Start from a baby to become a Taoist

Chapter 33: Nightmare Mother! Can this also trigger new skills?
If a big wave comes, well... it's impossible to be cowardly - when the enemy comes, we will fight them; when the water comes, we will block it with earth!

He only has this one life, there is no way he will die.

So even if a powerful ghost creature really appeared and came out to kidnap him, he would try his best to defeat it.

Think so.

Xu Ran calmed himself down and followed his mother to the teaching activity center.

Inside the venue.

Listen to the cries.

The six-year-old geniuses clung to their mothers' arms like frightened rabbits, their heads buried in their chests, their shoulders twitching violently. They sobbed until their voices were hoarse and they were even short of oxygen, yet they couldn't stop crying.

Xu Ran couldn't bear to see the heart-wrenching and pitiful look.

The little kids have tender skin, chubby faces, small round hands and short legs, and each section looks like a fat lotus root. They are cute and interesting.

In order to make progress on [Young Supreme], Xu Ran played with them for a month.

Although we only made progress once, we developed feelings for each other.

I didn’t expect that they would now be experiencing a nightmare and crying themselves to the point of suffocation.

"Ugh……"

Xu Ran wanted to comfort her, but for a moment, he didn't know what to do.

"Even if I use [Whisper of Terror] at full power, I can't achieve this effect. I'm afraid I need the third sequence, [Field of Fear]."

"The monster that brought nightmares to the entire city...I'm afraid he's no small figure!"

Xu Ran glanced at everyone.

The head teacher, Li Qinghong, two other instructors, and guards were all with the children, trying to calm them down.

They were busy all the time, but achieved little!

Saw mom and Xu Ran.

Hu Niu's mother and Yu Heng's mother walked up to her and said, "It seems Xiao Ran didn't have that terrible nightmare either."

Lin Qian looked relieved: "Yes, Xiao Ran didn't have a nightmare."

"Among the children in the entire kindergarten, only these three were lucky. Many of my friends' children had the same nightmare."

Yuheng's mother: "My friend's child also had this nightmare just now. Sigh...what on earth is going on?"

Xu Ran: “…”

In fact, he was completely confused.

He knew that all the children in Jing City had nightmares, but he didn't know what kind of nightmares they were.

The descriptions given by my mother and several other mothers are not accurate at all and do not contain any information.

Xu Ran: "Did any monster appear in the children's dreams?"

Hu Niu's mother nodded: "...That's right."

Xu Ran: "What kind of monster is it?"

Yuheng's mother: "Well, it's hard to describe. Feng Yan is drawing a nightmare monster. You can go and see. He likes to draw, and his drawings are very intuitive. But it's just that it makes you feel uncomfortable after watching them."

Xu Ran was curious: "Is that so? I'll go and take a look."

Mom grabbed Xu Ran and said, "Son, don't go. Don't scare you."

Xu Ran smiled and said, "No, Mom. Let's see what kind of monster it is. I'll be prepared mentally. If I have a dream about it next time, I won't be scared."

Mom: "...That makes so much sense, I can't refute it."

"I'll go with you. I'll take a look too."

The mother held Xu Ran's hand tightly. She was most afraid of ghosts and monsters, but at this moment she mustered up all her courage. If her son was frightened later, she would definitely calm down and comfort Xu Ran.

Think so.

The two of them had already come behind Feng Yan.

Feng Yan, six years old, has a shield-type root bone and is already 1.2 meters tall, 20 centimeters shorter than the five-year-old Xu Ran and 10 centimeters shorter than Hu Niu.

now.

Feng Yan's face was pale and there were wet marks of sweat on his forehead. It was obvious that the nightmare had made him sweat all over.

However, in order to provide clues to the director, he sat on the ground, gritted his teeth, and traced on the drawing paper tremblingly, with a very serious expression, even a little meticulous.

The mother felt pity and distress: "What a strong child..."

Xu Ran was also surprised by Feng Yan's willpower: "What a man! He didn't say a word when I punched him twice. Now he has a nightmare, and the other kids are crying, but he can suppress his fear and concentrate on drawing the nightmare image, so as to provide clues for the director..."

Xu Ran nodded in admiration, his eyes falling on Feng Yan's watercolor painting.

It was a sea cucumber-like monster, its body bloated like a strange, inflated balloon. Embedded within its head was a pale, woman's face, eyes wide and filled with resentment.

If it were just this, it wouldn't be enough to scare all the children in the city to tears.

The most terrifying thing is that tens of thousands of purple-rose umbilical cords spread out from the body of the sea cucumber-faced monster. The umbilical cords were twisted and wriggling like snakes and worms, and the end of each umbilical cord was biting a baby corpse.

The baby has turned into a zombie, with indigo skin, sharp teeth and claws, bloodshot eyes and a red tongue, and is ferocious and brutal.

A pair of eyes, like those of resentful babies, stared at Xu Ran through the drawing paper, as if they wanted to pounce on him and chew him to pieces and devour him.

