sunk in yesterday

When Xia Zhuo woke up again, she was still on the bed.

The temperature in the room was just right, the soft quilt enveloped him, and a ray of morning sunlight was shining on his messy hair.

The comfort and ease that he had never experienced made him stretch and turn over, as if he was going back to sleep.

Before the hazy drowsiness surged up again, a pair of hands pulled him out of it.A familiar voice with a slight smile came together with a wet towel, and Guan Yuzhou coaxed him softly while wiping his face: "Finally woke up? Get up when you wake up, and you will soon miss the time for the students' morning reading."

As soon as the cold touch touched the skin, Xia Zhuo suddenly opened his eyes.

The heartbeat in his chest, which was calm due to the deep sleep, doubled in an instant, and with a long "buzz" in his ear, the faded memories came back to his mind little by little.

Slippers, pages, lanyards, and fire.

"Where is this place?" He got up from the bed and looked at the surrounding environment without missing a corner, a little confused whether it was a dream or reality.But after a quick glance, he felt that the scene was familiar again. The structure of the room he was in was exactly the same as the teacher's dormitory in the school, but compared with the one they lived in before, there were more daily necessities here, as if someone had already lived in it for a long time. for a long time.

"School dormitory." Guan Yuzhou pressed down the hair on the top of his head, and his expression became more serious: "Last night someone activated the plot, and we were teleported back from Hu Zimo's home."

Xia Zhuo was still a little confused, after two seconds, "What time did you come back?"

"A quarter past twelve."

"Last night..." Xia Zhuo wanted to talk about what happened last night, but he didn't know where to start.

Guan Yuzhou picked up his words, "After arriving here suddenly last night, I couldn't wake you up no matter how you called. The other participants besides us also had this kind of position change. The dormitory we returned to was not 206, but 201 , don't know if everyone's room has changed except us."

"Shouldn't 201 be Wei Jiaxiang's room?" Xia Zhuo spread out her palms, as if her muscles still retained the memory of grasping the rope, "I had a dream last night, and it was quite real."

Guan Yuzhou looked at him fixedly, and suddenly reached out to touch his ear.

"Hiss!" Xia Zhuo hid for a while, then widened his eyes as he thought of something, "Teacher Guan, my ears are broken?"

"It's not a dream." Guan Yuzhou wiped off the dried blood with a towel, and after confirming that there was only a shallow cut, his expression relaxed, "Does it hurt? I'll give you painkillers."

"Don't stop, oops, you're here again! I'm a conditioned reflex!" Xia Zhuo immediately jumped up, feeling that he was making a fuss out of a molehill, and the opportunity to act coquettishly was lost because of this.He refused dumbfoundingly, but when he raised his eyes, he saw two bluish-black clusters emerging from the other party's eyes, "...Your complexion is so bad, did you not sleep all night?"

Guan Yuzhou froze for a moment: "Fortunately, I took some time to sleep for a while. Get up first, let's go out and see the situation."

Xia Zhuo saw that his behavior was the same as before, and guessed that there should be no problem, so he said hello.He simply tidied himself up, and when he was about to go out together, he noticed something different outside the window.

"... Teacher Guan, has the dream ended while I was sleeping?"

Guan Yuzhou followed his line of sight. The sky that had been gray for two days was an endless blue, without cotton-like clouds floating in it, and the branches extending to the second floor were decorated with unmelted snow. At this time, the sun was just shining At this corner, the condensed ice crystals refracted a small light, and this scene was considered a rare comfort in a thousand years in a dream.

He reached out and opened the window: "No, we are still in the dream."

"Huh?" Xia Zhuo approached suspiciously, "Then why..."

He fell silent halfway through, because the barren garden became neat and orderly. Among the tall and lush pine trees, some lanterns and gift boxes wrapped in packaging bags had not been hung on the branches, and he was enjoying the sound of the automatic sprinkler. On the lawn, a well-coated gardener is trimming the bushes.

Understanding his astonishment, Guan Yuzhou explained: "The incident has not been resolved, and time has gone backwards."

"Backwards...the venue hasn't been set up yet, that is, we're back before Christmas Eve?!"

Guan Yuzhou pondered for a while, "I don't know the exact time, so go out and have a look first."

Xia Zhuo nodded heavily: "Okay."

