Zongman: Dream with me

While everyone in Kitazawa was still enjoying cola and teppanyaki, Mu You, who was far away in Okumi, was still walking slowly on the path in the mountains.

The light of the mobile phone flickered in the woods, and Mu You was also carefully feeling the differences around him.

Unlike other places, in this world with the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, the area around the Chayohime Shrine seemed exceptionally clean. There wasn't a single demon, as if all had fled. Mu You had also visited the shrine, and there wasn't anything special about it.

This aroused Mu You's interest, so he did not choose to use his ability, but walked step by step through the dense forest and headed towards the lake on the mountain.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Mu You walked out of a gap formed by bushes, and immediately the view was opened up. In front of him was Mu You's destination - the original land.

This is the original land. This lake is called the original land. It is said that people are born here. Moreover, if you return here before death, you can be reincarnated and start over your regretted life.

The night was hazy, and a full moon hung quietly in the sky, admiring its own face across the lake. Everything was silent, save for the unfettered wind, still whispering.

Mu You stood by the water in a daze. What was in front of him seemed to be just ordinary lake water, and the legend of reincarnation seemed to be just a legend.

But why did I see such a scene when I was at the bottom of the sea?

Are we going to go into the water again?

Mu You squatted down and touched the lake water with his hand.

Suddenly, a familiar feeling came over him again, and he stood up in shock.

It was fear! He felt fear, this body's fear of water, and this lake was the original source.

No, that's not right. The problem isn't the lake water, it's something else.

Mu You took off his clothes and walked naked towards the lake. The more he walked, the more his heart palpitated. Memories rushed to him like running water, but disappeared in a flash.

Mu You let his heart sink, and sink again.

He restrained his abilities, and a feeling of suffocation came over him. He was like a real drowning man, but he remained unmoved.

Or in other words, he pressed "Kasugano Yuu" into the water to prevent him from struggling.

Fear, it was fear! The body’s fear of water, the fear of death, and the heart’s fear of coming into this world for the first time, the fear of myself…

Surrounding it were patches of long-dead trees, just like what Mu You had seen along the way, surrounding each other to form a dark forest.

In such darkness, Mu You finally remembered where this dream began.

How do people realize that they are dreaming? In "Inception", Leonardo DiCaprio taught the new dream builder Annie a little trick - recall where the dream began.

Interestingly, most of us have vague memories of our births. Does that mean that, except for death, none of us can truly tell whether we are dreaming?

Mu You didn't care about these philosophical questions. What made him happy was that he really saw:

I was probably about five or six years old at that time. Kasugano Yuu was still a little kid, running all over the mountains and fields, climbing trees to look for cicadas, going to the river to catch shrimps...Finally one day, he accidentally fell into the lake.

He tried to struggle, but he was getting further and further away from the shore. Finally, he lost his strength and sank into the lake.

Finally, he was rescued by an old man passing by, but it seemed too late.

Kasugano Yuu fell asleep, and he came back to life.

He is not him!

Later, the old man who rescued him seemed to have fallen ill, and he went to visit him; later, he left Aokumu and never came back.

But it seemed that the water in his mind had not been drained out yet. His main consciousness fell into a deep sleep, and his memories became fragmented and were received by this body.

He knew these stories and songs, but he couldn't remember where they came from. They led him to meet those "familiar" people and tell them those stories.

At that time, he no longer dreamed. He regarded those memories as his own dreams, just like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, experiencing his own life.

He showed a unique talent for Chinese since he was a child and soon surpassed his Chinese teacher. He once helped his father to close a business deal, and he was successfully led astray by the other party's Northeastern accent.

After learning music, he liked to sit at the piano and play randomly when he had nothing to do, looking for inspiration in the mess of melodies and reproducing familiar melodies.

Every time his parents go out, he reminds them to be careful, especially when driving. There seems to be a haze lingering in his heart, making the young Kasugano Yuu uneasy.

It wasn't until the car accident that seemed to completely correct his soul that he truly understood it all, but the car accident seemed to have damaged his brain again, so he lost his memory again.

Well-reasoned and very scientific.

What a ghost!

Mu You lay flat on the lake, his mind in a mess, and his lost memories emerged bit by bit. He estimated that this would take a long time. The breeze condensed in his hand and disappeared along with the clothes on the shore.

When Mu You returned to the gate of the Chayohime Shrine, he was already dressed. After walking a few steps, he could see the warm and soft lights in the house next to the shrine. The goddess Mu Ying was sitting on the wooden steps of the courtyard at the gate, with her hands on her chin, looking at the moon and stars in the sky, in a daze.

The yellowish light from the living room fell on the shrine maiden's clothes and also illuminated half of her face. Mu You looked at Tiannvmu's chubby face, as if she was thinking of something happy. At this moment, she still had a smile on her lips, a little silly, making people want to rub her.

Hearing the footsteps, Tiannvmu asked tentatively: "You?"

"It's me. Are you looking at the moon?"

"I was waiting for You, I was just dazed for a moment." Tiannvmu smiled a little embarrassedly, and then said solemnly:

"Welcome back!"

Mu You was stunned for a moment, then responded with a smile: "I'm back."

As Mu Youdi approached, Tiannv Muying also saw the mud on his trouser legs, but she did not ask any more questions. Instead, she said, "I'll go prepare the bath water. Go take a bath first."

Without waiting for Mu You to answer, Tiannvmu stood up and ran back to the room, leaving Mu You with a figure wearing a pure witch costume and white socks.

"This is grandpa's pajamas, try it first." After a while, Tiannvmu came out with a set of clothes. Mu You subconsciously took it, took a look, and found it fit him perfectly.

Just as he was about to say thank you, he realized that the angel Mu Ying had been looking at him since just now.

"what happened?"

"You, are you a god?"

"......"

The eyes of the goddess Mu Ying were full of exploration and hope, as well as a complex emotion, which instantly made Mu You understand the problem: his avoidance of the question of the goddess Mu Ying's life experience.

Why does the goddess Meeding live alone in the shrine?

Why did the goddess Muying take out grandpa’s clothes?

Where did Tiannv Muying's parents or other relatives go?

Mu You was obviously not a resident of Aokumu Ran, but he didn't ask anything.

Tiannu Muying could sense that he was avoiding her. He must have known it, but he was just afraid that she would be hurt. It was only their first meeting, but he happily accepted her invitation, and then criticized her for being too defenseless.

He knew her, but this was really just the first time they met.

She said this subconsciously, expecting someone's reaction.

It was just a joke.

Seeing Mu You's astonishment, Tianmu Nuying was about to get away with it, but she felt her head sink.

"Why, Ying, do you want to make a wish?"