Chapter 3 Stress

"I'm ...... you"

"Bang!!"

"it!"

Chen Dao sat up abruptly under the bed, and then slammed his head on the wooden board under the bed without accident.

After crawling out from under the bed, Chen Dao, who was covered in sweat, rubbed his swollen forehead while turning on the light and picking up his mobile phone to check the time.

1:26 a.m.

He started sleeping at 9 o'clock last night and has slept for more than four hours now, which is not bad.

But after such a dream, the door of his head was hit so badly that he couldn't continue to sleep.

He wanted to look through the knowledge of the professional class and catch up with the progress of the thirty years in the other world, but he found that his mind was always thinking about the dream he had just made.

So he changed into a tracksuit and went out for a night run.

The streets were silent late at night, but it was a very comfortable environment for him.

While running, I thought back to my previous dream.

The feeling in the dream was so real that he couldn't immediately release himself from the emotions in the dream when he woke up.

All the elements in the dream just now, from heaven and earth, air, gravel, monsters, giant beasts, to everyone, are real in the other world.

But those things in the dream did not happen.

Or it can't be said that it didn't happen, but it happened in another form.

Once, when Chen Dao and his companions and comrades-in-arms were also lurking, his leg was bitten by a small reptile, and the smell of blood exposed the location, causing hundreds of fierce beasts nearby to pounce on them.

That time, it was also "Xiao Qi" who yelled first and ran away into the distance to attract the attention of the fierce beast.

However, it was not a temporary decision, but a plan they had already set up - when there was no way to avoid it, let the fastest "Little Seven" attract the attention of the beasts first, and buy time for others to make battle arrangements.

In the end, although many of them were injured, none of them were killed, and the herd was routed, which can be said to be a perfect solution to the crisis.

As for the multi-legged beast in the dream, they had never faced it head-on in the other world, because the difference in strength was too far.

If they really faced those multi-legged beasts, their fate would only be worse than their dreams.

An unpredictable crisis like this can be encountered almost every few days.

Sometimes, they solve it perfectly, and other times, they suffer heavy casualties.

No one knows what will happen next, whether they will survive or not.

Now he has returned, back to this comfortable and beautiful world.

What about them?

He didn't dare to think about it anymore.

……

Chen Dao ran for more than an hour, and his legs were so heavy that he couldn't take a step before he stopped to rest.

Sitting in front of the green belt on the side of the road, breathing in the fresh air of the night, Chen Dao's mood slowly calmed down.

He took his mobile phone and looked through the various chat records and the circle of friends of various friends, trying to regain his interpersonal relationships, physical and mental state before the crossing little by little.

Then he found a few unread messages from a girl, clicked on it, first a video, and then a few paragraphs:

"That's you, right?"

"Who are you sending flowers to and being rejected?"

"Don't throw away this flower if you don't want it, give it to me, no one sent me flowers yesterday."

"But that trash can over here, how does it look like the bus stop at our school?"

“???”

As for the video, Chen Dao didn't need to click on it, just by looking at the preview picture, he knew that he was photographed when he threw flowers and chocolate boxes on the day he just came back.

And the girl who sent him the video was Ye Xiaojie, the object he planned to confess before he crossed over "thirty years ago".

If it was Chen Dao "thirty years ago", when he saw Ye Xiaojie's news, it was estimated that he would immediately be full of chicken blood, and he felt that there was hope again.

But now Chen Dao, the ignorant but fiery emotion that originated from youth hormones for Ye Xiaojie has long since dissipated.

So he can look at the relationship between the two from a more objective and rational perspective to judge Ye Xiaojie's attitude.

He could see that Ye Xiaojie didn't have a feeling for him in love with men and women, but just regarded him as an ordinary friend, and sending these words was also an element of joking and ridicule.

Or maybe he realized that the flowers and chocolate boxes he threw in the trash could have been given to her, so he sent them to try it.

If he saw these news when Ye Xiaojie first sent it, he should immediately send a few joking words, and naturally find an excuse to go over.

But now see the words...... Not to mention that it was impossible to reply to the message in the early hours of the morning, and even if it was daytime, it would not be easy for him to reply - because it was a message sent the day before yesterday.

In the past two days, he has been trapped in insomnia and "otherworldly PTSD", and the whole person is a little confused, and he basically doesn't read much WeChat messages.

He didn't think too much about Ye Xiaojie, he didn't think about it if he didn't go back, the two of them were not from the same school, if it weren't for Chen Dao's various opportunities and excuses to meet before, the two would not have had much intersection.

In the next few days, Chen Dao began to devote himself frantically to his schoolwork, making up for the knowledge that had been lost and forgotten in the "thirty years".

The rest of the time is crazy exercise, fitness, constantly tempering the body, making myself very mentally and physically tired every day, returning to the basement of the rented house to take a shower and fall asleep under the bed, without having to rely on sleeping pills.

But compared to ordinary people, or compared to him "thirty years ago", there are still many differences.

For example, when he is walking on the road now, if someone approaches behind him, he will instinctively be nervous, and then he must keep the people nearby in his sight and see their hands;

For example, when taking the subway or bus, you will definitely find a way to keep your back against the car;

For example, when you go to the library, café, or even the cafeteria, you will definitely try to find a corner location;

When you first arrive at any place, you will definitely pay attention to the fastest escape route, possible threat objects, and so on.

He knew that he lived in a peaceful country, and the surrounding environment should be very safe, so there was no need to pay attention to this, and he could relax.

But he couldn't do it, it was all an instinctive reaction, a habit developed by thirty years of struggle and desperate fighting in the other world.

It was precisely because of this habit that he and his companions were able to survive in that cruel and harsh environment.

For now, I can only adjust it slowly.

The habit he developed in the other world also allowed him to quickly concentrate on something after adapting to the environment, which made his current learning and exercise much more efficient.

However, there is also a problem that makes him a little big, that is, when he is focused on something, once he is disturbed by the outside world, he will have a strong aggressive stress response.

For example, when he was concentrating on a book or topic in the corner of the library, and suddenly someone came up to him on the shoulder and said hello, he would immediately instinctively attack or run away.

One time he almost hit his roommate with a subconscious punch, and another time he jumped up, jumped over the table, rolled forward, and rushed to the exit after getting up.

Fortunately, he didn't really hurt anyone, whether he made an attack or ran away, it mostly made people think he was joking and spoofing.

But this reaction made him very distressed.

It's okay to run away under stress, at most it's a joke, but if you fight back, he doesn't dare to guarantee that he will stop in time every time.

It's also a shame that he doesn't have the tough skills of the other world now, otherwise if he really punches people with all his strength, he will either die or be disabled.