After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

With a gunshot in the hallway, all the dreamers in the dormitory were awakened instantly. The first door to open was 103.

The moment Chi Nan pushed the door open, the gun was pointed at his forehead.

Chi Nan didn't move anymore, but looked at the person holding the gun in the dark for a moment: "What happened?"

The other party seemed to be suppressing crying to the utmost grief, her shoulders twitched violently, and her movement of holding the gun trembled.

Dysonsen did not speak, but moved the muzzle away from his forehead and turned to Ye Chang who was standing behind Chi Nan.

She said: "I want to kill Ye Chang, otherwise, his shadow will kill us all!"

Her hand was firmly on the trigger.

Lao Yu, who was transferred to the 101 dormitory, listened to the door for a while, and finally couldn't help but open the door: "What's the matter? Suddenly shouting and screaming for infighting?"

"Wu Ying is dead." Dysonson's hand shook violently again, and the muzzle was always aimed at Ye Chang's forehead.

When Lao Yu saw the messy blood stains in the corridor and the waxed body of Wu Ying, he let out a cold sweat on his forehead and said, "...what happened?"

"She left us last words, Ye Chang's shadow will kill all of us, before Candleman's Day," Dysonson couldn't help falling a tear, gritted his teeth and said, "The last words are still written on the ground, please read it for yourself. ."

Lao Yu raised his flashlight to illuminate the blood on the ground. He was as knowledgeable as he did not consciously breathe a cold breath: "Are you going to kill Ye Chang now to prevent his shadow from hurting people?"

Dysonson said coldly: "Now our only way is to kill his body and try it. It was inferred that the death of the non-waxed body will cause the shadow to disappear, right?"

Chi Nan: "It's just an inference."

Dysonson fumbled on the trigger with his fingers: "Isn’t the inference enough? Now it’s clear that Ye Chang’s shadow can surpass the common sense of light we know, and can appear and kill people in the dark at will! How many victims need to appear before you can download Decide?"

"Maybe the next one to die is me or you!" She grinned tragically, "Isn't that enough?!"

Chi Nan didn't speak, and Ye Changxian, who was pointed at by the gun, put his hand in his pocket, calmly: "Enough, you can shoot at me, but there is a condition."

As he said with a smile that fainted the corners of his lips, he fixedly looked at Chi Nan, "Brother Nan can only shoot."

Dysonson looked over questioningly: "Are you going to play any tricks?"

Ye Chang pushed his glasses and smiled bitterly, "I'm going to die. What tricks can I do? I just want to die in the hands of people who care about it. This request is not excessive, isn't it?"

"Okay, just do what you said." Dysonsen put away his grief, but she was also a refreshing girl, and directly handed the pistol to Chi Nan.

She didn't need to show too absolute hostility, after all, their enemy had always been Ye Chang's shadow, not Ye Chang himself.

Chi Nan didn't take the gun. He looked at Ye Chang in his pocket, "I didn't say yes."

Ye Chang caught his sight: "Why?"

Chi Nan shook his head and lowered his eyes: "I don't want to play with you anymore."

Ye Chang was stunned for a moment, and he almost understood in a flash: "That's it."

"But I still have a question," Chi Nan said, looking at him again, "what would happen if the dream maker died in the nightmare copy?"

Ye Chang was silent for a moment, then smiled and shook his head: "I haven't tried it, and there is no precedent. I'm not sure, I will tell you after I have tried it."

Chi Nan: "...If there is a chance."

"There will be a chance," Ye Chang looked at Chi Nan through the lens with a look of prey, "I will definitely see each other again."

Chi Nan looked at him for an instant: "So, is this situation your preset plot? You calculated the 90% death rate of Dawn Base's dice rolls in advance?"

All the questions pressed in his heart, he directly pointed out at this moment.

Ye Chang shrugged: "Even if I changed my identity and entered a nightmare that is not under my jurisdiction, my ability is very limited. In order to enhance my sense of immersion, I, like all dream visitors, don’t know the key to breaking dreams. I don’t know where the danger lurks, it’s impossible to do things like preset scripts."

"If I can presuppose it, I would never allow my shadow to be used by such an ugly candle man. It doesn't count if I betrayed me, and I almost hurt you in my dream." He added that his dislike for the ugly candle man is very sincere. Reality...

Everyone was at a loss. They didn't know what the two were talking about. Chi Nan continued to ask, "Did your shadow inherit your ability?"

Ye Chang curled his lips: "I guess, it is a high probability."

Chi Nan stopped talking. He knew in his heart that if the alienated shadow had the same ability as the dream maker, the consequences would be disastrous... This also explains why they have been so careful, but Ye Chang's shadow can always take advantage of the emptiness and let in. People can't defend against him, and he can even sneak into his dreams.

"At least in this copy, leaving me behind is endless. You must have seen it before," Ye Chang reminded again, "Time is running out, Brother Nan, let me start as soon as possible."

