Lin Yuan thought he would sleep more soundly tonight. After all, he had encountered many good things at the banquet, and he came back very late, so he was very tired.
Unexpectedly, I fell into another strange dream.
In her dream, she knew clearly that she was dreaming, but she couldn't wake up.
The self in the dream was not a human being, but a huge monster crawling in the dark with countless tentacles.
Lin Yuan found himself entrenched in a dark castle. Huge and vivid tentacles were slowly wriggling and occupying the entire bottom of the castle.
Wrapped in numerous tentacles, Lin Yuan felt very safe.
She felt safe and comfortable, as if there was no one else in the world and nothing else needed her attention. She could sleep well, deep in this dark world that belonged only to her.
She just always felt a little lonely. She seemed to have been sleeping here for a long time, whether it was a thousand years or ten thousand years. Time seemed to have frozen, imprisoning this huge monster forever in this dark cage.
I don't know when, the moonlight shines in from the broken roof. A princess who paid off her debt with her body, holding a rose, was forced to lie on the huge altar.
The moonlight shone on the altar, illuminating the man lying on the altar. He was wearing straight trousers and a snow-white shirt, with one hand hanging from the altar, wearing a black glove.
Lin Yuan knew immediately that it was not a princess but a sentry she was familiar with.
She felt very happy in her heart, and the tentacles began to wriggle excitedly, climbing up the steps covered with bright red carpet towards the high altar.
The sacrifice lay powerlessly on the gorgeous altar, motionless, seemingly without the slightest ability to resist.
A pointed tentacle arrived first, penetrated into the black glove, picked the glove open, and slowly peeled it off.
A sweet fragrance began to fill the air, like a piece of sacrificial candy having its shell peeled off, emitting a sweet smell.
Lin Yuan began to feel hungry, she liked sweet food.
The tentacles' slippery skin and fresh flesh were delighted. They surged on the altar.
Under the moonlight, Yue Xiong, wearing a snow-white shirt, began to breathe rapidly. A hoarse voice sounded in the empty hall.
"hug me."
Then the monster crawled out of the damp underground cage, happily climbed onto the altar, and tightly wrapped around the sacrifice in the moonlight.
A pair of human male arms stretched out from the gaps between the tentacles, slowly retracted in the moonlight, and hugged back those strange and sticky tentacles.
Lin Yuan opened his eyes suddenly.
Found myself lying in the attic of my home.
The sky outside the window was already turning white, the morning air was cold, the world was silent, and she could hear her heartbeat quickening.
It was a dream, an absurd and strange dream.
Why do I have this kind of dream? Why do I keep dreaming about that sentry recently
When he was awake during the day, Lin Yuan's emotions were very indifferent and it was difficult for him to experience strong emotions, but every night, the world in his dreams was completely the opposite.
Her dreams were always intense and burning, filled with fire, ice, death, separation, anger and sadness...
Now there seems to be a new picture.
Lin Yuan sat on the bed and thought about it carefully. He felt that it might be attributed to the two words love and desire.
I heard that humans will develop such emotions when they grow up and their bodies enter maturity.
I always dream about these things, maybe because I'm growing up.
She wiped her face and sat up from the bed.
The weather was very cold, and the glass of the window beside the bed was covered with a circle of white frost. Looking out through the frost, I saw an old milkman pushing a cart and walking difficultly up the uphill road outside the manor.
In the room, toys and dolls of all sizes were quietly looking at her on the cabinet, and an old wind chime with various glass beads hanging on it was swaying gently by the window.
Lin Yuan took out the killer whale doll with a small hole in it from the cabinet against the wall and played with it in his hand for a while.
The cabinet was crowded with all kinds of toys, old and new, and the killer whale was taken down, revealing a shabby wooden box underneath it.
It was the wooden box that Lin Yuan brought back from the shipwreck on the seabed when he sneaked into the No. 5 contaminated area.
It was once filled with precious ancient energy stones, and was the object of private competition among the nobles in the White Tower.
