Quiet.
A quiet dream.
Then he woke from the dream.
Richard opened his eyes and looked around. He found himself on a bench beside a street in a modern city. Pedestrians flowed past, traffic bustled by, and the place was quite lively.
Ke Rui Te was beside him. He slowly stood up, frowned as he looked around, then walked into the street with a somewhat bewildered expression.
A black car sped toward him from the distance, drawing closer and closer to Ke Rui Te. Its horn blared sharply, trying to make him get out of the way.
Hearing it, Ke Rui Te looked over. The moment he saw the car, he froze, standing perfectly still.
Richard hurried forward and pulled him back just before he was hit.
"Beep beep—"
The black car sped past with its horn blaring, and faint curses drifted out from inside.
"Are you blind... You psycho!"
Ke Rui Te remained stunned. Looking at everything around him, his eyes filled with confusion, he touched the bench beside him and murmured, "This is outside the box? Outside the box... is it like this?"
Then he turned to Richard and asked, "Have we really reached outside the box? Or are we somewhere else?"
Richard did not answer. He noticed a flyer on the ground, picked it up and read it, then handed it to Ke Rui Te.
Ke Rui Te did not understand.
"Look at what it says," Richard reminded him.
Ke Rui Te looked it over and found that it was merely an ordinary advertisement promoting a shop. There were pictures, slogans, an address, and contact information. Other than that, there was nothing else.
"What?" Ke Rui Te still did not understand after reading it.
"You still can't see it?"
"See what?"
Richard said, "You know... I have