The ghost tunnel twisted and deformed in the fire, crackling and collapsing.
The endless cycle of time was crushed into countless pieces, and the burning fire illuminated the endless rainy night, until the ashes after time burned down like volcanic ash, and the entire ring structure was buried in "The Crying Boy".
When everything calmed down, the rain stopped and the ashes dispersed.
The number 206 of the countless cycles of Building 57 disappeared, and the dark sky became clean and bright, but only Chi Nan was left in the corridor, and there were countless pots of bright green mint on the guardrail.
The gods have disappeared, and so has You Yu.
Chi Nan held the pocket watch in his hand and walked along the empty corridor until he saw the room with the number 206 hanging at the end of the corridor.
He pushed open the door and entered, and the strong light coming from the depths of the room surrounded him again.
Chi Nan stood quietly, letting the light awaken all the long-held memories.
The sound of the system rings in the strong light
[Congratulations to the dream maker Chi Nan for successfully clearing "The Crying Boy", the following is the calculation of favorability...]
Chi Nan interrupted the system and asked anxiously, "Where is 229?"
[This is the core area of the dream world. Only the dream maker has permission to enter. 229 has been arranged in the rest area to wait for your favorability calculation to be completed. Please rest assured.]
[May I start to continue the favor calculation? ]
Even if the identity is revealed now, the system still has the same polite and cold attitude, which is the system Chi Nan is accustomed to.
Chi Nan: "Okay, hard work."
[Due to the particularity of this nightmare, the calculation method of favorability is slightly different from the past. The system will not list the plot points that earn good points one by one, and will give the dream maker the final favorability points to earn points]
[Congratulations to the dream maker Chi Nan, this dungeon earned 99663 favor points]
[Dreammaker Chi Nan has a total of 100,000 remaining favor points, and the system has automatically completed the wish exchange of "Retrieve Memory", please check it]
[Congratulations to the dream maker Chi Nan for obtaining a copy of "The Crying Boy" souvenir: the body of the dream maker]
[Get special binding props: Dream World]
[Obtaining privileges: unlimited right to ask questions and the right to transform the dream-making system]
[Dream maker Chi Nan's reward has been distributed, now you can ask questions to the system]
After receiving a series of rich 'rewards', Chi Nan's face was still so quiet that he could not see the slightest trace of emotional ups and downs: "Excuse me, what is going on in the Dream World? What is going on with the system?"
[Dream world was born eleven years ago. After you regained your freedom, part of the divine power used to seal pollutants and curses was released. Outside the control of your consciousness, the divine power created the dream world by itself]
[Dream world has its own operating rules, and it is in a symbiotic relationship with the dream maker, and the emotional perception ability of the dream maker has been stripped from the body and placed in the ruins of the cliff for waste disposal, so as to avoid the recurrence of the dream maker by human beings Negative Emotional Pollution Situations]
Chi Nan suddenly realized that he did not lose his emotions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy because he was sealed in the painting for many years, but the system stripped his emotions from his consciousness for the purpose of protecting him.
[With the loosening of the seal, some pollutants and cursed remains lurking in the dream world, these dangerous substances have always existed in the dream world in the form of bugs]
[In order to increase the threshold of wish exchange and maintain the balance of the dream world, the system selects the most potential souls from the dead as dreamers, and they weave dreams for the dream world, and these dreams are used to make sleepwalking. People pass the customs to realize their wishes]
[In order to suppress the attack of the cursed wreckage, the dream setting of the dream world is mainly based on the theme of terror. The dream maker is responsible for collecting the fear emotions of human beings. These emotions will be converted into energy within the system to suppress the impending pollutants]
[The system needs the fear value to maintain balance, but too high fear value will also break the stability of the system, so sleepwalkers whose wakefulness value is too high, that is, the fear rises too fast will be ejected by the system]
[All deaths in the dream world are dream projections. After the sleepwalker dies, he will wake up in the real world and lose all memories of the dream world]
Chi Nan had heard You Yu talk about this.
Sleepwalkers have a great misunderstanding of the death of the dream world. They have always believed that the death of nightmares is equivalent to the death of reality, and the system and the dreamers have never explained it clearly.
In You Yu's words, if there is no 'death illusion' as a driving force, no one will take the copy seriously, and he will lose his job because of it.
[After the sleepwalker who successfully redeemed the wish returns to reality, the memory of clearing the nightmare will also be erased]
[These are the basic information about the formation and operation of the dream world]
"Okay, I understand." Chi Nan thought for a while, his face changed slightly, "What happened to You Yu? After I came out of the painting eleven years ago, why did I enter his body? ?"
