Chapter 1 The first encounter with the trapped beast of the strange dream

Do you really understand the world, do you panic when you face the unknown, do you ever doubt the reality of your dreams when you wake up in a nightmare, and are all living beings just caged birds of a higher class?

Let him tell you the answer to all this. Wang Mu is an ordinary real estate company employee, renting a single apartment not far from the unit, commuting to and from work on time every day, and is recognized by the company as a good young man.

Of course, that's just the appearance, and Wang Mu has another side that no one knows.

Every day after work, Wang Mu would take a package and take the subway alone to Sanqingguan, which was dozens of kilometers away. Not to worship God, but because he has a second profession - fortune teller.

"This gentleman, seeing that you are full of spring, with flesh on your cheeks, and a sense of nobility in your eyebrows, it seems to me that you will have good fortune this year. The hexagram fee is not expensive, as long as twenty, hey, sir, don't go, you can charge ten yuan......"

Far away, you can see a young man in a Taoist robe pulling a fat man with a face full of meat, needless to say, it must be Wang Mu.

At this time, where did Wang Mu still look like a good Chinese young man in the company, like the virtue of a god.

Who knew that the fat man didn't buy his account, and as soon as he shook his hand and turned around, he got into someone's BMW, leaving Wang Mu still in place and gritting his teeth.

Don't think that this will make him die, and soon he has a new goal: "This*, Poor Dao sees that you are happy, you are happy, come over and let Poor Dao count you as a boy or a girl......"

"Stinky rascal, they're not married yet!!"

Leaving Wang Mu with a black line on his face, he looked at everyone's disdainful eyes.

The business of fortune-telling is not very easy to do now, probably because people are not superstitious nowadays.

When it comes to Wang Mu's fortune telling, it is really a last resort. The family called and urged the marriage, no wonder, seeing that it has been three years since graduation, Wang Mu still doesn't even have a partner, which really makes the family anxious.

But these days, without a house or a car, how can any girl like him, a college graduate from the countryside. In the past three years, I have paid the rent and utility bills, except for food and clothing, the deposit in Wang Mu's bank card has never exceeded 100, in the words of my friend Pan Gu, it is not a deposit, at most it is a balance.

Helpless, Wang Mu had no choice but to like the Book of Changes since he was a child, and started to help people tell fortunes, which was considered a ninth-rate in ancient times.

Of course, there is a more important reason for Wang Mu's fortune telling, that is, he has been having a dream recently, and a voice in the dream told him to wait for someone here.

At the beginning of my dreams, I only heard his voice but could not see his person, and even the sound was ethereal and difficult to discern. Later, the voice slowly became clearer, and the figure was faintly visible.

Later, Wang Mu was finally able to see clearly the person who spoke, and to be precise, he could not be called a human - this thing was like a turtle and a snake, but it was not human, but it could speak human language.

In the dream, this monster was chained to a copper pillar, and the iron chain flashed with a strange golden light, and it was not an ordinary thing. The beast kept pleading bitterly to Wang Mu, "Save me...... ”

At the beginning, Wang Mu didn't pay attention to this, just thought it was a strange dream. But I don't want this dream to be repeated for a long time, and it is getting more and more true, several times, Wang Mu can even see something similar to tears in the monster's eyes, and even feel its pain.

As a last resort, Wang Mu had to promise it to find the person, and the strange dream never appeared again.

Wang Mu only remembered that the person he was looking for in the monster's mouth had heavy pupils, and it was not strange to find such a strange person.

At that time, Wang Mu was having a headache for his family to get married, and suddenly thought that it was also excellent to set up a stall at the door of the Taoist temple to tell fortunes, and by the way, he could earn some extra money. Several times he was impressed by his cleverness.

Seeing that more than ten days had passed, Wang Mu still hadn't waited for the person he was looking for, and he couldn't help but be a little suspicious of the words of the unknown monster.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people coming and going, and the time was a little late, Wang Mu silently put away his things and prepared to go home.

