Monsters don't dream, but humans do.
The alcoholic police officer fell into a deep sleep and gave himself a chance to dream. The remaining three humans fell asleep in a continuous sleepiness, and had a common dream in a strange land.
Two boys and one girl, two eldest and one small, just make up the family composition of "Wen Tao"'s family in the early years.
Tang Nuo woke up from his "dream" before Qi Zhuyue. He looked at the structure of the room that had changed its furnishings, and reached out to push Qi Zhuyue, who was sleeping across a table.
Qi Zhuyue still had Wen Tao's hairstyle in her dream, but her face shape had changed slightly. If you look closely, it was the fusion of Qi Zhuyue's and Wen Tao's faces.
People in the special department always sleep very lightly. After a few pushes, Qi Zhuyue turned over and sat up.
"What's wrong?" The woman thought there was an enemy attack and nervously touched under the pillow, but nothing came up. "Huh...?"
She thought she had touched it wrongly, so she stretched out her hand again in disbelief, and finally lifted up the whole pillow... Still nothing.
"You..." For a moment, he didn't know whether to call the person's name, so Tang Nuo used 'you' instead, "Look around first?"
"Ah...ah! Sorry!" Qi Zhuyue reminded her and looked around.
Except for the place where they lay, the layout of the entire room changed and became more alive.
There were tea sets and fruit plates on the table beside him, and a pot of budding flowers fell on the window sill behind him. The cabinet in the corner of the room was replaced by a double cabinet, with a blanket hanging on the outside. Looking to the side, there was a low stool and On the coffee table, there were balls of dimes and half-knitted knitting needles.
The sky outside the curtains is also bright, and the people inside seem to be taking a nap.
"The room has changed..." Qi Zhuyue quickly came to this conclusion, "This one faces this position...it is the room where Senior Xia and the others live."
The furnishings were different but the structure was the same. What Qi Zhuyue really recognized was the photo hanging on the wall next to the calendar - that was a photo of a strange couple.
The same photo was also found in the room where Xia Chengyin slept. After checking it, they wiped the photo clean and put it away in a drawer.
"When did we... No, it doesn't seem like reality here."
Qi Zhuyue looked at Tang Nuo's face belatedly. She had not looked carefully before and only heard the voice of her senior. Now she took a closer look and found that there was something wrong with Tang Nuo's appearance.
His face was still that of Tang Nuo, and the glasses he wore slightly obscured his eyes, so Qi Zhuyue didn't notice it immediately.
She was a cool, fair-skinned senior who sat in the office all day long. Not only did she darken a few shades, her face was a bit more honest. If some of the good sisters in their department with good looks saw this, wouldn't it mean that they would have to make choices about what to eat? One is missing!
"..." Someone calmly pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "So, am I really on your list of good-looking people?"
"Ah?...cough cough cough, Senior Tang, I didn't say anything!"
Qi Zhuyue, who accidentally said what was in her heart, coughed repeatedly. She immediately went to the ground, intending to see what happened to change the subject.
As soon as she stood on the ground, someone knocked on the door.
The force was heavy, loud and continuous.
No one answered the door immediately. They didn't know how to react in the dream.
Tang Nuo signaled Qi Zhuyue not to move with his eyes. He got down first and approached the door. As he walked over, he found that his and Qi Zhuyue's clothes had also changed.
The floral trousers with such a rustic flavor looked like they were hand-sewn. That's the aesthetic... Tang Nuo didn't say anything, he walked to the door.
Seeing that there was no response after knocking on the door for a long time, the person outside the door muttered in a low voice: "No, I heard a sound just now... Do you want me to pry the window? This window is locked..."
With the young man's voice, Tang Nuo knew who was standing outside.
However, out of caution, Tang Nuo chose to open the lock on the window and take a look outside... Poof.
After a casual glance, he realized that he had laughed out loud and slammed the window shut.
The person who knocked on the door outside was left with only a laugh and a heavy collision. The minor, who realized what was going on, slammed the door frame angrily.
"I heard it, I heard it! Someone must be laughing at me!" The young man gritted his teeth, "It's not like I want to dress like this... Hey you guys, try it too! You can't take off or change these clothes at all. !”
After hearing this, Qi Zhuyue tried to pull the clothes on her body, but she could only feel a drag but could not pull them away from her body.
