The inside of the car instantly became dead silent, only the sound of Chi Nan's breathing.
From the dream name given by the system and the 'old house' in the driver's mouth, it can be inferred that it should be the No. 211 courtyard in the Yanhu Villa District not far away.
—The site of the fire accident that killed thirteen people in Bai Yingzhi's mansion.
With a metallic muffled sound, the rear door was pulled open from the outside, and damp air poured into the car.
Although Chi Nan couldn't see it, it was certain that there was a thick fog outside.
He picked up the blind stick at hand: "Can the system provide novice guidance services?"
The system was silent for a long time, and finally said a word.
[There is no precedent for novice guidance, what kind of service you need, the system will decide whether to provide it or not. ]
Chi Nan: "Guiding function."
After all, he can't see.
The system bluntly refused: [I'm very sorry, the sleepwalker's own pathfinding is a very important part of the Nightmare dungeon, and the system cannot meet your needs. ]
Finished talking.
Chi Nan: "…"
Sitting in the car all the time is not an option, he took out his mobile phone with the mentality of giving it a try, and used his voice to call for the navigation.
"Go to No. 211 Courtyard in Yanhu District."
[Navigation is about to start, safety is with you]
Although this nightmare copy has lost contact with the real world, the navigation function on the mobile phone can still be enabled.
Chi Nan got out of the car with a blind stick and walked towards the mansion according to the navigation instructions.
He was once imprisoned in the painting, his vision was limited, and he could only see a square inch of the little master's bedroom, and he knew nothing about the environment outside the house. Although I have returned to the old house in the past few years, there are people who drive into the yard, and it is the first time to enter the old house alone.
[Current route is offset, Navigation reroutes for you]
After going around for about ten minutes, the navigation route was always showing a deviation, and Chi Nan suspected that he had encountered a ghost hitting the wall.
...Use the ghost to hit the wall against the blind, is it bullying the blind or looking down on the ghost
He followed the navigation prompts for two more turns, and finally turned off the navigation to save power.
The fog seems to be thicker, and it is not the way to go on like this, and I don't know whether this nightmare copy is a single-player mode or a team breakthrough.
If there are other sleepwalkers, maybe they can meet a partner...
"Brother, are you lost?"
While he was thinking, the boy's voice came from not far away, as if he understood his thoughts and appeared just right... But Chi Nan didn't hear any footsteps before that.
Chi Nan didn't answer immediately, the boy continued: "Can't you see? Where do you want to go? I can show you the way."
There was a playful smile in his voice, as if he saw something that made him happy.
"Thank you," Chi Nan said, "I'm looking for Courtyard 211."
"You come with me."
Saying that, the boy suddenly took Chi Nan's hand to guide him.
Almost at the same moment, Chi Nan's body froze suddenly, and two tears rolled down his cheeks from the corners of his eyes.
He cried without warning...
Because he stayed in "The Crying Boy" for too long, Chi Nan left irreversible sequelae. After his rebirth, he lost the ability to express his emotions, and there was only one emotion left on his face - tears.
Whenever there is a little mood swing, his tears will be unstoppable.
For him, crying is an emotional expression and a physiological response, just like ordinary people who are happy and want to laugh, scream involuntarily, or even growl when they are hungry.
But after experiencing countless disgust and ridicule, Chi Nan knew that in the human world, crying is a shameful and cowardly behavior, especially for boys.
Over time, he learned to restrain his emotions and keep a distance from others. When he wrapped his emotions tightly, he accidentally gave people a cold texture.
You can't cry if you cry, so don't ignore people...
But occasionally there are special circumstances, such as eating sweets, sleeping, and physical contact with people, his tears will flow out completely uncontrollably.
The scene is very embarrassing... For example, now, Chi Nan touched his pocket, but he didn't bring a tissue...
"Huh? Are you crying?" The boy laughed as if he had seen some novel toy, and took out a handkerchief and put it in his hand.
Chi Nan didn't explain, but wiped away tears and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome, are you mom's guest?"
