Lin Yuan thought he would sleep more soundly tonight. After all, he had encountered many good things at the party and came back very late, so he was very tired.
Unexpectedly, I fell into another strange dream.
In her dream, she knew clearly that she was dreaming, but she couldn't wake up.
In the dream, I am not a human being, but a huge monster with countless tentacles crawling in the dark.
Lin Yuan found himself coiled in a dark castle. Huge and vivid tentacles were slowly crawling and crisscrossing, occupying the entire bottom of the castle.
Wrapped in so many tentacles, Lin Yuan felt very safe.
She felt safe and comfortable, as if there was no one else in the world and nothing else needed her attention. She could sleep well, deep in this dark world that belonged only to her.
I just always feel a little lonely. It seems that she has been sleeping here for a long time, I don't know if it is a thousand years or ten thousand years. Time seems to have frozen, imprisoning this huge monster in this dark cage forever.
I don't know when, the moonlight shines through the broken roof. A princess who has pledged her life to a debtor, holding a rose, is forced to lie on a huge altar.
The moonlight shone on the altar, illuminating the man lying on the altar. He was wearing straight trousers and a snow-white shirt. One hand hung from the altar, and he was wearing a black glove.
Lin Yuan immediately knew that it was not a princess but a sentry she was familiar with.
She felt very happy in her heart, and the tentacles began to wriggle excitedly, climbing up the steps covered with bright red carpets towards the high altar.
The sacrifice lay powerlessly on the magnificent altar, motionless, seemingly without the slightest ability to resist.
A pointy tentacle arrived first, penetrated into the black glove, lifted the glove open, and slowly peeled it off.
A sweet fragrance began to fill the air, like a piece of sacrificial candy that had its paper shell removed and was emitting a sweet aroma.
Lin Yuan began to feel hungry and she liked sweet food.
The tentacles' wet skin and fresh flesh rejoiced.
Under the moonlight, Yue, wearing a snow-white shirt, began to breathe rapidly. A dull voice echoed in the empty hall.
"Hold me."
Then the monster crawled out of the cage in the damp underground, climbed happily onto the altar, and tightly entangled the offering in the moonlight.
A pair of human male arms stretched out from the gaps between the numerous tentacles, slowly retracted in the moonlight, and were hugged back by those strange and sticky tentacles.
Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.
Found myself lying in the attic of my home.
The sky outside the window was already turning white, the air in the early morning was very cold, the world was silent, and she could hear her heartbeat quickening.
It was a dream, an absurd and strange dream.
Why do I have this kind of dream? Why do I always dream about that sentry recently?
When he is awake during the day, Lin Yuan's emotions are very indifferent and it is difficult for him to experience strong emotions. But every night, the world in his dreams is completely the opposite.
Her dreams were always intense and scorching, filled with fire, ice, death, separation, anger and sorrow...
Now it seems that there is a new picture.
Lin Yuan sat on the bed and thought about it carefully. He felt that maybe it should be attributed to the word love and desire.
I heard that humans will develop such emotions when they grow up and their bodies enter maturity.
I always dream about these things, maybe it's because I'm growing up.
She wiped her face and sat up from the bed.
The weather was very cold, and the glass of the window beside the bed was covered with a circle of white frost. Looking out through the frost, I saw an old milkman pushing a cart, walking with difficulty on the uphill road outside the manor.
In the room, toys and dolls of all sizes lay quietly on the cabinet, looking at her. An old windchime with various glass beads hanging on it swayed gently by the window.
Lin Yuan took out the killer whale doll with a small hole in it from the cabinet against the wall and played with it in his hand for a while.
The cabinet was filled with all kinds of toys, both new and old. The killer whale was taken down, revealing a shabby wooden box underneath it.
It was the wooden box that Lin Yuan brought back from the shipwreck on the bottom of the sea when he dived into the No. 5 contaminated area.
It was once filled with precious ancient energy stones, and was the object of private competition among the noble elders in the upper floors of the White Tower.
Now, the precious energy stone has been taken away. The old wooden box is just a neglected decoration, mixed in with the old toys and not conspicuous at all.
