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Chapter 723 - 374: Sleep and Dreams_1

Chapter 723: Chapter 374: Sleep and Dreams_1

"From now on, this is your room."

That was what the person behind the scenes at the Undead Club said to Mian Mian on her first day being brought here.

"This one, completely different from the other kids, doesn’t cry or kick up a fuss. The gloomy look in her eyes when she looks at me... it’s really disgusting..."

"I heard the president picked her up from the trash, no wonder she stinks..."

"She never speaks, could she be mute?"

"I’m not taking care of a kid like this, it’s up to you guys..."

"It doesn’t matter, all these ones with strange dispositions are just cannon fodder anyway..."

...

A few admins huddled in a corner whispering to each other, casting looks of disdain and revulsion at the girl.

The girl was dressed in tattered clothing stained all over, her face dirty too. The only thing that made a deep impression was her pair of shiny eyes, as red as rubies.

She was cradling a tattered doll, ignoring the insults from the others. She just lifted her head to look at the house in front of her, memorizing the ’Number 14’ on the door plate.

She knew this was going to be her home for a long time.

Unlike the other kids here who were kidnapped or snatched, she was the only child who deliberately presented herself to these people. She even pretended to run away and then be caught again to smoothly be sent here.

She understood this was a terrible place, the outcome of entering here probably wouldn’t be good. But she also realized this was the only place on the Cook Islands where she could eat her fill, sleep well, and not be cold and hungry every day.

No matter what she would encounter in the future, at least, for now, staying here was much more comfortable than wandering outside.

In the days that followed, Mian Mian started her isolated life in this underground factory.

There were over a hundred children who came in with her. At mealtime every day, she was always the most enthusiastic, her wolf-like eating demeanor contrasting greatly with her sweet outward appearance. Coupled with her aloof and cold character, she gradually became the ’weirdo’ in the other children’s eyes.

"Clang..."

One mealtime, just as she had filled her plate with food, it was ’accidentally’ knocked over by a passing boy.

"Sorry, Sleepy Monster, looks like you won’t have anything to eat today!"

In the face of mocking laughter from a few boys, the girl only gave them an indifferent glance, then suddenly punched the leading boy in the face, toppling him to the ground. Ignoring punches and kicks from the other children around, she kept scratching the boy’s face...

Half an hour later, the bruised girl picked up the food that had fallen on the ground, ignoring the several boys who were crying with their scratched-up faces, she sat back down at the table and calmly chewed on a rice ball covered in dust.

Outside, she had to fight with wild dogs for food every day. Compared to those wild dogs, these boys were too weak, just like those small pet dogs who bark viciously when they have backup, but show their cowardice when they have to fight.

Since then, there was no child who dared to provoke her casually anymore and her nickname amongst her peers changed from ’Sleepy Monster’ to the ’Red-eyed Witch’.

Of course, not everyone disliked her, like the newcomer in the neighboring Number 15, a girl named Louise, didn’t look at her with prejudice, and Mian Mian didn’t mind showing some kindness to her.

Being cold was just her pretense, because she knew, behaving this way would help her survive better here.

The enclosed life in the underground factory was simple and dull. When she finished the chores assigned by the admins each day, the rest of her time was usually idle. It was a torture for the other lively children, but for Mian Mian, it was a great convenience because she was a heavy ’sleeper’, suffering from a rare disorder requiring more than 16 hours of sleep a day.

So, when the others were playing, she was sleeping, she also sneaked naps during tasks. Apart from meal times, she was seldom seen awake.

But what no one knew was that she had a special innate ability: she could enter peoples’ dreams when asleep, observing from a bystander’s perspective, experiencing everything in the dreamer’s dream.

Dreams were always much better than reality, so, for her, every day’s reality was a terrible nightmare, only when she was asleep did her real day start.

However, she didn’t know whether it was because of the special environment, but since she came here, her dream travels had been greatly restricted.

She began to frequently enter the dreams of the same few people, especially the dreams of the one girl. Out of every ten times she fell asleep, seven or eight times she entered this girl’s dream.

It was a girl with a bob cut. The first time she saw her, she was wearing an exquisite kimono, being led by her parents through a bustling night market, admiring the splendid fireworks in the sky.

She was surrounded by many unfamiliar things, Mian Mian curiously followed behind the girl, observing through her perspective. That she was noticed by the girl in front, she suddenly turned around, she gave Mian Mian a bright smile.

Mian Mian got scared, in other people’s dreams, she was always just an observer, no one could see her. This was the first time someone had interacted with her in their dream, she got so scared she ran away anxiously.