The lamp went out, and I heard a child's cry of sorrow, and then I felt the little girl's hand loosen as soon as my holding arm loosened, and then my eyes went black, but then the blinding light came up, the light of an incandescent lamp.

The sight was restored, everything was back to normal, the room, including the outside of the door, was lit with a pale yellow light, the darkness was banished, and Grandma, who was standing in front of me with a kind face, looked at me with a smile: "Frightened, right? ”

I felt a sore nose, and I wanted to rush out the door and hug my grandmother, but as soon as I stepped one foot, there was a sharp wail behind me, and there seemed to be an indescribable sadness in the voice, as if I was about to lose a loved one, and it made me stop.

At this moment, the last rosary I had been holding in my hand burst into powder, and the bell tied to the red rope on my right arm made an unprecedented violent sound, and I also felt a suffocating feeling of depression enveloping me, and I couldn't breathe.

I sensed that something was wrong, but it was too late, I had already stepped one foot out, and at this moment, my mind echoed with the words that my grandmother had left when she was leaving: absolutely, absolutely not out of the room.

However, I seemed to wake up a little late, and my right foot stepped firmly on the door, and the kind grandmother in front of me suddenly became unrecognizable, and the wrinkles on her face became more and more, and finally spread into a bark-like shape, which grew longer and longer, and grew bigger and bigger, and rose from the ground, and finally became an incomparably huge 'tree', with no crown in sight, but countless blue wax-like things hanging down, and countless dry corpses hanging upside down.

It's it! I was so frightened that my body was even more uncontrollable, and my consciousness began to blur. I knew that if I fainted at this time, I would be dead. I bit the tip of my tongue violently, and the sharp pain brought me to my senses for a while, and I desperately retreated, while the corpse tree stretched its branches frantically and rolled towards me.

The falling wax seemed to come to life, followed by the ever-expanding branches, stretching longer and longer, and it was chilling that countless dried corpses hung faintly on top of the frantically growing branches.

The corpse tree was growing rapidly, and in just a few breaths, I could already feel the air behind me being torn apart. I felt a chill in my heart, and the situation before me made me feel even more hopeless, the door that was close at hand seemed to be stretching, widening the distance from me, no matter how much I ran, the distance only grew farther and farther, and there was no intention of shortening it, until at last the door turned into a small white dot and completely disappeared into the infinite darkness.

It rained overnight, and just as I was about to be caught up by the ash tree, I stepped on something under my feet, stumbled and fell to the ground.

My heart suddenly cooled, and when I turned my head to look, I saw that the hideous corpse branches were densely packed around me, and I was already surrounded.

Looking at the branches that rushed towards me, I was almost desperate, but it was the desperate situation that made me feel angry, "Damn, the left and right are dead, and the master is fighting with you!" ”

As I spoke, I crashed headlong into the corpse trees with teeth and claws, the expected pain did not appear, those sharp branches did not pierce me, on the contrary, the corpse trees suddenly stopped when they were close to half a meter in front of me, as if hesitating about something, I was in shock, but the corpse tree in front of me suddenly let out a wail like a yaksha, and then retreated backwards.

I hurriedly stood up, not daring to look at the corpse tree again, and hurriedly ran towards the darkness ahead.

I didn't know where the end was, and I ran through the endless darkness, but the fear had made me forget what the darkness was, and I didn't even think about why I had just been in the forest wrapped in corpse trees, and now I didn't encounter half a plant in my way.

However, a sudden sense of familiarity forced me to stop slowly.

"What is this?" My eyes widened, and my heart grew more and more incredulous.

"This, how is this possible? Here, how can it be ...... here"

I stopped, and before I knew it, the darkness around me had already dissipated, and the surroundings were bright. The thick fog shrouded everything around me, and it was so hazy that I couldn't see my surroundings clearly, but the feeling of swaying under my feet from time to time made my heart skip a beat. I hurriedly leaned over to look, only to see a row of emerald green bamboo rafts, a little cold water seeping through the gaps between the rafts, wetting my shoes.

I immediately took a breath of cool air, this, this is really ......

