Chapter 74 The Third Item: Copper Coin Dream Catcher
There was obviously something wrong with the man with glasses. No matter how they shouted, he didn't respond.
He seemed to be always immersed in his own world, muttering to himself while soaking in the bathtub.
Bian Ling didn't dare to go forward, and Cat Man A also shrank behind.
Only Chen Li slowly approached the bathtub of the man with glasses.
"How...how could this happen..."
As he got closer, Shen Li heard clearly what the man with glasses was saying.
He was obviously emotionally broken and looked like he was about to cry at any moment.
The man with glasses kept scratching his arm, "How could this happen..."
Bian Ling was very curious, so she grabbed Catman A and walked forward bravely.
Catman A held up the candlestick and raised his hand towards the man with glasses.
The dim candlelight illuminated the arms of the man with glasses.
I saw that his right hand was covered with something like scales.
The man with glasses kept scratching his scaly arms.
His nails scraped against the scales, making a rustling sound.
"That is..."
"Copper coins!"
Bian Ling covered her mouth in surprise.
The right arm of the man with glasses was covered with copper coins, which were arranged like fish scales, layer upon layer.
As the man with glasses scratched, a rustling sound was made.
"Is this a sequelae of the copy?"
Catman A felt his scalp tingling when he saw this scene.
He subconsciously took a step back and together with Bian Ling, he took out the copper coins on their bodies.
As for Chen Li, he was looking at the water in the bathtub, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
The man with glasses has completely collapsed at this moment.
He fiercely tore off the copper coin that was stuck to his skin and threw it forward.
The man with glasses had blood all over his arms, and after he pulled out the copper coin, it looked as horrible as if a layer of skin had been peeled off.
At this moment, the man with glasses, half of his body covered in blood, suddenly stood up and walked towards him like a zombie.
"Run! Shen Li!"
Bian Ling and Catman A behind him reminded him.
"wrong."
Shen Li stood where he was, with no intention of escaping.
"This isn't real, this is... a dream."
"Dream?"
Bian Ling and Catman A pinched themselves subconsciously.
"Don't you say it doesn't hurt in dreams? But it really hurts!"
Bian Ling pinched herself several times to make sure it hurt.
"It was a dream."
Chen Li said with great certainty: "It's just a more realistic dream. The senses in dreams are deceptive."
He should have thought of it earlier.
It is impossible to pass through, and it is impossible to see Ye Minglang through any reflective objects.
The silver snake ring on her finger did not react at all, which was enough to prove that this place was not the real world.
Catman A hasn't figured it out yet.
"If this is a dream, is it my dream or yours?"
According to common sense, it should be his dream.
So as the master of the dream, can he control the content of the dream?
Catman A closed his eyes and brainwashed himself.
"This is all fake! My dreams are controlled by me. There are no monsters, no monsters..."
After Catman A brainwashed himself, he opened his eyes and found that nothing around him had changed.
Bian Ling, who was standing by, also suddenly realized, "It's no use brainwashing yourself! Is this my dream?"
"Stop it, you are the person in my dream!" Cat Man A started arguing with Bian Ling at an inappropriate time.
"Dream?"
At this moment, the man with glasses who was standing in front of Shen Li like a walking corpse finally came to his senses.
He glanced at his bloody right arm and said, "So these...are all fake too?"
"So whose dream is this?"
Cat Man A and Bian Ling analyzed countless possibilities and proved again and again that everyone in the dream has independent thoughts.
“It’s the dream of all of us.”
"ah?"
Catman A scratched his cat ears in despair, "Collective dream?"
"So how can we escape from this dream?"
Only now did Bian Ling finally figure out why she didn't have a bad premonition.
Because there is nothing wrong with the inn itself.
The problem lies with all the couriers, as they are all caught in the same dream.
"Wait a minute, if we get hurt in our dreams, what will happen to us in reality?"
Safe and sound, or injured as well?
"We can only find out after we wake up!"
Catman A was a little desperate.
"Why did everyone enter the same dream? Is it because of... the copper coins?"
Bian Ling proposed a hypothesis.
"Do you have all your copper coins with you?"
Catman A also reacted. Everyone gathered together, formed a circle, and took out their own copper coin.
"exist!"
The man with glasses took a look at his bloody arm and suddenly said, "My copper coins...are gone."
The man with glasses briefly described what happened to him.
He entered his room in the evening and took a bath first thing.
"I touched the copper coin in the bathtub. It seemed to come alive. It suddenly floated to my arm and embedded itself in it."
The man with glasses turned pale due to excessive blood loss. "Then I felt itchy on my arm, and then a lot of copper coins like fish scales grew out."
His voice was shaking.
