The words "You can't tell the difference" exploded in Lin Banxia's ears like thunder, causing him to have a kind of fear that originated from the depths of his soul. The things he suspected before were confirmed in this sentence. . Song Qingluo in the second layer of dreams said that they were in the first layer of dreams, but who could confirm that they were on the first layer, not the second, third, or even the hundredth floor
Countless dreams can continue to extend to the depths, just like a person sleeping on a cliff, as long as he closes his eyes, unconsciously, he will keep falling down. Falling off a cliff is not scary, it's just welcoming death, but in this endless dream, you don't even know whether you are alive or dead.
And according to Song Qingluo's logic, all the people who were pulled into the dream realm were real human beings. If his statement is correct, then there is an existence that he cannot understand. It should not appear in this campus that is exactly the same as reality, and it is also incompatible with the people around it.
That existence is the girl named Xiaohua in the closet.
Lin Banxia was silent for a long time, until Song Qingluo softly called his name, and he returned to his senses.
"What are you thinking?" Song Qingluo asked.
Lin Banxia said: "You said, if everything we are in is a dream, how can we wake up from the dream?"
Song Qingluo's expression was a little complicated: "You... shouldn't you... "
Lin Banxia said, "No, don't get me wrong."
"I didn't misunderstand." Song Qingluo said, "Before Qin Xu died, he also asked the people around him this question. I heard it at the time and didn't take it to heart." He reached out and hooked Lin Banxia with his own fingers. He pointed his finger and said, "Banxia, if you think something is wrong, can you be the first to tell me?"
What could Lin Banxia say, he could only nod his head.
In the following afternoon, Lin Banxia was a little absent-minded when she was reading, and Song Qingluo also saw it, and joked, "Aren't you still thinking about Cui Gaoyu?"
Lin Banxia said, "Is Cui Gaoyu your neighbor?"
Song Qingluo raised her eyebrows: "I'm really thinking about it."
Lin Banxia said embarrassingly, "Isn't it a bit strange what he said."
Song Qingluo said, "Yes, he is my neighbor." He thought for a while, and then made a suggestion, "There is no class today, do you want to… come to my house to play for a while?"
When Lin Banxia heard this proposal, she was almost stunned on the spot, and stared blankly at Song Qingluo.
Seeing him like this, Song Qingluo smiled: "Would you like to go? My parents are not at home, let's go to the supermarket together later, and I'll cook something delicious for you in the evening."
I have to say, as soon as he said these words, Lin Banxia was immediately tempted. Even if he knew that this might just be an illusory dream, when he thought of going to Song Qingluo's house to play, Lin Banxia couldn't refuse.
Song Qingluo naturally saw it, and reached out and rubbed Lin Banxia's soft hair: "What do you like to eat?"
Lin Banxia said, "Anything will do."
"Let's go." Song Qingluo looked at the time, "Cui Gaoyu, who you care about, lives next door to me. If you want... you can go over and chat with him." Cui Gaoyu is related. Although he was jealous, he was not unreasonable.
This would be even better. If possible, Lin Banxia really wanted to talk to Cui Gaoyu privately. After all, he was worried that Song Qingluo would think that he was the one with a problem if he heard something.
The orange sunset hung in the sky, which always made people feel warm. Lin Banxia and Song Qingluo got on the bus to his house together.
Lin Banxia was sitting by the window, looking at the unfamiliar scenery and quickly retreating behind her, Song Qingluo was on his right, and the two of them held hands quietly, and when they were about to get off the car, she reluctantly let go. open.
After Lin Banxia entered Song Qingluo's community, she felt a little uncomfortable. It was the first time he saw such a beautiful house, and even before that, he didn't know that there was such a complex of buildings near the school. The red top and white walls, the roses in front of the house spread to the walls, blooming delicate stamens, red and white, looking as beautiful as a fairy tale.
Lin Banxia walked forward with her head lowered, her eyes noticed her worn and whitened sneakers, her toes curled up unconsciously, and she always felt that she did not fit in with the beautiful painting style here. Just when he was thinking so, his hand was held again, Song Qingluo said warmly: "There is no one here, so I won't let go." He held Lin Banxia's hand slightly, as if to exert strength Passing on like the past, "No matter what other people think, Pinellia is the best in my eyes."
"No one can compare," he said.
