Chapter 31: The Real Nightmare IV
"Whoa......
A gray shadow sprang out of the woods and jumped onto the embankment.
It was a rodent the size of a sheepdog.
Perhaps because of the rapid division of cells caused by genetic mutations, it is growing wildly, but the speed of body hair covering is far from keeping up with the growth rate of the body. This makes its surface fur extremely loose, and it looks like a monster with alopecia areata.
The shape of its original mouth could not contain the fangs that had been bared out by the insane growth, and some of the festering eyelids had crimson glows in the eyes.
It stared at the two girls tightly, grinning wide, and screaming bitterly.
The giant rat in Ruan Xiyue's imagination should be an enlarged version of the mouse in the laboratory, but the monster in front of her is beyond her imagination. Her legs went limp, and she sat down.
Chen Jiatong was also so shocked that his whole body froze. As soon as Ruan Xiyue sat down, she was so frightened that her hands trembled, and the tense bow and arrow came out of her hand. The arrow fell weakly on the ground a meter in front of the giant rat.
Shot missed.
However, such a move clearly angered the giant rat, which bared its sharp claws.
Perhaps thinking that the mouse was too big, or that the mutation was too exaggerated, the two girls had already given up resistance, trembling and hugging each other, sitting on the ground, looking at the giant rat with desperate eyes, hissing and screaming.
"Meow!" A small meow sounded from the direction of the grass, attracting the attention of the giant rat and the two girls.
Out of the grass suddenly a figure emerged, holding a small black cat in his arms.
The little hope that Ruan Xiyue had just ignited in her heart was extinguished again.
When she first heard the cat's meow, she was still expecting that the cat was the natural enemy of the mouse, and if there was also a mutated giant cat, it would definitely scare the giant mouse away.
It turned out to be a black cat the size of a giant rat's head and an unarmed man wearing a mask.
However, to Ruan Xiyue's surprise, the little black cat was not afraid of the giant rat, it jumped out of the man's arms and pounced on the giant rat that was several times larger than it.
But the giant rat fell to the ground suddenly the moment the little black cat pounced in front of it......
And even stranger, the little black cat suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Only then did the two girls' attention focus on the man who came out of the grass.
He wears a camouflage t-shirt, camouflage trousers, and short-sleeved cuffs that show off his muscular arms. He has short, gray hair and a gray mask on his face that only shows his eyes and nostrils.
"Cats, what about cats?" Ruan Xiyue got up from the ground at this time, her legs were not as weak as just now, she walked towards the man, "Just now, that cat just now, how, how dare you pounce on it, why did it disappear?" How could a giant rat be afraid of such a small cat, and the cat hadn't pounced on it yet, it, why did it fall? Ruan Xiyue was so full of questions at this time that she didn't remember to ask who this man was first.
"Haha, it's the same as I inferred!" The masked man kept looking at the giant rat that had fallen to the ground, and said, "I'll just say, if they can create a mutated giant rat with autonomous consciousness in such a grand dream, the amount of modeling is too great to be realized with their current programming skills!" β
"It, why did it fall to the ground all of a sudden? Is it dead? Ruan Xiyue didn't dare to approach the giant rat, and the man was standing next to the giant rat that fell to the ground, so she kept a distance of more than ten meters from the man and asked.
Only then did the masked man turn his head and look at Ruan Xiyue: "Are you talking to me?" Good! Very good! Oh, my God! I still have such a chance! β
The masked man was obviously not answering Ruan Xiyue's question, his emotions seemed to be extremely excited, as if he had just survived from the giant rat's mouth.
Seeing Ruan Xiyue looking at him in astonishment, he remembered Ruan Xiyue's question, smiled through the mask and said, "Haha, are you curious about how the giant rat is afraid of kittens, right?" I just did this experiment to test my hypothesis. I expected that Yu Tao's team did not have the strength to build such a complex dream, so there is only one truth, these giant rats are dreaming just like you, in reality, they are just the weakest guinea pigs in the laboratory, but in the dream some of the parameters of the appearance of the characteristics have been modified, so that they have become giant rats in the dream, and their nature of being afraid of cats has not changed. So when the kitten pounced on it, it was terrifiedβit wasn't dead, it just woke up. β
Ruan Xiyue seemed to understand the masked man's explanation, but she didn't seem to understand, and her mind turned and thought of the key question: "What about the cat?" How did the cat suddenly disappear, how dare the cat pounce on a mouse so much bigger than itself? β
"Haha!" The man smiled smugly and said, "Cats are not real, cats are my imagination." β
"Who are you?" Chen Jiatong suddenly appeared beside Ruan Xiyue at this time, facing the man.
