At noon, a middle-aged man carried a basket up the mountain, cleaned up the stone table, put a few plates of dishes and snacks on it, and then went down the mountain silently.

It was the mother who used to do this, but the old mother was old, her legs and feet were inconvenient, and she couldn't climb the mountain, so the job slowly fell on the middle-aged man.

Every two months, he would come back here and put a few plates on the plate and come back in the evening to take them back.

Strangely, every time he came to close the dishes, he would find that the contents of the plate were missing.

He thought that he had been taken away by some wild dog or cat on the mountain, but the old mother always told him that the food was offered to the mountain god, and that if the food was gone, it meant that it was eaten by the mountain god, and if one day he found that the food offered was intact, it meant that the mountain god had abandoned them and left.

The middle-aged man didn't believe this statement very much, but for the sake of his mother's heart, he would still carry the offerings up the mountain, but this time, he found that the offerings in the mountain temple had not been touched at all.

The middle-aged man went home with the basket and told the old mother about it, and the old mother was silent for a while and sighed: "In the end, I still left." ”

If Lin Ran is here, she will definitely find that the middle-aged man's old mother is the old woman who sold red bean cakes on the old street that day.

There are fewer and fewer believers in the mountain gods, and it is only a matter of time before they leave.

The old woman stood at the door and looked at the long street of the town, the lights of thousands of homes, living and working in peace and contentment, the town will be as calm and warm as before in the future, but they will eventually drift away from the gods.

The time of the mountain gods is over.

……

Lin Ran entered the city, and took a taxi directly to the Academy of Fine Arts, this school can also be called a first-class art college in the country, Xie Tiantian is not very old, and it is rare to be a teacher here.

met Xie Tiantian, and she directly took Lin Ran into the school.

Xie Tiantian's complexion was a little better than when he saw him two days ago, the main psychological burden was gone, and the whole person was naturally relaxed.

"Master Lin, where are you going first?"

Lin Ran thought for a while and said, "Let's go and see the places where you often move, and go where you go first." ”

Xie Tiantian took Lin Ran to the staff dormitory.

The structure of the staff dormitory and the student apartment is similar, the difference is that there is a room for two people here, and another middle-aged female teacher in the same dormitory as Xie Tiantian, but she does not live in the school very often, and she stays for a day at most a week.

Lin Ran looked around, Xie Tiantian's dormitory was in the westernmost part of the second floor, the lighting was not very good, the walls outside were crawling with vines, and he felt a burst of dampness as soon as he walked into the room.

"This room is more damp, there is water on the rainy day, now this season is better, and when it comes to winter, how the quilt is dried has a feeling of dampness, and it feels better after turning on the air conditioner."

Xie Tiantian said: "I'm not from this city, I haven't worked for two years after graduating from graduate school, I haven't married and I haven't saved too much money, and it's more convenient to live in school, so I won't pick these." ”

Lin Ran nodded in understanding, and turned around, the location of this dormitory is indeed not very good, like this kind of dampness, it is usually easy to breed evil, but if it is often kept ventilated and dry, it is not a big problem, and Lin Ran did not find anything strange, even the system scan did not find any abnormalities.

Seeing Xie Tiantian looking at it with blank eyes, Lin Ran shook his head, "There's no problem." ”

Xie Tiantian took Lin Ran to his office, then to the art building, and to the lake, where she often sketches, and finally took her around the classrooms, but she didn't find anything.

"Master Lin, is it really okay?" Xie Tiantian began to wonder if the weird nightmares she had were really because she was under pressure and cranky, she grabbed the amulet hanging around her neck and whispered, "Could it be that the unjust soul has already left and is not coming to me?" ”

"I don't rule it out." Lin Ran pondered for a moment and said, "Think about it again, when you first started that nightmare, what places did you go to, what did you mainly do, remember it well, sometimes a little thing that people ignore is often the key to solving the problem." ”

Xie Tiantian frowned and pondered.

It's been almost two months since things happened, and she has a general impression of what happened two months ago, but if it comes to the details, she can't help it, not to mention that she has been in a trance during that time, and some things can't be remembered.

Xie Tiantian got anxious, "Master Lin, I, I don't know ......"

"Don't worry."

