In the endless darkness, the familiar falling feeling once again enveloped Lin Qiye. He closed his eyes tightly, his face full of anxiety and anger, as if he was still sinking into a nightmare.
A touch of white was like an ink stain, smeared in the black, and a little boy who looked to be no more than six or seven years old slowly floated out of it.
He did not wake up Lin Qiye, but looked at him carefully.
Looking up his body, a faint green progress bar floated in the black.
"Lin Qiye's treatment progress: 49%"
"The speed this time... is actually faster than usual." The little boy thought thoughtfully.
At this moment, the expression of Lin Qiye, who was floating in the darkness, suddenly became distorted. He opened his eyes suddenly, and fell from the air, hunched over on the empty ground, panting wildly.
"Cough cough cough cough..."
The little boy looked at Lin Qiye, who was panting and coughing violently, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "He actually woke up..."
Lin Qiye coughed on the ground for half a minute before a trace of blood appeared on his pale face. He looked around and saw the little boy standing in the endless darkness, and suddenly froze on the spot.
"Is this it again...I'm dead again?"
"Yes... I seem to be dead..."
Lin Qiye seemed to have remembered something, his expression became complicated. He stood up slowly, looked at the little boy in front of him who looked very similar to himself, and asked doubtfully:
"Who are you? What is your relationship with me? Why are you in my body? Is the patient in the last ward of the hospital you?"
Since the last time he woke up, Lin Qiye has been thinking about the identity of the little boy. He searched through the Night Watch headquarters but could not find any information about him. He has been holding these questions in his heart, and he even asked for death before.
Ask him what his plans are here...
Now that I have seen each other again, of course I can't miss it. I asked all my doubts in one breath.
"You have too many problems." The little boy shook his head, "Compared with these, you should care more about yourself..."
"I?"
"You're already dying."
"Every time I come here, aren't they already dead?"
"You are dead, how did you see me?" The little boy's expression did not waver at all, "You are now in a state of 'dying'. I could help you go back several times, but I said so last time
, that was the last time I helped you...
So this time, you can only rely on yourself."
"On my own? What should I do?"
"Get back what belongs to you. Only in this way can you have a chance of survival."
"Things that belong to me?" Lin Qiye thought for a moment, as if he had thought of something, "You mean... my forbidden ruins?"
The little boy nodded slightly.
"But I can't feel it now, and it has never appeared... Even if I use 'Ghost and God's Guide', it has not been stimulated." Lin Qiye's face was full of confusion, "It... really
Does it exist?"
"Of course it exists. The reason why 'Guishen Yin' cannot activate it is because it is too huge. Drugs cannot awaken it at all. The probability of natural awakening is close to zero."
Hearing these words, Lin Qiye's expression became subtle.
No wonder he has awakened his own forbidden ruins until now... It turns out that it is too strong? And neither he nor Guishen Yin is qualified?
"In that case, how should I wake it up?"
"Normal methods are naturally difficult to be effective, but now, you have a helper." The little boy stretched out his hand and pointed at the top of Lin Qiye's head.
Lin Qiye looked up and saw the familiar progress bar, and he froze on the spot.
The progress bar actually followed here? And it didn't seem to flicker like the outside world. In this dark space, the panel was unusually stable.
"You mean...a lottery?" Lin Qiye asked with some worry, "The Gods Mental Hospital is not here, can I still draw a lottery?"
"Can."
"But the treatment progress is still 1% short of..."
The little boy stared at Lin Qiye, remained silent for a long time, and then waved to him,
"Come."
Lin Qiye was stunned. Although he was a little confused, he still walked towards the little boy. He walked through the endless darkness around him, stepped into the white field with his feet, and stood face to face with the little boy.
This was the first time that Lin Qiye had observed the little boy so closely. He was only as tall as his waist. Looking down, he could clearly see every detail on the other person's face.
Looking at him, Lin Qiye seemed to be looking back at the mirror of his childhood. It was by no means as simple as what he looked like... Lin Qiye was almost certain that that was what he looked like when he was a child.
"Sit down." The little boy spoke again.
Lin Qiye hummed and sat down cross-legged. Then the little boy also sat down.
In this boundless darkness, two Lin Qiye sat on a bright white surface, looking at each other.
"Tell me about you."
"What?"
"It's your experience, I want to hear it."
"My experience?" Lin Qiye thought for a moment, "Which part do you want to hear?"
"all."
"That's a long story."
"It doesn't matter, we have enough time here."
Seeing that the little boy didn't look like he was joking, Lin Qiye didn't refuse, "When will you start?"
"It starts when you go to your aunt's house when you are seven years old."
"Okay." Lin Qiye nodded, "I can't remember things clearly about my childhood, so I can only choose a few to briefly talk to you... When I arrived at my aunt's house, Ajin was still in his infancy...
…”
Lin Qiye recalled the past seriously and told it in a leisurely manner. The little boy sat in front of him, holding his head with one hand, listening very seriously.
Here, time seems to have no meaning, and there is no one to disturb it. Only Lin Qiye's voice is left echoing continuously.
"...Later, I met that man, his name was Zhao Kongcheng. Our first encounter was on the way home, when there were two ghost-faced men..."
"...Team 136 is the place I miss the most after becoming a night watchman. Our captain is called Chen Muye..."
"...Cangnan is fake. The people who live here also exist because of me. After my aunt died, I went crazy. I received treatment in the fasting center for a long time. Later they found me and we planned to start from scratch.
Prison break there... We are the only ones who have successfully escaped from prison in the past hundred years. Maybe from the moment we stepped out of the wall, our fates have been connected..."
"...Our name is [Yemu]..."
Lin Qiye's eyes showed a look of reminiscence. After becoming a night watchman, his story became more detailed. He told the little boy how they broke through the "human circle" and Gao Tianyuan, and how they escaped from heaven and hell.
Escape from death, how to destroy Asgard, how to fight side by side at Chennan Pass...
The little boy listened to his story quietly, with rare emotional fluctuations in his silent eyes. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he had been immersed in it.
At the same time, neither of them noticed that in this dead black world, the progress bar above Lin Qiye's head had moved forward silently.