The Nanzhou in the box, let's call it "Nanzhou", opened the door from the inside.
After the face-to-face meeting, he didn't say a word, resting his cheek pillow on the shoulder of [Jiang Fang] in the box.
With just one look, Nan Zhou understood what [Nan Zhou] was doing.
He knows his own behavior patterns too well.
- This kind of unreasonable intimacy shows that his body has awakened and his spirit is still asleep.
For Nan Zhou himself, this situation is rare.
Only on very few safe days, when the sun is high, the streets are silent, and his parents and sisters leave the house, will he let his mind go, chaotic, aimless wandering around the house, touch this, look at that , until the spirit recovers, will stop and go back to a person's room.
...but that doesn't make sense.
A minute ago, he saw Nan Zhou feeding the birds by the window.
He was clearly able to make coherent and conscious movements.
And the [Jiang Fang] in the box obviously lives next door to this [Nanzhou] house.
He also accepted the coquettish coquettishness of this cold-faced beautiful young man, took the initiative to embrace his waist, and led [Nan Zhou] back down the steps step by step, teasing him softly, "Aren't you awake yet?"
"What is breakfast today, guess what? There is a penalty for guessing wrong."
"Fried eggs? Wrong guess."
"The punishment will be done for you tomorrow morning."
Nan Zhou looked at [Nan Zhou], who was leaning against Jiang Fang's arms, with his hair up in a mess, thinking, that's not himself.
That's not Brother Fang.
He looked at the [Nanzhou] of this world very carefully.
He wrapped bandages on the middle and index fingers of his right hand around Jiang Fang's neck.
Although the nails of his left hand have been carefully cleaned, he still sees a fresh crack in his pinky fingernail, revealing a little pink flesh, and there are several bloodshots hidden in the nails.
[Jiang Fang] didn't notice this, because as soon as the door was opened, [Nanzhou] fit and hugged him.
He put one arm around Nan Zhou and opened the white fence gate of his small courtyard.
Judging from the fence gate and garden, Jiang's house should have been renovated recently.
But the only thing that has not been painted and repaired is the colonnade of the outer foyer.
Because the names of two people are engraved on the pillars.
From the height of 1 meter, the two children held hands and left their own growth marks on them, and they grew taller than they were, looking at the wind.
Nan Zhou tried to digest the information in front of him.
He opened a box that he found in Never Town, and entered a "Never Town No. 2" where [Jiang Fang] and [Nanzhou] grew up together.
So, is the goal at this stage still to find the box and the "ticket" as the main goal, and to explore this second town at the same time
Nan Zhou couldn't help but think, if there is also an openable box in the second world, after that box, will there be the third and fourth worlds
Every world will live with the same [Nanzhou]
An inexplicably huge and surging sense of nothingness, like a giant's hand protruding from the sky, firmly grasped Nanzhou.
He couldn't explain how this feeling came from, he just raised his hand and beat the hammer on his chest, so as to relieve the discomfort caused by this feeling through external force.
Nan Zhou took out his sunglasses and was about to put them on when he suddenly felt something different behind him.
He turned around suddenly.
Immediately, he faced a pair of dark and deep eyes.
… a girl.
The trees blocked her vision, so she couldn't see that another [Nanzhou] who looked exactly like the person in front of her had just entered the house of [Jiang Fang].
The girl had two braids and a sports hair band on her forehead, like a beautiful plump apple.
With one hand behind her back, she pointed at her face playfully with the other, and asked with a smile, "Mr. Nan, when did you become so short-sighted that you had to wear glasses?"
Nan Zhou looked at the girl.
He remembered her.
She is one of the thousands of faces in "Eternal Day", and she is also one of the students with the highest talent for painting that Nan Zhou has taught.
Likewise, she is also one of the most numb students.
She never communicated with anyone, whether it was sight, body, or language.
With this death, she is also a light charm.
But even so, she is a loner in the light and charm.
She's more creative than any town dweller, and more insensitive than anyone.
These two contradictions only have a certain rationality when they appear in a piece of paper.
Nan Zhou had hoped countless times that students who could draw such excellent paintings would have a complete and beautiful soul in their bodies.
However, his student never responded, never even called him "Mr. Nan".
And in the second world in this box, she was as beautiful as Nan Zhou's vision.
Seeing that Nan Zhou didn't answer, she stuck her head out with a smile, learned Nan Zhou's snooping posture, and looked in the direction of [Jiang Fang]'s house.
Immediately afterwards, she sighed very maturely, and seemed to say "it really is" in her eyes.
Nan Zhou read some information from her actions.
So he lowered his head, deliberately avoiding her sight, and stopped talking.
Sure enough, the girl couldn't keep her mouth shut.
"Mr. Nan, tell him." She stood on tiptoe and patted him on the shoulder thoughtfully, "Brother Jiang likes you so much, he won't mind that you are charming."
Nan Zhou pursed his lips.
From the girl's words, he understood why [Nanzhou] acted with a sense of disobedience.
In this world number two, it's not just character relationships that change.
The worldview has also changed accordingly.
In the original world view setting of "Eternal Day", ordinary people did not know that there was a monster like "Light Charm" in the town.
Even if she is charming, she completely forgets her identity during the day.
They are even afraid to ask a friend to walk at night when faced with a corpse that was bitten to death by themselves and lying on the street.
In the real "Never Town", only Nan Zhou, who is set to "have self-awareness", knows all the truth.
In the day world, Nan Zhou is the only one with complete consciousness.
In the moonlight world, they fear Nanzhou and obey Nanzhou, but they can only communicate in the form of beasts.