Lin Banxia raised her eyes, and under Song Qingluo's black eyes, she hummed softly.
The two entered the house, and the inside was as beautiful as the outside. Song Qingluo led Lin Banxia directly to the bedroom on the second floor. After entering, he took off his jacket and let Lin Banxia rest in it by himself, saying that he would go downstairs to do the work. meal.
Lin Banxia said, "Let me help too."
"No need." Song Qingluo helped Lin Banxia turn on the TV, "Just rest, it will be soon." After speaking, she went out.
Lin Banxia was a little restless at first, but after walking for a while, Song Qingluo barely got used to the surrounding environment. Song Qingluo's room was very large, with a huge bed in the center. Like most boys of this age, some clothes were piled on the bed. This bed was where Song Qingluo slept at night. Lin Banxia, who was sitting beside the bed, suddenly realized this. He quietly glanced outside to make sure that Song Qingluo had gone downstairs to cook. Put his face on it.
Thinking that Song Qingluo might also be sleeping here in this position, in addition to being overjoyed, Lin Banxia spurned herself again, and secretly said, Lin Banxia, you are so shameless. Secretly sleep on someone's pillow.
But the pillow is really soft, Lin Banxia thought, it must be very comfortable to sleep on it...
Just when he finished rubbing happily and got up from the bed with frizzy hair on his head, when he turned around, he found the owner of the bed standing at the door with his arms crossed and staring at him, and he didn't know how long he had been standing there.
Lin Banxia stood up immediately, but it was too late, Song Qingluo walked in front of him, grabbed his hand, and then violently pushed Lin Banxia directly onto the bed.
"Hold... I'm sorry..." Lin Banxia stammered apologetically, "I didn't mean to!" He just couldn't hold back.
"Sorry?" Song Qingluo said, "Sorry for what?"
Lin Banxia said, "I slept in your bed..."
Song Qingluo said, "Oh, then you should apologize." Lin Banxia thought that he was going to hit him, and closed his eyes in a conditioned reflex. Who knows, the next moment, a warm and soft lips fell on his lips. object.
"What's there to sleep in?" The voice was right in my ear, with a smile, "You're so brave, come and sleep with me."
Lin Banxia's face immediately flushed red.
It was another kiss. Lin Banxia felt that he was about to lose his breath. He didn't even know how long the kiss lasted. When Song Qingluo finally let go, he was stunned and sat on the bed. Song Qingluo arranged her hair and clothes.
Song Qingluo looked at Lin Banxia's pitiful appearance, and sighed inwardly, barely suppressing some kind of restless emotions, and pretended to be casual: "Dear, there is still a fire downstairs, you can play by yourself. Son." He got up and left.
Lin Banxia watched Song Qingluo leave, and after a while, he took a long breath and coughed violently—he almost suffocated himself.
But Lin Banxia couldn't figure it out, how could Song Qingluo leave after kissing her twice, and she walked so fast? Could it be that her kissing skills were too poor and she was disliked? Thinking of Li Su laughing at him that he had never seen any pornographic films, Lin Banxia became inexplicably depressed, and swore to himself that when he returned to the dormitory, he would ask a roommate to ask, he remembered that they all seemed to have circulated it privately.
Lin Banxia reached out and scratched the tip of her ear, feeling hot when she started, her heart was aching nervously at the moment. He wanted to find something else to divert his attention, so he began to observe the other decorations in Song Qingluo's room. The room was quite large, and there was a very tall bookcase. Lin Banxia walked over to the bookcase and looked at it. Look, I found that there are all books that I don't understand very well. On the desk next to the bookcase, there was a photo frame. Inside was two young people, a man and a woman, holding a three- or four-year-old child. Judging from their faces, they should be Song Qingluo's parents, Song Qingluo as a child. She was also born beautiful, like a doll. Lin Banxia picked up the photo frame and looked at it carefully. After watching it for a while, he found something wrong. There is a layer of other patterns on the back of this photo, and it looks like there is a photo behind this photo.
Lin Banxia was a little hesitant to open the photo frame, but he immediately remembered that where he was in a dream, this photo frame should be the product of Song Qingluo's dream.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Banxia still twisted the photo frame. Sure enough, he saw another photo behind the family portrait.
