The master said not to judge people by their appearance

Xie Yunlan was panting violently, he hadn't recovered from the scene in his dream.

After he calmed down a bit, he remembered to look around. It was still the ruined temple last night. The bonfire had been burning all night, and it had already gone out, leaving only a little ashes left.

The sky was slightly bright, the window was completely white, and the wind and snow stopped at some point. The movement of Xie Yunlan getting up disturbed the others. Wang Tai rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked, "Master, what's wrong?"

Xie Yunlan didn't answer, he also wanted to know, what's wrong?

He recalled what happened last night, was it just a dream?

But why is this dream so real, and it is still vivid in his mind after waking up, and... He touched his chest, the pain of being cut by a sharp knife was so severe that he still couldn't calm down, but the touch from his hand was so intense. Tell him he wasn't hurt and that it was a dream.

Xie Yunlan was a little dazed, unable to figure out what was going on, he suddenly thought of someone who could tell him the answer, and immediately turned his head to look.

Shen Fan also woke up, sitting next to him, without saying a word.

He usually doesn't get up so early, at least he doesn't get up slowly until the sky is bright.

Xie Yunlan noticed something from this strangeness, he immediately asked: "Did you dream about me last night?"

In his dream, Shen Fan appeared, and he couldn't tell whether it was just a phantom in his dream, or Shen Fan really appeared in his dream.

Shen Fan looked at him and nodded.

Xie Yunlan got the answer, but Wang Tai looked puzzled. How could someone ask the people next to him if he had dreamed of him as soon as he woke up?

It seems that there are also, it seems that the little lovers will engage in these funs that you dream of me and I dream of you.Wang Tai didn't quite understand, after all he had neither lover nor daughter-in-law.

He didn't even have a dream, he snored and slept until dawn.

"Are you also dreaming?" A voice suddenly came from the side.

Wang Tai didn't know what Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan were talking about, but Cao Jinyu and his group who also woke up early realized something immediately.

"Is it a dream that Yazhou City was slaughtered?" Cao Jinyu asked.

Xie Yunlan was startled, he looked at Cao Jinyu, and said carefully: "I don't know if Yazhou City has been slaughtered, I only saw Yuan Rong cavalry on the glacier outside the city."

"That's it!" Cao Jinyu walked over immediately, "Is this the first time you have this dream? Have you ever been to Yazhou City before?"

"The first time?" Xie Yunlan asked sharply, "Will this dream recur?"

"It will appear every day!" Cao Jinyu wiped his face, but still couldn't hide the haggard look on his face, "We have been having this dream for a month."

"How many people have this dream?" Shen Fan suddenly said.

Cao Jinyu pointed to the group of caravan men who also woke up behind him, and said: "There are eleven people in our caravan. Since we left Yazhou City a month ago, we have had the same dream every night."

"In our dream, we will return to Yazhou City. The wilderness outside Yazhou City turns into a glacier. Every night, at the end of the glacier, there will be a Yuan Rong cavalry with wolf eagle flags. They wear black iron armor and march towards Yazhou. Zhoucheng launches an attack, and after the city is broken, they will kill all the people in the city." Cao Jinyu touched his chest, the pain pierced by the sharp blade was still so clear after waking up from the dream, "I thought of many ways to hide, but every time It will be found by the Yuanrong people every time, and then killed by them."

"Are your dreams independent or connected?" Shen Fan asked, "Will you meet each other in your dreams?"

"Yes." Cao Jinyu said, "We woke up in different places in Yazhou City, and sometimes we bumped into each other when we were running away, and we would remember bumping into each other after we woke up."

"By the way, the Yuanrong people entered the city a little later than usual last night, probably because you also entered the dream." Cao Jinyu said.

Perhaps so, Xie Yunlan recalled that the progress of the Yuanrong people's attack on the city was indeed delayed a little because of his appearance, and they assigned some people to chase him.

"That is to say, all thirteen of us had the same dream?" Xie Yunlan said analyzing.

"It's twelve." Shen Fan corrected.

Xie Yunlan was startled, and then realized: "Are you not dreaming?"

"En." Shen Fan responded.

"Then why did you just say you dreamed of me?" Xie Yunlan asked puzzled.