Chi Nan asked his second question.
[Dream maker 229 is the most special existence, his body is a natural container for sealing the dream maker]
[The system detected that your soul hidden in 229's body can avoid the pursuit of pollutants and cursed wreckage, which is the safest choice, so after 229's death, the system decided to use his body for 'waste use', allowing you to Use it as a body to enter the dream world, which is also a crucial step to complete the circular time cycle]
The word "waste utilization" made Chi Nan choked, and he continued to ask: "What happened to the Zicheng bug? Did the pollutants and cursed wreckage track me down?"
System: [Yes]
[Because you used tears many times in the nightmare copy, the pollutants and curses left in the dream world are just around the corner. In the chapter of the 404 highway copy welfare home, you mixed the tears into the entire abandoned fountain, causing the bug "Ghost Tunnel" to appear]
[Dreammaker 229 entered the past timeline through the "Ghost Tunnel" and discovered the secret about you in "The Crying Boy", and 229's divine consciousness connected the entire dream world master system, which led to the dream master Identity leaks, pollutants and curses carry out maximum attacks, forming a sub-city bug]
Chi Nan: "What about my tears?"
System: [Because you have a strong ability to perceive emotions, when you are the god of dreams, the existence of tears can convert part of the negative energy into tears and discharge your spiritual domain. The system later strips your emotional awareness from your body, but the habit of crying remains in your body and continues to exist in another form of activation]
[Examples: eating sweets, touching, and sleeping]
[After system detection, some energy remains in your tears, so you have the power to attack monsters and evil spirits in the dream world]
Chi Nan was silent for a moment, then nodded: "I see, thank you."
In retrospect, all the bugs they have experienced are in the design of the ring structure, and the links are closely intertwined, and all seemingly unexpected events are actually within the trajectory of the ring.
What You Yu was confused about before was why the system was trying to deny the existence of "The Crying Boy" on the one hand, and on the other hand, it pulled Chi Nan into the dream world to break through. Now there is an answer.
Chi Nan continued to ask: "What's the matter with obtaining the "Dream Maker's Body"? After that, I can use my body to live in the dream world, right?"
System: [Yes, this is your body in the first place]
Chi Nan pursed his lips, said silently for a moment, "Does that mean that I will be stripped from 229's sensory system from now on?"
The system was also silent for a moment, and it seemed that it was recalculating.
Chi Nan waited for a full two minutes.
[The system has sought the consent of Sleepwalker 229, and has reserved the right to share the 229 sensory system for you. From now on, you will have two sets of survival systems, you can choose to exist in the form of "Dreammaker's body", or you can continue Shared 229 Sensory Systems]
Chi Nan: "...Thank you."
[Excuse me, the dream maker Chi Nan, is there anything else I need to know? ]
Chi Nan thought about it seriously: "Can you provide me with a mirror?"
[no problem]
As soon as the system's voice fell, a mirror immediately appeared in front of Chi Nan.
The boy in the mirror image has silver-white hair, a pair of eyes glowing moist and green in the strong light, and there are tear moles at the corners of each eye, which makes the eyes unique and melancholy.
It's the face of the boy in "The Crying Boy", the face of the God of Dreams, and his own face.
Chi Nan looked at himself in the mirror, his voice calm: "I have no other problem."
System: [Received]
[Dream maker Chi Nan, welcome home]
…
The sense of smell is always the first to wake up.
The air was filled with the smell of rain and sunshine, but the rich aroma of baking dim sum in the oven quickly took over Chi Nan's sense of smell.
He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyelashes and opened his eyes in a daze.
There were no clouds on this day, the sky was clear and far away, and the air was even slightly dry, like the smell of early autumn.
The endless rain in Zicheng stopped, and the sky was bright.
The first thing that entered Chi Nan's line of sight was more than a dozen pots of mint placed on the balcony. A few rays of sunlight swayed and jumped on the dark green leaves, as if the green aurora danced on the horizon on the night of the first snow in the last days of the city.
Chi Nan's hearing began to wake up, and the sound of 'zilla zilla' came from the direction of the kitchen. Someone was spreading a ball of custard into the steaming butter. The sound of the oil and sugar blending made Chi Nan unbearable. She swallowed her saliva.
He sat up from the bed, his eyes just fell on You Yu's back who was busy making breakfast.
Humans living in this eternal night city seem to have long forgotten the existence of breakfast.
