bang, bang.
The sound of the train rolling over the rails was in my ears, and the cold rust smell filled my nostrils.
Half-dreaming and half-awake, Chi Nan felt that the entire space he was in was shaking regularly.
He seemed to be lying in the train.
As the connection hub between the instance and the Dawn base, trains are the most common means of transportation in Nightmare World.
But they are still in the 229 boarding school in Dawn City, why are they in the rickety carriage in the blink of an eye
Before opening his eyes, the current sound of the system sounded in his consciousness—
[As the best student of Dawn City Boarding School, you have chosen 'Sorrow' as your performance theme, and now you have entered an immersive performance class]
Different from the previous explanations of system machines, this time it was a voice familiar to the female teacher.
[You were born in a famous wealthy family in Gongcheng. Eleven years ago, you were sent abroad to study and never returned to your hometown. Four days ago, your father passed away unexpectedly. You came from the other side of the ocean with your girlfriend to attend your father's funeral. ]
[This is a warm and sad family story, please cooperate with your partner to complete it, enhance the relationship between the character and the family during the performance, improve the family's favorability to the character, make up for the missing love and memories in the past, let this sad The story is complete. ]
girlfriend? Chi Nan suddenly opened his eyes, facing the iron bed frame on the train, his vision was framed by the frame of his glasses.
At this moment, Ye Chang's repaired glasses are on the bridge of his nose.
A familiar voice sounded above: "Are you awake? I received the theme of the acting class from the female teacher."
Tang Yu pursed his lips embarrassedly, "I am that girlfriend."
Chi Nan: "…"
Just when the two were speechless and embarrassed, the female teacher's voice sounded from the system again: [Please note that the girlfriend here is in quotation marks, in fact, because the young master played by Chi Nan is gay and Tang Yu plays As a best friend, in order to cooperate with his return to his hometown to attend his father's funeral this time, he pretended to be a girlfriend to soothe the injured heart of the other's mother. ]
The two breathed a sigh of relief.
[Because it is the first immersive acting class for two students, in order to enhance the sense of substitution, the names of the characters are your names]
Chi Nan: "I don't believe that the dream maker in this school will really assign us a warm family drama script."
As he spoke, he sat up from the bunk, took off the glasses that had been on the bridge of his nose for some time, and rubbed his eyes.
"Hey, Chi Nan, your eyes..." Tang Yu had an unbelievable look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Chi Nan didn't feel any discomfort in his eyes.
"It turned black..." Tang Yu looked at his face for a moment, "The tear mole is gone."
He observes people's appearance and dress very carefully, and he can tell at a glance when people around him change their makeup on weekdays, not to mention the big change on Chi Nan's face.
Chi Nan subconsciously looked sideways at the window glass. The mirror showed him with a pair of dark eyes, and the two tear moles under the corners of his eyes disappeared from his face.
The whole face suddenly looked very different, and it even made him feel a little strange.
Is it entering the acting class, will the makeup and appearance of the characters be adjusted according to the characters? He looked at Tang Yu, who still looked like a black, straight, and gentle girl, but with a floral dress on her body.
So, is the change in his face one of the clues
He had a gut feeling that 229 could do such a thing.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Tang Yu smiled to break the silence and said, "Although you don't look much like you, it's quite suitable."
Chi Nan nodded. At this moment, the flight attendant selling snacks happened to pass by the carriage. He looked at a cart of spicy noodles with braised melon seeds, and suddenly thought of something and asked the flight attendant, "Do you have any chewing gum?"
"Is it okay to have only the orange flavor? 10 yuan." The flight attendant replied.
Chi Nan quickly paid and poured the orange chewing gum into the palm of his hand. It didn't matter what the taste was, just sweet.
But when the cheap orange sweetness spread in his mouth, Chi Nan didn't have the usual lacrimal gland fever, and he even felt that his eyes were a little dry and rubbed with his hands.
The feeling of having dry eyes after eating sweets is too unfamiliar, strangely unfamiliar.
"What's wrong?" Tang Yu was puzzled by his series of actions, and looked over with some worry.
Chi Nan stretched out his hand towards him: "please touch me."
Eating sweets won't shed tears, and he has to try to see if physical contact will relapse.
