It's late at night.The southern suburbs are quiet, every household can't see a single light, and even cats and dogs can't be seen between the streets and alleys, except for the street lamps that are always on the street all night are still emitting a cold glow, the whole city has been completely immersed in the quiet night, as if frozen in this night.The dark clouds in the sky covered the moon, and behind the thick clouds, only a glimmer of light leaked out from the gaps in the clouds, and the half-hidden moonlight seemed to have a hint of scarlet color, which barely fell on the roof of the Hao family's mansion, with a vague and illusory texture.A chaotic flutter of wings suddenly broke the silent night that seemed to freeze forever, and the clouds in the sky seemed to retreat at once, and the clear moonlight suddenly sprinkled through the clouds, and in the moonlight, a group of black bats circled and descended from the sky.The group of bats circled twice over the Hao family's mansion in a surprisingly orderly manner, and then flew into the room through the open skylight, and the faint moonlight that had been shining into the corridor through the skylight also dimmed all of a sudden, and was cut by the bats in all directions.The bats quickly coalesced in the corridor, and in the blink of an eye, they gathered into a black-haired girl with an elegant temperament and a slight coldness.Vivien returned from her "walk" and looked back at the moonlight outside, and saw that the moon had been obscured by clouds again, and this time even that ray of light was hard to find.It's quiet at home, which is normal - it's close to half past one at night, even if it's a night owl "roll" and Elizabeth who doesn't like to sleep, she should have gone back to the house to rest, and the only one who can insist on not sleeping at this o'clock and go out for a long time is her, a "vampire" with a different biological clock, in fact, if she didn't feel that she had been sleeping well these days, Vivien would have even had to go shopping for a while.Thinking of her sleep problems, Vivien couldn't help but stretch, yawn again, and prepared to go back to her room to rest.But before returning to the basement, she went to the kitchen, first adding rice and water to the rice cooker and setting the cooking time for the next day, and then went to the water room to pick up a large basin of tap water and put it in the open space of the kitchen, the former to save trouble when she got up early, and the latter because Doudou preferred to swim in the tap water after a few hours of drying, because it was more effective in dissipating the strange smell of the tap water.After the kitchen was busy, she checked the water in the water cooler again, because a certain careless dog often cleaned the last drop of water in the water dispenser without changing the bucket; cleaned up some broken biscuit crumbs on the coffee table, that should be the evidence of the crime of sneaking up in the middle of the night to steal food, if you don't clean up, the stupid cat will probably be counted by Hao Ren until noon.Vivien glanced around the living room with her waist crossed, feeling fulfilled and contented.Eventually, she returned to her room in the basement.She didn't turn on the light, just hummed a few simple melodies in her mouth, so that even if she didn't rely on dark vision, the sound waves that came back from her surroundings were enough for her to see all the details in the darkness.The savings on electricity bills are minimal, but Vivien is used to this frugal approach: even nowadays, some of the habits that have been formed are not so easy to break.With another wave of her hand, a swarm of bats appeared out of thin air and surrounded her, transforming her clothes into a black nightdress, and she lay down on her bed, ready to sleep.But soon, she sat up again, frowning slightly in the darkness, listening intently to a voice coming from a certain direction.I heard my name called again, and it was still that inexplicable auditory hallucination.This is not the first time these auditory hallucinations have appeared, it has appeared at least seven or eight times in the past few days, and each time it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.Vivien shook her head and placed her hand on the amulet from Raven 12345 on her chest, and a sense of calm and peace of mind gradually came over her.The auditory hallucinations were only a momentary thing, and soon they disappeared as if they had never been there, and under the forced calming effect of the amulet, she felt a little sleepiness slowly amplifying, so she put the inconsequential things aside, lay back on the bed, and slowly fell asleep.Silence returned to the basement, except for the occasional slight chime or two from the medical pods and space teleporters in the compartments while they were standby, and the deep darkness gathered in from all sides, and everything fell silent in the darkness.But after a while, something vague and indistinguishable from reality gradually emerged from the darkness.In the corner of the basement, on the dark ceiling, beside Vivien's sleeping bed, phantom things were emerging.They start out as a deep, muddy black that almost blends in with the darkness around them, but gradually they take on a more realistic color and quickly stand out from the darkness of the background.These chaotic and blurred shadows became clear, and began to take on various forms: birds and animals, people, chariots and horses, palaces and palaces, and even mountains, forests, lakes and seas......
