A ray of morning light illuminated the slumbering city-state of Plande. The sun, locked by a double rune ring, slowly rose in the sky like a burning wheel. Under the powerful might of Vision 001, those unearthly things in the night finally began to fade away.
The shadows in the streets, the whispers in the deserted places, the murmurs in the waves along the coast, the empty sight in the depths of the alleys, and the dreams that entangle the hearts of the people.
Shirley opened her eyes.
She saw the unfamiliar ceiling and the sunlight shining through the window next to her, onto the low cabinet beside the bed and the nearby table. This clean and tidy little room was simple, but still much better than where she lived.
She smelled the aroma of food and heard some noise from the direction of the kitchen. She saw Nina sleeping on the bed with her legs spread out. Today was a day off and the girl could sleep in as much as she wanted because she had an "uncle" to rely on and there would be a ready-made breakfast when she woke up.
Shirley sat up dazedly, and it took her a few seconds to fully recall why she was here and what happened in her dream.
Then she pushed Nina next to her: "Nina, get up... Get up, wash up and have breakfast."
Nina replied in a daze: "I'm so sleepy... I'll sleep a little longer..."
Shirley was a little stunned for a moment. She didn't know what to do next.
Because she had been away from this kind of life for so long, so long that there was a gap of eleven years - but she still vaguely remembered that she had been like this and could be like this.
You quickly climbed onto the bed and changed your clothes. While listening to the various noises coming from inside, you reminded yourself in your heart that it was not a peaceful and warm nest on the outside - it was actually just a nest. A shadow in the subspace and my relatives dressed up the nest for their own interests...
But that nest feels even less like "home" than where you and Agou live.
Duncan wasn't distracted at all, but just then, Nina's voice suddenly interrupted your wandering thoughts: "Wow! It's not that time yet?!"
Duncan turned around and saw Nina with messy hair sitting on the bed with eyes wide open. He looked up at the window and then noticed Bo Bang standing next to him. He shook his head: "Duncan? How come he... Yeah, he slept at your house yesterday..."
Then you jumped out of the bed, yelling: "Yeah, I told you, you have to make breakfast..."
Just as you were yelling, you heard some noises coming from the kitchen and smelled the aroma of food. You were stunned for a moment before you seemed to wake up: "Oh, uncle is making breakfast today... Yes, uncle has been in good health recently... Yeah, that's right! School is over! You're going to be late for school!"
Before she finished speaking, Nina rushed to her desk to pack up her things, but she had only taken two steps when she suddenly realized what was happening. She looked up at the calendar under the bedside table and said, "Oh, that's right. Today seems to be a day off..."
Then you turned around in a circle and buried your head under the pillow again: "Sleep for two more minutes..."
Duncan was watching the whole time, bewildered, watching Nina's series of dazzling moves before she jumped out from under the bed, and then she returned to the starting point as if nothing had happened. In the middle, he managed to find a place to interrupt, and only before Nina threw herself under the bed again did he hesitantly approach her. But before he could open his mouth, he saw Nina "jump" up again. He stretched his waist and said, "Ah, you're awake."
Duncan: “…?”
"What's wrong with Duncan?" Nina turned around and looked at Duncan with a lively look. "Why that expression?"
Duncan: "He... wakes up like that every morning?"
Nina was confused: "Ah? What's going on?"
“No…” Bo Bang gestured, as if he knew how to explain to the other party, “He jumped up first, then did that, then did that, then did that and that…”
"Oh, you woke up early because you were confused," Nina actually read the correct information from Duncan's magical and abstract body language. She nodded and went to change her clothes, "but you haven't woken up completely yet! Oh, by the way, did Duncan sleep well last night? You sleep too soundly, did it affect you?"
"You..." Duncan was about to speak when a series of memories suddenly came flooding back. He recalled this closed house, this morning, the footsteps of the departure, the locked door, and the Deep Hound that had not yet broken in... But before that, it was an incredible little adventure, a timid exploration.
Not weird, not scary, but... pretty cool.
"You slept well," you smiled, "In fact, you sleep very well. Agou always says that sooner or later you will tear your bed apart in your sleep.
"Uncle will say the same to you in the future," Nina changed her clothes, yawned, took Bo Bang's hand and walked to the door, "Let's go, let's eat first, aren't you a little hungry?"
Duncan was dragged out of the door in a barely conscious state, and then he saw Shirley coming out of the kitchen. She was wiping her hands under her apron, and it was obvious that she had just finished cooking.