He looked at the black pistol in Dysonson's hand, but unfortunately his eyes were hidden in the lens, and Chi Nan couldn't see his expression clearly.

Although there were sensational words on his lips, Ye Chang's voice and tone were as gentle and polite as they were when they first met at the dock in Zicheng.

It was like inviting Chi Nan to do something pleasant.

Chi Nan lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and asked quietly, "So, why me?"

As he said, he took the gun in Dysonson's hand, which was loaded.

Chi Nan thinks that he is just an ordinary newcomer who has only passed two books. If there is something special about him, he probably loves to cry more, and once occupied this body to gain freedom and life.

Why did the dreamer take so much time to change his identity and become such a close friend with him?

Or maybe it's just that he treats each other as a friend...

"This question, I have already answered you during the day."

"I want a more accurate answer."

The corners of Ye Chang's lips raised: "Because, I like to watch you cry."

"Do you still like this?" Chi Nan pointed the gun at the center of his eyebrows, his calm tone without ups and downs could even be called cruel.

But only he himself knows that his hands are shaking a bit at this moment, and it takes a lot of effort to cover it up...

He doesn't fear **** things, and he doesn't have much obsession with life. Why is he shaken or even... afraid at this moment?

He guessed that the weird emotion that controls him now and makes him want to escape is the fear that people often say.

If possible, he hopes that the time can press the fast forward button, or drag and drop like a progress bar to skip this paragraph directly.

Don't want to face the moment when the bullet pierced Ye Chang's skull.

"Brother Nan, give face, don't slap your face," Ye Chang put his hand on Chi Nan's gun hand, gently and slowly guided him, the muzzle gradually moved down and aimed at his heart, "I think It’s a good death, so that Nan Ge has a clean and complete impression of Ye Chang's face."

He who looks at his face like this and pursues perfect appearance is not happy that there is a big blood hole in his head after death in his vest, and his brain splashes, ugly and disgusting.

He was holding his hand unscrupulously, Chi Nan's eyelashes trembled abruptly, tears rolled from the corners of his eyes, soaking and moistening the two moles of tears at the end of his eyes.

Chi Nan's back became stiff, and his breathing changed.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Ye Chang raised his other hand, took off his glasses and folded them, and put them in Chi Nan's pocket without any notice. "Save a memorial, a souvenir of Ye Chang."

With those obsidian-like eyes, he looked at Chi Nan with a smile, as if looking forward to the moment when the other party pulled the trigger.

"By the way, as a dream maker, I will give you a reminder at last," Ye Chang pressed to his ear and said in a whispering voice, "In the dream world, all the wishes that have been fulfilled will be before returning to the real world. , As long as the parties wish, they can withdraw."

"Of course, some special props are needed."

Chi Nan opened his eyes slightly, he knew what Ye Chang was referring to at this moment...

"I hope the tips I gave you can help you pass this nightmare safely."

Chi Nan: "...I see."

"Chi Nan! Hurry, shoot!"

Old Yu's panicked voice came from the door. From his point of view, he could just see a swaying light and a dark shadow at the corner of the corridor, approaching them, "The shadow is coming!"

"Chi Nan! Don't hesitate! We will all die if we don't shoot!"

"Haggling **** let me come!"

Dysonson was about to grab Chi Nan's pistol and do it himself, when a loud bang suddenly shocked everyone.

Ye Chang held Chi Nan's hand and pressed the trigger with a force that could be called gentleness.

The corners of his lips raised and laughed, and licked his tears the moment he fell into Chi Nan's arms.

He said: "Brother Nan, there will be a period later."

The blood mist splashed and sprayed from the back pierced by the bullet, Ye Chang's whole body weight was on Chi Nan's body, Chi Nan stepped back two steps under inertia, and barely stopped until his back touched the cold wall.

He was pressed by Ye Chang's breathless body, without any movement, he just opened his eyes wide and let the tears flow silently, his face dripping wet.

He couldn't tell whether the broken tear gland was caused by touching the dead Ye Chang's limb, or because of something else...

But that’s okay, he can shed tears unscrupulously at this time, and no one will accuse him of his crying behavior...

Chi Nan knew that on the night when he shot Ye Chang to death, he had absolute power to shed tears.

At the same time, he knew very well that his regular roommate Ye Chang was dead, but... the dream maker behind the scenes was not dead.

Will there be a period...?

With that gunshot, Ye Chang's shadow, who claimed to kill all their dream visitors, disappeared completely.

Lao Yu heaved a sigh of relief and glanced at Chi Nan, who was silent and crying, knowing that comfort at the moment was equal to farting, so he silently found a shovel to dig a hole in the yard.

At about 5:30, Lao Yu turned back to 103 and saw that Chi Nan had put Ye Chang's body back on the bed in the dormitory. He sat aside, his tears stopped, and he was holding Ye Chang's glasses and staring in awe.

