After coming out of the hospital, the two returned to the hotel to get their luggage and planned to leave.
The little girl at the front desk was reluctant to part with the two and joked, "Don't you take the 40% discount for three days? I only stayed for two days and left."
Lin Banxia thought about it for a while, but she thought it was quite reasonable, so she turned her head to discuss with Song Qingluo: "Otherwise, let's get this discount together, or we'll panic."
Song Qingluo was silent for a moment, but she actually agreed. So the two put their luggage back in the room and strolled around the town. I have to say, looking at the town in a different mood, it seems that the scenery has become a little different. Lin Banxia's memory has returned to his mind since what happened last night. He remembered most of the things that happened when he was studying, and felt a little emotional for a while.
Song Qingluo asked Lin Banxia if she was bullied when she was in school.
Lin Banxia thought for a while, then smiled and shook her head: "It seems that apart from those relatives in my family, my luck has always been very good. When I was in school, my teachers and classmates took good care of me... They helped me apply for scholarships, and some of my classmates also He will specially take old clothes from home and give them to me in private, and I will not be bullied again."
Song Qingluo felt a little more comfortable when she heard the words.
"After I entered junior high school, I didn't remember much about my family." Lin Banxia said, "So I lived a very satisfying life, but I always thought about making money, and then I went back and brought my sister out... Later, I went to college and lived in the same dormitory. My brother is also very good to me. After graduation, I came out to work, and then... I met you." When he said the last sentence, he was a little embarrassed, feeling a little hypocritical, but no matter what he thought, he still wanted to She expressed her gratitude to Song Qingluo in her heart.
"Thank you, Song Qingluo." Lin Banxia said, "If it wasn't for you, I don't know what it would be like in the end."
Song Qingluo said softly: "It's not just luck to meet so many people who care about you, but everyone likes you like Xiaohua."
Lin Banxia blushed again, he always felt that Song Qingluo's words seemed to be hiding something else, but he was really embarrassed to keep asking.
Song Qingluo was about to say something, but the phone rang, he picked it up and took a look, his expression changed suddenly, he stopped, and gave Lin Banxia a look, motioning him to wait.
Lin Banxia rarely saw such an expression on Song Qingluo's face, but it reminded him of the rainy night before they set off. Song Qingluo seemed to be talking to that person with this expression.
Not knowing what to say on the other end of the phone, Song Qingluo's expression became more and more solemn, and finally she said solemnly: "I'll be back right away, you guys try your best... to delay."
Then the phone hung up, and Lin Banxia said, "What happened?"
Song Qingluo said, "47777 is completely out of control."
Lin Banxia remembered the number: "Out of control? Is 47777 the heretical thing you call a dream?"
"That's right." Song Qingluo said, "It was a... contagious dream." He flipped through his phone and said decisively, "We have to go back."
Lin Banxia nodded quickly: "Okay, then I'll book a train ticket."
The fastest train ticket was this evening. Lin Banxia and the others returned to the hotel and checked out under the surprised eyes of the younger sister. The little sister seemed to be reluctant, and asked in a low voice if they would come back.
"It should be." Lin Banxia smiled, "My parents are buried here, and I will come back to see after a few years."
"Okay." The little girl said, "You must... be happy." She wiped the corners of her eyes, not knowing what strange plot had come up in her brain.
Lin Banxia originally wanted to explain, but Song Qingluo was in a hurry and had already dragged his luggage out, so he didn't want to waste any more time, so he waved his hand at the little sister and quickly followed.
The two took the bus to the train station. Song Qingluo was using mobile phones to communicate with people all the way. It seemed that the situation was very bad, otherwise Song Qingluo would not behave like this.
Lin Banxia sat next to the box holding the small flowers, and did not dare to disturb him. Song Qingluo put down her phone and let out a long sigh until the two got on the train.
Lin Banxia said, "Is it serious?"
"Very serious." Song Qingluo pinched the corners of her eyes, looking like she was in a bad mood, "Li Su and the others were also involved, this is already the second wave of monitors involved..."
Lin Banxia wondered, "What about the first wave?"
Song Qingluo said, "Dead."
Lin Banxia: "..."
Song Qingluo said: "Three monitors, six recorders, the entire army was wiped out." He looked up at the sky outside the window. At this time, the sky was still bright. The crimson sunset covered the blue sky. He liked sunny days. I hate rain, but some things can be avoided without hating it.
