A lonely and handsome young man sat by the window, looking out the window without saying a word. The moonlight passed through the space between the young man's hands and feet and scattered fragments on the body of the pale young man on the hospital bed.
This young man was Aguan. His face was pale and he was lying motionless.
There were four people surrounding the hospital bed, an old man and three young girls.
"How did it happen?" The tall gray-haired old man looked at a girl in yellow with a solemn expression.
"According to Lao Tuo'er's investigation afterwards, the adult was injured by a few bad boys. Originally, his head was seriously injured. I urgently went to the hospital and performed surgery. He has recovered a lot in the past two days." The girl in yellow said. .
"Are all mortal children today so cruel and violent?" The shortest girl pouted. She was wearing a bright red top and a black mini skirt.
"He has grown up a lot." Another long-haired girl looked at Aguan and whispered to herself.
"Hmph! Find those evildoers, teach them a lesson, and avenge them all." Standing by the door of the ward, a dark-skinned young man hummed, throwing a green scimitar.
There was a fat young man sitting at the young man's feet, holding a rice ball in his hand and chewing on it. Hearing what the dark-skinned young man said, he nodded vigorously, "Yes, yes, we have to teach them a lesson."
"Hmph." The arrogant young man sitting by the window sneered and said, "Why bother standing up for this useless guy?"
"Why do you say that? The seals on everyone have not been released yet, so of course you are not strong enough." The girl in red glared angrily at the arrogant young man. The arrogant young man did not reply, but looked up at the sky with a sneer.
"Okay, I'm going to use the Dream Control Technique to wake him up." The girl in yellow took a breath and put her hand on Aguan's forehead.
A goose-yellow light emitted from the girl's palm and enveloped Aguan's body.
"ah?"
"Um?"
Aguan tilted his head and stood blankly on the street. He felt that his whole body was floating lightly without any weight, as if he was floating in water or on a cloud.
He looked around suspiciously because he didn't know how he got here. The night sky was pitch black, without stars or moon. The alley was extremely quiet, there was no sound at all, and the surrounding scenery looked very familiar.
There was no one on the street. Aguan walked to the alley and turned into another alley. The scene there was all too familiar to him... He remembered where this place was -
This is where my father was killed!
A small car parked slowly on the street not far away. The door opened and a man got out.
"Dad!" Aguan couldn't help shouting and rubbed his eyes to make sure he was not dreaming.
Aguan walked forward slowly and stopped about ten meters away from his father. He stopped next to a telephone pole and watched blankly as his father dug out the stinky tofu from the box and fried it in a pan.
There was a sound of footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw four young people passing by him.
The familiar faces of several young people made Aguan severely nauseated and angry.
It's this nightmare again.
Aguan was confused. In the past, this nightmare was like replaying the news, playing it over and over again. From the beginning to the end, the picture was fixed. In the dream, he felt no self-awareness, and could only let these scenes repeat themselves in front of his eyes.
But the dream at this time was very different from the past, and it was like experiencing it personally. Aguan walked to his father's side, and the gangsters gathered around him and started blackmailing him. Dad was excitedly explaining that he didn't make much in a day, so he couldn't give them the money.
"Dad!" Aguan patted his father on the shoulder, but his father did not respond. Aguan felt like an invisible person, among his father and the gangsters, but no one noticed him.
Aguan grabbed his father's arm and even felt his father's body temperature and trembling with excitement.
"Don't be so fucking shameless!" A gangster slapped Aguan's father. Not to be outdone, my father fought back with the iron tong holding the stinky tofu in his hand, hitting the gangster in the face. The gangsters yelled and rushed forward.
"!" Aguan understood in an instant that in his previous dreams, this moment of conflict was the trigger point that made him miserable. From this moment on, he had to review the story of his father's murder again.
Therefore, when the long-haired Curly Zazai cursed his mother, it triggered the anger and grief buried in Aguan's heart, causing him to lose his mind.