During that time, Xie Tiantian often had nightmares, and he must have had contact with the unjust soul, but Xie Tiantian had no impression of this way of contact, or she didn't know that she was in contact with the unjust soul at all.

Just like she is a teacher, she sees hundreds of students a day, and she may not be able to name every one of these students, at most she will feel familiar.

Teaching in class is a commonplace thing for her, just like eating and drinking in normal times, and she will not be asked to think in other directions.

Lin Ran was silent for a moment, in fact, she was more inclined to hide somewhere the soul was hiding than the assumption that the soul had left.

If it is a wronged soul, there must be a grievance, and this grievance can be big or small, and Lin Ran can't say for sure.

"If I really can't think of it, I can do something else." Lin Ran smiled slightly: "Tonight, let's go to the hotel with me for one night." ”

Xie Tiantian was stunned for a moment, but he didn't think much about it, anyway, everyone is a woman, and she didn't sleep in the same room with Lin Ran.

When she came out of the station that day, she thought it was too late to stay late at the Express Hotel, and almost had an accident, if she hadn't slept in a room with Lin Ran later, I'm afraid it would have been another sleepless night.

"Okay." Xie Tiantian has no objections, as long as he can keep her away from these things in the future, it will be no problem to stay for a few nights.

[……]

The system looked left and right, and silently turned its back.

Lin Ran couldn't help but glance at it: "Dog, what kind of expression are you, do you have any opinions on your father and sister going to open a room?" Or are you afraid that your father will harm the ignorant girl? ”

The system rolled its eyes disdainfully, [You don't have a big jj, what's the scourge?] ]

“…… it! Lin Ran was incredible, "Dog, you have changed, you actually started to talk to your father, you are no longer the simple dog that your father knows!" ”

[……]

Lin Ran scratched the innocent little Jiao, "It's still an extraordinary cutie who is well-behaved and sensible." ”

[……] Hum! (σ｀д′)σ

Lin Ran opened a standard room in a hotel near the school, and at night, the two of them slept peacefully, and when Xie Tiantian's breathing became smooth and long, Lin Ran lifted the quilt and walked to her bed, looked at it for a long time, and made sure that she had fallen asleep.

[Is the host going to perform the dream spell on her?] ]

Lin Ran smiled slightly, "It's still a dog who understands Dad, since she can't remember it herself, then I have to go to her subconscious to find the answer by myself, not to mention that Dad hasn't used it since I exchanged the Dream Technique until now!" ”

Xie Tiantian is just an ordinary person, her mental power will definitely not be higher than Lin Ran, and it will not be too risky for her to cast the dream technique, and when she finds the answer, she will leave the dream realm, and it will not cause any harm to Xie Tiantian, but if Xie Tiantian wakes up halfway, she will also be ejected, before that, for the sake of insurance, she has to ensure that Xie Tiantian sleeps peacefully.

"Dog, exchange it for a soothing incense for me,"

[Anshen Xiang points 100, is it on credit?] ]

"On credit!"

[Ding, deduct 100 points, get a soothing incense, the current point value is -10.]

Lin Ran sighed.

#每天都在赊账#

#积分一直是负数#

#想想该怎么还花呗#

Lin Ran dug into her pocket and took out a plate of mosquito coils, which was a bit similar to the little Jiao who was sleeping soundly in a circle.

Lin Ran wiped his fingertips, lit the soothing incense, and put it on the head of Xie Tiantian's bed, and after a while, Xie Tiantian's breathing became more stable and he fell asleep more soundly.

The system reminded: [Host, the dream technique can only let you go to the dream realm alone, I can't keep up, you should be careful in everything.] ]

"Got it, dog, just pay attention to the soothing incense for me."

Lin Ran pinched a complicated finger with both hands, and muttered in his mouth: "Dream shadows and fog flowers, all are void, my heart is moving, Fang Sheng's illusion, making me go to my dreams...... Open! ”

While chanting the incantation, Lin Ran's hand lit up with spiritual light, the light became more and more abundant, as the last word fell, her palm has gathered a ball of light, Lin Ran pushed out with both hands, the ball of light hit the void, and a starry sky lit up in an instant, under the starry sky, a transparent door slowly emerged, Lin Ran opened the door without hesitation and walked in.

