"Chi Nan? Where are you going?"
Jiang Yu asked in confusion when he saw that Chi Nan suddenly walked silently towards the end of the corridor.
Chi Nan made a 'shush' gesture towards her, stopped by the glass door at the end of the corridor, and tried to twist the doorknob locked by the Dream Maker.
Just hearing a 'clack', the door was unexpectedly easy to unlock.
"Chi Nan?" Jiang Yu lowered his voice, suddenly worried.
Chi Nan seemed to be absent-minded: "I'll go out and check."
He opened the door, cold wind poured in, and fine snow came blowing.
Illuminated by the snow, the Dawn base seemed to suddenly brighten up.
Chi Nan stepped out of the building in the wind and snow, stepped on the thin snow, and made a small sound of the snow being smashed under his feet.
The voice calling his name became clearer and clearer, but it still gave people a very distant feeling.
He followed the sound and walked forward, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the white expanse blocked his sight.
Chi Nan turned his head and found that the towering base building had disappeared behind him, leaving only the endless heavy snow and unseen wilderness.
Chi Nan's footsteps stopped, and he had already lost his direction.
Now he can only follow the direction of the voice calling him.
After walking for about five or six minutes, Chi Nan's limbs were stiff from the cold, and finally he saw many people standing on the horizon from a distance, holding torches and waiting for him like statues in the blizzard.
Chi Nan, Chi Nan... The voices seemed to be made by many people at the same time, and the distant calls overlapped together, densely lingering in the ears like whispers of curses.
He wanted to find out, but did not stop because of this, and accelerated his pace towards the crowd of torches, until the voice of You Yu sounded behind him—
"Brother Nan, don't go forward."
At the same time, You Yu's hand grabbed Chi Nan's wrist through his sleeve with some force.
Chi Nan was stunned for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he found that the curse-like sound had stopped, and there was a cliff two steps away from him.
The cliff was bottomless, and the cold wind rolled in the snow from the bottom of the cliff, like an ice knife scraping on Chi Nan's face.
"This is the ruined cliff where Dawn Base's energy waste is processed. No one knows how deep it is or where it leads," After You Yu explained, he looked at Chi Nan deeply, "If it falls, I will Probably won't be able to find you."
Chi Nan turned his head and found that the base building that had disappeared in the heavy snow had reappeared. The huge outline with bright lights was very eye-catching, and no amount of snow could engulf it.
"Go back to the house, it's too cold outside." You Yu pulled him back.
Chi Nan turned his head again, there was no crowd with torches on the opposite side of the cliff of ruins, only the silhouettes of countless tall buildings sank in the night.
What happened just now
You Yu turned his head to look at Chi Nan from time to time, until he confirmed that his eyes were gradually focused, and then he asked casually like a small talk: "What happened just now?"
"I heard someone calling my name all the time, as if from far away." Chi Nan said truthfully, he didn't intend to hide what You Yu was doing.
You Yu paused: "Is it a familiar voice?"
Chi Nan shook his head: "It seems that the voices of many people are stacked together, and it doesn't look like a voice that humans can make."
He unreservedly described to You Yu what he had just experienced, "I wanted to see what was going on, and I came out unknowingly, sorry."
You Yu frowned for a moment, and suddenly asked in a relaxed way, "Why are you apologizing?"
"Dawn base doesn't allow sleepwalkers to walk around at will?" Chi Nan said, after all, this is not a tourist attraction.
You Yu smiled and didn't speak, the two continued to walk into the building.
Chi Nan didn't expect that it was just a moment of daze, and he had walked so far.
I don't know when the snow stopped, but You Yu held his hand but didn't let go.
Chi Nan looked up at the pitch-black night sky, with undisguised regret in his tone: "It's a pity that the snow has stopped, otherwise I can stay in the snow with you for a while."
You Yu paused slightly: "Brother Nan, do you remember?"
Chi Nan: "Huh?"
You Yu looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile: "When I was a child, I told myself to you that when I'm free, I'll find you to play in the snow."
After a moment of silence, Chi Nan said in a low voice, "You know."
With a positive tone, he was sure that You Yu knew that he was the evil spirit in "The Crying Boy".
You Yu smiled and answered him in silence, Chi Nan digested it for a moment and then asked, "When did you know?"
"When I came out of the ghost tunnel," You Yu said truthfully, "I went back to the old house more than ten years ago and saw your painting on the wall, because here—"
He pointed to the corner of his eyes and pupils, "I know it's you."
Chi Nan blinked: "Is that so..."
After a pause, he raised his eyelids again, and asked seriously, "What do I look like?"
You Yu thought for a while, then slightly curved the corners of his lips: "cuter than me."
Chi Nan: "...Oh."
He didn't know how to take the other person's evaluation.
"Brother Nan, how much do you remember about this painting?" You Yu put away his smile and asked seriously.
Chi Nan shook his head: "I only remember my name, and everyone said that I was an ominous banned painting, which would bring disaster and misfortune to the people around me."
Chi Nan looked at the shallow footprints on the snow and said in a low voice, "I seem to have affected you too."
