The NPC Was Once Again Frightened By Me

"Russing rustling... rustling..."

Lin Huai turned around.

Through the dark glass and door, Lin Huai could not see the contents of the house, but could only hear slight and strange noises, as if something was chewing food inside, or...

A scene appeared in Lin Huai's mind.

There is something lying on the ground, dragging its long limbs... rubbing against the ground and moving forward.

From the depths of the darkness... to the opposite of Lin Huai, separated only by a wooden door.

"It" was attached to the door panel.While Lin Huai was staring at "it", "it" was also "watching" Lin Huai from the inside!

This "sleeping city-state" is indeed not empty!

"Daytime is the time for dreams to sleep deeply, and night is the time for people to sleep deeply."

A word flashed through Lin Huai's mind.

When one wakes up, the dream will sleep.When people sleep, dreams will wake up...

Lin Huai suddenly looked up at the sky!

The last twilight will also be put away by the night.When the night puts away all the light... those things that are locked in the "house" will all wake up!

As he was thinking, there was a faint sound from the surrounding room that was as silent as death.In the countless opaque windows, moving ghosts are gradually waking up...

——They have been watching him in the dark!

"Da da!"

The sound of crisp footsteps flashed in the depths of the street. Lin Huai turned her head and saw the pure white skirt fluttering in the alley, like a white butterfly that suddenly appeared and then disappeared in a flash.

That's the skirt of the girl with the teddy bear!

Lin Huai didn't hesitate anymore, and the last Twilight fell behind him.He buckled the cap of the wine-red cloak with one hand, and with a turn of his right wrist, the cold light on the ax blade suddenly appeared at this moment.

at the same time--

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

From the originally quiet wooden door behind him, there was a huge crash!

The wooden door creaked and shook, and wood chips kept falling from the metal connection between the door panel and the door frame.The brass doorknob shook violently, as if it would be knocked open from the inside at any moment——

The moment before the wooden door was knocked open, Jiu Hong's figure shot out of the alley like an arrow from the string!

His target was that little girl who passed by in a flash!

Behind him came the sound of a monster roaring and breaking through the door—it didn’t sound like it was smashed open by flesh and blood, but it seemed like a large piece of mud squeezed through the door, gushed out from inside, and finally collapsed on the ground and spread open.

Lin Huai didn't look back, he wasn't interested in the images of those monsters - he just wanted to catch the little girl who was running fast, other than that, everything was meaningless.

However, when he turned the corner, he inevitably glanced at the street he had run from out of the corner of his eye, and at that moment, he was stunned.

The street behind him was clean, with all doors and windows closed.There was no wooden door that was knocked open, there was no black mud wriggling on the ground that broke through the door, there was nothing, as if what he had heard and seen before were all hallucinations.

Huge doubts flooded his mind like a dark cloud.Lin Huai didn't stop, because the white skirt in front of him had already slipped into another alley.

He has no time to think about these.

The originally dark purple sky finally turned into a caramel color, and the figure of the little girl was like a white butterfly, always leading Lin Huai's direction.Finally, her figure turned into an alley.

"Don't run!" The corner of the little girl's clothes was close at hand, and Lin Huai couldn't reach her, so he threw the ax at her, "Don't be afraid! I won't hurt you!"

Combined with the ax flying towards the little girl, his words are really convincing.

Lin Huai clearly heard the sound of the ax hitting something, but it didn't seem like it touched the flesh, but it seemed like a hard object pierced an empty white cloth.With the sound of the ax falling to the ground, the alley the little girl turned into also appeared before his eyes.

Lin Huai was stunned.

It was a... dead end.

There was no little girl in the dead end, only the ax he threw and fell to the ground, still shaking.In addition, there was a teddy bear lying face down on the ground, dusty all over its body, but its abdomen was torn open, and the cotton and its contents rolled out.

...seemed to be the result of his axe.

In the darkest sky, Lin Huai walked towards the teddy bear lying on the ground.

A dark blue key was quietly lying among the tattered cotton.There are black buttons nailed to the eyes of the little bear, looking at the sky.

However, even weirder than buttons are...

The mouth of that teddy bear was actually sewn shut!

It seems that some kind of special cotton thread is used to sew the bear's mouth.The cotton thread is thick and the stitches are rough, but they are sewn densely. At first glance, it looks like a blood-stained spider web has grown on the bear's mouth.

Lin Huai remembered that the last time he saw this teddy bear, its mouth hadn't been sewn with such cotton thread!

The last ray of light from the sky was finally swallowed by the night.The girl in the wine-red cloak looked at the little bear on the ground with an uncertain expression.

