Chapter Thirty-Five: Revisiting the Prophetic Dream
I had never looked so uneasy before, and after a moment of obvious hesitation, Mrs. Ann fidgeted a little and asked if there was anything to ask herself, but her eyes were clearly dodging Miss Zihui. When I saw this, I felt a little strange in my heart.
Miss Zihui got straight to the point, brought up what I had said about the woman, and bluntly asked Mrs. An if she knew anything about the history of this villa. As soon as these words came out, not only Mrs. An, but even the expressions on the faces of Miss Xiaojing and the old housekeeper behind her were a little wrong.
I thought to myself, does this really seem a little strange? was waiting for Mrs. An to answer with doubts, but she raised her head suddenly, and Xiao Liu, who looked at Miss Zihui, was so frightened that she replied that she didn't know anything.
So I kindly persuaded her: "Mrs. An, you also know that we are here to help you, and if you hide things from us like this, it will not benefit anyone in the end. β
Seeing this, Sister Lan Zihui and the two of them asked aggressively, Mrs. An kept her head down and didn't say a word, and finally screamed as if she couldn't stand it, covering her face and escaping.
It was the first time I saw Mrs. An like this, and I was also a little dazed, so the old housekeeper and Xiao Jing also chased after her. After Mrs. An left, Miss Zihui said that there must be a cat in this house, and this cat is hidden in Mrs. An and her husband.
Sister Lan had a headache and said that Mrs. An didn't cooperate with us and didn't want to tell the facts, so we couldn't investigate, right? Miss Zihui said that we will hold a "ceremony" tonight, which is the only way now. I asked what this ritual meant, and Miss Zihui stared at me and said that it was the way to get her into my prophetic dreams.
In the middle of the night, Sister Lan, Li Fei, and Miss Zihui gathered in my bedroom.
According to Miss Zihui's practice, Sister Lan and Miss Zihui drew a formation of locking people with three souls and seven spirits in advance, and sprinkled exorcism oil ground with black donkey hooves mixed with special bone powder around them to prevent me and Miss Zihui from being attacked by ghosts when we fell into a weak state.
Although I cooperated with Sister Lan and Miss Zihui's actions, my heart was full of uneasiness. I didn't fully understand this prophetic dream myself, and now I want to bring a stranger into my dream? I don't know what will happen then.
Later, I also expressed my anxiety with Miss Zihui, who told me that as long as I listened to her, nothing would happen, and that through this ceremony, I could test whether my dreams were prophetic dreams.
I was so nervous that I couldn't help but go to the toilet before the ceremony began, but on the way back, I ran into Mrs. Ann, who was pulling Youyou. Mrs. Ann was wearing a dark tulle dress and a thin silver necklace hanging from her snow neck, and her sad appearance looked weak.
However, on her concave and pale cheeks, her two dark eyes stared at me with a faint light, staring at me for a burst of creepy, and my psychology was very strange.
The uncharacteristically running out of the house during the day has always remained in my mind, and I didn't want to talk to her, so I was going to hurry back to the house, but Mrs. Ann grabbed me and begged me to talk to me.
I said that we had something to do now, and Mrs. Ann asked me what I was going to do in a panic, and when I hesitated, I told Mrs. Ann that we were going to continue to explore the prophetic dream, and then Mrs. Ann stopped talking.
Then Mrs. Ann told me that she wanted to tell me one thing next, and it wouldn't take long, only about ten minutes. I saw that Mrs. Ann looked very sad, so I agreed to her.
Mrs. Ann told me that she knew how to keep the ghost who lived in the villa at bay, and that if I would help her, and not cooperate with my companions in continuing to investigate the affairs of the villa, she would give me a great sum of moneyβmore than I could spend in ten lifetimes.
I was surprised when I heard this, and asked Mrs. An with curiosity, what was the solution? Mrs. An bowed her head and stopped talking, and after a long time, she told her daughter Yoyo to let her go back to her room to sleep first, Yoyo nodded obediently, and walked to her room in the dark living room alone with the doll in her arms.
After Mrs. An watched Yoyo leave, she turned to me and said, The solution is actually very simple, as long as I want Yoyo to hand it over to the female ghost, the female ghost will naturally be quiet. Seeing Mrs. Ann say this to me with a calm, even almost indifferent face, I immediately panicked.
I couldn't help but say angrily to Mrs. An, "That's your daughter!" Do you know what you're talking about? Give a living little girl to a female ghost, do you know what will happen to that child? β
Mrs. An's expression was very strange, as if she was crying and laughing, and said to me, "It doesn't matter, it's not my own child anyway, and I've long been tired of taking care of this girl all the time." β
I glared at Mrs. An angrily, I never thought that this woman who seemed weak and kind would be so vicious, and immediately rejected Mrs. An's proposal, and said that I would tell Sister Lan about it.
