Disordered Dream World

By George Colon

Dreams are connected to countless strange and light worlds, and under certain non-specific conditions, they are a way for human minds to touch and connect with a parallel universe. Recently, it has been discovered many times that Jiang Fan sometimes can't wake up no matter how much he is called after going to sleep, and he sleeps for more than t

• Language: English
• Publisher: Manuel Lopez
• Release date: Mar 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869325860

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Disordered Dream World

Copyright © 2024 by George Colon

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Disordered Dream World

Chapter 1: Narcolepsy

    Jiang Fan, your condition should be narcolepsy, it's not very serious, take a vacation first, go home and rest, pay attention to your diet, don't touch cigarettes and alcohol, you don't want to work in the hospital for the time being now. In a few days if you still have this condition you come over to me, I'll prescribe you some medicine. A bald middle-aged uncle said to Jiang Fan.

    Thank you, Brother Zhao. Jiang Fan nodded politely and got up to leave.

    Jiang Fan is a surgeon at the Provincial People's Hospital, twenty-five years old, with excellent grades, and entered the hospital early.

    Recently, I have realized many times that I sometimes can't wake up no matter how much I scream after going to sleep, and I sleep for more than ten hours at a time. This situation has begun to affect Jiang Shige's daily life, so he had to go to the psychiatric department for help to check it out.

    It looks like it's time to rest for a while, Jiang Fan took his leave and went to the supermarket to buy some vegetables, preparing to eat something light and go to bed early to adjust his routine.

    When Jiang Fan's parents died in his early years, they always hoped that he could go to work in a hospital, but Jiang Fan always hangs around, they say that doctors are very hard to persuade people to learn medicine, heaven and earth, he did not want to go to be a doctor, but wanted to be a painter. After the death of his parents, he was mentally stimulated and studied like crazy to become a young and talented doctor, but at this time, his parents had lost their sight.

    I'm back. Jiang Fan pushed open the door of his house and shouted softly.

    Meow~ a pure black cat briskly walked over and rubbed hard against Jiang Shige's ankle.

    Look what I bought you, sardines, your favorite. Jiang Fan squatted down, petting this black cat, and took out a can from the bag, the black cat rubbed against Jiang Fan's hand, making purring sounds.

    This black cat is called Ao Guan Hai, which Jiang Fan found on the side of the road. After losing his parents, Jiang Fan's life was very lonely, and he met this cat in the middle of a rainstorm, so he brought it home, and then named him Ao Guan Hai, seeing that he was darker.

    After Jiang Fan unwrapped a filling of sardines for Ao Guan Hai, he himself went to the kitchen and started cooking, living alone had made Jiang Fan's cooking skills more and more skillful. Jiang Fan used the tender greens he bought to mix up a cold dish, then fried a cabbage, and finally cut up a few pieces of sweet potatoes and boiled some sweet potato rice porridge, good food always puts people in a better mood.

    After dinner, it was already more than eight o'clock, Jiang Fan changed into a sportswear, went out to exercise for a while, came back and took a shower, lay down on the bed to prepare for sleep, he set his cell phone for an alarm at seven thirty, and then lay down on the bed and quietly waited for the sleepiness to come.

    Oguanhai jumped onto Jiang Shige's bed and nestled against the pillows, making purring noises.

    Jiang Shige gradually fell into sleep.

    ......

    Run! Run for me again! Break your legs!

    A cry came, and Jiang Fan woke up from his dream, realizing that he was lying on top of a sandy beach, surrounded by people.

    What the hell, Jiang Fan couldn't recall how he got here, but it was indeed a beach, surrounded by an unusually lively crowd of people, some children playing in the sand and building sand castles.

    Jiang Fan wiped the sweat from his head and realized that he was actually still wearing a white coat with a shirt inside, which was Jiang Fan's daily attire at the hospital.

    He got up and patted the sand on himself, was he dreaming, lucid dreaming? His only impression was that he was sleeping in his bed, but the touches all around him were incredibly real, Jiang Fan had had this kind of lucid dream before, but it definitely wasn't this real and woke him up with the slightest emotion.

    Pah! Jiang Fan slapped himself without hesitation.

    His face was a hot mess and he didn't wake up, but the people around him didn't react to Jiang Shige's behavior either.

    I don't think it was a dream, was it some kind of neat trick.

    Jiang Fan looked around, wanting to leave this place first, when he saw a familiar figure.

    Zhang Jinming! Jiang Fan shouted as he waved his hand at the man.

    It was his former classmate, Zhang Jinming, dressed in a suit and at a loss for words on the beach.

    When Zhang Jinming heard the shout, he turned around in a hurry and walked towards Jiang Fan.

    Gang Shige? What's going on here.

    I'm not sure, I just remember sleeping at home.

    Me too.

    Let's see if there's a place to get out around here first.

    The two of them walked together towards the edge of the beach, Jiang Fan observed it meticulously, the entire beach was roughly five kilometers long in its entirety, and there were huge reefs on both sides that surrounded this beach.

    Near the edge place, the whole beach was surrounded by a five or six meters high red brick wall, the duo couldn't find an exit at all, the only possible place to go out was the rusty iron gate in the center of the red wall, it was a big gate made up of solid iron rods, probably about three or four meters wide, the height of which was flush with the red brick wall, there was a worn brass lock on the gate, and the top of the gate was neatly lined up with spikes preventing people from tumbling over it.