Lying in the tattered cotton wool is indeed a dark blue key.But……

Who can guarantee that this "key" is the real key, not another black spinning cone in disguise?

"Da da."

The sound of crisp footsteps came from the end of the alley.Lin Huai raised his head, and the little girl in a white dress was looking at him with her hands behind her back.

Her mouth was also sewn with dense cotton threads!

Black blood seeped out from every needle hole, staining the cotton thread red, but the little girl looked at him with a smile as if she didn't feel any pain at all.

Then, she stretched out her left hand, crossed from left to right, and made a "close" gesture.

"What are you..."

Lin Huai stood up from the ground, and he picked up the ax again.The ax blade shone coldly in his hand, but the little girl showed no sign of fear.

She moved her mouth and pulled the cotton thread, revealing a new shape of her mouth.

It's three words that repeat over and over again.

The girl in the red cloak looked at her, and she subconsciously followed her lips and made the same movement.

"sky--"

"black--"

"It's—"

"sky--"

"black--"

"It's—"

Following the shape of the little girl's mouth and fully comprehending those three words, Lin Huai looked up in horror!

The originally deep maroon sky finally lost the last ray of light.The moment he saw the shape of the little girl's mouth clearly, the sky turned into pure black!

it's dark!

At the same time, the lights in the glass of the houses on both sides of the road lit up at the same time!

The city that was originally dark and twilight suddenly became brightly lit.Every house is lit up; every window is lit up!

If someone is standing on the hillside that Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu saw when they saw the dream city for the first time, they may be shocked by the magnificent scene that suddenly appeared in front of them. The city-state in the dark, at the moment when all the twilight is absorbed into the night, suddenly lights up, turning into a sea of ​​lights like a fairy tale fairyland!

The originally dead city-state seemed to come alive at this moment, and even the dark and majestic castle was lit up with dots of lights.

However, Lin Huai, who was in this sea of ​​lights, lowered her head.

At his side, in the alley, in all the windows that are lit, in all the glass that is a moving spark in the eyes of those who look on from above...  

Standing one or more dark shadows!

"They" stood quietly behind the window, "watching" Lin Huai on the street.A street, behind all the windows... Hundreds of thousands of figures stood there quietly, facing the street, quietly looking at Lin Huai in the street!

"They" didn't know when they started walking towards the window and appearing here, and even Lin Huai hadn't noticed their existence.

Or, from the moment Lin Huai entered the city, they had already stood in front of the dark windows... In those dark rooms where Lin Huai could not see the interior during the day, "they" were always standing at the windows Inside, quietly watching the comer.

——What are these black shadows?

A long-lost chill surged up Lin Huai's spine.

This coolness does not come from the gaze of the black shadows, but from their shapes.

Even through the glass, even though they were just blurred shadows, just a glance, just a silhouette... Lin Huai had already identified their identities!

—No one is more familiar with these shadows than he is.

Those standing behind the window, quietly watching him...

All are his own shadows!

"you……"

Lin Huai opened his mouth. He was about to say something, but suddenly a tingling pain came from the corner of his mouth!

"This is……"

He stretched out his finger and wiped it on his lips, and a little blood red appeared on his pale fingers.

The corner of his mouth...is bleeding?

Lin Huai froze for a moment, before he had time to react, a tingling pain came from the corner of his mouth on the other side!

Then, another point!

It's almost like... being pricked by an invisible needle!

With the onset of pain, the corners of Lin Huai's mouth, which could have opened and closed flexibly, became dull, as if the keyhole was rusted.Lin Huai raised his head, and the little girl in white dress standing opposite him was still looking at him, with a weird smile on her lips sewn together by needlework.

Seeing Lin Huai's eyes, she raised a finger and innocently made a "shh" gesture.

Is it...

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

The sound of the bell echoed in the silent city-state, and the wooden door that was originally closed was slowly opened at this moment.

The shadow on the window pane moved at this moment!

As the bell rang, they gradually moved away from the window and walked into the room.

They're coming out of the room!

Gritting his teeth, Lin Huai stepped forward and grabbed the navy blue key through the cotton!

"You have obtained the key of the 'Lazy Witch'." As he clenched his fingers, the system's cold notification sounded in his mind, "Please find the 'door' that exists in the 'Dream City', Insert the key in the door and escape the dream before all the nightmares attack!"

Hundreds of pale faces appeared in the streets of the sleeping city.They have the same pale face, with the same weird smile on their faces.Their lips were tightly sewn with needles and threads, and the corners of their mouths were drawn by the needles and threads, showing the same angle of smile.

Lin Huai no longer hesitated.

He lowered his head and bit the navy blue key.

Meanwhile, the world is spinning.

At that moment, Lin Huai knew.

—he won the bet.