The master said not to judge people by their appearance

Everyone stood in the snow, together with the Gesanghua growing with flesh and blood, all silent.

After a while, Xie Yunlan broke the silence, looked at the skeleton in the pit and said, "Is this Gesang?"

Wei Chengzhi knelt on the ground and said hoarsely, "It's her..."

After more than a month, the corpse had decomposed to the point where it could not be distinguished clearly, but Wei Chengzhi still recognized it at a glance, it was Gesang.

The lively little girl in the dream was already a cold skeleton in reality.

"How could this be..." Xie Yunlan murmured, he didn't expect to meet Gesang in reality in this way.

This surprised him, but it didn't seem so surprising. At the end of the dream, why Gesang said that Wei Chengzhi was lying was not because she didn't believe Wei Chengzhi, but because she knew that Wei Chengzhi couldn't do it.

But why is this so?In the fall of more than a month ago, Gesang should still be alive.

In the dream, although he and Shen Fan were hiding not far from Wei Chengzhi and Gesang, he actually didn't hear the conversation between Gesang and Wei Chengzhi.

Wei Chengzhi wiped his reddened eyes, calmed down a bit, and told Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan what Gesang told him.

More than a month ago, Gesang was arrested because she tried to escape again. Cao Jinyu and his team pressed her into the water repeatedly to vent their anger. Although she did not drown because of this, her young body developed a high fever. In that autumn night, a man lay in the woodshed and died slowly, still muttering that he wanted to go home before he died.

No one answered her call, just as no one helped her during the day.

Only the devil responded to her.

The Dream Realm also unfolded from this, and the chief culprit who killed Gesang, Cao Jinyu and others, as well as the common people who refused to save Ge Sang on the street, were the first group of people to be drawn into the Dream Realm.

Then, the dream domain expanded step by step, gradually developing to today's scale.

The truth is already clear, but there is still one thing Wei Chengzhi doesn't understand at this moment, living people can dream, which is natural, but dead people can also dream?

"No." Shen Fan said, "Dreams are a part of people. Like the soul, they carry a part of people's consciousness. After a person dies, the soul will dissipate directly, and the dreams will also disappear. However, under the interference of some external forces Next, it may be kept temporarily."

"That is to say, the heart demon preserved her dream and created this dream realm based on her obsession?" Xie Yunlan said.

"No." Shen Fan corrected him, "The dream domain belongs to Gesang, and the inner demon just strengthened the dream domain."

There are certain conditions for the heart demon to choose a host. The first is strong obsession, or desire. Second, the person must have certain power and ability. Otherwise, as the weakest demon, the heart demon cannot rely on the host for a long time Quickly strengthen yourself.

Yuan Shuo is the emperor, and Luo Yong'an is the prefect of a city. They both meet this requirement, but Gesang is just a seven-year-old girl. She is so weak that she can't even resist these human traffickers. It stands to reason that the demon should not choose her .

But she has a talent unknown to everyone, the talent of controlling dreams.

Ordinary people know very little about the dream world, and they also don't know much about the talent of controlling dreams. Among the vast number of sentient beings, occasionally one or two people with this talent will not be buried because they don't understand it. Throughout their lives, they will not find that they have this talent, but occasionally feel that their dreams seem a little different from others.

Gesang was roughly like this, she never realized her uniqueness, and her dream realm was not aggressive at all, until the demon found her.

The demon intentionally induced her to make her feel that Cao Jinyu and his party, as well as the entire Yazhou people, were obstacles on her way home. Although this was a fact in a certain sense, the demon further strengthened this point, making her Gesang felt that these villains had to be defeated before she could go home.

This cognition is manifested in the dream as the Yuanrong cavalry that appeared from the end of the glacier. Talgu is the hero of the Yuanrong people and the most powerful person in Gesang's heart. She fantasizes that such a hero will come to rescue her, Will come to take her home.

But she is destined not to go home, because she is dead.

So this dream repeated again and again, not because Gesang wanted to kill the people of Yazhou again and again, but because she couldn't find her way home every time.

"Does that mean she will never go home..." Wei Chengzhi murmured.

"I can't go back." Shen Fan said, "Death is death, the end of a cycle of reincarnation. Gesang in the dream is just a phantom left in the world."

The promise the heart demon made to Gesang was a complete lie. The demon never had any kind intentions, otherwise it could have possessed Gesang before she died completely, and used its own magic power to help her recover from the high fever. The demon chose to possess after Gesang's death, because it knows that the more you can't get it, the stronger your obsession

"The heart demon is using her magic power to help her keep her dreams from dissipating, and her dreams are helping the heart demon gain human fear and resentment to strengthen herself again and again." Shen Fan stretched out his hand to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky and said, "It Right now it's strong enough to affect reality."

Xie Yunlan's expression changed: "Is this snow influenced by the power of the demon?"

"Yes." Shen Fan said, "The power of the dream has enveloped the entire Yazhou City. Everyone in the city will fall into a dream tonight, and everything in the dream will reappear in reality."

Xie Yunlan thought of the monster dragon in the dream, and the blizzard that almost froze the world. Shen Fan's soul fire was in danger in the blizzard. If it wasn't just dawn, they woke up from the dream, and they might not escape turning into ice sculptures destiny.

