Shadow's gaze was full of playful anticipation.
Chi Nan also met his expectations. When he saw the mask, his eyes flashed at a loss, but the shadow hadn't fully appreciated it yet. Chi Nan's emotional fluctuations quickly subsided, and he quickly regained his composure: "I remember."
He said calmly and walked towards the shadow step by step.
Shadow was a little surprised by his calmness and actions, and became impatient: "Don't you have anything to ask?"
Chi Nan stopped in front of him: "Why did you tell me for him?"
Shadow curled the corners of his lips like Ye Chang: "It's not 'for' him, it's me who made an opinion and cut him off."
Chi Nan calmly said, "Why does Ye Chang do this?"
Shadow smiled and shrugged: "This... I think you can ask him personally."
Chi Nan: "Oh, then I really have nothing to ask."
Shadow seemed disappointed: "Are you sure?"
Chi Nan and Shadow looked at each other for half a second, then said, "Can I touch your face?"
Shadow raised his eyebrows unexpectedly: "Why?"
"A little curious, if I touch the shadow, will I cry."
Shadow smiled: "Of course."
Saying that, the shadow cooperatively took off the ghost face on his face, revealing the face belonging to 'Ye Chang', Chi Nan also stretched out his hand.
But just before his fingertips touched Shadow's skin, he quickly turned around and quickly picked up the teacup on the table and poured it on the candle at the corner of the table!
Shadow didn't have time to show the consternation on his face, only to see the flames flutter a few times and go out.
The house returned to complete darkness, and the shadow was engulfed by the darkness.
Chi Nan stood still in the darkness for a moment, then walked towards Ye Chang's bed, but just halfway there, his throat suddenly tightened, and a pair of arms tightly wrapped around his neck and dragged him back. Chi Nan struggled a few times to no avail, the opponent's strength and figure had an absolute advantage, and he fluttered as if the opponent was pinching a little chick.
"Do you really think putting out the candles will do against me? Huh?"
It was Ye Chang's voice, but Chi Nan didn't cry because of his touch, and sounded the alarm in his heart. Ye Chang's shadow has evolved to move freely without the need for a light source. great threat.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Chi Nan was restrained by his Adam's apple, unable to speak. Shadow put his lips to his ear and said in a flirtatious tone, "I, want your body."
"Cough cough..."
As the oxygen was drained little by little, Chi Nan's eyes filled with tears, and his consciousness gradually fell into the misty abyss, until the same voice sounded in his ears—
"Brother Nan, wake up."
Chi Nan's eyelids kept beating, and his breathing became quick and light. This time, he really opened his eyes.
At this moment, Ye Chang is sitting beside his bed, looking at him from top to bottom: "You have a nightmare."
Chi Nan's cheeks were slightly flushed due to over-breathing, and even the watery mole at the end of his eyes became vivid and fragile. His eyelashes trembled a few times, like a fine porcelain doll on the verge of shattering.
He moved his lips subconsciously, but the throat that was strangled in the dream could not speak, Ye Chang hurriedly poured him a glass of cold water.
Chi Nan also took advantage of this moment to rub the tears on his face on the pillow towel.
"What did you dream about? You looked at me with that kind of eyes just now." Ye Chang handed over the water glass, and said in a tone that he couldn't tell whether he was serious or joking.
"Thank you," Chi Nan took a sip of water, looked up at Ye Chang after being silent for a few seconds, "what eyes?"
Ye Chang's brows wrinkled imperceptibly, and he was keenly aware of the strangeness: "As it is now, there is hostility and defense."
Chi Nan didn't answer immediately, Gulu Gulu drank all the water in the cup, and Ye Chang didn't urge him.
After a long while, Chi Nan said, "I dreamed of your shadow just now, and he attacked me."
"What?" Ye Chang changed his tone of ease in the past, and was a little anxious.
Chi Nan looked at him for a moment, holding his neck with his hand: "Just like this, hold me, he said..."
His Adam's apple slipped. "He said... he's going to kill me."
Chi Nan lied.
Ye Chang paled and lowered his eyes: "I'm sorry."
"Why do you apologize? That's the alienated shadow, not you." Chi Nan said.
Ye Chang suddenly smiled helplessly: "I don't know what to say when this happens, so... I'm sorry."
Chi Nan didn't speak, and Ye Chang asked again, "Besides attacking you, what else did it do?"
Chi Nan looked into Ye Chang's eyes, and found that he couldn't see Ye Chang's expression through the glasses.
"Or... what else did he say?" Ye Chang confirmed again.
"He said, you always knew how to get out of Candleman Town." Chi Nan lied again.
Ye Chang was obviously stunned: "I'm not sure yet, I'll tell you when the time comes."
"Well." Chi Nan didn't get to the bottom of it.
"What else?" Ye Chang asked again.
Chi Nan hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "It's nothing."
Chi Nan thought he could find a sense of relief on Ye Chang's face, but unfortunately he didn't.
