Chapter 2: Nightmares
"Strictly speaking, you're really dreaming." Taibai said with a smile: "It's just that this dream is very special, our dreams are connected by this city, from now on you will wake up here after falling asleep in the real world, and you will wake up in the real world after falling asleep here, that is, you won't have any other dreams, just like us, your 'dream' is also trapped in Moon City." ”
Zhou Yu frowned when he heard this, in such a situation, the sentence "as if he was dreaming" became a great irony, and before he could sort out his thoughts, Taibai suddenly frowned and disappeared in place.
A few seconds later, a thin man walked in from outside, with unkempt hair, a pale complexion, dark circles under his eyes as if he were wearing sunglasses, black lips, and the fingers of his hands were scissors of different lengths.
"Edward Scissorhands?" Zhou Yu was a little surprised, he really wanted to see Johnny Depp himself, the shape of Scissorhands was a bit crazy.
Edward looked at Zhou Yu with a dull gaze, the scissors kept opening and closing, slowly approaching with small steps, and raised his hand to point at Zhou Yu with the tip of the knife.
Zhou Yu didn't know Edward's intentions, it could be to stab him with the tip of a knife, or Edward wanted to shake his hand, and at this moment, the scythe appeared again, swung from Edward's side, and cut off its head cleanly.
Like the previous monster, black smoke came out of Edward's neck, and his head rolled in front of Zhou Yu's feet, still rolling his eyes at him, and his hair moved strangely.
Zhou Yu felt creepy, and took two steps back against the wall, trying to ask Taibai for help, but he couldn't find her.
The hair squirmed for a while, and a large group of thin-footed, round-bellied black spiders Edward's hair bushes came out of the bushes, crawled down its face to the ground, and spread like water, densely covering the ground, and there were more than a single head could hold.
Zhou Yu tiptoed to the corner of the wall, desperately retreating, eager to squeeze out the cracks and get out.
Another spider crawled in along the wall, the number was not much, just blindly big, the thick and long feet were covered with hair, Zhou Yu only felt that his scalp was numb, and there was a strange sound of "hmm" in his throat, and he gently shouted "Taibai" in a hoarse and sharp voice, but he failed to get a response.
The big spiders crawled into the room one after another, there were seventy or eighty of them, and the small spiders were nearly ten thousand, and hell was probably like this, Zhou Yu actually missed the kind of strong monster before.
The little spider has already reached the instep, and climbs up the pole of the foot, itching to the heart; The big spider crawled to the side of the face, opened its sharp and long chelicera, Zhou Yu tilted his head, and his facial features were automatically crooked to the other side of the face, completely uncontrolled by the brain.
Taibai, who had disappeared for a while, finally appeared, right in the center of the room, the war scythe in his hand hooked into the ceiling, one hand grabbed the handle of the sickle, and hung it in the air, the other hand hung down at his side, clenched into a fist, and then opened violently.
A strong force centered on her outstretched hand spread out like a shockwave, and Zhou Yu felt as if she had been hit hard by a truck covered in sponge, and the joints of her whole body were almost dislocated.
He could bear it, but those spiders were not so lucky, their bodies could not resist the force, all the spiders, big and small, were crushed to death at the same time, shattered all over the ground, and black smoke came out of each body, filling the entire room and slowly dissipating.
The broken spider corpse is also disappearing, although it is not disgusting, but Taibai still does not want to touch it, she holds the sickle handle with both hands, turns her body upside down and steps on the ceiling, pulls out the war sickle and throws it, the sickle blade "smack" nails into the ground, she turns around while falling, her toes are a little on the sickle handle, and she teleported out of the door, and the war sickle on the ground also disappeared.
Strange things happened one after another, Zhou Yu was not surprised by Taibai's teleportation, but he was relaxed and envious, he was in the innermost part of the room, five or six meters away from the door, he could only grin and strain his face, step by step outside the door, and then slap the spider corpse stuck to the soles of his feet.
Neither of them spoke, but ran forward for a while, turning into another room.
"You've used four special abilities, right?" As soon as he entered the door, Zhou Yu asked impatiently.
"Tell me what you saw." Taibai was still sitting at the door, smiling and asking.
Zhou Yu counted with his fingers: "The first is stealth, before the scissor hand comes in; The second is the trick of crushing the spider - I would have liked to say exhaust, but the word is a bit rude for a fellow woman; the third is teleportation; The fourth is the big scythe, the scythe will disappear, and you don't take it to pick it up, which means that it can be called out and taken back at any time, and it is not an ordinary weapon. ”
Taibai smiled and nodded: "Yes, observational and logical, the most impressive thing is the acceptance of different things, when you first arrived in Moon City, few people could be as calm as you." ”
Her gaze was far-reaching, and she seemed to recall the scene when she first came to Moon City.
