Anyway, the interaction has happened, and the clearance card is invalid, so it doesn’t matter if you ask more local people to inquire about the situation, right?

Lin Sanjiu felt that there was nothing wrong with her logic, but she couldn't convince Bohemia.

"Is there anything to inquire about? That city lord with pork tapeworms all over his face has told you clearly that he is about to set a trap on the wall. If you don't hurry up now, you are wasting time inquiring about your mother's natal family." ?”

"It will take time for us to walk from the top of the wall," Lin Sanjiu persuaded, "The wall is too high, it will take us at least half an hour. What if we are caught by a trap?"

"Small it," Bohemia paused, and then spoke with arrogance, obviously 70% of it was stubborn. "I was hit by such a big piece of bad luck like you, am I fine?"

Lin Sanjiu lost her temper because of being blocked by her, glanced at her, and asked, "Why are you so impatient to leave?"

"Who can't wait, why are you always barking your fart so eagerly?"

"No, you think, our customs clearance card is invalid." Lin Sanjiu persuaded: "Even if we go out, we still have to enter through Beichengkou again to get a new customs clearance card. Inquire now I understand, next time I come in, I can finish it quickly."

Bohemia probably realized now that they had to come in again, looking as if someone had poured vinegar into their noses.

For her to nod and admit "you are right", Lin Sanjiu had to lie down and have a dream first. She accepted Bohemia's acquiescence, and quietly came to the edge of the roof again - when they were arguing with each other just now, under the order of the black-lined city lord, everyone lined up in circles , Standing with him as the center, the little girl is no longer in her original position.

"It's okay to go to the residents of other districts." Bohemia folded her arms and said, "They seem to be busy soon. 'Put it under the ability', I don't know what to do—forget it, It doesn't matter to me anyway."

Lin Sanjiu raised his head and stared at her stunned.

By the way, the night outside... the night outside has something very important and urgent... Bohemia must know. But it seemed that she was recalling a long-forgotten dream. No matter how she thought, she couldn't pick up the thought and turn it into sound.

"What do you see me doing?"

In Lin Sanjiu's growing fear somehow, Bohemia said: "What they want has nothing to do with me. Are you going to go or not? Don't you want to ask someone?"

"Compared with others, that little girl may be more willing to help..."

Before Lin Sanjiu could finish his sentence, a sharp hiss suddenly erupted from the center of the square, straight into the sky—it was indeed "straight into the sky", because the hiss seemed to be caused by countless messy, thick black Made of twined threads, it surged up from the city lord's neck, spread rapidly in mid-air, and covered the entire small square in the blink of an eye.

For a moment, the world seemed to have been scribbled by angry children, and as far as the eyes could see, there was only a tumbling and expanding, messy boiling black line.

"Get out of the way!"

Lin Sanjiu pushed Bohemia away, and the two of them rolled and fell on the roof; it was as if countless black pen nibs creaked an unknown number of messy threads from the sky above their heads, entangled, tumbling, and slid down again. in the square. She raised her body, her gaze followed the black lines, and she happened to see the target they were rushing at—the little girl.

At that moment, two things happened at the same time: first, the people in the small square covered by black lines all uttered heart-piercing screams one after another at the same moment, echoing wave after wave under the night .

The black thread wrapped everyone from head to toe in a mess, forming a shape that could barely be seen as a human figure drawn by the tip of a pen; with unimaginable pain, each human figure was struggling and bending. Waist, stomping feet... The black line was also distorted by the knock, forming one after another scribbled shapes.

Second, Lin Sanjiu used his consciousness to drag her from the small square to the roof one second before the black line hit the little girl.

"What's going on?" Bohemia pressed her fingers tightly to her ears, and amidst the cries of pain surging like waves, she said at the top of her throat, "What is this for? My ears are about to crack!"

The little girl climbed up tremblingly on the roof, and quickly glanced at the edge—her mother had also turned into a black ball of unidentifiable shape at this time.

She didn't cry or ask for help, as if she knew she wanted to see this scene. With a pale complexion, she slumped back and covered her side face with one hand, as if not looking at the square was the greatest resistance she could do.

"The ability of the city lord..." She said blankly: "In the past, only adults could..."

"What ability?" Seeing her speak, Bohemia let go of the hand pressing her ear, and asked, "The evolutionary has entered the city, what does it matter to you, why do you have to torture you?"

The little girl closed her eyes tightly. "No, it's because of the city lord's 'replacement' ability...it's necessary..."

"Have you chopped up the sentence? Say it from the beginning and complete it." Bohemia urged impatiently.

