Chapter Twenty-Three: The City That Never Sleeps
Red Candle's visit was an accident in Weiyang Building, and Xie Yi almost forgot about this person.
She is one year younger than Xie Yi, but she has spent most of her life in the world of Weiyang Pavilion.
I heard that when she first arrived in Weiyang Pavilion, she didn't even have a name, which is not unusual, and girls under the age of thirteen who are not listed in Weiyang Pavilion will erase their names and be called girls.
Later, when the girl served a certain girl to bathe and change clothes, I don't know if the water scalded the girl or what, in short, the girl was not happy, picked up the red candle next to her and scalded her back, and since then a scar has fallen on the back of her right shoulder.
On the day of the first pick-up, the old mother said that since you have such a different body, then call it a red candle in the future, so that the guests can remember.
Maybe she is lucky, the girl under the age of thirteen in the building is the bottom of the oppression, and it is the most difficult to survive, so she can start as a small handyman, and little by little grow into a famous red candle girl.
But Xie Yi didn't have a few face-to-face with the red candle, not long after Xie Yi entered the building, the red candle was ransomed by a passing businessman, the day she left, the sky was clear in Tianyu Town, she took off all the things she had used in the building, and then walked out briskly, without looking back.
The past flashed in his heart, the night breeze was cold, Xie Yi got up and went to cover the window, and the green bricks under his feet were arranged in a smooth and irregular pattern, just like the memories of a teenager, messy and unwritten.
After being rescued from the lotus pond, the red candle never woke up.
Feng Cheng stood behind Xie Yi, looking at the sleeping girl on the bed, he somehow had a bad premonition.
On Red Candle's body, Lockdown felt a strange aura, calm and not like humans, he felt that they were the same kind.
He instinctively felt that this girl named Red Candle was simply a corpse that could breathe.
Red Candle's dream continues.
She dreamed that she was trapped in a vast pool of water, covered with large, soft roots that stretched out of the endless darkness beneath her feet and spread out into the endless sky overhead.
The red candle was tightly locked by such roots, and she struggled to swim up, but no matter how hard she tried, the scenery around her remained the same.
The cold invaded imperceptibly, the icy water of the lake penetrated the skin, and the invisible gravity pressed the heart.
She felt like her body was covered with thick blocks of ice, waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to puncture her guts, penetrate her skin, and tear her apart completely.
The black hole under its feet gradually condensed into a huge grimace, and it slowly opened its mouth, like a threat, like an invitation.
The red candle was finally tired of swimming, she stopped struggling, let her body fall, and when she closed her eyes, she heard the sound of falling water in her ears, she was no longer afraid, she thought, come on, come on, let all people die here.
The premonition of the lockdown began to come true, and it was so fast that people were caught off guard.
At first, it was the guy on duty in the store that night, then Weiyang Building, and finally the entire Tianyu Town.
More and more people began to wander at night, unconscious, just mechanically repeating what they had done during the day, with empty pupils lifeless.
The whole town was shrouded in a sluggish atmosphere, and the farmer who carried his burden into the city, walking listlessly in the increasingly empty streets, the sun was soft, and he suddenly fell headlong and fell into a dream from which he could never wake up.
Sleep is frantically squeezing everyone's spirit, until the entire Tianyu Town has become a city that never sleeps that can't wake up.
Standing on the city wall worriedly, he watched the two pedestrians in front of him silently crash into each other, they each staggered, but they separated unconsciously, and walked into the distance with the dust on their clothes.
Lockdown didn't know what was going on in Tianyu Town, Xie Yi had been sleeping for three days, and he didn't know how long his ability could keep her soul in her body, if Chunqiu didn't come back......
In the dense jungle, Chunqiu had been staring at a huge stone slab for a long time.
It was a natural slab, covered with thick moss, with a slight abruptness embedded in a low-lying area.
"Official, official!" The call behind him didn't interrupt Chunqiu's thoughts, obviously, he didn't realize that the title was calling him.
The person who came grabbed Chunqiu's sleeve and asked tentatively, "Official, what's wrong with you?"
Chunqiu suddenly came back to his senses, and when he saw the face pasted up, he shrank back in shock.
The man obviously didn't care about Chunqiu's disgust, and followed up again, "Official, I've inquired for you, it's right to go that way." ”
"Okay, I know, thank you. Chunqiu answered, and was about to leave after the salute, when a thought flashed through his mind in a trance, and he turned around and saw that the man was still standing with his hands hanging down from a distance, so he shouted and asked him, "You know...... How did this slate come from?"
"Why do you ask this, sir," the man was surprised, "this is the former altar of our clan, and it has been abandoned for a long time, don't you see that there is nothing now?" ”
Obviously replied respectfully, but Chunqiu keenly caught the vigilance in his words, "It's okay, I'll just ask casually." ”
With a movement of his fingertips, a golden light silently melted into the stone slab.