Encounter (9)
"I've considered you a friend for a long time."
Li Zhaoyue's smiling face was reflected in Xu Xing's eyes.
The emotions overflowing from the girl's eyes were like an untouchable dream.
He looked away and gave her a smile.
Intoxicating tenderness overflowed from those watery eyes, like the fragrance of fine wine in a tavern, making Li Zhaoyue dazed.
"Ayue, you really are..."
How naive...
The young man lowered his head, his lips moving, and his unfinished words were drowned out by the noise around him. No one could hear them except him.
When Li Zhaoyue saw him smile, she thought he was very happy to hear what she said, so she smiled even more brightly.
There were footsteps at the door, and another strange elder walked in with a book. Li Zhaoyue looked at the Feng Shui, geography and history books on his desk, and began to feel dizzy.
The elder's name is Jiang Yan, and he is the dean of the Feng Shui Academy. He likes to talk about everything in class, from geography to humanities, and from humanities to gossip circulating in the community. He always speaks in a dragging voice, which makes people's eyes blurry and their minds confused.
Li Zhaoyue was prone to falling asleep while reading, and Elder Jiang's narration made her fall asleep immediately.
Xu Xing had a smile on his face and looked straight ahead, but he could always see Li Zhaoyue shaking his head out of the corner of his eye.
Bang.
There was the sound of a head gently hitting the table, and he turned to look.
The girl was lying on the table, her eyes closed, sleeping soundly.
She used the messy pages of the book as a pillow, and the headband embroidered with gold thread fell obediently on the side of her face, matching her black hair, making her look particularly lively.
His brows were slightly furrowed, and he seemed to be sleeping uneasy.
Xu Xing looked at her, took out the longevity lock from his palm, paused it in the air for a moment, and finally gently placed it on the outside of her neck.
The longevity lock is so delicately made that you can see the care and effort put into making it.
The girl, shining with golden light, is loved by everyone and grows up happily.
His eyes unconsciously became a little gentle.
At this time, Li Zhaoyue had the same nightmare as last time.
The floating island collapsed, and there was magma and flames everywhere. She stood in the center of the largest fire, and a white-haired girl lay at her feet.
Li Zhaoyue felt a burning sensation on her skin and gasped in pain, but the girl seemed not to feel any pain at all and looked at her calmly.
Her eyes were sad and cold, like rain falling from a mountain top.
The girl's lips moved as if she was saying something, but Li Zhaoyue couldn't hear it. All she could hear were the crackling sounds of burning flames and people screaming.
The fiery red lava blurred her vision. Li Zhaoyue felt as if she was detached from the scene before her, observing this hell on earth with indifference.
The fire burning on the ground seemed to be roasting her skin, and the broken rivers and mountains seemed to be hurting her bones.
The white-haired girl sobbed and kept squirming on the ground, crawling towards somewhere. With a loud bang, heavy rocks slid down from the top of the mountain, cracking the ground and burying the girl in white in ashes.
But she remained so indifferent, without a trace of emotion.
This can't be her.
Li Zhaoyue suddenly woke up and struggled to grab something, but what he grabbed in his hand was cold clothing.
In panic, he looked up and saw Xu Xing's delicate profile.
He was holding a brush and writing something on the paper.
Li Zhaoyue stared at him with dilated pupils for a few seconds until he saw the man looking back at her, and then he came to his senses.
"What are you doing?" she asked, taking a deep breath.
Xu Xing pointed to the girls next to him and explained, "They thought my handwriting was beautiful and wanted me to help them write a letter."
Just as he finished speaking, someone hugged Xu Xing's neck from behind. Li Zhaoyue recognized that it was Wang Kun, who loved gossip in the Feng Shui Institute.
Wang Kun seemed to have become very familiar with Xu Xing, and jokingly asked him to go out and play. Xu Xing responded enthusiastically with a smile on his face.
Li Zhaoyue blinked in confusion, not quite understanding. However, Xu Xing's personality was indeed likable. During the days when she was recuperating, Xu Xing had been attending classes and should have become familiar with his classmates.
She closed her eyes uncomfortably, and her heart tightened again as she recalled the strange dream she had just had.
However, this strange feeling did not last long. Li Zhaoyue was suddenly overwhelmed by sleepiness and then lay down on the table and fell asleep again.
