Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 186 The Third Dream

Nangong was very serious and responsible, and he took the time to explain all the rules of the Gouchen Division.

It was dark when I finished speaking...

That night, Ren Yuan and the other two stayed in the barracks of the Gou Chen Division.

As for A Yao, Nangong asked her to live with him first.

The barracks of the Gouchen Division were also strictly allocated according to ranks. The chief and deputy chief had their own single rooms, the captain and deputy had double rooms, and the ghostwriters lived in quad rooms.

As for the "big ones" below, they can only sleep in a large bunk bed that accommodates seven or eight people.

Because Ren Yuan and his friend had not officially joined yet, they were treated as a special guest and were given a double room.

However, for the sake of caution, Ren Yuan did not use the Youxian pillow that night, and then he had another nightmare...

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The clouds are as heavy as lead and the autumn rain is continuous.

The usually gentle Huai River turned into a violent dragon, rushing down from the upper reaches, but was blocked by an earthen embankment rising from the ground.

This magnificent earthen embankment is nine miles long and twenty feet high, making the tens of thousands of laborers on the embankment look like a dense colony of ants.

The officers and soldiers in armor waved whips and urged the laborers to carry soil to the embankment to resist the peak of the flood.

Suddenly the soldier discovered that a young man was slacking off, and he went over with a dark face, whipped him and scolded him.

"I told you to be so sneaky, you bastard!"

The young man dodged the whip very skillfully and predicted in a weary tone: "It's useless to work, the Fushan Weir will burst soon."

"How dare you! How dare you spread lies to confuse the people!" The officers and soldiers did not believe him and were about to tie him up and throw him into the dike.

Before he could finish his words, the sky collapsed, the earth split, the dam collapsed, and a huge amount of flood water poured down, swallowing up the terrified and desperate faces...

Only the young man remained calm, as if he was used to this kind of scene.

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“……” Ren Yuan woke up from his dream and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had returned to reality.

After leaving Taohuayuan, whenever he did not sleep on the Youxian Pillow, he would have the dream of the Fushan Weir bursting.

He had talked with Yang Zhong on the Qianli ship, and that was exactly the same nightmare that Yang Zhong had had repeatedly before he boarded the ship.

Ren Yuan couldn't figure out the meaning of this dream. Fushan Weir had already burst its banks ten years ago, and it was far away in the Huaihe River Basin, which had nothing to do with him.

Yang Zhong said: "I have dreamt about this hundreds of times. What's the point?"

He also advised Ren Yuan with the mentality of a person who had experienced it, that when the dam bursts, you should just die, there is no need to try to escape. Otherwise, you will experience too many dark things along the way, making it difficult for you to maintain your humanity.

Ren Yuanzhu listened to the advice. Anyway, when he went back to settle down, he could just use the Youxian Pillow to board the Thousand Miles Ship, without having to worry about being trapped in a nightmare.

It was still dark and he was no longer sleepy, so he sat down on the ground and began to review the dream he had had.

After coming to this world, he had had three kinds of dreams in total: a retrospective dream, a foresight dream, and this meaningless nightmare.

Although the sample size is not too large, it can already illustrate some problems.

First of all, these dreams do not appear randomly, but follow a certain pattern, which means that dreams have triggering conditions.

Ren Yuan boldly speculated that the content of the dream should be related to the inner fear. At first, the original owner of the body should be full of fear of the experience of being skinned two years ago, so in the dream, he would keep going back to two years ago and repeat the experience of being skinned.

Later, he was filled with fear of Mr. Chen and his gang and the Ghost King's army, and as a result, he foresaw what would happen next in his dream.

After defeating the enemies in the dreams, these dreams will no longer scare you and you will not have them again.

After leaving Peach Blossom Spring, although he was escorted to the capital with an uncertain fate, he still had the life-saving trump card of the 'Golden Elixir Jade Talisman', and the Fifth Building Master and Sister Nangong were obviously taking good care of him.

Considering the predictions of the Sansheng Beast and Chen Lingzhi's divination, to be honest, he was not that scared, and as a result, he did not have the prophetic dream.

Therefore, retrospective dreams and foresight dreams are likely related to his level of fear.

Ren Yuan originally thought that he could finally have a good sleep now that he was no longer afraid, but he was dragged into this meaningless nightmare again.

Dreams like the Fushan Weir, which everyone dreams of, are not only meaningless, but also very insincere, as if they were created just to make people have nightmares.

So it is easy to draw a conclusion that the people here must be having nightmares.

Moreover, Yang Zhong said that he did not have such repetitive nightmares when he was in the Northern Dynasty, so this nightmare was a special version for the Southern Dynasty.

Ren Yuan was no longer a rookie, and he knew that this kind of supernatural power could only be achieved by gods. And even for gods, it would definitely take a lot of effort.

This reminds me of what many people have said: people used to dream normally in the past, but it was only about twenty years ago that they suddenly stopped dreaming collectively.

The most popular theory is that this is the result of Buddhist monks chanting sutras day and night to help people eliminate their karma. That is why people no longer have dreams...

But Ren Yuan, as the leader of the Taoist sect, naturally did not believe the nonsense of the Buddhist sect. So he made another bold guess, that everyone was not dreaming at all, but after dreaming, they were harvested by some powerful person with magical powers!
As the saying goes, "one man's meat may be another man's poison." Perhaps a dream that is useless to ordinary creatures may be the nutrients that a certain god needs?
And nightmares are the most nutritious food?

Therefore, that high and mighty being would use his magical powers to make everyone have nightmares continuously, and then he could reap nightmares over and over again every night.

Gods also entered the agricultural civilization.

Of course, such a huge system is bound to have loopholes and errors. For example, Chen Baxian and Yang Zhong, who were the first to wake up, may have been unable to harvest their dreams due to errors in the system.

The fact that he could have foresight dreams and retrospective dreams independent of the system might be a more serious system loophole. Although such a conjecture was absurd, it could indeed explain many phenomena that he had not been able to understand before.

If this conjecture is true, everything in this world will be much more reasonable...

As for why I am the loophole in the system, maybe something went wrong when I was resurrected from the dead, or maybe there is another powerful person playing tricks in secret?

In short, as long as you are scared enough, you can have an independent nightmare. Only when you are not scared enough will you have the same nightmare as others.

This reminded him of the savior Neo, and he couldn't help but worry whether Agent Smith would also come to hunt him down.

Don't mention it, the eldest brother actually calls himself the 'man who is destined'...

Considering the caution of Sansheng Beast, it is better for me to think more and talk less when it comes to issues concerning gods.

"But I still need to find a chance to understand the truth of this world, especially what happened twenty years ago." He secretly thought: "See who is behind this?"

This was also an important reason why he decided to join the Gou Chen Si.

Of course, this matter cannot be rushed. It is better to get familiar with the Gouchen Division first and then look for opportunities to do it slowly.

Since the Three Lives Beast said that his fate lies in Gou Chen, then there must be a chance...

(End of this chapter)