Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1043 A New Dream

Inside the car, at the traffic light intersection, the windshield wipers kept sweeping away the drizzling rain.

Xia Shou inquired about Ling Xiao, but the reply he received was nothing special. His female colleague and Ling Xiao had only been classmates before, and Ling Xiao seemed to be working in the publishing industry now.

Xia Shou felt that he must have seen the other party in that dream, and it wasn't just Ling Xiao, but also Liu Yilong, but the specific details of the dream were already a bit blurry.

Recently, the feeling of memory storage disorder has been occurring more and more frequently. Several times, he felt that people he had just met in real life had also appeared in his dreams. He increasingly felt that dreams might be a parallel world that exists.

Of course, reason told him he shouldn't think that way. Madmen rely on intuition rather than logical reasoning. If mentally ill people could judge their condition from the perspective of others, they wouldn't think they weren't sick.

"Brother Shou, um... I like you."

"Huh?" Xia Shou glanced at the other person through the rearview mirror and found that the other person was also looking at her through the rearview mirror.

So complicated……

"I have a wife."

“I know, I don’t mind! I will absolutely not interfere in your life! I just hope… I just hope you can accept me,” the woman said excitedly.

After a while, he calmed down and said, seemingly sadly, "Of course, if... if you refuse, then I will resign and will not bother you again."

So complicated……

Xia Shou thought to himself.

……

At an intersection, a black sedan stopped by the roadside. The door opened, and a woman without an umbrella got out, stood in the rain looking into the car, then reached out a hand from inside, closed the door, and drove off, leaving the woman standing alone in the rain.

Xia Shou turned the steering wheel, rounded an intersection, turned up the volume of the music on the main console, and then changed the navigation destination to Bingjiguan.

Even though she said those things, kicking the other person out of the car in the pouring rain felt a bit excessive.

Normally, he wouldn't be so rude to the other person, even if they had seriously offended him. Besides, he's encountered similar situations before.

But today, he wasn't in a good mood.

He's been in a strange mood lately.

The car drove into a military training center and stopped in the parking lot.

Xia Shou got out of the car with an umbrella, pushed open the door and walked into the hall. He had been coming here to play pistols recently, and often didn't go home until eight o'clock.

But it's less of a hobby and more of a way to relieve stress.

After discovering his talent for archery and melee combat, Xia Shou tried practicing and found that he made great progress with just a little practice.

He can now hit the target every time he shoots a compound bow from 50 meters away, and he can hit the target with rapid fire in all kinds of situations. Many experts in the gym believe that he has been training for a long time, but Xia Shou knows that he can actually go even further... His body seems to be very used to this kind of sport.

Of course, this includes longsword strikes.

But for some reason, he actually preferred weapons like daggers and axes, but unfortunately he didn't have a suitable opponent to practice with.

Xia Shou had a vague premonition that sooner or later he would need to use this technology.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Xia Shou returned home, drenched in sweat. Shangguan Yan was sitting on the sofa watching TV. When he saw Xia Shou return, he stood up with a smile and said, "You're back? You probably haven't eaten yet. I left some food for you."

Xia Shou stepped forward, hugged the other person, touched the other person's slightly protruding belly, and then gently kissed Shangguan Yan's cheek.

His life is so wonderful now, it seems there's nothing to criticize, but Xia Shou feels a sense of separation between his body and mind.

It's not that his current life feels unreal, but rather that he has a vague feeling that his life could fall apart like shattered glass at any moment, but he doesn't know the reason why.

They chatted as usual, watched movies to pass the time, and then talked to Shangguan Yan about that female colleague. After being complained about for going too far, they went back to the bedroom to sleep and rest.

That night, he had another strange dream.

In his dream, he saw mountains that blotted out the sky, hanging upside down in the heavens, mountains piercing through thick clouds, and in a village he saw countless beautiful and handsome men and women.

These people revered the mountains in the sky and on the ground as gods, and he seemed to be a very respected person in the village, seemingly bearing the heavy responsibility of protecting the villagers.

This time, however, the dream was fragmented. He did not truly wake up from sleep, as if he had many fragmented dreams in a continuous sleep, which were connected to each other but also unconnected to one another.

Very...very broken, very strange.

Each dream spans a very long period of time, starting with two or three years, then perhaps a hundred years, and then two or three hundred years.

It's been so long, and there are so many memories.

He built a very deep bond with each generation of villagers, and watched them grow from handsome men and beautiful women into ordinary people, and eventually become uglier and even their bodies became deformed.

In his dream, Xia Shou found himself in those villages, looking at those strange and disgusting deformed people. He felt no disgust or fear, even though those people looked even more terrifying and ugly than the zombies and mutants in Resident Evil movies. Xia Shou felt only endless sorrow and pity.

Then, a drop of blood told him that the god had fallen, and that he should fulfill his corresponding duties. The drop of blood said to him, "Since you are the end, then any god should be able to reach it."

In his dream, he fought back and died countless times.

Then, a girl threw herself into his arms, crying, and said to him:

"Lord Xia Shou, please kill the Beast King!"

Then, Xia Shou suddenly opened his eyes in bed, his pillow already soaked with tears.

Without any hesitation, he immediately threw off the covers, got out of bed, left the bedroom, rushed into the study, took out his notebook, and began to draw and write.

It's all true. The future of those villages rests entirely on your shoulders. If you can't do it, they will only continue to sink deeper into hell, where they are outwardly inhuman but inwardly human.

You must kill the Beast King! It's not a big deal; the life depicted in this book isn't worth sacrificing your true reality. (Immediately crossed out this sentence and revised it to: While the life depicted in the book is beautiful, don't forget you bear more than just this burden.)

Xia Shou hesitated as he wrote this.

He was awake at this moment, and he still remembered many details from the dream. Although he knew that these details were becoming blurred and would soon become so blurred that they lost their sense of reality, he was at least aware of both worlds at the same time.

No way! If I write it like this, my sober self won't follow it!
We need to rephrase it!
(End of this chapter)