I didn't dare to ask too much along the way, so I hurriedly finished the dream and followed the imp and the crane to the place where the accident happened. Jianyang Village is not big, and after walking for a while, I arrived at the place where the little ghost said. It was a crossroads with roads on all sides, and in the middle of the intersection was an old tree with dense branches, much larger than the one I had just hunted on.

The thick trunk was an old dark brown with a rough surface, and countless vines were tightly wound from the roots to the folds in the trunk, like chains. The dense foliage is like a large dark green canopy, which is upside down on the main trunk, and the dense and heavy shadows cast a large gray shadow.

The mysterious object fell above the canopy, blocked by the dense web of leaves, stopping its downward scroll. The leaves of the trees near the object had turned yellow, and the branches of the trees stretched out like the veins of an old man into the lead-gray sky. The moisture on the ground began to increase, and the white mist spread around us like a cloud of mist.

At first, I thought that since it was transparent, it shouldn't look ugly from the outside. Who knew that when I got here, I found that the orange-yellow transparent object that was backlogged on the top of the dead tree was so disgusting. It was about the size of a bus, not a regular circle, but an oval, and from a distance it looked like a rotten egg that had been peeled and had a strange smell coming down from it. A black shadow can be seen in the middle of the ball, somewhat similar to a black insect. However, the yellow liquid wrapped around the outside was so turbid that it was difficult to distinguish for a while.

"It's ...... Amber? I couldn't help but say, some of them were shocked by the scene.

"Can your amber grow this big?" The crane on the side obviously had his own opinion, and immediately denied me. He put his hands in his sleeves, stared straight at the strange object above and said, "Besides, that thing inside is alive." ”

"Alive!" I was shocked, such a huge black shadow, if it was still alive, it would not be long before it could break out of the cocoon, and it would definitely be difficult to clean it up at that time. In addition, judging from the withering of the branches around it, it is obviously not a good stubble.

It was already getting dark, and lanterns with a dull yellow light slowly gathered around us. Swaying ghostly figures, the villagers appeared one by one. Sure enough, they are all lonely ghosts, and this way of gathering makes me feel an indescribable strangeness. The aggravation of the fog only deepened this feeling, and I had a vague feeling that something was not quite right.

They all noticed the massive object on the ancient tree, and raised their heads and whispered, their expressions very frightened. Strange things came to Jianyang Village for two days in a row, and of course they would feel frightened.

"It's a pity, this tree." The old woman, who looked to be about seventy or eighty years old, was standing on the other side of me, carrying a lantern, and said, "I've already taken several of them." ”

"So this thing has to be disposed of as much as possible, and it will hurt the brain when it hatches." Tsuru continued, "If this continues, the number will decrease dramatically." ”

"What quantity?" I don't understand.

Crane pointed to the villagers around him and said, "I said you didn't notice it, there are fewer people who came here today than yesterday." ”

Only then did I realize that the number of people was really wrong, so I could feel that the light from the lanterns today was a little swaying, instead of piles of beams, and it turned out that the number was reduced.

"This thing was supposed to be coming for you, and your dreams attracted it. But when it arrived, it found that the energy of the tree was more suitable for hatching, so it stayed here. I planted this tree to store spiritual power. The strength that the villagers need is in it. Tsuru said thoughtfully, turning his face and smiling at me, "I really underestimated you for attracting this kind of thing." ”

If he says this kind of thing in normal times, I must be very happy. But in this situation, how could I be happy?

"What the hell is this?" I asked. "What do we do now?"

"Alas, alas, just after praising you, you are stupid again. Look more and ask less, little girl, what do you think this thing looks like? ”

Well, I looked up again, trying to observe the shape of this thing, and diverge my mind. The shell of the egg, the cloudy liquid solidifies together...... No, they are not solidified, they are actually flowing! As long as you keep staring at it, you can see that the yellow liquid is flowing slowly. The turbid part inside seemed to be surrounded by blood vessels around the black shadow's body.

"Amniotic fluid ......," I said to myself, "this is a hatchling." ”

"Hah, that's right." The crane slapped me the back and said, "This thing is called a demon egg." ”

"Demon eggs? Is that black thing in the middle a demon worm? ”

"Innocent! How could it be so simple! Crane scratched his cheek and continued: "Demon insect eggs generally refer to the larvae of a qiē demon ghost, at the beginning of the generation, due to the lack of demon power, it will choose a host to parasitize, and devour the host's power for self-reproduction. Once the time comes, it will break out of the cocoon and become a new monster. Therefore, before a certain time, you really don't know what will hatch inside, which can be regarded as a meeting gift for you to come to Jianyang Village, just waiting for you to take it apart! ”

I've been in a bad mood lately, strange things happen everywhere I go, it's like Conan's rebirth. But this time, there should be no problem with the crane.

