[After system detection... Sleepwalker Chi Nan's body was severely damaged... Please leave the system collapse area immediately... otherwise...]
[…Otherwise…Chi Nan will enter a state of death…]
The system's warning sound came intermittently, like someone who was about to die struggling to explain his last words on the hospital bed.
Chi Nan and You Yu quickly exchanged glances, and it was beyond their expectations to be able to connect to the system that had disappeared for several days.
Chi Nan immediately said: "Dream Maker 229 and I are trapped in the safe passage and cannot leave. Can I ask for system help?"
His voice fell, and the system fell into a long squeak of poor contact again, and it took a while before answering—
[The system will do everything in its power...to help you and 229 get out of the necrotic circulation...]
[However, due to severe damage to the system...insufficient energy...not guaranteed to provide effective help...]
The burn marks on Chi Nan's body became denser and denser, and he even smelled a smell similar to that of red-hot iron scorched on his skin.
Fortunately, he couldn't feel the pain of being severely burned, and only had to suffer from visual discomfort.
"Can the system complete self-healing and temporarily restore the use of the safe passage?" Chi Nan tried to ask.
[Sorry...bug has destroyed the safe passage...the system does not have enough power to execute the command...]
Chi Nan: "Can you help me contact the outside world for help?"
The system squeaked for a while, and finally the voice became weak: [Sorry... Since the communication equipment in Zicheng has been completely destroyed... The system cannot get in touch with the outside world...]
You Yu: "Can you switch to emergency mode to connect to the main system?"
System: [Emergency mode has also completely collapsed... Mode switching cannot be performed... Main system cannot be transmitted...]
[I'm very sorry... the sub-city system is in a state of serious collapse... unable to connect to the correct dream world...]
The sound of the system is gradually drowned out by the current interference.
You Yu looked stern: "Although you can rely on the remaining energy of the safe passage and your identity advantage to connect to the system, but now the system has entered the "local mode", there is no way to provide us with more help. "
"Identity advantage?" Chi Nan tried to pull down his sleeves as much as possible to cover up the burn marks on the exposed skin.
He didn't want You Yu to see the process of his body gradually melting and breaking down.
But it backfired, and severe burn marks began to appear on Chi Nan's neck. The originally fair skin was like ignited paper, which quickly curled and burst under the licking of the flames, turning into a thin piece of charred bark, with large patches of crimson under the skin. The muscle was exposed to the air, and dense blisters spread along the wound.
Chi Nan hurriedly tightened his collar, but You Yu's eyes had long been on his shocking wound. He didn't say a word, and his eyes were on Chi Nan's body. Chi Nan didn't understand how to interpret the complicated emotions in the other's eyes. He only felt that You Yu's gaze was overwhelming him.
"Can you not look at me?" Chi Nan pursed his lips, looking a little aggrieved and a little sorry, "I don't want you to see your body become like this."
You Yu didn't look away immediately, he fixedly looked at the rapidly spreading burns on Chi Nan's body: "Brother Nan, I don't care what this body looks like."
"… "
"I care about you."
Chi Nan was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice, "But I care."
You Yu's lips collapsed into a straight line, and for a moment: "Okay."
He looked away, walked to the balcony and threw a pot of mint downstairs, but they did not hear the sound of the porcelain pot falling to the ground, instead a pot of mint fell from the sky and fell on the edge of the balcony on their floor, and the porcelain soil was sprinkled from the guardrail On the ground, green mint mixed with soil smashed at Chi Nan's feet.
The entire space becomes an infinite loop, with all objects repeating in 206.
Chi Nan squatted down and picked up the mint on the ground. The moment he patted the soil off the leaves, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a bold experimental idea quickly flashed in his mind.
Chi Nan called the dying system: "You said just now that you can't connect to the correct dream world, right?"
The system makes a drying sound like a broken bellows: [Yes]
"Then if you use bugs to connect bugs, can you do it?" Chi Nan asked.
System: [Sorry...the system cannot...understand your instructions]
Chi Nan: "Can you help us connect to the "Ghost Tunnel" bug? "
According to the information disclosed by the system just now, Zicheng was cut off from the dream world by the bug, but it did not mean that it was cut off from other bug systems.
If the "correct system" is regarded as one space and the "collapsed system" is regarded as another space, and the two disconnected spaces cannot be connected, then the transmission in the same space seems to be much simpler.
The system appears to be down for a few seconds: [The system can make a connection attempt...please provide approximate "ghost tunnel" coordinates]
You Yu quickly reported the coordinates of the copy of Highway 404.
Although at the dawn base, the system has cleared the ghost tunnel bug record, but You Yu believes that Chi Nan can reproduce the lost record.
[Received coordinates...Location succeeded...The system is trying to connect...]
After the connecting icon popped up on the system interface, it was as if it was stuck and unable to move. The minutes passed, You Yu looked at Chi Nan's body with almost no flesh left from the corner of his eye, and his breathing was shivering.
For him, the waiting time was even more torturous than the death process eleven years ago.
"Don't peek."
Chi Nan's voice was as calm as usual, but You Yu could hear a bit of coquettishness in his tone, although it was probably his self-righteous fantasy.
You Yu twitched the corners of his lips: "Okay, don't peek."
"Is the command to "kill the Lord God" issued by the crash system, or is it a condition that the correct system is in self-preservation mode? "It seems that in order to pass the long waiting time, Chi Nan asked You Yu.
You Yu shook his head with a sullen face: "It's too contradictory, I can't be sure."
