After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

For a moment, Chi Nan said seriously: "Then we are better than one."

Ye Chang was startled: "What?"

Chi Nan: "It's better than someone who is a candler, and whoever listens to it."

He remembered that Ye Chang's workmanship was worse than him yesterday. It was the tail of the crane of the whole volunteer group. He made the candle man somehow, but Ye Chang didn't even finish carving the mold.

Chi Nan squeezed the wax block in his hand, picked up the carving knife and added: "You said you want to give me the candle puppet, and I have to be courteous."

"Is this a promise to me?" Ye Chang smiled, showing his little teeth: "In order to prevent Nan Ge from thinking of separating, I will try my best."

Chi Nan: "..."

The sharp blade slid across Ye Chang's fingertips, and he put away his smile: "Brother Nan, I will make you satisfied."

Chi Nan seldom heard Ye often speak in such a serious tone, and the carving motion paused, and the carving knife almost scratched his finger.

Ye Chang didn't lift his eyelids, but said, "Be careful not to hurt your hands."

Facts have proved that Chi Nan really "underestimated the enemy" too much.

Ye Chang is the same as changing his individual today. The engraving technique is perfect. It took less than two hours to complete the most difficult part of the candlestick mold carving. Finally, the wax liquid was poured, the candle wick was placed, and the demoulding was completed in one go. Female workers who have worked in candle factories for many years must be skilled.

Everyone was dumbfounded when they watched Ye Chang's "Chi Nan" candle man. The small candle man is exquisite and exquisite in workmanship, and his facial features are exquisite in detail. It is a hundred times more exquisite than the one made by Bai Chuan yesterday. It can be called a work of art.

And Chi Nan’s "Xiao Ye Chang" is not much better than yesterday’s, because the level is limited, except for a pair of symbolic glasses, there is almost nothing related to Ye Chang...

Obviously, Chi Nan lost this round.

Because the score is based on the dormitory group, even if Chi Nan’s Xiaozhu is difficult to be elegant, Ye Chang’s extraordinary performance can make them win the group, and the title of "Excellent Volunteer" fell to the 101 dormitory as he wished.

The female foreman is still the same as yesterday, and even the arc of the smile on her face has not changed: "Candleman's Day is inseparable from the efforts and sacrifices of the volunteers, especially the most outstanding volunteer group, in order to express her gratitude. , This is a gift you and your roommate deserve."

With that, she handed the unlucky box symbolizing missing or even death to Ye Chang's hand, "I wish you a bright and beautiful night."

"Thank you," Ye Chang took the box, opened it directly in front of the female foreman, and shook the empty box in front of her, "Why is it empty?"

The female foreman again gave a weird smile that made her scalp numb: "Please don't worry, you can see it with your own eyes tonight."

"Oh, wait and see," Ye Chang said, closing the box and handing it to Chi Nan. "I won it back for 101. Brother Nan remembers to speak up, don't drive me out of the dormitory tonight."

Chi Nan: "...Hmm."

"Excuse me," Chi Nan took the box and turned to the female foreman, and asked politely, "Can you keep the candle man Ye Chang made just now for me as a souvenir?"

Everyone: "...?"

Does someone really think of this kind of ominous thing as a figure and want to collect it?

The female foreman seemed to have never encountered this kind of party-type volunteers, and only replied after a downtime: "I'm sorry, but the volunteers cannot take away the candles produced in the workshop without authorization."

Regret was obvious on Chi Nan's face: "That's it."

Ye Chang laughed at the side, lowered his voice and said in Chi Nan's ear: "It's okay, I promised to give it to you, and then I will find a way to get it out for you."

Chi Nan glanced at him, and suddenly understood: "Are you going to steal it?"

Ye Chang pushed his glasses and replied with a good student-like smile: "Or seize the opportunity to grab it, whichever is easier."

Chi Nan: "..." It seems that someone wants to go to the Nightmare World Prison more urgently than him.

As an experienced dream visitor, Yu has always had reservations about Ye Chang's "extraordinary performance" today.

He seemed to be chatting beside Ye Chang: "As far as I know, this technique of manual work cannot be so advanced overnight."

Ye Chang faintly responded: "Well, probably?"

Old Yu was silent for a moment, and looked at him from head to toe with a scrutiny gaze: "But it's natural to preserve strength and use others to test the rules of the dungeon. It's not a big deal, except...Ye, you really have only ever had one. Ben’s newcomer?"

Ye Chang raised his lips, as if to show off something to be proud of: "Yes, when I first arrived, I was lucky to meet Nan Ge. He took me through it hand by hand."

The word "hands" was used very delicately, and Lao Yu's face twitched imperceptibly.

