The more I talked, the more I felt dull in my heart, and I knew that my future life was completely out of control, and I could no longer return to the previous state of eating and waiting for death with a meager salary.

The doctor patted me and told me not to worry, no matter what happens in the future, he will stand firmly on my side to help me, which makes me quite touched, all along, in addition to my family, the doctor is definitely my most trusted friend, although now there is an unknown divine Taoist priest, this has never changed.

Listening to the sensational conversation between the two big men, Lin Qiaoer giggled and asked why the doctor and I became iron buddies in the first place, it is said that the tempers and personalities of the two of us are not compatible, and it is impossible to get together?

The doctor laughed and patted me on the shoulder and said that when he first saw me, he felt that I was different from everyone else, and that my grandmother's witch doctor's book made him convinced that I was absolutely human. At the beginning of his relationship with me, he did come for the medical book, but after getting along, he found that I had a trait, so he really opened his heart and became an iron buddy with me.

Hearing him say this, Lin Qiaoer immediately became curious and asked what the characteristics of the doctor are? The doctor, however, smiled and stopped talking.

After eating, the three of them walked around again in the cold night, and when they returned, it was almost ten o'clock.

The doctor worked overtime for more than a week in a row, and it was said that he only had three hours of rest every day, and now that the project has been completed, he has also been given three days off, and he will stay with me tonight.

……

Lying in bed, I couldn't sleep for a long time, there were so many things that weighed me down. The curses that started from the grandfather's generation, the weird nether realm and the eyes of the earth, the terrible nightmare, the mysterious Heavenly Witch Cult, and Zhang Lingjin and Luo Yi who don't know what the ingredients are.

These people and things are very closely related to me, but they are all foggy, and I really can't predict what will happen next, but I really don't want to go through a tragedy like that in Underworld.

In the past half a month since I left the ancient town, I have dreamed more than once that the people in the tour group are all standing in front of me covered in blood, and their familiar faces are full of unwillingness, as if complaining about why I can live alone when everyone is dead. They called out to me, pulled me, and every time I woke up in a cold sweat, my heart panicked, and the fear caused by self-blame can really drive people crazy.

Thinking about it, I finally fell asleep.

……

The thick mist slid over my skin like wisps of silk around my fingers, and the warm and moist touch made people enjoy it very much, but it also revealed such a strange feeling, which made people feel uneasy. The surroundings were white, and at a glance, you could vaguely see a large obscure shadow at the top of the fog, which was not obvious under the fog, but it was certain that there was indeed something unknown there.

Bang la, bla blah......

A very rhythmic splash sounded in my ears, and a little cold suddenly splashed on my face, such a real cold touch made me wake up instantly: where is this?

I looked blankly at the viscous mist surging around me, touched the water droplets on my face, and suddenly woke up in my dazed consciousness, and my heart was shocked, and I understood where this was.

The dream, the dream, the nightmare that haunted me for more than ten years.

Counting, since Yeling came out to today, I haven't dreamed of this demon lake for more than a month, no, I dreamed of it once when I was in the ancient town, but that time can't be counted, because that time was disturbed by the mysterious power of Tulou Square, and it can't even be regarded as an illusion, it is very likely that those pictures are real.

If I didn't count that time, I hadn't had that dream for more than a month, and I even had the illusion that I had gotten rid of that nightmare, but now that dream has reappeared.

I don't know how many times I've repeated this dream, I'm too ripe to be any longer, and now I know the level of the dream, and I also know the existence of the nightmare, and the reason why the nightmare in front of me is so terrible is only because it's too real to be guarded against.

Moreover, it is speculated in the Taiye's codex that the 'nightmare' is actually a kind of nether creature, which can invade people's dreams and induce them step by step in the dream, thus killing people. It is very easy to get out of danger, as long as you stay conscious and believe that what you see, hear and feel is false, you can calmly face all the crises in the nightmare.

Thinking of this, my heart is at ease, and I repeat the same dream all year round, which makes me have a certain discernment of this dream, just like if you fall for it once in reality, and the second time someone uses the same trap to trick you, you can immediately tell that it is a trap. The thinking and analysis ability of the person in the dream is weak, and it may be impossible to distinguish between the same dream two or three times, but if you do it hundreds of times, then when you see the scene in the dream again, the subconscious will immediately tell you that it is in a dream.

That's what I'm in right now.

The plot in the dream is still the same, the bamboo raft is driving on the misty lake, nothing can be seen, the sound of the water is very rhythmically sounding at the front of the bamboo raft, this time, who will I be?

I got up from the raft, there was no one around, I was busy touching my face, I couldn't feel what I looked like, so I leaned over to the raft, wanting to see what this body looked like by the reflection of the lake.

The lake water is clear, the water surface is full of ripples stirred up by bamboo rafts, spreading away in circles, and the lake water as a whole presents a deep and dark color, it is difficult to form a clear reflection on the water surface, and I can't see what "myself" looks like after looking at it for a long time.

Helpless, I had to look at the clothes on my body, but I was stunned at a glance, what "I" was wearing at this time was the same clothes I wore when I was in the underworld.

What's going on? Could it be that the "me" now is really me? This nightmare I am not attached to anyone, but I am on my own?

I was stunned for a moment, but when I thought about it, I didn't feel right, if my own consciousness was standing alone in a nightmare, and I realized a body, then it would be impossible to wear this dress! It's been more than half a month since the incident in Suo Hades Town, and even if you want to realize a body, it should be the clothes you wear recently or before going to bed.

Is it because what happened in the ancient town had too much impact on my psychology, I kept thinking about what happened at that time, thinking about it every day, so I dreamed at night, and I was subconsciously influenced by the dream to become the "me" when I was in the ancient town?

