nightmare exec

Chapter 107 The Gate of Stars!

Hidden in the secret realm deep in Qi Zhengnan's safe house, heavy memories about the past are slowly kicking off.

Under Qi Zhengnan's guidance, Song Yin stepped into the guest restaurant on the first floor of the small building.

The layout here is basically the same as Song Yin's hometown.It's just that the windows are bright and clean, and the tables, chairs and cabinets are all complete sets of new products, without traces of tinkering.

Gone is the familiar lake-blue loveseat, replaced by a soft leather couch.It wasn't until she was seated that Song Yin realized that she was still holding a plastic bag of beer in her hand.He put the bag between himself and Qi Zhengnan, and it was obviously a small gesture full of insecurity.

"Xiaoyin..." Qi Zhengnan looked at him, "Have you regretted it yet?"

"No, I don't regret it."

Song Yin shook his head in denial without thinking, and then explained: "But you have to give me a buffer space...I'm not like you, I haven't seen much in the world. You talk to me too much at once...I will be short-circuited and broken of!"

"...Okay." Qi Zhengnan has always been helpless with him: "I'll just sit here, after you digest it, come to me to continue.

Song Yin nodded, and began to look away from Qi Zhengnan to other corners of the room.Everything was familiar yet unfamiliar, and he soon discovered that there were a lot of long and short log photo frames hanging on the opposite wall.

In his hometown, these photo frames should contain family photos and mother's hand-painted plant watercolors.However, what he saw in front of him were strange pictures that he had never seen before.

"This is... my dad?!"

His eyes first settled on a single photo.It was a high-spirited young man with a pair of black and white deer eyes, with a spring-like smile on the corners of his eyes and lips.

Unmistakable, although she is much younger than she remembered, how could Song Yin mistakenly recognize her own father.

"So, my dad really used to be an executive officer..."

He digested this already obvious fact, and stretched out his hand to gently caress the relatives in the photo.After a while, I reluctantly turned my gaze to the group photo on the right side of the single photo.

There were four or five young men participating in the group photo. Apart from his father, Song Yin soon found another familiar face.

It was a young man who looked many years younger than his father—it should even be said that he was a good-looking boy.All the people around the boy showed different shades of smiles with their own characteristics, but only the boy looked indifferent, and his two dark pupils were like cloudy glass marbles, freezing all emotions and vividness.

"...Yunshi?!"

To be honest, Song Yin cannot make a 100% conclusion.But this melancholy boy who hasn't fully grown is indeed [-] to [-]% similar to Qi Zhengnan's vest "Yunshi".

"This is you? Mu Hui, the god of purgatory back then? But... this is obviously just a child, right?!"

Song Yin looked back at the mature and tall Qi Zhengnan on the sofa, and fell into confusion: "So... Yun Shi should be your original appearance?"

"What is the 'original appearance'." Qi Zhengnan asked him back.

"Hiss... Is it the appearance you've had since you were born? The original one? Uh, I don't mean to object to plastic surgery... I don't even think that you are not yourself now..."

In fact, Song Yin didn't know what he wanted to say, and his mouth was tinkering, but the more he talked, the more chaotic it became.

"Don't make up for it, I can understand what you mean."

Qi Zhengnan smiled wryly, got up from the sofa and walked to Song Yin's side, also looking at the photo frames on the wall.

"The kid in the photo is Twilight, an orphan who grew up in an orphanage without a father or a mother. Some people praised him as the best executive officer in the past 30 years. But he knew that he was just a A well-trained biological machine. This picture was taken in his first year in Purgatory, when he was only 16 years old. Everyone else, including your father, was his teammate... Oh, that The team is called Yu Gutai."

"Yu Gutai!"

Even in the most absurd dream, Song Yin never thought of such a bizarre unfolding.But if you think about it carefully, everything seems to be predestined in the dark.

He felt that he was full of sighs, but he didn't know where to start. After deliberating several times, he decided to continue to observe the photos in front of him.

The figure of Song Yin's young father can be found in almost every photo.And the young Mu Hui also appeared from time to time—at first he just stood in the corner of the crowd, and then gradually blended into the group, even being hugged by his companions.

There are time stamps on all these photos - I don't know if it is Song Yin's illusion. As time goes by, the boy's eyes, movements and overall temperament are quietly changing.

But from the beginning to the end, Mu Hui's appearance was always that young boy.Just like the mysterious boy sitting on the giant flower tree in the fairy tale.

"Mu Hui stayed in purgatory for five years, but until his body died and turned into ashes, he still didn't know what his 21-year-old self should look like."

Speaking of this, Qi Zhengnan paused for a moment, and gave the final answer: "So, that adult Yunshi doesn't really exist, it's just a phantom I imagined. I don't have the so-called 'original' appearance...only now."

"21 years old..."

Song Yin chewed on this special number, and calculated according to the method of the world, Qi Zhengnan also happened to be 21 years old this year.

