This little ghost is really rude!

I wanted to say something, but Kirishima pulled my sleeve on the side: "Don't be so fierce." ”

Well, he's still a kid.

Thinking so, I had no choice but to retreat.

Kirishima took the last few boxes of pastries from my hand, put them on the ground, and opened them one by one for Xu Liang to see.

Of course, it was all dry cakes and cakes, and there could be nothing else.

After Xu Liang finished checking, he looked at me with victorious eyes, as if to say, "How is it?" ”

I didn't bother to pay attention to this rude half-sized boy, completely ignoring his gaze.

Kirishima on the side squatted on the ground and held a cream cake decorated with mango in his hand: "Xiaoke, this is the fruit cake that you and Sister Xiaomin both wanted to eat last time, and now it's all yours." ”

"Really?" Shen Xiaoke leaned out most of her body from behind Xu Liang, still a little timid, looking unconvinced, but her eyes were staring at the cake, her small mouth moved, and she swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Of course."

Kirishima Kano reached out to touch Shen Xiaoke's head, and the latter subconsciously wanted to hide back at first, but hesitated for a moment before letting Kirishima Xun's hand touch his head.

"My sister also brings gifts to other children, this one is specially prepared for you, don't worry about it."

"Hmm."

Shen Xiaoke took the cake from Kirishima Xun's hand, walked to the room, took two steps and turned around, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Sister Xun!" ”

Kirishima asked Xu Liang again: "Xiaoliang, which pastry do you like?" ”

"I don't want it." Xu Liang categorically rejected a piece of mousse cake handed over by Kirishima Xun, "Also, call me by name." ”

I shook my head secretly: although the tragedy of his life is not something I can decide, and it is completely a projection of social malice, this kid is really unlikeable.

At this time, Shen Xiaoke, who was walking towards the room, suddenly stopped, and the whole person froze: "The big machine, the big machine is coming again......"

I didn't understand what she meant, but I saw Shen Xiaoke suddenly scream "ah", and the cake in his hand fell to the ground with a "pop", and then the whole person also collapsed to the ground.

"What's going on—"

I didn't know what was going on, and I was about to rush in to check on Shen Xiaoke's situation, when suddenly there were two muffled snorts around me!

Then I saw that Xu Liang and Kirishima Xun also slowly fell to the ground...... At this time, even a dull person can feel that something is wrong, let alone me.

"Could it be...... Not! ”

Suddenly, I felt a black look, followed by a strong feeling of dizziness, and I immediately lost consciousness......

……

When I woke up slowly, I found myself lying on the ground, and there was a sharp foreign object coming from under me, and when I touched it with my hand, I found that it was some stones, which were covered with dust and black oil smoke.

A layer of steam-like smoke surrounded me, and through the smoke, I dimly saw several other people lying around me, among which the closest to me were Kirishima and Xu Liang, and a little girl in a transparent raincoat a little farther away, it was Shen Xiaoke.

At the same time, the roar of the machine was heard from there.

Seeing this scene, and the fact that it clearly has the characteristics of a "fantasy", I already understand that I have now entered the strange dream that Kirishima smoke is talking about!

I woke up Kamiru Kirishima and Xu Liang beside me.

As soon as Xu Liang woke up, he showed a vigilant look, and when he saw the steam-like fog nearby, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief - according to Kirishima Xun's description to me before, although this dream was strange, they didn't seem to be substantially harmed in the dream, so Xu Liang showed a hint of relief after realizing that he was just being dragged into the dream again, which was also a normal reaction.

However, it is rare to have such judgment and courage at such a young age.

"Ah, Mr. Yoshimitsu, why are you following us...... Got into this dream? Fumiko Kirishima, who came to his senses, was also not flustered.

"Wait a minute."

Let's wake everyone up first, and then investigate the situation of this dream.

While following the fog and carrying back Shen Xiaoke, who couldn't wake up for a while, I found two other sleeping people.

People are all familiar faces, one of them is the teacher Luo who took us into the Red Star Farm Social Welfare Institute, and the other is the girl who suffers from puppet phobia - Du Min.

