Chapter 3

Chapter 3

The moment the world shattered, countless lights spread out from the cracks. It seemed as if he was surrounded by a pitch-black sea, where large fragments of stars were scattered, densely covering the distant horizon.

The sea water chased him, coming from all directions.

Under a pressure that felt like drowning, Bai Yi struggled to surface, the light shining on his eyelids.

He slowly opened his eyes, waking up.

The glaring light shone on his face through the gap in the curtains, and beneath him was the soft touch unique to a bed.

The wall clock on the opposite wall made a ‘ding’ sound, its two hands forming a straight line.

— It was exactly six in the morning.

Bai Yi lay on the bed, his gaze unfocused, continuing to space out. Like a machine that had suddenly lost its connection and was stuck, he could fall back asleep at any moment.

It wasn’t until five minutes later that his blurry eyes finally focused, and his whole body, as if fully charged, suddenly sat up straight, “coming to life.”

The next second, he stretched out his arms and let out a long yawn, his messy hair trembling with his movement, and those eyes that had just focused half-closed again. He looked like he was running low on battery and was about to go back to sleep.

“The same dream has been going on for seven days now...”

A thought flashed through his mind, and he let out a drawn-out sigh.

“So—boring—”

Dreaming was an experience that everyone had, but to enter different dreamscapes every night, to remain absolutely conscious, and to remember every detail clearly after waking up...such a special experience was not something everyone got to have.

For Bai Yi, however, this had been his daily life.Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m

Ever since he could remember, it had always been like this.

Every night after falling asleep, he would uncontrollably plunge into various dreams, facing all sorts of strange beginnings.

Most of the time, he dreamed of a deep sea, where the water was as thick as ink, and around him were constantly falling fragments of stars. The pressure, so real it was suffocating, always gave 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, playing a certain role in them. Sometimes he was just delivering a letter for someone, sometimes he might be in mortal danger, needing to make the right choice in a very short time.

The duration of these dreams varied. The longest one repeated the same dream for half a month, the shortest one changed every day.

After many years of trial and summary, Bai Yi was not without gains. He found that as long as he immersed himself in the role, according to his own speculation, tried to do things that were in line with the role’s wishes, the same dream often wouldn’t last a few days before it completely disappeared from his side.

But if he seriously violated the role’s wishes, then he would continue to repeat this dream day and night.

The longest time, a dream repeated for three months.

It was simply...like being possessed by an evil spirit.

The dream last night, was the seventh repetition.

The moment he entered the dream, what appeared in front of Bai Yi was a glaring crime scene.

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

And he, like a ghost hovering in the sky, silently overlooked all this.

Then, he watched as the little boy who walked down the stairs was frightened by the scene in front of him, directly fell on the stairs, and made a piercing noise.

And the murderer was quickly alarmed by the noise made by the little boy, turned around to look at him for the first time, and was about to add another fresh corpse to the ground.

With the information collected from the dreams time and time again, the murderer’s personality model established in Bai Yi’s mind became more and more perfect, and the previous failures of counter-killing also provided him with more ample experience.

Until the fifth time he entered the dream...

This time, everything was under Bai Yi’s control.

How to make people relax their vigilance, how to make the other party’s every step follow your guidance...When you understand this person’s character enough, it’s not a difficult thing.

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

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

After a successful experience, on the sixth day, the seventh day, when Bai Yi woke up in the same dream again, facing the same opening, it was simply like holding a clearance guide to brush the copy, without any difficulty.

In order not to be so boring, to add a little difficulty to himself, he didn’t even completely copy the guide from the last time...

Even so, when you know enough about a person, and the other person knows nothing about you, it’s not difficult to design a trap for them to step into. Just as a prey that has been killed once by a trap, it’s not difficult to kill a second or third time.

In this way, Bai Yi completed a triple kill.

— It was not an escape, but a counter-kill.

— He could feel the deep pleasure from the bottom of his heart of the role he was playing. Each time deeper than the last.

But Bai Yi went from being initially enthusiastic to now being bored. It was like repeatedly solving a puzzle with a known answer, or eating the same snack over and over again.

Even if he changed the way he ate, he couldn’t help but get tired of it.

“Hey, this level should be satisfying enough.”

Standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, he gently splashed cold water on his face, Bai Yi looked up at the mirror on the wall.

The boy in the mirror was thin and tall, wearing a large white short-sleeved shirt, his black hair was messy, a few strands of hair on his forehead were wet by the splashed water droplets, revealing his dark eyes, and there were faint and unnoticeable dark circles around them.

Bai Yi yawned, and the deep black eyes in the mirror suddenly became misty. He murmured, as if speaking to the regret in the dream that may or may not exist, or the “reason” that made him fall into the dream behind all these nightmares, he said,

“— At least bring some fresher dreams.”

He didn’t expect a response, however...

The splashed water hit the mirror, flowing around, making the person in the mirror extremely blurry due to the water flow.

The next second, the water flowing around suddenly became orderly, forming one blurry and distorted text after another on the mirror, like an old TV screen flickering with static, presenting a poor signal reception.

Bai Yi suddenly widened his eyes.

“What is this...”

[System energy is full, nightmare game officially online.]

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

[Detected the only beta player, already bound.]

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