One kind of youth, two lives.It's like looking in a mirror by the water, not knowing where is the past and where is the reality.

It's no wonder that Qi Zhengnan couldn't answer such a simple question when facing the Truth Beast.

After putting himself in his shoes and thinking about it, Song felt vaguely uncomfortable.He raised his hands and held Qi Zhengnan's cheek.

"There may not be a 21-year-old Mu Hui in the world, but there is a 21-year-old Qi Zhengnan, and there will definitely be Qi Zhengnan who is 23, 40, 60, 80...120 years old... If you can't find yourself , just look at my eyes. In my eyes, there will always be the best of you."

As he spoke, he forced Qi Zhengnan to lower his head with a little force, while he tried to raise his head up, trying to let the other party see the reflection in his eyes clearly.

Complying with Song Yin's kindness, Qi Zhengnan squinted his eyes and looked at him for a few seconds, and then corrected him in a low voice: "...To be precise, what you see now is me two years ago. After all, I have been in the Two years in bed."

Song Yin disagreed: "You haven't changed at all in the past two years, I visit you every now and then, don't you know?"

"..." Qi Zhengnan didn't say anything more.He just continued to stare at Song Yin's face.

The distance was too close, and the atmosphere began to become ambiguous.However, at this juncture, there was a sudden "click", and an old photo frame suddenly fell to the floor.In the photo, Papa Song smiles a little creepily.

"..."

The two people who were almost stuck together suddenly separated again.Qi Zhengnan bent down to tidy up the frame, while Song Yin continued to turn his gaze to the rest of the photos.

He soon had a new question——

"You said, my mother is also an executive officer like my father, but why is there no picture of her on the wall?"

"I'm sorry, but I'm actually not familiar with your mother."

Qi Zhengnan reminded Song Yin that after all, this is only a fragment of his deep memory, "However, I do remember that there is a picture of her..."

As he said that, he came over in person and helped Song Yin take down a special white photo frame from a high place, with a group photo of a man and a woman sandwiched between them.

The most striking color in this photo is blue-violet.It was the jacaranda in the courtyard of the Executive Club.In the center of the picture, there is a handsome man and a beautiful woman snuggling up by the window to enjoy the beautiful scenery together.

"Dad, Mom..." Song Yin's voice trembled a little.

"That was a group photo of your mother before she left Purgatory. After that, she returned to the human world. And I have only been in Purgatory for a few months, almost to make up for her absence."

"My mother went back first?"

Song Yin felt a little unbelievable: "But my dad is still in Purgatory? Aren't they already together?"

"So what. Human beings don't only rely on love to live. After all, there are many reasons in the world that are also worthy of her going back."

"..." Song Yin had to admit that this sentence was indeed reasonable, but something went wrong again.

"Didn't everyone say that if you leave Purgatory, you will be brainwashed? Then why did my mother stay with my father later? I have never seen her interacting with relatives at home."

"She did undergo brainwashing once, and she did forget the memory of being in purgatory. It was your father who found her again."

Qi Zhengnan's eyes dimmed again, telling the unbelievable truth: "After she returned to the human world, she became one of the victims of that star gate incident. Your father betrayed Yu Gutai and the entire Purgatory to save her." .”

"……how come?!"

It is no exaggeration to say that Song Yin's hair stood on end at this moment: "But our mission as the nightmare executive officer is not to save the victimized dream master?!"

"But the copy of the Stargate is an exception."

The topic finally returned to the core incident.

"Do you know what the scariest thing about Stargates is?"

Although it was a question, Qi Zhengnan quickly gave the correct answer: "The scary thing about the copy of the Stargate is not that it is huge in scale, nor is it that it can bring many stowaways directly into the dream of human beings. It is that, It cannot be contained independently."

"Independent containment?"

In the third month of coming to Purgatory, Song Yin has rarely received any new vocabulary, "Why have I never heard of this word?"

"That's because there are very few stowaways who cannot be contained independently."

Speaking of this, Qi Zhengnan corrected himself again: "No, the Gate of Stars is not a stowaway. It is a gate, or an airport."

"Airport?!"

Song Yin naturally immediately thought of the terrestrial airport that frightened him. Thinking about it carefully, if the star gate can indeed allow many stowaways to come and go freely, then what it does is really a "black airport" role.

It is also precisely because the essence of the star gate is an "entrance" that will function as a transmission no matter where it is placed, so independent containment is nothing more than removing the gate and pressing it in other parts of the house.If you want to completely seal the passage, you must also put the door in the box.

"The box used to hold the star gate is a person."

Qi Zhengnan told the cruel fact - in order to solve the impact of the Stargate on the real world, thousands of victims infected with the Stargate were gathered in the uninhabited islands off the East China Sea.

There, the mortal executive forces classified and divided them, and finally selected ten people with the best spiritual qualities as the "boxes" for containing the star gates.

