Chapter 3 The Dream of Dreams
Zou Qing took out the Xuanxi mirror and looked at it carefully for a while, it was completely no different from usual, was it not the wrong posture but really out of power? Zou Qing was amused by his own thoughts, it is estimated that it must be because the master has not told him how to use the Xuanxi mirror, so why can the Xuanxi mirror react in time when he was in a crisis just now?
He looked at the Xuanxi mirror repeatedly, but in the end he didn't find anything, so he just leaned against the wall and froze.
As soon as his nerves relaxed, he couldn't help but think of the scene when his master passed away last month, when the master was lying on the hospital bed and almost ran out of oil, and he trembled his hands and asked Zou Qing to put his ear to his mouth.
Zou Qing thought that the master would tell him the bank card password or the experience of years of fraud, but he knew that the master had wasted half a day, and the only sentence that popped out of his mouth was "Don't believe in fate...... I'm an example!"
Then the master took out a black bag from the quilt with a trembling hand, and before he could hand it over to him, the master had already choked his breath.
In Zou Qing's view, the master is actually like a liar, although he followed the master around when he was very young, the master never taught him anything, simply put, in the name of the master and apprentice, the responsibility of the nanny. For Zou Qing, the only thing the master has done for so many years is to pull him up without danger.
In the last few years of the master's life, his health was not as good as before, and later he used most of his life savings to buy a set of bottom merchants in an inconspicuous alley in this city, the first floor was used as the master's study and hospitality room, and the second floor was their bedroom.
The master never goes to work, but often goes out to do things, Zou Qing has asked the master countless times what he is going to do when he goes out, and even secretly follows the master out of the house, but every time the master will find out and lock him in the house.
In other words, for so many years, Zou Qing didn't know what this master did, and he didn't know what this old man had to do with him.
This continued until the night of his death.
That night, Zou Qing returned to his residence very late, looking at his master's old belongings and feeling sad, thinking about the master's kindness to him over the years, and he was also very sad.
In fact, if you put aside the mysterious side of the master, he is a kind and kind old man, and he is also a very competent grandfather.
Zou Qing, who had been taking care of his master in the hospital for several days, was physically and mentally exhausted, and fell asleep quickly after lying on the bed.
In the dream, the master came back again, he opened the door on the first floor as usual, drank tea and read books downstairs, and finally came to the second floor, sitting on the side of Zou Qing's bed and looking at him with a smile.
Zou Qing saw that the master was still wearing a hospital gown, his eye sockets were deep, and his sparse but slightly long white hair was windless, almost the same as when he died. Zou Qing, who thought it was haunted, was so frightened that he immediately sat up.
"Qing'er, don't be afraid, I'm here to answer your question!" the master said lightly.
"Division...... Master, I don't have any doubts!" Zou Qing leaned against the wall in fright, trying to stay away from the master, he had a lot of questions about this mysterious master, but now he couldn't think of anything.
The master didn't blame Zou Qing for seeing this, turned his head and took the black bag in his hand, and said: "Qing'er, it's not that I didn't calculate the time of my death, and it's not that I forgot what to say later, but that we dream people all say our last words in our dreams!"
Zou Qing didn't understand what the master was saying at all, and just nodded vaguely.
The master continued: "After so many years, I now want to tell you the truth as it is, and the decision on whether to accept my mantle after listening to it is completely up to you!" The master took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, took a puff of enjoyment and continued: "I am a dream man, this strange title has made me carry it for a lifetime, and I have suffered for a lifetime, and now I am finally going to unload this burden." ”
Then the master said a lot at length, and Zou Qing at first sounded like a fantasy, like a story in a Zhiwei novel.
But with the master's narration, he gradually realized that what the master said might be true, because only by believing in the master can he perfectly explain the many doubts in his heart for so many years.
It seems that the world is not as simple as it seems!
Dream killers, as the name suggests, are people who deal with dreams. God knows why this can be a profession, and there is certainly no such thing in three hundred and sixty lines.
After listening to the master's narration, Zou Qing also had a general understanding of this so-called profession.
If you summarize the long speech that the master said, it is that as the saying goes, "dreams are born from the heart, and the environment is created by the heart", people often hide their truest thoughts deep in their hearts, whether the idea is good or bad, as long as they can't show it in public in reality, they will be buried in their hearts.
These ideas are mixed, but they will grow and ferment in people's hearts, and over time these ideas will become people's obsessions. The so-called obsession is actually very simple, just like a person who firmly believes that he can win the lottery jackpot, then he may buy lottery tickets every day, and buying lottery tickets has become an indispensable part of his life in addition to eating, sleeping and working, this is obsession.
And a person who has been entangled in obsession for a long time, will behave in an extreme way, such as staying at the lottery station all day long or running to burn the lottery station because he did not win the lottery, which is conceivable.
Often at this time, obsession is no longer a simple obsession, just like the sentence "if you don't go crazy, you can't live", a person is doing one thing or thinking about one thing too much, then it is likely that this thought or behavior will lead to physical and mental changes in the whole person, the master will be able to influence people's behavior and make the behavior deviate from the normal track of the psychological state called the demon.
