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"I'm afraid there's no hope for the money, but you can take back Zhao Youde's nightmare." Zhang Shan said as he lit a candle on the ground.

"What is a nightmare?"

"Human being is divided into two parts. The heart is the soul, and the brain is the nightmare."

"I don't understand."

"In other words, everyone has two sides. One side is good, while the other side is evil. The good side, usually in people's hearts, we call the soul; the evil side, is hidden in your mind. It's called Nightmare. Ghosts are the world's common name for souls and nightmares. As the saying goes, evil spirits are nightmares. " Zhang Shan squatted on the ground and patiently explained as he played with the yellow framed paper in his hands.

"I understand that. It's just that people have two sides. "Are you talking about the nightmare you had when you were having nightmares?" I finally understood something.

"Yes!" Zhang Shan stood up, continuously shaking a wine gourd, and asked me, "Do you know why people dream?"

"I'm tired …" I need to rest. "

"What do you want to rest for?"

"Rest your brain!"

"If you dream at night, does your brain count as resting?"

"…"

"Your explanation is actually not scientific. It cannot be explained in a logical manner." Zhang Shan continued to speak, "The sun belongs to the sun, the moon to the moon. All things thrive in accordance with this law. For humans, the soul is good and the good is yang, so during the day it can control the human body for all kinds of labor activities; at night, Yin and Yang alternate, the nightmare is evil and yin, and it is time to go out to work. However, to the vast majority of people, their hearts were kind, so their souls could suppress the Nightmare and cause their physical functions to enter a period of fatigue. The Nightmare could only operate within the brain and did not have enough strength to control the body. That's why people sleep and dream. It's because the Nightmare is active, so we call it the Nightmare. "

Zhang Shan actually said that my scientific explanation wasn't scientific, I was very unconvinced. "Then according to what you said, everyone is kind? Because everyone has to sleep, then why are there so many murderers, robbers, thieves, they can be considered kind as well … " As I was talking, I suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but say, "Because in their bodies, the Nightmare already has the upper hand? suppressed my soul? "

Zhang Shan smiled as he looked at me. He picked up a piece of yellow paper and said," Not bad, you're very smart. As you said, there are two sides to a human being, and there is an evil side to every human being. It was just that they were usually suppressed by the good morality and were unable to release it. But if an evil man had a conflict with his neighbor, and the more he thought about it when he got home, he would see the fruit knife on his desk, or a drug addict, who had no money in the middle of the night and was cowering in a remote corner, just walking by someone, what do you think would happen?

I smiled wryly. I didn't need to think about what the result would be.

Zhang Shan seemed to have seen through my thoughts, as he placed the yellow paper frame over the Inaction Imprint s on my right wrist and continued: "Actually, many people do bad things while it's night time, night time can indeed play a role in concealing their evil deeds. But at the end of the day, the real darkness is in your heart, and that's what the Nightmare is doing. What many people do may not be what he truly wants to do, but the Nightmare that is buried deep in his mind commands him to do so. "

I stood there in a daze, deep in my thoughts, and wasn't paying attention to Zhang Shan's current movements. But people don't just have nightmares. Most of the time, we have good dreams. " I murmured.

Zhang Shan looked at me at this time and said, "This is a problem of the human heart looking to be kind. If you are an upright and kind person who works hard, sleeping early and waking up early every day and not staying up late to help others, making people happy, the evil thoughts that you occasionally have will only last for a moment. On the other hand, if a person's mind was filled with evil thoughts and idleness all day long, what kind of dreams would they have at night? This was the saying, 'one day, one night, one night, one night'. When this situation reached a climax and hindered the rhythm of his normal life, all these thoughts would break through the barrier in one night and take over his brain, and the person would be under the control of the Nightmare. So, never think about those evil thoughts. "

"Oh …" Although I can refute everything Zhang Shan said with a scientific point of view, in my heart, I feel that everything he said seemed to be true. Maybe not in science, but in morality, word for word.

