"How are you going to save her?" Zi Wei, Xiao Dao, Huang Mao, and Xuan Ming asked this question almost at the same time.
Their faces were filled with astonishment. Those who were possessed by nightmares in the early stages could still be saved, as long as their consciousness was strong enough to withstand the mental invasion of a master.
It just so happens that people who are haunted by nightmares will only realize that they have been possessed by evil spirits after they have been tortured to the point of being unrecognizable.
There is no way to save him at this time.
The nightmare is very good at hiding itself. It will torture people with all kinds of nightmares to the point of near-death before revealing its true form. Often, when it appears, the possessed person dies.
Knowing their daughter's time was running out, her parents kowtowed to Zhuang Li and said through their sobs, "Please save our Xiao Nuan. We'll give you whatever you want! We can transfer the ownership of our house to you. It's on the Third Ring Road, in a great location, and very valuable!"
The girl's mother fumbled around and took out a property certificate from her bag, held it in both hands, and knelt down to present it to Zhuang Li.
In order to save their daughter, they would not hesitate to spend all their money.
In fact, they had already lost everything, and this house was the only thing they could afford.
Zhuang Li pushed open the house certificate and glanced to the side. Xuan Ming had already brought him a chair so that he could sit next to the sofa and talk to the girl.
"To be more precise, it wasn't me who saved her, but she who saved herself. I could only play a supporting role." Zhuang Li said slowly after sitting down.
"How can she save herself when she's already like this?" the girl's mother asked mournfully, the glimmer of hope in her eyes slowly fading. She simply couldn't imagine how her daughter, already so frail, could possibly save herself.
The daughter used all her strength to resist sleep! She was only one step away from death.
The girl's father held his wife's shoulders and motioned her to listen to the master finish his words.
Zhuang Li leaned forward slightly, staring into the girl's eyes, which, though dark and cloudy, still blazed with a gleam of burning light, he said with conviction, "She can do it! Normally, someone possessed by a nightmare would have been tortured to death by this stage. But she has persevered until now with her own perseverance. I see in her the potential to defeat the devil."
He pointed at himself and said slowly, "And I can help her unleash this potential power."
He stretched out his white hand and said softly, "If you want to live, hold my hand."
The girl, already so weak she could barely breathe, unexpectedly raised her hand with all her might under the gaze of those dark eyes, and gently covered the warm hand. Tears streamed down her face, and she once again expressed the single, deepest desire in her heart: "I want to live."
"Very good, this is the power, I have grasped it. It can help you overcome everything." Zhuang Li chuckled softly.
The girl was infected by his powerful intention and even curled the corners of her lips with difficulty.
Her parents hadn't seen their daughter's smiling face for a long time, and they were filled with a mixture of pain and joy. They turned their heads away, desperately suppressing the urge to burst into tears.
Zhuang Li held the girl's hand tightly and asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is Mu Nuan," the girl said, her voice slow and steady. This pace wasn't for emphasis, but for breathing, as each word required all her strength.
"Mu Nuan? What a nice name. You possess a warm power, and it's becoming increasingly intense. Your body is weakening, but your spirit is burning even more fiercely. I see a bright flame in your soul, scorching hot. Do you see it?"
Zhuang Li's voice became softer and slower.
Zi Wei, Huang Mao and Xiao Dao, who were sitting beside him and listening to him, suddenly felt drowsy.
Both Mu's father and mother rubbed their eyes hard, trying to drive away the sudden feeling of tiredness.
Only Xuan Ming was not affected at all. He quietly moved a chair and sat next to Zhuang Li.
Mu Nuan's eyes gradually lost focus, and in a trance she actually saw a ball of bright flame hanging above her head, so brilliant and so hot.
"I saw it." Her voice was a little higher than before, as if she had regained her strength.
"This flame is the power hidden in your soul. It will shine on you like the sun and protect you. All demons and monsters that try to get close to you will be reduced to ashes under its high temperature." Zhuang Li slowly described an illusion.
