sound made by something like a knife rubbing against the ground, and he immediately increased his vigilance.

There was a moment of silence, and another person said, "No, I clearly saw a figure in this car just now."

Chi Nan was a little surprised, because the other party's voice sounded familiar... He recalled carefully for a moment, and finally found the familiar source. This voice reminded him of the middle-aged uncle Guo Xian in the "229 School".

But isn't Guo Xian already dead in a nightmare? Chi Nan, whose sight was blocked, was not sure.

"Are you sure it wasn't dazzling just now? After all, we haven't seen a fresh dream tourist coming in for so long."

"Maybe, but don’t worry. Someone must be coming when a car comes into the station, but it’s not necessarily in this car." The person with a voice very similar to Guo Xian seemed to smile. There is a smell of energy in the dream visitor, which is still very rich."

"..."

"Maybe this guy exchanged something for his favorability."

"Check it again, let's change the car to see."

The people with the torch came along the car one by one. Chi Nan silently moved his body backwards. The place where he hid happened to be a blind spot of vision. The other party was a nerve-racking searcher. The running shoes passed by and went back and forth twice, but luckily they were not found.

Through the gap in the seat, Chi Nan clearly saw that he was holding a sharp machete in his hand, and the blade was still stained with unclean blood.

"Brother Xian, there is no one."

"Go, don't waste time, go to the next car to have a look."

Chi Nan, who was hiding under the seat, just breathed a sigh of relief, but it was a coincidence that, with a crisp sound of'clang', You Yu's pocket watch rolled from his pocket to the ground.

Although the sound was not loud, the movement was enough to attract the attention of the two searchers.

Chi Nan seemed to smile when he heard the person suspected of Guo Xian: "Look, I'm right?"

"Wipe, there are really people," the other person also smiled, "Come out, we are here to save you."

This was obviously addressed to Chi Nan who was hiding in the dark.

Chi Nan didn't answer, but picked up the dropped pocket watch, carefully wiped off the dust on the surface with his sleeves, and put it in his pocket carefully.

"There is something wrong with this city, but don't be afraid. We are a rescue team formed by Dream Tourists spontaneously. We come to meet the newly arrived Dream Tourists." The man walked towards the seat that made the sound, and his footsteps were getting closer, "Now the city It’s very dangerous, you can’t handle it by yourself.”

Chi Nan shrank and couldn't retreat. He didn't believe what these two guys said, but now he had no objects that could be used as weapons.

Finally his eyes fell on the glass-covered window.

"Come out."

Just two steps away from the two pairs of shoes, Chi Nan stood up from under the chair, and one of them met his iconic green eyes and exclaimed——

"Chi Nan?!" Guo Xian, who had recovered into a blessed middle-aged uncle, widened his eyes and shone the flashlight beam directly on Chi Nan's face.

Chi Nan blinked his eyes fiercely under the strong light, and at the same time, he also saw that the other party was Guo Xian who had died in the nightmare book.

"Chi Nan, it's really you, right?" These faint green eyes are so unique that even if they have only seen one side, they can't forget them. "

Guo Xian laughed suddenly, the fat on his face formed a ball, almost dripping with oil.

Chi Nan remained silent: "It was quite unexpected."

"Why did you hide there just now? Don't you remember your old classmate?" Guo Xian pointed to the bottom of the green leather chair and raised his eyebrows. ?"

He thought that Chi Nan would show a flustered and nervous expression because of his direct attack on the soul, but it was a pity that Chi Nan let him down.

Chi Nan shook his head: "I'm not sure it is you, I can't remember it for too long."

And he didn't think he had done anything with a guilty conscience. Guo Xian obviously died of system failure and the rules could not be advanced.

Guo Xian: "..." There is nothing more embarrassing and frustrating than thinking that the other person is scared and only being affectionate.

Sure enough, the dead teammates are just forgotten cannon fodder in the eyes of the winner?