Shen Fan: "Because I went to your dream."

"You can go into other people's dreams at will?" Xie Yunlan was taken aback again, so could it be that the dream he had before...

Fortunately, Shen Fan's answer was: "No."

Before Xie Yunlan could feel at ease, Shen Fan said again: "I can only enter your dream."

Xie Yunlan: "..."

It sounds even worse.

"Is this the first time you entered my dream last night?" Xie Yunlan asked tentatively.He looked calm on the surface, but his heart was beating wildly.

"Yeah." Shen Fan didn't notice his panic, and said to himself, "I'm not good at dream power, I can only enter other people's dreams under some special conditions."

Xie Yunlan: "What kind of special conditions?"

Shen Fan glanced at him, didn't explain, just said: "Last night I noticed that your soul fire suddenly started to weaken and couldn't wake you up, so I went to your dream to find out."

"The soul fire has weakened?" Xie Yunlan thought of something, he touched the scar on his chest again, and asked, "Will the injury suffered in the dream affect reality?"

"Normally not." Shen Fan said, "Dreams are just dreams. Most of the time, it's just a dream of nothingness. When you wake up, you wake up. The content of the dream will be forgotten soon, but in some cases , Dreams have the power to affect reality.”

Xie Yunlan thought of a legend, he said: "It is said that when Gao Zu was born, his mother Dou dreamed of a golden dragon lying on her belly, and the dragon was born the next day, is it like this?"

"It's fake." Shen Fan unabashedly overturned the miraculous stories compiled by the royal family for the sake of prestige, he said, "But the principle is similar, what happened in the dream may reappear in reality, such as burns in the dream , After waking up, there will be burning scars on the body, and if you die in a dream, you will die in reality."

Cao Jinyu was listening to their conversation from the sidelines, what was the soul fire and what was entering the dreamland, which made him confused, but he understood what Shen Fan said just now, and he asked anxiously: "Are we going to die too?!"

Shen Fan glanced at them, last night he only paid attention to Cao Jinyu, because only Cao Jinyu came close to Shen Fan, and now the rest of the caravan was standing in front of him, he could clearly see their soul fire, just like Cao Jinyu. As weak as gold and jade.

"Soon," he said.

The expressions of Cao Jinyu and others changed suddenly.

"Why on earth is this happening? Are we haunted by some ghost?"

"Yes, it should be like this! Yazhou City was massacred by Yuanrong people eight years ago, and more than [-] people died! It must be those innocent souls who died in vain!"

"But if these innocent souls don't seek revenge from the Yuanrong people, what are they looking for us? We didn't kill them!"

Everyone in the caravan was talking about it, Cao Jinyu suddenly thought of something after a moment of panic, came to Shen Fan and cupped his hands and said, "Master, how did this dream come about? Is it caused by evil spirits?"

This month has been a nightmare, although there will be no scars on the body after waking up, but the pain of being pierced by a sharp knife in the dream can not be forgotten for a long time after waking up, and it is repeated day by day, Cao Jinyu is getting more and more emaciated by this nightmare , He also sought out some alchemists, those people actually said that he was haunted by ghosts, and they also made him drink talisman water, but none of them were useful, they were all swindlers.

He wasn't sure if Shen Fan was a magic stick, but he just had a chance to ask, he was really tortured by this nightmare.

"What's going on?" Xie Yunlan also asked.

"It has nothing to do with ghosts." Shen Fan mused, "You should have been drawn into a dream realm."

Dreamland?Everyone was startled when they heard this unfamiliar phrase.

"What is Dream Realm?" Xie Yunlan asked for everyone.

"It's a kind of..." Shen Fan considered the words, after thinking for a while, he took out the melon seeds that he hadn't eaten last night, raised a melon seed and said, "This represents a person."

He grabbed another handful of melon seeds and said, "This is a lot of people."

Pointing to the palm holding up the many melon seeds, he said: "This is the world we live in. People exist in the same world as independent individuals. And our dreams are also independent of each other. You can see the dreams as The kernel of a melon seed is a part of a human being."

