This NPC really has a problem

calm.

Bai Zhu took a few deep breaths and said to himself in his heart.

The person in his arms remained silent.

Bai Zhu scratched his hair angrily, how could he calm down!

When the candle oil exploded, there was a faint crackling sound, and any sound at this time would stimulate Bai Zhu's sensitive nerves.

But it was also this voice that made Bai Zhu suddenly realize that something was wrong with the surrounding silence.

It was already late at night, and it was completely normal to be quiet, but logically speaking, no matter how quiet the night was, there would be slight noises.

It may come from people with insomnia, it may come from nocturnal animals, or it may be a few sleep talking in deep sleep.

But Bai Zhu didn't hear any sound.

It was as if this was a city where there was no living thing but him, and the dead could not make any sound.

The City of Reflections was shrouded in dead silence.

Bai Zhu lightly put Lu Ren back on the bed, and covered him with a quilt, as if he was afraid that he would catch a cold.After carefully tucking in the quilt for Lu Ren, Bai Zhu took the candle on the table and left.

He slowly pushed the door open, but the door still creaked, which was extremely clear in the dead of night.

A bright moon hangs in the sky.

During the day, the sun can only illuminate a small part of the high wall in the slums, and the narrow corridors are always shrouded in shadows.The bright moon hanging high is selfless, even without the candle in Bai Zhu's hand, the brilliance of the moon illuminates the path in front of him for him.

Candles are an expensive consumable in slums. Most people are reluctant to light candles at night, preferring to go to bed early in the dark to save unnecessary money.

At night, if someone stands on the highest place—for example, the clock tower—and looks down on the City of Reflections, they will be able to see two places in the city that are engulfed in darkness, one is the Mirror Lake, and the other is the slums.

Bai Zhu stepped on the uneven stone road.

He looked up, and saw that the high walls on both sides were extremely close, and he was caught in the middle, as if he would be swallowed in the next second.

Bai Zhu's face was expressionless, he couldn't convince himself to calm down at all, but his thoughts were extremely clear at this moment.

After finding the stairs leading to the second floor, he walked to the door of the young man who had a good relationship with Lu Ren by stepping on the narrow stairs that only allowed one person to pass through.

The door is closed.

But the door is not locked, and it can be opened by holding the door handle and twisting it.At this point, players have to be thankful for the particularity of the City of Reflections. When the citizens of the entire city are locked up with evil thoughts in their hearts, then naturally there will be no theft.

Bai Zhu came to the young man's bedside very easily.

The young man's room is even smaller than Lu Ren's, but the furniture is obviously much richer. He can be regarded as a master of space utilization.Normally, Bai Zhu would be amazed at how he packed so much furniture into such a small space, but at this moment he has no time to care about others, and after entering the door, he is focused on checking the situation of the young man.

The young man is lying in bed.

But if you don't try to breathe in time, you can tell by just looking at his bluish-white skin that he is dead.

He didn't have to check on any more people.

Think of it in vain.

Lu Ren's situation was obviously not an exception. Once it was late at night, the citizens of the City of Reflections—at least the vast majority of ordinary citizens—would turn into corpses.

It was the same yesterday, but he slept soundly last night and was not awakened by Lu Ren's chilly body, and tonight because of Zhong Changya's incident, he slept too late and his sleep was light, so he realized Lu Ren's abnormality.

It is obviously impossible to come up with the answer to this situation among the city residents just thinking about it here.

Bai Zhu couldn't stay with a corpse any longer.He hurriedly left the young man's house and ran downstairs, returning to his and Lu Ren's residence.

Speaking of which, the current Lu Ren is also a corpse.

Even though he knew it was a game, thinking about it still made Bai Zhu feel extremely bad.

The candle was placed on the table again, and Bai Zhu lost all sleep. He sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Lu Ren's face under the candlelight without sleep all night.

Until the end of the long night, a white belly appeared in the sky, and Lu Ren's body seemed to heave.

Bai Zhu rubbed his eyes, almost thinking that he had made a mistake.

He threw himself on Lu Ren, and was worried that he was too heavy to really press down.Bai Zhu was so nervous that he held his breath. He stretched out his hand to test Lu Ren's breathing. He didn't heave a sigh of relief until his fingers felt warm.

That was not his illusion.

Lu Ren really "lived" over.

As the sky became brighter, Lu Ren's weak breathing returned to normal.His heart started beating again, and blood gradually turned to his face.

At this time, the candle was burning to the end, and Bai Zhu finally felt sleepy, and drowsiness came over him, and he fell asleep on Lu Ren's body.

……

Lu Ren didn't sleep well.

His body seemed to be pressed by something, it was a bit heavy, and it made it difficult for him to breathe smoothly.

In his sleep, Lu Ren turned over holding the thing that was pressing on his body. Finally, he was able to sleep well. Lu Ren rubbed himself on the "pillow" in satisfaction.

So when Lu Ren woke up, he was stunned when he saw the person very close to him in his arms.

He has always slept honestly, didn't he never have the habit of sleeping with something in his arms before?

Lu Ren was deeply puzzled.

Not long after Lu Ren woke up, Bai Zhu also opened his eyes. Under Lu Ren's increasingly bewildered gaze, he first tested Lu Ren's breath, then his pulse, and finally put his hand on his chest to test his heartbeat. After confirming that everything was safe, he took Lu Ren into his arms and planned to catch up on sleep.

"...Wait," Lu Ren moved a little away, "It's getting late."

He moved Bai Zhu away as much as he could, and finally put his head on Lu Ren's side, and said with a tired expression, "I haven't slept almost all night..."

Lu Ren was stunned for a moment: "What happened last night?"

"You..." Bai Zhu vaguely wanted to bring that self through, but finally changed his words to make him more acceptable, "You didn't breathe last night?"

Lu Ren: "???"

Lu Ren was dumbfounded.

He slept soundly last night, oblivious to everything outside.

"I'll explain to you later... sleep with me," Bai Zhu said coquettishly with him, "I'm too sleepy..."

Lu Ren saw the black eyes under his eyes, and knew that he really didn't sleep well last night, and felt distressed.

He carefully pushed Bai Zhu into his arms, so that he could avoid the light from the small window.There were already some pedestrians on the street outside, the poor sound insulation effect couldn't stop much noise, Lu Ren covered his ears for Bai Zhu again.

Lu Ren followed suit and closed his eyes, but did not fall asleep.

I didn't breathe last night... what does that mean?

Lu Ren thought about it carefully, and realized that something was wrong. He seemed to have slept too deeply these past few days.His sleep quality has always been good, as long as he fell asleep, he would not be easily woken up, but he has never been like the past few nights after coming to this dungeon, when he fell asleep, he was completely unaware of his surroundings.

After falling asleep...is he really alive?