It was late at night.
The southern suburbs are very quiet, every household can't see any lights, and even cats and dogs can't be seen in the streets and alleys. Except for the street lights on the streets that are always on all night, still emitting a cool glow, the whole city Has been completely immersed in the quiet night, as if frozen in this night.
The crescent moon was covered by dark clouds in the sky, behind the thick clouds, there was only a gleam of light leaking from the gaps in the clouds, the half-covered moonlight seemed to have traces of scarlet color, it barely It fell on the roof of the Hao family's mansion, with a vague and illusory texture.
A flurry of flapping wings suddenly broke the silent night that seemed to freeze forever, and the clouds in the sky seemed to recede all of a sudden, and the clear moonlight suddenly fell from the clouds, and in the moonlight, a group of dark bats Circling and landing from high altitude.
The group of bats circled twice over the Hao family's mansion in a surprisingly orderly manner, and then flew into the room through the open skylight. The cutting is all in pieces. These bats quickly condensed in the corridor, and in the blink of an eye, they gathered into an elegant and slightly cold black-haired girl.
Vivienne came back from a "walk". She looked back at the moonlight outside, and saw that the moon had been covered by clouds again. This time, even that ray of light was hard to find.
The house is quiet, which is normal—it is close to 1:30 in the evening, and even the night owl "roll" and Elizabeth who doesn't like to sleep should have gone back to the house to rest, and can insist on staying up at this hour and going out for a walk She is the only "vampire" with a different biological clock in the big circle. In fact, if she doesn't feel that she hasn't slept well these days, Vivienne would even go shopping for a while.
Thinking of her sleep problems, Vivienne couldn't help stretching, then yawned long, and was about to go back to her room to rest.
But before returning to the basement, she went to the kitchen first, first filled the automatic rice cooker with rice and water and set the cooking time for the next day, and then went to the water room to pick up a large basin of tap water to dry In the open space of the kitchen, the former is to save trouble when getting up early, and the latter is because Doudou prefers to swim in the tap water after it has been left to dry for several hours, because it can more effectively dissipate the strange smell in the tap water.
After finishing her work in the kitchen, she checked the water level in the water dispenser again, because a careless big dog often drained the last drop of water in the water dispenser without changing the bucket; cleaned up some broken biscuit crumbs on the coffee table , that should be the evidence that Gun got up to eat something in the middle of the night. If he didn't clean up that silly cat, Hao Ren would hold his ears and scold him until noon.
Vivienne looked around the living room with her hips crossed, feeling full and satisfied.
Finally she went back to her room in the basement.
She didn't turn on the light, but just hummed some simple melodies in her mouth, so that even without relying on dark vision, the sound waves reflected back from the surroundings were enough for her to detect all the details in the darkness. The electricity bill that can be saved in this way is actually very small, but Vivienne is very used to this frugal method: Even if there is no need to worry about food and clothing now, some long-established habits are still not so easy to change.
She waved her hand again, and a group of bats appeared out of nowhere and surrounded her, transforming her clothes into a black nightgown, and then she lay on the bed, ready to fall asleep.
But soon, she sat up again, and frowned slightly in the dark, listening attentively to the sound coming from a certain direction.
I heard someone calling my name again, and it was still that inexplicable auditory hallucination.
This is not the first time these auditory hallucinations have appeared, it has appeared at least seven or eight times in the past few days, and each time it is so real that it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the false.
Vivienne shook her head, and put her hand on the amulet from Raven 12345 on her chest, a sense of peace and reassurance gradually surged up.
The auditory hallucination was only a momentary thing, and it quickly disappeared as if it had never appeared before. Under the effect of the amulet's forced calm, she felt a little drowsiness slowly amplifying, so she put those insignificant things aside and started again. Lie in bed and slowly fall asleep.
Silence returned to the basement, only the medical cabins and space teleportation devices in the compartment occasionally made one or two slight beeps when they were on standby. The deep darkness gathered from all directions, and everything was silent in the darkness.
But after a while, something vague and indistinguishable gradually emerged from the darkness.
