In the endless darkness, the familiar feeling of falling enveloped Lin Qiye again. He closed his eyes tightly, his face full of anxiety and anger, as if he was still immersed in a nightmare.

A touch of white spread out in the black like an ink stain, and a little boy who looked no more than six or seven years old slowly floated out from it.

He did not wake Lin Qiye up, but looked at him carefully.

Looking up along his body, I saw a dark green progress bar floating in the black.

"Lin Qiye's treatment progress: 49%"

"The speed this time... is faster than usual." The little boy thought.

At this moment, Lin Qiye, who was floating in the darkness, suddenly had a distorted expression. He suddenly opened his eyes, and his body fell from mid-air. He hunched over on the empty ground, gasping frantically.

“Cough cough cough cough…”

The little boy looked at Lin Qiye, who was gasping for breath and coughing violently, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "He actually woke up by himself..."

Lin Qiye coughed on the ground for a full half minute before a hint of blood appeared on his pale face. He looked around and saw the little boy standing in the endless darkness. He suddenly froze in place.

"This again... am I dead again?"

"Yes...I seem to be dead..."

Lin Qiye seemed to have remembered something, and his expression became complicated. He slowly stood up, looked at the little boy in front of him who looked very similar to him, and asked doubtfully:

"Who are you? What is your relationship with me? Why are you in my body? Are you the patient in the last ward of the hospital?"

Since waking up last time, Lin Qiye has been thinking about the identity of the little boy. He searched the Night Watch headquarters but couldn't find any information about him. He has been holding these questions in his heart, and even thought about asking for death to come here to ask him...

Now that I saw him again, of course I couldn't miss him, so I asked all my questions in one breath.

"You have too many questions." The little boy shook his head. "Compared to these, you should care more about yourself..."

"I?"

"You're already dying."

"Every time I come here, am I not already dead?"

"You're dead, how did you see me?" The little boy's expression didn't change at all. "You are now in a dying state. I could help you go back a few times before, but I told you last time that this was the last time I would help you...

So this time, you’re on your own.”

"On my own? What should I do?"

"Take back what belongs to you. Only in this way can you have a chance of survival."

"Something that belongs to me?" Lin Qiye thought for a moment, as if he had thought of something. "You mean... my Forbidden Ruins?"

The little boy nodded slightly.

"But I can't feel it now, and it has never appeared... Even when I used the 'Ghost Attraction', it was not activated." Lin Qiye's face was full of confusion, "Does it... really exist?"

"Of course it exists. The 'Ghost Guide' cannot activate it because it is too large. Drugs cannot wake it up at all. The probability of it awakening naturally is close to zero."

Hearing this, Lin Qiye's expression became subtle.

No wonder he has not awakened his own Forbidden Ruins until now... So it is too strong? And neither he nor Guishenyin are qualified?

"In that case, how do I wake it up?"

"Ordinary methods are naturally difficult to be effective, but now, you have a helper." The little boy stretched out his hand and pointed at the top of Lin Qiye's head.

Lin Qiye looked up and saw the familiar progress bar, and he froze in place.

The progress bar actually followed me here? And it didn't seem to flicker like it did in the outside world. In this dark space, the panel was unusually stable.

"You mean... a lottery?" Lin Qiye asked with some concern, "The Gods Mental Hospital is not here, can I still draw a lottery?"

"Can."

"But the treatment progress is still 1% short..."

The little boy stared at Lin Qiye in silence for a long time, then waved at him.

"Come."

Lin Qiye was stunned. Although he was a little confused, he still walked towards the little boy. He passed through the boundless darkness around him, stepped into the white area, and stood face to face with the little boy.

This was the first time that Lin Qiye observed the little boy so closely. His height was only up to his waist. When he looked down, he could clearly see every detail on the other's face.

Looking at him, Lin Qiye seemed to be looking back at the mirror of his childhood. It was definitely not as simple as just looking alike... Lin Qiye was almost certain that that was what he looked like as a child.

"Sit down." The little boy spoke again.

Lin Qiye hummed, and sat down cross-legged, and then the little boy also sat down.

In this boundless darkness, the two Lin Qiyes sat on a bright white surface, looking at each other.

"Tell me about your story."

"What?"

"It's your experience. I want to hear it."

"My experience?" Lin Qiye thought for a moment, "Which part do you want to hear?"

"all."

“That’s a long story.”

"It's okay, we have plenty of time here."

Seeing that the little boy didn't look like he was joking, Lin Qiye didn't refuse, "When does it start?"

"It all started when you were seven years old and went to your aunt's house."

“Okay.” Lin Qiye nodded. “I don’t remember much about my childhood, so I can only tell you a few things briefly… When I arrived at my aunt’s house, Ah Jin was still in his infancy…”

Lin Qiye recalled the past seriously and told it slowly. The little boy sat in front of him, supporting his head with one hand, and listened very attentively.

Here, time seemed to have no meaning, and there was no one to disturb him. Only Lin Qiye's voice kept echoing.

"... Later, I met that man. His name was Zhao Kongcheng. We first met on the way home. There were two ghost-faced men..."

"...Team 136 is the place I miss the most after becoming a Night Watchman. Our captain is called Chen Muye..."

"...Cangnan is fake. The people who live here exist because of me. After my aunt died, I went crazy. I received treatment in the fasting center for a long time. Later, they found me and we planned to escape from there... We are the only ones who have successfully escaped from prison in the past hundred years. Perhaps from the moment we stepped out of the wall, our fates have been connected..."

"…Our name is [Nightfall]…"

Lin Qiye's eyes were filled with reminiscence. After becoming a night watchman, his narration became more detailed. He told the little boy how they broke through the "Human Circle" and Takamagahara, how they escaped from heaven and hell, how they destroyed Asgard, and how they fought side by side at Chennan Pass...

The little boy listened to his story quietly. A rare fluctuation of emotion appeared in his silent eyes. The corners of his mouth raised slightly, as if he was immersed in it.

At the same time, neither of them noticed that in this dead silent black world, the progress bar above Lin Qiye's head had quietly and silently moved forward one step.

"Lin Qiye's treatment progress: 50%"

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