My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 56 Shared Dream

The eerie wind made it impossible for Li Jiuhe to open his eyes, but his wife's last words lingered in his ears.

"We have a daughter!"

At this moment, he could no longer distinguish whether his wife's appearance was his own consciousness, the operation of the Nightmare, or some kind of mysterious revelation from a third party.

He felt goosebumps all over his body and his heart was beating faster and faster.

My previous speculations about changes in cognition resurfaced.

If what his wife said was true, then perhaps only his own perception remained unchanged, while the memories of everyone around him had been erased of Li Yi's existence.

But as Xu Wei said, the cost of doing so is too high. Why would the guy behind it do this?

Although the thought arose, he quickly put it aside. Now was not the time to consider this; he needed to deal with the Nightmare Incident first.

The corpse on the bed vanished into thin air; only the wardrobe door remained open, revealing the dark space inside.

However, Li Yi, who was hiding inside, remained completely still.

Li Jiuhe walked to the wardrobe and mustered up her courage to reach inside.

The darkness inside the wardrobe seemed to devour everything; he could no longer see the hand that had reached in, but the space inside seemed vast, and he couldn't touch anything.

I withdrew my hand and looked at it carefully; there was nothing unusual.

Li Jiuhe turned and walked out of the bedroom, preparing to open the living room door and leave, but no matter how he twisted or pulled violently, the living room door did not budge, as if it were fake.

After trying for a while, I found that the window couldn't be opened either.

He turned his gaze back to the wardrobe in the master bedroom.

If you want to leave the current scene, you can try crawling into the closet.

Since he still had plenty of mission reset points, he didn't hesitate any longer and returned to the wardrobe.

He reached inside and groped around for a while, feeling a bit cold inside, but just like before, he couldn't find anything. This made Li Jiuhe feel like there was a passage inside.

He plunged inside.

It was pitch black, but I could feel a cold wind blowing in my face.

Facing the wind, Li Jiuhe quickly groped his way forward.

A moment later, his vision suddenly brightened, and he found himself standing in an old corridor.

This is the third floor. There is a stone railing on one side of the corridor, and a small flower bed downstairs. The scene here looks somewhat familiar.

After a moment's thought, Li Jiuhe realized that he had arrived at the dormitory building in the coal mine residential area.

Just before going to sleep, he looked out the car window at the scene of the coal mine community. From the outside, those old residential buildings looked similar to this one, the difference being that he was now inside the residential building.

However, when he tried to look into the distance, he found that the scenery further away was blurry.

There were still a few people in the corridor at that moment, who seemed to be residents of the area. They were all looking at Li Jiuhe, who had suddenly appeared, with surprise.

However, Li Jiuhe recognized one of them; it was Chen Zhenghai.

Unexpectedly, Chen Zhenghai arrived here a step ahead of him, and it seemed that he had already been talking with those people for a while.

Upon seeing Li Jiuhe arrive, Chen Zhenghai smiled and introduced him to the others, saying, "This is my friend."

As he spoke, he winked rapidly at Li Jiuhe.

Li Jiuhe understood.

A young woman with her hair in a ponytail asked, "Did you just move to the coal mining area?"

"Yes." Li Jiuhe nodded. "The rent here is cheap, my friend and I just moved here."

"I thought you were already up, but I didn't expect you to still be sleeping," Chen Zhenghai said deliberately.

Li Jiuhe also feigned surprise: "I just realized this is a dream! But how come you're in my dream?"

The young woman explained, "It's a terrifying nightmare. For some reason, we're all trapped here and can't wake up."

Another middle-aged man frowned deeply: "It's strange, not only are we in the same dream, but the setting of this dream is actually a coal mining community!"

"How many people do you have now?" Chen Zhenghai asked.

It's clear he's only been here a short time.

"There are only a few of us here, no one else," the middle-aged man said.

Li Jiuhe sensed something was wrong, because there were only four people in the corridor at that moment: a young woman, a middle-aged man, an elderly man in a wheelchair, and a six or seven-year-old boy.

However, as far as he knew, there were still four households in the coal mine community who were fast asleep and had not gone out, so it was impossible that there were only the four of them.

Perhaps the other family members of these four people are still trapped in their own nightmares, and some may have even met with misfortune due to extreme fear.

After a brief conversation with Chen Zhenghai and the four men, Li Jiuhe confirmed his guess.

Because all four of them suddenly realized that something was wrong, and then suddenly realized that they might be dreaming, and that the terrifying experiences were not real, they were able to successfully arrive at the current dream scene.

This is similar to what Li Jiuhe just experienced.

The girl with the ponytail was usually quite sensitive and suspicious, and she was skeptical of everything.

She was also the first to realize that the terrifying scene she encountered was not real, but a dream, and then she arrived in the current scene.

Middle-aged men like to play with small objects. Before going to bed, they usually spin a spinning top that they bought for a dozen yuan in their hand.

He was still aware that he had the spinning top in his hand, but he couldn't see or touch anything.

This made him question his previous dream, which led him to this place.

As for the elderly man in the wheelchair, he looked to be over seventy years old. His speech was somewhat slurred, and others had to put their ears close to his mouth to hear him.

The old man probably knew that his explanation was hard for others to hear, so after saying a couple of sentences, he simply shut up and stood up from his wheelchair.

Upon seeing this, everyone suddenly realized that the old man must have been terrified in the previous dream and had stood up and run away in a panic, only to find that it was a dream. Otherwise, he would never have been able to stand up in the real world.

However, the old man was probably used to sitting in a wheelchair, and he quickly sat back down.

The last little boy looked visibly frightened; he was timid and he took a long time to explain himself.

It turned out that he had just seen his deceased grandmother in his dream. The child was very perceptive and noticed that his grandmother's behavior was very unusual. Then he discovered that his favorite toy, which he always kept by his bedside, was gone.

Because he was afraid of the things around him, he eventually hid in the closet and ended up here.

After detailed questioning, it was found that seven people, including the child's parents, grandfather, the elderly man in the wheelchair's wife, the middle-aged man's wife and son, and the young woman's boyfriend, were not present.

Li Jiuhe knew that these seven people were either still in their dreams or had already been scared to death in their sleep, becoming nourishment for the nightmare sufferers.

The four people in front of him were unaware of this, and Li Jiuhe would not reveal it for the time being.

He looked at Chen Zhenghai and said softly, "I was reminded by the morning bell."

A fleeting look of surprise crossed Chen Zhenghai's face before he nodded.

Li Jiuhe smiled and asked, "How did you get here?"

Chen Zhenghai touched his nose and lowered his voice, saying, "I'll tell you later."

After saying that, he immediately turned around, preparing to go to other places to investigate, but Li Jiuhe grabbed his sleeve.

No, I must say it now.