3: Between life and death

In the past month, I don't know how many times I have been scared awake by the strange old man in the dream, this kind of fright has directly affected Dai Qian's daily life, he doesn't dare to sleep at night, and he has no energy during the day...

Colleagues in the company are also saying that his eyes are black, and another colleague even jokes that he is black, and he has gone to steal chickens and dogs again.

It's a pity that this colleague's guess was correct.

Tonight, Dai Qian was once again awakened by the old man. Directly helpless, there is no trick, sit up against the wall and doubt life.

He once told all these things to his playmates from childhood to adulthood, but they said that he was about to become a father, and he didn't make any money, and he was under pressure.

Several times I told the people around me who felt the most credible, but they said that it was caused by stress problems.

I'm too lazy to tell them more, otherwise they'll treat him like a psychopath...

Will think about this dream, once, twice can be understood as a normal continuous dream. But three, four, five times is a little out of the ordinary...

It's 5 a.m. now, and it's eerily quiet all around. Dai Qian always felt that those demons and monsters were waiting for him to show his flaws, so that they could sneak up on him. This kind of thinking all comes from the plots of various horror movies...

The rooster crows...

Luckily, the rooster crowed. The salvation plots in horror movies are all after the rooster crows.

Now the rooster crows and everything is safe.

Dai Qian thought so.

Looking at the sleeping wife next to me...

"Oh I'll go, it looks like I'm in a dream again..."

Dai Qian knew that his wife would not be in the same bed with him during this time. After all, Dai Qian is easy to move around when he sleeps, and his snoring is still loud...

After thinking about it, Dai Qian came to another dream, where many black, white, and red people came and went...

"What do you think?"

"I'm going crazy..."

The question that remained unchanged came again, and Dai Qian's reply was also very helpless.

This month, it has been on the verge of collapse. The old man came to him every time, and directly grinded Dai Qian out of temper...

"Say, if I don't do it, are you just driving me to death?"

"You've run out of energy, but I helped you and let your luck continue to run."

"A piece of wood doesn't kill people, does it?"

"What you say is equivalent to a piece of tofu that can't kill a person."

The old man's sophistry made Dai Qian angry...... I don't want to come up...

"Good, good... That's all you say, I'll help you... What are the benefits? ”

Instead of running away all the time, Dai Qian finally had no choice but to compromise. Just do it as a part-time job, as long as it doesn't affect your normal life...

"If it's good, you'll have to find out for yourself. So you've thought about it? ”

"Don't ask if it's good, to be honest, it's not good at all, every time you force me to live a normal life, I can't go on..."

"Hehehe..."

The old man's embarrassed smile made Dai Qian's eyes roll again and again. He knew that the average old man would be a little verbose, but he didn't know how verbose this old man was.

"The contract, it's as simple as that."

Dai Qian didn't want to pay attention to the old man's words, and let the old man continue:

"Since you have become my Gongdan's envoy, then I have a task to give you now, be sure to do it well..."

At this moment, the old man began to become serious, and said seriously to Dai Qian, who was displeased:

"Your task today is it..."

The old man turned around and pointed to a cat that seemed to be the first time to come here, and looked very rusty from side to side...

Dai Qian followed the old man's direction and froze instantly...

"The cat?"

And the cat, at this time, suddenly discovered Dai Qian

"Whew-"

Dai Qian said about the cat in confusion, and the cat screamed in fright...

As soon as the cat barked, Dai Qian suddenly gestured to the old man and said in surprise about the plot of almost hitting the cat with a car before:

"This guy, this guy can speak human words... He can talk... Monsters..."

"Hahahaha... So you know each other...... Hahaha..."

The old man looked at these two nonsensical expressions at this time, and directly laughed and said:

"Cats themselves can move back and forth between the human world and the empty world."

The old man continued:

"And if you can hear this cat talking, it means that your dream ability is good, and the highest level can enter the dream world without sleep in the world, similar to the hallucination in the world. When entering the dream realm, animals and people are the same, they also have their own thoughts, but the real world separates the categories of thoughts. However, when you come to this dream, your minds are already connected, and you can hear each other's words and actions..."

Listening to the old man's reasoning, Dai Qian looked at the cat as if he didn't understand.

