Chapter 75 The Third Thing: Copper Coins Entering Dreams
There is a connection between dreams and the real world.
The man with glasses lost his copper coins in his dream. When he woke up, the copper coins in the real world were gone too.
Cat Man A felt that what happened tonight was about to burn out his cat brain.
After thinking for a long time, he just went out and was dragged by Jiang Lexin like a thief to look for the lost zombie.
The inn was specially built to accommodate corpse drivers, and the cellar was converted into cages.
While the waiter was dozing off and there was no one around in the middle of the night, Jiang Lexin grabbed Cat Man A and Shen Li and sneaked in.
"No, you asked us to help you find your senior sister, so you should at least tell us what your senior sister looks like."
Catman A looked at the various zombies in the cage and felt a little confused.
"I vaguely heard my master talk about my senior sister."
Jiang Lexin clenched her fists silently when she said this, "My senior sister was abducted by bad guys and buried alive."
"Buried alive?"
Catman A couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body.
Telling such ghost stories in the dead of night is bound to be creepy.
He rubbed his arms and continued to listen to Jiang Lexin: "When my sister left the sect, she originally planned to travel around. She first went to Cangzhou, and then to Jizhou. Jizhou is a place with poor mountains and bad waters, and there is also a custom of marrying ghosts."
Jiang Lexin’s senior sister went to Jizhou for the first time. She was unfamiliar with the place and met an old woman on the way.
"The old woman used the excuse of spraining her ankle and insisted that my sister take her back. My sister had good intentions, but she didn't expect to be tricked."
The old woman had a son who died of illness and was still unmarried at a young age.
There is a rumor in Jizhou that if a man or woman of marriageable age dies young and is not given a ghost marriage, he or she will die with regrets and bring disaster to their family.
The way to arrange a ghost marriage is nothing more than spending money to find someone to select a suitable deceased person to marry and bury together.
"That old woman had nothing but her own house, so she set her sights on my senior sister. My senior sister was forcibly escorted to be buried with the dead man, and suffocated to death."
Jiang Lexin became more pessimistic when she said this.
"This world is rotten to the core. Sometimes I think, let it be destroyed, but when I think of the many kind people like my senior sister in the world, I can't bear to watch the world go to destruction."
"You said your sister died in Jizhou, so how did your master know that?"
Catman A asked.
"My master can tell fortunes! But my master can only tell the near future, not the far future. He can't tell what will happen in the future, and he can't change the outcome. He can only tell what has already happened, and he only figured it out after my senior sister died."
Jiang Lexin said a lot and then went back to the original topic.
This time I got the point.
"When my senior sister died, she was wearing a red wedding dress."
This time the goal is clear.
They searched the cellar thoroughly but couldn't find anyone wearing a red wedding dress.
They even relaxed the criteria and searched for female zombies again. In the end, they found that there were very few female zombies in this cellar. They were all in their forties or fifties, and there were no ones in their early twenties.
Jiang Lexin returned to her room feeling extremely disappointed.
The others also gathered together and didn't dare to sleep.
Catman A, Bian Ling, and Chen Li all gathered in the room of the man with glasses.
The night gets darker and the dew gets heavier, and I feel sleepy.
Whenever someone was about to fall asleep, they would be woken up by their teammates.
"It's not a solution to continue like this."
Bian Ling was extremely sleepy now. "In order to avoid falling asleep, can't we sleep for the rest of the time?"
When people are extremely tired, they simply cannot stay awake.
And without sleep for a long time, they simply don't have the energy to deliver the parcels.
Catman A yawned and rubbed his eyes. "But besides this, what else can we do?"
Although the harm suffered in the dream will not be reflected in reality, I dare not close my eyes when I think of the terrible dream before.
"Why don't we just chat all night?"
Bian Ling suggested.
Catman A: "Aren't we always chatting?"
He glanced at Chen Li who remained silent, "Hey, say something too, don't fall asleep, what are you daydreaming about?"
Shen Li's expression suddenly became serious, and he said three words without meaning to, "Five people."
Bian Ling: "What? Five people?"
Shen Li: "This time, the delivery mission has always required five people, but now there are only four people in the room."
After being reminded by Chen Li, Cat Man A's expression suddenly turned ugly.
At this moment, everyone thought of the fisherman who was still fishing for big fish in the mountains.
What’s the point of the four of them insisting on not sleeping?
As long as the fisherman falls asleep, everyone will be pulled into his dream.
Although everyone didn’t meet the fisherman in their dreams last time, this doesn’t prove that he was not there at that time.
Cat Man A cursed something, and when he looked up again, he suddenly found that the atmosphere around him had completely changed.
The place they were in now was not a room in the inn.
At this moment, everyone was in a room hung with red silk.
In the center of the room, there was a bright red wedding character pasted on the wall.
