Chosen Son

Chapter 68 Gluttony

"What do you mean you're awake?" After a while, Gu Fan asked with some difficulty.

"Looking at your eyes, I feel that you have already guessed it, so why ask again?" The man took down the kettle that was roaring after the water boiled, and looked far away, "The snowstorm is coming again, this time it will come again I’m really looking forward to what it brings.”

For a moment, the whole room fell silent, as if the sound of the roaring wind and snow really echoed in my ears.

"So, what's on the other side of the bridge?" Gu Fan took the water glass he handed over, and warmed his hands that were a little cold due to shock.

"I don't know about this either. After all, if I knew, I wouldn't be stuck here chatting with you at this time." Xue Bin said very honestly, "But I want to remind you of one thing."

Holding the water glass, Gu Fan was a little confused: "What?"

"Earlier forecasts said that the snowstorm will come within a week. You walked out of the restrictions last night and met me again. Now "it" should know these things. At dawn, everything will not return to the original state. "It" is coming." The man said slowly.

"Damn..." Gu Fan almost threw the water glass out of his hand, "What is it?"

"You can understand it as the ruler of this world." Xue Bin said, "It usually comes before the wind and snow. It is a creature more terrifying than the wind and snow. It's just that our actions made it come earlier."

Didn't he just fall asleep in the middle of the night and secretly get up to catch voyeurs? Why did he accidentally open the door to a new world?

Having said that, he was too busy avoiding Hu Jing, and met Xue Bin again, and forgot about that person for a while.

Seeing his thoughtful look, Xue Bin thought it was because he was afraid, so he patted him on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "It's okay, I have experienced it once, although this time may be different from the last time, but for a while There is still a place to hide for a while, but we have to find a way as soon as possible before we are found."

"No, I'm not thinking about this." Gu Fan shook his head a little embarrassedly, "I want to ask, that...although it's embarrassing, but I have been secretly observing me in the building opposite my house some time ago. Is it you?"

The man froze for a moment: "No. I have been living my daily life according to what I should do, and I have never left the restrictions. Except tonight, I felt a change here, and I guessed that something happened to you, so I came here. It is reasonable Say, the NPCs here don't have any self-awareness, could the person you're talking about be someone who has a crush on you in the real world?"

Speaking of this, he smiled: "I still don't forget to secretly look at you after being an NPC, it's quite romantic."

"Is it romantic..." Gu Fan smiled awkwardly, and swallowed back that sentence of being so perverted together with the doubts in his heart.

"If you're worried, we can go back and have a look." The man stood up and looked at the sky, "Anyway, it's almost dawn, and according to my observation, NPCs are at their quietest from three to five in the morning. Go back, as long as you don't bump into them, nothing serious will happen, and the place we're going to happen to be is very close to your house."

"Okay." Gu Fan followed him and stood up.

Xue Bin expected it well. When they returned to the community against the cold wind, the two buildings had returned to quietness. Gu Fan took a look and found that the lights on the eighth floor of the two buildings had been completely turned off. Only when he left The one left was still on, lonely, like a bright star in the night sky, he and Xue Bin looked at each other, and walked into another building.

"Let's take the elevator." The man raised his wrist and glanced at his watch. "We don't have much time, and it feels like a waste to spend climbing the stairs."

"En." Gu Fan nodded, and the two walked in one after the other.

When the elevator door slowly closed, Gu Fan remembered that each building is equipped with an independent card. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Xue Bin take out a card from his pocket and swipe it, and then " The red number [-]" will light up.

Gu Fan closed his mouth resentfully, watching the numbers on the top start to jump happily.He has always had a fear of elevators. Thanks to the horror movies, he was very scared when he took the elevator alone at night when he moved into his new home for the first time. He didn't feel anything at first. Someone in a resident suddenly pressed the elevator, and it stopped halfway before reaching the eighth floor, and made a strange noise...

In the end, he didn't want to recall it anymore, anyway, he still remembered the silent eyes of the neighbor's brother at that time.

Forget the past.

Gu Fan coughed dryly, rolled his eyes at the sky, and complained hard about himself at that time, and then the man coughed too: "If you are afraid, you can stand behind me."

Gu Fan: "..."

???

Why do you feel that this is a bit weird.

"Ah, I just remembered that you met that woman here just now, so I thought you had a psychological shadow. After all, you are only a young student." Xue Bin added.

"Ah...it's okay." Gu Fan smiled, "I'm quite courageous now."

