nightmare space

Xu You and Qiu Siwen sat down facing each other. He took out the doll with a serious expression, and looked up to see a blush on the face of the person opposite.

"...Your face seems a little red?" Xu You stared at Qiu Siwen with some doubts.

Qiu Siwen, who had grown so old and hadn't been seen by a beautiful girl like this, yelled in embarrassment: "Uh, is it, maybe it's a little hot...Ahaha..."

He lowered his eyes and saw that Xu You's fair feet were covered with tiny scars, and quickly changed the subject: "So what! Your feet... are you okay?"

"Ah, it's okay, it doesn't hurt at all." Xu You said indifferently.

Qiu Siwen frowned, got up and walked around the room, found a pair of shoes for him, and asked him to put them on.

Xu You thanked him for his kindness, put on the shoes, and then continued to move the doll's head off.

Familiar black smoke, familiar scene changes.

This time, it was in a girl's bedroom.

Xu You was surprised to find that this was the room he woke up in - the whole wall was tender pink! (emoji rolls eyes.jpg)

The blond-haired woman—that is, the princess—sat on the bed, holding the unconscious man in her arms tightly, with a contented smile on her face.

Xu You was surprised to find that the princess looked very similar to him.

Her lips moved slightly, as if she was muttering something to herself.

He stared for a moment, barely making out that she was saying the word "bless".

Bless?

Xu You suddenly remembered the contents of the diary he found from the room.

"Brace...he betrayed me!"

It seems that this man is Blaise who betrayed the princess, that is, the princess' knight.

And that silver-haired maid was referring to the name blurred by blood.

The princess let go of the knight, laid him carefully flat on the bed, then got up and went to the dressing-table, and took a dagger from a drawer.

This was undoubtedly a sharp dagger, and it easily sank into the knight's chest.

She lowered her head and kissed the corner of the knight's lips tenderly, and then everything fell into darkness.

Xu You put the doll in his hand into the package, then supported his upper body from the ground with his hands, and found that the surroundings had been plunged into darkness.

From the looks of it... now it's that terrifying inner world.

"Qiu Siwen?" He tried to shout.

"I'm here." The other party responded quickly, and said, "You must be careful now."

The bedroom they had chosen had no windows, and now there was only disturbing darkness.

"Did you find anything about the clip just now?" Xu You asked.

Qiu Siwen thought about it for a while, and said with some hesitation: "The princess... killed the knight with a dagger."

"Then it is very possible that the key to killing the knight of the princess lies in that dagger." Xu You said, and suddenly realized that that dagger... maybe it was the one that Hao Bing held in his hand before?

He briefly summarized Hao Bing's affairs and his own conjectures and told Qiu Siwen.

After listening, Qiu Siwen confirmed his guess, and added: "I feel that Hao Bing's death may also be related to that dagger."

He paused and asked, "Where is the dagger now?"

"Uh..." Xu You got stuck, thought for a while, and said uncertainly, "Either on the stairs, or...in the corridor on the third floor."

After speaking, both of them were silent.

Monsters may appear in those two places...

"Let's go." Qiu Siwen remembered the amulet that saved his life, "It's okay, I'll protect you."

"..." Xu You trembled uncomfortably.

He thought, when this darkness passes, he should tell Qiu Siwen the fact that he is a man.

It's not good to be misunderstood all the time...

It took them little effort to open the formerly locked door, which was now rotten.

The bloody moonlight shone in the corridor, and the fine dust in the air was clearly visible.

Xu You followed Qiu Siwen, but couldn't resist the other party's insistence ("At least I know that people are walking behind me!"), holding hands with him, they tiptoed towards the stairs in the corridor.

Thinking of the unknown monster and the disgusting rancid smell in the restaurant not far from the stairs, Qiu Siwen couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle.

He tightened the hand he held with Xu You, and pulled him up the stairs.

Even though the movements were as light as possible, the stairs inevitably made a sound that was very clear in the silence and darkness.

They didn't stop, but walked up step by step. When they reached the corner, Xu You didn't dare to show his anger.

Fortunately, the darkness in front of him showed that the ghost did not appear.

He and Qiu Siwen touched the ground for a long time, but got nothing but ashes.

"Go up." Xu You said softly.

Qiu Siwen nodded, remembering that Xu You couldn't see in the dark, so he took Xu You's hand to express his agreement.

When they walked out of the stairs, both of them breathed a sigh of relief: there were no monsters waiting to "greet" them.

Xu You recalled the place where he met "Hao Bing", and led Qiu Siwen to that direction.

Not far away, they smelled a faint smell of blood.

The hearts of the two people tensed, and they both raised their vigilance.

Soon, they saw the girl bathed in the bloody moonlight.

Qiu Siwen sharply saw the dagger in her right hand.

"Xu You...Sister..." Hao Bing—perhaps it should be called a monster—calls Xu You's name indistinctly, staring at Xu You with his only eyes.

Qiu Siwen stood in front of Xu You and took out the amulet with shaking hands.

The monster stood there, looking from Xu You to the amulet in Qiu Siwen's hand.

Qiu Siwen immediately felt that the amulet was heating up, and the heat was almost hot.

"B... Lace..." The monster's mouth opened and closed, and there was blood on the ground along the corner of the torn mouth.

tick.tick.

The sound of blood falling to the ground.

despair.despair.despair.

Mechanical footsteps.

behind.

When Xu You realized it, he suddenly turned his head, and at the same time Qiu Siwen smelled the familiar rancid smell.

A tall carrion walked towards this side like a puppet.

—It was the intruder!

—It's that monster!

The two shouted in their hearts at the same time.

Xu You and Qiu Siwen stood back to back, each facing a monster.

When the rotting corpse came over, Xu You's mind went blank, he could only watch it getting closer and closer, his feet seemed to be nailed in place, unable to move at all.

The rotting corpse was almost half rotten, and black flesh continued to fall as it walked.The eye sockets were pitch black, but the chest was covered with white bones, and there were obvious knife marks on the ribs.

Qiu Siwen took a deep breath to keep himself calm, and then made up his mind to put the amulet behind Xu You.

Xu You froze obviously, and wanted to return the amulet to Qiu Siwen.

Qiu Siwen said in a whisper: "Xu You, I said, I will protect you." When he said this, his heart was full of tragedy.

The monster transformed by Hao Bing seemed to be immersed in his own world, just murmured "Brace" constantly.

For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.

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Finally finished.

The sadness of not having a manuscript.