"What's the matter?" Chi Nan, who had just released his tear glands from the bathroom, walked out and asked the strange atmosphere of the two.

Ye Chang smiled and shook his head: "Uncle Yu is curious, how did we meet."

Lao Yu: "..." I don't have your nonsense.

Chi Nan didn't think too much: "Oh."

Ye Chang continued to smile: "I told him that we lived together first before we got acquainted."

Chi Nan still didn't think too much: "Well, indeed."

Lao Yu: "...?" It really doesn't sound right.

He glanced at Ye Chang, who had a gentle and gentle smile, and stopped talking too much. He had a hunch that he couldn't figure out anything from this senior high school student.

Once again they got the unlucky box symbolizing death, and their working hours were over.

After four o'clock, the volunteers who had been fishing for a day went to the town center square again.

"Sure enough, there are two more shadows." Dysonson counted the shadows on the ghost wall twice before confirming it in less than ten minutes.

Old Yu biting his cigarette irritably: "It seems that these shadows... are probably all dream visitors who have disappeared before."

"So, is the little candle man in the exhibition hall..." Xia Wei asked cautiously, and shivered after speaking.

Lao Yu did not hesitate this time, and walked directly to the tomb-like exhibition hall: "Just confirm it."

As they expected, the small candlesticks in the exhibition hall and the shadow of the ghost wall were added two more in one night, and two of their volunteer team also happened to be missing.

Although it is roughly speculated that the number of missing persons is the same as the number of shadows and candles, and the selection of missing persons is inevitable with "excellent volunteers", there is no way to avoid all this.

Even if someone gets away with the hapless carton today, the third and fourth days will not be avoided...Under the rules, "excellent volunteers" dormitories will be allocated every night, and new missing persons will always appear.

And missing in the nightmare world is sometimes something more terrifying than death. No one knows what the missing person will face now... In short, there will be no good things.

"The way to avoid the disappearance should be hidden at the moment when the disappearance is triggered," Chi Nan calmly analyzed, "that is, in the paper box."

"The female foreman also said, let us wait and see tonight." Ye Chang also said calmly.

Lao Yu glanced at the two young boys with a complicated expression, and suddenly smiled helplessly: "I hope I won't see you two in this wall and that strange exhibition hall tomorrow morning."

Speaking of him, he glanced at the tall wall with mottled figures, maybe watching it for a long time gave him a visual illusion—

These shadows seemed to move in the flickering candlelight.

Can be calm, Lao Yu felt like he was dazzled just now.

It's just that, as a more experienced dreamer, he will be more mindful of things like ‘seems’.

The night came as scheduled.

Everyone was anxious under the control of fear, except Chi Nan and Ye Chang, who were selected as missing candidates.

The two of them ate in the cafeteria as usual, and Ye Chang deliberately scooped out a large bowl of white fungus sweet soup and sat opposite Chi Nan and drank it with relish.

Chi Nan: "..." His throat slipped, and he took a bite of the tasteless big steamed bun in the bowl unhappily.

"Brother," Rui Rui walked over from the table next door, stood beside Chi Nan, and handed him and Ye Chang a piece of candy, "You will have good luck if you eat."

Chi Nan was taken aback for a moment, Ye Changxiao slightly took Ruirui's sugar: "Thank you, we will eat it."

"I hope I can have dinner with my brothers tomorrow." Rui Rui said sincerely.

"Definitely." Ye Chang opened the package and put the milky white candy directly into his mouth.

Chi Nan held the candy in his hand. Even if it was unreasonable, he could still feel the kindness and expectation from the little girl at this moment, and this candy is a bit embarrassing for him now.

If you eat, you will shed tears. If you don’t eat, the little girl will be disappointed, so...

Just when he didn't know what to do, Ye Chang stretched out his hand to him: "Give it to me, I will help you eat."

"When I get back to the room, I will give you another candy." He also added a special voice that only Chi Nan could hear.

Chi Nan: "...Thank you."

With permission, Ye Chang took the sugar from his hand, put it in his mouth together, and explained to the little girl: "This brother is allergic to sugar, so I will do it for you."

Lao Yu walked over: "Chi Nan and Ye, if something goes wrong at night, as long as there is a chance, you just run out and ask for help, know? Don't try hard, we happen to be next door."

Although they have witnessed countless times of Chi Nan's surprising operation, but this time they have too little information, and Lao Yu is still very worried.

As soon as Old Yu's voice fell, the young mother couldn't help but sigh heavily.

Chi Nan nodded, he could feel the atmosphere of people around him worrying about him, so he would also use calmness to cover up his inner expectations for the unknown.

This way I might look closer to a normal person.

The group was about to leave the canteen. The moment Chi Nan lowered his head, he noticed that there was an unknown wallet on the ground, so he knelt down and planned to pick it up.

