betting convention

"Alone?" The old lady said a little surprised when she saw the person who came in this time. After so many times, it was the first time she saw only one of them came.

Chen Zhifei walked into the door slowly, he looked around and found that he was really the only one this time.

In this dream, he lost contact with Ding Bai.

At first Chen Zhifei thought that Ding Bai was just late, so he stood at the initial spot and waited, but when the time passed, he still did not wait for Ding Bai to come.

Then he thought that Ding Bai might leave before him, so he speeded up the process and reached the last game quickly.

It's just that I didn't expect that Ding Bai wasn't here either.

And from the information in the old lady's mouth, he understood that he was indeed the only one in this dream.

"He didn't come?" Chen Zhifei asked the old lady.

"Don't you know? If you don't even know, it can only prove that he didn't appear in the dream this time." The old lady said.

"What's the reason?" Chen Zhifei was still calm, and just asked lightly.

"I don't know, maybe he failed to fall asleep, or maybe something happened during the day that prevented him from entering the dreamland, or maybe something happened." The old lady said as if stating a very ordinary thing, "This place Isn’t it always like this? Someone always comes and someone always disappears.”

Chen Zhifei's heart tightened, maybe Ding Bai really encountered something like the old lady said.

It's just that he remembered that Ding Bai said before that the time he lives in is now an empty world, and there are almost no things that can bring him danger from the outside world, unless something unexpected happens to him.

Could it be that he ran out of food?

As soon as a thought came to his mind, Chen Zhifei dismissed it. Even if there was no food to eat, it would not affect Ding Bai's ability to fall asleep and enter his dream.

However, what was the reason for his absence this time?

Chen Zhifei suddenly became a little nervous. He guessed that maybe Ding Bai's absence was real this time and told him that the time limit for this gamble had come to an end.

"Are you leaving?" The old lady looked at him and asked suddenly. It was not the first time she had seen the two of them, and she could see how important each other was to them.

Chen Zhifei was silent for a while and slowly shook his head: "No, I want to find the answer."

The moment Ding Bai was absent, he had actually already made other plans, and this plan was also very simple, to find the key information to get out of this gamble, and pass the key information to Ding Bai if possible.

Or, he can wait here for Ding Bai's arrival, because he knows that even if Ding Bai does not appear this time, Ding Bai will definitely find a way to appear again.

The old lady watched him stop talking, so she didn't bother her any more. She just kept staring at the silent TV with her cloudy eyes, and the jumping pictures kept flickering. Perceived key information.

And with the flickering of these images, it seemed that something that had been hidden for a long time broke out of its shell.

"You know the answer, don't you?" The old lady looked at him and said with affirmation in her words.

"Yes." Chen Zhifei nodded.

"Leave now?" the old lady continued.

"Compare me with you." Chen Zhifei said, and skillfully took out the pair of very familiar dice from the box.

"Aren't you going out?" The old lady was a little surprised by Chen Zhifei's choice.

Chen Zhifei shook his head, and rolled the dice in his hand under the surprised gaze of the other party.

A panting figure appeared in front of the old lady. He looked at the old lady who was still in the same posture and said, "He didn't come?"

The old lady looked up at this person, it was Ding Bai who had come late.

"He came and went again," said the old lady.

Ding Bai cursed softly, he was still late.Last night's insomnia came without warning. He tried every means, even swallowed the last remaining melatonin, but the effect was not obvious enough. He didn't fall asleep until the sky lightened slightly.

When he rushed over in a hurry, he got the news that Chen Zhifei had left.

With Ding Bai still holding on to the door frame, he walked in slowly, and sat down on the sofa next to him.

From the moment he entered the dreamland, he was anxious to pass all the previous games, but the more anxious he was, the more mistakes he made, and some games that could have been passed quickly slowed down his progress.

Maybe it was because of this that he missed Chen Zhifei.

"He left a word." The old lady said to Ding Bai in a moderate voice, "If I meet you, I will tell you."

"What are you talking about?" Ding Bai raised his head, his eyes lit up again.

"He said to look for the card." The old lady said.

"Looking for a card?" What card?Ding Bai frowned.Golden Flower? "Are you looking for it here or where?"

"I don't know about that. He only said to look for a card, and he also said that maybe the card hasn't appeared yet. As for the specific card, I'm not very clear."

Find cards.Maybe the card hasn't appeared yet?

What does it mean?

Ding Bai was at a loss, he suspected that the old lady was trying to induce him on purpose, but after thinking about it, the old lady didn't seem to need it.

Speaking of cards, Ding Bai suddenly remembered that before the big ghost game, that is, in the game where the old lady was in, the rules did say that there was only one golden flower card.

And when the bet was over, neither Chen Zhifei nor Ding Bai had seen the so-called golden flower card.

