After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

The style of the painting is different from the **** and terrifying works in the death painting exhibition hall.

There are no pieces of blood plasma on the screen, only the endless deep blue plunged into darkness. The center of the deep blue is the wreckage of a cruise ship in two.

Waterweeds grow wildly along the mottled hull of the ship, and the symbol of "Dusk" is faintly visible on the side of the ship, mooring forever on the seabed barren and lonely...

"So...Did the evening ship hit a shipwreck?" The red hair murmured to himself, his voice tense because of fear.

No one present can answer his question accurately. It should be said that there is no need to answer this question.

The fact is in the painting before me.

"Look, there is a line behind the painting!"

The big wave approached the lighter, and everyone immediately squeezed in to look at it. Ye Chang stood silently beside Chi Nan, trying not to let others touch him.

"Dear guests, now you have two choices, wait for the storm on the sea like you greet hell, or sleep forever in the dreams I have prepared for you."

The big wave whispered the handwriting on the back of the painting, her voice getting lower and lower, "She let us make our own choices."

"What's the meaning?"

"Either die in a shipwreck, or never wake up from a dream and become a part of the Twilight. It's obvious." The big wave's tone was helpless, and irritated, it caught fire and lit a cigarette.

"Fuck, how do people choose this?!" The dark tea is not calm, looking at Ye Chang next to him, he seems to ask and mutter to himself, "What do you think we should do..."

Ye Chang was silent for a moment, and pushed his glasses: "I listen to Brother Nan."

So the question was thrown in front of Chi Nan.

He looked at the painting thoughtfully: "I don't think I need to choose, the answer is obvious."

"Huh?" Black Tea was dumbfounded again.

Chi Nan looked at him strangely: "Aren't we here to find the painting to remind the captain of his fear, and then use the features of the Dusk to visualize the fear to break the dream?"

The red hair pointed at the painting, her fingers trembling: "... But then, the ship will be sunk by the storm, and we will all be drowned in the sea!"

Because of fear, he raised his voice unconsciously, and the moment the voice fell, the lounge fell into dead silence.

The two roads seem to be a dead end, one is violent and the other is chronic. It depends on which method of death the guests like...

The people who had finally ignited hope, now their hope is shattered, and they fall into an unprecedented desperate silence.

"But this is the old captain's fear, but also his dream." Chi Nan's calm seemed a little out of place.

The big wave's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Yeah! Shipwreck is his dream! If we die in someone else's dream, it shouldn't be considered dead!"

She looked at the remaining few people still a little confused, and continued to explain, "Choose to let the captain remember the fear, and it is his dream that is concrete, then even if the ship sinks, we die in his dream instead of the so-called'reality'. This should be the key to breaking the dream and the answer to this copy of the dream."

After her explanation, everyone understood this.

If they want to escape from the death of the "Twilight Cruise", they must die first and live second, experiencing everything that the old captain experienced.

If the ship does not sink, they will be greeted by endless dreams, and they will become part of the Dusk, like the ghosts that died at sea in the mouth of the old captain, trapped in the sea forever and unable to go ashore.

The answer couldn't be more obvious.

"Let's go, time is running out."

The setting sun has been swallowed by the sea horizon, and darkness has completely fallen.

The big wave picked up the painting neatly, and a group of people walked quickly to the deck following the faint light.

The corridor from the captain’s lounge to the main deck is usually only five minutes away, but perhaps because of the darkness, or perhaps because of the tension in the air, this corridor seems to have no end, extending infinitely in the swaying waves...

It was too quiet, so quiet that only each other's breath and heartbeat remained.

"Don't go away, everyone, keep up."

As if to break the horrible silence, the big wave exhorted, "Check the people around you, and see if there are any missing, it's best to hold them all."

"Wait a minute! Aqing is gone!" Black Tea who was walking at the back of the line suddenly said, "She was beside me just now!"

Because Aqing is a little girl, the straight guy's black tea is too embarrassed to pull others' hands, so she can only confirm with his eyes from time to time, but in the blink of an eye, the little girl disappeared from him!

"A Qing! A Qing!"

Although in a hurry, everyone stopped and called A Qing's name in the narrow and long corridor.

"That! She was there..." It was the redhead who first found the shadow of the little girl in the dark, illuminated by the faint light, and printed diagonally on the red carpet floor. "Aqing? Who are you talking to?"

"Aqing? Who is there?"

The people who were approaching the shadow suddenly stopped because they found that Ah Qing, who was standing there alone, seemed to be talking to herself, and she made giggles and giggles from time to time, very light and creepy.

And A Qing turned her back to them, as if she was stunned, motionless.

Quietly staring at a place in the void, talking to it.

"A Qing?" Big Wave walked over and patted A Qing on the shoulder behind her, "What's wrong with you?"

A Qing's body trembled suddenly, and she turned her head in a daze to look at the horrified people: "I... I saw Ayu and Axue just now."

It's okay if she doesn't speak, everyone feels even more horrified when she speaks...

The big wave followed the direction of her sight. There was nothing but pitch black. She took a deep breath and took A Qing's hand: "Let's go, you are wrong."

The moment she held her hands, she felt the temperature of a living person on A Qing's body, and she was relieved.

"We are running out of time, so hurry up," Kan Aqing looked back reluctantly, and the big wave intensified and pulled the little girl away, "Don't be confused by what's in front of you."

Everyone, look at me and I look at you, but I didn’t dare to say a word.

After leaving, Black Tea asked Chi Nan in a low voice: "What the **** was going on just now, it's horrible..."

