After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

Boom clang, boom clang.

There was the sound of trains crushing the rails, and the smell of cold rust filled the nose.

Half-dreaming and half-awake, Chi Nan felt that the entire space he was in was shaking regularly.

He seemed to be lying in the train compartment.

As the connecting hub between the dungeon and the dawn base, the train is the most common means of transportation in the world of nightmare.

But they are clearly still in the 229 boarding school in Dawn City, why are they in the rickety carriage in the blink of an eye?

Before opening his eyes, the electric sound of the system sounded in his consciousness——

[As the best student at the Dawn City Boarding School, you chose ‘Sorrow’ as the performance theme, and now you have entered the immersive performance class]

Different from the previous system mechanical explanations, this time it was the voice familiar to the female teacher.

[You were born in a well-known rich family in Gongcheng. You have never returned to your hometown after you were sent abroad to study eleven years ago. Your father died unexpectedly four days ago. You brought your girlfriend from the other side of the ocean to attend the funeral of your father. ]

[This is a warm and sad family story. Please cooperate with your partner to complete it. During the performance, enhance the relationship between the character and the family, increase the family’s goodwill towards the character, make up for the missing love and memories in the past, and make this sad The story was completed. ]

girlfriend? Chi Nan opened his eyes suddenly, facing the iron bed frame on the train, his vision was framed by spectacles.

At this moment, the bridge of his nose was wearing Ye Chang's repaired glasses.

A familiar voice sounded from above: "Wake up? I have received the theme of the acting class from the female teacher."

Tang Yu pursed her lips in embarrassment, "I am the girlfriend."

Chi Nan: "..."

Just when the two were speechless and embarrassed, the female teacher’s voice sounded from the system again: [Please note that the girlfriend here is quoted, in fact, because the young master played by Chi Nan is a gay, played by Tang Yu As a girlfriend, in order to cope with his return home to attend the funeral of his father, the role of pretending to be a girlfriend soothes the injured heart of the other's mother. ]

The two men let out a sigh of relief.

[Because it is the first immersive acting class given by two students, in order to enhance the sense of substitution, the name of the character is your name]

Chi Nan: "I don't believe that the dream maker in this school will really assign us a warm family drama book."

Speaking, he sat up from the sleeper, took off the spectacles on the bridge of his nose and rubbed his eyes.

"Hey, Chi Nan, your eyes..." Tang Yu showed an unbelievable expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Chi Nan didn't feel any discomfort in his eyes.

"It's black..." Tang Yu looked at his face for an instant, "The moles of tears are gone."

He observes people's appearance and dress very carefully, and he can tell at a glance when people around him change their makeup, not to mention such a big change in Chi Nan's face.

Chi Nan subconsciously looked sideways at the window glass. It was reflected in the mirror that he had a pair of dark eyes, and two moles of tears under his eyes disappeared from his face without a trace.

The whole face suddenly looked very different, even making him feel a little strange.

Could it be that when entering the acting class, the makeup and appearance of the characters will be adjusted according to the characters? He looked at Tang Yu, who was still a black, straight and gentle girl, but he had changed into a floral skirt.

So, is the change on his face one of the clues?

He intuitively 229 can do such a thing.

Seeing that he was not talking, Tang Yu smiled to break the silence and said, "Although it doesn't look like the original you anymore, it's quite suitable."

Chi Nan nodded. At this moment, the flight attendant selling snacks happened to pass by the carriage. He looked at a cart of spicy strips and braised melon seeds, and suddenly thought of something to ask the flight attendant: "Are there chewing gum?"

"Is it okay to have only orange flavor? It costs 10 yuan." The flight attendant replied.

Chi Nan paid the money quickly and poured the orange gum in his palms. It didn't matter what the taste was, it was sweet.

But when the sweetness of cheap oranges spread in his mouth, Chi Nan didn't feel the heat of his tear ducts as usual, and he even felt his eyes a little dry and rubbed them with his hands.

The feeling of dry eyes after eating sweets is too strange, strangely strange.

"What's the matter?" Tang Yu was puzzled by his series of actions, and looked over with some worry.

Chi Nan extended his hand towards him: "Please touch me."

Eating sweets will not shed tears, and he has to try physical contact to see if the old illness will recur.