This is a very strange picture of a gentle man standing in front of an ancient scroll. On the scroll, there are two skeletons, one big and one small, and a few women. The big skeleton is holding a thread and controlling the small skeleton like a puppet. A woman is breastfeeding a child behind her, and another woman is The child who was lying on the ground stretched out his hand towards the skeleton. The picture scroll was very distinctive, and it was hard to forget it at a glance.
The man standing in front of the scroll seemed to be Song Qingluo's father. Lin Banxia held it in his hand and looked at it for a while before putting the things back.
Over there, Song Qingluo just finished the meal and told Lin Banxia to go downstairs to eat. Lin Banxia went downstairs and saw the sumptuous food on the table.
Before today, Lin Banxia didn't even know that Song Qingluo could cook, and she did it so well.
Song Qingluo took off the waistband and looked at the time: "Cui Gaoyu should be at home too, can I ask him to come over to eat together?"
Lin Banxia said, "Okay." Naturally, he couldn't ask for it.
Song Qingluo made a phone call, and after a few minutes, Cui Gaoyu came and knocked on the door, still carrying a box of fresh fruit. He still had a gentle expression, as if the indifferent person Lin Banxia saw on the playground during the day was an illusion.
"Good evening." Cui Gaoyu was not surprised when he saw Lin Banxia, he nodded slightly, and said hello to Lin Banxia.
"Good evening." Lin Banxia responded.
"Eat." Song Qingluo handed over the chopsticks.
The three of them started to eat, and by the way, they chatted about some gossip. From the conversation between Cui Gaoyu and Song Qingluo, Lin Banxia knew that he also knew Li Su before, but it would be better to say that Li Su was in their circle at first, and then he became involved with Li Ye, and then he fell out with them.
Song Qingluo's cooking skills were beyond imagination, every dish tasted very good, Lin Banxia ate it with relish, and finally got a little tired.
Song Qingluo got up and said that she was going to wash the dishes, but was stopped by Cui Gaoyu, he smiled and said, "You are tired from cooking, rest, Lin Banxia... Would you mind washing the dishes with me?"
Of course Lin Banxia didn't mind.
When Song Qingluo heard Cui Gaoyu's request, he raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in him." Cui Gaoyu said, "You can rest assured on me about this matter."
Song Qingluo tapped her finger on the table and said to Lin Banxia, "Okay." It wasn't that he didn't see anything between the two, but he was just curious. They knew each other for the first time, why? There will be a sense of origin.
Lin Banxia packed up the dishes and went into the kitchen. Seeing that Cui Gaoyu was rolling up his sleeves, he didn't look up and asked, "Is Bai Luze okay?"
Lin Banxia said, "Who?"
"Why, it's obviously the person you asked, but now you pretend you don't know him?" Cui Gaoyu said coldly.
Lin Banxia said, "I didn't ask." He paused, "It's someone Song Qingluo knows."
Cui Gaoyu was silent, he looked at Lin Banxia with critical eyes, his eyes seemed to cut Lin Banxia even with the belt bones, he stared at Lin Banxia for a while, but suddenly smiled: "He Good eyesight."
Lin Banxia was inexplicable: "What did you say?"
"I said that Song Qingluo has a good eye." Cui Gaoyu said.
Lin Banxia thought that Cui Gaoyu was talking about his relationship with Song Qingluo, showing a bit of discomfort.
Who knew that Cui Gaoyu said: "I thought he would never have a partner."
Lin Banxia: "...what do you mean?"
Cui Gaoyu smiled: "Didn't you already know that you are in a dream?"
Lin Banxia: "You know that too?"
"Of course." Cui Gaoyu said astonishingly, "Whether I know or not depends on whether I want to know or not, but I'm really curious about you, you don't remember things in reality, but you remember things in dreams—if I don't Guess wrong, you can remember all the dreams you entered."
Lin Banxia didn't speak, but pursed her lips.
Sometimes there is no answer to a question, but silence is part of the answer.
Lin Banxia said: "Song Qingluo said that time is running out. Since you are his friend, why don't you help him? You entered the dream with him, right? Although I don't remember... Aren't we together? "
Cui Gaoyu said: "To a certain extent, we were indeed together once."
Lin Banxia: "Once?"
"Later, it was no longer." Cui Gaoyu said, "Or, I am no longer."
