Chapter 65

The bus door opened again. Xu Ming sat in her original position, looking back uncontrollably - she couldn't explain why, but she was always a little worried about the person who hadn't boarded the bus yet.

Fortunately, the girl still caught up. The figure soon appeared in the car. There were still many empty seats in the front of the car, but she didn't even look at them, and walked towards Xu Ming and sat down next to her gently. She

looked young, wearing a school uniform, with a pale and pretty face. As if she noticed Xu Ming's gaze, she raised her eyes slightly, nodded at her a little awkwardly, raised her hand to brush the broken hair by her ear, revealing thin fingers and long nails.

The fingers were beautiful, but the nails seemed to be a little too long. And a little black. Xu Ming's eyes could not help but stay on it for a moment. On the other side, the girl seemed to have noticed the problem with her nails. She put her hands down in a panic, pointed her fingers inward, and gently clenched them. When she released them, the nails on her ten fingers had become very clean and beautiful.

Hmm... What is this? Is it magic?

Xu Ming thought vaguely, but still felt very sleepy. She wanted to close her eyes and rest, but her eyes were involuntarily attracted to the girl again -

she noticed that the girl was wearing jewelry on both wrists.

On her left wrist was a string of white beads, the surface of the beads was not very regular, and there seemed to be a faint milky fragrance; on her right wrist was also a bracelet strung together with a plastic rope, but the style was much more strange. On the rope were actually matches.

The matches were not quite clean, some were dirty, and if you smelled them carefully, you could smell a slight burnt smell. This made Xu Ming frown.

The girl seemed to have been secretly watching her, and when he noticed the change in her expression, he immediately straightened up. After a pause, he spoke tentatively, and his words were inexplicably stumbling, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time:

"What's wrong with you?"

"Ah? It's nothing, it's nothing." Xu Ming hurriedly said, his eyes passing over the match bracelet again, "I just think this bracelet is a bit... um, strange. It's very rare."

"Oh..." The girl nodded slowly, followed her gaze to look at her right hand, and tilted her head slightly.

"This originally belonged to someone else. I stole it." After a while, she spoke again, her voice was soft and her tone was calm, as if she was saying something that was a matter of course, "I've been wearing it for a long time, and have been learning how to use it. Unfortunately, I still don't know how to use it."

...Oh, so that's it.

Is that something you can say?

Xu Ming nodded in confusion, and looked at her other hand: "What about this one? This one is much better looking."

"Really?" The girl seemed to be happy because of her words, and there was a little joy in her words, "This is milk candy, my own thing."

Xu Ming was stunned: "Milk candy?"

"Yes, milk candy. It's something that can make people have sweet dreams." The girl said, brushing the white bracelet with care, "Have you seen "The God of Dreams"? " "

?" Xu Ming was stunned and shook his head. So the girl explained seriously: "That's Andersen's fairy tale. There is a dream god in it. As long as he sprays some magic milk into children's eyes, the children can travel in beautiful dreams."

"I think, well, I think my milk candy is almost the same."

"Really?" Xu Ming looked at her in surprise, trying to keep up with her words, "That's great. Then if you wear it, won't you be able to have beautiful dreams all the time?"

"..."

The girl heard this, but suddenly fell silent.

After a moment, she spoke again, her voice low: "It didn't work before."

Xu Ming: "? Why?"

"Because in the past, I was always gripped by nightmares." The girl whispered and raised her right hand again. Her eyes unconsciously moved back and forth over the matches. "I want to wake up, but I can't. People who can't get rid of their nightmares can't create pure dreams."

"But later, I think I can try again."

"......?"

Xu Ming rubbed his head that was hit by sleepiness, and felt that he couldn't understand the other person's words more and more.

While talking, the car had already driven forward for a long time, but the scenery outside the window seemed to have not changed. Xu Ming unconsciously glanced out the window and murmured, "The rain seems to be getting lighter."

"Yeah." The girl responded, "Maybe it will stop soon."

After that, she seemed to think of something and hurriedly reached into her pocket. In a blink of an eye, she took out a roll of plastic rope from it.

Xu Ming recognized that thing, the crystal elastic string used to string bracelets.

