Point of difference doom

Linxiang City, in a duplex building of a rental apartment. Twenty-five minutes after Zhou Baiyu entered the dreamland...

Zhou Baiyu had blood coming from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose...

He dreamed of a long and narrow passage. At the end of the passage, he saw... a cocoon wrapped in countless black substances.

It's like a tentacle, like a black mist.

But there is no doubt that once that kind of thing is touched, ordinary people will immediately feel strong negative emotions.

He had seen this kind of thing in Gu Tower.

However, the scene in this dream seems simple, but it cannot reach the end at all.

Although there was only a long and narrow road in the dream, although he guessed that Zhang Haoyun was trapped in the black cocoon at the end of the road...

But that end is really unreachable.

In this life, Zhou Baiyu cares about many people, and there are also many people who care about Zhou Baiyu.

There is indeed another side hidden in his character, that side is coquettish, out-of-the-box, and even a little evil. But more often than not, he is kind-hearted.

As Tian Xia Wu Er said, it seems that to reach the black cocoon, the only way is to be truly heartless, not loving anyone, and not being loved by anyone.

Zhou Baiyu actually collapsed earlier than those legendary forerunners.

Ke Zhongye persisted for one hour, Guan Canghai also persisted for one hour, and Tian Xia Wu Er persisted for ninety minutes...

Zhou Baiyu was different. This winner of the Love Saint achievement began to convulse violently ten minutes after falling into the dream, and felt tremendous torture in the dream.

Twenty-five minutes later, Ling Hansu ignored everything and tried his best to wake him up.

Brother Zhou cried out loudly, pulling Zhou Baiyu out of his dream.

"Huh...huh..." Zhou Baiyu was like everyone who woke up from a nightmare, with a frightened look on his face and breathing heavily.

"Zhou...Brother Zhou, you look so scary right now...What kind of dream is that?"

Zhou Baiyu did not answer this question immediately, but said after nearly a minute:

"I wonder if senior Xingzuo Wuchang is still alive..."

"This is a dream that reverses your past memories. Of course, after entering the Black Lotus, it may not be as simple as a dream."

"There is a passage in the dream. Every time you take a step, it seems that time will pass for many days. During these days, all the beautiful memories you have in the past and all the people you have met that you are grateful for will become distorted."

"They will try their best to torture you...my mother...in this dream, she looks very scary. She is basically a corrupt monster."

"As you continue to move forward, your appearance in the dream also continues to change. You continue to grow, but you suffer more and more pain..."

"First it's your parents, then it's your friends, it's everyone you come into contact with..."

Ling Hansu suddenly discovered that Brother Zhou was actually a little sad.

She didn't know the relationship between Zhou Baiyu and the corrupt species. She just felt that... Brother Zhou's eyes and tone were a little dark.

"What kind of monster...is there such a painful realm?"

Ling Hansu's problem is also Zhou Baiyu's problem.

He silently thought about how uncomfortable Zhang Haoyun must have been when he took her to watch that movie.

In her memory, are her parents such twisted monsters?

That should be... the person who loves me the most in this world?

It is true that corruption will amplify resentment and negative emotions, but even so, parents are too scary in dreams.

"That's great. My parents are not very good to me. I also have a younger brother who always steals things from me."

How did she say these words so casually?

Zhou Baiyu clenched his fists.

I have already started to prepare for the worst in my heart.

"I have to get in touch with the cocoon sac. At least I want to know whether she is hidden in that cocoon sac."

Ling Hansu became even more worried after listening to Zhou Baiyu's words:

"But, this is just a dream. Brother Zhou, you shouldn't risk your life because of a dream, right?"

"Besides, there are President Tian Xia Wu Er and President He Guang Tong Chen... they, they should be able to do it, right? They are the legendary forerunners... Just, we are not that powerful, it doesn't matter."

After all, Ling Hansu cares about Zhou Baiyu. These words are a little selfish, but in essence, she hopes that Zhou Baiyu will give up this behavior that is almost self-torture.

Zhou Baiyu shook his head.

It seemed that Zhang Haoyun's matter was his matter. He grabbed a handful of sleeping pills:

"This time... don't wake me up! If I'm in pain, just keep saying in my ears that it's all a lie."

This certainly sounds like a very arbitrary decision, not a strategy at all.

Ling Hansu was a little confused and said anxiously:

"Brother Zhou...why do you have to do this!"

Zhou Baiyu smiled:

"You know what hurts the most? It's you giving people false hope."