"Does that person have a Nightmare after death?" Oh! What are you doing!? It's scalding me to death! " I suddenly thought of Zhao Youde and wanted to ask Zhang Shan about what happened tonight. But at this moment, he held a box of melted wax in his right hand along with the round box on the outside, and quickly buckled it onto my right arm where the Inaction Imprint s were.

Even though there was a layer of yellow paper, the burning wax still made me grimace.

"Don't move, endure it!" Zhang Shan's left hand held onto my forearm so tightly that I couldn't pull it back even if I wanted to.

Zhang Shan didn't care about my painful expression. Looking at the wax box on my wrist, he asked, "Do you have a soul after death?"

"That's superstitious!" I squeezed the words through my teeth.

"No matter what you say, I just said that humans have souls and nightmares. Since there's a soul after death, then there should be nightmares as well." After Zhang Shan finished speaking, he moved the wax box away and poured the cooled wax out.

I blew on my red-hot right wrist and looked at the newly made "hand-made wax" in Zhang Shan's hand.

This wax could not be measured by the root because it was very short and was only about one centimeter thick. It could only be considered a piece.

The diameter of it is slightly larger than the diameter of the Inaction Imprint on my wrist, and it's the size of a medicine bottle cap.

The most bizarre thing about this wax is that it has two colors. The edges are white where it doesn't matter, and the shape in the middle is exactly the same as my Inaction Imprint, a bright red.

It was very obvious that the wax Zhang Shan placed on my hand earlier was for the sake of this seal. The wax itself had a degree of transparency. Under the light, I could vaguely see that not only was there a bright red mark on the surface, but the center of the wax was completely red, forming a wax core. Although it's only as thick as a finger, I really don't understand how Zhang Shan was able to do it.

"You only have about half an hour. Grandfather said that he hoped that you would lock Zhao Youde's Nightmare inside the Gold Coffin, but let me tell you this, instead of trying your best, you must imprison him within the Gold Coffin. Otherwise, once you pass the test, you'll be in deep trouble." Zhang Shan said as he squatted and lit the wax on the ground.

"What if he can't?" I just asked subconsciously, not getting the hang of what he wanted me to do.

"Then it will run away and harm many people. As I said, nightmares are evil. As long as you are a human, you will have emotions and desires, and you will definitely have nightmares. When a person dies, his soul will always be near the corpse, and the Nightmare will go back to the moment of his birth to filter out the memories of his life, erase the good parts, and only remember evil thoughts and actions. On the sixth day after death, memories popped out. At this point, the soul will enter the path of humanity and enter the cycle of reincarnation. As for the Nightmare, it will be kept in the Gold Coffin in the Palmprint Holder and be forever sealed away. " Zhang Shan waved the bottle gourd again. I'm afraid that if he didn't greet me and launch a surprise attack, I would be staring at his hand that was shaking the bottle gourd.

"However, if the Nightmare was not absorbed into the Gold Coffin before the first seven, it would be very difficult to catch. Moreover, it has accepted this person's lifetime nightmare of evil. What do you think it would do?" After Zhang Shan finished speaking, he passed the wine gourd to me.

"What for?" I instinctively took a step back.

"Open it and take a sip." Zhang Shan shook the thing in his hand.

"On what basis? "Why don't you drink?" I took another step back.

Zhang Shan shook his right hand, and said: "I'm not a Palmprint Holder, so there's no use drinking it. We can't catch him. "

Of course I can't drink it. Although Zhang Shan has told me so many good and evil things, who knows if he's good or evil?

Besides, I don't know him at all. What did he pass me? Do I just drink it when I say so? What era was this? He might not even know if he ate a stranger's food or if his clothes were stripped naked! Definitely not to drink!

Zhang Shan seemed to have already noticed that I had the intention to escape. Before I could even turn my thoughts into action, he had already flashed in front of me, grabbed my neck with his left hand and was about to pour wine gourd into my mouth with his right hand.

The only thing I could do was to grit my teeth and say nothing to put the gourd of wine in my mouth.

"Hmph, if you didn't deal with what you did, who else would you deal with?" Zhang Shan said coldly. With that, his left hand suddenly tightened around my neck.