    Behind the iron gate remained the narrow road enclosed by a red brick wall with no end in sight.

    What the hell is this place! Zhang Jinming was a bit annoyed, and he was ready to find someone to ask.

    Friend... Zhang Jinming reached out his hand to tug on a passerby, but he suddenly froze stiffly in place, his palm hanging in midair.

    What's wrong? Jiang Fan noticed Zhang Jinming's abnormality.

    I... I can't touch him! Zhang Jinming replied with great alarm.

    Jiang Fan heard this, and similarly reached out his hand to touch a passing person, only to find that his hand unexpectedly went straight through the person's body, and he again stopped directly in front of the person, who unexpectedly could not see him at all, and went straight through Jiang Fan.

    We are dead... Dead! I just had a problem with my body before, went to the hospital to check out a narcolepsy, didn't I say that it wouldn't be fatal, rest and conditioning will be fine, how could... Zhang Jinming was full of panic and grabbed Jiang Fan's shoulders.

    Let go. Jiang Fan removed Zhang Jinming's hand, he was also a little nervous inside, he shouldn't be dying straight away, what did Zhang Jinming just say... He was also checked for narcolepsy?

    Could it be a special kind of disease. So I should still be in a coma right now, but why did I meet Zhang Jinming and this dream is so real.

    Jiang Fan stood still, habitually touched the pocket of his shirt and found a box of cigarettes inside, Jiang Fan always carried a box of cigarettes in his shirt when he was sitting in the clinic, but he even had them in this weird place.

    He pulled one out, lit it, and took a hard drag, the same euphoria from the nicotine indicating that his world was now real.

    Furo.

    Jiang Fan exhaled a mouthful of cigarette smoke, his mind straining to figure out what was going on.

    At this time, a small child came jumping and jumping, the child looked very lively, but in Jiang Fan's eyes was very bizarre, his movements were like puppets, and his face kept an expression without the slightest change.

    The small child stood in front of Jiang Fan and Zhang Jinming and opened his mouth:

    Brother, we're going to die if we don't find the key, help us.

    There was a moment of difference between the two, could the boy see us.

    You can see me! Zhang Jinming reached out his hand to touch the child, but his palm still passed through the child's body.

    Don't waste any more time! You only have ten minutes left! The kid seemed a little angry.

    The sudden rebuke startled Zhang Jinming, and he retracted his hand like an electric shock.

    May I ask where we are now? Why are we looking for the key? Why did you say we were about to die? Jiang Shige calmly asked the boy.

    You have no time. The small child did not answer him, and after leaving those words, he turned and left, and the duo was unable to stop the child because they could not touch the others.

    Furo.

    Jiang Fan took another drag on his cigarette, then threw it on the ground and stomped it out. In this kind of strange place and these incomprehensible things, one could only follow the kid's hints for now.

    In that case, no matter what this place is and what's going on right now, let's figure out how to find the key first.

    Zhang Jinming's mind was in a state of chaos at the moment, not knowing what to do at all, and after hearing Jiang Fan's words, he subconsciously replied.

    Good.

Chapter II. Keys

    The two began to look for the key without a clue, and although the child had just said that they should be told to look for the key, they themselves didn't know exactly where they were going to find it.

    Let's look for them separately, and tell each other if anyone has found anything. Jiang Fan proposed.

    After all, Zhang Jinming was also a man of more than twenty, and would not keep panicking, he forced himself to calm down, and Jiang Fan went to look for the key in two separate ways.

    The beach was scorched by the sun, and a flash of light swung across Jiang Shige's eyes as he followed it.

    The key was stuck diagonally in the sand, Jiang Shige went over and picked it up, it was a key, the most common kind of silver-white key, it looked like a key for some kind of lock.

    Is this the key, is it the key to the iron gate, but it doesn't look like it, it should be smaller.

    Jiang Fan took the key and prepared to go to Zhang Jinming first, but as a result, he had just walked out a few dozen meters when he saw another very different key, the front of which was of the cross kind.

    He stooped to pick up the key, and the two keys were placed together without the slightest resemblance.

    Zhang Jinming. Jiang Fan waved his hand at Zhang Jinming, who was not far away, signaling him to come over.

    As Zhang Jinming walked toward Jiang Fan, he noticed that Zhang Jinming was followed by two other people, one wearing a grease-covered shirt and a purple tie, with the top of his head bare and surrounded by sparse hair.

    The other person should be about one meter nine, wearing a dirt-colored jacket, with a burly body and a face full of flesh, giving people a very dangerous feeling.

    Jiang Fan, these two are the ones I ran into just now, in the same situation as us, and they don't know how they got here.

    Hello. The man in the shirt extended his hand, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth as he grinned at Jiang Fan, My name is Wang Yuan.

    Jiang Shige. Jiang Fan shook his hand.

    Wang Yuan pointed at the burly man, Just call him Biao.

    Ah Biao glanced at Jiang Shige and did not say anything, but Jiang Shige was furious at being given that look.

    Did you guys know each other before. Jiang Shige asked.

    Yes, we are business partners, let's not talk about this, now our main task is to find the key. Wang Yuan smiled and spoke to Jiang Fan.

    Jiang Fan instinctively somewhat loathed these two, his intuition told him that these two were not good people.

    Have you found the key? Jiang Shige opened his mouth to ask first.

