The sound of dripping water also reached the ears of the three people in dormitory 417 through the mobile phone.
No one could move, and all they could hear was the constant "tick-tick" sound, as if water were constantly overflowing from a pool...
At some point, a faint whimper emerged, as if someone had woken up.
——The half-conscious whimpering soon turned into a cry of fear, followed by an indistinct cry for help like drowning, and the sound of limbs slapping and struggling in the water.
No one could move, everyone could only listen and wait with their hearts clenched.
Liu Yi and Jia Qing were already crying. They recognized the weak female voice. It was Wang Yueran's voice!
Xia Jing looked at the clock hanging on the wall. The clock face was shrouded in a faint green fluorescent light, and the second hand was moving forward relentlessly, with no intention of stopping at all.
"Help... wu... huh..."
Amid the sound of water, Wang Yueran's cries for help gradually became desperate and weak.
After a few seconds, her whimpers and the messy sounds of water all disappeared.
It was as if the struggle had completely stopped.
Jia Qing and Liu Yi felt a pang of unease in their hearts.
The only sound left in the cell phone was the "tick-tick" sound of water, which struck everyone's heart again and again, mercilessly showing how deadly silent this moment was.
Xia Jing's black eyes remained motionless in the night.
The second hand kept turning and turning... until it reached zero o'clock, zero minutes, and thirty-nine seconds.
——Everyone was released from confinement in advance!
Before Jia Qing and Liu Yi could react, there was a rapid knock on the door.
Xia Jing rushed over to open the door. Song Yang rushed in with the old lady in his arms. He closed the door and said quickly, "Wang Yueran has disappeared!"
Liu Yi and Jia Qing were shocked: "What?"
The old lady was also very anxious: "Just now, just now she was in my arms. At midnight, she fell asleep and the shadow came. I couldn't move, and then I saw a group of bubbles suddenly emerge from the air and cover her whole body."
At this moment, the old lady's clothes were all wet.
Song Yang whispered, "Wang Yueran started struggling after waking up, but suddenly stopped moving at the 30th second. He disappeared right before our eyes at the 39th second, and then the bubble fell completely to the ground. We were able to move now."
Jia Qing's face turned pale: "She's dead?"
"Death won't make the player disappear before our eyes," Xia Jing's eyes turned and he chuckled. "She's a smart girl. This death association came very suddenly, but she still bravely tried to face her fear and successfully escaped from this dream."
Jia Qing and Liu Yi: "Escape?"
"Just now, after midnight, we arrived in Wang Yueran's dream world. If I'm not mistaken, she escaped from this dream and should now be in Jin Nan's dream world."
Jia Qing was already in a state of dementia: "She escaped from her dream world, but what about us?"
——Why were they left behind? !
Just then, there was another knock on the door.
There were too many knocks on the door tonight, and the situation was urgent, so everyone was very angry. Jia Qing cursed "Fuck", and this curse also made the NPC outside go crazy.
"What are you doing here at night instead of sleeping? Open the door! Open the door for me!"
The knock on the door was very loud and urgent, beating like a drum in everyone's heart.
Jia Qing was going crazy: "Brother Yang and Brother Jing, what should we do now?!"
Song Yang thought for a second and said, "Every night, a player will be chosen. The dream that occurs every night is a world built around that player's fear. So—"
Xia Jing narrowed his eyes: "Their fear is the key for them to leave this dream world, and it is also the key for us."
After the two confirmed their shared thoughts, Xia Jing said to Jia Qing, Liu Yi, and the old lady, "We need to imagine the source of Wang Yueran's fear in our minds. When the blister appears on everyone, don't panic. Remember clearly that this is a dream and everything is fake. Then open your mouth and breathe normally."
Jia Qing and Liu Yi opened their mouths wide, obviously unable to accept this extremely outrageous practice for a while.
However, when the NPC outside saw that they did not come to open the door, he started to bang on the door, making a loud "bang bang" sound.
The dormitory door is a very thin door panel. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be smashed into pieces in a few seconds.
It would be even more troublesome if NPCs broke in and clashed with them!
Song Yang pressed Jia Qing's head, who looked dazed, and said in a serious tone, "Did you hear clearly? Do as Xia Jing says. Even if you don't believe him, you have to believe me, okay?"
Jia Qing came back to his senses and his eyes turned red.
He was shaking with fear, but he nodded heavily and pulled Liu Yi: "Come on, let's follow Brother Yang and Brother Jing!"
