【Eternal Sleep Town】

Ding-dong, midnight magic strikes

Oops, who's playing the game

When the bell strikes twelve

O traveler passing by—

Have you ever seen my daughter?

She holds her beloved doll

Disappear into the Nightfall Forest

It hurts, please don't hurt it again

O eternal Lord of Time—

I would like to sleep here.

【Preface】

"Father, are we really going to live here? Aren't you going to look for your mother? "The little girl is wearing a beautiful red dress and holding a puppet doll in her hand. With long blond hair with a slight curl, and beautiful blue eyes that seemed to hide the sea, she reached out and grabbed the corner of the man's clothes, her voice was soft and glutinous, with a little grievance.

"Alice, Mother has gone far away, and we can't catch up with her." The man squatted down to look at the girl, he raised his hand and rubbed the girl's head, "Before she leaves, she hopes that we can have a new life, Eternal Sleep Town is a good place, let's stay here, okay?" ”

"But...... I miss her so much, I want to see her...... Father, shall we go after Mother? ”

"Alice, your mother doesn't want us to go to her, and we'll see her again when the time comes." The man whispered, "Your mother is far away from us, but she is always with us. Look, isn't this puppet doll you're holding just like your mother? It's something she's left behind, and she'll always be with Alice. She's always loved Alice, and Alice loved her too, right? So Alice won't let her down, right? ”

Alice sniffed hard and burst into a smile, "Hmm! ”

So the man walked into the prosperous town of Eternal Sleep with his deceased wife's daughter.

On that day, Jack, the old carpenter, was walking his dog in Moon River Park.

On that day, the children of the town were playing hide and seek in the middle of the street park.

It was a sunny autumn day.

It was a beautiful day.

That day—

It was the beginning of a nightmare for all.

01 Traveler

[Dream Traveler Shen Junyao, Loaded Successfully]

[First Mission: Eternal Sleep Town]

[Initial Mission: Enter Eternal Sleep Town and learn Mayor James's request]

【Please confirm ......】

Shen Junyao stood in that pure white space again, unlike the panic she had last time, she just stood there and carefully examined the page. Through the communication with Qi Ming and others in the past few days, she fully understands about this book and these tasks, although there will still be many doubts that cannot be answered, but those are not important. Shen Junyao has always thought that she is a person who is at ease when she encounters, and her acceptance of all kinds of things is extremely high, even Qi Ming and Chiyo Dong expressed their admiration for her, their original words were "I have never seen such a calm novice who doesn't cry or make trouble, you are like this, it's like I just went to have a meal, it's normal and terrible." She herself didn't know why she was able to be so calm when she encountered an inexplicable curse, and even after receiving the first task to understand the general background, she felt her blood boiling and excited. Jun Yao's super high acceptance of these supernatural events stems from instinct, like a sense of fate, as if she was born with a sense of fatality.

Maybe I'm really suitable here.

Jun Yao smiled bitterly and clicked the translucent confirmation button, so the dazzling light filled the entire space, and at the same time as the cold system sound came, the scene in front of him changed.

[Dream traveler Shen Junyao, confirmation completed. 】

【Countdown ......】

【5、4、3、2、1】

【Quest Begins】

Jun Yao sat on a bus, the scenery outside the window was the clear river flowing, the continuous green hills sandwiched the bank, the dense green trees were uneven, passing through the winding mountain road, in the constant change of ups and downs, the destination was close at hand. In the distance, there are countless reddish-brown buildings clustered around the huge circular lake, and the forest encloses the east and west sides of the town, leaving only the south side to travel.

Yin Weiyu sat next to Jun Yao, she and Jun Yao both joined the organization "Red Crow" managed by Yi An, after Jun Yao went to the Dream Traveler Union to register, he met her, and it was at that time that he knew that they were teammates for the next mission. Yin Weiyu didn't have a very deep impression of Jun Yao in the last mission "Wish", after all, he missed most of the collective actions because of the prop "Eye of Horus". She just knew that Jun Yao's reasoning ability was very good, and at the final decisive moment, she reacted to Avarice's text trap and took the lead in breaking the game and letting everyone win. However, when listening to Chiyo Dong and Qi Ming reviewing this mission in the organization, they all seemed to be full of praise for Jun Yao, which made Yin Weiyu very curious about Jun Yao, so when the eight dream travelers gathered at the station, Yin Weiyu observed Jun Yao intentionally or unintentionally. Looking at Jun Yao's side face, her expression was calm and abnormal, just like an ordinary person who was going to travel, not going to participate in some life and death race, Weiyu finally couldn't help but speak, "Jun Yao...... Aren't you nervous? ”

Jun Yao retracted her gaze, turned her head to look at Yin Weiyu, stunned for a moment, and then she smiled slightly, with a little helplessness in her tone, "Of course nervous." ”

"But you don't look nervous at all......"