Mother…? Chi Nan immediately confirmed his inner guess, because there was never only one child in this house.
He was silent for a moment and asked, "Are you Yu Yu?"
The boy's footsteps paused, and his voice became a little colder: "Does my brother know me?"
"Well, I know." After the system informed the theme of this dream, Chi Nan thought of this possibility—
In this dream copy, he met Xiao Youyu before the fire.
At this moment, Xiao You Yu doesn't seem to know her grown-up 'self'.
And it's a little different from reality, Xiao Youyu in the dream is not blind.
Xiao Youyu squeezed Chi Nan's fingers and led him forward, "Among the guests invited by my mother, you are the first to recognize me."
"Has your mother invited many guests?" Chi Nan continued to set the message.
"Yes, my mother is hospitable. She invites many people every time, and her guests are very similar," Xiao Youyu paused. "They all have wishes that they want to fulfill, and they are easily afraid."
"What is your wish, can you tell me?"
Chi Nan said frankly, "I want to restore my eyesight."
Xiao Youyu smiled and did not comment on Chi Nan's wishes.
"The guests are all waiting in the living room, be careful, there are steps here," Xiao Youyu dragged him into the entrance, "It seems that my brother is the last guest."
Chi Nan: "Sorry, I took a little time on the way here."
Xiao Youyu: "Then let's go, mother will be here soon."
Chi Nan: "Can I still find you in the future?"
"Of course," Xiao Youyu smiled, "I can show you the way."
After a pause, he smiled and said, "I am more familiar with this house than anyone else."
Chi Nan responded in a low voice: "Okay, thank you."
"Well then," Xiao Youyu hooked his pinky finger and said suddenly with a smile before leaving, "I'll tell you another secret—"
"Brother, in fact, I also know you, this face."
Xiao Youyu gave a deep laugh beside Chi Nan's ear and disappeared in an instant.
Chi Nan froze in place until a rude voice came from the living room—
"What's the situation? A blind man was brought in this time."
This voice made everyone in the living room focus on Chi Nan. The voice of that person was too loud just now, making everyone a little embarrassed now.
The person who shouted was also quick-mouthed for a while, and immediately realized his impoliteness and shut his mouth embarrassingly.
After all, being blind doesn't mean you're deaf.
Chi Nan was accustomed to it, and nodded slightly to the crowd: "I'm sorry, I'm late."
Because he will deliberately restrain his emotions in front of people, he always has a cold feeling when he speaks.
As soon as Chi Nan finished speaking, the door that was open was suddenly closed without warning. The ten wall lamps next to the living room were instantly lit, and the whole house was brightly lit.
"One, two, three... Ninety, well, everyone should be here now." A boy said, looking at the closed door.
The girl standing next to her whispered, "Why is this door still closed..."
Boy: "Of course it's to keep us from messing around."
Chi Nan leaned on the blind stick and walked towards the living room following the sound, and everyone looked at his movements with different expressions.
Some people's eyes were full of pity, some people put their disgust on their faces without any taboo, and some girls looked at Chi Nan more and turned their eyes away with blushing eyes.
Although the sleepwalker who finally entered the house was blind, he was definitely the most beautiful boy they had ever seen.
"Excuse me, are you also a sleepwalker?" One of the girls in professional dress looked at Chi Nan approaching and carefully confirmed.
After all, with such a good-looking face, it is easy for people to misunderstand him as someone in a dream.
Chi Nan nodded: "Yes."
The female white-collar worker breathed a sigh of relief: "This is your first time participating in this..." She seemed to be unable to find the right words to describe the current situation, so she paused and said, "Is this a strange game?"
Chi Nan nodded again.
A male voice immediately corrected: "This is not a game, the system should have explained it when you came in, this is the dream world, we sleepwalkers prefer to call it the "nightmare world", everyone signed the wish agreement and came here pass through. "
"That's right, but, but at that time, I was just blowing out candles on my birthday, I thought it was just a joke from a friend, who would have thought it was true..." A girl said weakly, her voice crying.