"Huh?" Tang Yu was puzzled.
Chi Nan insisted: "Just touch it and do an experiment."
If this sentence was said from another boy, it would be easy for people to think that the other party was taking advantage of sexual harassment, but in Chi Nan, there would be no such doubts at all. His eyes were pure like a good student dealing with chemistry experiments.
Tang Yu nodded, and lightly touched the back of Chi Nan's hand with his fingertips.
I saw Chi Nan's eyelashes trembling subconsciously, but there was no wet feeling in his eyes, and no tears flowed out.
Really won't cry anymore... what's going on? In this dungeon, are all the conditions for triggering tears invalid because of the character design
And just in this story with the theme of 'sorrow'... 229 did it on purpose...
Tang Yu quickly withdrew his hand, saw Chi Nan's thoughtful expression and didn't ask any further questions, and began to observe the passengers coming and going in the carriage.
These people are obviously all NPCs fabricated by the Dreamers, turning a blind eye to his curious eyes, and they are all busy, operating in a strange order.
About twenty minutes later, the train stopped at Gongcheng, the terminal station, where Chi Nan played a role and left his hometown for eleven years.
The temperature outside the car is very high, the sun is hot, and the water on the platform seems to have just experienced a torrential rain, but it does not relieve the city's heat in the slightest. Instead, the humidity has enveloped the tropical city in a tight heat wave.
The two walked out of the carriage to the platform. Based on past experience, Chi Nanchao felt in his pocket. Sure enough, he found a crumpled note with Ye Chang Duanxiu's handwriting on it—
[229 Apartment Building, Liming Road]
Tang Yu looked over and quickly knew that this was their destination, so he stopped a taxi to go.
After getting in the car, Tang Yu pretended to chat and asked the driver: "Is there any legend about this apartment 229, or has something strange happened recently?"
The driver glanced at the two of them through the rearview mirror: "Is the high-end apartment where the rich used to live as a legend?"
He went on to say, "More than ten years ago, the apartment at Liming Road 229 was one of the best apartments in Gongcheng. It has lost its prestige in the past few years, but everyone in Gongcheng knows that the style is still there. "
"Ten years ago, a couple bought this apartment. It is said that their children are not with them, and they have no other relatives. The couple live on one floor and use the rest for rent. As long as the rental information is posted, there will be more It's someone who wants to live there, and the supply is in short supply." The driver seemed very sighed and asked curiously, "Do you two have any relatives there?"
Tang Yu smiled politely, "Yes, I haven't come back for more than ten years, I went to visit relatives."
"Rich people..." The driver sighed and said nothing more.
Twenty minutes later, the taxi passed through the hot streets and alleys and stopped on a quiet boulevard.
The driver looked at the five-story building about 20 meters ahead: "Here, there is Apartment 229."
There was no one on this street, and the quietness magnified the cicada's chirping in the afternoon several times, making the mouth dry and inexplicably anxious.
Not long after they got out of the car, a small itinerant vendor suddenly appeared at the corner of the empty street. Plastic bags filled with water hung on the rack of his bicycle. The plastic bags contained colorful tropical fish.
Chi Nan has always been easily attracted by colorful things. At this moment, he glanced at the small fish vendor. This excited vendor sensed the business opportunity. Seeing the two people carrying their luggage, he knew very well and walked over smartly. Sales: "Are you two going to visit relatives? Do you want to buy some paradise fish as a gift? This is our specialty. It is most popular for people from Gongcheng to visit relatives and friends to give away paradise fish."
Chi Nan thought that since it was an acting class, all the coincidences in the script would not be real coincidences, so he readily bought a dozen or so beautifully colored paradise fish, and the small merchant even put them in a glass jar. It is carried by a colorful net pocket inside, making it a delicate and unique souvenir.
As soon as he lifted the paradise fish in his hand, the voice of the female teacher came over—
[Congratulations on obtaining important performance props to enhance family affection, a tank of paradise fish]
Tang Yu suddenly said: "It seems that we need to find a way to collect performance props that can enhance family affection in the story."
Chi Nan: "Judging from the story information given by the female teacher, the young master's father passed away, and the object of enhancing the family relationship should be the mother."