Compared with him not waking up at all, almost all the participants could not fall asleep all night.They were very sensitive to what appeared on the light watch, and instead of rushing to the teaching building to work, they gathered together at dawn, trying to use more people to give themselves a sense of security.

When Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou came, Uncle Yang was talking with others in a low voice.One day passed, Floral Skirt recovered from the grief of losing her friend, and greeted them lively the first time they appeared: "Good morning, how did you sleep last night?"

Guan Yuzhou still had the same answer: "It's okay."

"Have you met too?"

Guan Yuzhou hummed.

Uncle Yang turned his head and nodded at them: "It really is one of us who promoted the plot."

As soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings fell silent.Everyone looked at each other, as if they were waiting for the so-called "someone" in his mouth to take the initiative to stand up.

Xia Zhuo didn't know, so he tugged at the corner of Guan Yuzhou's clothes, "What does he mean by encounter?"

Guan Yuzhou lowered his voice: "You thought it was a 'dream' last night."

After talking about it like this, Xia Zhuo came to his senses. He looked around like everyone else, and all he saw were pairs of questioning and vigilant eyes.

This is just like when the participants cleared the opening secret room in Xu's mansion. In such a world full of variables, the first one who gives the perfect answer will always attract the attention and guard of others. They all want to know who this person is. Did you get any clues from it? We gathered here just to get a share of the pie.

Guan Yuzhou lowered his head slightly, and said in Xia Zhuo's ear: "Last night, the reminder on the light watch was refreshed, and the content was 'three days'."

"Three days?" Xia Zhuo chewed repeatedly, "Is it related to time?"

Guan Yuzhou smiled and asked him back, "What do you think?"

"Literally so."

Guan Yuzhou was still laughing, as if he already had insight into some things but didn't say anything, just waiting for Xia Zhuo to find out by himself.

Xia Zhuo pursed her lips, "Is it you who promoted the plot? You can always tell me this."

Guan Yuzhou quickly denied it: "No."

This made Xia Zhuo a little surprised. In his mind, there seemed to be no problem that Guan Yuzhou could not solve. If everyone encountered the same situation last night, this guy should be the first to solve it.

Seeing that Guan Yuzhou's expression didn't seem to be fake, Xia Zhuo sighed exaggeratedly, and teased: "It seems that there are people beyond the sky, and a mountain is higher than a mountain. Some people said they would be my bodyguards at the beginning, but now they are If others are inferior, should I consider changing candidates?"

Guan Yuzhou half-closed his eyes and didn't speak, but the sense of threat was left there.

"Oh, if you don't try it, don't try it." The words are what I said, and I have to do it to please.Xia Zhuo rubbed his shoulder, trying to change the subject: "I'm hungry, I want to eat bean paste buns."

Guan Yuzhou didn't have time to catch up, when there was a chasing noise in the corridor beside him.Three or four students in school uniforms, carrying books and pencil cases, slid down the armrest quickly one after the other.

The ear-piercing sound of palms rubbing against metal swirled and reverberated, as if a valve that had been silent for a long time was opened, and more laughter rose and fell like music.They chased the time, complaining that the questions in the quiz yesterday were too difficult, and that there were too many homework assignments, and hoped that they would not hit themselves when they recited ancient Chinese today.

In order to make sure that this was not a hallucination, someone approached the stairs and almost bumped into a boy who was rushing towards him.Xia Zhuo recognized at a glance that it was Huang Yu who had separated from them yesterday. After both of them staggered, Huang Yu greeted with a Qingyue voice as he ran, "Morning teacher!"

The students who came back to rest sporadically yesterday were like a group of fish traveling together beside the coral reefs on the seabed. After the noisy voices gradually subsided, Uncle Yang said: "Now we can be sure that the time is moving forward, everyone has a point in mind. It's getting late, everyone Do what you have to do, and pay more attention to safety."

After everyone dispersed, Uncle Yang waved to them with a smile and invited, "Let's have breakfast together?"

The floral skirt stared, "The students are all gone, do we still have time for breakfast?"

Xia Zhuo smiled and pulled Guan Yuzhou over, "Eat, why don't you eat? You can't miss three meals a day. Only when you are full can you work hard."