Suddenly, Wang Mu glanced inside the Taoist temple and saw a person sneakily lying at the door looking at him, but when he looked back again, there was no trace of the person.

Wang Mu suddenly had doubts in his heart, he put away his things and prepared to go inside to take a look. I've been here for so long, and I haven't been to visit it yet.

Entering the Sanqing Temple, Wang Mu was immediately infected by the dignified and serious atmosphere inside.

The courtyard is full of ancient trees, and the water tank in front of the hall is full of rainwater, and Taoists believe that rain is rootless water and is the purest thing.

The careful Wang Mu found something strange, there was a clearing in the courtyard, and it seemed that something had been placed on the ground for a long time before, and a deep mark had been left on the ground.

In the middle of the main hall are enshrined the three gods of Taoism - "Yuqing" Yuan Shi Tianzun, "Shangqing" Lingbao Tianzun and "Taiqing" Daode Tianzun.

Wang Mu is no stranger to these three, especially the primordial Tianzun, this Lao'er is the first god of Taoism, originally the same as Taishang Laojun is the disciple of Hongjun Laozu, but his status is not as good as Taishang Laojun, probably because Laojun is the founder of Taoism, and the primordial Tianzun is just a god.

At this time, a Taoist priest walked out from the back of the hall, and Wang Mu had already taken off his robe and changed into his usual clothes. Afraid that the Taoist priest would recognize him as a fortune teller outside, Wang Mu pretended not to care, bowed his head and walked out.

Suddenly, the Taoist priest shouted: "Since Daoist friends have come in, why don't you sit down and leave." ”

Fellow Daoists? Wang Mu's heart sank, and anger burned from the bottom of his heart. This stinky Taoist priest really regards himself as a fellow Taoist. Also, I have been outside for some days, and it is not surprising that the Taoist priests inside know me.

Angry and angry, Wang Mu didn't dare to say that he was not a Taoist priest, after all, for the time being, he still planned to eat with this mixed rice.

Wang Mu saluted the Taoist priest back and asked, "Dare to ask Daoyou, there is a strange open space in the courtyard outside, it must have been something placed before, right?" ”

The Taoist priest replied: "Brother Dao doesn't know, there was a thousand-year-old Xuanwu statue in the front of the temple, which has been there since the beginning of the construction of the temple, and it is regarded as the treasure of the town view of the temple. Strange to say, this Xuanwu statue is made of unknown pieces, and it is extremely heavy, and no matter what machine it is, it can't move it in the slightest. But one night not long ago, the statue of Xuanwu disappeared, leaving only a blistered pit in the ground, as if it had rained heavily. However, Poor Road clearly remembers that there was no precipitation that day. ”

Wang Mu suddenly remembered something, and asked eagerly, "When was what Brother Dao said not long ago?" ”

The Taoist priest thought for a moment and replied, "Poor Dao remembers that it was the fifteenth day of the last month, a whole month. ”

Wang Mu was shocked, because his strange dream started on the sixteenth of last month, because the moon was very bright that day, so Wang Mu remembered it very clearly, and he also clearly remembered that it didn't rain that day!

It's weird! Wang Mu thought to himself, could this be just a coincidence?

Suddenly, Wang Mu saw a relief carving on the wall of the main hall, as if carved with some kind of animal, and after careful identification, he recognized that this was the turtle-like monster that had plagued him every day some time ago.

He asked, "Dare to ask Daoyou, what is carved on this wall?" ”

The Taoist priest glanced at the place Wang Mu pointed to and replied, "This is the Xuanwu Beast!" ”

Xuanwu, one of the four divine beasts! Wang Mu was shocked. Unexpectedly, the monster that haunts me every day is the divine beast Xuanwu. But why was the Xuanwu beast trapped there in the dream? Is this related to the loss of the Sanqingguan Xuanwu statue? The answer to everything seems to be explained only by the person who finds the double pupil.

Suddenly, there was a person lying on his stomach at the door of Wang Mu's hall, as if he had been peeping, and he immediately chased him out, but he disappeared again.

But as soon as he turned his head, what he saw really startled him.