When the door closed, the starry sky in the room faded and everything was back to normal.

The bedside lamp shone softly, the soothing incense burned quietly, and Xie Tiantian looked calm when he slept soundly.

The system moved the antenna, silently flew to the bedside table and squatted, waiting for Lin Ran to come out.

Lin Ran almost fell down as soon as she entered the gate, she found herself walking on a cherry blossom road of the Academy of Fine Arts, the cherry blossoms on both sides were in full bloom, and the petals fell on the ground, the wind blew gently, the pink petals fell slowly, beautiful, and there were many students driving easels not far away to trace the scenery.

The cherry blossom season is usually in March and April, Lin Ran looked at it, and knew that this time was about two months ago when Xie Tiantian first started to have nightmares, as long as he found out the root cause, he could know what the unjust soul was.

Lin Ran walked briskly towards the staff apartment.

The scenery of the Academy of Fine Arts is very good, you can paint everywhere, today Xie Tiantian almost took her around the campus, and her memory has always been good, and she still remembers some roads.

Walking to the bottom of the apartment building, I happened to see Xie Tiantian walking out with a book, probably after the lunch break to go to class, Lin Ran followed behind her not far away.

The road led to the school building, and there were many students walking along the way, and Lin Ran mingled in the crowd without attracting anyone's special attention.

She saw that there were students along the way who greeted Xie Tiantian with a smile, and chatted with her as they walked, which showed that Xie Tiantian and the students were quite familiar.

Lin Ran paid attention to everything around her, there was nothing unusual, and then followed Xie Tiantian into the classroom and sat in the last few rows.

When the class bell rang, a boy recklessly ran in through the back door, sat next to Lin Ran and gasped for breath.

Now this dream can also be said to be Xie Tiantian's subconscious, everything she sees and hears overlaps with Xie Tiantian's real life to a large extent, after entering this dream, she is a member of the dream, she can see the people in the dream, naturally, the people in the dream can also see her.

Xie Tiantian had already started to lecture, and the boy next to him leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Classmate, aren't you cold?" ”

The March day was still a little cold, and Lin Ran came over after more than two months, and she was wearing short sleeves, which looked out of place in this classroom.

She smiled and said, "I'm angry, not cold." ”

The boy nodded, took out the book from his bag, and looked at Lin Ran, who was empty-handed, "You don't even have a book?" ”

“……”

"Although Teacher Xie is very talkative, she is very good at speaking during the exam, and her failure rate is very high, so don't let her deduct the usual points!"

Lin Ran touched her nose, "Thank you, I'll pay attention next time." ”

The boy turned around and began to listen to the lecture, Lin Ran listened to some dispensable, this class is about all kinds of writers and painting schools, she really has no interest, and finally survived two classes, Lin Ran followed the crowd out of the classroom, and followed Xie Tiantian all the way.

Time in a dream doesn't flow at the same rate as time outside, and a day spent in a dream is actually only an hour in real life.

Xie Tiantian didn't have any other classes in the afternoon, and went back to the office of the art building, Lin Ran glanced quietly and found that she was looking at a stack of drawing paper on the table, and there were several other teachers in the office.

There is a stack of paintings on each teacher's desk, and the name of the class is written in the lower right corner of each painting, which seems to be the work of students.

One of the bald middle-aged male teachers flipped through the drawing paper and said, "The works in this competition are not bad, how are you there, are there any particularly good?" ”

One of the female teachers took a few and sent them over, "Director, how about you take a look at these ones?" ”

When the director was looking at the painting, the female teacher leaned over to Xie Tiantian and looked at him: "Teacher Xie, how are you?" ”

"A few of them are good, but some of them are really ......" Xie Tiantian drew one of them and showed it to the female teacher, "Look at it, obviously the theme of the competition is landscape, what is she painting!" ”

The female teacher lowered her head, and Lin Ran also felt a faint trace of yin qi, and walked forward quickly.

The painting depicts a girl who is looking in the mirror, seventeen or eighteen years old, but the girl outside the mirror has raised her eyebrows and smiles happily, but the girl in the mirror has a sad face and cries so sadly.

Lin Ran glanced at the lower right corner, the author of this painting is called Zhang Xiaoyi.