I had a strange dream. .org

In my dreams, a thick fog surrounded me, I seemed to be a writer, and in the light of the lamp, I was writing at my desk, and the words flowed from the tip of the pen held in my right hand onto the white manuscript paper:

[I saw them again—my dear wife, and my children.

In the darkness, in endless pain, they staggered along the bluestone road covered in thick fog and came to the ...... In front of me, who has fallen into hell.

Will the monsters that hide in the darkness discover us?

- No, I don't think about it anymore, and I don't care about it at all.

Her face was still so beautiful, and she took the child and stretched out her other hand, and I reached over it, and the moment my fingers touched, although it was only for a moment, my pain had been relieved......

Albeit...... In the end, I couldn't touch her.

They disappeared into the fog.

Sharp pain came—

I bent over in pain, and I knew that the "striae" that had been parasitic on my body should have grown again.

Yes, at first I thought it was just a scar caused by a skin infection, but it wasn't, it was a strange monster that looked like a tattoo in the shape of a python, and when I arrived in Taiping Town, I got the real name of this monster - 虺.

But even in the most extreme pain, I can still persevere—for the sake of my wife and children, even if I fall into a permanent slumber, I am willing.

In this town, I can feel the presence of my wife and children...... Invisible existence.

My wife's warm gaze is still in my eyes.

I can't see it, but I can feel it.

If I can continue like this, I think it's enough, even in this hellish town.

It's a pity that all this is only if.

"If" is the most humble and slim hope, and obsessing over "if" will only make me helpless and confused, and seem stupid and ridiculous!

So, I went on a killing spree.

The town is already crazy anyway, right?

It's actually very simple to do: don't hesitate, the knife rises, the knife falls, and then watch someone else fall to the ground and die.

Killing relieves my pain—the parasitic worm that lives on me, enjoys the killing and the blood, and once it is satisfied, it stops growing for a while.

Yu is an ancient poisonous snake, legend has it that it is one of the pets of the snake bone woman, after the death of the ** of the snake bone woman, the snake bone woman made it into a curse, which is passed down in people's memory.

The snake is a symbol of foreboding and calamity, and at the same time the embodiment of all suffering and malice, but if you let the snake parasitize on a person's body and form a "frog pattern" like a poisonous python, that person will have the ability to enter the underworld.

At the same time, endure great pain.

However, compared to the infinite grief and bitter desolation caused by the death of my wife and children, I can bear such pain.

If, before the "Tattoos" cover my body, I can save my wife and children from the underworld, then I can get away with it - the serpent said so, as long as I come to this town, I will not die - of course, is it credible? After all, snakes are cunning and sinister creatures.

Either way, for me, it's just a nightmare.

The way to deal with nightmares is to wake up.

Wake up, that's fine.

yes, wake up quickly.

When I wake up, my wife and children will still be by my side.

They don't die...... Will appear next to me with a smile.

As soon as I wake up.

Wake up......

Wake up! 】

This is the end of the text.

The tip of the pen in my right hand suddenly pierced the snow-white manuscript paper - a hole appeared on the manuscript paper, and it grew bigger and bigger, and I saw a viscous liquid as black oil churning under the manuscript paper......

The black ointment swelled, and suddenly rose from it, and on the way to me, the black ointment quickly peeled off, revealing a face—

That's Haruko's mother.

Her python-like mouth opened suddenly, and she bit at me......

……

I opened my eyes and woke up from my dream.

A fine layer of cold sweat broke out all over my body, and I was convinced that I had just had a nightmare.

But before I could breathe a sigh of relief, I suddenly realized that there was a person standing in front of my bed!

The room was already very dark, but the person standing in front of my bed was surrounded by black mist, which was deeper and deeper than the darkness in the room, and only a pair of inverted triangular eyes, blood red and translucent, staring at me!

Nightshade!

I tried my best, but to my horror, I couldn't move at all.

But the Nightshade didn't attack me, but slowly raised its hand, and pointed its finger at me.

No, not at me, at my pillow.

Not to my pillow, but to the bottom of my pillow - what I pressed underneath was the copy of Blacktown.

……

"Ahh

I swooped over and sat up from the bed!

Sweating like pulp!

I was stunned for a few seconds before I confirmed that I had really woken up this time, and I was still in a dream just now.

…… Dream within a dream!

It's an unbelievable weirdness!

