Cen Yu lay on the ground, and as soon as the clock in the store struck 3 a.m., he immediately closed his eyes.

Just then, a faint sound of wind chimes suddenly appeared in the shop... There were no wind chimes in the entire shopping street, and the sound of the wind chimes came and went, sometimes near and sometimes far. Cen Yu could feel that thing was slowly getting closer.

The door that the domineering CEO had closed earlier made a slight "click" sound, as if something had opened it.

Then, the unsettling sound of the wind chimes slowly began to appear in the shop.

There were only two people in the shop, both lying or sprawled out, seemingly fast asleep, while the sound of wind chimes tinkled and echoed throughout the shop.

The sound came and went, and Cen Yu tried to keep his breathing normal to avoid being discovered by that thing that he was pretending to be asleep.

The poster says, "Don't let her find out you're pretending to be asleep," meaning that pretending to be asleep is fine as long as you don't get caught by the wind chimes.

At this moment, only the tinkling of wind chimes remained in the shop, as if they would keep ringing as long as they didn't wake up—Cen Yu hadn't seen the movie, and didn't know if this thing would disappear at a certain time like the domineering CEO.

He wasn't comfortable lying on the ground, and the sound of the wind chimes seemed to have a hypnotic effect. Soon, Cen Yu's consciousness became hazy, and he gradually fell into a dream.

...

Those were the ruins formed by the collapsed building.

Cheers and shouts erupted all around him... Cen Yu turned his head to look and saw a crowd rushing towards him, hugging him and celebrating, mumbling something he couldn't understand.

Cen Yu knew these were his memories; after leaving the previous world, some fragments of memories had entered his mind.

Those fragmented memories are scattered, spanning various time periods.

There are scenes of him playing video games when he was a child, whispering to the person next to him when he was in school, and of course, there are always the same collapsed buildings.

That appears to be a very tall building.

The ground trembled the moment the building collapsed.

But he just watched without leaving, and even at the moment the building collapsed, he felt a long-lost sense of peace.

"Cen Yu."

Someone called his name, "Hurry up, it's too late!"

"Coming right away," he heard himself say.

Then he glanced back at the collapsed building before quickly leaving, followed by the piercing sound of an alarm.

Everything in the dream was disjointed; one second Cen Yu was blowing bubble gum in elementary school, and the next second he was in ruins.

"Cen Yu, Cen Yu."

A voice was calling his name softly.

Cen Yu opened her eyes.

The room was still gloomy, and He Yuxing was still lying on the ground without any reaction... Who was calling him?

Cen Yu's gaze slowly moved upwards.

First he saw a string of wind chimes, and then he saw what the wind chimes were hanging on.

The woman's head seemed to float in the air like a balloon, wind chimes hanging from her jet-black hair. The instant her gaze met Cen Yu's, she smiled—

"You really weren't asleep."

Cen Yu drew his long sword and slashed directly at the head.

However, the head moved extremely fast, and the sound of the wind chimes became even more jarring because of her movements. Cen Yu turned around, stepped on the edge of the counter, leaped up, grabbed the end of the wind chimes, and yanked the head off.

The head he was holding immediately began to sob.

He Yuxing opened her eyes immediately upon hearing the noise and saw Cen Yu stepping on the counter and pulling the floating head down.

Cen Yu held her up, looking at her head—

"Can you speak?"

Cen Yu stared for a while, then brushed aside the strands of hair that were falling over her face, and finally saw the true face of the head.

It turned out to be the girl who had come to their store not long ago.

"Isn't this the same person from just now?" He Yuxing also recognized the head in Cen Yu's hand.

"How could she be a monster from a horror movie?"

Cen Yu didn't say anything. He tossed his head to He Yuxing and walked to the romance movie poster in the DVD store. He noticed a line of small print next to the poster.

He fell in love with her because of her poverty, but she already had someone else in her heart.

[In the end...who will she choose?]

Cen Yu glanced at the poster a few times, then looked at the head that He Yuxing was holding in her arms, "Is that person in this movie also you?"

Its head bobbed up and down in He Yuxing's arms, seemingly nodding, though it was unwilling.

He Yuxing, still struggling, walked over to Cen Yu's side. He looked down at the poster carefully and saw the small print on it. He said incredulously, "These two movies are actually related?"

"So you rejected this multi-millionaire and got together with your boyfriend?" He Yuxing asked, looking down.

My head started bouncing around again.

The head definitely didn't suddenly turn into a head. Cen Yu doesn't have that horror movie in the store right now, and doesn't know what the story is like.

But looking at the wind chimes attached to the other person's head, he hesitated for a moment before asking, "Were you killed and made into this shape?"

His head started nodding again.

“He’s a liar,” Brain said.

"He's not some poor kid."

"He's from District One."

When Cen Yu heard "District One," he almost thought he had misheard. He looked down at the head in He Yuxing's arms for a long time before asking, "District One?"

"You mean Zone 1 in the digital zone?"

He rolled his eyes. "Is there another zone?"

"He's a liar!" the head screamed. "He killed me, turned me into a monster, and made me live in the mutant zone forever."

"We've all been scammed!"

The head said, "We've all been fooled!"

Overwhelmed with excitement, He Yuxing nearly clutched her head. "What do you mean by saying everyone was deceived?" Cen Yu asked.

“I was just scammed,” the head repeated.

“The mutation zone assimilated her,” He Yuxing said.

The street outside the DVD store was still gloomy. Cen Yu was a little concerned about what the "we've all been deceived" in his head meant, so he told He Yuxing to stay in the store while he pushed open the door of the DVD store himself.

...

The shopping street remained deserted, with only a few blurry figures occasionally flashing by.

Cen Yu walked to the end of the street again, and this time he found that the exit of the shopping street was not shrouded in fog.

He lifted his foot to leave the shopping street, but felt someone tugging at the hem of his clothes.

Cen Yu turned around and saw a blond boy.

He looked at Cen Yu and said, "Don't go over there."

"There are monsters there."

Cen Yu knew the boy wasn't human either; his feet were unnaturally tiptoeing—only a hanged person would do that—he squatted down and looked at the boy in front of him, "You live on this street?"

"This is the first time I've seen you."