Group, Chill, Magic Dreams.

Chi Xiaochi wanted to turn around and test his results, but the coal boss ambled down, blocked his arms and legs, cut off his vision, and suppressed him so that he couldn't move, leaning down to leave a hot, bloody kiss on the side of Chi Xiaochi's neck.

At the same time, 061 said coldly in his head, "Don't move."

Chi Xiaochi froze and stayed still.

Sun Yan was worried, but when he heard a familiar voice, he said joyfully, "Lieutenant Gu!"

But when he turned back, saw the face, for a moment did not dare to recognize: "...... Valley ...... vice squad?"

For no other reason than Gu Xinzhi became too much.

He's as thin as the sniper rifle he's dragging in his hand, and his eyes are black and blue.

If there had been coldness in his eyes before, now there was only coldness, and a frightened uncertainty.

Shocked and skeptical, Sun Yan couldn't think about how that still-spirited young man had become like this, and went up a thousand miles to try to snatch Ding Qiuyun from the coal boss's clutches: "Boss, don't hold Team Ding like this, let him catch his breath. Behave yourself."

His words were trembling.

The "boss" was a beast, after all, and had hunted beasts before, but had never shown malice toward humanoids.

Now that he had seen human blood and Team Ding had been injured, he was truly afraid that this leopard would lose its animalistic nature and lay its mouth on Team Ding.

Who would have thought that the crisis he had anticipated had not occurred at all.

The beast that had just been massacred actually obeyed, stepped aside, and seemed to intentionally or unintentionally blocked between Gu Xinzhi and Chi Xiaochi, circling around, pacing anxiously, as if it were in a real hurry.

With a sigh of relief, Sun Yan pressed down on Ding Qiuyun's open front lapel a few times, confirming that his organs had not been injured by the shock, but only a slight rib contusion, and then he swallowed his heart in his throat with a thud.

It was only when he came back to his senses that he bothered to take care of his old comrade who had suddenly appeared here.

He twisted his head to look and was surprised to find Gu Xinzhi standing still with a sleepwalker-like expression on his face.

He remembered that if Gu Xinzhi was popular with anyone, it was Ding Qiuyun.

Team Ding was injured, how come Lieutenant Valley is this godforsaken?

Unbeknownst to him, Gu Xinzhi thought it was another one of his dreams.

Gu Xinzhi stared intently at Ding Qiuyun on the ground, thinking that he had seen the same beginning so many times, and this was the most different.

In the end, it was Yan Lanlan who broke the silence.

She looked back and forth between Ding Qiuyun and Gu Xinzhi several times, "You know each other?"

"...... Warriors."

This was answered by Chi Xiaochi.

He set his elbows on his boss's back, took two deep breaths, struggled to his feet, and hastily pulled his loose shirt back on, "Lanlan, Sun Yan, withdraw. If there are any more Neo-humans nearby, there's no way they won't come when they hear the gunshots."

Sun Yan was surprised by Ding Qiuyun's total disregard for Gu Xinzhi and was slightly at a loss for words, "Team Ding, Vice Team Gu he ......"

Chi Xiaochi walked out, treating Gu Xinzhi as if he were a transparent person who didn't exist: "Go."

Gu Xinzhi's eyes widened slightly.

This time around, the plot does seem to be different than before.

He took two steps after him and called out in a low voice, "Qiuyun?"

Chi Xiaochi limped over to the mall door and swayed at the call, lifting his arm to brace himself against the door and let out a low laugh as Fang Cai turned half his face.

Gu Xinzhi was distracted by his laughter.

...... He has seen such Ding Qiuyun.

The muscles on his face were twisted, and the corners of his mouth were even slightly upturned, yet his eyes were gray and sunken, with the deepest despair and hatred accumulating in them, transforming into a gaze that projected out and sent chills down one's body.

In his recurring nightmare, he had been seen like this a thousand times by Ding Qiuyun.

He had choked Ding Qiuyun in his dream and begged him over and over not to look at him like that.

And yet, for two years, he had lived under such a gaze, watching those eyes, once drenched in trust, go cold over and over again.

...... This is the first time Qiuyun has ever looked at himself with such a look right at the beginning of a dream.

Ding Qiuyun quickly retracted that gaze and stepped towards the outside.

Behind him, Gu Xinzhi suddenly raised his gun and quickly pulled the trigger.

Bullets whizzed past Ding Qiuyun's shoulders, completely blowing the remaining half of the head of the Neo-human who had quietly peeked out from behind the truck with the intention of attacking Ding Qiuyun into pieces.

Gu Xinzhi dragged his gun, walked quickly to Ding Qiuyun's side, wrapped one hand around his waist, and half-hugged him straight up.

Gu Xinzhi is thin but incredibly strong.

Walking to the truck bed, he gave the thick curtain a lift with the still-hot barrel of his gun and signaled with his chin for Ding Qiuyun's crew to help him into the truck quickly.

