After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

Without receiving the "Excellent Volunteer Award", Rui Rui disappeared without warning.

This exceeded everyone's expectations.

"In the morning, I thought Ruirui was lying in bed. After calling for a long time, she didn't respond. Later, seeing that she was going to be late, she thought about lifting her quilt... and then..." The young mother tremblingly pulled the puppet in her hand, because she blamed herself. And sad eyes are red, "I have found out that it's too late, it's not Ruirui in the quilt, this is something..."

"Rui Rui has always been very obedient, and will not leave me silently, something must have happened...something happened..."

Chi Nan stared at the weird and shabby puppet and asked, "Is that Ruirui's thing?"

The young mother looked in a daze, and stared at the doll with both strange and complicated eyes: "It seems to be...and it doesn't seem to be...Is it..."

Hearing this, Lao Yu frowned, Chi Nan and Ye Chang exchanged glances.

"Is it right?" Old Yu asked, he didn't believe that there would be things that mothers didn't know about their daughters.

The young mother nervously tugged the puppet’s hair: "I forgot..."

Lao Yu: "..." It seems that this woman is very unconscious.

Chi Nan: "Can I look at this doll?"

The young mother's expression flickered vigilantly, and then she hid the doll behind her with a fierce reaction, staring at Chi Nan: "No...you can't touch..."

Chi Nan: "..."

Ye Chang: "If it's a key clue, we can find Ruirui faster."

The young mother looked at them nervously: "I don't trust you."

Old Yu winked at them: "Forget it, don't force her."

There were more and more dream visitors in the corridors, and everyone couldn't take care of breakfast, and began to help find Ruirui in the dormitory and yard.

But everyone searched for half an hour, and almost rummaged through the yard the size of a basketball court.

"Does Rui Rui have any special habits at night?" Xia Wei asked, "For example, sleepwalking or something? Will she accidentally enter another taboo room?"

"No! Rui Rui has been very well-behaved since she was a child. She rarely talks about sleep and can't sleepwalking." The young mother replied immediately.

"Except for the locked rooms, all the rooms have searched the bottom of the wardrobe and bed, but Ruirui was not found."

"But Ruirui, a little girl, can't pick the lock by herself, right?"

"And Rui Rui doesn't look like a kid who can rush into a forbidden room..."

Seeing nothing, he looked at the time anxiously: "It's almost nine o'clock."

"Why don't you go to the workshop first, it's not a way to find it this way," Wu Ying suggested, and she looked at the young mother who was about to collapse with concern. "Don't scare yourself. Once your spirit level exceeds 90, it will be very dangerous. NS."

"How could I not scare myself... the two boys in the next room yesterday haven't found it until now... Will Ruirui be like this..."

There was a sudden tremor in her body, and she whimpered suddenly, then knelt down and started crying uncontrollably.

She couldn't say the word "none" clearly.

Chi Nan explained: "It shouldn't be. Yesterday Bai Chuan and Gu Xiao disappeared because of the "Excellent Volunteer" box awarded by the female foreman. Rui Rui did not get it yesterday. "

But this also came up with new problems. In addition to the title of "Excellent Volunteer" that can cause the dream tourist to disappear, is there another set of rules for disappearance? Rui Rui accidentally triggered without them finding it?

The young mother hugged the weird doll in her arms. She surrounded the yard and the house again and again looking for her daughter in a dazed manner. Everyone could only sigh in their eyes. At this moment, dissuasion and comfort became the most important thing. Powerless.

"But we have previously speculated that the rule of "excellent volunteers" leading to disappearances must be correct? Is it true that only the two samples of Bai Chuan and Gu Xiao can't explain the problem? If it is correct, why did Ruirui fail to trigger the condition? And you two..."

Dysonson glanced at Chi Nan and Ye Chang who were standing in the yard, and he stopped talking.

Wu Ying beside her was more direct, looking at Chi Nan and the others with suspicious eyes: "How did you two escape the death rule last night?"

So Ye Changjiang briefly told everyone what happened last night, and Wu Ying looked at him suspiciously: "Why is it such a coincidence? It just so happens that you can get it right?"

Ye Chang glanced at her faintly, and smiled harmlessly as usual: "Good luck."

"It doesn't sound very convincing." The girl sneered back.

Ye Chang shrugged, "I can't prove my luck."

I was too old to see that the atmosphere was wrong, and I was busy biting the cigarette and cautiously said: "It's not time to doubt each other. It's no way to consume it like this. It will be nine o'clock soon. If the female foreman is absent, there will be corresponding punishments. We are still cautious. Some good."

Everyone was at a loss, and now the only thing that has happened is like Lao Yu said, temporarily stopping useless searches, and going to the production workshop according to the dungeon rules is more sensible.

And although I was very worried about the little girl, I couldn't blame a whole group of people because they wanted her to be wiped out.

The facts and choices are clearly in front of us.

"It's not a problem for you to find it like this. Let's go to the workshop with us. It is dangerous to miss the call time..." Wu Ying came to persuade this trance-looking young mother, thinking that she looks like this, so she should not be able to survive. It's Candleman's Day.

