Throne of Radiance

The moment the world shattered, countless lights spread outward along the cracks.The surroundings seemed to have turned into a dark bottomless deep sea, and large pieces of star fragments were scattered in the sea, spreading densely to the extreme distance.

The sea was chasing him, coming from all directions.

Under a pressure as if drowning and suffocating, Bai Yi struggled to float to the surface of the sea, and the light shone on his eyelids.

He slowly opened his eyes and woke up.

The harsh light shone on his face through the gap in the curtains, and the soft touch of the bed was under him.

The wall clock on the opposite wall made a ding, and the two pointers connected into a line.

—Six o'clock sharp in the morning.

Bai Yi lay on the bed, her eyes unfocused, and continued to be in a daze.It seems that the machine is suddenly disconnected and stuck, and it may fall back into a deep sleep at any time.

It wasn't until 5 minutes later that his hazy eyes focused, and his whole body seemed to be fully charged and went online again, and suddenly he straightened his upper body and came back to life.

The next second, he stretched out his arms and yawned long, his messy hair trembled with his movements, and the eyes that had just focused were half drooped again.A stance of going to sleep again due to lack of battery life.

"The same dream has been going on for seven days..."

Thoughts flashed through his mind, and he let out a drawn-out exclamation.

"so boring--"

Dreaming is an experience that everyone will have, but every night when you fall asleep, you will enter a different dream. The consciousness remains absolutely clear, and you can clearly remember every detail after waking up from the dream... Such a special experience is not Everyone has a chance to experience it.

For Bai Yi, this is his daily routine.

It's been like that ever since he can remember.

After falling asleep every night, he would fall into all kinds of dreams uncontrollably and face all kinds of strange openings.

Most of the time, what he dreams about is a deep sea, the sea water is as deep as viscous ink, surrounded by falling star fragments, the pressure that is so real that it is suffocating will always give him the illusion of drowning , until he struggled to wake up from the nightmare with all his might.

At other times, he would dream of various scenes in which he himself played a role.Sometimes it is just to deliver a letter for someone, sometimes life may be in danger, and a correct decision needs to be made in a very short time.

The duration of these dreams can vary.Repeat the same dream in the long half month, and change it in the shortest day.

After so many years of trying and summarizing, Bai Yi has not gained nothing.He found that as long as he substituted himself into the character and tried his best to do what the character wished according to his own guess, the same dream would often disappear completely from his side within a few days.

And if the character's will is seriously violated, then he will continue to repeat this dream day and night.

The longest one, a dream repeated for three months.

It's just... like a demon possessed.

That dream last night was repeated for the seventh time.

The first time Bai Yi fell into the dream, what appeared in front of Bai Yi's eyes was a bright murder scene.

As far as he could see, there were two fresh corpses and a freshly baked murderer.

And he was like a ghost entrenched in the sky, silently looking down on all this.

Immediately afterwards, he watched helplessly as the little boy walking down the stairs was frightened by the scene in front of him, and fell directly on the stairs, making a harsh sound.

The murderer was also quickly alarmed by the little boy's commotion, and immediately turned to look at him, as if another fresh corpse was about to appear on the ground.

——This is really dizzying, like a cutscene in a game, unfolding in front of Bai Yi's eyes, until his eyes blurred, and he found that he had entered the body of the little boy, becoming the character who was about to be cannon fodder.

Facing a pair of eyes full of murderous intent, Bai Yi immediately emptied his eyes without thinking, stumbled and climbed up the wall, with a child's unique look of confusion and innocence: "...Is it Dr. Felt? "

As he expected, the other party was stunned for a second, and then gave a response-temporarily stopped the movements in his hands.

All the lies were told so smoothly, and Bai Yi's high-speed mind allowed him to make the most beneficial choice in an instant - to act as a blind child, and to offer to this murderer who might kill him at any time. A reasonable identity lowers the other party's vigilance.

In his words, he even deliberately guided the other party's interest in chatting.

Parents who died tragically, a child who knew nothing about everything and treated enemies like friends, a closed environment where no guests came for a long time and probably no one would disturb him... He took the initiative to provide the murderer in front of him with enough material for a wonderful script, and A stage where no one interferes...

It turns out that small tricks like this do work.

Perhaps some people have the inferior factor of tearing up the beauty of others, appreciating the tragedy of others, and deriving pleasure from it.Even if this time to watch a good show is likely to increase the risk for himself.

Perhaps... this is also one of the important reasons why so many villains died of talking too much.

And what is the threat of a young, frail and blind child?Even if you kill him after a while, it's not a big deal.

