Lao Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and observed the young mother's every move from the corner of his eye.
He is very 'empathetic' and uses patience instead of aggressiveness.
The young mother put her five fingers together, the joints were white and blue veins bulged, giving people the illusion that she was going to crush the candy.
She didn't make a statement, Lao Yu pretended to be patient and lit the cigarette, but the corner of the light frequently glanced at the watch.
The minute hand jumped a bit, 8:54.
In order to hide his irritability and anxiety, he lit the cigarette in his mouth, and the rising mist just covered his expression.
He wanted to say something more, but intellectual and emotional strategy told him he had to shut up now.
After another minute, at 8:55, the flames on the altar were burning higher and higher, and the frequency of Lao Yu's puffing of smoke was much faster.
The ash rustled, but the lady in front of her stood still like a sculpture.
Lao Yu knew that she was having the most intense inner struggle in her life, and looked at the time again, 8:56.
Every minute felt like a century, and he prayed to himself that he would live a few more centuries.
The bustling festive cheers around them were like crackling gun battles, blowing up their anxiety, and Lao Yu waited for the woman in front of him to make a decision in the noise and suffering, just like waiting for the final judgment.
Finally at 8:57, he saw hope of surviving.
The young mother opened her five fingers, and the warm and moist candy was facing her. She took a deep breath and tore the candy wrapper with the greatest courage and cruelty in her life.
But because her hands have been shaking all the time, the ordinary candy packaging can't be torn open at this moment.
Lao Yu was finally restless, he spit the cigarette butt on the ground, and stretched out his hand to the other side: "I'll help you."
In three minutes, Rui Rui will be used as the wick to light the giant candle, and all of them will be turned into human wax in the overwhelming candlelight, and will stay in this unfortunate festival forever.
"I'll help you get it out of the way." Lao Yu repeated it again, he didn't realize it himself, and his outstretched hand was shaking.
The young mother hesitated for a moment, in the end is it to give the candy to Lao Yu.
Lao Yu quickly tore open the wrapping paper, and the so-called regret medicine inside was also made into a toffee, and it even smelled sweet milk.
The young mother turned her back, not wanting to see her daughter's tragic condition on the altar, she shook the hand and squeezed the medicine to her lips. She remembered that Ruirui liked this kind of candy the most...
Lao Yu, Xia Wei, and Dysonson looked at her nervously, holding their breaths for the last moment.
The surrounding noise disappeared, the passage of time disappeared, and they were all waiting for the swallowing action of the woman in front of them...
Only Chi Nan looked at the giant candle on the altar for a moment.
"Don't eat it, the giant candle is starting to melt." At the critical moment, Chi Nan's still water-like eyes flashed with slight waves, and his voice was a little higher than usual.
The young mother immediately stopped swallowing and spit out the regret medicine from her mouth. Lao Yu's tense nerves were broken in an instant, and she was so anxious: "Hey! What are you doing! Why..."
He didn't know whether to scold the woman in front of him or Chi Nan who was bad, but when he turned his head towards the altar following Chi Nan's line of sight, he was stunned—
The facial features of the giant candle and the scars carved by the exquisite knife work on the body began to seep blood, flowing one by one on the amber wax column, and began to decay and collapse from the inside out!
In the last two minutes of the countdown, the human wax melted!
For a moment, Xia Wei was no longer sore or sore. He couldn't restrain his ecstasy and waved his one arm in cheers: "We succeeded! The method of starving the shadow to death has succeeded!"
The giant candle melted and rotted at the speed of annihilation. In an instant, its facial features were blurred and melted, and blood flowed from its shapeless limbs. The sticky liquid quickly drowned the entire altar and extinguished the brazier under Ruirui.
At the same time, they seemed to be inspired by some mysterious power, and the surrounding NPCs participating in the celebration began to be restless. They slammed into the altar like crazy, like a bull provoked by a matador, slamming into the barrier wall.
"It seems that these NPCs can help us break through the barrier of the altar." Chi Nan looked at the crowd swarming towards the altar and said, knocking the head of an NPC who was just about to pounce on him.
"Remember to spread your arms and use a boxing gesture to protect your chest! Protect your chest to ensure breathing! Never fall to the ground!" Lao Yu shouted to everyone in the chaos, and he also used his arms to block in front of him to prevent the The swarms died in the stampede.
The sound of 'dong, dong, dong' of the human flesh wall hitting the barrier constantly came from the front, the ears roared constantly, and the hoarse shouts of Lao Yu were gradually drowned out...
