I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 223 The Source of Nightmare (asking for monthly ticket)

Sang Que woke up from the bed again, his heartbeat became stronger, his breathing became faster, and the ticking sound of the clock kept ringing in his ears.

She felt so weak that she could not move. It took her a long time to finally sit up. She was still in the bedroom of her own courtyard in Wangshan City, and there was still no sign of Xia Chan and Xuan Yu.

Her arm was burning with pain. Sang Que pulled up her sleeves. There were many scratches on her pale arm, with blood flowing out. The flesh was turned inside out and was slowly healing. The flowing blood smelled of rice wine.

The healing made her mouth dry and gave her a thirst for blood.

The ghosts I saw when I was knocking on the bowl at the intersection just now were not illusions. The ticking sound in my ears showed that the power of recovery had been triggered and was now in the countdown to the side effects.

The slow healing of the wound and the smell of rice wine emanating from the blood showed that the evil power in her body was not completely gone.

Sangque resisted the irritation brought by the ticking sound, thought calmly for a moment, and soon came up with a bold guess.

She was probably trapped in a nightmare of a nightmare.

How could it be so silent?
Only she was trapped in it. Xia Chan, Xuan Yu, and Hei Lu were not trapped in the nightmare, so she couldn't see them here?

What about everyone else?
What on earth is happening outside?

When Sang Que thought of this, she couldn't help becoming flustered and irritated. She took a deep breath and told herself to calm down again.

No matter what happens, as long as Xia Chan is by her side, he will never abandon her. Her top priority now is to save herself and find a way to wake up.

Sang Que remembered that Yu Da had told her that if one fell into a ghost's dream, one must find the source of the dream and break it in order to wake up.

And in the dream, everyone will become ordinary people. Faced with the ghosts in the nightmare, they have almost no ability to resist and can only avoid them as much as possible.

If you die in a dream, you will die in reality.

However, a person who is cursed cannot be killed directly by a dream ghost before the curse is completed.

Sang Que looked at the slowly healing wound on her wrist again. Back then in Ming Mansion, Cun Yuan swallowed the old monk's cursed heart, so that she also possessed some of the abilities of the immortal curse. The wound can heal faster by consuming her own qi and blood.

Can the power of this curse resist the dream ghost?
She must have died once when she encountered the group of ghosts knocking on the bowls just now. Her power of resuscitation was triggered, which made her unable to judge whether it was the curse that made her "alive" again, or the resuscitation.

Now that the resuscitation has been triggered, even if the twelve-hour countdown has passed, she cannot mark a new time point in her dream, which means that she can no longer use the resuscitation ability in her dream.

It is better not to take any risks and do not rely on the curse. Just think of yourself as an ordinary person with only one life. Be extra careful when you go out next time. Try to find Yu Da and go to the Evil Suppression Bureau to see if there are other people trapped in the nightmare of ghosts.

Sang Que glanced at the palm of her right hand. The talisman money was not omnipotent. In the nightmare, she could not feel its existence. Now she could only rely on herself.

After regaining his strength, Sang Que got off the bed, took his knife, put on his bow and arrow, and left the yard again.

This time she planned to change direction and take a different route and go to the Evil Suppression Bureau first.

At this moment, there was suddenly a noise coming from Kou Yushan's yard next door. Sang Que was shocked and immediately turned back and climbed up to the top of the wall in a few steps.

Kou Yushan was seen sitting behind the main entrance of his yard, looking at the closed door with horror, his whole body shaking uncontrollably.

"Uncle Yushan!"

Sang Que called out softly, and Kou Yushan turned his head suddenly and looked over. When he saw her, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.

Sang Que looked around and after seeing nothing unusual, he flipped over the wall.

Kou Yushan also used his hands and feet to move away from the gate, turned around, got up and ran to Sang Que, "Where have you been? Why didn't I see you just now? I went to your yard to look for you!"

Sang Que was stunned. Could it be that people who were in the dream at the same time might not see it? Are dreams divided or layered?
Without waiting for Sang Que to speak, Kou Yushan swallowed hard. He was usually calm and composed, but now his face turned pale, as if he had encountered something extremely terrifying.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. I remember it now. I remember everything!"

Kou Yushan glanced towards the gate of the courtyard. There was still a bridal sedan parked outside. That was the thing he feared the most in the past. It was because of the appearance of the ghost sedan that his mother had to ride in the ghost sedan instead of his eldest sister. He and his eldest sister escaped and almost died in the wild.

Kou Yushan didn't remember how he was rescued later, but when he saw the bridal sedan and the bright red, he remembered what important thing he had forgotten during this period of time.

"Granny Zhuang's son is back. He is the man you met in Heishan Village!" This sentence made Sang Que open his eyes in shock and look at Kou Yushan in disbelief.

Is Kou Yushan talking about Wan Xiangtou? Does he still remember this incident?

