Chapter 401 (Chapter Missing - Focuses on the Class Monitor Seeing an Urban Legend on an Anonymous Forum and the Special Affairs Bureau Discussing It)

"What?"

Under the parasol, Li Ang's expression changed slightly as he asked, "When did you ever tell me you had a dream about Sheng Nan Wang?"

"Sometime in the second year of junior high, I don't remember the exact date."

Wang Congshan frowned and said, "That morning, I rode my bike to school with you. When we got to the river, I bought a five-yuan meat floss rice ball and a two-yuan cup of hot soy milk from the breakfast stall, like I always did.

That day I didn't have much of an appetite, and I didn't finish the meat floss rice ball.

When we went to do our duty together, sweeping the flower bed in front of the science and technology building, I took the remaining half of the meat floss rice ball to eat. You were riding a broom next to the flower bed, pretending to be a witch.

While I was eating the rice ball, you were riding the broom and telling me that you would become a scientist in the future.

So far, you have discovered many scientific laws that have not yet been discovered.

For example, people who hold their pee every day have a high probability of dying within 120 years;

Water is extremely poisonous, because everyone who has ever drunk water has died;

When a butterfly flaps its wings twice in the southern hemisphere, it flies slightly higher than before;

The vast majority of people who get pregnant before marriage are women;

Saving one pack of cigarettes a day will save ten packs of cigarettes after ten days;

A fourteen-year-old boy was only ten years old four years ago."

Wang Congshan reeled off the details as if counting family treasures, making Li Ang feel a pain in the balls and a tightness in his chrysanthemum.

Maybe, possibly, it seemed like he really said those things.

Li Ang scratched his eyebrows. "I think I have some impression, continue."

Wang Congshan nodded and continued, "Then, I told you that I had a strange dream last night.

I dreamed that I became a child, wearing old clothes, alone on the mountainside of Sheshan Mountain, west of Yin City."

Hearing the words "Sheshan Mountain," Li Ang's expression changed drastically, but he quickly concealed it.

That mountain was where he first met Wang Congshan.

Li Ang didn't interrupt Wang Congshan's narrative, but his fist tightened slightly, almost imperceptibly.

"I was standing on a steep stone staircase, next to a large wooden sign. On the right was a detailed map of the Sheshan Scenic Area, marked with small dots.

On the left, in multiple languages, were the nearby attractions, toilets, and shops near my location.

Next to the sign was a trash can painted brown to look like a tree stump."

Wang Congshan described with a frown, "There was a lot of fog on the mountain, no one in sight, and no sound could be heard. I felt a little scared, so I called out my parents' names and your name,

But I didn't get any response.

In my fear, I heard a particularly clear sound of gongs and drums coming from the foot of the mountain,

Like the sound that rings when important figures travel in sedan chairs in historical dramas."

"I hurriedly hid, climbed behind a small slope above the steps, and hid in the tall grass, looking out.

I saw a long line of very small children wearing brightly colored clothes,

There were boys and girls, the older ones were five or six years old, and the younger ones were only two or three years old.

Even smaller babies were lying on the backs of the five- or six-year-old children.

They were beating gongs, playing drums, and blowing suonas,

Chaotically crowding around a lotus-shaped sedan chair that looked like a float, with a black sphere on top, and walking up the mountain.

As they walked, they said something about the Sheng Nan Da Wang (Great King of Southern Births) in very childish voices."

"The cold wind blew from the group of children, and I felt very scared, so I desperately shrank into the grass,"

"Unexpectedly, the group of children suddenly stopped and looked in my direction, with strange smiles on their faces.

'There's another one here.'

They said this, dropped the gongs, drums, and suonas in their hands, and ran towards my hillside.

Then, I woke up."

Speaking of this, Wang Congshan seemed to be touched by the fear contained in her memory, and shivered subconsciously, "That dream was very, very real, it didn't feel like a dream at all.

I can still recall the smell of grass and trees on the mountain road steps, the damp air, the smell of rotten melon and fruit in the trash can, and the itchy feeling of the leaves scratching my skin when I was lying in the tall grass."

""

Li Ang didn't rush to comment. As Wang Congshan narrated, he seemed to recall that the other party had indeed mentioned this dream a long time ago.

What's going on?

Li Ang was very sure that he was very clear-headed,

And that he hadn't felt any unusual phenomena all day today that might have indicated that his mind had been invaded.

He silently asked Miss Chai in his heart,

And the other party also claimed that she had not observed anything strange from morning till now.

In recent days, Li Ang had only taken out the Abyss Demon Mirror in the automated pet breeding box to conduct some experiments on earthworm insects.

He was extremely cautious during the process, and only touched the magic mirror by manipulating the earthworms, without touching the mirror himself.

After using it, he would also carefully observe his own state,

And take out some psychological test papers to check whether his mind was clear.

It shouldn't be a problem with the [Abyss Demon Mirror].

So, the urban legends circulating among netizens now overlap with some of Wang Congshan's suddenly recalled strange dreams from the past.

Is it a simple coincidence,

A misunderstanding due to blurred memories,

Or is it an anomalous event?

Li Ang rotated his phone with his right hand, tapped the table with his left fingertips, and didn't make any comment.

Wang Congshan thought that Li Ang didn't believe her, and quickly added, "Believe me, that morning, after I told you that I had a strange dream,

You laughed at me and said that I should wait a little longer, and you would ride down from the sky on auspicious colorful clouds to save me.

During the first break after duty, you continued to tell me about your becoming a scientist,

Something about how, theoretically, as long as a person is strong enough, they can fly by flapping their arms.

As long as the reflex arc is long enough, one can eat a pack of potassium cyanide and die fifty years later.

As long as you are fast enough, you can run around a tree and pick your own chrysanthemum.

As long as you fart loud enough, you can reach the first cosmic velocity, orbit the Earth, and become an artificial satellite."

"Okay, I believe you, I believe you."

Li Ang smiled and interrupted Wang Congshan's narrative, "It's just a dream, it's nothing."

Even so, Miss Chai clearly saw that Li Ang had quietly hid his hands under the table, concealing his sweaty palms.

With every sentence Wang Congshan said, Li Ang's vague memories of that morning became more real and clear.