Could it be that the looking for cards that Chen Zhifei refers to looking for cards that did not appear in this game?But what does the phrase, maybe it hasn't appeared yet mean?

This reminder is very vague. If Chen Zhifei wanted to leave him a reminder, it shouldn't be so vague.But he really only left this sentence. Maybe this sentence is really the only clue that Chen Zhifei can give Ding Bai?

Ding Bai was thinking on the spot, trying to figure out the meaning of Chen Zhifeiliu's words. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't guess.But at this moment, he saw that the TV in front of the old lady was not playing those silent pictures.

"Your TV?" Ding Bai pointed to the TV that had no picture.

"This one, there's no point in continuing to play it anymore. He has already found the answer and told you all of it." The old lady said, as if she had completed her task, she slowly stood up from the sofa , walked towards the depths of the house, and then disappeared into the building.

But at this time, Ding Bai froze in place. The NPC who had been between them and the correct answer for countless times had disappeared, which actually meant that they had already come into contact with the answer that could truly get out of this gambling game.

But what is the answer?

This time, Ding Bai woke up with doubts again, but when he opened his eyes, he found that the sky outside the window was already dark.He glanced at the time, twelve hours had passed, and this time was the time when he should really enter the dreamland.

This means that tonight, he will miss Chen Zhifei again.

"Fuck!" Ding Bai cursed angrily.

There is no one left.

Since Chen Zhifei entered the dream this time, all the bets he experienced were no longer human.

All the experiences were condensed in different doors, and when he walked through one door, he continued to enter the next door.

After walking through dozens of doors, he came to this room again.Everything around has changed, there is only a small foyer left in Nuo Da's building, and the space outside the foyer is like a darkness that can swallow everything.

He stood in this space, just stood there, waiting for Ding Bai to appear.

The old lady has disappeared, perhaps for her, the task has been completed.Chen Zhifei found the answer in the last dream, and it is no exaggeration to say that as long as he wants, he can get out of this so-called big ghost situation at any time.

It's just that he stayed, because for him, going out alone is not considered going out.

He was waiting, waiting for the person who said he would take him away.

I don't know how long he waited, the surrounding darkness gradually swallowed up the space he was in, and soon there was only a small space where he was standing.

And as the space under Chen Zhifei's feet gradually disappeared, it meant that he, who was able to get out of this gamble, gave up again.

Before he woke up, he suddenly realized that something reached out and held the card in his pocket tightly.

The moment he woke up, Chen Zhifei rushed out the door quickly. This was his first time running in this bustling city. He had never run so fast before.

He ran quickly through the streets and alleys, through familiar or unfamiliar places, and finally found the destination in an unremarkable place.

Sleepy.

Drowsiness swept over Ding Bai's whole body, his upper and lower eyelids seemed to be pulled crazily, he tried hard not to close his eyes, and ran to the bathroom to flush himself with cold water in order to wake himself up.

"Huh!" The cold water dripped from head to toe, and the drowsiness seemed to be driven away.

Ding Bai glanced at the time, it was two o'clock in the afternoon, there were still four hours before nightfall, but there were still about seven hours before bedtime.

He carried it for sixteen hours and kept his eyes open since he woke up last night. He wanted to adjust the sleep time back to the original time, so that it might coincide with Chen Zhifei's time again.

It's just that it's not easy to stay awake like this, because the surroundings are too quiet, so he will become extremely bored.

And the more bored and sleepy you will be, the stronger you will be, just like insomnia, the more you want to sleep, the less you can fall asleep.At this time, he fell into a tormenting moment, unable to sleep, but very sleepy.

"Can't sleep! Can't sleep!" He patted his face to cheer himself up, stared at the faucet cruelly, took another basin of water and poured it on his head.

The cold water stimulated his nerves, but the effect was short-lived, so he repeated it several times, and finally stayed up until nine o'clock in the evening.

After struggling for 24 hours, he fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the bed.

But when he entered the dream again, he found that Chen Zhifei, who was supposed to appear, did not appear.

In the room that has been visited countless times, there is only a lonely TV and sofa, and even the old lady has disappeared.

And outside this small space, the darkness was constantly devouring the already cramped room, and at the same time, it was also devouring his hope.

"Chen Zhifei!" Ding Bai yelled into the empty space, but only the ever-shrinking space answered him.

The author has something to say:

When I was in junior high school, I secretly went out to surf the Internet at night, and when I was in class the next day, I was so sleepy that I burst into tears.

In order not to let myself fall asleep, I stabbed my thigh with a pen, because the math teacher was very fierce, and he had two classes in a row in the morning.In the end, I couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep in the English class. I fell asleep in the dark, and no one could wake me up.When I took a shower at night, I found that my thighs were covered with marks from the pen.

Hahahahaha, this is a bad behavior, please don't learn it if you are still in school. (cover face jpg)

ps: It's almost over, babies.