"Excuse me... what's the situation now?" Jiang Yu bit the cigarette handed by 207, and had a bad premonition in his heart.
"I'll check," 207 connected to the backstage of the Nightmare System. After a long while, he only shook his head with a heavy expression, "I can't find the mark of the ghost tunnel in the copy, and the broadcast just now is not within the scope of the program settings."
"Shouldn't it be... Could it be another dungeon crossed..." She scratched her hair irritably.
You Yu connected to the main system and said calmly: "The bug registration manual in Dream World shows that there was once a bug that existed in the nightmare copy in the form of a tunnel."
207 frowned: "bug? Can it be fixed?"
You Yu shook his head: "The record shows that the tunnel bug is also known as the unknown time domain, because it is impossible to predict the time of its appearance, the influence it will cause, and the danger it will cause, and it cannot be repaired, so it is listed as one of the uncontrollable dangerous bugs. One, but the most absurd thing is that there is a note in the record: No dreamer has ever seen the ghost tunnel appear."
207 is puzzled: "Isn't this very contradictory? If the dream maker has not seen it appear with his own eyes, how could the ghost tunnel appear in the bug list? Could it be that it registered and wrote it for itself?"
You Yu shrugged: "It's possible."
207: "...Are you serious?"
You Yu nodded: "Maybe the bug has self-awareness?"
207: "…"
You Yu: "There is another possibility, it was entered by the dream maker himself."
"Huh," 207 laughed suddenly, "I now wonder if this guy really exists, after all, no one has seen it before."
You Yu bent the corners of his lips: "I never doubted the existence of the Dream Maker, after all, the world is still functioning normally."
207 shook his head indifferently: "I don't care about anything else, I only care if this bug will cause the 404 road copy to collapse."
"It's really hard to tell." You Yu never offered meaningless comfort, but only told the truth.
207 is speechless.
Chi Nan could sense the uneasy atmosphere in the car, and sincerely apologized: "I'm sorry, I got the bug out. If possible, I will do my best to compensate."
You Yu glanced at 207, and 207 waved to him: "Come on, who would want to compensate your little evil spirit?"
Chi Nan: ? ?
He glanced at You Yu suspiciously, and You Yu smiled: "It doesn't matter, it takes talent to find hidden bugs."
"I'm looking forward to seeing the legendary bug with my own eyes." You Yu added with great interest.
207: "..." This colleague is helpless but he is very good so he can only choose to forgive.
"...I'll try again if I can tune it back." Chi Nan continued to turn the radio FM button, but no matter how he tuned it, it was the same broadcast—
[EM00404 The vehicle is approaching the ghost tunnel, the total length of the ghost tunnel is 80km, and the estimated travel time is one hour. ]
"Forget it, since you have encountered it, go and see what's going on and find a way to fix it." 207 had no other way.
Everyone in the back seat straightened their backs unconsciously, and the tense air filled the narrow compartment.
The most vulnerable Pei Mo even wanted to cry loudly at this moment. He was immersed in the joy of successfully breaking his dream a few minutes ago. Now he poured a basin of cold water on his head and let him fall from heaven to hell.
Why so unlucky? Let him encounter a legendary bug that is completely out of control? Pei Mo covered his face to suppress the urge to cry.
"Are you afraid?" You Yu glanced at Chi Nan out of the corner of the eye and asked with a smile.
Chi Nan shook his head and nodded again: "I'm afraid of causing trouble for you."
As he spoke, a long tunnel suddenly appeared in the gray field, covering the entire 404 highway.
Everyone held their breath, You Yu stepped on the accelerator and rushed over at a faster speed: "Sit down."
The moment the car entered the tunnel, the inside of the car fell into unprecedented absolute silence.
Silent darkness shrouded, as if someone pressed a button to block the world, and everyone's senses disappeared in an instant.
The disappearance of the senses gives You Yu the illusion of dying again. All perception melts and dissolves in the bottomless darkness. The soul turns into foam and is washed ashore by black waves. When the sun rises, everything turns into nothingness.
Is he real? You Yu asked himself again in nothingness.