Now, the precious energy stone has been taken away, and the old wooden box is just a decoration that no one cares about, mixed in with the old toys and not conspicuous at all.
Lin Yuan lowered his head and played with the killer whale for a long time before he raised his head and reached out to take the wooden box.
The white fingers stroked the old wood grain on the surface of the box and the holes left after the gems were picked out.
Outside the window, the old milkman, pulling his cart, walked to the gate outside the yard.
In the courtyard downstairs, a girl in a maid outfit ran across the overgrown courtyard and ran out to answer the door. She took the milk from the crack in the door and paid for it.
He ran back quickly with a box of fresh milk, his steps quick and his mood happy.
Lin Yuan looked for a while, then raised his hand to play the wind chimes hanging by the window.
The wind chime has been hanging here for a long time. Glass beads of various sizes are strung under the wind chime. Those glass imitation gems are covered with a layer of oil and have lost their original bright luster.
It was an old child's toy, dark and inconspicuous.
Lin Yuan's fingers moved among the strings of hanging glass beads, accurately found a blue square gem from among the numerous glass beads, and picked it up.
The surface of the sea-blue square stone was covered with a thick layer of stains, and it looked dull and lifeless in Lin Yuan's fingers, as if it was no different from other glass beads.
If you look closely, you will find that it is not an ordinary glass product. It has four standard and exquisite cut corners and a charming central symmetrical pattern. It is a real gem.
Staring at it carefully, the blue in the center of the gem seems to be floating, like a mysterious world like the ocean, flowing slowly in it, as if it can suck people's souls into it.
Lin Yuan aligned the blue square gem with a groove on the box, and the quadrilateral Asscher sapphire fit perfectly into it.
As soon as the sea-blue gem was embedded, the shabby wooden box that was salvaged from the shipwreck on the seabed was instantly covered with a layer of hazy light.
A faint, inaudible mysterious whisper sounded from all directions, and the voice was whispering softly, as if telling some ancient story.
The blue gem on the wooden box shone brightly, and above the gem, a three-dimensional image of a shipwreck emerged.
The majestic ship, half covered by the sea sand, slowly rotated above the gem in the form of a small shadow. Upon closer inspection, it was the Mary shipwreck in the No. 5 pollution area.
The bright blue light overflowed along the edge of the blue gem and began to flow along the cracks on the surface of the wooden box.
The blue light liquid passed through the map-like gap and reached the next groove where the gem was missing.
The empty groove was filled with blue light liquid, which made it glow brightly.
A small golden tree emerged above the groove.
The golden tree trunk, the golden leaves, the little phantoms are lifelike, and you can vaguely hear the crisp sound of the metal leaves in the air.
The mysterious whispers from all directions murmured for a moment and gradually dissipated.
The phantoms of the shipwreck and the golden tree also disappeared.
The wooden box in Lin Yuan's hand was still the tattered box, and the only blue gem inlaid on it had lost its luster and turned back into the oily glass bead.
Golden tree.
Lin Yuan muttered the word, rubbed the box for a while, and stuffed it back into the pile of toys.
Let the killer whale doll with a hole in it squat on the box and cover the wooden box.
"Please keep an eye on it for me." Lin Yuan poked the killer whale's chubby head, got up, washed, and prepared to go downstairs for breakfast.
Inside the restaurant.
Lin Yuan sat at the dining table, holding a spoon, yawning and waiting for his meal.
The light was on in the kitchen, and there were clanging sounds coming from it.
"Miss, what happened at yesterday's banquet? Why did you not come back until morning?" A young girl's voice came from the kitchen.
"Well, it's nothing serious. It has nothing to do with us." Lin Yuan answered absent-mindedly, twirling a spoon and thinking about something in his mind.
"Xiaosuo," she finally made up her mind, "I have a few friends who are coming to visit us. You should get ready."
There was a flurry of pots and pans falling in the kitchen.
"Be... a guest?" A girl with a bob haircut and a maid outfit timidly moved half of her head out of the kitchen.
