At the end of the dream, the monk's body crumbled into pieces, but the process of disintegration didn't stop.
If the dream hadn't ended, I might have seen those fragments turn into drifting dust and disappear completely.
I was lost in thought for a long time.
It was strange enough to dream about the monk, and even stranger that the dream ended this way.
I hesitated for a while, then decided to discuss it with the others before deciding what to do next.
On my way to work, I searched online for Green Tea Manor.
Sure enough, the news about Green Tea Manor had changed.
The Buddha head theft was still reported in the papers, but the circumstances were completely different from before.
The three people who stole the Buddha head had been caught in the act. However, when they were caught, they seemed to be suffering from mental problems. There were rumors online that the three had been punished for offending Buddha. Over the years, the rumor had evolved into something like an urban legend. The information I found had been posted by a public account that explained strange tales from various places.
Besides chopping off a Buddha head, the three had also damaged several Buddha statues. Fragments of the statues appeared in the news photos. They hadn't been broken with just one or two blows; they looked like they'd been smashed repeatedly in a frenzy.
Given what had happened in my dream, there was no way those three had been responsible for the damage.
Another change in the case was that Zhou Sihai had also been arrested. He had gone mad too, but since he was an accomplice, he hadn't been mentioned much in the news. In the urban legend, though, he'd been made one of the main