Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Even though the barbecue restaurant is full of people and there are noisy human voices, I feel that I am out of place, and the surroundings are abnormally cold, and those human voices seem to come from another world.

I felt embarrassed and ridiculously sitting at the dining table, my palm was close to the iced coffee handed by the waiter, and was cruelly pushed away by the cold temperature, so I had to pick up the meat skewers brought to the table, the middle was slightly burnt.

It was undoubtedly Qianyan who spoke to me just now, maybe she heard the exaggerated words I blurted out to Xia Yinci, maybe she just wanted to remind me. In any case, because of Qianyan's appearance, I confirmed that "wanting to remember the forgotten memory" is not wrong in itself. Even if neither Su Huilin nor Xia Yinci is on my side, I still have to think stand up.

"It looks like there are only two of us left. However, I was the one who proposed to come here for something to eat."

An unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded from the next table, and Chen Yun looked at me sleepily, as if it took a lot of energy for him to put on a smiling face. Is it difficult for students who are not good at communication to blend in even if they come to group activities? Distraught, I maintained a barely evoked smile on my face as a greeting.

"However... I think it's better to be a little bit more clean, so that I can organize my thoughts well. After all, that's why I came here."

Chen Yun ignored my speech that seemed to be talking to himself, and took a sip of the remaining barbecue on the table. I also ignored him out of self-indulgence, and lifted the skewers to do the same thing as him.

"Cough.. who sprinkled too much cumin powder.."

I squeezed my throat and coughed a few times, my vision was shaken and I was a little dizzy. But at this time Chen Yun raised the cup and unexpectedly sat beside me, I couldn't help but glance at him in surprise.

"I remember that you are usually sleepy or sleepy..Why do you participate in this kind of activity?"

"It's like I didn't know you would deliberately sarcastic others until today."

"If I said I was surprised that you were so eloquent, it wouldn't be considered sarcasm, would it?"

"Hmm..." I didn't expect my joke to make Chen Yun think seriously, and replied without any sense of humor in his tone, "... let's barely pass the test."

"Well...the human heart is really elusive."

"You don't mean me, do you?"

"So even you, who are sleepy, noticed that I had a fight with Xia Yinci just now?"

"I didn't sleep. It's strange that you can't hear such a loud noise."

Chen Yun shrugged indifferently. He raised the glass with the protruding multi-faceted prism, and poured the frothy orange liquid in the glass into his mouth. That's when I realized he had beer in his glass. He exhaled happily, and slapped the cup in his hand on the table relatively hard. Noticing my slightly apprehensive gaze, he took an unopened bottle of beer from the side and moved it in front of me.

"Drink?"

"Is that why you're so sleepy?"

Seeing that I not only hesitated to answer his question directly, but instead teased him in a slightly witty way, Chen Yong simply flicked his thumb up, pushed open the beer cap, and filled two glasses deftly. A cup was pushed in front of me, and then he gave me a "go-it-yourself" wink.

〖If you want to drink, I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible! ! 〗

For some reason, Lin Yu's voice suddenly echoed in his mind. I shook my head in a little trouble, raised my wine glass and looked at it carefully for a few seconds.

〖Dad..Why do you go to the tavern to drink when you have nothing to do? 〗

〖Well..〗Dad held the confusing white mist of smoke between his fingers, and scratched his hair consciously and bored, 〖Some things, I can only think clearly when I am drunk...In short, you will grow up in the future I will understand. But when you were young, I gave you a little wine, and you just sipped that little bit and got drunk... so this kind of thing is not suitable for you. 〗

〖I think Dad, you are playing tricks...〗

If alcohol really has the magic of being intoxicated in your own world, can I use it to recall any clues?

I didn’t know what I was thinking of. I dazedly brought the mouth of the cup to my mouth and drank it down in one gulp. The cold and refreshing liquid slid down my throat and turned into a burst of heat. I couldn’t help but put down the cup and coughed. stand up. Realizing that Chen Yun smiled faintly, the aroma of alcohol filled his nostrils. I grabbed my beer mug and filled the glass in front of me for the first time.

