"From now on, this is your room."

This is what the person behind the Society of the Dead said to Mianmian when she was brought here on the first day.

"This guy is completely different from other children. He doesn't cry or make trouble. The gloomy look in his eyes when he saw me is really disgusting..."

"I heard that he was a wild child picked up by the president from the garbage dump. No wonder he smells so bad..."

"I haven't heard her speak before, so she's still mute, right?"

"I don't care about taking care of this kind of child, whoever cares about you will care about it..."

"It doesn't matter, people with this kind of character problem are just cannon fodder..."

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Several administrators nearby gathered together and murmured, and they all looked at the girl with contempt and disgust.

The girl was wearing stained tattered clothes and her face was dirty. The only thing that impressed people was the pair of ruby-like shining eyes on her face.

The girl held a broken doll in her arms and turned a deaf ear to the bad words spoken by the people over there. She just looked up at the house in front of her and firmly remembered the house number 'No. 14'.

She knew that this would be her home for a long time to come.

The girl is different from the other children who were abducted and snatched here. She was the only child who took the initiative to appear in front of these people. She also pretended to run away and was captured again, so that she could be successfully sent here.<

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Of course she knew that this was a very bad place, and the consequences of entering here would probably not be good, but she also understood that this was the only place in the Cook Islands where she could eat well, sleep well, and not suffer from hunger and cold every day.

place.

No matter what she will encounter in the future, at least for now, she will be more comfortable staying here than wandering outside.

In the following days, Mianmian began her closed life in this underground factory.

There are more than a hundred children who came in the same batch as her. She is always the most active one during meal time every day. The contrast between her voracious eating appearance and her sweet appearance, coupled with her withdrawn and cold personality, makes her

She gradually became a 'weird' in the eyes of other children.

"Clang..."

When it was time to eat that day, the plate she had just put food on was 'accidentally' knocked over by a passing boy.

"Sorry, sleepy weirdo, you have nothing to eat today! Hahaha!"

Facing the ill-intentioned sneers of several little boys, the girl just looked at them indifferently, and suddenly punched the leading boy in the face, then threw him to the ground, ignoring the punches and kicks of the other children next to her.

Keep scratching the boy's face...

Half an hour later, the girl with a bruised nose and swollen face picked up the food that fell on the ground one by one, ignoring the little boys next to her who were scratched into cat-like faces and were all breaking down and crying. She sat back at the dining table and continued to calmly nibble on the food.

Dusty rice balls.

When she was outside, she had to compete with wild dogs for food every day. Compared with those wild dogs, the little boys in front of her were too weak. They were as weak as those small domestic dogs that only know how to fight against humans. They barked louder than anyone else.

Fierce, more timid than anyone else when it comes to beating.

Since then, no other child dared to mess with her, and her title among her peers has been upgraded from 'Sleepy Monster' to 'Red-Eyed Witch'.

Of course, not everyone hates her. For example, the new No. 15 next door, a little girl named Louise, does not look at her with colored glasses, and Mianmian does not mind showing some kindness to her.

Being cold is just her disguise, because she knows that this will allow her to survive better here.

The closed life in the underground factory is simple and boring. Apart from completing some tasks assigned by the administrator every day, you can basically do nothing the rest of the time. This is of course torture for other children with a free nature, but it is a great deal for Mianmian.

Convenience because she suffers from severe narcolepsy, a rare disease that requires more than 16 hours of sleep a day.

So when other children were playing, she was sleeping, and when others were doing tasks, she was also napping. Except when eating, few people could see her awake.

But what no one knows is that she also has an innate special ability: she can enter other people's dreams while she is asleep, and follow the dream owner to experience everything in the dream from the perspective of a bystander.

Dreams are always much better than reality, so for her, daily real life is just a bad nightmare. Only when she sleeps is the real beginning of her day.

However, I don’t know if it is because of the special environment in which she lives, but since entering here, the scope of her dream travel has been greatly restricted.

She began to frequently enter and exit the dreams of certain people, especially the dreams of a little girl. She would enter the same girl's dreams seven or eight times out of ten times she fell asleep.

It was a little girl with a bob haircut. When I saw her for the first time, she was wearing an exquisite and gorgeous kimono, being led by her parents to walk in the bustling night market, watching the brilliant fireworks blooming in the sky.

Surrounded by strange things that she had never seen before, Mianmian followed the girl curiously, following her perspective. Unexpectedly, the girl in front of her noticed it, and suddenly turned around and gave her a bright smile.

Mianmian was frightened. In other people's dreams, she was always a spectator. No one could see her, and no one had ever noticed her. This was the first time that someone had interacted with her in a dream.