Lin Yuan played with the killer whale with his head down for a long time before he raised his head and reached for the wooden box.
The fair fingers stroked the old wood grain on the surface of the box, and the holes left after the gems were picked out.
Outside the window, the old milkman, pulling his cart, walked to the gate outside the yard.
In the courtyard downstairs, a girl in a maid outfit ran through the overgrown courtyard and ran out to answer the door. She took the milk from the crack in the door and paid for it.
He ran back quickly with a box of fresh milk, his steps quick and his mood happy.
Lin Yuan looked at it for a while, then raised his hand to turn the string of wind chimes hanging by the window.
The wind chime has been hanging here for a long time. Glass beads of various sizes are strung under the chime. Those glass imitation gems are covered with a layer of oil and have lost their original bright luster.
It was simply an old child's toy, dull and inconspicuous.
Lin Yuan's fingers moved among the strings of hanging glass beads, and he accurately found a blue square gem from among the numerous glass beads and picked it up.
The surface of the sea-blue square stone was covered with a thick layer of stains. It looked dull and lifeless in Lin Yuan's fingers, as if it was no different from other glass beads.
If you look closely, you will find that it is not an ordinary glass product. It has four standard and exquisite cut corners and a charming central symmetrical pattern. It is a real gem.
If you stare at it carefully, the blue in the center of the gem seems to be floating, like a mysterious world like the ocean, flowing slowly in it, as if it can suck people's souls into it.
Lin Yuan aligned the blue square gem with a groove on the box, and the quadrilateral Asscher sapphire fit seamlessly into it.
As soon as the aquamarine gem was embedded, the shabby wooden box that was retrieved from the shipwreck on the bottom of the sea was instantly enveloped in a layer of hazy light.
A vague, inaudible mysterious whisper sounded from all directions, and the voice murmured softly, as if telling some ancient story.
The blue gem on the wooden box shone with dazzling light, and above the gem, a three-dimensional image of a shipwreck emerged.
The majestic ship, half-hidden by the sea sand, was slowly rotating above the gem in the form of a tiny phantom. Upon closer inspection, it was the Mary shipwreck in the No. 5 contaminated area.
The shimmering blue light flowed along the edge of the blue gemstone and began to flow along the cracks on the surface of the wooden box.
The blue light liquid passed through the gap like the first figure on the ground and reached the next groove where the gem was missing.
Blue light liquid was injected into the empty groove, and it began to glow.
A small golden tree emerged above the groove.
The golden trunk and golden leaves, the little phantoms are lifelike, and you can vaguely hear the crisp sounds of the metal leaves in the air.
The mysterious whispers from all directions murmured for a moment and gradually dissipated.
The illusions of the shipwreck and the golden tree also disappeared.
The wooden box in Lin Yuan's hand was still the tattered box, except for the blue gem inlaid on it whose light had faded and turned back into a greasy glass bead.
golden tree.
Lin Yuan muttered the word, stroked the box for a while, and stuffed it back into the pile of toys.
Let the killer whale doll with a hole in it squat on the box and cover the wooden box.
"Keep an eye on it for me." Lin Yuan poked the killer whale's chubby head, got up, washed up, and prepared to go downstairs for breakfast.
Inside the restaurant.
Lin Yuan sat at the dining table, holding a spoon and yawning while waiting for his meal.
The light was on in the kitchen, and there were tinkling sounds coming from it.
"Miss, what happened at the party yesterday? Why did you not come back until morning?" A young girl's voice came from the kitchen.
"Well? It's nothing serious. It has nothing to do with us." Lin Yuan answered absentmindedly, twisting the spoon and thinking about something in her mind.
"Xiaosuo," she finally decided, "I have a few friends who are coming to visit us. Please make some preparations."
There was a flurry of falling sounds coming from the kitchen.
"Are you...a guest?" A girl with a bob haircut and wearing a maid's uniform timidly moved half of her head out of the kitchen.
She had smooth hair that just reached her collarbone, beautiful features, and lively eyes. She was wearing a neat dark dress and a snow-white bib. The fluffy skirt was very long and dragged on the ground, completely covering her feet.