Yan Lanlan felt that this man's mental state was not quite right, and also intuited that her family's Ding team had a strange attitude towards this man, not like love, but like hatred, so she did not want to have any interactions with him.

But Gu Xinzhi didn't pay any attention to her opinion, waiting until Ding Qiuyun was carried to the car, then he also jumped into the car, holding the gun, crouching beside Ding Qiuyun, knocking on the roof of the carport: "Drive."

...... In his dreams, he has at least been hanging out with this gang for decades, and it has become an instinctive action to follow them to the car and leave.

Only this time, there were a couple of never-before-seen faces, and a full-grown leopard crouching beside Ding Qiuyun, making Gu Xinzhi even more perplexed.

Is it really a dream this time?

In the cab, Sun Bin asked in a low voice, "Brother, isn't that your comrade in arms, I've seen him in photos."

Sun Yan stepped on the gas, carefully avoiding the corpses of the new humans under the wheels, and drove up the road in a zigzag pattern.

He replied in a small voice, "He ...... and the two of them didn't used to be like this."

Given Gu Xinzhi's solitary nature in the past, he probably wouldn't have followed them at all if he hadn't been greeted.

Ding Qiuyun's personality is such that he would never turn a blind eye to his old friend.

Sun Yan muttered as he drove, wondering if the two had some kind of conflict after he retired.

Sun Yan is not the only one who has been muttering.

Yan Lanlan, a man who would not keep anything to himself, observed Gu Xinzhi for a moment and then spoke, "Mr. Gu?"

Gu Xinzhi had already seen Yan Lanlan's face and nodded his head in response, his eyes still locked on Ding Qiuyun's face.

Yan Lanlan didn't bother to exchange pleasantries with him and asked directly, "Those Neo-humans outside the mall are squatting at a location that is clearly trying to surround us. What the hell is going on?"

"Surrounding you?" Gu Xinzhi gave Yan Lanlan a cold tick out of the corner of his eye, "Those people knew you'd be here?"

Yan Lanlan's tongue was dumbfounded.

Ding Qiuyun, who was lying on the felt, opened his mouth, "...... They came to round you up?"

There was little emotion in his voice, but it excited Gu Xinzhi.

Now, any sign of something different from what he had dreamed was capable of stimulating his nerves.

Whether it was the extra strange team members or the cold Ding Qiuyun, as long as it was different from the scene in his dream, he would have enough evidence to hypnotize himself and tell himself that what was in front of him was not his wishful dream.

He half-kneeled by Ding Qiuyun's ear and spoke to him in a soft voice, "Yes, yes."

"Why?"

Gu Xinzhi tried to shake his hand, and when he dodged it, his expression changed slightly, but immediately remembering everything in the dream, he felt joy in his heart, and explained with unprecedented patience, "Over the years, I have killed many Neo-humans. A few days ago, a group of neo-humans came to me and said they wanted me to be their leader."

The origin of that dream was that those new humans had come to him and offered to make themselves their leader, provided that he would help them try to take an old human settlement town two hundred kilometers from here.

God knows what kind of raging black wave of gloom rolled over Gu Xinzhi when he saw that face in the New Human Negotiation Team.

A few of them in particular had faces he'd seen in his dreams.

They gathered around themselves and cheered as they managed to eliminate all the members under Ding Qiuyun's command.

Looking at them, Gu Xinzhi thought of Ding Qiuyun, who had fallen in a pool of blood countless times and died in peace.

Gu Xinzhi, at that time, looked everyone in the face, lit a cigarette, looked at the leader, and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"

The man smiled brightly, "We would like to entrust you with protecting someone."

Gu Xinzhi: "Huh?"

"As far as I know, that person is a former friend of yours and one of the old humans who are currently causing us the most headaches, and sooner or later, we will try to eliminate him. That's why we want to ask you to come out, only you can protect him."

Gu Xinzhi slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, "Who is he."

The leader replied, "Ding Qiuyun."

Gu Xinzhi Containing a cigarette, Gu Xinzhi got up and walked to the door, closing the half-open door of the mall tightly.

That day, the mall doors never opened again, and no one walked out, only gurgling blood dripped out along the cracks, attracting some wildlife to compete for a sip.

And after taking care of them, Gu Xinzhi, with his hands full of blood, sat among the dead, smoking cigarette after cigarette, letting the light outside the window wander from white to black.

It's really similar to his dream, he thought.

He thought again that if the ever-repeating nightmare was some kind of foreshadowing in the underworld, it wouldn't hurt for him to go along with it and snuff out the seed.

Because of this, he offended the New Human side.

They set up an ambush just to kill Gu Xinzhi, who wanted to let Ding Qiuyun and the others touch this bad luck.

Time to go back inside the rumbling truck.

Ding Qiuyun looked sideways at Gu Xinzhi: "So what, you promised him?"

Gu Xinzhi glanced at his hands and said calmly, "I drove them away."

Ding Qiuyun trailed off and gave an oh.

With that he closed his eyes and said no more.

