The bosses cry and put down the butcher knife

At the moment of losing consciousness, Oda Miyuki had the thought that she might never wake up again.

When she felt her presence again, there was only darkness around her.

Pure, lightless darkness.

She opened her eyes in absolute darkness, and she could only see her own existence in her sight.It seems that she is the only "bright" creature in this space, and the only thing that can be caught with the naked eye.

She was lying on a flat surface, and her fingers could only touch the horizontal arc, but she couldn't tell the difference between hardness, temperature, dryness, and wetness, as if the skin was suddenly deprived of the sense of touch.He was still wearing the clothes he had worn before coma, and due to the structural problems of the space, he showed a hazy sense of nothingness.

Oda Miyuki got up from the ground, looked around at 360 degrees, and slowly tried to stand up straight.When her feet just stepped on the ground, an indescribable subtle tremor suddenly spread from the ground to the whole body.

In the next second, the girl heard a voice from the darkness... unknown source.

The sound is very weird, like "Gudu", "Gulu", and "Puji" stirring together, or the soft muddy flowing and sticking sound in film and television works, or some kind of mollusk crawling across the floor dragging mucus .

Appearing from a relatively distant place, and then approaching a place that can be clearly heard by human ears, gradually approaching at a slow speed.

"..."

Oda Miyuki froze in place, almost forgetting the instinct of breathing.

Running, screaming, or other meaningless guesswork is futile here.Even though he didn't know what that voice meant, Oda Miyuki suddenly understood it.

However, even though she can control her body, she cannot suppress the thoughts in her brain.The girl stared at the place where the sound was most likely to appear. In her chaotic mind, the weird and absurd conjectures of gods and demons were piled up into a ball.

Even the so-called time has lost its original function here.When the voice was getting closer, and an indescribable smell emerged from an unknown distance, Oda Miyuki thought blankly: So I am still breathing.

In the next second, she finally saw something "something".

Seeing a black mass flood into view in a place of pure darkness where only one person could be called a "light source" seems like a paradox.

But Oda Miyuki did see it, as if it was flowing and spreading from the darkness, like black mud, or some kind of soft, pitch-black creature.They are approaching like the tide, and more parts are still hidden in the darkness.

Finally, it stopped in front of her.

It's a mass... a lump... an indescribable... I don't know if it's a living thing, or even an organic or inorganic thing.

It was very close to Oda Miyuki's feet, and as long as the edge spread a little further, it could "swallow" the only living person in its entirety.The rest seemed to be an endless swamp, disappearing into the darkness that could be seen or felt.

The girl froze into a stone statue, staring at the dark, occasionally slightly undulating unknown object under her feet, without any expression on her face.She didn't know where this place was, just like she didn't know how long this false peace... could last.

Maybe in the next second, or in a minute, she will be swallowed by this emptiness of darkness?Oda Miyuki didn't know the answer, perhaps because of fear, she had lost the ability to think.

However, she waited and waited and waited, and finally when her knees became stiff and the soles of her feet began to ache, nothing happened.

Oda Miyuki: "..."

The black one doesn't know what it is: "@#￥%&*."

Facts have proved that the part of human nerves about fear, after a long period of excessive tension, will eventually become numb close to self-defeating.When the girl kept standing, she was so exhausted that she couldn't even feel fear, she finally let out a breath, and her feet moved slightly.

Puff gurgling.

Almost at the same time, accompanied by that subtle slimy sound, the black semi-liquid that was almost attached to her feet retreated a little towards the surroundings.

It's like a biological conditioned reflex action.

Due to the opponent's retreat, the ground where he could only stand on one pair of feet was vacated by about half a meter.Theoretically, it is possible to sit down, but Oda Miyuki didn't care so much after all, so he moved around a bit, and then looked at the blackness under his feet:

"You... want to eat me?"

She didn't know what was wrong with her, maybe her nerves were stretched to the extreme.If this situation continues, even if she is not swallowed or something, the so-called claustrophobia is enough to drive an ordinary human being completely crazy.

In the endless darkness, the only sound was the whispering thing in front of him.

"Gulu.", "Gulu."

next second.From the lump of black mud in front of her, two round bubbles burst out.

It looks like a bubble, or something round like an eyeball, and the lower part is still connected to the semi-liquid essence.They appeared side by side on the surface closest to Oda Miyuki, only appearing there for a few seconds.When the girl noticed them, she quickly disappeared again.

Oda Miyuki: "..."

