Dream of Death (VIII)
After Youyi lay down, Shanzha hung up the video. Nanzhou sat on the bed, trying to control his nervousness, "You must wake up. I don't want to be exposed by my aunt."
Hearing the word "skinning", You Yi shuddered reflexively, "Don't worry, when have brothers ever betrayed you?"
Nan Zhou said mercilessly, "Too many."
Youyi closed his eyes, "I fell asleep."
Nan Zhou, “…”
Forget it, forget it. I’ve been able to endure and not bury him alive for so many years, so why should I bother about it now? I should just forgive him like a father.
On the other hand, what Shanzha arranged in the room was relatively simple. He drew a talisman array on the floor with cinnabar, and then filled his own large peony flowerpot with clear water and placed it in the center of the talisman array.
There were also seven small glass bottles on the table, each with yellow talisman paper pasted on it.
After locking the door, he sat in front of the basin of water, made a few hand gestures and chanted some incantations. The basin, which was placed flat on the floor, actually began to ripple.
Soon the water calmed down again, revealing a desolate-looking village.
Shanzha exhaled lightly and relaxed a little. Soon a man appeared at the entrance of the village, looking around.
"Amazing, just like the real thing, very interesting." You Yi said, "I just left that village and entered this store. This village is more in line with the style of a haunted holy place than Xiaoqinghe Village."
Hawthorn said unhappily, "Are you going there for sightseeing?"
You Yi almost forgot that he was broadcasting live, but he still found it amazing. "Shanzha, can you really see everything?"
Hawthorn responded, "You are now entering your uncle's dream through his personal belongings... If there is no deviation, it should be. Walk around and be careful."
Youyi touched his pocket and miraculously found that the cell phone was still on him, but it was useless in the dream, it could only provide light.
I should have brought a flashlight earlier, he thought, and walked forward with his cell phone.
He didn't turn around, but walked along a straight road.
The village was a big one, although it was deserted, but there were many alleys and paths. The moonlight was bright, but it couldn't penetrate deep into the village. It made people feel creepy at first glance, as if they would be dragged in by something if they approached.
After walking for a while, he could not see a single person, not even a ghost. He was very puzzled, "Boss, are we not in the same dream? It's ok that I can't find my uncle, but why can't I see anyone else?"
Shanzha also felt strange. He thought for a while but had no clue. "I don't know. Let's wait and see!"
"OK."
They hadn't even walked one-third of the way through the village, but Youyi was in no hurry. He always looked nonchalant, but he was very calm at the critical moment.
He walked for a while longer, "Could it be that they are hiding?"
Shanzha frowned as he thought of the dream stories on the Internet that were hard to tell true from false. Sure enough, he heard Youyi say, "Those people were able to wake up before, and many said they saw a deserted village in their dreams. My uncle's client also said that he saw a little girl who told him to stay away from those things. If he is caught, he can only turn into a ghost to catch others."
"Are you asking them to play hide-and-seek?" asked Hawthorn.
"I think it's to let them be played."
Youyi's eyes fell on an open courtyard gate. The courtyard was overgrown with weeds, almost blocking the door. A rope was hung on a dead tree, and no one knew how many years it had been hanging there.
"Fortunately there is no corpse hanging there, otherwise I would be scared to my knees." He said with a smile and planned to look somewhere else.
Even if he was asked to hide, he would not hide in a yard like this. It was difficult to even enter the door and it was too easy to be attacked.
Shanzha suddenly said, "Do you think the rope is longer than before?"
"Ah?" Youyi looked up subconsciously. He really didn't pay attention to the length of the rope just now. Now that Shanzha said that, it seemed that he did lower it a little, and the loop was just aimed at him... He stretched out his hand to his neck and felt a little difficult to breathe.
"Run away, run away, they are waiting to trap me!" As he spoke, he had already quickly stepped back several steps.
Shanzha also stared at the rope intently. Fortunately, until Youyi ran to the other side, the rope did not suddenly fly over and wrap around Youyi's neck as they expected.
You Yi breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to keep moving forward, but when he looked down, he discovered that something was wrong with his shadow. He knew it was too late to run away, so he turned around and saw that the house behind him also had a broken door lock and very crude workmanship.
He pushed the wooden door open and walked directly into the room. The room was dark, with a few old books thrown on the floor, and a damp and musty smell emanating from the room.
Shanzha hadn’t noticed anything unusual just now, so he quickly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Youyi touched his neck, which was always on his mind, and said, "Just now I saw a shadow on the ground. It was approaching my shadow with a rope around it, and it was putting the rope around my neck. Fortunately, I saw it."
He estimated that a shadow could not bang on the door, so he was not very nervous and did not plan to stay in this shabby wooden house for too long. He planned to take a detour through the back door.
It was pitch black in the room and it was difficult to walk. If you accidentally bump into something, it would be scary to death in such a nerve-wracking environment.
