After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

Chi Nan was pretty sure that this candle didn't exist before he went to bed, and he didn't know when it was lit by someone and inserted it out of their window.

And the little white box he placed next to the pillow also had an extra piece of paper—

"You are the best volunteer for the second night. We will present the gift that best represents Candleman Town to express our gratitude. I believe that you have received the gift when you read this note. I sincerely hope that you and your roommates can help. Have a bright and beautiful night."

"It's no wonder that the paper box is empty. The gift for the volunteers had to be delivered late at night." Ye Chang closed the exercise book in his hand and pushed his glasses. "I'll get it down."

With that said, he had jumped onto the bed and pushed the window glass that could open and close freely, but now the window looked like it was locked, and he couldn't move it.

Upon seeing this, Chi Nan looked at the furnishings of the room, and finally fixed his gaze on the iron clothes rail next to the closet.

Ten seconds later, Chi Nan jumped onto Ye Chang's bed with a clothes rack in his hand: "You give me a hand."

Ye Chang understood what he meant, and very cleverly gave way to him. Chi Nan directly slammed the clothes rail against the windowpane. With the loud noise, a large piece of windowpane shattered and fell on Ye Chang's bed. Chi Nan reached out and pulled out the candle...

"It's a candle made of special wax blocks."

Although the human candle held by Chi Nan is not as exquisite and exquisite as displayed in the exhibition hall, the material is clear amber platinum, and the wax blocks are mixed with strands of red.

The same texture as the residual wax he found on the window sill the first night.

Almost the moment Chi Nan got the candle into the house, the position of the original window was suddenly covered by a gray wall.

In an instant, all the doors of this dormitory, including the vents, disappeared, as if the surrounding cold walls suddenly gained vitality and would grow and spread on their own, sealing all their exits and besieging them in a place filled with weird candlelight. hermetic space.

"What to do next?" Ye Chang, who was trapped in it, didn't seem to feel any fear, and there was even some expectation of Chi Nan's reaction in his eyes.

Chi Nan put the human candle on the table, put his hand on the table like a student doing an experiment class, and even threw the note in the paper box into the fire, crackling, and the flames suddenly rose high...

He blinked his green eyes with curiosity: "Let's take a look first."

As he said, he moved his gaze behind Ye Chang, and the shadow stretched by the candle was beating with the fire, bright and dark, distant and close, and the position seemed to be constantly changing.

It's as if he was playing a shadow game against the wall just now, but Ye Changming didn't move.

Ye Chang followed his gaze and turned his head: "What happened to the shadow?"

"The shadow illuminated by this candle is not right, as if it can move away from the body." Chi Nan stared at the shadow on the ground for an instant, and the shadow seemed to perceive his sight and suddenly stopped moving.

The shadow cast by the candlelight is like a monster waiting for an opportunity to move, holding its breath and preparing to catch its prey.

"Hush, they seem to..." At this moment, Chi Nan could feel the aggression of the shadows. It seemed that as long as he blinked his eyes, the shadows would pounce on them and attack them.

Ye Chang's face sank in the candlelight, with a vague sense of tenderness. Instead of seeing any fear, he reached out and fiddled with the candle wick flame: "Why don't you try to extinguish the candle? If there is no light, the shadow will not exist. ."

For a moment, Chi Nan thought of the overturned hot water bottle in the White Boat House and a water stain on the ground. Maybe Bai Chuan and Gu Xiao also tried to put out the candles last night, but the result...

Chi Nan's curiosity grew stronger and stronger, and he picked up the kettle by the table and poured it directly at the people. But a strange thing happened. Instead of being extinguished by him, the candle flame crackled more and more.

Ye Chang dialed the candle, "Aren't you afraid of water?"

Compared with the horror that violates common sense, his tone is more curious about people, just like a good student who wants to explore during the experimental class.

Chi Nan looked at the ground again and found that Ye Chang's shadow was getting closer and closer to them, but he seemed to be afraid of something and never launched the final attack.

"Didn't you say there is a way?" Chi Nan asked Ye Chang suddenly.

"There is a way, but..." Ye Chang paused, suddenly raised his eyelids and looked at Chi Nan, hiding the evil taste of his eyes perfectly under the lens, raising the corners of his lips and saying, "As long as Brother Nan You allow it."

