Chapter 32: The Old Village Chief (7)

The colorful dream was a scene that Li Yuan would never want to recall in his life.

The events in the river that day were memories he would never want to recall in his life. What was even more terrifying was that in the dream he became an audience member, and he was forced to look closely at every detail.

He saw the old village chief’s boat start to leak, saw it capsize, saw himself coldly not responding to the old village chief’s call for help, saw many people not responding to the old village chief, saw people viciously raising their oars, and finally saw the old village chief’s desperate and resentful eyes, and then was overwhelmed by the waves…

When he saw that look, Li Yuan wanted to wake up, but he found that he couldn’t. It felt like he knew he was dreaming, but he was trapped in the dream.

Li Yuan was sweating and calling out in his heart, when will I wake up!

At this point, the dream turned dark, but he could feel that he was in cold water. In such a dark environment, he could not see anything, but Li Yuan knew that there was a mass of water plants and silt.

He had a feeling that there was something in the water and mud that made him scared, but he just couldn’t look away, as if someone had fixed his eyes.

The dark water around him began to brighten, but it was also murky. The entire riverbed began to bubble and boil…

Li Yuan felt terrified, and wanted to scream, run, and wake up, but he couldn’t move at all. Then, the clump of waterweed began to slowly wriggle, as if something was being held down under the waterweed and was desperately struggling to get out.

Li Yuan was about to cry. He was screaming in his heart, “Don’t come out, don’t come out…” He knew that whatever was under the waterweed would be absolutely terrifying, something that could scare him half to death.

He had a feeling that it was the old village chief under the water plant!

Perhaps Li Yuan’s prayers had worked. At that moment, he suddenly woke up. When he opened his eyes, Li Yuan really cried out. The morning sun shone on him, and he felt so precious.

A dream had come true in the morning!

His crying woke up his daughter-in-law. When she asked him what was wrong, he didn’t want to talk about the nightmare, so he simply said, “I dreamt of my mother and cried.”

Li Yuan had a deep relationship with his mother, who passed away three years ago.

What Li Yuan didn’t know was that he wasn’t the only one in the village who had had the dream. Several people had had it, but everyone chose to keep it to themselves.

The day passed quickly, and before long it was night again.

Li Yuan made himself a strong cup of tea, intending to stay up late and sleep a little later. As an adult, Li Yuan knew that nightmares might come one after another, but they would always pass, so he just let it go.

But the dream was so real that it was as if he had spent his whole life with the old village chief, and even many details were being replayed, details that he didn’t know about. So he felt even more terrified, and didn’t want to sleep, just so he wouldn’t have to dream again!

The strong tea had an effect, and Li Yuan stubbornly sat in the main room reading a book, staying up late. At 11 o’clock, his daughter-in-law urged him several times to go to bed, but Li Yuan was still awake.

But rural people have heavy daytime work, and even strong tea is not infinitely effective. At around 2 a.m., Li Yuan began to feel unable to hold on.

He tried to resist the urge to sleep, but the deeper the night, the more he felt that if he slept, the terrible dream would come again. But when the autumn breeze blew into the house with a hint of comfort, he finally couldn’t hold on anymore. He almost fell asleep in his clothes without knowing it.

When he fell asleep, Li Yuan once again found himself in the familiar scene of the bright, murky water, the boiling river bottom, and the wriggling water plants. Only this time, the water plants were wriggling even more violently.

“No, no…” Li Yuan screamed in his heart, but it was useless this time!

In his dream, he saw the river turn blood red in an instant, and the blood red color covered everything, including his eyes. When the river returned to its bright and muddy state, he noticed that the mass of water plants was empty, like the bloated belly of a person had been emptied, becoming flat.

Something in the water plants came out? Li Yuan wanted to turn around and look around, but he couldn’t move at all. He began to panic and tried to struggle out of the dream.

But then, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear: “Are you looking for me?”

The voice was unfamiliar, not unpleasant, but it made people feel fear from the bottom of their hearts. In real life, no matter how indifferent a person’s voice is, it always carries a hint of emotion, but this voice was completely devoid of any human feelings, it was pure sound.

What’s even more terrifying is that this voice, which was originally devoid of emotion, could still make people feel the hatred that could destroy the world. This is terror!

“No… no… no… I’m not looking for…” Li Yuan found that he could speak, and he was almost crying as he shouted.

In his dream, he also wanted to close his eyes, but he couldn’t, and he could only be fixed like this, opening his eyes.

“You were clearly looking for me!” Suddenly, a face appeared in front of Li Yuan, just 1 cm away from his nose.

He saw it. He finally saw what was under the clump of water plants. It was the old village chief!

But was it really the old village chief? Li Yuan’s heart began to beat violently, and his brain, in fear, suddenly went blank. He saw a bloated face, with almost no discernible features. There were wounds on the face, and the open wounds looked like pale worms lying on the face, but you could also see the pink flesh inside.

Li Yuan had seen bloated corpses before, and the river had swallowed lives during the summer floods, but those corpses were so bloated that their eyes were almost invisible.

But the one in front of him had his eyes wide open, and his eyeballs were about to fall out.

This is the old village chief. Li Yuan had a strong feeling, but this can’t be right? Unrecognizable facial features.

“Hey, hey, hey…” The man in the dream was laughing, and Li Yuan saw that his teeth were glistening with cold light, and he even had four long fangs.

“Ah… ah…” Li Yuan, who had finally been stimulated to react, began to scream in his dream, but there was no response!

“This way, you don’t recognize it, right?” The person in front of him suddenly said, and then he began to return to normal, no longer like a foaming steamed bun, but after returning to normal, his flesh began to fall off in pieces.

The person in front of him even complained that the meat was not falling off fast enough, and he reached out and pulled off the meat that was not falling off. Large patches of silver hair began to grow in its place.

It was silver, not black, not white!

The hair was not long, and it finally allowed him to see the human form of the person in front of him. It was the old village chief, the old village chief!

Li Yuan began to cry in his dream, his tears streaming down his face, crying, “Old Village Chief, I was wrong, I was wrong, please let me go.”

But the old village chief in the dream didn’t pay any attention to him, just kept moving his half-decayed body, circling around Li Yuan. This silence, this constant flashing in front of his eyes, was the most annoying. Li Yuan wanted the old village chief to give him a quick death.

He thought he might as well die.

At this moment, the old village chief suddenly stopped and smiled sinisterly: “There are 15 days left. 15 days. These hairs will fall off. Just wait 15 days.”

Li Yuan was already numb, and all he knew was to shed tears.

The next moment, Li Yuan woke up from his dream. When he opened his eyes, he felt like he was a human again. He touched his face numbly and found that it was covered in snot and tears.

15 days? Wait until the hair falls out? What does that mean?

Li Yuan already had a hunch that something was not right. Could the dream be connected? No, it definitely wasn’t!

He stood up like a madman, ran into the house, tore off a piece of cloth, and started to clean up.

His wife was awakened by the noise and shouted, “Li Yuan, what are you doing?”

“Pack up, let’s go, we can’t stay in this village anymore.” Li Yuan shouted anxiously.

“Where are you going? Why can’t we stay in this village?” At that time, it was not possible to run around the country. If you left like this for no reason, you could imagine what would happen to you. You would probably end up as a beggar!

This price is too heavy, unless there are relatives elsewhere to go to.

“We really can’t stay here any longer. There are only 15 days left, and after 15 days, there will definitely be nothing good!” Li Yuan shouted.

“What 15 days? Can you be more specific?” Li Yuan’s wife was confused.

“Old village chief, I saw the old village chief,” Li Yuan said in a pale voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yuan’s wife’s face also turned pale.