Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

When he woke up again, it was a completely different scene.

I knelt and sat in a dusty room in a state of embarrassment. He could neither lift his hands nor see his legs below the knees. Probably because he was tied behind his feet and legs. Then I was clearly aware of the fact that I was dreaming.

I was familiar with the picture of the rope being melted by the high temperature, but I didn't expect the hot flames to spread to my feet. I quickly jumped up and hugged one foot, screaming and jumping, so funny. It took a while to get rid of the pain. Then I began to look around, thinking that I should have appeared in the corridor of the subway station just now, which made me a little worried.

Just now it cannot be said that "wake up immediately after 4 hours". I seem to have met Lin Yu on the way, although that happened to me last night. Lin Yu should be dying now, so seeing Lin Yu just now should be in the afterlife in a dream. All in all, I should have seen the afterlife beyond common sense, and was brought to this strange place after being alive.

I scratched my head and simply walked towards the dark extension.

The only sound around me was my footsteps, nothing else could be heard. Nothing else could be seen except the darkness and the black dust that had just been burned away by the fire.

Other than that I seem to be walking in circles.

Just passed the pile of dust, and after walking for a while, it reappeared not far ahead and repeated the scenery I had seen again.

Um. I'm probably stuck in this ghost place.

Thinking of this, I stopped in my tracks, spat out the dissatisfaction I had suppressed for a long time, and I kicked the dust off my feet irritably. Feeling nothing to do, I leaned back and sat on the ground.

"What's going on..." I suddenly felt that something was wrong with me, but I couldn't tell what was going on.

At this moment, a strange idea flashed through the back of my head, and I hesitated for a moment before planning to put the idea into practice. So I stood up with a piece of fine grain on the ground, and weakly shouted the words "time is still", and the world around me that was originally static became even more silent in an instant.

"Well, it can be regarded as proof that it was really a dream... and not being kidnapped somewhere for no reason while sleeping."

There was the sound of someone else breathing nearby, so I turned around quickly. As if an opera had begun quietly, the spotlight of the stage shone on a young girl. Qianyan was frowning, standing not far away with her arms around her. The child who seemed to have been tricked into the dentist's office showed an expression of lovelessness out of anger.

"Hey, hey... are you so reluctant to see me?"

Qianyan's eyes seemed to be staring at a pile of kitchen scraps dumped in the sink, which made me feel deeply disgusted by her without any concealment.

After meeting Qianyan last time, I realized that Qianyan would appear near me every time time stood still. Not even she can break this rule. So as long as I manipulate the time reasonably, I can see Qianyan. Presumably Qianyan has already realized this, so she is so reluctant.

There was a kind of smug emotion passing by the corner of his mouth, I was too suppressed by Qianyan.

"It's not a matter of reluctance. I thought that I might be randomly assigned by you in the future, so I was thinking about a solution."

"Don't worry. I'm fine and I won't bother you. You just need to obey my command obediently."

Qianyan didn't get angry when she heard this, it would be better to say that her expression didn't change at all. Did she finally realize the fact that she was a dream maker? Just thinking about this, Qianyan suddenly appeared less than one meter away from me, she looked at me coldly with her hands behind her back, which made me suddenly tremble all over my body.

"Otherwise, I will kill you hundreds of times here, and your spirit will be completely necrotic one time. Maybe I will be able to relax a lot~"

Qianyan happily chewed the bubble gum, red bubbles slowly bulged out from Qianyan's mouth little by little, and then the bubbles burst with a "pop", and I couldn't help but sweat.

"You... Hey, is it necessary to do this!!" I instinctively backed away from her a little. This guy is really quite dangerous! !

I took a cautious glance at Qian Yan, only to see a playful smile appeared on Qian Yan's pretty face again, as if she would do something that would threaten my life at any moment.

sorry! I might as well get on my knees and apologize. Just when I was thinking about how to apologize to her to be more sincere...

"Tell me quickly. What do you want from me?"

