Chapter 269 Happy Cemetery
Entering the familiar yet unfamiliar dream world again, Qiao Song was much calmer than last time. Although she didn't know what the two people who attended her funeral gave her, she intuitively felt that she would stay in the dream much longer this time.
Qiao Song quickly found the way home, and while rushing home, he even had time to observe the pedestrians.
I didn't have time to take a closer look before, but in fact, the people bustling around me all looked mentally unhealthy.
On the street, some people were dancing with briefcases in their hands, surrounded by cheering crowds and pedestrians joining in. It looked joyful indeed, but they were dancing in the middle of the street.
The traffic lights seemed to be broken, there was almost no red light, and as soon as someone tried to cross the road, it turned green.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t look carefully before, and there weren’t even any cars on the road.
Qiao Song also saw that there were a few guys in pajamas in the crowd. They looked like they were sleepwalking. They were walking through the streets, cheering, like spirit monkeys.
Some people in the crowd were going crazy, while others were crying.
A little girl, soaked to the skin, was hugging a big dog and crying non-stop. Her unusual tears, like a small fountain, soaked the golden retriever and herself:
"Maomao, I miss you so much. Mom said she wants to get another puppy, but I don't want to. No puppy can replace Maomao."
The puppies opposite kept nudging her neck: "It's okay. When they grow up, they can protect you instead of Maomao."
The little girl's fountain of tears suddenly broke out again.
But the passers-by around seemed not to see it. Only Qiao Song took a close look at the dog when he passed by.
A translucent soul with some glowing dots emanating from the periphery.
This is a dog that is about to be reincarnated.
Qiao Song ran along the busy street towards the residential area and saw more pedestrians stopping.
An old man with glared eyes was criticizing and educating his frustrated younger generation: "How many times have I told you not to stay up late, to eat well and sleep well? I don't know how many times I have slapped you, and you just woke up. What will I do if you still can't grow up in the future?"
"Grandpa, I was wrong. I just worked overtime for too long and I'm sleepy."
"Does your health matter more than work? If you're too tired, just quit and find an easier job. Grandpa left some money for you."
The depressed young man with dark circles under his eyes opposite him also burst into tears.
In dreams, it’s not always just people crying, there are also people laughing.
Qiao Song was almost at her neighborhood. She saw several adult men in suits in the children's playground, either playing on the slide or making sand piles.
Among the group of adults, there was a small child who stood at the top of the slide with his hands on his hips like a big boss:
"Remember to line up, don't rush over like a swarm. It will make us look particularly uncultured."
"Okay, okay, we brothers will listen to you. Otherwise, my mom will nag me when we go back that I'm not as sensible as you."
Several men burst into laughter and sat on the steps with their arms around the child, ready to line up to play on the only seesaw in the amusement area.
Obviously the men in suits were the oldest, but the shortest one was like their older brother and could even press the seesaw harder than them.
"Brother Ming, 20 years have passed, why haven't you grown up yet?"
"You have become what I wanted the most. Your suits are very handsome. Are you very happy to be an adult? You can buy whatever you want to eat and play with yourself."
"There are happy moments and sad moments. The spicy noodles I buy when I grow up are not as delicious as those I had when I was a child. I can only play on the swings and slides with you in my dreams, but I can play on the seesaw with my son. In two years, my child, you will become an adult, Brother Ming, and you are the only one who has not grown up."
"Well, I won't be able to come to see you in my dreams for a while. I have to leave too. Guys, be good fathers and take good care of the children. Don't go out and play casually. Remember to look at the traffic lights when you cross the road."
A few grown men, swinging back and forth on the swings, wiped their eyes and said they knew.
Qiao Song glanced at the little boy, who was also a translucent soul.
He is also going to be reincarnated, and he is here to say goodbye to his childhood friends.
They were all growing up, only the boy himself remained the same.
Qiao Song didn't know why, but his heart skipped a beat.
She knew that this world was most likely connected to the dreams of the living and the dead, allowing those souls that were about to disappear to say goodbye to their last relatives and friends.
