white night syndrome

Chapter 226 194. Why bother for a dead person? (Please order in full)
Yuan Qingyu had only one way, and that was to use his strength to climb up to the platform.

but……

When Yuan Qingyu kept trying to climb up the platform, the slippery and straight walls and the sticky liquid around made his several attempts fail.

At this critical moment, Natsume's eyes suddenly regained their brightness. Seeing the scene in front of her, she pursed her lips, as if she had made some decision.

Natsume jumped off the platform, pushed Yuan Qingyu's body from below, and pushed him to the platform with all his strength.

With Natsume's help, Minamoto Seitama easily climbed onto the platform. Afterwards, others reached out to Natsume and tried to pull her up. However, after the scene just now, the girl had discovered and determined that she was just a victim. A forgery that imbued Natsume with memories that existed in dreams.

The girl did not take their hands. She stood in the middle of the track with a helpless expression.

"Go and find the real grapefruit. I believe you can do it."

"I'm very happy to be able to help you. After all, I'm just a doll——"

Natsume smiled, but you could clearly see the crystal tears in her eyes.

As soon as Natsume finished speaking, everyone saw that the girl's body was cut apart inch by inch as if it had been cut open. Scarlet flesh and blood was scattered on the track, and the internal organs were exposed as the limbs collapsed.

With a roar, the subway passed by quickly, and everyone felt...the flesh and blood seemed to be splashed on their faces.

Everyone was stunned, unable to accept the reality in front of them for a while. Kurosawa subconsciously reached out and touched his cheek, feeling the non-existent warmth and stickiness.

Natsume's death made everyone feel very sad, but they still need to move forward, just as Natsume said, to find the real Ibi Yuzu.

Looking at the subway passing by in front of them, everyone couldn't help but have this thought in their hearts——

"A self-aware doll...is it still a doll?"

They don't know.

That map...maybe it can be a tool to guide everyone.

Holding back the grief in their hearts, everyone began to gather their wisdom, carefully compared the similarities between the map and the hand-drawn map, and then found the destination.

Following the map, they came to an overgrown area next to a fast-flowing river. There were not many people around, only high school students occasionally passing by.

Li Ming squinted his eyes and soon discovered a black spot in the grass in the distance. It was a black cat running very agilely in the grass.

Although the black cat is a stray cat, it can be seen that it is often fed by people, and its coat color is also very beautiful. Its eyes are olive green. At this moment, it stopped and stared at the uninvited guests in front of it with vigilance.

"cat……?"

Hoshino Katsura, who prefers small animals, saw the black cat in front of him and immediately moved forward tentatively, wanting to hug it.

Upon seeing this, the black cat ran away immediately, its tail wagging, and ran deeper.

Li Ming had an illusion that the black cat was leading them to a new place, but now he was just frightened.

Chasing the black cat, they came to a corner formed by bridge piers and slopes, filled with garbage and beds... consisting of simple sheets and bedding, it looked like it should be a gathering place for homeless people.

The black cat jumped directly into the arms of a person. The person comforted and teased the black cat's chin: "Lulu, where are you stealing food again?" Then she saw everyone following the black cat. , was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "Have you... ever seen the dark night?"

night?

Does it mean the night after the day?

Li Min considered his speech for a moment and shook his head silently.

The girl let out a long sigh. She found that the uninvited guest in front of her looked at her a little strangely, so she immediately reacted and put down the black cat in her arms.

"Ibi... Yuzu." The girl murmured to herself, "My name is Ibi Yuzu... Are you here to find me?"

Although the girl's appearance was slightly different from that in the photo, she was basically the same model, so Li Ming didn't have much reaction.

Upon seeing this, Yuzi immediately bit her lower lip and actively invited everyone to the place where she currently lives, unwilling to answer any of their questions.

Following Yuzi, she came to an area composed of bridges and slopes, which was full of life. Yuzi was taking apart a sausage, breaking it into several sections, and placing them among the instant noodles that were being cooked. She picked up her chopsticks and stirred them in the pot. With.

On a hillside in the distance, Li Ming vaguely saw a row of crosses, seven in total.

"That's...their grave, the dead."

Yuzu sat on the ground, put down her chopsticks, and hugged her knees.

"Riho Chida, Yoto Saito, Yuma Anzai, Yumi Sanada, Shinya Iijima, Hisashi Ube." The girl slowly reported the names of the six people, "They all died here, this damn dream. inside……"

The girl stirred the pot vigorously with her chopsticks, as if she was venting something. Then she raised her head and looked at the people in front of her.

"Being able to come here... also proves your desire for knowledge. Just ask me some questions and I will answer you one by one."

What could be more accurate than the answers given by the parties concerned?
"Where is this place?"

Yuan Qingyu answered the question, looked anxious, and asked.

All the signs he found indicate that this place is related to his major, which is dreams. This may be the sixth sense that an expert in dream science should have.

"This is my dream, a dream constructed by Kuwahara through some means that I don't know." Ibi Yuzu used chopsticks to pinch off one of the sausages, and said thoughtfully, "You all should know Kuwahara, right? It’s the school doctor…”

"Let me introduce myself first. I am a doctorate in dream science. My name is Yuan Qingyu. According to my knowledge, it is impossible for dead people to have dreams." Yuan Qingyu said word by word without hesitation. , "And you said this is a dream, so forgive me for being a little skeptical."

With the threat of dream science, Yuan Qingyu believed that the girl would tell the truth and change her story, provided of course that what he said was not the truth.

But it is true.

"I, Yuzu Ibi, did die by suicide."

The girl put her right hand on her chest and breathed heavily, as if suppressing the sadness that was surging in her heart.

"What day was it, NO.20? I saw... Natsume, who had been missing for a long time, appeared in front of me again..."

