Chapter 702 Black Silk Big Sister

In a daze, Lin Xue opened her eyes.

In front of him is a staircase leading underground. Judging from the flashing signs on both sides, this is an underground arcade with a long history.

"So, the core of this dream is the game arcade?" Lin Xue pondered for a moment, then walked down the stairs without much hesitation.

The moment you step into the door of the game hall, you feel like you have stepped into a different space isolated from the world.

Dim lights swayed in the compact space, creating a mysterious and depressing atmosphere. There was a faint smell of tobacco and alcohol in the air, which mixed into a unique smell that made people feel a little unhappy.

The game hall was buzzing with people, the sound effects of video games, the yelling of players, the tapping of keyboards... the noisy sounds were intertwined and spread throughout every corner of the hall.

Lin Xue got out of the way of the crowd and walked into the hall in the darkness, searching the crowd with her eyes.

Vivian said that she would enter the dreams of people she knew. Lin Xue was not sure who among the people she knew would like to come to this kind of place. Anyway, the primary goal at the moment was to find the owner of the dream first.

Finding the dream owner was not as difficult as imagined. Lin Xue casually glanced around among the people in the hall, and her eyes quickly locked on a little boy wearing a peaked cap.

Unlike other players who gathered together in twos and threes, this little boy was the only one in the entire hall, sitting alone in front of a game console in the corner.

Of course, the number of people can't mean anything. The more obvious feature is actually the style of painting: other players present can only do a few repetitive actions and lines, just like the lazy NPCs in the game. Only this little boy is a real player. , every move reveals the agility of a living person.

Obviously the owner of the dream does not have extra CPU to create these background characters, and all his attention is focused on the protagonist. It feels like the only colorful character appears in a black and white comic, and it is difficult not to notice it.

"Little boy?"

Lin Xue frowned. For a little boy of this age, she only knew Lin Hai when he was a child. However, the Lin family's tutoring was very strict, so Xiao Hai probably wouldn't have the chance to come to a place like this.

Lin Xue approached with curiosity.

The little boy sat cross-legged on the armchair, holding the handle in his hand and pressing the keys quickly with his fingers. He stared at the screen with a very serious expression, his little face flickering as the screen flickered.

As she approached, Lin Xue had already confirmed that this boy could not be Lin Hai, but could this familiar facial features be...

Lin Xue had already guessed something. There happened to be a little boy's schoolbag lying next to the video game table. His identity was clearly marked on the tag on the schoolbag.

Songhai Primary School.

Three years and eight classes.

Muyou.

As expected...

Lin Xue raised the corners of her mouth slightly, walked forward, and sat down on the seat next to the boy.

The little boy who was immersed in the game finally noticed her presence. He temporarily broke away from the game and turned to look at her in surprise.

Seeing Lin Xue's dress clearly, a hint of vigilance suddenly flashed in the boy's eyes. He hurriedly stood up and looked around. He picked up his schoolbag with some guilt, blocked his name, and then left the position and changed to another one not far away. In front of an unmanned aircraft.

The blush that fluttered across the boy's face before leaving did not escape Lin Xue's eyes.

Lin Xue couldn't help but smile again. She actually didn't like children very much, but for some reason, she suddenly met Mu You when she was a child, and this shy behavior was different from Mu You's usual mature and sophisticated appearance. , this contrast was so interesting that she couldn't help but want to tease it.

Lin Xue stood up, followed the boy, and sat down next to Xiao Muyou again.

Seeing that she was still following her, the little boy's eyes became even more panicked. However, he did not change positions this time. Children also have self-esteem. They ran away again and again, and others thought I was afraid of you.

"How to play this?"

Lin Xue saw that the boy was immersed in playing games again. She looked at the keyboard and game screen in front of her and couldn't help but ask for help. Like Lin Hai, she didn't have the opportunity to come into contact with this kind of thing.

"Insert the coin here and click here to start." The little boy said in an impatient tone. After giving a few cool instructions, he withdrew his hand, not looking at Lin Xue the whole time.

"oh……"

Lin Xue couldn't play without game currency, but she didn't leave. She just sat in her seat, crossed her legs, and watched Xiao Muyou's operations intently.

The little boy seemed to be staring at the screen intently, but he could also feel the gaze behind him. For a moment, it was like a light on his back, and the movements of his hands gradually deformed. The game character jumped around like a convulsion, and eight out of ten lives were quickly lost.

Seeing that the game coins were about to run out, the little boy couldn't get enough of the fat, so he stood up and prepared to continue changing positions.

As a result, Lin Xue suddenly said: "Little Muyou, what is your wish?"

