Chapter 21: The World Fades Away

It's someone outside the door again!

The little crocodile didn't dare to move, so he listened quietly with wide eyes.

After a long time, the door panel remained silent. The crocodile hopes that he is hallucinating. She had just relaxed a little when the clasp scraped the door again.

There must be someone outside the door!

This person should be close to the door panel, a person standing in the dark, it is impossible to not move, there will always be a slight shake, so one of his crooked buttons touched the door panel.

The crocodile slowly stretched out her hand and wanted to take out the mobile phone in her pocket and dial 110, but she turned off the mobile phone, and the start-up bell was very loud, which would definitely alarm the person outside the door. She has no other way, she has to turn on her phone, she has to contact the outside world, even if it's not the police, but Fanfan and the end of the season. It was fine until she pulled her phone out and it didn't make much noise. She gently tucked her phone under the pillow, intending to open it under the pillow and cover up some of the sound. She pressed the power button, and two seconds later, the music played, and although the sound was muffled, it was clearly audible, and the little crocodile shivered.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

The little crocodile was stunned, not knowing whether to respond or not.

The knock on the door was soft, twice.

Waited for a while, knocked two more times.

The crocodile still doesn't speak.

Then she heard the sound of the key. The guy outside the door has the key!

Could it be that this is a black shop?

The little crocodile was scared to death, her whole body was fluttering, like a feather, and the slightest wind could blow it away.

The door opened, one hand pressed the light, and the little crocodile saw that Teacher Hou Xianzan appeared at the door and looked at her coldly. Behind him stood the single eyelid security guard and the double eyelid security guard. The proprietress dodged in the hallway with a flash.

The little crocodile looked at these uninvited guests in a daze.

Hou Xianzan spoke, and his voice was very soft: "Go, go back with us." ”

The crocodile said, "No, I'm not going back!" ”

Hou Xianzan turned around and spoke to the two similar-looking security guards, his tone was still so soft: "Get it away." ”

Two security guards rushed over.

The crocodile shouted, "What are you going to do? ”

Hou Xianzan went out.

Two security guards held down the crocodile, one of whom tied her hands with red shoelaces, and the other snatched her phone and picked up her backpack. The crocodile shouted, "Let go of me!" You fucking let go of me! ”

They ignored her, and one of them pushed her out with one of the crocodiles' arms.

Walking in the hallway, the little crocodile struggled hard, and as long as she passed the door of the other room, she kicked and kicked, hoping that the guests would come out and interfere.

Strangely, there was not a sound in those rooms, as if she was the only one living in the entire hotel!

Passing through the small window of the check-in room, the crocodile stopped struggling for a while, and she said, "I want a check-out fee." ”

Hou Xianzan was waiting at the door of the hotel, and he said, "Don't worry, we have already helped you return." ”

The crocodile quieted down from then on, and obediently followed the two security guards out of the Haitian Hotel.

There was a dirty white van parked in front of the door, the door was open and it was dark inside. One security guard let go of her and sat in the driver's seat, while another pushed her and let her into the car.

Desperate, she stopped at the door of the van and didn't want to go up, turning her head to look to the side - thank goodness there was a 110 patrol car on the deserted street!

She jerked away from the security guard behind her and rushed towards the police car: "Help-"

The security guard immediately caught up and grabbed her, and she desperately resisted.

The police car drove up to them, slowed down, and stopped. The crocodile stopped in front of the car and shouted, "They are illegally imprisoned!" Help me! ”

A policeman walked down, Hou Xianzan immediately greeted him, whispered a few words to the policeman, and the policeman returned to the car. The crocodile was completely desperate, and at this time she had no strength and was dragged into the van by the security guards.

The police car drove away, and the van drove away in the opposite direction.

Hou Xianzan and a security guard sandwiched the crocodile in the middle, and neither of them spoke. There was a pungent smell of gasoline in the car.

The police don't care, and the crocodile has no hope. She was limp, and she just wanted to close her eyes.

She suspected that she was dreaming, as a school, it was impossible to treat a schoolgirl who did not return home at night so rudely, this kind of coercion was more like the police treating the suspect, the mental hospital treating the patient, and the gangster treating the victim......

If it's a dream, when did the dream begin?

She left Flynn School and stayed at the Skyinn, where she lay down in bed...... Maybe she was asleep at that time, and she heard a knock on the door, and it was already a dream.

No, she was very awake when she lay in bed, and she was definitely not asleep.

So, "after she lay in bed, she was very awake", is it a dream feeling?

Perhaps, after she left Hange, she went back to the dormitory of the school and slept without anyone replacing the contents of her basin, no one replacing her clothes, no one replacing her computer, no one giving her an iPad, and she did not climb over the iron fence to escape from the school...... It was all a dream. Especially when she bumped into the woman twice in the hallway of the dormitory building, which is exactly the part of the scene that often appears in dreams.

No, she remembered that she had climbed the iron fence and fell down, out of breath for a few seconds. When she was a child, although her father took her to play every day, her father with blood type A was very cautious and paid attention to safety issues, so since she was a child, she never fell from such a high place, and the pain of her body hitting the ground was too real to be a dream.