"Some emotions don't have to be shown. In fact, my feelings are very complicated, on the one hand, I feel that it is ridiculous and sad to be cursed and then have to complete the task of life and death, but on the other hand, I feel very excited and funny to encounter such an exciting thing. Jun Yao looked out the window again, "Do you think I'm weird?" ”

Yin Weiyu was indeed shocked by Jun Yao's inner monologue, and was organizing how to answer her, when the bus suddenly stopped, the driver came out of the driver's seat and bowed to the eight people sitting in the car, "Travelers who come and go here, this is the end of the road, my duty has been fulfilled, and you need to go on your own for the next road, so I will send you here." After the driver finished speaking, his figure seemed to be shrouded in mist, and gradually became transparent and disappeared into the air.

The car door opened by itself, and the young man sitting in the front row got up and faced the people behind him, "It seems that the mission has begun, and there is only one way to Eternal Sleep, we have to go in on our own." ”

This young man who was talking to everyone, dressed in fashionable hip-hop style, with slightly curly brown hair, was called Xu Qingran, and when they gathered at the station, everyone had already reported to each other's homes, and he and Ai Yu, a girl with short black hair and a white dress sitting in the second row, were the most experienced dream travelers in this mission, and had completed two missions, and this was their third mission. So naturally, the two of them took the lead and gave orders to lead the entire team. Sitting side by side with Jun Yao and Yin Weiyu was a girl with a high ponytail and sportswear, her name was Lin Mo, and it was the same second mission as Weiyu. Behind them, sat a girl with black curly hair and a lilac dress named Jiang Xian, who, like Jun Yao, had just finished her novice task. Sitting in the last row of the bus, two soulless boys, one named Chen Yang and the other named Zhao Xiao, looked to be fourteen or fifteen-year-old high school students, and they were novices who had just joined the mission. Since Xu Qingran and Ai Yu sang and explained the general rules to them, the two boys hid in the last row, probably unable to accept this sudden task, and were a little devastated.

"Then let's go, a mission like this with a story background is generally not life-threatening at the beginning, and this driver is not a guide NPC who issues a mission to us, so don't worry." Ai Yu smiled to ease the slightly tense atmosphere, the main purpose of saying this was to ease the hearts of the two novices, after all, they were too scared, if they didn't do anything because they were afraid, in the mission, especially this kind of PVE mission, it would drag down their teammates. While no one puts the hope of survival on the newbies, they don't want them to drag down the whole group or even lead the situation to the worst.

"We ...... Can you not get out of the car? We don't want to go to that town. Chen Yang asked cautiously, Xu Qingran frowned, as if he was a little impatient by the cowardly behavior of the two of them all along, he said sharply, "If we don't advance to the guide NPC within an hour of entering the mission, the system will forcibly release ghosts to chase us, and then we will still be forced to go to the position of the guide NPC to accept the official mission." However, accepting a task through the system's forced advancement is not worth the loss compared to voluntarily advancing the progress of the task, right? I know you're newbies, and you're still confused and scared of the situation, but you're going to be a drag on the rest of us. Now I ask again, are you going to go with us? If you still don't want to, leave to fend for yourselves here. Anyway, you're a first-time beginner mission, and if you die, you have a chance to do it again, so you have to learn a lesson to understand. ”

After Xu Qingran finished speaking, Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao glanced at each other, and the two seemed to have an accumulated exchange through their eyes, and finally stood up as if they had made up their minds, "Brother Xu, let's go!" We will listen to the command well, you take us, don't leave us behind......"

"As long as you don't do superfluous things and don't drag us down, of course we won't sit idly by." Ai Yu nodded, and the group got out of the car.

The driver parked the car next to an observation deck on the mountain road, stood on the wide observation deck and looked into the distance, and the middle of the line of sight was the destination of their trip, Eternal Sleep Town. There is a sign on the far left of the observation deck, on which is a relatively brief map, Lin Mo reached out and touched the sign, after a faint white light, everyone received a system prompt and a map information.

[Dream Traveler Lin Mo, trigger the main clue: Mountain Road Map]

"It seems that the usefulness of this observation deck is limited to this, I have already seen it when I first got out of the car, and the driver did not leave the car keys after he disappeared, so it is not realistic to say that I want to drive into Eternal Sleep Town. Looking at the map, Eternal Sleep Town is still a certain distance from the observation deck where we are now, and it will take some time to walk past. Then let's not waste any time, let's go that way now. Xu Qingran took advantage of Lin Mo's starting clue to look at the entire observation deck, and made sure that there was no other hint except for the map on the sign, he looked down at the watch on his wrist, estimated the approximate time, and led everyone to walk in the direction indicated in the map.

"Mayor Town, count the time, are those people coming?" The young assistant stood at his desk with a stack of papers, and the elderly mayor just stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looked into the distance, and only after the assistant repeated his words for the third time did the mayor look back at her.

The afternoon sun shines through the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a shadow on the red-brown floor, and the mayor's side face is against the light, making it difficult to see his expression, and only the old voice can be heard with a hint of anticipation and compassion, "It's coming...... Our fate. I just didn't expect it to come so quickly. ”

"We're not ready yet."