The four of them left the dormitory building, and the warm sunshine shone behind them, dispelling more than half of the fatigue from the previous few days.

"If only the weather was like today's every day." The floral skirt stretched comfortably.

Uncle Yang smiled: "Just think about it, this is a rare event in a hundred years."

The floral skirt asked: "Uncle, is this the first time you've seen me too?"

Uncle Yang: "That's right. After staying in the dream for a long time, I cherish the sunny days in reality."

Xia Zhuo held a piece of biscuit stuffed by Guan Yuzhou in his mouth, and his voice was vague, and he opened his mouth: "After I came in, I not only cherished sunny days, but also cherished thunder, rain, and windy days. I felt special when I saw a cockroach at home." Kind, I would love to invite him to the table to have dinner with me."

Floral skirt: "..." Not necessarily.

Feather>West*whole

"Hey, that's right." Uncle Yang took the initiative to mention: "We didn't find you two after class yesterday. We wanted to see if we could enter the activity room, but we couldn't find the way for a long time, so we went to the infirmary next door. "

"The infirmary door is open?"

"It's open, but there's no teacher inside. We found the past drug purchase records in the cabinet, and I'll show you."

Uncle Yang took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to the two of them.

Guan Yuzhou reached out to take it, and there was very little content on the paper. This was different from the school's medicine collection and treatment records, but a list of applications for purchasing foreign medicines.

"Talium... What kind of medicine is this?" Xia Zhuo counted and found that the number of purchases of this medicine is really amazing, and it is also the most conspicuous in the list of all medicines.

"It's a very familiar name. Where should I have seen it before?" The floral skirt wrinkled her nose and began to recall, "It sounds like sleeping pills, right? Is it used to treat insomnia?"

"Anti-anxiety medicine." Guan Yuzhou said suddenly.

He is no stranger to the names of this type of drug, and Dr. Qin also prescribed it to him at some point in the past.Although he was ordered to stop taking the drug after his condition worsened, he still remembers every single word in the instructions, "It does have a hypnotic effect, and people with depression tendencies should not use it."

"It's not a sleep aid, it's just a hypnotic coma... Who wants to use this kind of medicine? Hu Zimo?" Xia Zhuo wondered.

Uncle Yang heard this name for the first time: "Who is Hu Zimo?"

Xia Zhuo explained: "It was the kid who chased us in the garden that night."

He briefly narrated the cause and effect of his speculation with the two of them, and Uncle Yang's first reaction was: "Are you an adult?"

"Who?"

"Just the kid you mentioned just now."

"Probably not. Huang Yu said before that they generally skipped kindergarten here, so they go to school early. He just turned 18 and he's one of the older ones in the class. Hu Zimo should be only sixteen or seventeen."

"Who is Huang Yu?"

"...Oh, a student from Class Six."

Uncle Yang frowned disapprovingly: "Wei Jiaxiang is almost thirty, right? A person in his thirties dating a minor in his sixteenth or seventeenth year?"

The floral skirt seems to have other opinions on this: "It's just the age difference. I read that so-and-so and so-and-so in the news are more than 50 years old. This is called love between young and old."

"Girl, what we are talking about is not the same thing." Uncle Yang shook his head, "If both of you have some experience in society, then I don't have any opinions on it. After all, everyone advocates the freedom of love. But freedom is not like this. , Wei Jiaxiang was eliminated in the adult society, so he focused on an immature minor? He has experienced the small society of the university, and went abroad to go to a deeper place outside After wading in the water, can he treat this kid with the mentality of sixteen or seventeen? He will only stand from the perspective of an adult, and he can't even truly respect the other party. A love has a great impact on a person's life. The impact can be large or small, for a child, once it is not handled well, it will have a painful impact on the mind that is still growing."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Guan Yuzhou: "From the beginning of dreaming, all the aborigines have praised Wei Jiaxiang for being excellent, he is a rare young man, what do you think?"

Guan Yuzhou replied: "Ordinary people."

"Yes, he is just an ordinary person." Uncle Yang turned his head and continued to chatter with the floral skirt: "It seems to me the same, what graduates with a high degree of education, what paper publication awards has he won when he went abroad... He won the competition. These higher achievements do not mean that he can be a good person. He may indeed care about and care for Hu Zimo, but that is what he should do as a teacher, not that he has done it, then he You can have the ability to fall in love with a child."

