Their footsteps did not move, and the red-haired woman was sweating profusely. Through these soft dolls, it seems that there are two sliding snakes outside, hissing and clinging to each other.
Her heart was beating so fast it almost gave her away. — At least she thinks so. Through the gaps in the fluff, she vaguely saw the two loyal guards. They both turned their backs to her and only bent deeply towards the big bed hidden in the darkness.
"It woke me up," the young master's voice was sleepy and hazy, with an indistinct ending, "Be quiet..."
He seemed about to fall asleep again.
The two housekeepers finally left the pile of dolls and walked towards their master. The quilt was pulled up again, the layers of curtains were untied, and the voices of the twins sounded in the room, "We will wait for you to fall asleep."
Their backs are like two stone sculptures, still bent deeply. Lin Mengmeng mustered up the courage to take a look, her heart trembled suddenly.
They were kissing the boy's fingertips.
That hand hangs down from the curtain, which is completely different from this darkness, the kind that sees no light, and the bones are lonely. Two pairs of hot lips were slightly attached to that little finger, only daring to stay on it for a moment.
A kiss that leaves no trace.
That attitude is close to belief, and in Lin Mengmeng's view, it is almost a kind of fanatical worship without reason and root. Her body was stiff, watching the NPCs guarding their territory for a long time, until it was almost dawn, and she walked out quietly from here.
She was finally able to get out from the pile of dolls, sweating unknowingly. Just as she tiptoed to leave, someone behind her stopped her.
The boy sat up from the bed at some point and looked at her calmly.
Lin Mengmeng was taken aback, and said in amazement: "You...you didn't fall asleep?"
She heard the young master's breathing evenly and long early on, and thought he was fast asleep.
The boy smiled, but didn't answer her words, he just took a piece of soft silk from the head of the bed and motioned for her to bandage the wound.
Lin Mengmeng hesitated a little, and took it from him after a long time. She hesitated for a moment, rolled up her blood-soaked sleeves, and exposed her arms—she glanced at the young master again, but found that the young master's expression hadn't changed at all, as if he didn't notice her abnormality at all.
After the dressing was finished, the boy asked her suddenly: "How did you go back?"
Lin Mengmeng thought that the other party was afraid that she would not know her way, so she hurriedly said, "I'm still going down the original stairs, it's okay, I remember—"
"Changing the road."
The young master stood up and lightly interrupted her.
Lin Mengmeng was puzzled and looked at him in surprise. But he saw the other party go straight to a wall, push his hand on it lightly, and the wall rotated—
It turned out to be a secret door.
Behind the secret door is the connected doll room, and the dolls are almost piled up into a hill. Lin Mengmeng was hunted down by them last night, so she didn't dare to take a second look, and hurriedly followed behind him.
The boy's hand gently twisted the doorknob.
"Go up from here," he said, "go up to the attic, and then go down the stairs on the right, so you won't be bumped into."
As he spoke, his finger touched his mouth slightly.
Lin Mengmeng's eyes were attracted for a moment. His fingers were very white, but his lips were light red, as if intertwined with an inexplicable meaning, making her eyes stick to the neat and round nails for a long time.
Until the young master's voice rang in her ear again: "Don't say it."
"… Ok?"
"Don't tell anyone, last night."
Only then did Lin Mengmeng understand what he meant, she took her eyes off him with difficulty, and focused on his words instead. Naturally, she could understand what was meant for her own good in these words, and she didn't know what to say for a while, she just nodded vigorously at him, thanked him a few times, and then ran up the road pointed by the boy Go, suddenly remembered something, and looked back—the lonely young master was still standing in front of the door, and he seemed a little surprised when he met her gaze, and raised his eyebrows.
Lin Mengmeng waved vigorously at him, watching him turn and close the door. At that moment, she even felt that this NPC was lonely.
She has been living in such a closed manor, treated with care, like a ceramic doll placed on a shelf. No one is equal to him. Those so-called servants seem to be his subordinates, but in fact they are more like a group of supervisors, forcibly separating him from others.
But he's actually a nice guy.
Lin Mengmeng said in her heart, not to mention good-looking, but also good-hearted, she doesn't discriminate... I don't blame those servants for blowing rainbow farts like that.
If you want her, she might blow it too.
She returned to the team without incident, as if nothing had happened. Lu Ran was obviously very surprised by his return, and came to inquire several times, but was fooled by Lin Mengmeng.
"I just lost my way," she said to Lu Ran, trying to put on a look of impatience, "I didn't find the young master's room at all! Don't you blame me for letting me go?"
Lu Ran's sinister eyes stared at her suspiciously.
"Then how did you get hurt?"