In the corner of the basement, on the dark ceiling, beside Vivienne's sleeping bed, phantom-like things are gradually emerging. At first they were a deep, cloudy black, almost blending in with the surrounding darkness, but gradually these things took on a more vivid color and quickly stood out from the darkness of the background. These chaotic and fuzzy shadows became clear and began to take on various forms: birds and beasts, figures, chariots and horses, palace walls and pavilions, even mountains, forests, lakes and seas...
The space in the basement seemed to be expanded countless times at once, and it seemed that the surrounding walls and furniture disappeared out of thin air, turning into a boundless and vast world. In the darkness, except for the bed where Weiwei rested, there were only various phantoms moving around, and they were piled up one after the other, like a series of absurd historical dramas with disordered time and ridiculous logic. All kinds of things that have long been wiped out appear in these repertoires.
A Viking pirate came out from the shadows. His upper body was bare, and the horned helmet on his head was cracked. A splash of water rolled from under his feet for no reason, so there appeared wooden ship sides and messy ropes under his feet again.
Then a flash of fire flashed across the air, and the Viking pirates shattered like glass. A fleet rushed up from behind the pirate ship. The fleet was flying the flag of the Greek city-state. The long knife pointed at the terrifying sea monster that was surfacing in front of it.
Poseidon emerged from Vivienne's bedside. This giant with beard and hair as thick as seaweed pointed his trident at the Greek warships, and countless warships were instantly torn to pieces by the wind and waves.
The endless yellow sand replaced the rough ocean in the next instant, and the Persians in robes were trekking on the desert. A businessman driving camels stopped in front of Vivienne's bed. He bent down, but his sight was completely Not on that bed, apparently, in his time and space he was seeing something else.
A long sword suddenly crossed the phantom of the Persian businessman, and then the crossbow arrows covered the sky like locusts, the Persian caravan disappeared, and an army in black armor appeared in the distance. The mighty officer immediately yelled: "The King of Qin has an order to record meritorious service with the head of the enemy, no matter how high or low the origin is, all will fight the enemy bravely!"
However, the general's words were swallowed by the wind and sand, and his army soon became a phantom floating in the yellow sand. In the sand that covered the sky and the sun, a floating battleship that seemed to be made of gold slowly passed the sky, shining brilliantly The giant sails are almost comparable to the sun.
Countless worshipers appeared, and they prostrated themselves in the yellow sand, beside the pyramids, and in the fertile soil beside the Nile River. No matter the princes, nobles or ordinary people, they all praised the name of Ra and praised the glory of Horus. prestige.
However, a powerful light came from the west, and the solar ship was torn apart in a big explosion, and the whole Egypt was engulfed in flames.
The chaotic history is still playing in this absurd drama, but only the small bed is unaffected like an isolated island in the world. Vivian sleeping on the bed frowned, as if dreaming of something bad.
She turned over, and all the phantoms vibrated violently, as if the world collapsed and fell silently into fragments, Mount Olympus collapsed, the temple of Ra collapsed, Pompeii, Troy , Asgard, Thinis, Babylon, and the legendary Tower of Babel... everything began to collapse.
But this silent collapse stopped suddenly, because Vivienne calmed down again, and she murmured a few words softly, maybe it was tomorrow's menu, maybe it was something to buy at home, or it might be the name of a certain TV program, in short She fell into a peaceful sleep again, so the illusion of the basement was preserved.
After maintaining a strange silence for a while, these phantoms receded like a tide, and the original scene of the basement finally reappeared.
But not everything has faded away. Beside Vivienne's bed, some translucent things are still there. It is a circle of primitive people wearing animal skins and disheveled hair. They form several circles and come from another The flames of time and space shone on their faces, making these primitive people look terrifying and empty like ghosts. They worshiped beside Vivian, bent down and kissed the ground next to Vivian again and again, their voices came from another time and space, subtle and vague:
"Great, lord of blood, great, lord of nightmares, great, lord of death..."
The deep night gathered in all directions, and finally, this last phantom also disappeared.
The dark clouds in the sky have dissipated at some point, and a crescent moon has reappeared in the sky. It is about to sink below the horizon, but it is still emitting an almost abnormally bright moonlight. This moonlight shines through a narrow transom above the basement Sprinkled into the room, it happened to shine on Vivienne.
Under the last ray of moonlight tonight, Vivian turned over again, as if affected by the light, she frowned and muttered softly:
"Time to wake up… "