I can't explain how I feel right now. I just feel that maybe my dad didn't scare me at the time, maybe I really don't drink well. And when I forced myself to drink the second cup, Chen Yun didn't stop me. Instead, a hand suddenly appeared in front of me and grabbed my hand that was still trying to reach the beer bottle. I raised my eyes in a daze, and the one standing in front of me was Chen Zekai.

"Why don't you hug the sea with them now, why are you so dazed here..."

"I saw that you had a quarrel with Xia Yinci just now, and you came back because you were worried."

"Oh...that's really an anecdote." Chen Yun on the side snorted teasingly, and downed another cup briskly, looking sideways at me from time to time as if deliberately provoking me. A guy who gets drunk immediately after drinking a glass of beer."

"No! It's not enough!"

I broke free from Chen Zekai's hand, reached the wine bottle and filled a glass with trembling, weak hands.

"Su Ruoyang, you have an upset stomach, don't drink any more!"

"Go and accompany you, Jiang Xinyao, leave me alone, I'm not feeling well! I—"

Before I finished speaking, I immediately shut my mouth. Although the consciousness is somewhat out of control, at least I am still clear that the affairs of the core research institution cannot be disclosed.

"Drink it if you want." Chen Yun said, stretched his hand to my wine glass, and joked at the same time, "If you can't drink it, please don't be brave—"

I slapped his hand away at once, picked up the glass of beer and swallowed desperately as soon as I walked it into my mouth. I vaguely felt liquid leaking from the corner of my mouth, but I didn't care about it at all. It seems that there is a voice constantly ringing in my ears - "drink it". It gave me such an order, and I didn't intend to disobey it. Unknowingly, the colors in my field of vision all blurred out, dyed into an inky black hue.

"This guy.."

Chen Zekai complained impatiently, and he glanced at Chen Yun slightly displeased.

"Why did you drink him?"

"No, I didn't. I just asked him if he wanted to drink. Who knows that he got into a fight with me for no reason. It can only be said that he voluntarily got drunk. Maybe I helped him."

"You bastard..." Chen Zekai scratched his hair irritably. He glanced at me out of the corner of his eye, took out his phone from his pocket, and lowered his head to operate the screen. Then he put the mobile phone to his ear and walked out of the barbecue shop, and hurriedly said to Chen Yun, "I'll call his home to take him back, please help me take care of him first."

The sound of footsteps gradually drifting away, I glanced at the outside of the barbecue shop in a daze, a feeling of nausea surged in my stomach, just as I wanted to take advantage of this repulsion to vomit, a slightly rough palm immediately Holding my waist——Chen Yun forcibly helped me up. My mind was blank, and I was dragged into the kitchen of the barbecue restaurant by him. A chef with his arms crossed and looking at me dangerously led the way, and led me and Chen Yong to a place that seemed to be the back door of the barbecue restaurant. I pushed it out. I woke up quite a bit from the push and saw an old van with advertising stickers parked on the side of my alley.

〖However, I was the one who proposed to come here to eat something. 〗What Chen Yun said a few minutes ago was ringing in his ears, followed by his father’s warning, 〖Su Ruoyang... Please be careful around you during this time, leave immediately if something is wrong, and leave at any time Can't let our guard down, understand? 〗I suddenly realized that something was wrong. I wanted to break free from Chen Yun's hand, but I was kicked into the van, sunk in with my face facing the seat, and fell embarrassingly in the gap between the seats.

"I'm sorry, Su Luoyang. 'Dreams are just a reflection of reality'. Kill the bodies of the rulers at the other end, and the spirits will no longer exist. The wise king has finally 'returned here', so we must also Respond with all my strength, even though I'm in the same class, I have to do it too."

"What the hell are you..."

My tongue felt a little numb, as if I accidentally bit my tongue when I was kicked in just now.

Unexpectedly, the consciousness is so weak that even the pain sensation seems to be paralyzed.

"What are you talking about?"

