103 Dream Warning
Tonight, Wang Heng had a dream.
Suddenly, he found himself standing in the stairwell of a tall building. Looking up and down, there were only steps. His vision was filled with white light. Although it wasn’t very bright, it illuminated the stairwell down to the smallest detail.
His gaze followed the gap at the corner of the stairs downwards, layer upon layer, countless layers stacked together.
Looking up again, he could see a sign marked 【27】 on the wall.
So, this was the 27th floor?
Why was he here?
The moment he thought of this question, Wang Heng realized—this must be a dream, right?
Standing there thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized that his feet were moving. His consciousness hadn’t issued a command, but his body in the dream acted on its own, climbing up the stairs.
After climbing two more floors, a door appeared in front of him, the exit of the stairwell.
Wang Heng stopped.
He could feel that control of his body had returned.
If this somewhat abnormal dream was the worldline’s correction mechanism at work, then the uncontrolled stair climbing just now must have been a hint, right? Reaching the door meant he was supposed to push it open?
No matter what was behind the door, it was probably something he had to face… Thinking this, he simply pushed the door open.
Then he saw a lonely figure standing at the edge of the rooftop.
A slightly thin back, wrapped in a loose school uniform, billowed in the wind on the rooftop. The short ponytail also swayed with it.
Suddenly, the person turned around, revealing a delicate and fragile face. Two tear stains stretched from her eyes to her chin, glistening with despair under the cold moonlight.
Wang Heng couldn’t help but ask, “Ye Xun, what are you doing here?”
“And what are you doing here?”
The girl’s retort was stubborn, but her voice trembled slightly, carrying a sob.
Wang Heng took a step forward.
Ye Xun took a step back.
She was already standing at the edge of the rooftop. With this step back, her heels and back touched the parapet wall. The wall at the edge of the rooftop only reached a person’s waist. In this way, as long as she leaned back hard, she could fall off the rooftop.
Falling from a height of thirty floors.
Wang Heng panicked instantly. “Don’t move!”
Ye Xun sneered. “The police are looking for me everywhere. Is there any use in saying anything now?”
“Uh… what exactly happened? Is there anything we can’t talk about properly?”
As he spoke, Wang Heng took two small steps forward. Fortunately, Ye Xun didn’t seem to notice. As he got closer, he found that the girl’s face not only had tear stains but also bruises.
What was going on? Was she beaten? But this girl was clearly an expert in free combat since childhood. How was that possible?
Subconsciously, he took another small step forward.
But just then, Ye Xun leaned back and fell over.
Wang Heng screamed and rushed over. Reaching the edge of the rooftop, he looked down, but saw nothing.
Because the dream ended.
**
His roommates were still fast asleep, but Wang Heng rolled out of bed, picked up the hamster cage, and left the dorm.
In the dead of night, the corridor of the dormitory building was also pitch black and silent enough to hear a pin drop.
Wang Heng subconsciously lightened his footsteps, but he still walked fast. He originally wanted to go up to the rooftop to question the hamster as usual, but when he reached the stairwell, he subconsciously stopped.
After hesitating for two seconds, he still went up the stairs and arrived at the rooftop.
The wind at night was a bit strong. Late autumn had arrived, and the cold wind chilled Wang Heng, who was only wearing thin clothes, to the bone. But this chill was nothing compared to the bone-piercing cold at the end of the dream just now.
He held the hamster cage up to his eyes and asked, “What did the dream just now mean?”
However, there was no answer because the hamster was lying in its nest covered with cotton balls, sleeping soundly. Looking in from outside the cage, only a small pointed mouth could be seen.
Wang Heng shook the cage.
The hamster still didn’t wake up.
Wang Heng shook the cage vigorously.
The hamster finally couldn’t sleep anymore and screamed, “Disturbing someone’s sweet dreams is a crime! Don’t forget, you said that yourself!”
Wang Heng stopped his hand movements and gritted his teeth. “Are you enjoying a sweet dream? Unfortunately, I just had a nightmare.”
The hamster rubbed its small eyes and crawled out of the nest.
After sobering up a bit, it asked, “What dream did you have? Were you yandere-d?”
Wang Heng: “The intimacy isn’t high enough. They couldn’t possibly have a reason to yandere me. I saw a suicide.”
The hamster: “Suicide? Ye Xun?”
Wang Heng raised an eyebrow. “You really knew Ye Xun might commit suicide?”
The hamster looked up at the sky, seemingly looking at the stars. But in the night sky of Rongdu, it was always hard to see many stars, only a few scattered points of light. Occasionally streaking across the night sky, what people noticed were basically lights from airplanes.
It retracted its head and spread its two front paws. “Yes, that’s right. The development of the worldline is a bit abnormal. Without intervention, an accident will happen this weekend.”
Wang Heng quickly pressed, “What accident?”
The hamster: “The problem lies with the tutor Ye Xun found online. He’s a freshman university student, good at studies, but very impulsive. He coveted Ye Xun’s beauty, so he’s going to drug her…”
Wang Heng gritted his teeth. “No need to continue. I already know.”
But the hamster shook its head. “No, you don’t know. The act of drugging was discovered by Ye Xun, and then the two got into a dispute. In the panic, Ye Xun killed him.”
Wang Heng: “And because she killed a scumbag in self-defense, Ye Xun has to go to prison instead?”
The hamster: “Can’t be helped. There’s too little evidence to prove self-defense, so it can only be treated as intentional homicide. This is a matter of course.”
After a long silence, Wang Heng asked, “What’s that scumbag’s name, and where is he? Can you tell me?”
The hamster hesitated rarely. “What do you want to do?”
Wang Heng: “Then let me ask a different question. Has the scumbag already contacted Ye Xun?”
The hamster: “Of course. They agreed to meet on Saturday for tutoring at her home.”
Wang Heng shook his head and sighed. “Too naive. She forgot to be on guard against strangers… If she had Han Yixuan’s shrewdness now, how could such a thing happen?”
The hamster asked again, “So, what exactly are you going to do?”
Wang Heng sneered. “You don’t need to tell me his name. Since he has already contacted Ye Xun, I just need to hack into Ye Xun’s phone or computer. It’s just dealing with a scumbag whose brain is filled with lust. I have plenty of ways to do it without breaking the law.”
