It took a while to remove the large fish tank walls.
A lot of debris, large and small, fell on it. In addition to the ones Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue moved away at the beginning, there was also a lot of debris on the rear.
What had been removed before was enough for them to take apart a corner of the wrapping cloth and then move the whole piece out.
As Tang Nuo expected, the bottom of the utility room was an extremely huge glass plate.
It took some effort to transport it out. There were obvious signs of disassembly on the door frame, as if it had been deliberately dismantled for something and then reinstalled later.
After placing the glass plate in the front yard, Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue breathed a sigh of relief.
Their physical strength in the dream was not as good as in reality, so they probably merged with this couple.
The glass plate confirmed Tang Nuo's suspicion.
He looked at the glass plate that had been cleaned but still had traces of use, and began to wonder what had been kept inside.
At first, various types of large fish passed through my mind, from shallow water to deep sea. Later, I felt that my thoughts should not be limited to real creatures, and some fantasy-oriented species also began to pop into my mind.
"Mermaid?" A common possibility in various stories was spoken, "Or some mutated...large..."
Humans don't really want to mention certain molluscs in the ocean. Maybe the tentacles will remind people of some not-so-good memories.
Tang Nuo still remembered one time when he went to the beach. During the mission, the residents along the coast were affected and went crazy. He was strangled by tentacles extending from the sea and his sternum was fractured. He felt so tight and suffocating in his chest that he stayed in the hospital for a long time afterwards.
The tentacles reach baa, the tentacles reach baa.
Putting away the disgusting suspicion, Tang Nuo knelt down and touched the green patch that had solidified on the glass plate. He felt that it was something like aquatic plants.
At the same time, you can still smell a little residual salty smell of sea water on the tip of your nose.
To take back my previous judgment, the green ones must be seaweed.
Qi Zhuyue was also there with her knees propped up, observing the glass plate.
After looking at it for a while, she pointed to a corner and said, "There are cracks here."
The cracks were not obvious, so they needed to get closer and see them under the light. It happened that the sun had turned around now, and under the sunlight, they saw cracked lines like spider webs.
Something hit the glass hard, causing the thick glass to crack from the inside.
Just as they were about to investigate in detail, a knock on the door interrupted their thoughts.
Someone is coming, or someone is coming back.
Tang Nuo and Qi Zhuyue looked at each other and chose to answer the door.
As soon as the door opened, the two adults saw the drowned rat outside.
In the dream, the slightly feminine young man had a towel draped over his shoulders. The towel wrapped most of his body and tied a simple knot on his chest. Under the towel, dripping water fell to the ground from time to time. , splashing out some marks of varying shades.
Looking further away, the path he came from was also dragged out with a deep water mark. Gao Tianyi looked like a water ghost climbing ashore from unknown waters to seek revenge.
Tang Nuo looked at the person from top to bottom and asked a question that only they knew the answer to.
Tang Nuo: "Who has the best driving skills in the department?"
Gao Tianyi: "...If you mean drag racing, it should be Brother Xia, right?"
Tang Nuo: "Next question, what is the password?"
Gao Tianyi: "Huh? Have we set up a secret code?"
Tang Nuo nodded to Qi Zhuyue and then let the young man in.
"What did you do?" Tang Nuo asked, "Did you fall into the water?"
Gao Tianyi watched the door close and breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had entered a familiar and trustworthy environment.
He shook his head violently and shook all the water out of his hair. Then he pulled the towel and wiped his entire body roughly.
"It would be better if it fell into the water." The young man said angrily, "It's killing me... You don't know what I just went through."
Gao Tianyi was about to tell everything he had experienced before and some conjectures involving OOC, when he was interrupted by vibrations from the ground.
At first the three people thought there was an abnormality in the house they were in, but soon they discovered that the abnormality came from the outside world, or rather the ground beneath their feet.
At the same time, the boundaries of time also become blurred.
Some bizarre scenes appeared in front of them in an instant. Strange pictures, strange scenes, and strange characters flashed through their minds, and finally became fixed in an unstoppable movement.
The sun and moon are changing, light and shadow are alternating.
The sun repeated the process of rising in the east and setting in the west at a speed visible to the naked eye. They seemed to be on a small stage, with outsiders moving the sky curtain to move the date forward.
