Calamity Dance

Chapter 17 The real dream

The morning sun in the equatorial region was already a bit harsh, and Xu Qingquan's forehead was a little red from the sun, and he was sweating profusely.Sanqianying looked at him and said, "Is there any problem? Be quiet, what did you find?"

Xu Qingquan looked around, took Sanqianying's hand, and walked to the door of the old aunt's house at the beginning of the village. The two of them hid in a small grass pile without showing their faces.Xu Qingquan whispered, "Look carefully at this old aunt, and see what she is doing now." Sanqianying looked in through the gap in the fence.

The old aunt just now was sitting on a small bench under the steps in the yard, knitting a straw hat, squinting, as if she couldn't see clearly.She moves very skillfully, and the straw hat has already taken shape. "I'm knitting a straw hat, what's the problem?" Sanqianying didn't know why, "I remember that she also had a straw hat at the beginning, so she must have been knitting all the time."

"Do you remember what the straw hat she was knitting at the beginning looked like?" Xu Qingquan continued to observe inside.

"I don't remember clearly, what's the problem with this? Isn't it just a straw hat." Sanqianying still didn't find anything unusual, but seeing Xu Qingquan's serious look, she subconsciously maintained her vigilance.

"Look again, think about it, is this the same straw hat?" Xu Qingquan looked at Sanqianying.

Sanqianying turned her eyes back to the straw hat, and she began to recall the scene when she first met this old aunt. "Villages, yards, fences, old aunts, unfinished straw hats..." Sanqianying silently recited these things.Suddenly, she seemed to have found some clues, turned her head and looked at Xu Qingquan with wide eyes and said, "The straw hat in her hand is not the one at the beginning!"

"Yes, this is the clue!" Xu Qingquan said, "When we first entered the village, the round straw hat in her hand was woven almost to the brim, and it was almost ready to be closed. Yes, a straw hat that has just finished the main frame of the head, not the same one at all!"

"Could it be that she has finished knitting the straw hat just now and started knitting a new one?" Sanqianying said with doubts.

"If you look at her movements again, it has only been half an hour since we entered the village, and we stood here watching her for three to five minutes. She didn't even finish a round of knitting. How could she finish the previous one and start a new one?" Weaving. Otherwise, she is short-sighted and unraveled the straw thread of the hat just now three or four times." Xu Qingquan replied, and at the same time he continued to observe the yard.

"Come on, let's go over and have a look." Xu Qingquan walked over first, but the eyes of the two were still fixed on the old aunt.

Seeing the two people appearing, the old aunt stood up, walked towards Xu Qingquan and Sanqianying with a smile, "What's the matter, young man?"

"It's okay, auntie, let's just go around, it doesn't matter!" Xu Qingquan responded with a smile.

"Girl, you are the one who came yesterday, is there anything else?" The old aunt said to Sanqianying who was following behind.

"Auntie, let's go around, because the signal is special..." Sanqianying replied with a smile, but her smile froze immediately.This scene seemed familiar, it was exactly the conversation between the old aunt and me when I first entered the village half an hour ago.She didn't continue, Xu Qingquan interrupted her, "We'll be back in a while, don't worry about us!"

"Okay, then I will continue to work!" The old aunt turned and left, returning to her house.This scene is exactly the same as the previous scene.

"What's going on here?" Sanqianying was very puzzled, she was confused by the looping scene just now.

"I suspect that this village is just like the system preset, saying the programmed words and doing specific actions to the people and things I see." Xu Qingquan replied, "The reason why I find it a bit strange is because In this village far away from civilized society, it’s okay to have empty-nest old people. In such a backward place, in such dilapidated houses and courtyards, why are there still young people and children? They don’t usually go out to work or go to school? ?” He paused, and continued, “If we continue to move forward, then, if nothing else happens, we will meet those people just now, and what those people said is probably the same as what we just said.”

Sanqianying suddenly realized, her vigilant nerves became more and more tense, "I see, how did you find out?"

"I used to repair machines all the time. Some simple Homo sapiens would sometimes be sent to me for repairs. After being prescribed what to do and what to say, those Homo sapiens would do repetitive actions over and over again." Xu Qingquan explained to Sanqianying, "I went back to the village just now and saw that old woman weaving a different hat there, so I decided to give it a try. Sure enough, she said the same thing as you, and I, because I didn't show up yesterday , so it’s a completely different reaction to me.”

"It seems that things are not that simple. People in the original village may have had an accident. The rescue signal is real!"

"Strange, then why only we received the signal, but the imperial patrol did not? Logically speaking, they should do these things." Xu Qingquan asked Sanqianying.