There are baked cheesecakes in the oven, and brown and fluffy pancakes are fried in the pan. In the morning when the sun first comes to Zicheng, You Yu wants to prepare the most sugary breakfast for Chi Nan.
It's a pity that this tranquility was broken by an untimely system siren
[Dreammaker 229, please pay attention, there is an emergency call request from the dawn base]
[Dreammaker 229 please connect immediately...]
"Answer the phone." Chi Nan's voice was still drowsy.
You Yu curled his lips impatiently, and wiped his egg-covered hands on the apron: "What's wrong?"
207 on the other end of the phone blew up directly: "Thank goodness, you finally answered the phone after you disappeared for so fucking long! But we are worried to death... Something happened during the time you lost contact."
"What's the matter?" You Yugong put on the phone and hurriedly flipped through the nearly burnt muffins.
Chi Nan also got up from the bed and went to the bathroom to wash.
The sunlight danced on the extremely polished bathroom glass, and he saw his own face from the mirror again. He was a little uncomfortable at once, but he would always adapt.
The conversation in the kitchen was still going on, and because of anxiety, 207's voice sounded a little out of breath: "Some time ago, there was an unprecedented bug in Zicheng, and the whole city could not communicate with the outside world. What's worse, we tried countless ways. , failed to crack the bug and entered the shielded barrier, and we even suspected that you were trapped in the sub-city."
"You guessed right." You Yu turned the pancake over again.
"What? Are you okay?" 207 on the other end of the phone was obviously stunned.
You Yu said indifferently, "It's okay."
"What's the situation?" 207's voice sank.
"I'll explain to you later, how long did this bug last on your timeline?" You Yu asked.
"It's three days for us." 207 frowned, as keen as she was, and had already guessed that 229, who was at the center of the bug, experienced a different time flow than hers.
You Yu just said calmly, "Okay, I see."
From the Zicheng bug to the final completion of the cycle from "The Crying Boy", he has experienced more than 200 non-stop rainy nights, of which he could not find any trace of Chi Nan for 229 days.
But in the world outside the bug, only three days have passed.
"In the past three days, we tried our best to formulate a repair plan and planned to forcibly enter the sub-city covered by bugs, but each time ended in failure, until the bug was found to be repaired by itself..." 207 held his breath, "229, it is you who Zicheng's bug has been solved, right?"
You Yu seemed to smile: "Well, me and the dream maker."
207 was stunned again: "...Have you seen the Dream Maker?"
You Yu was too lazy to explain: "Well, let's not talk about it, I'm busy making breakfast for the dream maker."
"Hey…!??"
You Yu has hung up the phone, washed the fresh mint leaves and put them in a water glass, and handed them to Chi Nan behind him: "Is the favor count done?"
"Thank you," Chi Nan took the mint water: "I know everything I should know."
You Yu put the fried muffins on a plate and said, "There is one more thing, maybe the system forgot to tell you, I have to mention it clearly with you."
Chi Nan looked at him blankly: "What?"
You Yu looked at him fixedly, with a smile in his eyes: "Even if I know that you are the dream maker, I will continue to chase you."
Seeing each other's eyes, Chi Nan blinked, and after a while, he said, "I know."
You Yu suppressed a smile and said, "Then what?"
"I like you too, and," Chi Nan pursed his lips, his face looked calm, but the tips of his ears were already red, "and it seems... I have liked it for a long time."
How long is it? Probably as he once told himself.
From the very beginning of the birth of "The Crying Boy", the gears in motion couldn't stop.
The future he was looking forward to has arrived, on this sunny morning.
You Yu finally laughed, he stepped forward and buried his fingers in Chi Nan's soft hair.
Chi Nan looked up at him slightly, tears already rolling in his eyes.
This guy cries as soon as he touches it, so cute.
Think about travel.
"The system said, I am the best container to seal you."
"Um…"
You Yu slowly pressed down and kissed Chi Nan's wet tear mole.
"Brother Nan, let's complete the seal in a different way."
- end of text
The author has something to say: It's over, Sahua.
Thank you for your continued company, and thank you for your love of crying and traveling.
This is the first time I write this theme, and it is also the first time I try a long essay with a strong plot. It is stumbling and has many shortcomings.
Thank you for tolerating the later interruptions, and finally a happy ending.
After that, I will continue the infinite stream "After the Pirate Boss Returns to the World of Horror". If you are interested, you can go to Kangkang. I believe this book will be better.
There are not many extras. It looks like two or three chapters. It will be updated tomorrow or start to update. Finally, thank you again.
Looking forward to seeing you in the next book.
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