Chapter 208. Baby
Arc 7 : Last Nightmare
TN:- 3 chapters!!!
The subconscious world is completely different from the rest of the dream world, and Du Yan was a little uncomfortable when he entered it.
Compared to the completeness of other dream worlds, the subconscious level is very small, as small as a house.
Du Yan was standing in the air above the subconscious dream layer at this time. After experiencing several dream worlds where he could not decide his own identity and entered the dream directly, this feeling made him feel a little uncomfortable.
But the current situation is not the same as before, Du Yan can not enter the dream.
Xiao Ba explained: “The subconscious dream layer is different from the ordinary dream layer. We can only be a bystander unless the Lord of Dreams wants you to appear.”
Du Yan said: “It means that everything in the subconscious dream layer is very sensitive, and we can’t act rashly.”
Xiao Ba nodded and said: “Yes, I have read many cases of entering the subconscious level. Generally speaking, the Lord of Dreams can not see you or feel you, but in special cases, it is not ruled out that the Lord of Dreams will have some contact with you.”
“If talking about Shao Lingheng, it is generally more appropriate to be discussed in the context of special cases.”
Du Yan has a lot of experience with Shao Lingheng’s dreams. The inner world of the movie star is so rich that it can never be measured by common sense.
But the current situation is much better than the previous times. Du Yan can move freely, and he is not a strange creature but a person. Even if a pair of wings grow on his back, it does not affect his mood.
After entering the subconscious dream state, the influence of Du Yan’s bloodline was fully revealed. The bloodline of the mythical beast Birch was manifested in his body, which was the pair of wings behind him.
Xiao Ba said that the prototype of the mythical beast Birch is a giant bird with black and gold feathers, and its beak and claws are all of gold.
Xiao Ba seemed to be quite envious, describing the majestic prototype of Birch, but Du Yan was glad that the blood in his body only manifested as a pair of wings.
If a bird’s beak or claws are revealed and Shao Lingheng sees it in his dream, the subconscious dream will immediately turn into a nightmare.
Xiao Ba had already explained all the precautions, and Du Yan went directly into the house below.
Before being discovered and recognized by the Lord of Dreams, the space that Du Yan belonged to was not on the same level as the subconscious space. He could go anywhere he wanted without a physical body.
Du Yan wandered around this large house and then spotted someone who was suspected to be Shao Lingheng.
It is suspected because the person lying on the bed is a baby of about two or three years old.
Except for the two – or three-year-old baby, no one else in the room was Shao Lingheng. Du Yan stood by the bed, looking at the baby’s chubby face, and couldn’t see any trace of the future movie star.
It is now late at night, the baby is lying in the crib next to the big bed, and the two people on the big bed should be Shao Lingheng’s parents.
Du Yan took a closer look and found that Shao Lingheng’s mother’s features seemed a little too deep for someone of Chinese descent.
Is Shao Lingheng’s mother a mixed-race child?
Just as Du Yan was puzzled, a shadow seemed to appear on the baby lying next to him, and a strange atmosphere enveloped the whole house.
Du Yan frowned slightly and sniffed the scent that permeated the air, which was sweet and tempting.
It smells like a nightmare.
When he turned to look at the baby, everything returned to normal. The person lying on the bed was just an ordinary human baby.
“Uhh——”
The person on the bed made some painful sounds. Du Yan turned his head and saw that the man and woman on the bed frowned, and their eyeballs began to move.
This is a manifestation of humans entering a deep dream state.
As their reactions became more intense, the fragrance Du Yan felt became more and more obvious. The blood in his body began to stir, urging him to quickly taste those nightmares.
Seeing this, Du Yan looked at the effect on the baby lying on the bed but found that his face was a little rosier than before, as if he just had a full meal.
What is this? Feeding on a nightmare? No, that shouldn’t be it.
Du Yan thought of this and went directly to the next room.
When he was exploring the area, he already knew that an elderly couple lived in the next room. Judging from their appearance, they should be Shao Lingheng’s Nainai and Yeye.
Sure enough, the same situation happened in the next room, and the person on the bed was troubled by the nightmare.
Du Yan went around the whole house, including the nanny’s room. Everyone was in the same situation, trapped in a nightmare.
If only the couple had nightmares, it could be a coincidence. But everyone in the house had nightmares, but Shao Lingheng seemed to be sleeping soundly. This was not normal.
All these abnormalities must be related to Shao Lingheng’s bloodline. Du Yan had never thought that Shao Lingheng’s bloodline would be activated at such a young age.
What happened afterward that caused Shao Lingheng to become an ordinary person when they met, an ordinary person who was haunted by nightmares every night.
Du Yan ordered Xiao Ba to compare similar phenomena based on this situation. At the moment, he couldn’t do anything, so he could only stand by Shao Lingheng, who was still a baby, as a bystander.
Over the past few days, the situation in this big family has not improved at all. Everyone is troubled by nightmares every night, although they may not remember all the contents of the nightmares when they wake up.
However, negative emotions such as fear or regret in nightmares have a great impact on their psychological state.