The floral skirt was said to make my brain buzz, "But I haven't confirmed whether they are dating. Xia Mingming just said it was just his guess."

"I know, let me release my point of view first." Uncle Yang said, "As long as Wei Jiaxiang refuses this little classmate clearly, then he will have problems from top to bottom."

Xia Zhuo leaned against Guan Yuzhou and murmured: "Uncle Yang is quite upright. I didn't think about it so much before. I think it's fine to fall in love with whoever you like."

Guan Yuzhou glanced at him, "I'm an exception."

"What exception?"

"I can't talk to anyone but you."

Xia Zhuo was stunned for a while, and only came back to his senses when he entered the cafeteria and sat down, "Hahahahaha, why are you acting like this now!"

"Here." Guan Yuzhou suddenly stuffed him with an envelope.

Xia Zhuo took it over and looked at the love letter pasted on the seal with joy: "You wrote me a love letter overnight?"

Guan Yuzhou laughed: "You will know if you open it and have a look?"

"Can you take pity on me as a single dog?" Floral skirt sat opposite them, her face was full of disgust, but her eyes seemed to be glued to Xia Zhuo's hands, wishing that he would open the door and read a poem on the spot.

Xia Zhuo opened the seal, and the paper inside was pieced together with tape, and four complete lines of love poems were written on the front.

The floral skirt pretended to be casual and asked: "What did you write?"

Xia Zhuo babbled: "What are you doing gossiping about, little girl? Can I show you what my man wrote?"

"...If you don't look at it, don't look at it, stingy!"

According to previous speculation, when the last sentence of the poem appears, the plot will be activated.Now that the last sentence was stuck in front of him, Xia Zhuo squinted at the man beside him: "Didn't you say that you are not the one who promoted the plot?"

Guan Yuzhou hummed: "You held it in your hand last night."

"Ah?" Xia Zhuo was confused, he pointed to himself, "Me?"

"Yes. What happened in the dream last night?"

"...Hiss, I don't know either."

When Uncle Yang came back from making porridge, he heard these words.He pushed the bowls in front of several people one by one, "I chatted with several people in the morning. Everyone is in a different situation and encounters a different situation. Although I don't know which action is correct, as long as One of all participants can do it, and this situation is called a 'chain event' on the forum."

"'Chain'?" This was the first time Xia Zhuo heard the word.

Uncle Yang recalled other people's popular science posts, and said: "You can understand it as a 'dream within a dream'. The biggest feature of the chain incident is that it has a group effect. If one person lives, everyone else will live."

"Let me explain." Seeing that Xia Zhuo still didn't understand much, Guan Yuzhou naturally took over the important task of explaining.

"If you dream in reality, life and death in the dream will not affect reality. Similarly, if you regard the dream as the immediate reality, then dreaming in the dream is equivalent to dreaming in reality. All participants will dream at the same time To a random event, but death in their respective dreams will not cause immediate death, but will be assigned to the "pending area". As long as one of the participants can crack their own dream, everyone in the pending area will pass the level. The chain also only needs one of the rings to be broken to be untied, so this phenomenon is called a 'chain event'."

"I understand." Xia Zhuo had an epiphany, and he humbly asked for advice: "Although it is said that someone can take it away, how can it be cracked?"

"It's very simple." Guan Yuzhou said, "It's enough to find something that appears in the dream that does not conform to common sense and destroy it, but destroying mistakes may have a negative impact on oneself."

"It depends on luck whether it is easy or difficult. Although the dreamed places all exist in the current dream, no one can say that it is a body camera. You can remember clearly what it looks like in every corner. " Uncle Yang shrugged, "I went to a street that I have never been to yesterday, and the surroundings are in a mess. I think everything that appears is common sense, so I really can't find it."

The floral skirt held up a hand: "Me too! I dreamed that I was in the classroom, wow, you said that the students brought all kinds of things, how do I know how to judge? So I can't be counted as my dish, it's just bad luck."

"So you really solved it?" Uncle Yang showed his admiration to Xia Zhuo with a thumbs up: "What have you done?"

"It's nothing special." Xia Zhuo took a sip of the porridge and said casually: "I set a fire and accidentally burned the whole room."

Uncle Yang: "..."