She had smooth hair that just reached her collarbone, beautiful features, and lively eyes. She was wearing a neat dark dress and a snow-white bib. The fluffy skirt was so long that it dragged on the ground, completely covering her feet.
"Yes, guests. You have to help me entertain them." Lin Yuan said.
The girl named Xiaosuo walked out of the kitchen in a panic. After thinking for a while, she used both hands to smooth out the wrinkles on her skirt and returned to normal straightness.
She walked very gracefully, with her fluffy skirt completely covering her legs, leaving no trace of her feet.
"I, do I need to be entertained too?" She folded her hands in front of her, rubbing her fair fingers nervously, "Miss, but I..."
"It's okay," Lin Yuan said, "You shouldn't hide in the house every day. You should get used to meeting outsiders in the future. The same goes for me."
"But what if they find out?"
"I think they will like you." Lin Yuan stretched out her hand and smoothed the soft hair that Xiao Su hung on her cheek. "If they don't like my family, I will ask them to get out."
Xiaosuo lowered his head. "If that happens, I will implicate the young lady. The young lady has few friends to begin with."
The breakfast was very rich, with hot milk and toast, a half-fried soft-boiled egg, and a bowl of iceberg lettuce with sesame paste.
Lin Yuan enjoyed the meal very much.
"Ah, what should I do? This is my first time entertaining guests. What should I prepare? Yes, yes, I should clean first."
The little lock in the room was in a panic. She was spinning around and then she went back to her usual sideways walking style.
The girl held the cleaning tools in both hands and moved much faster than an ordinary person. She slipped around in the large living room far away from the dining room, and even walked vertically along the wall easily.
The movements were fast, the skirt fluttered, and several arthropod legs were exposed under the white petticoat. They were hard legs with shells that were completely not human.
Xiaosuo's full name is Guosuo, and he is a deformed creature.
Lin Yuan didn't know how she came to his house.
Since the death of both his parents, Lin Yuan was sent to live in the White Pagoda. The servants of this villa gradually dispersed, and the huge courtyard has been uninhabited and the gate has been locked.
Only after Lin Yuan came of age was he allowed to leave the White Tower and return home.
The first time I entered the house, the gate was rusty, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and the five-story main building and the shorter annex building in the yard were dark, like a haunted house.
But when I actually walked into the building, it was not covered with dust and cobwebs as I had imagined.
On the contrary, many corners looked as if they had been cleaned regularly, leaving some subtle traces of life.
Lin Yuan walked up the stairs alone, carrying his luggage, in the dark, looking at each room one by one.
She was too young when she left and suffered a severe emotional shock. Now she can't remember what it was like to live here as a child.
As she walked forward step by step, her footsteps echoed in the long corridor. On both sides of the corridor were dark rooms.
It was quiet everywhere. There were no people, no living creatures, no sounds, and even no breath of life.
She couldn't find any memories of her own here.
Everyone has a home, and Lin Yuan always thought he had one too.
It turned out that this empty building and deserted courtyard was her "home", the home she had been waiting for for many years in the White Tower.
There is a long corridor, a spiral staircase, the parents' master bedroom, a study, a gym, a screening room, and an attic for the little girl.
There were many photos hanging on the wall. The smiling young couples and little girls in the photos made Lin Yuan feel very unfamiliar.
What's strange is that the main rooms in this building are all kept in an oddly tidy manner.
No one touched the interior furnishings; the tables, chairs and picture frames on the wall had all been wiped and cleaned tidy, as if the owner had not been away for too long.
Lin Yuan walked through the dark house floor by floor, and finally saw turned-over clothes and some signs of life in the annex where the maid lived.
"Come out." Lin Yuan stopped in front of a staircase.
The house was large and the courtyard was wide, but the tentacles were everywhere and soon found the "ghost" hidden in the building.
"Get out." Lin Yuan said coldly, standing in the darkness.
A little girl's timid head emerged from the shadows under the stairs.
"I'm sorry." She bit her handkerchief, tears welling up in her eyes. "Don't be angry. I'll be out right away."
Xiaosuo is a deformed creature. She has the upper body of a human girl and the lower body supported by countless branched animal legs.