"It's possible that they have already been here, but they encountered something else." Sanqianying said that she was not too clear.But at this time, neither of them knew what to do next.Sanqianying took off the jade ring hanging around her neck and put it on her index finger.

"What is this? Is it a magic weapon?" Xu Qingquan asked when she saw her put on the ring.

"Almost, basic spells can be cast through incantations and charms, and this can enhance the spell's ability." Sanqianying twirled the ring and explained.

"Then what should we do now? Since this is the rainforest, the base camp of Homo sapiens back then, and now there are these holographic images that look very similar to Homo sapiens, is this all caused by Homo sapiens?" Xu Qingquan asked Sanqianying, he a little nervous.Ever since he was killed by an unknown energy source from the Myers mech, he has reacted a little bit aggressively to anything related to machinery.

"It may not be that simple!" Sanqianying didn't look at Xu Qingquan, clasped her hands together, and then drew with her left hand in the air, a purple circle instantly appeared in the air.Xu Qingquan took a closer look, the purple circle seemed to be composed of electric current, and he didn't know where it came from. Could it be magic!Sanqianying raised her right hand, and the purple circle moved in front of her, and it continued to grow larger as her right hand expanded, and then passed over the heads of the two, enveloping them from top to bottom.

"What is this! Is it trapping us on the ground?" Xu Qingquan felt very miraculous. The last time he saw such a miraculous thing was in the fairy tale book he drew when he was a child.

"The energy field can sense the danger within a radius of one meter and provide us with simple protection." Sanqianying explained.

"Is it the same as the electromagnetic shield on the Imperial plane? You actually made one empty-handed!" Xu Qingquan said in surprise.

"How do you know that the empire's aircraft didn't learn from us." Sanqianying didn't answer directly.Xu Qingquan was taken aback for a moment, although he didn't know the meaning of her words, but he still felt that what he was experiencing now was very wonderful.

"Okay. However, if this is the holographic projection of Homo sapiens, if you want to cover up something, then you need a lot of projection devices anyway. Those projection devices have to cover the village in all directions, otherwise it won't be possible to do it all. The angle tricked us."

"In this case, it's not a big problem to cause some damage, right?" Sanqianying showed a strange smile. While speaking, she grabbed it with her right hand in the air, as if pinching a ball of air, and then pushed it with both hands , as if pushing out the mass of air just now.After the mass of air was pushed out by Sanqianying, it made a loud crackling sound, and hit the fence of the old aunt's courtyard just now.Xu Qingquan subconsciously covered his ears, but since he only had one hand, the cracking sound made him take two steps back, and his eardrums buzzed.The fence wall was smashed into a hole by the air wave. However, what you can see through the fence wall is a mass of darkness, which is not the courtyard you saw just now.The hole in the fence wall is like a hole torn out of a movie screen. The movie is still showing normally on the screen, but no mirror image can be projected from the hole.

"Sure enough, I just said that this is a fiction!" Xu Qingquan was very excited, and felt a little happy that he had helped, "What's the name of this trick? Is there any famous name?"

"It's just an ordinary air spell. Let's go in and have a look!" Sanqianying said to Xu Qingquan as she stepped forward.

Xu Qingquan followed her footsteps, and the energy field drawn just now also moved around their feet.

Through the hole in the fence wall, the two were able to see the whole village from behind the phantom, and the real village scene left them dumbfounded.

It has been completely destroyed, as if it has been bombed, and no house is intact. "The smell of blood." Although Xu Qingquan couldn't see any traces of blood, Xu Qingquan's keen perception still allowed him to catch the smell of blood.With a tense expression, he continued to look around, but to his surprise, he originally thought that this was a scene constructed by hundreds of projection devices, but none of them saw it.And even in the area that was broken just now, it doesn't seem like any machinery has been damaged.This surprised him very much.

"It's a nightmare-eating tapir." Sanqianying said, "Everyone here should be in danger!"

"Ah? What? Explain clearly." Xu Qingquan didn't even know what Sanqianying was talking about, and he didn't even have a concept of how to write these words.

"It's a kind of beast that devours people's spirits, extremely ferocious." Sanqianying explained.

"It's something in your oriental legends. It's about eating nightmares and taking away bad luck. I thought it was a legend!" Xu Qingquan reacted.

"This is not a legend, it really exists. These creatures take pleasure in the human spirit, feed on the brain, and trick others into being fooled by constructing illusory scenes."

Xu Qingquan thought of the beast spirits, but never expected that these creatures existed in the rainforest of Tyrande.He clenched his fists, ready for a threat.

(End of this chapter)