Dream of Death (XII)
The room was silent. Mo Liuying closed her eyes to rest, and then she heard Nan Zhou suddenly exclaim, "What happened?"
Blood began to flow from Chen Mengze's clenched fists at some point, staining the dark sheets red.
Nan Zhou reached out and pried open his fist, and found two hideous knife wounds on his palm.
Mo Liuying also stood up, "Is there a first aid kit?"
Nan Zhou said, "Yes, there should be."
The two of them were busy for a while, and finally found the first aid kit in the living room. They bandaged Chen Mengze and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Nan Zhou looked at You Yi nervously again, afraid that he would suddenly get a wound on his body. Fortunately, what he was worried about did not happen.
*
"You finally woke up."
Hawthorn's voice came from above.
Chen Mengze supported himself with his arms and sat up, and found himself still in that dark corridor. He remembered that after he met up with Shanzha, he was brought into this dark corridor by him, and then...
Those ghostly laughter and phantoms were still echoing in his mind, making his mind a mess.
"Isn't this a dream?" Shen Mengze patted his dizzy head, "Can I still lose consciousness?"
Shanzha squatted in front of him, "Of course, have you heard of dreams within dreams? The state of soul and the state of body are not much different in different environments. But ordinary people cannot use tools in the state of soul." He raised the gong in his hand, "What did you dream about just now?"
Shen Mengze was silent for a moment, "My parents."
Shanzha couldn't help but think about something. He dreamed that his parents were actually injured. Could it be that he was so miserable and was being abused at home?
Shen Mengze didn't know where his thoughts had gone, and he had many doubts in his heart, so he continued, "I dreamed about the night they were... killed again."
When Shanzha heard the word "killed", he felt a chill.
Shen Mengze hung his head, “I’ve dreamt about this before, but it was always when I was a kid.”
Shen Mengze's father was abducted when he was young, and was found by his grandfather when he was a teenager.
He was sold to a foster parent's home. Shen Mengze's mother was his neighbor, and the two were childhood sweethearts.
After my father was found by my grandfather, the two of them kept in touch, and it was natural for them to be together when they grew up, but my grandfather did not agree.
He felt that he owed his father and wanted to give him the best, including his wife, but Shen Mengze's mother could not satisfy him.
He thinks the gap between the two families is too big and they won't be happy.
But who can tell whether you want to give the other person the best or think you are giving the best?
After several fruitless arguments with his grandfather, Chen Mengze's father took his mother to a small town far away from City A, and later Chen Mengze was born.
They want to use their whole lives to prove that their choice to each other is right and that they will be happy together.
But those who recall the past stand behind time and look back at the past and know that the ending is already determined.
Later, Shen Mengze's father worked hard to earn money and built a house. He hoped that he could give his wife and children a good life with his own abilities.
It was indeed a very happy time. The house was well built and designed by my father himself. He also selected all the furnishings and furniture inside.
The house would still be very good even after more than ten years, but it was too good, so it brought disaster upon itself.
In the summer when Shen Mengze was six years old, the weather was very hot, and his parents took him to sleep on the second floor. They did not close the window because the environment in that small town was very peaceful and the weather was too hot.
Two people climbed in through the window to steal something, woke up his parents and killed them. He was at the scene that night.
The two men did not kill him. Instead, they tied him up with clothes and gagged him, and then... he witnessed his parents being killed with his own eyes.
From then on he began to fear the night and blood.
After being taken back to the Shen family, he would scream at night and was afraid to turn off the lights. Even when he fell asleep, he would struggle to wake up in his dreams.
He saw doctors and took medicine for many years, until he met Bai Yu, his condition gradually improved.
But before Bai Yu could completely pull him out of the nightmare, he had already passed away.
Chen Mengze looked at the flashlight in his hand, "Only this time did I see that I had grown up, so I rushed forward to grab the knives of the two robbers, but they were both very powerful, and I couldn't use any of the kung fu I had practiced in reality."
Shanzha looked at him, "Perhaps it's because you are still very scared of what happened back then, so in your dream they are like invincible monsters."