These words seemed to announce that my death sentence did not have to be executed. I breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to wipe the cold sweat on my forehead.

At this moment, I accidentally caught a glimpse of a warm smile in her eyes. This made me raise my eyes quickly because of this, but I saw Qianyan coughed with a cold face, and put on an inexplicable expression. Uh... is it my illusion again?

"Don't you see that I'm trapped here...I want to ask if you can take me out."

"Is this the case?" Qianyan looked disappointed. What did she think I was looking for her before? !

"I don't know where this is, but it's definitely not your dream."

Nonsense... I also know this is not my dream, and I have no interest in what this place is.

"I think the other party brought you to this place, there must be a reason for looking for you. I don't care, but you don't wait for that person?"

I don't know why Qianyan doesn't look so cold today. This made me look at her with some suspicion.

"Wait. A normal Qianyan...wouldn't care about other people's feelings, would she? You wouldn't...not Qianyan, would you?"

"Tch. It's not because you're acting like you used to... Forget it. Just treat me as meddling."

Qianyan's face was a little displeased, but her displeasure was obviously not the usual scary style. What she said also caught my attention. Before I had time to ask her anything, a strong wind suddenly came from behind me. I saw behind me a door to a world that seemed familiar to me. The color is pure white like a child who doesn't know much about the world, and the clock that is fixed at eleven o'clock is engraved in the center.

"Go back quickly. Really..." Qianyan was obviously angry. I've never seen such a look on her face.

Immediately afterwards, the murmur that seemed to be hallucinatory made the memories locked in the depths fly all over the sky—"Sure enough... I still don't want you to go back there."

My pupils suddenly dilated, as if my heart was tightly grasped by someone, and a dull oppressive feeling was stuck in my throat. When I turned around to look for Qianyan's figure, I found that she had left talking to herself.

"It seems that you are very disappointed~" Someone suddenly asked as if holding back a smile. I turned my head quickly. The blue-haired boy was not standing under the spotlight, and his figure was very clear in my eyes. However, the sound is as rotten as dead wood.

"I remember you...appeared in Su Huilin's dream before? You said you were..."

"Dreamer in the dream." The boy didn't seem to want to whet my appetite, nor did he want to force me to think about what happened yesterday. Except that the tone is full of meaning to laugh at me. Also, for some reason, I feel like I've seen him in the farther past.

"You brought me here? What is your purpose? Why do you know what Su Erin thinks?"

"Ask me so many questions at once, which one should I answer for you?" The boy was still unhurried. I take back what I just said "he didn't whet my appetite", he definitely did it on purpose.

"I brought you here. I do have something to say to you. But I have no purpose. As a wanderer, where do I come from without desire? As for why I know what she thinks, Of course I know. Dreams are the most realistic projections of everyone, as long as you pay a little attention, you can read her mind."

After speaking like reciting a poem, the boy stared at me in a blink of an eye, as if asking me "Are you satisfied with this?" I still eyed him somewhat suspiciously.

"Then what are you trying to tell me?"

"To be precise, it's not what I want to say to you, I'm just responsible for bringing you here—" Having said that, the young man tapped his fingers lightly, and the surrounding scene suddenly changed from the darkness, and in a blink of an eye, it became pure and beautiful. More than blinding white.

The pure white point. Standing was a suspicious figure in a black robe. Due to the strong contrast between the colors, the silhouette is particularly conspicuous. The teenage boy stood beside me, reaching out his hand to indicate to me that the figure was the one who really wanted to tell me something. And I was unable to respond at this time, because the black robe undoubtedly reminded me why I found the boy so familiar.

At the beginning of the domination war, I carefully looked at the watcher clock, and this teenage boy was one of the few watchers not wearing a black robe. And now standing directly opposite must be one of the observers. The so-called dream drifter, but his real identity is a dream madman, which made it difficult for me to accept for a while.

"Hey. Where does the dream madman have no purpose? "No desires, no desires"? Isn't the war of domination formed out of your personal wishes?!"