People who have died once have difficulty distinguishing the boundaries between existence and nothingness, as if they cannot answer exactly whether they are still alive or not.
What is the living evidence? breathe? Heartbeat? Or the butterfly effect caused by every move
Chaotic thoughts swept through his subconscious like waves, and Yu Yu was like a corpse floating on the sea, quietly waiting for the chaos to ebb.
Until the loud human voice awakens the hearing.
You Yu's vision, smell, and touch are restored one by one.
He found himself outside the door of the old house where he had been imprisoned since childhood. There had just been a heavy rain on a summer afternoon, the ground was wet and slippery, and Aunt Mei was trimming the leaves and thorns of roses in the yard.
"Aunt May?"
As You Yu expected, Aunt Mei, who was busy repairing the dead leaves, didn't respond to his voice.
It's not the dream copy he made, but the tunnel bug that brought him to a real timeline.
As mentioned in the bug list, the tunnel bug is also known as the Unknown Realm of Time.
Like a ghost, he pushed open the door of the old house, and Bai Yingzhi was sitting in the living room entertaining a spirit medium, planning how to use Xiao Youyu's soul to meet the needs of the evil spirits.
There was an unpleasant smell of burning and blood in the room, You Yu was too lazy to take a second look at their disgusting transactions, and went straight to his bedroom on the second floor.
All confusion and doubts disappeared in an instant, and he knew exactly what he was here for.
The so-called ghost tunnel does not mean that there are many evil spirits and ghosts in the tunnel, but that those who enter the tunnel will become ghosts crossing the timeline.
In this timeline, all the memories have not been manipulated, he just needs to confirm.
The bedroom door was locked, and You Yu knocked gently.
Xiao Youyu's immature and vigilant voice came from the door: "You are not Aunt Mei, who are you?"
You Yu deliberately didn't speak, and Xiao Youyu asked again, "Are you a new doctor? I don't want to drink medicine today."
You Yu said warmly across the door, "I just want to come over and tell you how to never need to drink medicine."
Xiao Youyu didn't speak, and You Yu said, "You can trust me, and I also believe that you will choose to trust me."
Xiao Youyu asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"
You Yu knew who he was when he was a child, and said bluntly, "Someone who can help you get out of here."
After a moment of silence, Xiao Youyu asked coldly, "What price do I have to pay?"
He knew from a young age that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
You Yu took a deep breath, and his heartbeat was a little out of rhythm.
"You just need to open the door," he said, "let me confirm one thing."
The moment Xiao Youyu opened the door, You Yu's gaze followed the direction of memory to the west wall.
There is a picture hanging on the wall, immersed in the light of overlapping shadows, which is the biggest difference between the whole house and the dream world.
"Can I come in?" You Yu asked for Xiao You Yu's consent.
Xiao Youyu nodded, and her eyelashes trembled: "Please come in."
As You Yu approached, the young man in the painting had tears flowing peacefully on his face, and a pair of green eyes quietly stared at the world outside the frame, as if he was out of the picture without any emotion, but let the person who looked at him feel his own feelings. Small, no one could look away, and in the breathless solemnity, they gained some kind of redemptive power.
These eyes have a color that does not belong to human beings and are full of divinity.
The young man in the painting has two moles of tears at the corners of his eyes, which were wetted by the rolling tears, which lightened his solemn deity and gave birth to another unique melancholy.
These eyes are so familiar to Yu Yu that he unconsciously stretched out his hand and tried to touch the tear mole of the boy in the painting.
I see.
It's you... brother. Say it earlier.
The invisible Xiao Youyu seemed to sense his movements and warned the impolite guest: "Please don't touch him."
You Yu's hand was hanging in the air, and the corners of his lips raised imperceptibly: "Sorry, I don't touch your brother."
Xiao Youyu's face changed slightly, but he didn't go further into the topic, and said bluntly: "Please keep your promise and tell me how to leave."
"Let me ask you first," You Yu smiled at his childhood self, "Are you afraid of death?"
Xiao Youyu shook his head firmly: "Death is the value of my existence. I know that Bai Yingzhi gave birth to me to sacrifice my death to evil spirits."
