Fang Luo felt like he was dreaming.
No, it should be said that he was in a dream.
It’s just that everything he experienced in this dream was so bizarre, so bizarre that he almost thought he had entered a dream within a dream, or had been fascinated by the illusory dream from the very beginning, and everything he saw was an illusion.
Otherwise, the person in front of me has a mysterious origin, and with just a simple and rude meal, he has turned dreams and nightmares into his own food on his plate, and he has eaten several layers of food in one breath. Dreamland, and the boss who has collected countless dreamland energy to make snacks, isn't it really something he imagined in the dreamland
... There is such a person in this world? !
No, no, Fang Luo suspected that he was not human at all.
When layers of dreams disintegrated in front of his eyes like shattered pieces of glass, and this happened several times, Fang Luo became "calm".
His expression changed from joy and anticipation at the beginning to shock and disbelief later on, to calmness and numbness now. Do you even have time to worry about it? This big guy will? Will he? If he eats badly, his stomach will not digest.
As time passed, from one layer of dreams to another, such repetitive behaviors even made Fang Luo a little bored, but the young man walking in front of him was so calm and calm from the beginning to the end, as if Nothing can break his cool, affect his state.
"This is playing with dolls. Break through? Layer after layer, who knows how many dreams there are in total! I? Look at me? It's probably impossible for us to get out." Fang Luo finally couldn't help sighing With a tangled tone and look on his face, "...Big brother, don't we? We've been doing useless work, right?"
"How could it be? It's useless work?"
Here is another layer of dreams. Light and faint mist lingers around, everything in sight is surrounded by thick fog, and the young man's deep voice spreads in the thick fog
Fang Luo pricked up his ears all of a sudden, thinking that he had made some important discovery, but he continued to take it for granted, "At least I? I've grown up. I've eaten a lot, so it's not a loss at all."
"...?" Fang Luoxin? The little flame that had just ignited inside was extinguished with a "swoosh".
He looked at Yuan Buwei like a big loyal minister who watched the emperor be bewitched by the sweet little demon concubine but could do nothing. He was extremely confused and heartbroken.
Fang Luo, who was losing ground in front of the little dessert concubine, sighed deeply, and returned to his listless, half-dead look: "... Forget it, be me? Didn't say anything."
But at this time, Yuan Buwei asked about his situation instead: "By the way, what's your name? How did you get involved in this anomaly before?"
Fang Luo: "???"
Well, I was used as a tool for free for half a day, and I don't even remember my name. It's very real.
While Yuan Buwei was speaking, thousands of strands of jet-black smoke flew out from around him, and naturally flew into the surrounding dense fog, and all the energies that made up this layer of dreamland were absorbed at once. After coming out, the thick mist almost faded in an instant, like a long whale sucking in the sea.
After a while, chaotic energy condensed in Yuan Buwei's palms and became his snack.
The whole process is proficient to the extreme.
Fang Luo on the side behaved as usual, never cast a superfluous glance, just laughed and laughed, and answered the question that he hadn't done before: "My name is Fang Luo, and I'm not a local here. Why? So Misfortune has been involved, and it starts with my graduation trip..."
"... At the beginning, our four friends made an appointment to take a national tour together, but we didn't know that something happened when we arrived at the third stop. Now we don't know where they went, did they leave?..." Fang Luo complained endlessly, "Anyway, I woke up in this ghost place, and I haven't been able to touch anyone for so long!"
The white mist dissipated, and amid the roaring sound, the illusory world around them began to crack again. The two of them fell into another layer of dreamland, and the surrounding space was broken into pieces.
Even in such a state of weightlessness, Shi Shiran's voice, which was originally not careless, came over, like gossip: "So, you haven't met anyone else in this dream? The first time before Didn't you mention how many other people there are in the dream on the first floor? If you want to find your little friends, you haven't asked them?"
"This...really? No." Fang Luo seemed to be awakened suddenly, recalled and said, "Actually, I haven't met the people in the dream on the first floor. I just heard the movement faintly from a distance away. , When we arrived, people seemed to have been dragged into the depths of the white mist by the nightmare beast and wiped out, leaving only some traces. Several people were like this!" He trembled as he spoke.
... If Yuan Buwei didn't show up in time, maybe? He would be the next one.
The weightless body quickly stepped onto the ground, and the surrounding environment gradually changed from virtual to real, and a faint silence suddenly spread
A few seconds later, Yuan Buwei said: "...that's it. I? Probably understand."
Fang Luo was confused, but he didn't understand it and asked suddenly: "Do you know Zhenxi Village?"
Fang Luo was stunned for a moment. As if recalling it in his mind for a long time, he frowned and said, "I seem to have a little impression, maybe? I heard about it somewhere."