The so-called false hope is not just about telling a person to do something that is impossible. It is about not giving up halfway.

No matter it was the MLM scammer who committed suicide by jumping off a building and his body fell in front of Zhou Baiyu.

He was the same person who committed suicide and was saved by him, but then committed suicide again.

In Zhou Baiyu's view, the two are the same, but the former is a deception that even he does not believe.

The latter is when you really made a promise to a person, but you just made a promise but didn't accompany him to fulfill it.

Zhou Baiyu didn't want to make such a mistake for the third time in his life.

"I can't just say that life will get better and better, and I can't leave her in such a place."

Zhou Baiyu said no more and drank a handful of sleeping pills in his hand.

He knew very well that this dose would not kill him, and what he needed now was not to wake up, but to be unable to wake up.

He didn't even know whether the dream-telling dream would take effect for the second time. But this was already the safest way to explore the Black Lotus area.

The medicine took effect quickly, and after a moment of drowsiness, he fell into a dream again.

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A long passage appears.

The sky is gray, as if the sunlight has been blocked by black lotus, leaving only residual light seedlings, making the darkness less absolute.

The passage is like a lonely bridge.

On both sides of the bridge, there was thick black fog that could not be penetrated by eyes.

After taking a step forward, Zhou Baiyu saw the memory of when he was five years old.

It was supposed to be a day when Ms. Wang Shufen and Mr. Zhou Zeshui took him to the Linxiang City Amusement Park.

He was very happy that day. He played with the merry-go-round and bumper cars that most represent childhood for a long time. He was not like other children who only just tasted it. He really played until the sky turned dusk before going back.

He has not been particularly wealthy since he was a child, but other people's children have, and Zhou Zeshui and Wang Shufen have never fallen behind.

But in this dream, the carousel turned into a ferocious beast, and the children driving in the parking lot with rubber tires also looked hateful, with spine-tingling smiles, vicious and resentful.

The most important thing is that from now on, Wang Shufen's image will be extremely weird——

In the abdomen, there is a huge sarcoma connected to the heart. The sarcoma even has a face, which is constantly making mocking laughter.

The corrupted species that had been transformed from his mother but could no longer be distinguished was covered with "shards" all over his body.

Glass shards, like a beer bottle breaking apart.

Zhou Baiyu didn't stop.

He didn't know how long he persisted. It seemed that he had just entered the dreamland, and it seemed that a long time had passed.

He started to walk forward crazily, and the faint voice from Ling Hansu echoed in his ears.

But at this time, he still couldn't hear it clearly. He had already turned fifteen years old from five years old.

The little girl was frightened, but she still remembered one sentence - whatever Brother Zhou said, she would do it.

The so-called dream state is actually very easily affected by external forces.

When a person is dreaming, it is even possible to have a conversation with a conscious person in a deep dream state that seems to be meaningful.

Ling Hansu kept repeating: Brother Zhou, this is just a dream, all of this is just a dream!

She didn't know whether she should wake up Brother Zhou, but it seemed that... instinctively, she still believed in this man.

In the dream, Zhou Baiyu kept moving forward.

Father Zhou Zeshui's laughter came from the sky, and sharp wine bottles kept falling from the sky, bang bang bang bang!

Every time a wine bottle breaks, there will be a brief memory of Zhang Haoyun.

From these memories, Zhou Baiyu realized that this girl who had never been loved by anyone had such a sad past.

Shortly after leaving the village, she once sent a sum of money to her brother, which she had saved hard, but because her mother asked, she sent it anyway.

The day after she remitted the money, she met her father. Just when she thought she could finally get some confirmation, her father brought up a marriage and hoped to sell her to a man in a neighboring county for 1,500 yuan.

That day, her father gave her a rare smile, but that smile made her feel more uncomfortable than the beer bottle hitting her on the head.

It wasn't the first time she realized a certain problem, but it was the first time she tried to use her own values ​​to change the problem.

But at that moment, there was only one voice in Zhang Haoyun's mind——

"They... don't love me."

Since then, she has been frantically trying to escape, but she can't get rid of that kind of life.

Despair made Zhou Baiyu's steps weigh as much as a thousand pounds.

Those shattering sounds were endless. He was hurt by the distorted relatives and friends in his own memory, and he was also hurt by the painful past in Zhang Haoyun's memory.

But despair also strengthened Zhou Baiyu's confidence. He began to run forward crazily.