This thought just came to mind in my mind, and suddenly I heard a miserable scream ringing in my ears, "Come and help, the second master has fallen into the water!" Monkey, big cow, two tigers..."

My heart was shocked, and my heart said, Isn't this the voice of Da Biao in a nightmare? Thinking about it, I just wanted to look up to see what was happening, but I saw a big man with a burly figure and a stubble on his face screaming and running to the other end, as if he was crazy.

The raft under my feet was not wide, and the big man with stubble rushed past me, so that his face fell into my eyes without any difference.

The moment I saw that face, I felt as if I had been struck by an electric current, and the guess in my heart turned into an affirmation, this place was really the ghost lake in my dream, and the stubble man was the big biao that often appeared in nightmares.

I was completely confused, I couldn't tell if it was reality or a nightmare, I couldn't remember falling asleep! But if it weren't for the nightmare, how could I, who was in the room a moment ago, suddenly end up in the place of the nightmare?

Is this a dream, or reality, why is it so illusory, but so real, grandma, where has grandma gone?

At this moment, I had a splitting headache and couldn't help but let out a roar.

A high-pitched and shrill voice sounded throughout the lake, however, my heart was cold at this time, and I wanted to roar, and I did roar, but the voice was not mine, no, it should be said that the voice was not made by this body, because at the moment when I wanted to roar, I found that this body did not seem to be under my command, and I, as in my dream, was just a conscious soul living in someone else, so this body did not actually make a sound.

However, the sound did ring, and it kept ringing, never stopping, echoing across the lake. What's even more terrifying is that this sound is like a magic sound, which can penetrate a person's skull, reach the mind, and attack the person's soul.

"I" covered my head, and my body began to twist continuously, and I almost fell into the water. Even I, a soul living in someone else's body, felt an unbearable pain after listening to this magical sound, and my consciousness began to drift and blur.

At this moment, a black shadow rushed from the other end of the bamboo raft, banging a gong in his hand, and shouted urgently: "Jump, jump into the water..."

I recognized the person, it was the second master in the dream, the gong in his hand seemed to have the effect of calming the soul, under the influence of the rally, I felt a lot of pain, and the body I lived in seemed to have regained some consciousness, and jumped into the water without hesitation......

In an instant, the biting cold passed through this body into my brain, and after such stimulation, my consciousness, which should have been awake, was blurred for a while, and then I completely lost consciousness.

……

Dizziness, that's the first thing I feel when I wake up.

As soon as my eyes opened, my grandmother's kind and anxious face came into my eyes, and I wanted to get up, but I felt weak and seemed to be completely unconscious.

At this time, my grandmother found that I woke up, her frowning brows stretched, her expression was slightly happy, and she said: "Good boy, it seems that God can't bear to accept you, the hope of my old Zhang family has not been completely broken!" ”

I couldn't get up, my mind was quite confused, still immersed in everything that had just happened, the corpse tree, the ghost lake, was I really dreaming?

……

Grandma didn't explain anything, didn't ask anything, saw that I woke up and just comforted me, told me to rest, and then left in a hurry, and I was left alone in the empty room.

Was everything last night real, or was it a dream?

After thinking about it carefully, I didn't have a clue at all, I didn't even know when I fell asleep, and the more I thought about it, my head hurt a little.

The shrine behind the door has not changed, and the statue of the girl in the shrine is fine, and there is no sign of movement, but the situation of the little girl climbing out of the shrine last night is so clear, as if it was just a second ago, which is even more difficult for me to accept.

The Taoist priest walked in at this time, and when he saw that I had woken up, he was a little surprised, and he came to the side of the bed and stared at me for a while, just like an expert in a laboratory looking at mice.

"I said, you guys recovered fast enough, and woke up so quickly after falling into the first nightmare, tsk, yes, yes!"

It was a bit inexplicable, so I asked him, "Hey, what the fuck are you talking about?" By the way, do you know what happened last night, what's wrong with me? ”

"Last night?" The Taoist priest stared at me with a strange expression and said, "What last night, you have been sleeping for almost five days, you should ask what happened the night five days ago?" ”