After all, I have been here for so long, and I am also someone who has seen big scenes.

Just as they were talking, the elevator dinged and the door opened. Fortunately, nothing happened, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief.When he walked to the closed door, Gu Fan looked at Xue Bin expectantly, expecting him to conjure up another key like before, and saw that he picked up a wire from the side and fiddled with it for a long time Pry the door open.

Gu Fan: "..."

"May I ask, what industry did you work in before?"

"Me." The man said as he opened the door, "It's just an ordinary salesman."

He raised the wire in his hand: "I learned this as an amateur when I came here. Anyway, no one in this world really cares about you. Sometimes you can use it, and you will become proficient after a long time."

Sure enough, adversity produces talent...

Gu Fan complained in his heart, gave him a thumbs up, and then the two walked into the room together.

As Gu Fan knew, this room has not been renovated, it is still the most original.He turned on the light, looked around, and only saw foam boards and wood on the ground. It seemed that everything was in the process of preparation.Xue Bin also helped him look around, returned to the living room and shrugged at him.

"I didn't find anything, your secret lover is quite mysterious."

"I didn't expect to find anything at first." Gu Fan smiled at him helplessly, "It's just that the existence of this person always makes me feel a little uneasy."

"Then let's go?" Xue Bin asked for his opinion, "If it's too late, it might be too late."

"En." Gu Fan replied, but his eyes stayed on a dusty corner of the balcony.There was a plastic chair there, which was probably used by the workers for decoration, and there were some waste paper materials under the chair, and...

He walked over, picked up the small one-inch photo, and then his eyes suddenly fixed on it.

It was a photo of him when he entered high school. Looking at the glue mark on the back, it should be torn from something.

"Why are you here?" He murmured.

The man didn't seem to expect that he would find this thing, so he leaned over and took a look: "Don't be your classmate?"

".....do not know."

Gu Fan's mood was a bit complicated, while he was thinking about something, he replied vaguely: "Isn't it too late, let's go."

"Okay." After he said that, Xue Bin didn't ask any more questions, and the two went downstairs quietly.

I was unlucky when I went downstairs, I ran into a person in the elevator, when Gu Fan saw that person walking in, the expression on his face almost distorted, but Xue Bin grabbed his hand in time, His eyes beckoned him not to move.Gu Fan glanced at him and saw that there was no panic in his eyes, so he followed him and calmed down.Seeing the old man who was still out in the middle of the night tremblingly walking in, turned around and pressed the button, without even giving them a look, as if he had already ignored them, he breathed a sigh of relief .

Xue Bin didn't let go of his hand until the old man got out of the elevator.

"Your hands are quite cold too." Gu Fan glanced at him.

"Also?" Xue Bin didn't pay attention to what he said, and asked casually as he walked forward, "Who else?"

"My mother." Gu Fan rubbed his wrist, "After saying this, she smiled at me, it's so creepy."

"Normal." Xue Bin was amused by his wording, "The master of this world uses wind and snow as the main means of attack. Everyone here should be cold when they come into contact with it, because this is a creature created by "it"."

"It's hard for you." Gu Fan said, "Stayed alone in this ghost place for so long."

"You don't have to doubt the relationship between me and them." Xue Bin didn't turn his head. "You don't need to test me with words anymore. You should have noticed it a long time ago. I am different from those NPCs. Didn't you understand just now?" Is it? Listening to you now, why do I feel that you half understand it? "

"I know." Gu Fan trotted to keep up with him, "You said you woke up, I guess it means that you are the same person as me, and this ghost place likes to test people with wind and snow, you have experienced Passed a round of trials and survived, understood the laws of the world, and then kept pretending that you were also an unconscious NPC mixed in with them, but in fact you retained your own consciousness."

"Don't you think this explanation is mysterious? Let's not talk about anything else. I don't think it's credible to say that you tricked that master into an NPC. Is it so stupid..."

"Basically correct. Don't you think this world is inherently fantasy?" Xue Bin said, "I'll explain it to you in detail later, now, it's here."

Gu Fan followed him and stopped, the corners of his mouth twitching.

"Are you serious bro?"

I can't blame him for asking such a question. What does it mean to take him to the gate of his alma mater for asylum?Hope to use the power of knowledge to influence that monster?

The author has something to say: I have a bad memory lately... the foreshadowing details I thought of the night before and I forgot orz when I got up the next morning, so if there is a bug, tell me, happy halloween