Dream Walker: Feng Shui Master Bai Ya

As the music of "Phoenix Tail Bamboo Under the Moonlight" began, Shang Muchen was awakened by an unquestionable command. The guards clapped their hands and walked along the doors of each cell, announcing that it was time to get up.

After a night of commotion, Shang Muchen was unusually clear-headed. He felt no fatigue at all, and instead found the morning sunlight, the smell of the bed in the room, and the feel of the cloth shoes to be exceptionally real.

This sense of realism made Shang Muchen feel as if he were someone who had always played games on an old computer, and suddenly switched to a new computer, playing a previously blurry 2D game on an 8K high-definition screen. It was truly an experience of turning over a new leaf and starting anew.

After queuing up for breakfast, Shang Muchen was summoned to the office alone, where Li Weiqiang was waiting.

Seeing Shang Muchen enter, Li Weiqiang, with a mocking smile, asked in a low voice, "Little Shang, was it fun?"

Shang Muchen, however, was very serious, his mind filled with the illusions he had seen in his dream last night.

Seeing that there were no outsiders in the office, Shang Muchen lowered his voice and said seriously, "Uncle Li, I have indeed made a discovery."

"Oh?" Li Weiqiang looked surprised, as if he had found a large piece of meat in his takeout braised pork rice, and asked with a mixture of surprise and delight, "You found something else? What did you find?"

"I've made two discoveries," Shang Muchen said, recalling his experiences from the previous night. "First, I'd like to ask you, where is Tang Jianshe's car, the one that drove in drunk?"

"Oh, let me think... it should be in the traffic police station's parking lot. What's wrong?"

"There's something wrong with his car."

"Huh?" Li Weiqiang raised an eyebrow and asked, "I heard from the traffic management team and the security team that they checked his car and there were no problems?"

"Believe me, if you investigate more thoroughly, I'm convinced that he had something strange smuggled in his car."

He'd rather pretend to be drunk driving than reveal the secret hidden in his car—it certainly isn't a small secret.

"Pretending to be drunk driving?"

"Yes, he hadn't been drinking before. He was stopped for a traffic check and wasn't caught drinking the first time. But because the car wouldn't start, the traffic police noticed him and that's when he voluntarily drank."

"Is that so? How did you know? Did he tell you?" Li Weiqiang asked in surprise.

"Am I right?" Shang Muchen asked back.

"Well..." Li Weiqiang scratched his head, recalling, "I think I heard from a junior that they didn't notice Tang Jianshe drinking the first time... They thought it was an oversight, no one expected him to get caught on his own! Why?"

"I really don't understand the reason, but my intuition tells me that there is something wrong with his car. It seems that once it stops, it has difficulty starting, so you need to carefully check the transmission system."

"Okay, I'll do as you say. What's the second thing?"

"The second thing was that they drew a graffiti of an ouroboros on the wall of the small storage room inside the cell."

All the strange phenomena that occurred in the cell were related to this graffiti.

You must resolutely remove this graffiti, no matter what method you use, you must scrape it off.

Remember, do not cover it up with other paints; you should tear down the wall to destroy this graffiti.

"Once the graffiti is vandalized, the strange occurrences will stop."

"Really? How did you know there was graffiti on the wall? I didn't know about that at all."

"This isn't the first time I've seen similar graffiti."

When Shang Muchen said this, he was a little conflicted. He really didn't want to go against his fourth uncle's instructions and didn't want to get too involved in some inexplicable matter, but he couldn't keep quiet once the words were on his lips.

"Okay, I'll do as you say. But why do graffiti on the wall cause such strange things?"

"I don't really understand either," Shang Muchen shook his head and said, "I can only solve problems, but I don't really understand the principles."

This is like how you can turn the lights on and off even though you don't know how a power plant generates electricity or how the electricity is transmitted to your home.

Even if you don't know the principle, knowing how to do it can solve the problem.

"That makes sense, I'll listen to you." Li Weiqiang pressed on, "You mentioned Tang Jianshe, what about Li Ding? Is there anything wrong with him?"

"Him? Sigh..." Shang Muchen didn't want to say it, but after hesitating for a moment, he still said it, "I know he was at the scene of the traffic accident that happened to the manager of the mergers and acquisitions department of Longsheng Bank."

"Oh? The one about the Shadow Dog incident?" Li Weiqiang immediately became alert.

"Yes, but he was not involved in the traffic accident."

He only stole the watch, phone, and wallet from the man who was in the car accident.

"Oh my! This information is extremely important!"

"What's wrong?"

"We've been looking for the victim's phone, thinking it might have been thrown out during the car accident and landed somewhere."

So it was stolen by that brat Li Ding! How did you get this information? Did he tell you?

"Can he tell me all this?" Shang Muchen said with a wry smile. "Uncle Li, it's not that I'm hiding anything from you, but to be honest, I really lack theoretical knowledge. I can't explain the methods and principles behind my intelligence gathering."

In short, that's the conclusion. I've told you everything I know.

"That's great! You've done a fantastic job! How should I reward you?"

If the information is true, I will definitely apply for a bonus and an award certificate for you!

"Thank you. I don't care about any other rewards. I only care about the promise you made to help Liu Qingyang's father get medical parole. I beg you to keep your word."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it today. Come on, I'll take you home to change your clothes."

After changing back into his own clothes, Shang Muchen felt a great sense of relief.

Sitting in the police car, looking back at the large iron gate of the Shanbei Detention Center, Shang Muchen secretly made up his mind that he would never enter such a place again in his life; it was too terrifying.

Li Weiqiang drove Shang Muchen to the 157 Art District, then said he needed to submit Old Man Liu's guarantee documents to the Municipal Bureau on Monday, and left in a hurry.

It was only at this moment that Shang Muchen realized his phone hadn't been turned on.

I opened my phone and a bunch of messages popped up.

My mom asked if I was coming home for dinner this weekend. Why is my phone off?

Fourth Uncle asked if I was free on Monday, as there was a job for me.

Liu Qingyang asked if she wanted to go for a stroll in Xiaoqinghe Park on Sunday night, as she heard there was a night market there.

Shang Muchen hurriedly replied to each message, unable to explain that he had gone undercover and was in detention, so he could only explain that his phone was broken and had just been repaired.

Fourth Uncle replied that it was too late; he had already arrived at the client's location. He said to let Shang Muchen arrange his own time.

Liu Qingyang replied that he was busy with experiments and would make an appointment another day.

My mom said, "Let's go to my aunt's house for dinner on Monday night. She'll be there too."

Shang Muchen thought that going to his aunt's house would be perfect, so he could see what happened to Ma the Cripple later.

So he went home, got a book, found a coffee shop, read for most of the day, and then took the subway to his aunt's house in the evening.

After having dinner with his aunt, uncle, and mother, Shang Muchen found an excuse to go to the rooftop to look for the antenna he had left in the corner of the fish tank.

The antenna was gone. Behind the fish tank, on the pile of flowerpots, appeared a very inconspicuous, eerie, black, charred "丰"-shaped mark, exactly the same as the antenna.

Shang Muchen was a little surprised, but dared not say anything. He wondered if Ma the Cripple had really been taken away by aliens through this antenna.

After leaving my aunt's house, I wandered around the neighborhood under the streetlights and happened to pass by Ma the Cripple's house.

Shang Muchen saw that there was a cordon around the windows on the first floor of his house, and the windows were charred.

Driven by curiosity, Shang Muchen went to the window and peeked into the room.

Suddenly, he saw a scene completely beyond his imagination and was startled.