Yuan Yuanyuan was half asleep and half awake in her dream. She vaguely realized that this was a dream...but because there was nothing too scary in the dream at the moment, she closed her eyes and did not struggle to wake up.

She dreamed of a small corridor... There was something like mist at the edge of the dream. Although she knew it was a dream, she could still see the surrounding scenery clearly.

Yuan Yuanyuan found herself in the corridor she had been to during the day. It was dark everywhere, as if the lights were not on. She walked in the corridor as if she could move freely.

A strange feeling spread in her heart.

In the dream, Yuan Yuanyuan didn't know where she was going, but surprisingly she didn't feel panicked. She seemed to be very familiar with the environment here.

She walked along the corridor... and saw a small room at the end of the corridor.

Yuan Yuanyuan pushed the door open and walked in, and saw a room. The room had many similarities with the rooms where monsters lived in her memory, except that it lacked radiators, electric lights and other things.

She went around the screen inside the room and went to the back.

Yuan Yuanyuan saw a small bamboo couch there, covered with a bright red blanket. The fur on it was particularly thick and it must have looked very festive.

It was as if everything in front of my eyes suddenly lit up and became clear.

There was a person lying on the blanket who was very familiar to him. It was Yuan.

His hands were placed quietly on his chest, his eyes were slightly closed, but it was unclear whether he could no longer see.

Yuan Yuanyuan didn’t know what flashed through her mind for a moment. She felt confused in her dream, so she was slow to react to many things.

She looked at Yuan lying there. There was no sound at all. There was no light around, and only a faint candlelight was on beside him.

Yuan Yuanyuan heard a lot of noises around her, but the room was empty. She turned her head and looked at the door she came through.

Are those noises coming from outside the door?

Yuan Yuanyuan heard those people whispering, but if she really wanted to know what they were talking about... Yuan Yuanyuan couldn't hear it clearly, she could only vaguely hear some buzzing sounds.

"Buzz, buzz..."

To be honest, it's a bit... like a fly.

There was the sound of water dripping on the ground.

One after another, concentric circles of blood-red dripped slowly, accompanied by a ticking sound.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked for the source of the sound and found that it came from the blanket.

At some point, concentric circles of smudged red appeared on the ground, one on top of the other, like red lotuses blooming in a lotus pond.

Those concentric circles were caused by the blood dripping from the blanket.

Just when Yuan Yuanyuan was wondering what was going on, she suddenly heard the sound of someone pushing the door and walking in from behind.

She wanted to take a look at who that person was, but suddenly she couldn't turn her head and could only stand there frozen.

For a moment, everything in front of her eyes suddenly turned dark... She could only vaguely see a string of demonic patterns floating in front of her eyes, but she couldn't tell what they were.

Although Yuan Yuanyuan couldn't see, she could hear sounds.

The person who came in should be a person.

He slowly stood aside and said a few words. His voice was a bass that sounded very pure.

"Everyone says they will die for their lives, but how many of them really mean it... You are the only one who lies most sincerely. If you really mean it, then prove it with your death."

"Maybe in the next life, you can come back to prove your loyalty. Then, maybe I will believe you a little more."

"Afterlife?" Yuan Yuanyuan wondered inexplicably, "Where is there afterlife? When people die, they die, and turn into ashes. If there is an afterlife, then this world would be in chaos."

Although Yuan Yuanyuan doesn't usually talk about this kind of thing, she actually looks down on people who talk about the afterlife.

The most important thing is to speak in the present moment. Whether it is the Buddhist theory of reincarnation or Dante's hell and heaven, Yuan Yuanyuan has never believed it in his heart.

Because, if there really is an afterlife...then I'm afraid I won't remember you anymore.

So even if it exists, we can just treat it as if it doesn't exist, right?

If a person loses his memory, changes his appearance, and becomes completely different in personality, is that person still the same person?

Although she thought so... Yuan Yuanyuan found that she couldn't speak at all. It was as if there was a breath stuck in her chest and she couldn't say anything.

Yuan Yuanyuan felt inexplicably suffocated in her dream at this time. She could not speak and could not see anything. She was very angry.

In the dream, Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly opened her eyes a little in anger, but the eyes were not very wide, only barely open enough to make a slit.

She saw a person's necklace hanging above her head.

Small, made of gold, and very shiny, it reflected the light in the candlelight.

…

Several girls outside the house were still desperately looking for the painting. It was almost dawn, but they still hadn't found a truly certain one.

"I think it might be this one," said the timid girl. "Look at this picture, it's bloody..."

"It doesn't mean that bloody things are good."

"Then which painting do you think is more like the real thing?" asked another girl.

"Hey, let's not talk about this for now... Let's talk about Yuan first. What do you think we should do if we want to have a good talk with him?" asked the girl next to him.

"Just...talk normally, what else can I do?"

"No, no, no, I mean you think about it." The girl flipped through the comic book. "The three of us are all thinking in the wrong direction. If we don't start with the comic book... we can also start with the route he took."

"Route?" The three girls immediately gathered together and started looking through the book in the dark corridor.