Mrs. Ann tried to grab me and keep me, but I just shook off her hand. When I finally looked back at Mrs. Ann, I found her lying quietly on the ground, her dark eyes staring at me with no expression, and her gaze was like that of a dead man.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt furious, and I also felt that Yoyo might be in danger, so I hurriedly ran back to the bedroom, closed the bedroom door tightly, and told Sister Lan all the things that Mrs. An told me.
"I don't see it, this Mrs. An has such a ruthless heart? Did she want her daughter to be a living sacrifice to the female ghost? "Li Fei is very angry like me.
Sister Lan had a different opinion, "Compared to this, I think the focus of the matter is on the other side - the reason why Mrs. An would say such a thing, doesn't it mean that this woman actually knows the inside story about the haunting of the villa?" β
Zi Hui also had the same opinion as Sister Lan, and said: "Now finding out the truth is the most important thing, Zhang Jun, you quickly enter the prophetic dream with me, Li Fei, you don't stay here, go to the room to protect her safety, no one knows what that woman will do." β
"Yes, it's better to do that, and then I'll stay here to guard Zihui and Zhang Jun." Sister Lan also agreed with Miss Zihui's approach.
Then I lay down on the bed as Miss Zihui had instructed, and Miss Zihui followed me to bed, and when she lay down beside me, a burst of fragrance came to my nose, which made my heart beat a little.
Miss Zihui turned sideways and looked at me with those strange blue eyes and said, "Zhang Jun, you hold my hand and don't let go, you will feel that your consciousness is getting more and more blurred, but don't resist, that's me entering your consciousness and hypnotizing you." β
After that, Miss Zihui stretched out her cold little hand and grabbed my hand, and a soft touch came, and I slowly closed my eyes.
Soon after, the viscous darkness swallowed away at my consciousness, and when I woke up again, I found that there was nothing around me, only endless darkness.
No, it's not. I soon realized that this time the scene seemed to be a little different - not far away, there was a petite figure lying on the ground and falling asleep, and I walked over to see that it was actually Miss Zihui.
I shook Miss Zihui awake, she looked at me with a complicated expression, but said with some emotion: "What you did is really a prophetic dream...... Zhang Jun, it seems that everything you have seen is true. β
I glanced around and asked her curiously, "So we're in a prophetic dream right now, right?" β
"Yes, and when I entered the prophetic dream by myself, I saw only this darkness, and there was no other light."
At first, I saw the same darkness, but then I remember that the surroundings gradually brightened up little by little. As I was thinking this, a deep, sad sigh resounded in the space, and at the same time, a cold aura enveloped my whole body, as if I had fallen into an ice cave in an instant, and my body temperature began to drop rapidly.
"Purple, Miss Zihui, I ......" I shivered with cold, and I couldn't say anything, and when Miss Zihui discovered the abnormality in my body, her pupils suddenly contracted, and she ripped off the necklace around her neck - I saw that the pendant of the necklace was in the shape of a lantern.
And after the necklace was torn off, the lantern began to emit a burst of intense white light, and it really became a small lantern in Miss Zihui's hand. After the lantern that emitted a faint light that illuminated the surroundings of me and Miss Shihui appeared, the chill on my body was expelled.
I felt a warmth from this lantern, and asked Miss Zihui what it was, and Miss Zihui lifted the small lantern in her hand and told me that it was a dark lantern, something specially prepared for the living.
"Why did the ghost cha prepare such a dark lamp for the living?"
"Sometimes, the oni make the mistake of repatriating the living who are not yet alive and need to repatriate them back to the human world, they will give them such a lantern so that the ghosts cannot come near them, and at the same time can light the way ahead for them."
Miss Zihui grabbed my hand and told me to follow her and not let go of her hand. Her body is petite, and her height of about 1.5 meters looks like the body of a primary school student, but at this moment, Miss Zihui, who is holding my hand and leading me forward calmly, seems to be two meters eight tall, too reliable, and the whole person exudes the atmosphere of a big sister.
Along the way, Miss Zihui said to me that it seemed that my attainments in the prophetic dream were indeed higher than hers, and that when she entered the prophetic dream herself, she was in a void space. I asked her what a void space was, and Miss Zihui said that it was a space that was open on the surface, but was actually completely sealed.
No matter how you move forward, you're just standing still, and if I encounter this situation in a prophetic dream in the future, just remember that I'm in the void space.
But now I also know that Miss Zihui and I seem to be in a forest, and the visibility of the dark lamp is very low, it can only illuminate the path a few meters ahead, and sometimes there are ghosts floating by, they seem to want to get close to me and Miss Zihui, but because they seem to be very afraid of this dark lamp.
When Miss Zihui gently waved the dark lamp in her hand, those ghosts would let out a cry of fear, but they were unwilling to leave, so they stayed with us all the time, hovering around me and Miss Zihui.