Lin Banxia: "...Can you clarify?"
Cui Gaoyu said, "Yes." He raised his hand and looked at his watch, then snapped his fingers, and then started to walk out.
Lin Banxia didn't understand what he was going to do, thinking that he was just trying to be handsome, but who knew he followed him a few steps out, and after seeing the scene in the living room, he was so stunned.
I saw that the picture in the living room froze, and the TV program that was still playing stayed on the same picture. Song Qingluo sat opposite the TV and turned into a solidified statue, until Cui Gaoyu walked to his side and sat down, he didn't change a bit.
Lin Pinxia reflexively looked for the watch, and sure enough, saw the clock hanging on the wall, and stopped walking.
"Here, I can do whatever I want." Cui Gaoyu said, "Make everything, control time, in a dream, you can do anything." He snapped his fingers again, and the living room door creaked open, exposed to the outside world.
But it was different from the blooming flower scene that Lin Banxia had just seen, the outside turned into a void of darkness, with no sunlight and no plants, only a deep void that seemed to be able to inhale the human soul.
Lin Banxia remembered Xiaohua's words and wondered if Cui Gaoyu was the "it" in Xiaohua's mouth
"I know what you're thinking." Cui Gaoyu said, "but I'm not the controller here, I'm just a prisoner, a fulcrum that can be consumed, supporting the world." He folded his hands and leaned on the sofa, With a lazy expression, he said something that made one’s back feel cold. He said, "A dream cannot exist out of thin air, it needs an object to depend on. Human beings are naturally the best choice, with rich emotions and memories. Sufficient and can be used indefinitely, until their spirits can't support it and they are on the verge of collapse."
Lin Banxia was stared at by Cui Gaoyu and couldn't help but take a step back.
Cui Gaoyu smiled: "Don't be afraid, this is just a dream, even if I shoot you, you will only be hurt in a dream - if you are hurt in a dream, you will not die."
Lin Banxia said, "How did those people die?" He remembered Song Qingluo saying that because this dream was contagious, many people died.
Cui Gaoyu: "As I said, human beings are only consumables. In front of them, fragile wills are all disposable. Madness is the best ending. Survival is an extravagant hope." Xiang Lin Banxia's eyes were full of pity, "I know what you want to do. I have tried this before, but I failed in the end. You must know the consequences of failure, which is more terrible than death."
Lin Banxia said, "What are you... what are you talking about?"
"Bai Luze is my partner." Cui Gaoyu said, "You may not remember now, I have to tell you that in reality you must know me, because I was the only survivor when the dream was sealed last time. By."
Lin Banxia didn't quite understand, but also felt that what Cui Gaoyu said was a very important thing, but unfortunately he didn't even remember it.
"Everyone thought I survived." Cui Gaoyu said, "even thought that this dream was sealed, yes, to a certain extent, it was indeed sealed, but unfortunately the period of storage is limited - until I go crazy. "
Lin Banxia said: "You didn't enter the dream with us this time? Then why do you exist here."
Cui Gaoyu smiled: "Of course it's because I've never been out."
Lin Banxia was stunned.
"I'm just like you, like everyone here, I'm even the first person to recover my memory and start trying various ways to get out of here." Cui Gaoyu said, "Only after I leave here can I return to reality and see him , Countless methods have been tried countless times, killing myself, killing others, killing all creatures I can see, and doing everything I can... Do you think I succeeded?"
Obviously not, because if Cui Gaoyu was successful, he wouldn't be standing here.
Lin Banxia stared at him and felt creepy. Naturally, he was not afraid of Cui Gaoyu, but he always felt that Cui Gaoyu seemed to tell him a more terrifying and creepy truth.
"Cui Gaoyu is still awake." Cui Gaoyu said, "You can't guess what he paid." With another snap of his fingers, the darkness outside the house turned into blooming flowers again, and a bright moon was placed on the dome, clear, bright, and extremely moving. .
However, everything is an illusion, and everything is a dream.
Cui Gaoyu stared out the window silently, and he said, "Have you seen the shadow on the moon?"
Lin Banxia turned her head to look and saw nothing. Today was not fifteen, but the moon was intact, without a trace of cloud cover, and there was no shadow as Cui Gaoyu said.