"It's getting dark, maybe something is about to move." Chi Nan said.

Black Tea: "..." He shivered severely.

Big wave: "It should be that as the night falls, we are gradually assimilated by this ship and become a part of it, so we can see some things we couldn't see before."

For example, people who died on the ship, such as those souls who were trapped forever... But even if she was as bold as her, she still didn't have the courage to say this directly.

"Sister, can I stay?"

As Qing walked, she stopped suddenly and looked back at the darkness where there was nothing.

It was the place where she just stopped, as if something was standing there waiting for her and beckoning her.

"I hurt Axue and Ayu in my dream. I'm actually very sad. I want to stay with them." A Qing whispered, but her voice was unusually calm.

Big Wave became anxious: "Don't talk nonsense, what you saw in your dream is not the real Ayu and Axue, how can you say that you hurt them?"

"Sister, thank you," A Qing smiled, slightly sad, "but they are calling me."

"They are waiting for me..."

Big wave: "..."

"I have been together with them before they were born. It seems to be something that is destined for a lifetime. Now I am the only one left..." She smiled apologetically and looked embarrassed, "I...probably can't do it myself." To survive."

Suddenly everyone was silent, the big wave finally let go of A Qing's hand, turned her head and didn't look at her: "Then yourself, be careful."

"Okay, thank you sister." A Qing smiled and walked happily into the darkness.

"be careful."

"You too."

Seeing the little girl made her choice, the big wave sighed without turning back, then cheered up and said, "Go ahead."

On the deck, the sea horizon has sunk into darkness, the pleasant sea breeze has disappeared, and the Dusk including the entire sea seems to be forced to stand still.

There is no wind and no waves, only the silent and endless darkness spreads.

The old captain who was tied to the guardrail also stopped struggling. Although described as embarrassed, he still showed a gentleman's smile to the unwilling guests, as if he had been restarted: "Dear guests, soon, you will be able to enter completely. Twilight’s dreamland, always and forever enjoy Twilight’s wonderful sea journey."

"Thank you, but maybe we can't enjoy it anymore," Ye Changzhen made a regretful expression and curled his lips, "because this ship is going to sink soon."

The old captain's expression stiffened for a moment, and a shadow of fear flashed through his eyes: "This gentleman, please don't talk nonsense. The Twilight is the greatest cruise ship in the world. I am her captain. It is impossible to let me. Our guests and ships have encountered these terrible things."

Ye Chang bends the corners of his lips regretfully: "Captain, please remember it carefully and remember it."

As he said, he took out the painting that had been hidden behind him, and straightened to the captain.

The big wave was also afraid that the captain would not be able to see clearly, so he lit a lighter to face the painting so that the other party could clearly see the content of the painting.

Broken and sunken ships, rusty cabin doors, floor-to-ceiling windows of the banquet hall covered with seagrass and shellfish, schools of fish passing by in the deserted Dusk...

The captain's fear was multiplied in the flickering firelight. From his eyes, everyone could clearly see that something certain was instantly disintegrating.

In an instant, the confidence, glory, and brilliance of being the captain of a boat faded away, replaced by bottomless despair in his eyes...

The captain is like someone who suddenly woke up from a nightmare. He couldn't stop shaking and whimpered silently from his throat...

The memory is too far away, so far away as if he had deliberately erased it.

But the pain broke a little bit with the recovery of memory, spreading wildly in his soul... The beauty and peace he had built for himself for a long time completely collapsed.

Dusk, as early as a hundred years ago in a huge storm, sank forever in the sea.

Together with the thousands of guests and hundreds of staff on board, they were buried in the unknown depths of the sea, and there was no chance to arrive at the harbour and reunite with the missed people.

The old captain remembered that the evening before the big storm, the sea was unusually calm and the sun was hanging above the horizon.

He looked from a distance and thought of the harbor in his hometown. The sunset was beautiful and beautiful. The bell rang not far away, flocks of seabirds swept over his head, and the red clouds dyed the entire harbor...

It's a pity that he never had a chance to land at sunset.

The soul has been trapped in the sea for a long, long time, and finally he and his beloved Dusk, weave a dream for the souls on the sea.

As long as you board the Dusk, you will always sail on the way home at sunset...

Quiet and serene dreams, endless dreams, although there is no way to return home, although there is endless fear and death along the way, hope will last forever.

And this Twilight also feeds on the fears of sea passengers, as the driving force for her to move forward. When the "sea mile of fear" is exhausted, the sun will sink little by little to the sea horizon...

The captain uttered intermittent sobs. Although everyone felt sorry and sympathy for him, there was really not much time left for them. Soon, they would be completely assimilated by endless dreams and become many souls trapped in the sea. one.

"What to do? The captain's fear is fear, but he has no signs of falling asleep now? Doesn't the visualization of fear have to be achieved through sleep...?"

The red hair was anxious, watching the captain's pain and trembling all the time was no way, and they couldn't get out of the nightmare.

Ye Chang rolled up his sleeves and broke his fists: "It's easy."

How is this easy? Could a person with extreme sadness and fear suddenly fall asleep?

When everyone was extremely confused, Ye Chang said a "good dream" in the ear of the old captain, followed by a muffled sound, he raised his arm and hit the back of the old captain's neck accurately, and the old captain's body was subconsciously. He shivered, then rolled his eyes and lost consciousness...

"Let him faint."

Ye Chang wiped the hand of the beating, and smiled gently at Chi Nan, like a kid who had a perfect score and wanted his brother to praise...