12. Dream Memories (II)
Everything he saw turned out to be just a series of intermittent dreams, and the huge, flaming bird full of terrifying power was only a part of the dream.
However, that dream was too real, even now, Zhang Longqian's ears were still wrapped with that crisp and strange cry, and it seemed that she could still see the burning figure in front of her, which made her tremble from the bottom of her heart.
The form born from the flames is so dazzling, but at a glance, it can emit a terrifying aura that is difficult to breathe, as if the whole world is about to burn.
What a powerful force that is!
Thinking back to the feeling at that moment, Zhang Longqian's heart was beating violently, and her breathing was still rapid, and her chest rose and fell slightly, and her thoughts were difficult to calm down.
Lying quietly like that, Zhang Longqian stared at the wooden ceiling and gasped for a while, before finally gradually waking up from the dream, her thinking became clearer, but she realized something, gently raised her arm, covered her eyes with the back of her right hand, and whispered.
"No, that's not a dream......"
Recalling what I saw, heard, and felt inside, all the details clearly pointed to a fact.
It wasn't a dream, it was a person's past.
-- Cang Yan's past.
Everything in the dream is still so vivid, the real despair is like his own experience, until this moment, there is still a little bitterness in his chest, Zhang Longqian can't help but purse his lips.
He must have experienced more than that.
The little girl's sharp cry seemed to echo in her ears again, and every sound, every word, was like a sharp blade, piercing her heart alive, dripping with blood and pain.
Before she could tell the difference, she smiled warmly like the light that pierced through all the darkness.
Why can you say such cruel words so easily?
Recalling the confusion and despair that came to her mind at that time, Zhang Longqian's heart couldn't help but twitch slightly, she knew that it was from Cang Yan's pain.
Although it is not clear what happened at that time, Zhang Longqian can also roughly guess it.
In astonishment, the little girl mentioned two words.
"Wounds".
Zhang Longqian had seen Cang Yan's extraordinary healing power, and the wriggling wound was indescribably hideous, which made her really surprised, but she was not afraid.
There is not the slightest fear.
Because that person is Cang Yan, Cang Yan who was injured because of her, why should she be afraid?
Not to mention disgusting.
In the dream, Zhang Longqian once stretched out his hand to the screaming little girl suspiciously, she saw that her fingers were stained with blood, her arms were not very obedient, and there was a severe pain in her shoulder that continued to spread to her body, as if burning.
After all, she was also a person who had been injured a lot, so she knew very well that she would feel like that, and there was only one possibility.
Zhang Longqian slowly bit his lip, and his heart gradually tightened.
- Cang Yan's arm was once broken at the shoulder.
The broken arm must have stimulated Cang Yan's super healing force, Zhang Longqian could imagine what it would look like when the arm returned to the shoulder and joined a little bit, but all she could feel was a heart-wrenching pain.
How old was he at that time to endure such pain?
Thinking of the screaming little girl who was clearly unharmed, thinking of Cang Yan's confusion and despair, and thinking of his pleading over and over again, Zhang Longqian almost bit his lip to blood.
He cherished her so much, he never thought of hurting her, and even suffered such a terrible injury for her, but what did he get in exchange?
…… Stay back! Don't come near me! You monster! You disgusting monster!
The piercing screams lingered, piercing straight to the bones one by one, Zhang Longqian just lay quietly on the bed like that, the back of his hands still covered his eyes, but his hands were already clenched, and his knuckles became slightly white.
The room was silent, so quiet that even the sound of breathing could not be heard, subtle, intermittent.
After lying quietly for a long time, Zhang Longqian finally let go of his hands, and deep dark traces had been left on both palms. Removing the back of her hand, Zhang Longqian didn't look at her palm, she just looked at the wooden ceiling, and a doubt arose in her heart that gradually calmed down.
Why did she see Cang Yan's past "again"?
The last time she saw Cang Yan was when she fell into the trap of the controller "Xiao Ye", she saw the young Cang Yan and his mother, which can be explained as Zhang Longqian came into contact with Cang Yan who was caught in the illusion, so she couldn't help but see everything when she was swept in.
But what about this time?
Staring at the wood grain on the ceiling, Zhang Longqian frowned suspiciously.
Thinking about it carefully, the first time she saw Cang Yan's past, it was not in the illusion.
At that time, what appeared in front of Zhang Longqian's eyes was the young Cang Yan and an old man who seemed to be the "head of the Cang family", talking about the topic of expelling Cang Yan from the Cang family, and at that time it was also seen in a dream as now, she heard the conversation between the two clearly from beginning to end, and what she saw and heard was as if she were there.
Why is this happening?
Why does she always see Cang Yan's past in her dreams?
Thinking back to the huge firebird in the dream, Zhang Longqian suddenly realized that today's dream did not seem to be the first time she had seen it.
She had seen the firebird, and it was also in a dream.
After gradually recalling it, Zhang Longqian couldn't help but be stunned.
It was that time.
When Zhang Longqian was still in Zhongkun, she and Cangyan Nangong Piao were looking for Yin and Yang Eyes together, when they had just escaped from the trap of "Xiao Ye", and brought a monster named "Huan", in order to get information about "Xiao Ye" from Huan's mouth, Nangong Piao tried to treat the monster with a healing spell for the first time, and while waiting for Huan to wake up, Zhang Longqian rested for a while in Nangong Piao and Cang Yan's residence.
Then, in her dreams, these images flashed over them.
A little girl with pigtails, a dazzling rainbow light across the sky, and a big bird with feathers like flames.
Blue-eyed, white-beaked, one-legged, eccentric but full of intimidation.
But it was just a flash, and Zhang Longqian, who was busy looking for "Xiao Ye" and Yin Yang Eyes after waking up, didn't remember it at all, and it wasn't until now that he saw the same picture again and slowly recalled it again.
Even if she didn't count the one she saw in the illusion, it was already the third time she had seen Cang Yan in the past.
Every time I see the past, it is different, and there is no strict chronological order, like today, when I first saw it, it was almost not even a "memory", only the feeling was very clear.
But every image, every dialogue, is undoubtedly Cang Yan's experience.
Why? Why can she see the past?
-- And it's just the past.
Frowning and thinking, Zhang Longqian became more and more incomprehensible, but a sentence that he had heard suddenly appeared in his mind.
A word from Kono to her.
"Little girl, can you see other people's 'past'?"
"This is not a human power......
Of course, Zhang Longqian would not think that he was not a human, but this also confused her.
Where does the power of the "past" that she can see come from?
She...... Does it have anything to do with Cangyan?