"There are NPCs patrolling the corridor," Lin Mengmeng explained half-truthfully, "I was injured by them, so I managed to hide in an empty room. I didn't dare to run out, so I stayed in there all night..."
She has never been a bold person. Lu Ran and her are from the same village, so she naturally knows it. Seeing that she said she has a nose and eyes, and she is still pulling herself to settle accounts, she immediately stopped pestering her, and only cursed a piece of trash in her heart, and said in disgust: "Quickly put down your sleeves, what should you do if they see it? It's—disgusting!" nausea?"
Lin Mengmeng said firmly: "Don't worry about it!"
She heard that Lu Ran swallowed two words, and what she wanted to say was "abnormal". For some reason, she couldn't help thinking of the young master again.
… He looks lonely.
Lin Mengmeng has also experienced this feeling herself. She was not the kind of popular child since she was a child, but was the easiest to be bullied. She has experienced a long period of time without a partner, and she can't imagine that she actually found this kind of sympathy and recognition in an NPC in the game.
The next night, almost by accident, she went to the doll's room by the unobtrusive path.
After knocking on the door three times, the boy's pale face with light pupils appeared behind him.
A translucent, unmelted amber color.
"you… ?"
Lin Mengmeng said, "Well..."
She didn't know how to explain this whim, so she hurriedly licked her lips again, and whispered: "I'm here... to relieve the young master."
She almost thought that the NPC would shut her out of the door, but after a moment of silence, the door was pulled open completely.
"come in."
Lin Mengmeng actually didn't have anything to talk about, and this noble young master seemed to be just bored for a while. After thinking about it for a long time, she found that her stomach was empty, and she couldn't help but feel annoyed that she didn't study hard. But at this moment, the young master had already sat down among the toys, looking at her with amber eyes.
Obviously waiting for her to perform.
That's right, Lin Mengmeng said in her heart, after all, she herself said that she wanted to relieve him...
But what can she say? The only thing that can surprise an NPC should be the fact that this is actually a game, after all, only she lives in reality—
Wait, reality!
She simply began to tell the other party about modern things, about the four-wheeled cars that might appear in the future, about the big birds flying in the sky, about the mobile phones and the Internet that can make calls at will, and of course, all these things changed in her mouth. It became her guess and imagination about the future, anyway these are new to NPC. She spoke vividly, even with gestures, the other party couldn't help leaning forward, as if she was fascinated by what she was listening to.
At that time, she did not expect that some kindling cannot be buried.
Once buried, it has the potential to start a prairie fire.
This lecture went on for several nights. The young master's mood improved obviously, and the player's life became much easier during the day. Not to mention, sometimes he would ask her a few questions at night, and Lin Mengmeng also tried to answer truthfully, only blurring some of the details, so as not to make this future seem too real. On the fourth day, when the sky was getting brighter, both of them were still unsatisfied. Lin Mengmeng stood up to say goodbye to each other, and said that she would come again.
The young master has been listening quietly, without interrupting her. It wasn't until she was about to leave that he asked a word abruptly.
"Is this all in your imagination?"
The fine hairs on Lin Mengmeng's arms suddenly stood up. She tried her best to maintain her breathing, and turned around pretending to be normal.
"Yeah," she laughed, "I like to think of nonsense—what else could it be?"
The young master looked at her face thoughtfully.
"Like real."
he said slowly.
Lin Mengmeng's back was soaked in cold sweat.
She felt that the NPC was smart from the communication, but she never thought that it was so sharp, which made her so-called imagination falter.
It seems that at this time, the reality that the other party is an npc has never been more clearly reflected in her mind.
Lu Ran once emphasized: "It's better not to reveal your identity, there are many characters who think they are real."
That's what Lu Ran said the night before they were about to leave.
At that time, someone asked: "What if I accidentally said it?"
"careless… "
Lu Ran sighed, as if he was still laughing and joking like usual, but his face that was always sloppy became serious. He looked around and said in an unprecedented solemn tone: "Then there is no guarantee that you will be able to get out safely."
…
Now, that sentence exploded in her heart.
She broke out in a cold sweat, and almost used all her ingenuity to round out this paragraph, "How could this be true? Not all of this is what I thought, and some of it is what I read from books.— Only by myself, how can I think of it?"
The young master was still smiling slightly, and it was hard to tell whether he believed it or not. Lin Mengmeng felt a kind of panic from him that she couldn't control the situation, so she could only run away in embarrassment, and hurriedly said: "I want to go back quickly. Master..."
"You look familiar."
Unexpectedly, the young master skipped the topic just now, and answered such a sentence abruptly. It seemed to have nothing to do with what she said before, but being looked at by such a pair of amber eyes still made people feel cold all over.
"how come?"