But when he inadvertently saw the photo on the wallet, he moved for a while—

In the transparent interlayer of the purse, there is a black-and-white photo of the little girl Rui Rui, or to be precise, a photo from the funeral.

"Brother, don't just look at other people's personal belongings. Mom said it's impolite behavior."

Rui Rui's voice sounded above Chi Nan, and she stretched out her hand to him, "Thank you, brother, give it back to me."

Chi Nan paused for two seconds before picking up the wallet, closing it and handing it to Rui Rui: "Sorry, I didn't mean to watch it."

The little girl smiled innocently at him like an angel: "It's okay, two brothers, and that uncle..."

Rui Rui glanced at Lao Yu, who secretly cast her sight just now, and blinked and said, "You have to keep secrets for Rui Rui, please."

Saying that she stuffed her purse into her mother's backpack, took her mother's hand back and made a'shh' gesture towards the three of them, and left without looking back.

Looking at the backs of the little girl and mother, Yu said thoughtfully: "I guessed wrong before. I thought that the young mother was the dead, and the little girl came to resurrect her. But I didn’t expect...their clothes , To attend the little girl's own funeral."

Chi Nan was curious: "So Rui Rui is now a living person?"

Lao Yu shrugged: "How do you say... Ruirui in the real world is indeed dead. The photo shows this, but Ruirui in this world is a living person. To be precise... The desire to resurrect her is the same as your vision."

"It seems that the little girl stayed in the nightmare world directly after being resurrected, continuing to realize her wish to resurrect her father, and judging from her proficiency, she should have made some progress." Lao Yu continued to analyze.

As for what role the new mother played in the resurrection wish, he doesn't know for the time being, but based on experience and intuition, this mother is not right.

Of course, this seems to have nothing to do with their "Candleman's Day Copy", it's just another family affair.

Chi Nan: "But if it has been resurrected, why do you still have to leave a photo?"

Lao Yu: "I heard that people who have come back from the dead will have something like a "death certificate" in the nightmare world. This thing is like an ID card. They will carry it with them. It can be a photo or something else. In short, it is the most special existence for the resurrected people, and it also reminds the resurrected people that they have died once. "

Chi Nan thought for a while: "Why do they take it with them?"

Old Yu shook his head: "I just heard, but I haven't seen the real one, so I don't know."

Ye Chang, who had been silent for a while, replied in a low voice, "Maybe there is no way to throw it away."

Chi Nan glanced at him and found that his eyes were hidden behind the lenses, and his expression became blurred: "Why?"

Ye Chang shrugged: "I guessed too. After all, it doesn't sound like a pleasant thing. Who can throw it away and who would like to carry it all the time."

He smiled and said in a voice that almost only he could hear, "It's not so much an ID card, it's a birthmark."

At this moment, he put his hand in his pocket and fumbled with his fingertips for the cold, hard case of the pocket watch.

His body temperature is so low that he will never be able to warm his pocket watch.

After returning to the dormitory, Chi Nan went to wash up as usual, and Ye Chang also naturally brushed up the exercise book, and everything happened like last night.

After another hour, Chi Nan was really bored and sleepy. He simply threw the empty box by the pillow and said to Ye Chang who was focused on studying: "What will happen later, remember to wake me up."

After speaking, he fell asleep and planned to fall asleep. Before he could fall into deep sleep, he vaguely heard the sound of rustling speech.

The voice seemed to be coming from behind him, from far and near, as if calling his name.

Chi Nan turned around, but Ye Changzheng was immersed in his earplugs and brushed the exercises. He should have not spoken just now.

The candlelight in the yard dipped into the house through the glass, stretching Ye Chang's shadow and dragging it straight to Chi Nan's bed.

Chi Nan stared at Ye Chang's shadow for a few seconds, then closed his eyes again.

But after a few minutes of silence, the sound of talking appeared behind him again.

Chi Nan knew that there was nothing behind him except a gray concrete wall.

He turned over again, facing his shadow on the wall.

Shadow... Chi Nan's sleepiness has rarely disappeared for the most part. He opened his five fingers to the void, and the shadow on the wall honestly showed his actions.

He moved his hand close to the wall, and the shadow became small and clear. He moved a little away, and the shadow gradually fainted and became larger and lighter like a painting soaked in water.

It doesn't seem to be anything special, but something must be wrong... Chi Nan tried a few more times before putting down his hand, and staring at the shadow on the wall in a daze.

"Brother Nan, that thing seems to have appeared."

Chi Nan was stunned, and only half a second later confirmed that Ye Chang was speaking. He quickly sat up and followed Ye Chang's gaze to the window directly above his bed, "There is a candle there."