Chi Nan's body was thin because of his long-term illness. He was bumped by the crowd several times and accidentally left the army. His chest and back were not bumped a few times, and Ye Chang's glasses that had been in his jacket pocket fell out. .
There was obviously a lot of noise around, but Chi Nan seemed to hear the sound of shattering glasses.
His expression paused, and he subconsciously made a gesture of bowing to pick it up, but before he had time to bend down, a white figure passed by in the chaos. He picked up the cracked glasses, and wiped the dust on the glasses frame with the corner of his clothes with ease.
For a moment, time seemed to stand still.
He put the broken glasses back into Chi Nan's jacket pocket, and smiled briefly and said, "Don't lose it again."
The crowd hurried by, Chi Nan was stunned for a moment, until Lao Yu patted him on the back: "What are you doing now? Let's go! Get out!"
Chi Nan suddenly came back to his senses, and found that the young mother's body was covered with molten human wax and blood at this moment. She had rescued Ruirui from the altar and carried it on her shoulders, and rushed out with them against the flow of people.
"Fuck, how are these NPCs alienated!"
Xia Wei screamed, and a few NPCs around him suddenly rolled up their sleeves at them in anger. Fortunately, they ran fast, or they would be smashed into flesh by this group of zombie-like NPCs.
Chi Nan recovered and glanced at the volunteer exhibition hall next to the square in a panic: "Go to the exhibition hall, the residents of Zhuren Town dare not go there."
"Yes, yes, run!"
With Chi Nan's reminder, the group began to run wildly towards the exhibition hall like outlaws. Along the way, everyone burst out with the most powerful running potential in their life. Even Xia Wei, who was unable to walk before, can now be called To be alive and well.
The young mother held Ruirui and used the gun in her hand to kill a bloody road. In order for her daughter to survive, she burst out with a fighting force that even she could not believe, and led the remaining four people to the exhibition hall.
Facts have proved that Chi Nan's speculation was correct. No NPC dared to take a step closer to the exhibition hall. After they entered, they closed the door immediately, isolating the light and noise behind the heavy iron gate.
Chi Nan has never done such intense exercise since wearing this body. At this moment, the corners of his eyes and brows are dyed with a thin layer of red due to the lack of oxygen, and tears are oozing out of his eyes unconsciously.
Fortunately, the candle in the exhibition hall was extinguished by Ye Changdu the day before, and no one dared to turn on the flashlight without permission.
On the other hand, Xia Wei sat down by the door without any restraint, and cried loudly: "Damn, damn I thought I was doomed."
He wiped his tears with the only hand left, "We destroyed the giant candle, should it be considered a customs clearance?"
Although everyone is looking forward to it, no one will give him a definite answer at this moment. Many things become flags once they are said.
"What happens next?" Xia Wei asked again, seeing that everyone was silent.
Chi Nan: "When the candle people outside are completely melted, they should be able to go out."
He finally recovered from the hypoxic state of strenuous running, and his voice returned to his former calm, without the joy and fear of the rest of his life.
Xia Wei raised his hand and nodded between his eyebrows and shoulders, and made a prayer gesture: "Pray for us."
The exhibition hall soon sank into darkness and silence again. Lao Yu glanced at the time. It was past 9 o'clock in the lighting ceremony of Candleman Festival, and they were still alive and well.
He also heaved a sigh of relief.
In addition to Xia Wei, another woman's cry came from the darkness.
"Mom, why are you crying?" Rui Rui put her arm around the young mother's neck and rubbed her bloody neck against her mother's bloody face, "Did anyone bully you?"
The young mother kept shaking her head, her tears kept rolling down with her movements, and the trembling of her shoulders became more and more unstoppable.
She almost rudely wiped the tears from her face with her hands, but the tears were like opening the gate, and the more she wiped away: "Mom is just happy, not sad, very happy that you are still here."
Ruirui smiled, raised her head and kissed her mother's bloody eyelids: "Of course I'm here, I said I would protect my mother."
"Well, Mommy knows...you never lie...you'll protect Mommy..."
Ruirui suddenly turned her head and said to Dysonson, who was lost in the dark like a ghost: "Sister, don't bully my mother in the future."
Dysonson, whose sobriety value was too high, was stunned for a moment, and looked across the darkness to Ruirui, who was still alive and well, but did not speak.
Rui Rui sighed, took out her lucky candy from her pocket, and handed one to Dysonson: "Sister, if you eat my candy, you are not allowed to bully my mother, okay."
Dysonson shivered obviously, and took the candy from Ruirui for a moment.