Catman A opened his mouth wide, and after a long while, he pointed around, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Bian Ling felt her legs trembling.
"We...are dreaming together again, aren't we..."
They fell asleep so quickly that no one could react.
Everyone was clearly fully awake one second, but the scene around them changed the next.
Needless to say, the fisherman must have fallen asleep.
Because he was the only one who wasn't with them the whole time, this was the consequence of the lack of communication.
I was caught off guard and fell into the trap.
"No, where's the guy with glasses?"
Catman A took a quick look and felt that the number of people was not right.
"Yes, the man with glasses is not here."
"Is it because he lost the copper coin that he didn't enter the dream with us?"
If this is true, the situation is in their favor.
After all, if the only sober man with glasses sees that his teammates have fallen asleep, he will definitely try his best to wake them up.
"He'll wake us up, won't he..."
"Yes!" Bian Ling was brainwashing herself, "We just need to hold on for a while, and we will wake up soon!"
Bian Ling looked over the shoulder of Catman A and suddenly saw something.
She subconsciously hid behind Chen Li, "That word... is... is bleeding..."
The wedding character posted in the center of the lobby was soaked in blood.
Bright red blood flowed down the white wall.
Bian Ling almost lost his mind after seeing this scene.
"Why do I have this kind of dream? Even if I am dreaming, can't I have a good dream?"
Cat Man A and Shen Li looked at each other and suddenly thought of the story Jiang Lexin had told them before.
Ghost marriage?
So their dreams are actually determined by what they see and hear when they are awake?
Just like the previous dream, the diners on the first floor were eating bloody food. Cat Man A suddenly recalled that when he entered the inn, he saw the waiter killing a chicken.
The plucked live chicken was gutted and the butcher's hands were covered in blood.
Association, exaggeration.
Perhaps some of the fear they feel is something they are not even aware of when they are fully awake.
But once we fall asleep and start dreaming, these fears will be infinitely magnified and exaggerated.
"If I'm not mistaken, this dream should be about... a ghost marriage?"
Shen Li looked around and nodded, agreeing with Catman A's idea.
If it's a ghost marriage, there will definitely be two corpses in this place!
Judging from the current situation, the formal ghost marriage ceremony has not yet begun, and they still have a chance to escape.
As long as you escape from this horrific scene, maybe the next dream will turn from a nightmare into a sweet dream?
“Retreat first!”
There were no guests outside the house.
The house was empty inside and outside.
Noticing that Bian Ling was trembling, Shen Li wanted to comfort her.
But he was not good at speaking and couldn't say any words of comfort. He could only silently allow Bian Ling to hold his arm and snuggle up to him tremblingly.
It started raining again outside.
The escape route became muddy and muddy.
Catman A led the way, passed through the woods, walked up a path, and came to a river.
In the dream, the color of the river water also turned blood red.
The fisherman sat on the bank of the Blood River with his back to everyone, fishing. His motionless appearance even made Cat Man A suspect that he was a fake.
If the fisherman hadn't made a mosquito slapping gesture, he wouldn't have dared to get closer to recognize him.
"Fisherman? Is it really you?"
Catman A walked forward angrily.
The fisherman sat under a banana tree on the river bank, and remained motionless even though the river water was dyed red with blood.
"You are really amazing. You can still sit on the Diaoyutai even in this situation?"
Cat Man A really wanted to grab him by the collar and punch him twice to make him realize the situation.
Fishing is fine in real life.
This guy also fishes in the dungeon.
I was still fishing in my dream.
You were Jiang Taigong in your previous life, right?
"Stop fishing! Our current situation is that if one person falls asleep, everyone will dream!"
Although I can't communicate with the fisherman when I'm awake, at least we can still exchange information in my dreams.
"Let me ask you, did you fall asleep while fishing?"
The reason they entered the dream this time was all because of the fisherman!
He, on the other hand, never thought about solving the problem from beginning to end. The first thing he did after entering the dream was fishing.
What a weird thing!
"Shhh."
The fisherman didn't seem to realize the seriousness of the matter.
"You're making too much noise and you're scaring off my fish."
Catman A is going crazy.
"Forget it, just fish here! Let's go!"
The house of the ghost marriage was still lit with red lanterns behind them. Cat Man A felt that the current distance was not safe. Since he was running away, he would of course run as far as possible.
He walked angrily with Chen Li and Bian Ling for another ten minutes.
That's what's strange.
They had clearly walked a long way away, but when they looked carefully, the courtyard glowing red was back in front of them.
“This is weird!”
Trapped in a maze?
How come after going around in circles, I'm back to the starting point?
Cat Man A refused to believe it and led them to run for another ten minutes.
The second time I passed by the blood-red river.
Under the banana tree, the fisherman's back looks extremely lonely.
Suddenly, his fishing rod seemed to be pulled by something...
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