Neverland

This mouse hole-like room is not big, and the bed is not much wider than a single bed. Yan Cen originally lived in a separate room with Xu Muzhou, but judging by his state, he still didn't leave.

The taut string in Xu Muzhou's mind was already on the verge of collapse, but now it was suddenly loosened, and his whole mind became groggy.

In fact, it didn't take long for Xu Muzhou from when he learned the truth about Neverland, to when Zhong Lu told him that this was the last mission, and... to now.

In just a few days, his brain received more information than in the previous twenty years.Until the "future" in the crystal ball appeared, countless choices were thrown in front of Xu Muzhou, making him dizzy and in a dilemma. He became hesitant, and even lost the courage to take a step.

The last straw fell lightly on Xu Muzhou's delicate nerves, so he was finally overwhelmed, and even protested dissatisfied with his body, and a wave of drowsiness swept over him overwhelmingly.

When he was half asleep and half awake, Xu Muzhou even had an inexplicable thought in his mind - so he was not much better than others, Xu Muzhou thought, he even seemed to be more fragile than others, more easily disturbed, more... …less strong.

Xu Muzhou's mental load was so severe that he was so exhausted that he didn't even have the strength to get up and change his sleeping position, so he just fell asleep leaning on Yan Cen.

But Xu Muzhou didn't sleep very well. He slept very restlessly, and he refused to let go of Yan Cen's hand. Every time he fell asleep and wanted to enter a deep sleep, he only had to loosen Yan Cen's hand slightly. , he will immediately wake up from deep sleep, and then hold Yan Cen's hand tightly again.

After doing this twice, Yan Cen held his hand back worriedly.

"I won't go." Yan Cen said in a low voice.

Xu Muzhou, who was in a shallow sleep, didn't seem to have heard his words, and he still went his own way. Yan Cen finally sighed, pulled Xu Muzhou's upper body to lift him up, put the whole thing into his arms, and then moved in an awkward position. Arms wrapped around his back.

Xu Muzhou grabbed Yan Cen's hand, listening to the slow and weak heartbeat of the other party, until he heard Yan Cen's breathing became steady and long, as if he was falling asleep, Xu Muzhou's subconscious mind, which had been tense all the time, finally let go of it. After taking this breath, he tilted his head and fell into a deep sleep.

Yan Cen maintained this position for a while, making sure that Xu Muzhou was fast asleep, before he opened his eyes.His eyes were clear, and he didn't have the slightest intention of waking up from a deep sleep.

He lowered his head and glanced at the person in his arms. Xu Muzhou lay quietly on top of him. Because of his low fever, his breathing was a little heavy and he was slightly hot.

Yan Cen was afraid that he was still asleep, so he didn't get up rashly. He put his hand on Xu Muzhou's back, stroking along his spine like a small animal, comforting Xu Muzhou's tension body of.

He touched Xu Muzhou for a while, then put his hand on Xu Muzhou's body, and patted his waist slowly.

It took more than 20 minutes for Yan Cen to comfort him like this before Xu Muzhou's muscles all over his body relaxed unconsciously, and he let out a slight snoring sound.

Yan Cen carefully withdrew his hand from Xu Muzhou's, then kissed his eyelids before the other party felt uneasy, coaxed him a few words in a low voice, then laid him flat on the bed, and stood up by himself.

He took the kerosene lamp on the small coffee table by the bed, lifted the lampshade and pressed the flame inside.

The only light source in the room suddenly disappeared, and the whole room became dark and gloomy, looking a bit gloomy.

The wind outside still sounded very violent, and the cool wind inevitably seeped in through the cracks in the window.Yan Cen first took out the quilt that was under Xu Muzhou's body and covered him, then walked to the window, checked the broken left half window frame, and only after making sure that it would not be damaged again, he turned to the window. Turning around, he took the bunch of keys from Xu Muzhou's body.

Xu Muzhou's state is wrong, very wrong, based on Yan Cen's understanding of Xu Muzhou, during the short period of time he went out to look for Toya, something must have happened that he didn't know, otherwise Xu Muzhou wouldn't It would be so abnormal.

Yan Cen can be sure that Xu Muzhou didn't tell him the truth, or didn't tell the whole truth.Xu Muzhou is not usually a person who wants to talk about it, and will not bring up such seemingly meaningless topics for no reason.

It's just that Xu Muzhou refused to say anything, which made Yan Cen feel a little difficult.

It is true that if he really wants to know what Xu Muzhou is hiding, whether it is a routine or something more brutal, Yan Cen has more than a dozen ways to know the truth, but he does not want to force Xu Mu like a task continent.

Yan Cen carefully avoided the wooden floor with gaps on the ground, stepped lightly, turned around and walked out the door, he walked from the bed to the door, his steps were light and light, almost without making any sound.

When he got to the door, Yan Cen looked back at Xu Muzhou to make sure that he was sleeping well, and then he opened the door and walked out.

