Neverland

In the end, Yan Cen did not take away the other girls in the dungeon, but left them with an extra light source and two coats.

Xu Muzhou didn't ask any further questions. Song Yan said that Yan Cen had already found the key to the mission to push the progress bar, which meant that Yan Cen knew well that these girls might be left behind to complete the mission in the end.

As for what to do with Captain Kelin, Xu Muzhou didn't ask any more.

He was like a little prince rescued from a barbarian cave, returning to his castle without any worries.After being scrubbed clean, he was stuffed into a soft quilt, and got half a cup of hot milk before going to bed.

Compared with the dungeon, the warm bedroom is like a paradise. Xu Muzhou is trapped in the soft quilt, his stomach is soothed by the temperature of the hot milk, and he falls asleep as soon as he falls on the pillow.

"Brother Yan..." Xu Muzhou asked in a daze, "Where is Sister Song Yan?"

"Go to deal with the aftermath." Yan Cen said: "The second floor must be restored to its original state before dawn."

"Oh..." Xu Muzhou agreed with a slow response, thought for a while, and then asked, "How do you know I'm there?"

"Song Yan discovered a loophole in the symmetry of the castle's architectural specifications, and found a new hidden space opposite Robert's trail." Yan Cen patiently explained: "Actually, we were not sure before going down, just looking for it first."

Xu Muzhou was so sleepy that his eyelids were clenched, but he didn't seem to intend to fall asleep like this. He shrank back under the blanket and asked, "Then what if you don't find me?"

"Manually end this task." Yan Cen said: "Your life safety is higher than the task itself."

"...Until the night of the full moon, Kelin will not do anything to the offerings." Xu Muzhou whispered.

"It's possible." Yan Cen said calmly, "I don't want to take any risks."

Xu Muzhou wanted to say something else, but Yan Cen sighed first, and stretched out his hand to cover his eyes.

"Sleep." Yan Cen said: "If you have anything to do, or want to ask anything, wake up tomorrow and talk about it."

Xu Muzhou blinked.

His eyes suddenly darkened, but he didn't panic.This hand had saved him, held him, and put his shoes through.There are a few thin calluses in the palm of the opponent's right hand, and every time he covers his eyes, they can be pressed right at the end of his eyes.

It wasn't until this moment that Xu Muzhou realized that he was already very familiar with the touch of this hand without knowing it.

When he blinked, Xu Muzhou could still feel the weak resistance of his eyelashes sweeping across his opponent's palm.

Xu Muzhou felt that he was probably really sleepy, his consciousness was hazy, and in all the sensory impressions, only this hand remained for a while.

He suddenly remembered his first mission after entering Neverland. At the base of the school building where catkins were flying, Yan Cen covered his eyes like this, blocking those terrifying scenes from him.

With a thought in his mind, Xu Muzhou raised a hand and grasped Yan Cen's wrist gropingly.

Yan Cen thought he was going to pull him away, but after waiting for a long time, Xu Muzhou didn't make any move, so he asked suspiciously, "Huh?"

Xu Muzhou patted the bed beside him, and asked softly, "Then you won't come up to sleep?"

"I will guard you." Yan Cen said.

Xu Muzhou didn't speak any more, Yan Cen felt his eyelashes sweeping over his palm - it was Xu Muzhou who closed his eyes.

Yan Cen straightened up slowly, and let go of the hand covering Xu Muzhou's eyes.

He paused for a moment, then held Xu Muzhou's hand holding him in his palm.

The evening wind swept over the gauze curtains. They walked too hastily before, and the window that was knocked open by Catherine was still wide open. It brushed against Yan Cen's shoulder, and finally left a narrow mark on the bed over the mountains.

The water marks on the floor were almost dry, half the night passed, and the poor white rose was still lying on the ground, the beautiful petals were slightly curled, and it had inevitably fallen into the end of its life.

When Yan Cen turned his head again, Xu Muzhou had already fallen asleep.

Xu Muzhou's hand fell into his palm, and he held it tightly even when he was asleep.Yan Cen pursed his lips, smiled lightly, and awkwardly pulled the quilt for him with his left hand.

He found that the feeling of thinking about one person is not annoying, and when another person is included in the scope of thinking, there will be a lot more things to think about, which makes him more full.

The hands of the broken pocket watch were still moving forward, and when the hands passed twelve, another day had passed.

The moon outside the window is almost full, and the progress on the hydrangea has dropped by another level, and there are only three days left before the commemorative banquet.

The bedroom door was quietly opened a small crack, Song Yan poked her head to look in, and got Yan Cen's permission to slip in through the crack, and closed the door silently.

Her steps are very light, and if you look closely, you will find that the heels of her heavy leather shoes barely touch the ground.

"Asleep?" Song Yan asked softly.

