white night syndrome

Chapter 170 138. Before It's Too Late
"As I said before, I used to be white, but now I'm a little black."

The man grinned sharply, and then he looked towards the new city of Ikebukuro not far away, with a nostalgic expression on his face, and he let out a long sigh of relief.

"Okay, dear guest, now it seems that time is running out, you will soon accept a meeting with the high-level officials of the new world, and I, the guide, will also become those "strange-looking people" because of the violation just now. disgusting people". "

"Is there no way to prevent you from being punished?" Li Ming asked subconsciously.

To be reasonable, since he got in touch with this guide to understand the situation, he has developed some affection for this stranger.

"My dear guest, I am honored and happy that you have such thought, but..."

The man took a deep breath, took out the only remaining cigarette from the cigarette case he was carrying, lit it carefully in front of Li Ming's eyes, and tremblingly put the end of the cigarette into his mouth.

"But this is the rule, and I have no way to change it. All people in our new world are bound by this rule... We have no way to escape, and we have no way to resist."

"So..." Li Ming hesitated to speak.

"Yes, the previous ones are considered polite, and the views I express now are my truest thoughts."

The man took a puff of cigarette, then spit it out, and said in a low voice.

"My dear guest, our identity has always been a struggling new world person at the bottom, it is my honor to be in contact with a person like you, and after I lead the way, I will also become an outcast in the new world .

So I appreciate your kindness, but please don't worry about me, I will solve these things by myself. "

"This is your own choice, I respect it." Li Ming pursed his lips.

He is not a saint, and the guide in front of him is just a one-sided encounter. He was punished for revealing the rules and secrets. To put it bluntly, he found it himself.

But as a human being, when he thinks that he was punished because he gave him secret clues, he feels somewhat uncomfortable psychologically.

Such thoughts made him feel even more conflicted.

"Then in the end, I want to ask how to escape from this city, or... how to leave here?" Li Ming looked at the city that was gradually showing a tall figure not far away, and his heart became more and more tense.

"Didn't you come to the new world by yourself?" The man squinted his eyes, a little curious, and extinguished the cigarette in his hand at this moment, "Every time our guides get information from the high-level before receiving guests at work, we I always thought that these guests came here on their own initiative, but I didn't expect..."

"It seems that this new city hides a huge secret..." Li Ming paused, "By the way, you saw a girl in a cheongsam and several other guests who looked like outsiders Is it? Those are my friends."

Li Ming also noticed that something was wrong. It seems that after getting in touch with this man, his attitude towards him has become better. From the first insult in his heart to the current "you", it seems that he has accepted this guide from the bottom of his heart. .

"I've never seen a girl in a cheongsam, but as for outsiders... my colleagues should have seen it, because the guide agency seems to have received a lot of guests in the past few days."

Suddenly, the two seemed to find that the city in front of them began to roll up thick fog, gradually swallowing everything around them.

When Li Ming looked around, he seemed to hear a mocking voice, and then he no longer felt uncomfortable being stared at.

"Time is running out, guest, that dense fog is the gate to the new world, they will swallow us, and I will become a part of this dense fog in a short time."

"Then..." Li Ming was interrupted just as he was about to speak.

"Don't talk about these useless greetings, guest, let me remind you that entering this gate does not mean that you have fully entered the new city of Ikebukuro, you have to go through a trial, our side The title is a test, and the purpose is to screen the guests and become members of the appropriate position."

"But I'm sorry that I don't have enough authority, so I don't know what this long-standing traditional trial is, and I can't know its content, but through some channels, I know the initial restrictions of this trial It’s just that the tester lost his memory, so he came to practice a simulated scene.”

"Amnesia?" Li Ming tilted his head.

"That's right, it's amnesia." The man threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, "I don't know how this affects the testers, but my guess is that if you fail the test, or if you don't reach those high-level Satisfied, you will be erased from memory and become a so-called 'aboriginal'."

"So come on, guest."

When the man said this, he straightened his clothes, trying to make himself decent as the dregs of the new world.

"Then in the end, I have another piece of advice. This world is a dream. Staying here will affect everything about you. Please wake up as soon as possible."

How did he know that this was a white dream?
Li Ming was a little dazed, but soon thought of something, the expression on his face became a little cold, and then he struggled as if he was caught in a painful memory.

"You are right, this is a nightmare." Li Ming pursed his lips, "And I will eventually wake up from this dream."

"That's the best. At the end of the day, let me introduce myself first. My surname is Sato." The man grinned, he threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, and extinguished it with his foot, "By the way, I forgot to ask You have something, can you tell me your name? It seems that you are also a friend of mine. "

"My name is Li..."

Before Li Ming finished speaking, a thick gray fog enveloped from not far away, and then engulfed everyone.

……

After waking up from a coma, the young man found that he had lost all memory. Although he still has common sense in the way of speaking, daily habits, or knowledge, but apart from his name, he also has work about his family and friends. I can't remember anything related to myself.

Looking around, here is a room, a one-room apartment, with beds, TVs, tables, bookshelves, cabinets and other furnishings in the room.

Walking to the closet, there are his clothes in the closet. As long as you check the size a little bit, you can be sure that the size matches your body shape exactly.