In the end, Shao Lingheng’s parents even consulted a psychiatrist, thinking that the family was under too much pressure, which led to this situation, but they failed to find any problems.
They took their family members to the hospital for a physical examination, but no physical problems were found.
Everyone in the family was extremely nervous, and even the servants started to spread rumors that there was a ghost in the house.
It wasn’t until five days later that Shao Lingheng’s Waipo and Waigong came to visit that things started to take a turn for the better.
(*Waipo:Maternal grandmother, Waigong: Maternal grandfather)
When Shao Lingheng’s Waipo entered the room, Du Yan, who was watching, was slightly stunned.
Shao Lingheng’s Waipo had a high nose, deep eyes, fair skin, and light blonde hair, and was obviously not Chinese.
Du Yan asked directly: “Xiao Ba, have you only compared the bloodlines of various mythical beasts of a certain type and races these days?”
Xiao Ba also came back to his senses and said: “Shao Lingheng doesn’t have any mixed-race characteristics at all, so I didn’t think of that.”
It is understandable that Xiao Ba did not expect this, as he is a clone of a great demon from a higher demon plane.
The blood of the mythical beast Birch only appears in the Chinese race. Even in other high-magic planes, the human races that possess the blood of mythical beasts like Birch are all Chinese descendants of Emperor Xuanyuan and Emperor Shennong.
Xiao Ba thought Shao Lingheng was a pure Chinese, so he naturally wouldn’t think of a different race of mythical beasts that originated from other deities.
In fact, the low-magic plane where Du Yan lives is unique. Other planes only have a single race, and there will not be a phenomenon of multiple races living together.
With the clue that Shao Lingheng’s Waipo was of another race, Xiao Ba’s efficiency became extremely high, but after ten minutes or so, his feedback came.
“Got it, the Nightmare beast, feeds on the negative emotions of humans, has the ability to weave nightmares, and maximizes the negative emotions through this ability.”
After Xiao Ba finished speaking, Du Yan knew what was going on.
Shao Lingheng, who was still a baby, awakened his bloodline, but he was too young to control his abilities, so everyone in the house was affected by him and began to be troubled by nightmares every night.
The discussion among the Shao family members has also yielded preliminary results.
The Shao family seems to be a family with some background. After failing to come up with an explanation through scientific means, they turned to the mysterious door where the truth is difficult for the general public to understand.
They have had some contact with relevant people and know that the world is not as the official claims and that only those parts that can be explained by science are true.
The result of their discussion was to try to invite a Taoist master to see if the Shao family had been secretly subjected to evil magic, which led to these things.
At this time, Shao Lingheng’s Waipo spoke.
She said she had seen this kind of situation before.
Shao Lingheng’s Waipo came to China to study when she was young, and then she married Shao Lingheng’s Waigong and settled in China. She rarely returned to her hometown, and her memory of her youth has become quite vague.
When she just listened to people describing the strange things that happened in the past few days, she recalled a memory.
According to her, a similar situation had occurred in her Shushu’s family, and the whole family was inexplicably shrouded in nightmares. At that time, after reading the family history, the elders in the family confirmed that it was the bloodline from the deity that was activated in the family.
The probability of this special bloodline being activated is extremely low. The appearance of deity’s bloodline in ordinary people is not a blessing but will only cause negative effects.
The only person who was not haunted by nightmares at that time was her cousin, who activated the bloodline.
So they adopted a traditional countermeasure method, a secret medicine passed down from generation to generation. After taking the secret medicine, her cousin returned to normal.
After hearing this, everyone focused their attention on the baby held in the arms of Mother Shao.
It seems that the only one who has had particularly good sleep quality during this period of time is this child who knows nothing.
Shao Lingheng’s father asked: “Will bloodline be activated at such a young age?”
Waipo said: “My Gege activated his bloodline when he was 18 years old. I don’t know if a child this young can be the one to activate his bloodline.”
However, the only people who might have the bloodline at home now are Shao Lingheng’s mother and Shao Lingheng. Mother Shao’s face is pale, and there are dark circles under her eyes. She has been disturbed by nightmares these days, so she is naturally not the one who activated the bloodline.
Finally, everyone decided to split up into two groups. Shao Lingheng’s Waipo returned to her hometown to find out what happened and bring back the secret medicine, while the Shao family used various channels to find a Taoist master to eliminate other possibilities.
Just when all the dust settled, the scenery in front of him suddenly became blurry, just like every time the dream world ended, the surrounding scenery rippled like water waves and then returned to nothingness.
The difference is that Du Yan was not kicked out of the dream but became the same floating state as before.
Du Yan was a little surprised and asked: “Is Shao Lingheng about to wake up?”
Xiao Ba said: “No, the subconscious dream layer is different from the ordinary dream world. The timeline here is not continuous.”
After Xiao Ba’s explanation, Du Yan roughly understood the principle.
The subconscious dream layer is formed based on Shao Lingheng’s memory. The past that he has no memory of is recorded in the subconscious layer and expressed in this form.
Everything is fragmentary, time is discontinuous, and space is isolated.
The current situation probably means they have switched to another memory segment.
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