Chapter 3: Dreams
Sleeping is one of my favorite things, and my mom said I was a guy who never woke up, probably never had a good night's sleep in my life.
The voice in the dream is so clear, "knock knock knock", like someone is beating a drum in my ear, and like someone is calling my name, I don't know where I am, my body doesn't seem to be under my control, slowly I feel as if I am in the dark, no matter how I struggle, or gradually swallowed by the darkness, until I completely fall into the darkness, it is that scene again, this dream seems to have been done again since childhood, I don't know how many times I have done it.
This is the end of my usual dreams, and I will suddenly wake up and feel like I had just had a strange dream, but today's dream is more real than usual. In the dark, as if something was pulling me, I slowly floated forward, like a weightless environment in the universe, the color of the dream changed, not just pitch black, there was a slight change, it began to change from black to purple, from purple to blue, from blue to blue...... Gradually the colors began to increase, the colors kneaded together, and slowly became like the real world, my body also slowly fell to the ground, surrounded by a grassland, there was a small forest and a small pond in the distance, there was a wooden house on the bank of the pond, and on the other side of the pond there was a stone pillar, the stone pillar was composed of nine stones, eight of which were square stones, and the top stone was carved into the head of an animal, which could not be seen clearly from a distance.
I don't know when the pajamas on my body turned into a yellow dress, this kind of clothing was used in ancient sacrifices, and I wore shoes made of animal skins on my feet, so strange dress.
I slowly approached the wooden house, which had only one door and no windows, and I did not dare to go in, but I walked along the edge of the pond to the bottom of the stone pillar, and I wanted to see what was carved into the stone pillar. This stone pillar is about ten meters high, and the stone block below is one meter in diameter, and the top stone looks like a bird's head, so I can't tell what kind of bird it looks like.
What kind of place is this, I wondered why I came here, and I looked around, except for the sights in front of me, and I could only see the endless grassland around me, and I hesitated and slowly walked back to the wooden house.
"To go in or not to go in, let's go in and have a look when we're all here!" I thought to myself, gently pushed open the door, this wooden house is not big from the outside, but after entering, I found that there is a very long tunnel inside, I exited the wooden house, and walked around the wooden house, thinking that this wooden house is really very strange, there will be no danger!
I came to the door of the house again, strengthened myself, exhaled a long breath, and walked in, this tunnel is very long, but not dark, the top of the tunnel seems to have a galaxy, there are mottled points of light shining down, the ground is paved with square bricks, and the walls are some murals, like sacrifices, wars, hunting, farming, etc. I don't know how long I walked, gradually there was a light in front of the tunnel, it should be the exit, I quickened my pace, came to the entrance of the cave, just when I was happy, I suddenly found that this cave entrance is on a cliff, at the foot is a big river, fifty or sixty meters wide, this cave is at least a hundred meters from the river surface of the height, and above this cave entrance is a towering mountain peak, on the other side of the river is a large forest, in the deep forest there is a building like a pyramid, not very high, there seems to be a village around this pyramid.
"Where is this?" I thought to myself, it seems that I can't get by, I was full of joy just now, but now I am full of ambition, if only I could go to that village and see if there is anyone and tell me where it is. I was about to go back, when suddenly a gust of wind came from the tunnel, as if someone had pushed me from behind, and I reached out to grab him, but I slipped under my feet and fell off the cliff.
In the haze, I heard the sound of "knock, knock" ringing in my ears.
I struggled to open my eyes.
"Look at you, you're still sweating so much when you sleep, isn't the quilt too thick, what are you doing with this in your hand" Dad said as he patted me while sitting on the edge of my bed.
I was holding the metal box I had taken out of the box last night, and I felt like I had been drenched in the rain.
"Dad, I had a weird dream," I said softly.
"I think you spent too much time playing on your phone last night," Dad took my cup and put it on the bedside table, "Drink some water, look at you like this, why don't you go take a shower, hurry up and take you for New Year's shopping." ”
I tried to tell my dad about the strange dream, but he got up and walked out of my bedroom, and I had to give up.
I held the metal box in my hand, rubbing my thumb back and forth on the sunken pattern in the center of the box, my fingers felt a little grinding, and suddenly I felt that this pattern felt so similar to the figure carved on the stone pillar in my dream, was it some coincidence?
I picked up the book I had pulled out of the box last night, and there were two words on the cover, and I could see that one looked like a witch and the other I didn't recognize. I flipped through a few pages and I didn't know the words, and I'm not in the mood to read them now, but I'm still thinking about the dream I had last night, and that dream was so real, it felt like I was there.
After getting dressed and coming to the living room, Mom was eating breakfast and Dad was watching the news.
"Hurry up and eat, go out and buy something later, you still have math tuition in the afternoon, and we have to rush back at noon to cook," Mom said as she ate.
"Don't come back at noon to cook, eat some outside," Dad chimed in.
"That's easy," said Mom, "Knock Knock with your school bag and go straight to cram school in the afternoon."
I listened to the news while eating.
"There was a traffic accident in the city late last night, a man was speeding on the Binhai Avenue and drove a motorcycle and a normal car, the motorcycle driver was hung down, the motorcycle broke through the protective fence and fell into the sea, the motorcycle driver was blocked by the protective fence and did not fall down together, the motorcycle driver was seriously injured and hospitalized, according to the police report, the motorcycle driver was lost in the park the day before yesterday Song, Song is now in a coma and is being treated in the hospital......" TV news broadcast.
"Today's young people just don't cherish life, if there are three long and two short, then the parents will be sad" The mother commented, "Dong Dong, you have to be cautious in case of trouble, don't do these things out of tune, so as not to worry your parents"
"Got it, Mom, am I like that?" replied impatiently, my mother had always been nagging like this since I was a child.
When I hear the news, I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't say it.
After eating, Dad drove our family to a shopping mall, after Dad put the car, we got on the elevator together, when the elevator door was about to close, a hand with black gloves grabbed the elevator door, and the door slowly opened, then a young man got on the elevator, he looked at me, looked at me, and looked at my feet.
I thought he was like a thief, wrapped up tightly, wearing a long black trench coat, black pants, black boots, a black mask, black sunglasses, a black mask, and a pair of black gloves on his hands.
"What does this person do?" I was thinking, when suddenly the elevator lights made a slight sound, and all of a sudden they all went out.