Chapter 96 Shi Yan's Illusion
Although she knew that all this was an illusion, Qin Muxue still felt sad unconsciously. Now she understood why once she entered this environment, she might not be able to get out.
Contrary to reality, this time the mother was successfully rescued. She was lying on the hospital bed, and the sunlight outside shone on her body through the window, making Qin Muxue feel the long-lost warmth. She even felt that maybe she should stay here to make up for not seeing her mother for the last time.
Once this thought came to her mind, Qin Muxue forgot for a moment why she came here. Perhaps she felt that she should have been here. Suddenly, she forgot the purpose of coming here and just looked at her pale mother.
"Mom, you're not dead. I really want to stay here and take care of you."
The mother opened her eyes and held Qin Muxue's hands, "Xiaoxue, why are you still here?"
"Mom, shouldn't I be here?" she asked matter-of-factly.
A tear fell from the corner of the mother's eye, "Silly child, stay by your mother's side, we will be together forever..."
Qin Muxue raised her head in confusion, "Mom, Xiaoxue just wants to be with you." She never wanted to see her mother in pain again. The doctor just said that her mother's operation was very successful. As long as the cancer cells did not spread, she could live for several more years. She hoped to be with her mother in this limited time.
Suddenly, Qin Muxue felt that she had forgotten something very important, but she couldn't remember it no matter how hard she tried, as if she should have been here.
A man in a black hoodie suddenly rushed in. After seeing the miniature version of Qin Muxue, he was stunned for a moment, then grabbed her hand, "Xiaoxue, it's too late, hurry up and come with me!"
Qin Muxue looked at the man in front of her in confusion, "Who are you? How do you know my name? I'm still taking care of my mother!" She wanted to break free from the other party's restraints, but found that he was holding her hand tightly and the strength gap was too great.
The mother lying on the hospital bed suddenly stretched out her hand and stared at the two of them with sad eyes, "Xiaoxue, are you leaving? Don't you want your mother anymore?"
"Mom...I don't want to leave. I want to be with you."
But the man in black in front of her held her hand tightly, not letting her leave. In anger, Qin Muxue bit him hard, "Bad guy, let me go!"
The man in black endured the pain and frowned, but still did not let go. Instead, he carried her on his shoulders and quickly left the ward.
Qin Muxue could only watch her mother cry. No matter how she beat the man, he continued to run quickly.
Suddenly, Qin Muxue found that everything around her was moving rapidly. They were clearly in the hospital, but now they were in the shelter. Her head ached sharply, and she suddenly remembered the purpose of coming here.
"I almost got lost in the illusion." The man who carried her out just now was Shi Yan. She was originally a little girl, but after her memory was restored, she slowly turned into an adult, but now she was hanging on Shi Yan's shoulders.
Thinking of her unreasonable behavior just now, Qin Muxue suddenly felt ashamed, "Shi Yan, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened. I suddenly had the idea of staying there forever, and then I started..."
"You start to forget everything in the past and become out of control, right?" Shi Yan continued.
"Yes, Shi Yan, how did you find me?" She had just bit Shi Yan and beat him hard. She didn't know if he was in pain now. Qin Muxue only saw an obvious tooth mark on his hand, which was bleeding.
Shi Yan carried her on his back while explaining, "Wu Ru's illusion will evoke the most painful things in people's hearts. Entering the illusion will reverse the tragedy that originally happened and lure people to stay here, so that your consciousness will be trapped here forever..."
Qin Muxue found that their current posture was really strange, "Shi Yan, put me down first, my brain is congested."
"Sorry." Shi Yan put her down.
Qin Muxue sighed, "According to what you said, what about Manman and Qu Yanbai? Did they also enter the illusion?"
She saw that the two were swallowed by the darkness at the same time, "Are they here too?"
"Here, but it's still a little difficult to find them." Shi Yan was still as calm as usual, just frowned slightly and looked at the teeth marks on his hand.
Qin Muxue was a little embarrassed. "I'm sorry, I really didn't realize I bit you just now. I thought I was a little girl. This illusion was so scary that I almost lost consciousness completely. If you hadn't appeared, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to get out now."
She asked curiously, "Since you said it was difficult to find Manman and the others, how did you find me?"
Shi Yan stopped and said in a cold voice, "I don't know..." He really didn't know. As he opened the door in front of him, Qin Muxue was completely stunned.
There were countless black holes in front of her, some of which were still bright, and some were completely dark. The two of them stood here, as if they were in the universe. She had never seen such a spectacular sight, and she felt a vague sense of fear, "What is this place?"
