Chapter 195: Nightmare

The dark night, dark clouds cover the moon, and almost nothing can be seen clearly. Only the glimmer of light from the clouds can barely see the general outline of things.

In a deserted wilderness, I stood in front of a black dry well and looked in. From time to time, gusts of cold wind blew behind me, and the shadows that seemed to be reflected by the wellhead also swayed, in a daze, as if they were dancing a strange dance, and every movement made people feel extremely gloomy. In such an atmosphere, it was no longer like my own shadow, but a black demon imprinted on the ground, a soul-devouring ghost who was eager to rush into the world from the underworld.

The surroundings were surprisingly quiet, including the dry well. On the ground at the bottom of the well, a woman in white was lying on the ground. Her hair was disheveled, covered in blood, and crawling on the ground without moving. She didn't know whether she was dead or alive at this time.

Although I couldn't see her face, I vaguely realized that I knew this person and that I was a person I could never know again.

My instinct told me that there was a great danger slowly approaching me. I wanted to leave here immediately, but my legs were as if they were nailed to the ground. No matter how hard I tried, I could not move half an inch to the side. I had to stare at the bottom of the well nervously, with goosebumps on my body layer by layer.

In the dim light, the woman's body suddenly shook for a while, and then I heard an extremely long inhalation sound. Immediately afterwards, the woman trembled violently. With the sound of sinister laughter, her long black hair also stood up one by one, floating in the air above her head in a swaying manner.

Although the sound was very ghostly, I could still hear it was Gao Lin's voice. I don't know why she became like this, but I thought it would be extremely sad to feel under this dry well full of sludge.

So I hurriedly lay down at the wellhead and shouted at her: "Gao Lin! Why are you here? Don't worry, I'll find a way to save you!"

Gao Lin sneered at the bottom of the well, and then said, "What are you going up? Why don't you come down? Can you come down and accompany me?" The voice of his speech was as thin as a mosquito, but it was clearly heard into my ears. Listening to the resentful and cold voice, I suddenly felt a chill coming, and I gradually realized that something seemed to be right in Gao Lin in front of me.

At this moment, Gao Lin's head, which had been lowering her head, suddenly raised her. Her pale cheeks were covered with blood, her eyes were round and protruding outward, and her entire eyeballs were all black, with no trace of white at all. Her mouth opened to her ears in a terrifying way, and blood was constantly leaking out from the torn position. In the bloody mouth, a bright red tongue hung incredibly on her chest.

I was immediately shocked and wanted to exclaim, but it seemed that I was strangled by something, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any sound.

As Gao Lin's eyes widened, the tongue also stretched infinitely from her mouth, and the sticky red saliva flowed slowly, I hurriedly struggled with all my strength, but my body seemed to be out of control, and I couldn't move in no way.

At the same time, Gao Lin's feet also left the ground and slowly floated up. The corners of her blood-flowing mouth kept rising, as if she wanted to make a smile, but because of her terrifying facial features, it became more and more shrill, making people feel a hundred times worse than ghost crying.

I was frightened by the scene in front of me and sweated heavily. I couldn't figure out why Gao Lin turned into this. Just when I was in great horror, the tongue slowly wrapped around my neck, and Gao Lin's body also rose to a position parallel to me.

She stared at me with her black ghost eyes and approached me bit by bit. When she was facing the tip of my nose, she suddenly opened her mouth and said softly, "Do I... look good?"

My mind suddenly buzzed, and I could no longer suppress the fear in my heart. I opened my throat and screamed "ah". At the same time, I also opened my eyes due to excessive fright, and suddenly sat up from the bed. I was stunned for a while, and then I realized that I was dreaming that I was actually awakened by the terrifying scene in the dream.

I let out a long breath, grabbed my soaked pajamas with my hands and slapped them a few times, and meditated on the plot in my dream for a while, and always felt that the terrifying nightmare was really abnormal, completely like it happened in reality. I couldn't help but shivered and hurriedly walked out of bed and pulled the curtains open.

At this time, the sky was still gloomy and not bright. In Beijing in late autumn, six or seven o'clock in the morning was the coldest period. I stood silently at the desolate scenery outside the window, and the thoughts in my mind still did not come back from the nightmare just now.