"Yes! They were sentenced to death many years ago, and it's me who can't break free from the fear." Shen Mengze looked enlightened.
After a while, he came back to his senses, saw Shanzha's dark eyes staring at him, and smiled, "I'm sorry to make you hear such an unpleasant thing."
He didn't think that it was an obligation for the child to help them wholeheartedly while shouldering his own destiny. Maturity too early is actually a very painful thing.
Shanzha shook his head. He was not good at comforting people and could only remain silent.
Chen Mengze added, "After growing up, these dreams became much better. I always dream of a friend coming to save me at the end. Sometimes he pulls me to run, and sometimes he gives me a flashlight."
Shanzha said, "Then he must be the person you trust the most and who gives you a great sense of security."
When his grandfather first started teaching him, he often had nightmares about being chased or surrounded by ghosts. Then his grandfather would descend from the sky with various exorcism weapons and say in a very cheerful tone, "My dear grandson, am I handsome?"
He would be extremely speechless when he woke up, but he was certainly not too scared anymore.
"Yes, he is my best friend." Chen Mengze said, "He tried his best to save me."
Bai Yu's presence made him no longer afraid of the night. Although he was covered in wounds, he always wanted to pull him out of the nightmare.
So after he confirmed Bai Yu's death, he almost collapsed again.
"Let's talk while we walk." Shen Mengze stood up, his dizzy mind cleared up, and the wound on his hand stopped bleeding. "But this time, I dreamed of another person coming to save me."
Shanzha couldn't help but look up to see his expression. Shen Mengze had a strange expression, as if he was deep in thought, but also looked like he wanted to laugh. "This time I dreamed of He Guang. She broke in from outside, holding a big hammer to smash the two robbers to death.
The two robbers couldn't beat her, so they ran desperately into the corridor, and she chased them. I was afraid that she would kill someone, so I chased after her, but I couldn't catch up. "
Shanzha was speechless. He Guang had a strange physique. No matter where she was, it seemed that the style of things would suddenly change and go in the direction of a comedy.
"But this time, my parents are not dead." Shen Mengze's eyes were gentle.
Even if it's just in a dream.
Shanzha hesitated for a moment, but still grabbed his uninjured hand, "This means that you have defeated your worst nightmare. Sister Heguang said that she will do her best to protect her friends. You have to believe her and understand her."
Chen Mengze smiled and glanced at Shanzha. He did not ask any further questions, but just nodded, "Okay, I know He Guang is hiding something from me, but I believe that one day she will be willing to tell me."
Shanzha exhaled softly. Deep down, he liked these people very much and didn't want them to quarrel over each other's secrets one day, but he could understand Heguang, just like he had once tried hard to hide it from his friends.
Chen Mengze continued, "Thank you too, Shanzha. What you did was also very good. I don't want to put pressure on you with any responsibility, but I sincerely thank you. Thank you for being willing to use your abilities to protect so many people."
Hawthorn felt a little uncomfortable and coughed, "Why are you saying this? Let's go."
Chen Mengze knew that he was shy, and smiled again. However, he paused and said, "Hawthorn."
Hawthorn looked up in surprise, "What's wrong?"
Chen Mengze said, "Last time in Xiaoqinghe Village, you said that there was a strong black aura on me. Can you still see it now?"
Hawthorn hesitated for a moment and nodded, "What's wrong?"
Shen Mengze said, "Has there been any change? Is it deeper or shallower?"
Shanzha felt even more puzzled after hearing what he said, "It seems to have dispersed a little... Brother Xiaoze, what happened to you?"
Shen Mengze patted his shoulder gently, "Nothing, it's just... my luck isn't so bad after meeting you guys."
Hawthorn was a little skeptical, "But you're injured again."
Can this be called good luck?
Chen Mengze murmured softly, "Maybe it's a good thing that I'm injured..."
Shanzha didn't hear what he said and was about to ask, but Shen Mengze came back to his senses and smiled at him, "Business is more important, we'll talk about this later."
Hawthorn tilted his head, "Let's go then."
*
The other side.
Detective You couldn't help but frown when he heard the sound getting closer.
