Neverland

Yan Cen was not at all dazed from being woken up, his eyes were clear, as if he hadn't fallen asleep at all.

Xu Muzhou twisted his wrist tentatively, Yan Cen knew what he was thinking, so he squeezed his hand slightly, but did not let go.

The door of the room was opened a small crack, and the cool wind came in along the crack, gently sweeping over the back of Xu Muzhou's neck.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Muzhou heard an extremely slight grinding sound.

——It should be Toya who came in.

Barefoot, shoeless, and slender, Toya stepped in quietly as she stepped in on the floor, like a midnight ghost.

If Xu Muzhou hadn't happened to be awake, I'm afraid he wouldn't have found him here after sleeping until dawn.

Sleeping in the middle of the night and being spied on by strangers in the middle of the night, just thinking about it makes my back feel cold. Xu Muzhou was a little scared, he tightened his fingers slightly, and a layer of cold sweat oozed from his back.

——What is Toya here for, Xu Muzhou thought.

He inevitably thought of that "Joseph"—the unlucky crew member who "will no longer feel pain" in Toya's mouth. I don't know if he has experienced this kind of midnight nightmare.

Toya was obviously afraid of the two people who were sleeping in the room. He carefully leaned out from the crack of the door, taking every step very carefully. In just a few steps, he dawdled for two or three minutes without reaching it. beside the bed.

The waiting process was extremely difficult, especially since Xu Muzhou couldn't see Toya's movements, so he could only judge the distance from the bed from the extremely slight rubbing sound of the cloth.

But even though he was lying down uncomfortable, Xu Muzhou was still peacefully held by Yan Cen's wrist, and did not act rashly.Most of his face was buried under the quilt, and he relaxed all over, trying his best to make himself look like he was still asleep, but his head was slightly tilted to the inside of the bed, and he opened his eyes, trying to see Yan Cen's expression clearly in the night .

Yan Cen pinched his wrist reassuringly, and then closed his eyes first.

Xu Muzhou was stunned for a moment, before he followed suit, he felt that Toya had come behind him.

It doesn’t feel like much—in the middle of the night, when you’re supposed to be sleeping, someone pushes open your door without any hindrance, and then stands silently by your bed, staring at you deeply.

As long as Xu Muzhou thinks about this scene, he feels that this is simply the scene of a suspenseful horror movie. Almost instantly, he has goose bumps all over his body.

Even Xu Muzhou didn't even have time to close his eyes, he didn't know how Toya's eyesight was in the dark, whether he had discovered that he hadn't actually fallen asleep.

——Maybe he didn't see it, or maybe he saw it, and knew that his whereabouts were exposed, but he didn't say anything, and continued to observe him silently.

It is an instinct for human beings to be afraid of the unknown. Xu Muzhou's heart beats like a drum due to such unfounded guesses. He dared not even blink, and subconsciously breathed lightly.

Now it is meaningless to think about whether he and Yan Cen locked the door before going to bed, or how Toya got in. Xu Muzhou's palms were sweating, his heart was pounding, and his fingers were slipping.

Yan Cen seemed to feel his uneasiness, and under the cover of the quilt, he gently touched Xu Muzhou's wrist with his thumb.

Xu Muzhou took a deep breath, relaxed his tense mind, and slowly closed his eyes.

After losing vision, other senses will become more sensitive. Xu Muzhou can clearly feel that there is a person standing behind him, and the other person's eyes are on him without any concealment, looking at him wantonly.

The sight was as real as it was, sliding down the back of his neck inch by inch, Xu Muzhou was almost frozen into a steel pipe by him, and there was no place to wipe the sweat on his palms.

Toya stood beside the bed for a while, as if he was no longer satisfied with "watching" itself, he bent down slightly, and hesitantly stretched out his hand towards Xu Muzhou's side face——

Xu Muzhou clearly felt Toya's cool and soft breath hitting the back of his neck, one after another, so close to him.

The goosebumps on Xu Muzhou's body rose layer after layer, and when he couldn't bear it anymore, a hand slanted from his side like lightning, and grabbed Toya's outstretched wrist through Xu Muzhou.

Toya didn't expect that there were still people in the room who were still asleep, and she turned pale with fright for a moment, looking even more frightened than the one who broke into the room.

He subconsciously wanted to pull his hand out of Yan Cen's hand, but who knew that Yan Cen's grip was so tight, Toya almost tore off a layer of skin on her hand, not to mention breaking free, her eyes were filled with pain, and she curled up into a ball, Even the body and arms were shaking, and I didn't know whether it was pure pain or fear.

Toya was terrified, only thinking about how to escape, she didn't even hold the crystal ball in her hand, the round ball rolled twice from his only free arm, and rolled away from the elbow. go out.

Yan Cen glanced at the dusty "big glass ball", quickly pulled the quilt off Xu Muzhou's body, put it in his hand and raised his hand to catch it.

The chubby ball didn't work very well, so Yan Cen simply pulled it one after another, following this momentum, he threw the big glass ball back into Xu Muzhou's arms.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Xu Muzhou just sat up, and before he could find his balance in the awkward confrontation between Yan Cen and Toya, he was thrown a hot potato in the blink of an eye.

