flower and big devil

After the incident with Clark, Luo Xiu finally realized that what happened around him probably could not be explained by common sense—this gave him a chance to calm down and observe what happened around him, such as about dreams and What is the connection between reality.

Theoretically speaking, according to the sequence of events, first he will encounter some things after falling into the dream, and then, those things he encountered in the dream will be projected into the real world after he wakes up from the dream ——It's as if he was injured in a dream, and he will find corresponding wounds on his body in reality... Perhaps every patient around him may be the characters he met in the dream, and they are in reality. People are relatively independent, have their own thoughts, and have their own lives, but for Luo Xiu, they may have an additional layer of identity like an NPC in a dream.

For example, Rick played the role of the fish in the pond, Barley was the dodo bird who died tragically at the end, and Klein became the servant of the sheep-headed monster-their roles in real life, and those strange things that Luo Xiu met in his dreams The strange characters were matched one by one, and when their behaviors appeared to be in line with the weird behavior of the role of "NPC", it seemed to be a revelation, symbolizing the beginning of the game or something...

In the end, an "NPC" took the lead, and the ordinary people around began to be affected. When Luo Xiu found himself forced to take action to stop these negative influences, this "NPC" served as the "BOSS" of the game. , will come to him.

Kill the "BOSS" and everything will return to normal.

Can't kill the "BOSS", that obviously symbolizes the game over - Luo Xiu still remembers that the woman Alicia said that before him, there were already many patients named "Alice" who did not know when In the GAME OVER of the game that will end, after the previous "Alice" GAME OVER, the next "Alice" will appear, succeeding the previous one, and restart the game.

To put it simply, when he stepped into Buddha Lomon and was given the name "Alice" for a strange reason, he was already forced to start the game.

It's a cursed name.

Although Alicia said that he was the special one, Luo Xiu didn't think so - overconfidence might just let him face death in advance, so he followed the steps and decided to be himself... And Luo Xiu passed through After sorting out his thoughts, he gave this "BOSS" another name that didn't sound so secondary—he called it "Infection Source".

But this time, Luo Xiu initially thought that Rick would be the "source of infection".

Because in terms of size or temper, this guy looks like the incarnation of a violent bear, sitting at the edge of the table, eating and eating endlessly, doing nothing and relying on his friends to complete everything—but soon, in the restaurant In the movie, the performance of Ike, who loves to dance, made Luo Xiu start to have other ideas.

Compared to Rick's presumably always good appetite, no one can explain why Ike Harley hides his food - in simple terms, it's probably just because he's suddenly hungry and thirsty, and Have a desire to store food.Then, when he was fighting with others for food, the unintentional words of the patient who gave Luo Xiu information deepened his further suspicion——

Luo Xiu thought that it was as if Clark was the "source of infection" and used his sweet soup to spread the strange disease of "laziness". Ike Hari's sentence "tonight's bread is so soft" might be It also symbolizes the opportunity for him to start spreading strange diseases to those around him.

But that's just speculation.

In the next few days, Luo Xiu didn't eat well when he was in the restaurant - because his attention was almost all on the movement at Ike Hari's table. In fact, he was almost sure that he The idea, because in the next few days, the people at Ike Hari's table almost became the main force to take a lot of extra meals. The amount of food they brought back was shockingly large, but it seemed that they did not I think there is something wrong with this.

And Rick didn't eat at their table at all.

Rick sat at the next table to Ike Hari.

So far, Luo Xiu has almost confirmed that the "infection source" is Ike Hari, but he has no chance to do it at all, even though every time he gets close to Ike Hari, he can feel the infection hanging around his neck. The teeth were scorching hot, but because this guy was with Rick every time, Luo Xiu had no chance to "talk" to him alone.

After about a week, the situation started to deteriorate rapidly.

The people around can no longer be easily conveyed by such an understatement as "the appetite has become a little bit better". In fact, centering on Ike Hari's table, the appetite of the people around has started to get better and better.

The situation that the patients were "too lazy to eat" disappeared without a trace. These days, the number of spare food buckets for additional meals in the restaurant has changed from the original one to the current five, but there are still patients who go late because of If you can't get extra meals, you fight with the people in front of you. When Uzrok is watching, those people can restrain themselves. If he is not there, the restaurant will be a battlefield almost every day—every patient, Men, women, young, middle-aged, and even old men may turn into hungry wolves with green eyes in front of food.

At this moment, when Luo Xiu watched the old man who loves to play chess stuffing his fifth piece of garlic bread of this dinner into his mouth, he finally grabbed his wrist unbearably: "Don't eat it, you hold on!" Don't support it?"

The old man suddenly stopped when he was about to stuff bread into his mouth, and he turned his head fiercely—at that moment, the look he looked at Luo Xiu did not seem to be the kind of calm that an old man should have. It looked like a wild dog that was interrupted after eating, and the eyes that looked a little confused and chaotic on weekdays actually shone aggressively!

Luo Xiu was taken aback by this look, he let go of the old man's hand almost subconsciously, and after that, the latter's eyes quickly returned to their normal appearance.

