This night was destined to be a sleepless night.
Confused through a box, and experienced a series of thrilling and exciting events inside, a cat with a Russian accent came to the house, decided to go on a pilgrimage, learned some secrets, and more secrets to be explored.
It is a big heart to be able to sleep peacefully.
Dong Zheng sat on the reclining chair by the balcony door, looking at the bright moon outside the window, the stars in the dark blue velvet night sky shone. This is a starry sky that is hard to see in the real world. The wind blows in from the half-open window, with an unknown fragrance of flowers and plants, and a unique mysterious atmosphere here.
The world seems to be completely different from what they seem.
All the future and the bright and magnanimous, all with the car accident that was not accidental, the mirror shattered like a flower in the water, and slipped away from the fingers.
Dong Zheng closed his eyes, half of Ying Ting's face was bathed in the moonlight, and the other half indulged in the shadows.
In the bedroom separated by a wall, Dong Linhai didn't sleep peacefully on the bed.
He was really tired in Hamelen. The overwhelming exhaustion caused him to fall asleep in a daze after learning so many things, but it didn't take long before he suddenly woke up inexplicably.
The moonlight shone through the gaps in the curtains, illuminating the long and narrow area beside the bed. He stared blankly at the light, and suddenly smelled something fishy and sweet.
… what
The cold and viscous liquid dripped from the ceiling and landed on his face with a soft click, sliding down his cheeks, staining the sheets red.
The smell was stronger and more disgusting.
Dong Linhai started shaking, he held his breath, raised his hand and touched his face, the blood was wiped away, and it was clearly reflected in the moonlight.
Two gigantic lizards jumped out of the darkness under the bed, snarling and rushing towards him, their claws tore through his skin, and their eyes gleamed with malice—
Dong Linhai suddenly opened his eyes.
The boy was panting violently, his heart almost jumping out of his chest. The white cat that slept at the head of his bed disappeared, the bedroom door was left open, and the shadow of the water dispenser was hidden in the corner.
The smell of blood and the stench from the lizard's mouth seemed to be still on the nose. This time there was no sleepiness, Linhai huddled under the quilt for a while, always feeling that there was indeed something hidden in the darkness, the ghosts of the two lizards that he had brutally killed were haunting his body, sending out something he couldn't hear. Crying and screaming.
He wanted to be more and more frightened, and decided to go to the living room and sit.
Putting on his slippers and putting on his coat, Lin Hai pushed open the door and walked out of the bedroom. At a glance, he saw Dong Zheng sitting on a chair at the balcony door.
"Brother?" Lin Hai shouted softly after a moment of surprise.
Dong Zheng, who was thinking about things with his eyes closed, opened his eyes, looked at the boy with a bad face, and asked, "Why did you come out?"
"I can't sleep." Lin Hai answered honestly, and sat down on the sofa. He hadn't told anyone about his experience after Hamelenri was taken away by the handyman. The feeling of the knife cutting through the flesh, the adrenaline rush during the killing, and the panic and excitement when the blood spurted out, all stagnated in his heart, making him terrified.
"Let's sit for a while." Dong Zheng changed to a more comfortable position. Linhai looked like their father. He looked ordinary, but he was masculine and Zhou Zheng. He followed his mother, who died in childbirth due to amniotic fluid embolism, who was in his world. , the woman who only exists in the photo.
The brothers sat silently in the living room. This was the fourth night after they came to the pure white world. There was no longer the sound of shouting and the warm lights coming downstairs to eat in this small room. Men and women, Dong Zheng's father and stepmother, what kind of collapse will they have when they learn that they have lost two children at the same time
All this they have no way of knowing.
Lin Hai felt a little cold, he shrank his neck and said, "Brother, I just had a nightmare. I dreamed that the two lizards that were killed in the box came to seek revenge from me and wanted to eat me."
Dong Zheng raised his head a little unexpectedly, but it wasn't too surprising. The box was a mess, and the plot was fragmented with the intervention of Cui Zuojing. They didn't have time to talk about what happened: "Is it in the kitchen? ?"
Linhai nodded and said: "I was in the kitchen when I woke up, and a lizard wanted to throw me into a boiling bucket. In a hurry, I took a knife... and killed it. Then I found an auntie. , I'm going to be killed and eaten soon, I hacked the chef to save her."
It is not difficult to say these things in person, but Linhai's mood has not become any easier because of this. The shadow of taking other people's lives with his own hands still hangs over his head, whether it is the blood that spreads or the expression of dead eyes, it makes him feel uneasy. .
Dong Zheng took a deep breath. He could understand his younger brother's inner struggle. After all, Linhai was still too young compared to him. A boy of this age had not yet entered the society, so he could not tolerate sand in his eyes and his heart was not hard enough.
But in the pure white world, these points are enough to kill him.
Dong Zheng whispered: "Linhai, this is no longer the world we are familiar with. You should be able to understand that here, if you are soft-hearted, only yourself will die. What's more, you really think those lizards are human beings. ?"
"I know that they are not human, and I can guarantee that when the situation is critical, I will let myself live first, but... I just still feel bad." Lin Hai whispered, "I also I understand that there will definitely be more bloodshed and death on the pilgrimage in the future, and maybe one day, I will feel used to it and take it for granted... But now, I really can't accept it."