The cat also looked at Dai Qian.

"From now on, if you have anything to dream, tell him, and he will help you..."

After the old man finished talking to the cat, he said to Dai Qian again:

"Now you have to take every dream of their seriously, after all, it is related to whether they can be reborn or not..."

Listening to the strange old man's solemn seriousness, he also asked:

"It won't affect your life after waking up..."

"No, you're in good health right now, and you're resting..."

"Well..."

Dai Qian escaped for so long, and finally faced what he didn't want to face, that is, to become a Gongdan envoy...

"Jaywalking..."

Dai Qian, who was the first to speak, was a reproach to the cat.

"Ah......h

This reproach also made the orange cat grin, momentarily dissatisfied, and made an attacking action.

"You two stop, Dai Qian, you do a good job... Orange cat, don't worry about him, you still have important things. ”

The old man hurriedly stopped the two of them from their next move and let them continue to communicate.

The cat looked at Dai Qian hatefully, didn't say anything, looked at the old man again and said:

"Is this guy okay?"

"Oh, I'm quitting... I can't, I can..."

The cat said his question to the old man, and suddenly provoked Dai Qian.

"He can trust, it's okay, I'm watching."

No matter how angry Dai Qian was, the old man said to the cat very calmly.

"I've got a few kids running out of food, so help them find something to eat..."

At this time, the orange cat said to Dai Qian that it was dreaming, and Dai Qian, who felt that the orange cat looked down on him a little, heard this request. I don't want to...

The orange cat looked at the old man

"No, can he really do it?"

Once again, Dai Qian's ability was doubted.

Looking at the one person and one cat bickering, the old man was also very calm. He didn't speak, just walked up to Dai Qian, shook his hand in front of Dai Qian, and brought Dai Qian and the cat into another dream that was the same as reality...

This is a town where Dai Qian often runs business, Town A.

Not far away, Dai Qian and the others saw a group of young people holding firecrackers at a gray tanuki cat that was tied up, crackling and exploding, abusing it.

It must have been abused for a while, and a large chunk of the tanuki's fur had fallen off, and blood was pouring out.

And the orange cat beside Dai Qian was already so fierce that his fur exploded, and the old man saw that the situation was not right, so he gestured with his hand again, and another dream came.

There are orange cats with big bellies, and tanuki cats lazily basking in the sun in front of a dilapidated old house.

Suddenly, a casual figure flashed and grabbed the orange cat at once. The sound of the orange cat screaming and breaking free immediately woke up the sleeping tanuki cat.

The tanuki reacted quickly, and the moment it woke up, it immediately knew that the orange cat was in danger, and immediately counterattacked, pounced on the human with its claws...

The action was so sharp that it directly scratched the human hand.

The man immediately dropped the orange cat and protected his hand. Then he beckoned the two humans who came behind him, and chased after the tanuki...

After the orange cat was thrown to the ground, he was frightened and ran away to the other side.

After running for an unknown amount of time, the orange cat came to a wasteland with a discarded haystack under a large tree next to the wasteland.

The orange cat is very tired and a little unable to walk. I have been working hard to get to the haystack...

Soon, a moan of pain was followed by a few faint cat meows...

The orange cat gave birth and gave birth to a few or four kittens. The orange cat lay down and fed the kittens, and a day, two days passed.

The orange cat didn't take a sip of water, didn't eat a mouthful.

"I was hurt when I was thrown to the ground, and I was frightened, so I still desperately gave birth to these little guys. Later, I couldn't hold on, and I wanted to go to sleep several times, but I kept holding back the sleepiness. Because the child was still young, I didn't dare to die. But I really can't stand it... I felt like I was about to leave, and I came to this dream. ”

The orange cat looked at Dai Qian and continued.

"While walking here, Gongdan suddenly appeared, told me about the dream, and then told me that there was someone who could help me, and that was you."

Listening to the orange cat's words, Dai Qian felt a little guilty. In the face of such a great mother, what he did just now was really the heart of a villain.

"This place I know, it's just behind the XX supermarket in town A, how do you think I can help you..."

