I Killed Gods and Demons in Song Dynasty

Chapter 18: Psychic Lu Zhen

Li Qingyun was shocked when he heard this.

Forced to "dream"?
Someone had indeed invaded my consciousness.

He didn't believe at all that the people in Kaifeng Prefecture would deliberately exaggerate and deceive him. As he said, in the face of powerful military force, he had no ability to resist, and the other party had no need to use any conspiracy or trickery.

"How bad is it?"

He asked somewhat nervously.

Ai Hu stared with his big eyes, looking Li Qingyun up and down, over and over again, with pity and regret in his eyes.

Li Qingyun was frightened by his gaze and swallowed nervously:
"Captain Ai, please tell me what happened? How serious is it?"

Ai Hu scratched his head and cleared his throat:

"I do not know either……"

Facing the strange look Li Qingyun gave him, he paused and quickly added, "I mean, I don't really understand these things, but the last person who was forced to enter a dream went crazy and committed suicide within a few days, and he strangled himself to death at home..."

Li Qingyun's face turned pale when he heard this, and he subconsciously clenched his fists:

"Is there any way?"

Ai Hu thought about it:
"My fourth brother is an expert in dreams, so I asked him to come over."

As he said this, he left his seat and went straight to the back hall, leaving Li Qingyun alone waiting there.

In the short time of a stick of incense, Li Qingyun felt as if he had spent a century.

This world is so scary. He has only been here for less than a day and has done nothing, but he has been caught in life-and-death crises one after another. He doesn’t even know how he was dragged into it.

And this is under the premise that he has become a god's favorite, otherwise he would have been eaten by the cultist Ma Tongsu long ago.

Just when Li Qingyun was daydreaming, Ai Hu led out a man in white clothes with big ears and introduced him to Li Qingyun:

"This is my fourth brother Lu Zhen, a fifth-rank lieutenant in Kaifeng Prefecture, known in the martial arts world as 'Fen Zidu'. He is a spiritual practitioner who specializes in magic related to dreams."

Li Qingyun didn't know what "spiritual practice" was, but when he saw Lu Zhen, he inexplicably had a wonderful feeling. He wanted to get closer to him from the bottom of his heart, and at the same time he couldn't help but desire to confide his inner secrets to him.

As if seeing through Li Qingyun's inner thoughts, Lu Zhen smiled at him and said calmly:

"Boss Li, please don't be surprised. I am a spiritual body. Ordinary people may have some strange illusions if they look directly at me. Try not to make eye contact with me. Just pretend I don't exist."

His voice was soft and ethereal, as if it came from all directions at the same time. Different voices mixed together, creating a special reverberation that was weird and strange.

Upon hearing this, Li Qingyun reluctantly pulled out his gaze from the other person's body and simply lowered his head to look at the ground. He sighed in his heart that the strange people in this world were so weird and changeable that they were difficult to understand.

I only heard Lu Zhen continue:

"I heard about your situation from Shuan and Yunrui. They wanted me to help you sort out your memory and find some clues, but I refused.

"Everyone has secrets. Although I can keep my mouth shut, I don't want to pry into your privacy unless it is absolutely necessary.

“But Ai Hu just told me that someone has invaded your consciousness, and this cannot be taken lightly.

"Of course, you don't have to be too nervous. In the past five years, Kaifeng Prefecture has handled a total of thirteen similar cases. Three of the people are still alive and well so far. They have never shown any signs of losing control or going crazy. I have even stopped sending people to monitor them."

Li Qingyun's pupils shrank slightly:
"Then...what about the other ten?"

Lu Zhen said lightly:
"To be exact, there should be eleven. In one of the incidents, a pair of twin brothers were connected to their dreams and controlled at the same time.

"Well, they are all dead. As for the other nine people, they all committed suicide after losing their minds. Their deaths were all quite strange..."

You making me even more nervous... I heard that only three out of fourteen people survived, which means the chance of survival is a little over one-fifth. Li Qingyun's head was buzzing, so how could he have the mood to listen to those weird and strange methods of suicide?

Seeing that his face turned slightly pale, Ai Hu quickly said:
"Don't be afraid, Boss Li. My fourth brother was at the second level of spiritual cultivation, known as the 'Dream Enterer'. But last month he was promoted to the third level, the 'Psychic Master'. His ability to peer into the mind and adjust consciousness has increased a lot, so there is still a great chance that he can cure you."

Li Qingyun didn't understand the difference between a "dreamer" and a "psychic", but he thought that the third realm should be much stronger than the second realm, so he calmed down and asked:

"Captain Lu, can you please heal me? What will it cost me?"

Lu Zhen smiled and nodded:

"Curing illnesses and saving lives is the duty of chivalrous men like me, and it doesn't require any price. But your condition is more serious, so I have to enter your dream to see what the problem is.

"In this process, I may inevitably see some of your privacy, but I promise you that I will keep my mouth shut about the parts that are not related to the case."

This price was within Li Qingyun's expectations. Although there was a risk of revealing his identity as God's agent, he could not care less now.

He had not anticipated that having his consciousness invaded could actually cause the person to lose control and commit suicide.

Moreover, he did not think that he could rely on the protection of "Silence" to survive just by relying on his status as a first-level "God-favored One".

At this point, he had no choice but to take a gamble.

"Thank you, Captain Lu. As long as you can cure me, I will do whatever you want with me."

Lu Zhen nodded slightly:

"You come with me."

Then he stood up and walked to the backyard.

Li Qingyun lowered his head and followed his footsteps to a room behind the classroom.

The furnishings here are simple, with only a table with a candlestick and two chairs placed facing each other.

Lu Zhen closed the doors and windows, and the whole room suddenly became dark.

At this moment, he lightly pinched his fingers, and the candle on the candlestick suddenly lit up. Under the dim light, the shadows on the wall seemed to have life, constantly twisting and swaying.

Li Qingyun felt himself lost in a haze. Looking at everything in front of him, he felt a little panic for no reason.

Lu Zhen asked him to sit down, and he also sat down on the chair in front of him, and said in his distant and ethereal voice:

"Don't stare at the shadows on the wall. They are here to help me."

what?
Li Qingyun suspected that he had heard it wrong, but at the moment when he was distracted, his eyes unconsciously met Lu Zhen's eyes which were as deep as the starry sky.

The next moment, he felt a sudden enlightenment in front of him, and he was suddenly back on the street of Guanyin Temple.

"how do I……"

Li Qingyun's mind was in a daze, and for a moment he could not distinguish between dreams and reality.

"Don't talk, just watch..."

An ethereal voice sounded, and he turned around and saw that it was Lu Zhen.

This mysterious psychic was standing beside him at the moment. His leisurely posture was out of tune with the bustling city. He had no trace of worldly air, like a god observing all living things...

……

(End of this chapter)