In the end, Tang Nuo suppressed his smile, forced his lips to curve down, and returned to his usual cold demeanor. At the same time, he made a few gestures to Qi Zhuyue, telling her to stay calm.
Qi Zhuyue seemed to know something and yet didn't know anything until Tang Nuo opened the door.
"……puff."
"...Are you laughing?"
"Pfft...ahem, no, I have received professional training and will not laugh under any circumstances...Pfft, unless I can't help it."
No matter how serious and tense the atmosphere was, what he saw in front of him relaxed a little. The woman turned her face away, looked at other angles and took a few breaths before suppressing her smile.
It's really, really funny.
Gao Tianyi's appearance is not that slightly feminine, but he has not yet developed too late, so he looks shorter than others of the same grade, with a bit of a juvenile look, but if he grows up, he will probably be tough. A hanging one.
Now, the boy's face became a little softer, and a skirt was forcibly put on his unchanged figure.
Without modifying his face or limbs, Gao Tianyi dressed in a nondescript manner that made people laugh.
"I didn't want to either." The young man gritted his teeth again and said, "I opened my eyes when I thought the sleeping place had changed. Who knew it would become like this."
The bed and the floor had a completely different feel, and the body beneath him suddenly became a little softer, and Gao Tianyi, who was sleeping lightly, woke up immediately.
Because of the people in his room... Bai Su couldn't count on him. Xia Chengyin was drunk and was in low spirits. The only one who could be more vigilant was him, a minor.
After waking up, Gao Tianyi immediately noticed that the environment had changed.
The dressing mirror next to the bed was something I had only seen in the next room during the day, as well as the single cabinet...the half-open window and the flower bones in full bloom outside the window sill.
Not only that, but the other two people in the room also disappeared.
There is no Baisu and no Xia Chengyin.
Gao Tianyi vaguely felt something was wrong. He got out of bed and wanted to check the situation. When he raised his head, he felt the coolness under his crotch.
"...Fuck." A good boy can't say bad words.
The young man rushed towards the mirror with a distorted face. As expected, the shape of his face changed and his eyes became round and small.
And he was wearing a simple dress. Judging from his leaky legs, he didn't even have any leggings underneath.
Although, how can girls not wear leggings!
After simply judging that there was no danger around him, Gao Tianyi angrily wanted to change his clothes, or even mend a pair of trousers - but he failed.
The wardrobe was opened and the clothes inside were dug out.
However, I can't take it off or put it on.
Gao Tianyi watched with pain on his face as the trousers refused to enter his legs. After trying many times to no avail, he finally chose to give up temporarily and explore the world outside the room.
This is still Wen Tao's house.
After looking around and coming to this conclusion, Gao Tianyi heard voices coming from the room next to him. The room was the one he lived in before falling asleep.
The voice of the exchange was so soft that he couldn't hear clearly. Between avoiding and finding out, Gao Tianyi chose the latter.
So he walked up and knocked on the door.
What followed were the previous scenes. The shy and angry young man walked into the room where Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue were. He sat down on the kang and clasped his hands.
"Now - what's our situation?"
Two men and one woman, two adults and one child... husband and wife and children.
The people present were all smart people, and they quickly figured out the identity.
Gao Tianyi is Wen Tao, and Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue are Wen Tao's parents.
In fact, this was confirmed from Qi Zhuyue. She had a mole at the end of her eyebrow, and this mole can be seen on the face of the woman in the photo on the wall.
The expression of the young man who was forced to adopt the identity of a little girl was really bad, mainly because of his dress.
"So...we are in a dream now?" Gao Tianyi said, pinching himself, "There is no obvious pain."
But why them?
There were five people sleeping in the whole room, but only three were dragged into the dream. They were still having the same dream, and they could even communicate.
"Brother Xia... did you sleep too much? Or was it because you were drunk? Brother Bai can't be because you haven't fallen asleep yet, right?"
Gao Tianyi expressed his opinion. Before he fell asleep, he did not notice any changes in the breathing of the person on the bed.
Tang Nuo nodded: "It's possible, we are now——"
His original intention was to say that since the room in the dream was still the living atmosphere of a family of three, they could take this opportunity to look around.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t remember everything in the dream. Maybe you can remember it after you wake up.
But his words were only the beginning. Everything in the dream was tainted with a vague color, and the plot was pushed forward.