"I think I'm full, but I don't think I'm full. It's strange, Alice." The old man picked up the spoon and scraped the plate of thick soup-although the inside was so clean that the grease was almost licked off. , but he is still scratching it tirelessly, "I think if there is enough food, maybe I can sit here and eat forever-today's garlic bread is awesome, loose and fragrant, Lord Uzrock It’s time to pay the chef a little more.”

Luo Xiu heard the veins twitching on his forehead.

Compared to the old man who was frantically scratching the plates now, he suddenly began to miss the old man who had eaten half of his meal and would put his ugly rabbit plush toy "wife" on the table and eat while playing Blame the old man—in fact, Luo Xiu hadn't seen this old man bring out his "wife Sasha" for a long time, and the restaurant really became a place to eat.

Everyone is eating against the clock.

And when they were eating the food in their hands, their eyes were still staring at the food bucket not far away—in order to prevent waste, they were required to finish eating the food in their hands before holding their own. Empty plates go to the front to reclaim extra meals.

The original harmonious atmosphere in the restaurant was gone, and everyone was burying their heads in their mouths. Luo Xiu suspected that most people had no idea what they were stuffing into their mouths. Most people paid for food that they couldn't afford on weekdays, and Buddha Luomen's stomach medicine and digestive medicine became very popular for a while.

Above, this is what happened a week after Luo Xiu woke up from the dream.

The tenth day when Luo Xiu woke up from the dream.

——When he was eating the staple food in front of him with his head down, he found that Jim sitting opposite him unceremoniously snatched the thick soup in his hand and drank it all in one go.

No. 12 days when Luo Xiu woke up from the dream.

—he had his usual post-lunch apples snatched from his hands in the common room.

No. 16 days when Luo Xiu woke up from the dream.

——When he woke up in the morning and opened his eyes, the black-haired young man rubbed his stomach silently and was so hungry that he was groaning. He thought about the half of the bread that was snatched from dinner last night, plus three pieces of bacon and a bowl of mushroom soup. He began to think about how fast he should eat this morning in order to keep up with the eating speed of the people in this environment, lest the small amount of food allocated to him be taken away before he had time to see what it looked like. Get it clean.

In fact, seeing a restaurant where chickens and dogs are jumping and fighting for food, and only the man sitting at the top of the restaurant can enjoy his share of food without haste, several times Luo Xiu really wanted to just pretend like this It didn't happen that he pretended to be crazy and foolishly took his own food and sat down next to him——

Yes, even if the whole name is crazy, people still haven't forgotten who they must never offend.

The prestige established on weekdays has highlighted its shining role at critical moments.

Well, I have to say, I'm so fucking envious.

Sitting at the dining table, Luo Xiu yawned loudly before the nun came over to distribute the food. At the same time, he heard his stomach growling—if it was normal, the black-haired young man would probably Blushing at his own disrespect, but now, he doesn't think so at all - because he's one of the few, most human-like ones sitting in a pack of green-eyed hungry wolves... …Compared to Jim who was sitting across from him, stretching his neck and looking at the nuns who were distributing food not far away, and Jim who didn’t even know about the hala at the corner of his lips, Luo Xiu sincerely thought that the performance of his stomach growling twice was true. It's too reserved.

"Jim, eat your own today, don't steal my food, okay?"

The dark-haired young man stretched his neck and asked in a friendly manner—and in exchange for a tall and strong man with undisguised white eyes and a low growl in his throat.

This is probably saying: no.

Luo Xiu retracted his neck with a full face of regret. At this time, the nun had already arrived at their table. When the sandwich he had been assigned fell on the plate, Luo Xiu saw Jim's eyes flickering. He made a decision—Luo Xiu really wanted to pick up the sandwich and stuff it into his mouth right now, but he couldn’t do it—because the nuns stipulated that this piece of paper should only be released after the food distributed by everyone at a table. People on the table can eat with the same hands at the same time.

And when Sister Maria announced that "the meal has begun", before Luo Xiu raised his little finger, Jim who was sitting opposite him quickly stretched out his hand and put his sandwich—and his own One piece at a time, stuffed into the mouth frantically.

Luo Xiu watched the breakfast on his plate quickly disappear into Jim's mouth, so shocked that he almost forgot to be angry.

When he realized that he wanted to pick up the plate and go to get the extra meal, he realized that the line for receiving the extra meal was almost crowded with countless people——Luo Xiu's chest heaved violently, and then, in his On the other side of the table, Jim made a sudden vomiting sound—he probably ate too fast, and mouthfuls of the sandwich spit out from his throat. He finally stopped stuffing things into his mouth, but He took a sip of water, then looked down, staring blankly at the soggy ball of vomit he had spit back onto his plate.

Luo Xiu's heart beat faster.

And when Jim picked up his fork slowly, he already knew what the other party was going to do.

He quickly reached out to grab the soy milk in his hand, and then left his dining table almost as if he was crawling and fleeing - so Luo Xiu only drank a cup of soy milk for breakfast, which was really great.