Tang Yu agreed: "Yes, I didn't mention that there are other relatives, it should be the hostess."
Chi Nan lowered his head and looked through the gap in the net pocket. The red and blue body of the Paradise Fish seemed to flow with fresh colors in the water tank. Only then did Chi Nan realize that the eyes of the Paradise Fish were green.
Green and green, like the color of his own eyes, the color is multiplied and diffused under the refraction of the water.
He looked back.
An aunt who looked like a maid stood at the crossroads in front of the apartment and smiled respectfully at them: "Master, you are finally home, Madam has been waiting for you for a long time."
Saying that, she looked at Tang Yu beside Chi Nan, "And Miss Tang, Madam welcomes you very much. You have been exhausted by boat and car along the way, please come with me."
The exterior wall of this apartment is dark yellow with a sense of age. There are three shops on the ground floor, a women's clothing store on the left, and a restaurant and a flower shop on the right.
After entering the iron gate is the common area of the apartment. An old-fashioned family elevator is parked downstairs with a sign under maintenance. On the right is a stairwell inlaid with wooden floors. The whole apartment looks a little old but not very particular. .
"Young master has left home to study since he was a child, and his memory of home must have faded. Madam bought this apartment after you left. There have been several groups of tenants coming and going," the maid led them to the stairwell Go, "Mrs. is quite lenient with the tenant's requirements."
"There are two ladies who are in a relationship on the second floor. Although the lady's beliefs and education make her unable to accept the distorted feelings between the same sex, the lady is kind-hearted and allows these two deviant ladies to rent," the maid passed the second floor. He said in a low voice, "Of course, they will not have children in this relationship. This is also within the consideration of the lady. The lady is afraid of the noise of the children."
Chi Nan and Tang Yu listened very carefully, the maid's rambled speeches were not only bullshitting, but more importantly, they provided them with hidden information.
"The third floor is still the old foreign painter and her butler. Now she is too old, her eyes are almost invisible, and her consciousness is not very clear. This kind of old man who is dying is also very taboo for ordinary landlords, but Madam doesn't mind at all."
"There is a young mistress living on the fourth floor, who sprays perfume every day," the maid curled her lips in a look of contempt, "I heard that she has been unable to conceive a child because of multiple miscarriages, husband Talent mercifully agreed to let her stay, of course, the rent was paid by her lover."
They quickly reached the fifth floor. The maid opened the iron door of the stairwell, and a slow and gloomy sadness filled the corridor: "Master, you're home, Madam is waiting for you."
A middle-aged woman in a black dress stood behind the door, her face was covered with white powder, and her lips were painted a strong red that was incompatible with sadness.
The moment she saw Chi Nan and Tang Yu, she was stunned for a moment, and then quickly restrained her mood swings and smiled gracefully at them: "Nan Nan, you are finally willing to go home to see me and your father."
"I've been waiting for this day for a long time." Looking at it carefully, the hostess and Chi Nan are like five or six points, and the details of the immersive performance class are still very carefully done.
But when he heard the word Dad, Tang Yu had a bad premonition, because the woman's tone was light and natural, as if the protagonist of the funeral was still alive and would soon come over to greet them.
And although this woman was dressed in black, there was no sadness on her face.
"Come in, it's been eleven years... Let me take a good look at you, and..." The hostess looked at Tang Yu, "This elegant Miss Tang."
"Hello ma'am, this is a little bit of care from us."
Tang Yu hurriedly handed over the fish tank pocket he was holding in his hand. The performance class system did not prepare decent gifts for them. Since it was suggested that Paradise Fish was a key prop for enhancing their goodwill, it would definitely not go wrong in sending them out.
The lady politely smiled and took the net bag: "Let me see, what kind of sweets have you prepared..."
She didn't finish a word. When she opened the net bag and saw the green-eyed paradise fish in the fish tank, her face froze. She saw that her hand holding the fish tank suddenly shook, and the glass tank formed a colorful parabola in the air, accompanied by With the scream of the hostess, the fish tank fell to the ground.
"Get these ominous things out of my eyes!"
The water in the tank was instantly sucked up by the carpet, and more than a dozen green-eyed paradise fish stood upright and struggled on the ground.
The tranquility of Apartment 229 was also instantly broken.