Hei Cha's eyes wandered on You Yu and Chi Nan's faces, staring incredulously.
He found that one of the taller 'Chi Nan' had unfamiliar pure black eyes, and his demeanor, expression, and standing were not like the 'Chi Nan' he was familiar with.
"What's going on? May I ask who this is...?" Hei Cha looked at You Yu and asked in a daze.
Before Chi Nan spoke, You Yuhao smiled calmly: "Hello, I am the dream maker you threatened."
Black tea: ? ?
The muscles on Hei Cha's face twitched, and he carefully spat out two words: "Ye Chang?!"
Chi Nan nodded, very calm: "It's him."
Hei Cha showed the expression of a collapsed world view: "Fuck... are you... playing your own way?"
He knew that the dream maker was a pervert, but he didn't expect that the other party was perverted enough to use the same face as his boyfriend...
Chi Nan: "...?" In the eyes of Hei Cha, is the relationship between you and You Yu already so complicated
You Yu smiled but didn't answer, as if he didn't intend to explain anything.
Hei Cha quickly accepted this absurd reality and mumbled, "But even with the same face, you're still not as good-looking as our Chi Nan."
You Yu held back a smile and answered naturally, "I think so too."
You Yu's answer made Hei Cha stunned again unexpectedly, he scratched his hair and didn't know what to say.
He muttered in his heart, this bad guy is quite self-aware.
Chi Nan asked Hei Cha, "Why are you back?"
When he asked about the black tea, he recovered from the joy and shock of the first meeting. He remembered the business and said in a hurry, "Can the dining car of this train still be used normally?"
Chi Nan nodded: "We just came out of the dining car and took a lot of weapons."
Black Tea's eyes lit up: "That's great! Let's go to the dining car to get some dry food out. I'll tell you in detail later, before the killing team is resurrected again."
He still had the same extraordinary mobility and enthusiasm as before. He stepped into the carriage with a jumping posture and ran towards the dining car. He looked anxious like a student who had just rushed to the dining hall after class.
Chi Nan was not in a hurry to ask, and followed behind the black tea to light up the flashlight for him.
In the blurred outline of light and shadow, Chi Nan found that the black tea was much thinner than the last time he left, the shoulder blades on his back bulged abruptly, and the half of his arm exposed outside his sleeve was full of blue veins.
"Chi Nan, please help me take a picture of the food shelf here."
Chi Nanyiyan pointed the electric light in the direction of the black tea, and saw that the black tea hurriedly opened a box of canned beef like a man who had been hungry for a long time. The hoop was broken.
Chi Nan looked at his trembling fingers, and said calmly, "I'll come."
He took the can of beef in Black Tea's hand, took out a knife and swiped around the lid of the can, and then used the tip of the knife to pry open the aluminum lid.
Following his movement, a dizzying stench came to his face, Chi Nan pouted unconsciously, and put the stinky can back in place.
But the dark tea on the side turned pale in an instant, and the brilliance in his eyes also faded.
"What happened?" Chi Nan asked.
"We need food..." Because of the anxiety, a layer of cold sweat appeared on Black Tea's forehead. "Without food, the sleepwalkers at the rescue base will not be able to survive."
With that said, five cans of black tea were opened one after another, but these meats that were delicious not long ago suddenly turned into spoiled objects that were black, smelly and covered with mold, as if they had been stored for decades.
Chi Nan looked at the shelf life of the canned food with a flashlight and found that these foods were within the shelf life.
"How could this be..." When the tenth rotten can was opened, Black Tea threw the cans on the shelf to the ground together. His voice trembled a little, and was drowned out by the non-stop 'bang' sound of cans falling to the ground.
This was the first time Chi Nan saw that black tea could not control his emotions, and it was also the first time that he saw such helpless and desperate anger from black tea.
But when Dark Tea met Chi Nan's inquiring gaze, he immediately wiped away the frustration on his face, and pulled the corners of his lips reluctantly and apologetically: "Ah, I'm sorry, I was out of control just now..."
You Yu bowed and picked up one of the cans, and looked at the wrapping paper with a flashlight for a moment, frowning slightly: "Because of the bug, the system was seriously broken, and all the food in Zicheng became corrupt in an instant. Inedible."
All the supply of the dream world is maintained by the energy of the internal system, and the collapse of the system will cause a series of bad phenomena, such as the complete spoilage of the unlimited supply of food in the city.
This means that all those trapped in the city will face the plight of no food.
Hei Cha looked at You Yu with the last glimmer of hope: "So is the current situation in Zicheng caused by a system bug? Can you fix it?"
You Yu never gave anyone an unsure promise. He shrugged: "I'm not sure, because the system has crashed and my permissions have been completely frozen."
Hei Cha lowered his eyes in frustration: "I'll take you out of the dangerous area to the rescue base first, and then think of a way to deal with the food."
When the group came out of the carriage again, Chi Nan sneezed.
Hei Cha subconsciously wanted to take off his coat and put it on the other side, but he raised his hand to his chest, only to realize that he only had a thin single coat left.