"This is the memory of everyone who enters here. Once the light inside dims, they will never regain consciousness in reality. It's the same as being dead."
Qin Muxue looked at the countless black holes in front of her, but she couldn't tell who was who. "I really don't know how you found my memory."
In fact, before this, Shi Yan had been searching for Qin Muxue in countless black holes, but he just happened to find her this time. Fortunately, he arrived in time, otherwise she would have been trapped here forever.
"Which one should we choose now?"
They must now find the black holes of Qu Yanbai and Manman. It would be bad if they waited until the light in them dimmed. However, there were so many black holes that entering one would be a waste of time. Which one should they enter?
Qin Muxue was still anxiously choosing which one to enter, when Qu Yanbai suddenly fell out of a black hole, "My butt hurts."
When he looked up, he saw Qin Muxue and Shi Yan, "Did you see those memories? Where is Manman? Isn't Manman with you?" Qu Yanbai looked around for Manman.
"Manman should still be in the illusion. We must find her. There are so many black holes now. Excluding those without light, there are still more than a dozen. One of them must be Manman's memory. Why don't we split up and go in to look for her, so that we can go faster!" Qin Muxue suggested.
"Okay, this way we can go faster!" Before Qu Yanbai had time to rest for a while, he planned to enter the black hole again.
Shi Yan stopped him, "After entering someone else's memory, if you find something wrong, you must get out quickly, except for Manman, you must try to stop her from immersing herself in the memory."
"And An An!" Qin Muxue added.
"Well, except Manman and An'an."
Qu Yan nodded knowingly and said, "I will definitely bring her out safely." Then she jumped into a black hole.
When Qin Muxue was about to enter the black hole, Shi Yan stopped her and said, "Xiaoxue, can you do it alone?"
"Don't worry, you are very strong, but I am not that weak either."
But before Qin Muxue could enter the black hole, everything around her suddenly turned black. Only Shi Yan was still standing next to her. The surrounding scene kept changing until they came to a place that looked very familiar to Shi Yan...
"What's going on?" Qin Muxue looked at everything around her. Shi Yan beside her had disappeared.
When Qin Muxue found herself in this familiar scene, she actually felt a little uncomfortable. It was clearly the same school she had before.
Seeing the students coming and going, her current outfit was a little out of place. For convenience, she wore work pants and a black T-shirt, her hair was casually tied into a ponytail, and her face was bare.
Turning around, she saw herself as a freshman, wearing colorful clothes and thick eyeliner. Qin Muxue frowned unconsciously, feeling that she couldn't bear to look directly at him. She was following a boy like a tail, "Yan Xu, there is a Juneday concert tonight. I bought the tickets. Can we go to see it together?"
"I've already told you, I have other things to do tonight, so please stop bothering me." The other person got angry for no reason.
"Yes, I'm sorry." She apologized, holding the concert ticket she had bought with great difficulty.
Yan Xu glanced at the tickets. Two thousand yuan each was already a high price for college students, and it was hard to get a ticket online. He took two tickets from Qin Muxue and said, "Why not give them to me..."
At this time, the real Qin Muxue stood in front of Yan Xu and said, "Classmate, don't take other people's things at will." She smiled and snatched the ticket back.
Yan Xu asked impatiently: "Who are you? What does it have to do with you? They are willing to give me the ticket, why are you making trouble?"
He was originally thinking about getting the tickets and going to the concert with other goddesses, but a woman suddenly appeared out of nowhere and said these words.
After Yan Xu saw the person clearly, he felt inexplicably familiar, but the temperament and demeanor were different. Could it be Qin Muxue's family? "I don't want to talk nonsense with you." He was in a hurry to go on a date, and since he didn't have a ticket, he could do something else.
After Yan Xu left, Little Qin Muxue stared at Big Qin Muxue in front of her and asked, "Who are you?" It seemed that she also noticed something strange.
"A passerby." Daqin Muxue put on sunglasses, "I advise you not to associate with that kind of scumbag. Since you have the money to buy concert tickets, why not go to the concert with your friends?"
Xiao Qin Muxue just felt that the person in front of her was very strange, "I'm dating someone I like, why are you meddling in my business?"
"I just want you to stay away from that scumbag. If you get entangled with him, it will only bring you misfortune!"
"It's incomprehensible." Little Qin Muxue glared at her as if she were an idiot. "I'll give you the ticket. Don't bother me anymore." Yan Xu wasn't going to accompany her anyway, so there was no point for her to have the ticket.