"Nightmare world is never a joke, you can't leave easily when you come here." The young man who seemed to be experienced said decisively, and the girl immediately swallowed the words 'I want to go home'.
"And as long as you are not careful, you are likely to die." He added
"Ah... If you die, won't you be able to wake up?"
"Yeah, I said in a movie before that falling can return from a dream to reality..."
"Oh, if only it were that simple."
Chi Nan sat down without saying a word. Among the ten sleepwalkers, they were obviously experienced veterans.
"Who is the novice who entered the dream world for the first time? Raise your hand and I will confirm it, and then I will tell you the precautions." The young man suggested.
The six newcomers, including Chi Nan, raised their hands, the young man nodded, and pulled the girl next to him: "My name is Cheng Xu, and my girlfriend An Ran has been through two nightmare copies. , is also an old sleepwalker who has experienced three dungeons, we can give you some suggestions and hints."
Everyone listened quietly and earnestly, only a yellow-haired gangster wandered around the house, not shy about putting valuable items in the house into his pockets, and making a little noise from time to time.
Lao Yu, the old buddy who called Chi Nan blind just now, looked at Huang Mao and mumbled, "It's really fresh, even the thieves have been pulled in."
"Little thief, is this the first time you've read the Nightmare Book?"
Huang Mao took the pearls off the ornaments and stuffed them into his pockets: "I'm not interested in playing with these."
Lao Yu spread out his hands with a subtle expression: "It seems that this time there are seven newcomers."
Cheng Xu continued: "You already know about signing a wish agreement and brushing up on the dream system, right?"
Everyone nodded in different expressions.
Cheng Xu: "In this world, there are all kinds of nightmares, such as story solving, horror escape, urban legends and even plague wars. We will figure out the theme of this nightmare later and find a way to clear the customs. The good point, this is all unknown, we need to explore."
"You must pay attention to your sobriety value when you pass this. The higher the sobriety value, the more dangerous it is. Once it reaches 90 or more, you will lose your sense of direction, judgment, and desire to survive. 100 will directly game over."
The young man beside Chi Nan asked, "What do you mean?"
Cheng Xu pursed his lips: "The meaning of being cleared by the nightmare world."
"what…"
"Although it has never been officially stated, there is a saying in the sleepwalking world that being cleared of consciousness by the nightmare world means the death of the real world."
Everyone was silent, and the girl who asked the question just now burst into tears: "I really didn't know it was so dangerous, I knew it earlier..."
Lao Yu was not used to such scenes, and said lightly: "Everyone has come."
Chi Nan, who has been silent for a long time, said, "What are the influencing factors of sobriety?"
Cheng Xu gave him a fixed look: "Fear."
He continued to explain: "The wakefulness value will increase in the state of fear, just like our normal dreaming. Often when the nightmare reaches its climax, we will wake up suddenly, but in the nightmare world, waking up is likely to mean death."
"So, you must ensure that your sobriety value is relatively low, and no matter what, everyone has wishes to achieve. It is a good thing to stay in this world for a longer time and brush more books."
Cheng Xu glanced at everyone: "What do you think about the theme of this nightmare copy, "Dream of You Yu"? "
Because of his special status, Chi Nan didn't plan to express his opinions at first. The boys around him suddenly became interested: "Damn, I'm too familiar with this topic."
Everyone looked at the excited newcomer.
"To tell you the truth, just now, just a second after I entered this nightmare, I happened to meet his house, which is the house eleven years ago."
"What? Does this person really exist in reality? Is he still alive?" Everyone looked at the boy with anticipation and nervousness.
Chi Nan sat quietly beside him, pricked up his ears and listened quietly.
The boy nodded: "You all know Bai Yingzhi, the female star who was very popular more than ten years ago, the little girl thief in "The Sea of Sin"."
The female white-collar nodded, "I know you, my dad's goddess back then, but she was beautiful... Unfortunately, an accident happened later..."
