Chapter 4: Happy Enemies Together one
I shuttled between the bookcases, but I still couldn't find the book that grandpa talked about. Could it have been cleared out because it was too long ago? I wiped the sweat from my forehead and continued to flip through the pages without giving up.
"Xiao Wu, what are you looking for? Let me help you." Yuan Yichen came behind me again and said gently.
I shook my head. There were some things I didn't want him to know for the time being, so I refused and said, "Nothing, I'll find it myself."
"Is it related to the dream soul, or to your life experience?" Yuan Yichen continued to ask behind me.
I frowned. He seemed to be too concerned about Menghun and my life experience. As an outsider, why did he also enter my comics? Could it be that ... he was also related to Menghun? Like me, he had some special connection?
"I'm not sure yet." I answered perfunctorily. Yuan Yichen seemed to be helping me all the time, but he never let me get to know him in depth. Was he really helping me just out of pure curiosity?
Just as I was thinking absentmindedly , I accidentally touched a book. The thick, dusty old book fell from the bookshelf and hit my foot. I felt a piercing pain in my foot.
"Ouch, it hurts!" I cried out in a low voice with my teeth bared, and then picked up the book with tears in my eyes. Wow, my pain was instantly relieved a lot, because this was the book I had been looking for for a long time!
I opened the thick book. Its pages were yellowed and covered with dust. It was obvious that no one had read it for many years. Most of the contents were unofficial histories that I had never heard of. They recorded from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty. I found the chapter on the Han Dynasty and read it carefully.
The book introduces the Han Dynasty mostly to some remote small countries, and one of these small countries has a national treasure called "Dream Soul", and the owner of this national treasure is not the king but the wizard clan. The wizard clan has guarded the Dream Soul for generations, and only the leader and heir of the wizard clan can use the Dream Soul. The Dream Soul can make people indulge in dreams, or make people disappear out of thin air... I remembered my comic journey, it can also lock people in a wonderful third space, and people disappear in the real world...
As I was thinking, I turned the pages and found a page of pictures that were exactly as I imagined. The prisoner kneeling on the ground disappeared after seeing the dream soul, and then appeared on the wall full of little people. It was the dream soul that sent him to the world on the wall, just like I entered the comic book...
Am I a descendant of the wizard clan? Why do I have to dream? Is all this destined? Could I be the legendary heir of the dream soul?
Even after a thousand years, I believe that some things in my bones are still difficult to change. Thinking of those ancient and rough buildings and the red clothes of the alien race in my dreams, I am more and more sure that I have an inseparable relationship with the wizard race.
I sat cross-legged under the huge French window of the library, the sun shining warmly on me. I took out my comic book for some unknown reason, and then looked up, and saw Yan Yimu and Yuan Yichen walking towards me. Yan Yimu was dressed in black and had a cold face, while Yuan Yichen was dressed in white and had a smile on his face. I held my chin and looked at them, then looked down at my comic book, a strange feeling rose from my heart, and I saw the faint brilliance of Menghun again...
I closed my eyes to relax my nerves and felt my body being pulled. When I opened my eyes, I was lying on the rooftop of DeLand College, and the sky was a bloody sunset.
I was in the library just now, and now I am on the rooftop of Delan. Was I dreaming just now, or am I dreaming at this moment? I pinched my face, and the pain was so real. I sat up and looked at the familiar rooftop. I knew I was in the comic world again. It was so strange, why was I brought into the comic world again? Was there no introduction? Or did I overlook something?
The surroundings were eerily quiet. Oh, by the way, where is Yan Yimu? The last time I left here, Yan Yimu, Yuan Yichen and I were standing here together. Why am I the only one who came here this time? Is the plot of the comics going to change again?
Although I am not used to the world of comics yet, I have lived in it for more than half a month, so I kept telling myself not to panic and just live my life as usual.
I went home, took a shower, and lay down on the bed to sleep. I was so calm that I couldn't believe it myself. Was it because I was used to the comic world, or was it because of Yan Yimu? Yan Yimu, where did he go? I can see him tomorrow. I wonder if he has changed after I've been away for so long?
The next day, I got up early, washed and dressed, and went to school in high spirits. I was full of anticipation and anxiety. I thought Yan Yimu would be very angry with me for leaving for so long without saying goodbye.
"Wow, Yan Yimu suddenly becomes so handsome."
"Did Yan Yimu take the wrong medicine? He's so fierce today and ignores everyone."
"Yan Yimu is so cool. Why didn't I notice it before? The more he ignores me, the cooler I think he is."
On campus, the girls were whispering, Yan Yimu has changed? I frowned, how could it be? The character I set is impossible to change without external influence? !
I quickened my pace towards the classroom. As soon as I reached the door, I felt that the temperature had dropped by several degrees. Yan Yimu was wearing a white shirt and jeans, with a neat short hair. He hugged his chest, sat in his seat with a dark face, and his eyes flew towards me like knives. I couldn't help but step back, but he had already stretched out his long legs, ran towards me, pulled me up and left, and the classmates in the classroom all started to make a noise.
"Yan Yimu, Yan Yimu, are you okay?" I asked weakly as he was pulling me away. I had a bad feeling in my heart because he didn't look like the Yan Yimu in the comics at all!
Yan Yimu took me to a remote place, let me go, and roared fiercely: "Yu Yingwu, you'd better tell me, where is this place?"
"Somewhere...school..." I took a few steps back, shrank my body and answered, not daring to look him in the eye.
"Enough, this is not the real world, right? Why am I here? And you, why are you here too?" Yan Yimu stretched out his hand and punched the wall heavily.
"You... You are not that Yan Yimu, you are the real Yan Yimu, you also traveled through time?" I stared at Yan Yimu with wide eyes. The Yan Yimu I designed would not have such clean and refreshing short hair, would not be dressed so neatly, would not have such a fierce expression, and would not yell at me so fiercely...
"Of course, I felt like I was in a coma, and when I woke up, I became a terrible person. It was terrible! It took me a whole night to get myself together, and then I realized that this was not the real world!" Yan Yimu approached me, pointed his finger at me and asked, "You must know something, did you do this? What is your purpose?"
"I don't know, I really don't know. I just came here inexplicably last time... and this time is also inexplicable... This is not the real world, but my comic world, but I really don't know why I came in, and I don't know why you came in!" I shook my head and kept backing away, feeling a little sad at the same time. The gentle and considerate Yan Yimu is gone forever !
“Then how do we get back?” Yan Yimu stared at me with eyes wide open, as if he could spit fire at any time.
I could only shrug helplessly: "I also want to know how to get back. I stayed for a long time last time and didn't go out, or..." I frowned. If I said that I could only go back by jumping off the building, he would definitely take me to jump off the building immediately.
"You've been here before? Is this still your comic world? Yu Yingwu, who are you? What do you want to do?!" Yan Yimu spread his hands, his eyes angry and confused, "How can we go back!"
"This is all very strange, I can't explain it, but it really happened, I didn't want it to happen! Maybe it's a matter of time, maybe when the time comes, we can go back to the real world? You ask me now, I really don't know, although it's a comic world, but everything is the same as in the real world, I'm going to class first!" After saying this, I ran away, who told me to be so guilty! I wonder if Yuan Yichen also traveled through time!
