After the Little Crybaby Enters the Nightmare Cycle

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would never believe that someone in the world could use a steel chisel so elegantly.

It’s like picking up a carving knife and slowly enjoying the process of creating art...

Lao Yu couldn't get any hands on the side, so he could only light a cigarette and watched: "You two young people are quite thoughtful, even the steel chisel is prepared."

Chi Nan: "Ye Chang brought a whole toolbox. If you need it, please come to 101 to get it."

Old Yu: "..."

Chi Nan: "There are also medicine chests and a lot of snacks."

Lao Yu: "...really complete."

In less than five minutes, Ye used a steel chisel to pry off a wall brick along the edge of the shadow of his arm.

Chi Nan immediately threw the wall tiles into the black plastic bag and sealed it, and checked the time: "Let's go, it's almost too late for breakfast."

After returning to the dormitory, Chi Nan quickly emptied the suitcase, then stuffed the bricks into the innermost layer of the suitcase, and wrapped it tightly with clothes to prevent light transmission, and finally pulled the suitcase and stuffed it under the bed.

Lao Yu stood outside and watched his every move, with a wry smile in his heart, how could this little blind man be so proficient as a perverted murderer who often kills, divides and throws the corpses...

"Chi Nan, can you tell me more about your plan, right?"

Lao Yu now has gradually figured out Chi Nan’s temper. This little blind man tends to be silent in the process of thinking and acting, and he is also accustomed to doing things independently. Such people don’t like being interrupted when doing things, and it’s difficult to cooperate. Of course, it is rare for him to meet Ye Chang's tacit companion.

Chi Nan: "Shadows need light to exist. I want to try to cut off the light source of the ghost wall, what will happen."

"But it is a bit troublesome to extinguish the candles in the entire square and nearby residential buildings, so first dig a piece of shadow and put it in total darkness to try the effect."

"The part of Xia Wei's arm was selected first to observe how the waxed limbs will change after the shadow loses its light source." Chi Nan added.

Old Yu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he suddenly threw away the cigarette **** in his hand: "You reminded me, I will let Xia Wei wear a long sleeve to hide his candle hand, otherwise he won't even be able to keep the candle hand. ."

According to the disappearance of Gu Xiao and the others, the waxed bodies need to be ‘recovered’ to be used for Candleman’s Day.

But Xia Wei’s encounter last night is equivalent to a sudden accident. Now NPCs should not know that his arm was waxed, otherwise it is very likely that his arm will be chopped off and stored as Candleman’s Day material...

After thinking about it, Lao Yu immediately rushed back to his room and regarded Xia Wei's waxed arm as a key protection object.

At nine o'clock, the remaining seven people appeared in the production workshop on time.

The young mother's condition today is much more stable than yesterday. The eyes that had been lost and distracted are gathered again, and her hair and appearance have been well taken care of.

Under Lao Yu’s instructions, Xia Wei wrapped half of his waxed arm tightly with a bandage, and fixed it on his chest very professionally, making a broken posture, so that he was injured by an accident. The reason was prevaricated, and the female foreman would not be suspicious.

The female foreman’s look today is much uglier than before. She looked at the crowd with dissatisfaction: “It seems that last night was calm and no volunteers would surprise us. I did not expect that four nights have passed, and there are so many volunteers left. As for those, this is not what we want to see."

Everyone: "..."

Then the female foreman kept her eyes on Ye Chang and Chi Nan: "The volunteers in Room 101 have been awarded the "Excellent Volunteer" award for two consecutive days. Let it to other dormitory volunteers. "

She was using the rules and privileges to'stop loss in time', and continued, “If there are no particularly good volunteers, we can only randomly select 101 after removing 101.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present changed their faces, and lost Ye Chang Chi Nan's shielding atmosphere and suddenly became weird.

Everyone is in danger, after all, even if they have clearly mastered the method of extinguishing the candle, extinguishing the candle itself is likely to trigger the danger of being captured by the shadow. If there is a shadow killer like Ye Chang again, the situation will become more uncontrollable.

"The "Excellent Volunteers" are awarded according to the dormitory number, not the name..." Chi Nan paused and raised his eyes. "

After thinking about it, his eyes brightened: "Yes, the rules only say that you can't change roommates, but it doesn't say that you can't change dormitories. You said before that this method should be tried now."

"According to the way you changed the dormitory last time, is it to be moved into the 107 dormitory by random people, and the death box stays in the original dormitory? But what if the people are empty and trigger any weird rules? "Wu Ying questioned.

Chi Nan said: "We just change with the winner."

Everyone was slightly surprised, and Ye Chang also agreed: "I am in a special status now, and Brother He Nan has also mastered the routines of dealing with Renzhu. It should be the safest way to change the dormitory with us."