The atmosphere that followed was a bit dignified, Song Qingluo kept calling, and most of the time, her mood was calm. Lin Banxia leaned on the side and had nothing to do. After simply eating the bento he bought at the station, he leaned against the window and started dozing off. Before he knew it, he fell asleep. Until a thunderstorm suddenly sounded overhead, the rumble of thunder woke Lin Banxia. He opened his eyes and found that it was raining heavily outside the window. Let the whole world be shrouded in darkness that cannot see the sky.
Song Qingluo, who was beside him, was gone. Lin Banxia thought that he might have gone to the toilet, but he didn't think much about it. He raised his hand and looked at the time. At six o'clock in the morning, it seemed that the sky should be bright, but the dark clouds covered it. Live in Chaoyang. The rain is really heavy, and I don't know when it will stop. Lin Banxia took out her mobile phone and checked the weather forecast for the past few days. She was surprised to find that from the day he and Song Qingluo returned home, the entire The rain in the city never stopped. In this way, it has been raining for three days, and Ji Leshui also sent several complaints in the circle of friends because of this, but Lin Banxia didn't pay attention at the time, thinking that Ji Leshui was too exaggerated.
Most of the rains in summer are violent and short-lived. Only in rare cases, there will be continuous heavy rains, and heavy rains usually bring a great burden to the entire city. Since Lin Banxia came to that city, there were almost no rainstorms. Having seen this kind of extreme weather, I don't know what the city is like now. I think that many underground garages have already suffered from seedlings.
Lin Banxia was thinking so, when Song Qingluo came back, he casually said, "It seems that it has been raining at home. It has been raining for several days, and I don't know when it will stop."
Song Qingluo glanced at Lin Banxia, her voice a little hoarse: "I can't stop."
Lin Banxia asked "Huh?" in doubt, Song Qingluo's tone was too firm, but he remembered that Song Qingluo had also said that it would rain when they had a barbecue with them before, and that rain, It fell almost soon, could this rain have anything to do with Song Qingluo and the others
Lin Banxia was full of doubts, but seeing that Song Qingluo didn't mean to explain, she didn't ask any further questions. After all, there were some things Song Qingluo didn't say because it was inconvenient.
In the majestic torrential rain, after several long hours, the slow train finally pulled into the station. Someone was already waiting for Song Qingluo outside the station. The driver didn't know him, but the person next to the driver, Lin Banxia, had an impression - it was the young man who was talking with Song Qingluo downstairs that rainy night.
He was not wearing a raincoat, his slender body was shrunk on the co-pilot, and there was hardly a trace of blood on his young face, which was different from Song Qingluo's healthy white porcelain color. Lin Banxia remembered the dead people he had seen.
"How much time is left?" Song Qingluo asked the first sentence after getting into the car.
The man said, "Seven days."
Song Qingluo said, "The limit?"
The man said: "The limit."
Song Qingluo let out a breath and said, "Is there any information? I didn't bring these things with me when I went out."
The man threw a bag of things from the co-pilot's seat. After Song Qingluo opened it for inspection, he handed it to Lin Banxia. He said, "You look at it first."
Lin Banxia hummed, took it in her hand, and looked at it carefully.
Before, although Song Qingluo mentioned a few words about 47777, Lin Banxia didn't know much about it. To be precise, he only knew that it was a dream. Can dreams be heresy? This is Lin Banxia's heart is very puzzled.
He opened the information, and soon saw clues about 47777. The more he looked, the more startled he became, and he couldn't help but take a breath.
47777 Heresy is indeed just a dream, but it is a dream that can be contagious.
At the beginning of the discovery, the family suddenly fell into a deep sleep, and then there was a floor, a building - at first, the official thought it was some kind of infectious disease or a gas leak, but after investigation, they quickly realized that something was wrong. At the same time, the unsuspecting investigators also fell asleep.
This deep sleep lasted for three days, and after three days, other changes appeared.
Of the three hundred people who fell asleep, two hundred and ninety-nine died suddenly, and only one woke up. It was a monitor, and when he woke up, he began to claim that he had sealed this heresy, and explained that this heresy was a dream.
However, the monitor did not remember the content of the dream, and even his mental state became extremely chaotic. Along with self-mutilation, he ended his life with a chopstick on the twenty-first day after waking up. He stuck it in his nose and stabbed it directly into his brain.
After that, this dream reappeared several times. Monitors kept trying to capture it, but most of them failed. Until last summer, a powerful monitor came out and brought out a dream that was exactly the same as in reality. The black box shows that the dream has indeed been sealed. So far, this heretical thing has its own number, 47777, a very special number.
After a long period of observation, the data shows that dreams have long and short, and the regularity of the length is actually based on the weather. And as long as you get close to the dreamer for a certain distance, the close person will also have a strong sleepiness, as long as you fall asleep, you will be brought into the dream. When the dream first appeared, it was a rainy day. As long as the rain stopped, those who fell into the dream would either wake up or die.