So, is it a dream feeling that "the pain of the body hitting the ground is too real"?

Further back, perhaps, she has been dreaming, including her taking pictures of Fanfan, in which the mysterious woman appears, including the real person she saw under the wall of the power distribution room, including the fact that she went to meet Brother Han, including the sudden appearance of Brother Han's live-in girlfriend. Perhaps, Brother Han is single and doesn't have any live-in girlfriends at all. That would be great, but if that live-in girlfriend doesn't exist, Brother Han may not exist, he's just a charming uncle dreamed of by the little crocodile......

If so, the bottle of Coke that first came out to win the lottery forever, the baseball bat that couldn't be thrown away, the sheet that was returned by the post office...... It's probably all in a dream.

Where is the dividing line between reality and dreams?

Perhaps, she has been dreaming since she entered this so-called Flynn school, neither Fanfan nor the end of the season, nor does Teacher Hou Xianzan, nor does the security guard with single eyelids and double eyelids, nor does the gazebo in the southwest corner of the school, nor does the name on the school wall, nor does the door number next to the three anti-texts in the basement, nor does the woman in the shadows......

However, do you have such a long dream?

Experts say that a dream that feels like a long time is actually only a matter of seconds for sleepers. It doesn't even need the length of time. It's like a novel, it may be hundreds of years old, and it takes time to read it, but it's in your brain, and it doesn't really have much to do with time.

If so, then it may still be a dream.

She didn't follow that strange mother to live in Chengzhou, and her father didn't die of alcoholism, she still lived with her father on the farm in Jiamusi, maybe she was in her first year of high school...... One night, she fell asleep and had a very strange dream that her father was dead, and she went to Chengzhou and went to a Flynn school......

Perhaps, the father in reality is not the father in the dream, and the mother in reality is not the mother in the dream, they are very affectionate. Perhaps, she was younger, just a child in elementary school......

Perhaps, her home is not on the farm in Jiamusi, this is all a "fact" in the dream; Perhaps, she was just a newborn baby, who spent more of the day asleep in swaddling clothes, and everything that happened was a dream......

The crocodile has never been so scared.

If these were dreams, she really wouldn't dare wake up. She was already familiar with the life in the dream, and she didn't know where she was when she woke up and what her identity was......

Perhaps, she was a man, a slave in ancient times, or a death row prisoner in a prison. The man fell asleep and dreamed that he was living in a future world and turned into a girl studying at a night school......

The van staggered forward. On the deserted highway, there are no cars and no people.

The little crocodile suddenly opened his eyes and said to the security guard next to him, "Am I dreaming?" ”

This security guard's single eyelid is that he is wearing a pair of blue and white sneakers with red laces. The laces on the wrists of the crocodile are also red. He glanced at the crocodile with disdain, and didn't seem to bother to answer at all.

The crocodile didn't ask anymore.

She just wanted to go back to school early. Once at the school gate, they should let her go, right? If she needed to take a stand, she would say that she would never leave school without permission again. When she is free, she will buy explosives, and if the two security guards are twins, then she will blow up two houses. If these two security guards were not twins, then she would blow up three families into the sky.

It's here.

Mercury lamps were still lit at the entrance to Flynn School. Broken Flower Crocodile thought of another question - it seems that there are only two security guards in this school, and now, both security guards have come to arrest her, is there no one to watch at the school gate?

Hou Xianzan got out of the car and opened the iron gate, and the van drove in. The school was pitch black, more like an abandoned factory. The van drove all the way to the front of the office building and stopped.

The little crocodile was very alert, she looked at Hou Xianzan and said, "Teacher, where are you going to take me?" ”

After the lights went out, the car became even darker, and she couldn't see Hou Xianzan's facial features, but only heard him say, "You're going to see her." ”

The floral crocodile shuddered.

Although there is no distinction between "him" and "her" in the dialogue, the little crocodile has an intuition, Hou Xianzan is talking about "her"!

Her throat was smoking, she swallowed her saliva, and asked in an astringent voice, "She...... Who is it? ”

Hou Xianzan: "Bright. ”

The floral crocodile was stunned - bright?

She suddenly remembered that Mingliang was Brother Han's live-in girlfriend! Brother Han said that she is a teacher!

She's a little confused, could it be that Brother Han's live-in girlfriend works at Flynn School? She asked tentatively, "Who is Bright?" ”

Hou Xianzan said: "Your personal tutor! Isn't she always there for you? ”

The little crocodile shivered again. Bright is her personal tutor! And always by her side! She bit her lower lip and said in her heart, "Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming......"

Hou Xianzan opened the car door and said, "Come down." ”

The crocodile went down.

Leaving the smell of gasoline in the car, the air outside was extremely fresh, and the crocodile took a few puffs. She seemed to smell a stream of water, probably from the gazebo, and perhaps the pond had reappeared.

Hou Xianzan said: "Let's go, let's go to the bright office." ”

The crocodile said, "Where's her office?" ”

Hou Xianzan said: "Below my office. ”

The crocodile was stunned: "The office building has two basements? ”

Hou Xianzan said lightly: "Three floors." ”

With that, he walked down the stairs. At night, the entrance to the black hole looked even more treacherous.