Ding Qiuyun's attitude made Yan Lanlan's inner rating of Gu Xinzhi plummet, and she didn't really want to talk to Gu Xinzhi, knocking on the roof: "Da Sun, choose a smooth road to drive on, and drive slower. Team Ding is injured."

An awkward silence falls over the car, except for Chi Xiaochi, who quite frankly finds himself a peaceful resting place.

...... the belly of his boss.

He reached up and pressed his hand against the injury, frowning darkly.

061 also lost his cold voice from earlier in the store and chided, "So careless."

Chi Xiaochi pouts shamelessly, "It hurts."

061 With a tip of his heart, he took a card that shielded his pain senses and used it on him.

Chi Xiaochi smiled, rolled over, hugged the boss's tail, and whispered to 061, "Mr. Six, do you think the boss is angry with me, it has ignored me since it got on the bus, and it doesn't even pay attention to me when I rub it."

061 couldn't do anything with him, just a sigh.

"It won't." 061 voice was extraordinarily helpless and gentle, "It's just afraid of getting you dirty."

Chi Xiaochi curled up, thinking, It's not like she's going to mind.

The vague pain in his bones disappeared and he simply relaxed and fell asleep.

Noticing the steady snorting of the man as he slept, Gu Xinzhi tentatively reached out his hand to touch the man's brow, but the panther, who was sleeping on Ding Qiuyun's pillow, turned his head.

It didn't let out a threatening low growl, it just quietly looked at Gu Xinzhi, its gaze cold and extreme, like it was looking at a piece of meat.

Gu Xinzhi retracted his hand and gave a silent snort, thinking, This must be a dream.

After all, this leopard's existence was too magical.

As for Ding Qiuyun's hateful gaze at himself, he probably dreamed too much and confused the plot.

After rushing back to the town overnight, Yan Lanlan didn't even wake Chi Xiaochi up and designated a young man in the team to take Chi Xiaochi back to his dormitory to rest and not to tell the Ding parents about his injuries yet.

Having made the captain clear, Yan Lanlan turned his attention to Gu Xinzhi.

As usual, Yan Lanlan asks, "What do you know?"

Without waiting for Gu Xinzhi to answer, Sun Yan came up and pulled him away, saying he was taking his old comrade to dinner, but secretly winking at Yan Lanlan and taking the initiative to lead Gu Xinzhi away to non-core areas.

Comrades in arms are comrades in arms, but Sun Yan and Gu Xinzhi are not close friends after all.

Because of the hostility Ding Qiuyun showed towards him, even Sun Yan didn't dare to trust Gu Xinzhi with all his heart and could only do the cold treatment first and observe for a while.

Gu Xinzhi had no objection to this, and not only obeyed the arrangement, but also looked around rather curiously.

It was the first time he had seen such a brand new scene in a dream, so different from reality.

Chi Xiaochi stayed awake all the way home from being carried, only to be awakened in the middle of the night by a warm licking sensation and abrasive grainy feeling on her forehead.

He opened his eyes and realized that his boss had somehow slipped back into the bedroom.

He had cleaned himself up, his fur bright, his silver whiskers clean, and the bloody mud in the center of his paws carefully picked away.

He had arched open the front of his shirt and was gently running his tongue over the bruises and redness caused by the bone bruises, tame to the point of weakness.

Chi Xiaochi, tickled by its licks, reached sideways to encircle its head and whispered, "This won't get better faster."

The owner owed softly, sounding a little aggravated.

Chi Xiaochi coaxed it, "Good boy, don't be such a pussy."

The boss lifted his watery eyes and looked as if he was begging.

Chi Xiaochi thought about it, probably this guy felt that his performance today was too ferocious, and was afraid that he was afraid of it, so he specially came to curry favor.

Thinking, he cupped the panther's face and gave it a big kiss on the cheek as he had once done with the dog's meat, and smiled brightly, "Fear not. Go on, it's been a long day of running, go to bed early."

The panther rested his paws on the edge of the bed and gazed at him, his eyes like two deep translucent and radiant jewels, their luster warm to the touch.

Chi Xiaochi: "Don't want to go to sleep."

Panther rested his head gently against his stomach.

Chi Xiaochi laughed.

He stroked the oily furs under his hands and took another Dream Maker card from storage and put it into the use slot.

Let Gu Xinzhi dream again and he will realize what reality is.

He set the time of use so that Gu Xinzhi would dream at 5:00 a.m., and he couldn't stop stroking the leopard's silky-soft fur as he drifted off to sleep again.

While he was asleep, Panther discreetly jumped onto the bed.

It looked at him tenderly in the darkness for a long time.

Leopards have extremely sensitive ears, so Chi Xiaochi's steady, strong heartbeat sounds like a bell to him, reassuring and a little frightening.

It lifted a paw and gently took the tip to trace the outline of his nose and mouth in fine detail.

Repeatedly, it leaned lightly on Chi Xiaochi's shoulder and fell asleep.