She didn't remember where she came from, but she vaguely remembered that she had lived in a polluted area in a daze in the early days.
One day, a group of sentinels broke in and took her out of the contaminated area, even though she had no fighting ability. They sent her as a gift to the home of a noble who liked to raise mutants.
She called the noble master Mr. Guo, and had been living in a giant ecological tank in the basement. The only thing she could do every day was to wait hungrily for Mr. Guo to feed her.
She was asked to learn human speech and imitate human behavior in that fish tank.
I learned the hard way that only by satisfying Mr. Guo could I get a little bit of food, which was not enough to fill me up.
Until one day, she escaped from that cramped large fish tank by chance.
That day she climbed over many walls, courtyards, roads and gardens, and hid in sewers. She was terrified and panicked along the way, attracting many people's screams and chasing.
But she was lucky and finally hid in this deserted courtyard and was not found by the pursuers.
This courtyard is silent all year round. No one beats or scolds me here, and no one forces me. I live a happy life here.
She lived for many years, secretly observing the humans around her and imitating their behavior.
In Xiaosuo's heart, he was very grateful to the owner of this yard.
Every day she carefully does what she has learned, trying her best to keep the house clean and not to damage things inside.
I hope that when the owner of this place comes back one day, he won’t be too angry with her.
It would be even better if the owner could allow her to continue living here.
This was just a dream of hers. She knew she was a monster. Humans hated monsters like her. When they saw them, they would either scream or beat them to death. It was difficult for her to live in the sun.
Finally, she waited for the owner of the house to come home.
That night, powerful spirits covered the sky and earth, leaving her with nowhere to hide.
"Get out." A lady wearing a white dress and carrying a backpack stood at the stairs. She had a blank expression on her face and her eyes were cold in the dark.
Xiaosuo felt that he was finished.
They might be beaten, sliced, or even steamed into a pot and turned into red cooked food.
She bit her handkerchief, tears streaming down her face, and slowly moved out of the shadows.
She tried her best to press her weird legs into her skirt.
She knew it was no use.
This lady's spirit is extremely powerful, so powerful that it can see through everything and easily find her.
It was so powerful that she almost wanted to hold her head and crawl on the ground, not daring to escape.
The lady with a cold face looked at her for a while and gathered her scattered spirit.
"You take care of the hygiene at home?"
Xiaosuo shed tears, bit her handkerchief and nodded.
"What do you usually eat when you live here?"
"The fruits from the trees in the yard, and..." Xiaosuo moved his thin white fingers nervously, "I secretly took some from the neighbors nearby and cooked them."
"Can you cook?"
"Yes, a little."
"Okay, I'll bring food back later and you cook."
This is how Miss Lin Yuan characterized the incident.
She didn't drive him away, nor did she abuse or scold him. She let him live in the same house as before.
The young lady said that she was also a monster and didn't mind living with a freak like her, as long as she could be responsible for three meals a day and basic cleaning.
From then on, her anxious heart finally settled down and she no longer had to hide and worry.
As a maid, she officially lived in this courtyard that she loved very much.
The only trouble is that I occasionally scare away the gardener who comes to help take care of the yard, and the cleaning lady who comes to help with shopping and cleaning up the rubbish.
But the lady never blamed her once.
Guo Suo was very happy, she loved her young lady very much and hoped that Miss Lin Yuan could also live a happy life.
Lin Yuan, who was sitting at the table, was holding a hot toast in his mouth and felt a little annoyed. "I don't know what preparations I should make to invite guests."
If only there was someone I could ask, she thought.
Lin Yuan opened his personal terminal.
Personal terminals are expensive communication devices that can only be purchased at high prices or obtained in polluted areas. Not everyone has them.
Only a few people were added to her terminal.
Lin Yuan scrolled through the list and saw names like Roy, Shen Fei, Ni Ji, Nicole, etc.
Who should I ask
She thought for a while and chose a name with whom she felt she had a relatively close relationship.
The avatar of that name is a small killer whale.
(End of this chapter)