Lin Ziyue and Su Jiujiu walked in the city for a long time.

Taking advantage of the fact that there were fewer people in the morning, the two of them went to the cat café to pet the cat, but to be precise, Lin Ziyue happily stroked the cat, and Su Jiujiu could only sit far away, not that she was allergic to cats, but that as soon as she passed, those cats were so frightened that they hid around, and the two couldn't sit together at all.

So one person drank milk tea and took pictures of the cat, and the other sat far away flipping through the fashion magazines in the store.

Then the two of them went shopping for a long time, each carrying two or three bags of clothes, and entered the food stall that they said they wanted to eat.

After the waiter led the two to sit down, Su Jiujiu called someone to come and order.

Lin Ziyue raised her head and looked at the person opposite in surprise: "Ah Yu?"

"Hmm, have you seen me anywhere?" The man dressed in the waiter's Tang costume in the store was even more surprised, he who was originally introducing the membership card discount to Su Jiujiu raised his soft eyebrows and looked at Lin Ziyue in confusion.

It's very familiar, you must have seen it, but where have you seen it?

Lin Ziyue felt a hollow pain in her heart that had been drained: "Hmm, I'm sorry, it may be ...... Recognize the wrong person. ”

The waiter brother smiled, his clean and warm eyes were really familiar, so familiar that Lin Ziyue's heart beat faster: "But my name is indeed Xuanyuan Yu, maybe I didn't recognize the wrong person?"

Su Jiujiu raised his eyebrows, revealing a somewhat ambiguous smile: "Why don't you exchange communications?"

Both of them blushed, the little brother cleared his throat, and asked the two of them what they wanted with a straight face, but there was always a smile at the corner of his mouth that couldn't be suppressed, Su Jiujiu laughed at the two of them a few more words, and then placed an order, asking for salted duck and lion head, as well as hot and sour bamboo shoots and mixed three silks.

When the little brother came over later, he brought a small bowl of mash and winked at Lin Ziyue, with a paper towel under the bowl with a communication number written on it.

After he left, Su Jiujiu was very disdainful: "Stingy! I know to bring it to you! I won't give Xiaoyue to such a stingy person!

Lin Ziyue didn't speak, and was busy using the portable wristband to search for and add a contact number.

When he went to paint in the afternoon, Su Jiujiu chose a comparison picture, which was a landscape painting, beside the lake surrounded by forests, there were several foxes drinking water and playing.

Lin Ziyue was a little stunned, and looked back and forth a few times, but did not find a satisfactory base map.

Until she found an upside-down photo on the ground, it was very clean, and there was no paint that had been rubbed by accident, and she turned over the photo, and the front was a bright and immaculate moon, and under the moonlight a black rose bloomed to the fullest, with one hand holding the bottom end of the black rose, and the other hand holding a large brass-colored key, the three of which were distributed in a triangle on the photograph, which seemed to have no clear meaning.

"I'll just draw this, trouble. Lin Ziyuechong, the teacher who taught oil painting, said.

Su Jiujiu leaned over and looked at it twice: "What is this? It's so strange, do you actually like this style? It's so abstract......"

Lin Ziyue couldn't say it, but she felt kind and very sad when she looked at this picture, which made her remember.

But she couldn't say what she remembered.

Lin Ziyue soaked in the studio all afternoon, listening to the aunt on the side and the boss doing homework, watching the children being reluctantly dragged to the chair by their mothers, listening to the flow of people outside the transparent window, and watching Su Jiujiu listen to the explanation of the studio teacher seriously and attentively.

It's really pleasant, it's gentle, it's so comfortable, it's a lazy way to enjoy every moment of time.

But there's just something wrong.

At night, Lin Ziyue sat on the sofa, and for the first time, she did not sleep in the game cabin, but accompanied Su Jiujiu to watch the last season of the song of water and fire. Lin Ziyue listened to Su Jiujiu scolding the screenwriter for having his brain arched by a pig, and at the same time sent a short message to Xuanyuan Yu on the communicator.

Lin Ziyue: Hmm, you've also seen that animation, have you seen the theatrical version? I really like the male protagonist's twin brothers, and the demon principal!