    Wang Yuan pulled out three keys from his pocket, each one different, Biao also pulled out one from his pocket, and Zhang Jinming similarly held one.

    Seeing this, Jiang Fan also took out both of his keys.

    What then, we all found the key. Zhang Jinming asked.

    Maybe we can try to see if this key will open ......

    Before Wang Yuan could finish his words, the surroundings began to distort, and Jiang Fan felt a wave of dizziness and blackness before his eyes.

    ......

    The strong sunlight shone on Jiang Fan's face, and Jiang Fan woke up in a daze.

    What a situation.

    He sat up suddenly and looked around him, the sun, the beach, the coast.

    Jiang Fan stood up and patted his white coat, then smoothly took out a cigarette from his shirt and lit it for himself.

    I remember that I was talking to the others, and then, I passed out. Jiang Fan carefully recalled what he had just seen, but as if he was dreaming, he was hazy and couldn't remember the details.

    Should be looking for the key, the key is important, but what exactly is it going to do, where is this place?

    The more Jiang Fan recalled, the less he could remember what he had just experienced.

    He had to make his way to the beach near the ocean, under the impression that he had found something here.

    A key glinted in the sunlight.

    Jiang Fan walked over and picked it up, then his mind suddenly went into a sharp pain, recalling everything that had just happened, and stood in place for a while before slowing down.

    He looked up again and found a child standing in front of him, a different child from the last time, speaking to Jiang Shige:

    You've only got three more chances, get the key and help us.

    After saying that, he left without looking back.

    Wait. Jiang Shige tried to stop the kid, but his own hand still went through the kid.

    What the hell does that mean and why did he pass out.

    Jiang Fan saw Zhang Jin Ming again, and the figures of those two, both on the beach, but this time they weren't together, they had also both just found the key, and there was a child standing in front of them saying something.

    It should be a situation like his own, Jiang Shige didn't bother with the three this time, it was better to do something useful in this strange situation than to ramble on with his own companions.

    He looked down again and began searching for the key.

    The sea breeze carries a hint of coolness.

    Jiang Fan was ready to smoke another cigarette, when he took out his cigarette case, he realized that there was only one cigarette missing from his case, he had obviously smoked two, he took out another cigarette and held it in his mouth.

    Only three chances... Find the key... Time...

    Jiang Shige carefully recalled what the child said to him last time, and what the child said to him this time.

    Is it a matter of time, Jiang Shige seems to have some clue, if I do it again I can figure it out, but for now I still need to find the key first.

    Without saying a word, he continued his search for the key, and in the distance, Wang Yuan was also searching for the key, Biao had been following near Wang Yuan, and both of them had no intention of joining up with Jiang Fan or Zhang Jinming.

    Zhang Jinming did see Jiang Fan and quickly ran over, although he would not run into people, but he still subconsciously avoided those people, after all, directly through a little diaphragm.

    Jiang Fan, what's going on, why are we unconscious?

    I don't know, cut the crap, it's important to find the key, finding the key should be our only hope of breaking the game at this point.

    Jiang Fan returned impatiently, not even looking up at him, and as he spoke, he rummaged through the sand for another key.

    Now that he had three keys of his own, Jiang Fan planned to go to the front of the iron gate to try to see if he could open it.

    Wang Yuan saw Jiang Shige's behavior and planned to check it out as well, he likewise had three keys now, and Biao had also found two.

    The four of them converged in front of that iron door, and without saying a word, Jiang Fan and Wang Yuan took the keys and started comparing one by one with the lock on the iron door.

    Surprisingly, none of them turned out to be able to open the lock.

    Nope, go find it again.

    Jiang Fan and Wang Yuan immediately left in front of the iron door and went to look for the key after realizing that something was wrong, only Gao Zhe was confused and ran around after Jiang Fan.

    What are you gawking at, go find the key. Jiang Fan realized that Zhang Jinming had been following him.

    Oh oh. Zhang Jinming hurriedly replied, then ran to the side to pick up the keys on the floor.

    It didn't take long for the world to start warping up again.

    About half an hour or so? Sure enough. Jiang Shige secretly thought

    Before he passed out, his mind was dead set on one thing, finding the key.

    ......

    Once again, Jiang Fan woke up, but this time Jiang Fan was not awakened by the sunlight, but by the lingering sea breeze.

    Jiang Fan woke up with a muddled mind, remembering only one thing, that he was going to find the key.

    He was a little unsure of what was going on, but he went ahead and walked towards the beach, picking at the place as he remembered it, and found a key.

    In the moment of picking up the key headache, Jiang Shige recalled the two times he passed out, he took out the cigarette in his shirt and looked at it, it was full, Jiang Shige was sure of his suspicion.

    Now that Jiang Shige had roughly figured out the rules of this marvelous place, the place would reset every half hour, and he himself would fall unconscious and regain his memory after picking up the key.

    A boy stood in front of Jiang Shige:

    Come on, come on, you've only got two more chances, we need you!

    He pressed on sharply.

    Jiang Shige had never quite understood what these children had said to themselves about needing your help, could it be that they needed to find the key themselves and then let these people go.

    Still, he started looking for the key first, after all, he had no clue at the moment except to look for it himself.

    This time Biao woke up slower, he was in a daze before he realized that he had to go look for the key, just in time to be bumped into by Jiang Shige, who watched him pick up the key, and then had a pained look on his face.

