Chapter 420 Safe House
The young man Bai Jin, his body covered with spells, stood on a sea of blood and a mountain of corpses.
It was dressed very simply and neatly, and it looked like it had nothing on except a pair of black shorts. Even the soles of its feet were stepping directly on the pile of corpses.
Different from what Cen Jinyue remembered.
The boy was not wearing any chains or shackles, and he held a sharp dagger in his lowered hand.
After confirming the identity of the person in the dream, Xu Zhiyan retracted his gaze and moved his neck, wanting to observe the surroundings more carefully. He was still far away from Bai Jin, so if he wanted to see more carefully, he had to walk closer.
But as soon as he raised his legs, the blood under his feet immediately rippled and rustling sounds were heard all around him.
An inexplicable chill appeared along with the blood wave, and Xu Zhiyan's whole body froze. He felt a tangible cold murderous intent falling on him.
Coming back to his senses, he pursed his lips and said nothing.
The direction of the gaze is where Bai Jin is.
But compared to the terrifying murderous intent, Xu Zhiyan looked down at his own attire and felt a little confused.
He was wearing a cream-colored sweater and khaki trousers, and on his feet were the wool slippers he had borrowed from Jiang Huai Que. The red strawberries hooked on the shoe surfaces were soaked in blood.
...This is what he was wearing in the safe house before entering.
No, something is wrong!
He should be in his childhood dream.
From the sporadic conversations with Zhao Fangqin in the afternoon, it was not difficult to learn that Xiao Zhiyan had just been brought into the Xu family's old house not long ago. No matter what, he shouldn't have seen Bai Jin in Xiao Zhiyan's dream.
It was weird, so weird that it was frightening, and even the feeling of the cold blood soaking through the socks seemed so real.
Xu Zhiyan opened his lips slightly, trying to find the system.
"System? Everything? Sweetheart?"
I changed the name three times in a row but no one responded. Well, if the system was there, it would have probably started screaming a long time ago.
The murderous intent became stronger and stronger. Xu Zhiyan's scalp felt numb and he didn't even dare to look up at Bai Jin.
He actually didn't care much about how Xiao Bai Jin felt about him now. After all, according to logic, Bai Jin shouldn't know him at this moment. But everything in the dream was too real, and he vaguely thought that if he was killed here, he would really die...
Just as Xu Zhiyan was hesitating and thinking about how to wake up, the rustling sounds around him became clearer and clearer.
“Humanity, humanity, humanity…”
"Kill him!"
“Die die die die die…”
"Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead!"
"Maybe if you eat him, he'll be able to leave."
"Leave, leave, leave, leave..."
A series of discussions flooded into his ears.
Xu Zhiyan was stunned and turned his head slightly to look for the source of the sound. The next moment, he was met with a pair of blood-red eyes bulging out of his eye sockets.
It's a head that is not very fresh.
The body had probably decayed long ago, the face of the head was swollen, the skin was gray, and black corpse spots spread all over the face.
After frowning and staring for a while, Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows slightly.
It was very interesting that the neck of the talking head did not have a clear cross-section. Instead, a layer of sticky, transparent gelatinous substance covered the wound. Only where the gelatinous substance was covered did the exposed texture appear a little bright red and pink, like the fresh meat sold that day in the vegetable market.
But as these messy words came out, Xu Zhiyan's expression gradually became solemn.
He saw the corpses around him moving towards him, especially the pile of corpses closest to him. The two hands without heads and lower bodies were flipped backwards, supported on the ground and walked towards him. The damaged internal organs flowed out from the broken ends, dripping all over the ground...
"Gan, do you have to be so real?"
Cursing under his breath, Xu Zhiyan took a half step back and tried to use props and skills.
It's a pity that this is a dream, which has nothing to do with the game. He didn't take out anything and could only move towards an open place in his slippers, stepping in the blood.
He pinched himself twice, but felt the pain but couldn't wake up. Xu Zhiyan panicked.
Wait, why can’t I even wake up?
So was he in a dream or was he forced into another dimension?
Chaotic problems and abnormal scenes came together, and Xu Zhiyan had to give up thinking. He kicked away the head that rolled to his feet and was about to bite his trouser leg. After realizing that he was in trouble and could not leave, he changed the direction of movement on the spot.
Regardless of whether this is a real dream or not, the shining dagger and the young boy Bai Jin have become the key to breaking the deadlock.
“Pah…”
"Catch him, catch him, catch him..."
“Ahhhhhh.”
"Bang!!"
“Human, human, human…”
It was obviously not easy to move from the pile of corpses to the other side. Fortunately, the fighting power of these corpses was not high. Although they could not be defeated one by one, they could always be dealt with by using hands and feet. Moreover, the closer to Bai Jin, the fewer corpses would rush towards him, until all of them were quiet.
Even so, when Xu Zhiyan arrived in front of the pile of corpses where Bai Jin was, he looked quite miserable. His pants were mostly wet, and his white sweater was covered with blood stains, like a red plum blossom blooming in the snow.
His chest rose and fell slightly, and he tried his best to calm his breathing so that he would look more steady as he climbed the mountain of corpses.
The murderous intent emanating from the young man Bai Jin did not decrease, but it also did not increase.