"From the very beginning, the system has tried to obliterate your existence again and again. From this point of view, it can be inferred that the correct system wants to kill the "lord god" through the hands of the survivors...that is, you, so as to restore a certain This kind of order, but there are always signs that make me think..."
You Yu paused and looked at Chi Nan deeply, "You and the system are inseparable."
Chi Nan: "Huh?"
"I'm pretty sure you are the dream maker."
You Yu looked at Chi Nan's green eyes, his tone was low and serious, "In other words, you are part of the dream maker."
"I don't understand why the system is desperately trying to obliterate the existence of the Dream Maker."
Chi Nan's eyes widened, but just as he made a sound, the system connection icon disappeared.
[Sleepwalker Chi Nan, please pay attention... The system has successfully connected to the "Ghost Tunnel" bug... The transmission process requires a lot of energy... But the system is low in energy now... So...]
The system got stuck again after a long time. Chi Nan glanced at his pocket watch. It was 12:15 now, and they ran out of time.
"How do I need to help you collect energy?" Chi Nan asked hurriedly.
The system does not beat around the bush: [please agree and confirm... transfer your own energy to the system...]
Before Yu Yu was blocked, Chi Nan said without hesitation: "Okay, agree, confirm."
"Brother Nan!"
"Let's get out of here first, and then find a way to find out about the system and the Dream Maker." Chi Nan said.
System: [The energy transfer application from Chi Nan, the sleepwalker, has been received, and now I will connect you to the bug ghost tunnel]
After receiving Chi Nan's energy, the system's voice sounded much more energetic.
At the same time, the howling wind was blowing from all directions, and the door of Room 206, which could not be seen at the end of the corridor, was blown open by the strong wind from the inside to the outside.
In the room, the heavy curtains fluttered in the gust of wind. The window glass behind the curtain, which could not be opened or broken no matter what, was easily blown open by the wind, and the raindrops outside the window soaked into the room and quickly wet the curtain.
Countless 206 rooms are playing the same scene.
[The connection is completed, the passage to the ghost tunnel has been opened]
Chi Nan and You Yu walked into one of the 206 rooms and stood by the window. The wind was blowing with the smell of rain and dampness. Outside the window was endless night and endless rain.
You Yu subconsciously looked at "The Crying Boy" on the wall again, the scenery outside the window was exactly the same as the canvas with only the background left...
In other words, if anyone is looking out the window at the moment, there is a picture of "Crying Teenager" in the window frame.
It's just that Chi Nan has one more of him by his side.
This time, Chi Nan took the initiative to grab You Yu's hand. All the skin on his hand had fallen off, leaving only the crimson muscle and some burnt ashes of the skin tissue.
"Are you afraid of jumping down?" For some reason, Chi Nan suddenly asked a question that even he thought was redundant.
His voice was blown to pieces by the strong wind and scattered on the ground.
You Yu smiled casually: "Brother Nan, will there be a worse situation than now?"
There was a hint of joking in his smile, as if he was laughing at his inability to do anything after losing his system privileges.
In a sense, the bald man was right, he couldn't do anything without his privileges.
You Yu opened his eyes and jumped from the windowsill into the rain with Chi Nan.
The process of falling was very long. 206 with countless windows open quickly passed by him in an upside-down posture. The same scene in the house reciprocated, blurring into a yellow light spot in the rain.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, the weightlessness became wet and sticky, and the palms of You Yu and Chi Nan's interlocking fingers were suddenly soaked.
During the fall, Chi Nan was caught off guard and disappeared from his side.
Before You Yu could make a sound, the entire building filled with the same room 206 was suddenly surrounded by a raging fire, which burst into flames in the wet night.
The fire quickly surrounded him, You Yu's vision was closed, and his body fell into nothingness. The more he struggled, the deeper he fell... until the suffocating sense of nothingness drowned him...
After a short clip, his consciousness returned, and You Yu opened his eyes and found himself still lying in the bedroom of the old house.
But unlike 206 that kept repeating in Ruin Zicheng, the blazing flames swallowed up the curtains, carpets... everything in the house. It was the night when death came eleven years ago, and it was also the scene he saw from the ghost tunnel.
But when You Yu looked at the west wall of the bedroom, the "Crying Boy" had already been caught in the flames. With the sound of wood cracking, the unrecognizable painting fell off the wall and fell into the sea of fire.
"Chi Nan—"
The moment You Yu rushed past, time froze, and his consciousness was also pressed the pause button.
Everything is being destroyed silently.
…
"Hey, 229, wake up."
It was the voice of 207, the air was filled with the cheap smell of industrial leather, and the smoky second-hand smoke was choking.
The chaotic memory was like waves slapped on You Yu's subconscious, the sunlight was too strong, and he struggled several times before he could open his eyes smoothly.
You Yu quickly found himself lying on the steering wheel with his hands resting on his face.
"Are you alright? You won't be able to wake up," 207 sitting in the co-pilot was biting a cigarette. When she saw You Yu's pale and terrifying face, her casual expression changed, "Damn, you What's wrong? Your face is so ugly?"
The moment You Yu woke up has been confirmed, he is now sitting in the driver's seat of EM00404, the same as when he woke up from the "ghost tunnel" last time.
But there were only 207, Jiang Yu, Pei Mo, Lu Baizhou and himself in the car.
"Where's Chi Nan?" You Yu tightened his grip on the steering wheel, trembling, and ominous fear was about to emerge.
207 was stunned. She had never seen this deranged colleague who was best at playing with people's hearts showing such despairing eyes... the sky was about to fall.
She froze for a moment, then half-squinted her eyes in confusion: "Chi Nan? Who is that?"