According to the data, most of the people went in and died, and there are only a handful of survivors. The biggest clue about the dream is the monitor who sealed the dream. Lin Banxia thought that he should know something, but who would have read the information, only to find that there was very little information about this monitor.
He was a little strange and asked, "Why is there so little information on this monitor?"
Song Qingluo was silent for a moment: "Because he was expelled."
Lin Banxia was stunned: "Removed? Why?"
"Kill someone." The young man's voice came from the co-pilot's seat. It was a little hoarse, but it didn't fit his tender face. He turned his head and said, "I haven't introduced myself yet? My name is Bai Luze, I am I know your name is Lin Banxia, you are very famous among us."
Shen Junyan had said something like this before, so after hearing it again, Lin Banxia wasn't surprised, but a little embarrassed, he said, "Hello."
"Yeah." Bai Luze said, "The watcher used to be my partner, and there aren't many clues about him, so I don't need to spend too much time on him."
When Lin Banxia heard this, she was a little surprised: "You also... have you been in?"
"No." Bai Luze said, "He went in alone, and as soon as he came out, he immediately forgot everything in the dream—don't remember anything." His tone sounded understatement, but Lin Banxia was clearly I could feel his eyes dim a little.
"He later quit his job as a monitor," Bai Luze said, "so there are very few clues about him."
Lin Banxia said, "Why did the sealed heretics come out again?"
Bai Luze said: "It failed when the stress was released."
Lin Banxia: "How can this stress be released?"
Bai Luze smiled: "They always have a way, but this time there were some accidents, so the situation was under control. Fortunately, the environment chosen at that time was quite special, so it is still within the controllable range... It's just that the time is not More, I can't last that long."
Lin Banxia was stunned: "Can't hold it...?" He suddenly felt something, thinking of the warning Song Qingluo gave him that day, and then thinking of the continuous rain these days, he showed an incredible look, "You can control the rain. ??"
"Hmm." Bai Luze hummed.
Lin Banxia sighed in surprise: "This is too powerful, isn't it?"
Bai Luze smiled and didn't answer.
Song Qingluo has been very silent, her eyes are half down, staring at the heavy rain outside the window.
The car went all the way, not in the direction of going home. It drove through the bustling urban area, and then drove on the highway. Under the pouring rain, it drove at the fastest speed.
After about another four or five hours, the car finally slowed down. There was a wasteland around, and there was no trace of human activity. In the distance of the wasteland, there is a black building that almost merges with the dim sky in the distance.
Song Qingluo raised an umbrella and got out of the car first. He has always disliked rain. With such a heavy rain, the umbrella held in his hand was almost useless. Lin Banxia was worried that he would be uncomfortable, but he just gave Lin Banxia a reassuring look.
Bai Luze put a raincoat on his body seriously and got out of the car, but he seemed to be a little too weak. Before taking two steps, he stumbled under his feet and fell directly on the muddy ground.
Seeing this, Lin Banxia hurriedly stepped forward to support him and said, "Are you okay?"
Bai Luze said, "I'm fine." He wanted to stand up, but after struggling a few times, he was unsuccessful. Seeing this, Lin Banxia exerted a little force on his hand, which made him stand up. After he stood up, Lin Banxia was surprised to find that the place where he fell was stained with red marks, which seemed to be broken, and hurriedly asked, "Where are you injured?"
Bai Luze pursed his lips and said hoarsely, "No, it's... the wound from before."
Song Qingluo stood beside him, sighed, and said softly, "You don't have to hide it from Banxia, he will know sooner or later."
Bai Luze's eyes were dim, he raised his head and glanced at Lin Banxia, stretched out his hand, lifted his sleeves, and exposed his arms.
Lin Banxia took a look and took a breath. Bai Luze's arm was covered with large and small wounds, some of which were scabbed, and some were still bleeding. made out. This situation was so shocking that Lin Banxia suddenly made up for a lot of bad things. He grabbed Bai Luze and said nervously, "Why are your hands like this, is someone bullying you?"
Bai Luze smiled bitterly: "Not really."
Lin Banxia said, "Then why—"
"As long as I am injured, it will rain in the sky." Bai Luze said, "The more severe the injury, the heavier the rain." He coughed twice, his thin body trembled, as if he was about to be overwhelmed.
Lin Banxia was stunned. Naturally, he would not forget what he saw in the document just now. As long as the rain stopped, the person who fell into the dream state would wake up. In order to keep the rain falling, Bai Luze had to keep on his body. of added wounds.