"I was so scared that I pulled out all the copper coins that grew on my arms and threw them away."
After hearing what the man with glasses said, Chen Li raised the candlestick and shone it on the ground next to the bathtub.
"No coppers."
In fact, when they just entered the room, they saw the man with glasses pull out the copper coins from his arm and throw them away.
But now there is nothing on the ground.
In order to verify whether this collective dream was caused by the copper coins, everyone decided to go to Jiang Lexin's room to see if he had also entered the collective dream.
If Jiang Lexin didn't come in, it would mean that it was indeed a problem of copper coins.
They walked carefully, trying to make as little noise as possible. Cat Man A blew out the candle and led them out.
"Wait a moment!"
Bian Ling, who was behind Catman A, couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder.
"Outside……"
Bian Ling didn't say the rest, and everyone naturally looked towards the door.
The candles in the room went out, and the room was extremely dark.
In contrast, it's much brighter outside.
There was light coming in from outside the door.
The most important thing is that at this moment, many dark shadows were standing outside the door without anyone noticing.
The dark shadows crowded outside the door without making any sound, as if they were waiting for them to go out.
Bian Ling was so frightened that she dared not breathe and covered her mouth and nose.
“Bang!”
One of the shadows seemed a little impatient. He stretched out his finger, poked a small hole in the door and looked inside.
There is a blood-red eye in the hole.
Catman A's scalp tingled, fortunately he had turned off the lights in the room in advance.
When people outside look in, they can't see anything.
On the contrary, the people in the room can see clearly the actions of those people outside.
With this precedent, more and more fingers began to point out.
The paper door was now punctured and torn into pieces, with prying eyes coming from outside.
Just when Bian Ling felt she was about to suffocate, she suddenly opened her eyes!
She sat up quickly and glanced to both sides.
Safety.
She sleeps in her room.
The sweat on his forehead proved that this was really just a nightmare.
And she is now fully awake.
Bian Ling patted his chest with some relief and calmed himself down.
Wait, if this is really a shared dream...
Bian Ling rushed out suddenly, without even knocking on the door, and broke directly into other people's rooms.
Sure enough, they all fell asleep.
She no longer cared about the difference between men and women, and grabbed the sleeping cat-man A and shook him violently.
“Wake up!”
Chen Li was the easiest to wake up, and he woke up almost the moment Bian Ling broke into the room.
The man with glasses was the hardest to wake up. Cat Man A slapped him several times before he slowly opened his eyes.
The water in the tub has gone cold.
The man with glasses was shivering with cold.
He subconsciously checked his arm and found no injuries.
No one said anything, but they could feel it from each other's eyes.
Just now they really entered the same dream.
After everyone calmed down, they started to review the situation.
"First of all, didn't we agree to leave one person to keep watch?"
The man with glasses accused Chen Li in a blaming tone:
"Aren't you the first one to keep watch? How did you fall asleep?"
Chen Li also found it difficult to explain why he suddenly fell asleep.
When he woke up, he was lying on the floor with the window closed.
It was like falling into a dream without any warning.
"I fell asleep suddenly. It was beyond my control."
Shen Li explained.
"Or, let me ask it this way, who fell asleep first?"
After listening to everyone's explanation, Cat Man A began to analyze.
"Is it possible that if one of us falls asleep, the others will collectively fall into a coma and be pulled into the same dream?"
Catman A's assumption is not unreasonable.
The first thing he did after waking up was to make sure Jiang Lexin next door was asleep.
He was sure that Jiang Lexin had not fallen asleep or dreamed just now.
Therefore, we can infer that the collective dream is most likely caused by copper coins.
He deduced a timeline from each person's explanation.
The man with glasses was the first to fall asleep.
"The water temperature was so comfortable that I fell asleep almost as soon as I got in."
The man with glasses said.
"The waiter prepared water for him before he started to prepare water for my bath, so I was waiting for water and didn't sleep."
Bian Ling was absolutely sure of this because she had a bit of a mysophobia and couldn't sleep at all if she smelled bad.
"Me? I was a little sleepy at the time, but Jiang Lexin asked me to come up with a plan and planned to find the zombie he wanted to find at night."
Because of Jiang Lexin's interference, Cat Man A did not sleep at that time.
"So among the few of us, you were the only one who fell asleep at that time!"
Catman A pointed at the man with glasses and said, "After you fell asleep first, the rest of us also fell asleep for unknown reasons."
After hearing this, Chen Li asked the man with glasses again: "Where are your copper coins?"
"My copper coin..."
The man with glasses remembered that he put the copper coins on the table when he was taking a shower.
But now he searched the whole house and couldn't find the copper coin.
"No way... I'm the only one missing something?"
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