The mother opened the cabinet that was only half a meter high and probed nervously inward: "I won't go, if Ruirui comes back, she will be scared if she doesn't see me... I have to find her here and wait for her!"

Her eyes were red, and the reason in her eyes faded a little as the fear spread, "I can't lose Ruirui anymore, I can't do it again..."

"One more time?" Wu Ying was puzzled, but she didn't expect the young mother to answer at this moment.

The well-informed Lao Yu and Chi Nan did not speak either. It seems that this mother still has memories of her daughter's death once subconsciously.

Everyone was helpless. In this case, they all understood the young mother's behavior very well, and they couldn't tie her over.

Ye Chang calmly said to the young mother: "New missing persons have appeared, and the pattern is different from what we previously speculated. The female foreman who is an important npc may give new tips, auntie, go to the workshop with us and talk. The answer can be found indefinitely."

The young mother paused for a moment when she was nervously ruining the cabinet, and Ye Chang said again, "What if Ruirui has already gone to the workshop?"

Reason flashed past her crazy face, and fell into a dazed quagmire for a moment. She trembled her lips and murmured: "Yes, Ruirui is the most disciplined. She never arrives late or misses class for no reason. Maybe it's already. Going to the workshop... let's go to the workshop... here we go..."

Seeing that this mother was persuaded, everyone was relieved, but within half a minute she shook her head nervously: "What if Ruirui goes back to the dormitory and can't find me?!"

Ye Chang: "You can leave her a note and tell her to go to the workshop to meet up, I think Ruirui will be able to do it."

The young mother listened, nodding her head while finding a post-it note and a ballpoint pen in the room, but because she couldn't control the shaking of her hand, she couldn't write normally.

"I'll help you." Ye Chang said, taking a ballpoint pen and writing a line smoothly on the sticky note—

"Rui Rui, mom is waiting for you in the production workshop."

Chi Nan glanced at Ye Chang's handwriting. It was so beautiful that people couldn't help but look at it more and never forget it.

It was already 8:56, and everyone hurried to the production workshop. When they arrived, the time was just right, no more than no more.

The female foreman was already waiting for them with a stiff smile on her face: "Dear volunteers, how did you rest last night?"

In the end, her sharp gaze fell on Ye Chang and Chi Nan, and her smile disappeared, "It seems that the two best volunteers yesterday didn't make the right choice. It's a shame."

Ye Chang was very sorry and pushed his glasses: "But one of us has disappeared. Do you know where she went?"

The female foreman's eyes rolled stiffly: "What's the girl's name, please?"

The young mother immediately replied: "Rui Rui, she is my daughter."

Unexpectedly, the female foreman raised her lips in approval: "It's a beautiful name."

Everyone: "..."

Female foreman: "There has always been a legend in our Candleman town. The night before Candleman's Day is the darkest moment. Children are the most sensitive to light and soul. These days, at midnight, the children are very May be awakened from sleep, run away from home in the dark, looking for light for the upcoming grand celebration."

The young mother didn't understand her bullshit, and asked eagerly: "Where did my daughter go? Tell me if you know!"

A subtle smile cracked on the female foreman's face: "Don't worry, when you find the light they need, the children will come back by themselves."

"What do you mean? Tell me clearly..."

But how did the young mother grab her and ask, the female foreman had already pressed her lips and said nothing.

Chi Nan quickly caught the message point in the female foreman's words: "Then, how long will they find the light they want?"

The cloudy eyes of the female foreman rolled, and the strange smile on her face grew thicker: "Normally, the whole town is filled with light on Candleman's Day, and the missing children will come back."

As soon as she said this, the expressions of the experienced dream visitors changed, which means that on the day of Candleman's Day, the missing Ruirui will appear again, but it is hard to say that she is still not a lively girl when that time comes.

And this seems to be the second set of missing rules, children who run away at night in search of light... So is the necessary condition for children?

Lao Yu muttered to himself: "Because of this rule, is it rare for a twelve-year-old girl to appear in the dream tourist team this time?"

Chi Nan asked again: "Where will the children look for light?"

The female foreman glanced at the crowd: "Who knows? Children's secrets will not be known to us adults."

Everyone: "..."

Female workers: "Everyone, the time is up, let's start today's volunteer work."

"It's an honor, because two volunteers selflessly sacrificed themselves to the God of Light the night before, so we were rewarded by the gods, and we got the most precious candle-man materials," the female foreman looked at the crowd with lustrous expressions. " Today, in addition to making your own candle figures, you also need to add another job, which is to purify the most precious materials for the candle figures."

As she said, she lifted the white cloth high up on the table, revealing a large block of amber wax inside.

Chi Nan stared at the wax block, his brow wrinkled slightly, the wax quality was exactly the same as the candle of the person who could alienate the shadow last night... Ye Chang also noticed this, and nodded at him clearly.

Maybe you can find a breakthrough in these wax blocks...

"Purification? What do we need to do?" Old Yu asked.