Yan Cen nodded slightly.

Song Yan crushed the small piece of moonlight that was smuggling, her shadow flashed past the bed, and landed opposite Yan Cen.

"Is everything packed?" Yan Cen asked.His voice was soft, for fear of waking up the sleeping Xu Muzhou.

"Well." Song Yan said: "What about Kelin, he will definitely go down to collect the offerings before the full moon night."

"After dawn, I will find an excuse to send him out of the manor." Yan Cen said, "And from now on, there will be no more offerings."

"What do you mean?" Song Yan asked: "You want to let those little girls go? Then Robert..."

"I'm a staff member who cleans up the system, and everything I do is to meet the obsession of the mission goal." Yan Cen said: "Including this - as for what other mission-related personnel think, I'm not interested."

Song Yan was speechless.

Because Yan Cen is right, until now, Song Yan will still habitually consider problems from past experience, diligently try to maintain the original integrity of the timeline, and want to find a way to carry out the task with the least impact .

But in fact, she no longer needed to be so cautious.

Song Yan bit her lip, she sat sideways on the window sill, bent one leg and looked out the window.Today's moonlight is very clear, and you can see far away by the moonlight. The wind lamp at the gate of the manor is shining faintly. The doorman is hugging a somewhat worn-out quilt, leaning against the iron gate and sleeping soundly.

"Yan Cen." Song Yan said, "Don't you feel bored?"

Yan Cen gave her a "huh?" response.

"From Neverland to these mission worlds." Song Yan said: "It's just going from one place to another, the cleaning task time is short, and the scope of the task is also small. In fact, it is no different from Neverland after careful calculation-just Like, from one cage to another."

"If you have to think that way, everyone is the same. Catherine is trapped in this castle, and Robert is trapped in this wheelchair." Yan Cen was very calm: "Even everyone in the timeline , they are all trapped in a huge timeline. The reason why they don’t feel suffocated is just because these people have spent their entire lives unable to reach the edge of the cage.”

Yan Cen is always so calm, Song Yan thinks, since she knew each other, the other party can clearly distinguish the gap between reason and emotion, and will always find the most rational way to deal with it in the first time.

This is not difficult to do, and everyone in Neverland has the ability to do this.But Yan Cen was probably the only one who had to sort out his own thoughts so calmly and rationally.

"The ruthless and strict team leader deserves his reputation." Song Yan complained, "Let me interview you, how do you keep your mentality balanced on a daily basis?"

"Those who are out of balance are already in the mud of Neverland." Yan Cen said.

Song Yan: "..."

Yan Cen glanced at her, changed to a comfortable sitting position and said, "It's up to you to choose whether you want to live in a cage unconsciously, thinking you are free, or live in a cage consciously."

"...or the latter." Song Yan sighed.

Xu Muzhou seemed to be startled by the sound of the two of them talking, and shrank back under the quilt.

Yan Cen stopped talking, and pulled a corner of the quilt to cover Xu Muzhou's arm while holding hands.

His attitude is too intimate and quite careful, which is quite different from his usual appearance.Song Yan folded her arms, with a resigned expression of seeing through the world of mortals.

"...Don't bother to show off the two of you here, have you found the mission node for this mission?" Song Yan asked.

Yan Cen raised his eyebrows, and shamelessly acquiesced to the first half of Song Yan's sentence.

"I found it." Yan Cen said, "The focus is on the girls under the bedroom—if I guessed correctly, those girls are the nodes of Catherine's obsession. The nursery rhyme Mu Zhou found at the time was a reincarnation It doesn't matter who killed the mockingbird, what matters is the 'trial' itself."

Song Yan didn't know much about the story behind the nursery rhyme. She recited the nursery rhyme from beginning to end in her heart, and only then did she feel some strange flavors.

"This nursery rhyme seems to be written from the perspective of a judge, so since the court has already opened, why do we have to try the murderer 'next time'?" Song Yan asked.

"That's the point." Yan Cen said: "About the robin, it's actually more like a victim in other people's mouths... But in this nursery rhyme, it doesn't say why the robin died, or why the sparrow died. Kill her. This time the court trial didn't try the sparrow who should have been guilty, so who did it judge?"

"Mockingbird?" Song Yan said.

"This nursery rhyme is a metaphor for this story." Yan Cen said: "There is only Catherine in his mouth, and the unclear death message. Catherine died quietly, but it should be—she is the only one who knows More birds."

"Catherine is also guilty." Yan Cen said: "...At least she feels guilty."

"I understand." Song Yan said.

The one who understands girls best is always the girls themselves. As long as Song Yan looks at Robert from Catherine's perspective, she can understand how she views those girls who appear for no reason.

"She is jealous of those girls." Song Yan said: "I am jealous that they can be locked up by Robert and have a place in his heart."