Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

"Don't talk to the person in your dream, that's the language of another world."

In the darkness, I heard someone's voice. I want to open my eyes, but my body feels heavy and doesn't seem to belong to me.

From time to time, there was pain mixed with a little numbness all over the body. I had to keep falling in the dark.

At this time, an unbelievable scene broke into my field of vision uninvited, and I suddenly looked around, surrounded by an endless grassland and the darkness that enveloped this world. There was the sound of footsteps stepping on the green grass behind me, I slowly turned my head, and Lin Yuzheng looked at me in surprise. However, before he could speak, I was shaken violently and pulled me out of the scene.

The original darkness was replaced by the glimmer of light hitting the eye sockets. The sunlight sweeping into the room made me raise my eyebrows. There was the sound of curtains being pulled, and the surrounding light dimmed a lot. The sound of footsteps slowly settled from a distance to my side, and I opened my eyes involuntarily, a pair of cold and clear pupils imprinted on my field of vision.

"Old... Mom, why are you in my room!?"

I hurriedly sat up from the bed, my hand inadvertently touched someone's soft cheek, I withdrew my hand as if trying to escape, only to see Su Huilin beside me narrowing her eyes in dissatisfaction, but immediately Confused by the scene in front of him. She blinked and looked at me, as if thinking about why I was here.

"Should I ask why you slept in Su Erin's room?"

The voice of my father on the side interrupted the extremely embarrassing direct gaze between Su Huilin and me. I felt like my face was on fire, and I hurriedly looked at Su Huilin, only to see that she didn't seem to understand the current situation.

"It's not what you think..." As I said that, I took advantage of this time to poke my legs out of the bed to find a chance to get out of bed, but Su Erin's fist swung over without warning, and my As if being run over by a bulldozer, his body slammed towards the back, and then he fell on the hanger where Su Huilin hung his clothes in a state of embarrassment. There seemed to be fluid dripping from the nose.

I rubbed the back of my head in pain, wondering if it was because the clothes were too messy, I couldn't even get up from the clothes for a while. Su Huilin seemed to have just realized it at this time, she quickly got off the bed, and walked towards me quickly with apologies. After finally being pulled up by my sister, I found that I was holding a strange piece of clothing made of a rather soft material in my hand.

"Ah... I'm sorry~ I couldn't help punching just now~ What are you holding in your hand..."

What does it mean that I can't help myself! Do I look like the kind of perverted brother who would attack in the middle of the night? But what exactly is in my hand? I opened my palm curiously, and spread out the suspected bra item in public, but was kicked into the pile of clothes again... Well, it seems difficult to explain clearly now.

"Well. As for why you appeared in Su Erin's room, let's not talk about it for now."

Wait, can this question be left alone? I looked at my father who said this in disbelief, and I inevitably wondered if he had some special hobbies.

For example, the forbidden love between siblings or something.

"Last night in the middle of the night I heard strange noises coming from upstairs over and over again. So I went up to see what was going on and I saw you knock yourself out with a dictionary."

The mother on the side was holding a dictionary that looked quite familiar. She waved the dictionary and tapped her other palm continuously, making a "pop" sound. She looked at me suspiciously, and her eyes seemed to indicate that I was not allowed to fool her casually.

"I don't care about other things, you are not brothers and sisters anyway. But can you explain to me what is going on with your strange behavior?"

The father who sat directly opposite was also staring at me closely. At this time, I had no time to take into account the first half of his astonishing speech, and I couldn't help sweating from the palm of my hand.

It is impossible to tell them the things that govern the war. First of all, they don't believe that such things will happen in their dreams. But just when I was about to fool around casually, my father's words froze me again as if ice water had been poured from the top of my head.

"Listen, Su Ruoyang... I don't want you to have anything to do with the person in your dream. If what I say is right, you'd better draw a line with this muddy water as soon as possible! Su Huilin is the same Request, do you understand?"

In an instant, tinnitus began to sizzle. I opened my eyes wide and stared at my father with an ordinary expression in front of me, and I really couldn't react. I tried to take a look at my mother, only to see that she was looking at me and Su Erin with the same natural eyes. I clenched my fists, clearly in reality, but the surrounding scene seemed extremely unreal.