"I already have the power to dominate reality, so naturally I don't need to have any purpose. Because everything can be achieved with this power, I can also say that I have no desires and desires. As for dominating the war, I also win from it. Become a member of the founders. Domination of the war is not anyone's personal will, it is you who will have the domination of the war."

"Are you trying to fool me with illogical rhetoric like 'there is no such thing as dominating war in the world, it's caused by human evil thoughts'?!"

It's hard to believe that I dare to stand up to these observers who are regarded as gods by most people. Even though I kept insisting on what I said, the smile on the teenage boy's face didn't diminish at all, instead there was only joy in his eyes. As if there was something particularly ridiculous about what I said, he kept smiling like this.

"Okay. I came here today, I didn't want to argue with you about the meaning of dominating the war."

The clear female voice interrupted the stare between me and the boy. I hurried towards the source of the sound - the black shadow hidden behind the pure white. The voice was extremely inconsistent with the attire, and it seemed to be Observer No. 3 who announced the rules before the start of the domination war. I remember that many observers talked to her at that time, but she never responded. Did such observers find me?

"What do you want to tell me? One of us is a participant in the domination of the war, and the other is an observer. There should be no reason for a dialogue, right?"

Even though I tried my best to express my hostility, neither the young-haired boy nor this woman had any intention of haggling with me. They were really very different from the dream madman who was in charge before the domination war started. It also made me wonder for a moment if I shouldn't be doing this to them.

"I just want to remind you of one thing today. I hope you can remember this sentence well and listen carefully."

The tone is quite serious. I couldn't help but nodded my head solemnly. Only then did the black shadow approach me step by step, she gently stretched out her hand, and radiated the fragrance of lavender.

"Remember—only by recovering all your memories can you jump out of the circle you are in now."

It sounded really puzzling to me at first, but I gradually noticed something worth paying attention to in her words - "retrieve memory". Is she hinting at a memory that I have forgotten?

"Will you be responsible for what you have forgotten?" Suddenly another voice resounded in my ear. That seemed to be the question of the naked teenager asking me incessantly in the nightmarish nightmares that haunt me all year round. Each time I give a different answer, but each time I wake up I forget what I answered.

"I've finished what I want to say. I don't have the right to ask questions." The fragrance of lavender gradually faded away. The black shadow left in the opposite direction talking to himself, and just as I was about to catch up, I found myself sitting up suddenly from the bed, and in front of me was the TV set hanging on the wall. The sudden addition of colors in my field of vision made me dizzy for a moment, and I sat on the edge of the bed and hesitated.

Waking up at different times can be embarrassing. I thought about it for a while and left the room, planning to make breakfast during this rare time when no one woke up. In fact, it was also because when I closed my eyes, I would think about the headache. The reminder of the dark shadow in the dream made me search my memory involuntarily, as if I had to think about it until the moment I passed out before giving up.

I was accidentally drawn into the black hole of memory again, and when I woke up, one side of the fried egg had turned into completely burnt black. I had to shovel it up and put it in my share.

When it was almost six o'clock, Su Huilin hurriedly opened the door, tied up her hair on both sides, and walked downstairs unsteadily. I sat on a chair in the living room and dangled one leg in boredom. Su Erin on the side didn't seem to notice my existence, she bent down and pulled up the black silk that she hadn't had time to put on, and then she looked at me with a confused expression.

"Huh?" Su Erin stared at me for three or four seconds, then walked into the kitchen as if she had seen some incredible anecdote. She stared at the breakfast on the table and blinked several times, in disbelief. He looked at me again, "Eh? Eh?! Who are you and where did you hide my brother?"

Reluctantly, I raised my hand and caught Su Erin's braid tied with white pompoms. Su Erin's eyes turned into two white circles that kept spinning, and I pulled her to the seat next to me in the posture of holding the braid. sit down. I thought it was funny and wanted to complain, so I finally put my hand on her head and rubbed it lightly.

"Are you an idiot or haven't woken up yet. It's rare for you to be so surprised when you wake up early. Brother, I will feel very hurt..."