Chi Nan: "...?"

"Brother Nan, do you allow it? I use the method I thought of." Ye Chang asked for permission with a smile.

Chi Nan was a little dazed: "Well, it's up to you..."

He didn't finish a word, Ye Chang seemed to have caught the opportunity early, and leaned forward slightly. The distance between the two was suddenly very close. Chi Nan could see the flame of the candle leaping on Ye Chang's lens. .

Twinkle and twinkle, very bright.

Chi Nan's reaction couldn't keep up with Ye Chang's actions. He just blinked. Ye Chang had already pressed the mole on the corner of Chi Nan's left eye with his ring finger, and a bewitching undercurrent was hidden under the calm and polite voice.

He said: "Brother Nan, let me borrow your tears."

As Ye Chang expected, Chi Nan's tears had already flowed first before the words fell.

He was so happy that he couldn't restrain the curvature of the corners of his lips, as if he wanted to do this for a long time.

Unfortunately, there have been no good reasons and opportunities.

Now that he finally got his wish, he deliberately put his finger on Chi Nan's mole for a while, seemingly reluctant to remove it.

He enjoyed Chi Nan's tears, especially the tears that were caught off guard and could not stop on their own.

The rustle flowing down his own face, making his face moist and moving, is particularly pleasing to the eye.

Chi Nan opened his eyes slightly in shock and a little helpless, tears dripping like a gate opened, and his body trembled.

Moles of tears were held unscrupulously... it was such a strong, helpless and trembling feeling...

The shadow on the wall didn't move anymore, the flames didn't burn up anymore, and time seemed to stand still.

In the long past, no one has done such arrogant and strange behavior to him.

After a long time, Chi Nan finally blinked his eyes hard, and for a moment, he asked in a hoarse voice: "Alright?"

Ye Chang was silent for half a second on purpose, and rubbed his teary fingers against the corners of his eyes: "It should be fine."

It took another half a second before he reluctantly withdrew his hand.

Ye Zichang pinched the candle wick with his fingers wet with Chi Nan's tears, only to see that the originally jumping candlelight flashed and went out in a moment.

The room suddenly fell into complete darkness, pure and complete darkness, reminding Chi Nan of the time when his eyes were invisible before.

"Sure enough, your tears can extinguish candles."

Ye Chang sighed decently, and rustled out a clean handkerchief from his pocket, accurately and gently wiped away the tears on Chi Nan's face.

I don't know how he did it in the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers.

Suddenly, there was only the sound of each other's breathing in the room, and Chi Nan's uncontrollable sniffing because of crying too hard.

Silence spread in tears and darkness. Apart from the silence, Chi Nan was a little embarrassed because of crying too fiercely, and Ye Chang obviously concealed his joyful heart well.

"...How did you think of it?" Chi Nan slowly suppressed his tears and asked in a dumb voice.

Ye Chang pretended not to understand: "What?"

Chi Nan pursed his lips: "My tears are okay."

"I guessed too." Ye Changhao said neatly.

Chi Nan: "What if you guessed wrong?"

"I have always been very accurate, and I have never missed it." Ye Chang smiled silently in the dark.

Seeing that Chi Nan didn't speak, he suppressed the joy in his heart and put on an embarrassing tone: "Sorry, I cried you again without authorization."

Chi Nan: "...It's okay, it's just..."

"Huh?" Ye Chang leaned forward, waiting for him to answer.

Chi Nan shook his head: "...nothing."

He originally wanted to say, don’t press on the tear mole next time, because the cry is too strong, but after thinking about it, Ye Chang probably didn’t mean it, but just stretched out his hand, and he just touched the tears in the corner of his eyes. Mole like this...

And just telling the other party about the physical weakness that he just knew, doesn't seem to be very appropriate.

Ye Chang wanted to say something, but before he had time to speak, the darkness in the room was gradually diluted by the light that penetrated in.

The disappearing doors and windows appeared on the wall again, the candlelight from outside the house penetrated, everything was quiet, even the candles on the table disappeared.

Nothing seemed to have happened in the room, only the window glass that was smashed by Chi Nan with a clothespin proved that everything just now was not an illusion.