The little blind man's eyelashes were still wet, his face was covered with wet tears, and it was sad that he stared at his friend's relics motionlessly.

Lao Yu sighed, thinking that it would be good if the little anchor was there, he is not the type to comfort people.

"Chi Nan, sorrow," Lao Yu calmly comforted, "I plan to bury both Ye Chang and Wu Ying. In the nightmare world, leaving the body in the room is a hidden danger."

So he is a pragmatic and efficient person. In order to avoid complications and prevent corpses from happening, in the past, if the system did not recover the corpse of the dead, he would also carry out incineration.

But this copy was too sensitive to light and fire, so he could not choose to bury it.

Anyway, it’s just one night, there shouldn’t be any changes, as long as it’s dawn...

He thought that Chi Nan would be obsessed with Ye Chang's corpse because of guilt or other emotions, but he did not expect it. At this moment, Chi Nan nodded calmly: "Need my help?"

I was too busy to wave his hands: "No, no, you have enough trouble tonight, I'll do it."

Chi Nan did not reluctantly: "Thanks for your hard work."

Lao Yu picked up Ye Chang's body and dragged it out: "It's almost dawn, you can rest for a while."

After Lao Yu left, only Chi Nan was left in the dormitory. He was taken aback for a moment and simply lay back on his bed.

But he knew that it was impossible to fall asleep tonight, so he lay on his side, boringly breaking off the spectacle frame that Ye Chang left him as a souvenir.

He began to think about Ye Chang's words repeatedly--

"All the wishes that have been fulfilled can be withdrawn as long as the parties are willing to return to the real world."

In other words, even if their plan to starve the mutant ghost wall failed because of lack of time, there is another way to choose——

Destroy the candle wick.

Human wax is the flesh and bones of giant candles, while the wick is the heart and soul of giant candles. The two are indispensable.

If there is no way to destroy the human wax, then destroying the candle wick can be another option for them to stop the festival.

The candle wick is Rui Rui, and Rui Rui is the wish of the young mother to exchange. If she chooses to withdraw her wish, Rui Rui will also disappear in the copy, and the wick that sacrifices the giant candle will no longer exist.

But at the same time, the young mother will lose her daughter again, and recall that painful and desperate time again...

Chi Nan closed his eyes. No wonder Ye Chang said before his death that this reminder could help him through the nightmare. It did work, but even if he knew the truth and the key to cracking it, the person might not be willing to redeem his wish.

And what is that so-called special item?

Time passed by every minute, and Yu was already digging the hole and burying the corpse. It was already 8 o'clock in the morning.

But unlike the past, it seems that the daylight is late today, and it is still dark when it comes to sunrise.

"It's not right. I have observed it in the past few days. It is usually bright after 7 o'clock in the morning." Lao Yu knows that the alternation of night and day is a key factor in the dungeon. He has always had a habit of paying attention to this world day after entering the dungeon. The specific time of daybreak.

Today is the fifth day they enter the copy of Candleman's Day. Only five of the ten people remain, Chi Nan, Lao Yu, young mother, Dysonson, and Xia Wei, who has a high fever.

Gu Xiao and Bai Chuan became human wax, Ruirui was used as a candle wick and her whereabouts are still unknown. Wu Ying chose to commit suicide because of Ye Chang's shadow, and Ye Chang was shot to death by Chi Nan.

"Today is Candleman's Day, will it..."

Old Yu didn't need to finish speaking, and everyone understood what he meant, and they all looked somber and didn't speak.

Chi Nan stared at Ye Chang's previous bed in a daze, and the movement of breaking the frame of the glasses suddenly stopped, and his expression was frozen.

The white paper box symbolizing "the best volunteer" appeared again strangely beside Ye Chang's pillow.

Lao Yu followed his line of sight and found this anomaly: "Huh? Why is the box still here? Wouldn't the box usually disappear with the candle?"

The human candle symbolizes the alienation of the shadow and the waxing of the body. The sudden appearance at this moment makes the fear of the restless people multiply.

Chi Nan: "After Ye Chang and I put out the candle last night, the box did disappear."

Dysonson distorted his expression in fear and suddenly raised his tone and shouted: "What does it mean that this unlucky box suddenly appeared? Do you want to wipe out the rest of us for Candleman's Day?!"

After some tossing last night, she helped her most trusted companion to shoot and commit suicide. Sadness and exhaustion made her sober value rise to the critical point of 88. At this time, she has a clear tendency to lose control of her emotions.

Just as everyone looked at the box that suddenly appeared like a ghost, Chi Nan walked over in three steps and two steps. The moment he opened the box, the quiet green eyes that were always stagnant water made light waves.

His movements were also obviously stiff.

I was always anxious and asked: "What's inside?!"