My mother was so scared that she turned her head away and didn't dare to stare.

Xu Ran was equally stern: "Xiao Yan, your painting is a little too realistic."

Feng Yan took a deep breath, rubbed his pale face, his eyes full of determination: "I am the only one here who has survived the nightmare and still maintained my sanity. I must draw all the details so that the director and others can get more information!"

"This monster must want to harm more children. I must do everything in my power to stop it! Kill it! Even if my power is insignificant!"

Feng Yan was trembling, but his will was extremely firm.

Xu Ran stood in awe, retreating strategically. “This monster has tens of thousands of zombie babies hanging from its body, right?”

Feng Yan nodded: "Yes."

"In the nightmare, the sky was covered with babies.

A mass of black, all with strange smiles on their faces, casting terrifying and eerie gazes! They stared at me intently, emitting shrill, strange laughs, as if they wanted to rip my soul out!

"Oh, yes, there was also a heart-wrenching voice crying out: My child, where are you? My child, where are you?"

By the end of the story, Feng Yan seemed to be possessed, completely immersed in it, trembling violently and sweating profusely.

Xu Ran patted Feng Yan's shoulder: "What's wrong? Wake up!"

Feng Yan woke up sweating, his back feeling as cold as if a lump of ice was stuck in it. "Hmm... This monster seems to have planted an anchor in our hearts. If we think about it, we will get more and more trapped in it!"

"But I can't help thinking about it! It's so scary!"

"Ah? It's so weird?"

Xu Ran was shocked and gently pressed Feng Yan's shoulder.

suddenly.

A flash of inspiration came to his mind, and the next second, he began to gather his mental strength, gently comforting Feng Yan, trying to verify the flash of inspiration in his mind.

[You are trying to appease Feng Yan, and you have triggered a new skill - Fear Exorcist (Promotion sequence: Fear Exorcist - Ignorant and Fearless - Devourer of Fear - Unknown...)]

correct!
Sure enough, the magical skill was triggered, and the attributes of the skill were as high quality as the fake death trick.

【Fear Exorcism】: Given time, you can exorcise fear from yourself and others, regardless of the source of the fear.

[Ignorant and Fearless]: You can use your ability to temporarily transform yourself and the target of your spell into people without fear.

[Fear Devourer]: You cast this ability to transform yourself and the target into Fear Devourers, capable of consuming surrounding fear and its source, increasing your strength. This magical skill has three sequences.

Xu Ran smiled in surprise.

The biggest disadvantage humans suffer when dealing with resentful spirit pollution is the inexplicable fear that breeds in them. Often, they have to retreat halfway through the process.

Even when the treatment was halfway through, the pollution worsened and he died of a mental breakdown.

Xu Ran's grandparents, as well as his father, all died directly or indirectly due to pollution.

And now, he has a magical skill that can naturally counter the pollution of the "God of Resentment"?
"Well, this magical skill definitely has a wide range of uses."

Xu Ran nodded in satisfaction and triggered the magical skill, and the next things became much easier.

Just follow the instructions! Simple, crude, fast and efficient!
So he "cast" the fear-dispelling spell and comforted Feng Yan again and again.

At first, Feng Yan found Xu Ran a bit annoying. He kept talking like a Buddhist sutra, which made his scalp tingle.

But after comforting him twenty times.

Feng Yan was surprised to find that he had calmed down completely, and the fear in his mind was being removed bit by bit... He gradually regained control of his body, and he no longer trembled or shook with fear, nor did he break out in cold sweats for no reason.

Feng Yan: “???!!!”

"Huh? I'm not scared anymore? I'm not scared anymore! Could it be that your comforting effect is working?"

Feng Yan suddenly turned his head and stared at Xu Ran with wide eyes, his eyes full of questions and doubts.

Xiao Ran can not only teach him body skills, but also soothe the fear planted in his heart by the terrifying monster?

Is the talent of understanding so omnipotent?
Feng Yan was surprised: "Brother Xiao Ran, is this your credit? You...you..."

Xu Ran smiled faintly and didn't explain further: "Are there any other details you would like to share about the source of the nightmare?"

Feng Yan pondered deeply, "It seems to be gone... Actually, the nightmare was very short. The monster, in a strange manner, squeezed into my dream and quickly enlarged before my eyes. The huge blue woman's face was extremely creepy. Tens of thousands of strange babies, laughing strangely, pounced on my face. Then I woke up with a start."

"I think the other children should have the same dream as me..."

"The weirdest thing about this nightmare is that even after I woke up, I still remembered it again and again, and was frightened again and again."

Xu Ran stared: "Okay, I understand."

He had a little guess -

There are tens of thousands of strange babies connected to the umbilical cord of the nightmare mother. Most of these babies are the bodies of the children who disappeared in the three Guhuochan incidents.

In every Guhuo Chan incident, the body could not be found afterwards, which meant that Guhuo Chan had some kind of sacrificial instinct and could sacrifice children to the Nightmare Mother.