The sound of footsteps went away from the room, and it seemed that both parents had finished what they wanted to say. what is going on? The "people in the dream" should refer to the group of rulers, but how would they know the existence of the ruler war? I scratched the back of my head irritably and raised my head, the expression on Su Huilin's face was more like a sigh of relief than surprise.

"Su Huilin, do you know how they know about this?"

"Ah?" For some reason, Su Huilin trembled slightly from my fright. She glanced at me cautiously, and then replied, "What are you talking about? I don't know what's going on...Maybe they Just saying it casually. Don’t pay too much attention to it.”

I stared at Su Huilin's trembling eyes, and always felt that Su Huilin had something to hide from me. Or I feel that everyone around me is hiding something from me... All the concealment seems to be pointing in the same direction, but only I am pushed away by them in the opposite direction.

"Why did you only hide it from me?"

Seeing Su Huilin's small hand on her chest moved behind her at a loss, she must have heard my whisper. But she didn't intend to speak. Instead, she deliberately waited for me to forget the topic. An indescribable feeling crossed my chest, and I grabbed the fabric on my chest tightly. At this moment, I feel that the distance from anyone is being pulled away.

"Brother...? Well, I'm going to be late soon."

At this time, Su Huilin seemed to be very concerned about touching my emotions. I looked at her in confusion, and Su Huilin's rare eyes flickered from side to side, avoiding my sight.

"I'm going downstairs first."

Say it. Su Erin left the room in a hurry regardless of the fact that I was still in the room. I looked at her back and pondered for a moment, then sighed and walked out of the room and closed the door behind me.

When I got to the classroom, it was naturally the last second to ring the class bell. I breathed a sigh of relief and walked quickly to my place. Pulling back the chair, I instinctively glanced at Xia Yinci's seat for a few seconds, only then did I realize that her fever must not be healed yet. I'm probably off today too. Apart from Xia Yinci, there seemed to be many people absent from the classroom.

My eyes fell on an empty seat near the door of the classroom, and after trying to recall for a long time, I vaguely remembered the figure of the owner of the seat—it was Chen Yun who accidentally looked at each other yesterday.

"Isn't Chen Yun here today?"

Someone's accusation made me quickly look towards the source of the sound. I saw that it was Bao Xiaofeng from the group next door who spoke to me familiarly. I watched him try to open his eyes so that they would not be narrowed, and I nodded my head in embarrassment.

"Looks like a lot of people didn't come today... Could it be the flu?"

The one who spoke was Chen Zekai who suddenly grabbed Bao Xiaofeng's neck. Bao Xiaofeng also didn't realize what was going on with the abnormal movement of his body for a while, and hurriedly struggled back with a painful expression, and then Chen Zekai laughed and let go.

"Speaking of... now is not the peak season for flu." I muttered to them softly. Although I just mentioned it inadvertently, Chen Zekai acted like he was thinking seriously.

"Then... that's the one, right?"

Chen Zekai suddenly stepped forward and touched the cheek of Bao Xiaofeng who was coughing hard. Bao Xiaofeng originally wanted to scold him, but he was driven by Chen Zekai's excited tone, swallowed his saliva and asked curiously.

"What is that... which is that?"

"It's the thing that everyone spread in the morning!! That collective nightmare!"

Gang just wanted to gradually fade out of their conversation in a rather boring mood, but suddenly noticed a word that I had to care about.

"Collective nightmare? What do you mean?" Just as he asked, Bao Xiaofeng suddenly realized something, excitedly turned around and pointed his index finger at the tip of the other party's nose, "Ah! You...you wouldn't have had that dream yesterday. Bar?!"

"Did you also have the nightmare of surviving the crash, only to be chased by a reptilian monster with black hair and green eyes?"

Bao Xiaofeng trembled as if he had been touched by the hairs all over his body. If I hadn't noticed the gazes of the people around me as if they were being electrocuted, I might have thought it was a prank the two of them had done all morning. Everyone's eyes seem to be telling the same sentence "How do you know what dream I had yesterday!?" This is the same sentence.

Just when I wanted to go up to talk again, the head teacher walked in from outside the classroom, and many people looked away with suspicious eyes, so I had no choice but to sit back in my original seat.

