Bai Ze, a middle school student who has just entered the second year of junior high school in a modern city, finds himself in a troubled way that seriously affects his otherwise relaxed and enjoyable daily life - insomnia. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There are many reasons that can lead to insomnia, but for this boy surnamed Bai, his reason is very simple, that is, nightmares.

Generally speaking, nightmares are not a big deal, basically everyone as long as they are not happy in real life, their sleep quality will inevitably be affected, and the most common thing that appears is a variety of mysterious or terrifying nightmares.

As a teenager who thinks he has big nerves and a smooth sailing life, he really can't figure out the root cause of the nightmares that he has recurred every day or two in recent months, but in any case, his sleep quality has been greatly affected by this, and he didn't care much about it because he was still on vacation, but now that school has started, he has to think about problems that may affect his learning.

Especially this week, every night he has had the nightmare that he has remembered even after waking up, and he still feels palpitations when he thinks about it, so that he has not been able to get out of bed at all this morning, so that within a month of the start of school, he has broken his full-time gold body that he has maintained for several years, so that the teenager who was only interested in it and has not really paid attention to it really begins to feel worried, and thus really sees it as a serious problem that may need to be told to parents to seek expert help to solve.

It's just that before he really made up his mind to tell his parents about this and might be sent to the imaginary Silent Hill-like psychiatric hospital, he still wanted to do his best to "save himself", isn't there a sentence called "I think I can still save myself"? As long as there is a glimmer of "life", he does not want to tell his family about this thing that seems to him to only prove his mental vulnerability, not to mention that he has a sister at home who is only two years younger than him and is in the rebellious period of adolescence.

"I said I had to solve it myself, but I've had nightmares for so long, and I haven't found a way to get rid of them......

After muttering a sigh, Bai Ze looked up at the surroundings, the hazy and illusory scenery could not be seen really, but he could clearly feel that there were some monsters roaming in the vicinity that exuded a chilling cold aura, proving that the danger of this place was hidden.

Another thing that can be confirmed is that he has entered the nightmare again, and the strange thing is that he has a clear self-consciousness in these nightmares, and can basically realize that he is having a nightmare, and can calmly think and make decisions and judgments, but there is no way to wake up as easily as he dreams on weekdays, so he can only get by and hide here until the moment the next morning, and he can wake up naturally.

Carefully hide in a narrow corner of a collapsed house, hiding from the sight of the monsters that often roam the neighborhood, so as to ensure that you can store enough stamina to be able to quickly escape and find a safe place to hide after being discovered.

Since he had the same nightmare for almost a week, the boy still knew a lot about the environment here.

It was an abandoned building similar to the apartment building he lived in, and although there were some survivors like him, there were few actual encounters in the building, except for the screams of those people when they were killed, or the movement of those monsters rushing to a place because they found the traces of certain people, so he didn't know how many people had survived so far.

The monsters that move here are humanoid monsters that look like humans but are actually covered with rubber, their faces resemble highly atavistic baboons, they also lean forward when they walk, and their hands have sharp claws, these monsters kill people, but they don't eat fresh flesh and blood, but wait until the corpses have begun to decompose before they start eating, so Bai Ze calls them ghouls.

These monsters have a lot of strength and speed, but they don't completely crush the physical fitness of humans, the problem is that their claws are too sharp, but in this nightmare, Bai Ze can't even find a piece of iron, which makes it impossible for him to fight with these monsters at all, after fighting a few times in common sense, each time he fled in a hurry with the wounds that were scratched all over his body, fortunately, these monsters don't seem to be crazy people who only know how to kill, as long as they feel that they can't succeed smoothly, If you do so much, you won't be relentless, which is why Bai Ze can survive smoothly for such a long time.

Although he had now developed the ability to stealth and hide well enough to sneak away from behind these ghouls without being detected, he was powerless to change his fate as long as he didn't have a weapon enough to kill these monsters.

