The night seemed to be covered with a strange gauze, and the woman's singing became more and more depressing.
In the hall, Xu Zimo looked at Member Hu and smiled, then pulled out the Ba Ying behind him, and stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife.
When the scimitar entered the body, there was no blood dripping as imagined, but Xu Zimo's whole body became illusory.
Xiao Guizi and the three at the side looked at each other, and they all swallowed.
"It's just suicide, it's nothing to be afraid of," Lin Ruhu yelled, and also picked up a knife and stabbed himself in the abdomen.
Seeing this situation, Hu Yuanwai and Xiao Guizi nodded at each other, then gritted their teeth and took a knife to do the same.
The bodies of the four fell silently in the hall, and as the night grew darker, the dimly lit lights began to flicker.
...
The scimitar entered the body without the slightest pain. The four of Xu Zimo only felt that the scene in front of them became unreal, and the scene in the hall began to distort.
When the sight of the four returned to normal, Member Hu was surprised to find that they were sitting at the dining table in the side hall.
The leftover food on the dining table has not been cleaned up, and the fish in the rice bowl exudes a slight fishy smell.
"How could this be?" Mr. Hu was a little confused.
He remembered that after a few people finished their meal at night, he clearly saw the servants clearing the table, and they went to the hall.
Member Hu stood up, and at the door of the side hall stood the only two remaining servants in the entire Hu Mansion.
The eyes of the two servants were tightly closed, and Mr. Hu patted their shoulders twice.
Neither of them reacted at all, and they seemed to be breathing steadily, as if they were asleep.
Seeing everyone's suspicious eyes, Xu Zimo stood up and said with a smile: "The night is approaching, and the entire Shili Town will be shrouded in a dream.
Before dawn, people will return to reality from dreams. "
"You mean to say that everything we've experienced since the meal we just had, including suicide, is all a dream?" Hu Yuanwai asked in horror.
"In shallow dreams, you will wake up as long as you are frightened, but in deep dreams, except for suicide, you will never be able to get rid of the shadow of dreams," Xu Zimo explained.
"I understand, Wang Tao's death was like this before." Xiao Guizi's eyes lit up and shouted, "Wang Tao and the others patrolled the Hu Mansion that night, but in fact, everything was a dream scene.
But in reality, everyone has fallen asleep and become meat on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.
No wonder, after dawn the next day, when the dream returned to reality, we found out that Wang Tao had been dead for six or seven hours.
It turned out that he had been killed in his dream that night. "
"It can be understood in this way. For example, tonight, we have been in a dream since we finished eating," Xu Zimo nodded and said, "As for Hu Yuanwai's servants to clean up the table, we will go to the hall together, even if it is suicide. It’s all just something that happened in a dream.”
"So that's how it is," Hu Yuanwai nodded suddenly, and then asked suspiciously: "Mr. Xu, who is the murderer?"
"When we were eating, whoever was missing now is the murderer," Xu Zimo replied with a smile.
Several people looked at each other with doubts on their faces.
Xiao Guizi pondered, "Aren't we all here?"
"Are you sure?" Xu Zimo asked with a smile on his lips.
The next moment, the three of them opened their eyes wide at the same time, as if a flash of inspiration flashed in their heads, and shouted that name together.
"Hu Yingying!"
"How is it possible? My daughter is only four years old," said Hu Yuanwai, who took two steps back, unwilling to believe it.
"Some time before the accident in your Hu mansion, didn't your daughter suffer from a serious illness?" Xu Zimo looked at Mr. Hu seriously, and asked word by word: "Are you sure she is really your daughter?"
Member Hu's face was pale, and he thought carefully about some of his daughter's recent actions.
It is true that since his daughter became seriously ill, he felt a little strange to him, but he never paid much attention to it, only thinking that it was the unpredictable character of a child.
...
The melodious and desolate singing voice still rang in my ears, but unlike the ethereal feeling in the dream, this time the singing voice sounded very real.
Member Hu walked out of the side hall and began to search for the source of the singing.
Along the way, Xiao Guizi asked suspiciously: "Brother Xu, since we were all in a dream before, why didn't she kill us all at once, instead killing us one by one?"
"To be precise, it's not that she doesn't want to kill us all at once, but she's feeding us," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"Feeding?" Xiao Guizi muttered to himself, as if she didn't quite understand the word.
Xu Zimo smiled and didn't explain much.
Hu Yuanwai walked in the front, the singing in his ears became more and more clear, and finally several people stopped in front of a small courtyard.
"This is the yard where Ying'er's room is located," Hu said with an embarrassed look outside.
Several people walked into the courtyard and kicked open the door in the center.
The singing stopped abruptly, and in front of the window of the room, Hu Yingying was wearing a long pure white dress, sitting on the window sill, her two slender legs were swinging in the air.
She looked at the people who broke in with a surprised expression, holding a harmonica-like object in her hand, and she was gently blowing on it at her mouth.
At Hu Yingying's feet, there was a little red beast lying down. The little beast had no hands and feet, and it looked like a dolphin.
Seeing the arrival of the crowd at this time, the little beast slowly opened its eyes, and its light body was floating in the air, a bit like a jellyfish.
Its nose and mouth are so small that they can be ignored, and its two round eyes look very cute and innocent.
"Ying'er, is that you?" Member Hu said with a trembling voice.
"Daddy, what are you talking about?" Hu Yingying asked innocently with wide open eyes.
"You're not Yingying," Hu Yuanwai was silent for a while, and then slowly stepped aside.
Hu Yingying wasn't flustered either, she just looked at everyone jokingly.
The little red beast was floating in the air, looking like it was about to attack at any time.
"Hey, I said you people from Shenmen don't stay in the old land well, what are you doing in our far west land to make trouble?" Xu Zimo stepped forward and asked with a smile.
"It seems that there are still people who have seen the world among you," Hu Yingying said with a light snort, "You must have seen through my dream world."
"Your dream world?" Xu Zimo shook his head with a smile, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the dreams here are all arranged by this little guy."
Xu Zimo looked at the little red beast, clicked his tongue, and said, "Nightmare beast, the existence that ranks seventh in the world's strange objects list!"