"A survey conducted by the United States during World War II showed that most soldiers had extremely low bullet utilization rates, and they would rather be killed by the enemy than kill people easily."
Dong Zheng looked at the teenager who was pursing his lips in the dark, and said slowly, "Later, in order to change this situation, the US military changed the ordinary moving target into a human shape during target training, so that in the war, soldiers can easily follow the instinct of target shooting. To shoot the enemy. This has successfully won the U.S. military in the next few wars, but at the same time, it has also caused many soldiers to suffer from severe battlefield syndrome.”
""Saving Private Ryan"?"
Dong Zheng nodded: "Yes. It's a normal human instinct to be unwilling to kill creatures similar to us. It's normal to feel uneasy and sad because of this, but here, nothing can be done. If you feel afraid, You can come and find me anytime."
He paused and softened his voice: "Cui Zuojing is right, you are a little too reliant on me, but it doesn't matter, no matter who it is, it will take some time to get used to it."
The conversation between the brothers in the middle of the night was not known to others. At this time, Cui Zuojing was not staying in the prisoner's space. He was sitting on the roof of the roof of the tube building with Victor, who had slipped away halfway.
The evening wind blew through the boy's forehead, and with the coolness unique to the late night, Victor squatted gracefully and looked into the distance.
Just now Cui Zuojing told him everything that happened in Hameln.
The emerald green streamer shimmered in Cui Zuojing's palm, and the fragments named "Goodwill" loomed with fluctuations of space energy. Victor touched this piece of soul with the tip of his tail and felt the joy it conveyed. .
"The most important thing now is to find the whereabouts of Fu Zhe, Luo Zhen and Nana. After you were summoned to leave, the clown told me some bad news. Since we left, Luo Zhen and Nana have not heard any news at all. , Fu Zhe is okay, now that there are soul fragments, it can be considered that a clue has been found."
"What I'm most worried about now is the two of them." Cui Zuojing held the light in the palm of his hand, and the three seals on his wrist appeared for a moment, "But with the identity of the element controller, the queen can't really kill it. They can be considered a consolation."
Victor hummed, pondered for a moment, and said, "You said that you met "The Mystery of Worms" in the box? That should be a branch of its consciousness, which is used to supervise Fu Zhe's soul fragments."
"Yes, it's just a very weak branch, but it's a little troublesome. At least now the queen's lackeys know the news of my return." Cui Zuojing said trouble, but he didn't feel a headache because of it. When Henry gave him a relief, he gave up the idea of hiding for the time being.
No matter how hard you hide, you will always be found.
Victor: "According to the character of "The Mystery of Worms", it should not tell the queen and others for a while. After all, the struggle between their successors has reached an irreconcilable point. It can contain us or kill us directly. It is definitely a great achievement in front of the queen, she will not easily share this kind of good deeds with others."
Cui Zuojing sighed softly and held Victor in his arms: "I hope."
The white cat rubbed his nose comfortingly on the side of his face, and whispered, "Don't worry, I will always be with you."
"By the way, how do you feel about the person who signed the prisoner contract with you?" Victor already knew that there was still a blood contract between Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng. In this case, what happened to Dong Zheng? Totally critical.
"He should be a good helper." Cui Zuojing gave a very good evaluation.
It seemed that it was really good, and Victor couldn't help smiling: "I feel the same way, not only him, but that boy has great potential too."
"I'm relieved to hear what you said, uncle. I absolutely believe in the way you look at people."
Victor laughed and joked: "At least I feel better than when you first entered here. I still remember that at that time you basically needed me and Fu Zhe to save you every time."
"I was only sixteen years old at that time, okay? Dong Zheng is an adult. How can he compare with me? Besides, Dong Linhai is a sports student. Isn't it normal for him to have better physical fitness than me?" Cui Zuo Jing got up with Victor in his arms, and his brows were a little tired, "Come on, it's a little too cold here, go back and have a good rest."
According to Cui Zuojing's plan, they will enter the next box after two days of rest and earn enough points before the bloody night. But the plans often fail to keep up with the changes. When the news that the entrance to the random box [Maze of Time] suddenly appeared nearby came to Cui Zuojing's ears, he immediately decided to change his plan and enter this box.
"What is that?" Linhai asked before entering.
"You should have read the manual in the past two days. In addition to buying tickets with points in the trading market, you can also get them directly in the box, but this possibility is very small, and the labyrinth of time can be obtained. The box that produces the ticket." Cui Zuojing explained:
"If we can get the ticket inside, then we can directly enter the next area, and then we can awaken our abilities, saving a lot of time to accumulate points in the box of the novice area."
The news came suddenly, and Dong Zheng didn't have time to make any special preparations, but in order to improve the survival rate of the two, Victor signed a contract with Linhai to become his summoned beast. With Cui Zuojing and Victor there, there shouldn't be too many variables in this random box trip.
Hmm... Although Victor is just a cat now and doesn't show any fighting power, Dong Linhai's intuition tells him that this will definitely not be an ordinary cat.
So on the evening of the third day, Dong Zheng and Dong Linhai left the house, went to the commercial center of this area, pushed open the door of a coffee shop, put a bag of coffee beans at the front desk as a fee, and walked through the unmanned storefront , opened the curtain and walked into the backstage of the work, and opened the refrigerator standing in the corner.
Inside the refrigerator is a strange world.
They went in.