But Qiao Song, you can see that most of the people who can enter this kind of dream are those who have not been happy recently, are under great psychological pressure and need comfort, or those whose fortunes are declining. They are too tired, and the mental pressure makes them enter the dream world that only the dead can enter.
Qiao Song had never thought that there was such a world before. The virtual little world she created before was just made up based on the novels told to her by Crow and A Guang.
Now, there really is such a place.
The question is when did this world come into being?
Did she exist when she was a stone, or did she appear after she turned from stone into a human?
What's more, Qiao Song is worried that if this world continues to exist, what will happen to her mother Shu Ruyue, who often meets her in her dreams?
Frequent dreaming is not necessarily a good thing for Shu Ruyue, who is already under great mental pressure.
Qiao Song finally arrived near the door of his unit. The orange street lights shone slowly, and a quiet figure had been standing there for a long time. The woman seemed to be looking around.
Earlier, at the gate of the community, Shu Ruyue saw Qiao Song running. She knew that she might just be dreaming again. After her son fell into a coma and was hospitalized over the years, she always had strange dreams.
Shu Ruyue dreamed that her child turned into a big black bird and would only come home occasionally to visit. She also dreamed that she had a daughter.
Her son's personality is similar to before. Occasionally he would bring back some strange objects to show her, but more often he would disappear, coming and going without a trace.
And this daughter.
It was difficult for Shu Ruyue to describe the feeling she had, raising a child from infancy who had a personality similar to her son's but in some aspects was completely opposite to hers.
Like Li Yuan, she seldom cries and both have strong personalities. But Li Yuan is a stubborn person who either keeps silent or talks a lot. The daughter in the dream is a bulletproof cotton-padded jacket who does what she says, never hesitates, and never wastes time. She seems to be able to see through people's hearts and is a very powerful child.
Shu Ruyue sometimes thought, it would be great if she really had a daughter like this.
If she was not really crazy, then perhaps in the dream world, she really had a child. The psychologist said that this was a subconscious psychological compensation after she lost her child in the real world.
But why could the daughter in the dream heal her?
Shu Ruyue still goes to see a psychologist regularly. Since the daughter in her dream grew up, her psychological problems have been alleviated a lot compared to before. She can eat well. When she sees her son in the hospital, she sometimes feels that the child may wake up one day.
This was not a fantasy, but she really felt so.
It was as if someone had whispered something to her.
Shu Ruyue was holding the phone, hesitating whether to make a call.
Anyway, she was already dreaming, so it didn't matter if she was a little greedy. She wanted to have a beautiful dream, and she wanted to see the child she raised in her dream again.
A familiar cell phone notification sounded. Shu Ruyue trembled slightly. She turned her head and looked in the direction where the music came from.
It was the first time that Qiao Song saw his mother so closely after he recovered his memory.
Shu Ruyue's appearance has not changed much from before. She is the kind of beauty who ages very slowly, so any hint of fatigue between her eyebrows will be particularly obvious.
Qiao Song sometimes feels that Li Yuan and his mother actually look very similar.
She walked the last few steps slowly, and even the word "Mom" took her some time to utter.
Shu Ruyue nodded, took three or two steps forward and hugged Qiao Song in her arms. They had only not seen each other for a few days, but it seemed like several years had passed.
"Xiao Song has grown up a little bit now, and he hasn't come to see me in my dreams for a long time."
Shu Ruyue knew that this was a world in a dream. She had been unable to distinguish between dreams and reality for a while, but Qiao Song took the initiative to mix the memories of A Guang and the others in, and changed the appearance of the surrounding landmarks, so that her mother could distinguish them.
At that time, Qiao Song realized that Shu Ruyue might be a living person, not a puppet created based on memory.
But now this place is somewhat dangerous, almost 1:1 with reality.
Qiao Song didn't want his mother to get lost here.
After such a long time, the feeling of being held in his mother's arms again made Qiao Song's voice a little muffled: "Children have to go out when they grow up. It's fine for us to see each other once in a while. We don't have to come every day."