"It doesn't work if the rain is too small. There have been cases like this before." Bai Luze said, "So the rain is getting heavier and heavier... Seven days, seven days is the limit, not my limit, but the limit of this city." That has never been the case. The driver, who was talking, stood by his side and raised the umbrella over Bai Luze's head.
Bai Luze's pale face looked so calm, he said, "So you only have seven days."
Song Qingluo said softly, "Let's go."
The four continued to move forward and walked to the door of the black building.
After going through security checks and confirming his identity, Lin Banxia entered the interior of the building after passing through a few doors. This building is somewhat similar to the building he had sealed after he went to the village before. The entire interior of the building was strikingly white as far as the eye could see. At first glance, it was a bit dazzling.
Soon someone greeted Song Qingluo, a few staff members in work clothes. Song Qingluo confirmed some information with them, and then took Lin Banxia into an elevator. After swiping the card, the elevator kept going to down.
The surrounding atmosphere was too solemn, Lin Banxia didn't dare to ask them where they were going, and obediently held her luggage and stood in the corner. There were small flowers in the luggage, he was afraid of being discovered by others, so he hugged them nervously.
The elevator finally stopped and came to a narrow and closed space, still surrounded by white walls, but the walls were inlaid with transparent glass.
The staff stood in front of the elevator and did not continue to move forward, and said to Song Qingluo: "Mr. Song, those people are placed on this floor, I can't continue to move forward, look, do you want to go in directly... or... Take a rest first?"
Song Qingluo said, "How are they doing?"
"It's fairly stable," the staff member said.
Song Qingluo glanced at Lin Banxia and said lightly, "Then let's rest for a while before going in. I have something to discuss with my partner."
The staff said ok.
The elevator rose again, and the staff skillfully arranged a room for them to rest with food.
Lin Banxia didn't eat much on the train, she was really hungry now, so she picked up something to eat, Song Qingluo raised her hand and looked at her watch: "Thirty minutes of rest, after thirty minutes, We'll go in."
Lin Banxia said: "By the way, those people can't hold up when they lie down?"
Song Qingluo said: "It doesn't matter, after they fall into a deep sleep, their physiological activities will also stagnate."
Lin Banxia said, "The longest time, how long did they sleep?"
Song Qingluo said, "Ten days."
Lin Banxia was stunned: "Is it raining for ten consecutive days?"
"Yes." Song Qingluo said, "The limit for the city to carry this rainwater is ten days."
Lin Banxia fell into silence. Their city was inland. According to the amount of rain outside, it would continue to fall for ten days. It did not seem easy for the city to digest the rain. However, according to the data, the danger of this dream is obviously not small. If it spreads, hundreds of people may die as a result. What a difficult choice.
Song Qingluo changed her clothes into clean work clothes and ate some food. After that, she handed over his and Lin Banxia's luggage to the staff and asked him to send the luggage home, probably because he was worried that the flowers in the luggage would be found. . Thirty minutes passed quickly, and the staff took them into the elevator again.
Lin Banxia felt that she had nothing to prepare for, so she followed behind Song Qingluo and got off the elevator, but as she walked forward, Song Qingluo paused slightly, turned to look at Lin Banxia, and wanted to say something. Stop again.
Lin Banxia thought he had something to tell herself, and said, "What's wrong?"
"You can think about it again." Song Qingluo said, "This time it will be very dangerous, and I don't have much confidence. After I entered the dream, everything was completely out of control—"
Lin Banxia said with a smile, "I know, but going with two people is better than going alone. The chance of success is better."
Song Qingluo gave Lin Banxia a deep look and nodded. The staff stopped at the elevator door, while Lin Banxia and Song Qingluo walked towards the depths of the building.
After walking through the long aisle and turning the corner again, the monotonous white color in front of Lin Banxia's eyes finally changed. He saw dozens of beds under the cool light. People, their faces were serene, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep, not as if they had entered a terrifying dream.
Lin Banxia remembered the way of being infected as written in the information - as long as she fell asleep next to someone who was infected by 47777, she would also be drawn into that dream.
Just as he was thinking, Song Qingluo had already found the two remaining beds, and patted Lin Banxia gently, signaling him to come here.
"Just... just sleep?" Lin Banxia asked.
"Yeah." Song Qingluo nodded.
Lin Banxia lay obediently on Song Qingluo's side. This bed was a folding bed, so it wasn't very comfortable to lie on. But Lin Banxia came all the way, and was indeed a little tired. She turned her body sideways and met Song Qingluo's eyes for a while, and then she felt sleepy, but seeing Song Qingluo's expression still clear, she asked curiously, "Aren't you sleepy?"