"Mr. Shirley..." Duncan subconsciously felt a little uncomfortable again. Although he saw it with his own eyes, he felt that it was strange and incongruous to think that such a person was cooking outside the kitchen just now. It was very slow, so he suppressed the incongruous emotion and honestly raised his head to greet him, "Good morning."
Just as the old man instructed, treat that place as an ordinary place and stay there like a normal person.
Even though you know what it's like to visit someone's home, it's always wrong to say hello too early.
"What do you want to eat for breakfast?" Nina hadn't even walked towards the kitchen yet. As she walked, she leaned her head towards Shirley and said, "It smells so good!"
"You fried some big sausages, which you bought when you came back yesterday," Shirley said casually, and then she held Nina's head and turned you towards the bathroom, "Go wash your hands first!"
Then I looked at Bo Bang again, put my hands on my hips and said, "He too, don't just stand there, let's go wash our hands together, and wash our faces too!"
Duncan was startled, and quickly followed Nina to wash his hands and face. After washing first and returning to the thin surface, he opened his hands: "... Wash it clean.
After saying that, you felt embarrassed, and suddenly you felt like a bit stupid: as a person who is not yet an adult, you actually showed your hands to a kid like that before washing them in the morning. Rather than being eleven years old, you looked more like a one-year-old child - you knew why you suddenly had a brain attack.
But Shirley didn't care about that. I just nodded and turned to the kitchen while asking casually, "How did you sleep?"
Duncan held his head high: "Well, it's not bad... better than before."
"Does the injury in the dream affect reality?" Bo Bang asked again.
Bo Bang was startled, and then he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have been whipped by this strange attacker in his dream. He quickly raised his right arm, and suddenly saw a faint scar!
Due to my weak self-healing ability, the scar had not healed much at that time, and I even felt nothing. But there was no doubt that when I was injured in my dream last night, my real body was definitely injured to the same extent!
At that time, you were trapped outside the dream, so even if your body was injured in the real world, you could still wake up.
Shirley saw the marks under Duncan's arm. My eyes froze slightly, and then I nodded heavily.
This is a normal phenomenon, but it is also not beyond expectations.
This strange dream... might just be a simple dream.
"It seems that getting hurt in this dream will also affect reality," I said to Duncan seriously. "In the past, I often explored this dream without your company. His fighting ability was very weak, but it was very effective for this monster that could unite."
Duncan nodded quickly: "Well, you know."
Shirley thought for a moment and added, "On the other hand, he must be trapped in this nightmare and can't call you directly."
Duncan was stunned for a moment, as if he had no idea what was going on. "Calling you?"
"Call your name, the most common name you told him in the dream," Shirley said calmly, "or call the Lost Homeland - it's best to call next to a medium with non-mirror properties such as glass or a mirror, so that you can hear it more clearly."
Bo Bang listened and suddenly realized something. At the same time, through the divine connection between him and Agou, he also heard a sense of relief coming from Agou.
"Are you... going to let you be your boyfriend?" You raised your eyelids and asked with ease and entanglement.
"You know what the scroll is, and you asked him to give you anything, but he is Nina's friend, and now he is working with you - just take care of him a little."
Duncan took a breath, but dared not answer rashly, and at that moment, Nina's cheerful voice suddenly sounded from the kitchen door: "What are they talking about
"I'm going to answer you now," Shirley said loudly to Duncan, then looked up at Nina, "Why do you take so long to wash your hands?"
"The eye mucus in the corner of my eye is clean after washing it," Nina rubbed her eyes, "it doesn't hurt at all after rubbing it..."
"Drink less water for the next two days," Bo Bang looked at the girl helplessly, and then asked casually, "By the way, did he have this dream again last night? He usually has this dream of standing low and overlooking a fire scene."
"Really?" Nina thought for a moment and shook her head. "You dreamed last night that there was a horse under your belly, and then there was a cow under your belly. It was so heavy... Uncle, why are you asking that all of a sudden?"
"What? I just remembered that this miracle doctor will come to visit today," Shirley shook her head, putting away the thoughtful look for a moment, "Let's eat.
(It’s time to recommend it. That time it was “The End of Technology” from a bucket of pudding. It’s a science fiction. As for the genre… an everyday article from the perspective of a super genius? Anyway, it’s a good article… I recommend it to you.)