You Yu half-drooped his eyes, his lips collapsed into a straight line, and the morbid pallor on his face made him not look like a living person.
The suffocating thinking and decision, and even the sound of the heartbeat were drowned out by the rain.
You Yu does not think that Chi Nan is just a painting spirit of a forbidden painting.
Compared with the painting spirit that can bring disaster to people, judging from the various clues in the past, he believes in his initial judgment—
Chi Nan is the dream maker, or a part of the dream maker.
Although there are doubts in many aspects of this assumption, You Yu has always stubbornly believed in his own intuition.
This nightmare book also gave a very clear hint. The Dream City is equivalent to the Dream World in his cognition. The Dawn Tower is relative to the Dawn Base office building, and the gods who live in the tower and can fulfill people's wishes are undoubtedly the creation of the Dawn Tower. Dream Lord.
If substituting into Chi Nan is the hypothesis of the dream maker, his existence was long before the birth of "The Crying Boy", because he was later sealed into the painting for some reason.
In a sense, the painting is a prison where Chi Nan is imprisoned.
But if there is no "Crying Boy", he may never have an intersection with Chi Nan...
He knows that the disappearance of paintings can bring about changes in the timeline, and he also knows what this means. This is a choice.
You Yu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his eyes moved to No. 9's hands hanging down beside his legs. These hands were so thin that only a thin layer of skin was left over the bones, the blue veins were exposed, and the knuckles of the fingers were covered with calluses.
If you want to destroy the painting you need to kill 9, keeping the painting is the opposite.
"You Yu, I want "The Crying Boy" to be born." Chi Nan said calmly as usual.
You Yu's expression paused, but he didn't speak.
Chi Nan continued: "Two options, we know what will happen to the timeline of the birth of the painting, and the other option is completely unknown, and the risk is too great."
You Yu was silent for a moment before speaking: "Isn't it boring to be sealed in the painting for so long?"
"Boring," Chi Nan has always been honest, "but it's also safe."
You Yu's drooping eyes flashed mixed emotions that were slightly inappropriate for his age: "Brother Nan, you don't look like someone who is afraid of the unknown and risks."
Chi Nan: "Well, but the painting brought everything that I have now..."
After a pause, he continued to say calmly, "I don't want to lose this experience with you."
You Yu was stunned for a moment: "Is it worth it to be bored for so many years?"
Chi Nan didn't hesitate: "Well."
You Yu seemed to smile softly: "To be able to say such things so calmly that it is easy to confuse people, Brother Nan, you are very foul."
"Really?" Chi Nan's voice did not fluctuate, "I'm sorry for that."
"I just can't bear it."
Chi Nan didn't know that his honesty was the most foul.
"I can understand that you are responding to my confession?" You Yu asked shamelessly.
Chi Nan choked: "please."
You Yu clasped his right hand with his left hand, and clasped his fingers together.
"Okay, I see," he looked up at No. 9. "How about we make a deal?"
No. 9 looked at this young master who was always speaking strangely to himself, but inexplicably made him feel familiar and kind: "What deal?"
This young master's left eye is dark and dark, making it difficult for people to see through his true thoughts, while his right eye is a clear and dark green, so clean that there is no trace of impurities.
The beauty of contradictions and opposites is perfectly presented on this pale face, making it difficult to look away.
"I can guarantee that you will survive the sacrifice, but on the contrary, you have to promise me one thing." You Yu said.
No. 9 looked directly at these bewitching eyes, and curled his lips unmoved: "But I'm not afraid of dying."
"...Oh," You Yu replied unhurriedly, he was the best at dealing with children who were not afraid of death, "I thought the same thing before."
No. 9 looked at him suspiciously: "Young master of your identity will not understand."
In his understanding, the young masters of rich families were all grown up by the love of their families, and they would not understand the embarrassment and hopelessness of struggling to survive in the quagmire, nor would they ignore death.
You Yu shrugged: "This is not the first time I have been chosen as a sacrifice. The last time I sacrificed was my mother."
"Why?" No. 9 looked at him and frowned.
You Yu smiled indifferently: "Like your mother, she can get benefits by using me as the capital of the transaction."
"That's a pity," No. 9 shook the iron chain in his hand, "Now your mind has changed?"
You Yu nodded: "Because I encountered the greatest good thing."
He recalled Chi Nan's response to him just now, and the corners of his lips raised uncontrollably.
No. 9: "I couldn't have been so lucky."
"Don't be so absolute. Believe it or not, I will predict and see that if you survive, you will encounter very interesting things."
After all, No. 9 was still a child, and he really aroused a little interest: "Interesting thing? Can you talk about it specifically?"
You Yu nodded, he could easily understand everyone's inner desires: "You will draw works that everyone will remember."
He played word games cunningly, and didn't tell the other party that on a certain timeline, everyone would remember the painting, but no one knew the author of the painting.
No. 9's eyes flashed: "You didn't lie to me?"
"I promise you my most important thing, I didn't lie to you," his sincerity was hard to refuse, "and it's not a loss for you to live like this, right? Why don't you try?"
No. 9 was completely persuaded by him: "What do you want me to promise?"
You Yu looked at the Dawn Tower, which was shrouded in rain: "Draw a portrait of the gods in the tower."