But there are good and bad demons, good demons can certainly help this person to make progress in career and life, and bad demons fuel the evil thoughts in people's hearts, when this evil thoughts successfully occupy people's hearts, we can't simply make a conclusion based on mental illness, often at this time, if you still want this person to return to normal, you need to punish the dream person to stop the continued growth and development of evil thoughts.
If you have to give this profession a historical root, then you can only start from Zhou Gongdan, Zhou Gongdan is the first generation of Zhou King of Zhou Tianzi, the original surname Ji, that is, the author of the famous "Zhou Gong Interpretation of Dreams".
Legend has it that after the destruction of Shang, King Ji Fa of Zhou Wu often had nightmares because of the heavy killing, and almost couldn't sleep, and then asked Zhou Gongdan to interpret the dream for him, and stood on the side of the couch with a sword to shock and kill the nightmare. Later, although Ji Fa was carefree in his dreams, he became physically and mentally ill due to the lingering nightmares, and died violently in the second year after the destruction of Shang.
During the vigil for Ji Fa, Zhou Gongdan accidentally discovered the secret of the dream world, and then Zhou Gongdan made several dream interpretation articles, and hid the secret words of the dream he realized. These articles were collected into articles by later generations and became "Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation".
Zhou Gongdan also became the first person to be dreamed.
For thousands of years to come, the Zhumeng family has always been entangled and tormented by the change of dynasties, and every emperor who dreams of immortality will find the Zhumeng family.
Because dreams can be intermittent and intermittent, the emperor wants to turn his dreams for thousands of generations into reality, but every dreamer knows that the will of heaven cannot be violated. Therefore, there is often a strange phenomenon, that is, when a generation of male lords is about to die, the Zhumeng lineage will be summoned by the emperor to appear around, but the successors after the death of the emperor will be suspicious of the Zhumeng people, and then they will begin to suppress the Zhumeng people.
Therefore, the inheritance of the Dream Killer is very difficult, and it is still very weak and little known until now. The branch of the master in the Zhumengmen, which is thin, only accepted Zou Qing as an apprentice in the master's generation.
The master accepted Zou Qing as an apprentice not because he had strange bones and was a dream prodigy, but simply because the power of the dream line was declining and almost extinct at that time.
At this time, the master found Zou Qing by a trash can, and the master failed to find a suitable apprentice for half his life, but he met Zou Qing when he needed the most people to inherit the Zhumeng lineage, and the master thought that this must be the will of heaven, so he single-handedly pulled him up and accepted Zou Qing as an apprentice when he was five years old.
Dream Hunters have always behaved differently from ordinary people, based on their mastery of dreams, they often freely enter and exit between reality and dreams, and often hide their secrets that cannot be hidden in reality in dreams, including of course their last words.
The master has countless dreams in his life, and the hardship and pain are incomprehensible to ordinary people.
The master sighed, slowly picked up the black bag in his hand and looked at it for a while, and said: "The way we enter the dream realm and destroy the demons in our hearts is through the magic mirror. Although the Xuanyuan Mirror in my hand is not the oldest compared to the Xuanyuan Mirror, and it is not the most magical compared to the Qin King Mirror, everyone who owns it is the leader of the Zhumeng clan, and with its mana, you can predict the danger and eliminate the demons in your heart. The master was infinitely reluctant to stroke the Xuanxi mirror, and his eyes were like looking at his lover who had accompanied him all his life.
Zou Qing was no longer so nervous, but relaxed and listened to the master's words quietly, and gradually seemed to accept the master's words.
Xuanxi mirror, is it really that magical?
"Master, can I use this mirror to make money?" Zou Qing asked the most concerned and realistic question, the master has always not let Zou Qing go out to make money, and Zou Qing, who lives on pocket money, basically cut off his financial route after the master passed away.
"Money, hehe! You forgot what I just said, the dream man can turn dreams into reality!" The master still looked at the Xuan Xi mirror, and didn't even raise his head.
"Then what should be done?" Zou Qing asked with a happy heart.
"Okay, that's all for today, I'm going back to talk to that old brother a few times!" As he spoke, the master's body was like a cloud of smoke dissipating in the wind, and disappeared in an instant.
After Zou Qing woke up from the dream, he quickly glanced at the situation in the room, the master's bed was empty, but the air in the room still left the smell of the master's smoking, Zou Qing thought it was an illusion, but when he saw the Xuanxi mirror that had been taken out on the chair, he knew that the master had really returned.
That is, from that day on, the master would appear in his dream every night, tell Zou Qing some things, and answer some of his questions, but every day he was in a hurry, just like when he said his last words, and before he finished speaking, the person left.
Zou Qing can't decide whether to accept the mantle of the master now, because he always feels that this is a very unreal thing, and the master has always been secretive about how to make money from Zhumengren, which makes him very unconfident about the future of this profession.
Three days ago, Xuan Xijing began to emit blue light constantly, and the master said that this was a reaction to the nearby inner demon starting to grow, and he asked Zou Qing to go out to find the inner demon and destroy it.
Everything was normal for the past few days, until I saw the man and the woman, and I started to have a new situation.