"Candleman, candy..." Chi Nan quickly regained his calm and said calmly, "And a note."
"What, what?" Lao Yu stared at him, and when he heard the words Zhuren, his scalp tingled in conditioned reflex.
"It's just an ordinary little candle man," Chi Nan paused, then added, "The one made by Ye Chang in the workshop."
He was so calm that he was almost numb, and placed the candlesticks, candies, and notes in the box on the table one by one.
Only then did Lao Yu come over to confirm for himself, his eyes swept from Candleman to Candy, frowning in confusion, and finally picked up the small note—
"Brother Nan, I've got the handmade candle man I promised to give to you. I didn't make you wait too long, right? This is the first time I've made something by myself as a gift. Don't dislike the rough parts."
It is Ye Changduanxiu's powerful handwriting, clearly printed on light yellow paper.
Lao Yu's brows furrowed even tighter, and he flicked the note and said in confusion, "What is this all about? Ye Chang left it to you?"
Chi Nan: "It may be Ye Chang, or it may be another identity of Ye Chang."
Lao Yu was confused, Chi Nan looked at the note and said calmly, "There are words on the back."
Lao Yu quickly turned it over and saw that on the back was written—
"This lucky candy also has a nickname. You sleepwalkers like to call it regret medicine. Sleepwalkers who have redeemed their wishes can use it to redeem their previous wishes, but please remind me that after the wish is redeemed, the favorability can only be returned in half. "
"I hope you will like this regret medicine, and I pray that you will not use it."
The inscription reads "your roommate"
"Damn it! Regret medicine! This rare item is so... so easily sent to us?" Lao Yu picked up the ordinary toffee in a very rare package, and couldn't believe it was a legendary rare item inside." Regret medicine".
At this time, the regret medicine was sent, and the intention was already obvious. It has always been the code of conduct for dreammakers to release necessary props when necessary to enhance the tension and appreciation of dreams.
Chi Nan looked at the regret medicine packaged in candy, and remembered that it was the lucky candy that Ruirui gave him and Ye Chang when they had dinner on the third day.
At that time, Ye Chang kindly did it for him, and promised to give him a candy when Chi Nan returned to the dormitory.
Didn't expect him to deliver on his promise in this way...
The moment Dysonson saw the regret medicine, his originally desperate eyes lit up instantly: "If this is really regret medicine, eat it to redeem the wish, and the candle wick used to light the giant candle does not exist!"
As she said that, she grabbed the regret medicine from Lao Yu's hands in a frantic manner, and confronted the young mother, "If you eat it, we will be saved!"
The young mother's face sank, and she almost gritted her teeth and said to her, "I don't regret it, why should I eat it?!"
Dysonson, whose sobriety value rose to 89, almost lost his mind, grabbed the young mother's hand and shouted: "Can you not be so selfish? Now the method of melting human wax does not know whether it will work or not, anyway, your daughter sacrificed as a candle wick It's also death, it's better to let her be wiped out by the system before the sacrifice, so you can get back half of the favor points, Ruirui is not so painful, we can all survive!"
Lao Yu looked at the increasingly gloomy sky, frowned and speculated that the method of melting human wax had not worked. He agreed with Dysonson's point of view. When he said it, he was interrupted by a crisp slap.
The young mother slapped Dysonson's face with a slap in the face, and said in a cold tone: "Fuck you, I said, I don't regret resurrecting Ruirui, I don't regret it!"
Lao Yu swallowed the words wisely. He guessed that Dysonson couldn't swallow the slap in the face, and he would definitely try to force Ruirui's mother to take the regret medicine, and the wicked would leave it to her.
The bright red slap print appeared on Dysonson's left face, and her right hand was about to touch the pistol in her pocket when the sound of electric current in the dormitory building stopped her.
Sizzling, as the sound of the electric current got louder, the radio in the corridor rang—
"Thank you to all the volunteers for coming from afar. The preparations for the Candleman Festival have been successfully completed. Today we will usher in a carnival of light and freedom. The lighting ceremony of the Giant Candle will take place after nine o'clock in the morning. All volunteers are welcome to come to the town. In the central square, witness the arrival of the moment when the Giant Candle is lit in front of the Human Candle Memorial Wall, the darkness will ebb forever, and the light will remain with us forever.”
After the broadcast, everyone's faces turned pale.
Nine in the morning... less than an hour from now...
Now even Lao Yu can't stand idly by: "Mother Ruirui, although we successfully sealed all the alienated shadows in the exhibition hall yesterday, isolating the light source, but it is estimated that there is not enough time, the shadows were not successfully starved to death, just broadcast You also heard that the Candleman Festival will be held normally in an hour, we are really running out of time, and the only way now is to destroy the wick to prevent the candle from being lit."