Female foreman: "You need to melt these wax blocks through the water, so as to pick out the small stones, mud and other impurities in the wax blocks. This job requires carefulness and endurance. I hope you can take it seriously."

After she finished speaking, she distributed the wax blocks, glanced at the time and said: "The production of the candle man is carried out after 12 noon, and all the time this morning can be used for purification."

The new task is likely to dig up hidden clues. Everyone began to bury their heads and follow the instructions. The young mother fell onto the chair in the workshop and began to sob uncontrollably.

Wu Ying sighed and said in a low voice: "It's also a good thing to be able to cry. It has less impact on your sobriety than holding back."

Chi Nan watched the intense mood swings of the young mother, a trace of puzzlement flashed in the green eyes, Ye Chang keenly caught: "What's the matter?"

Chi Nan shook his head: "She is not the same as a mother I knew before."

Ye Chang: "How to say?"

"That mother... regards her son as a bargaining chip for dealing with evil spirits." Chi Nan lowered his eyes.

Ye Chang melted the wax with his hands, "Are you talking about You Yu?"

Chi Nan's heart jumped, and he looked at Ye Chang quickly: "Why are you..."

Ye Chang smiled: "Brother Cha has recited your past experience more than once, and I can memorize it."

Chi Nan thought of the lively dark tea, not knowing how he is now.

Ye Chang said: "But maybe... in Ruirui's situation, a family of three will come to the nightmare world of a lifetime of nine deaths to do tasks in order to exchange each other. This is a normal family, right?"

While speaking, Ye Chang's voice lowered and was inaudible.

Chi Nan doesn't know much about human families either. He shook his head: "I don't know very much either..."

After a pause, he asked again, "What is your house like?"

This was the only time he was interested in other people's families.

Ye Chang's eyes were hidden behind the lens, and the curvature of the corners of his lips seemed to be smiling: "I...my mother and she..."

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"What's the matter?" Yu asked his roommate who turned pale.

"Wax...in the wax block..." Xia Wei fell from the chair in a panic, his facial features distorted in fear, "There is...in the wax block..."

Old Yu frowned, picking up the wax block that fell on the ground before he could answer, his face changed suddenly.

Chi Nan rarely saw Lao Yu's face so nervous and ugly.

"There are...blue skull tattoos..." Xia Wei swallowed hard, and finally uttered the horrifying discovery.

The two girls were puzzled for a while, and said in confusion: "Blue skull tattoo? What do you mean."

Old Yu pointed the wax block to the light so that it could be displayed more clearly in front of everyone: "Did you see it? The blue pattern in the wax block is a skull tattoo, right? Do you remember this pattern is..."

"Gu Xiao has the exact same tattoo on his neck!" Wu Ying suddenly covered her lips, and the blood on her face faded in fright.

Because the blue skull tattoo on Gu Xiao's neck is too unique, people like Chi Nan who don't pay attention to his teammates have the impression, not to mention the sleepwalkers who are keen to look at their companions.

Old Yu nodded heavily, and the atmosphere in the production workshop was frozen for a while.

The tattoo on Gu Xiao’s neck was found in the so-called "precious wax block," which means...

"After being illuminated by candlelight, not only the shadow will be alienated, but the body will also become a wax block." Chi Nan said the truth that everyone had gradually guessed, but had no courage to say it.

Xia Wei leaned on the ground with both hands, and almost cried as he watched his friend's tattoo solidified in yellow wax: "But... but how can people become wax..."

As he said, he added lowly, "How can it become wax..."

As a non-newcomer, he naturally knows that all absurdities are possible in the nightmare world, and it is not impossible to turn flesh and blood into wax.

Chi Nan looked at Ye Chang, then raised his hand to look carefully at the light: "But we were also illuminated by candlelight last night. Apart from the temporary alienation of the shadow, there was no waxing phenomenon."

Ye Chang thought for a while: "But last night we stopped the shadow's attack in time, so we couldn't test what effect the shadow will have on the main body, and...the motive of the shadow attacking the main body."

Chi Nan's eyelids twitched, and he suddenly understood: "So after being attacked by the shadow, the body will wax?"

Ye Chang nodded: "I think so, and thinking about it this way, the shadow has the motive for attacking the body."

Turn the body into a wax block suitable for making candles, so that the shadow can continuously get light, and the light and shadow are together, and the special wax block is the energy they rely on for survival.

"So, the clue we now have is that being irradiated by candlelight will cause shadow alienation, and the alienated shadow will act on us, that is, the body, and the body attacked by the shadow will gradually wax up to provide the shadows on which they rely. The light source of survival."

Lao Yu summed it up again. After finishing talking, he rubbed his temples with a headache. He looked at his shadow on the ground and cursed: "I didn't expect that one day I would turn against my own shadow."

He said the voices of everyone present...They all said that you follow the shadow, but no one thought that one day the accompanying "shadow" would want to kill himself.

Just when everyone was out of breath by this weird truth, Wu Ying suddenly muttered a low "Ah", and then quickly pulled Dysonson to the side and backed away, looking at Ye Chang vigilantly and in horror.

She asked coldly: "Why don't you have a shadow?!"