Seeing her past self, Daqin Muxue had an urge to beat her up, but this was just a memory and she had no way to change her personality. She had to first figure out whose memory this was.
Since her university and herself appeared, it should be Manman's, but she did not step into the black hole. Could this be Shi Yan's memory?
After Xiao Qin Muxue left, she looked at the concert ticket in her hand and fell into deep thought, recalling what should have happened during this period of time. It seemed that Shi Yan was sick? He didn't come to class. He should still be resting in the dormitory now. Why not find him first and see what his most painful memory is?
Qin Muxue looked at her current appearance. If she appeared in front of Shi Yan like this, would he find it strange? After all, she was still dressed in strange clothes at this time.
Forget it, Qin Muxue quietly slipped to the bottom of the boys' dormitory, but she didn't know which floor or room Shi Yan lived in. Qin Muxue stopped a boy downstairs and asked, "Excuse me, do you know which room Shi Yan, a freshman in the Department of Physics, lives in?"
The boy snorted coldly and looked Qin Muxue up and down. "That weirdo, who are you to him?"
"I'm his friend. I heard he was sick, so I came to see him."
"He actually has friends. That's hilarious. He lives on the second floor, room 204. I have to remind you that he's a weirdo. If you want to find a boyfriend, just find me..."
Qin Muxue ignored him and went straight to the dormitory administrator to register. Then, under the strange looks of the boys, she came to Room 204.
She reached out and knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside, "Shi Yan, Shi Yan, are you there?"
In a hurry, Qin Muxue kicked the dormitory door open. The room was empty except for Shi Yan, who was curled up in the corner. "Don't come over here, don't come over here!"
Qin Muxue squatted in front of him, touched his forehead, and found that he had a high fever, "Shi Yan, what's wrong with you?"
His eyes were dull and he stared blankly ahead, feeling powerless and broken.
Shi Yan smelled a fragrance in a daze and seemed to see a familiar face. It must be an illusion. How could she appear in front of him?
It wasn't until a cup of hot water was handed to him that Shi Yan felt something was real. "Xiaoxue, why are you here?"
Even though she was in this state, Shi Yan recognized her at once, "Drink some water quickly, I came to see you on the way." Qin Muxue found that Shi Yan's sheets and quilts were all wet. It must be someone who did it on purpose. His clothes were also wet. No wonder he had a fever.
"Why are you all wet? Change your clothes!" Qin Muxue picked up a piece of clothing at random and asked him to take off the wet clothes. In an instant, she saw the purple scars all over his body.
"What's wrong with you?" She knew Shi Yan was not doing well, but she didn't expect him to be so miserable.
Shi Yan hurriedly put on his clothes to cover the scars on his body, "I'm fine."
His eyelashes trembled slightly, and his body was covered with various scars, both old and new, which were vaguely visible.
"Who did it? Tell me!" Qin Muxue was extremely angry now. Even though she knew that this was just a memory and what she did was useless, she felt uncomfortable when she thought about how Shi Yan had suffered such harm and she, as a friend, had not noticed it. If she had discovered it at the beginning, Shi Yan would not have suffered such pain.
"Xiaoxue, don't worry about it... I'm fine." He struggled to support his body, with a smile on his face, slightly red in the corners of his eyes, and his face was as pale as snow.
It seems that this Shi Yan mistook her for the original Qin Muxue, so why not just go with the flow. She must find a way to call back the original Shi Yan, but she didn't have the time to ask Shi Yan for the method. If she regained consciousness, she could return to the memory black hole. Qin Muxue stood up and searched around, but couldn't find her at all. It seems that she still has to awaken the deepest Shi Yan.
"Shi Yan, wake up, everything here is an illusion, we have to go back!"
But Shi Yan looked at her with a confused look on his face, "Xiaoxue, what are you talking about? Where are we going back to?" He stood up shakily, his thin figure was so pitiful.
In the past, it was Shi Yan who encouraged and helped him. This time, she would help him. Qin Muxue took his hand and walked out of the dormitory door, "Come with me."
The slightly childish face was dazed, "Where are we going?"
Qin Muxue first took him out of the boys' dormitory, and then went to the infirmary to treat his wounds. After taking antipyretics, Shi Yan's fever had subsided. He felt that Xiaoxue was a little different today.
"Shi Yan, tell me, what do you want to do most now?"
"I... don't want anything." As long as he saw Xiaoxue by his side, he felt very happy. This was the first time he saw Xiaoxue without makeup. She was as beautiful as ever. No matter what she looked like, in Shi Yan's eyes, she was the most beautiful person in the world.