But the time Xu Muzhou left him was very short, and he only went to find Toya one time in total, trying to figure out what the problem was with his knees.

Yan Cen admitted that he wanted to stay in this mission world for a few more days, but he could not care about the mission, but he couldn't care less about Xu Muzhou's mental state.

— Forget it, Yan Cen thought to himself in his heart, this poor place is not waiting anymore.

Yan Cen closed the door behind his back, and was afraid that Xu Muzhou would panic if he woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't find him, so he deliberately left a crack in the door to ensure that no matter where he was, he could hear Xu Muzhou calling him.

After finishing all this, Yan Cen took the bunch of keys in his hand, turned to the right, and walked towards the stairs.

When I reached the stairs, I didn't know what time it was, but the huge clock at the door suddenly gave a heavy chime.

【clang--】

Yan Cen's keen hearing was greatly shaken by this sound, his vision blurred, and he almost felt dizzy for a moment.

He subconsciously supported the wall beside him, blinked, and felt that the scene in front of him had returned to normal.

At the same time, a deep tiredness welled up from the depths of his soul, Yan Cen stood where he was, and yawned involuntarily.

This kind of sleepiness rarely appeared on him, Yan Cen sighed, feeling that the body in this world is really not enough.

He casually picked up a key from the keychain and scratched it on his arm.

The hard metal left a light white mark on Yan Cen's arm, and the tingling pain at that moment was enough for him to wake up again.

The time chime sounded thick and heavy. I don’t know if the gears for the time chime were rusted. It shook for a moment.

When the time was over, Yan Cen looked up at the clock, the hour hand was pointing at twelve, and the rest of the hands moved slowly, like a turtle with a heavy shell on its back, walking tremblingly and very slowly.

--it is midnight.

Yan Cen withdrew his gaze and stepped up the stairs.

He walked along the wooden prototype corridor for a while, and found Toya's room. He reached out and pushed the door, but found that the door seemed to be locked from the inside.

Yan Cen was not as patient as Xu Muzhou, he looked down at the copper lock on the door, then found a shiny copper key from the keychain, and inserted it into the lock cylinder.

The lock cylinder retracted the card lock softly, and Yan Cen stretched out his hand to push, and the door folded lightly inward, revealing the scene inside.

From Yan Cen's point of view, this should be a storage room.

This room was about the same size as Xu Muzhou's room. There were two wooden shelves similar to those in the basement near the door. On the shelves were some messy glass bottles filled with fresh water.

A cardboard box was placed on the bottom shelf of the wooden shelf near the back of the room. Yan Cen glanced down and found a few pieces of clothes in a mess.

Yan Cen bent down and touched it. It was similar to the material Xu Muzhou wore at the beginning. It was slippery and soft to the touch. It should be Toya's change of clothes.

You can see the bottom of this room at a glance, it is impossible to hide people, Yan Cen was busy looking for the trace of Toya, so he only glanced around, then looked away without interest, turned his head and left.

In such a huge castle, there are three floors besides the "can't go" attic, plus four rooms on the first floor, at least a dozen rooms, and it would be too troublesome to find them one by one. .

Yan Cen turned back and closed the door, thinking how to find Toya quickly, but when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he saw something in the hall.

In the center of the hall was a simple wooden tray with two pieces of black bread and two bottles of fresh water on it.

Yan Cen's face darkened.

—these things were not there before he went upstairs.

Yan Cen was sure that he only stayed in the house for two or three minutes just now, and he didn't even close the door when he entered the house to search. If someone came downstairs with something and put it in the hall, he couldn't have missed it.

Taking a step back, even if Toya moves quickly, or there is some secret door to go through, he should at least hear the other party's footsteps.

— but nothing.

Yan Cen stood here, closed his eyes and listened to the movement in the castle for a while.He listened very carefully, including the sound of wind and water outside the window, and Xu Muzhou's sleeping breathing—but he didn't hear anyone else's footsteps.

Yan Cen's face was a bit ugly, he looked up, the third floor of the castle was the same as the second floor, sinking quietly in the night, and the doors of each room looked the same.

So Yan Cen simply gave up his plan to look for Toya at night. He walked down the stairs, then turned left along the way he came, and paused when he passed the tray in the hall, picked it up anyway, and turned to Xu Muzhou went to his room.

When Yan Cen entered, Xu Muzhou was still soundly asleep, Yan Cen walked in lightly, put the things in his hand on the small tea table at the end of the bed, took off the keys, and put them together on the tray.

The sea breeze in the middle of the night was even crazier than in the daytime. There was a problem with the repaired window frame and the original left half of the window, and the cold wind blew the small piece of glass in the middle.

Yan Cen looked at it for a while, fearing that the piece of glass would be broken by the wind, so he stretched out his hand and picked up the discarded tinder from the table, rolled it up, and stuffed it into the buckle of the right window, blocking the small window. gap.