Xiang Ya stared absently at the building surrounded by stars. It was obviously a fantasy scene that only appeared in a dream, but when she saw it in reality, she felt dead silent.

Yes, dead silence.

In the boundless universe, all things are silent, the soul is exiled here, and all the stars are dead, even breathing is particularly disobedient.

There shouldn't be the breath of living people here, just like everything in exile should have stopped at this moment with the galaxy, allowing thousands of light and dust to corrupt the souls standing here.

Xiang Ya put away her sadness, she walked steadily forward and opened the door.

The wind chimes on the top of the door rang out, spreading across the entire galaxy, sounding empty and lonely.

Xiangya walked into the store, the coffee on the work table was still hot, and the air was filled with the fragrant aroma of coffee.

Everything remained the same as before Yan Li left.

Shiley looked around, his eyes slightly darkened.

He came to the place where Yan Li used to sit, sat down, and looked at the two people sitting quietly across from him.

Shi Lai pinched his clenched brows and said, "The coffee shop was discovered by Yan Li when she was in exile. After she regained her managerial status, it took a few years and a lot of scheming to open up this small space here. ."

"At that time, she never recruited new sleepers to earn points, and spent most of her time here."

"Because, she intends to return here after dealing with Gui Chi's affairs, and exile herself completely."

"This is the suicide site she chose for herself."

Hearing this, Xiang Ya looked up at Shi Lai in surprise.

This beautiful-looking man lowered his eyebrows when he said these words, and a strand of long hair from his ears fell to his shoulders, looking at the ground decadently.

"An Cheng's exile is the most terrible punishment for a manager."

"The soul will be exiled in the silent and vast universe, unable to reach the end, wandering forever..."

"And this is not the worst consequence."

"There are so many exiled souls who have gone and never returned. It is impossible to know what their final fate will be. We also wondered whether this punishment is really so terrible."

"Until Yan Li came back alive from exile, everything was normal, but I quickly noticed the abnormality of this normal behavior."

"I tried to get close and get to know this former strong man. Finally, one day, I secretly followed her here. She had already discovered me, but she still let me in this building."

"She was sitting where I am now and asked me-"

"'Shley, do you know what the closest time to death is?'"

Shi Lai recalled that scene, and his soul still trembled.

"'That's who I am now'."

"'The soul is exiled and will never come back. You will be wrapped in fear and desire to face death all the time. You obviously want to live, but the soul will be wrapped in a suffocating membrane in the next second. tight'."

"'It can't be broken. Big mouth breathing will only make the membrane shrink even tighter. It will always be one step away from death. As soon as the will to survive is probed, it will be snuffed out'."

Shiley raised his head and looked straight at Xiangya.

"Yan Li knows that once her soul is exiled once, it will never come back. Every day she is free and moves mechanically."

"She is like this, and Gui Chi is even more like this."

"But Yan Li is a person who is afraid of letting others down. Even if she feels uncomfortable and wants to die, she will finish your affairs before going to the grave."

Speaking of which, Shi Lei's eyes were already full of sadness.

"You are a little different in your dream this time, can you detect your own changes?" he said.

Zhang Fanyu also looked at Xiangya, knowing that the strangeness might refer to what happened when she lost her memory.

"Well," Xiang Ya did not deny, "I can guess some."

Shree nodded. He took out an electronic device from his satchel and tapped out the clips copied from the custody room.

He took it from Xiang Ya and looked closely with Zhang Fanyu.

The clip shows her killing Chi Mingjun in front of the altar after being washed by white light.

In the picture, she has completely changed, her expression is indifferent, her performance is inhuman, and her assassination movements are fast and accurate, obviously after professional training.

Zhang Fanyu looked up at her with a complicated expression.

Xiang Ya remained in the watching position, her face did not seem to change, and after the film ended, she returned the electronic device to Shiley.

"After watching this picture, you must have your own ideas."

"It's not the ghost, that person is me." Xiang Ya whispered.

Shi Lai nodded, "Yes, that person is also you, more precisely the former you."

Xiang Ya frowned slowly, "But in my memory, I have always been with my parents, and my parents are very good to me, and I have never experienced anything strange."

"You're not wrong to say that. Xiang Zhonghe and Li Na never treat their children harshly. They can't wait to give all their love to their children."

Xiang Zhonghe and Li Na are the names of Xiang Ya's parents.

Hearing his parents' names read out from Shi Lai's mouth, Xiang Ya's heart skipped a beat, "You know my parents?"

"I know them, but they don't know me because these two were the original managers."

Hearing this, Zhang Fanyu suddenly remembered what Lu Hua had mentioned to him before"No matter how indifferent managers are, there are still people who regard sleepers as children, friends, family members...even lovers."

It is very likely that Xiang Ya used to be a sleep tester, and was regarded as his child by Xiang Zhonghe Lina and his wife.

Sure enough, in the next second, Shi Lai revealed the secret.

"Your parents were great managers."

"In 1985, when An Cheng was just established, young Xiang Zhonghe and Li Na were specially recruited as managers because of their outstanding personal abilities. At that time, Ancheng's managers were divided into two types, one was a powerful human being, the other was a powerful human being. The species are dead ghosts."

"They have worked in An Cheng for more than ten years, and most of the points have been accumulated. In 1998, they submitted their resignation because Li Na was pregnant."

"The next year, Li Na gave birth to a daughter, and the couple named Xiang Ya."

"But Xiao Xiangya doesn't know what's going on. She is always sick and can't get better. The couple exchanged points for health, but it didn't work at all."