Looking back and seeing that You Yu had put his coat on Chi Nan, Hei Cha said with a sigh of relief, "The temperature here is also very unstable, and sometimes it drops rapidly to below zero, such as now."
Not only do they have no food to feed their stomachs, but they also face extreme cold from time to time.
Chi Nan found that the corpse that had been blown up by the black tea suddenly disappeared, and only the traces of the explosion and burning were left in the ruins of the platform.
"What about the corpses?"
"We can't kill them, every time... they all recover after a while."
Black Tea led them to a hidden corner behind the platform, and after looking around vigilantly to make sure that no one was there, he quickly opened the cover like a sewer: "Quick, hide in the underground tunnel first, and I'll tell you more carefully. "
Chi Nan illuminated the escalator leading to the underground with a flashlight, followed the black tea and climbed down without hesitation. After the broken You Yu tightly closed the round iron cover at the entrance of the tunnel.
The iron escalator has been in disrepair for a long time, and when you step on it, the sound of 'creaking' echoes in the empty tunnel, giving the illusion that it will collapse at any time.
Whether it's this rusted iron escalator, this narrow and damp tunnel, or the shaky sense of security in the heart of the person walking.
"After leaving Zicheng last time, I did successfully wake up from reality, and the system fulfilled my wish as promised."
Hei Cha began to tell Chi Nan and the others what happened to him and everything he knew in this collapsed city.
"After waking up, my memories of the nightmare world were wiped clean, until I was pulled back to the nightmare world again without warning, and all my memories were restored in an instant... Whether it was my previous experience, or my return After arriving in reality, the memories are all connected..."
"This time is different from the first time. The system didn't ask me to make a wish. After simply and rudely informed the rules and tasks, it left me here and gave me no choice."
"I'm not alone in this situation. The sleepwalkers who initially hid in the rescue base, including me, consist of 21 people in total. The biggest thing in common between us is that we all successfully exchanged our wishes to leave the nightmare world and return home. Live in reality for a while.”
Chi Nan: "Is your mission the same?"
Black Tea nodded: "Exactly the same."
The light of the flashlight illuminated the tunnel, and Chi Nan could see more clearly now that Black Tea's face had lost shape due to being too thin.
When people are extremely hungry and cold, their judgment and control will be severely affected, and negative emotions will prevail. The reaction of black tea just now has fully demonstrated this.
Chi Nan: "What happened to the group of 'dangerous elements' that hunted the sleepwalkers just now?"
Black Tea: "They are all sleepwalkers who died in the Nightmare dungeon. They were resurrected after the bug came, and the task was to hunt down the sleepwalkers who had successfully exchanged their wishes and left."
"It was rumored that once they managed to kill us all, they would be able to get out of the system and return to reality, so they called us the 'prey' and the mission 'Operation Shuffle.'"
As the 'prey', the black tea suddenly fell silent, and he was full of awe of life, but he could never accept this cannibalistic task rule.
It's a pity that no matter in dream or reality, the rules never ignore the will of the person involved. In front of the established rules, acceptance or not seems to be the most irrelevant thing.
The distance between the predator and the prey is just a rule.
Chi Nan: "What is the mission you received?"
Black Tea: "Kill the Lord God."
"Lord God?" Chi Nan was a little curious, while You Yu's eyelids jumped for no reason.
Black Tea nodded: "Every surviving sleepwalker's mission book has the same words: sacrifice the broken world with the death of the Lord God, and all the broken order will return to the right track."
"Do you have any clues?" You Yu asked.
Hei Cha shook his head: "This task prompt is too vague. We don't even know what the Lord God is referring to. It's probably the part that we need to explore... Unfortunately, we have no clue yet."
You Yu didn't speak any more, and Hei Cha continued: "In addition to the predators, there are many monsters and evil spirits in Zicheng now, all kinds of ... and my talisman seems to be useless, they are not afraid at all, I almost got killed by them several times."
With extremely cold weather, severe food shortages, threatening predators and monsters lurking around, the disorganized sub-city is like a doomsday city that cannot survive.
"How long have you been recalled to Zicheng?" Chi Nan asked, looking at the thin silhouette of Black Tea.
Hei Cha's face was dazed for a moment, and he shook his head: "There is no way to accurately calculate the time. I feel like a long time has passed, but it may actually only be a week or less."
Chi Nan looked at You Yu, You Yu nodded knowingly: "You guessed it right, the collapse of the system caused time disorder, and the flow of time in Zicheng is different from the outside world."
Hei Cha sighed: "There are already two surviving sleepwalkers who chose to commit suicide because they couldn't bear the torture."
He said, his eyes flashed a little moisture, and he quickly looked away to look into the dark.
Don't know when the end will be.
A group of people walked silently in the tunnel, twisting and turning a few turns, and there was just a barbed wire vent on the ceiling not far ahead.
The sprinkled moonlight was cut and torn apart by the dense barbed wire, and scattered finely on the dusty ground of the tunnel.
When he passed the ventilation port, Chi Nan looked up and his expression changed slightly.
Above the night sky, the originally pale moon was dyed a faint green at some point in time.
The same color as Chi Nan's eyes.