As soon as Ye Chang said this, Wu Ying fell silent. She was a straight temper. Yesterday she questioned Ye Chang’s identity the most fiercely, but then she thought, if it weren’t for Ye Chang and Chi Nan to take the "death box" on their own initiative, both In the past, they could only survive four people.

"Dear Volunteers, today is the fourth day you came to Candleman Town. First of all, thank you for your hard work and dedication to this year's Candleman's Day. But I also want to remind you that the success of Candleman's Day is inseparable. Your physical sacrifices, if the disappearance of the physical body is exchanged for the eternal light and freedom of the spirit, it will be the most beautiful and moving thing, isn’t it?"

The female foreman suddenly raised her tone of warning, and everyone just wanted to roll their eyes when facing her.

"When Candleman's Day is successfully held, light the greatest candleman in the central square of Candleman Town. Every corner of the town will be shrouded in light. There will be no dark corners. All of us will live in the light forever. …"

Everyone except the female foreman looked very ugly. The meaning of this is too obvious. Once the giant candle is lit, the town of Candleman will be completely covered by the light of the human candle. No matter how they hide or hide, they will be covered by the giant candle. The candlelight pierced through, just like a nuclear bomb explosion, no one can survive, and the human body will be wiped out in an instant.

The day of Candleman's Day is the death of all dreamers.

There was a deathly silence in the production workshop, everyone took their breaths lightly, and their faces were heavy.

"I know that you have been looking for the little girl who ran away from home in pursuit of the light these past two days. It is your freedom to arrange your arrangements outside of working hours. But I would like to advise you not to waste your efforts. Children who run away from home cannot be found. I hope you don’t waste time."

When an experienced dreamer heard this, he knew this was an important reminder. The young mother squeezed her lips into a straight line. Although there was no fierce emotional reaction on her face, she couldn't restrain the delicate shaking of her body.

Chi Nan asked Lao Yu in a low voice: "What kind of rule-based prompt is this, right?"

Old Yu nodded: "Rui Rui's disappearance should belong to the dream time-limited plot point, that is, it cannot be triggered before the set time arrives. No matter what method we adopt now, we can't find Rui Rui."

"It's like playing a game. If the progress bar is not enough, there is no way to unlock the corresponding plot points." He made a metaphor for the convenience of understanding.

Chi Nan: "Isn't this a dead end without a solution? What is the significance of the plot point designed by the dream maker?"

Lao Yu shrugged: "No, there is a solution, such as..."

He paused, looked at the young mother hesitantly, and suppressed her voice to the lowest level, "For example, before Rui Rui went missing, she figured out the rules of the candle wick and killed her first, so that the candle wick would not be established. The hope of breaking the dream will be much greater."

"Of course... this is too cruel..." Lao Yu straightened his position again.

Chi Nan thought for a while: "We are too passive in front of the dream maker."

Lao Yu sneered: "What do you want? In front of the dreamers, we are playthings for them to entertain in the Colosseum. Do you still want to have the initiative?"

Chi Nan didn’t speak, but Ye Chang pushed his glasses and said in a joking tone: “It’s hard to talk about dreammakers. They have to build dreams, formulate rules, and monitor the dream visitors who are placed in the dreams. From the early stage of planning, execution, design to operation, I have all part-time jobs."

Old Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Student Ye, your description is awesome. You describe the dream maker like a labor force squeezed by capitalism."

Ye Chang shrugged: "Who knows? Maybe they are."

Chi Nan glanced at him: "How did you know?"

Ye Chang raised the corners of his lips: "Guess it."

During this day's volunteer work, all dream visitors chose to be passive and sabotaged. Finally, the "Excellent Volunteer" box was randomly placed in the hands of Wu Ying and Dysonsen who lived at 109.

According to the previous plan, Chi Nan and Ye Chang took Wu Ying's box and changed dormitories with the two girls from 109.

"Thank you," Dysonson turned to Ye Chang sincerely, "Yesterday Wu Ying said those things that doubted you, I apologize for her."

Ye Chang smiled gently: "It's okay, after all, my shadow did do bad things, I just hope that he won't hurt people anymore."

After speaking, he turned his head and looked at the ground, where there was nothing shining.

After simply moving the daily necessities, Ye Chang and Chi Nan moved into 109.

Ye Chang still thought about joking: "I didn't expect that one day I would live in a girls' dormitory."

Chi Nan blinked his eyes calmly: "Unfortunately you like boys."

Ye Chang didn't turn away his eyes with a smile this time, but gradually put away the smile in his eyes and looked at Chi Nan with determination.

He said, "Yes, I like boys."

However, Chi Nan lowered his eyes in a panic, as if a kitten's paw was caught off guard in his heart, itching.