Boy: "Yes, I think this accident is probably the key to this nightmare."
The boy carefully told his companions about the tragedy of Bai Yingzhi's fire eleven years ago, her mother-child relationship with You Yu, and how You Yu was the only survivor, and finally made a key point: "After the accident, this house has become a supernatural lover. Exploration Holy Land, before I came to Nightmare World, I happened to be doing a live broadcast of the ghost house in the house, and I was pulled in by accident."
Everyone was silent, and Chi Nan, who had been silent for a while, suddenly said, "Are you the anchor of the old haunted house, Black Tea? I like your horror videos very much."
Although Chi Nan can't see it, but because of his personal interest, he often listens to some horror live broadcasts. Just now, he felt that the boy's voice was very familiar. Compared with his professional experience, Chi Nan was almost certain of the other party's identity.
Black Tea's eyes lit up: "Yes! It's me! I didn't expect my audience to be here!"
Lao Yu sighed: "I often walk by the river, how can I not get wet shoes, little brother, don't go to the haunted house in the future."
Seeing that he was going to digress, Cheng Xu quickly pulled them back: "So it seems that the theme of this nightmare is to escape from fire? But this is too simple, and why do we enter the dream of a living person..."
The bald man sitting in the corner suddenly said in a cold voice: "It's not that simple, I saw a statement when I was on the forum before, and a netizen who studied metaphysics analyzed that Bai Yingzhi was burned to death because her son, travel."
Cheng Xu frowned: "How do you say?"
The slightly bald man said coldly, "You Yu was born with a natural evil spirit. In the fire during the Mid-Autumn Festival eleven years ago, he burned the whole family to find a substitute for the evil spirits that haunted him."
As soon as he finished speaking, the lights in the house suddenly flickered, and the air fell into a dead silence for a while.
Even the yellow-haired thief stopped moving and looked over in a panic.
Black Tea shuddered: "Yes, I also found this before the live broadcast..."
Cheng Xu's brows knit together: "The ghost copy is more difficult."
A new girl next to me sobbed and said that she was most afraid of ghosts...
Black Tea sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, and pretended to mediate easily: "Who knows what's on the forum is true or not, I think..."
"There must be a reason for those of you who know this legend to enter the dungeon," said Lao Yu, "that is, this must be an information point that needs attention."
Everyone was even more silent, and no one could think that their first random copy turned out to be the creepiest evil spirit looking for a substitute.
Hei Cha: "Although I'm a newcomer, I still have a good understanding of metaphysics in my professional relationship. I have also learned the dots from the master before, so I should be able to use it..."
That being said, but he himself has never fought in actual combat, so he has no confidence.
Chi Nan's position was awkward and special. He didn't plan to reveal his identity to this group of strangers, and he was glad that You Yu's photos never leaked out of the public media.
Just when everyone's back was chilled and the atmosphere sank into the abyss of the cold pool, a strange sound of 'dong, dong, dong' suddenly came from the corridor above their heads.
It's like the sound of high heels stepping on old wooden boards.
Because the house is too quiet and space, the strange knocking sound is amplified infinitely, making people's scalp numb.
Boom, boom, boom.
The newcomers covered their mouths and opened their eyes in horror. Even the experienced Cheng Xiao, Lao Yu, and An Ran changed their expressions, staring nervously at the noisy corridor.
The voice is getting closer... When the atmosphere is stretched to the limit, a gentle and sweet female voice sounded from the second floor-
"I'm sorry, I just called the director, and it took a little time and made you wait for a long time."
Everyone looked at the voice, and a woman in a white evening dress stood on the edge of the spiral staircase, stepping downstairs with high heels.
The woman's appearance is beautiful and refined, and there is no lack of style, and everyone in the house is amazed when she appears.
The female white-collar worker couldn't help but whispered, "It's Bai Yingzhi!"
Bai Yingzhi, the goddess of the white moonlight of countless people, died unexpectedly.
This night, in "Dream of You Yu", she appeared as graceful as before.