"Aggie, are you awake?"

The old knife, who was half-lying on the bed next to him, immediately opened his eyes with a look of surprise.

He immediately jumped out of bed, carried the wind lamp on the bedside table, and walked over to me.

I didn't have time to wipe the sweat on my body, nor did I have time to explain to the old knife, so I hurriedly pulled out the book from under the pillow first: "Old knife, help me take a picture." ”

The old knife helped me open "Black Town" together.

There was nothing new added to the book, and I turned to the last page only to find a line of text written vertically:

[Go and find—

Quiet!

Dark!

Earth!

Palace! 】

"'Go find the Netherworld'? What do you mean? The old knife frowned.

This was the second time I had heard (or seen) these six words, and the first time was in another dream (or hallucination), when I was bitten in the neck by the human-headed monster, Haruko's mother.

Why did I enter a fantasy or dream at that time?

A drop of sweat slipped from my forehead into the corner of my eye, and I subconsciously raised my hand to wipe it, but when my left hand moved, it touched the wound on my neck, and I gasped in pain and grinned.

"Be careful, the wound on your neck is terrifying, like you have been bitten by a giant python, if it weren't for Haruko's herbs, you probably would have been really cold - your body at that time was like a block of ice from Antarctica!"

The old knife turned around and scooped up a brown towel from the plastic basin on the low wooden bench beside him, wringed it out slightly, and handed it to my right hand.

The towel was still warm.

I thanked me, wiped my face first, and then simply asked the old knife to help me take off my shirt and wipe the sweat off my body.

"The tattoo on your back has gotten bigger again...... It's the appearance of a giant python. "The old knife told me.

"I just found out that this thing on my back is called 'Tattoo'."

Next, I roughly told Lao Dao about the two dreams related to the six words "to find the Netherworld Palace", as well as the general origin of "Yu Wen".

The old knife listened silently before he said, "That's how it is." No wonder Qiao Luo and Qiao Zhenbang also have this kind of snake-shaped tattoo on their bodies, it turns out that they are all the tattoos you said. ”

Then, as if remembering something, the boss suddenly looked at me fixedly.

I asked him, "What's wrong?" ”

"I know your book "Blacktown", why don't you write a story."

"Why?"

Because it was a prophecy — remember what it said? You say that's the lyrics, the lyrics of a mourning song! ”

Of course I remember the contents of those words.

[Today's side becomes a permanent secret,

See each other in the future only in a dream.

The rooster crows, and the wheel crows;

Woe, there is no one to replace you.

The rooster Naruto wakes up, everyone wakes up, and only you sleep;

Say goodbye with tears, and now the yin and yang are separated.

Happy family eats happy meal, bad family has no way to cry!

Alas! 】

The Adam's apple between the throat of the old knife shook a few times, and his voice suddenly became dry and sandy:

"Liu Haijun and Zhou Ou, dead."

"What did you say?" I was stunned.

After being bitten by the monster with the head of the snake, I fell into a coma, but before I fell into a coma, I faintly saw Zhou Ou's body lying on the ground - but wasn't Liu Haijun saved his life by Chunzi's medicine, how could he die?

"It was killed by Zhou Ou. At that time, Zhou Ou stood at the top of the stairs as if he had been hit by an evil spirit, and then, I found that on the ceiling above your head, there was a monster with a human head and a snake body, I shot it, but it was useless, the monster still attacked you, and on the other side, Zhou Ou also attacked Cheng Cheng and snatched the gun in Cheng Cheng's hand! ”

When the old knife said this, a painful look appeared on his face: "I should trust Cheng Cheng's judgment and shoot immediately!" However, I hesitated......"

I tentatively guessed, "Zhou Ou...... Shot at Liu Haijun? ”

"......," the old knife nodded with difficulty.

What happened next is no longer used by the old knife to describe: after Zhou Ou shot, the old knife also pulled the trigger and killed Zhou Ou.

I sat on the bed, and in this moment, I was really at a loss.

Little did I know that in those few seconds, we would lose two loyal and reliable teammates!

Even if I am an "outsider" who does not belong to the police department, I can't help but feel deep grief at this time, and I dare not imagine what kind of mood Cheng Cheng, as the head of the Criminal Investigation Division, should be?!

What I didn't expect was that the latest text in the book "Black Town" in my hand turned out to be a prophecy!

