For late-night parties, instant noodles are probably the most convenient food invented in the world. It only takes a few minutes to serve you a "delicacy" that is enough to satisfy your hunger.

The hands of the wall clock on the wall were approaching 1 o'clock in the morning, and in the face of such a situation, Yu Siqi didn't care about the popularity of instant noodles at all, only knowing that if he didn't hurry up and hurry up a little time, he would definitely be late for the morning meeting at eight o'clock tomorrow.

Thinking of such a grim situation, Yu Siqi even gave up blowing on this steaming bowl of instant noodles and began to stuff the noodles into his stomach against the heat.

To be sure, July is not a good month to eat instant noodles. And in this extremely unsuitable environment, the result of eating noodles with hot soup is that Yu Siqi has gradually lost the existence of his tongue. The utterly numb mouth only knows how to put things in it mechanically until it ends.

"OK, I'm done." Yu Siqi looked at the remaining delicious soup, and threw the instant noodle bowl into the garbage bag next to him with a fork with a little regret.

After hastily washing his face with cold water by the sink, Yu Siqi didn't even have time to hang up the towel and returned to the bedroom.

Lying on the somewhat hot mat, Yu Siqi soon fell asleep. An incoherent snoring soon spread throughout the room, and there was no doubt about it - he was exhausted.

At night, the streets are deserted, and the buildings on both sides are so high that there is no ceiling in sight. Yu Siqi walked aimlessly in the middle of the road, the light of the street lamp lingering beside him in the rising mist, and some distorted figures stretched longer and longer in this silence.

He took a new path, an overgrown path, and the scale and brightness of the lamps were not comparable to those of the previous ones, but he continued to move on as if his destination were at the end of the path.

Gradually, a small river appeared in Yu Siqi's field of vision, the water of this river was bottomless, and the weeds around it were denser than those on both sides of the path.

The occasional few exposed earthy gravel sections are surrounded by traces of flames and are pitch black, surrounded by snack bags and biodegradable lunch boxes left over from picnics. A simple wooden pier is located on a shallow beach not far away, with a warning sign tied with rope that is clearly broken.

It is written in four large words that are very eye-catching: "No swimming".

There was no sound around, no sign of life. Some just stood in front of the billboard, motionless.

"It's useless, you're trying in vain." A voice that was especially familiar to Yu Siqi sounded behind him, forcing him to put an end to this stiffness.

He turned around quickly and didn't notice anything, and his surroundings were still the same as when he first arrived, dead and dead.

"Who is it?" Yu Siqi asked boldly.

No one responded, as if a second voice had not existed in the first place.

"I'm probably crazy, why do I start talking to myself in my dreams." Yu Siqi gently stroked his heaving chest and comforted himself.

"Wait, why did I know I was dreaming. Right... I was indeed sleeping, and it was normal for me to dream when I slew. Yu Siqi's face began to show a hint of panic, but why would I be so convinced. And where is this, Yu Siqi looked around again.

A meandering river stretches from a distant mountain stream to a distance that it cannot perceive, by the morning light that shines through the mist. Yu Siqi repeatedly confirmed that this was a place he had never been to, closed his eyes slightly and examined his memory, and found that there was no sign that he had ever understood this land.

In the end, either I have forgotten my memories of this place, or there is a phenomenon that cannot be explained by science.

"Why is it that you can encounter such an unnatural situation when you sleep?" Yu Siqi felt the fear in his heart begin to pour out again. Fear and insecurity seemed to want to occupy every corner of him, but the courage and reason to resist it all began to disappear.

"How long are you going to stand there?" The voice that had appeared just now was once again pulled out of Siqi's fearful thoughts. This time, an unexpected figure was standing in front of Yu Siqi.

"Lao Huang, why are you here?" Yu Siqi couldn't believe his eyes, and in front of him was Lao Huang, the security guard of apartment No. 23, whose full name was Huang Zunyi.

"Okay, why can't I be here?" Lao Huang patted Yu Siqi's shoulder and said, "There's no need to stay in this place for too long, this is not the place you should be, at least now is not the time." ”

Yu Siqi brushed Lao Huang's hand away and asked, "Are you really Lao Huang, or are you a so-called nightmare?" ”

"Neither, or both." Lao Huang didn't seem to mind Siqi's offensive behavior, and turned around to leave.

