Daydream Theatre - C15

“Mr Abaruba!” My head was covered in sweat, “Mr Abaruba, please slow down!” I finally saw someone I knew and tried to stop him.

I had been walking in this cold, dark labyrinth for almost half a day, and now I was hungry and tired. I could not find the exit. I had no idea why I had suddenly appeared in this maze. Even at the beginning, I had no idea it was a maze.

But it wasn’t until I walked for hours that I realized it was not only a labyrinth, but a bottomless labyrinth. Unlike all the mazes I had encountered, I looked like a brand-new path wherever I went, not even the pattern of the walls or the pattern of the floorboards.

This is the most horrifying thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen the same maze area. But that’s impossible! Could this maze be that big?

Even more incredible was that when I discovered this, I turned back, but I still saw that all the “paths” I had not taken. The labyrinth was like a giant creature that could grow, and I was like a single tiny cell landing on its thick hair.

However, I finally saw someone! And I saw that he was wearing a long black robe that covered his entire nose. He came toward me, but when I called out to him, he turned away.

“Mr Abaruba, I know it’s you!” I quickened my pace. “What should I do… Can you tell me how to get out of here? ”

But instead of answering my question, the Mr Abaruba walked faster and faster. I couldn’t even hear his breathing, as if running didn’t take much energy.

I could barely make it, and he was just about to disappear around the next corner. But Abaruba suddenly turned around and walked towards me.

I kept gasping, “Abba… How do you do, Mr. Do you know what this is about? I can’t remember anything, I can’t remember anything. ”

He came up to me and wiped the sweat from my forehead with his robe. “Can’t you remember anything?”

Sure enough, this person is Mr Abaruba, because I heard his voice before … Ah, what was before? When did I hear Abaruba’s voice? How do I know I heard it?

I was confused. Since I can’t remember anything, how can I remember the person in front of me who even covered his face?

But I wanted to get out of this maze quickly, so I said, “Well, I don’t remember. Mr Abaruba, do you know how to leave? ”

“How do I get what?”

“Get out of this maze?”

“Maze?”

“Didn’t you see? I walked up and down and didn’t see the exit. ”

“The exit. Can’t you see the exit?”

“Yeah, I’ve been running for hours, but there are walls all the time.”

“Haha, the exit is here!” Mr Abaruba suddenly pointed to the sky, “Such a big exit, can’t you see it?”

I also looked up at the sky. The sky was very bright.

“I’m going to the exit. Do you want to follow me?” He leaped up. Surprisingly … I almost lost my jaw! Just like that, he flew up into the sky.

“Mr Abaruba!” I screamed, “Abba!” But he was long gone. Yes, perhaps he had some ability to resist gravity. To him, it was definitely an exit.

I could no longer look up at the sky, which seemed to radiate a kind of hot radiation that made my eyes red. I could only continue walking forward and back along the maze, but like before, all my efforts were in vain. There was no exit to this maze …

Finally, I fell to the ground as if I didn’t have any strength left to stand up again …

And what awakened me was still the light — a light different from the one that radiated from the heat, but a warm, gentle sunlight.

Strangely, I didn’t even feel tired, as if I’d never been in that maze before.

I straightened up and found myself sitting on the concrete floor, surrounded by a few other tiny black shapes that were circling around me.

I don’t know the time. But I remembered that I followed Abaruba into the ceremony last night. Could it be that it is already the morning of the second day? And the Ms Mistie …

I looked around again. I was obviously lying in the middle of a road, which must have prevented normal traffic, so Blacky was circling me.

“But what is going on?” I couldn’t help but blurt out, I just lied down on the Eloi Access Chair last night … I still remember when I suddenly appeared in an endless maze, and there was even a Mr Abaruba inside. He jumped out from the so-called “exit”.

Furthermore … Where did the Ms Mistie go? Then there were the black-robed priests and the people who came to experience it together. Where had they gone? Where the hell am I? Why was I abandoned here alone?

Just as I was in a daze, one of the Xiao Hei roughly noticed that I had woken up and approached me to remind me, “Hello, Mr Latimer. You have violated …” I think it must have scanned my ID, so I get up and move to the side of the road.

At this moment, I discovered that there were a few more things on my body. Those things that had already been taken away by Priest Sleeping Religion — the various sensing equipment that were hidden within my clothes and … That included the black box with the Time Capsule. It was currently lying beside me.

I heard the shrieks of flying cars in the air, and I don’t think anyone was paying attention to me. Everyone was only concerned about their own business.

“I know, may I ask where I am now?” I asked Blacky, who was staring at me. He was making sure I was out of the middle of the road. Although almost all vehicles pass through the air, there are still some specialized government vehicles that do not have an anti-gravitational system installed. Obviously, when all the vehicles were flying in the air, they would move at the fastest speed on the road. This became a special passageway for some people.

“Your current location is …”

Before I could hear clearly, I felt a sharp beep coming from my left ear, followed by the familiar director’s hasty roar, “Latimer! Latimer! I finally have a signal here! Finally connected! Are you online? Latimer! Latimer! ”

As the man in black had said, all my personal belongings would be returned to me after this strange ceremony, and I heard the program team’s shouts in my right ear.

“Yes, I am Latimer.” Due to the director’s voice, I didn’t hear Xiaohei’s reply clearly, “But I don’t know where I am.”

“You don’t know where you are?”

“Yes, hell.” I looked around. “I was hypnotized, injected with a hallucinogen! When he woke up, he found himself lying in the middle of the street! Do you know, and I don’t know where Ms Mistie went? Those black-robed men have all disappeared, and the entire ‘Sleeping Religion’ has disappeared in the blink of an eye! ”

I stretched my limbs, feeling fine. I’ve even been wearing live sunglasses, but I’m used to wearing them so I don’t notice it. Of course, the live broadcast had stopped. I just saw the normal scenery around me.

But the director did not seem surprised. “We were completely dumped by them. We’ve lost our signal since you got in the car.”

“All the signals?”

“Yes, we’ve been debugging and had to end the live broadcast in advance.”

“You all …” I feel that this Sleeping Religion must be a very powerful organization, because I checked that all the transmitters on my body are good, so why can’t the program team receive the signal?

“What are you trying to say?”

“Have any of you seen the Ms Mistie?”

The director went silent for a moment, then said something that I couldn’t believe: “Right now, almost everyone in the world is looking at the Ms Mistie.”

“What?” Everyone in the world?

“Have you forgotten? Today is Miss Emma’s exit press conference, “the director paused for a moment, then spoke out a truth that surprised me even more,” The Eloi Film And Television Company is broadcasting live. And then, all of us saw, all of us saw — Ms Mistie and Miss Emma were together.

Time Capsule? I looked at the black box on the floor. Only now did I realize that the box seemed to be slightly ajar. I opened it quickly, but the scene inside made my heart sink. It was as if I had sunk to the bottom of the water.

The director was right, the box was empty.

“I’ll be right over,” I said, closing the box and feeling a heavy weight on my shoulders. “I might know what she wants to do.”

“Of course,” the director said in a terrifying voice, “If you increase the speed of the Time Field’s time flow by a hundred times … A hundred days had passed in the past day. It looks like Ms Mistie doesn’t want to let the person who framed her father and killed her father out of prison, even if it means sacrificing himself. ”

So that’s how it was! I felt the sky spin and the earth spin. Turns out that this was Ms Mistie’s goal all along.

Perhaps her heart, like the black box, was empty, eaten away by hatred.

The scariest thing in the world is not the man with all the wickedness, but the hollow man who has been desperate!