Lin Mengmeng was convinced that she had never been in the game before, her words were absurd as if she was chatting up someone, "I haven't been here before."
The young master's eyes drooped slightly, and his thick eyelashes were drawn down, as if he was a little disappointed.
"Right."
he whispered.
"How could you have been here?"
There is no one else in his life, and those few people will always revolve around him. Servants, men, dolls—nothing new. So he fell back into the chair wearily, and Lin Mengmeng bumped out, still feeling flustered.
She knew that she had been a little dizzy recently, and she almost told the truth in front of the NPC. She struggled for a long time, but finally she swore secretly that she would never see the boy again, and just finished the tasks for the past few days in a down-to-earth manner, and then took the money and went home. — After all, in this world, in the final analysis, nothing is as important as her being alive.
Besides, the young master himself is fake, it's just a row of data stored in the database.
She decided to keep these two bizarre nighttime meetings deep in her heart and never say a word to the outside world.
And never think of it again.
After that, Lin Mengmeng really never saw the young master again. Lu Ran was thinking about the task by himself, but seeing the NPCs who looked at the young man as if they were eyeballs, they didn't dare to really come to the door—this also made Lin Mengmeng heave a sigh of relief.
In the process of working, she also accidentally saw a portrait of the young master, which was hidden under the wooden easel. It seemed that a servant who secretly admired the young master had just painted it, and it was no different from the young man she had seen. But before she had the idea of secretly hiding this painting as a souvenir, a pale and slender hand stretched out in front of her, and took the canvas away without hesitation.
Lin Mengmeng turned her head hastily, and met a pair of green eyes.
Thick like a cold pool.
is one of the twins.
He stood straight and his voice was chilling: "What did you see?"
Lin Mengmeng opened her mouth, and saw the bright killing intent on his handsome face, her neck suddenly felt cold.
"You, see, what's up?"
The npc asked word by word again.
Lin Mengmeng suddenly understood, she said tremblingly: "No..."
"I... I didn't see anything!"
The twins only gave her another gloomy look, and then he slowly rolled up the canvas in his hand with a completely different attitude of caution, and held it tightly in his palm. His gaze was still full of threats, and he said slowly, "One last time."
Lin Mengmeng opened her mouth wide.
"Because the young master likes it," the twins breathed like gloomy and cold poisonous snakes, crawling up her pant legs, "so I won't move you, but this is the last time—"
His voice dropped suddenly, full of malice, and he pinched a snow-white flower in a vase on the table with his fingers. The juice of the flower dripped down his hand, almost a rotten aroma.
"Being discovered by us again, you approach there—"
"We chopped off your legs."
"Chopped off your head."
"Throw your entrails to the dogs."
He stood up again, wiped his slender hands with a handkerchief, and looked down condescendingly. Lin Mengmeng's height is not low, at least it is much taller than most women, but in front of him, she seemed to be suppressed and suddenly became shorter—the other party looked down at her, as if looking at a bird. Insignificant ants.
Not even worth looking at.
"Always remember clearly what you are."
Lin Mengmeng couldn't say a word, and only one thought echoed in her mind: They really knew.
From night one, they've known...
They just...they just didn't say it!
When she was hiding among the dolls, the malevolent gaze from outside was not an illusion, it was just that the young master's love gave her an extra protective umbrella for a while—it was the young master's protection at that time that made her escape from the quagmire.
It's ridiculous that she didn't know it at the time, and thought she had fooled them.
In fact, she was tricked by them.
She didn't speak any more, but her desire to leave became stronger.
Anyway, after going out, there will be no more of these.
just get out...
She forcibly restrained herself from thinking about the boy or his situation, but these abnormalities were gradually caught by others. After that, the footsteps of patrolling outside became louder, Lin Mengmeng saw dolls in more places, With eyes made of dark buttons, they were placed in every corner of the manor, staring at them quietly and silently.
It was a silent caretaker.
When they gathered together at night, they occasionally talked about this mysterious young master. Seeing how these servants guarded them like thieves, the so-called young master was not like his master, but rather like a bird imprisoned in a golden cage.
This feeling is getting stronger every day. The new servants actually had little chance of getting in touch with this delicate young master.
They didn't even wait for the birthday party, they made a mistake and were kicked out by the npcs. Naturally, the task was not completed, and everyone was full of resentment, but Lu Ran said that he heard the NPCs discussing on the day he came out, and wanted to find a group of new servants to come in.
"Maybe we violated their taboo." He said meaningfully, looking straight at Lin Mengmeng.
Lin Mengmeng didn't answer, she naturally knew what the taboo was - it was herself who dared to contact the young master.