Lin Ziyue: But I don't know why many people spray the heroine's mother, and the barrage is annoying!!

Xuanyuan Yu: There's no way, whoever makes her always do things that implicate people is stupid for many people.

Xuanyuan Yu: But I think everyone has different concepts, kindness itself is not a kind of fault, as long as the result is not a big problem, you can accept it.

Lin Ziyue: I still read this comic in high school, but I didn't expect that there would be a theatrical version after the anime

Lin Ziyue: But sure enough, the Demon Principal and his brother are the sweetest!

Xuanyuan Yu: Haha, Xiaoyue, are you an only child?

Lin Ziyue: No, I have an old brother, super annoying

Lin Ziyue: I am not in the same city as him, he lives closer to my parents

Lin Ziyue: What about you? Don't you have an older brother?

Xuanyuan Yu: ?

Xuanyuan Yu: Hmm......

Lin Ziyue waited for nearly ten minutes and there was no news, until she picked up the fruit knife on the coffee table and peeled an orange, and ate half of it with Su Jiujiu, that Xuanyuan Yu sent a message again.

Xuanyuan Yu: When I was very young, there was a fire in my house.

Xuanyuan Yu: My brother, who was several years older than me, died in the fire to save me.

Xuanyuan Yu: Why do you know?

Lin Ziyue didn't reply for a while, she didn't know how to reply, why did she know? She even seemed to know the name of that person, and after a while, Lin Ziyue clicked on the screen twice, typed a word, and sent it out.

Lin Ziyue: Yan

Xuanyuan Yu: Well, his name is Xuanyuan Yan.

The conversation between the two of them stopped here, and no one knew how to talk anymore, Lin Ziyue felt that her head was starting to get groggy again, maybe she was sleepy, right? Thinking like this, she said goodnight to Su Jiujiu, and got into her room after taking a shower.

"Dry your hair, Xiaoyue!, or you'll have another migraine tomorrow morning!" Su Jiujiu shouted at the room while drinking the cold beer in his hand.

Lin Ziyue didn't respond, she pulled out the painting that took a few hours to complete this afternoon from the large paper bag she brought back from the studio.

The crescent moon was faint, and the moonlight shone on the black rose and the long key.

Lin Ziyue's lips moved slightly, and a few letters were about to come out, but she never made any sound.

She felt very uncomfortable, but she sat down at her desk and looked at the picture she had drawn with her own hands over and over again. The moonlight fills the canvas very gently, the black rose stands proudly but lonely, and the long key seems much more silent than the two, but it reflects the moon intently.

Lin Ziyue touched her face, and tears actually fell, which made her even more confused.

Is this just a painting? Why are you so upset?

Lin Ziyue stared at the black rose for a long, long time.

Then she noticed something terrible, the petals of the black rose were blooming more and more, and then the outermost part was gradually withering and finally withering.

In the tens of seconds when Lin Ziyue was stunned, the black rose completely withered, lost its petals, and the curled up receptacle looked extremely desolate, no longer showing the proud posture on the canvas before.

Lin Ziyue was so frightened that she threw the painting in front of her, turned around and wanted to run to the living room.

But the door to her bedroom was blocked, and suddenly it was covered with green vines.

This is her own home! How could there be so many vines popping up! There was nothing at all before she sat down in a chair a second ago! What the hell is this!

Lin Ziyue struggled to pull the vines away from the door, and her nails were oozing blood because they were torn too much, but she just gritted her teeth and endured the fear in her heart, desperately digging the vines loose, and then barely broke the door and squeezed it out.

The hallway to the living room is covered with yellow charms.

Lin Ziyue instantly felt an extreme sense of confusion, feeling as if she had traveled to some different time and space, and was walking in a fantasy.

But unexpectedly, her fear quickly calmed down, and once she accepted such a change, Lin Ziyue's strong psychological quality let reason prevail, and she stepped over carefully step by step and walked to the living room. Baixiao

Su Jiujiu was still there, but the picture in front of her made Lin Ziyue tense her nerves, she didn't scream, but subconsciously picked up a chair from the dining table and threw it at the strange man's body.