Now everything is clear.

It turns out that the book "Black Town" in my hand, before we entered Blackwater Town, the text content that appeared on it was very similar to recording what had happened to us, but in Blackwater Town, it changed, and the words that appeared on the pages of the book were no longer related to our previous encounters, but became prophecies, the meaning was very vague, but it was indeed a prophecy.

And it has become a reality.

The funeral song was written for Liu Haijun and Zhou Ou.

Or, are there many more?

I can't help but blame myself a little...... If I had discovered this earlier, would it have been possible to avoid the deaths of Liu Haijun and Zhou Ou?

No, I had already sensed the danger before I entered Blackwater, but we were still here.

Unless we turn around at that time, tragedy will still happen...... As for now, we can't turn back, we can only go on firmly!

But no matter how much I comforted myself, the discomfort in my heart still did not abate.

After a while, I asked, "Cheng Cheng, and Li Yi, how are the two of them?" ”

"Cheng Cheng is on the supermarket on the first floor, guarding two corpses...... As for Li Yi, that bastard, he still slept dead next door. ”

"Why don't you wake him up, what if there are monsters again?"

"Haruko said that it was already dawn outside, and it was safe now."

"Safety? What about Haruko? ”

"I was still here just now, it looks like I went to the third floor."

"Wake up Li Yi, let's go find Haruko first, I have something to ask her."

Li Yi was stunned by the drug, and the old knife slapped him more than a dozen times before he woke him up.

"You can't be ruthless even if I'm asleep, Brother Dao!" Li Yi covered his face with one hand, wiped the corner of his mouth with the other hand, and looked left and right, "Hey, where is Zhou Ou's kid?" Not there? ”

We didn't have time to explain to him the tragedy that happened while he was sleeping, so we directly asked him to go to the first floor to accompany Cheng Cheng.

No amount of words could be as convincing as the two corpses on the upper floor.

This is the cruel reality, let Li Yi face it directly.

On the third floor, we found Haruko.

It was said that we were forbidden to go up to the third floor, but when Haruko saw us, she didn't say anything, just told us to wait.

Haruko burns paper money in the hallway.

The yellow paper burned quickly, there was no wind in the air, and the ashes swirled upward, and after completely losing its temperature, they scattered in all directions.

Haruko knelt down solemnly and kowtowed three times towards the place where the paper money was scattered.

"Aunt will rest in peace."

I picked Haruko up from the ground, and Haruko's eyes were red with tears, and she nodded at me, choked up and said, "Thank you." ”

Since Haruko said that it was safe now, I didn't have to rush to ask her questions.

And I also stood in the corridor and saw that although the whole of Blackwater Town was still shrouded in thick fog, there were still a few rays of light between the domes in the distance, at least so that we would not stand relatively and not be able to see each other's faces clearly—of course, the wind lantern had always been held in the hand of the old knife.

When Haruko calmed down a little, I asked her:

"Haruko, do you know what the 'Netherworld Palace' is?"

Haruko shook her head at me blankly, and I watched her micro-expressions carefully, making sure she wasn't lying.

I changed the question: "So, what about the 'Bug Pattern'?" What about the 'snake bone woman'? ”

"This ...... I know. The snake bone woman is a monster in a book written by Qiao Zhenbang, and 'Yu' is one of the two strange snake pets raised by the snake bone woman. ”

"It's Qiao Zhenbang's ...... again"

I think back to it, before we were attacked last night, it seems that we were watching Haruko bring it, Qiao Zhenbang's.

Haruko also thought of this, as if she had made up her mind, she pulled my clothes suddenly: "Brother Ji, let's go to the first floor, I'll tell you about that!" In fact, all the monsters that appeared in the town were written by Qiao Zhenbang! ”

When he came to the first floor, Li Yi immediately grabbed me and the old knife, he trembled and pointed to the two corpses that were neatly placed on the door panel, and pointed at himself, his mouth opened and opened, but he couldn't say a word.

"I'm fucking a turtle bastard!"

In the end, Li Yi scolded loudly, turned his back, and his shoulders twitched slightly.

I patted him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort and left him alone for a quiet moment.

As for Cheng Cheng, he sat next to the two corpses, his face looked very dry, and he was obviously extremely sad.

When we picked up the books scattered on the ground, Cheng Cheng sat there all the time, and his only movement was to keep smoking.