looked around.Hongjie was leaning against the wall with her eyes closed, resting. She didn't say anything.I thought it was just myself being afraid of the water, too nervous to have hallucinations, so...Ahead is a fork in the road, and we are taking the left path along the shore.

This man said he would take me to a place.

"Hey, kid! I said hurry up, you're so slow, it'll be dark before we get there!"

He kept turning back to urge me on.

I didn't say anything back, I could only grumble in my heart, "What does it mean to be unable to leave even when it gets dark Does this place still distinguish between day and night Besides, don't you see that I'm still carrying someone"

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Hong Jie has a full figure, but she's not very tall. I guess she weighs about 110 pounds at most. Although she's not heavy, carrying her for several miles on this treacherous river bank would be difficult. One wrong step and we could fall. That's why I can't walk fast.

Stop, let's stop here for a moment.

The man in front of her suddenly stopped.

He pointed across the river to show me.

Across the river was a sheer cliff face. With my feeble flashlight, I spotted a crack in the cliff wall, about several dozen centimeters wide and stretching long upwards and downwards. But it was impossible to see how deep the fissure went.

"What's wrong" I asked, looking across the river, puzzled.

"What else can we do We'll just have to go over there, across the river," he said, his eyes narrowed as they stared at the crack in the stone.

"I can't swim, I'm a landlubber. Besides, Red Sister hasn't woken up yet. How could she go I'm saying you're kidding, right If we're going, we have to wait until Red Sister wakes up."

The man looked at me, then at Hong Jie who was unconscious on my back. He finally let out a sigh and muttered under his breath, "Lazy donkey grinding dung and urine."

I gently put Hong Jie down. My companion and I leaned against the rock wall, closing our eyes to rest. I wanted to wait for Hong Jie to wake up before we moved on; safety comes first in everything.

I was getting tired, leaning against something, and drifted off.

As the saying goes, one thinks about things during the day and dreams about them at night. I had a very strange dream.

In my dream, I found myself in a magnificent palace. The floor was covered with plush carpets, and on either side stood six enormous bronze palace lanterns, their flames flickering brightly. One by one, many graceful dancers with willow-like waists entered the palace, each group of three performing gracefully.

These exquisite palace maids, with eyebrows like the distant mountain range, gazed upward toward the grand hall as the light gauze billowed around them.

I also looked in that direction.

One could see, from bottom to top, twenty-nine steps. On the steps, a huge bronze bed stood in the middle. The four corners of the bronze bed were cast with eight ferocious chi dragons. These chi dragons twisted their bodies like springs, their dragon faces ferocious, each dragon facing a different direction, gazing at the four directions: southeast, northwest.

On a bronze bed, a man in fine clothes and a crown lay on his side. He held an empty bronze goblet in one hand, not even glancing at the dancing girls behind him.

Since he was facing away from me, I couldn't see his face. I wanted to walk over and take a look, but I found that my body wouldn't obey.

Suddenly.

Inside the massive bronze palace lantern, the burning candles cast a glow that shifted from pale yellow to light green and finally deepened into a rich emerald.

In an instant, the entire magnificent palace vanished. Emerald light swirled, as if we had entered the underworld. At this moment, the beautiful faces of the dancers began to contort into grotesque expressions.

Just then, the man lying on the bronze dragon bed turned his head towards me a little.

This person......

He had a bluish-green face with a sunken nose, and pus constantly dripped from it. His entire face was swollen and puffy, becoming large and round. All of his features were squeezed together in the center. Two long teeth pressed tightly against his lower lip. A few strands of hair naturally drooped down from his forehead.

"Ah!" I suddenly woke up, drenched in sweat, panting heavily, my heart racing.

"What Having nightmares" The man leaned against the wall, opening his eyes and asking me in a flat tone.

"No... nothing, it was just a dream," I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead in a panic.

This dream, even the patterns on the bronze palace lanterns are clear to see, it's... so realistic.

Sister Hong is still asleep, but I see some color back in her face. She should be waking up soon, it doesn't seem like anything too serious.ng against the wall.I don't know if it's day or night outside.Blearily, I fell asleep leaning against the wall. I felt like I'd slept for ages when suddenly there was a noise.It turned out the guard w...