"Huh?" Tang Yu was puzzled.

Chi Nan insisted: "Just touch it, do an experiment."

If this sentence is spoken from other boys, it is easy to make people think that the other party is taking advantage of sexual harassment, but in Chi Nan, this will not make people have such doubts. His eyes are purely like a good student dealing with chemistry experiments.

Tang Yu nodded, and gently touched the back of Chi Nan's hand with his fingertips.

Chi Nan's eyelashes trembled subconsciously, but there was no feeling of wetness in his eyes, and no tears flowed out.

I really don't cry anymore...what's the matter? In this dungeon, all the conditions for triggering tears are invalidated because of the need to conform to the personality?

And it happens to be in this story with the theme of ‘sorrow’... 229 deliberately...

Tang Yu quickly withdrew his hand. Seeing Chi Nan's thoughtful appearance, he didn't ask too much, and began to observe the passengers coming and going in the carriage.

These people are obviously all NPCs fabricated by the dreamer, who turned a blind eye to his curious gaze.

About twenty minutes later, the train stopped at the terminal station Gongcheng, where Chi Nan had left his hometown where he played the role for eleven years.

The temperature outside the carriage is very high, the sun is scorching, and the standing water on the platform seems to have just had a heavy rain, but it can’t alleviate the heat of the city. Humidity instead makes the tropical city shrouded in airtight heat waves.

The two walked out of the carriage and came to the platform. Based on previous experience, Chi Nanchao touched in his pocket, and as expected, they found a crumpled note with Ye Changduanxiu's handwriting on it——

[Liming Road 229 Apartment Building]

Tang Yu looked over and quickly knew that this was their destination, so he stopped a taxi to go.

After getting on the bus, Tang Yu pretended to chat and asked the driver: "Excuse me, is there any legend in this apartment 229, or is there anything strange happening recently?"

The driver glanced at the two of them through the rearview mirror: "Is the high-end apartment that used to be only for the rich to live in a legend?"

Then he said, "The apartment at 229 Liming Road was one of the best apartments in Gongcheng more than ten years ago. Over the years, it has not been as prestigious as before, but everyone in Gongcheng knows that the style is still there. "

"A couple bought this apartment ten years ago. It is said that their children are not around, and they have no other relatives. The couple live on one of the first floors by themselves. It's people who want to live, and the demand exceeds demand." The driver seemed to be embarrassed and asked curiously, "Are there any relatives there?"

Tang Yu smiled politely, "Yes, I haven't come back for more than ten years, go to visit relatives."

"The rich..." the driver sighed, and said nothing more.

Twenty minutes later, the taxi passed through the steaming streets and alleys and stopped on a quiet tree-lined road.

The driver looked at the five-story building about 20 meters ahead: "Here, there is apartment No. 229."

There was no one on this street, quietly magnifying the cicadas in the afternoon several times, screaming dry and inexplicably anxious.

Not long after they got out of the car, a small vendor suddenly walked out of the corner of an empty street. Plastic bags filled with water hung on the shelf of his bicycle. The plastic bags were filled with colorful tropical fish.

Chi Nan has always been easily attracted by colorful things. At this moment, his gaze is staring at the small fish vendor. The spirited vendor feels the business opportunity. Seeing the two carrying luggage, he knows the way and walks wisely. Promotion: "Do you two want to visit relatives? Do you want to buy some paradise fish as a gift? This is our specialty. People from Gongcheng visit relatives and friends to send paradise fish to them."

Chi Nan thought that since it was an acting class, all the coincidences in the script would not be true coincidences, so he readily paid for a dozen or so beautifully colored paradise fish. The small vendor even thoughtfully put him in a glass jar. Put on a colorful net bag and carry it, it is a delicate and unique souvenir.

As soon as he held the paradise fish in his hand, the female teacher’s voice was transmitted over—

[Congratulations on getting an important performance prop to enhance family affection, a tank of paradise fish]

Tang Yu suddenly said: "It seems that we need to find a way to gather performance props that can increase family affection in the story."

Chi Nan: "Judging from the story information given by the female teacher, the young master's father has passed away. The mother should be the object of increasing family affection."

