[Comprehensive terror] When picking up soap, choose the one that won't hurt you

The author has something to say: catching insects] Cao Xiao felt that he was just having a long dream until he boarded the plane.

And until now, this dream has not woken up.

Because his 26 years of life so far have been fairly ordinary, but suddenly two days ago, everything suddenly changed from ordinary to smooth.

The magazine held a meeting the day before yesterday and wanted to send a photojournalist to the United States to cover a small town in the south of the United States for a period of one month.The magazine bears 90.00% of the total expenses.The most exciting thing is that this kind of fat job suddenly fell on him, a semi-temporary worker who was not a permanent reporter of the magazine.

At noon on the day I got off the plane, I went to eat at a newly opened western restaurant recommended by an enthusiastic young man on the same plane, but I ran into a restaurant opening bonus.He also won a round-trip double-air ticket for a luxurious three-day tour from the United States to Paris.

Cao Xiao exchanged the ticket for a prize ticket and looked up to the sky for silly joy.I feel that this is the rhythm to develop.Becoming the CEO, marrying Bai Fumei, and reaching the pinnacle of his career seems to be no longer a dream in a matter of minutes.

Thinking about it this way, I was a little excited.

In fact, the interview went smoothly unexpectedly, and all the interviewees were very cooperative and even... positive.

Cao Xiao didn't meet lonely artists, nerds who didn't leave home, or masters with interpersonal communication barriers.

Although it is an exclusive interview with artistic elements.But these people who made an appointment to meet were very talkative, and the interview and communication were very smooth.

Today, Cao Xiao is sitting leisurely in the tavern on Old Elm Street, drinking coffee and waiting for the last interview subject.

The lights inside the tavern were deliberately made very dark, vague and hazy, as if to set off the atmosphere.

It was still early, Cao Xiao was not in a hurry, and patiently waited for the other party's arrival.

The waitress with a curvy figure passed by Cao Xiao with a tray.Cao Xiao closed his eyes and felt that he was relaxed and comfortable.And just when Cao Xiao closed his eyes and opened them again, a cold feeling penetrated from Cao Xiao's back to the bottom of his heart.

The light tube on the ceiling of the tavern made a slight 'stabbing—' sound.

The coldness was so obvious that Cao Xiao could no longer pretend that it was an illusion.

So Cao Xiao stood up and moved his body, beckoning to the waiter at the bar counter of the bar, "Sorry, can I have something to eat?"

The waiter smiled and nodded, turned and entered the kitchen.

It wasn't until this moment that Cao Xiao realized that the entire tavern had left at some point.The huge tavern is terribly empty.Even if it's only afternoon, it shouldn't be like this.

And right across from where he stayed, a young man with a crew cut anxiously sat on a chair and gnawed his thumb.After looking around, Cao Xiao concluded that he and that young man were the only ones in the entire hotel.

Even the bartender in the tavern has entered the kitchen.

When Cao Xiao looked over, the young man sitting directly opposite Cao Xiao just raised his head.Looking at Cao Xiaocai, he felt that it was impolite to stare directly at others, so he raised his hand and smiled in embarrassment.

But the young man's gaze didn't stay on him at all, and directly crossed his direction.Then Dark stood up in confusion, as if attracted by something, and walked towards the back kitchen of the tavern step by step.

Cao Xiao watched the young man's movements without moving.It's not clear whether it's because of the young man's stiff movements or the eerie atmosphere in the tavern.In short, inexplicable tension suddenly enveloped Cao Xiao.

The feeling told Cao Xiao that the back kitchen gave people a very bad feeling.And this bad feeling reached its peak when the young man held the back kitchen curtain to separate the hall and the kitchen, and was pulled by unknown emotions.

The body screamed involuntarily——

"and many more!--"

"What's wrong, sir"

Cao Xiao raised his head from the table in the tavern.The arms on both sides were slightly numb from the head pillow for a long time, and the beautiful waiter bent down to indicate to Cao Xiao if there was anything he needed to serve.

Cao Xiao was taken aback.

Was that... just a dream?He yelled out in his dream and woke up?

"It's nothing." Cao Xiaoqiang said with a gentle smile to the waiter, "Please bring me another cup of coffee."

"Okay, sir, please wait a moment."