    Then a small child ran over and stood in front of him.

    This will be your hell!

    The small child's eyes were filled with hatred, disgust, and it sent a chill down the spine.

    Jiang Fan heard the boy say something completely different to him than he had said to himself, and seemed to have a very powerful animosity toward this Abiao.

    This caused Jiang Shige to feel a surge of surprise, and he quietly backed away, moving away from Piao before he could regain his senses.

    There's something weird about this guy, why do the kids treat us differently, is it because he's done something bad.

    He pondered and searched for the key, but there were many questions in it that were a bit hard to figure out, but Jiang Fan didn't give up thinking about it, ever since the death of his own parents, Jiang Fan had started to become different, he was always able to stay very calm, and his thoughts were extremely sensible and quick.

    The fourth key, the number of keys seems to have gotten bigger. Jiang Fan looked at the four keys in his hand, a gust of sea breeze blew, Jiang Fan felt a little cold, he fastened the mouth of his white coat.

    The temperature has dropped as well, about a dozen degrees, so will I freeze to death if I never find the key, or... Jiang Fan looked around, the people who were originally on the beach had all stood up and were motionless, but all of them were staring at Jiang Fan, wherever he went, these people's sight would follow him there.

    Hundreds of people staring neatly at one person, and all with expressionless faces, was extremely creepy.

    Gotta pick up the pace.

Chapter 3. Again.

    Jiang Fan quickly searched the beach, ignoring those weird sightings around him, but the keys on the beach became more numerous, and Jiang Fan found seven of them in just ten minutes.

    Then get ready for a change. He stood up and put his keys in his pocket.

    A gaze also stared at him as he stood up, Jiang Fan walked up to a man and locked eyes with him, the man's face was expressionless and he just quietly looked at Jiang Fan.

    So it's okay to touch me now? He suddenly reached out and stuck two fingers into the eyes of the man in front of him, who didn't even blink.

    A piercing coldness came from both fingers, but there was no sense of touch, but it was still impossible to reach these people. Jiang Fan drew back his fingers, and in just a few seconds, his fingers were frozen raw.

    It seems that the next thing is that I can't be touched, but I can also be easily killed, as long as a group of people gather around to rub it in, it's a double death threat both physically and psychologically. He circled around, and the people on the beach all looked at him with expressionless faces, their sights dead on him, not missing a beat.

    The others were in a similar situation, Zhang Jinming was intimidated by these people at the beginning, he found himself being stared at no matter where he went, his spirit was extremely tense and he hid in a corner with fewer people and didn't dare to move a muscle.

    As for Wang Yuan and Biao as if they were used to it, they continued to search on the beach.

    There's definitely something wrong with these two, try not to touch these two until you have to.

    Jiang Fan continued to search for the key and looked for Zhang Jinming's figure along the way, he searched for half a day without finding his old classmate, and finally froze next to the reef near the edge before seeing him.

    Hey, get up, find the key to leave. Jiang Fan went over and patted Zhang Jinming's shoulder, which resulted in Zhang Jinming trembling in fear and letting out a strange cry.

    Jiang Jiang Jiang Shige? Zhang Jinming almost cried out when he saw his classmate.

    Looking at the situation, this guy should not even have recovered his memory, Jiang Fan stuffed a key into his hand, Zhang Jinming instantly had a headache and then recovered his memory.

    A little boy squeezed out from the pile of people, Jiang Fan observed the child with interest, what would he say to Zhang Jinming.

    Stop wasting time and find the key, we need your help.

    The child spoke to Zhang Jinming.

    Well, it seems like it should be those two who have problems, and Jiang Shige got the answer he was looking for.

    Go go go, didn't you hear me, time is running out, find the key! Jiang Fan coaxed Zhang Jinming away with a push and a pull.

    The two of them found a total of eleven keys, and then hurriedly rushed to that iron door, comparing them one by one, at this time there were about five minutes left, Jiang Fan in his mind meticulously calculated.

    At the same time, Wang Yuan and Ah Biao arrived at the door, they were one step ahead of Jiang Fan, and Jiang Fan was not going to grab them, so he let them try first.

    Wang Yuan tried the keys one by one, and when he tried the fifth one, that key was successfully inserted into the lock, and with a twist, Wang Yuan's whole person directly disappeared.

    Crap? Jiang Fan couldn't help but burst out, he didn't expect it to be this form of leaving, Jiang Fan thought that it was possible to just open the gate and then everyone would just leave.

    After Wang Yuan's entire body had disappeared, the keys he hadn't finished trying were scattered in their place, and Biao picked up those keys and nonchalantly continued trying.

    Jiang Fan briefly memorized the shape of that key when Wang Yuan inserted it just now, and then began to rummage through his own keys to see if any of them could allow him to leave.

    Piao didn't find one among the remaining keys that would allow him to leave, so he moved his position aside and looked at the two men silently, signaling them to keep trying.

    You first. Jiang Fan said to Zhang Jinming.

    So he began to take his own keys and started trying them out, Zhang Jinming only found four, but it was clear that he was lucky.

    One of them was exactly the same as the one Wang Yuan had just had, and it should be able to get out of here.

    Zhang Jinming's observation was not that meticulous, he was already scared just by being scared, how could he still have the heart to memorize the correctness of these keys, he just tried clumsily.

