The night seemed to be covered with a strange gauze, and the woman's singing became more and more depressing.
In the hall, Xu Zimo looked at Mr. Hu and smiled, then pulled out Ba Ying from behind and stabbed himself in the abdomen with a knife.
When the scimitar entered his body, there was no blood dripping as expected. Instead, Xu Zimo's entire body became illusory.
Xiao Guizi and the other three looked at each other and swallowed.
"It's just suicide. What's there to be afraid of?" Lin Ruhu yelled, and also picked up a knife and stabbed himself in the abdomen.
Hu Yuanwai and Xiao Guizi on the side saw this situation, nodded to each other, then gritted their teeth and took the knife and did the same thing.
The bodies of the four people fell quietly in the hall. The night became darker and the dim lights on the side began to flicker.
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The scimitar penetrated the body without any pain. Xu Zimo and the others only felt that the scene in front of them became unreal, and the scene in the hall began to distort.
When the sight of the four people returned to normal, Hu Yuanwai was surprised to find that several people were sitting at the dining table in the side hall.
The leftover food on the table has not been cleared away, and the fish in the rice bowl smells fishy.
"How could this happen?" Hu Yuanwai was a little confused.
He remembered that after several people finished eating in the evening, he clearly saw the servants clearing the table and then they went to the hall.
Mr. Hu stood up. At the door of the side hall, there were still two remaining servants in the entire Hu residence.
The two servants closed their eyes tightly, and Hu Yuanwai slapped them heavily on the shoulders twice.
Neither of them responded at all. They seemed to be breathing steadily, as if they were asleep.
Looking at everyone's confused looks, Xu Zimo stood up and said with a smile: "Dark night is coming, and the entire Shili Town will be shrouded in dreams.
And before dawn comes, people will return to reality from dreams."
"You mean to say that everything we have experienced since we ate just now, including suicide, was all a dream?" Hu Yuanwai asked in horror.
"Shallow-level dreams will wake you up if you are frightened, but for deep-level dreams, you will never be able to get rid of the dream unless you commit suicide," Xu Zimo explained.
"I understand, this is how Wang Tao died before," Xiao Guizi's eyes lit up and she shouted: "Wang Tao and the others patrolled the Hu Mansion that night. In fact, everything was a dream scene.
But in reality, everyone has fallen asleep and become meat on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered by others.
No wonder, when the dream returned to reality after dawn the next day, we discovered that Wang Tao had been dead for six or seven hours.
It turned out that he had been killed in his dream that night."
"It can be understood this way. For example, tonight, in fact, we have fallen into a dream since we finished eating," Xu Zimo nodded and said, "As for later, Mr. Hu asked his servants to clear the table, and we went to the hall together, even if it meant committing suicide.
These are just things I experienced in my dreams.”
"That's it," Hu Yuanwai suddenly nodded and asked doubtfully, "Mr. Xu, who is the murderer?"
"There were several of us when we were having dinner. Whoever is missing now will be the murderer," Xu Zimo replied with a smile.
Several people looked at each other with doubts on their faces.
Xiao Guizi thought deeply: "Aren't we all here?"
"Are you sure?" Xu Zimo asked with a smile on his lips.
The next moment, the three people's eyes widened at the same time, as if a light flashed through their heads, and they shouted the name together.
"Hu Yingying!"
"How is it possible? My daughter is only four years old," Hu Yuanwai took two steps back and said in disbelief.
"Some time before the accident happened in your Hu family, didn't your daughter suffer from a serious illness?" Xu Zimo looked at Mr. Hu seriously and asked word by word: "Are you sure she is really your daughter?"
Hu Yuanwai's face turned pale. He thought carefully about some of his daughter's recent actions.
Indeed, his daughter has felt a bit strange to him since she became seriously ill, but he never paid much attention to it and just regarded it as a child with an unpredictable personality.
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The melodious and desolate song still sounded in my ears, but unlike the vague and uncertain feeling in the dream, this time the song sounded very real.
Hu Yuanwai walked out of the side hall and began to look for the source of the singing.
Along the way, Xiao Guizi asked doubtfully: "Senior Brother Xu, since all of us were trapped in a dream before, why didn't she kill us all at once, instead of killing us one by one?"
"To be precise, it's not that she doesn't want to kill us all at once, but she is feeding us," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"Feed?" Xiao Guizi muttered to herself, as if she didn't quite understand the word.
Xu Zimo smiled and didn't explain much.
Hu Yuanwai walked at the front, and the singing in his ears became clearer and clearer, and finally everyone stopped in front of a small courtyard.
"This is the courtyard where Ying'er's room is," Mr. Hu said with an embarrassed look.
Several people walked into the courtyard and kicked open the door in the center.
The singing stopped suddenly, and in front of the window of the room, Hu Yingying was wearing a pure white dress, sitting on the window edge, her two slender calves swaying in the air.
She looked at the people who came in with a surprised expression. She was holding a harmonica-like object in her hand, and she was putting it to her mouth and blowing it gently.
At Hu Yingying's feet, there was a small red beast lying. The little beast had no arms and legs, and it looked like a dolphin.
At this time, watching the arrival of everyone, the little beast slowly opened its eyes, and its light body was floating in the air, somewhat similar to a jellyfish.
Its nose and mouth are so small that they can be ignored, and its two round eyes look very cute and innocent.
"Ying'er, is that you?" Hu Yuanwai said with a trembling voice.
"Dad, what are you talking about?" Hu Yingying asked innocently with her big innocent eyes open.
"You are not Yingying," Hu Yuanwai was silent for a while, then slowly stepped aside.
Hu Yingying didn't panic, she just looked at everyone with a playful expression.
The little red beast was floating in the air, looking like it was about to attack at any moment.
"Hey, I said you Shenmen people are not staying well in the old land. Why are you coming to our far west to make trouble?" Xu Zimo stepped forward and asked with a smile.
"It seems that there is someone among you who has seen the world," Hu Yingying said softly, "You must have seen through my dream world."
"Your dream world?" Xu Zimo shook his head with a smile and said, "If I guess correctly, the dreams here are all arranged by this little guy."
Xu Zimo looked at the little red beast, clicked his tongue, and said, "The nightmare beast is the seventh-ranked creature on the list of strange objects in the world!"