Chapter 374 Sleep and Dream

"From now on, this is your room."

This is what the person behind the scenes of the Undead Society said to Mianmian when she was brought here on the first day.

"This guy is completely different from other children. He doesn't cry or make a fuss. When he sees me, his gloomy eyes make me feel sick..."

"I heard that he is a wild child picked up by the president from the garbage dump. No wonder he smells so bad..."

"I haven't heard her speak. Is she still dumb?"

"I don't care about this kind of child. Whoever wants to take care of him can do it..."

"It doesn't matter. People with personality problems are just cannon fodder..."

...

Several administrators gathered together and muttered, all looking at the girl with contempt and disgust.

The girl was wearing tattered clothes with stains all over her body, and her face was dirty. The only thing that impressed people was the pair of ruby-like shining eyes on her face.

The girl held a tattered doll in her arms, turning a deaf ear to the bad words of the people over there, just looking up at the house in front of her, and firmly remembering the house number 'No. 14'.

She knew that this would be her residence for a long time in the future.

The girl was different from other kidnapped children here. She was the only one who took the initiative to appear in front of these people. She also pretended to escape and was caught again, so that she could be sent here smoothly.

Of course, she knew that this was a very bad place and that the fate of entering here would not be good, but she also understood that this was the only place in the Cook Islands where she could eat enough, sleep well, and not starve and freeze every day.

No matter what she would encounter in the future, at least for now, she would be much more comfortable staying here than wandering outside.

In the following days, Mianmian began her closed life in this underground factory.

There were more than a hundred children who came in with her. Every day at mealtime, she was always the most active one. Her wolfing down of food was in starvation with her sweet appearance. Coupled with her lonely and cold personality, she gradually became a "weird person" in the eyes of other children.

"Bang..."

At mealtime that day, the plate she had just put food on was "accidentally" knocked over by a passing boy.

"Sorry, sleepyhead, you have no food to eat today! Hahaha!"

Faced with the malicious sneers of several little boys, the girl just glanced at them indifferently, suddenly punched the leading boy in the face, and then threw him to the ground, ignoring the punches and kicks of other children next to her, and kept scratching the boy's face...

Half an hour later, the bruised girl picked up the food that fell on the ground one by one, ignored the little boys next to her who were scratched like cats and were crying, sat back at the dining table, and continued to gnaw the rice balls covered with dust calmly.

When she was outside, she had to fight with wild dogs for food every day. Compared with those wild dogs, these little boys in front of her were too weak, just like those small domestic dogs who could only rely on others' power. They were more fierce than anyone else when barking and more cowardly than anyone else when fighting.

Since then, no other child dared to provoke her casually, and her title among her peers was upgraded from "sleepyhead" to "red-eyed witch".

Of course, not everyone hates her. For example, the new girl next door, No. 15, a little girl named Louise, does not look at her with tinted glasses, and Mianmian does not mind showing some kindness to her.

Coldness is just her disguise, because she knows that this will allow her to survive better here.

The closed life in the underground factory is simple and boring. In addition to completing some tasks assigned by the administrator every day, the rest of the time can basically do nothing. This is of course a torture for other children who are free by nature, but it is a great convenience for Mianmian because she suffers from severe narcolepsy, a rare disease, and needs to sleep more than 16 hours a day.

So when other children are playing, she is sleeping, and when others are doing tasks, she is also slacking off and dozing off. Except for eating every day, few people can see her awake.

But what everyone doesn't know is that she also has an innate special ability: she can enter other people's dreams when she is asleep, follow the dream owner from the perspective of a bystander, and experience everything in the dream.

Dreams are always much better than reality, so for her, every day's real life is just a bad nightmare. Only when she is asleep is her real start of the day.

However, I don't know if it's because of the special environment, since entering here, her dream travel range has been greatly limited.

She began to frequently enter and exit the dreams of several people, especially the dream of a little girl. She would enter the same girl's dream seven or eight times out of ten times she fell asleep.

It was a little girl with a bob haircut. When she first saw her, she was wearing an exquisite and gorgeous kimono, and was led by her parents to walk in the bustling night market, watching the brilliant fireworks in the sky.

Surrounded by new and strange things that she had never seen before, Mianmian curiously followed behind the girl and followed her perspective to visit, but she didn't expect that the girl in front of her actually noticed it, and suddenly turned around and gave her a bright smile.

Mianmian was scared. In other people's dreams, she was always a spectator. No one could see her, and no one could notice her. This was the first time that someone interacted with her in a dream, and she was scared and ran away.

Since then, she began to repeatedly enter the girl's dream. After many observations, she was sure that the girl could indeed see her existence and even talk to her.

