Chapter 466: Chapter 242 Alien Dream, Spark, Lan Ou and Lightning Dog Chapter 466: Chapter 242 Alien Dream, Spark, Lan Ou and Lightning Dog Ke Mingye fell asleep in the movie theater.
Closing his eyes, he felt as if his consciousness slipped into a dream, subrging into a sea of colorful brilliance.
He dreamt of a boy kneeling amidst a sea of flas, his head bowed. Buildings had toppled around him, glass curtain walls shattered into ocean-like debris scattered all over the ground. Telephone poles lay in the streets, and traffic lights planted into the cracked earth like fluttering white flags on a battlefield.
The boy seed to be holding sothing in his arms, unwilling to let go, raising his head and looking around in a daze.
The figures within sight were all frantically fleeing, as if they hadn’t noticed his presence. Yet, no matter how they ran, they couldn’t outpace the collapsing city, quickly buried under collapsing skyscrapers.
The world seed to solidify before his eyes.
The boy opened his mouth, and following a thunderous roar, looked up into the murky sky.
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Technology-laden aircrafts zipped across the firmant, dropping deep blue arcs of electricity like a torrential downpour. They hadn’t yet attacked the city below, their guns tightly closed like fish scales, yet the entire city trembled before them, like mayflies caught in the overwhelming sea.
A deathly silence ensued…
It was like a black and white silent film, leaving everything to the rcy of the thugs in the sky– the dead died, the fallen fell, screams echoed, but the boy heard nothing, as if soone had pressed the mute button.
Ke Mingye stared dazedly at the alien motherships in the sky, then slowly lowered his gaze to the boy kneeling in the swirling winds.
He couldn’t make out the boy’s face.
Walking amidst the ruins, he approached the boy, tried to say sothing but no sound ca out.
It was then that he saw the flickering fire in the boy’s embrace.
In the dim, lightless world, that fire blazed with dazzling brilliance.
The boy took a deep breath and whispered sothing to the fire.
The world shattered violently, turning into pieces of glass imprinted with images, slashing towards Ke Mingye’s face.
His pupils constricted, instinctively raising his arm to block the shards coming head-on.
But rather than feeling pain, he felt a weightlessness like that of a rapidly descending broken elevator.
Ke Mingye jolted awake.
He opened his eyes in his seat, turned his head to look around, Bai Ziling and Ke Yongzhu were sitting to his right and left, both looking straight ahead.
Following their gaze, on the Imax screen was “Inside Out 2” — a favorite film of Bai Zini, hence she had pulled him along with Bai Ziling and so primary school kids to watch this re-screening, taking the opportunity to enjoy before the end of sumr vacation, and his mother had even tacitly agreed to reimburse the cost of the tickets.
Ke Mingye finally regained his composure, took a deep breath with lingering fears, then quietly redirected his gaze.
He thought, “The stress lately must be too much, even dreaming of alien motherships. Honestly, even our dostic `Superhumans` are tough to deal with, let alone when old mom leads those alien invaders from Fangong Tower Star here, what would us players do… simply sitting back and benefitting isn’t going to fly, wouldn’t a hundred players get wiped out effortlessly by them? After all, mom’s combat strength is frightening as is, hard to imagine if there are even stronger aliens…”
As Ke Mingye mused this, he nonchalantly took out popcorn from the limited edition Haikyuu!! bucket and fed it to his mouth.
“Seriously, did you sneak out on patrol last night?”
Bai Zini glanced at Ke Mingye waking up, turned her cheek slightly towards him, and asked in a low voice.
A primary school kid, blocked from his view by their seats, looked visibly annoyed.
Ke Mingye rested his chin on his hand, shielding Bai Zini’s piercing gaze with his palm and said flatly, “You think I’m you? I don’t work late at night; otherwise, if Tikeeper abducted in the middle of the night, by daylight, I’d be sitting in Tikeeper’s live-streaming room waiting to be autopsied.”
“You…”
Startled and angered by his response, Bai Zini lost her interest in the movie for a mont and was at a loss for words.
She composed herself, then said, “You also realize how dangerous this is, huh? You should know your own notoriety is increasing, that Tikeeper guy will find you sooner or later, and no one can save you then. What use would that idiot Raven be?”
Ke Mingye sighed and asked indifferently, “What about you… got anything you’re hiding from ?”
“What could I possibly hide?” Bai Zini paused, suddenly turned her head towards Ke Mingye, and gasped, “Ah, Red Hat didn’t tell you anything in secret, did she?”
“She just ntioned that you’re hiding sothing from .”
“Fine… tell her she’s dead.”
“Oh okay.”
Ke Mingye responded, expressionlessly opened WeChat, and as Bai Zini instructed, sent a ssage to the account with The Little Match Girl as its profile picture.
[Ke Mingye: Hi, my sister said you’re dead.]
Seeing this, Bai Zini’s face fell, she snatched his phone instantly, and swiftly retracted the ssage.
She didn’t scroll up to check the chat history, but could see that the last ti Ke Mingye communicated with You Minglu on WeChat was a month ago, with You Minglu asking: Bai Zini hasn’t been to the gathering spot for many days, no replies to ssages either, is she okay?
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