"What?" Hearing this, Bai Feicui looked puzzled and said, "Master, I didn't have any dreams all night. When did you ask about this?"
Lan Zhi asked in surprise: "Do you remember that you talked to me last night in the middle of the night?"
Bai Feicui said, "No, I definitely didn't leave the room in the middle of the night. I remember waking up three times last night to tuck in the two children. I didn't look for the owner, nor did I speak to you."
After saying that, he asked curiously, "Did I say anything last night? Maybe I was sleepwalking."
"It's nothing. I just remember you said you had a nightmare. I forgot everything else. Or maybe I dreamed that you came to me." Lan Zhi said perfunctorily. She didn't know whether she should believe what Bai Feicui said last night. It felt like it was true, but then she thought that maybe "it" deliberately made trouble before dying. First, it left a lot of misleading words to her, and then possessed Bai Feicui and said those things to her. Who knows if it is true.
Lan Zhi was a little annoyed. She went to the Alchemist Alliance again, hoping to find Baili Chaoge, but found that Baili Chaoge was not there. She then went to his mansion and finally saw him.
"It's only been a day and you've come to see me. Could it be that all the herbs have been used up?" Baili Chaoge asked casually. He felt that Lan Zhi couldn't be here so soon. Maybe she had something to ask of him.
Lan Zhi said: "My husband went home last night, but when I woke up the next day, I was the only one who remembered this incident. No one else remembered it..."
Hearing this, Baili Chaoge smiled and said, "It seems that you really love your husband. He may not have come back. It's all just your illusion... Don't put too much pressure on yourself. I remember there was a staff member named Chen. On the night he left for a mission, his mother dreamed that he came home. She also dreamed that he squatted down to wash her feet and said that he would be filial to her for the rest of his life... In fact, that staff member Chen is dead and never came back. Maybe he developed an obsession before he died, allowing his obsession to enter his mother's dream and say goodbye to her. Or maybe his mother missed him too much, so she had such a dream... There are also some other staff members' families who have dreamed at night that their family members came back to talk and laugh with them normally, but when they woke up the next morning, they found that it was just a dream."
As he spoke, Baili Chaoge looked at Lan Zhi with sympathy. Although he didn't understand why Lan Zhi was so infatuated, he was a little moved to see Lan Zhi obsessed with her husband. Over the years, he had become accustomed to the fickleness of human nature and felt that he had become a heartless person a long time ago. But deep in his heart, he actually envied such people who valued love and friendship, because the people in the Baili family were very unfeeling.
"Miss, perhaps you missed him too much, that's why you had such a dream." Baili Chaoge sighed softly. He suspected that Lan Zhi's husband was dead, and whispered, "Please accept my condolences, Miss."
"No, I mean, is it possible that a [staff member] did return home, but it wasn't him, but another [monster] impersonating him? If the family didn't recognize the monster, it would lead to the staff member's death?"
"This... this should be unlikely. Because the Chen Mu Liao I told you about before is a distant relative of mine. I was at his house that night, and I don't remember him coming home. Chen Mu Liao's wife dreamed that her husband asked her to knit a sweater for him overnight. She dreamed that she did it, but she was very tired and only knitted one sleeve. When she woke up, she found that the ball of yarn was still at the bottom of the box, and there was a lot of dust on the box, as if it had not been opened for a long time. The ball of yarn was still a ball of yarn, and there was no sleeve, so... it was just a dream." Baili Chaoge said.
Lan Zhi shook her head and said, "My opinion is different from yours. I don't think it was a dream. It's just that after dawn, everything in the house was restored by some magical power. How should I put it... Because I found out last night that the person who came back was not my husband, but I didn't expose his identity immediately because I wanted to know what he was going to do. Besides, there were children present at the time, and I was afraid that he would get angry and hurt my children. When I was alone with him at night, I told him that I found out that he was not my husband, and he shed his human skin and turned into an ugly monster. He was very angry because I recognized his identity, which was equivalent to killing him... This morning, my family didn't remember this incident, but I remember it completely. I can be sure that this was definitely not a dream."
"Where's the evidence? Where's the proof it ever existed? How can I be sure you're telling the truth and not just dreaming?" Baili Chaoge was getting a little impatient. He'd thought he'd won over a talented alchemist, but he'd never imagined this alchemist was a bit off-base. Not only was he in love, falling for a worthless piece of shit who'd only reached the Cheng Yuan realm, but he couldn't even tell the difference between dreams and reality. This made him regret it. He shouldn't have provoked Lan Zhi, but Lan Zhi's alchemy talent was indeed excellent...
Just when Baili Chaoge was struggling, Lan Zhi lifted her sleeves.
There was a green mark on her arm, which looked a bit like a palm print, as if someone had grabbed her arm hard, leaving such a mark.
"This is the trace left by the monster. It is not afraid of fire. It knows everything about my husband. It disguises itself very realistically. If I didn't have a special method, I would probably think it was my husband." Lan Zhi said.
"Um……"
Baili Chaoge stared at her arm and fell into deep thought.
In fact, he didn't want to believe what Lan Zhi said, but for some reason, Baili Chaoge felt an ominous aura from Lan Zhi's arm. When he saw the mark on her arm, he felt his heart beating faster and felt very uncomfortable, as if a heavy stone was pressing on his heart, making him breathless.
He suddenly suspected that maybe what Lan Zhi said was true.
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