After a simple exchange, they knew each other's names. The girl's name was Ye Rumeng, who lived in the Land of Oblivion and was a fool.

Similar hobbies and complementary personalities made them quickly become friends. The things that they could meet in dreams every day also became their common secret.

Mianmian would follow Ye Rumeng's dreams every day and experience the various things she encountered during the day.

Ye Rumeng had parents who loved her, a wealthy family, kind teachers and relatives and friends, so her dreams were almost the same as reality, because reality was already happy enough, and there were not many wishes that needed to be made up by dreams.

All this made Mianmian envious and yearning. Sometimes she would think that the two of them were so similar. If their birth environments were swapped, perhaps she would become a sunny and cheerful girl like her, instead of being as gloomy and sensitive as she is now, and even losing the ability to laugh, with only calculations and survival in her mind.

‘Mengmeng is me in another world’, whenever she thinks of this, Mianmian will instinctively get a sense of satisfaction, as if all the happy moments that the other person has experienced will be conveyed to her in real time.

In the deep and dark underground prison, the dream world is like a ray of redemption, illuminating her life.

While other children are tortured to mental breakdown by repetitive and repressed life, her mental state is unusually stable.

Four years have passed like this.

The children in the surrounding rooms have changed batches after batches, but she, like a ‘nail household’, has firmly taken root in Ward 14 and has begun to enjoy life here.

However, as time goes by, Mianmian is no longer satisfied with just being a spectator in dreams. She wants to stand beside Mengmeng in reality, wear beautiful clothes like her, and walk in the sun.

Especially recently, Mianmian learned some special news from the dreams of several administrators: the people here seem to have finally become fed up with her as a ‘nail household’ and decided to arrange a ‘final experiment’ for her in the near future.

As an ‘old bastard’ who has lived here for more than four years, and can occasionally sneak into the administrator’s dream, Mianmian certainly knows what the ‘final experiment’ means.

That is the final destination of the children who are locked up here, which is basically equivalent to ‘death’.

Mianmian certainly doesn’t want to die, and after four years, she has actually considered the plan of escape: her ability to enter dreams is not only for the spirit, but also for the body to enter the real dream world, but the premise is that she needs to stay in the backpack space and fall asleep.

As far as she knows, there is only one backpack space in the entire underground factory, just above the Gu pool, there is a storage box, open the box, and the backpack space is connected below.

However, above the Gu pool is where the people behind the scenes live, and it is also where the ‘monster’ lives. Usually she has no chance to get close to it.

Only in the final experiment will the children who are undergoing the experiment be sent to that high platform, and that is her only chance to escape!

Mianmian secretly planned everything for the escape, which cannot be said to be perfect, but the success rate is at least 70%.

The question is, after she really escapes, where should she go?

"Can you... take me in?"

In the dream that day, Mianmian mustered up the courage to ask Mengmeng this question.

"What?" The girl looked at her puzzled.

"I mean... if I appear in your world, can I... live with you?"

"Really?" The girl with the bob haircut's eyes lit up instantly.

"Well..."

"Of course!"

Ye Rumeng nodded hurriedly: "I will definitely explain everything to my parents and let them adopt you too! My father is a very open-minded person, he will help you with your identity and proof, don't worry."

The girl's answer proved that she was not a whim, but had considered similar things a long time ago. She fully understood Mianmian's situation and even secretly consulted her family for this.

The girl's answer made Mianmian relax and smiled for the first time in a long time.

All the plans were ready, and then Mianmian began to look forward to the arrival of the experiment day.

Whenever she thought that she would soon leave here and start a new life in another world, her heart would beat faster and she would feel infinite expectations in her heart.

And this day came sooner than expected.

A few days later, Mianmian was transferred to a double dormitory in the West District Hospital. She was arranged here with another roommate, who was another experimental subject who would conduct the final experiment with her.

Mianmian was indifferent to this, because she was now focused on escaping. No matter who came, it had nothing to do with her.

As a result, when her door was opened that day, a figure she was very familiar with was thrown in.

Looking at the little girl with a bloody head and bruises on the ground, Mianmian suddenly felt unprecedented anger after being shocked.

She walked to the person behind the scenes at the door, clenched her fists, and stared at the figure in front of her. She could no longer control her usually calm expression. Like a mother cat protecting her calf, her face was hideous and she was so angry that she trembled all over.

"It's really shocking!"

The person behind the scenes also looked at Mianmian in surprise, and his expression quickly turned into a smile with interest: "You actually show this kind of emotion? This is really interesting... It seems that the 14 groups of experiments can be more Looking forward to it!”

"Snapped!"

The door was shut mercilessly.

Mianmian hurriedly ran to the girl behind her to check her injuries.