It seems the Nightmare Mother is a high-level ghostly creature, capable of projecting nightmares into the dreams of children all over the city. A 70% chance of this being a psychic ability, with tens of thousands of heads! Her mental power is definitely formidable.

Xu Ran took a deep breath, frowned, and his head raced.

But the increasingly intense crying in his ears made him unable to calm down.

Some of the little ones even fainted from crying.

Xu Ran: "No time to speculate, I'll just take this time to comfort the little ones and brush up on my progress."

but.

Just as he was about to attack them one by one, Lu Yaluo entered the venue and landed in front of the director.

"Brother Cheng, I'm so sorry. Light magic can't dispel the fear in the children's hearts. We need a spiritual practitioner who has mastered advanced soothing skills to do it."

The headmaster said: "Then I will go to the city to borrow one right away!"

Lu Ya sighed, "Don't bother. There are only ten spiritual practitioners in Jing City who have mastered advanced soothing skills. They collapsed in just twenty minutes. They won't be able to catch up in a short time."

"Every child under the age of seven in the city is terrified and crying non-stop. Think about it, there are 300,000 children under the age of seven in Jing City. Each person is responsible for 30,000! How can we handle it all?"

The headmaster frowned. "Are you all exhausted? Sigh... What should I do with the children in my kindergarten? Some of them are crying so hard that they are out of breath. What if... Sigh!"

Although he was worried, the headmaster was at a loss for what to do.

You can't just pick up a tired practitioner and do some work, right? That would be too much of a waste.

The headmaster was extremely worried and upset.

"By the way, Sister Lu Ya, does the city's investigation team have any clues to the source of the nightmare?"

Lu Ya shook her head: "Not yet. The children are speechless, so there's no way to investigate. The investigation team doesn't even know what the nightmare is about..."

The headmaster raised an eyebrow. "Well, we have a talented child who is drawing nightmare scenes. Bring back a picture. It can be used as a clue for the investigation team."

Lu Ya was surprised: "A child who had a nightmare is now drawing the source of the nightmare?"

"Yes."

"You are indeed a super genius!"

The headmaster said proudly, "Feng Yan is indeed an amazing kid."

"But...what's special is that there are three children in our park who are immune to this nightmare."

Lu Ya was shocked: "Ah? Immune to nightmares?"

The headmaster smiled faintly: "Yes, the three children did not have nightmares. Look..."

He pointed at the extremely handsome Xu Ran, the white-haired and white-browed Zhu Yuheng, and the lively and smart Jiang Liuli.

Lu Ya raised an eyebrow. "They weren't frightened by the nightmare... What's the reason? All the children in Jing City suffered from nightmares, so why are these three fine? I remember they were only five or six years old, right?"

The headmaster said: "Zhu Yuheng is a little over six years old, Xu Ran and Jiang Liuli are five and a half years old."

Lu Ya: "...this...this...what is the reason?"

The headmaster shook his head: "I have no idea why. Forget it... I'll take you to see the source of Feng Yanhua's nightmare!"

"it is good."

Walked a dozen steps.

The headmaster and Lu Ya came to Feng Yan.

"Hiss—is it such a strange monster that broke into the dreams of children all over the city?"

Lu Ya's pupils shrank sharply, and she felt horrified: "Student Feng Yan, your painting is a bit too realistic!"

"This...this monster is so disgusting! It makes me feel uncomfortable just looking at it."

Lu Ya looked furious. "There are so many baby corpses on it? So all the children who disappeared in the three Guhuo Chan incidents and whose bodies could not be found were transformed into baby zombies by it? That's tens of thousands of babies! Damn it! Damn it!"

The headmaster sighed, "Alas... This thing called Guhuo Chan, even if we put it out once, it will reappear a second time. If we don't eliminate the root cause, I'm afraid the situation will get worse and worse."

Lu Yashen agreed: "What's even more terrifying is that the 'city-wide nightmare' only appears in the dreams of children in Jing City, which means the source of the nightmare is hidden in Jing City."

The headmaster said, "I know... the source of the nightmare is hidden in Jing City. A super-powerful psychic has already arrived from the capital and will be there in a day."

"But right now, my children are still trapped in fear... If they keep crying like this, something terrible will happen to them! Lack of oxygen from crying could cause brain damage!"

The headmaster was heartbroken. He wished he could find the source of the nightmare immediately and kick it to pieces!

Feng Yan: “…” He hesitated to speak, turned his head to look at Xu Ran, as if asking if he could speak.

Xu Ran was about to reply.

Lu Ya and the headmaster suddenly looked at Feng Yan in unison, their faces filled with surprise. "Huh? What's wrong with you? You just finished drawing the source of your nightmare, you should be even more terrified."

"But you act like nothing's wrong, as if all the fear in you has been banished?"

The head teacher seemed to have grasped a lifeline: "What's going on? Is there any special method? Does it work on other children?"

　PS: Thanks to the big brother [Qingyu] for the 500 reward and monthly ticket~~

　　Thanks to the big guy [5890] for the two monthly tickets~~
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