"That's what the mountains look like." Cui Gaoyu said, "I've only seen it once, when I made a deal with it, it was in the dark, on the moon, it was the ruler of this world, and you stepped on it. Every inch of land, every piece of dirt." He closed his eyes, his voice was low and deep, as if reciting an old poem, "Whatever you see or smell, is its breath—you Never wake up, madness is a compliment, death is a reward."
After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Lin Banxia: "Even so, are you going to try to get close to it?"
Lin Banxia was silent for a while, he almost understood what Cui Gaoyu meant, he didn't hesitate, and calmly gave his answer: "Yes, I want to try, even if... I can't, at least I have to let Song Qingluo go out. "
Cui Gaoyu tilted his head slightly and looked at Lin Banxia curiously: "You two have only known each other for less than a month, so you like him so much?"
Lin Banxia said bluntly, "I feel like we've known each other for more than a month."
Cui Gaoyu smiled knowingly.
"How do I get out of here?" Lin Banxia said, "Whether I can succeed or not, I also hope... I can try it myself."
Cui Gaoyu said, "I can't give you the answer because I'm a failed try."
Lin Banxia: "..."
Cui Gaoyu said: "However, I can give you some hints." He said slowly, "The closer you are to it, the more fear you will feel, and fear will erode your will and make you surrender to it - I failed, Because I'm scared, what about you? Lin Banxia, can you do it for Song Qingluo and sacrifice your own fear?"
Lin Banxia didn't know if he could, but he was indeed numb to many things. Others might scream at the sight of a dead body, but he seemed to have lost some important part of his emotions. Maybe this was his advantage, but he didn't plan to tell Cui Gaoyu.
"You're very smart." Cui Gaoyu said, "I have to remind you, a smart, but not firm-willed person, he may die a little faster than ordinary people, yes, die, because he is not even used as consumables Qualifications to exist."
Lin Banxia thought of Qin Xu, Jiang Xin, and everyone who died beside him. I don't know how many of them fit what Cui Gaoyu said, and how many could no longer return to reality.
"Okay." Cui Gaoyu said, "It's almost time, do you have anything else to ask?"
Lin Banxia said, "How do I get close to it?"
Cui Gaoyu said: "In the depths of the dream, I will give you the answer."
Lin Banxia was slightly taken aback.
Cui Gaoyu stretched out his hand, and the snap of his fingers sounded again. There was a light tick, the second hand continued to move, and the picture on the TV moved. Song Qingluo blinked and turned to look at the two of them. Seeing that they didn't speak, she said, "When did you come here?"
Cui Gaoyu smiled: "Just when you were addicted to TV shows."
Song Qingluo said, "I seem to have been sitting here for a long time."
"Is there any?" Cui Gaoyu said, "A bad TV show will always make people live like a year." He stood up and clapped his hands, as if to pat the dust off his palms, "I'll go back first, I wish you all the best Have a wonderful night." He curled his lips into a smile and winked at Song Qingluo.
Song Qingluo snorted in disgust, "Get out."
Cui Gaoyu turned and walked into the dark night, Song Qingluo stared at the door for a while, and said, "When did the door open?" He looked back at Lin Banxia, and found that Lin Banxia's eyes had been staring at him. , The eyes are very complicated, it seems to hide a lot of emotions, Song Qingluo sees some joy, some sadness, and full of love that is about to overflow.
Lin Banxia seemed to be completely unaware that her eyes had revealed her mood, her eyelashes flickered twice, and she said that the moonlight today is good, do you want to go out and see the moon.
Song Qingluo suddenly laughed.
Lin Banxia asked him why he was laughing.
Song Qingluo said, "Has anyone said a word to you?"
Lin Banxia said, "What?"
"The moonlight is beautiful tonight." Song Qingluo said.
"What's wrong with this sentence?" He sounded familiar at first, as if he had heard it somewhere, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't remember it.
"Fool." Song Qingluo said, "This is a confession." He looked at Lin Banxia tenderly, "I tell you, the moonlight is beautiful tonight, remember to reply to me."
Lin Banxia said, "What?"
"The wind is also gentle." Song Qingluo taught her children seriously, "This means that you like me too."
The author has something to say:
Song Qingluo: Not only do you have to make a confession yourself, but you also have to teach the children how to respond to the confession...
Lin Banxia: Oh oh oh it's so thick! !