The little girl was startled, but it was really smooth.

"Because we are all ordinary people... so we don't have any self-protection ability in the face of the city lord's attack... so we will only suffer forever, but there is no way to resist, and we can't escape. However, even evolutionists can take The city lord can't help it, this is what my mother told me, because the city lord is... a person formed of a ball of thread, who will not be injured or bleed, will not be imprisoned, and will not die."

Her voice was very soft, intermittent, under the painful screams of nearly a hundred people beating the eardrums like waves, it was almost hard to hear. "The city lord will extract our pain and powerlessness, and then the pain and powerlessness will be made into a part of the trap. When the advanced and evolutionary step into the trap, your reaction will be replaced with our reaction at this moment... ..."

In other words, no matter how powerful they are, no matter how many props they have, once the trap is activated, they will be what ordinary people are.

Lin Sanjiu and Bohemia exchanged glances.

"My mother said," the little girl whispered, "the extraction of pain and the setting of traps are carried out at the same time. Look over there... the wall towards the south city entrance, isn't it a bit different?"

The high walls on both sides of the south city entrance are almost pitch-black in the shadow of the night; only when you know where to look and what to look for, will you see a faint, dark wave-like shadow, washing away the whole place little by little. High walls.

Starting from the south city entrance, several waves of shadows are gradually spreading to both sides - obviously, the goal of the city lord is to "wrap" every wall.

"The city lord is very fair. We are all from the round area... Mom will be conscripted to participate in the preparation of replacing the trap every one or two weeks. Because the trap can only be used once, if it is triggered, it must be re-arranged."

Just less than a hundred meters away, everyone this girl has known in her life, her mother, neighbors, classmates and friends... are all black people with distorted calls, unable to control themselves, and unable to even fall to the ground and faint. Line regiment.

But she didn't even shed tears except for trembling with fear - after all, this was the daily life she was used to.

"If only my mother and I could run... that would be great."

"How long do you think it will take to set up all the traps?" Bohemia asked Lin Sanjiu suddenly, "According to that shadow's speed, twenty minutes? Half an hour?"

Lin Sanjiu understood.

She glanced at Bohemia; the latter never looked into the little square.

"We have to leave right away," Bohemia said, frowning tightly, "there is no way to enter the northern city, only to go over the wall. The city lord has just started to set up traps. Let's speed up and we will definitely be able to get out." .”

What about city people? Ordinary people in this city will be tortured from time to time... Of course they can leave, but these people can't?

Lin Sanjiu wanted to ask, but was a bit afraid to ask.

"What does it have to do with me?"

She was afraid that if she asked, Bohemia would give the answer clearly—"I didn't cause what happened to ordinary people, so why should I care?"

Lin Sanjiu didn't understand why she was afraid; it seemed that as long as Bohemia didn't tell her the answer, their life would continue like a long dream.

She stood up like sleepwalking, took out the props needed to climb the wall from the card library, and handed them to Bohemia.

The little girl also seemed to be taken aback, looked back and forth between the two, and asked, "Are you leaving?"

"Nonsense, who wants to stay as a tombstone for the NPC?" Bohemia bowed her head and tied the climbing rope without looking at her.

The little girl stopped talking.

"Lin Sanjiu, hurry up," Bohemia said, and she was almost on the other side of the roof, "The wall on the other side is so fucking far away."

Lin Sanjiu turned her head and glanced at the little girl who was left behind by them in a daze.

Just as she was about to jump to the next roof, Bohemia paused, then turned her head and asked, "Are you going?"

The little girl was stunned again, "Me?"

"Didn't I ask you and I asked the ghost?"

"I..." The little girl subconsciously followed up a few steps, then stopped again. She looked at the square and said, "I can't go...my mom won't find me. We've never left the city...what's it like outside?"

Bohemia turned her head.

"It's up to you to decide."

"Is there really sea water out there?"

Bohemia let out an "um" from her nose, but didn't intend to answer.

As if she had left the little girl behind, she gestured to Lin Sanjiu, and jumped with all her strength—the long hair and the hem of the skirt fluttered in the night sky, like fleeting butterfly wings. The opposite roof slowly closed.

After the two jumped a few times in a row, the cry of pain was far away, and it no longer oppressed and twisted people's nerves; the little girl had long since disappeared outside the high and low buildings.

The trap has not yet approached; after they came to the high wall, they did not dare to delay for a minute, quickly threw the fixed hooks on the wall, and climbed up quickly under the cover of the shadow of the night.

"Wait," Lin Sanjiu crawled halfway, looked back, and couldn't help calling softly. "Look over there."