"Yes, guests. You have to help me entertain them." Lin Yuan said.
The girl named Xiaosuo walked out of the kitchen in a panic. After thinking for a while, she used both hands to smooth out the folds of her skirt and restored it to a normal straight line.
She walked gracefully, with her fluffy skirt completely covering her legs, not even revealing a bit of her feet.
"I, do I want to be entertained too?" She folded her hands in front of her body, rubbing her fair fingers nervously, "Miss, but I..."
"It's okay," Lin Yuan said, "You shouldn't hide in the house every day. You should get used to meeting outsiders in the future. The same goes for me."
"But, what if they find out?"
"I think they will like you." Lin Yuan stretched out her hand and smoothed the soft hair hanging by Xiao Su's cheek. "What if they don't like my family? I'll let them go."
Xiaosuo lowered her head. "If that happens, I will implicate the young lady. She has few friends to begin with."
"Don't think too much." Lin Yuan put away his rare gentleness, restored his signature expressionless face, and knocked on the bowl, "I'm hungry. Give me food quickly."
The breakfast was very rich, with hot milk, toast, a half-fried soft-boiled egg, and a bowl of ice cream with sesame sauce.
Lin Yuan enjoyed the meal very much.
"Ah, what should I do? This is my first time entertaining guests. What should I prepare? Yes, yes, I should clean up first."
The little lock in the house was in a panic. She was spinning around and then she returned to her usual sideways walking style.
The girl held cleaning tools in both hands and moved much faster than an average person. She moved around in the spacious living room far away from the restaurant, and even walked vertically along the wall with ease.
The movements became faster, the skirt fluttered, and several arthropod legs were revealed under the white skirt. They were hard legs with armor that were completely not human.
Xiaosuo's full name is Guosuo, and he is a deformed creature.
Lin Yuan didn't know how she got to her house.
Since his parents passed away, Lin Yuan was sent to live in the White Pagoda. The servants of this villa gradually dispersed, and the huge courtyard has been uninhabited and the gate has been deserted.
Only after Lin Yuan came of age was he allowed to leave the White Pagoda and return home.
When I entered the house for the first time, the front door was rusty and the yard was overgrown with weeds. The five-story main building and the shorter annex in the yard were dark, like a haunted house.
But when I actually walked into the building, it was not as dusty and full of cobwebs as I had imagined.
On the contrary, many corners seemed to have been swept by someone frequently, leaving some subtle traces of life.
Lin Yuan was alone, carrying his luggage, walking upstairs in the dark and looking at each room.
She left at a young age and it was such a traumatic experience that she no longer remembers what it was like to live here as a child.
She walked step by step, and her footsteps echoed in the long corridor. On both sides of the corridor were dark rooms.
It was quiet everywhere. There were no people, no living creatures, no sounds, and not even any breath of life.
She couldn't find any memories of her own here.
Everyone has a family, and Lin Yuan always thought that he had one too.
It turned out that this empty building and deserted courtyard was her "home", the home she had been waiting for in the White Tower for many years.
A long corridor, a spiral staircase, the parents' master bedroom, a study, a gym, a screening room, and an attic belonging to the little girl.
There were many photos hanging on the wall. The smiling young couples and little girls in the photos made Lin Yuan feel very unfamiliar.
What's strange is that the main rooms in this building are all kept in a weirdly tidy manner.
No one had moved the interior furnishings; the tables, chairs and picture frames on the walls had all been wiped and swept clean, as if the owner had not been away for too long.
Lin Yuan walked through the dark house floor by floor, and finally saw turned-over clothes and some traces of life in the annex where the maids lived.
"Come out." Lin Yuan stopped in front of a staircase.
The house was large and the courtyard was wide, but the tentacles were everywhere and they soon found the "ghost" hidden in the building.
"Get out." Lin Yuan said coldly, standing in the darkness.
A little girl's timid head emerged from the shadows under the stairs.
"I'm sorry." She bit her handkerchief, tears welling up in her eyes. "Don't be angry, I'll come out right away."