He asked eagerly: "Is there any way to deal with that monster dragon?"

"It is very difficult to defeat the dream master in the dream realm. The whole dream is under her control. The only way is to find the other party in reality, but..." Shen Fan looked at the skeleton in the pit, "We There is no other way."

This is also the cunning of the heart demon. It chose to possess after Gesang's death not only because of its strong obsession that can never be achieved, but also because the dead can no longer be awakened, and the dream realm cannot be broken by external forces. And as long as it is in the dream realm, it is invincible.

Xie Yunlan's expression became a little ugly. Of course, he knew that it was difficult to defeat the dream master in the dream realm. He had tried so many times. At that time, the inner demon was not even so powerful, and he could not defeat the Yuan Rong transformed by the inner demon power. The only time the iron cavalry could be regarded as a win was to take advantage of Gesang's fear of water, but last night the monster dragon rushed out of the water, which already showed that water could no longer restrain it.

Xie Yunlan couldn't think of a countermeasure, but he didn't want to continue standing here, he turned around to leave, but suddenly remembered something, turned around and said: "Sir..."

Wei Chengzhi waved his hand: "Don't worry about me."

He could do nothing about Gesang's tragic experience, and he couldn't even help Gesang to avenge and vent his anger, because Cao Jinyu and others were already dead.The only thing he can do right now is...

"Let me stay with Gesang for a while..." He was drenched in the snow, sitting alone next to the corpse.

Xie Yunlan asked someone to bring a thick coat, and then left the place.

He hurriedly returned to the prefect's mansion to find Huang Yaowu. After briefly describing what happened, Huang Yaowu was also shocked. No one thought that the dream owner of the dream of massacring the city was not as full of hatred as they had guessed at the beginning but just a child who couldn't find his way home.

But he didn't even have time to sigh for Gesang's death, and then he heard that everyone will be drawn into the dreamland tonight, Huang Yaowu said in shock: "That is to say, if we die in the dream tonight, we will die in reality." die too?"

Xie Yunlan nodded solemnly.

Huang Yaowu grabbed his beard. He was never afraid of fighting, but his opponent was such a powerful monster. For so many days, although he hadn't dreamed of it, he had heard the tragic battle every night from Xie Yunlan's mouth, from the mouths of those soldiers. I have heard, can they really defeat the devil?

He didn't know, and neither did Xie Yunlan, but there was one thing everyone knew, that they had no other choice but to die.

"His grandma's, don't care what it is, the heart demon, fight it!" Huang Yaowu slapped the table, left the prefect's mansion, and began to mobilize the officers and soldiers of the whole city, preparing to fight to the death with the heart demon tonight.

Xie Yunlan has never been idle, the whole city will fall asleep tonight, he will arrange for people to tell the people not to panic after falling asleep, it is best to hide at home, and at the same time he will also arrange tasks for the officers and soldiers of various ministries tonight, he is so busy that he hardly touches the ground.

Counting from coming to Yazhou City, today is the ninth day, it doesn't look long, but during these nine days, Xie Yunlan is almost non-stop day and night, he is busy day and night.

After arranging the tasks for the officers and soldiers in front of him, before the next group of people arrived, he lay down on the chair, closed his eyes, and his face could not hide the tiredness.

Shen Fan had been watching him all the time, and suddenly said at this moment: "You don't have to do this."

"No need for anything?" Xie Yunlan opened his eyes and looked sideways at Shen Fan.

"You don't have to die with them." Shen Fan looked at him and said, "Everyone in Yazhou City will be drawn into the dream realm tonight, but you may not be included."

For someone else, this would probably be something they wished for, but Xie Yunlan remained silent and spoke after a while, but it was an irrelevant matter.

"I've been thinking about a question for the past two days," he said, "Gesang hasn't seen me, why was I pulled into the dream realm?"

Shen Fan said before that it is not necessary for the dream owner to be drawn into the dream realm after seeing it. After the dream realm expands to a certain extent, the dream owner can devour other people's dreams to obtain the information of those who are familiar with the swallowed person. Information, even if she didn't know those people, but the dream of being swallowed helped her establish a connection with these people, and in the end, she could pull people from the whole world into the dream.

But Gesang's dream realm is far from being so huge, and why did she pull Xie Yunlan into her dream?Or why the demon?

This is not beneficial to the growth of the demon, it will only hinder it.

Shen Fan didn't answer, Xie Yunlan said the answer to himself: "It wasn't Gesang who pulled me into the dream, it was the people of Yazhou, they were asking me for help."

Just like Gesang wanted Yuan Rong's great hero Talgu to take her home, the people of Yazhou also hoped for a hero who could lead them out of this nightmare.

Their strength is very weak compared to the heart demon, but after the superimposition of countless similar expectations, it also played a role in changing the dream realm.

So that night in the ruined temple outside the city, Xie Yunlan fell into a dream.

"Shen Fan, I am the general of Daxia. I enjoy so many honors and such a high status because I have the responsibility to protect the country and the people." Xie Yunlan said, "I can't ignore them."