In a dream?
Huai Shi suddenly understood and responded, "You dragged me into this dream?"
"No, it's the opposite."
Tongi half-forcefully pushed him aside and squeezed into the chair. She put her arm around his shoulder and sighed, "It's your dream that's calling me, Huai Shi.
That's why I'm here. "
She turned around and looked at Huai Shi with a faint smile, "Is it so hard to admit that you missed me, Huai Shi?"
"I didn't, I didn't, don't talk nonsense!"
Huai Shi subconsciously shook his head and refuted. Just as he was about to say something, he heard a sigh beside him.
"Speaking of which, you seem to have become a little gloomy recently," Tongi sighed softly, "Even your dreams are so tragic. Did something happen?
In the past, at least I would occasionally go to the beach with the girls. Oh, the hot summer, the laughter, the waves and cold drinks, the sound of the tide and volleyball … Now that I think about it, I really miss it. "
"Uh …"
Huai Shi's body subconsciously tensed up.
He didn't know if it was because Tongi was too close to him or because of her words.
He was frightened and nervous!
"Hmm? Don't be shy, I don't know anything. "
She dragged her strange tone and her smile became more and more cheerful, "Although there are a lot of people, the content is quite complete. At most, it's at the level of 16 +. Isn't it a little too innocent? Hahaha, so cute. "
"Doesn't that mean you know everything?!"
Huai Shi trembled with anger, and tears almost flowed down his face.
"I'm just trying to give you some privacy."
Tongi blinked innocently with a sincere face, completely ignoring the huge trauma that her contractor's heart had suffered. "I haven't told you about the dreams in the library, during recess, in the office's lounge, and the candlelight dinner …"
"It's my fault, please don't say anymore, let me go."
Huai Shi put his palms together and didn't dare to act rashly. "Did you come all the way here just to urge me to hang myself?"
"No, it's just that I haven't been out for a long time and felt that you seemed to need someone to accompany you, so I came over to take a look."
Tongi took a sip from a cup of milk tea that came out of nowhere. "Just in time. I'll let you rest for a while."
Huai Shi's hand suddenly sank.
A cup of milk tea appeared out of thin air.
Double pearls, three parts sugar. It was perfect for his taste, and it was steaming hot as if it was real.
After he took a bite out of curiosity, he tasted a mellow and delicious flavor that he had never imagined.
"Dreams can even simulate this?"
"Oh, just take it as a gift from a kind-hearted person who saw that you were sad. Remember to say thank you."
Tongi sighed with emotion and looked into the distance. It was as if she could see another dream, where an unlucky person who had waited in line for several hours for milk tea was met with an unexpected disaster …
Her fingers moved slightly, and the queuer who wanted to cry but had no tears felt that he was hit on the head by a heavy box. The box fell to the ground, and the banknotes inside fell out and drowned him.
And in another dream, a group of robbers who were in a fierce firefight with the police didn't realize that the weight of the box in their arms had suddenly lightened a lot …
Countless bubbles of dreams seemed to be close at hand, but as her fingers moved, they disappeared again in the rainbow light of the silver sea and returned to nothingness.
"Replenish some sugar and calories. It's good for improving your mood."
Tongi emptied the cup in her hand and threw it into the empty world. She looked at the hell in front of her and suddenly asked,
"Because of the scar area?"
"Yes."
Huai Shi sighed. "Sometimes, although I already know and have been mentally prepared, I still feel sad when I see and touch it with my own eyes."
"That's their own choice. They have chosen the ending for themselves."
Tongi said, "For idealists, there's nothing more satisfying than such an outcome. At least, it's better than living a life of inaction and dying silently in a hospital bed. "
"Maybe."
Huai Shi was silent for a moment and asked softly, "Tongi, why is there such a thing as hell? I know that everything has an ending, but why … "
"Because it's also a part of the world, Huai Shi."
Tongi answered matter-of-factly, "It's just like the present. Disasters and miracles are one, suffering and redemption coexist. Nothing appears out of thin air, and there are no miracles without a price in this world.
Don't tell me you've never found it strange? Snake people, rat people, Minotaurs … Why do so many creatures of hell have traces of the present?
Or do you think that it's natural for most intelligent creatures in hell to look like humans? "
Huai Shi was stunned.
He couldn't answer.
"Whether it's humans or beasts, all life is formed because of miracles. But where do miracles come from?"
Tongi's smile was mysterious. "There must be a reason for everything, Huai Shi. Even if it's the wind and tide from afar, there must be butterflies flapping their wings and whales stirring up the waves in places you can't see.
You should explore the reason. "
Huai Shi shook his head and became more and more helpless. "Don't keep me in suspense, Tongi … Can't you tell me the answer directly?"
"Of course not."