Shanzha looked at the glass bottle that was standing upside down on the table. There was a little water vapor extending from the bottom of the bottle to the body of the bottle. He said, "If you can't find anyone outside this yard, you should come back first."
Youyi didn't respond. He was struggling to climb up the wall.
Shanzha watched him clumsily climb up, not knowing how to use leverage, and couldn't help but say, "Why are you so stupid?"
Youyi was choked, but he couldn't speak. He was already halfway up and would fall if he lost strength.
I would imagine that climbing such a low wall wouldn't be too difficult, but why is it so tiring in practice?
As he thought this, he grabbed the wall with his arms and half of his body was hanging on it.
Shanzha was even more nervous than him at this time. If Youyi was attacked at this time, he would definitely not be able to escape.
"Hurry up!" he couldn't help but urge.
In this situation, it is the soul that is attacked and hurt in the dream, and the soul is tough and fragile at the same time, so it is best to avoid harm if possible.
Youyi jumped down from the wall and found that this was a small alley. The moonlight could not shine in, so he took out his cell phone to light up and walked forward. "Boss, calm down. Remember that you are a master, and you must maintain the aura of a master."
Shanzha sighed helplessly, but before he could say anything, a scream suddenly came from the distance.
Youyi was shocked and immediately looked towards the place where the sound came from. The scream did not stop, like the howling of a person who had collapsed.
Youyou was getting closer and closer to the sound, slowing down his pace a little. He saw a person curled up on the ground, like a piece of luggage abandoned by its owner.
"Are you okay?" You Yi shouted twice and the man responded, as if he had just heard it clearly and seemed to be in disbelief.
He lay on the ground and slowly turned his head, staring at Youyi in a daze.
You Yi thought he looked familiar and thought for three seconds, "Aren't you my uncle's client? Where is my uncle?"
Liu Kun was so frightened that he just stared at You Yi blankly for a long time.
Shanzha said, "He's frightened. If you hit him twice, maybe it will get better."
You Yi thought to himself, you think this is a broken household appliance.
He waited patiently for another minute, "If you keep standing there like an idiot, you'll stay here forever. I'm leaving."
He said and was about to leave.
Liu Kun finally responded. He hugged You Yi's arm and said, "Don't... don't leave me."
*
Five minutes later, Youyi leaned on the sofa. Even though the sofa was covered with dust, he had no choice but to sit on it.
He saw Liu Kun shrinking timidly, as if he was very afraid that some monster would come out of the house, but it was he who insisted on entering the house just now. This was really a very contradictory reaction.
"Tell me, why are you alone? Where are my uncle and the others?"
"You are Detective You's nephew..." Liu Kun murmured, "They, they are gone."
You Yi said, "We are not playing a puzzle game now, just tell me the details."
Liu Kun smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know the details. I still don't understand why they disappeared."
You Yi stroked his chin and said, "My uncle, since he accepted the commission, will definitely do his best to protect you. There is no reason for him to run away first, and he has nowhere to run. Let's start from the last time you came in."
Liu Kun calmed himself down. You Yi's presence made him feel more at ease. He said, "Just an hour or two ago, when I came in, I saw a few adults, one of whom was Detective You. He saw me and called me over, asking me to follow him."
"After discussing it over and over, the adults came up with two solutions: one is to search the village to see if there are any clues, and the other is to go outside the village to look for clues.
Detective You asked us if we had seen the village at dawn, and he said he was the last one to come in.
Almost every one of us encountered some strange things in the village, ran around, and then woke up. Detective You said that we slept for a long time this time, and when he came in, none of us had woken up yet.
He said it would be better to wait and leave the village if it was still dark in the morning.
Some of us had our phones with us and checked the time, but we soon realized that we couldn’t wait until daybreak.”
He hugged his arms, "We only have one hour here."
You Yi guessed that the time in dreams and reality were not synchronized, but he still frowned because of this sentence, "What do you mean?"
"It's from midnight to one o'clock, only one hour, and it will automatically cycle back at that time, and you can't wait until dawn." Liu Kun explained, "Then something even more terrifying happened. Someone disappeared. Everyone was walking together, and suddenly they found that one person was missing."
Youyou was surprised, "You guys have been outside for over an hour?"
"It felt like time passed very quickly. If we couldn't see the time, we would have thought it was just a moment." Liu Kun said, "I finally understood what the little girl said. She said she wanted to hide."
You Yi leaned back on the sofa, "But the house is not safe either?"
Liu Kun nodded, "But outside, you don't even know what happened and your companions are missing, which is even more terrifying."
"And then?"
"After we got inside the house, we were all together and not so scared anymore. Detective You asked me to get some sleep, saying that we might not have time or place to rest when we left the village to find a way.
I closed my eyes, maybe for ten minutes, or even less, the voices around me became quieter and quieter, and soon there was dead silence. I felt something was wrong, so I opened my eyes and found that everyone was gone.
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