Chapter 5 Nightmare

  Bei Bei talks without caring if she's going off topic, nor does she care if the people beside her are listening. Even though it was her first time meeting Ye Bai, she didn't show any signs of shyness at all.

  "By the way, what's your name? Are you also from our school, Shida Fuzhong?"

  Baobei saw Ye Bai not making a sound and curiously asked.

  "My name is Ye Bai, the 'ye' in leaves, and the 'bai' in small white..." Ye Bai omitted the character for "face" and shook his head again. "I'm not from your university's attached middle school. Are you and Yang Qing classmates?"

  "No wonder I've never seen you before." Beibei said disappointedly, propping her chin with her hand and leaning against the counter. "Not only are we classmates, but we're also desk mates, and now we live in the same apartment building... You don't know, Yang Qing always drools when she sleeps..."

  Babe seemed to realize that she had gone off topic at this point, and hastily stopped talking, awkwardly smiling.

  However, when she smiles with her mouth open, two small tiger teeth are revealed, and the dimples on both cheeks make her smile very sweet and give people a sense of innocence.

  The two female shop assistants were also smiling, but they didn't laugh out loud.

  "Bei Bei, isn't that Yang Qing?"

  A female shop assistant suddenly pointed outside, through the transparent glass door, a red convertible sports car was parked at the entrance of Tianfu Mingyuan across the road, and at this moment, a tall girl was standing beside the sports car.

  The girl was about 1.75 meters tall, wearing tight jeans that exposed her calves, a white short-sleeved shirt, and a red tie, with her hair tied in a ponytail, looking like she was sixteen or seventeen years old.

  And in the car, there was also a boy, but Ye Bai couldn't see that boy's appearance clearly.

  "It's really Yang Qing!"

  Babe said, and quickly ran out.

  Ye Bai didn't linger any longer and walked out, standing across the street and gazing far away at the entrance of Tianfu Garden.

  Babe has run over to the other side of the road and is playing with that girl next to the red sports car.

  "She is Yang Qing, not bad, looks much better than in the photo."

  Ye Bai stroked his chin, quietly observing from a distance.

  Before long, the sports car drove away, and Beibei seemed to be looking at Ye Bai, pulling Yang Qing to look in this direction, even waving at Ye Bai.

  Yang Qing also looked over curiously, but then pulled Bei Bei into the gate of Tianfu Garden and gradually disappeared.

  "Normal University High School..." Ye Bai seemed lost in thought.

  At this time, a female salesperson walked out with two red banknotes in her hand and said to Ye Bai: "Sir, your change."

  "Do you know which class Yang Qing and Bei Bei are in at Shida Fuzhong?" Ye Bai suddenly asked.

  "I know, in Class 2 of Grade 3," the salesgirl replied.

  "Alright, this 200 yuan is the consultation fee for this matter."

  Ye Bai waved his hand and strode off in one direction.

  The target person has been identified, and next is to get in touch with him. It's best if there can be a chance for long-term contact.

  "Judging from Beibei's tone, it seems that there are still many people chasing after Yang Qing. The guy who drove the car earlier should be called Jiang Xuan, and he can even ask Yang Qing out to watch a movie... This task is really not easy! I don't even have a formal identity now, all I have is an ID card."

  Ye Bai walked while thinking deeply.

  Boom! Boom!

  Just a few minutes' walk, suddenly two loud car horns sounded, interrupting Ye Bai's contemplation.

  Ye Bai turned her head and took a glance, only to see that red sports car which had just driven away, as well as the young man in the driver's seat.

  The boy looked like he was sixteen or seventeen years old, with a head of black hair that covered his ears, wheat-colored skin, a melon-shaped face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, thin lips, but with a very confident smile hanging from the corner of his mouth.

  "Hey! I heard you also want to pursue Yang Qing." The boy in the car shouted at Ye Bai.

  Ye Bai continued walking slowly forward, without any intention of responding.

  "Yang Qing is mine, I advise you to give up that thought, otherwise, humph." The boy's words in the car were full of threatening intent.

  "If you were truly confident, there would be no need to come and threaten me." Ye Bai glanced at the boy with disinterest, seeing a clear sense of superiority on his face.

  There are still people more narcissistic than us two master and apprentice, sigh...

  "Let's go take a look, remember, I'm Jiang Xuan."

  After uttering this sentence, the boy stepped on the accelerator and the red sports car quickly moved forward, soon disappearing from Ye Bai's sight.

  "I thought you were going to come down and beat me up."

  Ye Bai shrugged indifferently and continued walking with a calm expression.

  He walked for a few more minutes and stopped in front of a fast hotel, thought for a moment and went in.

  Nothing matters now, what's important is taking a bath and then having a good sleep.

  It's good thing I have an ID card, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to check into a hotel room to sleep.

  "Mr. Ye, your room is on the 11th floor, the elevator is over there."

  After paying at the front desk, the receptionist handed a room card to Ye Bai and pointed left with her arm.

  Ye Bai had never taken an elevator before, but he thought it couldn't be harder than killing a wolf at four years old.

  Taking the elevator to the eleventh floor, Ye Bai easily found his own room. He followed the example of others nearby and used his room card to swipe the sensor lock on the door, which automatically unlocked it.

  Pushing open the door, Ye Bai took a glance around and nodded in satisfaction, thinking to himself that the houses in the city were much more comfortable than the courtyard in the mountains.

  After closing the door, he quickly took off all his clothes and sniffed them to make sure they didn't smell of his own sweat, before looking slightly relieved.

  After studying in the bathroom for half a day, he finally managed to fill the bathtub with warm water and lay down comfortably.

  Close your eyes, quietly recall everything today, the first thing that comes to mind is a scene in the Shuxin Pavilion hotel room, especially the four not-so-beautiful girls who took off their clothes, now thinking about it, still gives him a feeling of evil fire rising up.

  Then there was the look of that female killer when she killed someone, and then there was the childish face of BeiBei... Then there wasn't anything after that because he fell asleep unknowingly.

  That nightmare that had haunted Ye Bai for over a decade resurfaced again.

  In a world shrouded in crimson mist, a mountain entirely composed of stacked corpses stood desolately between heaven and earth. Severed limbs, rotting skulls, and eerie blood mist silhouettes swayed ominously, their gruesome forms inspiring terror.

  A figure was climbing up the only stone steps on the mountain of corpses, constantly moving forward, every step seemed to use all his strength, struggling to move forward, stumbling and staggering, but he persisted.

  Since Ye Bai recorded the event, this nightmare has been lingering, but it only appears occasionally. Every time it appears, he finds that the figure climbing the mountain of corpses is a little closer to the top.

  That figure in Ye Bai's dream, climbing and climbing, has been climbing for over ten years. Now he is very close to the top of the mountain, seemingly able to reach the summit at any moment.

  Ye Bai woke up in a cold sweat every time, but he was also very curious, why did he always have such dreams, what was on that mountain top...

  He had never told anyone about this, including the master who had taught him for over a decade, because he always felt that it was his own secret, an extremely important secret to himself.

  The dream was still vivid, and that figure finally reached the top of the mountain. Even Ye Bai, who was still in a dream, couldn't help but feel exhilarated and extremely excited, as if he himself was more eager to see the scenery at the top of the mountain than the figure in his dream.