The boy had already explored the two-story room, but unfortunately, he still hadn't found a bladed iron tool, as if there was nothing in this building that could be used as a weapon, and the broken corpses everywhere couldn't help at all, and as for the steel bars that protruded out of the wall because of the collapse of the wall, let alone pulling them out and using them, even if he wanted to transform them into traps, he was still powerless for Bai Ze, who was just a middle school student.

I thought that most of the night's shelters with a high safety factor were hiding until dawn when something unusual happened, and this nightmare, which had always seemed cold and silent, suddenly became lively and noisy somehow.

In the distance, you can hear the screams of those ghouls in order to call their friends, and then the screams of those ghouls after being beaten, and this sound has lasted for a long time, and it has never stopped, as if some master or monster has come here and is engaged in an endless battle with those ghouls!

Due to the comparison and found that the voices of those ghouls were significantly reduced, it seemed that the living power of this group of monsters had been seriously hit, which made Bai Ze's heart flutter, and he felt that he might want to go there to take a look, not to mention the possibility of being a human master, even if it was just a more powerful monster coming here, as long as he could get away with snatching a ghoul's corpse, it would be enough, because as long as he had the ghoul's sharp long claws, At the very least, he could make a few crude knives, and then he would have a weapon to use.

After making a decision in his heart, he no longer hesitated and regretted, and after getting out of the previous hiding place, he re-covered the entrance, and then touched the place where the sound came from flexibly and lightly - in order to be able to better hide in the nightmare, he even referred to various sources in reality to hone his silent mobility ability, and now he can't even hear the sound of footsteps when he walks, and even if he steps on the wooden floor, he can minimize the sound that may be made, but unfortunately he still can't completely cancel out the vibration caused by walking, As a result, most critters can detect his approach, but it is enough to deal with monsters that are hunters.

Soon approached the place where the voice came from, and on the way he was even lucky to see a dead ghoul, the fatal wound was a puncture wound that penetrated the heart and throat, from the wound analysis, the murder weapon should be a sharp long cone or stick with a length of at least twenty centimeters or more, the appearance of the wound is quite "clean", showing the attacker's excellent weapon use skills and ability to grasp the timing, so the possibility of it being a human is quite large, which makes Bai Ze's heart full of surprises.

But he stayed for the time being, and after dragging the corpse into a more secluded corner, he started to fiddle with the claws on the ghoul's hands, and he didn't need any additional tools, only to let their left hand attack their right hand, and successfully cut off a few claws as sharp as kitchen knives, because the noise in the distance had begun to be low, so he didn't remove all the claws, but only had time to take four and left the place, and quickly hurried towards the place.

It's a pity that in the end, he was still a step too slow, except for the corpses of ghouls scattered throughout the corridor, there were nearly ten corpses, there was nothing else, and the faint sound from a distance could be inferred that the person should be chasing the fleeing ghoul, but because he had run too far, Bai Ze did not dare to chase after him rashly, so he could only give up his original idea.

"Hey, it's a pity, if you can really meet that person, even if you ask him how he has such great strength."

After sighing helplessly, Bai Ze, who stood at the window and looked out for a moment without getting anything, shook his head and turned back, and began to cut the throats of those ghouls one by one - he had already discovered that it seemed that the master was also a little busy when he was deeply encircled before, many ghouls were seriously injured but not fatal, but they left without killing them, but at this moment, it was cheapening Bai Ze who followed closely behind, so that those ghouls who still wanted to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead completely turned into real corpses.

I have to say that the claws on the hands of this ghoul are really easy to use, that is, they are sharp and strong, although they will become dull after not using them too many times, but they are enough to kill the three or two ghouls who survived one by one.

I don't know if it was because of the tyranny in his heart that he was forced to hide by these monsters, or because it was a dream at the moment and he lost his normal moral and physiological constraints, so that he didn't feel any psychological reaction after the knife, and it was as plain as cutting vegetables with a knife when cooking, so that the boy even secretly wondered if he had the talent to be an assassin, after all, he at least had the ability to stealth at the moment, and his psychological quality didn't seem to be a problem.