Xiaosuo is a deformed creature with the upper body of a human girl and the lower body supported by countless arthropod legs.
She didn't remember where she came from, but she vaguely remembered that she lived in a polluted area in her early days.
One day, a group of sentinels broke into the place and took her out of the contaminated area, even though she had no fighting ability. They sent her as a gift to the home of a noble old man who liked to raise mutants.
She called the noble old man Mr. Guo, and had been living in a giant ecological tank in the basement. The only thing she could do every day was to wait hungrily for Mr. Guo to feed her.
She was asked to learn human speech and imitate human behavior in that fish tank.
I learned it with great difficulty. Only if I could satisfy Mr. Guo could I get a little food which was not enough to fill my stomach.
Until one day, she escaped from that cramped large fish tank by chance.
That day she climbed over many walls, courtyards, roads and gardens, and hid in sewers. She was terrified and panicked along the way, which attracted many people's screams and chases.
But she was lucky and finally hid in this deserted courtyard without being found by the pursuers.
This yard has been silent for many years. No one beats or scolds us, and no one forces us to do anything. We live a happy life here.
She lived for many years, secretly observing the humans around her and imitating their behavior.
In Xiaosuo's heart, she is very grateful to the owner of this yard.
Every day she carefully does what she has learned, trying to keep the house clean and not damaging anything inside.
I hope that when the owner of this place comes back one day, he won't be too angry with her.
It would be even better if the owner could allow her to continue living here.
This was just a dream of hers. She knew she was a monster. Humans hated monsters like her. When they saw them, they would either scream or kill them. It was very difficult for her to live in the sun.
Finally, she waited for the owner of the house to come home.
That night, the powerful spirit and body overwhelmed her, leaving her nowhere to hide.
"Get out." A lady wearing a white dress and carrying a backpack stood at the stairs. She had a blank expression on her face and her eyes were cold in the dark.
Xiaosuo felt that she was doomed.
It might be beaten, sliced, or even steamed into a pot to become red cooked food.
She bit her handkerchief, tears in her eyes, and moved out of the shadows little by little.
She tried her best to press those strange legs into her skirt.
She knew it was useless.
This lady's spiritual body is extremely strong, so strong that it can see through everything and easily find her.
It was so powerful that she almost wanted to hold her head and crawl on the ground, not daring to escape.
The lady with a cold face looked at her for a while and gathered her scattered energy.
"Are you responsible for the hygiene of the house?"
Xiaosuo shed tears, bit her handstring and nodded.
"What do you usually eat when you live here?"
"The fruits from the trees in the yard, and... " Xiaosuo moved her slender white fingers nervously, "steal some from the neighbors nearby and cook them."
“Can you cook?”
"Yes, a little bit."
"Okay, I'll bring food back later and you cook."
This is how Miss Lin Yuan characterized the incident.
She was not driven away, nor was she abused or scolded. She allowed herself to live in the original house and lead the same life as before.
The lady said that she was also a monster and didn't mind living with her, a deformed creature, as long as she could be responsible for three meals a day and basic cleaning.
From then on, her anxious heart finally settled down. She no longer had to hide and worry.
As a maid, she officially lived in this courtyard that she loved very much.
The only trouble is that I occasionally scare away the gardener who comes to help with the yard, and the cleaning lady who comes to help with shopping and cleaning up the rubbish.
But the lady never blamed her once.
Guo Suo was very happy, she loved her young lady very much and hoped that Miss Lin Yuan could also live a happy life.
Lin Yuan, who was sitting at the table, was holding a hot piece of toast and felt a little troubled. "I don't know what to prepare for inviting guests."
It would be nice if there was someone who could ask, she thought.
Lin Yuan opened his personal terminal.
Personal terminals are expensive communication devices that can only be purchased at high prices or obtained in contaminated areas. Not everyone has them.
She only had a few people added to her terminal.
Lin Yuan scrolled through the list and saw several names including Roy, Shen Fei, Ni Ji, Nicole, etc.
Who should I ask?
She thought for a while and picked a name with whom she felt she had a relatively close relationship.
The avatar of that name is a small killer whale.
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