There was a rustling sound from the driver's seat in the front row, and I saw a man in a black top hat looking sideways at me through the rearview mirror as if looking down at an ant.

"In response to the order of the "King of Stealing Dreams", I will pardon you from your life—"

I propped up the seat and straightened up. Through the gap, I saw a girl sitting in the passenger seat that I didn’t see for the first time. She was one of the dream stealers who were chasing after being imprisoned in the Colosseum. The lollipop-chewing girl was called "Chen Xue" girl. At this time, she was tearing open the bag of potato chips leisurely and contentedly - the source of the rustling sound just now, her legs were proudly folded.

"Hey! What are you doing!?"

He heard the sound of Chen Zekai chasing him outside the window, but the car door slammed shut. The accelerator was also stepped on quickly, and the centrifugal force of the forward rush pulled out all the nausea accumulated in the abdomen, the fragile throat was burning like fire, and even the temperature of breathing was burning. Chen Zekai, who was running up, was hit on the head with a stick picked up by Chen Yun from the side, and knocked down to the ground. The scene outside the window quickly disappeared, and the car body smashed into the trash can beside the alley and the fire hydrant next to it, and accelerated to a direction inaccessible. The door was locked and could not be opened, and the arc on the side of the driver's mouth seemed to be trying to persuade me not to waste my time.

A cluttered mind struggles to think. Dad's warning should be aimed at the Core Research Association...but now it's the Dream Stealer who came to me. The two have nothing to do with each other... No, maybe it's not completely unrelated!

The scenery outside the window gradually stagnates in front of the traffic lights, and there is an identical van next to it. I can't feel any drunkenness at this time. It seems that this sense of crisis has awakened consciousness. However, just as I was thinking about how to find an opportunity to get in, the crisp sound of glass shattering sounded in my ears, breaking the original cold air, and the window next to the passenger seat was kicked and smashed by something outside!

The girl in the black dress broke into the car without warning, jumped up and hit Chen Xue, who was chewing potato chips, with her elbow, making the muffled sound of bones colliding—the girl's elbow hit Chen Xue's head. The palm that Xue Xue stretched out in a nick of time, truly received her blow.

"Black... black cat!?"

The black cat hurriedly responded to my astonishment with a glance back, quickly pulled away its own elbows, and rode on Chen Xue's body to launch the next round of offensive. The black cat crashed out of the van of the same model next to it and smashed into the window here... This means that the black cat was also targeted by the Dream Stealer. Just like before the start of the domination war, the dream thief is once again targeting the relatively weak dominator in the real world!

Seeing this, the man in the gray top hat quickly stepped on the accelerator, and the solid body of the car slammed into the taxi coming from the right, causing a jolt in the car. The black cat turned around and kicked the man in the driver's seat on the back of the head. Unexpectedly, the man hit a button on the forehead with this kick, and the car whistled. The car body passed through the intersection and continued to shuttle back and forth between the traffic on a rampage. At this time, the black cat's head was also pushed out of the window by Chen Xue.

Seeing the oncoming vehicle honking its horn, the black cat immediately grabbed the upper edge of the car and pulled it out quickly through the broken window, and jumped onto the roof. Taking this opportunity, Chen Xue took out his pistol and pulled the trigger on the roof of the car without hesitation, shooting a series of bullet marks on the roof that I thought was indestructible.

However, instead of hearing the black cat's voice, the man in the driver's seat struggled and grunted, and saw his head was pulled out of the car window by the hands stretched into the window, and the top hat was blown off by the wind. Fall in the middle of the back road. Immediately, his upper body, which was constantly being pulled out, was directly hit by a passing container truck, blood poured out like a roaring deep sea, and the truck immediately made a screeching brake sound.

"whispering sound.."

Chen Xue made a displeased voice irritably, and turned the muzzle of the gun to my forehead. I quickly raised my hands instinctively, and swallowed the saliva mixed with the strong smell of alcohol. It hurts from swallowing and squeezing. Just when she was about to use me as a threat, a beautiful figure jumped out of the window on the right side of the car, kicked Chen Xue and the gun in his hand into the driver's seat, and rode onto her with his strength.