As soon as Dai Qian finished speaking, the orange cat at this time bent its two front paws to the ground, and begged Dai Qian and cried like a person kneeling:

"Benefactor, please, save my child. It has been less than three days since they came to earth, and now the four children have been hungry, and as a mother, they can only watch them die with themselves in front of her... It's cruel..."

The orange cat burst into tears, in fact, needless to say, seeing this poor dream, Dai Qian also intended to help it.

"Leave it to me, I'll help you..."

When Dai Qian gently touched the orange cat with his hand, he found that the orange cat was very soft to the touch...

Dai Qian took a closer look and found himself lying on the bed, touching the thin blanket covering his stomach.

After waking up, Dai Qian was indeed different from before, a feeling of being in the rain for a long time, a feeling of sleeping very comfortably, and he was in good spirits early in the morning.

Looking out the window, the weather was already clear. The phone alarm hasn't gone off yet. It seems that the time for work has not yet arrived, so I simply ask for a leave.

After asking for leave, Dai Qian got dressed, went out of the room and secretly looked at his wife's sleeping room, then went downstairs and drove the electric car away...

After driving for half an hour, I came to a XX supermarket, and Dai Qian confirmed that this was the place.

I looked around again and found that the path next to the supermarket was accessible to me. I parked the car in front of the supermarket, went into the supermarket and bought a needle-free syringe, a bottle of heated goat's milk and a little cooked food, and walked towards the path.

Just as he was about to walk into the path, Dai Qian suddenly noticed an extremely serious tanuki cat not far away. It stared at Dai Qian motionlessly, very alert.

After looking at each other for a while, Dai Qian found that this cat was a little unusual, and it seemed to be very similar to the tanuki cat in the dream.

"You? …”

Dai Qian was about to ask something, but he didn't ask. Thinking that if you wait for a second on the orange cat's side, those cubs will be in danger for a second more.

Turning around and walking towards the path again, Dai Qian walked on the front foot, and the tanuki cat followed cautiously behind...

One man and one cat, just kept their distance, until they came to the acre of barren land that no one cultivated, and there was indeed a tree next to it.

Haystack?

Looking at the haystack next to the tree, Dai Qian confirmed this place, and was about to go in to see the cat mother and child, Dai Qian turned his head to look at the tanuki cat.

"Won't you come along and help?"

“……”

At this time, the arrogant and cold tanuki cat had lost its seriousness just now, but it still looked at Dai Qian indifferently.

"Whatever you want, as the head of the family, I look down on you now."

Dai Qian looked at the indifferent tanuki cat and was particularly indifferent to it. After that, Dai Qian went in without looking back.

Inside the haystack

A strange smell came out of Dai Qian's haystack, and at this moment, the four of them did not open their eyes, and kept screaming and eating on the orange cat.

Dai Qian was looking at the orange cat, and his body was already shriveled. Dai Qian looked at this pitiful scene and couldn't bear to touch the orange cat.

Oh my God, I'm shriveled up. But there was also a faint, very faint heartbeat.

Dai Qian was looking at the orange cat's face, his eyes had closed, and he didn't know when he had opened them and been staring at him.

This really frightened Dai Qian, who thought that the orange cat was dead. After all, the shriveled figure is already miserable to look at.

The orange cat finally opened its eyes and suddenly looked at Dai Qian with tears in her eyes. A black liquid, not like tears.

"You don't have to insist on it, I'm coming..."

Dai Qian, with a sad and unbearable voice, whispered softly to the orange cat.

At this moment, the orange cat slowly closed its eyes with a little black liquid...

Heartbeat, slowly... Stopped...

A sad mood poured directly from Dai Qian's heart to the tip of his nose, making his nose sour.

"Kitten... Come, there's something to eat..."

Dai Qian picked up the four kittens with a sour nose, and then spread out the bag he brought, and saw a piece of cooked food inside, Dai Qian didn't take it, because the piece of cooked food he wanted to give to the orange cat to eat, it seemed that he didn't need it. He reached out and opened the goat milk bottle, pulled out the goat's milk with a needle, and carefully fed the four kittens.

"It's so pathetic, I'll take you home."

After feeding the four kittens, Dai Qian carefully packed them in a bag, and then turned to leave, only to find something that made him feel even more outrageous.

