MTL - Urban Tales of Demons and Spirits-Chapter 198 Real dream

Wen Jiubai looked at me and sighed, "Because, what you see is just a dream. Bayi Chinese website W? W? WQ.81YW.COM"

"What?" I retorted with almost no hesitation. "No, it's impossible. I know what I've experienced. It can't be dreaming. If it's dreaming, it's too real."

"I said you were dreaming, but I didn't say they were false." Wen Jiubai came coldly, saying this.

I looked up in surprise and cast doubt on Wen Jiubai. Wen Jiubai stood up, sighed, and started in the room.

"Before the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, people believed that dreams were the gateway to another world. People in the Shang Dynasty made special incense and tried to peek into the future through dreaming. However, because of their wrong gossip algorithm, they did not succeed then. With the raging flames of war, people have gradually forgotten this saying, and dreaming has become just dreaming. "

I frowned and looked at Wen Jiubai, somehow in my heart. But the subconscious told me that Wen Jiubai might have something important to say, so he still resisted interrupting him.

"But there is no problem with this theory." Wen Jiubai said quietly, "Dream is a completely independent spiritual world, it is free from all material worlds. Have you ever experienced this? When you dream, you I feel like I've been dreaming for a long, long time, but after waking up I don't find myself sleeping for an hour? "

I nodded with a half-knowledge.

"Or when I dream, my memory is very clear, but when I wake up, I can only remember the scattered fragments of words?" Wen Jiubai came over and pulled out the three incenses that had burned out in the incense burner, rubbing it with slender fingers, "Or sometimes, your dream can predict the future, something that hasn't happened yet. After it's born, you suddenly realize it-I seem to have dreamed about it last night."

"So what?" I finally couldn't help interrupting him, and said, "Everyone has had a similar experience, and that's not a big deal."

Wen Jiubai showed a somewhat helpless smile and sighed, "You humans. Everyone has had similar experiences, but no one has thought about why."

I can't help but follow Wen Jiubai's thinking and ask: "Why?"

"Because dreams are not just an activity made when the human brain is bored, it is also a crack." Wen Jiubai said seriously.

"Crack? What crack?"

"Reality and fantasy, yin and yang, death and life, past and future, dreams can connect them." Wen Jiubai looked at my eyes and said, "If the dream is used properly, it can also be a communication between the two. Bridge. "

Wen Jiubai's complicated words disturbed my head. I made a "pause" gesture, trying to extract the effective part from Wen Jiubai's words.

"So you mean, I can go directly to my past or future by dreaming?"

"And ignore the barriers of time and space, yes." Wen Jiubai said affirmatively, "the premise is to use the correct method accurately, otherwise you may never sleep forever in a dream."

and many more……

What does Wen Jiubai mean? I wandered through his words in my head, and quickly reached a terrible conclusion.

"Do you mean ..." I looked at him in horror, and said carefully, "The scenes I saw were all in the future. They were born real? Those were the real future?"

Wen Jiubai nodded, confirming my guess.

The amount of information contained in this nodding action is too large for people to digest. I took a deep breath, and my eyes widened.

"Well, let's talk one by one." I asked. "When did it start?"

"When you get off the bus." Wen Jiubai calmly replied, "I lied to your two friends and said that your health was not comfortable and took you back to the old house."

Wen Jiubai's frankness surprised me a little, but then came the anger of being deceived.

"So I've been dreaming since then?" I asked.

Wen Jiubai nodded, "The dream you told me about blood rain and fog is just a natural resistance that your body wants to wake up from sleep, a dream in a dream."

In this way, Shi Yitong and Su Xiaoyi did not see the terrible sight, which gave me some relief.

"Well, then the second question. You must answer me honestly." I glared at Wen Jiubai. "You stopped me halfway and tried to hypnotize me with that strange incense. For what? If you don't give me a proper answer, I will never spare you! "

"Gu Yu, I'm really sorry." Wen Jiubai's face apologized. "If I have other methods, I will never choose this method."

"what is the problem?"

"The next day you went to Diecui Mountain, an old friend sent me a letter." Wen Jiubai said, and took out a yellow letter from his arms.

