Forces of Temptation

The atmosphere instantly froze.

In one breath, if the opportunity is not seized, the battle will surely resume.

At this time, Nanzhou could say that there was only one sentence left.

If they fail to seize this fleeting opportunity, the two Nanzhous will only march toward the endless ending for their respective beliefs to protect.

This is also the dead end planned by Gaowei people for Nanzhou.

The one who killed Nan Zhou could only be Nan Zhou.

When the basement was so quiet that there was only the sound of two people breathing at the same frequency, a series of light footsteps suddenly came from above, shaking down a line of fine dust.

When Nan Zhou looked up, he happened to see [Nan Zhou] also looking up.

After the fighting ceased, the flickering frequency of the light bulb on the top gradually decreased.

Therefore, when the swaying light fell on [Nan Zhou]'s face, the faint sadness was only fleeting.

Thoughts flashed like lightning.

Nan Zhou asked: "We are fighting like this here, why doesn't he come out?"

The two of them knew who "he" was referring to.

[Nanzhou] No answer, just secretly exerting force with his hands, wanting to take back the iron box.

Nan Zhou exerted strength with his fingertips and pressed it tightly against the iron box. While wrestling with him secretly, he looked at [Nan Zhou] immersed in the darkness and continued to ask: "This is his yard, and he is right above our heads. But why can't he hear us fighting in the basement?"

"You are afraid of being exposed by him, but why do you dare to grab the box directly in the yard? Why don't you go a little further?"

[Nanzhou] clearly knew the answers to these questions, but couldn't say a word.

Nan Zhou looked at this face, which was similar in appearance to his own but different in emotion, and felt a little pity in his heart.

His strength in his hands weakened a little, and he no longer devoted himself to fighting for the iron box with him. Instead, he sat down cross-legged and told him one thing: "...When I went in to get the box just now, I pretended to be you. But He didn't find out at all."

[Nanzhou] With a movement of her fingertips, she just hit her heart.

He lowered his eyelashes and replied, "He won't find out."

He added: "...he's already working hard. Can't blame him."

Seeing that [Nan Zhou] had a different expression, Nan Zhou guessed a little deeper.

"...you told him who you were, didn't you?"

When meeting [Nan Zhou] for the first time, Nan Zhou thought he was deliberately disguising his identity, and did not want [Jiang Fang] to know that he was a monster, so he pretended to be ignorant.

Seeing that he acted inconsistently now, Nan Zhou overthrew all his previous assumptions on his own.

Nan Zhou let go of the box, and covered [Nan Zhou] Weiliang's back with his hand: "...but, even if you tell him, he won't remember, will you?"

[Nanzhou] Shoulders shrank suddenly.

He never thought that the person who could see through his secrets of more than 20 years turned out to be a person who claimed to destroy his world.

He cleared his hoarse throat and admitted: "Well, yes."

In the second box world, it is not Jiang Fang who falls in love with the story character Nan Zhou, but the conscious story character [Nan Zhou] who falls in love with the unconscious story character [Jiang Fang].

[Nan Zhou] also tried to expose his identity in front of [Jiang Fang].

But as long as the scene is switched, [Jiang Fang] will forget everything when the door is pushed and closed.

Including his inhuman identity.

That being the case, [Nan Zhou] simply played a role-playing game with him.

He guessed that [Jiang Fang] was the role of "lover" assigned to him by some dark power, and all his actions towards him were probably just the result of the warmth set by the system.

However, even so, [Nan Zhou] still couldn't let go of this false warmth.

They have always been friendly neighbors, and [Nanzhou] is sensible not to expect more.

The only hope in his long life is that Jiang Fang's occasional awakening of consciousness can tell him about taking him out of the town.

He wanted nothing but this hope.

[Nan Zhou] said: "I didn't actually like him very much before. He is the same as everyone else in the town, there is no difference. During the day, everyone is fine; at night, normal people will become monsters, but the next day , everyone continued to live in harmony as if nothing had happened.”

Nan Zhou thought, this is similar to his experience, but not similar.

In the original version of Neverland, even in the daytime, he could find that the people in the town behaved abnormally mechanically, so he naturally became wary and would not associate with them too much.

Take that girl with first-rate talent for painting as an example.

In the world of Nan Zhou, she was also sluggish during the day, she had no feedback on all Nan Zhou's words, and was doing her own thing, so even if she turned into a monster, Nan Zhou would not be so surprised.

In the world of [Nanzhou], she can greet [Nanzhou] lively and cheerfully during the day, and can mercilessly bite living people at night.

——【Nan Zhou】The sense of separation from the world should be stronger than him.

[Nan Zhou] looked at the box: "...I tried many ways, but I couldn't escape from here. So, I always wanted to die."

Nan Zhou touched his fingertips empathetically.

[Nan Zhou] did not withdraw his hand, and continued to tell his story.

"On my 14th birthday, he sent me a cake he had made."

"Actually, that day was no different from before, but he suddenly said that he felt this town was strange and wanted to take me away."

"I'm very happy. I think maybe the two of us will have a better chance of escaping when we are together."

"That afternoon, I planned with him until the evening. He said that he read the book and wanted to take me to many places. He described to me how good those places are. I was very tempted and went out of the room to get a pen and paper. Come in, I want to write down every sentence he said."