Wait, is this a coincidence?Or……

"You...don't want to eat me?"

After a brief silence, the girl continued to ask.

"Gollum."

Three seconds later, at the same place as before, a new bubble popped out.

Oda Miyuki: "..."

She emptied out into the darkness for a long while without seeing any new bubbles.The messy thoughts in the brain turned around, but it seemed to wake up suddenly.

Then, she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The girl lowered her head again and looked into the emptiness of the mud—the darkness was divided into shades, like a mollusk moving its body away from the floor there.Then those shallower parts slowly slide and deform, revealing increasingly distinct voids.

After a long and seemingly difficult process, it turned into a somewhat subtle pattern.

Oda Miyuki: "..."

If, if she hadn't been dazzled, the lump of black mud seemed to be a short distance away, with a ":)" expression on it.

A very standard symmetrical smiley face, the kind dedicated to middle-aged and elderly emojis.Oda Miyuki couldn't help rubbing his eyes, and when he looked again, the smiling face was still the same.

But it seems to have fallen apart a bit, like a mass of mud that was trying to stick together to form a shape, but accidentally added too much water.

This scene, which can be called a stroke of genius, made a girl who was waiting to die not long ago stunned on the spot.She stood on the ground with a stiff face, staring at the slowly melting smile, suspecting that she had been frightened out of hysteria.

All right, she thought at last.No matter where it is, or what plans this thing in front of her has... She can't sit still.

"So, can you understand me?"

When that "smile" completely disappeared, the girl sat down slowly while supporting her stiff legs.

Then he looked at the gurgling black meat paste around him, and asked softly.

……

……

Oda Miyuki didn't know how long he had been in the dark.

When she asked the last question, there was still a borderless darkness around her.The unknown creature spread its huge body in the darkness, making subtle sticking and squeezing sounds.

The girl rested her chin on her knees, staring at the black mud border that could be seen in front of her eyes.Her mood is very peaceful, because the ending is nothing more than two——

According to the stall in front of me... this unknown creature said, this is her dream.

If this is true, she will wake up in reality sooner or later; if it is deceiving her, she will not have a second ending other than her doomed death.

The communication process between the two parties was extremely difficult. Facing a creature that could only use "inflating one or two balls" to express "yes" and "no", Oda Miyuki felt that he was playing a real version of sea turtle soup.The answers to each question may not necessarily be connected, and what is even more frightening is that there is a possibility that all of this is false.

It's just delusion, just coincidence, and even deception.A monster lurking in the darkness, ready to devour her.Now maybe it's just not the time, or it hasn't played enough.

However, she had no other choice.

One person and one black mud monster communicate in such a dry manner. If considerations such as conspiracy are excluded, the latter is still honest in most cases.

For example, it told Oda Miyuki that this was her dream, not reality; for example, it admitted that it was the shadow of an unknown state that she saw before she passed out.

The reason why she lost consciousness was because she "saw it with her own eyes" and her spirit was stimulated to a certain extent.

It sounds like a creature with special powers.

Or a monster.

It is generally candid, with some exceptions.When Oda Miyuki asked some questions about its "self", the other party would keep silent abruptly.

In other words, it will not reveal one or two "bubbles" like answering other questions.Before the girl asked another question, she was just floating like a puddle of ooze, making an instinctive grunt.

The first one or two questions were fine, but later—when Oda Miyuki realized this, she began to probe intentionally or unintentionally.

In the end, the girl had a vague but bold idea:

The lump in front of me... let's say it's a living thing, it seems to know itself.

It's not the kind of situation that I have seen by chance, it's more like the understanding of further communication between human beings.It's hard to describe that feeling. After two people have had a question-and-answer session for an unknown amount of time, even if one party only gives a "yes" or "no" answer, the other party can still feel something.

Besides, this world is not real.

Even in the most frightening time, Oda Miyuki never forgot this: this is just a world in a book, a fictional story created.

A cage that may be made of supernatural powers and has the possibility of death.

Oda Miyuki has never been deluded, like the fact that she "can't use her personality" as soon as she enters this world.

Therefore, if she really wanted to find a "companion" like her—or an "enemy" who entered this world, she couldn't focus too much on the appearance.

Although there is no basis, but the form of black mud...it is hard not to make her think of someone.

"Dazai?"

As if subconsciously talking to herself, the girl suddenly spoke.

In the next second, Oda Miyuki felt the whole space and trembled from head to toe.

Just like when she just woke up.