Speaking up. I, who is often pressed by ghosts, did not have this nightmare last night. It is possible that lucid dreaming kept me safe. I am not sure as well.

As for why I am so sensitive to the term "collective nightmare", it is because I often heard Xia Yinci mention it for a while. At that time, she often mentioned to me that after a certain accident in a certain place, those involved would have the same dream at night. Although I didn't pay much attention to it at the time.

Hmm... In fact, if Xia Yinci hadn't brought me into the dream world, I would still think that these were all her wild thoughts. But I can't tell myself that now.

So when it was lunch time, I walked to the roof of the teaching building alone, took out my cell phone and called Xia Yinci. I don't know if she is still sleeping. Thinking of this, I had the idea of ​​hanging up the phone. But the phone was picked up after hearing only a beep. It's almost like waiting for me to call.

"Hey~ Is there anything I need~"

Xia Yinci's candy-smelling voice came from the other end of the phone. For a moment, I seemed to see Xia Yinci standing in the sun with his hands on his chest, tilting his head and staring at me itchingly. I quickly shook my head to get rid of the delusions in my head.

In addition, the meaning of her words is clearly like "Hurry up and tell me what fun things happened, I'm going crazy at home~".

Xia Yinci, are you an elementary school student whose parents leave home on a business trip longing to be loved? ? Although I really wanted to complain about her like this in my heart... but thinking that if I did this, she might hang up the phone willfully, I still lowered my head and patiently told Xia Yinci the brief report of what I heard in the morning .

"Oh~ So that's the case! But why are you telling me this? Su Luoyang, you are like a husband who just went to the company and eagerly wants to tell his wife something fun~"

These words slid down the ear canal and scratched my throat, and I was choked and coughed painfully. Xia Yinci's mischievous smile on the other end of the phone almost appeared in front of my eyes... This guy must be staying at home with nothing to do, waiting for me to call and play tricks on me!

"Hey, what kind of metaphor is this!! Besides, how can I be like this? Forget it... I was really squeezed through the door to talk to you today!"

The metal texture of the mobile phone is a bit cold, and it just cools down when it is attached to the cheek. Just as I was about to hang up the phone, Xia Yinci stopped me with a bit of coquetry.

"I'm sorry~ I was just joking too! Su Huohuo is really stingy~"

"I told you not to call me by that name!"

"Is that so?" Xia Yinci paused nonchalantly after hearing what I said, and then continued with a smile, "Alright then, Su Huohuo." This guy is definitely trying to piss me off. "I actually know why you are looking for me~ It's just... just a little surprised, I didn't expect you to remember the collective nightmare I told you~"

"I didn't remember what you said!!"

"Isn't that so? Then why are you calling? Could it be that you really can't help but want to tell your wife's husband about something fun..."

"Shut up, you! Calling you today is a mistake worth remembering forever..."

"Okay, okay... I won't tease you~" Uh, according to what you said, did you deliberately tease me just now?

"About the collective nightmare you mentioned, I didn't do it last night. But this kind of thing usually happens after an accident that everyone experienced together~ It's a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder. According to me As far as I know, there is nothing in the class that can trigger this symptom..."

"So according to what you're saying, this matter has nothing to do with controlling the war, right? It's at most... a collective paranoia?"

"It's like this...it's strange! I haven't finished talking yet, why are you interrupting me in such a hurry~"

These words made me stunned for a while, I stared at the dark clouds floating in the sky and occupying all the colors, my tone became a little uncertain.

"Does it really have something to do with the domination war? It doesn't have anything to do with us, does it?"

"Hmm. Let me ask you this, Su Luoyang, do you know why I cared so much about collective nightmares before?"

"How do I know..." I answered her casually just now, and I noticed that she seemed to be reminding me of something, so I quickly changed my words, "Wait... is it because of the domination war?"

"That's right~ You should know that the dream world will have a dominance war every 7 years, right?"

"Not very clear." I scratched the back of my head and leaned my elbows on the railing. The sky looked like it was going to rain any minute.

"Then let me explain in detail~ Each domination war will involve 12 different parallel worlds, with an average of 12 dominators in each world, and set a main time point in each world. Most of the rulers are from the main time point, and the others are randomly selected from any time point.”