The cold wind poured in, and the water used to splash the candles just now wet Ye Chang's clothes and pants. He shivered at the right time: "It's so cold."

Then he looked at his bed and pillows full of broken glass, and said frustratedly, "It looks like I can't sleep tonight."

The culprit Chi Nan obviously hesitated: "You can come to my bed and make do for one night."

That was what Ye Chang was waiting for, but he still had to be a little surprised: "Then where do you sleep?"

Asking knowingly, observing the tangled and embarrassing reactions on the prey's face, waiting for them to make a choice, and then personally telling them, is there anything more pleasant than this in the world?

Chi Nan seemed to be stuck again, and for a moment: "Sleep in bed too."

Anyway, it wasn't that he had never slept together. Anyway, it was commonplace for him to cry by Ye Chang, and Chi Nan convinced himself.

Ye Chang smiled happily without concealing it: "Okay."

After it was settled, Ye Chang went to the bag to take the change of clothes he had brought, and took a hot bath in the bathroom by the way.

Chi Nan watched his back as he walked into the bathroom, his eyelids twitched—

Ye Chang's shadow was gone.

He subconsciously turned his head and looked behind him, his own shadow was still reflected on the floor, but Ye Chang...he rubbed his eyes and looked at it. Before he could see clearly, Ye Chang had closed the bathroom door.

A crash of water came from the bathroom, overwhelming Chi Nan's words.

Ye Chang took a bath very quickly, but it took Chi Nan to feel extremely long in less than five minutes. His emotions rarely fluctuate because of something, and he has never been so anxious and trying to confirm something.

He even had the urge to shed tears because of his emotional ups and downs when he did not eat sweets, was not touched, and did not fall into deep sleep.

This kind of self is unfamiliar and out of control, Chi Nan didn't want this.

He took out the sweet macaron from Ye Chang's snack bag, and took a bite.

The hot and moist lacrimal glands stimulated by sugar made him feel safe and familiar. Chi Nan ate the sweet and greasy macaron while crying silently and presumptuously.

So the first time Ye Chang came out of the bathroom, he saw the scene of Chi Nan gnawing macarons with a wet face, gorging himself as if the macarons had a grudge against him...

Ye Chang couldn't help laughing again.

Chi Nan's gaze turned to Ye Chang almost for the first time, and he was relieved until he confirmed that the shadow of the other party was cast on the floor properly. The moment he put down the macaron, he found that his tongue was numb.

"What's the matter? Are you hungry?" Ye Chang walked towards Chi Nan with hot steam radiating from his body.

Chi Nan kept staring at his shadow and said quietly: "That's right, I suddenly want to eat sweets."

He answered perfunctorily, and then bypassed Ye Chang to wash his face with cold water in the misty bathroom.

After he was washed out, Ye Chang had already consciously slept on his bed, and leaned in to leave a place for him.

Chi Nan paused, but lay down after all.

Although it is not the first time that the two of them slept in the same bed, the "special room" in the evening number was a double room. Now the bed in the candle factory dormitory is a standard single bed with a width of one meter and two.

As soon as Chi Nan lay down, the aura belonging to Ye Chang inevitably entangled his ears.

"Just now…"

"Just now…"

The two spoke almost at the same time, and they closed their mouths at the same time. There was a moment of silence. Finally, Ye Chang opened his mouth first: "It was too dangerous just now. If it wasn't for your tear duct, I actually don't know what to do."

Chi Nan thought for a while, smoothed his thoughts and expressed his conjecture: "So it seems that the shadow of a person will be affected by the candlelight of a special person, and then the shadow will be out of the control of the body, and even attack the body.' Betrayal' behavior."

Ye Chang nodded, and said thoughtfully: "You said that my shadow changed after the candle was lit up."

Chi Nan: "The disappearance of Bai Chuan and Gu Xiao might be because the shadow hid the body or swallowed it?"

After a pause, he added, "Or has it become a new small candle man displayed in the Volunteer Museum?"

"...But why does the shadow do this?"

Ye Chang was silent for a moment and replied: "Maybe you want to be free, or you may want to occupy the magpie's nest and live instead of the body... it's possible."

Chi Nan's heart beats, and he instinctively thinks of himself: "Living in place of the ontology?"