, she was so frightened that she ran away.

Since then, she began to enter the girl's dreams repeatedly. After many observations, she determined that the girl could indeed see her existence and even talk to her.

After a simple exchange, they knew each other's names. The girl's name was Ye Rumeng, who lived in the Land of Forgotten and was a fool.

With similar preferences and complementary personalities, they quickly became good friends, and the fact that they could meet in dreams every day became their shared secret.

Mianmian will follow Ye Rumeng's dreams every day and experience various things she encounters during the day.

Ye Rumeng has parents who love her, a prosperous family, kind teachers, relatives and friends, so her dreams are almost the same as reality, because reality is happy enough and there are not many wishes that need to be filled with dreams.

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All this makes Mianmian envious and longing for her. She sometimes thinks that the two of them are so similar. If their birth environments were exchanged, maybe she would become a sunny and cheerful girl like her, instead of being like now.

So gloomy and sensitive, I have even lost the ability to laugh, and all I can think about is calculation and survival.

'Mengmeng is herself in another world'. Whenever she thinks of this, Mianmian will instinctively gain a sense of satisfaction, as if all the happy moments experienced by the other person will be conveyed to her in real time.
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In the deep and dark underground prison, the dream world is like a light of redemption, illuminating her life.

While other children are tortured to the point of mental breakdown by a repetitive and repressive life, her mental state is unusually stable.

This life lasted four years.

The children in the surrounding rooms changed one after another, but she was the only one who was firmly rooted in Ward 14 like a 'nail house', and began to enjoy the life here.

However, as time went by, Mianmian began to be dissatisfied with just being a spectator in the dream. She wanted to stand beside Mengmeng in real life, wear beautiful clothes like her, and walk in the sunshine.

Especially recently, Mianmian learned some special news from the dreams of several administrators: the people here seemed to have finally had enough with her as a 'nail house' and decided to arrange a 'final experiment' for her in the near future.
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As an 'old bastard' who has lived here for more than four years and can occasionally peek into the administrator's dream, Mianmian certainly knows what the 'final experiment' refers to.

That is the final destination of these children who are imprisoned here, which is basically equivalent to the meaning of 'death'.

Of course Mianmian doesn't want to die, and after four years, she has actually considered an escape plan: her ability to enter dreams is not only for her spirit, but also for her body to enter the real dream world, but only if she stays in the backpack

Go to sleep in space.

As for the backpack space, as far as she knows, there is only one in the entire underground factory. There is a storage box just above the Gu pool. Open the box, and the backpack space is connected below.

However, above the Gu Pond is where the people behind the scenes live, and it is also where the 'monster' lives. Normally, she has no chance to get close to it.

Only during the final experiment will the child undergoing the experiment be sent to the high platform, and that is her only chance to escape!

Mianmian secretly planned everything during her escape. It cannot be said to be seamless, but the success rate is at least 70%.

The question is, after she really escapes, where should she go?

"Can you...take me in?"

On this day in the dream, Mianmian mustered up the courage to ask Mengmeng this question.

"What?" The girl looked at her in confusion.

"I mean...if I appeared in your world, could I...live with you?"

"Really?" The bob-haired girl's eyes lit up instantly.

"Well..."

"Of course!"

Ye Rumeng nodded hurriedly: "I will definitely explain everything to my parents and let them adopt you! My father is a very open-minded person. He will help you with your identity and certification, so don't worry."

The girl's answer proved that she was not acting on a whim, but had already considered similar things. She was fully aware of Mianmian's situation and had even secretly consulted her family about it.

The girl's answer made Mianmian relax, and she smiled for the first time in a long time.

After all the plans were prepared, Mianmian began to look forward to the day of the experiment.

Whenever she thinks about leaving here soon and starting a new life in another world, her heart beats faster, and her heart surges with infinite expectations.

And this day comes faster than expected.

A few days later, Mianmian was transferred to the West District Hospital. She was placed in a double dormitory with another roommate, who was another experimental subject who would conduct the final experiment with her.<

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Mianmian was indifferent to this, because she was already focused on escaping, and no matter who came, it had nothing to do with her.

As a result, when her door was opened that day, what was thrown in was a very familiar figure to her.

Looking at the little girl with a bloody head and bruises on the ground, Mianmian suddenly felt an unprecedented anger after being shocked.

She walked up to the person behind the scenes at the door, clenched her fists, and glared at the figure in front of her. She could no longer control her usual indifferent expression, like a she-cat protecting her calf, with a ferocious face, and her whole body was shaking with anger.<
To be continued...