Because Lao Yu's tone and words were still calm and objective, the young mother didn't slap him, but shook her head silently for a moment: "I won't do something like killing Ruirui with my own hands, even if it's for my life, it's impossible, I do it. Can't come out."
After speaking, she stretched her lips into a straight line, as if no one could let her change her mind.
Lao Yu: "… "
Dysonson, who was on the verge of a runaway, was no longer so patient. She took out her gun and pressed the young mother's forehead: "I'm not here to discuss with you, nor am I here to ask for your opinion! Give me the medicine! Now immediately!"
With the cold muzzle pressed against the eyebrows, the young mother looked directly at Dysonson without changing her face, and the atmosphere was stretched to the limit for a while.
Pointing a gun at a teammate does not conform to the established rules of the nightmare world, but Lao Yu did not step forward to stop it, and he also wished that he could force this stubborn lady to take the medicine that could save everyone.
Chi Nan, who has experienced two dungeons, has seen the greatest malice shown by human beings in the face of death and fear. From Nanlu to middle-aged men on cruise ships, their survival instincts make them choose to sacrifice their companions to protect themselves. This time, the situation is more complicated than ever.
But Chi Nan didn't feel nervous or fearful, and in his opinion there was still plenty of time, so he said, "Maybe in less than an hour, the alienated shadow will be starved to death, the human wax will be melted smoothly, and Ruirui will still be alive. Help."
Dysonson looked at him grimly: "What the hell, do you know that 'waiting' is the most dangerous behavior in the nightmare world, the longer the time, the bigger the variables, I don't want to wait any longer... ah!"
I saw the young mother suddenly turned sideways, and at the same time quickly grabbed Dysonson's hand with the gun, a beautiful grabbing action, successfully subdued the aggressive Dysonson and seized her pistol.
She turned her back on the guest and put the gun at Dysonson's temple: "I said it, I don't regret it, and no one wants me to obliterate Rui Rui."
Dysonson was trembling when the gun was pointed at her body. She didn't dare to say another word. She just stared at the young mother, who had completely overwhelmed her. Lao Yu also silenced after swearing, for fear that if he talked too much, he would be killed by this. woman shot headshot.
The young mother saw that everyone dared not force her to obliterate Rui Rui from the system, so she removed the gun from Dysonson's temple.
"Go to the central square. According to the information on the previous crayon drawing, Ruirui should be beside the giant candle. We may be able to rescue Ruirui before the candle is lit." Only Chi Nanmian did not change his color and followed The young mother suggested that the gun in the other's hand was just a toy to him.
The young mother nodded without hesitation: "If you want to go with me, just follow. If anyone wants to persuade me to kill Ruirui, I will be the first to blow his head."
Everyone: "… "
The young mother continued to threaten: "Rui Rui can't be rescued, everyone will be buried with me."
"Don't... don't leave me... woo woo..." Xia Wei, who was already burned out, heard the noise here, got up early and fell sickly in the corridor, pouring antipyretic painkillers into his mouth. .
As long as he thinks of being alone in this cold and cold dormitory building where countless teammates have died, he might as well go to the square with his teammates to die in a lively way.
Lao Yu couldn't calm down at this moment, and smiled wryly at him: "It's better for you to lie here more comfortably. What are you going to toss about? There are people who are not willing to cooperate, and they will die in the end."
Xia Wei's voice was crying: "I'm not afraid of death. Isn't it as normal to die in this ghost nightmare world as to eat and sleep? Who is afraid of this stuff? I'm just afraid of dying alone..."
Chi Nan pulled out a large box from the bottom of the bed. It was the tool and weapon box that Ye Chang had prepared before. There were all kinds of control knives.
Before everyone could react, Chi Nan distributed the weapons to everyone: "Let's go together."
The air pressure outside was extremely low, and the sky was overcast as if it would be pressed down at any time.
The young mother ran at the front with a pistol. From a distance, she saw a giant arc altar full of sacrificial candles in front of the destroyed shadow wall on the central square. On the altar, there was a statue of about Seventy meters high, a huge wax figure made of special wax.
The statue is of a sleeping middle-aged man, naked, with numerous scars on his skin exposed to the public eye, with layers of flames carved out of his body, as if he were bathing in the blazing fires of hell. sleep in.
Although the giant candle is just a static wax sculpture, the exquisite carving skills and lifelike presentation made the sleepwalkers in front of them stunned by it, as if the flames surrounding the wax figure really burned in front of them , as long as you stand here, you will be burned by the karmic fire and turned into ashes.
"God... I didn't believe in the phobia of giants before, but today I have seen it," Xia Weiqiang, who was confused, sighed at the giant wax figure with a boning knife in hand, "and the crayons we saw that day. Drawing exactly the same..."
"How many volunteer corpses must be used to build such a large human candle."