"Yeah, you think, shadows exist like appendages, don't they want to rebel against the guest and get their bodies to live like normal humans?" Ye Chang's voice was very soft, and a faint breath lingered in Chi Nan's ears.

"Dove occupy the magpie's nest and gain freedom." Ye Chang's tone became colder when he said these four words.

Chi Nan thought for a while and shook his head: "Shadow doesn't seem to be free, and the ghost wall in the square is no different from the prison."

"Perhaps for them, to exist independently from the ontology is freedom?" Ye Chang followed Chi Nan's analysis and said, "but this is not important, but unfortunately, we have not been able to test what the alienated shadow will do to the ontology, otherwise. Maybe you can find Bai Chuan and Gu Xiao."

"It's too dangerous." Considering Ye Chang's 90% death rate, Chi Nan shook his head. He rarely has this kind of crisis awareness on weekdays.

Now they have mastered very important clues. Once the volunteer is illuminated by the candlelight with a special texture, his shadow will be alienated, and he will break away from the body or even make an act of obliterating the body.

But now I don’t know the motive of the shadow, and what kind of influence the shadow will have on the body.

However, knowing the information point of Candleman's light can better circumvent the rules of death and prevent the alienation of shadows.

Ye Chang thought for a while and said, "Furthermore, from the situation just now, this alienation can be terminated before the shadow actually harms the ontology. Only without the light source and the shadow cannot exist, the ontology is temporarily safe. "

Chi Nan nodded hesitantly: "Tell them this information tomorrow."

"Yeah..." Ye Chang seemed to leaned to Chi Nan again, "What did you just want to say?"

Chi Nan said truthfully: "I'm not sure whether the alienation has been successfully terminated. When you entered the bathroom just now, I didn't seem to see your shadow."

Chi Nan could clearly feel that Ye Chang breathed slightly behind his back, and then said, "Maybe the mutation is still going on, but it's hidden away slyly, or it may be me... dazzled."

Ye Chang seemed to sigh, turned his back to look at his shadow on the wall: "I hope."

After the two of them analyzed for a while, Chi Nan fell asleep in a daze as he talked, and the night was peaceful.

As soon as it broke the next day, there was a sound of ‘bang bang bang’ outside the door.

"Chi Nan and Ye, are you two okay?" It was an anxious voice.

Chi Nan just opened his eyes in a daze, Ye Chang had already woke up and replied: "We are all fine, don't worry."

The old Yu outside the door breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It's really not a loss for Chi Nan, a newcomer I look forward to, and escaped safely."

The two quickly washed and dressed. The moment they opened the door, they were older than seeing the mess in the house, and said dumbly: "Fuck, did you want to escape from the window last night? It's such a big hole."

Chi Nan glanced at his broken window with little embarrassment, and explained everything about what happened last night. Of course, he concealed his weakness of being touched and crying, and changed it to being forced because he was too anxious. The version that shed tears.

Lao Yu yelled directly after hearing: "Good fellow, it turns out that this ghost thing is afraid of human tears. I'm afraid I won't be able to cry by then. What should I do? Cry, the tears are collected to give us a piece of defense."

Chi Nan: "..."

Lao Yu glanced at Ye Chang, then smiled and added: "I feel that classmate Ye is quite willing to do this, right?"

Chi Nan: "..."

Ye Chang smiled and shook his head: "I don't want to sell Brother Nan. Don't fool me, Uncle Yu."

Lao Yu choked all of a sudden, then smiled and cursed for a moment.

Chi Nan glanced at Ye Chang, and Ye Chang blinked at him and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, although I always cry you accidentally, I don't like the way others see you crying."

The implication is that only I can appreciate it, and others don't even think about it.

Chi Nan nodded in incomprehension, and then said with a blank face: "Oh."

While they were talking, the 105 dormitory where the mother and daughter were located suddenly heard a ‘bang’ pushing the door. The noise was so loud that they were caught off guard, and several people were startled.

The young mother in the room was standing in front of several men in pajamas and unkempt, her face pale and her body trembling constantly.

"What's the matter?" Seeing the situation, Old Yu asked quickly and keenly.

The young mother held a humanoid doll about one meter tall in her arms and collapsed and said, "Rui Rui...Rui Rui...My daughter...was gone last night!"