After turning to a page of the comic, the three girls came up at the same time. The leading girl picked up her phone and said, "Look, this is when we found something wrong, right? When we eavesdropped today, the meeting discussed the issue of the seven monsters, but the comic was about the northwest front. This should be the issue discussed today..."

"In fact, there are still a lot of pictures that look wrong, such as this one," said the timid girl. "In the picture, the sun outside is in the east...but yesterday was the first meeting, and there were speeches and so on, so it was held a long time in advance. At that time, everyone was still in the meeting, so it couldn't have been yesterday."

"Actually, I think we were quite impulsive to come out for such a small thing." The timid girl said, "What if it was just a casual drawing?"

"Is this just a casual drawing?" said the leading girl. "This is almost a sign that this is something that will happen in the future... Didn't you notice that today's pages are ten more than usual?"

"For this kind of comics, you won't get paid if you draw more." Another girl shook her phone, "Ji Qiu is so lazy that he never draws more than he should. Tonight's issue is the only time he drew more than ten pages."

"Oh... okay then." The timid girl ruffled her hair, "I wanted to persuade you to go back to bed quickly..."

"But what you said does make sense." The leading girl said, "It's really too much effort for us to look for them one by one...so it's better to just go and block people on the road."

"We don't see anything special about this corridor." The leading girl said, "But we can consider a...win-win solution."

"What's the best way to have the best of both worlds?" The timid girl twitched her lips.

"How do I put it... What is Yuan's hobby in life?"

"Uh...save the young lady?" said another girl.

"Yes, save the young lady." The leading girl nodded, pointed at the two girls opposite her, and then pointed at herself.

"No... Sister, calm down." The timid girl grabbed the leading girl's hand, "We have to follow the three-dimensional standards and don't mess around, okay?"

"Even the 2D world can go crazy sometimes." The girl next to him was even more active in persuading him, "Have you forgotten those comics whose later settings became more and more self-contradictory..."

"Uh..." The girls looked at each other and were about to say something when they suddenly heard footsteps coming from the corridor next to them.

The girls looked at each other and hid in the corridor at the same time, trying hard not to make any sound.

In the silent corridor, they turned off their flashlights, hid in the darkness, and listened quietly to the voices and footsteps coming from the distance.

"Do you think we can really find it if we come here?"

"I don't know... Senior Brother asked us to come over and look for it. Master Yu Miao asked the front desk of the restaurant, and they said there are a few corridors here that no one comes to."

"Do you think... Yuan would know what is drawn in today's comic?"

"No way, those monsters don't really watch it..." someone whispered, "Besides, I don't think he would watch it. If he did, he would have exploded a long time ago."

"So what did he see that made him cry?"

"Haha, who knows, if we discover the painting in advance, we might be able to discover something important."

"Maybe we will still have a good relationship with Yuan Chu by then, right?" Another person whispered, "He is the monster in charge of the monsters this time. If we build a good relationship with him in advance, maybe we can..."

"Maybe I can fool him for fun." Another person next to him said, "This is the first time I've discovered the convenience of being a prophet... It feels like a prophet, it's too easy to fool people."

The rest of the words were deaf to the other girls. They looked at each other, and the leading girl suddenly threw away her hand that was covering her mouth and walked to the other end of the corridor.

"Hey! Hey! Where are you going?" The two girls behind her pulled her back, "Come back quickly!"

…

Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling.

She got up, rubbed her eyes, picked up the glass of water on the bedside table and took a sip.

The sun had risen outside the window...it was very warm. As the sun rose, Yuan Yuanyuan felt a little more comfortable.

She got out of bed and turned on the light, then looked at the time. It was almost time for dinner, so it would be better to go eat.

The moment she walked out the door, Yuan Yuanyuan was suddenly stunned.

She looked back at the room and suddenly felt that something was... not right.

This corridor had been sealed off a long time ago, and she was the only one there. She stood blankly at the door, looking at the painting pasted on it.

Deep black...with endless red.

Yuan Yuanyuan inexplicably sensed something, so she walked towards the painting and touched it with her hand.

She was in a very calm mood...but after reading the Demon Chronicles yesterday, she now knew what the painting was about from "Fanning".

It depicts the battle that took place many years ago.

This place is close to the Northwest Frontier, so the war that took place on the Northwest Frontier is very likely to be drawn here.

A girl was running hurriedly from the other end of the empty corridor. As she got closer, her steps became slower and slower.

She looked at the figure at the other end of the corridor and finally stopped completely.

The picture of time and space suddenly froze.

The girl looked at the man in the distance who was silently crying while looking at the painting, and suddenly she felt as if she had entered the world of that comic book...

She looked at the person opposite her and suddenly didn't know what to say for a moment.

You know... this was all going to happen?

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the painting and wiped the tears from her face.

She turned around and saw a girl standing there without her knowing.

...To be honest, this girl scared her.

She was confused and only then realized that her hands were all wet.

Where am I, what am I doing, and what is that girl next to me doing?

Yuan Yuanyuan turned around and looked at Hua again. Why did Hua cry? What happened so early in the morning?

Yuan Yuanyuan didn't care much about this at first... until she suddenly saw the expression of the girl behind her.

The girl's expression frightened her.

After a while, Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly reacted.

Uh...sister, it’s me who is crying, not you, right?