Holy shit, what the fuck is going on?

My mind suddenly went into a mess, and I thought about all the possibilities, and suddenly, my body shook violently, and I thought of a possibility:

Could it be, this is not a dream, I didn't leave the ancient town at all, what happened before was all my hallucination, and I have been trapped in the Tulou Square from beginning to end, or am I trapped in the illusion guided by the square?

Oh my God, no?

I suddenly felt a wave of vertigo and began to wonder about everything.

"No way, it must not be like this, calm down, I want to be calm." I told myself in my heart that the reason why nightmares are terrible is that they can make people unable to distinguish between reality and illusion, and once they get lost in the nightmare, or take what happens in the nightmare as real, all the damage they suffer in the dream will be accepted by the subconscious. For example, if you die in a dream, your mind will tell your brain that you are really dead, and in reality, all parts of your body will lose control, and then all of them will die, then you are really dead.

"It's a dream, it's a dream, everything is fake, it's all fake, calm, calm ......"

I took a deep breath and finally adjusted my mind, and I was secretly afraid. Just a piece of clothing almost confused me between reality and dreams, you must know that when I first woke up, I did not have the slightest doubt that what I saw in front of me was a dream, this nightmare was so terrible, I just didn't know how many levels this dream was in.

Eliminating the superfluous distractions in my heart, I squatted down and prepared to wash my face with the cold lake water, but as soon as my hand was stretched out, I was startled in my heart, and I shrank back in a hurry.

Be careful, be careful......

I kept telling myself to go and see if the others on the raft were still there, but just as I got up, I suddenly caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a face in the deep sleep.

My body stiffened, thinking that I had seen it wrong, so I hurriedly leaned down and looked down carefully, and when I saw it, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart! I was not mistaken, about two or three meters below the surface of the water, at the limit of light and shadow, a big-headed baby face with a head the size of a basin was grinning at me, that expression was extremely weird, because of the ripples on the water, that face was also flickering, and I could see that the pores of my whole body were shrinking.

I cursed in my heart, and I thought to myself, what the fuck is this? Water ghosts?

Just when I felt cold in my heart and didn't know what to do, the ripples of the water rippling on the surface of the lake suddenly disappeared, and the deep surface of the lake instantly became a mirror, so that the big baby face below immediately became very clear.

It just looked at me and smiled, and I stared at it with horror on my face, and as I looked at it, I felt that something was wrong, and countless shadows slowly appeared in the dark waters below the hateful baby's face.

The shadow kept rising, the outline of the shadow gradually revealed, and my heart became cold with the slowly revealing thing.

Horror, horror, horror...... All the words I can imagine are not enough to describe my mood at this moment, and the shadows that are gradually revealing are all those strange baby faces, and the whole bottom of the lake is densely packed and countless.

With so many baby faces gathered under the water, this picture is terrifying enough, not to mention that all the baby faces have weird smiles on their faces, which makes me feel suffocated.

Being stared at by so many strange faces, I didn't dare to move at all, for fear that these weird things would suddenly rush out of the water.

I can't tell what these strange faces are, but since they can move, they must not be dead things, but if they are water ghosts, then it is a different matter.

Although this is just a dream, the Taoist priest said that if you die in a high-level dream, your consciousness will be trapped in the dream forever and will not be able to wake up and become a vegetative person, so what is the difference between that and death?

What to do? What now?

I was anxious, and at this moment, the bamboo raft floating on the water was suddenly pushed by something, and the bamboo raft suddenly tilted, and I was unstable under my feet, and planted into the water with the tilted bamboo raft.

The moment I fell into the water, I knew I was finished, and my mind was full of the appearance of being surrounded by a baby face, and I forgot about the struggle.

This time the fall into the water happened completely suddenly, I was not prepared at all, and immediately after entering the water, I was choked several times, and the biting ice water made my body quickly numb. The sharp pain in my lungs, the coldness of my body, everything was so real, it didn't look like a dream at all, and at this moment I suddenly began to doubt my previous judgment, was this really not a dream?

Although I can swim, the temperature of the lake is unusually low, and it has only been more than ten seconds since I fell into the water, and my limbs have begun to become numb and do not listen to the call.

Luckily, the baby faces that scared me the most didn't crowd around me as I thought, on the contrary, they didn't move. The nearest baby face is only a few dozen centimeters away from my feet soaked in water, if it is aggressive, this is definitely the best time to attack, are they just looking weird, and there is no harm to me?

I shook my head, this is not the time to think about this, the temperature of the lake is too low, I must get out of the water immediately, otherwise when my body is completely out of control, whether it is a dream or not, I will definitely die.

Thinking about it, I hurriedly went to find the bamboo raft, but saw an extremely strange scene. I can be sure that even if there are people on the raft just now, they must have fallen into the water like me, and there can be no one on the raft, but at this moment the bamboo raft is shuttling in one direction at a very fast speed, and soon disappears into the fog.

In such cold waters, without a bamboo raft, it would have been absolutely impossible for me to swim back to shore on my own, which would have been sentenced to death. Being in such a desperate situation had made me completely forget that this was a dream and not reality, and my body lost consciousness little by little, until it could no longer stay afloat.

I noticed that my body was sinking into the water little by little, and when I looked down, I saw that all the weird baby faces under the water were gathered together, and they were dragging my body down a little bit.

"It's over!"

It was the last thought in my head, and then my head was completely submerged in the lake, and the cold deprived me of the last of my senses. The moment I lost consciousness, I saw a big white face pressed to the tip of my nose, a grinning mouth the size of my two heads, and it was looking at me with a weird smile and a smile......

Immediately afterward, my consciousness plunged into a chaotic darkness.