As a retired executive officer, Song Yin's mother was one of the chosen ones.

The Nightmare Executor will force the Stargate back into the ten victims.Then, the human execution force will be ordered to destroy the victim's body, and trap the star gate together with the dream master's consciousness in a dream of nothingness—like isolated islands, floating in the boundless darkness and mist beyond purgatory.

Finally, the Aksha system will contain these islands as targets.

"God..."

Thinking that her mother had faced such a horrible experience, Song Yin shuddered several times.

Although the experience of the past three months made him aware of the cruelty of the dream copy and the necessity of containment, he still couldn't accept this costly form of containment without any grievances.

"Those victims who are trapped with the star gate, do they still have their own consciousness? Do you know that they have been contained, and how does it feel to be contained?... Could it be that they are bound to the star gate like this? Together, we will never be free forever?"

He asked many questions in one breath, even though he understood that Qi Zhengnan might not be able to answer all the questions.

But Qi Zhengnan unexpectedly gave him a very clear answer——

"It's not forever—the decay of the stargate is a very rapid process. It can be as short as a year or two, or as long as ten years, and it will automatically disintegrate and disappear without a trace. At that time, those who were forced to become' The victims of the "box" will also be released from the purgatory shelter and sent to the airport of the world to be reincarnated."

This is really a blessing among misfortunes.

Song Yin breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time thoughtfully: "So, those victims are almost equivalent to being in prison with Xingmen for several years, does that mean?"

"No, it's not that simple."

Qi Zhengnan moved his eyes from Song Yin to the lake-blue wooden window not far away, and looked at the spring-filled courtyard through the clean and tidy window glass.

The scenery in memory came to an abrupt end behind the fence, but Song Yin felt that Qi Zhengnan's gaze was still slowly extending further away—perhaps looking at the things they had experienced just now along the way. A bizarre world.

After about three or four seconds, a low, slow, sleep-like voice appeared in Song Yin's ear.

"The star gate is a door. It can not only let the things outside come in, but also let the things locked inside leave...During the years of being in custody, the people who were trapped with the star gate were all the time. They were thinking about getting rid of endless nightmares and darkness. So the vast majority of them chose to walk into that star gate. Some were out of hope, while others were out of despair."

"Into the star gate?!"

Song Yin was so surprised that he could almost hear his heart beating wildly.

He opened his eyes wide, as if he had never really known the man standing in front of him. Not long ago, he was like an ordinary person, with whom he talked and laughed intimately.

"What did they... see behind the star gate?" he asked in a low voice.

"There are many things that cannot be expressed in words."

Qi Zhengnan's eyes still stayed in the distance, his eyelids narrowed slightly, as if he couldn't see the truth in his memory: "...or in other words, there are tens of thousands of worlds that cannot be described in words."

In his memory, it was one strange world after another that was not human.The deep but light deep-sea era; the scorching desert with huge sandworms hidden; the terrifying valley full of blood and acid flowing...

He has even been to places inhabited by "life", creatures that are completely different from the animals on earth, some are only the size of a palm, and some are taller than towering skyscrapers.

But when he recovered from the great shock, he found that he had lost his way back to the star gate without knowing it...

The author has something to say: Brother Nan wants to kiss Xiaoyin, and Xiaoyin is ready

At this moment, with a snap, the photo frame fell to the ground——

Papa Song: Papa disagrees! ! !Dad doesn't allow it! ! !Xiaoyin, you are just a child! ! !

Qi Zhengnan: Father-in-law, you are dead, please be a dead person quietly

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This chapter is probably one of the few craziest chapters I've ever written, it's very enjoyable, I really like the absurd plot.Although I feel like I still have a long way to go.

What happened to Qi Zhengnan, I believe everyone should be able to guess.He's actually a very good man.

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The following are some thoughts about the setting that I posted on Weibo yesterday. If you are struggling with the issue of "rebirth", you can read it. I hope it will be helpful.If there is no problem, you can skip it~~

I don't remember if it's from Stephen King's "rosered" or something else.There is a sentence that I still remember.The general meaning of this sentence is: time is a rain, not every drop of rain falls on the ground in order.

In other words, time is actually non-linear.

This time nonlinear theory is also borrowed from the story of Nightmare Executive.People who reincarnate through the human airport can be reincarnated to the present, the past or even the future.

In other words, your elders may be reincarnated later than you.It is also possible that your younger generation was reincarnated into the world 5000 years ago.

Basically, this setting is too unrealistic, so I won't deliberately mention it.But it is a very important content.

Because it is used to explain the "rebirth" problem that I have been having a lot of headaches.

From the beginning of the drama, I can't decide the relationship between the two characters before and after the rebirth.And I also found that many readers also have similar confusion problems.

However, under the setting of time nonlinearity, rebirth is much easier to explain to me.

The owner of the body before rebirth was just a body prepared for the reborn at that point in time.

In other words, the shell would not have been created without the need to be reborn.