He has always felt that the misfortunes that Xiao Youyu has encountered were more or less 'cursed' and influenced by him.
"Is that so?" You Yu gave him a deep look, then curled his lips casually, "I think Bai Yingzhi did the best thing in her life, was to buy that painting and hang it in my bedroom. inside."
Chi Nan looked at him in confusion, but You Yu didn't plan to explain it clearly, and it would be boring to say some things.
"Have you heard anything about this world before you entered the dream world?"
Although the dream-making system would clean up the memory of the sleepwalkers who left, various coincidences that were not coincidental gave him reason to suspect that Chi Nan had something to do with the entire dream-making system.
Chi Nan shook his head: "No."
"Is that so..." You Yu frowned thoughtfully.
"What's wrong?" Chi Nan keenly found that You Yu was a little different from before.
You Yu: "When I first became a dream maker, I tried to change my wish to find your painting, but the system rejected me."
He paused, looked at Chi Nan and continued, "The reason is that the system can't find things that never existed."
Chi Nan: "So the system thinks that 'I' does not exist?"
"At least it perfunctory me like that," You Yu said, "so before entering the ghost tunnel, I wasn't sure about your real existence."
The existence of this kind of thing is actually difficult to define or verify. What is imaginary and what is real, it is difficult to find the answer in this world built with dreams.
"I was almost fooled by the system." You Yu pouted.
Chi Nan: "But why does the system do this?"
You Yu: "The possibility I can think of is that the system conceals your existence in a negative way, perhaps because you have some kind of close connection with the world."
He is the most experienced dream maker in the world. The beginning of his awakening coincided with the birth of the dream world.
Too many coincidences are not coincidences.
While the two of them were talking, they walked back to the building where the favorability calculation was conducted. Jiang Yu and 207 wanted to smoke in the corridor, but when they saw Chi Nan and the others approaching, the two ladies cast inquiring glances at the same time.
"What's the matter?" 207 glanced from Chi Nan to the glass door that was locked all the year round, "How did you get out?"
Before Chi Nan spoke, You Yu said calmly, "I'm sorry, I forgot to lock the door before."
Chi Nan knew that he stopped talking nonsense and left it to You Yu to play.
207 raised his eyebrows suspiciously: "You still make such a low-level mistake?"
You Yu shrugged: "I'm not a program set by the system."
207 glanced at him and didn't ask any further questions.
The group went to Liming Station, and You Yu suddenly stopped Chi Nan: "Would you like to consider staying at Liming Base?"
Chi Nan couldn't react at once: "What?"
You Yu seemed to hold back a smile: "If you don't feel comfortable living here, forget it, and you and I can go back to Zicheng."
He threw the option to Chi Nan.
Chi Nan was silent for a moment, and came to the conclusion: "Because of the binding function of special items, do you have to stay with me?"
He thought it was the closest answer he could deduce to the truth.
Who knew You Yu smiled: "Of course not."
Chi Nan: "...?"
"Brother Nan, because I'm chasing you."
At this moment, a train just came into the station, and the sound of 'bang bang bang' came from far and near.
But Chi Nan still heard You Yu's words clearly, and was stunned by the sound of the train rolling over the rails.
You Yu knew that he heard it, and deliberately looked at him for a split second, his sight leaving him nowhere to hide.
After a while, the train stopped.
Chi Nan blinked slowly: "But I haven't been chased."
"It's a coincidence that I haven't chased anyone." You Yu said.
Chi Nan: "Oh."
You Yu smiled: "Then trouble you to get used to it?"
Finally, You Yu and Chi Nan jumped on the train to Zicheng together.
…
For Chi Nan, the train journey was unlike any other.
But he couldn't tell the difference.
Inside the carriage there is a constant iron smell, and the sound of 'bang bang bang dong' friction between the carriage and the rails is endless, monotonous as usual.
But Chi Nan didn't want to sleep or go to the dining car area for a full meal. He just sat quietly in his seat, with his back straight and staring out the window in a daze, looking a little nervous.
You Yu sat opposite him and looked at him with interest: "Brother Nan?"
Chi Nan came back to his senses: "Huh?"
You Yu smiled: "Don't be nervous."
"Well," Chi Nan turned his eyes to the boundless wilderness again, the night shrouded everything, and after a while he pursed his lips and said softly, "I'm still getting used to it."
In the end, Chi Nan probably got used to it a little, and he fell asleep in his seat.
You Yu didn't disturb him, just put a piece of clothes on him lightly.
When Chi Nan woke up, the speed of the train had slowed down, and Chi Nan knew that it was about to enter the station.
He wrapped his clothes tightly and looked out the window as usual.
After a moment, most of the sleepiness on Chi Nan's face disappeared, he reached out and rubbed his eyes, looking out the window in disbelief.
But he couldn't see anything but thick darkness.
The original Zicheng was lit like day, like a never-falling sunrise at the end of the railroad tracks in the eternal night, but now...
Zicheng's lights disappeared completely, sinking into a wilderness-like night.
Until the train pulled into the platform, not a single light was on, and it was silent like a beast that was silent, waiting for an opportunity to catch its prey.
And You Yu, who was sitting across from him, also disappeared.