The breakfast time was not over yet, so I wandered around in the dining room, and when the people left one after another, Luo Xiu couldn't find a chance to get close to Ike Hari... Angrily, he walked back to the public hall under the urging of the nuns. Rest room, on the way, Luo Xiu thought about it and found that when Jim made that earth-shattering and disgusting behavior, the people at their table didn't seem to feel anything wrong... Luo Xiu shuddered, opened the door and found Rui K was sitting on the couch eating a snack - it was a bag of potato chips from nowhere, but almost the whole common room was staring at the fat man as he ate his chips. Look at your mouth... Luo Xiu was horrified by this scene. A bunch of people just stared blankly at a fat man eating snacks crazily without doing anything. People feel terrified.

Glancing at the common room, Luo Xiu realized that he didn't see Ike Hari next to Rick—these two guys were finally not sticking together... When things evolved to the point where this group of people began to feel crazily "eating" "People" is also a good choice——Luo Xiu gave up the plan of resting in the common room without hesitation. After several consecutive meals, he decided to go out for photosynthesis to see if he could fill his stomach. full stomach.

By the way, find the "source of infection" and have a good talk.

"..."

This is too ridiculous, Luo Xiu thought weakly, in this way, Alicia can tell the next "Alice" that the devil failed to kill your ex with his own hands, that idiot was starved to death.

Oh, so stupid.

Luo Xiu walked slowly in the corridor, and he almost subconsciously returned to the corridor where he met Alicia, defeated Claire, and was full of paintings—in fact, probably here It was an important occasion triggered by some kind of plot. Today, Luo Xiu accidentally saw a tall and familiar figure at the end of the corridor.

That person is standing at the end of the corridor at the moment, looking up at the huge oil painting—oh, let me say more, ever since Luo Xiu tore down the curtain, the painting has been placed in such a grandiose manner. there.As if he heard the sound of people walking, Uzrock turned his head, looked at the black-haired young man standing not far from him, and smiled.

"Alice."

"You drew it?" Luo Xiu didn't respond to him, but directly raised his eyebrows and entered the topic.

"It's just a random drawing."

"What's on the painting?" Luo Xiu walked up to the man - it has to be said that the smell on this guy can always make people calm down. At this moment, he temporarily forgot about his hunger.

"I thought you should know." Uzrock's voice sounded low and slow. He stretched out his hand, stroked the dust that probably didn't exist on the frame, and then confessed without reservation, "Yes The statue of the Seven Kings of Hell built above the River Styx—below the statue is a city gate. Passing through this gate by boat, you can reach the central city of hell, the main city of Pandimaninan, where the Temple of Demons is located. .”

Several familiar names made Luo Xiu's forehead twitch wildly.

He had to raise his hand to press his forehead to calm himself down a bit: "What do you draw this kind of thing for?"

"Nostalgia."

"Nostalgic?!"

"Ah, I'm just kidding." The man chuckled. When Luo Xiu froze and turned to look at him, he was surprised to find that the man's eyes were really full of smiles. He paused and said the same thing. Turning his head and looking at the black-haired young man beside him with his beautiful eyes of different colors, he said slowly, "It's just boring, so I drew it."

"..."

Looking at these eyes, Luo Xiuna couldn't ask many questions that came to his lips. For example, he really wanted to know which one of the Seven Lords of Hell the collapsed statue was. For example, he wanted to ask Uzrock to paint What is the purpose of hanging such a thing here? For example, he wants to ask, as a member of the church, to draw this kind of thing in a grand manner, what is in this guy's head...

But after missing the opportunity to ask questions, Luo Xiu couldn't ask any more questions—because in the short silence that followed, the earth-shattering "cuckoo" suddenly sounded discordantly in the sound of each other's breaths. Goo" sound.

Luo Xiu was taken aback for a moment, and then his face flushed so red that he could bleed.

As expected, Uzrok laughed again. In fact, when he smiled, his eyes narrowed slightly and curved into arcs, and his shoulders shook slightly. He looked very good--that's enough, that's not the point!

Luo Xiu broke down and said, "Don't laugh—don't you feel that something is wrong with everyone recently? Everyone is like a starving ghost who has been starving for hundreds of years. I only ate a little cat food for several meals, so I won’t be so hungry!”

After hearing what he said, Uzrok finally stopped smiling. He suppressed his smile and showed a surprised expression. He looked at the black-haired young man in front of him and said, "Have you been hungry for a few days? Why didn't you tell me?"

"...that's the point? You didn't see those patients—"

"I think that's the point, Alice." Before the black-haired young man finished speaking, the man directly interrupted his words, and he put his arms around his shoulders—this seemed to be a very casual intimate gesture, and Luo Xiu was stunned. Dazed, he raised his head to look at the person who made this movement, but the latter didn't seem to show any discomfort with it——

"Where are we going?" Luo Xiu asked in a daze.

Uzrock's answer was succinct: "The kitchen."

"Go to the kitchen?" Luo Xiu raised his voice a little - he felt that he sounded bad, as if he saw a puppy whose owner was holding snacks and was about to feed it.

Sure enough, the man laughed after hearing what he said—and stretched out his hands to rub the fluffy soft black hair on his head: "Yes, my pet has been hungry for several days without being full, how can this be okay."