She will work hard to get to the real world.
After a moment, she remembered one more thing:
"I just looked and it seems like you were talking to the big black bird on the telephone pole, do you know him?"
Shu Ruyue paused for a moment, and finally told the truth: "Well, he is also my child. He was a little sick and couldn't wake up, so he might have turned into a bird in his dream. Calculating the date of birth, Li Yuan is a little younger than you."
Qiao Song immediately made a "yeah" gesture.
On the street lamp, a black crow was looming and seemed to sigh helplessly.
The time that Li Yuan was able to come in was very short. After three or two seconds, he quickly melted into the shadow of the light.
After Qiao Song went out, she had another chance to talk to Crow, but the time she spent with her mother was different. She quickly looked at Shu Ruyue.
"I've lost a little weight recently. Is it because I haven't been eating well?" The appearance projected in the dream should be the same as in the real world.
"Maybe it's a bit hot in the summer." Shu Ruyue promised with a smile, "I'll eat well when I get back."
Li Yuan would have advised her before, but the daughter in his dream had a much stronger personality than his son. She even wrote a menu by hand after school and asked Shu Ruyue to eat according to the menu.
Qiao Song returned to his strange yet familiar home and found that his home seemed a little different, with an extra room.
The architectural structure in the dream is restored one-to-one to the reality, which means that Shu Ruyue's home in reality also has one more room.
"Left it for you."
Shu Ruyue used to be confused in her dreams and mistook her son and daughter for one. Later she could tell them apart. She indeed had an unconscious son outside, and a lively daughter in her dreams.
"The room is for you, you can..."
“I will definitely stay here in the future!”
Qiao Song looked at the room, his eyes shining with a certain emotion.
"I will definitely go."
To the reality she had always wanted to go to.
The time that could be spent in the dream was still not particularly long. Qiao Song did not talk to Shu Ruyue for too long. In the end, they just stood on the balcony waiting for the dream to end. They looked into the distance. Qiao Song used the excuse that he had not been home for a long time and asked Shu Ruyue to talk about the buildings nearby.
She didn't come home just to visit her relatives, and Qiao Song didn't know if this place was exactly the same as reality.
The birth of this dream world must be hiding some secret.
"The vegetable market is in this direction. When you were a kid, you often held my hand and went shopping for vegetables with me, and then you would secretly put things in my bag."
As Shu Ruyue spoke, a nostalgic smile appeared on her face.
There are many benefits to seeing a psychologist. She can clearly distinguish between reality and dreams. These are little habits unique to Qiao Song. Li Yuan is particularly obedient when buying groceries. He buys whatever his mother says and never makes any extra requests.
Shu Ruyue even thought that if Qiao Song was really her sister, it might be a good thing for Li Yuan. It could change that kid's temper of either not saying anything or saying a lot.
"Mom, you just said it takes 20 minutes to walk from the gym to the grocery store. So, what is that building over there?"
Qiao Song pointed to a dome-shaped rectangular building similar to a gymnasium.
Shu Ruyue looked confused for a while.
"It looks like some kind of data center, right?"
“Does it exist in the real world, too?”
Shu Ruyue was surprised for a moment when she heard this, but she quickly recovered and thought carefully: "It should be there, but it has been abandoned for a long time. I heard before that the building was bought by someone."
Soon, she looked a little confused: "I shouldn't know what to do with it after buying it, but when you asked me just now, I reflexively thought that it was a data center."
"And it should be a place with a very high level of confidentiality that cannot be approached normally."
When Qiao Song was talking to his mother earlier, he probably figured out some patterns in the actions of the characters in the dream.
For the pure souls of living people in the real world, most people who come here are to see some dead people who are about to be reincarnated, or souls like her who are between life and death.
And letting these souls from the Happy Cemetery come in is more like a reward.
Reward them with a glimpse of the outside world.
Qiao Song looked at the strange data center because she saw several similar buildings on her way here.