    Just at the moment when Zhang Jinming was about to insert the key, Biao suddenly stormed out and tried to snatch the key.

    I knew this would happen. Jiang Shige had been prepared for this from the sidelines, and had quietly hidden a small metal shovel for playing in the sand the moment he realized something was wrong with Piao.

    When Ah Biao stormed out, Jiang Shige directly took out a shovel and stabbed it towards his eyes, Jiang Shige didn't intend to kill anyone and had never killed anyone, that shovel would at most stab into Ah Biao's eye socket, blinding him, and wouldn't injure his cranium.

    But he didn't expect that Ah Biao was a person who often did dirty work and had some kung fu in his body, he clamped down on Jiang Fan's hand with his backhand, followed by a burst of force.

    Only hearing a click, Jiang Fan's face turned white, his arm was directly dislocated, and the shovel in his hand fell helplessly to the ground.

    After restraining Jiang Fan, Ah Biao did not continue to care about him, and his main target was the key in Zhang Jinming's hand.

    Zhang Jinming also heard the commotion behind him, and as soon as he turned around, he saw Jiang Fan's arm being twisted and dislocated.

    The keys! He's going to snatch the key! Jiang Fan shouted at Zhang Jinming.

    Zhang Jinming heard immediately took a few steps back with the key, Ah Biao did not say anything, just directly rushed up, Zhang Jinming usually often exercise, after Ah Biao pounced on the body can still slightly wrap up.

    Jiang Fan reset his arm, baring his teeth in pain, then used his left hand to pick up the shovel that had fallen on the ground.

    It was at this point that Biao's back was turned to Jiang Shige, Jiang Shige raised his left hand to his right shoulder, held the shovel in reverse, and viciously stabbed it into Biao's neck, and then flung his right arm to slap the entire end of the shovel into his neck.

    Blood spurted out as Biao covered his neck and retreated to the side, and Zhang Jinming gave him a kick in the process.

    Hurry, hurry, there's still time to leave. Jiang Fan panicked and rummaged through his own keys, which also contained a key to leave, and the duo should be able to leave before the next reset.

    A silhouette swooped up and knocked the two away, half of Biao's body had been dyed red with blood, but the strength that erupted from it was still astonishing, and instead of attacking the two, he blocked the lock with a deadly grip.

    Pull away from him! He doesn't want us to go! Jiang Shige went up and punched him.

    Zhang Jinming also stepped forward and pulled him hard, but Biao had a death grip on the bars with both hands, and the two of them amazingly failed to pull him away for a while.

    After just this short delay, the space around them began to distort again, and the perspective went dark once more.

    ......

    Jiang Shige woke up from the beach with a chilly wind, and he exhaled a breath of white air.

    Where am I.

    His mind was a blur, remembering only that he needed to get out of here.

    Keys were scattered on the beach, everywhere, Jiang Fan casually picked up a key, a familiar headache hit him, and Jiang Fan recovered his memory.

    He looked up, and before him stood a child with his mouth open to him:

    Come on, it's the last time or you'll stay and be like them, find the key.

    Them? Jiang Fan looked around, everyone was standing in place, twitching madly, salivation dripping from the corners of their mouths, their eyes were red, their sights kept staring at Jiang Fan, some of their bodies had even twisted and deformed, looking like they very much wanted to get closer to Jiang Fan, but were confined to the same spot.

    Looks like I'm going to stay here and bounce around with these guys if I don't get out of here.

    Jiang Fan began to look for the key, but this time, there were keys everywhere on the beach, picking one up as he went along, Jiang Fan originally thought that as the number became larger, so would the keys to leave, but Jiang Fan had searched the beach for a long time without finding that one key.

    Harder to find ah, first go check on Zhang Jinming.

    Zhang Jinming woke up, just stood up and found the ghostly images around him, scared and sat down in place again, because of the increase in the number of keys, he happened to touch a key, his memory returned, then a child ran to him in the same way:

    Last chance, get your ass in gear, find the key and get out of here.

    Zhang Jinming rubbed his face, his mouth broken:

    Find Keys Find Keys Find Jiang Fan Find Jiang Fan ......

    Then he took a deep breath and stood up, trying not to look at the horrific scene around him, and stiffly kept his head down as he searched for his keys.

    A figure stood in front of Zhang Jinming, who looked up in surprise:

    Jiang...

Chapter 4: Escape

    I remember that Zhang Jinming guy should be in this direction.

    Jiang Fan saw a glimpse of a silhouette fall to the ground and hurriedly ran over.

    This guy isn't fainting from fear.

    Of course that was not the case, when Jiang Fan ran to Zhang Jinming's front, he found that he was already lifeless, his neck Cheng twisted at a weird angle, it seemed that his neck had been directly broken.

    Jiang Fan's face was grim as he squatted down and closed his unclosed eyes. This classmate wasn't a good brother or friend or anything like that with himself, but dying in front of Jiang Fan like this made him feel bad.

    It is not possible for the people here to kill us directly, so it is someone else who did it, the only one who would do this and has the ability to do this is Biao, so is this reset setting that brought him back. Jiang Shige analyzed it briefly.

    He picked up another small shovel from the ground and placed it in his own pocket before lifting another half-meter long flathead shovel. One had to be very vigilant in the face of Piao's threats.