Unlike Ruan Xiyue, Chen Jiatong held an open bow in his left hand, pulled a string in his right hand, and held an arrow.
"None of our thirty-six students are gray-haired, who are you?" Chen Jiatong is afraid of giant rats, but he is not afraid of people.
"Haha! Girl, did you make this arrow yourself? The masked man couldn't help but laugh and said, "There is no common sense of cold weapons at all, the range and accuracy of the arrow depend on its own material, the weight of the bow, and most importantly, the arrow must have arrow feathers!" β
Only then did Chen Jiatong realize the important mistake when he made the arrow just now.
"Don't, don't be discouraged. You can also use short- and medium-range weapons without arrow feathers, and there are still kills within ten meters, so if you want to shoot me, you have to take two steps forward. β
"How do you wear this? What did you do with the person who wore this dress? Although the masked man's speech was not hostile, Chen Jiatong was not friendly.
Ruan Xiyue felt that Chen Jiatong's behavior was inexplicable, and she whispered: "Jiatong, he, is there anything wrong with his clothes?" β
The masked man's camouflage T-shirt has a badge printed on it, and it depicts several flying dandelions.
"You...... Do you recognize this mark on your clothes? The masked man's voice became serious, and he could feel it even through the mask, and his smile disappeared.
He walked slowly towards the two girls.
"Run! Separate runs! Chen Jiatong suddenly shouted, threw down his bow and arrows, and ran desperately along the river embankment towards the nuclear power plant.
Ruan Xiyue was inexplicably afraid, she didn't understand why Chen Jiatong had such an abnormal performance, she saw that the masked man turned around and wanted to catch up with Chen Jiatong, but saw his clenched hand trembling slightly, and then let go, and then the masked man turned his head to himself.
The fear in Ruan Xiyue's heart was piling up, and the masked man was walking towards her step by step.
Run!
In a panic, Ruan Xiyue ran towards the woods.
Ruan Xiyue is the captain of the long-distance running team, but she is not good at sprinting, she doesn't care about the dense vegetation in the woods, she doesn't care about her arms and legs being scratched by bushes, she just runs desperately.
After only running for more than two minutes, she was exhausted and out of breath, but she still didn't dare to stop.
"Pretty fast! Pretty fast! β
The man caught up with Ruan Xiyue in the blink of an eye, but he didn't mean to catch her, just ran side by side with her.
Ruan Xiyue was in despair, she couldn't run anymore, and fell directly into the bushes, and tears of horror flowed out uncontrollably: "Don't come here!" β
To Ruan Xiyue's surprise, the man not only did not approach her, but actually took off his mask and showed his face.
With a round face, a kind demeanor, and deep eyes that reflect the aura of wisdom, he looks only in his thirties, and this young face is a little out of proportion to the gray hair.
"Don't be afraid, kid. I'm just asking you, what's that girl's name just now? The masked man asked.
"Chen, Chen Jiatong!" Ruan Xiyue replied honestly.
The masked man fell into deep thought.
"You, who are you, how can you also appear in SID's dreams?" Ruan Xiyue asked boldly.
Seeing Ruan Xiyue's frightened expression, the masked man's face softened a lot, and he said with a smile: "Only candidates are allowed to sleep, and passers-by are not allowed to sleepwalk?" β
Ruan Xiyue couldn't understand what he said, but when she saw him laughing, her hanging heart fell slightly. Such a smile does not seem hostile.
"I don't know why I started running, I'm too timid. You, the tide moon? The masked man whispered.
"How do you know what my name is?" Ruan Xiyue couldn't help but be surprised.
"Hey...... The little girl looks really good, and she can see your mother's shadow. The masked man smiled kindly.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ruan Xiyue didn't understand what this person was talking about.
"Forget it, I'm going to talk to you about it today." The masked man put away his smile, and his face suddenly became gloomy, "I may have to make you suffer a little grievance." β
Before Ruan Xiyue could react, she had already been grabbed by this mysterious masked man. The wind is suddenly ringing! Then the masked man suddenly disappeared from her eyes.
When Ruan Xiyue reacted, she suddenly found that she was in the air at a height of 100 meters, falling down at a speed of free fall, and on the ground that was getting closer and closer, a group of hideous giant rats were scurrying.