An Encounter in a Dream

"Huff! Huff!"

Yang Jian panted heavily. His stamina in the dream was not as good as he had imagined, and after sprinting desperately for a while, he was already starting to struggle.

And unlike yesterday's nightmare,

the distances within the village had not changed at all. If not for the different buildings, this was Meishan Village, exactly as it had been more than a decade ago. It was impossible to tell which was reality and which was the dream.

He quickly found Xiao Yuan.

But Xiao Yuan stood in an open patch of ground, spacing out slightly.

"Did you catch up with the ghost?" Yang Jian did not approach her. He was still somewhat wary.

Xiao Yuan was stunned for a moment before turning around. Her eyes held a trace of confusion. "It doesn't seem to be here. I looked in the wrong place."

The wrong place?

Yang Jian's expression changed. How was that possible?

Wasn't the ghost coming for Xiao Yuan?

If his guess was right, the ghost should have been nearby right now, trying to attack Xiao Yuan. Yet she had not been attacked.

That meant his previous judgment had been wrong.

"If it wasn't after Xiao Yuan, then who was the ghost after?" Yang Jian froze for a moment.

He realized that every one of his judgments in this nightmare had been wrong. He had never gotten anything right. Whenever it involved the ghost in this dream, he could never predict its actions. It had been like this before, and it was still like this now. Could it be that the ghost knew all his thoughts?

No, that should have been impossible.

If a ghost could know what others were thinking, then it could not have been killed in a dream.

"No matter what, there is one