The waiter nodded and left.

Following the footsteps of the waiter, Cao Xiao looked around.Although the tavern in the dream is similar to the tavern in real life, there are still differences.

Thinking about it now, it was cloudy and light raining outside the tavern in the dream, but it was sunny outside in real life.

The lights of the tavern in the dream are dim and dim, but the tavern in real life is actually very bright.

Finally——Actually, the tavern was not empty at this time.There were still customers in the tavern at this time, sitting in twos and threes chatting in low voices.

it's a dream...

Cao Xiao didn't know whether he breathed a sigh of relief or breathed a sigh of relief.That dream was so real.

What are you thinking!Probably because I have relaxed too much during this period, so I feel guilty.Cao Xiao comforted himself like this.But before he finished thinking about comforting himself, he suddenly heard screams from the kitchen!

It's just that the scream is not clear.It is vague, like a thick wall or a poor-quality sound insulation board, the sound is muffled, and it is unreal and vague.

Cao Xiao noticed that the expressions of the people around him did not change much.But Cao Xiao really couldn't lie to himself that it was just an illusion.Because the biting coldness flooded back again overwhelmingly.

this!arrive!end!How!what!up!

Cao Xiao went crazy.

Sudden chills in the air-conditioned room in summer can be explained, but now it is late summer and early autumn, the weather has begun to cool slightly, and the inside of the tavern is not warm enough.This coldness is simply unscientific.

Of course, [unscientific] cannot be regarded as the reason for Cao Xiao’s madness. Cao Xiao’s anxiety comes from the bottom of his heart, and there is no way to explore the reason, but it is anxiety.

Obviously nothing happened, but his bad premonition just got stronger and stronger.

The name Old Elm Street, plus the place America.The combination of the two will always remind people of the ghost king who used to be active on the movie screen, plus the inexplicable teasing/forced dream just now——

He stood up straight, and the young man sitting opposite him in the dream was really lying on the opposite table.Cao Xiao thought for a while, then stood up and walked to the sleeping young man, intending to wake him up.Even if it is impolite to wake up a sleeping stranger like this, Cao Xiao paranoidly thinks that it should be good to wake up the youth. .

The waiter who came back from the service desk stopped in front of Cao Xiao with a slippery step, the professional smile on his mouth disappeared, and he looked at Cao Xiao with a smile that was not a smile, "Sir, are you sure you want to wake this gentleman up?" ?"

Both of them sat in the tavern for a long time, and they didn't speak to each other.Cao Xiao's action to wake up the young man was too aggressive, as if he was trying to find fault.After all, it was in a restaurant, and the waiters didn't want to make too much trouble, so they stopped him and hoped that Cao Xiao could act cautiously. "

"I am willing!" Regardless of birth, old age, illness or death, regardless of disease or death!

The English sentence pattern of the hostess was so close to the wedding priest's oath, Cao Xiao subconsciously slipped out the phrase "YES, IDO" and felt slightly inappropriate after he finished speaking.

But he still firmly put his hand on the young man's shoulder while the waitress was in a mess.

After the momentary dizziness passed, Cao Xiao keenly found that the atmosphere in the cafe was slightly different from before.

The young man raised his head while rubbing his bloodshot eyes.He looked extremely sleepy and was woken up after falling asleep, but there was no impatience in his eyes. Cao Xiao's interpretation could probably be classified as... thanks?

"What's matter?"

While the young man was speaking, Cao Xiao swore he heard the sound of sharp iron rubbing against something.Immediately remembered the reason why he wanted to wake up the youth.This reason is too nonsense to say directly, so I asked tactfully.

"Um... do you like watching Nightmare on Elm Street?" I feel that your condition is very bad.

Paradoxically speaking of this movie, Cao Xiao originally planned to use this movie as an introduction.

"A Nightmare on Elm Street? What's that? A game?" The young man rubbed his face and seemed to be almost awake, doubtful about Cao Xiao's question.

"It's not...it's a movie."

Even if the audience of horror movies is small, after all, Elm Street has entered Hollywood, and has won many awards, and the box office has also been brilliant.Freddy also won the title of ghost king.Saying "A Nightmare on Elm Street" in America is like saying "The Bell at Midnight" in Japan...