Zhou Yu smiled self-deprecatingly: "Not being calm is the normal reaction, just like suddenly seeing a corpse, the normal reaction should be to be startled, and then call the police, and calmly squat on the side to study the corpse, either the murderer or the pervert." ”
Taibai glanced at him meaningfully, and said: "That's right, I used a total of four abilities just now, these abilities are all given by the 'dream rune', in the dream, the text is either distorted and deformed and can't be understood, or it is combined without any logic, the dream rune is the only text that can be used in the dream, a total of twenty, can provide us with twenty special abilities, the four I used just now are [dim] that can be invisible in situ, [ripples] that can produce an outward repulsion circle, and [ Ethereal], and [Qingmang], which can conjure up its own unique weapon, there will be new changes after the ability combination, but you know the dream talisman a little bit early now, why don't you understand the next moon city first? ”
"Okay, I'm more curious than ever now, and it's up to you to make it all your way." Zhou Yu sat cross-legged on the ground, his expression was very serious, like a student listening to the teacher talk about the scope of the teacher before the test.
Taibai was very satisfied with his attitude, and said with a smile: "If you want to understand Moon City, you must first understand a concept - zero force, zero force is the only value that exists in dreams and Moon City, the higher the zero force, the greater your strength, the faster your speed, the stronger your body, the better the coordination of movements, the faster the recovery after injury, and most importantly, the more dream talismans you can have." ”
"Zero Force...... It seems to have a lot of meaning. Zhou Yu was thoughtful.
Taibai nodded: "'Zero' has always been a very special existence, with a unique philosophical meaning, and is the most important boundary in mathematics; in terms of pronunciation, 'zero' is the same as 'spirit', and spirit represents thinking and spirit, and is related to dreams; zero also contains the meaning of 'nothing' - this value does not exist in the real world; In addition to the meaning of the word, the glyph of zero is also very important, the upper 'rain' is the rain of Moon City, and the lower 'Ling' character is slightly deformed to be a big triangle wrapped around a small triangle, which is very similar to the structure of Moon City. ”
Zhou Yu listened attentively, he was always able to concentrate on things he was interested in for a long time, but he was easily distracted by things that were not of great interest, so his academic performance was very bad when he was in school.
"Go ahead with Moon City." Taibai pinned the hair that hung down to his cheeks behind his ears: "Moon City is a triangular city, and the center of the city is the tallest triangular prism building, called Moon Pillar, there are countless nightmares in Moon City, each nightmare has appeared in someone's nightmares, so everyone can find what they are most afraid of in Moon City, they will be attracted by Zero Force, killing people they meet, so there is no real safe place in Moon City, no matter where you are, you can't stay too long." ”
"Isn't it possible to be invisible? Oh...... Does stealth cost zero power? Zhou Yu's left ring finger gently hooked, which was his habitual action when thinking, and when he recalled, it was the right ring finger hooked.
Taibai nodded: "Yes, the maximum value of zero force will not change, but any of our actions will consume zero force, and the dream charm will consume more zero force, only when the zero force is almost consumed, we can fall asleep here and return to the real world, and also, zero force is more like the fragrance of food, stealth is useless, and you can't move when you are invisible, and it is easy to fall into passivity when you are found by nightmares." ”
"Understood, what's the place outside Moon City?" Zhou Yu was very curious, there were dangers everywhere in the city, wouldn't it be difficult to move an inch outside the city?
"Nobody knows." Taibai stood up, and the war scythe appeared in his hand again, and he was invisible again, but the voice continued: "No one can get out of Moon City, Moon City has a total of three city walls and three city gates, when you go out from one city gate, you will randomly return to Moon City from one of the other two city gates, and the same goes over the wall, not only that, every time you pass through the city gate, the nightmare you encounter will be more powerful, and there is no turning back when you go out of the city, you will either be killed by the nightmare, or return to the Moon Pillar, or consume zero strength to sleep and leave the Moon City." ”
As she spoke, she swung her scythe, and the tip of the blade stabbed into the chest of a humanoid nightmare at the door, pulling hard, pulling out an extremely wide wound, and said: "If you climb to the top of the wall, you can see two moon cities, but jumping down will only return to the position where you climbed up." ”
"Really...... Interesting. Zhou Yu couldn't think of a better adjective for a while, and began to make up in his mind: "People who go out of the city will be randomly assigned to one of the other two doors, that is to say, if you team up to go out of the city, no matter how large the team is, there is a possibility of splitting into two, plus the nightmare becomes stronger, the two teams may not be able to converge smoothly, and if you continue to go out of the city, you will continue to be divided, there will be fewer and fewer people, and the nightmare will become stronger and stronger, and finally the group will be wiped out...... By the way, how do you know you're back in the same Moon City? Could it be exactly the same many Moon Cities together? What is the reference? ”