"..." Aguan watched as his father, who was right next to him, gradually collapsed under the beatings of several young people. He wanted to help, but the young man in front of him could not be hit or pushed away. Aguan even attacked the vitals and opened his mouth to bite, but it had no effect at all. He tried to pull Dad away, but he couldn't. Everyone seemed unable to feel Aguan at all, but Aguan could actually touch them.
He sat down on the ground in despair, looking at his father who fell to the ground, and still struggling to hold on to the money bag around his waist. A young gangster reached out to grab it, but his father bit his hand and screamed in pain.
"Let go!" Another gangster stepped heavily on Aguan's father's cheek, making a loud "pound" sound. The loud noise was like a battering ram, hitting Aguan's chest.
In the past, this nightmare would usually end at this point. The collision sound of stepping on his father's head and the scream rolling in his father's throat would always wake Aguan from his dreams.
But at this time, Aguan only saw that his father was still holding the money bag tightly, and those young people kept stepping on his father's face and body, kick after kick, and kick again——
"Oh!" Aguan struggled up from the ground, covered his ears, turned around and ran wildly, roaring and crying. “Ahhhhh——”
Dad was trampled to death.
Although Aguan was not present at the time, the dream was so real. He remembered the forensic report at the time that his father had died from a heavy blow to the head and his body was covered in blood marks. Perhaps it was because he listened to the forensic report and thought about it day and night that Aguan kept having this heartbreaking dream over and over again.
Aguan covered his ears, roared and ran, running and running, with tears streaming down his face, and those terrifying collision sounds still echoed in his ears...
He didn't know how long he ran. It wasn't until the sound gradually disappeared that he realized that he had run downstairs to his apartment and stared blankly at the iron window of his house on the third floor. Looking up at the sky, it was pitch black.
Judging from the time, he and his mother were still sleeping at the time, and they would receive a call from the police station shortly after, telling them that their father had been murdered.
"I'm dreaming again..." Aguan couldn't stop crying and retreated to the corner, hugging his legs and burying his head in his knees. "Why can't I wake up..."
Just like that, Aguan leaned his back against the wall and huddled in the corner with his legs crossed. It seemed like a long time passed, but it seemed like it was only a moment. He suddenly felt that the surroundings were bright. He raised his head and found that people kept walking around him.
"Wow!" He was startled and stood up quickly. There were quite a few pedestrians walking around. He looked around in surprise and bumped into a passerby. He quickly turned around to apologize, but the other person seemed to have no feeling at all and ignored Aguan.
Aguan was stunned and couldn't help but reach out and pinch his face. He felt that his body was still light and he knew that he was still in a dream. It should be daytime in the dream at this time.
He walked dazedly and reached the street. There is a snack bar next to the street. It was a new store that opened last month. Only then did Aguan realize that the time in the dream had suddenly stretched from the night two years ago to a time not far from now.
Aguan continued to walk forward into a convenience store. That's where he usually works.
The clerk in front of the cashier was himself, checking out the customers. This sight made Aguan feel a little funny.
Then his eyes shifted to another female clerk who was about the same age as him. Her name was Lin Shan, and she was the object of Aguan's crush.
"Jiayou, let me answer the phone." Lin Shan said.
"Okay." Aguan and himself in the dream responded at the same time.
He couldn't help laughing, scratching his head, looking at himself who was paying for the customers, and then at Lin Shan who was talking on her cell phone in the corner, and smiled bitterly. He knew that she was talking on the phone with her boyfriend.
Aguan stared blankly at Lin Shan who was smiling and talking on the phone. He couldn't help but get closer and closer, almost pressing his face next to Lin Shan's hair. He smelled the fragrance of Lin Shan's hair and couldn't help but blush. He reached out and patted Lin Shan's head and touched her face.
He was thinking about what to do next. It was a dream anyway, and no one could control what he did in his dream.
