Fear Collection

Xie Jinxi was still wearing the black and white school uniform, he turned his head to look at Muta again, and found that his eyes were still closed.

So... are you asleep?

Xie Jinxi sighed, got up and took a comfortable bath, then went to the refrigerator to dig out the sandwiches that Muta had made before and heated them briefly, ate something hastily and threw himself into the bed to sleep.

This sleep was so dark that it was already the afternoon of the next day when he woke up again.

After getting up and washing, Xie Jinxi walked to the living room and found that Muta still had his eyes closed, with his long snake tail coiled together. He opened his eyes and looked at him when he felt his approach.

what happened?

Xie Jinxi felt something was wrong, walked over to him and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

The blood curse scars on Xie Jinxi and Muta's bodies have healed after returning to this world, but the dormant curse is still waiting to be reawakened in the next world.

The snake letter in Muta's mouth suddenly popped out and then retracted. He lowered his eyelids a little sleepily and said, "I have absorbed too much energy, and I am going to shed my skin."

Moulting... Molting? !

Xie Jinxi looked at Muta's snake tail subconsciously. He used to stroke the snake's tail often, and was very familiar with that tail with neat and bright scales. Looking at it now, he found that the surface of the snake tail was much rougher than before.

It's good that snakes are starting to shed their skin, which means they're growing in size, but the problem is that Muta isn't exactly a snake.

"Do you need me to do anything?" Xie Jinxi asked him.

"You don't need to do anything, but I may have to occupy your bathroom. The humidity and temperature in the living room are not enough."

"no problem."

"Molting can take a few days, and you don't forget to exercise during that time."

"Okay." Xie Jinxi could only nod, "Do you need me to go out and bring you some meat?"

Moulting seems to consume a lot of energy, Xie Jinxi has no way to help Muta, he can only try to provide a better environment and some help.

Muta propped up his body and snaked towards him, and put his cheek against Xie Jinxi's face.

His body temperature was lower than Xie Jinxi's, and his sudden move made Xie Jinxi hide for a while.

"No need, those yin and resentment are enough."

Muta was about to shed his skin, but Xie Jinxi was even more nervous than him.

He first went to his room and stepped into the shower area to turn on the shower for a while to let the water vapor fill up, then he turned off the shower and turned on the heating lamp to keep the bathroom at a higher temperature while mopping the floor dry.

Afterwards, he helped Muta move the sheets and quilts in the living room to the shower area, and watched as Muta closed his eyes on the floor and resumed his sleep.

Xie Jinxi closed the bathroom door and returned to his own life. He had to settle the dinner by himself.

Xie Jinxi thought of Fang Si's pen, went out and rode an electric scooter to the mall.

When I reached the department store floor of the mall, I put the pen on the shelf.

Although this is also one of the Fragmented Worlds, at least he took this pen away from the black and white school.

Xie Jinxi stood in front of the shelves for a while, then turned around and went to a regular restaurant for dinner.

When I got home at night, I read a book and played with my phone for a while, and I was about to wash up and go to bed soon.

Xie Jinxi stood in front of the bathroom and hesitated for a while, before going to bed he remembered that all his toiletries were still in the bathroom, and he forgot to buy new ones when he went to the mall in the afternoon.

Xie Jinxi pushed open the door cautiously, slipped in lightly and took her toothbrush and towel, and when she was about to slip out, Muta's voice suddenly sounded in her mind.

"I'm not that fragile yet, you can go in and out normally."

Xie Jinxi heard the sound and turned his head to look. Muta's skeleton was tall and big, with a thick and long tail. He was lying coiled behind the frosted glass in the shower area, as if he was coiled in a terrarium.

feeding.

Thinking of this word, Xie Jinxi's heart beat a little faster, and the hot and humid air in the bathroom seemed to warm up his body.

That's right, Muta is not the kind of artificially bred pet snake. He is a monster cursed by the snake god and supposed to live in the virgin forest. , but now it is coiled behind the frosted glass in the steel forest, waiting for a molt to complete.

Xie Jinxi found herself thinking further and further away, and suddenly pulled her thoughts back to the tooth cup in her hand, and said, "It's okay, I'll go to the other side to wash up."