Chi Nan held a wrench in one hand and a hammer in the other, looking at the huge candle man wax figure and thinking in his heart that after the wax figure completely melted, the entire altar, including the square, might be submerged in blood.
"Look at the one hanging above, is there a figure?" Lao Yu pointed to the top of the altar, raising the volume to cover the noisy crowd.
Chi Nan and the others followed what Lao Yu pointed out, and saw the center of the altar, which was also facing the top of the giant wax figure, a hanging black shadow swaying in the wind, from a distance it looked like a sunny doll hanging under the porch. , again like a prisoner hanged on the gallows.
"It should be... I remember Ruirui has been wearing a black funeral dress..." I don't know if it was because of the burning, or because the scene at this moment was too intimidating, and Xia Wei's voice was shaking.
Seeing her daughter being hanged by such an unknown life and death, the young mother lost her reason and judgment, and shot directly at the crowd in the center of the altar!
But a strange thing happened. The residents of the town who came to participate in the celebration were not panicked, and no one fell down because of it. The cheers rose from wave to wave, almost completely covering up the gunshots.
The residents of Candleman Town, who usually stay at home, are all dressed in white one-piece dresses, holding hands and dancing around the altar and giant wax figures, like a bonfire in the dark night. Dancing wanderer.
Seeing this, Chi Nan and the others also took their own weapons and killed them, but Ren Chi Nan used a hammer and wrench 'bang bang bang' to hit the heads of the celebration men and women. Nan's dented skull was bitten by a mosquito, and he scratched it painlessly.
"What's going on? Won't these NPCs be hurt?" The scene in front of him was too strange, and Xia Wei gasped.
"Maybe they're not human, they're just special wax products." Chi Nan would consider burning all these NPCs with a torch, just like he did in "Dream of You Yu" before, but this dungeon is taboo Fire and light, he had to suppress this dangerous thought.
"Physically attacking these masses should be ineffective." Chi Nan affirmed.
Hearing this, the young mother tried to shoot one of the NPCs in the heart at close range. Sure enough, the bullet penetrated their heart, and a regular wax hole was wrapped under the inferior flesh, and the pierced NPC was still singing and dancing to celebrate. The holiday season is coming, and it will not be affected in the slightest.
Seeing that there were not many bullets left, the young mother had no other way out of desperation. She put away the gun and began to squeeze into the celebration crowd with her own flesh and blood, trying to penetrate the crowd and squeeze into the altar to rescue her daughter.
But when she penetrated the bustling crowd, she found that there was a barrier-like existence shrouded outside the altar, which was like a tempered glass cover holding the altar tightly. No matter how violent she was to solve it, she could not shake the barrier.
Facing the indestructible barrier of the altar, the young mother hit her head with punches and kicks. Her frantic behavior finally caught the attention of Rui Rui, who was hanging in the altar. She began to twist violently, as if she was about to talk to her mother. What information are they conveying, but they are too far apart, and the surroundings are too noisy, no one can hear what Qing Ruirui is saying.
At this moment, the young mother finally noticed that directly below her daughter was a blazing fire, the tongue of the flame flickered like a ghost, and greedily and fiercely coveted the girl as the candle wick.
The flame and the wick are always inseparable, the wick is the heart of the candle, and the flame is the beating power of the heart.
Just like the horror imagery predicted by the crayon...
"Rui Rui! Ruirui!" The young mother hit the barrier with her head helplessly and desperately, tearing her heart apart.
Lao Yu has experienced many copies, and is best at observing people's behavior and emotions. At this moment, he seized the opportunity to squeeze into the crowd and patted the young mother's shoulder neither lightly nor heavy: "Mother Ruirui, don't love me when I say this. Listen, I recognize you now that you pointed the gun at my head, but I ask you to seriously consider these words."
The young mother burst into tears as she looked at her daughter, who was hanging on the flames, but did not answer.
Lao Yu continued: "It has come to this point, instead of letting Ruirui be lit by fire and sealed in a human candle and endure the pain of being burned alive, it is better to use the system to let her go happily and suffer less. You can also get back half of your favorability, and it’s not that difficult to start over again.”
Speaking of this, Lao Yu paused deliberately. He saw that Rui Rui's mother had no intention of aiming the muzzle at his temple, and then cautiously continued: "Of course, I said this for myself and the rest of my teammates. They I also want to go out alive, and there are people outside waiting for them to go home, don’t you think?”
Lao Yu glanced at the time, at 8:53, the human wax still showed no signs of melting.
He frowned fiercely, but his tone remained convincingly calm: "I said this, you should consider it carefully, we will not force you, the medicine is here, and the right to choose is also with you."
As he said that, he handed the regret medicine packaged into candy to the young mother. She didn't resist, but took it and put it in the palm of her hand.