Chapter 195: Dreams Change
Ji Congyang returned to the room with a bunch of things in his arms. He quickened his pace after entering the room: "Are you awake? How long have you been awake? Does your hand still hurt? I didn't give you any medicine, so I wrapped it in a few extra layers. Is it too thick? Will it be inconvenient for you to breathe?"
Shi Yu stood by the wall, his lips still pale, his eyes and eyebrows showing obvious fatigue. The other party asked too many questions, so he just answered: "Nothing."
Ji Congyang put the things on the table first and ran over immediately: "We have looked for it, but there is no key in the castle that can unlock the chain."
Shi Yu still had iron rings on his wrists. Only one section of the iron chain was nailed into the wall. After it extended out, it split into two sections where the person was tied, and they interlocked in the middle.
How to describe it? It looks like handcuffs, and it's the kind that would make one suspect a criminal has escaped from prison and call the emergency number immediately.
After learning that this thing was made by Peter Pan, Ji Congyang tried his best to find the key but couldn't find it. He even suspected that the other party didn't prepare the key at all.
Qiao Yan had similar thoughts, the difference was that he suspected Peter Pan was not because he didn't have the key in reality, but because the key to unlock the chain didn't exist in the dream. He asked, "Can't you unlock it yourself?"
Shi Yu nodded.
I tried using wire to pick the lock or using brute force to break it, but it just wouldn't open.
"I just checked other rooms, and there's a chain like this in the corner of every room." Qiao Yan said, "Peter Pan probably wants to use this thing to tie up everyone else."
In Peter Pan's understanding, chains are the only thing that can help him keep people. They are naturally indestructible and no one can do anything about them.
After checking, Shi Yu found that the iron plate connected to the other end of the chain had been completely buried in the wall and even merged with the wall. He did not care about it and sat back in his chair.
Fortunately, as long as you are in the room, it will not affect your free activities.
Qiao Yan flipped through the mess on the table and first shook out a red cloak: "This was found in Don Quixote's room. I guess he used it to lure the buffalo."
Then he picked up a net made of nettles, with a black feather stuck in the cracks: "This was found in Elisa's room. I guess she used it to catch eagles. It was the protagonist who used nettles to make clothes and saved his eleven wild swan brothers."
Finally, he pointed to the pile of bottles and jars on the table and said, "The beehive in here was found in Ji Congyang's room, and the realgar powder in the bottle is from my room. As for the book about lions, you've read it. Now the only thing missing is the tools to raise cockroaches."
Shi Yu said nothing, flipping through the book "The True Life of a Lion" page by page.
Qiao Yan moved the things on the table away. "But I can understand raising wasps, after all, the stings are poisonous, but do people who raise cockroaches expect the bugs to bite Peter Pan to death?"
Shi Yu turned the book to the last page: "Why can the lion kill Peter Pan?"
Qiao Yan didn't expect him to ask this question: "The fatal wound on Peter Pan's body was a lion's tooth mark, have you forgotten?"
"I don't suspect that someone else killed Peter Pan, but I wonder why it was a lion." Shi Yu pressed his solar plexus, "Peter Pan can fly, why can a lion kill him?"
Qiao Yan was stunned when he heard this.
"Why was he killed by the river instead of in the castle, and not under Little Red Riding Hood's sight? Peter Pan went out alone and died outside, and the people locked in the castle didn't have the key either, so how did they escape? When Peter Pan opened the door for the player, he told everyone not to leave again, which means that the identity character represented by the player had escaped from confinement once before and never came back. So how did Peter Pan design everyone to die?"
"Do you think there's something wrong with Peter Pan's death?"
"There's something wrong with the dream." Shi Yu's fever hadn't subsided and she didn't have much strength to speak. "Everything in a dream could be false, because people tend to beautify themselves subjectively. If this is really Peter Pan's dream, then some things that happened in reality that he didn't want to recall could be distorted, made vague, and changed in his dream."
Qiao Yan was silent for a few seconds: "Do you know what Peter Pan did in the original book?"
Shi Yu: "Kill all the children who grow up?"
Joe hated silence.
So everyone knows Peter Pan's true identity, and he's the only one who has it wrong?
