Chapter 47

“Waiting for me?”

Xie De raised an eyebrow.

“Yes!” Hu Songlin’s pale brown eyes looked at him very seriously and solemnly, but the voice that came out was a bit timid, carrying a thick anticipation.

“You still remember my name, right?”

“Hu Songlin.”

At this moment, Xie De remembered Hu Songlin’s ability to be absolutely ignored by others. This ability was a good thing for Xie De, but it seemed to be a massive annoyance for Hu Songlin, even almost driving him crazy.

And the reason he was able to avoid ignoring him was because of Gibberish’s thermal imaging function. Bound to Gibberish, he was forced to sense him, it was hard to ignore him even if he wanted to. (Friendly reminder: Gibberish’s thermal imaging function appeared in chapter five.)

Hearing Xie De say his name, the corners of Hu Songlin’s eyes turned red. His whole person was usually too plain, so this touch of red was extremely conspicuous, making him look a bit more vivid and pitiful.

“Apart from the club’s internal system, this is the first time I’ve repeatedly heard my name from someone else’s mouth, and without them forgetting me…”

Hu Songlin kept looking at him very seriously, which made Xie De not know what to say, and feel very awkward. He had to know he was just cursing him in his heart not long ago, but this easily moved guy seemed to act as if he had been bought over just because of a name.

No, this is too awkward. Xie De couldn’t hold back and impolitely interrupted the other person’s words.

“Enough.”

After Xie De finished speaking, he turned and took two steps, then felt his attitude was too harsh, so he turned back and added, “I won’t be the only one who remembers you.”

Hu Songlin stared blankly at Xie De’s back, watching him walk back to his previous position. Hu Wei had been crossing her arms to the side, looking at Hu Songlin with a scrutinizing and curious gaze.

Wei Yanchi and Yue Xiamo were also looking at him. Then Wei Yanchi suddenly spoke calmly.

“I remember now, he is that person in the club with absolute luck and the ability of absolute insignificance.”

Yue Xiamo narrowed her eyes.

“Absolutely ignored?”

Indeed, if it weren’t for Mr. 39, she definitely wouldn’t have noticed his existence just now. Should she say ‘as expected of Mr. 39’?

The position they stood at wasn’t far to begin with. Hearing this sentence, Hu Songlin made a face at Wei Yanchi and mouthed the words, “For 39’s sake, I’ll let you go for now.”

Wei Yanchi shrugged indifferently, and then spoke to Xie De in a tone almost claiming credit.

“I know what’s going on with this scenario, Mr. 39. Actually, the place we’ve been in all along is the world projected by Zhang Qiuyue’s subconscious, right?”

Ah?

Xie De didn’t process it in time and just nodded directly.

Receiving affirmation, Wei Yanchi smiled even more arrogantly. That kind of high-spiritedness, confident wildness, formed a sharp contrast with Hu Songlin’s weak presence, making him extremely dazzling and eye-catching.

He analyzed it directly, talking with ease and fluency.

“Currently we know Zhang Qiuyue is already dead, yet came to the scenario as a player, but then never appeared after the instance movie started. We consider the movie we drew as the second-level dreamscape. Now that we’ve cleared the four scenarios we drew, we are instead in the first-level dreamscape.”

“If we are players who haven’t fallen into the Lost Domain and are currently alive, then may I ask, whose dream are we in?”

“The protagonist of ‘Pearl’ is an idealistic young woman, but in the end, she killed her father and mother and still returned to the family, staying on the farm forever. Can this show that it’s projecting Zhang Qiuyue’s life experience?”

Wei Yanchi paused, casually glancing at Xie De, but happened to meet Xie De’s eyes. He coughed and continued.

“Zhang Qiuyue married her husband when she was very young, and then divorced when her child was seven years old, raising the child all alone. When the child went to college and got a girlfriend, she unexpectedly died in the movie theater.”

“‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a romantic tragedy, probably also projecting Zhang Qiuyue’s tragic marriage.”

“‘The Lion King’ is a children’s film talking about bravery and love, projecting Zhang Qiuyue’s love for her son.”

“And ‘Inception’ is the clue the scenario gave us, making us continuously shuttle back and forth between these few movies. It’s also considered the scenario confusing our thinking.”

“In the last movie we cleared, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, characters from other movies appeared. Why would there be such a big hodgepodge? I guess it’s because Zhang Qiuyue is actually in that movie, or rather, Juliet is Zhang Qiuyue.”

“Mr. 39 had Pearl kill Juliet, this represents Zhang Qiuyue’s ideal killing Zhang Qiuyue’s love.”

“In the movie, Pearl’s image is depicted with rich colors and heavy ink, with an extremely high combat power, while Juliet can only cry, unbearably weak. This also indirectly reflects Zhang Qiuyue fantasizing about her ideals breaking through the shackles of marriage.”

“In the movie, Pearl can command a pride of lions, and we know that the lions actually allude to Zhang Qiuyue’s son. Does this show that Zhang Qiuyue fantasized about becoming a strong, independent woman to provide shelter for her son? Or rather, to make her son worship her.”

Xie De had been listening in silence. He understood, and he was also shocked. Wei Yanchi, you kid are really cut out for Chinese reading comprehension.

“Gibberish, did you hear that? If we were to deal with the protagonist, how can this be playable without a nerf?”

Gibberish forced out a few words.

“I… am running… out of power.”

With a bzz sound, the voice of the Bluetooth powering off came through. The earpiece was out of power, but the phone still had one bar of battery left, running faintly.

Uh… if he had known, he wouldn’t have talked to Gibberish. Cough, next time he clears a scenario, he’ll bring a power bank. Now, fortunately, the protagonist has already analyzed the situation, so they’ll clear the stage any minute, and he can charge it when he gets back.

Yue Xiamo frowned frequently as she listened.

“So what we need now is to wake Zhang Qiuyue up? But we can’t find her.”

“Actually, she can be found. We need to enter the Lost Domain once again.” Wei Yanchi looked at Xie De with bright eyes, “Mr. 39, can you go in with me? The two of us should be able to find her very quickly.”

“Not going.”

Xie De refused directly, his gaze looking toward Hu Songlin who was crouching down again pretending to be a mushroom on the side.

“Take him.”

“Eh? Me?”

Yes, that’s right, it’s you young man, you are the super-lucky one, finding someone is just a matter of minutes.

Hu Songlin revealed a smiling face, feeling that being given a task was something worth being happy about, although he still somewhat disliked Wei Yanchi.

Of course, Wei Yanchi didn’t really want to go with him either.

Hu Wei looked at Hu Songlin with doubt once again.

………

Fiery red clouds hung in the sky. Zhang Qiuyue was wearing her prettiest dress, her eyes full of happiness.

Behind her followed her husband, carrying their son.

As they walked on the road, everyone envied her.

Because she had a happy marriage, a smooth career, and a well-behaved, sensible son.

She felt she could live on like this forever.

But soon, all of this was ruined by two uninvited guests.

“You are just dreaming.”

No, who are you? On what grounds do you deny her life like this?

“Wake up.”

No, don’t, I’m not dreaming, I’m not!

“You are already dead.”

Tears dripped down the corners of her eyes. Zhang Qiuyue looked at her own ugly hands covered with thick calluses. She finally awakened to the truth, and gave one last agonizing scream.

“Why must you make me wake up?!”

Because they want to get out.

The scenario system’s cold voice rang in their ears.

“Congratulations on perfectly clearing this scenario. A total of five players survived.”