"Go. I won't last long with her."

After the black cat finished speaking, he freed his hand to press a button, and the car door slammed. Her words were like an irresistible military order. I didn't dare to neglect and immediately opened the door and ran out. Many pedestrians who joined in the fun gathered at the place where the accident happened just now, and I walked against the dense flow of people. The car that was driving alongside my van at the intersection also stopped immediately in front of the crowd, chasing me in the opposite direction of the flow of people. I immediately supported the road sign of "Rongtan Street" next to me to stand firm, and stumbled all the way to the slightly familiar alley, and then from the lonely alleyway to the foreign-like shopping street.

"wrong...!"

I shouldn't have run away in this direction! It was because the crowd was rushing in the opposite direction to me at that time, and my drowsy brain naturally guided me out of the crowd, so I rushed into the alley of Rongtan Street, but I couldn’t come here anyway, only here is No way... because the Core Research Association is nearby! The so-called "just out of the tiger's den, and then into the wolf's mouth" is nothing more than that.

Walking through the long street, the more you step forward, the heavier your legs will be. The whereabouts of Taoyuan Bar appeared in the dim field of vision, and I grabbed my right hand in that direction, as if it was my only way out now, and I could only escape the dangerous situation by touching there. But suddenly he stepped on a raised pavement brick, lost his center of gravity and fell, and the sound of dangerous footsteps wandering in the street surrounded his ears...

At this moment, someone gently pulled the clothes behind me, making me regain my lost center of gravity. I began to fall backwards, so that my waist was actually pressed against the cold and dangerous touch.

That is no longer a strange perception in my eyes, it is a cold muzzle. Everything that happened here happened to me again.

"Mr. Su Ruoyang, you finally came back by yourself. Professor Huan couldn't find you, but I was anxious for a long time."

"hateful.."

To what extent do you want to beautify the word "imprisonment" before you stop using this kind of playful dialogue like an old friend who has seen you again for a long time?

"Don't turn back, go forward. When I tell you to stop and stop, just nod your head if you understand. Also, welcome home."

...

strange ceiling. White floors, white beds, white walls, white doors. A room with nothing but white. There is also a sensor door that will only display the four warning words "no entry" no matter how hard you try.

I vaguely remember that this is the room where Lin Yu was imprisoned before. He seemed to be locked in the same room as Xiao Lulu, but now I am the only one here. Just now I saw the black cat in the world outside the Core Research Association, which means that Xiao Lulu has also escaped. Of course, there is also the possibility that it was forcibly taken away by the dreamer and his party.

"You will never escape this time, honored guest." Recalling the voice of Professor Huan just now, the stomach could not help but growl with nausea, "Your appearance has reversed the deadlock between me and Su Guokai!"

I felt a little dazed, and the world around me was so quiet that I felt chills in my heart. At the same time, it was only at this time that the aftereffects of a large amount of alcohol finally appeared. I leaned back against the wall and slid to the floor bit by bit, fidgeting with my messy hair.

The vision that was originally in a trance was getting darker and darker, but after a while, he was drawn into the abyss of consciousness fault.

...

The perception of nothingness. There is no temperature and no color. It cannot be called an unfamiliar space. ——In the blink of an eye, I went from the white room to the gray room.

"Ruler. Do you really wish to recall your past?"

The voice that was decayed like dead wood was so hoarse that one instinctively wanted to block his ears to keep it out. I feebly raised my eyes to look at the person in front of me. The boy curled his short blue curly hair and walked from darkness to light.

"From the bottom of my heart... I want to do this."

Hearing my words, the boy smiled mockingly for some reason, and the surrounding gray was gradually painted with colorful colors by an invisible brush.

"Should I be thankful that you still have the only obsession? The short quarrel between the two girls and you, the initiative of the people who are malicious to you, and the situation of being imprisoned. Just these three things This matter will destroy all your previous awareness and reasons for participating in the domination war, don’t you feel that you are too fragile, Su Luoyang?”