"Yeah, I'd be disgusted if you said that."

"..." As if being stabbed in the heart by an arrow, I lay hopelessly on the back of the chair and waited for the god of death to lead me away.

"Just kidding~ It's rare for you to think of making us breakfast, and I'll be a little more relaxed. Although now that my parents are back, they are basically in charge~"

"You pull up your other sock first." I reminded her casually. It was only then that Su Huilin came to her senses, lowered her head with the bread in her mouth, and started tidying up.

At this moment, I suddenly had a strange feeling. The distance between myself and my sister seemed to be much closer, and she seemed to rarely face me with that cold expression.

Even if I still reserve my opinion on the dream maniac, there is no denying that Domination Wars doesn't seem to be all bad.

If I hadn't accepted Xia Yinci's invitation that day, maybe I would have continued like that day after day. The relationship with my younger sister will not change now, the relationship between Xia Yinci and me may still be hot and cold. I may not know the existence of Qianyan, I will pass by Lin Yu again and again, I will not know Elus and Black Cat, everything will be as if it never started.

If it was a fateful event that my participation in this domination war, perhaps now is the time to seek out lost memories.

Even if no one around me wants me to remember anything... I know I'm responsible for what I've forgotten - because that's my answer right now.

"Be careful all the way~"

Su Huilin and I responded one after another, and left towards the street. In the morning, my mother didn't mention what happened yesterday. She just smiled at us and closed the door gently. Although they told us not to touch the domination war again, it seems that Su Huilin and I violated their wishes by coincidence.

After all, they have already come to this point, how could it be possible to just quit?

Just walked out not far. Su Huilin suddenly quickened her pace, and when I realized that I couldn't keep up with her, I called out her name. Su Huilin turned around and continued to retreat.

"You're walking too slowly~ You have to pay attention to exercise more from now on~"

"Really... I want you to talk too much! It's your turn to play the role of mother again."

Su Erin didn't respond to my half-joking words, but gave me an itchy glance, turned around and walked quickly.

Seeing her figure gradually go away, I couldn't help laughing helplessly. I simply slowed down and walked towards the long ramp alone, the summer wind gently brushed my cheeks.

The rain that has not yet dried up is illuminated by the sun to reflect a golden light, and the passing vehicles suddenly gallop past. Suddenly, the shade of the trees hid the sunlight playfully, and the sound of the leaves being blown by the wind gradually faded away.

I walked around the intersection of Zhixing Street, and the shade of the trees quietly left as if I felt bored. The sun was dazzling and swept down again. I could not help squinting my eyes because of this, but found a pair of pink canvas shoes. In front of me, I hurriedly stopped and took a step back. After a moment of doubt, I slowly raised my head...

The oncoming girl stopped in front of me and stared at me arrogantly.

"I'm back~ You haven't caused any trouble during this time, have you?"

Comfortable warmth flowed freely through my heart. Xia Yinci tilted her head slightly and smiled at me. Her eyebrows and eyes are curved so that the sun is shining, and her figure is just right.

"I made an appointment to work hard with you even when you were not around, how could it be possible to cause trouble!! Are you underestimating me too much!"

Having said that, I took an annoyed step and continued walking in the direction of the school. Xia Yinci also followed up in three steps and two steps in a slightly playful manner, and the small pendant on the schoolbag behind her made a crisp sound. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that she was staring intently at my cheek, which made me feel a little itchy. I reached out and grabbed the hair on my forehead restlessly.

For the time being, she was staring at the school all the way. Seeing that there were surprisingly few students nearby, I finally couldn't help but turn my head.

"Is there something on my face!?"

"Yes~"

Xia Yinci's answer made me startled. I just said that because I wanted to talk to you, but I didn't expect it to happen.

But when I saw the smile in Xia Yinci's eyes, I realized that I was deceived by her again.

"There are a few blushes on your face~ Do you want me to remove them for you?"

