"Bang!"
Yi Wan sat up from the bed, and the monitoring instruments connected to his body began to beep. He gasped for air and realized that he was sweating.
Chi Jixia was still lying on his left side with his eyes closed... On his right was Yu Rongshi who was also lying beside him.
Yi Wan stared at the black head for a while, reached out his hand hesitantly, and carefully touched his forehead with his fingertips.
Other people's testing equipment also made similar sounds. The little nurse lying on the ground frowned in her dream, covered her chest and turned over.
There was a name tag on her chest: "Tang Xue".
The dream is over.
The staff came in one after another, separated them, and checked their health indexes. Yi Wan noticed that a woman wearing glasses was looking at him with a complicated expression—not just at him, her eyes also swept over Yu Rongshi several times.
It seems that he is an acquaintance of Yu Rongshi in the Unnatural Bureau.
Doctors and nurses who had not yet fully woken up were moved out of the room. After waking up, they would treat the experiences in their dreams as an ordinary dream under the psychological guidance of these people, and at most add a little bit of beauty. Yi Wan saw that among the people who moved them was a middle-aged man who had already worn a life monitoring device. It seemed that if they could not wake up, this middle-aged man would also enter the dream with a mission... Even if his final outcome might be that he would never wake up again.
Based on the principle of confidentiality, the reason for his sacrifice will not be revealed, and his name will not be recorded. They themselves are ordinary people, but they will still sacrifice their lives voluntarily and consciously for the welfare of other ordinary people and the general public involved in supernatural events. Although on the other hand, this middle-aged man always expresses his vigilance and vague disgust towards Yu Rongshi, an "abnormal person" who is also willing to make sacrifices.
Everything is always so complicated, isn't it
Only Yi Wan, Chi Jixia, Yu Rongshi and the woman with glasses were left in the room. Yi Wan guessed that the woman with glasses had something to say to him - her status seemed higher than that of the other staff members.
But Yi Wan only asked the question that concerned him the most: "Why haven't they woken up yet?"
"Yu Rongshi will soon wake up. Chi Jixia won't be that fast - he'll need several days. Perhaps this explanation will be clearer: when you enter the dream, his brain is the server that 'provides services' and 'weaves the world' for all of you." The woman with glasses said, "This consumes a lot of energy for him, so he needs a longer time to recover."
Yi Wan hoped that Chi Jixia had given the hat away.
"Otherwise, I..." the woman said, "To be honest, we don't have a detailed enough file on you here. So I just want to ask, what are you going to do after you wake up?"
Yi Wan looked down at his fingers: "I thought you would want to ask me what kind of person I am and whether I am willing to do certain things..."
"I don't know." The woman looked at Yu Rong with a little loneliness in her eyes, "Maybe it's just because I started to feel... I did something wrong. I forced him to be someone else, which is not him, nor what we want. Both of us are suffering, especially him. Sometimes, two groups of people with the same beautiful expectations will go in opposite directions, right?"
Yi Wan: “Yeah.”
The woman added: "When you 'went in', our equipment detected another signal that also entered your 'world'. I guess that person is related to the blue light and Lin Meng's incident, right? Moreover, he has a close relationship with you - that person is Xie Ziyu, right? We guess..."
"Yi Wan doesn't need to deal with these things." A voice came from behind them, "Don't force him to act."
Yu Rongshi sat up from the bed and unplugged the device. The woman said, "Okay. Let's..."
"No, I think it's time to put an end to these things." Yi Wan said, "It's time."
This puts an end to the endless entanglement that has lasted for more than ten years.
Chi Jixia was still sleeping, and the two got up from the bed. The woman said, "If you want to find him, he went back to S City. There is no record of him leaving S City, but we don't know where he is now, or what he wants to do. Our intuition tells us that what he is going to do is not good. Go and see the room he left in the hotel, and then you will know why I said that."
Yi Wan said: "Thank you."
Woman: "There is another piece of news. Lan Guang's president Lan Bai escaped from prison. It's more like missing than 'escaping from prison'. He disappeared from the detention center the day before you woke up. Coincidentally, Xie Ziyu arrived in City S that day. I'm not sure if they are related. Lan Hua will come to find you. Xie Ziyu's room card is in his hands now."
Yi Wan vaguely smelled something else from these words.
Yi Wan said: "This means you choose to let go and let us take action, right?"
The woman turned her head, and after a long time, she smiled.
"Perhaps all we can protect is the safety of the secular world. But this time is different, Yi Wan." She said, "This is a battlefield that only you can touch. I once said that personal consciousness needs to serve the group. But... the group can never replace individual thinking. Especially in such a chaotic, absurd, and crazy world. Of course, you can also choose to do nothing. It all depends on you."
Yi Wan came out of the ward. Yu Rongshi came out with him. Yu Rongshi stood behind Yi Wan, like a knight who would always support him. Before the two of them stepped out of the door, Yu Rongshi heard a woman's voice behind him.
