Chapter 321 Chapter 321
In a dream.
Gong Qian and Han Qi cleared out the hospital. In fact, there were not many 'NPCs' in the hospital. Including the nurses with blurry faces and other patients, there were only about twenty of them. Each of them had weak fighting power and was scattered, so it took them some time to find them.
In addition, Gong Qian also summarized the difference between "NPCs with faces" and "NPCs with blurred faces".
Clear facial features indicate that this NPC has some connection with the person in the dream, such as a "family member", "friend" or "colleague", a relationship with which they can talk, or an existence that can evoke the person's inner fear, such as Han Qi's cousin.
The NPC with a blurred face was just a background. Han Qi tried to talk to it, but got no response.
The background board does not have any interactive functions.
"Let's not waste time on NPCs whose faces we can't see clearly." Han Qi said, "Meng Qi probably won't hide there."
"I don't know if the previous dream world still exists." Gong Qian fiddled with the scalpel, "The face of the foreman of the massage parlor was very clear."
Apart from this, he did not come into contact with any other NPCs with clear faces.
"She should still be there...ah, I remember now." Han Qi said quickly, "In the previous dream, my 'mother' was Lan Tiantian! Should we go back to find her?"
"There's not much point in going back." Gong Qian said, "I was in a massage parlor before, and in the blink of an eye I ended up here. If your situation is the same as mine, then the others may have also changed positions."
"Let's go and have a look, just in case we meet." Han Qi said, "I have a feeling that everyone should be not far away from each other."
Just like in the previous dream, his "mother" was Lan Tiantian. When he walked out of the house and crossed a street, he met Qu Zhongyi and Yu Huan, and was taken by them to a nearby massage parlor to meet Gong Qian.
By the way, when he ran out of the house, he saw out of the corner of his eye that the person standing at the opposite door was Huang Tianzhen.
Unfortunately, I was in a hurry to escape and didn't pay attention.
"You're right, go back."
*
Yu Huan escaped from the nightmare. He walked away from the amusement park and the Ferris wheel without looking back.
He didn't dare look back, for fear that he would regret it, that he would want to go back, that he would continue to sink into depravity.
I was afraid that even if I knew what would happen next and that this was all a dream, I would just let the nightmare repeat itself and fall into it forever just to see my parents’ faces a few more times.
It has been a long time since my parents passed away, so long that their voices and smiles have begun to fade in my memory.
He had just finally gotten out of it, so how could he allow himself to return to the cage of nightmare again?
This life that was saved by my parents at great lengths should not be wasted here.
At the corner ahead, Yu Huan, who was running away desperately, bumped into someone.
The man groaned and sat on the ground.
"Sorry." Yu Huan quickly stretched out his hand, but then he found sweat oozing from the palm of his hand, and he was so scared that he wanted to retract it.
He was just focusing on his sadness and fear, and perhaps he was not able to control his abilities perfectly and not hurt others.
He was so anxious that he forgot for a moment that this was a dream.
Before he could pull his hand back, the person he bumped into reached out and grasped Yu Huan's hand, using the force to stand up.
"It's okay, I'm also... Yu Huan?" the man said in surprise, "I've been looking for you."
Yu Huan then realized that the person he bumped into was Gan Xiaoqing: "It's you."
Gan Xiaoqing brushed the dirt off his clothes and asked, "Why are you running so fast?"
Yu Huan didn't want to talk about what happened to him before, so he changed the subject: "I'm looking for you guys... Um, have you realized that this is a dream? We'd better leave here as soon as possible."
"Dream? Oh." Gan Xiaoqing narrowed his eyes and smiled, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised. "Yes, this is a dream. So you have discovered it."
"We must have encountered something strange." Yu Huan said to himself, not noticing that Gan Xiaoqing was not right in front of him. "What kind of strange things can pull people into dreams? I remember there are many kinds. First of all, mental strange things account for the majority, and among mental strange things there are..."
He counted them one by one on his fingers.
"I don't know." Gan Xiaoqing interrupted his mumbling, "Captain must remember it."
"Yes." Yu Huan nodded, "The captain remembers the most."
And the current captain remembers the most. It is said that Qingtong has memorized all the contents in the strange illustrated book.
Qu Zhongyi also remembered quite a bit, probably more than 70% of the atlas.
Even though 70% sounds like a small amount, if the illustrated guide in the weird live broadcast were printed out, it would be as thick as a dictionary. You would need both hands to lift it up, and it would be enough to kill someone if you hit them with it.
70% is really a lot. From the beginning of training to now, these team members have only memorized less than half of it, and there are often mistakes and omissions.
"Do you know where the others are?" Gan Xiaoqing asked.
"I don't know, but it should be not far away." Yu Huan said, "Let's go look for it. The captain must know what the strange thing is. When the time comes, we will follow the captain's instructions and we will definitely be able to solve it..."