She didn't sleep well for many days after that, keeping her eyes open until dawn. She thought, the boy always saved her on the first night, but she didn't do anything. Instead, she threw him among the other npcs who were not considered good people, which was naturally wrong.
She couldn't tell whether it was the sympathy that caused it, or that inexplicable look that suddenly came into her mind—in short, it seemed that she had such a friend in her life, but soon disappeared.
In fact, no one else could express her childish thoughts. Lin Mengmeng has always been alone, lonely, and a person who travels alone. No one is willing to stand in front of her to shield her from the wind and rain, the young man is the first, and possibly the only one.
Thinking of this, she stood up and decided to draw the boy's appearance, so as to teach herself not to forget.
The drawing paper is in the photo album. There are many old photos in the thick album, which are left by the elders, and they are all yellowed. Most of them are photos of her grandfather and her classmates. Lin Mengmeng accidentally knocked off a stack, and hurriedly lowered her head to pick it up.
Photos were scattered all over the floor.
Others said that she and her grandfather looked somewhat similar when they were young, from eyebrows to face shape. Now, those young grandpas who are similar to her are scattered on the ground.
She caught a glimpse of one of them, and suddenly froze, as if a rumbling thunder exploded in her mind. She picked it up with trembling hands, and several teenagers in the photo put their shoulders together, one of them was her grandfather, and they all smiled at her. There was a black car vaguely parked behind it. They were standing under a tall plane tree, with a few drops of sweat hanging from their foreheads, with a schoolbag on one shoulder, and the top two buttons of their shirts unbuttoned——
The face in the middle was so clear and distinct that she almost screamed. She suddenly fell to the ground, her palms came into contact with the ground heavily, and the photo was lying on the ground whirling lightly.
Amber smiling eyes.
Gentle and youthful. The warm spring is coming as expected in his pupils. He held his brother's hand on his shoulder, and the brows were exposed from the gaps in the scattered hair.
…
She can never be wrong.
… It's him.
… It's him! ! !
He is human! ! !
Lin Mengmeng stared blankly. In the corner of the photo, a butterfly is sucking the nectar of a flower, with its sharp mouthparts inserted deeply, sucking out all the vitality from inside.
Nourishing—
After marking in this way.
It is the flower that belongs to the butterfly.
Kou Dong let go of the hand that was tightly holding the plush ear. In front of him was the chaotic banquet hall scene, and the scuffle between players and npcs only paused for a few seconds.
He saw Ye Yanzhi in the gap between the crowd, the man's lips were tightly pressed, and he was also staring at him gloomily.
The plush bear sang happy birthday intermittently in his hand. But this time, Kou Dong smelled a familiar smell on it.
Not from someone else.
It was from his original self.
Beside him stood the smooth gray rabbit, which pressed its face against Koudon's lap, and seemed to feel the same sorrow for him.
Kou Dong gently patted its head, and said in a low voice, "Thanks for your hard work."
Remind me so hard.
The gray rabbit swayed its two long ears, and hugged his leg vigorously. Under Kou Dong's touch, a figure of a young man in women's clothing slowly emerged from its body, with its head bowed.
"But—but I still couldn't get you out."
Lin Mengmeng is actually a transgender person to a certain extent, and he hopes that he can grow into a woman. This was almost unheard of in the village, and it was ridiculous. No one would associate with him, let alone support him to undergo surgery. He grew up in such a lonely environment. When he rolled up his sleeves after being injured in the game, he saw the dense hair that he hadn't shed in time, as if it had been woven into a layer of black net, covering his arm, splitting his arm into black and white two distinct parts. Piece.
That obviously belonged to a man's hand. The young master clearly saw it, but he didn't comment on it at all.
He was also the first to discover but did not comment.
Lin Mengmeng was very grateful to him. He actually doesn't need people to stand up for him, not at all, he just wants to be treated as an ordinary woman - this shouldn't be a difficult task, but only from the young master, he has gained an unprecedented sense of identity and security.
"Twice if you can't do it once, or three times if you can't do it twice," the gray rabbit murmured, hugging his leg tightly, with a burning fire in his eyes, "This is already the third time—"
For the first time, he accidentally discovered that the young master was supposed to be a living person after playing the game.
The second time, he escaped from the game with the young master, causing the NPC to completely blacken and go crazy. Before his memory was completely wiped out by "The Dead", he wrote that mysterious post in order to prevent other players from accidentally entering this dungeon and being harmed by npcs.
He thought there would be no next time. But the boy was still discovered, and was pulled into the game again, and returned to the man's palm. The number of times increased, but his determination remained the same. He raised his head, and also looked at Ye Yanzhi in front of him, but his eyes were full of hatred and firm—
"He's not a bird in your cage."
"I will definitely save him!"
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