"Thank you for all the hard work," the woman said. "I am so glad... to see you, your old self again."
Yu Rongshi said nothing. He just smiled.
When the two of them went downstairs, light snow fell from the sky again. Yu Rongshi looked at the snowflakes in the sky and said softly, "Is it painful and troublesome to be entrusted with an important task and to be the savior?"
Yi Wan said: "I don't know, I just feel that I can't live in other people's dreams anymore."
Yu Rongshi said: "Do you think now is the time to face those fears?"
"No." Yi Wan said, "It's time to face myself."
Neither of them expected to see Brother Liu in the lobby. Brother Liu was wrapped in a down jacket, holding an electric
He was busy on his head, calling someone to apologize while typing away on the keyboard. When their eyes met, they both backed off a bit. In the end, the first person to speak was actually Brother Liu.
"… I've long said that the president's proposal for this rainbow group is unreliable. The four people are all weird, how can you put four kiwis and an egg in an egg basket! In the end, even you are not an egg." Brother Liu wiped his nose with a tissue. He had a cold from the exhaustion of the past few days.
Yi Wan said: "I am an egg."
"Do all the eggs have to come back to make money for me? Six-year contract! Your contract with AT is six years! Even superheroes have to abide by the spirit of the contract, right?" Brother Liu looked at him critically.
Yi Wan: …It’s still the familiar Brother Liu.
"Alright, alright. I just called Director Ye. Director Ye just left yesterday to shoot the remaining scenes. When he heard that you woke up today, he called to ask about the situation. When you and Chi Jixia got into trouble, he was so worried..." Brother Liu waved his hand and said, "He said that the scenes are not urgent. You can rest for a month, two months, or even a month, and adjust your condition first."
Yu Rongshi said: "But Director Ye's illness...?"
He still remembered that Director Ye had cancer and this was his last play.
"There's still a lot of time, he said, and it's not too late to wait another year. Yi Wan, the last scene of "Inside and Outside the Mountains and Rivers" is your martyrdom. Remember, you have to come back to shoot. That's what he said." Brother Liu's expression became a little gentler, and soon, he resumed his capitalist style, "Okay, get out! So many things happened in the first year of debut. There's a wealthy family, a mental hospital, going to the toilet, depression, and the last egg was kidnapped... Finish your things and come back!"
After saying that, he lowered his head and looked at his computer again.
Yi Wan got into the SUV that Yu Rongshi had parked in the parking lot, and the anti-skid tires were riding the wind and waves in the snow. Yi Wan said, "In fact, Brother Liu's soul is sometimes stronger than ours."
"Right." Yu Rongshi said, "Ordinary people's souls are very strong."
Yi Wan said nothing. He stared at the vast snowy scene outside the window in a daze.
Five minutes passed until the SUV stopped in the hotel's parking lot and Yi Wan discovered that Yu Rong had not opened the car door yet.
He turned his head and glanced at him. Yu Rongshi put his hands on the steering wheel and said, "... I still remember it."
"Um?"
"You kissed me in the car, didn't you?" Yu Rongshi looked at him in the mirror. "Kiss me again?"
Yi Wan: …
Don’t do such meaningless and mundane things… Although in the end, Yu Rongshi still hugged and kissed him.
The two got out of the car and entered the hotel. Under the gray sky, the hotel also looked white. Obviously, the unsolved mystery that happened in the crew a few days ago has become explosive news in this period of time. Seeing Yi Wan and Yu Rongshi coming back together, all the staff kept glancing at them.
It was an attitude of wanting to explore but not daring to approach. Rather than looking at a victim, it was more like looking at a "topic". Yu Rongshi blocked Yi Wan behind him without leaving a trace.
“… How could they be together?” someone said.
The two of them took the elevator. No one expected that Lan Hua would actually squat at the elevator entrance on the first floor - the only way to Xie Ziyu's room. Seeing the two of them coming, he stood up and said, "I've been waiting for you..."
It seems that he has heard the news about his brother's disappearance.
"... Lin Meng, Qin Xuexin, Xie Ziyu, they are driving me crazy! Lan Bai, I told Lan Bai a long time ago not to get involved with Xie Ziyu." Lan Hua spoke incoherently, "I have been waiting for you..."
Yu Rongshi asked him, "Calm down first. Do you know how Lan Bai disappeared?"
After hearing this question, Lan Hua was silent for a while, and actually smiled bitterly.
"I don't know. Everyone has been asking me this question these days," he said. "But I really don't know. From his imprisonment to his disappearance, I was kept in the dark. I am no longer the brother who would share everything about him with me. But I know that Xie Ziyu must know. He is just a troublemaker."
Yi Wan only asked the most crucial question: "Do you have Xie Ziyu's room card?"
Lan Hua shrank back. That gesture was like the gesture a person would show when he betrayed the god he feared. But he opened his hand—in his palm was the room card that had been gripped with sweat.