"It seems that you have earned a lot of good feelings during this time?" Guo Xian asked again.

"Not bad," Chi Nan said truthfully, "You said that the city is dangerous now, what's the matter?"

Guo Xian curled his lips in dissatisfaction. He thought that Chi Nan would care more about his "resurrection from the dead". As a result, the other party didn't ask him, and now he is even more frustrated.

But the negative emotions that frustrated him quickly dissipated. He said: "A large number of dangerous elements have appeared in the city, hunting and killing the surviving dream visitors full-time as food."

Chi Nan saw Guo Xian smile.

So he calmly said, "Is this group of dangerous elements you?"

Guo Xian and his companions froze for a moment, and then Guo Xian lifted the knife in his hand and laughed out: "Chi Nan, you are a bit too clever. This is not necessarily a good thing."

Chi Nan: "...Thank you for the compliment and reminder."

He was about to break the window and jump out of the car, although he had never tried such a difficult escape technique.

"Since we are old classmates, don't worry, my knife is fast." Guo Xian swallowed obviously.

Chi Nan: "Why?"

Guo Xian sneered: "Of course, to survive."

Just as Chi Nan was about to smash the glass and jumped out of the car window, someone was faster than him, and a cold light flew across the other end of the car and went straight to Guo Xian's carotid artery.

I saw Guo Xian's eyes widened unexpectedly, and he was stunned for less than half a second. Blood poured out from the edge of the knife before his screams. He immediately covered his neck, his face twitched, deformed, and his expression completely collapsed due to pain and terror.

Two seconds later, he fell silently under Chi Nan's feet, and a large pool of blood quickly gathered around his body.

Chi Nan stepped aside to avoid staining his shoes with blood.

Companion Guo Xian stunned in disbelief. Before he could react and ran away, another knife pierced his forehead from the back of his head.

He let out a scream before he died, then he fell down in a daze with his eyes open, and his body hit the car with a ‘boom’ sound.

You Yu cautiously did not step on the blood stains on the ground and picked up the murder weapon and lighting tools of the two men and held them in his hands: "Next time I kill someone by myself, please close my eyes."

Chi Nan didn't notice it himself. He relaxed when he saw You Yu: "I haven't seen it before."

After all, there are not many dream tourists who died in the nightmare of Yuyu design.

"It's not the same, it's just work," You Yu curled her lips slightly, "and I didn't chase you back then."

Chi Nan: "...Okay."

Recently, You encountered a series of overly gentle operations that made him almost forget that this guy is essentially a sick man.

"Where did you go just now?" Chi Nan asked.

You Yu: "Go to the dining car."

Chi Nan: "..."

You Yu’s face was a little bit distressed: “The system has a problem. I can’t contact the main system or other dreammakers outside. After entering the sub-city, the entire system seems to be completely blocked. Serious bug."

"Correspondingly, my privileges have also been frozen." You Yu curled his lips, and all his advantages as a dream maker suddenly disappeared.

Chi Nan: "It's a pity."

You Yu: "I can't dispatch weapons. In order to deal with emergencies, I plan to go to the dining car to get some props to defend myself. I didn't expect to use it so soon."

Wearing gloves, he wiped off the blood foam that accidentally got on Chi Nan's cheeks, just like the first time he was on a "Twilight Cruise."

Chi Nan looked at him: "...Thank you."

You Yu glanced at the car window behind him insightfully, and said in a low voice, "Don't try to make such dangerous actions next time, especially if you are not sure."

For some reason, Chi Nan avoided You Yu's gaze for an instant, he was a little surprised at the warm gaze of human beings.

"What's the matter with Guo Xian? Isn't he already dead in your copy?" Chi Nan quickly dispelled his inexplicable emotions and asked when he glanced at Guo Xian's body.

"So there is a serious bug in the system. These people who should have been lying in the nightmare tomb crawled out and came to Zicheng," You Yu said very troubledly, "It's a mess."

