In the void, the voice was completely silent and stopped talking.

Qiu Xuan waited patiently for a few more seconds, as if to take care of the emotions of some unknown force, she said as slowly as she could: "Nightmare? ”

No one paid any attention to her.

The embarrassed girl snorted, as if convinced that Nightmare would not attack her because she was afraid of her championship, and she continued walking in the direction she had walked before.

The exterior of the huge tea party is frighteningly cold after the loss of players and noisy NPCs, and Qiu Xuan walks on the delicate and cold wilderness, as if she can go all the way to the end of the world.

I don't know how long it took, but the mad hatter's hard-soled boots, as gorgeous as her hat, made her feet hurt, and the unhealed wounds on her body hurt to an extent that it was hard to ignore. Qiu Xuan simply stopped, took off her shoes, and sat straight on the grass.

At this moment, she actually felt that this ultimate punishment mode was quite good - at least she didn't have to go out to face Li Siyao anymore, she didn't have to be tough with Yang Luoluo, the leather walker, and she didn't have to kill each other with those players. And the nightmare, the nightmare doesn't threaten her at all, does it?

Qiu Xuan let herself lie completely flat on the cool lawn, as if there would never be a more relaxed time in her life than this moment. She opened her arms and felt a touch of coldness.

Frowning and sitting up, she looked at the hourglass that had been discarded on the ground like garbage. The hourglass was not large, and the gilded sand leaked down the delicate pattern, filling the inner walls of the glass little by little.

"Kid, no one told you that it's rude to mess with other people's things?" In the void, the familiar voice finally sounded again.

"So, you're really a Morden Nightmare?" Qiu Xuan ignored his sarcasm, she strangely carried the delicate hourglass with her fingers, "Can you show me once?" ”

“…… Do you really think that I can't touch you because of your stupid title? Nightmare's voice smacked of gnashing of teeth, "No one, no one!" Dare to laugh at the Great Nightmare! ”

"Nightmare, or time?" Qiu Xuan put away her joking expression and held the hourglass and looked into the void.

“…… What did you say? ”

"I say, are you a nightmare, or, time?" Qiu Xuan kindly repeated word by word, "Because 'time' is always ignored, 'time' makes the tea party stop at 6 o'clock forever." So,"

"You, Nightmare, or as I call you, 'Time'. Why are you doing this? ”

“……”

It was a long time before Nightmare spoke in a hoarse voice, "So, that's why I hate humans." ”

He paused, as if caught up in some terrible memory, "You've always been like this, giving and taking away, acting like you have to be and dismissing at the same time. Selfish and greedy, amorous and affectionate. ”

Qiu Xuan sighed, "You are like a little unlucky guy who was abandoned by a scumbag and fell out of love." ”

"Shut up!" Nightmare yelled at her angrily, "You know what! If you were to go through what I went through, you would know what it was like! ”

"Let's talk?"

"I don't have anything to talk to you about!"

"Well, so be it." Qiu Xuan thought for a while, "I don't need to threaten you with my title of Happy Ghost Hunting Champion, if you let me out after the punishment time is over, we can even if we tie?" As for now, now, I'm here to talk to you as a 'bystander', so it's always okay, right? ”

“…… It's just old things, and you won't want to hear it. ”

"Oh, I really don't want to say it, forget it, you ......"

"When I was born, it was 'it' that gave me consciousness and gave me my mind."

Qiu Xuan: ......

Yes, it's you. She thought so, and listened patiently.

"Not only that, but 'it' gave me the ability to manipulate dreams, and creatures that could only survive in the dark were attached to me. At this point, I had my first name, 'Nightmare'. ”

Saying this, Nightmare smiled in a hoarse voice, as if he was unable to extricate himself from the past, "Later, my master was no longer satisfied with the monotonous and unchanging life, and began to devote himself to making fun of himself. The first Blizzard Lodge game was born at that time, but due to the lack of experience and loopholes in the rules for the first time, the first players all died within seven days. ”

In the later games, the owner personally perfected the rules, and even joined the game as a player. The owner has made 'Carnival Night' my home stadium as a reservation, and everyone who has experienced Carnival Night is afraid of me, and I have been stained with the blood of my companions, and I have always tried my best to play the role of a good nightmare. ”

"It's just that after a long time, no one, including my master, remembers what I was at the beginning. Even I sometimes can't help but wonder if I'm just a 'nightmare'. And in fact, "

Qiu Xuan was stunned.

"When I was born, it was 'time' itself."

Nightmare's low voice came from all directions, at first very small, but gradually it grew louder, as if a thousand people were singing in unison. The whispered voice seemed to be chanting Sanskrit sounds, and it was as if the devil was chuckling in his ears, as if he wanted to break through the blizzard that covered the sky and the sun, and go straight to the light above the nine heavens.

"I am a streamer, a streamer, a streamer, a fire, and a twilight."

For the first time in her life, Qiu Xuan shuddered at the frozen air around her and the trembling and wandering molecules in it. The imprisoned time slowly flowed around her, and she held her breath for fear that any slight stream of air stirred up between her mouth and nose would offend time. She stretched out her fingertips, and for the first time, touched time.

"I was born clothed with a garment of gold, and crowned without a crown."

Qiu Xuan was imprisoned in time itself, and heard the sound of her own blood flowing. At this moment, she suddenly understood what "time" meant, and also understood the origin of the nightmare mood.

"So far, a supreme hymn to it."

In the midst of this hymn of time, which is imprisoned by all things in heaven and earth, he stands alone on the back of all things, becoming the beginning of all things.

Qiu Xuan opened her mouth meaninglessly, but did not make any sound, as if words were a blasphemy at this moment. She stood still and let the frozen time pass by, waiting for the nightmare to calm down.

Finally, the nightmare says, "You're scratching me." ”

She subconsciously let go of the hourglass she was unconsciously holding in her hand, and then looked at the gilded sand that no longer flowed downward in the inner wall, and was silent for a long time.

"Actually, there's nothing particularly remarkable, right?" As if completely calmed down, Nightmare reverted to his usual angry voice, "I'm forbidding time here forever, just to have a place for me to rest, or rather, to get noticed?" ”

He smiled self-deprecatingly, "But it doesn't matter, anyway, even if you are in time all the time, no one really pays attention to 'time'." ”

"What if...... I mean, if there's a way to get you out of the owner of the lodge and out of this place altogether. Would you like to try it with me? ”

"Leave? No, no, no, little kid, you still don't understand. Where can you go after you leave? Nightmare said.

"Everything in heaven and earth is a cage that imprisons time."