While talking, his brows became more and more wrinkled.
The young man's faint voice sounded in his ear: "Did you know? Zhenxi Village is the source of this mutation, and the first dream began to expand from here. I thought you guys had been there during this trip. there."
There seemed to be some regret in his tone. It seems to be a pity that he couldn't get more clues from Fang Luo.
Fang Luo's eyes were in a trance for a moment.
Yuan Buwei said again: "There is always a certain correspondence between dreams and reality. Since Zhenxi Village is the source of all changes, if we can... find the dreams of the villagers of Zhenxi Village, or find the Zhenxi Village in the dream, maybe You can? Solve everything, and you can? Go home smoothly."
Fang Luo froze: "Just find Zhenxi Village?"
"Of course." Yuan Buwei's tone has changed from speculation to complete certainty, "Just find Zhenxi Village."
Suddenly hearing the news, Fang Luo was obviously overjoyed. He looked at Yuan Buwei anxiously, and asked expectantly, "Then how should I find it?"
"It's very simple, isn't this already? Have you found it?"
In the thick fog, Yuan Buwei laughed suddenly, took a few steps forward, and raised his hand.
Swish—
It seemed that an invisible sword split open the thick fog, or a curtain was lifted. Fang Luo ran out after him, and the surrounding scene had already changed drastically.
The heavy night falls from the dome, and the distant mountains and jungles interweave layers of shadows. The small village at the foot of the mountain is shrouded in thick fog.
All around was deathly stillness.
It was pitch black on all sides, and the whole village seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, without a single light. It turned out that the two of them were standing on the small road not far from the entrance of the village.
Under the cold moonlight, the entire village casts long shadows, as if a deep and terrifying aura is brewing in it, exuding a strong sense of ominousness.
An extremely cold breath wafted out.
"Here, here..." Fang Luo stood there for a moment, his face turned pale. His legs stood still as if they had taken root, but the arms hanging by his side subconsciously trembled.
Yuan Buwei glanced at him inexplicably.
Then, it is necessary to step up and walk to the village.
A voice suddenly came from behind and stopped him: "Wait, don't go! It's dangerous!"
In the bushes next to him, a figure strode away from the bushes and came out.
It was a tall young woman, with simple and neat short hair, sharp eyebrows, and a pair of extremely bright eyes, but her face was dirty with many scratches, and she couldn't see clearly face.
She was also in a panic all over her body. Just looking at the messy and broken clothes and the blood on her body, she knew that the other party must have gone through a hard battle not long ago.
She panted lightly, and spoke quickly: "You are the ones from the outside world, right? Don't enter the village rashly! It's dangerous there!!"
Yuan didn't want to look at him: "What do you know?"
While the few people were talking, the village shrouded in thick fog suddenly turned on lights, and a few dogs barked faintly from the entrance of the village, as if they sensed that there were people outside the village, and vaguely a few figures walked over here , shouting towards this side with a strong local accent: "Who is it?"
The woman's expression tightened, and she struggled to breathe. She picked up Fang Luo who was standing still next to her, turned around and walked deep into the grass, urging: "Quick! Come with me!"
"...don't let them find out!!!"
The three of them quickly ran towards the mountain, and the one who followed was the most calm. He looked back at random while walking into the depths of the jungle.
Countless flames had already illuminated the village. In the flames, more and more figures came out, standing at the entrance of the village, looking towards the road.
The firelight illuminated their faces.
Those were stiff, pale faces without any trace of vitality, and they were all looking towards this side.
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"Hoo... I? My name is Lu Jing. Who are you? How did you find this place in the depths of the dream?" Far from the entrance of the village, the three of them walked together in the forest, their pace gradually slowing down. Lu Jing let go of her hand, turned around and asked.
Before the two could answer, she raised her eyebrows: "Since you can find this place through clues, you should know what happened in Zhenxi Village. Now it's a haunted place. How dare you be so reckless!"
Perhaps because of her special status, she always unconsciously carries a sense of admonishment when she speaks.
Fang Luo was taken aback for a moment, with a dazed expression: "What ghost nest? What clues? What happened here? That's how we came here."
As soon as he said this, Lu Jing was stunned: "You don't know anything? This is the deepest part of the dream, and it is impossible for ordinary people to arrive. If you don't know, how did you get in?"
Didn't it mean to push it away? A leaf in front of him, with a relaxed tone and an innocent look: "... came in?"
Fang Luo also looked at her suspiciously, like an emotionless repeater: "That's right, he walked in!"
Lu Jing: "...?"
Speak as you speak, what does the question mark mean? It's very annoying.