They were already in the air at this time, and they could see most of the city. The messy black lines on the small square looked like a layer of fragmented, swirling black smoke from a distance, which was gradually spreading in all directions - Lin Sanjiu felt that half of the city was darkened in the blink of an eye.

"The lord of the city wants to spread traps all over the city," Bohemia said softly, "I won't let anyone go."

I'm afraid it's not just to expand the scope of the trap...

Did the city lord notice their plan?

Perhaps because there are more "raw materials", the expansion speed of the trap has at least doubled at this moment; the trap and the black line go hand in hand, wherever it spreads, there will be a burst of fresh, buzzing screams—but very soon Soon, the sound will die, as if the suffering person has surpassed the limit of his own sound.

Before they had time to climb up a few more steps, the whole city under their feet was turned into rolling blackness.

Although the wall they climbed was located at the north entrance of the city farthest from the city lord, but at this speed, it only took two or three minutes for the trap to wash over them.

Looking up, the high wall that has not yet been crossed is still extending straight to the night sky, as if it will never end. Lin Sanjiu and Bohemia were trapped in mid-air, it was too late to go up, and there was no room for their feet.

"What should I do?" Lin Sanjiu asked in a low voice.

Bohemia didn't make a sound. She looked up at the night sky for the last two or three minutes. Surrounded by high walls, the night sky looks like a small patch.

"Didn't that kid NPC say that evolutionists can't do anything about the city master?" Bohemia held the climbing rope tightly with one hand, her face was pale and tense, expressionless. "I really don't know much."

She raised her head, and in the dark night, her eyes were burning brightly.

"Is this a dream?"

At that moment, it seemed that Lin Sanjiu's world collapsed into pieces, about to be washed away by the torrent of time.

"Otherwise, I'm really going to be angry."

Bohemia still had a sullen face and said: "I bought a nail polish before, which can show various colors and illusions on my fingers. When you stick into the sun, you can see the sea, the sun, palm trees..."

Lin Sanjiu couldn't make a sound and could only wait quietly.

"I never saw the sea when I was a kid. It was hard enough to be alive, and besides, no one would take me to see it."

Bohemia drooped her eyelashes, and said in a low voice: "When I grow up, anyone will be my next target, wallet, resources and props... I thought at that time, looking at the illusion of the sea on my finger would also That's enough, it's already pretty silly.

"You have a big problem with your brain. We have no relatives and no reason, why do you spoil me everywhere? Why do I matter? If you cook a fart, buy some dog gifts, why is it your turn to take me? I went to see the sea... You will give me whatever I want, but I want your life? The me now, if placed in front of me in the past, there will be no skin left. It is because of you that I am what I am now It looks limp."

She wiped her eyes vigorously.

"How can there be anyone in the world who hasn't seen anything other than this prison?" She said, as if her thoughts were interrupted because she was crying so much, she paused for a few seconds, then picked up another topic: "Don't say Has that NPC ever seen the sea... What do they have to do with me? I used to not even care whether my companions lived or not. Since the trap is triggered once and then it will be invalid, then I must kick you down."

Bohemia's hair was stuck to her face with tears, Lin Sanjiu wanted to reach out to stroke it, but she couldn't let go of the rope, nor could she reach it.

"That city lord can't be killed or killed, but there are ways to deal with him. I can make him fall into a dream... All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream... The last time I used this poem, Or to deal with you.

"But I have to get close to him...to get close to the black line that forms him, and then I can activate the singer. After I jump, I don't know whether I fell into the pain trap first, or he fell into the dream first."

Bohemia looked at the ground under her feet and said in a low voice: "But, this is the only way, right? If I don't bet anything, you, everyone, and the people below... will be in trouble, right? This kind of shit, How did you get involved with me?"

She raised her head, as if she wanted to make a fierce and threatening expression, and wanted to cry again; in the end, she suddenly laughed through tears.

"Lin Sanjiu, I'm leaving." Bohemia's eyes seemed to be rippling with honey-colored broken sun. "You must come to me."

In fact, one of the important reasons why I don’t want to write about everyone’s dreams in detail is because everyone knows it’s a dream, and they also know how Lin Sanjiu’s friends will choose, so no matter how I design the plot, I won’t feel real, tense or dangerous after reading it. . (The negative side is the reason why the dream ending is so sloppy, and the feelings are in vain)

So I think the point of the dream is that everyone has relived the memories, emotions, changes since they met Lin Sanjiu, and what kind of mood they had when they bid farewell to her.

But even so, I can't repeat it eleven times in a row... In short, I hope I can show the main point well...