Qin Muxue suddenly realized that Shi Yan hadn't eaten for a long time, so she took him to the canteen and bought him a bowl of hot noodles. "Eat it while it's hot."
Shi Yan was flattered, "Tonight... tonight, aren't you going to ask Yan Xu to go to the concert? Wouldn't it be a waste of your time to be with me?"
"Who wants to go to a concert with that scumbag? It's unlucky." She touched her pocket and found the ticket was still there as usual. She remembered that after the ticket was snatched away by Yan Xu, she thought Yan Xu agreed to go to the concert with her. Unexpectedly, he used the ticket to be a good person and took another girl to watch the concert. She waited for him at the stadium gate for more than two hours, and it rained heavily during that time.
"How about I take you to see it!" Shi Yan, who is now a freshman, is only 18 years old and looks very young. He was a little surprised to hear Qin Muxue's suggestion. "Is this really a good idea? Xiaoxue, don't you think it's a waste?"
"Not a waste at all!" It seems that Shi Yan's personality then has really changed a lot compared to now. Now he is more like a pure big boy. "We will set off after eating the noodles. We still have time." Looking at the time on the watch, it was only 18:00 and the concert started at 20:00.
Shi Yan silently put the noodles into his mouth and shook his head shyly, "Xiaoxue, it's better not to..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Finish eating quickly and let's go!" Xiaoxue was so domineering at this moment that she didn't seem like the person he knew at all, while Shi Yan followed behind her like a little wife.
Along the way, Qin Muxue stared at Shi Yan, wondering how to wake him up. Since he appeared here, his most painful memory must have happened at this time. Looking at his bruises all over his body, no one knew how he was injured like this. Just now, he was like a homeless, pitiful puppy.
Shi Yan's eyes were still so gentle when he looked at her, but Qin Muxue felt something was different, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
She moved closer to Shi Yan and touched his forehead, "Are you still hot? Are you uncomfortable?"
Shi Yan shook his head. Even though he felt dizzy, he would hold on. As long as he could stay with Xiaoxue, he would be with her even if he only had his last breath.
"If you feel uncomfortable, you must speak up."
He nodded obediently, "Got it."
When they arrived at the security checkpoint, Qin Muxue saw a familiar figure. Wasn't that herself? Since the ticket was given to her, why did she come here again?
In the crowded crowd, Qin Muxue was a little afraid that Shi Yan would discover the existence of another Qin Muxue, so she blocked his sight, "Shi Yan, go this way, that side is blocked."
Shi Yan looked at the other side strangely, nodded hesitantly, "Okay." But isn't that side very empty?
Just when Qin Muxue breathed a sigh of relief, she saw another herself walking towards them. Qin Muxue quickly grabbed Shi Yan's hand, put her arms around his neck and turned him around. She swallowed her saliva. Now she felt like a spy, afraid of exposing her identity at any time.
They moved their seats to the front row because they were afraid that another her would appear and scare Shi Yan. Qin Muxue absentmindedly observed the situation around her from time to time.
Shi Yan looked at her careless look and couldn't help but asked disappointedly: "Xiaoxue, you don't have to force yourself. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to be alone. I've been used to it for a long time..."
Qin Muxue turned her head and asked, "What are you talking about?" Life was so noisy that she couldn't hear clearly what he was saying.
When the two of them sat side by side, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. Juneday's concert was also what she wanted to watch. She didn't expect that it didn't happen in the real world, but it happened today. Moreover, the environment around her was so real, as if it had really happened in Shi Yan's memory.
Did he really come here? Qin Muxue felt something was wrong, but now he was like a blank sheet of paper, knowing nothing.
"Shi Yan, are you happy?" She leaned close to his ear, still wanting to know what she could do to free him from the pain. Only by getting rid of the painful memories could she take the opportunity to pull him out of her memory.
"Happy." His slightly long eyelashes trembled slightly, and the moisture on them seemed to be stained with tears. It was the first time that Qin Muxue felt that a man could be described as pitiful.
As the familiar song sounded, she gradually became immersed in the world of music.
Life really needs to watch a concert. Qin Muxue regretted that she didn’t go to the concert before the end of the world. It turned out to be true in the illusion.
She turned her head to look at Shi Yan's profile. Under the waving fluorescent light, his sharply defined features gave her a dreamy feeling. Shi Yan happened to look at her as well. When their eyes met, Qin Muxue's heart seemed to skip a few beats...
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