This thing...
"Xiao Song, if we can meet again next time, Mom will ask for you."
The wind on the balcony gently blew Shu Ruyue's hair. She looked at the stars shining above her head and knew that it was dark.
"I will also eat well. You and Xiao Yuan should take care of yourselves."
There was no one around him, and Qiao Song's figure disappeared at some point.
Shu Ruyue was stunned for a moment, and suddenly she melted like bubbles on the balcony where the sun and the moon were changing and the night was just coming.
When she woke up, she found herself sleeping on the family bed in the ward again.
Li Yuan is still the same as before, always in that sleeping posture.
"Son, I dreamed of you again. You turned into a big black bird. Also, you have a new sister. Xiao Song is very cute."
Shu Ruyue's voice gradually became lower. She calmed herself down and began to check her son's IV status today.
The sound of a food cart hawking came from outside. Shu Ruyue thought about it, got up and went out to buy herself a meal.
Happy cemetery.
After Qiao Song woke up this time, he relaxed for a while.
She looked around the room and it seemed to be a little smaller than before.
This room would become smaller every time she slept, no matter whether she drove the coffin out as a car or not.
At this rate, after a week, the house will probably become as big as a coffin.
There should be a big difference between buying and renting a house in the cemetery, as the house will become smaller after sleeping. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the local residents to open the coffin and go out every day, like the pharaohs.
Before the white light came out, it was indeed much more convenient to drive home than to rely on your legs.
Qiao Song opened the chat group as usual, wanting to see if others had obtained any useful information and share his own findings.
As expected, the group has already started communicating.
[Brothers and sisters, I made a great discovery yesterday! I didn’t dare to drive because I was afraid that the house would become too small, and I didn’t dare to drive too far because I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to get home in time, so I just walked around the graves of my neighbors. As a result, I was bored and found several familiar faces!!!]
The person who spoke is still the security guard who had trouble mowing the lawn a few days ago and had trouble dreaming at night.
The delivery guy had a good relationship with him and asked:
[If what you want to say is that there are people we know among these dead people, then you can look up the news. We have already discussed this before.]
[No! There are people who appeared in my dream in here! ]
The atmosphere in the group became lively.
【Did you fall asleep safely this time? 】
[Who did you dream about? How can you remember so many faces? ]
[Don’t scroll down yet, just listen to him carefully]
As soon as Qiao Song started speaking, everyone couldn't stop talking and stopped asking questions.
Wang Anning continued:
[I couldn't recognize it at first, but the location where it appears every time I enter a dream is fixed. I only stayed in the dream for a few dozen seconds before, and was ejected before I saw the person for a full minute. Last night, I stayed a little longer, about 10 minutes, and I quickly saw the NPCs that I would see after entering a dream. One of them was hugging an old lady and crying.]
[The old lady had become transparent and was about to fly to the sky. She kept patting the young man on the shoulder and told him to hold on a little longer. Even if he couldn't wait for someone to hold a funeral for him, he could at least see his daughter in his dream.]
[The old lady also said, 'I will go up first, you still have a chance, hold on for a while, what if you can survive? Your daughter talks about you every day.']
[I was so confused at the time that I couldn't tell who was alive and who was dead.]
[But as soon as I woke up, I immediately remembered that the man with the sad face was one of the tombstones near me.]
There was silence in the group for a while, and everyone began to analyze the key words, and soon they all felt that the old lady looked like a dead person who was about to be reincarnated.
Men are a bit like souls that have not yet died.
Just like these people.
By extracting the key words from the previous conversation, everyone finally discovered a question: "What does it mean to hold a funeral?"
Didn't they automatically get buried once they entered here? Did they hold a funeral only after they were all laid to rest?
Qiao Song looked at the messages in the group, pondered for a while, and briefly explained the funeral-related information he had received from the funeral band.
[If you have time, I hope everyone can count the information on all the tombstones in the Happy Cemetery. ]
If there is any secret hidden in the Happy Cemetery, it must be related to funerals.
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