The morning classes were mostly over, and the afternoon was free time for practice. Feng Shui Academy's management was lax, so many disciples took advantage of this time to sneak out and play. Li Zhaoyue was usually among them, but this time she declined her classmates' invitation and slumped over the table, staring blankly into space.
Xu Xing also went out, and only a few people were left sleeping in the school. Li Zhaoyue felt bored, so she finally got up and headed towards the back garden. Unexpectedly, she saw Fang Yu there.
He came out of the back garden in a disheveled state, almost as if he was escaping. Seeing this, Li Zhaoyue hurried forward and supported his body as it was about to slip to the ground.
"What's wrong?" she asked hurriedly.
Fang Yu looked like he had just climbed out of the water, his whole body soaked. Hearing this, he said weakly, "No... I'm fine. I just accidentally fell into the pond."
But he looked frightened and didn't look like anything was wrong. Before Li Zhaoyue asked him if he needed help, he was pushed to the ground.
Fang Yu fled from the back garden.
The push just now happened to push her against the tree trunk. The rough bark scratched the skin on the palm of her hand, and blood flowed out. She grimaced in pain.
By the time she realized what was happening and wanted to look for Fang Yu, he was already gone. Li Zhaoyue angrily took out the medicine bottle from her bag and sprinkled it carefully, thinking that Fang Yu was really reckless.
But what was in this garden that could scare him so much?
A slight curiosity slowly grew in his heart. Thinking that he was going to the back garden anyway, Li Zhaoyue blew away the excess medicine powder from his palm and walked in.
There is a small lotus pond in the garden. It is early summer now and the lotus flowers have not yet bloomed. Looking around, the pond is filled with green lotus leaves.
It looks no different than usual.
Li Zhaoyue sat by the pond, staring at the lotus leaves in a daze.
After sitting for a while, a strange fragrance suddenly wafted over, a bit like lotus and a bit like rose.
She looked up in surprise, but found nothing unusual.
"I must have not slept well recently, so I am hallucinating." She pinched her nose bridge and said tiredly.
She feels sleepy every time the seasons change, and this year is particularly severe, and she can never get enough sleep.
The breeze blew through the trees, brushing her cheeks, bringing coolness and making her mind a little clearer. A pair of hands quietly reached out from behind her and pushed the girl forward without her noticing.
The sudden feeling of being suspended in mid-air surrounded Li Zhaoyue. She widened her eyes and dived into the water.
The water in the pond was very cold. She quickly woke up from her daze and struggled to climb out, but the water was like quicksand, tightly entangling her. The more she struggled, the deeper she sank.
She was panicked for a moment and saw a figure flash by in a trance.
"You! Don't run!" she shouted at the voice.
The man seemed to pause for a moment, then ran away in a panic.
"you……"
It's the suffocating feeling of being swallowed by the pool water.
The scene in front of him quickly turned dark and then light. Li Zhaoyue struggled to get up, but found that everything in front of him was white and everything under his feet was transparent.
It’s like the world is turned upside down and I’m walking on the water.
The transparent ground really looked like lake water, with occasional slight ripples. She squatted down and poked the ground. It was hard, but the waves spread along with her movements.
It's amazing.
Suddenly, a familiar floral fragrance appeared at the tip of my nose. I smelled it by the pond, and it smelled like lotus and rose.
She stood up and tried to find the source of the fragrance, but she saw a small black dot moving in the distance. The thing was slowly wriggling, and the direction of movement was obviously towards her.
She subconsciously took a few steps back and swallowed nervously.
The black spots grew larger and larger, and finally seemed to condense into a human figure, whose attire seemed somewhat familiar.
Li Zhaoyue tentatively stretched out his hand and touched the black shadow.
The mirror shattered and the world turned upside down.
The scene before her eyes turned into a bridge, with a light mist covering the bridge surface tightly. She stood in the center of the bridge, and there was another person not far away.
Li Zhaoyue tentatively raised her foot and took a few steps forward. There was no problem, she could walk, so she walked towards the figure.
Only when I got closer did I realize that the person was actually He Shuyu.
Her eyes were closed, her face was pale, and she kept muttering something like "Don't come over here."
It's like being in a nightmare.
"He Shuyu?" She reached out and poked He Shuyu's shoulder, but when he didn't respond for a long time, she frowned.
Nightmare, this is a trick used by low-level monsters, but sometimes it is extremely effective.
Most people who practice Taoism have obsessions. Zhu Ming once told her a story about a senior who had high cultivation level. However, because of his strong obsession, he went astray during practice and made a big mistake, which destroyed all his years of cultivation.