    Among the large swathes of keys, Jiang Shige finally found the one that would allow him to leave, the time was still about ten minutes this time, so he should be able to leave earlier.

    Just as Jiang Fan was walking towards the gate, it suddenly occurred to him that if Biao hadn't memorized the key clearly, then he shouldn't have just gotten a large key and tried again bit by bit, but instead, he just went to the gate to guard me, so he should have killed Zhang Jinming because he was afraid that he would fight one against two and turn over the ship in the gutter.

    Then, if one's guess was correct, Biao should be waiting in front of the gate right now.

    Jiang Fan mingled among the crowd and slowly approached the door, and sure enough, he saw Wang Biao nearby, who was also hiding among the crowd, staring at the location of the door, and did not notice Jiang Fan slowly approaching.

    He grabbed a handful of sand in his hand and slowly made his way towards the gate as if he hadn't noticed Piao, then pulled out the key.

    At the moment he was just about to insert the key into the lock, Ah Biao directly rushed towards Jiang Fan, looking at that stance he was ready to directly knock Jiang Fan down, Jiang Fan saw Ah Biao rushing towards him and displayed a panicked demeanor, at the moment Ah Biao approached, he violently sidestepped, and a handful of sand was scattered on his face.

    Ah Biao was Jiang Fan paste a face of sand, eyes confused, Jiang Fan can take advantage of this moment to directly open the lock to escape, but he did not, he will be that shovel hidden under his white coat, see Ah Biao was sand blinded, he went up to a shovel.

    The shovel slapped hard on Biao's forehead, Biao had a ringing in his ears, however Jiang Fan slapped three more shovels in a row after the first shovel hit, each one hitting Biao's side forehead temple position hard.

    Biao was a bit dazed from the beating, his feet were a bit weak, but he still wanted to reach out and grab the shovel, Jiang Fan turned around and slashed down hard on the back of Biao's neck.

    You're kinda shady aren't you!

    Jiang Fan viciously yelled at Biao, who had fainted on the ground. Then he felt uneasy, and gave him a few more blows to the back of his head, it was a fluke that he didn't die, and he deserved to die.

    After completing this series of operations, Jiang Fan wiped his hands on his white coat, then pulled out a cigarette and lit it.

    Furo-

    That's cool.

    Then calmly, he pulled out the key and unlocked the door.

    Click.

    The key unscrewed the brass lock, and vertigo hit him, this time Jiang Shige didn't pass out, but realized that he was attached to a child from a first viewpoint, and he couldn't manipulate his body as if he was watching a game plot.

    It was a girl, she was running in a panic on the path enclosed by the red wall, already tired and out of breath, her perspective was starting to darken and blur, she should have been running too hard.

    Outside of the path that ran out of the red wall was a beach, the very same beach that Jiang Shige had just been on, and in her hand was a large scattering of keys, probably because of her weakness, the girl had fallen onto the sand.

    A large handful of keys had also spilled out into the middle of this beach in bits and pieces, and as she scrambled to pick them up, she could faintly be heard sobbing.

    A dull footstep behind her was getting closer and closer, the girl twisted her head in panic and it was none other than Biao, who reached out and gave the girl a slap on the face before picking her up and bringing her back behind that red wall.

    The perspective disappears after being brought back to the red wall, but it doesn't end there, and Jiang Shige goes through three more runaway scenes, sometimes in the daytime, sometimes in the dark, but the escapes all end in failure.

    The last time, it was late at night, the girl seemed to give up, she ran out and went straight into the middle of the ocean, a wave swept her in, and while the perspective was still there, she saw people behind her chasing after her, but she didn't realize that the girl jumped straight into the ocean, and stood still, muttering:

    Pity.

    The seawater was cold and piercing, and the fishy salty water kept pouring into his lungs, Jiang Fan experienced the same sensation, and finally the perspective was completely dark, and he couldn't see anything anymore.

    Up to this point, Jiang Fan detached himself from the kind of state he had just been in, crouching in place and panting heavily, seemingly suffocated.

    What is this...

    At this time, Jiang Fan was already behind that iron door, opposite the iron door was that beach, the sun was warm, people were playing on the beach.

    He looked back and then looked ahead, it was the path surrounded by red walls, the red walls on both sides were equally five or six meters high, it was impossible for Jiang Fan to roll out, the path could not be seen to end, looking into the distance, the red walls stretched until they were out of sight.

    Jiang Shige began to move forward, away from the beach, and the surroundings became quieter and quieter.

    This road was unknown how long, Jiang Fan merely kept walking, this bizarre world was hard to figure out, although Jiang Fan thought that this could be an extremely real dream, maybe he would wake up after dying, but Jiang Fan did not dare to try it easily, nor did he intend to end up in such a hasty manner.

    He realized that this world seemed to be more interesting than ever before, and Jiang Fan developed the idea of continuing to explore it, which was much more interesting than some immersive haunted house or VR game.

    Unconsciously, Jiang Fan had already walked on this road for half an hour, and now he couldn't see the end on both sides, so if he turned around in place a few times with his eyes closed, he probably wouldn't be able to tell the front from the back.

    Interesting, looks like I might not make it out of here if I keep walking like this.

    He stood still and began to think, the path didn't have any kids popping up to give hints, but it provided a picture when entering, Jiang Fan carefully recalled the picture at the beginning, the path wasn't that far away, the girl hadn't been running for long each time.