The tanuki cat and the orange cat were already sitting behind Dai Qian. Watching Dai Qian's every move is like sitting there watching a movie.

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the old man also appeared, and also sat there watching with the tanuki and the orange cat.

"I'll go, you're going too far... I'm over there... I'm over there...... Over there......"

Dai Qian was very aggrieved, more angry, he was angry that he was so attentive and affectionate just now, but he was watched like a movie.

The old man hurriedly stopped at this time, and pretended not to see.

"Say you, don't hide, you old man is the most excessive, and you pull me into a dream again. Fool me, huh? ”

"No, no, no, not in the dream now, in the world now. It's just your ability to lead you into illusions. Hallucinations and dreams can be connected... It is the meaning of God that people are in a daze. ”

"Well, what about you? This is your child, can you watch it here? You deceived me so badly with that look just now..."

After listening to the old man's explanation, Dai Qian let him go, turned around and turned to the orange cat.

"Thank you, thank you very much, I can't thank you enough. But I really left the world at that time, and you can feel your heartbeat just now. ”

After the orange cat finished speaking, this time he really shed tears. The orange cat, which has left its body, looks less shriveled.

"Okay, what about it, that scumbag is sitting next to you, and you didn't even hit it? If you don't dare to hit it, I'll hit it for you..."

Dai Qian listened to the orange cat's pitiful explanation and let her go, but the tanuki cat next to her made him unhappy... I ran away and made the orange cat miserable...

The tanuki cat bowed its head, losing the arrogance just now. If you don't bow your head, this tanuki cat looks arrogant, cold and elegant, but as soon as she bows her head, Dai Qian wants to raise her fist and smash it hypocritically.

"Don't... It's also pitiful. If it weren't for it, the child might not have come to this world. ”

“???”

Listening to the orange cat actually explain for the raccoon cat, Dai Qian was a little puzzled.

"Those people they like to abuse small animals, and we didn't know about it at first. Until that day they suddenly approached us and caught me, if it wasn't for the tanuki cat who suddenly scratched the human, maybe I and the baby in my belly would have left the world first, because the first target of human abuse was me. ”

The orange cat continued:

"Actually, I only found out later, do you remember another dream that Gongdan took us to? Humans tied it up, injured it with firecrackers, and then filmed it for fun. Tanuki cats are played to death. And I was lucky enough to use my last strength to bring my child out. ”

Listening to the orange cat's defense of the tanuki cat, Dai Qian looked at the old man.

"Don't look at me..."

"Old man, am I helping you? Are you like this? ”

The more Dai Qian said this about the old man, the more the old man moved his body away, wishing that the whole person could run away directly, and directly pretended not to know.

Dai Qian took a look at the tanuki again...

"Hey, don't you look at your kid..."

At this time, Dai Qian didn't speak as angry as just now, but asked the tanuki cat in a very ordinary voice, which shocked the tanuki cat who bowed his head in front of him.

Dai Qian cautiously opened the bag, and several kittens who couldn't even lift their heads swayed in the bag...

The tanuki cat hurriedly raised its head and looked at the kittens, some of which had the same pattern as the tanuki cat... There is also a pattern like the orange cat, and there are also two colors that alternate with each other.

"I... I..."

The tanuki finally spoke, but stammered...

"You're a father, congratulations."

Dai Qian let go of his prejudice against the raccoon cat and congratulated it...

"I... Thank you..."

The tanuki cat was very impressed...

"Well, everyone is happy. Now we're going to the Void Realm, and the Void Envoy is waiting to send you to reincarnation..."

The orange cat and the tanuki cat thanked Dai Qian again.

"Please be kind to my children... Thank... If I have a chance in the next life, I will definitely repay it..."

The orange cat looked at the kitten who was moaning softly, and reluctantly followed the old man with the tanuki cat after he finished speaking.

"Oh... By the way, your hour has not yet come. You may have to stay in the Void Realm..."

The old man finished speaking to the tanuki cat at this time, and disappeared with the orange cat that he didn't want to leave without turning his head...

“……”

“……”

Leaving Dai Qian and Tanuki two embarrassed there.

"Let's go to my house?"

"Uh... Well..."

One person and one cat don't know what to say, so they just say and answer, one after the other in this barren field path...