At that time, Yan Daozi wanted to sacrifice the entire village. Sang Que learned about it by eavesdropping on the conversation between Yan Daozi and Wan Xiangtou in the hidden world. Afterwards, he told Kou Yushan everything, including the fact that Wan Xiangtou had controlled a strange bride.

But later on, Kou Yushan forgot everything about her biological mother and her meeting with him.

After that, Sang Que never tried to find out how much Kou Yushan remembered about other things.

Kou Yushan calmed down and continued, "It was about ten days ago. I can't remember the exact time. One morning I went to visit Granny Zhuang and heard at her door..."

Kou Yushan quickly repeated to Sang Que what happened that day. After hearing the noise in the yard, he was noticed by the people inside. When he turned around, he saw a bright red wedding dress. It was a strange bride wearing a red veil, a wedding dress but barefoot.

After he was caught by the evil bride, he thought he was doomed, but then Granny Zhuang came out of the house and stopped Wan Xiangtou.

Wan Xiangtou probably didn't intend to kill him from the beginning, so he just knocked him unconscious. When he woke up, he was standing at the entrance of Cuiliu Lane, feeling dazed and completely unaware of what had happened, and continued to do what he was supposed to do.

After listening to Kou Yushan's words, Sang Que connected all the things in an instant and made a reasonable inference.

During the Gui Dynasty, her thinking ability improved rapidly.

"It seems that Wangshan City will not be peaceful tonight. Granny Zhuang must be the source of the nightmare. She was chosen by them from the beginning. If things go wrong, the whole city will be in a nightmare now. We can't delay any longer. We must leave the nightmare quickly. Otherwise, if something happens outside, we won't even have the ability to resist. Even if we can wake up by then, it will be too late!"

The strong sense of uneasiness made Sang Que unable to control his frenzy. He clenched his long sword tightly and wanted to chop to vent his anger.

Granny Zhuang has been managing the files at the Suppression of Evils Bureau for many years and remembers many files of strange cases. Letting the dream ghost parasitize in Granny Zhuang's nightmares is simply an unsolvable existence.

Just imagine, all the strange cases that happened in the city over the years are now appearing in Wangshan City because of Granny Zhuang’s memory. How many of the more than 30,000 people in the city can survive?
No wonder when I went to see Grandma Zhuang yesterday, she refused to go to sleep no matter what. Although she was suffering from dementia, her subconscious mind was still on guard against this matter. Unfortunately, no one took what she said seriously.

And maybe this is the reason why Granny Zhuang has been relying on tranquilizing soup to fall asleep for so many years and has lived alone in Cuiliu Lane.

The tranquilizing soup can allow her to fall directly into a deep sleep without having nightmares or attracting nightmare ghosts.

If she accidentally attracted one, there would be no one else in Cui Liu Lane, and her nightmare would not drag innocent people into her dream. As long as she could be discovered in time, it would be enough for her to die alone.

It's a pity that Granny Zhuang's son turned out to be Wan Xiangtou of the ghost opera troupe. Granny Zhuang suddenly fell ill, and her nightmare directly dragged the whole city into her dreams, which must be related to Wan Xiangtou.

What do the ghost troupe want to do? Massacre the city?
No, the whole thing was not without any flaws. Even thinking back now, there were flaws everywhere. But why was there not a single person in the Evil Suppression Bureau who had any suspicions?
Not to mention Wei Ziyan, how could someone like Yu Da, who deals with all kinds of strange cases every day and is extremely sensitive and cautious about evil spirits, completely ignore the abnormality of Granny Zhuang?

Sang Que felt that there was a force here that interfered with everyone's judgment before the incident happened. This force was very similar to...

Storyteller!
A chill rushed to his head, making Sangque tremble all over.

Sang Que clenched his sword tightly, trying to suppress the panic in his heart. The more protagonists and supporting characters the storyteller had in his story, the more he would be eroded by the strange power. If he wanted to include more than 30,000 people in the city in the story, he would probably die within a quarter of an hour.

So they are definitely not caught up in the storyteller’s tale right now.

Just like in Tianliang City, the mother used the beginning of the story to influence Chengge's plan.

Let what was supposed to happen happen in advance, make all coincidences appear natural, and let all flaws be cleverly ignored.

This is all the storyteller can do. What really drives the whole thing forward is the ghost troupe.

If the ghost troupe does not lay the groundwork and make detailed plans, the storyteller will not be able to influence the troupe members to take the initiative to do these things.

After the incident in Tianliang City ended, she and her mother analyzed it together. Using the power of storytellers to push events forward was the only way to bring together related people and accelerate related events to happen in advance at the appropriate time.

What the outcome will be depends on how the people involved act.

Just like an open ending to a story, which creates infinite possibilities, the story has no formal beginning, no set process, no fixed ending, and it is not certain who will win or lose.

No matter what the purpose of the ghost troupe is, she must leave the dream as soon as possible, otherwise if something happens outside that causes her body to die or be destroyed, she will still die even if she wakes up.

Sang Que's eyes were determined. "Uncle Yushan, just stay here and don't go anywhere. I'm going to find Granny Zhuang!"