"Wait, where are you going?" Yu Siqi chased after him and asked, "Where am I and how do I get out?" ”

"Forgive me for not being able to answer such a profound question, as you realize." Lao Huang shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm just a security guard in an old apartment, and I don't have that much wisdom to interpret the doubts in your heart. ”

"Then why are you here, isn't this my dream?" Yu Siqi repeated the question again, and it seemed that this question decided something very important.

"I really don't know how to explain such a complex issue to you." Lao Huang rubbed his hands and said, "Anyway, the night is still long, and there is time." ”

"What are you going to do?" Yu Siqi asked.

"There's a park up ahead, let's go and sit there." Lao Huang proposed.

"How do you know there's a park?" Yu Siqi's doubts spread all over his brain cells with the appearance of Lao Huang. But Lao Huang didn't make any reply, just blindly moved forward.

Soon a very luxurious park appeared in front of the two, and they followed Lao Huang around the empty ticket hall to a comfortable bench. Lao Huang took the lead in sitting down on the side of the stool and motioned for Yu Siqi to sit down.

Yu Siqi, who was full of doubts, sat down next to Lao Huang, although the stool looked stiff, but it was surprisingly comfortable to sit on. Lao Huang looked at Yu Siqi with a serene expression, and seemed to not mind Siqi's panic, but instead played a thumbs up with interest.

"Why didn't I see this park when I came?" Yu Siqi couldn't help but break the silence, because Lao Huang's presence made him a little uncomfortable. Compared with the old Huang who was on duty in apartment 23, the guy in front of him revealed an unguessable mystery all over his body.

"That's because you're like everyone else, you always ignore something important." Lao Huang leaned his head on the back of the stool, tapped the stool with his index finger and said, "Maybe you have realized that this is not a simple dream. Because there are so many aspects involved, please forgive me for not being able to explain it too clearly to you. But remember that I have no ill will towards you, and if I had, you wouldn't have seen this park. ”

"Is this park special?" Yu Siqi asked.

"Ah, it is one of my most precious treasures. The best part of my memory is that it happened here, and it's a very special place. Lao Huang's expression began to become more humane than before, which made Yu Siqi feel that the humanity in this person was slowly returning.

"You're still not going to tell me why you're here? appeared in my dreams and seemed to be able to communicate with me normally. Yu Siqi began to ask again.

"Yes, that's right." Lao Huang had a wicked smile on his face, making people completely unable to feel that this was the expression that a middle-aged security guard should have, as if it was a characteristic that only a young man in his twenties had.

"As I told you at the beginning, this question is too inopportune to ask, I'm just an individual with residual memories in your mind, an ordinary security guard Lao Huang. As such a being, there is no way to answer your profound questions. ”

Lao Huang slapped his thigh and laughed at himself.

"Then I'm going to change the subject, you should be going to talk to me about something to take me to this place where you think you're safe, right?" Yu Siqi is not a stupid person, if the old Huang in front of him really doesn't plan to tell him the answer, then he can only start from other places.

"I'm glad you haven't given up thinking completely, which means we still have hope." Lao Huang said, "It is true that I brought you to this place because I have something to say to you, through some trivial tricks. You are a very talented boy, but you use this talent to talk to strangers, don't you think it's a great waste of resources? ”

"It's... How do you say this..."Yu Siqi was a little embarrassed by what he said, and his cheeks were red and hot.

"Let's not talk about that, we're running out of time." Lao Huang's expression suddenly became serious, "You have to remember that you are in danger now, you... Targeted..."

Just when Siqi was about to ask who it was, the strange face of the old man in the archway appeared in his eyes, and everything that happened in the strange courtyard made the soles of his feet feel a chill.

"Looks like you already know!" Lao Huang looked at Yu Siqi with a somewhat complicated expression, as if he was re-examining himself.

"What do you know?" Yu Siqi asked confusedly.

"It's time to go back, it's better to come to a place like this less." Lao Huang grabbed Yu Siqi's short-sleeved collar and drove him out of the park half-dragging and half-pushing.

"Let it go!" Yu Siqi struggled hard, but found that compared to Lao Huang's strength, it was really a mayfly shaking tree.

"Alright, you'll be fine if you walk back down this road." Lao Huang suddenly let go of his hand and turned to leave, leaving Yu Siqi looking at Lao Huang's figure in the distance with a confused expression.

"Lao Huang, who are you?" Yu Siqi shouted loudly.

"It doesn't matter who I am, it's important... Can you still remember the way back? Lao Huang's voice was several times louder than Yu Siqi's, swaying back and forth on his eardrums like thunder.