“There are three important time points known now: Little Red Riding Hood finds Peter Pan and becomes his friend, Peter Pan becomes possessive and locks the others in the castle, and finally the others escape. These are the experiences of Peter Pan before the player comes.”
Shi Yu said: "In reality, there is a mural of Peter Pan and others in the castle in the forest, which shows that the first point is true. The physical evidence that Peter Pan locked others in the castle is the chains in everyone's room, but this is something that exists in Peter Pan's dream, and in reality, there are only walls where these rooms should be. In the end, the others escaped. This is completely reflected in Peter Pan's personal words and deeds after seeing the player return to the castle. In fact, apart from Peter Pan's reaction, this point can be questioned."
Qiao Yan asked, "Do you think the iron chain imprisonment is fake?"
"The chains may be fake, but imprisonment is not." Shi Yu lowered his eyes and looked at the chains on his wrists. "Peter Pan is very possessive. When he looks at the player, his eyes are completely looking at his favorite toy. He is not very good at disguise, and obviously has no intention of hiding his thoughts. He should have expressed his attitude in front of people including Little Red Riding Hood more than once before the conflict broke out in reality. Once he takes extreme actions, others will naturally distance themselves from him; and the more others hide, the more they will instill in him the idea that only a cage can help him keep what he wants. This is a vicious cycle."
Ji Congyang really couldn't understand this morbid train of thought: "Shouldn't we learn from the lesson and adopt a conciliatory policy?"
Unlike Peter Pan, he has a correct sense of right and wrong, and the world in his eyes is always black and white. Even when everything is mixed together into a mess after adulthood, he can always analyze the gray into two clear ends.
This is what people around him envy the most. Even if he is cheated by his colleagues and his work is wasted, even if he has to work as a deliveryman in the hot August sun and sweats profusely, even if he was kneeling in front of the tombstone of his deceased loved one and crying heartbreakingly, he can always clean up all the negative emotions as quickly as possible and say "long time no see" to every old friend he meets on the road. Because no matter the environment around him is good or bad, no matter how others treat him, he always looks at the world with the most positive and optimistic attitude.
"Peter Pan had no parents, and no one to teach him right from wrong."
Shi Yu didn't explain much: "To make others disgusted or terrified to the point of wanting to kill him, Peter Pan must have tried to imprison them at that time. But at that time, he didn't have the concept of using chains, so others had the opportunity to prepare props to attract animals. But Peter Pan was obviously faster and more decisive than them. It's not necessarily that the others felt betrayed by them when they grew up, but more likely that they thought that only by dying here could they truly stay forever."
"They used to be friends, so they must have had some way to keep in touch. Little Red Riding Hood was obviously the one who escaped successfully. The most likely possibility is that Peter Pan sent a letter to Little Red Riding Hood to ask for peace, so Little Red Riding Hood came to the castle and then left. As for the Tin Soldier, I tend to think that he never left the castle. A heavy rain would be enough to bury him. After he dealt with those who escaped and those who didn't, what finally greeted him was loneliness and the revenge that others had prepared before their deaths."
It was still dark outside the window, and no one knew why the night was so long. It seemed that the sky had been gray since they jumped down the Penrose Stairs and came to the forest and were drenched by the downpour. People standing on the castle could not see how many springtails were running in the grass.
"The lion was lingering outside the castle long before Little Red Riding Hood escaped. The tin soldier used realgar and honeysuckle to pave a path for the venomous snake. Pinocchio raised hundreds of stinging wasps on the windowsill of his room. The goshawk captured by Elisa struggled in the nettle net, and Peter Pan wore Don Quixote's cloak after his death. These animals are all unpredictable thunders. If no one is watching, they will go berserk sooner or later."
"The wasp blocked Peter Pan's flight path, the eagle's sharp claws and beak could knock a person into the ground, the hungry and irritable buffalo would subconsciously charge at the shaking cloth, the tonnage of the venomous snake was enough to squeeze and burst a person's blood vessels, and the lion could bite off a human head the size of a child with just one bite."
Shi Yu placed his fingertips on the title page of the book and rubbed it gently: "It could be when he was dying, it could be when everyone else died one by one at his hands, or it could be some time in between. Anyway, he regretted it, and this dream appeared. And in the dream, everyone just ran away, and things didn't reach a dead end."
