Robin was wearing a 'children's version' smartwatch and was concentrating on peeling candy wrappers. He looked up when he heard the sound.

Song Huaimin was a little confused, but he couldn't ask, so he could only rub his forehead and said, "How do you know that the monster won't destroy the public toilet right away?"

Robin looked at the lollipop in his hand, peeled it and put it in his mouth and said, "We saw it in our previous dreams. The monster looked like it was blocked by fire, but it wasn't."

"It devoured the room very quickly, but even if it wanted to put out the fire, it didn't immediately devour the public toilet, but just broke the water pipe outside. This shows that it should be afraid of this place."

Song Huaimin thought about it after hearing this. It was indeed the case before, and Robin was right, but they didn't notice it at the time.

Song Huaimin turned to Ling Su and asked, "What about you?"

Ling Su held a large bucket of lollipops and said, "I took a gamble and won."

Song Huaimin: "..."

Ling Su cleared his throat and explained, "The weak will bully the 'weaker'. When they encounter troubles, people are used to pushing the problems to others so that they don't have to face them."

In fact, the bullies are not really strong. They just follow others to do bad things, bully the weak and fear the strong, and specifically bully the weaker people.

"I think this is how the nightmare started." Robin said.

Now, Robin's thoughts have finally come together.

"People who are pulled into the dream will be chased to the same place by the monster. When they see the mirror in the public toilet, they will be influenced by the thoughts in the dream, see themselves in school uniform, and finally think of themselves as the person in the mirror."

"If you are influenced too much, when you see the monster again, you will see a person."

"At this time, there are two choices - either hide in the seventh cubicle of the public toilet and don't come out, or go out and beg for mercy and become one of them."

"Those who hide in the cubicle of the public toilet will be eaten by monsters sooner or later, and those who go out to beg for mercy will be assimilated and become bullies, and this process will be repeated."

Robin walked to the broken mirror and said, "So, we can't find anyone now."

Song Huaimin listened for a long time and finally understood, and broke out in a cold sweat.

"You mean..." Song Huaimin asked nervously, "Those people who were pulled into the dream, we can't find them because they either became part of the monster or became that black shadow?!"

Robin looked at Ling Su: "If it becomes like this in the dream, what will happen in reality?"

Ling Su thought for a while: "This is not reality. In theory, it will not affect the body except for sleeping. Being injured in a dream will make people feel tired and may forget some things, but they can all be recovered... As long as you wake up from the dream in time, there will be no big problem."

"Then we have to hurry." Song Huaimin said as he walked out, "I remember..."

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Before he finished speaking, he stopped at the door of the public toilet and his face changed.

Because at this time, there was nothing outside the public toilet, it was empty!

In other words, the apartment seemed to have disappeared suddenly, and everything outside the door was covered by a thick fog like blood.

The public toilet they were in seemed to be floating alone in this bloody fog.

The door was open, and no monsters were seen outside for the time being, and the road was still remembered.

Should we just walk out?

Song Huaimin held the door frame, swallowed his saliva, and looked at Ling Su who was also thinking at the door.

Although the location of the stairs and rooms would change, the layout of the first floor was still stable.

If they wanted to leave here, even if they couldn't see clearly in the fog, it would not be difficult to find a room to rest by memory.

But for some reason, there seemed to be an unspeakable fear in this fog, as if as long as they walked out, they would fall into an abyss that they could never get out of...

Ling Su's expression also became serious. He didn't go out to see immediately, but threw the pack of cigarettes confiscated from Robin outside the door.

They saw a weird scene - the pack of cigarettes was wrapped in blood mist, melting little by little, and finally became part of the blood mist.

"See? Smoking is harmful to health!" Ling Su turned around and warned Robin behind him. Song Huaimin, who was watching from the side, was quite speechless.

Robin nodded seriously, as if he was really remembering it carefully, and then glanced out through Ling Su's shoulder and said, "This is probably the development of the third option."

They neither hid in the cubicle of the public toilet all the time, nor chose to assimilate with the monster, so the original cycle of the dream was broken.

However, the consequence of this choice was that the apartment disappeared, and they were temporarily trapped in the floating public toilet. For a while, it was impossible to judge what the ending of this new branch would lead to.

"Indeed." Ling Su agreed, "In the subconscious of the dreamer, this choice was probably not originally included."

"The bedroom can be interpreted as a resistance and escape from school life. The award certificate covered by random graffiti should also express this point: although he studied well and received rewards and praise, it was actually of no help in being bullied."

Ling Su walked behind Robin and studied the image in the mirror together: "Is there a way to make him take off his school uniform?"

Robin shook his head: "No, I tried to take off my clothes, but he didn't react."

Although it was nominally his shadow, the boy in the mirror could not completely synchronize his every movement. Sometimes when Robin tried to do some weird movements, the shadow in the mirror would not synchronize.

"Is it possible that the owner of the dream is now trapped in this mirror?" Song Huaimin suddenly had a new idea.

"Wake up, Lao Song." Ling Su patted his shoulder, "This is not a horror movie."

Ling Su reminded him, then found a broken water pipe, picked up the monster tentacles that began to wriggle on the ground again and rushed into the toilet.

Song Huaimin felt complicated and wanted to vomit.

Ling Su kept pressing the flush button, his voice was drowned out by the sound of water: "Logically speaking, the bedroom is the safest place, why doesn't the dreamer hide in the bedroom?"

After all, school will always be over, as long as you can hold on until school is over, you can go home, which means you have survived another day.

The cruel thing is that this escape is only temporary - as long as you return to school the next day, you will still be beaten up and your whole body will be messed up.

And as soon as four o'clock in the afternoon comes, you will fall into a new nightmare.

"The bedroom is so tidy. If he doesn't have mysophobia, then he didn't clean it himself, otherwise he wouldn't wear a school uniform that was messed up like this..."

Robin looked at the mirror and carefully studied the school uniform on his body, trying to see the school badge covered by the ink: "Was it his parents who cleaned it?"

"It's very likely." Ling Su replied, "Strict, over-interfering, and slightly mysophobic parents - he scribbled on the bedroom wall in the dream and messed up his wardrobe, which can also be understood as some kind of confrontation and emotional venting."

Ling Su walked out of the cubicle: "The bedroom is his last refuge, so it appears frequently in this dream to fight against the depression and fear represented by the public toilet."

These are not difficult to analyze, but there is one thing that Ling Su still can't figure out: "The monster is scared away, and the public toilet becomes safe in theory. What is the meaning of continuing to exist here..."

"Wait a minute." Song Huaimin couldn't help interrupting the two of them, "Compared to this, shouldn't we first study where the apartment disappeared? Are we going to float like this forever?"