"What do you mean... are you here to laugh at me on purpose?"

"There is no such kind of leisure. Although I am just a drifter in a dream, I don't want to waste my energy doing useless things. Su Luoyang, to be honest, if I were the mastermind behind the story, I would never put my energy on you On this kind of person, human beings, once they have no purpose, they will lose the meaning of survival, let alone use value... What do you think of you?"

The surrounding environment ceased its seemingly endless coloring. The gray space just before the conversation disappeared, and what appeared before my eyes was the environment of the hospital hall. I couldn't explain why I felt a sense of repulsion all over my body, and the extreme to weird fear was entangled in my heart, and I quickly moved my legs back, trying to lean against the wall for support, but the wall seemed to be conscious, and twisted backwards. The curved surface dented, and I fell on the curved wall. It's not that I made it like this, but it is actively escaping from me.

"Why did you bring me to my dream palace?!"

"Oh... In your eyes, this place only has this meaning."

The madman who called himself a drifter looked around thoughtfully, and became increasingly impatient with my tone, full of ridicule.

"Sure enough, you can't retrieve your own memory just by relying on your incompetent self."

In the shadow of the front desk, a young girl hidden under a black robe watched our conversation from the sidelines. I recognized her No. 3 dream madman at a glance, and I also knew that she would never let me go.

—but I begged them to let me go back, almost stupidly and shamefully.

"What's the matter...hey..." He lightly tapped his temple, "I clearly remember what you said just now, 'I want to recall the past from the bottom of my heart'. How could it be possible to still Is there a chance to retreat?"

The vision becomes more and more blurred, and the consciousness seems to start a journey that I know nothing about from this distorted place, leading to the past that I don't know, and all the answers are in front of me. It tore at me with the grin only a jailer in Purgatory can make.

"Qian... Qianyan! You are here! Please, take me away!"

I desperately pinched the flesh in the palm of my hand, trying to maintain a clear consciousness. But the ability of lucid dreaming seemed to be withdrawn from my body little by little, and I inevitably merged into the dream without lucid consciousness. I looked around and saw no sign of Qianyan's presence anywhere.

"Thousands of faces—"

"Aren't you on this level? You've always been the only one who threatened to recall the past."

A cold and gentle whisper came from nowhere, interrupting my call suddenly, and my heart twitched violently. Yeah.. why am I so scared, afraid of the past that I can't remember. What exactly happened there? I feel more and more that Xia Yinci, Su Erin and other family members' obstruction is not without reason, which also makes me feel guilty. I had mixed feelings for a while.

"Remember what I said. Only by untying the shackles of memory can you protect Xia Yinci—"

Anyway, it was the last sound I heard. I don't know if Qian Yan said anything else after that, but I just remember a sudden breakdown of consciousness. In a blink of an eye, the conscious consciousness that dominates the dream completely collapsed, and fell into the subconscious-led "dream" that he had been having before participating in the war of dominance--the kind of ordinary dream that is not disturbed by "lucid dreams".

...

Waking up from a dream - the lights turned up to maximum power blindingly obscured the appearance of the ceiling. I hurriedly raised my thin and sickly white hands, trying to cover my sore eyes, but there was a plastic hose attached to the back of my hand, and the infusion bottle dripped a drop of liquid every second, like sliding down my cheeks. The sweat hit the ground. I had no choice but to give up and put down the right hand that was being infused.

"Are you awake? How do you feel?"

A slightly harsh voice sounded from the side. I can't remember what happened just now, I just feel the pain deep in my head. I looked hard at the woman. She looked to be in her thirties, wearing a patched white coat, and her hair was tied up in the back of her head, with a few silver strands conspicuously mixed.

She made me feel both strange and familiar. Unknowingly, my lips squirmed slightly, and the two words squeezed out between my teeth seemed to come from instinct, or it was beyond my control to pronounce these two words.

"Ah... good morning, Mom..."