It was probably because since the Grandmaster was injured, he hadn’t conducted the energy transferring ceremony with me, so I haven’t had that kind of dream for a long time.
At this moment, this familiar sensation, Li Zhuiyuan knew... he had entered the dream again.
But now with experience and theoretical knowledge, he was not as agitated as before; he lay still, quietly opening a small slit in his eyes.
He saw that he was still lying in the same place, by his side was the sound of his grandfather’s deep breathing, and diagonally in front of him were his uncles, Panzi, and Leizi.
But he knew, this wasn’t reality, this was a dream, because the eerie chill was becoming stronger and stronger.
If not for desperately enduring, he would have curled up and shivered uncontrollably.
At this time, he saw a woman walking up from the dam steps.
The woman was dressed in white clothes, the skirt trailing very long on the ground, and around her body were entangled iron chains.
But the skin that the woman exposed was scorched black and raw red; as she walked, chunks of flesh dropped off, making a sticky sound.
After walking to the center of the dam, the woman stopped, her head looking around as if searching for someone.
The others were all asleep, unable to see the woman.
Just as the woman’s gaze was about to turn towards him, Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes completely.
After a while, feeling that enough time had passed, Li Zhuiyuan tentatively opened his eyes a sliver.
But just this glance, he wasn’t sure if the woman had looked around several times or had always been watching in this direction, but in Li Zhuiyuan’s view,
He and the woman made eye contact!
At that instant, Li Zhuiyuan felt his blood freeze, and his heart beat "thump thump thump" rapidly.
The woman’s face was a blur of blood and flesh, as if charred or scraped, representing a horrific spectacle similar to that of churned soil and flesh in the early spring.
The only conspicuous part was the woman’s mouth; her lips were indistinct, but one could see two rows of white teeth - which only highlighted the horror!
The woman kept staring in this direction, and now Li Zhuiyuan dared not close his eyes or make any superfluous movements.
But the woman took steps, one by one, toward him.
Has she realized I can see her?
Although his heart was churning with alarm, Li Zhuiyuan still forced himself to remain completely still, even controlling his breathing to keep it as before.
Accompanied by the woman’s ongoing approach, he smelled a burnt scent of meat, laced with moldy and sourness, nauseating and revolting.
Yet, Li Zhuiyuan continued to breathe normally, as if he was deeply asleep.
The woman came closer, slowly crouched down.
Her horrifying face, almost touching the tip of Li Zhuiyuan’s nose.
At that moment, Li Zhuiyuan couldn’t close his eyes, but was forced to make eye contact with her.
Watching the rotten flesh on her face, pieces falling one after another, and two chunks of rot landed on his face, slowly sliding down his cheeks.
It was sticky, with a vomit-inducing juice.
At this moment, time seemed to pass excruciatingly slowly, every second felt like a year.
After staring for quite a while, the woman eventually stood up and turned around, walking step by step towards the central area.
Li Zhuiyuan didn’t bother with the bits of flesh still clinging to his face; he remained motionless, his eyes continuing to maintain a slight opening.
Suddenly, the woman walking en route suddenly turned her head 180 degrees on her neck to look back at Li Zhuiyuan again.
This scene nearly scared Li Zhuiyuan into breaking out in a cold sweat, a bone-chilling cold swept from the back of his head down to his tailbone, and then up again.
Fortunately, he hadn’t closed his eyes.
The woman seemed to confirm that the child was just accustomed to sleeping with his eyes slightly open.
Her head then turned back 180 degrees to its original position.
Li Zhuiyuan inhaled deeply in his heart, his head feeling dizzy and numb.
The woman seemed to have found the person she was looking for, stepping towards the group of university students asleep on the mats outside the threshold.
Eventually, she stood between Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan.
Both were deeply asleep, unaware of how close they were to something so terrifying.
The woman opened her hands, her sleeves retracted, revealing her arms with exposed white bones, not only with rotten flesh but also swarming with numerous maggots.
Li Zhuiyuan still kept his eyes slightly open; this movement would not change until he woke from the dream.
Watching up to this point, Li Zhuiyuan couldn’t help but think:
Could it be that the two university students who spoke during the day about smashing the Buddha statue’s chains with a hammer were Xue Liangliang and Zhao Hequan?
The woman slowly crouched down, reaching her hands towards the neck of Xue Liangliang, who was lying to her right.
However, just as she was about to strangle him, the light bulbs hanging above the dam flickered a few times due to a poor contact.
The woman’s head immediately flipped back, looking in the direction behind her, focusing on the flickering light bulb.
A few flickers later, the light bulbs returned to normal.
The woman’s head in turn rotated back in the direction it came from, facing forward.
But this time the rotation was not wide enough, resulting in her originally right-facing visage towards Xue Liangliang turning clockwise in the direction of Zhao Hequan.
Her hands naturally followed the direction of her head and moved over.
She reached for Zhao Hequan’s neck,