Even if most people haven't seen it, they can still hear the name.But the young man's expression did not lie.So Cao Xiaoduo explained.

"Probably a movie about sleeping and dreaming..."

The young man's expression was perfunctory and tangled, as if he didn't want to hear Cao Xiao's words again, but it touched on something he was very interested in.After hesitating for a moment, he still didn't ask further. "By the way, you're new here, and I haven't seen you on Old Elm Street before."

"I'm a reporter, and I've invited someone here to do an exclusive interview." Cao Xiao has been paying attention to the surrounding scene.

After the conversation between the two just now, the eye movement of the pupils of the young man's eyes has decreased significantly and gradually stabilized.It should have calmed down.

"Then the dream you just mentioned—" the young man frowned and finally asked this question.

At the same time as this question was asked, the pupils of the eyes began to move around restlessly.

But before he finished speaking, the young man retreated instantly as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, then picked up the knife and fork on the dining table and stabbed towards Cao Xiao viciously!

Cao Xiao was forced to use his arms to block the stabbing knife and fork.

The sharp blade pierced Cao Xiao's skin, and blood stained a large part of Cao Xiao's sleeves red.The stab wound was burning with pain.

"Wait! What's wrong with you?!"

Grass!

Cao Xiao scolded the country, the look in the young man's eyes was close to madness, seeing that the stabbing would not work, he immediately drew his knife.

Damn it, at this time Cao Xiao suddenly found out what the disobedience was at the moment when he came into contact with the young man just now.

There is no one around the entire restaurant at this moment!

The waiter who was standing in front of him was no longer there. This man went crazy and wanted to hurt him, but there was no one around Cao Xiao who could help him temporarily get rid of this young man who seemed to be possessed by magic and extremely powerful!

The steak knife has serrated teeth, and it is double pain whether it is stabbed or pulled back.Cao Xiao covered his arms and heard the screams in his ears.

The scream was close to my ears, but it was still indistinct as if separated by something.

But it was different from the young man's scream heard in the tavern, this time it was a woman's scream, and it was accompanied by noisy voices around her.

"Oh my god... call the police..."

The young man went crazy as if he failed in one blow, and then pointed the knife at Cao Xiao's neck.

Cao Xiao cautiously confronted the young man, clutching his arms, and retreated to the other side of the bar. Why did he hear the sound of first aid but there was no one around?

What happened today is completely unreasonable!

Since there is no way to explain things with common sense, then throw away all common sense!

...!Shrinking behind the bar, listening to the roar of the young trapped beast.Cao Xiao also noticed something was wrong.

After waking up from the dream just now, Cao Xiao clearly saw that there were customers in this tavern.But now Cao Xiao couldn't find anyone in sight except for intermittent screams and noises as though separated by a thick cotton cloth.

This situation is just like the scream from the kitchen that I heard after waking up from a dream just now——

!

Dream! ...?

Could it be explained that the scream he heard when he was awake was actually the young man’s cry when something happened in the kitchen in his dream, and now the noisy voices he could hear were realistic.The slight dizziness he felt when he touched the young man meant that he had entered a dream, and he was in a dream now! ! !

So the noise heard is real.

In reality he was injured... this was in a dream... Cao Xiao tried hard to concentrate and control himself.

Wake up, this is a dream!

Opening his eyes, Cao Xiao woke up from his dream.

Before he woke up, a dark red and green sweater and huge claws with sharp teeth that could cover his entire face appeared in the corner of his eyes

In the real world after waking up, the young man was stabbing him with a knife with his eyes tightly closed.He was holding the young man's hand tightly.

And after he escaped and hid behind the bar, the series of actions turned out to be all just a dream.

After waking up, Cao Xiao gave up the confrontation with the young man, quickly let go of the two hands that were clasped together, and retreated.

The young man's eyes were closed tightly, Cao Xiao retreated, and the young man staggered and fell to the ground.The young man who fell to the ground did not get up like the regular attackers and continued to attack Cao Xiao.

Instead, he stabbed his own throat with the knife still in his hand in a fallen posture!

All this happened too quickly, there was no time for Cao Xiao to react.

Fortunately, the more hysterical scream from the waitress next to her ear almost pierced Cao Xiao's eardrums, but at least it also brought back Cao Xiao's sanity.