Yu Huan didn't know that Qing Tong hadn't entered the dream, so the captain he was referring to was Qing Tong.
"Well, the captain's awakening ability is so powerful, he will definitely be able to do it." Gan Xiaoqing walked beside Yu Huan and echoed.
It was this sentence that made Yu Huan slow down his pace.
Captain... the ability to awaken? He remembered that Qingtong's ability was not awakening, but the fusion of a strange thing.
"Who is the captain you are talking about?" Yu Huan asked.
Gan Xiaoqing looked at him in confusion: "It's Qu Zhongyi. Let's just have this one captain."
Yu Huan: …
If Gan Xiaoqing had only said the first half of the sentence, he would not have thought much about it. This team was just a temporary one. After this mission was over, they would still be the original team, and Qu Zhongyi would still be their captain.
But the phrase 'just one captain' is not true.
Where did she place Qingtong?
Don't you recognize Qingtong as the captain? No, Gan Xiaoqing and Qingtong had a good relationship at the training base. When they found out that Qingtong was the leader of the team, they joked that they should hold Qingtong's thighs tightly this time.
Very suspicious.
Yu Huan set his eyes on Gan Xiaoqing. Boys usually don't pay much attention to the clothes of the women around them, unless that woman is the goddess he cares about.
Yu Huan and Gan Xiaoqing naturally did not have this kind of relationship, so after meeting Gan Xiaoqing, Yu Huan never paid attention to her dress.
I only noticed now that Gan Xiaoqing was wearing a long skirt that was not suitable for fighting, and some playful and cute sandals.
Yu Huan didn't know Gan Xiaoqing's clothing preferences, but he believed in Gan Xiaoqing's professionalism. When fighting on the front line, Gan Xiaoqing would never wear clothes and shoes that would hinder the battle, which would be irresponsible to himself and his teammates.
He did not question her directly, but complimented her by saying, "Your skirt is very beautiful."
"Really?"
"Yeah, it looks better than the white dress last time."
“I think so.”
Yu Huan immediately distanced himself from Gan Xiaoqing and looked at her warily: "Who are you?"
Gan Xiaoqing tilted his head slightly, his eyes rolled, and the corners of his mouth were still raised: "Who else could I be? The Gan Xiaoqing you know."
"The Gan Xiaoqing I know never wears white." Not to mention skirts, she wouldn't even wear a white shirt. She usually wears dark clothes for one reason: they resist staining.
It should be said that no trainee who has walked out of the training base likes to wear white. Even if they once liked it, the instructors would let them know what it means to not last more than three seconds.
One over-the-shoulder throw and the white one has to be washed. One day of survival in the wild and the white one has to be thrown away.
When you're wandering around in the woods, you never know what you might pick up, and you won't be able to wash it off.
After joining the team, they would carry out tasks, and it was normal for them to get hurt while crawling and fighting. Their leisurely shopping time would often be cancelled because of an urgent task. Compared with Qingtong's special team that took on tasks on their own, their ordinary team stationed on the ground always had tasks assigned by the superiors, and sometimes they were dispatched. Their time was more scattered than Qingtong's.
Therefore, they are used to wearing durable uniforms when shopping and patrolling on a daily basis.
"So that's the reason." Gan Xiaoqing pretended to have a headache and tapped his forehead. "Really... the memory fragments I got are too few to judge."
"Really, where is Gan Xiaoqing?" Yu Huan asked anxiously, "Is she okay?"
"Not very good, but still alive. I am absorbing her life force. She is in a deep sleep right now, and will not die until her life fades away in her dreams." Gan Xiaoqing's facial features began to change, from soft to angular, and the white dress she was wearing turned into an ordinary shirt and shorts.
"If I dress like this, maybe I won't be exposed."
The 'Gan Xiaoqing' in front of him has completely turned into a teenager. He is half a head shorter than Gan Xiaoqing and looks like he is still in junior high school. However, his facial features are somewhat similar to Gan Xiaoqing, and he looks like Gan Xiaoqing's younger brother.
"Is this what you really look like?" Yu Huan looked at him.
Yu Huan had not seen the photo that Gan Xiaoqing found on the first floor, but he had heard Gan Xiaoqing mention it. She also said that she really had a younger brother, and he must look like this.
"Are you the other Gan Xiaoqing's younger brother?" Yu Huan asked.
"Another Gan Xiaoqing? That's an interesting statement." The boy's figure changed again, this time turning into Yu Huan's appearance. "That's not correct."
"I am Meng Qie. I have no form, and naturally I don't have my own appearance. I can only record the appearance of the people I pull into my dreams, and the appearance of the people deep in their memories, and survive in their appearance." Meng Qie smiled eerily with Yu Huan's face, "Your 'husbands', 'wives', and 'brothers' in your dreams were once visitors to this dream world, and people in the memories of the visitors."
"Soon you will become part of my dreams too."