"Wait...you said '12 different parallel worlds', that means there are not only 12 in the real world, right? So... the ruler clock, which symbolizes the shackles of the world, is only available when a certain world participates in the competition. Will it be connected to this world?"

"To be precise, it is correct to say that the dominator's clock corresponds to the real world. Only when this world is at war will its dominator's clock appear in the cracks of dreams. But the strange thing is—every domination war There is the ruler of our world, and other worlds will be more or less absent in a certain domination war..."

"It's as if fate is destined to have something to do with dominating the war..."

"Then, what's even more strange is that whenever the main time point of dominating the war comes, this small island in this world will have a collective nightmare phenomenon."

There was a "click, click" sound in my ear. Suddenly a drop of cold touch hit the back of my hand, I raised my eyes to look at the sky, unknowingly the rain washed down, I turned around and walked into the room. I've heard that this seaside city has another name of "outer island"...so Xia Yinci's "this small island" undoubtedly refers to the seaside city.

"Then... the collective nightmare phenomenon is caused by the domination war?"

"Let's put it this way~ Although collective nightmares will occur on this small island, not everyone. We participants will also be excluded. It's just that collective nightmares are a phenomenon at this stage, and there should be some changes in the future. It's changed~"

"At this stage? What will happen in the future?! For example, nightmares come true??"

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone, and a light laughter came after a few seconds.

Uh... There is an inexplicable feeling of being laughed at.

"Su Huohuo, your way of thinking is really sci-fi~ How could such a thing happen!"

"What, you say don't call me Su Huohuo!!"

"Actually, I don't know what will happen...Maybe nothing will happen. I can only find records of collective nightmares... But this kind of discussion will fade away after a while. No one talks about it anymore~ I think it’s because the collective nightmare phenomenon doesn’t happen anymore, so people don’t care about it!”

Xia Yinci's words made me breathe a sigh of relief. Seeing that I didn't intend to ask any more questions, Xia Yinci hummed the melody idly, and didn't intend to hang up the phone.

Although Xia Yinci's voice is very nice, people can't help but look forward to what she will look like when she sings, but Xia Yinci unexpectedly has no musical talent, just like the melody on her mouth now seems to be spliced ​​together a few songs casually Just like the song sang. Listening to this slightly out-of-tune melody, I couldn't help laughing.

Afterwards, I spent a dull day at school, and in the afternoon, not many people discussed the collective nightmare in the morning. The matter fell silent as if it was a matter of course.

The rain had stopped on the way to school. I arrived at Su Erin's classroom early to pick her up. Lin Yu beside the podium didn't look like a dying person at all.

"Waiting for me long?"

"No la……"

Su Huilin tilted her head and stared at me for a few seconds for some reason. Just as she was about to ask her what she wanted to say, she quickened her pace and walked in front of me.

Although Su Huilin is still unmotivated as always, and the things he does are always confusing, although I still care about what happened in the morning, and although what Watanabe Feng did last night is so puzzling to me... But at least Su Hui Lin is now safe and sound, and the backlash has been resolved. In short, everything is finally developing in a good direction.

Although I don't know what will happen in the future, I just think about it as if I am seeking self-comfort.

I stretched out my hands under my head and inadvertently grasped the direct light. The touch of the pointer seems to still be warm. At this moment, the palm of the hand is favored by the light and enjoys the light to the fullest, while the back side of the hand has to live in the darkness. Unexplained smiles flashed across the corners of my eyes, I put down my hands that were getting sore, turned on my side and fell asleep in a daze.

The clenched hands seemed to have held something inadvertently. This kind of empty mood that was familiar but could not be remembered made me feel a little lonely.

After dying in the place called "dream world", it will be revived immediately after 4 hours. There should be no time difference for the parties involved, the key is that they will miss 4 hours of time compared with other people, and during these 4 hours, events that reverse the situation are very likely to occur.

It is possible that this time I returned to the dream and found that everyone was dead, and then I was also driven out to death; it is also possible that the dream thief attacked again, and the clock of the dominator had been completely destroyed by them, and negative and excessive delusions were in my mind. It spread like a virus to every corner. Consciousness is unknowingly disconnected at this time.