Xiao Wu's face turned pale, and she seemed to know what that thing was. Only You Yi, although secretly on guard, was at a loss inside.
Xiao Wu whispered, "Detective You, they're coming, let's hide!"
Detective You glanced at the classroom with a mottled iron door and said, "Go upstairs. If we get stuck in the classroom, we'll be caught in a trap."
The three of them immediately ran upstairs cautiously, but those things seemed to have a positioning system installed on them, and they kept following them slowly.
Detective You looked back and said, "Go to the rooftop."
You Yi said, "Uncle, if you feel depressed, you can still jump now. You don't have to run to the highest point."
"Go, go, the rooftop is wide. If you get blocked, you can still fight to the death. People should live brilliantly and die heroically." You Yi is poor, and his uncle is even poorer than him. "The ancestral motto of our You family is that we would rather die standing than live on our knees."
You Yu said, "I give up."
How could I not know this? When has our family ever been so stubborn?
I don’t know who drank too much last time and taught his young partner a lesson, saying that moral integrity is nothing. Even if a knife is placed on your neck and you kneel down and call for mercy, you have to survive first.
Xiao Wu, who was following behind them, held back his tears again. Forget it, the funny guy hired by these two monkeys is not the kind of person who would show sympathy to women, who would he cry for?
She was unlucky in theory. Not only did her naughty brother secretly use her account to play games and recharge money, he also left comments under the video. In the end, she had to take the blame.
Ever since she learned the reason for her visit from Detective You, she swore in her heart that she must go back alive and strangle the bastard kid to death with her own hands.
Thinking of this, she had unknowingly rushed to the front.
The door to the rooftop was pushed open by three people, and Detective You immediately locked the door after entering.
"Can this door hold up?" You Yi asked.
Detective You pulled out a very sturdy bench leg from the sundries piled on the rooftop and said, "We should have trust in Brother Men, but there is a saying that goes, if you rely on a mountain, the mountain will fall; if you rely on water, the water will dry up. It is better to rely on yourself than to ask others for help."
Xiao Wu was tired and said he didn't want to talk, so You Yi asked again, "What is chasing us?"
"It should be Xing Tian." Detective You said.
You Yi looked speechless, and Xiao Wu explained, "Actually, they are headless corpses, but they are very tall and hold huge axes, so we gave them this code name for the convenience of calling them."
Detective You looked at the locked door with a thoughtful expression, "I was thinking, maybe the dream is coming to an end."
Xiao Wu looked at him in confusion. He continued, "No matter how long the punishment is, it will end. Everything you do will be consumed. I don't believe that the thing that dragged people into the dream does not have to pay a price. And now, this dream has stopped being mysterious and has started to kill people directly."
Xiao Wu touched his arm which was cold from the wind and asked, "Are they really all dead?"
"Someone was already dead when I came in. Maybe death in a dream is real death." Detective You said, "The murderer went to such great lengths to set up such a big scheme, it can't be just to scare people."
Xiao Wu said, "But killing someone for a word... I know what they said was too much, including my brother. I wanted to slap them when I saw them. But killing someone for a word is too cheap."
Detective You smiled and said, "In real life, murder is sometimes just a matter of a word or a look. A lifetime can be ruined in a moment of impulse. If we put ourselves in their shoes, and imagine that our relatives and friends were treated unfairly and were mocked and humiliated after death, wouldn't we want to chop them into pieces?"
Xiao Wu thought about it and felt like digging up her ancestral grave if the girl was replaced by her best friend, but she still felt it was not right.
Youyi walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down. The darkness raised the six floors, giving people the illusion of standing on the edge of a cliff.
After he stepped back, he heard the two people still having such a thought-provoking conversation, and interrupted, "Even if you say that, you still have to run in to save people like the Black Cat Sheriffs."
Detective You carried the sundries to the door and blocked it. "Because I agree with Xiao Wu's idea. Human life should not be so cheap. Besides, I and the rest of us are working so hard not just for a bunch of scum. We hope that one day, justice will not only be there, but it will also be there soon."
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