He Shuyu is arrogant and conceited. If his cultivation is wasted because of this incident, I'm afraid...
Li Zhaoyue took a deep breath, took out his compass from his bag, and recalled what his teacher had said in class about compass positioning.
Everything in the world can be seen as a piece on a chessboard. The art of Bagua Feng Shui is to seize the most overlapping possibilities among infinite possibilities and obtain the clearest path.
Nightmare is also a kind of change. If you can find He Shuyu's location in it, you can connect with her, and then influence her and help her escape from the nightmare.
Li Zhaoyue had never succeeded with this spell, but the situation was urgent and he had to use it.
She sat on the bridge, placed the compass on her knees, and silently recited the mantra taught by Cen Lin in her mind, her mind becoming distracted.
The soul leaves the body, this is the first step in the spell.
The compass in his hand gradually emitted golden light, which merged into the milky white mist and moved with Li Zhaoyue's soul.
The second step is to activate the compass, set up the formation, find the weak point of the nightmare, and enter the dream.
There was a sudden sharp pain in the temples. Li Zhaoyue opened his eyes and saw that the foggy bridge had disappeared, replaced by a rippling lake.
The weather was very good, the cloudless blue sky was reflected on the lake, and the clear lake water was like a blue gem, mysterious and beautiful.
He Shuyu was running around the lake, with...
Li Zhaoyue was stunned.
What was chasing He Shuyu was actually a huge gold ingot!
The gold ingot was exquisitely made, with two crooked words engraved on it - Wealth Comes.
He Shuyu was terrified and crawled forward, completely lacking the arrogance he had a few days ago.
She was running in a hurry and didn't see a person suddenly appear in front of her, so she bumped into Li Zhaoyue.
Li Zhaoyue was actually taller than He Shuyu, and her collision directly hit Li Zhaoyue's chin.
They both cried out in pain at the same time.
He Shuyu looked up, and the moment he saw Li Zhaoyue, his expression changed drastically, and his tone became very high: "Why is it you!"
Li Zhaoyue held her chin, tears streaming down her face from the pain, and said in a low voice, "It's me. I'm here to save you."
Hearing this, He Shuyu's face showed obvious sarcasm: "What nonsense are you talking about? When did I ever need a loser like you to save me?"
Before she could finish her words, she saw the flying gold ingot flying towards He Shuyu, and she was so scared that she hurriedly hid behind Li Zhaoyue.
It was also strange that when the gold ingot saw Li Zhaoyue, it became a little afraid and dared not move forward.
"I'm telling you, I'm not afraid. You... you have no skills at all. You'd better leave quickly. This jerk is just a hindrance."
He Shuyu was shaking with fear, but still showed an expression of disgust, and his words and deeds were trying to drive Li Zhaoyue away.
She always spoke harshly, and Li Zhaoyue didn't take it to heart, but was just very confused.
I wonder why she kept saying she wasn't afraid but was still holding on to her clothes.
"What are you doing?" Realizing that Li Zhaoyue seemed to be walking back, He Shuyu subconsciously grabbed her clothes and said in a trembling voice.
"I'm going back. Didn't you let me go?" Li Zhaoyue said with a smile, his eyes full of pure confusion.
He Shuyu cursed inwardly and tried to face the monster head-on, but finally gave up. He desperately grabbed Li Zhaoyue's sleeve and whispered, "Then you should stay for a while..."
"Just a moment."
He Shuyu blushed when he realized what he had said and secretly looked at Li Zhaoyue.
Seeing that she was still smiling and had no other expression, I breathed a sigh of relief.
"This is your nightmare. I used the Bagua positioning technique to find this place. Now follow me and I will take you out." Li Zhaoyue fiddled with the phantom of the compass in his hand and said in a crisp voice.
He Shuyu nodded gloomily.
The compass rotated and finally stopped at a certain direction. Li Zhaoyue took He Shuyu's hand and walked towards the glowing spot.
But an accident happened. Instead of getting out, they fell into another nightmare.
This seems to be an abandoned house. A casual glance around shows broken windows and thick dust everywhere. The yard is overgrown with weeds, and sometimes even various insects and snakes fly through.
But the red lanterns placed in the corridors and hanging from the eaves showed that the place was not deserted. The large Chinese character "囍" (happiness) affixed to the lanterns was particularly eye-catching.
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