This kind of strange, strange, and uncontrollable look made Chi Nan feel a little at a loss.

But it was only a matter of a moment. Soon, Chi Nan digested his inexplicable emotions into sweets and tears.

Like the previous two nights, Ye often used Chi Nan's tears to clean up the people who came to the door. The room returned to silence, and Chi Nan lay back on the bed to make up for sleep.

When it was about to dawn, Chi Nan woke up from deep sleep without warning, a cold wind blew his face, and he couldn't help shivering as he shrank in the quilt.

He remembered that the windows were locked tightly before going to bed and covered with thick quilts. How could the wind come in?

Chi Nan opened his eyes, but the dark dormitory flickered with dim candlelight. Ye Changzheng was sitting at his desk with his back facing him, as if he was reading the exercise book seriously, and the sound of rustling writing was heard from time to time. .

But Chi Nan remembered that after figuring out the principle of shadow alienation, Ye Chang would no longer do exercises at night in order to cut off the light source, let alone light a taboo candle.

"Ye Chang?" Chi Nan had a bad premonition, and his sleepiness disappeared. He sat up and tried to call Ye Chang's back by his name.

And Ye Chang, who was sitting at the desk and writing exercises, seemed to wear earplugs and turned a deaf ear to his voice.

The candlelight dangled in the corner of the desk. From Chi Nan's perspective, he couldn't see the specific texture of the candle, so he got off the bed and walked behind Ye Chang. During the whole process, the other party seemed to be unaware of it, keeping his head down. constant.

There happened to be a mirror in front of the desk. Chi Nan's gaze passed over Ye Chang's shoulder and stayed on the reflection in the mirror.

From the mirror image, Chi Nan could confirm that only ordinary candles were lit on the table. He just breathed a sigh of relief, and almost at the same time, Ye Chang in the mirror finally raised his head.

In the mirror, Ye Chang's facial features were blurred.

Chi Nan's heart sank, only the outline of the face without the details of the facial features... It is probably not the person, but the shadow.

He stopped, and then took a step back subconsciously. Ye Chang, who was sitting at the desk, suddenly laughed shortly. While closing the exercise book, he said in a gentle and sincere tone: "Don't be afraid, I won't be willing. Turn your body into a candle."

"Brother Nan, if you are afraid of me, I will be sad." Shadow turned his head, because sinking in the shadow of the candlelight, his facial features became more and more blurred.

Chi Nan really stopped his movements and looked back at the past calmly: "You are not Ye Chang."

The shadow smiled, with a taste of helplessness and abuse: "Then who do you say I am? Huh?"

"Shadow." Chi Nan said confidently.

"But don't forget, even if it is a shadow, I am also Ye Chang's shadow."

Chi Nan insisted: "The shadow is the shadow, and the person is the person, which is different."

The alienated shadow is equivalent to being implanted into the independent existence of the will of the Candleman. Although it retains part of the memory, appearance, and speaking habits of the body, his thoughts and choices have nothing to do with the body. It is just that the Candleman uses shadow as a medium. , It's just a tool to wax the body.

In other words, it was not Ye Chang who was talking to him now, but the candle man wearing Ye Chang's shell.

Shadow smiled in Ye Chang's unique way: "Do you like Ye Chang so much?"

Chi Nan was silent for a moment: "I don't like you anyway."

The shadow sighed and looked mischievous and pitiful: "Chi Nan, do you think there is really a dream tourist named Ye Chang who is still a senior in the world of nightmares?"

Chi Nan's eyelids twitched slightly: "What do you mean?"

"Do you really have no doubts? Suddenly there is such a person around, as if bound, like a shadow," he observed the expression on Chi Nan's face with interest, adding an accent to the four words "Ruying with the shape". Continue to say, "Where do you live, where do you live? He happened to be there, and he even knew you were crying from the beginning. Don't you think it is strange? He is like your shadow."

Chi Nan did not hesitate: "I don't think so."

He didn't intend to believe this shadow provocative rhetoric, which would cause unnecessary trouble to himself.

The shadow froze for a moment, and then let out a regretful laugh: "It seems that I have to show some evidence. What should I do? How about it..."

As he said, he lit the dim candle a little bit, and the shadow took off his glasses as the sparks crackled.

"You should have asked Ye Chang, why don't you take off your glasses?" Shadow stared at Chi Nan with slightly red eyes, as if staring at his prey, "because as long as he takes off his glasses, he will be exposed. Come on, this evil dream maker."

Chi Nan froze in place, his breathing lightened.

"I think you should remember and feel these eyes, right?" Shadow said, and put a mask that Chi Nan couldn't be more familiar with, and his smile grew deeper, "In this way, Maybe it will make you more impressive, do you remember?"