Chi Nan lowered his gaze, watching the gurgling blood quickly polluted the floor under the green leather chair, and suddenly asked, "So after the death of the dungeon, will their data still remain in the dreaming system?"

You Yu glanced at him in the dark, but didn't answer immediately.

Chi Nan looked back at him and asked, "Or, is the dream tourist who died in the copy really dead?"

He wanted to confirm this cruel rule that was accepted as common sense in the eyes of a dream tourist.

You Yu's gaze paused for a moment, as if he was considering it.

Chi Nan didn't urge him to tell himself when he made a decision.

"People can die in their sleep, but no dream can really kill people," You Yu lightly said the shocking truth, "Brother Nan, all the fears they experience in this world are just dreams. ."

"But the wish is true, I can guarantee that." You Yu added.

Calmly as Chi Nan, at this moment, he was also stunned for a moment: "I understand."

The meaning of You Yu is very clear. Death in the nightmare world is not the same as death in the real world, which is completely contrary to the deep-rooted cognition of the dreamers.

"But this matter, I hope you can keep it secret for me. If there is no'death illusion' as the driving force, no one is willing to take the copy seriously, I may lose my job," You Yu smiled helplessly." Taking advantage of the loss of connection with the system, I temporarily lost my identity as a dream maker, so I secretly told you."

Chi Nan nodded. The system had never said that being killed in the dungeon would cause the dream tourist to die in reality.

All the horrible imagination of death comes from the rumors among the dreamers and the cognition that scares oneself.

"I don't have any secrets anymore, Brother Nan." You Yu emphatically said looking at Chi Nan.

Chi Nan blinked at him stupidly: "I'm gone a long time ago."

You Yu smiled.

"But in any case, the dream tourists who died in the dungeon, as the'losers', have been completely cleared out, and their memories in the nightmare have also been recovered and destroyed," You Yu rubbed his temples in distress, "Guo Xian not only I'm back, and my memory of you hasn't disappeared. It looks like I'm in big trouble."

Chi Nan: "Since Guo Xian can return, maybe more dream visitors will be recalled, perhaps including those who have successfully exchanged their wishes to go out."

You Yu sighed in distress, "If it is not too troublesome, come to Zicheng with me to see it?"

"Let's go." He was also very curious, what happened to Guo Xian's "The city is dangerous".

Before getting out of the car, the two went to the dining car and took some knives as weapons, just in case.

Facts have proved that they did it very correctly. Just as Chi Nan and You Yu stepped out of the carriage, they saw more than a dozen people with weapons surrounding them from all directions on the platform, just like crumbled zombies.

They had all kinds of weapons, and Chi Nan saw that there were several familiar faces among these people.

"They are all dream tourists who have been cleared out." Yu Yu as a dream maker is very positive, and many of them were cleared by him.

"Is there enough knives?" Chi Nan took the long knife that he had raided from Guo Xian and raised it to his chest inadvertently and skillfully.

He felt that he really should learn some hard-core self-defense methods, and the dream maker in front of him is a very good teacher.

You Yu had already held the knife in his hand, and quickly swept his eyes over the surrounding dream visitors: "It's barely enough. Just recycle it when it's used up."

But at the moment when he saw the entry point and was about to issue a knife, an object similar to homemade ammunition was dropped from not far away and landed precisely next to the dream tourist.

Because everything was too sudden, the dream visitors did not respond immediately, but for a moment, the fire quickly exploded to illuminate the entire Zicheng platform, and the dream visitors who were moving forward were instantly blown up like popcorn.

With the sound of a huge explosion, a figure suddenly ran over at the end of the fire.

This figure Chi Nan couldn't be more familiar. He rushed past the flames and rushed in front of Chi Nan He You Yu. When he saw the situation before him clearly, he did not conceal the astonishment on his face——

"Chi Nan? But... why are there two?!"

The person who spoke was black tea.