I picked up a cigarette and lit one, trying my best to relax my still tense nerves. Through the graceful smoke, the dead leaves falling from time to time in my sight made me feel a lot more calm, and my mood also fell into deep thought with the dancing fallen leaves.

It has been a month since I came back from ***, but I still feel exhausted and spend almost every day in a drowsy sleep. I often dream about Gao Lin, and every time she appears in the form of a ghost, either glaring at her eyes or grinning, always trying to harm me with a hideous face.

As the saying goes, "I think about it on the day and have some dreams at night." This sentence does make some sense. The reason why I dreamed of Gao Lin in a ghostly way is perhaps because this person has changed too much in my heart. From a lively and beautiful young girl to that mysterious woman who acts mysteriously and has a sinister mind, I can't accept it at this point.

During the period after returning to Beijing, I was always analyzing and pondering the origin of her changes, but when I thought about it carefully, I knew too little about her. In addition to having the opportunity to have a meal and watch a movie with her, I rarely get the opportunity to communicate with her, and even know very little about her family background. What I can know about her background is only limited to the level of ordinary classmates.

During her injury recovery in the valley under the floating bridge, we had also made a general analysis of Gao Lin's whereabouts. Everyone was convinced that this person should have left the ghost town before us. With the cleverness and cunning she showed in the later period, she would never stay there waiting for us to catch her. And since she escaped from our noses, we could never find any trace of her. It is estimated that she had finished what she wanted to do when we fought against many blood demons, and then escaped from the ghost town. But since then she had evaporated like the world, and she never went back to the inn at Mu Feng's feet.

What is the real purpose of Gao Lin entering the ghost city? Ding Yi said she was going to go in and look for something special, so did she find this thing? Who instructed her to do this behind her back? How did she know that the thing was stored in the ghost city? We can't find a definite conclusion on this matter yet.

Half a month ago, I contacted all people related to Gao Lin, trying to find her whereabouts. But the result I got was that she quit her job as a teacher more than half a year ago and cut off contact with all her classmates. No one knew her current situation, and no one had seen her in the past six months.

I looked for her so urgently, not because I was still obsessed with her, but because we all agreed that Gao Lin must have mastered important clues we don’t know. Her relationship with the Blood Demon and the Nightmare Stone is probably far more simple than we imagined. If we could find her to interview her once, as long as she was willing to tell the truth, it would definitely be of great help to our next work.

Now the only hope is entrusted to Ding Er. The situation he has should allow us to obtain more information about Gao Lin.

After returning to Beijing, we arranged a remote residence for Ding Er, and Hu and Wang, both of us lived here temporarily. On the way back to Beijing from ***, the long-term bumpy bump made his injury slightly recur. However, this person seemed to be more disconnected from society than the bearded man, and he was unwilling to go to the hospital for treatment. In desperation, we had to find a house in the remote suburbs, and the "miracle doctor" Bearded Man was responsible for his follow-up treatment.

The reason why I had to live so far is to allow Ding Er to get enough rest and to take care of the body. The second is to avoid being followed and peeped at again. I always feel that things are not that simple. I remember that before I went to ***, I obviously felt that I was being secretly monitored. Before we figure out the details of the other party, we should try to be careful everywhere.

As soon as Ji Wenhui returned to Beijing, she was criticized by the company's leader, saying that she had left her post without permission and disappeared for more than two months without asking for a month's leave. However, Ji Wenhui had memorized a set of rhetoric under my guidance, lied that she accidentally had a car accident while going out and fell into a coma for many geniuses before she woke up. In addition, she did leave a lot of scars on her body. Although the leader was a little skeptical, the facts were in front of her, and the matter was smoothly confused. As for the cases of medical treatment, false notes, diagnosis certificates and other related evidence, as long as you are willing to spend money, nothing can be done.

I asked Ji Wenhui to translate the text engraved in the wall of the Blood Pool as soon as possible if conditions permit. These two texts are crucial because the clues in our hands have basically been interrupted.

In addition, we need to get more information from Ding Er's mouth. When those words have not made much progress for the time being, Gao Lin has become the focus of our search for breakthroughs.
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