The man was holding Su Jiujiu's throat and standing quietly in the center of the living room, Su Jiujiu was dragging the fox tail behind him with fox ears on his head, and the knees and shoulders of both legs hung down softly in a twisted posture, obviously the joints of his limbs had been broken. With the shattered TV still emitting black smoke on the floor, the couch covered in holes torn and blackened edges, and the living room littered with cracked yellow charms and crushed coffee table scraps, it was clear that there had been an unnatural battle.

Before the dining chair fell, the man turned his head at an unusually fast but clear speed, just at a glance, the dining chair in Lin Ziyue's hand had already fallen apart before it fell on him, and there were only two neat iron rods left in her hands.

The man's appearance was not particularly conspicuous, but his face was very pale, with a shallow mustache, and the black tuxedo on his body was meticulous, not even a trace of being attacked, and his red eyes were like a sea of blood that set off a raging tide.

At least Lin Ziyue saw the sea of blood from inside, which was disgusting, terrifying, and even gave birth to despair that could not be resisted.

Su Jiujiu squeezed out a trace of gasp from between his teeth: "Escape...... Moon...... Fast...... Escape ......"

"Bad or lucky, I thought I was in the wrong place. The man's eyes narrowed slightly: "But in this way, there is nothing wrong." ”

The man laughed, and that smile actually showed indescribable charm, revealing his tiger teeth that were as sharp as the tip of a knife: "You say it's a coincidence, L? Oh no, you are a mortal now, Lin Ziyue." ”

The man looked back at Su Jiujiu in his hand, looking at the eyes that were overflowing with hatred and about to die because of his arrival, the man sighed a little: "Look at me, what stupid thing have I done, and I was actually surrounded by that scourge into a parallel small world." If I had known that this was the case, I might as well have done nothing and let you die with this small world of phantoms on the verge of collapse. ”

The man looked at Lin Ziyue again: "It's a pity that I broke in, that scourge is really nosy." But that's not bad...... How about I help you change places?"

His smile was full of hairy malice: "Guaranteed to fill you up." ”

There was a crisp snapping sound from the man's hand, and Su Jiujiu's head tilted to the side, completely out of breath.

In the painful crying, Lin Ziyue's heart was violently torn and awakened by something, her eyes were so red that they were about to drip blood, but she did not shed tears.

“V…… Right......"

The man raised an eyebrow, and his smile became much softer: "Yo, wake up, I thought you would sleep in your dreams, hahaha......"

Lin Ziyue's hands never had the touch of a moon scepter.

She picked up the fruit knife that had fallen on the ground, and she had used it to peel an orange an hour earlier.

Lin Ziyue is half, and Su Jiujiu is half.

The man was still laughing: "Haha I said you wouldn't use this fruit knife, just-"

Lin Ziyue waved her hand and drew out, and a dazzling white sword light actually flowed out from the fruit knife, directly cutting off the second half of the man's words!

The man's face was shocked, and there was an extra white cane in his hand, the black bat at the top of the cane seemed to be ready to fly at any time, the fangs in the big mouth were extremely terrifying, and the bright red pupils were exactly the same as those of a man.

As the cane appeared, a black protective barrier appeared in front of the man, easily absorbing the flying sword light.

"If it weren't for the sake of squeezing into this little world...... I'm not going to compress myself to this extent. As if he was forced to defend himself by means to make the man lose face, he explained coldly, and then raised his cane before Lin Ziyue gathered the sword light again.

The bat's eyes lit up, Lin Ziyue felt a stagnation on her body, and then countless crazy emotions surged, and the blood vessels under her skin became darker and darker, like patterns spreading from everywhere. Those black and white lights penetrated her body, and as the blood continued to circulate, those black and white patterns began to spread out all over her body, like a hot soldering iron, constantly boiling in Lin Ziyue's body.

The most is pain, and the sadness caused by Su Jiujiu, anger and hatred are like hitting a bell in his head.

The man waved away the barrier in front of him, looking at Lin Ziyue, who was curled up on the ground in pain due to the riot of the two forces in his blood, and walked in front of her, her waving hands and feet couldn't stop him at all, the man leaned over and grabbed Lin Ziyue's hair, broke Lin Ziyue's head, and stabbed her forehead with the end of his cane.

The black petals were soft, but they were strong enough to hold the immensely powerful staff.