Ye Chang just said solemnly: "If the alienated shadow can harm the sleepwalker through the dream, it will be very dangerous."
"Um."
"Brother Nan, if you really want to go that far... I hope..." Ye Chang's expression slowed down, and the corners of his lips curved toward Chi Nan, "I hope the one who killed me is you."
The eyes of the two of them overlapped for a moment, and Chi Nan nodded: "Okay, I see."
Chi Nan had an unprecedented insomnia that night, and even he himself couldn't understand why.
As soon as I closed my eyes, the image of "Shadow" wearing a ghost face appeared in my mind, and it lingered.
In the eyes of "Shadow", there was a hint of red that hinted at danger.
Chi Nan remembered this look. It was the first pair of eyes he saw after returning to the living room of the Dawn Base, and it was also the person he accidentally bumped into at the last dance of the Dusk.
He remembered that the dance was chaotic and noisy. He went against the flow of people to look for Ye Chang's figure, but was finally invited to dance by the dream maker.
So Ye Chang... I should say that the dream maker, why did he pretend to be a novice high school student and waste time beside him
Is his work not saturated? Or just out of bad taste? But why did you choose yourself
Does he have what he wants in him
Before things developed further, he didn't plan to startle the snake for the time being, so he could take the other party as the object of observation.
Chi Nan couldn't sleep, and he didn't want to turn over to make a noise, so he silently put his hand on the wall.
Because the windows and vents were tightly sealed, no half of the light could penetrate, and the shadows on the walls naturally disappeared.
Chi Nan played lonely against the darkness.
The next day, Chi Nan rarely had faint dark circles under his eyes.
Ye Chang accidentally stopped his eyes on his face: "Didn't you sleep well?"
Chi Nan nodded first, then shook his head halfway through: "I slept well."
Ye Chang was stunned: "That's good."
After less than half a minute, he looked up at Chi Nan again: "Brother Nan, do you really have nothing to say to me?"
Chi Nan: "...Not yet."
Ye Chang smiled bitterly, not concealing his keenness to see through the other party: "Actually, after getting used to it, I feel that you are not very good at covering up your emotions."
Chi Nan pursed his lips into a straight line. After a long while, he just made up his mind to say something, and there was a hurried slap outside the door: "How were you two last night?"
It's the old voice.
"It's all okay." Chi Nan swallowed what he wanted to say and answered Lao Yu.
Saying that, he went to open the door, "No new victims appeared last night, right?"
Lao Yu shook his head: "I confirmed 105, it's fine. The two girls from 109 spent the night safely in your dormitory, but Xia Wei's condition is not very good, he seems to have a high fever."
Chi Nan looked at the time. It was about this time yesterday. He hid the fragments of his arm on the ghost wall in his suitcase.
"I'll go see Xia Wei." Chi Nan said.
Lao Yu nodded, and the two were about to walk towards 103 when Ye Chang's voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Can I still be together?"
Lao Yu was a little surprised, because Ye Chang followed Chi Nan for granted before, and would never talk too much to ask for permission.
Chi Nan also unexpectedly hesitated for a while, then nodded and said, "Yes."
Lao Yu was subtle in his heart, lowered his voice and asked Chi Nan, "What? You two quarreled? Your face is so stinky?"
Chi Nan was stunned for a moment: "Who?"
Lao Yu sneered: "Who? You, you have written murder on your face."
Chi Nan pursed his lips: "Oh... I didn't sleep well, I got up."
Xia Wei seemed to be severely burned, her skin was as red as boiled shrimp, half of her face was still covered in the quilt, and she was stunned and said nonsense: "I'll be disabled in the future...how can I find my little brother...wuwuwu...disability 0 There is no market..."
Lao Yu looked helplessly and pitifully at this confused love brain, and sighed: "Okay, okay, as long as you live, you will have little brothers, the longer you live, the more little brothers, you just need to boil those competitors to death. ."
"I can't make it through... The little brothers don't like disabilities..."
"Then who gave you the disability, who are you looking for?" Lao Yu was used to teasing to ease the atmosphere. He secretly glanced at Ye Chang, who was being joked by him, and found that this third-year high school tyrant who was always gentle and smiling, At the moment, he also had a sullen face.
He suddenly shut up knowingly and looked at Chi Nan: "What do you think is going on?"
Chi Nan: "Have you checked his arm?"
Lao Yu shook his head: "I was afraid of being discovered by the NPCs here, so I kept covering it with bandages and didn't dare to take it apart."
Chi Nan nodded: "Why don't you untie it and take a look?"
Lao Yu knew that, he directly lifted Xia Wei's quilt and peeled off the bandages on his arm layer by layer. When he was halfway through, his face became solemn: "This... how could this be...!"
The white bandage that was not completely loosened was mottled with blood stains, and the stench quickly spread, as if the entire arm wrapped by the bandage had rotted away.