"What about the insect swarm?" Qiao Yan was silent for a long time before speaking.
"There is a safety layer every five steps on the stairs," Shi Yu reminded. "According to normal thinking, one would think that there are only five kinds of animals in the cycle, but in fact there are six, and the safety layers are all located before the stairs that can summon the swarm of insects and the lion. The stairs are a reflection of Peter Pan's inner world. If the lion died because of Peter Pan, why do the swarm of insects have the same status as the lion in Peter Pan's heart?"
Qiao Yan didn't answer.
Shi Yu didn't wait too long: "Why did Peter Pan die outside the castle? It must be because of the swarm of insects."
"Because there was an insect plague in the castle, he had to go out, and ended up being eaten by the animals squatting around the castle?" Qiao Yan looked at him, "But we didn't find anything in the rooms of the castle that could cause an infestation of insects."
Shi Yu only asked: "Have you searched every room?"
Qiao Yan was about to say yes, but suddenly paused before grabbing Ji Congyang who was listening and ran out of the room like a gust of wind.
"There was melted candy all over the closet in Peter Pan's room." Qiao Yan said this breathlessly, "It must be the culprit that nurtured the insect swarm in his room and even caused him to fly away from the castle in terror."
Shi Yu didn't say anything, nor did he show any reaction to the result.
Qiao Yan asked, "Peter Pan, what are you going to do?"
"No plans." Shi Yu said, "He will come back."
How could I not come back?
Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, the Tin Soldier and the Wizard, everything he wanted and cared about was still in the castle.
Qiao Yan glanced at him, asked no more questions, and closed the door before leaving.
Suddenly someone called out from behind: "Sir."
Shi Yu could tell whose voice it was.
I clearly didn't see the other person in the room from beginning to end, and I didn't know where he appeared from.
"Will you return to the temple?"
This is not the first time Shi Yu has been asked this question, but her answer has always remained the same: “I don’t know.”
Unfortunately, Shuying was not the type to be easily fooled, so she pressed on, "Why?"
"I haven't thought about it."
"Then are you just going to watch your position being replaced by Fu Yang?"
The moment Shuying said this, he realized that he had spoken too harshly. He was not qualified to ask the other party such questions.
Shi Yu didn't respond: "Is he managing well?"
Shuying couldn't answer.
Shi Yu knew his answer: "Since he can manage it well, does it matter who is the host?"
It doesn't matter who it is.
The important thing is that it wasn't him.
Anyone can take that position, but why should Fu Yang take that position?
Shuying wanted to say that there has always been only one main god recognized by all the gods in the temple, and he also wanted to say that the object of the gods' faith and worship has never changed. However, when he thought about the fact that the entire divine world had been kept in the dark and indifferent for more than twenty years, he could not open his mouth no matter what.
Isn't it ironic that he hasn't recognized his master after more than 20 years of changes, but still has to claim to be loyal?
He asked, “Are you angry?”
"The change of the main god's position will cause the movement of the divine world."
Shuying raised her head suddenly: "But when he took the throne, the God Realm clearly didn't make any movement at all."
"And I can't beat him now."
Shuying clenched his lowered hand into a fist: "All the gods in charge, including him, are clearly no match for you."
Shi Yu stood up but stopped after taking only two steps. He lowered his eyes and looked at his wrists which were being held tightly.
Shuying said: "Answer me."
He obviously didn't believe it and stubbornly believed that the other party was discouraged because the reason he just put forward was fundamentally untenable and had no factual evidence to support it.
Because he didn't dare to think too deeply, nor did he dare to guess the bloodier truth, but he still had to ask about it in a self-torturing manner.
The confrontation lasted for a very long time before he heard an almost inaudible sigh in the air.
“My godhead is gone.”
Shuying opened her eyes wide, almost in confusion.
"At Fuyang's place."
Therefore, when God Fu Ye came to power, the divine world could be safe and sound, so now God Fu Ye is the strongest in the divine world.
Because the other party was able to sit in that position by stripping him of his divinity and stepping on his corpse from the very beginning.
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