From the rising of the sun to the setting of the moon, from birth to growth, Nan Zhou is always alone.
In this second world, NPCs also have considerable self-awareness and personal character.
Everyone is aware of the existence of the monster "Light Charm".
Also as a monster, [Nanzhou] had the opportunity to form a group.
When walking on the street, there is at least a certain light charm who can give a knowing smile to the [Nanzhou] who is of the same kind when passing by.
The distress of [Nanzhou] in the second world is probably because [Jiang Fang] who lives with him in this weird town is a normal person, while he is a monster.
He must try his best to hide the wound on his hand, hide all suspicious traces, and disguise himself as chaotic, kind, confused and harmless as much as possible.
He did all this just in the hope that his brother [Jiang Fang], who grew up next door, would still be willing to ask him to have breakfast every morning.
Although there is still distress, at least the [Nanzhou] of the second world is not alone.
… At least his students, his kind, can understand his entanglement.
This town in a box has more human touches than the real "Eternal Day".
Nan Zhou lowered his head and thought enviously, if he could, he would also like to have such a life.
Nan Zhou answered the girl ambiguous: "...Let me think about it again."
Because it was an equal-scale replica, the girl did not realize that Nan Zhou was not the [Mr. Nan] in her world.
She waved her hand indifferently: "Teacher, come on, I'm going to buy paint."
Seeing the passing girl carrying her drawing board and walking happily, about to leave from her side, Nan Zhou raised her hand unexpectedly—
- Gently pulled the girl's horn braid.
Girl: "?"
Nan Zhou said, "It's fine."
He paused again, and then said, "...you'll be fine like this."
Girl: "???"
The girl tilted her head slightly and scratched her cheeks, showing a slightly surprised look.
But she quickly smiled relievedly, waved at Nanzhou, and jumped away.
After turning his back, Nan Zhou's expression turned cold.
With the brown sunglasses in his hand, he cast a sparse light spot on the tree trunk not far away, turning his attention back to the copy itself.
In the second world, is his task still to find the box
Is there a third world and a deeper world inside the box
Is the self who keeps opening the box approaching the exit, or is it going through the infinite parallel world and falling endlessly towards hell
This feeling of not knowing whether to go up or down, advance or retreat is enough to drive a normal person crazy.
But the advantage of Nanzhou is that it will not go to the horns.
This way doesn't work, so he thinks about another way.
The copy that high-dimensional people choose for themselves must have a plan, and it is also meaningful.
Do they just want to see how they can't make a choice
No, change your mind.
For example, is the real way to pass the level really is to find new boxes hidden in each box and keep entering
Perhaps, he can try to kill the core character [Nanzhou] in the dungeon
If Li Yinhang was here and heard Nan Zhou's analysis, he would definitely complain, and God "change his mind".
But Nan Zhou believes that this is indeed feasible.
He knows that he is the core character in "Eternal Day" and the fundamental basis for the existence of the story of "Eternal Day" itself.
"Eternal Day" tells the story of a manga character who has awakened his self-awareness.
As long as he dies, the world of "Eternal Day" will no longer exist and will only collapse immediately.
The question, though, is what will the collapse bring
Was it the ticket to the shuttle that drove away from the tragedy
Or perpetually lost and depraved in the game world
Nan Zhou leaned his back against the tree, thought for half a minute, and came up with the next course of action.
He has more than 9 hours left.
That's enough for him to find the next box.
Nan Zhou put on his glasses, controlled the puppet, and launched a second round of search in the second world.
The encounter with the painting girl gave Nan Zhou a lot of information, including: NPCs in this world will react normally to surrounding anomalies.
In other words, the puppets can no longer run around the streets unscrupulously under the blue sky and daylight.
Fortunately, the flexibility of the puppet depends entirely on the operator.
The dolls spread out, hiding in the streets.
With their eyes, Nan Zhou obtained more information.
In addition to the changes in character relationships and world settings, it is still a closed town, and the outer area has not been expanded in the slightest.
It's just that the layout of streets and alleys and the decoration of houses have undergone subtle changes with the awakening of NPCs.
Because it is different from the streets and shops in memory, Nanzhou's already difficult infiltrating investigation becomes more and more stretched.
Nan Zhou was not anxious about it.
He was guarding the big tree, and while his eyes were switched by multiple lines, he remembered where the iron box appeared in the first world.
… on the desk in the school studio.
Nan Zhou's expression moved.
He stood up slightly and opened the diary he brought from the previous world.
… If nothing else, according to the schedule in the diary, he should be in the school's studio now.
Nan Zhou suddenly turned around and looked at [Jiang Fang]'s house.
- The box will appear in the place where Nanzhou's daily trajectory must pass.
- No matter which 【South Boat】.
…
the same moment.
[Jiang Fang] Washing dishes in the kitchen.
The boring soap operas on TV are in a state of suspension, just in time for the gentle scenes of the male and female protagonists.
[Nan Zhou] sat cross-legged on the sofa, looked at the man and woman with lustful eyes calmly, and patiently waited for [Jiang Fang] to come back, so that he could watch him a hundred and twenty-five times from childhood to adulthood. continue to watch the soap opera.
Until he caught a glimpse of a tin box placed under the coffee table.
The iron box is engraved with delicate lines, and the tentacles are cold.
There is a small lock on the brass cleat.
[Nanzhou] fiddled with the lock with his injured index finger.
A small lock of this strength, for him, can be easily broken with just one pull.
He shook the box curiously, feeling that it was the weight of an ordinary iron box, with nothing inside.
Since it is an empty box, why should it be locked
[Nanzhou] Hold up the box and examine it carefully in midair.
… something you’ve never seen in a small town.