She subconsciously recalled that she and her three teammates had gone through untold hardships in the three days since she entered the dream, resolved all kinds of strange dreams, racked her brains to piece together the key key from the various scattered clues obtained, and finally arrived here. experience. Looking at the two innocent faces in front of me again, I feel complicated.
As they walked forward, the three of them exchanged names again, and exchanged some information briefly. In Fang Luo's dancing narration, Lu Jing finally knew how the two of them "walked" in, especially Yuan Buwei all the way. "Great achievements"...
She looked at Yuan Buwei with more complicated eyes.
"You should be an investigator from another sub-bureau, right?" Now that she was deeply in a dream, Lu Jing didn't bother to keep hiding Fang Luo, an ordinary person, so she asked bluntly, "By the way, I? side."
Yuan Buwei nodded: "I? From? Tianshui."
Lu Jing smiled relaxedly, and under Fang Luo's bewildered gaze, she told everything she knew without any concealment: "... Zhenxi Village over there is the source of all changes , and now it has been polluted, forming a place that is almost a spooky domain. I? There are three other companions who followed the clues to investigate here before, but they were attacked in Zhenxi Village. It was only me? I fled with another companion. Because he was seriously injured, I put him here first."
Then, she went to investigate secretly by herself, but she happened to bump into Yuan Buwei and the two of them.
While speaking, the three of them had come to a cave, and Lu Jing was the first to lift the vines and walk in.
In the cave, the man sitting on the ground leaning against the wall looked over vigilantly almost as soon as he heard the movement, and his expression relaxed when he saw Lu Jing.
"Ayu, let me introduce you, these two are..." Lu Jing walked over.
After a while, the four people who got to know each other sat on the ground in the cave, their postures were very casual. Holding a stick, Lu Jing drew a topographic map of Zhenxi Village on the ground. She was most pleased with Yuan Buwei's appearance: "With your participation, I will make a good plan to solve the problem of that haunted den." The confidence is much greater."
After all, no one knows what kind of weird sealed item might emerge from the investigator.
Fang Luo looked here and then there, always feeling like a husky among wolves, he finally couldn't help asking: "What is an investigator? Forget it, It’s probably a secret organization like the Dragon Group, so don’t tell me.” He suddenly smiled awkwardly, “However, why do you say that Zhenxi Village is a haunted place?”
"Me? Let's talk." A Yu, who was leaning against the wall, coughed lightly and said in a hoarse voice, "To be honest, this place is too remote, almost isolated from the world. If it weren't for the sudden change this time, the people in Zhenxi Village would What's going on in the middle of nowhere, we don't know."
"It was because we were looking for clues in layers of dreams that we finally pieced together the cause and effect—on the day when the mutation broke out, the entire Zhenxi Village was killed! It is said... that it was the revenge of the evil spirits. .”
Yuan Buwei's expression was a little weird: "The evil ghost takes revenge?"
"Yes! Didn't we sneak into Zhenxi Village before? We found the truth there—"
"About four years ago, a group of college students who went on a graduation trip seemed to have lost their way in the mountains. They accidentally came to Zhenxi Village and stayed here. Unexpectedly, the village was backward. Closed, there is also a special kind of living sacrifice - there was a beautiful girl among the few students at that time, who somehow became attached to an old bachelor, and the girl knocked her head in the resistance, and died like that. When this happened, the other three boys wanted to report to the police—of course they failed to report. The people in this village were extremely xenophobic, and two of them were killed during the dispute. The last remaining one, because? Worried? He ran out and talked nonsense, they simply sacrificed their lives!"
When speaking, Ayu clenched his fist tightly.
"...About a year ago, the whole world began to change, and Zhenxi Village also had problems. It is said that the boy who was sacrificed alive at that time came back as an evil spirit. At first, it was just a small beating Xiao Nao, later the power of the evil spirits became stronger and stronger, and then on the day when the mutation happened, the entire Zhenxi Village was wiped out!"
Lu Jing frowned, and added: "I don't know if this is a pure coincidence, or if the white mist mutation this time has something to do with that evil ghost. Anyway, the current Zhenxi Village is a ghost village, even if It is projected in the dream, and it is a nest of ghosts. If you want to solve the source of the mutation, you must first solve this nest of ghosts."
Yuan Buwei opened his mouth suddenly, with a very soft voice: "Do you know the name of that evil ghost...that is, the person who was sacrificed back then?"
Lu Jing and the two shook their heads. I'm afraid of those? The villagers don't even know the name of the other party. Where did they know
Yuan Wuwei didn't look at them, but raised his eyes and looked at Fang Luo who suddenly became very silent.
There was peace in his dark pupils.
"Fang Luo, do you know?"