Tongi spread her hands helplessly. "Some answers can be told to you directly, but some answers are only meaningful if you think about it yourself.
Only this, Huai Shi, you have to think about it yourself. You have to have your own answer. "
"…"
Huai Shi didn't say anything. In silence, he drank his milk tea. After a long time, he shook his head. "I suddenly feel that it's more convenient to be a tool in the past.
At least I don't have to face these problems. "
"The reason why tools are tools is that they have no choice. The chess pieces are placed on the chessboard, the soldiers are thrown into the battlefield, and the gods come to this world … The essence is the same. There is no difference between being driven by the will of others and being driven by fate.
Huai Shi, you have always felt that everything is involuntary. But when you really have the power to choose, why do you start to be nostalgic for the past? "
Tongi looked into his eyes and asked, "What are you worried about?"
"I …"
Huai Shi wanted to say something but stopped. He didn't know how to tell her that he was afraid.
He was afraid of failure.
No matter how tough he appeared, no matter how cold he was, once he thought of the consequences of failure, he couldn't help but want to run away.
If one day, he failed to live up to the heavy responsibility entrusted to him and failed miserably, how could he face those companions who entrusted their lives to him and those who sacrificed themselves in hell for their future?
"Do you know what I'm worried about, Huai Shi?"
Tongi suddenly asked.
When Huai Shi looked up in confusion, he saw Tongi's serious expression.
"Huai Shi, if you love something more than yourself, then one day you will sacrifice everything for what you love. This is a matter of course."
She said, "But when these people sacrifice themselves, they rarely think that there are still people in this world who love them more than their own lives …
In my opinion, the failure of the utopia was due to this overly arrogant 'selflessness.'
There are always people who think that they can save everything and solve all the problems, but it's impossible. It's not shameful to admit the limits of one's existence. Even the powerful gods in the past can't do it.
I can't teach you how to avoid failure, but I have to remind you. That is, don't become such an irresponsible 'scumbag,' understand? "
As she spoke, her face inched closer to Huai Shi's and her gentle breath caressed Huai Shi's face. Huai Shi's eyes reflected her own image, so solemn and serious.
So close.
Huai Shi froze in place, unable to move.
He nodded with difficulty. "I … will try my best."
So, Tongi nodded in satisfaction, reached out, held his collar, and patted him on the shoulder. "Very good. Keep this attitude and remember what I said. I promise, Huai Shi, you will have a happy life and ending."
She paused for a moment, and her smile became more and more cheerful. "Finally, for the sake of your good attitude in admitting your mistake, I'll give you another reminder."
In the silence, Tongi asked.
"Did you overlook something?"
"Huai Shi, are the problems you want to solve only these that you know? The so-called jester, the so-called enemy, the so-called Hell Legion …
Are you afraid of such an enemy? "
Tongi bent down and whispered in his ear, "Or is there something important that you have forgotten?"
She paused for a moment, and her smile became more and more mischievous. "And, is there really nothing left of the blowout caused by the deep backflow?"
Accompanied by those soft words, the world in the dream shook violently.
Something hidden in the deepest part of his thoughts was awakened by Tongi's words.
The uneasiness and anxiety that had always been triggered by instinct and subconsciousness condensed into a tangible outline, rising from the deepest part of the dream.
Something that he had subconsciously forgotten and ignored!
The sky trembled, and the earth cracked.
The barren world was annihilated into nothingness.
With Tongi's departure, the dream was shattered.
But at the bottom of the dream, in the deeper dream, there was a bone-chilling evil emerging.
In the endless abyss fragments, pure darkness surged, and a terrifying shadow rose from the deepest part of hell.
The storm between the depths was just a ripple set off when it moved. The huge hell was just a bubble in front of it.
Cries full of resentment and hunger spread.
With just a glimpse of that colossus, it had already been branded in Huai Shi's soul, and could no longer be forgotten. Even if it was just an outline in his memories, it was enough to make the entire dream fall apart.
At this moment, under Tongi's guidance, it once again appeared at the end of the dream that was on the verge of shattering.
Once again, it cast a cold glance at him.
That monster …
On Sun Ship, Huai Shi suddenly opened his eyes and gasped for breath.
In a short moment, he was already drenched in sweat.
He didn't dare to believe his own guess.
That shadow that had appeared from the deepest part of the abyss when they had escaped from the White Lightning Plains, the colossus that had set off the storm … was actually still chasing after them?
No, at the end of the day, was that encounter really a coincidence?
Was such an exaggerated and terrifying thing attracted by that group of hunters hiding in the depths? Or was it that it had been awakened by the existence of Sun Ship?
An indescribable intuition told him that this was not a delusion.
After experiencing a loss, the darkness did not return. Instead, it smelled the familiar scent that remained in the depths. It was full of resentment and thirst as it chased after them!
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