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"Thanks a lot."

Xia Ren stepped forward to pick her up, put her on the sofa, and stroked her gently twice.

"I'm still me……"

He said it to Lily, but it seemed like he was reminding himself.

Uneasy, he turned his head to look at the wall, but there was no clock.

"I'm going upstairs to take a look. You all stay here to calm down first. It's best to forget everything that happened in the dream."

Xia Ren stood up and said to Qin Yun and Liu Xiuxiu.

The two nodded, Xia Ren also nodded to them, then opened the door, looked at the dusty stairs, and walked up.

In the process, his face became more and more ugly, until he finally stood in front of Huang Qiuyuan's door, he could hardly suppress the anger in his heart.

The door was locked, but a mere lock did not constitute any obstacle at all. He twisted off the doorknob and pushed the door open.

What caught my eye was a clean living room, sofa, coffee table, and old TV. Apart from that, there was no extra furniture, not even a pair of slippers at the door.

Xia Ren walked into the door, and his breathing gradually became heavy.

The layout of this house is similar to that of the opposite door. He and Liu Xiuxiu went in at the beginning, and the pair of little feet he saw under the curtain are still fresh in his memory, but at that time he still couldn't figure out why he couldn't detect the smell of pollution. Now it seems that, It was all Huang Qiuyuan's fault. What the two experienced in the house was just a nightmare, and the little boy did not exist.

Turning his head, on the back of the door, seven people were roughly drawn with a black brush, but the heads were all crossed out by messy lines.

He just glanced at it, without paying too much attention to the door, and went directly to the bedroom.

There was only a big bed inside, without even a quilt. When I walked in, I found that there was a note left at the head of the bed.

Xia Ren carefully observed the surrounding area and picked up the note after confirming that there was nothing suspicious.Four words were neatly written on it with black pen:

"Good luck."

"Bah!"

Xia Ren's eyes were red, and he tore up the note angrily!

……

……

"What is he doing?"

After a few minutes of rest, Liu Xiuxiu had almost dispelled the influence of the dream, and asked.

"I do not know either."

Qin Yun looked at the ceiling, holding the listless Lily in her arms, and couldn't hide the worry in her eyes.

There was a "rumbling" sound from upstairs, as if a construction team was demolishing it, and the sound of smashing the wall was endless, and there might be a few suppressed roars in the middle.It was Xia Ren's voice.

He must have experienced something in the dream and needed to vent.

Qin Yun recalled that when he entered his dreamland, he looked covered in blood and had an eager look, and was very worried about his state.

"He didn't know how much effort he put in to save me, but I..."

She thought of the half step she took back just now, and felt that Xia Ren's smile after that was like a heavy stone stuck in her heart, which made her very uncomfortable.

"What did you encounter in your dream?"

She asked Liu Xiuxiu.

"Something...bad."

Liu Xiuxiu frowned, unwilling to recall.

This incident made him redefine the word nightmare. It turns out that a real nightmare is so... suffocating.

But after calming down, he unconsciously recalled the scene when Xia Ren rushed into the dreamland.

That scene was so familiar, could it be a coincidence?

And why, I still can't remember who the man who saved me two years ago was.

In a trance, the blood-soaked metal corridor was indistinguishable from the burning living room, and the two tall figures gradually overlapped.

Finally, he came over

Looking up, it was Xia Ren's face.

The moment he saw this face, his mind was in a trance, and his body seemed to lose gravity, floating in a void.

No, this is not void, this is... the sound of the surging tide.

It’s like being in the deep and dark seabed, the vast seabed is torn apart, countless smoke columns are rolling upwards, deep red magma is slowly flowing in the huge cracks, and groups of mucus are wriggling in the seawater, changing into various strange shapes , pushing sand on the seabed to bury cracks.

Above them, a terrifying creature with a pentagram-shaped head stretched out its tentacles, as if giving some kind of complicated order...

"Xiuxiu?"

Her heart was pounding, Liu Xiuxiu came back to her senses, and saw Qin Yun looking at her suspiciously.

"what happened?"

He put his hands on his chest and asked in a panic.

Qin Yun looked at him suspiciously, and said, "You seem to have lost your mind just now,"

"No, it's okay, it's just..."

Liu Xiuxiu lowered her head and covered her slightly swollen head with her hands, wondering if the scene she saw just now was a hallucination or something.

"that is?"

Qin Yun felt that he was hiding herself.

"Is everything back to normal?"

Xia Ren pushed open the door and said.

His clothes were a little messy, and he glanced around at the two of them, including Lily who was held in Qin Yun's arms. It seemed that Lily, who was not involved in the dream, was the most affected by this incident.

As for why Huang Qiuyuan didn't do anything to her, Xia Ren guessed that it was probably because the other party couldn't understand Shoggoth's thinking.

Qin Yun turned her head quickly, and asked, "Does it have anything to do with Huang Qiuyuan?"