Du Min had long black hair that was scattered and blocked her face, and I was about to reach out to brush it away when she woke up.

“……”

Du Min quickly retracted from my hand, and in the process, she stared at me with a cold, strange look in her eyes—her eyes were only panicked for the first moment, and then she looked away.

Then, Du Min got up by himself, tidied up his skirt, and walked to Xu Liang's side.

Shen Xiaoke slept a little deeply, Xu Liang had been screaming for a while, and she didn't open her eyes until now.

"Ahh Shen Xiaoke let out a scream as soon as he woke up, and suddenly hid behind Xu Liang's back, "We're back here again!" Brother Liang, what should I do? What to do! ”

Xu Liang touched her head and comforted: "Xiaoke is not afraid, wake up, it's fine." ”

When I woke Teacher Luo up, she looked around blankly and asked me, "Where are we?" I remember I wasn't on the side of the security door on the fifth floor? ”

It seems that she, like me, is entering this dream for the first time.

"Teacher Luo, don't panic, we're just in a dream."

"In a dream?"

Teacher Luo looked even more confused, I asked her to calm down, and then asked Kirishima Smoke, "Miss Kirishima, what will happen next?" ”

"What's next...... Ah, it's already started......"

Kirishima pointed to the sky, and when I looked up, I saw that the steamy fog around us was rapidly dissipating.

When the fog finally cleared, I found myself standing at the top of a huge mountain of rubble, looking down at a factory with a huge chimney in the distance, and the chimney was constantly spewing out thick white smoke that not only enveloped the entire factory area, but also obscured the sky in the distance.

The roar of the machines that I have been hearing since entering this dream came from that factory.

At the edge of the factory area, there are rows of dirty, low-rise houses that appear to be workers' residences.

In addition, I saw some looming figures walking through the steam.

They are hunchbacked, dirty, and hobbly, unable to tell if they are human or not. They staggered and moved in strange positions, and there was nothing where there should have been limbs.

They make a screeching sound, sounding like the sound of metal squeezing to break the silence.

"What's that?" I asked Kirishima smoke.

Kirishima shook his head: "I'm sorry...... I do not know. He bowed again.

I quickly reached out and put my hand against her head, of course, without force: "No need to apologize - you haven't gone down this stone mountain?" ”

When my hand touched it, Kirishima reacted, and she smiled embarrassedly at me before replying, "We'...... Can't go down. ”

I nodded, not pushing.

In the midst of all kinds of illusions, there will be a lot of inexplicable rules, which can sometimes be very confusing and do not follow the logic of reality at all.

Everyone has experienced such a fantasy – at its simplest, a chaotic dream.

As I was looking around, my dreams suddenly began to distort - everything in front of me seemed to become a landscape painting, and then it was crumpled into a ball by an invisible giant hand—

When everything was restored, we found ourselves in a large mechanical chamber, surrounded by the sound of whirring machines.

There were moving piston pumps and steam nozzles, and when I reached out, I found that the steam was extremely hot and threatening.

I warn everyone: "Be careful with these nozzles, the steam is very hot - although we are in a dream, I can't guarantee that these injuries will not react in reality." ”

"Brother Liang, I'm afraid of ......"

Shen Xiaoke grabbed the corner of Xu Liang's clothes tightly, holding one of Xu Liang's legs like a sloth, and the latter simply squatted down and carried Shen Xiaoke on his back: "Don't be afraid." ”

I glanced behind me, Kirishima was of course very calm, and Du Min was actually quite calm - or she seemed to be a little indifferent to everything around her, and the most flustered person was that Luo sensei.

"Teacher Luo, don't be too nervous, just follow us."

"Okay, okay."

Teacher Luo looked at everything around him worriedly, and didn't seem to believe that he was in a dream.

I walked carefully and slowly through a large number of strange machines: heavy, ugly, and huge were the common denominators, and they were supposed to be powered by steam, which seems to be the giant steam engines of the eighteenth century.

However, I have never seen anything like it in the real world, and these machines do not seem to have any real purpose of operation, other than to do mechanical reciprocating motion, or the purpose of inventing these huge, bulky machines, which I have not yet discovered.

Turning around the messy machine, there was an even bigger machine in front of me!