"Then I saw her walking towards the rooftop of the new school building..." "I chased after her and saw her standing on the edge of the rooftop. I rushed up to catch her, but I passed her and fell down due to the inertia. Go down, and then..."

Yuzu made a gesture and her voice was very soft.

"Snapped."

"This is how I died."

She told the cause of her death in nonchalant words.

"After death, I found that I was alive in this world again, but I found that this place was completely different from reality. Everything had been changed, especially the people around me..."

"You should also have discovered... There is no night in this world. People in the real world do not feel tired or hungry in their dreams, but they do feel pain... Once they die..."

The girl did not continue, but changed the subject.

But everyone knows it, has thought it through, and figured it out.

Death in this world manifests itself in sudden death.

They died in a dream while sleeping, so in reality... no wonder the police station received the news that they died suddenly of cardiac paralysis in their sleep.

"Miss Ikeda, she is the first outsider to come to this world. She said that she accepted the commission from Sister Zecheng to investigate the cause of my death."

"At that time, she had almost found out. She had found out that the murderer was Kuwabara, but on the way to school, she was hit by a car and died in front of me..." Yuzu buried her head in her knees, "Miss Masada before. We went directly to the school doctor's office with me, and then he summoned many tentacles using some method, and then Sister Masada..."

"At that time, I was also penetrated...I think it was my abdomen...but not long after, I found that I woke up completely again...Why was it me who was alive? Obviously, I should have been dead long ago. "

At this point, tears slowly flowed down Yuzu's face.

"The others are similar. Some were deceived by another me, and some were brutally killed."

"So how do we get out of here?" Jiang Wenkan asked.

"That coffee shop, have you all been to that coffee shop? That's the passage leading here. If you want to go back, just go there and sleep again." The girl said with tears in her eyes.

Kurosawa Mika glanced at Li Ming who was in deep thought and made her decision——

"Since there are so many forerunners here, we should find out how to defeat Kuwabara, right? You should know it, Yuzu. Can you tell us this method?"

The girl suddenly raised her head and looked at Kurosawa with disbelief.

She couldn't imagine that she had spoken so clearly, but these uninvited guests still wanted to defeat Kuwahara, the mastermind behind the scenes, and the real culprit.

"Did you all sign the power of attorney with your real names?"

As Yuzi said this, she didn't notice that the expressions of everyone in front of her suddenly brightened, and she continued to speak in a sad tone.

"So what can't be done has been impossible since you signed the power of attorney."

"It takes items and people brought in from the outside to kill him, but the items on your body cannot kill him after you sign the contract..."

Li Ming sighed with relief at this moment, and then a smile appeared on his face.

"I can only say that... I thought very carefully. I had already discovered that there were some problems with the agreement, so what I signed was just a pseudonym." Then he glanced at the people around him and suppressed his smile, " Others also signed fake names like me, maybe they also had a premonition."

"No, you are just following the trend." Jiang Wenkan laughed mockingly, "Of course I do too."

Although they were joking, they quickly realized a problem. They only filled in their real names. What could really cause harm was their fists, and there were no weapons at all.

Even if they were extremely smart and realized that they should fill in a pseudonym, they were ultimately defeated by lack of preparation.

Is there really no way?

Li Ming, who was thinking this way, looked erratically in different directions, and then he noticed that Yuzi seemed to be hiding something.

The girl's eyes were staring at the pot at the moment, not daring to look at the others.

"Yuzi, do you have something to say? Or are you hiding something from us?" Li Min pursed his lips and licked his dry lips.

After thinking for a long time, the girl took out a box from her residence. Inside was a Magnum revolver and five bullets, stained with red blood.

"This is what Mr. Anxi left for me before he died... He said that Kuwahara looked panicked when he saw him shooting, but I don't know if it can be done. I still hope that you can leave directly. There is no need to worry about a dead person. It’s a risk, isn’t it?”

"I no longer want to see other people die in my dream... The second way to solve the dream is to prevent people from entering, so as to achieve the ultimate goal, so you should leave quickly, I will go out I’ve told you the answer, you don’t want to die in your dream, right?”

"Let's go quickly."

The girl kept urging the uninvited guests in front of her to leave. He did not want anyone to die. The failures of the previous forerunners had already brought her to the verge of despair.

Looking back at the performance of the five people, Li Ming always looked thoughtful, Kurosawa Mitsuka had a concerned expression, Hoshino Katsura looked around unnaturally, and Jiang Wenkan looked disapproving. Yuan Qingyu frowned, seeming to be thinking about the dream problem just now.

"Okay, let me express my opinion first. Although the five of us are friends, it is entirely up to you to make your choice. You can choose to go to the cafe directly and leave the dreamland, or try to defeat Kuwahara, or split into two groups... …It’s all up to your choice.”

Li Ming stood up and expressed his views.

"Everyone has a close relationship with me and knows me more or less well. In reality, I am a not very well-known private detective. The commissions I receive every day are only small ones, and I can only provide some food and clothing." to the point.”

"And in this dream, the role I play is a policeman." Li Dang paused, glanced at the girl who was staring at the pot, and a smile broke out on his face, "In line with the duties of the police, Regarding the grapefruit incident, I must get to the bottom of it."

"What's more, Ms. Zecheng put forward a deposit of 50 yen when she entrusted it to us. Now if you leave, or retreat, or give up, then all 50 yen will be mine."

"At that time, I will try my best to bring this fictitious wealth into reality."

Having said this, Yuzi looked up at the young man, with an expression of disbelief on his face. He couldn't understand that a stranger could actually go to the bottom of it for her and a dead man.

"Then now it's your turn to make a choice."

(End of this chapter)