Then hastily opened the door and fled.

In the quiet and hot shower area, a section of the snake's tail tapped on the frosted glass in front, and it happened to hit the position of the leaving figure.

After washing up, Xie Jinxi lay back on the bed in her own room, tossed and turned several times to look at the door next to her, then turned back to look at the roof, and then fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, Xie Jinxi returned to the bathroom after washing, and heard Muta say, "Can you prepare some glasses of water for me?"

"no problem!"

Xie Jinxi got refreshed, went out and poured two glasses of water back to the bathroom, pushed open the frosted glass door of the shower area and passed the water over.

Muta felt his movements and raised his head to "look" at him. Over the night, his eyes were covered with a layer of milky film, and the scales of his tail became darker and rougher.

"Can you still see?"

Xie Jinxi stretched out a hand to pass the water glass, but Muta precisely raised his hand to grab his wrist, and then let go of his hand to hold the water glass.

"It's basically invisible, but it's not a hindrance. The sensory structure of snakes is different from that of humans. The heat induction and bone conduction in the lip socket can make me feel you."

As he spoke, Muta spit out the snake letter and touched the water in the glass, then drank the water in the glass normally, took another glass from him and drank half of it, and then handed the glass back to Xie Jinxi .

Xie Jinxi read some popular science in school reading class. Snake eyes become opalescent and are called "blindfolded". It will "clear eyes" after two days, and it will start to shed its skin within two or three days after "clear eyes".

Although Muta said that it would be okay, Xie Jinxi was still a little worried, mainly because he didn't know when the next world would open. If Muta failed to molt before the arrival of the next world, would it be possible to go to the next world to molt?

That's too dangerous.

Xie Jinxi only hoped that the interval could be longer this time.

He left the bathroom with a cup in his hand, and started reading and exercising after a simple breakfast.

This is the second day after returning to his own world, because he has been thinking about Muta, Xie Jinxi is also absent-minded in exercising.

Fortunately, Muta's shedding process was faster than he imagined.

On the second night after returning to this world, Xie Jinxi suddenly felt a faint heat on the back of the tailbone while sleeping, and then the heat surged up the spine.

In his sleep, Xie Jinxi turned over, and suddenly seemed to hear another person's panting and the sound of something rubbing against each other.

The alarm in his consciousness sounded, causing Xie Jinxi to sit up suddenly and look around, and finally locked his target on the bathroom next to him.

Is it Muta?

"Wake you up?"

Xie Jinxi was stunned for a moment when he heard the voice in his head.

No, he didn't speak?

Could Muta hear what he was thinking too?

Xie Jinxi immediately got up and turned on the light in the room, knocked on the door of the bathroom, and went in to open the door of the shower area when Muta answered "Enter".

The gray-white opacity in Muta's eyes has faded away, and he has returned to his normal appearance.

[Can we connect directly on a spiritual level now? ]

Xie Jinxi, somewhat clumsily, took the initiative to "speak" with consciousness for the first time.

This feeling is really amazing, unlike before he could only hear Muta speak unilaterally, now they can really "communicate".

Communication beyond the physical level, on the soul and spiritual level.

"Yes, shedding means growth. For me, it's not just physical growth, but also some growth in ability."

"However, before the molt is complete, the soul-level connection between me and you will be a little out of control. After my molt is complete, I think we need to re-adjust and find a degree that is acceptable to both of us."

[no problem. ]

Up to here, Xie Jinxi has not realized how serious the "out of control" that Muta said will be. He only feels that the burning sensation on his back is getting worse, and there is a strong sense of burnout in his body.

He couldn't help but patted his back with his backhand a little uncomfortable. After thinking about it, the other party was basically invisible now, so he simply took off his shirt and turned his back to the mirror, looking for an angle for a long time.

I found that the hot feeling came from the tattoo, it felt like a layer of warm baby was pasted on the back, which made people feel hot and irritable.

Xie Jinxi turned his hand behind his back and touched that piece of skin, and there was a great irritation from the area covered by the tattoo, and there was some tingling mixed with that feeling, which made him immediately withdraw his hand and dare not touch it again.