The space in the basement seemed to have been expanded countless times at once, and it was as if the surrounding walls and furniture had disappeared out of thin air, turning into an infinite expanse of the world.In the darkness, except for the bed where Vivi was placed, there were only various phantoms moving around, and they were stacked on top of each other, like a historical absurd drama with time-disordered and ridiculous logic, and all kinds of things that had long since disappeared appeared in these plays.A Viking came out of the shadows, his upper body bare, the horned helmet on his head cracked with several fine lines, he came to Vivien's bedside, but he stepped on one foot in the air and made a distant gesture, and a splash of water rolled under his feet for no reason, and a wooden side and messy rope appeared under his feet.Then a flash of fire swept through the air, the Vikings shattered like glass, and a fleet of faddled ships flew up from behind the pirate ships, flying the flags of the Greek city-states, and an ancient Greek naval officer stood at the bow of the ship, drawing his long knife and pointing at the terrifying sea monster that was emerging in front of him.Poseidon emerged from Vivien's bedside, a giant with a seaweed-thick beard pointing his trident at the Greek warships, and countless warships were torn to pieces by the wind and waves in an instant.The endless yellow sand replaced the rough sea in the next moment, the robed Persians trudged through the desert, and a camel-driven merchant stopped at Vivien's bed, he bent down, but his eyes did not fall on the bed at all, and it was clear that what he saw in his time and space was something else.A long sword suddenly slashed through the illusion of the Persian merchant, and then the crossbow arrows like flying locusts covered the sky and the sun, the Persian caravan disappeared, and an army covered in black armor appeared in the distance, and the mighty officer shouted on his horse: "The king of Qin has an order, and the enemy will be honored with merit, regardless of his origin, and he will fight bravely to kill the enemy!"
”However, the general's words were swallowed up by the wind and sand, and his army soon became a phantom in the yellow sand, and in the dust that obscured the sky, a floating warship that seemed to be made of gold slowly crossed the sky, its brilliant sails almost comparable to the sun.Countless prostrates appeared, prostrate in the sand, by the pyramids, in the fertile soil on the banks of the Nile, and all the princes and nobles alike chanted the name of Ra and the prestige of Horus.However, a powerful light came from the west, and the solar ship was torn apart in the big bang, and the whole of Egypt was thrown into a sea of fire.The chaotic history is still unfolded in this absurd drama, but only the small bed between heaven and earth is as unaffected as an island, and Vivien, who sleeps on the bed, frowns, as if dreaming of something bad.She rolled over, and all the apparitions vibrated violently, silently shattering into splinters as if the world had collapsed, Mount Olympus had collapsed, so had Ra's Temple, Pompeii, Troy, Asgard, Tinis, Babylon, and the legendary Tower of Babel......
Everything is starting to fall apart.But the silent collapse suddenly stopped, as Vivien fell silent again, and she whispered a few words, maybe it was tomorrow's menu, maybe it was something to buy at home, maybe it was the name of some TV show, and in a nutshell she fell back asleep, and the illusion of the basement was preserved.After a moment of eerie silence, the illusions receded like a tidal wave, and the original scene of the basement was finally revealed.But not everything had faded, and beside Vivien's bedside, something translucent remained, a circle of primitives dressed in animal skins and capes, forming several circles, and the light of fire from another time and space shone on their faces, making these primitives look as terrifying and hollow as ghosts.They bowed beside Vivien, leaning down again and again to kiss the ground beside Vivian, their voices coming from another time and space, subtle and indistinct: "Great, Lord of Blood, Great, Lord of Nightmares, Great, Lord of Death......
"The deep darkness gathered in all directions, and finally, this last apparition was gone.The dark clouds in the sky had cleared at some point, and a crescent moon was re-revealed in the sky, about to sink below the horizon, but still glowing brightly and almost abnormally, and this moonlight shone into the room through a narrow air window above the basement, shining right on Vivien.Under the last rays of moonlight tonight, Vivien rolled over again, as if affected by the light, she frowned, and muttered softly, "It's time to get up......"