Ran Xiao woke up.

To be exact, she never fell asleep.

It's just that there is a force that blocks her mind, everything falls into a state of infinite pause, she can't turn a single thought in her mind, her body can't move in the dead silence of time and space, she becomes a shadow that exists in another world, she observes many dimensions of light and shadow, and then seems to be infinitely lost in this chaotic time and space with the classmates around her, this state, not sleeping, but better than sleeping.

That feeling, like she and countless corpse-like classmates and teachers, sinking in a dark ocean, they all retain a clear and frozen consciousness, can only watch their existence slowly disappear in the darkness below them, those dark oceans quietly dissolve and swallow people's bodies, the depths of the seabed, flowing blood-colored, snake-like halos and swirling apertures, bizarre.

It's a wonderful feeling, you know very well that you're going to die, and it's not a physical death in the ordinary sense, but a complete death of the soul and the body, and you're going to melt into a huge and magnificent unity, and your sense of self will cease to exist, all the meaning of your existence will be denied, everything you have will be reduced to nothingness, no one will remember that you ever existed, and you will be completely forgotten by the whole world.

And what is even more wonderful and even terrifying is that this process is slow and irreversible for you, elegant and silent, but your heart is in absolute peace and tranquility in the destruction of this slow visit, you have no desire to be frightened, remorseful, nostalgic, joyful, angry, sorrowful, you have no obsession, madness, despair, hope...... The only thing that exists in your heart is a blank nothingness, and the faint warmth of a middle school about to go home, yes, there is a voice in the center of your ears and eyes that has been confiding in you, you are going home, there is no need to resist, there is no need to be afraid, this is a process that everyone in this city will inevitably go through in the end, this is a natural law, you don't need to do anything, you just need to watch quietly, and then accept what is about to happen.

Continue like this, maybe it's not bad, Ran Xiao naturally had such a thought in her heart, her body continued to sink, her pupils dilated, she clearly saw classmates and teachers with the same indifferent face as her in all directions, like a corpse or a vegetative person, she also saw Teacher Ren Zhiguo not far away, with his big mouth like a toad, and Ran Xiao always felt that he looked like a toad, short and ugly, but Ran Xiao never dared to say this in front of him, if he really said it, She will be killed by Ren Zhiguo......

Strange, why does she still have this kind of thought now, shouldn't she not be able to think about anything? Could it be that she looked up......

She saw a pair of eyes shining red in front of her, a pair of eyes that looked like her, but were completely different, with a bit of bloodthirsty sharpness and cruelty, under those eyes, there was a crack that went all the way to the back of the head, and the female ghost was wearing a pale and shabby dress, floating in front of her, looking at Ran Xiao with her signature cruel smile.

"You can't just say goodbye." The Rip Girl said with a smile.

"Why? Why are you pestering me? Wouldn't it be better for me to melt into the darkness of the spirit world like this, and let me see the deepest part of this ocean? Why did you come to save me? Ran Xiao asked angrily, "Didn't I ask Yuan Xi to find my father?" What else do you want me to do? ”

"I am you, you are me, I will do whatever you want, you don't want to die now, so I don't want you to die either." The Rip Girl grabbed Ran Xiao's arm, and they were carried upward by an invisible force.

"I want to die, there's no point in me continuing to live like this, I'm tired of all this for a long time, I want to say goodbye as soon as possible, I don't want to take on such a heavy thing!" Ran Xiao shouted loudly.

"No, you don't want to die, you're most afraid of dying, it's just that you've been an actor for too long, so long that you don't even know what your original face is, so you will use the excuse of death to escape." There was a cheerful smile in the hideous smile on the face of the rift girl, she squinted her red eyes, and inexplicably there was something pleasing in Ran Xiao's eyes.

"What am I who I am?" Ran Xiao didn't resist the rescue of the rift girl, but just asked stupidly.

"What kind of face can it be, it's the same as your name, of course it's my smiling face!" The Rip Girl smiled happily, but no matter how much she smiled, her face was smiling like a devil.

"Could it be that my true face is your monster smiling face?" Ran Xiao asked in disgust and fear.

"Of course it's me, I'm the monster hidden in your depths, you're a monster's child, since you're the daughter of a monster......" The Rip Girl was already about to take Ran Xiao out of this dark spiritual ocean, her classmates and teachers had already sunk deeper and deeper, but Ran Xiao and the Rip Girl were about to get rid of this unfathomable darkness.

"It's always a monster, this is a fate that you and I can't betray!" The rift girl smiled and merged into Ran Xiao's body, her smiling face and Ran Xiao's smiling face merged into one, Ran Xiao's body was suspended above the sea of the spirit world, she opened her eyes suddenly, her eyes were bright and pure bright red moonlight.

"Where am I now? Is this the deepest part of the spiritual realm? Ran Xiao muttered to herself in confusion, her whole body was soaked, and she was held on the black water by a buoyancy that didn't know where it came from, this boundless water surface was surrounded by gray haze, and all sides were silent in the fog, Ran Xiao turned her face sideways, but saw the reflected blood-colored moon and countless shining stars under the lake, it seemed that the stars and the moon were sunk in the depths of the bottom of the lake, while the real sky was shrouded in eternal mist.

"This is far from the deepest place, it's just an illusory surface spiritual realm." There was a hoarse and ugly voice in her ears, as if it had been processed in some way, it was difficult to distinguish between men and women, Ran Xiao followed the sound and saw that someone was holding a white boat and drove to her side, on top of the boat, there was a strange man wearing a large gray cloak, the head of the strange man, on top of a huge skull that seemed to belong to an elk, its eyes shone with a deep light in the dark sockets of the skull, and there were two huge curled horns behind its head.

"Even though you have completely turned into a spirit state now, and the Night Fountain will no longer devour you, if you soak it for too long, you will still catch a cold." The strange man stretched out his black gauze-wrapped hand to Ran Xiao and chuckled.

Ran Xiao grabbed his hand, his hand was not big, but it was very powerful, and directly grabbed Ran Xiao onto the white boat, Ran Xiao sat on the boat, only to find that the ship seemed to be made of dense human nails rough splicing, countless large or small, long or short nails of various colors were spliced together layer after layer without leaking, and together they constituted such a white boat with nails that is probably only found in myths and legends, and probably only such a ship will not sink above the night spring in the spirit world.

"Who are you?" Ran Xiao didn't know this strange strange man, he sat motionless in the bow of the boat, his gender and body could not be seen clearly under the rough linen cloak, and the elk skull he carried made it look like some god or totem from some ancient mythology.

"We should have met, you don't recognize my image, don't you know my voice?" The deer-headed monster grinned, his two tightly wrapped hands on his chest.

"Your voice ......" Ran Xiao hesitated to think, she was indeed very impressed by this voice.

"After all, I don't abandon my allies easily, even though this little ally of mine is still suspicious of me and secretive." Said the deer-headed stranger.

"Are you...... Children of Dusk? Ran Xiao finally recognized this voice, and recognized her "ally" who had never met and had her own ghosts.

The deer-headed monster lowered its head and stopped answering, as if listening to something, and after a while, it raised its head again and smiled at Ran:

"It looks like our trip is going to be a lot of fun, and soon, we have two more kids on board." (To be continued.) )