The sound of children's laughter rings in the ears, from far to near, fluctuating.

Children in white hospital gowns ran past Lin Nian, and he sat at the table in a daze, staring at his blurred black reflection on the metal table.

It was a cafeteria, with metal tables and chairs neatly arranged, and children dressed in white sat on the chairs in an orderly manner, waiting for the nurses with big shoulders and round waists to feed them.

When Lin Nian came back to his senses, the first question that naturally came to his mind was: Where is this?

"Of course, the cafeteria is a place to eat."

Someone answered his question, though he had only thought about it in his heart and had not yet spoken.

"No, it's not quite accurate to describe my relationship with you as 'roundworms in the belly', and I'd prefer to describe our bond as a symbiotic relationship of 'clownfish and anemones' or 'crocodile and bird.'"

Lin Nei's thoughts were read again, and the person who spoke twice was a girl with a nice voice, and her speech gave people a sense of rationality and stability.

"I'm not a tumor in your head, I'm behind you."

Someone patted him on the left shoulder behind Lin Nian in front of the dining table, he looked to the left but didn't see anyone, then someone patted his right shoulder, and his head turned around and his face was poked by a slender finger.

The blonde girl looked at him with a plate and withdrew her mischievous fingers, "You found me." ”

The moment he saw the blonde girl's face, Lin Nian's consciousness suddenly cleared up, and this feeling was like realizing that he was dreaming in a dream, with a sense of awakening of 'Daigo empowerment' and 'sudden enlightenment'.

Japan Branch, Paradise Hall, Fierce Ghosts, Wang Jiang.

Memories flashed through his eyes like a comic strip, and it took him tens of seconds to comprehend his current situation, and when he looked up again, he saw that the blonde girl was already sitting across the table, her hands on her knees, as if she was deliberately trying to curry favor with the teacher in order to compete for the top three students.

"What are you doing?" Lin Nian asked subconsciously.

"Don't talk, do the same as I do." The blonde girl patted her knee lightly and said.

Lin Nian blinked, although he didn't know why, he still followed the blonde girl's instructions and sat down - he had always been a good boy in school, at least in the orphanage, he relied on his well-behaved behavior to get double snacks every time.

The two looked at each other across the metal dining table, the blonde girl had a faint smile on her face, and Lin Nian was also carefully observing the girl's appearance, trying to recall whether she had seen similar people in her sixteen years and nearly seventeen years of life.

"No matter how well you sit, I won't scoop you up an extra spoonful of meat!" At this time, a vicious voice sounded beside Lin Nian, he looked sideways, and saw a female nurse with a 'tiger's back and bear's waist' carrying an iron bucket viciously, and the iron spoon scooped out a spoonful of potatoes and beef from it and poured it on the plate in front of him, and gave another copy to the blonde girl opposite.

When the female nurse left, the blonde girl Shi Shiran removed her hand from her knee and picked up the spoon and knife and fork: "Ask whatever you want - eat as much as you want, although these are not true, but the taste is definitely more fragrant than the real thing." ”

"Not really? Do you mean now I'm dreaming? Lin Nian snorted and looked down at the potatoes and beef, which were full of color and flavor, and couldn't help but pick up the spoon and poke the soft stewed small potatoes, this delicate feeling is hard to believe that it is a dream blooming in the fog.

"Almost... Or have you eaten enough before you dreamed, and now you don't have the appetite to eat? The blonde girl took a fork and licked the beef juice at the corner of her mouth, staring at Lin Nian's plate with a feeling of eagerness.

"I remember that I drank a lot of Coke before..."Lin Nian was very puzzled now, he had no appetite, and simply pushed the plate to the blonde girl: "... I've seen you, when I was in Chicago Hospital, no, more than that, I've dreamed of you many times, including when I was in the 3E exam! ”

After saying that, it was quiet for a while, and Lin Nian, who seemed to understand something, paused and said, "I can't remember you after I wake up, right?" ”

"Uh-huh." The blonde girl pickily forked the potatoes aside and picked the beef into her mouth and chewed it.