"Mengmeng, how are you?"

The weak and bruised girl in her arms showed a happy smile to her.

"Mianmian, I finally see you..."

"Do you know where this place is?" Mianmian was angry and helpless. Why could she still laugh at this time?

"I know this is a bad place... But, my parents are dead, I have no one to rely on, and the only relative I have in the world is you. As a result, they brought me to you. That's not all. Is it worth being happy?" the girl said with a smile.

Mianmian was silent, feeling even more guilty. She knew clearly that she had harmed Mengmeng, the person whose soul was in sync with her... She should have thought of it earlier, who else was more suitable to be her experimental subject than Mengmeng? If it hadn't been for her, Mengmeng wouldn't have been targeted, let alone her family.

"Mengmeng, run away!" Mianmian suddenly said firmly.

"escape?"

"Yes, we will be thrown into a place in a few days. At that time, I will let you inherit my body and abilities. I will become a shadow ghost and help you stop other people. You only need to take the opportunity to get into that box. , and then try your best to fall asleep and escape!" Mianmian immediately transferred the modified escape method she had planned to Mengmeng.

"and this!"

Mianmian took out a small bag with a zippered collar from under the bed. Inside was a map fragment shrouded in black air: "I picked this up in the garbage dump. It contains something very important to the Fool. Those people said this thing cannot be Stay, because it will attract fools, so I picked it up from the garbage dump."

"Take this and go find an organization called the Dragon Group and ask them to protect you!" Mianmian whispered.

"Dragon group... what is it?" the little girl asked blankly.

"I don't know either. I overheard their conversation in my dream and mentioned that this organization can make people in the Society of the Undead fearful. If you give them something, they should have the ability to protect you," Mianmian said.

This was originally the escape route she had left for herself, but now it was all transferred to the little girl, but she didn't feel bad at all. The moment she saw that her experimental subject was Mengmeng, she no longer cared about her own life or death. Getting her out of here alive was more important than anything else.

"What about you?" Mengmeng did not forget Mianmian.

"I...it doesn't matter anymore. There is one less of me and more than one of me in this world. It's all the same..."

Mianmian smiled bitterly, how could a person who has stayed in darkness his whole life dare to step into the light rashly? Everything I had been looking forward to for so long was just a dream after all.

In order to ensure that Mengmeng could escape, Mianmian taught her everything she planned many times in the next half month.

Half a month later, the two were finally taken to the top of the Gu Pond. In front of the man behind the scenes, they were pulled into the shadow of the underground and fell into a world full of twisted lines.

An indescribable sense of oppression came from all directions. The two girls instantly covered their heads and fell to the ground. However, the shadows under them seemed to be attractive, gathering together, and finally connected between the two. Together.

Both of them were shaken by the pain that hit them, but Mianmian still forced a smile: "Don't be afraid, Mengmeng, I will let you survive. No matter what I become later, Don’t be afraid, even if you turn into a monster, I will definitely protect you..."

"This little bit of pain is nothing to me..."

Mianmian smiled dryly and began to try to absorb the pain in Mengmeng's shadow and apply it to herself.

However, she soon discovered that she had not been able to absorb the shadow. Instead, her shadow was getting shorter, and the pain on her body was also rapidly decreasing.

Mianmian looked at the girl opposite in surprise: "Mengmeng, what are you doing?"

"It turns out that this is the pain you have been suffering. It's because I was too naive..." The little girl looked at her weakly and forced out a dry smile.

"Stop! If this continues, both of us will die. Are you going to waste the opportunity I created for you?" Feeling that the pain in her body continued to decrease, Mianmian suddenly became anxious. Every bit of her loss was lost. The pain will be felt on the girl opposite.

"It won't be wasted..."

The girl fell to the ground, her body huddled in pain, but she still forced a smile: "I definitely can't do such a complicated thing... So, it's better for you to escape..."

"...Don't be afraid, I will help you take away all the painful memories... You have to take my memories with you into your dreams, and then live..."

Along with the girl's increasingly weak voice, the shadow under Mianmian's body began to be quickly drawn away.

The pain receded like a tide, and Mianmian suddenly felt more relaxed than ever before. At the same time, a huge wave of sleepiness came over her. She tried hard to stay awake, but she still couldn't resist the strong reaction of her body and gradually closed her eyes...

…

"It's surprising, isn't it?"

On the high platform, the person behind the scenes stood above the shadows, watching the various changes in the two girls in the shadows, and spoke to the Magan man behind him with a somewhat excited tone.

“These two children are like the same person in parallel worlds. One is born to stand in the light, and the other is born to stand in the shadow. It is a match made in heaven... I have a feeling that today, the best work in the history of our church will be born!”