"Does it hurt?" Lao Yu frowned and stopped for a while to ask the confused Xia Wei.
Xia Wei only closed his eyes and shook his head: "The hand doesn't hurt, but the headache."
"The hand has already...I don't feel it..." He added again.
Although he said so, Lao Yu still lightly moved and continued to untie the bandage. The innermost layers of gauze had been soaked with blood and water, and it was difficult to separate from the rotten flesh. Hemp sound.
When he took off the last layer of bandages and saw the condition of Xia Wei's arm, Lao Yu gasped.
Chi Nan watched for a moment, frowning slightly, Xia Wei's waxed hand was rotten.
The whole arm seemed to be soaked in corrosive liquid, the skin was festering and the flesh was blurred, and the rotten appearance could hardly be seen as the arm of a living person.
"What, what's wrong? What's wrong with my hand...?" Xia Wei was so burned that he couldn't open his eyes, so naturally he couldn't see the frightening appearance of his arm festering, so he kept shaking his eyelashes and asked.
Lao Yu and Chi Nan exchanged glances, and lied while wrapping Xia Wei's arm again: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt."
Ye Chang hasn't spoken much today, and at this moment suggested quietly: "Let's go outside and talk."
After the three came out of 103, they closed the door and lowered their voices to communicate.
"What did Xia Wei do with that hand, why..." Lao Yu paused, unable to find the right words to describe that horrific arm.
Chi Nan thought for a while: "It should have melted."
"Melting?" Lao Yu raised his voice slightly unconsciously, it was difficult for him to associate this word with the human body.
Chi Nan nodded: "Yes, just like a candle."
Ye Chang instantly understood what Chi Nan meant: "Because yesterday we put Xia Wei's shadow in a sealed and light-tight suitcase, his waxed arm melted."
"Looking at it this way, once the shadow loses its light source, it will be 'starved to death' after enough time." Chi Nan added.
The fog in Lao Yu's eyes finally dissipated, and his eyes lit up: "So as long as the shadows on the wall are 'starved to death', the giant candle will melt into blood and rotten flesh on its own. Without the giant candle, Candleman Festival can go to him. Damn it!"
Chi Nan's face did not show joy, his long eyelashes drooped down, and for a moment he said, "But we don't know how long it will take to 'starve' people to death."
"It should be the time when Xia Wei has a fever, I'll go and ask."
Lao Yu's personality is a bit rambunctious, but he is impatient at the critical moment. He rushed into the room without a word, and anxiously asked Xia Wei when he had a fever.
Xia Wei used his blurry brain to recall and gave an ambiguous answer: "In the middle of the night... But it doesn't seem to be very comfortable in the afternoon..."
"In the middle of the night or in the afternoon? About when in the afternoon or in the middle of the night?" Lao Yu asked.
Xia Wei: "It seems to be noon again..."
Lao Yu: "...Can you be more specific?"
Xia Wei was speechless: "...Uncle...Did you make a mistake? Who will remember the specific time of his illness?"
Lao Yu pursued it relentlessly: "Think about it, this is related to whether we can make ends meet."
Xia Wei shook his head chaotically: "...I didn't watch the time, so I won't be able to wake up."
Lao Yu stood beside him in a hurry, seeing that important clues to breaking the dream were in front of him, but because of a momentary negligence, he couldn't move forward, and who was not in a hurry...
Of course, except for the existence of Chi Nan who has no emotional ups and downs.
"You can only cut off the light source of the ghost wall as soon as possible and take a gamble." Chi Nan said calmly, knowing that there was nothing to ask from Xia Wei.
"Yes, let's hurry now..." Lao Yu suddenly paused and frowned, "So here's the problem, it's broad daylight, and the central square is full of candles at 365 degrees, including from the surrounding residential buildings. The light coming out of it is uninterrupted 24 hours a day, how could it be possible to cut off the light source?!”
He even thought about covering the entire ghost wall with opaque cloth, but the equipment in the copy is limited, and even if they apply the quilt and blanket, there is no way to guarantee that the light source will be completely cut off.
Before Chi Nan could speak, Ye Chang looked over, and their eyes met without a doubt.
Ye Chang simply looked into his eyes and said, "According to the observation of the past four days, there is no police station in the town, and no security guards in the square. Almost all NPCs are tools for decorating or issuing task rules. Mind your own business and have no fighting power.”
Lao Yu looked at him in confusion, and Ye Chang added: "And after dark, apart from the NPCs who came out to release missions, there are almost only us sleepwalkers left in the whole town, no matter how big the movement is, it should be fine. "
Chi Nan added: "Yesterday we cut a big hole in the ghost wall, and no one has come to the door until now."
"So what...?" Experienced like an old man, at this moment, he is also confused, and he is still a little uneasy in his heart...
Ye Chang glanced at the Candleman Festival special salute not far from the square, and of course: "We can rest assured to blow up the wall."
Lao Yu was silent for two seconds: "...grass."