She didn't speak, and there was a rustling sound of candy wrap being torn open in the dark. After a while, Dysonson's voice was low and hoarse: "It's so sweet..."
She finally raised her face and said to Ruirui, who was covered in blood and blood, "I'm sorry."
At this moment, she finally calmed down, and the soaring sobriety value slowly dropped.
Ruirui smiled back with her angelic smile: "if I were you, I might do the same thing, but I accept your apology for my mother."
On this side, Lao Yu was also idle when he was idle, so he took advantage of this moment to ask himself full of questions: "Chi Nan, tell the truth, who is Ye Chang?"
He subconsciously put the cigarette in his mouth, and did not light it out of caution.
Chi Nan lowered his eyes and said truthfully, "Dream maker, you know that one too."
Lao Yu's cigarette bite paused: "What? How can I know any dream maker?"
Chi Nan: "The "Dream of You Yu". "
"Hey, he only saw you alone at the time, and we don't know each other. I can only say that unfortunately I have admired his dreams," Lao Yu tutted, "It turns out that the dream maker opened a trumpet and experienced the dreams of his peers. Come on, let me tell you, Ye Chang is not like an ordinary sleepwalker."
Chi Nan: "...Is this common in the nightmare world?"
Lao Yu raised his eyebrows: "It's not common, I've never heard of it, it's the first time I've seen it with you."
Chi Nan: "…"
Xia Wei sighed with emotion: "Wow, then I can do this dream maker. I really want to try his nightmare when I have the chance."
Chi Nan: "..."
Lao Yu sneered: "His shadow has made you disabled, are you still okay? What's wrong with Stockholm?"
Xia Wei didn't mind smiling: "I have a high tolerance for good-looking teammates. What's wrong with them looking so good?"
Lao Yu: "Is this a fucking teammate, wake up..."
Xia Wei: "What's wrong with the Dream Maker? It's over when it's pleasing to the eye... What the hell? What's this for? What about the earthquake?"
The entire exhibition hall began to shake violently, gravel and gravel rustled down, Xia Wei got up from the ground in fright, "Or are those zombie NPCs going to break through here?"
Lao Yu's face did not look anxious: "It should be the nightmare that is about to collapse."
The ceiling of the exhibition hall, which was originally invisible, suddenly exploded with a strong white light. For a moment, everyone could not open their eyes. Even if they closed their eyes, they could feel the scorching light. Only Chi Nan was not afraid of death. In the strong light that could almost melt human senses, he saw countless black fragments rising, melting, and disappearing in the direction of the light.
Although he couldn't see clearly, Chi Nan could perceive the shadows on the ghost wall fragments, which evaporated and rose in the strong light, and those souls trapped in Candleman Town regained their freedom.
The moment the light stopped, the exhibition hall and the entire Candleman Town disappeared. All the sleepwalkers were on a deserted train station platform with the words "Candleman Town" written on it. ticket.
Lao Yu whistled cheerfully: "The customs clearance has been successfully completed."
Xia Wei, who was still sitting down on the ground, propped up the ground with his hands, his face full of disbelief: "My hand...my hand...!"
He quickly picked up the sleeve of his left hand, and the arm that had turned into blood appeared in front of him. He was so excited that his voice was hoarse, and he kept pinching his hand to confirm: "I'm not fucking disabled, I'm fine. ! Damn it's really recovered!"
The wounds on the young mother and Ruirui also disappeared without a trace, and all of them were the same as when they first entered the nightmare.
Lao Yu saw Xia Wei's cheering appearance, and also smiled happily: "The copy is like this, don't think about taking things out of the dream, even the wounds and diseases can't be taken away."
After a pause, he pulled the corners of his lips again, "But nightmares can take a lot of things from us, which is quite unreasonable."
For example, their most precious life, this time out of Candleman Town, only six of the ten sleepwalkers are left.
To be precise, it was seven. After all, Ye Chang, who played the trumpet by the Dream Maker, was not a sacrifice.
Chi Nan subconsciously confirmed that the glasses in his pocket were there, and the candle man in the unlucky box was still there.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
"Uncle Yu, do we sleepwalkers have a way to meet the dream maker?" Chi Nan picked up Ye Chang's broken glasses and put them on the bridge of his nose curiously, as if he was re-familiar with this nightmare world from Ye Chang's point of view. .
Oh, it turned out to be flat, but the lens was cracked, and his vision became fragmented.
He looked over through Ye Chang's lens, and added: "Specify the kind of appointment."