It seemed that the survival instinct and the nerves in the brain believed that this was an act that was almost suicidal. At this moment, all of Zhou Baiyu's senses were amplified.

It's like a flashback.

But because of that...he heard it!

I heard Ling Hansu’s reminder - this is all just a dream!

And once a person realizes that he is dreaming, the dream will collapse!

The dim world became pitch black, and the black cocoon sac began to fluctuate irregularly from an oval shape!

But because of this, Zhou Baiyu got a blessing in disguise. The monsters he and those people in his memories twisted into were able to have a brief respite due to the fluctuations in space distance!

Once people wake up from a dream, they always think, since this is a dream, can I do whatever I want?

Obviously, he couldn't do it, he couldn't erase those monsters, and he didn't know he was a guest in the dream.

After all, he was just on the road in a dream.

However, Ling Hansu's reminder has greatly destroyed the stability of this dream.

The surrounding space began to fall apart... The originally long passage was broken into countless boulders, and the original single route became diverse.

Once there are more complex choices, there will be more flexible operating space. Among the countless broken boulders, Zhou Baiyu kept jumping. In his dream, it seemed that the only thing he could change... was himself.

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Although it was only a small change, it at least allowed him to keep moving around in the broken boulders, getting closer to the black cocoon sac.

Just like the protagonist of a horizontal version of the game, he keeps jumping in the floating air, looking for a foothold, and then approaching the end point little by little to clear the level!

Zhou Baiyu finally reached the finish line!

He shouted throughout the night:

"Zhang Haoyun! Don't give up! No matter what you go through! It has nothing to do with your future!"

These were his sincere words. He really hoped that this woman could get out of the shadow of the past.

But all this is doomed to be in vain, even if his words can really arouse that small part of hope...

This is just a dream.

Deep in the Black Lotus...

Zhang Haoyun is still a cocoon wrapped in endless black tentacles and black mist.

In the dream, the dark cocoon sac was fluctuating irregularly... and Zhou Baiyu's shout actually penetrated the endless black fog and came to Zhang Haoyun.

"The annoying and bad life always remains the same, and bad luck will only keep happening, one after another. Zhou Baiyu, don't come close to me."

"We are basically people from two different worlds! Come... back!"

The moment he touched the black cocoon sac, Zhou Baiyu felt all the negative emotions in his heart, fear, rage, sadness... and resentment towards the world, growing crazily!

He finally realized what an unsolvable situation this was.

"The passage in front is nothing compared to the black cocoon sac. Only those who truly do not love anyone and are not loved by anyone can come here..."

"But such a person must have huge character flaws or simply be an extremely antisocial personality..."

"And these black cocoon sacs... are completely something that can cause corruption! Once such a person touches the black cocoon sac, they will immediately be overwhelmed by huge negative emotions and become a corrupt species!"

This was Zhou Baiyu's last sanity. After touching the cocoon sac, he was swallowed up by endless negative emotions.

Fortunately, his body was also pushed away by a huge force.

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woke up.

Zhou Baiyu finally reached the finish line and woke up miraculously from medicine.

Ling Hansu was so frightened that he didn't expect to wake up suddenly after taking so many sleeping pills...

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu really looked like a rotten creature, with bleeding from all his orifices, and his eyes became a little scarlet because of the bloodshot eyes.

He didn't gasp violently, he just covered his head and looked in agony.

"If that thing is allowed to spread...not to mention what level of monster will appear after the cocoon hatches...the spread itself will have a huge impact on Linxiang City."

"This field must be completely eliminated, and Zhang Haoyun must be rescued from the cocoon."

Zhou Baiyu's gaze was extremely firm, even to the point of being a little crazy.

Ling Hansu didn't know who Zhang Haoyun was, but in her opinion... the name Zhang Haoyun was probably discovered by Brother Zhou in his dream?

"So...brother Zhou, do you have a solution? Have you found a way to eliminate that black lotus?"

Zhou Baiyu shook his head:

"I can't help it. I'm afraid there is no difference in the world. Even if they are the same as the light, there is nothing they can do..."

Although there was no other way, Ling Hansu noticed that Brother Zhou's eyes were getting more and more crazy, and at some point, there was an extra tube of blue injection in his hand.

After all the conceivable methods were rejected, after realizing that the real Black Lotus District would only be more dangerous than the dream...

Zhou Baiyu is like a gambler who is risking everything and preparing to stud, a complete madman:

"I can't help it, but I know one thing..."

“Only corruption can fight corruption!”