Mu Nuan's face, which was full of fear, gradually showed a look of relief as he heard these descriptions.
"Now, please embrace this flame, block out your hearing, smell, and vision, and fall into a deep sleep. If the nightmare demon dares to touch you, it will be burned to ashes by this flame, and then you will be carried away from this horrific dream. As long as this flame is not extinguished, you will be invincible. It is your sun, and all evil will be exposed under it."
Zhuang Li gently put down the girl's hand, touched her eyebrows and eyes through the air, and said in a soft voice: "Sleep peacefully."
Miraculously, the girl who dared not close her eyes actually fell asleep. Two blushes slowly appeared on her pale cheeks, and her cold body regained some temperature.
Zhuang Li stretched out his hand, and Xuan Ming immediately brought a blanket.
Zhuang Li handed the blanket to Mu's mother and instructed, "Cover her up, gently."
Mu's father and mother were stunned. Their daughter couldn't sleep! If she did, the demon would come to her in her dreams! It was said it would burn her with hellfire, pour boiling oil on her, scald her with red-hot irons, stab her with sharp knives, and even physically assault her.
That is a torture worse than death!
"No, no, no, you can't do that!" Mu's mother waved her hands repeatedly, then took out a needle from her pocket.
Father Mu also took out a needle.
It seemed they were used to waking their daughter up with pain.
"Cover her up. She'll die faster if she doesn't sleep." Zhuang Li said calmly, "Believe me, the nightmare can't hurt her this time."
Inspired by his strong self-confidence, Mu's mother hesitated and struggled before covering her daughter with a blanket and carefully tucked in the corners. She was also heartbroken that her daughter couldn't sleep!
Father Mu's hands were shaking with nervousness, and he watched his daughter's expression intently, trying to wake her up the moment the nightmare struck.
Zi Wei looked at the sleeping girl, then at the confident Zhuang Li, and had to whisper a reminder: "You should know that the only way for someone haunted by a nightmare to survive is to not sleep, right?"
"You are wrong. The only way to escape from the clutches of the nightmare is to sleep." Zhuang Li raised his wrist to look at his watch.
"What?" This fallacy really stunned Zi Wei.
Xuan Ming nodded and agreed with this statement.
Huangmao and Xiaodao still couldn't figure out what the eldest sister-in-law was up to. They had never met an ordinary person who had been possessed by a nightmare and yet survived. A nightmare was like a thorn in the flesh; once it was in their flesh, it was difficult to remove. Of course, people like them would never encounter a nightmare in their lifetime.
Time passes by every second.
The cold sweat on Mu's father and mother's foreheads also dripped like raindrops.
They knew very well that every time their daughter fell asleep, it would be a test of death. Perhaps this would be the last time they saw their daughter alive.
Suddenly, the light in the room inexplicably dimmed, and a chill came in from somewhere, freezing people to the bone.
"Here it comes!" Father and Mother Mu quickly reached out to shake their daughter.
Xuan Ming, however, had already grasped their wrists and said in a deep voice, "Let her sleep."
Whatever the little devil wants to do, he will certainly carry it out.
Mu's father and mother tried their best to break free from his grip, but they could only yell at their daughter, "Xiao Nuan, wake up! Don't sleep anymore! Wake up!"
However, Mu Nuan, whose hearing, smell, and sight had been deprived by Zhuang Li during hypnosis, could not hear a sound. She continued to sleep, her expression calm and serene. Without her three most important senses, she was completely unaware of the nightmare's arrival.
Zi Wei looked at Zhuang Li with cold sweat dripping down his face, muttering in disbelief, "Do you know what you're doing? Are you indirectly killing people?"
Before Zhuang Li could refute, Xuan Ming glanced at Zi Wei coldly.
At that moment, a horrific scream erupted from within the house. It belonged to a man, yet the sound was as thin as a needle, piercing the eardrums with pain. The scream lasted a full five seconds before fading away. The overhead lights began to flicker, creating a terrifying atmosphere.