Song Qingluo said, "It's not very sleepy."
"Then what if I can't sleep?" Lin Banxia said with a smile.
"It's okay, you go to sleep first." Song Qingluo said, "I lay down for a while and then fell asleep."
Lin Banxia hummed, yawned, and closed his eyes. A strong drowsiness soon struck. He felt his breathing soften, darkness swept his consciousness, and Lin Banxia fell into a deep sleep.
When Lin Banxia opened her eyes again, she was on a soft bed. Although it wasn't very big, it was soft enough. Someone called his name in his ear and patted his face with his hand: "Get up, get up, Lin Banxia, are you still going to school?"
Lin Banxia opened his eyes blankly and saw his roommate, standing beside his bed, and almost slapped him.
Lin Banxia got up from the bed, her whole person was a little confused: "I seem to have had a dream."
The roommate said, "What did you dream about?"
"It's a mess." Lin Banxia rubbed her temples, trying to wake herself up a bit, "It's weird."
The roommate said: "It's alright, don't be surprised. Today's quiz, don't be late, I'll go first - hurry up yourself." After he finished speaking, he picked up his schoolbag and rushed out of the dormitory.
Lin Banxia was still a little stunned, and after a while, she recovered, remembering that she would have a quiz later. He is currently in the second year of high school, and it is when he is nervous about studying. There is a quiz once a week. He glanced at the time and found that he was indeed going to be late. So he didn't care about anything else, he rolled and crawled out of bed, grabbed his schoolbag and ran to the teaching building.
He was a little late at the moment. When he rushed to the classroom, the quiz had already started. Fortunately, he is usually a good student, so when the teacher saw him, he just raised his chin slightly, motioning him to hurry in and say Did not reprimand him.
Lin Banxia sat in the seat panting, picked up the pen and started to do the question, the spring sun was shining brightly from the window and it was a bit dazzling. Lin Banxia took the pen and did the question seriously. For some reason, she felt that the surrounding scene was inexplicably familiar, as if she had experienced it at some point. But this feeling was only fleeting, so he quickly put it behind him and continued to do it seriously.
Today is an English quiz, and the questions are not too difficult. Lin Banxia got good grades, and she finished most of the questions soon. She was about to do the next questions, but was kicked off the bench by the people behind her.
"Hey, Lin Banxia." The man whispered, "Show me the answers to the multiple-choice questions."
Lin Banxia glanced behind him and saw a snow-white face, it was Li Su. Although Li Su had a well-behaved face, what he did was simply incompatible with the temperament of his face, not to mention his grades, and he liked to fool around with students from other schools. Lin Banxia consciously didn't know him well, so she didn't really want to help. However, he ignored him, and the people behind him kicked more and more fiercely. Seeing that Lin Banxia couldn't sit on the stool, the teacher finally noticed the strangeness here, walked in front of Li Su, and reprimanded him. for a while.
Li Su, the dead pig, was not afraid of being scalded by boiling water, so he stuck out his tongue at Lin Banxia.
The teacher angrily asked Li Su to go to the door to stand, and then he stood up danglingly and went out laughing.
Lin Banxia breathed a sigh of relief and continued to work on his own questions. There were still about ten minutes before he finished the entire paper. He checked it roughly and felt that the time was almost up, so he began to be in a daze, waiting for the paper to be handed in.
The sun was getting bigger, and it was a little hot on him. Lin Banxia unbuttoned the first button of his shirt and glanced out the window.
Outside the window is the playground. At this time, there are students from other classes in physical education class. Lin Banxia noticed that there was a beautiful boy with skin like white porcelain standing under the shade of a tree to enjoy the shade. He seemed to have noticed his gaze, and raised his eyes to look over. Lin Banxia and his eyes were facing each other, but they felt a little familiar. Just as he was about to think carefully about whether he had seen this person before, a deep cloud suddenly fell in front of him. shades of color.
With a loud cracking sound, along with the clamor and shrill screams of the students, Lin Banxia realized that someone had jumped off the building.
The corpse just landed in front of the beautiful boy, and blood even splattered on his cheek. But he seemed to be indifferent, until the teacher rushed over and pulled him away, Lin Banxia didn't see any unnecessary expression on his face.
This person is as indifferent as a piece of ice, such a thought popped into Lin Banxia's mind.
The author has something to say:
Lin Banxia: It's time for us to go back to high school! ! !
Song Qingluo: Why are you reacting so much
Lin Banxia drew his sword and roared: "My money is gone, no one wants me to go back, not even heretics!" !
Song Qingluo: …