Why do you say the date moves forward? Because they watched the persimmon tree in the corner of the yard mature, the cooler weather also made their summer clothes inappropriate.
"This is a dream." Gao Tianyi murmured, "So anything is possible."
Now...is the scene about to change?
Speaking of which, how long has it been since they were in the dream?
The dream blurred the concept of time, and what the young man experienced at the lake made it difficult for him to calculate clearly.
"Look." Qi Zhuyue suddenly pointed outside the yard and said. The angle of her finger was very high, almost pointing towards the sky.
...it's water...it's also a flash flood.
The turbid and yellowish mountain torrent surged down from the heights of the village with lightning speed. According to the geographical location where they were still staying in the yard, there was no way to escape.
The dream didn't let them escape.
The door was welded to the space again, and the only way to escape was to climb over the wall.
But what about running out? At the speed of this flash flood, there was no way they could avoid it.
After a few breaths of hesitation, the water rushed down.
Perhaps because dreams are illogical, the flash flood stirred up a two-story-high wave and then hit it directly. The pressure brought by the water flow swept the people below into the sudden whirlpool.
There was no time to grab something fixed, and it was useless to grab it. The momentum of the water quickly destroyed the courtyard wall.
The slightly familiar feeling of his mouth and nose being submerged in water and suffocation came. The young man quickly grabbed the two adults around him. He only had time to do this step.
Then Gao Tianyi opened his mouth while feeling dizzy, and didn't care if he choked on the liquid. He just opened and closed his mouth word by word, and finished reciting a few short words silently.
The moment the last syllable of the unsaid words fell, the young man felt that he was kicked out by something.
The suspended feeling of drowning is gone, and the limbs are in contact with the ground again.
The minor suddenly turned over and sat up, and the quilt slipped from his body.
He clutched his chest and breathed rapidly. The world in front of him gradually became clearer, and it was the environment he was in before falling asleep.
"you're awake."
A male voice that sounded a bit resentful and uncomfortable came from the side. Gao Tianyi turned his head and saw a hangover-looking face that looked bad.
Xia Chengyin squatted there, pressing his temple with one hand and holding his mobile phone in the other.
He showed Gao Tianyi the time. It was now around five o'clock in the morning, and it was just dawn.
Light peeked in from between the floating curtains. Xia Chengyin rubbed his head and opened the curtains to make the room brighter.
"I can't wake you up even if I yell," said the police officer. "No matter how hard I push you, I can't wake you up. I guess what happened to you."
"Yes..." The young man responded hesitantly, his thoughts not yet fully returning to reality, "I... no, we met..."
"You?" Xia Chengyin asked back, "I just woke up, so you waited for a while when you couldn't wake up... Who else is there? Bai Su, Qi Zhuyue, Tang Nuo?"
When the three names were announced, Gao Tianyi responded to the last two.
After hearing the answer, Xia Chengyin felt that his head hurt not only from the hangover, he put his arm around Gao Tianyi's shoulders and turned him around.
"Look," the adult said, "Did you find anything wrong?"
Gao Tianyi raised his head and looked where Xia Chengyin pointed.
Within a few seconds, he turned back and asked, "Where's Bai Su?" Is there such a big person in their house?
Leaving aside where the black-haired young man who was missing in the room went, the two people in the other room who woke up from their dreams had already adjusted. Together, they decided to go next door to find someone to join them.
So, the four humans met in the room.
Before studying Bai Su's whereabouts, they briefly communicated about their dreams.
Xia Chengyin: "In other words, the three of you had a special dream together? Why the three of you?"
Tang Nuo: "I don't know, maybe only three people can enter."
Qi Zhuyue: "What about Senior Xia and Bai Su?"
Gao Tianyi: "Brother Xia's sleep quality was so good because he drank alcohol...Brother Bai at least didn't fall asleep when I fell asleep." Now he is even missing.
So, what about the Baisu people?
The monster mentioned by humans was walking on a dirt road that was slippery and muddy due to the rain that fell most of the night.
He was not very far from his residence, and he only walked out for about five or six minutes.