"Dreams are illusory. They don't exist in the real world, and you can't peek into them in reality, but they are also closely related to reality. The world that is superimposed on reality is called the dream world, that is, the dream world. area."

"The dreams of all people are stored in the dream realm. People are independent individuals, and their individual dreams are also independent. They are only in the same dream realm, and logically speaking, there will be no intersection. But in some cases , there will be some other small dream realms born in the dream realm.”

"Small dream realm?" Xie Yunlan didn't understand, "Didn't dream realm refer to the dream world? There are also big and small differences?"

"Yes." Shen Fan said, "Dreams have three thousand layers, and the three thousand major dream realms correspond to the three thousand worlds. The boundaries of the big dream realm are as wide as this world, and the dreams of creatures belonging to the same world will exist in the same world." In the Great Dream Realm, it’s like you and I are in this world together.”

"And the small dream domain is a small world in the big world. It involves some of the dreams that originally belonged to the big world into its own domain, and affects them with its own rules. Involved in the same small dream realm, experiencing the nightmare of being slaughtered in Yazhou City every night."

Xie Yunlan digested for a moment, then asked: "How did the little dream come about? Why did you get us involved?"

"Dreamland, in fact, is also a dreamland itself, but it is a dreamland that is much more powerful than ordinary people's dreams. It is so powerful that it can form a world and make its own rules in it." Shen Fan said, "It's like the three thousand great dreams. The Realm of Dreams is the dreamland of the God of Dreams, and the small dreamland that you are involved in is also someone's dreamland."

"Who is it?" Xie Yunlan suddenly realized something while talking, he asked, "Is it a demon?"

"Not necessarily." The time of dreaming last night was too short for Shen Fan to judge, he said, "Dream power is a kind of talent, just like some people are born with great strength, and some mortals are born with the ability to manipulate dreams. Then you can build a small dream realm."

Cao Jinyu half-understood, he asked: "So someone is harming us?"

"That's right." Shen Fan said, "People who are truly powerful in dreams can kill people directly through dreams. The power of this little dream master is not too strong. You die over and over again in dreams, but you are still alive in reality. It’s proof, but even if it’s not too strong, if this dream of death repeats, sooner or later you will die like in the dream.”

Cao Jinyu and his group turned pale, as if they were frightened by this conclusion, Cao Jinyu suddenly thought of something while panicking, took out a bank note from his pocket, handed it to Shen Fan and said, "Master, please help!"

The rest of the people also said one after another: "Master, please help!"

Shen Fan didn't accept the banknote, he said: "I'm not good at the power of dreams."

The complexions of Cao Jinyu and others were almost pale, Xie Yunlan said: "There is no other way?"

He was also involved in this small dream realm, if according to what Shen Fan said, he would repeat this dream tomorrow, and die again and again in the dream, and eventually, death would also come in reality.

"Yes, we just need to find the dreamer." Shen Fan said, "No matter how powerful the dream is, he will not be vulnerable in reality."

"Who is the dreamer?" Xie Yunlan asked while looking at Cao Jinyu and the others, "Is it your enemy?"

"No way..." Cao Jinyu thought about it. They are always kind to others. After all, they rely on friends when they go out. Even if they can't make friends, they can't have many enemies. Greeted with smiles.

"It's not like." Shen Fan also said, "The content of the dream itself reflects the thoughts and feelings of the dream owner. The content of that dream does not seem to be aimed at you alone, and it seems that you are not the only ones in that small dream field. personal."

"It reflects the thoughts and feelings of the dream master..." Xie Yunlan was thoughtful, and he asked Cao Jinyu, "Did the nightmare start when you left Yazhou City a month ago?"

"Yes!" Cao Jinyu said, "At that time, we had just exchanged a batch of goods, and we were going back to Yunzhou with medicinal materials and furs to sell. As a result, from the night we left the city, we began to dream repeatedly."

"The problem probably lies in Yazhou City." Xie Yunlan analyzed, "The content of the dream also happened in Yazhou City, Tucheng and Yuan Rong cavalry..."

He thought about it for a while, but there were too few clues at hand, so he couldn't come up with a result for the time being. It happened that the wind and snow stopped last night, and the road was no longer blocked, so he said, "Let's go to the city and talk about it."