"You caused the trouble, you can solve it yourself~" I just wanted to ask him what to do, but he suddenly dropped this sentence, turned around and walked back.

Let me figure it out on my own? How can it be.

"Hey! You stop! I shouted, trotting all the way up after him. Why is this guy wearing broken slippers and running so fast? "Didn't you say that if you don't solve it, it will be annoying? I, a person who has just arrived here, how can I solve this matter alone! ”

He didn't stop at my plea for help, but kept walking. The back floating in the fog almost gave me the illusion.

"Hey! I said how can you do this! Crane! "I kept chasing. I was about to catch him, but I felt so far away from me. After several times, the crane still walked in front of me, and no matter how much he chased him, he couldn't get close. Again and again, he seemed to float on the ground, hovering in front of me. Did this guy use a spell? If I continue like this, I will only consume my own body.

I slowed down and observed the crane's back. Sure enough, when I stopped, the crane still kept its back as it walked forward, and the distance did not change. This old man is really playing tricks on me!

I'm also a mage, so I don't think I'll be looked down upon by such a low-level spell. I immediately closed my eyes and fabricated a confined space, ready to lock the crane inside.

It's easy to think about it quickly and do it. A small prison immediately appeared in front of me, and as I expected, Tsuru was sitting on a stool inside the prison looking at me and laughing.

Wait, why is this guy laughing when I'm locked up!

"Yo, that's good!" He slowly stood up, walked to the prison cell, looked at me outside the iron railing, and said, "Sure enough, you will remember it after a few more times, read more and ask less." But ......"

He suddenly stretched his neck close to the iron railing, and his cervical spine twisted at a strange angle, beyond the range of a normal person. His eyes were straight at me, without blinking. I was immediately stunned by his blade-like gaze, and I couldn't help but step back. It's over, I don't have a preset space, I just make up a cell, and there is not much way back at all.

Seeing my panicked face, the crane smiled slightly, grabbed the iron railing in front of him with both hands, and gently pulled outward. The railing that was originally impregnable was easily pulled open by him. I leaned back desperately, and before I knew it, I touched something like a rope, and when I looked back, I realized that it was another iron bar. I immediately turned around and tried to flee in a different direction, only to find that the crane was smiling contemptuously at me through the bar, and that I was the one trapped in the cage.

"You!" I was so angry that I didn't know what to say, "Let me out!" ”

"Hahaha, it's fun!" Once again, he couldn't help but laugh and almost rolled to the ground. "You made a dream yourself, but I let you out, hahaha, it's really funny!"

His sarcastic words reminded me, and I immediately put away my dream, and when I woke up, the crane and I were still standing in front of the big tree, and the qiē that had just happened was like a real dream.

"That was ...... just now" I couldn't believe my memory, it was obviously a dream I had woven myself, why it seemed so real, and there were many changes beyond my expectations.

"Just now, we all fell for it." Crane raised his head, looked at the eggs on the tree, and said quietly, "I underestimated the power of this thing. Its target is not this tree, but you. ”

"Medium?" I asked. So what just happened is a qiē......

"It's the dream that it creates." Tsuru looked at me and said word by word. "Thanks to your superimposed dreams, we were able to come out."

I looked at the crane incredulously, a little incomprehensible. He tilted his head and motioned for me to look at the eggs on the tree. I noticed that the surface of the eggs had begun to melt at some point. The waxy sap trickled down from the oval shell and dripped onto the branches, leaving no grass in its path, and many of the branches and leaves were scorched and yellowed. And the black shadow seemed to grow larger, and I could even feel it shaking rhythmically from breathing.

There were few villagers with lanterns left, and the sparse and swaying light under the fog made the entire intersection even more eerie. There has been a legend since ancient times that crossroads are places where souls gather. I felt more and more the oppression of the dark shadows in the trees, which was more oppressive than the feeling of hunting youkai before.

"You mean, just now we entered the dream realm of its creation at the same time, but I don't know that Wuzi superimposed a dream within a dream again in the dream, so that the original illusion was shattered, and we were able to return to the space of Jianyang Village?"

"That's right! Ha, the little girl has become smarter! Tsuru nodded, I'll just praise it this time. That's it. It's only half a day in the world, and you know the truth of twenty years in a dream, it's because of this principle that it grows so fast. So what hatches inside this monster egg should have something in common with you. Think about it, what are the ghosts that are related to dreams and have the same abilities? ”

"Nightmare!" This time I immediately said the answer.