"Are you serious?" No. 9 frowned in disbelief.
You Yu nodded: "This is my condition, it's easy."
No. 9: "..." I feel like I'm on a pirate ship.
In the end, he pursed his lips helplessly: "Okay, I can't guarantee that it can be done. After all, no one has seen the gods in the tower with their own eyes. It's up to you to save me or not."
You Yu smiled: "Okay, deal."
After he finished speaking, he complained to Chi Nan in a low voice: "What a tough kid."
Chi Nan: "I think it looks like you."
You Yu: "I was so difficult when I was young?"
Chi Nan: "It's the same now."
You Yu: "… "
Chi Nan: "If No. 9 can't get close to the Dawn Tower, is there any backup plan?"
You Yu thought about it and said, "I can do it myself."
Chi Nan: "…"
You Yu: "I'm not necessarily worse at painting than him. If it weren't for the consideration of respecting the rules of the system, I would have painted it myself."
Chi Nan: "It's okay."
You Yu smiled lightly: "To be honest, I'm really jealous of this kid."
Chi Nan: "Why?"
"Brother Nan, he met you in the painting before me, can't I be jealous?" You Yu said half-seriously and half-jokingly, and he didn't know whether he was using a joke to cover up his seriousness, or was deliberately bullying Chi Nan.
Without understanding the other party's intentions, Chi Nan was not ready to talk.
…
The carriage moved forward along the fork, the road became narrower and narrower, and the carriage became more and more bumpy.
You Yu looked at the wet road and wasteland behind the barbed wire. Through his eyes, Chi Nan noticed obvious cracks on the scattered sculptures on both sides of the road.
The further you go to the fork in the road, the more broken the sculpture becomes.
At dusk, almost all the sculptures passing by the carriage are visibly flawed.
"It seems to be caused by man-made damage." Chi Nan said, looking at the statue of the god with missing arms and legs.
You Yu agreed: "It seems that not everyone is a believer of the gods."
Finally, the carriage stopped outside the gates of a modest abandoned amusement park.
As if to welcome them, the poorly connected neon signs of the amusement park light up in the wet night, twinkling eerily and unreal.
The bizarre lights were shredded by barbed wire and reflected on the damp wagon floor.
You Yu and No. 9 quickly exchanged glances, and there was no fear in their eyes.
"Sacrificing in an abandoned amusement park, this wizarding organization has a very unique style of conduct." You Yu even joked casually.
No.9:"… "
The 'click' sound of boots stepping into the mud approached, and a black shadow appeared outside the barbed wire, followed by the sound of a key twisting the iron lock.
"We don't need your evaluation," Sombra looked into the carriage and said to the two children, "Stop talking nonsense."
You Yu quickly looked at the man wrapped in the black robe, and through the neon lights flickering in the playground, he noticed the blue flame snake tattoo on the neck of the man in the black robe.
He frowned slightly. When the "404 Highway" observed the appearance of the ghost tunnel, the system popped up this blue totem.
When Zicheng encountered a serious bug, the system fell into a complete crash state after the flaming snake logo appeared.
Dreamers have always believed that this is a bug warning sign set by the system.
Is there any connection between the wizarding organization of this timeline and the bug in the system
Before the other party noticed the strangeness, You Yu had withdrawn his gaze and acted like a well-behaved and polite young master: "Excuse me, why did you bring us to the amusement park?"
The man in black robe untied the shackles of him and No. 9, and did not hesitate to explain to him: "Because our customers like to eat buffets."
The man was about to grab his arm, but You Yu deftly avoided his movements, and consciously jumped off the carriage: "Thank you, I'll just do it myself."
He stepped on the puddle with one foot and splashed the man in black, so he blinked pitifully and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
Even a demon would have a hard time rejecting such a look and tone.
The man in black robe: "...I don't care about these little things with the sacrifice."
You Yu: "Uncle, will the customers you said eat us?"
The man in black robe didn't speak, and You Yu continued to ask, "Can you find out where the 'people' who ate us came from?"
The man in black robe gave him a cold look: "Only customers have the right to know the source of food, and food does not have this right."
"Oh, what a pity," You Yu pursed his lips regretfully and raised the shackles on his hands, "Since the guests like buffets, can you untie the handcuffs for me too? Maybe it can bring more to the guests. fun of."
The black-robed man's tone turned cold: "Stop dreaming, get out of here!"
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it soon wet Yu Yu's hair. He walked a few steps in the muddy water, and his shoes and socks were soaked.
He and Chi Nan noticed that in addition to them and the carriage No. 9, several carriages came one after another, and two children of the same age as them were driven off each carriage.
They all showed expressions of nervousness, panic and even despair without exception.
The last thirteen children in handcuffs stood side by side in front of the open gate of the amusement park. The other eleven children were sobbing and trembling. You Yu and No. 9 stood among them, their calm and boring expressions seemed out of place.
Through the rain screen, You Yu looked at the dilapidated playground with a strong smell of rust and moss: "This is different from ordinary nightmare books. It is a real timeline. It seems that we have no death rules to speculate on."
Reality means that there are no rules and restrictions set by the dream maker, and it is full of possibilities and freedom.
"It seems that the only way to clear the customs is violence." You Yu tutted.
Chi Nan understood what he meant: "Okay."