    The girl was running as hard as she could every time, running until her perspective was foggy before she went out.

    Jiang Shige had an idea, and he briefly moved his ankles before starting to sprint.

    He fought as hard as he could, running as fast as he could, his lungs seemed to start burning, but it wasn't all he could do, he continued to speed up and sprint, then started to feel his perspective blur, he seemed to have seen the exit of the trail.

    Because of running too fast and being very tired, Jiang Fan's left foot mixed with his right foot and fell out with a bang, baring himself on the ground.

    He lay on the ground for a while, his lungs spasmed and he was a little out of breath because he fell so hard, and when he came to a violent stop, Jiang Fan began to feel dizzy and wanted to vomit.

    It was only after a while on the ground that Jiang Fan felt somewhat better, and he propped his hands on the ground, blinking vigorously a few times and shaking his head.

    Whew... I sure have come out.

    The surroundings were no longer the red-walled path, but a kindergarten-like area, though it was still surrounded by a high red wall.

    Is this, the kindergarten.

Chapter V. The Orphanage

    Jiang Fan crouched on the ground for a while longer, and after that dizzying feeling passed, he stood up and looked around.

    The place wasn't big, there was a slide, some double bars, a trampoline, but all of them were gathering dust, one should be in the backyard of this orphanage, in front of him should be the dormitory building, only three floors, but one could see from the window that a bed was neatly arranged.

    He looked around the yard first and found nothing, so he prepared to enter the building in front of him, which was the entire backyard of the nursery, and the back door was a wooden door that reeked of staleness.

    Jiang Fan twisted the handle and found that it wouldn't open, so he kicked the door open, and the wooden door, which he didn't know how many years had passed, fell to the ground in response, swirling up a cloud of dust.

    Jiang Fan waved his hand to dispel the dust and walked into the house. Upon entering, there was a long corridor, not at all as small as it looked from the outside, and there were no hints in this place, so Jiang Fan planned to look around to see how exactly to get out.

    Squeak--

    He pushed open the first door on the side of the corridor, the very same dormitory he had seen from the outside, filled with small windows and mattresses that appeared to be uniformly matched, though they were all dirty.

    Jiang Shige saw some more images the moment he entered the room, but they were all images of children making a fuss and adults pushing the door in to urge them to sleep.

    After rummaging around the house, Jiang Fan found a diary under a pillow on one of the beds, the paper was already fragile, but barely able to be flipped through, on it was the crooked handwriting of a child, with a lot of pinyin mixed in.

    "White was also taken away today and then didn't come back.

    Principal Wang said they were going to a good place and there should be plenty of candy.

    Nishi was taken away too, and they all went to good places.

    I want to know where the hell they went, and I want to go somewhere nice.

    It's finally my turn and I'm good to go, so happy."

    There weren't a lot of words, each paragraph took up a page, and underneath it all was a drawing of this kid's friends and such.

    Jiang Shige put the diary down and started walking towards the next house.

    Principal Wang is likely to be, Wang Yuan, this place should not be a kindergarten, but an orphanage, each child is taken away at intervals, is it adopted, or ......

    Abandoned kindergarten, continuous escaping children, one taken away every day, this orphanage, it should be doing illegal business.

    Jiang Fan left this bedroom and went to the next door, he pushed the door open and a strong stench hit his face, this should be the place where the little children ate, all the food inside had completely deteriorated, the mincemeat was piled up in the corners, this was the odor emanating from the rotting meat.

    He walked over and briefly checked it out, it was just a pile of rotting pork.

    There were a few low tables and chairs scattered throughout the room.

    Jiang Fan didn't want to stay too long inside this smelly house, he briefly searched, there was another door inside this room, inside was the kitchen, Jiang Fan took a western style kitchen knife to defend himself.

    Exiting this foul-smelling room, he headed for the next one.

    Holding a knife tightly in his hand filled Jiang Fan's heart with even more confidence.

    The corridor extended a long way, Jiang Fan walked out a hundred meters or so before he saw the next room, it was a white door, tightly locked, the white was uncomfortably white, like the color of a dead person who had been in the water for too long.

    Jiang Fan listened behind the door, there was no sound, then twisted the door handle, it wouldn't open. He took a few steps back and slammed it hard, the door lock crumbled apart, and Jiang Fan rushed straight into the room.

    Immediately afterward he froze; it was an, operating room.

    The operating room in the orphanage, the table wasn't very clean and had some blood on it.

    So this orphanage is conducting some inhumane and horrible experiment?

    Jiang Shige chanted as he walked towards the operating table, his mind suddenly in severe pain as images presented themselves before his eyes.

    His own perspective was lying on the operating table, three people were standing around him, all wearing masks, one of them was supposed to be Wang Yuan, although he was wearing a mask, he could still be recognized through his eyes, and his eyes were always unsettling.

    The content of the trio's discussion reached Jiang Fan's ears.

    The boy is a little too sick to find a buyer, I guess.

    It really doesn't seem to be working at all.

    Take it apart, there are still people who want the parts.

    Enoshige's perspective began to struggle up, but to no avail as a stream of fluid was injected into the IV placement and his perspective dimmed.

    The scene ended and Jiang Fan stood in front of the operating table, his mind clearing.

    Meh.

    Jiang Shige twisted away and headed to the next room.