Tang Yu agreed: "Yes, I haven't mentioned that there are other relatives, who should be the hostess."

Chi Nan looked down from the gap in the net bag. The red and blue body of the paradise fish looked like fresh colors flowing in the water tank. Only then did Chi Nan discover that the paradise fish had green eyes.

The faint green is like the color of his own eyes, and the color is multiplied and diffused under the refraction of water.

He withdrew his gaze.

An aunt who looked like a maid stood by the crossroad in front of the apartment and smiled respectfully at them: "Master, you have finally returned home. Madam has been waiting for you for a long time."

As she said, she looked at Tang Yu next to Chi Nan, "And Miss Tang, Madam welcomes you very much. You are struggling on the journey, please come with me."

The exterior wall of this apartment is dark yellow with a sense of age. There are three shops on the ground floor. On the left is a women's clothing store, and on the right is divided into a restaurant and a flower shop.

After entering the iron gate is the public area of ​​the apartment. An old-fashioned family elevator stops downstairs. There is a sign under repair. On the right is a stairwell inlaid with wooden floors. The whole apartment looks a bit old but don’t be particular about it. .

"The young master has been away from home to study since he was a child, and his memory of the family must have faded. This apartment was bought by the wife after you left. There have been several groups of tenants coming and going," the maid led them to the stairwell. Go, "Madam is still quite tolerant of tenants' requirements."

"On the second floor lived two married ladies. Although the wife's faith and education prevented her from accepting distorted feelings between the same sex, the wife was kind and allowed these two deviant ladies to rent," the maid passed the second floor. He whispered, "Of course, they will not have children in this relationship. This is also within the madam's consideration. Madam is afraid of children's noise."

Chi Nan and Tang Yu listened very carefully. The maid's babbled speeches were not only to blame, but more importantly, to provide them with hidden information.

"On the third floor is the old foreign painter's lady and her butler. Now she is too old, her eyes are almost invisible, and her consciousness is not very clear. This kind of old man and ordinary landlord is also very taboo, but Madam doesn't mind at all."

"There lived a young mistress on the fourth floor. She sprayed her nose with perfume every day." The maid curled her lips and made a very contemptuous look. "I heard that she can no longer be pregnant with a child because of multiple miscarriages, husband. The talent graciously agreed to let her live. Of course, her lover paid the rent."

They quickly reached the fifth floor, and the maid opened the iron door in the stairwell, slowly and gloomy sorrow filled the corridor: "Master, I'm home, Madam is waiting for you."

A middle-aged woman in a black dress was standing behind the door, her face was thickly covered with white powder, and her lips were painted in intense red that was incompatible with sorrow and music.

The moment she saw Chi Nan and Tang Yu, she was startled for a moment, and then quickly reduced her mood swings and smiled at them gracefully: "Nan Nan, you are finally willing to go home and take a look at me and your father."

"I have been waiting for this day for a long time." From a closer look, the hostess and Chi Nan have a similarity, and the details of the immersive performance class are still very careful.

But when he heard the word father, Tang Yu had a bad feeling, because the woman's tone was light and natural, as if the protagonist of the funeral was still alive and would soon come over to greet them.

And although this woman was dressed in black, there was no sadness on her face.

"Come in, it's been eleven years... Let me take a good look at you, and..." The hostess looked at Tang Yu, "This elegant Miss Tang."

"Hi Madam, this is a little bit of our care."

Tang Yu hurriedly passed the fish tank pocket in his hand. The performance class system did not prepare a decent souvenir for them. Since it reminds them that the paradise fish is a key prop to increase their goodwill, there will be no mistakes in sending it out.

The wife took the net bag with a polite smile: "Let me see, what kind of thoughtful things you have prepared..."

She didn't finish a word. When she opened the net bag and saw the green-eyed paradise fish in the fish tank, her face suddenly froze. She saw her hand holding the fish tank shook suddenly, and the glass tank formed a colorful parabola in mid-air. Screaming with the hostess's horror, the fish tank fell to the ground.

"Take these unknown things away from my eyes!"

The water in the tank was instantly absorbed by the carpet, and more than a dozen green-eyed paradise fish stood up and fluttered on the ground.

The tranquility of apartment 229 was also instantly broken.