"The last thing I remember was being held at gunpoint in the Pavilion of Paradise, and someone made a phone call to the king of the Fierce Ghosts, and... I don't remember. Lin Nian sat at the dining table and lowered his head to think, looking up at the blonde girl who was happily eating beef while thinking: "Does this have anything to do with you?" Who are you? ”

"Pretty much." The blonde girl wiped the corners of her mouth: "I'm your stress defense." ”

"Stress defenses?"

"It's like a boy who was sexually assaulted by his stepfather as a child would fantasize about a fictional partner who doesn't exist to protect himself."

"Your example is a bit bad." Lin Nian scratched his eyebrows.

"Oh, then stepmother." The blonde girl shook her head: "Actually, I don't exist, I'm just a character you imagined, like a personality of a schizophrenic, so you can't remember my face and related things every time you wake up." ”

"So what is your role? Help me escape from reality? ”

"Hey, don't say it so ugly, it makes me look like a two-dimensional paper man, although I'm good-looking, it doesn't mean that you can have sexual fantasies about me."

"Although you are beautiful, it doesn't mean that you are better than **."

"This is not necessarily, after all, your tastes are biased towards Europe and the United States."

"Hey!" Lin Nian involuntarily raised his voice, but the entire canteen people looked over, and the nurse holding the food bowl also stared at him angrily, which made him shrink his head immediately.

"You also said you weren't the roundworm in my stomach." Lin Nian glared at the blonde girl.

"Roundworms are so ugly." The girl poked a piece of potato and handed it to Lin Nian, who looked at her with a deflated mouth, as if there was nothing she could do with this girl.

"Alright, is staring at me like this to upset my conscience?" The blonde girl put down her fork and sighed, "You just need to know that I won't hurt you." ”

"So I'm just dreaming now?" Lin Nian was silent for a moment and asked, "Will I still remember you after this dream is over?" ”

"I probably won't remember, at most I will leave some vague impressions, such as meeting a beautiful blonde girl in a dream or something - oh, no wonder you like to watch blonde days..."

"Stop." Lin Nian couldn't wait to stuff the dinner plate into the girl's mouth.

"Oh." The girl pursed her lips, ate two bites, turned her head to look away, and suddenly said, "Use less blood." ”

The topic suddenly turned to business, and Lin Nian's expression was slightly dark: "Do you know about the violent blood?" ”

"You know, I know, I said you can think of me as your second personality." The blonde girl sighed: "And you shouldn't teach Mandy Blood, even if you don't use it next time, if you can't fight, run away, no shame." ”

“... I haven't managed to burst into blood yet, where did I get the next statement? Lin Nian was puzzled.

"Who knows." The blonde girl bites her fork and looks at the sky.

"What do you mean?" Lin Nian looked at the blonde girl's expression, and suddenly had a feeling that it was not very good.

"Didn't I say that? I'm your stress defense. The blonde girl sighed and lowered her fork: "I'll be here when something bad happens in reality that you can't accept." ”

"Something terrible?"

"yes, bad thing." The blonde girl said, "Do you want to know what it is?" ”

Lin Nian was silent for a moment and nodded slightly.

The blonde girl also nodded, raised her hand and pointed behind Lin Nian: "For example, such a thing." ”

Lin Nian looked back, and he saw Liangyi's bloody face, and the other party was looking down at him, and his eyes were about to protrude.

He was a little stunned, more confused, and he felt that his face was a little moist and a little warm.

In the middle of the Pavilion of Paradise, the white-scaled monster stuck Okubo Ryoichi's neck and held it high in front of him, and at his feet, the stumps and severed arms were piled up into a mountain of corpses and blood, and a bright red light rain fell from the sky, and the half-cut and mutilated corpses hung on the lamps and inserted into the ceiling, and the blood flowed down wildly, bathing in the pale scale armor that dyed for him, and his eyes were red and gold as he stood on the mountain peak and looked up at the dying man in his hand.

"If it weren't for me, this would have happened to you," the blonde girl whispered as she stood behind the white-scaled monster and looked up at the suffocating Okubo Ryoichi.