―Call of the Night―

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Dreamland.

"I, I can't trust you...... Who knows, who knows if it's lying to me? ”

In this trance-like illusion, the afterimage once again saw the woman covered in an extremely cold armor and frozen in the ice wall by the glacier.

"Am I giving you conditions that aren't good enough?" She spoke in a very tactful tone at first, but now it sounded inexplicably angry.

"It's not...... Otherwise, you can tell me the location of the signal tower first. And then...... Then I'll come back to save you, what do you think? The afterimage thought he was very clever, but in the end he couldn't hold back his laughter.

"......" She saw the afterimage in front of her, showing a smug smile, and was obviously stunned for a moment.

"Huh?"

"Okay," she said calmly, "I see." ”

"Huh? Wait a minute! Wait a minute! ”

……

"Comrade Remnant—Hey!"

"Ahh The afterimage snapped open his eyes, but the surroundings were dark.

The disc-like, shiny white moon hung directly above the snow-capped mountains of Hope, reflecting the shadows of those peaks, stretching out to the northwest like a wide and narrow saw.

In the darkness, the remnant realizes that a person is lying next to him, and he also feels the other person move his hands and feet, so that the rubbing of the sleeping belt rattles.

"What are you screaming about? It's been a day, and we'll be the happiest except for you. ”

"No, Brother Yuqing, I'm ......" The afterimage raised half of his head and looked at the night with empty eyes.

"Can you pause for a moment? Yes? I can't even sleep ...... now."

"Yuqing, Afterimage, what are you two doing?"

Ren Xiang's voice suddenly came, and the two of them immediately fell silent. "Don't you want to sleep yet, if we bring the infected here, we'll be done - sleep!"

"Whoa, whoa...... Hit him, huh, huh......" Wu Xiaoxuan turned over and changed his posture. While smacking his lips, he was talking nonsense from sweet dreams.

"Yes, Captain." Yuqing's teeth pounded in reply. He simply tilted his head and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

"I'm sorry, Brother Yuqing......"

"Alright, let's go to bed." Yuqing buried his head in his sleeping bag. The automatic heating in the sleeping bag made him feel very comfortable.

"Hmm......" Remnant blinked, then lay back down.

In my ears, the sound of the murmuring river is still flowing happily, which makes people feel very comfortable.

The clouds in the sky were slowly drifting, and the dotted stars were twinkling slightly.

I hope that the night sky of the snow-capped mountains is indeed as beautiful as people say it is.

It's so beautiful that people can't help but miss:

Once, there was a man dressed in bulletproof armor who climbed the snow-capped mountain road and stood alone on a steep cliff with a large rock.

He held the UMP9-Rain Pioneer submachine gun and had a bird's-eye view of the beautiful, painting-like night scene of the woodland at the foot of the mountain. That person is ......

Rustle, rustle.

The afterimage turned over and over again, not because it was uncomfortable in the sleeping bag, but because he couldn't sleep anyway. With his eyes open, he could only stare at the dark night.

"Whew......" The cold breath exhaled from the mouth of the afterimage quickly disappeared into the air. Just like the shadow of his running in the past, he gradually disappeared into the land of that island, that camp and that manor.

"Without me, you wouldn't have been able to reach the top of the Hope Mountain."

"Huh?" The afterimage was full of excitement.

He cried out in surprise, but quickly calmed down. Because he realized that the voice was coming from the woman who had appeared in the dream.

Yuqing on the side, he was in a deep sleep, so he was not woken up. And Ren Xiang and Wu Xiaoxuan, who were lying farther away, not to mention.

"Come back to me, hurry." The woman's voice lingered in the ears of the afterimage all the time.

"What's going on? Why-you, are you a ghost or something...... Forehead......" The afterimage felt a chill. He tilted his head back from his sleep belt and sat hunched up.

"Of course I'm human."

"Why do you keep pestering me?" The afterimage was quiet, yelling discontentedly into the air. "Others, can't you pester others?"

"Now only you can resonate with me, so get it?"

"What the hell is a resonance reaction?" The afterimage looked like he was about to die.

"Come back to me so I can be resurrected - and help you to reach the top of the Hope Mountain." She kept repeating the phrase, trying to convince the remnant.

"What if I save you and you turn your head against us?"

"No, it won't. It's clear that everyone is human, so why should everyone kill each other? ”

Desperate to get rid of her, the Remnant said, "Well, will it work tomorrow morning?" Because of me, I'm afraid of the dark ......"

She asked teasingly, "Yo, a little virgin is still afraid of the dark?" ”

……

"Afterimage."

"Huh?"

The illusion suddenly disappeared from front of his eyes, and Ren Xiang turned to say goodbye. Holding a glimmering flashlight, he walked quietly from his sleeping bag.

"Captain, I, I seem to have fallen into an evil spirit...... "The afterimage swallowed a cool breath and quickly lowered his head in shame.

Ren Xiang stepped over from Yuqing's body, then slowly squatted down, and used a flashlight to shine on the afterimage's lower head. "What evil in it? Come, and I'll take care of it. ”

"Captain, it turned out ...... So you haven't slept all the time, huh? The afterimage raised his head and was pierced by the light, and then quickly lowered his head.

"How can I sleep like this?" Ren Xiang sighed, twisted his head slightly to the side, and muttered reproachfully:

"You shouldn't be in this place - especially you, why do you want to touch something that science can't explain? Now, what are we going to do? ”

"I'm sorry, Captain." The remnant buried his head hard until his neck hurt.

"I'm sorry it's too late now. Go, come with me and see what is sacred. ”

"Huh?" The afterimage looked up at Ren Xiang with a frightened gaze, and only smacked the corners of his mouth twice as if he was restrained.

"Ah what? Why, aren't you still willing? Ren Xiang frowned.

"No, I ......" The agitation on the afterimage's face vanished, turning into a haze of sadness. He looked at Ren Xiang's respectful face, and felt more and more ashamed.

"Sometimes it's just that the world is so wonderful." Ren Xiang shook his head, sighed and buzzed his nose wings to speak. "Why ......is there such a thing as a Force Crystal?"

The air temperature at night became very low, so much so that as soon as Ren Xiang finished speaking, he subconsciously trembled his gums and bit with a loud clucking sound.

"Captain, I'll go with you." The afterimage hesitated for a long time before finally agreeing.

[To be continued...]

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