But the petals withered and rotted rapidly, withering from the receptacle, but turned into black mist and merged into Lin Ziyue's body, quickly suppressing the restlessness of the white light.

One, two, three......

No matter how much energy the man gathered to pierce the cane, he could never penetrate the weak and elegant black rose.

The abnormal movement on Lin Ziyue's body calmed down in the process, but it wasn't until the black rose withered to the last petal that her body could barely move.

She immediately reached out and took the black rose into her arms.

The last trace of fluttering black mist shone on her, and Lin Ziyue disappeared in place.

The man's expression was suffocated, and he roared hatefully, and his demeanor was no longer good.

With this roar, his original power was released, instantly shattering everything around him, the entire living room turned into dust, and half of the building tilted violently, collapsing and falling down the street.

The man also disappeared in place, leaving behind a sneer.

However, this fictional parallel world began to crumble continuously, everything collapsed from tangible matter into shapeless scattered elements, and turned into a scattered nothingness, and the night sky where the moon was originally high became completely muddy.

Everything is fake.

……

Lin Ziyue fell from the sky, and before she fell to the ground and fell into flesh, several broad canopies supported her, but she was also whipped by the leafy branches.

For a moment and a half she collapsed on the tree, feeling like she had lost any strength in her body.

Lin Ziyue reached out and touched the flower holder in her arms, and there was the last petal on it, which made her feel so distressed that she wanted to cry: "I'm fine...... You...... You can't wake me up sooner!"

But the black rose didn't respond, yes, how could it respond to her complaints.

The memories have all returned to her mind, Lin Ziyue remembered the phantom world, remembered Meng Li and Xuanyuan Yan, remembered K and Xuanyuan Yu, and the disputes in the mountain gate of the Hua Dynasty faction, and stepped into the boulder by herself.

Then he walked out of the game pod, and the phantom world seemed to have never appeared.

But V...... appeared.

"It's a fake world, isn't it...... I've always felt disagreeable, but ...... That's still Su Jiujiu, that's also Jiujiu......" Thinking of what happened just now, Lin Ziyue felt that her chest was about to die of pain, obviously the brain is the place where memories and thoughts are stored, why does the heart hurt so much?

It seems that everything is fake, and so is the pain on the body, only the soft touch of the rose petals between the fingers is real.

Lin Ziyue didn't know if it was safe here, after crying silently for a while, she quickly wiped the corners of her eyes and climbed up from the branches, although the abilities of the moon staff were sealed by the master, but her physical abilities were still far beyond the level of ordinary players after the long-term influence of the moon staff and the thread of cause and effect.

Kicking the trunk from the tree, Lin Ziyue looked at the surrounding environment before falling to the ground.

There was a huge surprise, Lin Ziyue found that her storage space could be used, probably because the black rose forcibly broke through the seal, and as a result, Lin Ziyue opened up the connection between Lin Ziyue and the storage space, she immediately took a sword out of it, and she always had some protective weapons to feel at ease.

The storage space has everything from fresh water to food, at least without the fear of being trapped here for a long time......

But where is this?

The surrounding trees are crowded with each other, so lush that you can't see the outside, but there are also earthy yellow paths that have been stepped on on the overgrown ground, and it doesn't seem to be so deserted.

Lin Ziyue immediately chose a random direction along the path and walked outside, she had to see someone to be sure where she was.

When Lin Ziyue walked out of the dense forest, she saw a wooden house.

Very humble hut, isolated on the edge of a small stream.

There is also an open-air broadboard next to the wooden house, on which there are some dried blood stains, there are several boning knives and machetes on the side, and the vegetable field on the side is also surrounded by a rough wooden fence, it seems that the owner is a little too lazy to take care of it, but the vegetables inside are growing very well, and the tomatoes are even bearing green fruits, which are turning red.

The piles of firewood were split in half, a little messy on the side, and it seemed that someone was living here alone, but the rough edges and wood looked very new, and it was probably not more than three years after they were cut.

Lin Ziyue tentatively walked to the door and knocked on the door, but no one responded.

She was looking in when a voice rang out.

The voice was actually a little familiar, and the tone was very pleasantly surprised.

"Why are you here!"