This time was enough for him to get closer to the villagers, and he also met several villagers who got up earlier than chickens, whether they were busy with farm work or getting up early to exercise.
When they saw Bai Su's unfamiliar face, their expressions were stunned for a moment, and they quickly adjusted to a welcoming expression.
Some people smiled at Bai Su and walked away, while others stopped by and exchanged a few words with Bai Su as they approached.
Ask him where he comes from and what he does here.
The group of them walked around in a small circle yesterday, which was not enough to see everyone in Wenjia Village.
Bai Su answered one by one according to the settings given by the special department, saying that he was from the city, was friends with "Wen Tao", and was interested in the customs of some villages, so he came to collect information.
"Caifeng...oh, oh, oh, oh, Caifeng." The older villagers also reflected on what Caifeng was. After hearing Bai Su explain it to him, he squeezed out a kind smile again, "Well, welcome, the young man didn't leave much. Crossing the city?"
"right."
"Then you should see more of the scenery in the mountains. The air here is much fresher than in the city." As he said that, the older villager took a deep breath. "Look at the fragrance after the rain, how tempting it is."
Bai Su didn't know. He only knew that the humidity in the village rose sharply after the rain, and all the things that had been dried by the sun in the afternoon yesterday returned.
The village still seemed to be submerged in a body of water.
Although Bai Su disagreed, he was able to use some of the perfunctory methods of human beings. He followed what the older villagers said and echoed a few words.
The older villager felt he was being dealt with, and he had proof.
However, the villager didn't say much, and just walked away happily basking in the rising sunshine. There were wet water marks where he walked. It was unclear whether they were stepped on by people or on the ground itself.
While watching, Bai Su's eyes were dazzled by the light.
He looked back along the source of the light spot and saw only the bare arms of the human villagers who had rolled up their sleeves because of their work.
The black-haired young man looked at it for a few moments and then looked away.
Then he checked his phone and found that as the sun rose and the sky cleared, the signal on his phone was restored.
The messages that had not been received last night due to poor signal were now being received with a ding, ding, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong.
——It’s almost time to go back.
He stood on the side of the road and watched the people coming and going. It should have been a pretty ordinary scene, but he saw that the villagers passing by could not help but quicken their pace, as if they were being stared at by something terrifying.
Before the villagers came up to persuade him to leave, the black-haired young man clapped his hands and started walking back.
Behind the scenes, which cannot be seen from a human perspective, the villagers who were all doing their own things turned their heads towards him because of Bai Su's departure.
Everyone stared until Bai Su disappeared from their sight.
…
"Um...I'm back?"
Pushing open the unlocked door to the courtyard, Bai Su met four pairs of eyes looking at him.
The black-haired young man thought for a moment, retreated back the same way, and closed the courtyard gate.
This time, Bai Su knocked twice intentionally before opening the door and saying the above sentence.
"Is it a question that requires knocking on the door and making up this sentence??" Qi Zhuyue complained, "Where have you been! Didn't you agree not to act alone?"
The previous minor who acted alone inexplicably was reprimanded and owed a review. Now this one... is a bit difficult to deal with.
Bai Su listened and smiled at the human.
But the humans didn't buy the smile. They tapped their arms and signaled Bai Su to explain the situation.
"Explain the situation..." The black-haired young man followed the human into the house. While the human was finishing breakfast, he also found a seat to sit down.
"Where to begin..." Bai Su said as if thinking, "A lot of things actually happened last night."
A question mark appeared on the heads of the human beings. They were a little confused and wondered what Baisu had experienced.
Could there be anything more outrageous than Gao Tianyi and the others having a weird dream that belonged to Wen Tao's family?
"Yes." Bai Su nodded, "It rained last night."
Human beings know this. They can see it when they go out and see the traces of water on the ground that have not been completely evaporated. In addition, the hair of the black-haired young man who returned from outside is still damp.
The young man walking at night did not hold an umbrella, so most of the rain fell directly on his body. Even though it had been some time since the rain stopped, his hair and clothes were still a little stuck to his body.
The black-haired young man nodded at the table, then slowly took out his mobile phone from his pocket and switched to the video playback interface.
"I..." he drawled, "when it rained last night, I took some interesting pictures."
(End of chapter)