There was a knocking sound outside the courtyard door, together with the sound of a child calling.
"Taotao - A Tao - Wen Tao! Come on, we agreed to go out and play together!"
The face of "Wen Tao" in the dream froze.
"Wait..." Gao Tianyi said in panic, "You want me to wear this to go out for fun?"
It's too much...it's too much! Not every boy wants to wear women’s clothing! At least give him a floor-length robe instead of a skirt that only reaches his knees.
Finally, before the "Wen Tao" friends outside the door impatiently left, Gao Tianyi walked over.
He still put on a pair of pants, which were provided and modified by Qi Zhuyue's "family affection". They were shorter than the skirt and barely met the requirements of leggings.
Gao Tianyi walked to the door and opened it inward. He stuck his head out from the crack in the door and saw several...several children who were much shorter than him.
They are estimated to be as tall as the little girl who knocked on the door during the day. If they are the same age as "Wen Tao", then they are probably only seven or eight years old.
Gao Tianyi's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't want to show too much on his face, so he could only look like he was refusing to retreat and dug his fingers into the door.
What made him nervous was not the obvious difference in height between him and the "little friends" outside the door, but their faces.
The blurred face has its own white soft light, and when people look at it, they can only see blankness and nothingness.
When they were talking, Gao Tianyi seemed to be able to see their mouths opening and closing, but when he wanted to take a closer look, he was blinded by the white light and could not see clearly.
Maybe they just can't see clearly. Who they are is unimportant.
It may also be that "Wen Tao" is too young and she can't remember those things.
Not sure whether the dream was a reappearance of the past or a flashback of memory, Gao Tianyi casually responded to the friends outside the door. In the middle, he turned his head and turned his attention to the two adults who had been listening to the corner of the door. people.
——'If you can, go with them. '
Tang Nuo said this with his mouth.
Probably due to their status difference, the two adults could not hear as clearly as Gao Tianyi. All they heard over and over again were the words "Go out and play, go out and play".
"Hurry, hurry, let's go now. It's still too late to go up the mountain." The child whose face he couldn't see clearly waved.
Mountain? What mountain? With no cause and effect, Gao Tianyi, who couldn't keep up with the development of the plot, was at a loss.
"It's the back hill of the village. Didn't all the adults go to [——] today? Seize the opportunity!" The child in the lead said, "Quick, you didn't tell your parents that we were going to sneak out to play today, right?"
【——】What is it? Why do you still have a silencer?
"Uh..." Gao Tianyi controlled his eyes not to glance to the side, "Yeah, yeah, I didn't say anything."
"Let's go now!" With that said, several children outside seemed to have finished the conversation and ran out happily. They were about to run away and disappear at the end of the road.
Someone pushed Gao Tianyi from behind.
"Follow me." Tang Nuo nodded to Gao Tianyi by the door, "Whether it's the past or memories... this seems to have happened before."
Qi Zhuyue also echoed: "I also feel that I should follow him and have a look...Senior Tang and I will stay in the house or go around."
"It shouldn't matter if we separate in the dream...it shouldn't matter."
Qi Zhuyue was referring to the attack during the day. At this time in the dream, the doppelganger has not yet appeared.
Gao Tianyi responded and ran away. Fortunately, he was wearing running shoes instead of girl's sandals.
After putting on a pair of bottoming shorts, the young man forced the skirt on his body to look like an oversized adult's clothing, deliberately ignoring the strange touch, and caught up with "Wen Tao"'s friends.
The children took a very secret path.
At least Gao Tianyi didn't find a road behind the trees in the village during the day.
A small opening was opened in the low bushes. The child in the lead waved his hand, and the others followed. They all got in and then blocked the entrance.
The path they took was not so much a road as it was walking through the woods, relying entirely on the scratches someone had carved on the trees to guide them.
"This way!"
"Then...then head back here."
"Hey, hey, who made an extra mark... Fortunately, I made a special mark, so hurry up and erase the extra mark."
Gao Tianyi, who was commanded, had no choice but to pick up a stone and scratch the tree trunk a few times, covering the extra scratches with more damage.
They walked all the way, and when they reached Gao Tianyi, he wanted to complain about whether the primary school students were too energetic. They finally reached their destination.
It was a lake, hidden in the mountains and forests.
I have to go out tomorrow and take a day off.
(End of chapter)
