Chapter 51: The Youth in My Dream, A Familiar Smile

  Nothingness, boundless and endless nothingness fills my eyes, my head is a bit dizzy, where am I? Standing in this void, I can't feel any signs of life, everything is gray and white, dead silence.

  I was stunned for a moment, as if I were in a nightmare, my body couldn't move, and my thoughts almost came to a standstill. At this time, a faint laugh came over, and when I looked up, who is this? This person!?! This smiling face...

  In front of me stood a young man, his handsome short hair fluttering in the windless air. I stared at him blankly, his slender and lean physique seemed fragile, but I could feel that this person was very strong, and also very dangerous. His skin was pale, with delicate features, and the corners of his mouth were always curled up in a sly smile, which made me feel bewildered. Those two bright eyes staring at me seemed to be full of provocative meaning.

  I stared for a long time, only feeling that this smile was somewhat familiar, and this face seemed to have been seen somewhere before. I tried hard to search for the familiarity, but my brain just wouldn't listen, and it even automatically blocked all my thoughts. The previous second seemed to grasp something, but the next second disappeared...

  I felt like someone was whispering beside me, and I suddenly woke up from my dream. The evil grin in my mind appeared again before my eyes. In the next second, I seemed to have heard something shattering, and an unbelievable yet unacceptable muttering started: "I remember! I remember..."

  "What's wrong with you? You're so jumpy early in the morning, what's gotten into you?" Xianxian asked suspiciously, not forgetting to tease me at the same time.

  Why should I tell you!

  Although I thought so in my heart, I scratched my head awkwardly and said, "Private matters."

  "Haha." Xianxian chuckled twice, with a mocking and sly smile, asking: "You're not thinking of women, are you?"

  "You really thought too much, I'm not you." I gave him a white eye and said it extremely calmly. But in my heart, I was surging with coolness, wasn't the boy in that dream just myself?! No! To be accurate, it should be said that he looked exactly like me on the outside! Although they looked exactly the same on the outside, his smile, his every move made me feel strange, completely another person, so I didn't recognize him for a moment.

  And I remembered that when I fell into the secret room before, the person who repeatedly mocked and attacked me was probably him too? Could it be true what Xianxian said, that I have dissociative identity disorder!?

  My god, I don't want it! To hell with this crappy split personality disorder! I'm really fed up with it!

  I was startled by this idea of my own, and I didn't even hear what Xianxian was saying to me until he kicked me in the foot. I came back to my senses, staring blankly at him with empty eyes. What's up?

  "Hey, is that a desperate look because you've been slept by zongzi or are you thinking of sleeping with zongzi?" Xianxian looked at me curiously, her eyes full of amusement.

  "Get out of here!" I said disdainfully, looking at him. Forget it, think about it later...

  Xian Xian had an expression as if he had eaten a fly, pointing at me in incredulity and saying: "Don't get any ideas, this handsome guy may be so handsome that he's reached the point of being irresistible to both men and women, but I really haven't thought about eating everything!"

  Pfft~ I couldn't help but burst out laughing, it's really, previously seeing his cold and arrogant face, who would have thought that he actually has a funny side too!

  "Haha, that's more like it! We're not dead yet, so stop making a dead face all day, it's unlucky!" Xianxian also started laughing. Although I wanted to ask where my "dead face" was, after all, I've been the school grass for several years. The next second, the corridor transmitted the shouting of several people.

  "This is really a weird place, it's so eerie!"

  "When I get out of here, this place will definitely be blown up!"

  "Explode? If you're going to explode, why wait until you go out?"

  "You're saying..."

  "It's just as you thought!"

  As they spoke, several figures appeared in their line of sight, obviously Gao Liang, the near-sighted man and Wang Yi.

  "Xian..." Wang Yi had just opened his mouth when Xian interrupted him, saying: "I've heard it all. If we can't find the mechanism, then using explosives is also an option, but we need to keep a safe distance."

  "Don't worry, I've got it!" Wang Yi patted his chest, and compared to his eager expression, Zhao Yang and the near-sighted man didn't seem as excited. They nodded at Xianxian and followed Wang Yi away. As for the others, they either went to search for mechanisms or clues, although their hopes were slim, they were all making an effort, except for me and Xianxian who were still lingering around...

  "Who knew they'd be good at demolition too!" I gazed at Xian Xian with admiration. If I had a team like this, who were skilled in both medicine and explosives, and were also handy in a fight, we'd make an unbeatable combination! But where would I find such people? The thought of the real world made me lose my enthusiasm.

  "Only Zhao Yang knows medicine, don't look at Wang Yi's temper, he looks like a simple-minded person with well-developed limbs, he was a soldier for a year and didn't learn anything except blasting..." Although Xianxian said it with a sense of helplessness, there was no dissatisfaction in his eyes. Blasting is not something that ordinary people can do, it requires precise control over the amount used, neither too much nor too little, to avoid waste or large-scale destruction, and the source of his slight dissatisfaction is probably that he didn't learn tomb raiding skills."

  "How long have you been in this line?" Perhaps I had already put down my guard against him in private, so on this day of getting along, I didn't feel awkward or out of place.

  Xian Xian didn't answer, instead raised an eyebrow and asked expectantly: "What, you want to be my little brother?"

  "What a coincidence! I was just thinking of taking you in as my underling!"

  "Take me as your younger brother? You can't even convince the masses, and your abilities are also worrying. Who would dare to put their life in your hands?" Xian Xian's face was full of suspicion and distrust.

  "Yes, Xianxian is the most powerful and formidable! Although we haven't spent much time together, I've gotten to know him a bit - when he talks, you can't just be stubborn, but also need to flatter him; otherwise, the more stubborn you are, the more energetic he'll become."

  "Haha. Since you're so perceptive, I'll condescend to be friends with you!" Xianxian seemed to have missed the teasing tone in my words and instead laughed proudly. Although I felt helpless about his self-love, I had to admit that my impression of him had changed from initial wariness and dislike to admiration and a sense of "it's great we met".

  With a self-satisfied and radiant smile, I high-fived him in mid-air. Fewer friends are better than more enemies, and this friend is worth making! Although there's something that doesn't feel quite right, on him, I saw a different kind of light from the distant and coldly powerful lemon, but another kind of sharp light that seems to be about to burst out at any moment...