The little boy was shocked, suddenly picked up his schoolbag, backed out of his position, took a few steps away, and then looked at her warily.

"Auntie, are you really a human trafficker?"

"..."

Lin Xue, who thought she had taken advantage of the little boy, was killed by the little boy with just one word. She was confused in the wind, and it took her a while to come to her senses.

"If I were a human trafficker, you would be in a sack right now..."

Lin Xue rolled her eyes at him: "Change 'aunt' to sister, and I can help you realize a wish... Forget it if you don't believe it."

The little boy looked at her suspiciously, hesitated for a moment, and then tentatively said: "Then... you will buy me ten coins? Sister..."

Lin Xue then stood up with satisfaction and walked to the front desk.

After a while, she came back with a small plastic bucket instead of game coins.

Lin Xue threw the bucket on the table, and inside it was full of game coins, at least seven or eight hundred coins.

The little boy was so shocked. Children who can usually come to the game hall to play usually use their pocket money, and spend every coin carefully. How can they buy a basketful of coins at a time? Is this the legendary way of playing for the rich?

"Come on, ten chances. As long as you can beat me once, I will let you play enough." Lin Xue sat down at the seat, threw ten coins into each of the two seats, and pressed the battle button.

Seeing the game start, the little boy had to hurry back to his seat, rolled up his sleeves, and excitedly prepared to show his real skills to the rich sister.

...

Ten minutes later, the little boy looked at the dimmed screen in disbelief. This was the tenth game he had lost. In ten games, he was beaten ten to zero.

Except for the first game, where Lin Xue struggled for a while because she was not familiar with the mechanism, she was killed in half a minute in the other games, and she died faster and faster.

The little boy looked doubtful about his life.

"How is it possible... You must play often!" The little boy looked at Lin Xue and said firmly: "I have never seen a girl who is so good at playing games..."

"Better than your 'Xiao Hui'?" Lin Xue suddenly asked with interest.

"You, you know Xiao Hui?" The boy was a little surprised, and his eyes wandered unconsciously.

Lin Xue did not ask further, and glanced at the dream around him that showed no signs of dissipating.

"Tell me, what other wishes do you have?"

"Then... give me ten more chances?" The boy asked cautiously.

Lin Xue shook her head: "I can continue to play with you, play a hundred games or a thousand games, but if you keep hiding in here and escaping, the person you really want to see will never appear."

Lin Xue has the ability to read minds. It is much easier for her to understand a dream than others. As long as she sees the owner of the dream, she can easily see through the appearance and see the deep logic in the dream.

In just a few minutes of contact with Xiao Muyou, she had read the boy's true wish: he had a girl he liked, named Xiaohui, who was the most beautiful girl in the class. Her family seemed to run an arcade, so she was very good at playing games.

Children of this age had no concept of confession. They were so naive that they only wanted to hide and practice their gaming skills until they became masters, and one day they would become famous, and then the girl they liked would look at him with new eyes. That was all.

The little boy was stunned when he heard this, and was a little confused: "Sister, what are you talking about? I don't understand..."

Lin Xue shook her head and continued to remind him: "If you like it, just say it directly, maybe it will work."

The boy fell silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

The ground suddenly shook.

One by one, pixel monsters began to pour in from the door of the arcade. The hall, which was still laughing just now, suddenly became a mess. The crowd screamed and fled in all directions, and many people died directly in the monsters' mouths.

"No, run!"

The scene changed so abruptly that the little boy was startled. He subconsciously picked up his schoolbag and ran to the back door. After running two steps, he remembered something and turned back to pull Lin Xue to run together.

Lin Xue was pulled by Xiao Muyou and followed the crowd to the back door, but she smiled: That's right!

The dream scene began to collapse, indicating that he finally began to face his heart.

These monsters are the obstacles he needs to face to see the girl in his heart. It is much easier to understand and handle for Lin Xue to turn the original teenage troubles in the arcade into a story of a brave man breaking through the obstruction of many monsters and killing his beloved princess in the Demon King's City.

Otherwise, she would have to stay and teach the little boy a lesson on adolescent emotions and teach him how to chase girls. This is too troublesome. Besides, she herself has never been in a relationship, so how can she teach others?

Xiao Muyou pulled Lin Xue out of the game hall and came to the street.

The streets shrouded in darkness were now filled with all kinds of huge pixel monsters, roaring and chasing pedestrians.

Lin Xue glanced at them. These monsters were basically those in arcade games, which were in line with the theme of "arcade", but there were also some private goods, such as letter beasts, homework beasts, protractor beasts, etc.

Many of the monsters chased the two of them. The little boy pulled Lin Xue's hand and ran desperately in one direction.