"Li Na feels that this is the retribution brought by her former profession. They shouldn't take human beings into the ghost hotel to take risks. Although the sleepers in their hands are all willing to sign contracts, she still blames herself for all the faults. ."

"Xiao Xiangya didn't live past the age of three, Li Na and Xiang Zhonghe suffered for several years until..."

Xiang Ya listened to all this like a bystander, her expression was unbelievably calm, and she didn't seem to be sad that she was not the biological daughter of her parents.

Zhang Fanyu thoughtful, he said: "It's a parallel universe."

Lu Hua once mentioned that An Cheng has ambitions to expand his business into parallel universes. The fact that Xiang Ya in this world died when he was a child does not mean that Xiang Ya in other universes also died.

Shi Lai was a little surprised. His exploratory eyes kept looking at Zhang Fanyu, and temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart.

"Yes, at that time, An Cheng was preparing to expand its business and urgently needed a large number of managers and testers. This was the most rapid development period of Ancheng, and the number of testers expanded to the largest, that is, in this mixed period—"

"You showed up." He pointed to the bud.

"At that time you were only 8 years old, younger than the current Zhu Jia, and everyone didn't know how you were recruited, but you were alone, and you always passed through the dream state perfectly. Everything in the dream can become your weapon, even the ghost. I'm afraid of meeting you."

"When you became famous, by chance, an old employee found that you and Xiang Zhonghe looked almost exactly the same, and asked him to come back and take a look."

"Xiang Zhonghe recognizes your appearance, and he will accept you as his subordinate regardless of everything. He and Li Na will come back as managers, and they will also regard you as his own daughter."

Zhang Fanyu said silently in his heart: 'That's right, everything is right, Xiang Ya was adopted by her parents. ’

Shi Lai looked at Xiang Ya who had been indifferent before, and finally his body trembled at this moment.

When the truth comes, it often carries the coldest cruelty.

Shlay paused and continued: "They discovered the secret of your origin and will exchange all the accumulated points for you to come to their world."

"An Cheng agreed. Your files and memories are sealed. You become an ordinary human little girl and live peacefully with Xiang Zhonghe and Li Na."

After listening to his own history, Xiang Ya asked back: "But my parents disappeared and I became a sleep tester again. What does it have to do with Yan Li? Is it Gui Chi? What does he have to do with me before I lost my memory? Is he? You must find me?!"

Shi Lai's eyes widened slightly, he didn't expect Xiang Ya to link his own affairs with Gui Chi at once.

He exhaled a turbid breath and almost sighed: "In your original world, Xiang Zhonghe and Li Na both died. You grew up in an orphanage and were adopted by Gui Chi when you were 6 years old."

"Gui Chi is your nominal adoptive father."

Xiang Ya's body freezes, and after a while, her eyelids are lightly closed, and she said very softly, "So it is."

"I am the only finished product that Xu Hongfang mentioned before dissipating - Gui Chi's... adopted daughter."

Shi Lai did not deny this. He looked sideways at the ground next to him. The starlight from the floor-to-ceiling windows fell coldly on the ground, showing a beautiful mottled shadow.

"Yan Li didn't know about you being Gui Chi's adopted daughter at first. She once mentioned to me that An Cheng is in danger now, but she couldn't find a way to solve it until your parents disappeared. This incident caused her concern. Watch out, Yan Li is starting to set his sights on you."

"She carefully investigated your past, learned your true identity in the dust-covered confidential file, and confirmed your relationship with Gui Chi."

"Yan Li didn't tell me about Gui Chi's relationship with you at first. She didn't want to implicate anyone else. She only told me that there was a variable that changed the current situation. It was a girl named Xiang Ya."

"I followed your performance, and gradually found out that you have far more secrets than Yan Li has revealed, and only after being forced to ask the truth did you know the truth. At this time, you have entered the third dungeon..."

"I used high-level privileges to investigate the world you were originally in, and Yan Li and Tang Zhong started to investigate Gui Chi's trace."

"Just after the previous you came out, Gui Chi attacked Yan Li who was alone. After he left, Yan Li immediately returned to the supervision room and noticed that you were out of control, and even risked being corrupted by the power of resentment and breaking the rules. The punishment, I also want to enter the dream to stop you..."

"Fortunately, you didn't lose control in the end, but then the people from Security Service came."

Zhang Fanyu frowned and asked, "What is Security Service?"

Shi Lai's eyes slowly turned to him, and said: "Security Service is a separate organization from the council. The two are the two pillars of An Cheng. We are used to calling the council a high-level, because it is gathered by high-level executives from various departments.The function of the organization is to solicit opinions, discuss plans, and issue various decisions.”

"The Security Service is mainly responsible for the operation of the supervision room, monitoring, detecting, and punishing all unstable factors affecting An Cheng."

"Such as monitoring managers leaving the supervision room in violation of regulations, copy dream inspections, etc. are all performed by Security Service."

"However, it seems that the two functions are different, and the organization that the well water does not violate the river water, in An Cheng, is incompatible."

The author says:

Yan Li: I thought I was just a down-and-out manager counterattacking the character design, but I didn’t expect that I was still beautiful and miserable, huh~

(To sort it out a bit for you:

The reality line this time is mainly to explain the origin of Xiang Ya's life experience. The last time was to lead to the incident of the high dungeon difficulty test sleeper, and the subsequent cooperation with Yan Li and Gui Chi became the thief.

The two lines are definitely related. I am also gradually improving the worldview of this book. Welcome everyone to discuss hehe ^^

There will be another chapter of reality tomorrow. Due to the adjustment of the code word time, the next period of time should be 3:00 pm, or update it at night~)