K was guided step by step in this way, and relaxed his vigilance against Bai Yi.With a perverted mentality, he used the identity of "Doctor Felt" to talk to the boy in front of him while disposing of the corpse, and even felt a little pity to kill such a well-behaved and sensible prey.

And this process is enough for Bai Yi to get a rough idea of ​​his character, and at the same time use the corner of his eyes to find out the surrounding situation without a trace.For example, where are the tools at hand, where are the suitable escape routes, where are the key props that can help a young child defeat an adult...

The powerful sleeping potion stored under the reception desk was the surprise he found.

——Although the dream world is different from reality, and the type and packaging of the medicine are also different, but just opening the medicine bottle and smelling it, Bai Yi judged from his long and rich experience that it was a medicine with a strong sleep-inducing effect.

——Although such a strange drug was found at the reception desk of the hotel, the style of the painting is not quite right... It is hard not to make people suspect that this is a black shop.

Then, Bai Yi tasted it himself.

After 3 minutes, he started to faint.

Five seconds later, this weak body fell directly to the ground.

This sudden "falling to the ground and violent death" even made "K" startled. He thought that a colleague had sneaked into the hotel unknowingly. Suspicious.

Bai Yi, on the other hand, successfully used the opportunity of entering a dream for the first time to find a key item that could break the game, and used himself to estimate the effect and approximate onset time.

By converting between the physique of a young child and an adult, you can roughly know how long it will take the same dose to act on another person.

The next night, when he opened his eyes again on the familiar steps, Bai Yi already had a complete plan in mind.

This time, he was well prepared and deceived "K"'s eyes with more perfect acting skills.Then, all his focus was on observing the "Doctor Felt", and he didn't devote too much attention to observing the surroundings.

And carried out the first tentative anti-kill.

This rash attempt failed unexpectedly.

Then the second time, and the third time.

Fail again and again, each time getting closer to success...

The power gap between a young child and an adult cannot be easily bridged, especially when he has not fully grasped the other party's intentions and responded perfectly at every step. room for resistance.

But his purpose has been achieved.

Relying on the information collected from one dream after another, the personality model of the murderer built in Bai Yi's mind became more and more perfect, and the previous failed attempts at counter-killing also provided him with more sufficient experience.

Until the fifth dream...

This time, everything is under Bai Yi's control.

How to make people relax their vigilance, how to make the other person follow your lead every step of the way... When you know enough about this person's personality, it will not be difficult.

From the moment he woke up from the dream, every word Bai Yi said, every step he took, his expression and tone, and even where he stood were all considered.

The moment he opened his mouth, he knew what the other party would say next, just like this time when he handed over the glass of milk in his dream, he was sure that the other party would not refuse.This is when his vigilance is at its lowest.

After a successful experience, on the sixth and seventh days, when Bai Yi woke up in the same dream again, facing the same opening, it was like brushing a dungeon with a strategy for clearing the level, without any difficulty.

In order not to be so boring and to add a little difficulty to himself, he didn't even completely copy the previous strategy every time...

Even so, when you know a person well enough, but the other person knows nothing about you, it is still not difficult to design the other person to step into your trap.Just like the prey that has been killed once by the trap design, it is not difficult to kill the second or third time.

In this way, Bai Yi completed the triple kill.

——Not to escape, but to fight back.

——He can feel the deepest pleasure coming from the heart of the character he plays.Deeper each time.

But Bai Yi has gone from being full of interest at the beginning to now being boring.It's like repeatedly solving a puzzle with a known answer, or eating the same dessert over and over again.

Even if you eat it differently, you can't help but get tired of it.

"Hey, this level should be enough."

Standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face lightly, Bai Yi raised her head to look at the mirror on the wall.

The young man in the mirror is thin and tall, wearing a large white half-sleeve top, with messy black hair, a few strands of hair raised on his forehead were wetted by the splashing water droplets, revealing black eyes, with faint and indistinct spots around the eyes of dark circles.

Bai Yi yawned, and those deep black eyes in the mirror suddenly became misty.He murmured, as if in the same dream that he didn't know if there was a remnant, or if he didn't know if it existed behind all these nightmares, the "reason" that made him fall into the dream, and said:

"—At least let's have some fresher dreams."

He didn't expect a response, but...

The splashed water splashed onto the mirror and flowed around, making the person in the mirror extremely blurred by the water.

In the next second, the water flowing around suddenly became orderly, forming blurred and distorted words one after another on the mirror surface, like the appearance of poor reception on an old TV screen with snowflakes shining.

Bai Yi suddenly opened his eyes wide.

"This is……"

[The system is full of energy, and the nightmare game is officially launched. 】

As the first line of text disappeared, another line of text emerged.

[The only internal beta player has been detected and has been bound. 】