Night’s Nomenclature

After the chaos, the prisoners slowly stood up, and dozens of mechanical prison guards entered the square with the sound of neat hydraulic transmission, directing the prisoners to clean up everything that had been knocked over here.

In the restaurant, Guo Huchan was sitting cross-legged on the ground not far away, as if the old monk had fallen into trance.

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the black rubber bullets all over the ground and sighed: "When gods fight, mortals suffer. Those who fight have no trouble. Those prisoners who didn't fight are really unlucky. Hey, Guo Huchan, aren't there rumors that you are compassionate? Do you often do good deeds? What about these people who have been implicated by you?"

Guo Huchan said without raising his eyelids: "You told me in prison that you hurt innocent people? No one here is innocent, no one is innocent."

"Hypocritical," Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at her lips.

"Also, let me emphasize," Guo Huchan opened his eyes and looked at Lin Xiaoxiao: "I am not a monk, don't use words like compassion to describe me."

After saying that, he closed his eyes again and carefully adjusted his breath.

He didn't seem to be injured in the battle with Li Shutong just now, but now his internal organs were really uncomfortable, as if they had been burned by a fire.

When everyone saw him meditating quietly, they stopped caring. Lin Xiaoxiao winked at Ye Wan, and suddenly, an invisible force field suddenly opened around them.

Qingchen had seen this ability just now. When black rain fell from the steel sky, all the raindrops falling towards Ye Wan were bounced away by this force field.

Seeing that Qingchen was a little confused, Lin Xiaoxiao explained with a smile: "Don't worry, your voice won't be transmitted."

Li Shutong sat at the dining table and held the big cat in his arms, and then said to Qingchen: "In the morning, I saw Lu Guangyi interrogating those people during the couple's ceremony. Was it you who gave the order?"

"It's me," Qingchen knew that the other party knew about his relationship with the Qing family, and also knew that Lu Guangyi was taking orders from him, so he didn't hide it.

"Why are they interrogated?" Li Shutong asked.

"I want to see what other forces are competing with me for forbidden items," Qingchen lied. He needed to find a reasonable reason to explain his behavior.

Li Shutong nodded: "I like your honesty, but I think Lu Guangyi did not abuse the newcomers this time. Is that what you meant?"

"Yes," Qingchen said.

"But I remember that when you first came in, you didn't help the other newcomers," Li Shutong said.

"It's within my ability," Qingchen said.

Li Shutong smiled and did not comment on this.

If he cannot protect himself, Qingchen will quietly watch others die without helping. This is his principle.

His life has never been smooth sailing, so he learned to be selfish early on.

This is the attitude towards life given to him by life, not his own choice.

At this moment, Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly looked towards Guo Huchan, who was not far away...

Qingchen turned his head and saw Guo Huchan still sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed, but his long arms were already hanging down by his sides.

I saw the other party using the index and middle fingers of both hands to prop up the entire body and lift it slightly off the ground.

Then the four fingers moved closer to Ye Wan's force field little by little...

This guy obviously found that he couldn't hear everyone's conversation while sitting there, so he wanted to sneak closer.

This made Qingchen dumbfounded. A two-meter-tall, rugged man with totems all over his body was fighting fiercely one moment, but the next moment he was pretending to sit cross-legged and adjust his breath, but in fact he wanted to eavesdrop on others chatting.

The contrast is too great.

As if feeling everyone's gaze, Guo Huchan moved himself back to his original position with four fingers without changing his expression, as if nothing had happened.

This scene made Li Shutong amused: "Okay, let's go. It's a pity that I couldn't play chess today. I'm going to read a book."

Before leaving, Lin Xiaoxiao squatted in front of Guo Huchan and said with a smile: "If you lose, just stay here. We really don't want to be enemies with Spades. We know it's not easy for you to suffer in the wilderness, but don't give it to us either. Is it okay to cause trouble?"

Guo Huchan raised his eyelids: "I didn't lose to you, why are you so proud?"

Lin Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows: "You think I can't cure you?"

Guo Huchan said calmly: "Try touching one of my hairs."

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the other party's shiny head: "...?"

The rumors were indeed just rumors. This Guo Huchan was completely different from what he had heard!

Qingchen ignored the two men's continued bickering and turned to the window to get some food, then wolfed it down.

He was very poor in the outer world. He only ate compressed biscuits for two days after traveling back in time. There was rice, noodles and vegetables at home, but there was no meat. He couldn't afford meat.

Although the food here is average, the synthetic meat still tastes like meat.

Qingchen felt a little emotional in his heart. The prison food in this world was actually better than what he ate in the outer world.

He accidentally looked up while he was engrossed in eating, and suddenly discovered that a quarter of the 210 cameras in Prison No. 18 were silently turned towards him.

It seemed that he had just found a blind spot between the lightning and flint, which attracted someone's attention.

But he didn't know who was behind the surveillance.

After Lin Xiaoxiao finished arguing with Guo Huchan, he stood up and put Qingchen's dinner plate aside. Then he took another dinner plate and went to the window to pat it, and said to the robot inside: "The boss has told me that I will give it to him in the future." In exchange for real meat, give him as much as he wants to eat.”

Qingchen was stunned for a moment: "Why?"

Lin Xiaoxiao smiled mysteriously: "You will soon know that this may not be a good thing."

…

At night, when Qingchen returned to his cell and was brushing his teeth, he suddenly felt sleepy, and he immediately realized something was wrong.

But this time, he didn't fall to the ground and fall asleep like last time. Instead, he calmly rinsed his mouth carefully. After he lay down on the bed in a comfortable position, he slowly closed his eyes.

The nightmare begins.

In his dream, Qingchen appeared in a desert, with two people sitting on the dunes opposite.

In this nightmare world, the sky is filled with yellow sand and the sun is scorching.

Only a few seconds passed, and Qingchen felt that his lips were dry and cracked.

One of the people on the opposite side begged him: "Qingchen, give us a sip of the water in your backpack, otherwise we will die."

Qingchen opened the bag on his back and found a bottle of water inside.

He said nothing.

The person opposite couldn't bear it any longer: "We won't drink from you for free. You can set a price yourself."

At this time, a voice suddenly asked in Qingchen's ear: "Facing your fellow travelers who are about to die of thirst, what price will you offer?"

Qingchen looked at the person opposite him coldly and said, "I'll let the person next to you watch you die of thirst first, and then let him set the price."

As soon as he finished speaking, the person opposite turned into Lin Xiaoxiao, and the other person slowly disappeared like a bubble.

Lin Xiaoxiao said speechlessly: "Are you still a human being?"

"I knew this was your nightmare, so naturally I wouldn't have any sympathy," Qingchen found a place to sit down comfortably.

"It's really weird," Lin Xiaoxiao said sitting across from me: "You can actually stay awake and remember after entering the nightmare. Then you should be able to resist the call of the nightmare."

"Yes, yes," Qingchen replied succinctly.