The crocodile's hands were still tied, and his wrists were strained by the laces. She felt so unsafe that she was like a cripple in case of any danger. So she said, "Teacher, it's time for school, you can untie my shoelaces." ”

Hou Xianzan said: "No. Let's see the light first. ”

The little crocodile stopped begging and followed him underground. Even if she let go, she wouldn't run. Where can she go? If you go back to the dormitory, it will be the same again, and strange things will happen every day. She had to see this brightness and make everything clear, no matter what the outcome.

Two security guards followed her closely.

Coming to the basement, Hou Xianzan stomped his feet in front, and the lights turned on.

The crocodile looked around, until he reached the end, only to see the stairs leading to the second basement floor, which was very dark underneath.

She had a disgusting conjecture - this Hou Xianzan was a pervert, and he wanted to rape him. But he's a teacher at Flynn School, and there are two security guards present, shouldn't he?

Walking to the second basement floor, Hou Xianzan kept stomping his feet, and the lights came on one by one. He walked to the end again with the crocodile, who saw the staircase leading to the underground, and it was darker below.

The crocodile suddenly stopped.

Hou Xianzan looked back at her: "What's wrong?" ”

The crocodile said, "We...... Where to? ”

Hou Xianzan: "Bright office. ”

Broken Flower Crocodile: "Didn't you say she was on the second basement floor?" ”

Hou Xianzan: "I said that her office is under my office, but I didn't say that she is on the second basement floor." She is on the third basement floor. ”

Three basement floors!

At this moment, the floral crocodile had no choice but to continue to walk down.

There seemed to be no light on the third basement floor, but the room at the end of the corridor was shining with a blinding lightβ€”so deep and so bright, it was terrifying.

When they came to the door, Hou Xianzan knocked on the door.

A woman's voice came from inside: "Come in." ”

Hou Xianzan opened the door and pushed the crocodile in with a broken flower, and as soon as she stepped into the threshold, the door closed with a "clang". Neither Hou Xianzan nor the two security guards came in.

The crocodile looked at it, and the room was empty, only a bed was placed in the middle, which didn't look like an office at all. The bed was identical to Crocodile's bed, including the bedding and pillows, as if someone had moved it from Bedroom 109. However, the crocodile found that the two beds were still different - there were knife marks on the head of her bed, but this bed was new. This scares the crocodile even more - if the two beds are exactly the same, it's more like a dream. And if they are different, it means that this bed is fake, and that must be the reality.

She reflexively pulled the door and locked it.

She turned slowly, took a few steps forward, and called out in a trembling voice, "Bright? ”

No one spoke.

I don't know where a faint smoke floated out, she sniffed, and suddenly dizzy, as if one eye had become a convex mirror and the other had become a concave mirror, and the things in front of her were rapidly deformed. Realizing that the smoke was poisonous, she stretched out her bound hands to hold on to something, and the four walls were far away, she stumbled, bent down to touch the bed, and lay down limply.

She collapsed smoothly on the bed, and soon her body could not move, but her consciousness was awake.

She felt that the brightness was coming, but no one appeared.

After a while, she tried to move her arms to see if she could sit up, but the left and right arms were like the third and fourth arms on her body, and they couldn't do it at all. She was in a hurry, she wanted to shout but couldn't. When she was a child, she had this experience when she took a nap one day, and she knew in her heart that her body couldn't move, and the Northeast dialect was called "Nightmare". It seems that she is really dreaming now, and her nerves have relaxed a little. Anything can appear in a dream, she secretly told herself, she must be mentally prepared, don't be afraid, it's all fake, it's all fake, it's all fake......

After a few more moments, she felt the bed move as if something was arching upwards, and then a living creature crawled out from under the bed. The little crocodile wanted to turn his head to look, but his neck seemed to be rusty.

The creature slowly stood up.

Crocodile finally sees her - she's not the woman who appeared at the bar in "this place"! She's the woman who appears on camera!

The crocodile is completely blinded.

Is she bright? Is she Brother Han's live-in girlfriend? And the woman who appeared in the bar of "this place" was just another lover of Brother Han?

The woman slowly brushed the hair on her forehead, sat down next to the crocodile, and spoke: "Your original toothpaste has been thrown away, and you have replaced it with a new tube." That's the last one. ”

The little crocodile looked at her in a daze, and her brain was spinning rapidlyβ€”who was she? Who is she? Who is she?

The woman continued: "It's time to replace you. It's going to take a little longer, so you'll have to be a little patient. ”

The little crocodile looked at her in a daze, and her brain was spinning rapidlyβ€”who was she? Who is she? Who is she?

The woman said, "Do you feel like you can't move anymore?" That's not anesthesia, that's because the body isn't yours anymore. Now, I'm going to replace your brain, and when it's done, you won't be thinking about who I am anymore. ”

The little crocodile looked at her in a daze, and her brain was spinning rapidlyβ€”who was she? Who is she? Who is she?

The woman slowly leaned down, stared into the eyes of the crocodile, and said, "You'd better not know who I am, otherwise, you'll be scared to death." ”

As soon as her words fell, the world vanished.