Hearing what he said, Nan Zhou already guessed what happened next.

[Nanzhou] said: "I took back the pen and paper. He sat in the room drinking water and said that it was getting late and he wanted to go home."

"I asked him, 'So will you come to me tomorrow and we can talk about how to get out'."

"He replied to me, 'Why are we going out'?"

Nan Zhou's heart skipped a beat.

On the one hand, he quite understood [Nan Zhou]'s collapse of hope at that moment.

On the other hand, in the narration of [Nan Zhou], he noticed something that sent chills down the spine.

At the age of 14, [Nanzhou] in the box world should have committed suicide because of unresolved loneliness.

It so happened that it happened to be on his birthday, and [Jiang Fang], who had never shown a trace of specialness before, appeared, and for no reason brought him a glimmer of hope and tenderness.

[Nan Zhou] thinks he has awakened too.

It can be said that the reason [Nan Zhou] has survived to this day is because of this hanging thread of hope, which gave him the illusion that he is not alone.

... The question is, can there be such a coincidence in the world?

[Nan Zhou] is the core figure in the existence of the world, if [Nan Zhou] dies, the box world will be destroyed.

Just when [Nan Zhou] wanted to die, the awakened [Jiang Fang] suddenly appeared, giving him hope?

Nan Zhou did not believe that such a coincidence existed in the world.

It is as if some dark power is firmly steering the fate of [Nanzhou] in this box, spreading honey in time in front of him who is about to lose hope, making him like a bird placed in Mobiu. The ants crawling on the silk tape, worked tirelessly for that little bit of sweetness, and lived until the 30 minutes when they arrived.

The honey [Jiang Fang] he met when he was 14 years old, the charming and tender feelings of these eight or nine years are just a reason for him to live and live long enough to stop himself.

What Nanzhou can think of, [Nanzhou] can also think of.

When Nanzhou declared his family name, he figured out all these tricks.

If what Nan Zhou said is true, his 23 years of pain, entanglement, and hesitation are nothing but a ridiculous dream.

【Jiang Fang】It's just a bait to trick him into living.

...Why?

Why do I struggle desperately, struggle to survive, and feel lonely just to stop one person?

Why would he allow the person in front of him to easily take the box and destroy his own world?

[Jiang Fang] Although it is very likely that it is a puppet manipulated by the world, what if?What if he really awakened his consciousness?

Can he just let it go...

【Nanzhou】Even though there are thousands of unwillingness in my heart, I lower my eyes and brows, speechless for a while.

After a while, he asked softly, "Do you have to open the box and pass through my world?"

"Yes. I have to go there. I also have my Brother Fang waiting for me." Nan Zhou said.

[Nanzhou] There was a little longing in his eyes: "He is different from my brother Fang."

Nan Zhou said bluntly: "It's different. He loves me."

[Nanzhou] issued a soul torture: "How do you know, he is not another bait? You are not another creature manipulated by someone in another box? You love him, he loves you, maybe it's just that someone wants you to live well Go on, it's just an illusion. Outside of your world, are there other eyes looking at your 'love'? They need you to live, so you can live?"

Nan Zhou said decisively, "I don't care."

[Nanzhou] has a face that is completely similar to him, but this sentence "I don't care", [Nanzhou] has no confidence to say it anyway.

He slowly moved his hand away from the box, and whispered to himself: "Maybe from the beginning, it was just my wishful thinking..."

Nan Zhou didn't wait for him to finish ruminating, he took the iron box and opened the lid without any pause.

[Southern Zhou]'s hesitation and wavering may only be in an instant.

He couldn't risk his remorse and going all over again to snatch the box.

The moment the lid was opened, he raised his eyes.

Maybe it was because he was in the dark, he could no longer see the weird comment box, but he only saw [South Boat] with tears in his eyes and gradually shattered with the world before the darkness of mountains and tsunamis came.

His body is like a colony of ants living in groups. With the disintegration of the world in the second box, it disperses and goes away without trace.

Nan Zhou looked away.

He roughly guessed what kind of influence this box of infinite dolls wanted to have on him.

The universe is vast, and people are like ants.

If even he himself doubts the meaning of his own existence, how can he win?

He calmed down and let his body and mind completely immerse himself in the third world in the box.

He didn't have time to explore the second world, and he didn't have time to find the ticket.

Maybe in the third world...

Because [Nanzhou] has locked the entrance and exit of the basement, the light is limited, so the sky in the third box is dark like splashed ink, only a full and lonely moon in the high sky is hidden behind the clouds , lightly smeared a little makeup halo.

...full moon?

At the same time, Nanzhou found that his current situation was not optimistic.

He is now lying on the bed in a charming posture, his body is full of light, and his face is blurred.

There were bursts of sharp pain in the palm of his hand, and he was restrained by a pair of silver handcuffs at the head of the bed. Under the influence of the full moon by the window, he was weak and unable to move.

Jiang Fang in the third world—let's call him {Jiang Fang}—was driving a wooden nail into Nan Zhou's palm.

Hot blood gushed out from the wound, causing Nan Zhou's fingertips to tremble in pain.

He heard {Jiang Fang}'s voice say coldly: "Monster, you killed my family, I want to see, who are you?"