Lin Huai jumped down from the ruined wall and hit Chu Tianshu's shoulder like a cannonball. Chu Tianshu was as good as he was, he grabbed the opponent's two slender legs, and pushed him onto his shoulders very simply.
Lin Huai: ...
He sat on Chu Tianshu's shoulders, in order to maintain his balance, he had to hug his neck with both hands. Lin Huai rested his chin on the top of the opponent's head, and asked him with vacant eyes: "What's the matter with you? Why didn't you fall asleep?"
As he said that, he suddenly remembered the experience of trying to invade Chu Tianshu's dream when he was in the "Fu Jiang" world.
Unlike other people's transparent colored dreams, Chu Tianshu's dream is not only white, but also so opaque that people can't see the content clearly. Lin Huai seemed to remember that he had tried to invade him, but he failed because of his skills.
Thinking of this, Lin Huai looked at Chu Tianshu with more suspicion.
"If you want to get the key of the witch, you must enter your own dream. However, for some reason, I can't seem to enter my own dream, but I am always in reality... Maybe it's because my mental power is stronger? Don't talk I have hair." Chu Tianshu helplessly patted Lin Huai's hand, "After you fell asleep, I lay on the ground for a long time..."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "Then I didn't fall asleep."
"Therefore, I can only run into the city-state to try my luck and see if I can catch the lazy witch directly and force her to hand over the key." Chu Tianshu wanted to shrug, but Lin Huai's weight was on his shoulders. On his shoulder, he had to whistle instead, "It's a pity that I searched all over Tokyo... No, I searched all over the city-state but couldn't find her, but I found out that the townspeople in this city-state have all changed. Became a puppet manipulated by her."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu couldn't enter his dream
"Who told you to stay up too late." Lin Huai finally pulled his hair, "In the real world, I saw you staying up in the middle of the night many times, playing with your phone next to you..."
Chu Tianshu: "?"
He reluctantly turned his head to look at Lin Huai, his expression was a little embarrassed, and his face was still a little red: "I thought... thought you were asleep?"
Lin Huai snorted, and taking this opportunity, he simply asked the question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time: "What do you write on your phone every night after I fall asleep?"
Chu Tianshu: ...
Lin Huai: "Diary? Bills? Writing novels? Chatting with other men and women?..."
He casually counted the conjectures in his heart, but unexpectedly found that Chu Tianshu's face was getting redder and redder...
Chu Tianshu said lightly: "Actually..."
…
"Annual bill?!"
Lin Huai was riding on Chu Tianshu's shoulders, while Chu Tianshu was walking through the ruins, using his crutches to rummage through the ruins from time to time, as if he was still looking for traces of the lazy witch or some valuable scraps. He coughed and said, "Didn't Zhi○bao issue an annual bill in January last year? Then points were deducted... Well, I was wondering if we could also record a bill similar to the annual bill between the two of us." thing?"
Lin Huai: ...
As Chu Tianshu was talking, he realized that the person lying on top of him stopped talking. He couldn't help but scratched his head and said, "Hey, even if you're a man, isn't it okay to have a little girly heart once in a while?!"
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "You're laughing at me in your heart, right? You're definitely laughing at me, right?! Heh..."
"... Let's talk about the bill?" Lin Huai hugged his neck and said softly, "Come to reconcile the bill?"
"..."
"...In the past six months, Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu have spent 11 weekends together. They went to the mall twice to shop, and the rest of the time they squatted at home to order takeaway. When the takeaway phone rang, No matter what he was doing, or what he was doing, Lin would kick him over and ask Chu to stop and go out to pick up takeaways. This kind of scene happened 35 times in the rental house... "
"... In the past six months, in the rented house, the average time for Lin to fall asleep was one o'clock in the morning—it used to be three o'clock in the morning. Considering that staying up late is not good for the body and mind, a month ago, Lin and Chu made an appointment Go to bed early, so the two students moved the bedtime to ten o'clock in the evening... "
"... Kid Lin prefers the neck to be kissed more than the lips. Every time he is kissed, he hums like a cat whose chin is being rubbed. Last week, we kissed... times in total, of course, in Kissing on the bed doesn't count."
Lin Huai: ...
"Why do you remember these little things?" Lin Huai asked him, "Do you hold grudges?"
Chu Tianshu smiled.
"Because it feels..." He scratched his head, "It's something very memorable. Even though it is said that numbers are cold, but I always feel that such trivial things, if I write them down, even if I see them many years later, I will feel..."
very warm.
In his voice, Lin Huai seemed to hear the dark shadow hidden in his body, and let out a chuckle.
