On the day they cleared the dungeon, seven people stood in the sun, almost exhausted.
Chen Dong was cheering, Zhou Miao was crying while holding Lin Mo, and Shen Yanqing smiled and said that he would treat everyone to hot pot to calm down the shock. It was two o'clock in the afternoon sunshine on the street, the shadows of the trees were dancing, and seven or eight people were lined up in front of the milk tea shop.
Xie Shi stood on the side of the road and looked at the woman in a red dress across the street.
She was waiting for the bus and looked up every five seconds in the direction of the bus. The angle of her head was exactly the same every time. The delivery boy next to him was on the phone, opening and closing his mouth, and the phone screen was black.
In the whole street, no one blinked.
"We haven't gone out yet." Xie Shi said.
A deep voice came from behind: "I know."
Wen Yan stood next to him, his eyes falling on the two stone lions at the corner of the street. The red cloth on the stone lion's eyes fell off at some point. Two pairs of gray-white stone eyes were staring at them.
"This is the beginning of the second copy."
Xie Shi turned to look at him. Wen Yan was also looking at him.
"How do you know?"
"Because I've been here before." Wen Yan looked away, "The last time we got to this point, I was the only one left in the team."
He paused and pulled his sweater hat back on to cover his eyes that were too dark in the sun. Then he extended a hand, palm up, in thanks.
"With you here this time, let's form a team?"
Xie Shi looked down at that hand. The fingers were long and slender, with distinct joints, exactly the same as the one that held him before he died in his previous life. At that time, the hand was covered in blood and the temperature was so hot that it didn't look like a dying person.
"You can form a team." Xie Shi put his hand on it, "But this time - you don't want to die."
The corners of Wen Yan's mouth moved. Was it a smile? He wasn't sure.
"I should say this."
Reading guide:
Infinite flow, pseudo-reality copy, anchor point setting
He was the only light in his previous life, and he was his strongest teammate in this life
The atmosphere of horror is full, and the emotional lines are intertwined.
HE
Concept: When the world becomes a nightmare that cannot be exited, rules are walls, fear is locks, and trust between people is a consumable. But Xie Shi and Wen Yan proved one thing: the real "anchor" is never a person's obsession, but the connection between two souls that cannot be erased. Games can tamper with memories, create illusions, and distort reality, but they cannot replicate the temperature of a person's palm.
This is a story about "breaking the situation" - using the bond of two people to fight against a system that tries to turn everyone into islands. It is also a letter of faith written to all those who have "found each other in the dark": No matter how desperate the rules are and how realistic the illusion is, there is someone who will transcend reincarnation and reality, hold your hand and say - "I know who you are, and I am here to take you home."