Xiao Youyu never doubted or had extravagant hopes for his purpose of being born and alive.
You Yu smiled and rubbed his head: "No, your death is not such a boring thing, it will become the most interesting existence in your life in the future, and you will understand later."
The person you love the most will live in your body, You Yu said in your heart.
Now Xiao Youyu still can't understand, he pursed his lips and didn't speak.
"Remember, go to Bai Yingzhi's house and steal her time before the Mid-Autumn Festival, I believe you can do it," You Yu continued, "and tell her personally that you love her and want to be with her. She goes to hell together."
"But it's not your hell, it's her hell."
Xiao Youyu was silent for a while, then nodded: "I understand, thank you."
You Yu trusted himself, and just wanted to leave the house, he turned around and said, "There is one more important thing, please remember."
Xiao Youyu: "What?"
You Yu looked at the "Crying Boy" on the wall, his voice was distant and gentle: "When you are completely free, be sure to find the brother in the painting, he is very important to you."
Xiao Youyu's face changed: "Do you know him?"
You Yu smiled: "More than knowing."
Xiao Youyu is a little suspicious...or not so happy: "What is the relationship between you two?"
You Yu: "For the time being, I don't want to tell you."
Xiao Youyu: "Oh, well, I'll figure it out myself, is there anything else you want to tell me?"
"Remember what I want you to remember, do it piece by piece as you like, and then... forget the irrelevant things like 'me', bye."
When I was alone, I stood in the dark room, You Yu walked out of the room and closed the door.
He sighed softly, the timeline outside the door was rapidly twisting, and in front of him was still his bedroom, surrounded by fire and thick curtains.
The flames quickly spread to the picture frame on the wall, and the picture frame made a 'crack' in the roaring fire.
At this moment, Xiao Youyu was lying on the ground with a pale face, and had lost his breathing and heartbeat.
Chi Nan's soul was liberated from the painting. He squatted beside Xiao Youyu and stretched out his hand to try to hug this lingering corpse, but when his fingertips touched the other's skin, Chi Nan's soul was swept away. Quickly inhaled into Xiao Yuyu's body.
You Yu, who was teleported from an unknown time domain, witnessed this scene with his own eyes.
He walked over and squatted down, picked up Chi Nan's soul from the ground and walked out of the fire.
Chi Nan, who was curled up in his arms, burst into tears and said in a dreamy voice, "I'll wait for you."
You Yu was slightly taken aback: "Okay, it's a deal."
…
At some point, the off-road vehicle passed through the tunnel and stopped on the sun-blasted and dry wasteland road.
Chi Nan opened his eyes in the familiar smell of industrial leather and dust. He looked around, everyone including You Yu was still asleep, and he was the first to wake up.
The so-called tunnel bug just transported him to the night of the fire eleven years ago, which was not new to Chi Nan, who had experienced it once.
Every time he saw Xiao You Yu died in front of him and he was helpless, Chi Nan always had a lingering sadness in his heart.
These were not pleasant memories for him.
Too strong sunlight came in directly from the windshield. At this moment, You Yuzheng was laying his hands on the steering wheel, and there was no sign of waking up.
This was the first time Chi Nan saw the sleeping You Yu.
He then took a closer look with novelty, and found that the sickly guy's eyes were glowing with damp light.
Did You Yu cry in her dream
Chi Nan took out a tissue from You Yu's pocket to wipe the wet traces of his eyes for him, but after a few wipes, You Yu's eyelashes trembled, and his eyes split open.
The two stared at each other for a moment in the bursting sunlight.
Chi Nan: "Have you had a nightmare?"
You Yu looked at him fixedly: "I dreamed of you."
Chi Nan: ...
You Yu saw his expressionless confusion and smiled: "Brother, I finally found you."
Saying that, he grabbed Chi Nan's hand to wipe his tears.
Almost instantly, two tears rolled from the corners of Chi Nan's eyes.
Chi Nan was busy wiping his tears with the back of his other hand, but he didn't have time to wipe a few times, and You Yu grabbed his other hand again.
Then he leaned down and lowered his head, pious and gentle, and kissed the back of Chi Nan's hand wet with tears.