Just as I was wondering what the other person was doing with it, I saw the girl tear off a piece of it, and cut it off easily with her fingernails, and then propped up her legs to form a small flat surface. She immediately took off the two bracelets on her wrists, unpacked them all, and laid them flat on her legs. She picked and chose, picked out some, and strung them one by one on the new rope.

Although the car was still shaking, her movements were particularly steady. While stringing, she murmured to herself seriously, looking very careful:

"Thanks counts as one, apology counts as one, blessing counts as one... um, rent, rent counts as two..."

As she counted, a new bracelet was quickly made. Half of it was white candy, and half of it was dangling matches. I don't know if the girl did it on purpose, but the matches on the bracelet were all the cleaner ones.

Then she turned around and handed the bracelet to Xu Ming. Her eyes were a little evasive, but there was some expectation in her eyes.

"......?" Xu Ming was startled, "Is this for me?"

In response to her, the girl gave a small, affirmative nod. Xu Ming was flattered, thanked her sincerely, took it, held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, and then carefully put it on his wrist under the girl's expectant eyes.

Seeing this action, the girl finally smiled again. After a pause, Fang heard her whisper: "At that time, it was suddenly very popular in the class to play this. Many girls would buy materials to string them together, and then give them to each other. I thought it was very interesting, so I also bought a package of materials to string together. I strung a lot of them, but I didn't know who to give them to.

"Thank you, you have made me realize something happy again."

"?" Xu Ming, who was looking at the bracelet, turned his head in confusion, "Again?"

The girl did not explain further, but slowly raised her head, her eyes passed over Xu Ming's shoulder, and fell on the window wet by the rain.

The window was still covered with water marks, like a crying face. But the light outside was obviously much brighter, and through the gaps in the water marks, large areas of rice could be seen, lush and green.

"The rain has stopped." She said, "Get off the bus quickly."

"Goodbye."

...?

Xu Ming was stunned, and the feeling of doubt crept into his heart again. He turned around and was about to ask in detail, but saw that the seat next to him was empty -

there was no girl at all.

"..." Xu Ming blinked blankly. It was obviously a very strange thing, but for some reason, she didn't feel scared at all.

At this moment, the bus stopped at the station again. The door opened with a hiss, but no one in the car moved.

Normally, at this time, the driver should close the door and continue to drive forward. However, at this moment, he didn't have any intention of closing the door. The door just opened quietly, as if waiting for something.

Xu Ming hesitated for a moment, then remembered what the girl said. She finally got up with her bag, rubbed her swollen head, and walked down in a daze.

- Almost at the moment she stepped out of the car, the scene around her suddenly changed.

All the scenes and voices faded away, and the car compartment turned into a toilet cubicle. She was pushing open the door of the cubicle and walking out. When she stepped on the ground, she felt a strong sense of reality under her feet.

Her originally confused brain finally regained consciousness. Xu Ming was startled and raised her head suddenly, meeting the shocked eyes of Lu Yueling and Lando outside. She opened her mouth and was about to speak, when waves of intense pain suddenly came over her like a tide from all directions.

Also surging was a heavy sense of fatigue and drowsiness. Xu Ming felt that her head suddenly became very heavy, and her vision went dark. Although her forehead was sweating, she felt cold in her bones. She stretched out her hand to hold the wall, but her weak fingers slid down the wall, dragging her down with her -

she was going to die.

At the moment of falling down, Xu Ming had only one thought in her mind.

Are we back to reality?

... Are the toilets in reality clean?

Fortunately, before she fell completely, she felt something rushing over and supporting her.

She lay down with someone holding her head, and something covered her body. Xu Ming opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she couldn't control herself and closed her eyes.

Her consciousness quickly sank. At the moment of fainting, she could only hear a few scattered conversations beside her -

"What should we do?" Lu Yueling's voice sounded a little panicked, "Why does it feel more serious than in the ghost story... She won't die, right?"

"How about calling the police? Or calling an ambulance?"

"Can't call." This time it was Lando's voice, "This injury cannot be explained."

"Then what should we do? It's still bleeding..."

"Her cell phone, can you find it?" It was Lando's voice again:

"I know which number to call. I'll find it for you, you dial it."

"Oh!" Lu Yueling's voice was obviously confused, "But why me..."

"For safety. "

This was the last sentence Xu Ming heard.

Landor said it with full determination.