Then there is the bookshelf next to it. There are many books on the bookshelf in the room, which seem to belong to different volumes of the same series of books. The title of the series is "The Complete Works of Lovecraft", and all the books are translated into Japanese. , and the author is "Lovecraft".

If you want to read all the books, it will take weeks or months, but after a rough reading, you can know that this is a translated version of an overseas horror novel about the overhead myth system called Cthulhu Mythos, It contains poisoned monsters, and their related belief spell rituals and so on.

However, Arkham, Kingsport, Innsmouth, and Miskatonic University in the United States are all place names and universities in the real world, but they appear in the novel as the stage where the events take place.

However, he found that he had no impression of the original author, translator and publisher recorded in the book.

Li Ming pursed her lips, feeling a little dazed.

There is a smart phone on the low table on the right. After charging, the fingerprint authentication screen will be displayed first. However, if there is only the initial application in the smart phone to check the address book, you will find only one number saved.

If you enter the names of the original author, translator or publishing house in the mobile phone, you will find that they do not exist in the world we know now, and these things probably exist in the outside world.

And just as the young man was exploring the room, the TV suddenly turned on by itself, and began to broadcast news about the abnormal serial murders that had recently become a hot topic.

Two incidents occurred in a row during this week, and the third incident was discovered last night. Each time the prisoner was killed in a different way, and it was very large, which is the common point of this series of incidents. Engaged, because each incident Notes that read "Welcome to the New World" were left at the scene, so it was called the New World Event.

In the first incident, the deceased was a male. The man appeared in an unstable state in the morning. He appeared at the intersection of the busy street and then fell to the ground. The cause of death was suffocation.

There is a large wound on the male's chest from which his lungs were removed, and the male is holding a notebook with the words Welcome to the New World written on it.

The second incident was that a college student had his heart dug out and died. On his bed at home, on the notebook on the table, he wrote welcome to the new world, and the handwriting belonged to the dead student.

In the third incident, a body that was broken into several pieces was found on the river beach. The body found was found together with the body when it was buried in the soil and dug out. There was also a piece of paper that said, welcome to the new world .

It seems that since I came to this world, I have been passive.

Just as he was thinking so, there was a sound of picking the lock outside the door, and then a man entered the room.

"You are finally back, Li Ming, do you know how worried I am about you?" The man played with the key in his hand and looked at the young man in front of him, "I thought you were also involved in those incidents...but Fortunately, since you survived, it is already the greatest good thing."

"Who are you?" Li Ming frowned, and took a step back vigilantly, his face was full of suspicion.

"I'm your friend, have you forgotten me? Really... I can even forget this kind of thing. I'm Sato." The man grinned.

Everything seemed so familiar, but Li Ming still couldn't remember it.

After careful consideration, Li Ming decided to ask the man in front of him about his present state.

"Where is this place?"

"This is your room, and you live here alone, I am your friend, we can almost be called Fa Xiao."

"Since you are a child, why do you have a key? What about my parents? It should be said that this key is mine?"

"Your parents told me to entrust you to me, and then gave me the key, so they will take it with them when they take care of you." The man nodded disapprovingly.

"What about my family?"

"Your family members are all abroad now, and I was entrusted to take care of you, and because of your personality, you like cold and damp corners, and you don't have any other close friends."

"What about my job? Or if I'm still in school, what about my school?"

"Have you even forgotten this kind of thing... It's really troublesome. You have just resigned from your previous workplace, so you are still looking for your next job. You have plenty of time now."

Why is this guy emphasizing that he has plenty of time? ?

Is it for foreshadowing?

"After we had dinner together last night, I went back at five o'clock in the afternoon, so nothing happened. As for your amnesia... I can't figure it out myself."

"What about those books?"

"What book? Are you talking about the books on those shelves? I haven't heard of them. As far as I know, this should be your favorite book. You even forgot about it. What a tricky thing." things."

Sato said with a smile, then took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to the young man in front of him.

There is no postage stamp, no postmark, and no sender on the envelope. There is a note in the envelope.

Li Ming took a few steps back vigilantly, showing a suspicious expression.

At this moment, the man in front of him suddenly took out a small knife that he was carrying with him, and the young man who had no time to dodge was a little at a loss in the face of the sudden action.

And the man in front of him stared at the young man with an expression distorted by madness, then raised his knife again as if he was going to deal a heavy blow, and in the next moment——

Li Ming blinked his eyes, his originally dull eyes regained their spirits, and he took a fancy to the envelope in front of him.

"Although this letter is not addressed to you, it is indeed written to you by me. First of all, it must be stated that this letter contains a huge lie. I am deliberately hiding this fact. On this basis who wrote this letter."

"It's too late for you to accept this fact, because he may make you lose your complete sanity and usher in your own destruction, so I can't explain it again, but I hope you can notice the mystery hidden in it and save this world."

"Although the order of the instructions is a bit wrong, but now your world is facing a crisis of extinction, and you may be confused by these sudden words, but you are the only one who can save this world. I hope you can investigate the new world. the truth of the incident."

"First of all, let me give you an instruction. Go to Professor Shirai of Shangying University first, before it's too late."

(End of this chapter)