Thinking that she would definitely mess with me again, I shook my head decisively. Xia Yinci actually showed a rather regretful expression, and she gave me a sad look.

"Wait...how on earth are you going to remove it?" Curious by her reaction, I couldn't help asking.

I saw Xia Yinci tilted her head, smiled at me, and leaned into my ear.

"If you miss it, you won't have it~ I won't tell you. So guess for yourself~"

This guy is still as bad-hearted as ever. I resisted the unscratchable itch in my heart and walked into the classroom, so I couldn't help but stop in my tracks. Xia Yinci next to me seemed to have noticed the strange situation in the classroom, and exchanged glances with me. I swallowed dryly, and put down my schoolbag step by step closer to my place.

Including Xia Yinci and myself, there are less than fifteen people in the classroom, and even the students in the classroom look listless.

When I came all the way just now, I deliberately slowed down my pace, so now there are only five minutes left before the bell rings for class. The weather in the morning is fine, and it is not a high-influenza season at all.

I became more and more concerned about what was going on, and all this made me think of the only possible keyword related to it.

"Why are there so few people here today? Could it be that we are the only ones who have not been notified of the holiday today?"

The person who spoke was a classmate who usually loves to play tricks, but I couldn't remember his name. Although he tried every means to mobilize the atmosphere in the classroom, his eye sockets were also darkened.

"How is it possible? No matter what I think, it should have something to do with the dream last night! I asked the other class just now, and everyone had the same dream today... I can't help but compare the current situation with yesterday's. The words in the dream connect together!!"

This time it was Jiang Xinyao, a girl who often hooks up with other classes and goes out to parties on weekends, who spoke. The heavy makeup on his face couldn't cover up the slight sluggishness in his eyes.

"Could it be that sentence..."The place between the dream and the reality is the residence of the soul, and whoever can pass through this road can see the world on the other side"?"

"The dreams we've been having these past few days have been like waking up... Sure enough, when we dream, we are all in the "soul residence" that the man said?"

"What exactly is the 'Dwelling of the Soul'?"

"Wait, didn't that sentence come from a man? I remember it was said by an old woman with a very vicissitudes of life."

Suddenly another intervened in the conversation between the two, and I looked towards the source of the sound, only to see Bao Xiaofeng simply squinting his eyes, as if he had lost the strength to open them.

"What! It's clearly a boy's voice, it sounds about seven or eight years old at most!"

Sha Baonan asked in disbelief, Bao Xiaofeng was about to refute, but he hesitated. Afterwards, Baonan's eyes were also full of doubts. He and Bao Xiaofeng looked at each other. Obviously, neither of them could be sure who the voice they heard came from.

"Hey. Can someone tell me what the "Dwelling of the Soul" is?"

"As the name suggests, it should be a place where souls float around~ It sounds a bit like...well, hell~" Xia Yinci who was beside him naturally joined their conversation. The brain thinks casually. But the students around didn't think so, they all seemed to think what Xia Yinci said made sense.

"The place between dreams and reality, isn't it the gap between dreams?" I muttered in a low voice, and Xia Yinci, who was beside me, glanced at me with puzzled eyes.

The discussion was intensified by the students adding fuel and vinegar one by one like a flame, but the head teacher didn't show up for a long time. The students simply switched places and got together, discussing as if it was a matter of course. And I finally couldn't bear their conversation, and walked out of the classroom alone. The corridor was surprisingly quiet, and there was an indescribably bleak atmosphere everywhere.

"What the hell is going on... isn't it that nothing will happen?"

I kicked the banister of the stairs with some complaint. Just when I wanted to go downstairs to see if Su Huilin's class was in the same situation, there was light footsteps behind me, which made me stop.

"I'm just saying that it's possible that nothing will happen. Because I really can't make a conclusion on this matter."

Xia Yinci shifted her gaze from the window to me. Like a kitten that has done something wrong, she avoided my sight and walked towards me cautiously.

"Another possibility is... someday in the future, people who are haunted by a collective nightmare will never be able to wake up from the dream."