Lin Huai sat on his shoulder while the other party was counting in detail, watching him walk through the collapsed city. Finally, the two came to the ruined castle at the end of the road.
There was no trace of life in the castle.
"Okay, we checked around again, but still haven't found any trace of her." Chu Tianshu scratched the ruins with the crutch he picked up for the last time, and said helplessly, "But anyway, I got the key, and..."
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "There is nothing left in this city that can be taken away."
Lin Huai: "... I don't know why, but I always feel that your last sentence is the key point."
Lin Huai glanced at the city-state that was now in ruins. Twilight fell over the rubble, and all he could see was the desolation. In the city-state, there is no trace left by the witch at all.
"What an unenthusiastic host, doesn't he even have basic hospitality?" Lin Huai sighed, "Forget it, let's go. You said earlier that you got the card of the Envious Witch?"
Chu Tianshu nodded and said, "I just picked it up from the castle..."
"The gluttonous witch is red, the lazy witch is dark blue, so the jealous witch should..." Lin Huai thought.
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Tianshu took out a green card from his pocket.
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "What should I do?"
"It's not so much a surprise, it's better to say that the green witch of jealousy is as expected..." Lin Huai twitched his forehead, "The attack point of the green witch of jealousy, the gluttonous witch is the player's stomach, and the attack point of the lazy witch is The player's sleep, according to this logic, the attack point of the envious witch is... "
Chu Tianshu glanced at him: "The player's boyfriend or girlfriend?"
Lin Huai: "No, the top of the player's head."
Chu Tianshu: "..."
"Oh, very good," Chu Tianshu suddenly became excited, "In the game store, head armor is rare, maybe I can find a few green heads in the castle of the envious witch." Armor..."
Lin Huai looked at him with indescribable eyes.
The two talked and laughed, and gradually moved away from the city-state. Following the instructions on the green card, Chu Tianshu walked to the place where the "Witch of Jealousy" was located on the map - the Kingdom of Mirrors.
Jealousy, mirror, Snow White, stepmother... Lin Huai pondered the connections.
After the figures of the two had completely disappeared, there was finally movement in the sleepy city that was originally silent.
"Snapped!"
A pale hand stretched out from the deep well!
A girl crawled out of the well. She was wearing a dark blue long dress, and her long dark brown hair was disheveled, like a puppet made of wood. However, her face was exactly the same as the girl holding the bear that Lin Huai saw in his dream!
However, at this moment, there was no longer the sneer that Lin Huai saw in her dream, or the usual laziness on her face. The puppet stared at the direction where the two disappeared, as if there was something extremely frightening there.
"Disappeared… "
She turned to her right and said softly.
The place that originally belonged to her right arm is now empty!
Her right arm seemed to be severed by something—not just severed, because no matter how sharp the blade was, it was impossible to cause such a wound!
There were no burrs or traces of hesitation in the wound, it was suddenly exposed to the air, and it was smooth—absolutely smooth, smooth without any coefficient of friction.
Its arm looks like it was "removed" from the place abruptly!
"I can't get close to his dream, once I get close, it's like being 'deleted'..." The puppet wriggled its lips, "This is not his conscious behavior, but out of an unconscious state of self-protection, or It's instinct, just being close, that's the extent, that person..."
What is that person? !
…
Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu were walking on the path to the Kingdom of Mirrors. The twilight faded away, and the night was getting darker. In the sky, there was only a round of cold moon reflecting the two people's marching steps, like an eye staring at them coldly.
"Look at the map, one kilometer further from here is the Kingdom of Mirrors... where the Envious Witch is located is the kingdom where Snow White is. Have you heard the story of Snow White?" Chu Tianshu said.
Lin Huai thought for a while, "Is it the princess who died after eating an apple that didn't comply with food safety regulations, and then revived after undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation?"
Chu Tianshu: "... What kind of weird thing did you see?"
Chu Tianshu told the story of Snow White and her stepmother. Lin Huai thought thoughtfully: "If this is the case, then the jealous witch in the Kingdom of Mirrors should be Snow White's stepmother, that is, the Black Hearted Queen?"
Chu Tianshu: "Yes."
Lin Huai: "Then where will the key be hidden? Is it in an apple in the city-state?"
He follows the logic of all stories. Chu Tianshu thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's not that simple."
The two of them were chatting one after another, but they didn't realize at all that since at some point, a mist gradually rose from around the two of them.
At first, the mist was just a faint wisp or two, wrapping around their skirts. However, before they knew it, the road in front of their eyes was completely covered by fog.
"Here we come." Chu Tianshu said.