    The longer the corridor went, the more black filaments appeared on the walls around them, and the further in you went, the blackness slowly coiled around like tree roots, getting denser and denser, until at the end of the corridor, the walls turned completely black.

    Jiang Fan also carefully close to the wall to observe a bit, these black seems to be blood vessels like material, closely set in the wall, pure black wall is actually all dense blood filaments, coiled layer after layer.

    At the end was a door, a red door, red and solid.

    Jiang Fan slowly approached this door, then lay down on it to hear if there was any movement inside.

    There seemed to be some sound coming from inside the door, it was Wang Yuan's voice, the door was not closed tightly, Jiang Fan slumped upwards, the door was pushed open by him by a crack, he immediately tugged at the door handle, not letting the door push open as a whole.

    Jiang Fan looked in through the gap, it was a room full of blood, dark red everywhere, covering the whole house, in the middle of the hut sat a little girl, in front of her stood Wang Yuan.

    Wang Yuan had a treacherous smile on his lips.

    You can't kill me even if you keep me imprisoned in this place like this, you can only put me at the beginning of the game one at a time.

    The girl didn't say anything.

    Biao seems to be dead, but as long as I don't die, he'll come back to life next time, and that's okay, you're always in fear of me, so there's no way you can kill me.

    Sooner or later your power will run out and I can leave.

    You're counting on bringing in a few people at a time, trying to use their power to kill me, but look how many people you've already killed.

    The girl returned with an expressionless face:

    I don't care.

    Jiang Fan, on the other hand, had already lit a cigarette outside the door by now and was sitting against the wall, scratching his messy hair.

    It's really this kind of moth-eaten plot.

    Yes, that's right. The child's voice rang in Jiang Fan's ears.

    Jiang Fan was startled, but still sat on the ground and smoked a cigarette.

    Why don't you run? The girl realized that the man's reaction wasn't quite what she expected.

    What's the use of running, you're so powerful, I'll run and you'll chase me, and when you do, you'll heave me.

    So tell us a little bit about the plot you were told. The girl was a little curious about the man before her.

    Jiang Fan pinched the end of his cigarette and pointed to Wang Yuan, who was motionless, Is he okay?

    Time enough.

    He pushed the cigarette out, then pulled out another and put it to his lips to light it:

    Then I'll start talking about it.

Chapter VI. The Truth

    It was an orphanage, an unassuming orphanage, built on the beach when the beach wasn't so crowded.

    Children were lost all the time in those days, and because of the lack of information, it was almost impossible to find them when they were lost. And this is a city where a third of all missing children are found.

    The principal, Wang Yuan, is a businessman, and his guy named Biao is probably a very loyal hitman or something. Anyway, he's discovered a very profitable business and has specialized in opening an orphanage here, externally as a philanthropist or something, but internally he's just a crooked businessman.

    Each child was marked up and could be bought at any price, and after a while someone would come to look at the goods.

    These goods can be bought and used for any purpose, whether they are bought as chickens, raised as their own children, or trained as slaves, even if they are eaten.

    One day a little girl found these, and seeing one of her frail companions taken apart, she became frightened and tried to run away.

    The back door to the orphanage led to the beach, and the key was kept in a drawer in the principal's office, but the drawer was always full of all kinds of keys.

    The little girl takes one of the keys while no one is around and tries to escape, unsurprisingly she is recaptured before she can get out and is close to escaping when she can't find the key because she fell on the beach and it was scattered on the ground.

    After being taken back the first time, the little girl apparently didn't give up; she tried three more times, all informed by failure, and on the last, time, she committed suicide and died at sea.

    Powerful grievances enveloped the place, creating a strange space where the souls of all the children and adults were all imprisoned, and the little girl wanted nothing more than revenge.

    Her fears and experiences conjured up scenes and rules, and she originally wanted to kill Wang Yuan, but was unable to kill him directly because of her own fear of him in her lifetime.

    So the little girl began to pull in other unrelated people from the outside world, hoping to kill him with the help of these outsiders, but these people obviously couldn't play with Wang Yuan, and those who died were imprisoned on top of the beach, creating a very lively scene on the beach.

    To minimize the sense of dissonance, the little girl made the men look like tourists in general.

    After a long time like this, Wang Yuan still didn't die.

    One day, an incredibly smart man came to this beach, and the little girl felt that this guy had a chance to kill Wang Yuan, so she kept giving this man hints, providing him with a series of clues, and even intentionally directing herself at the end to provide the guy with the complete plot.

    The next step is to rely on this guy to kill Wang Yuan and then it's all over.

    Am I right.

    Jiang Fan finished speaking about this and looked at the girl in front of him.

    Yes, so I want you to kill him now so you can leave. The little girl said calmly.

    Yeah, I've been wanting to...

    Before the words were finished, Jiang Fan took out that kitchen knife and viciously stabbed the little girl in front of him in the heart, then stirred it a few more times.

    Meh.

    The girl's eyes were wide and she couldn't help but begin to tremble, his eyes filled with confusion and horror.

    Jiang Fan held the hilt of the knife in his hand and flicked away the cigarette with his other hand, speaking casually:

    Under the girl's fear of Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan gradually gained the right to manage this world, in fact, this world was not that complicated at first, the girl only wanted to trap Wang Yuan, that is, you, until the soul was scattered.

    "Unfortunately, the girl's fear is still greater than her resentment, and even she herself is being manipulated by you. The strange