I took the letter in doubt, and looked up and down. This letter looks old, not only the paper is yellow, but it is also quite crispy to the touch. I'm afraid I'll break it by accident.

"It doesn't matter, take it apart." Wen Jiubai raised his chin.

I carefully opened the envelope and pulled out a piece of yellowed stationery from the inside. After unfolding it, the characters inside were even traditional characters.

——To Mr. Wen:

There is a nightmare, Zhijun is in danger, and he cannot sleep all night. The seal man is not dead, and you must not take it lightly. In his dream yesterday, the Taoist priest came by the year and was full of intentions. Jun fell in a pool of blood, and Yu could not do anything. This letter can only be used as a warning when it is sent in the future.

I wish you all the best.

There is no signature at the end of the letter, but judging from Wen Jiubai's reaction, he should know very well who the sender is.

"I'm finished." I returned the letter to Wen Jiubai. "So ... who wrote this letter? It looks old."

"This letter I just received a few days ago. But it is interesting that this old friend who sent me a letter has passed away for many years, so this letter is so yellow and old." Wen Jiubai wrote the letter She drew back into her arms again.

"How come?" I was a little surprised.

"My friend, he is a diviner and is proficient in the gossip of the Zhou dynasty. Sometimes he can also predict the future through dreams." Wen Jiubai said, "He should have foreseen that the Taoist will attack me shortly after his death. I wrote this letter deliberately and asked someone to send it in at the right time to warn me of the danger I will have in the near future. "

"So it is," I mumbled, thinking about the contents of the letter, "but ... there is a sentence in the letter that I cannot read."

"Ok?"

"He said‘ the priest comes by the year ’, what does that mean? What parable?” I asked.

"No, it's not a metaphor. It's literal." Wen Jiubai said calmly.

"Literally?" I was more confused, "I don't understand ..."

"He said New Year, referring to the monster called New Year." Wen Jiubai sighed, "I believe you all heard that story when you were young, about why people want Chinese New Year."

I nodded hesitantly, "Because ... there used to be a monster called Nianbei who always went to the village to eat people. Later the villagers were afraid of the sound of red and firecrackers. Rush away. Hey, aren't you telling me that the beast is actually a real thing! "

Wen Jiubai nodded, "Why not?"

"Because it's all a kidding story. There's nothing credible." I said with an incredible expression.

Wen Jiubai looked at me ridiculously, "You've all experienced so many incredible things, but you don't want to believe that the Nian Beast really exists?"

"But this is not the same." I insisted, "Other ghosts are based on evidence. Ghosts are spirit bodies generated after death, and spirits are creatures that have obtained IQ and strength after cultivation. But the story of the beast It's really ridiculous, because the New Year is simply based on the Chinese calendar, and the calendar is calculated based on the moon's gloomy sky, and it has nothing to do with any monster. "

Wen Jiubai thought for a moment and said, "Well, you are not wrong. But in fact, Nianju is a monster that is more troublesome than the legend. In fact, it is not a monster, even I am not sure. Maybe we still use a more appropriate word-call it 'bio'. "

This is the first time I have seen Wen Jiubai use such ambiguous words to describe something, and I can't help being more curious.

"You say people are celebrating the New Year because of the calendar, and this is not wrong. But the existence of the Nianbei does not contradict the calendar, because it is a living creature on the time axis." Wen Jiubai looked at me with scorching eyes.

"Live on ... the timeline?" I couldn't figure it out anymore.

"The year has no substance and does not exist in the world where we stand. If the world we live in is a three-dimensional space, then the year is a living four-dimensional creature." Wen Jiubai said slowly, "Thinking is its body Time is its food. It can exist in both the past and the future, and it doesn't belong to any time and space. Imagine how terrible it would be if such a creature attacked your village. "

I opened my mouth in surprise.

"The Year Beast does eat people. It's just not the way you imagine." Wen Jiubai continued. "The Year Beast eats time, or all the time a person lives in the world. The Year Beast can control time. The person who is eaten by it is not simply dead or disappeared, but it is completely erased from time. The people around him will not even remember that there was this person. "