When I returned to the room, I found Wang Zijun awake, sitting in the bedroom, smoking and daydreaming, with a look of fear in his eyes. I thought to myself, the curtains were open, the room was full of sunlight, could he be possessed by evil spirits
"What were you doing just now? I had a nightmare. I dreamed that there were corpses all over the dark rocky beach, and a dark shadow was holding a dagger and picking open the crotch of the corpses to cut off the thing that would carry on the family line." As soon as he saw me enter the room, he hurriedly told me, "It scared me so much that I wanted to run but my legs were as soft as noodles and I couldn't move them."
I put all the incense and candles on the windowsill to dry, and asked him, "Did you see what the black shadow looks like?"
"No, he heard me behind him and just turned his head, and I woke up with fright." Wang Zijun said and took a deep puff of his cigarette.
It is normal for people to have nightmares when they are stimulated, but Wang Zijun's dream was not normal. He did not follow us to the rocky beach at all, so how could he dream of that scene? I looked up at the house. There was still a lot of evil spirits here, and people living in it could not live in peace.
"It's okay. Sometimes nightmares are a good thing." I tried my best to comfort him.
"Knock knock knock" someone knocked on the door loudly. I guessed it must be Shen Bing, so I nodded to Wang Zijun, signaling him to put on his clothes. After Wang Zijun put on his clothes, I walked over to open the door. Shen Bing rushed in and shouted, "Oh no, I just had a nightmare again. I dreamed that there were three men and a woman running around the mountain being chased by a ghost."
The dreams they were having were all real and must have happened. I was about to ask about the details of the dream, but Wang Yang and Qu Mo also came over and said they had just had a nightmare. Wang Yang dreamed that Chen Ming was running around in a valley, as if someone was chasing him, and he looked very frightened. Qu Mo said that in her dream she saw a person who could change into the appearance of the four of us at will, constantly changing his face, which was very scary!
Wang Yang dreamed that Chen Ming was running away, which meant that he was not dead. This was good news. Qu Mo's dream confirmed Tang Xiaohan's words. This ghost thing was good at changing and could transform into the appearance of people he had seen.
I first asked Shen Bing to tell me what the three men and one woman looked like. Shen Bing said that it was very dark and she couldn't see clearly, but one of the men looked very much like Chen Ming as described by Wang Yang. I then asked Wang Yang to tell me about her dream. Although she only dreamed of Chen Ming, the location and surrounding environment she described were basically consistent with what Shen Bing said, all in a deep valley.
Huangshan is a vast area with countless deep valleys. Where can we find them? But this matter cannot be delayed. We must find them during the day. Otherwise, when night falls, let alone saving people, we can hardly protect ourselves. I asked Wang Yang if he had preserved any hair or skin from Chen Ming's body.
Wang Yang thought about it, then suddenly looked up and said, "Yes." She took out a small, delicate sachet similar to a scented bag from her pocket, and opened it to reveal a few strands of hair, some long and some short. She said that when they made a wish at Huangshan, they both pulled out a few strands of hair and put them together, to represent never being apart.
I asked her to pick out Chen Ming's hair, wrap it around my fingers, and start soul-searching. Finally, I added a few more pieces of paper before my fingers stopped. The location was further ahead of where Tang Xiaohan died, basically twice the distance we had walked before.