He hurriedly put on his shirt, left the bathroom and went back to bed to continue to sleep. After waking up in the third day, the sense of burnout in his body made him not want to move at all. He just wanted to lie paralyzed, not even wanting to eat.

At noon, Xie Jinxi reluctantly got up and ate something, brought Muta another round of water, and then fell back on the bed. He had had enough sleep and didn’t want to sleep any more, so he just clicked on the single-player games and video games on the phone on the bed. Books kill time.

Xie Jinxi has already understood that the connection between him and Muta's soul is too close now, causing Muta's feelings to be transmitted to him through tattoos.

At night, Xie Jinxi only dared to lie on his side on the soft bed, not daring to let his back touch the sheets, and... the situation seemed to be getting worse.

He felt thirsty and dry, and there was a feeling of two layers of skin on his legs, making him want to rub the quilt to rub the outer skin off.

Unable to toss and turn this time, Xie Jinxi endured it for a long time, and couldn't help but sit up and rolled up the legs of her pajama pants and touched the surface skin of her legs. In fact, it was normal, there was no double layer of skin at all, and it was not so dry.

Xie Jinxi fell back as if giving up, and raised her legs and swayed back and forth like a snake, causing her whole body to lie on the bed.

This is probably how Muta feels now, whether it is good or bad, it is not bad to share joys and sorrows.

The author has something to say: The third world was inspired by an idea a long time ago. I wanted to write about love under pressure, such as playing Morse code and saying I love you under high-density surveillance, but I was entangled. For a long time, I felt that I still couldn't write it out, but the theme changed completely after I changed it, orz.

In the third world, the inspiration comes from □□-026 "After-school Confinement" and □□-087 "Stairwell". The stairwell combines an idea I used to walk on the stairs.

I have always been tangled in this world, because the taskers do not share the same class, so some parts need to be narrated from the perspective of supporting characters, and some choices of supporting characters are related to their background settings. will disrupt the rhythm.

I struggled for a long time and finally wrote the background of the supporting characters, sacrificing some rhythm in order to express, probably because of the author's helplessness.

Of course, when writing supporting roles, I also made trade-offs for the sake of rhythm. For example, Liu Changzhong and Ke Yao did not have time to talk about the relationship.

In the story, there are Xie Jinxi who has gone through the "school" system all the way, there are young people like Wan Qing who are overwhelmed by expectations and excellence, there are also short-tempered bastards like Yang Jiaxin with a hedgehog head and no brains, and there are also people with the word V There are people who are a little clever like that but can't turn back after taking a wrong step. There are also people who want to climb high branches thinking they have found another shortcut, and there are people who are in the mud and want to struggle with their own abilities...

Therefore, Liu Changzhong is the kind of person I want to write about. Although he is not good at exams and cannot obtain a good academic qualifications, but because of hard work and continuous learning in factories and construction sites, he eventually leads a good life.And Ke Yao... Since he has the ability to predict danger, why did he die with great fear in reality... Hehehe, maybe I will write about it later.

In fact, these two were also going to die, but because the background didn't unfold and they didn't want to drag it on for longer, so they had no choice but to let them leave alive.

At the end of the story, the innocent souls who were willing to fight with death were taken away by Xie Jinxi, but the taskers, Wan Qing who was afraid of an unchanging life, and Dai Mengyan who was struggling were all assimilated and stayed in the school in the end, violently stabbing Yang Jiaxin Being trained to be a good student, Violet, who used her appearance as her capital, had her face cut off and bled to death...

Many endings will not come if you resist. "He" is malicious after all, giving everyone the most painful and tragic ending.

I originally wanted Xie Jinxi to shout a poem on the clock tower, which is the famous "The Road Not Taken", but this world is too procrastinating, and I finally wanted to have a concise and powerful ending.

Well, generally speaking, it’s still too late, let’s open a more exciting and fast-paced next world!According to the outline, the next world is also a turning point in the relationship between Xie Jinxi and Muta!

It is an overhead □□ world view, which will be simpler and faster!