Xu Muzhou had lingering fears about this dusty "glass ball", and he didn't dare to reach out to catch it. He raised his hands subconsciously, for fear that this thing would touch him again, so he could only watch it roll on him Rolled, and finally landed on his lap.

——All right, Xu Muzhou thought desperately.

Xu Muzhou moved towards the head of the bed in an awkward posture, and the crystal ball rolled back and forth on his legs with his movements, and finally landed on the hollow above his knees and stopped moving.

This whole set of actions took only a few seconds, and Toya didn't even have time to react, and the "equipment" in her hand was disarmed.

The fact that the crystal ball fell into someone else's hands seemed to make him very disturbed, he reached out to break Yan Cen's hand in vain, leaned over and tried to snatch the crystal ball from Xu Muzhou's arms again.

Yan Cen squeezed his hand slightly, and Toya gasped in pain, and gave him a guilty look.

"What are you doing here?" Yan Cen asked.

"I..." Toya bit the corner of her lips hesitantly, and whispered, "I'll come and see you two."

"Looking at it in the middle of the night?" Yan Cen smiled sarcastically, "To see if the two of us are still alive."

"No... no, no, no." Toya didn't care for a moment that her wrist was still clenched in Yan Cen's hand, she waved her hand with a pale face, and said in a stumbling manner: "How come, it's very safe here ...I am the only one here, very safe, don't be afraid."

Not to mention Yan Cen, even Xu Muzhou could tell how much "guilt" was in it.

Yan Cen just lied to him, and he began to speak incoherently, repeatedly emphasizing "safety", which made Xu Muzhou even more suspicious.

Regardless of whether Toya is really stupid or pretends to be confused, he should still have unfinished intentions.

Yan Cen had a murderous aura on him, and Toya was tightly restrained by him, and she had nowhere to run if she wanted to, standing bent over the bed, like a timid quail, trembling uncontrollably.

Xu Muzhou watched coldly, and felt that Yan Cen would have to shake this "witch" apart if he continued to ask this question.

"Tuoya, where did you go yesterday?" Xu Muzhou asked suddenly.

Toya avoided Xu Muzhou's gaze on him, lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I...I have been in the castle all this time."

Toya's chin was almost buried in his chest, and a few strands of slightly long blond hair fell from the side of his ears, which happened to cover the end of his eyes. He didn't dare to resist and let Yan Cen clamp his wrist. His hands were clasped on the skirt of his shirt, trembling slightly.

——No matter how you look at it, you look like a young boy from a good family who was bullied by two bullies.

Xu Muzhou's conscience was condemned for a short moment, and he felt that he seemed to be assimilated by Yan Cen. Recently, such "bully" behaviors have become more and more common.

——This is not very good, Xu Muzhou thought.

"But I wanted to ask you a question yesterday, but you were not there after searching all over the castle." Xu Muzhou deliberately paused, and only when he realized that Toya became nervous obviously did Shi Shiran continue the next sentence: "...it's hard Are you in the attic?"

Toya opened her mouth and was speechless for a while: "I..."

Before Toya hesitated between "should I admit it or not", Xu Muzhou asked again: "After that, if I can't find you in the castle, can I go to the attic to find you?"

"No—!" Toya hissed.

Xu Muzhou raised his eyebrows.

Toya doesn't seem like a person who is good at lying, Xu Muzhou was forced into a dilemma by Xu Muzhou in just two short sentences.

He clenched the corners of his lips in embarrassment, and finally decided to resist passively - not to speak.

Yan Cen felt rather bored by this, so he let him go.

Xu Muzhou was noncommittal about this, anyway, he had come to a conclusion that he wanted to confirm before——Tuoya would lie.

There is a secret hidden in this castle, and Toya is well aware of it, but she is not ready to tell them the truth.

Even, Toya clearly knew that these "outsiders" might be dangerous, but still kept this "secret" tight-lipped.

——It doesn't look as selfless and holy as it appears, Xu Muzhou thought.

Once Toya was free, she hurriedly took two steps back clutching her swollen wrist, keeping a safe distance from the two unfriendly crew members.

He hesitated to speak while looking at the crystal ball in Xu Muzhou's arms, and because of Yan Cen's power, he didn't dare to say "return my things to me".

Xu Muzhou didn't have any idea about the thing in his arms, he even felt that the ball was like a red-hot iron ball in his hand, maybe it would explode at that moment, so he just dribbled the ball into his arms, thinking Pass it back to Toya.

Unexpectedly, before he raised his hand, Yan Cen held him down.

"Leave this thing and lend it to me." Yan Cen said to Toya.

His tone was calm and his voice was normal, as natural as if he wanted to eat an extra piece of brown bread for dinner tonight.

Xu Muzhou turned his head to look at him, his face full of confusion: "...?"

Yan Cen didn't care about Toya's grief-stricken face at all, he picked up the crystal ball through the quilt, and weighed it in his hand like picking a watermelon on the street.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

——He didn't even want to look at Toya's expression.