When he climbed to the other side, Bai Jin was still the same as before, with no spirit in his eyes, but the direction he was facing had changed, and he was looking straight at him.
"Hey, can you hear me?"
Xu Zhiyan met the confused eyes and asked gently.
As expected, there was no response.
After a moment's thought, Xu Zhiyan reached out to grab the dagger in the other's hand. This time Bai Jin made a move. Before the weapon in his hand was touched, he dodged his arm and frowned slightly.
Without waiting for Xu Zhiyan to say anything, the confusion in the young man Bai Jin's eyes faded a little, and he spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Human?"
He seemed unable to understand why a human appeared before him, and his golden pupils stared at the young man's profile. It was a pity that his mental state seemed to be problematic, and the look in his eyes was not like that of a human, but more like that of a ferocious beast lurking in the abyss.
Xu Zhiyan didn't expect that they could actually communicate.
He felt that the murderous intent around him had decreased a lot, and for a moment he could not tell whether the other party's murderous intent was reduced because he was a human, or because they recognized him.
If it were an ordinary person, even if someone familiar showed such a cruel look, they would probably feel timid. But Xu Zhiyan was born brave, and he had a lot of experience and talent in dealing with mentally ill people. When facing the young man Bai Jin who could communicate with him, his eyes were full of pity.
"Well, humans are still alive."
Xu Zhiyan introduced himself confidently.
His target was Bai Jin, and his murderous intent had almost disappeared. Once he relaxed, he couldn't help but want to tease the other party.
Looking at the boy who was half a head shorter than him, this time, Xu Zhiyan did not grab the other's hand holding the weapon, but instead grabbed the other empty hand.
Unlike the slender and powerful hands of ghosts and gods, the young man Bai Jin's hands felt two sizes smaller, which was a bit new to Xu Zhiyan. He held the sliced hand and placed it on his neck in the other's shocked eyes.
Blood is flowing under the fair skin, and the warm touch is transmitted back through the fingertips.
Xu Zhiyan didn't care about Bai Jin's reaction at all, and said incoherently: "If you don't believe me, you can touch it. This is the body temperature that only living people have. The things you and I are standing on are different, and I am very fragile. You can kill me with just a little force now..."
This behavior is a bit risky, but it must be said that physical contact can sometimes really bring people closer together. If slicing is compared to a ferocious beast, exposing one's own weaknesses can be seen as a gesture of goodwill, ensuring that the other person is safe enough and lets down their guard.
As if startled by the sound, Bai Jin suddenly pulled his hand back.
There was a heat on his fingertips that did not belong to him, and he felt as if the body temperature of the stranger in front of him was hotter than fire.
Looking at the speechless boy, Xu Zhiyan realized that he was not as dull as before. He suppressed the desire to tease him and began to ask him questions.
"I'm lost, do you know where this is?"
The boy's answer was the same as the guess.
“This is my dream.”
After saying this in a calm tone, he lowered his head and added: "When I wake up, you will disappear."
Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief.
It was good that he was still in a dream. He almost thought he had fallen into a time-dimensional black hole!
His heart finally settled down. Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan continued to ask, "Why did you dream of so many corpses? Are you good at killing people?"
The question was a bit off topic, but after what he had just done, the young Bai Jin had confirmed that the human in front of him was harmless.
"Not a human. I won't kill a human."
As if he was worried about something, he took a step back after he finished speaking and whispered, "Don't be afraid of me."
Xu Zhiyan didn’t have time to care about the following sentence.
His mind was filled with sliced answers.
Not human?
Since they have human faces, but they are not human, could it be that the bodies piled up like a hill are all the corpses of mimics?
Subconsciously, he touched the place where the ring was worn on his left hand, but found nothing. Xu Zhiyan quickly sorted out his messy thoughts. He began to understand why, judging from the proportion of people in the game, there were not many Mimics. If Slice had killed so many Mimics... these people were almost killed by Slice, right?
However, according to the slices, it can be confirmed that ghosts and gods are not alien invasive species.
Xu Zhiyan, who was thinking aimlessly, was unaware of the boy's emotional fluctuations. His silent thinking made Bai Jin's expression gradually become solemn.
After a while, he interrupted Xu Zhiyan's thoughts.
"Who are you? Will you come to see me again?"
He didn't tell Xu Zhiyan that this was the first time he saw a human being in a dream.
The boy's emotions were stable and his expression didn't change much, but as long as Xu Zhiyan put himself in the shoes of a ghost or god who usually kept everything in his heart without saying a word, he felt that this boy was definitely not like that in his heart.
He reached out tentatively and touched the boy's lean face, his tone gentle.
"My name is Xu Zhiyan."
"I traveled back from the future."
Perhaps this is not entirely logically correct, and it does not change the fact that Bai Jin will be chopped into pieces in the following period of time.
But Xu Zhiyan didn't care.
The trapped boy Bai Jin has already experienced a lot of bad things and may have to experience more pain in the future. There is no need for him to do anything extra.
He bent down and kissed the boy on the forehead, squinting his eyes and smiling, looking at the boy with eyes full of joy and love.
"I heard you were having a hard time, so I came back early to love you."
Looking at the speechless young man Bai Jin who was standing there in a daze, Xu Zhiyan became playful and wanted to tease him again, but unfortunately, his eyes went dark the next second and he fell out of the dream.
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