This detail still made Lin Xue very satisfied: even at such a tense moment, he didn't think of leaving her alone and running away at such a young age.

If the expectation is correct, the end of the road the boy led should be the location of his "secret crush" girl.

Next, she only needs to escort the little boy all the way to the girl, and then create a chance for him to "save the beauty", and this dream should be completed successfully.

Seeing that the road ahead was also blocked by several monsters, Lin Xue did not hide anymore. She directly materialized the Grim Reaper's sickle and jumped in front of the boy to lead the way. As the sickle was swung, all the monsters along the way were killed by her like chopping melons and vegetables.

The little boy rarely made a fuss like an ordinary child, but just followed her silently. However, Lin Xue could feel the gaze from behind.

Without looking back, she could guess that the boy must be looking at her with surprise and admiration at this moment...

Lin Xue had to admit that it felt good. In reality, she was always ahead of Mu You. She felt powerless no matter how hard she tried to catch up. Now she finally had the chance to be looked up to by him. It was quite rare. Lin Xue couldn't help but enjoy this kind of gaze.

...

"Sizzle..."

Mu You pushed open the gate of the village. The old iron gate made an unpleasant whine, which was particularly harsh in the quiet night.

The little girl behind him shuddered at the sound and hurriedly moved closer to Mu You, holding his clothes tightly.

Mu You expanded the illumination technique in his hand a little, and the warm light illuminated more darkness, finally making the little girl feel more at ease.

Mu You took the little girl into the village. The whole village was quiet, without even the sound of insects, and you could hear a pin drop.

As the two went deeper into the village, ghosts suddenly appeared in the houses around them. These ghosts were larger and more twisted than the ghosts on the mountain road.

Mu You condensed fireballs as usual, and cast magic spells one by one, killing all the ghosts that appeared at the first time.

This village is indeed a deserted village, with no one inside, only ghosts.

Halfway through the journey, he actually guessed that Xiaoya didn't want to go home, but he still insisted on taking Xiaoya back to see, because he needed to confirm Xiaoya's true heart and situation, otherwise he couldn't help her.

Mu You followed Xiaoya's guidance and quickly found her "home" in the village.

However, there was no family in her so-called home, only a few more ferocious ghosts, pouring out of the doors and windows, rushing towards them with their teeth and claws, and finally burned them to ashes by the fire curtain created by Mu You.

"Xiaoya, are you afraid to go home?" Mu You dispersed the ghosts around him, squatted down, looked at the girl and asked.

"Because... I will be beaten when I go home..."

The little girl's tears fell, squatted on the ground, covering her arms, and her small body couldn't stop shaking.

At this point, Mu You had completely understood.

In Xiaoya's heart, there are no "people" who are good to her in her home, only "ghosts" who are very bad to her.

That's why she often dreams of running away from home...

Now that I think about it, the little girl has made it very clear since she met him.

"I dare not go home... it's too dark..." This was the little girl's answer at the time.

Mu You subconsciously thought it was "because it's dark, so I dare not go home", but in fact, this sentence is understood separately. "It's too dark" and "I dare not go home" are not causal relationships, but dilemmas that exist at the same time.

"I dare not go home" is because home is a terrifying place in her heart.

"It's too dark" is because she can't get out of this mountain. She has never seen the scenery outside the mountains, and naturally she can't generate a way out of the mountains in her dreams, so she can only be trapped on the edge of the mountain and cry blankly all night.

It's hard for Mu You to imagine what kind of pain it is when a home that should be a safe haven becomes a place you want to escape from in your dreams.

Thinking about it carefully, Xiaoya rarely mentioned her parents and family. She stayed in the city almost all year round. She would leave for a few days during the Chinese New Year, but she would come back soon. There were a few times when the time was so short that Mu You felt that she had not been back at all. He had hardly seen her talk to her family.

Mu You did not ask much about this, just thinking that she was not used to contacting her family in front of others, but now it seems that there is another hidden story...

Seeing the little girl crying silently with her arms covered, Mu You suddenly felt distressed.

For so many years, he always thought that he knew Xiaoya very well, but he never knew that she had such a painful past.

However, he was powerless to change it.

Everything he saw now was actually what had happened. What's more, this was just a dream. No matter how much he changed in the dream, when Xiaoya woke up, her situation in reality would not improve at all.

But even so, Mu You felt that he should leave something behind.

When people have no hope for a long time, they will gradually become numb until they are regulated by reality, accept their situation, and no longer have the heart to resist.

Therefore, he wanted to leave a hope for Xiaoya before this dream ended.

A seed of hope deeply rooted in her heart that would help her escape from the nightmare in the future... (End of this chapter)