Song Yang pulled the old lady closer.
The five people gathered together, and Xia Jing was not moved at all by the crazy banging on the door.
He lowered his eyes and spoke calmly as if he was telling a bedtime story.
"You just choked on water, and your throat still feels swollen, sore, and suffocating. You start to fear water, and you can't help but imagine what it's like to be surrounded by water and have it invade your mouth and nose..."
Not all of the five people present were afraid of water.
Liu Yi, Jia Qing, Song Yang and the old lady learned to swim.
Liu Yi even learned to dive.
Water is not their biggest fear.
However, perhaps it was the tense atmosphere that added to the fear, or perhaps it was because this was a world built by Wang Yueran's fear of water. When they imagined that cold feeling in their minds, they had unknowingly fallen into a huge water ball that appeared out of nowhere.
The icy water enveloped them.
"Tick", "Tick", "Tick".
The bubble was still a few centimeters away from the ground, and water drops continued to fall.
But for these five people, all sounds were blocked by the water.
Their vision began to distort and shake. Jia Qing and Liu Yi subconsciously held their breath. The old lady looked hesitant, then closed her eyes, opened her mouth and took a deep breath with Song Yang and Xia Jing.
Xia Jing raised his head, his slender neck appearing fragile in the waves.
His expression was calm and happy.
It's a joy to finally reach the climax of the story.
…
Different from the maker of dreams.
Before creating a dream, the dream maker must first fall into a deep sleep.
And in the few moments after waking up, people are dazed and confused.
They suddenly find that the thing they fear most is right in front of them, and suddenly feel the approach of death. They will struggle, but the fear will continue to climb up their bodies from their heels until it envelops them completely.
Before they realized that this might just be a dream, they were killed by fear in their dreams.
However, the situation is different for the challengers in the dream.
They already knew the core source of fear in the dream, and they were prepared and faced the challenge with clarity of mind.
So when everything officially started, although there was still a moment of panic, I saw that the companions around me and across from me bravely remained calm and took deep breaths...
Jia Qing and Liu Yi looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and with the determination to "die, that's all", opened their mouths wide and breathed deeply.
At first, water rushed into their mouths and noses, and they began to choke, suffocate, and struggle.
Jia Qing shouted in the water: "This is fake... This is fake!"
His unclear voice reached Liu Yi's ears through waves of water.
Liu Yi closed his eyes, his heart beating violently.
All of this was a dream, it was fake. Wang Yueran had already left here by facing her fear. She had succeeded. This was feasible...
Strangely, as this thought arose, he was suddenly able to breathe normally...
Then, a feeling of dizziness came over me.
Liu Yi woke up from the dormitory and found himself sitting on a stool in dormitory 417. Jia Qing was sitting opposite him, and Xia Jing was standing in the middle of the dormitory.
The three people held their phones, maintaining their respective postures before the time reached midnight.
Jia Qing's face was still dull. Xia Jing put down his phone first and ran to open the door. Song Yang and the old lady pulled Wang Yueran in and quickly closed the door!
Wang Yueran was completely unharmed. She excitedly exclaimed, "We succeeded! We all succeeded!"
Just now, when Wang Yueran was attacked by the water ball and was about to suffocate to death, she suddenly remembered what Xia Jing said before she was forced to fall asleep.
She told herself that since there was no way out, she might as well give it a try.
She opened her mouth and told herself that all this was fake, and that as long as she faced her fear, she would be able to leave the dream world!
Then she found that the water ball disappeared and she could breathe!
However, she was the only one left in the dormitory!
Until three seconds passed, Song Yang and the old lady suddenly appeared beside her!
Xia Jing glanced at the luminous clock and said, "We stayed in your dream world for three minutes. When we returned to Jin Nan's world, it was three seconds past midnight."
However, Jin Nan's dream world is a world where time is reversed.
So they actually stayed in Jin Nan's world for more than two hours.
"Oh my god, is someone going to be dreaming again?" Jia Qing asked subconsciously.
This time, even Liu Yi was smarter than him: "It's already past midnight, and no one is dreaming. This means that as long as we start to walk back along the nested dreams, no one will dream anymore, because we have begun to 'gradually wake up'!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the door banged again, and the teacher NPC outside the door started roaring again: "What are you doing gathered here in the middle of the night? Open the door! Open the door!"
"We still have to move forward, right? Let's start quickly!" Wang Yueran whispered.
"By the way, the source of fear in Jin Nan's world is bugs!" Liu Yi's face twisted.