It was easy to tell that the scream was filled with anger, resentment, and pain. When it faded, Mu Nuan suddenly opened her eyes and said hurriedly, "It was burned by my sun! It couldn't get close to me! It was injured and ran away!"
Her eyes grew brighter and brighter, like gemstones cleansed of dirt, radiating a dazzling light. She even managed to sit up halfway on her own, looking at Zhuang Li with unbearable excitement, and emphasized again, "I hurt it!"
Zhuang Li spread his hands and said, "See? This is your power."
Father and Mother Mu were stunned when they saw their daughter suddenly become much more energetic.
Zhuang Li waved his hand at them. "After ten minutes of deep sleep, her body functions have recovered somewhat. You can feed her now. I will record the hypnosis instructions on your phones. Take them home and play them for her. Have her sleep for ten minutes every two hours. Then, I will do my best to nourish her. This way, she can quickly recover from her weakened state. Once her physical strength and willpower have returned to peak condition, come back to me for the next step of the exorcism."
Father and Mother Mu finally came to their senses and nodded hurriedly. As they nodded, tears began to roll down their cheeks. They bent their knees and knelt down again.
Savior! Master Zhuang is their family’s savior!
Xiaodao and Huangmao ran outside silently and bought a bowl of white porridge.
This time, Mu Nuan actually ate it all. A thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead and nose tip, and his cheeks were red from the heat of the porridge. He looked much more energetic than before.
Her parents thanked Zhuang Li repeatedly, their eyes filled with excitement and ecstasy. This time, they had found the right person!
Zi Wei looked back and forth at Zhuang Li and Mu Nuan, and asked in disbelief, "What's going on? How could the nightmare demon get injured for no apparent reason? No one has entered the dream to exorcise the demon!"
Zhuang Li said calmly, "You all seem to have forgotten the most fundamental point. The nightmare demon invades someone else's soul, and the dreams it creates are naturally someone else's dreams. It simply masters the method of controlling the direction of dreams. It can freely invent plots and make everything in the dream unfold as it wishes. If the invaded person also learns how to control the direction of dreams, allowing their dream self to stomp the earth and wave their hands to tear apart the sky, who do you think will win? The dream's owner or an outsider?"
Zi Wei thought of his childhood dreams and said decisively, "Of course I win! When I was little, I dreamed of becoming a great hero, able to fly through the sky and slash through the earth with my sword. I was invincible."
Zhuang Li smiled in amusement. "Yes, what I can do is teach Mu Nuan how to become such an invincible being in dreams. Coincidentally, there's a technique in psychology called dream control, or lucid dreaming. Professionally, it's 'the reappearance of the subconscious's powerful telekinesis.'"
"In a lucid dream, a person's subconscious mind and telekinesis have the ability to create everything, even the entire world. In this world, the person who creates a lucid dream is the god of creation. K can split the sky and destroy the universe, so how can he not kill a tiny monster? Just now, I used hypnosis to help Mu Nuan create such a dream. As the incarnation of the sun, she naturally cannot be harmed by any ghosts or monsters. Unfortunately, the psychological suggestion I gave was to burn the nightmare to death, but now it seems that due to long-term torture and physical weakness, her willpower is not yet strong enough to reach that level."
Mu Nuan, who was slowly drinking porridge, heard these words and finally understood why she was able to repel the nightmare.
She immediately raised her head and said excitedly and firmly, "Master Zhuang, please teach me how to have a lucid dream! I want to kill that devil myself!"
Zhuang Li nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, with such determination, you are already halfway to success."
Mu Nuan blinked and the tears fell, but an unprecedented relaxed smile bloomed on her face.
Seeing her mental state completely different from before, Huangmao and Xiaodao once again realized that their eldest sister-in-law seemed to be an omnipotent person! Even the eldest brother couldn't do it, but the eldest sister-in-law could do it.
No wonder the boss was eaten alive!
What else could Xuan Ming do? He could only smile and applaud the little devil, just like when they first met.
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