"Mr. Yoshimitsu, that thing is the strange giant machine we dreamed of." Kirishima reminded me on the side.

The machine is a combination of hammers, landing machines, folding machines, and compressors, and all sorts of gears and levers form a terrifyingly ugly mask with a lifeless, merciless look.

Amid the sharp metal grinding sound and the rumbling of the steam engine, the huge mask made of various machines suddenly opened its mouth.

At the same time, the ground beneath our feet suddenly began to move, nearly knocking me over, and I realized that we were standing on a black mobile conveyor belt, and the passage was sending them to the mouth of the machine.

At the end of the passage, in the huge mouth of the machine, a steam hammer the size of a house was pounding on the conveyor belt.

"How so?!"

Xu Liang was the first to exclaim, he and Shen Xiaoke fell on the conveyor belt together, and Shen Xiaoke was so frightened that he cried.

I suddenly realized something: "Is it ...... Dreams changed? ”

"Yes, there hasn't been anything like that before!" Kamito Kirishima was also a little nervous.

Du Min wanted to pull Xu Liang and Shen Xiaoke, but her outstretched hand stopped in mid-air......

"I can't move." She frowned.

I also discovered that my feet felt like they were being nailed to a conveyor belt, and no matter how much I tried, I couldn't change the situation.

At this point, the conveyor belt is moving mercilessly towards the impact plate, and if we can't move, then, in a dozen seconds, we will be smashed into meat sauce one by one by the huge steam hammer of that house!

"Mr. Yoshimitsu, what should I do? I tried, but I couldn't move. Kirishima thought for a moment and said, "We weren't hurt in our dreams before, but this time...... There shouldn't be any danger this time, right? ”

"It's better not to try."

In the mouth of the machine, a huge steam hammer slammed into the impact plate, making a deafening "Bang! "Bang!" sound, we are getting closer and closer, and the first person to be sent into the "mouth" is me.

"No, don't! Help me! ”

At the end of the line, that Teacher Luo was already on the verge of collapse - all this is too real, although I want to convince myself that it is in a dream, but many people just can't do it, this is something that has no way.

Fear is like birth, old age, sickness and death, but it is not subject to human will.

When fear comes, everyone is an island, unable to save themselves, let alone others.

But just as I was about to be sent by the conveyor belt into that terrifying mechanical mouth, a hand from nowhere reached out of the white steam and dragged me off the belt!

At the same time, I noticed that the machine's mask had suddenly changed—flesh and blood: it was an old man's face, with a heavy jaw, yellowed eyes, and a yellowed eighteenth-century hat with gray curls peeking out from the brim.

The owner of that mysterious arm, after pulling us back from the brink of death, disappeared without a trace......

……

"Hmm......"

With a groan, I woke up.

I found myself lying in the corridor of the orphanage, next to Kirishima and Xu Liang, who woke up almost at the same time as me, and in the room, a girl with cold eyes walked to Shen Xiaoke's side and softly called her name - it was Du Min.

I was relieved to see that everyone was okay, but suddenly, I remembered that there was another person in my dream!

Almost at the same time, a terrible scream rang out!

"Ahhhhh

We looked horrically in the direction where the sound came from – on the other side of the staircase, in the stairwell with security doors.

And I also recognized the owner of the voice: it was that Teacher Luo.

"My hands! My hand! Help me! Help—"

Teacher Luo's figure appeared at the glass window of the stairwell, she was shaking and writhing like a seizure, and suddenly smashed her head into the glass—

Teacher Luo actually jumped off the building!

"My hand !!!"

Teacher Luo screamed in the air, and there was an expression of extreme fear on his face.

"Boom!"

There was a heart-pounding sound - it was the result of the human body hitting each other against the concrete floor at the bottom of the building.

For a moment, my brain went blank and I could barely think - I didn't expect that Mr. Luo would commit suicide by jumping off a building immediately after waking up from a dream!

The first thought that flashed to me was actually a kind of suddenness:

It turns out that the sound ...... Actually, that's it.

The second thought is:

Didn't Mr. Luo be rescued from the conveyor belt by that mysterious man?!