"Today is Christmas Eve." The general said again.

Yu Hao lay on the general's back and said, "It's already very cold during the day. I didn't expect that even a dream would be so cold at night."

The general asked casually: "What did you do during the day?"

Yu Hao replied: "Work."

I don’t know why, maybe it’s intuition, Yu Hao always feels that he knows the general in reality, and the general is deliberately concealing his identity.

"What kind of work?"

“Send flyers.”

"Oh, that's really cold." The general said, "Fortunately, I'm not afraid of the cold if I have too many hairs."

Yu Hao laughed, hugged the general's neck, and lay on his back.

"Be serious, don't be frivolous." The general scratched his neck and said, "The monkeys are quarantined from people."

Yu Hao was said to be "scared" by a monkey and couldn't help laughing. The general asked again: "Have you found a boyfriend in reality?"

"It's only been a few days!" Yu Hao said, "My trouble has not been resolved yet, so how can I have the time to fall in love."

As the village approaches, the general suddenly stops, and Yu Hao said, "What's wrong?"

The big monkey looked around and seemed to feel the danger, and whispered: "Shh."

The seaside villages were seen clearly. All the wooden houses were covered with a thick layer of ice and snow. The sea surface was frozen. There were large Viking-style ships frozen in the harbor, like a chilly wind swept over night, frozen all living things in an instant.

At the end of the harbor is a towering lighthouse, and a dark atmosphere is suspended on it.

"That's 'totem'?" Yu Hao asked in a low voice.

The general signaled Yu Hao to come down and whispered: "Maybe, but we haven't found the master of the dream yet, what should we do?"

It is impossible for anyone to survive on the frozen snow field for thousands of miles. This is a real dead place. The general has scanned the surroundings on the mountain. He has become Sun Wukong, and he seems to have inherited the skill of the golden eyes of the fire. He is very sure that there is no whereabouts of the exiled master on the snow field.

Yu Hao said: "Can you have been exiled to your subconscious mind?"

He knew very little about dreams, and most of his inferences could only be judged based on what the general had told him and what he read from books.

"No?" the general touched his head and said to himself.

"What about the safe haven?" Yu Hao said uneasy, "Look for it?"

The general said: "There is no place like a safe haven."

Yu Hao thought for a while and said, "It's just that there is nothing on the ground, what about the underground? You said this is a little girl's dream. Children all like to build a secret base, and there is a metaphor for 'underground work' in it."

"I learned the psychology class well." The general suddenly said, "Maybe you guessed it right, go in and take a look."

In front of the frozen house, the general pried open a door with his sword. Yu Hao's staff emitted light, illuminating the house.

"It's a candy store." The general and Yu Hao looked at each other. The store was covered with ice and snow, and the NPC was frozen into an ice sculpture. Yu Hao suddenly noticed that something seemed to be coming out in the corner of the wall.

It was a tentacle-like black shadow.

"General?" Yu Hao shone the light on the staff towards the corner of the wall.

"Hmm?" The general was biting a piece of frozen chocolate, and he couldn't get it off no matter how hard he chewed it.

"Don't leave me too far." The big monkey said vaguely.

Yu Hao was not sure whether it was his hallucination or a real thing. The general held a whole plate of wine-heart chocolate and tried to melt it, and said, "Go to see somewhere else."

Another house opposite the street is a fondant cake shop. Yu Hao could almost imagine that it originally looked like a beautiful and prosperous commercial street. There were also children's clothing and toys along the street. But when the general looked at a large seven-story cake, Yu Hao felt something strange again.

This time he found another tentacle!

"General!" Yu Hao said vigilantly, "There are enemies!"

The general suddenly turned around and pulled Yu Hao behind him. The two of them quickly retreated from the residential house. On the commercial street of the village, the wind and snow suddenly stopped in an instant.

There is tranquility around.

"I think the situation is a little wrong..." Yu Hao whispered, "Or quit first?"

The general looked around with caution and was about to cover Yu Hao to leave the village, the two of them suddenly trembled! The snow on the street was shaking, squeezing heavily, bricks and stones shattered, and tentacles rose from all directions!

Immediately afterwards, a ray of bright light around the surroundings, and strong indigo light shone on the village. Yu Hao immediately raised his arm and blocked his eyes. He saw a huge demon eye floating above the lighthouse at the end of the port! The demon eye made a harsh laugh, and the sound seemed to have been heard somewhere:

"Look at me if I don't kill you this time-"

Mr. Shi’s voice!

Before Yu Hao could be shocked, the general shouted: "Run!"

However, the houses on both sides collapsed instantly, and the huge sea monster like lamprey rose from the ground! All the tentacles curled Yu Hao and the general at the same time. As soon as the general rushed towards Yu Hao, they were wrapped up by the tentacles, shook them away, and crashed into the house, collapsing the entire wall of the candy shop!

Yu Hao was strangled to his neck and couldn't breathe. He stared at the general with his eyes tightly. The general turned over from the ruins, pulled out his long sword, and roared at the huge sea monster!

The sea monster tentacle swung out, Yu Hao rotated his left hand, grabbed the staff, pressed it on the tentacle, and a lightning thunder pierced through the tentacle, and the tentacles suddenly stiffened and loosened, and Yu Hao fell downwards. He almost fell into the sharp teeth of the lamprey! At the critical moment, he hugged the tentacles tightly. The general rushed from the side and slashed with his sword, but he couldn't cut the tentacles.

"Don't be eaten by it!"

"What will happen if you fall down, you can tell me now!"

"I will die! I will die! I will sleep forever and never wake up again-!"

Yu Hao was sweating all over his back and thrust hard at the edge of the sea monster's huge mouth. The general was fighting with several tentacles. Yu Hao turned around, holding a staff, but a tentacle was thrusting from the horizontal, causing him to feel severe pain in his internal organs. The staff was removed from his hands and fell into the snow!

The general roared: "Treat this guy! We are not strong enough! Go back to reality and find a way--"

Yu Hao: "How to find a way!"

"Wake up Shi Ni!"

Immediately afterwards, the tentacles covered the sky and rolled towards the general and Yu Hao. The general turned over on his head and feet, stepped on the tentacles, and rushed towards Yu Hao.

Yu Hao turned around, and the general rushed towards him with a slender body, and he quickly explored like lightning.

"Good night—!" the general roared.

Yu Hao's eyes showed a moment of confusion. The next moment, a golden light flashed from the general's hand and pressed it firmly on his forehead.

A "boom" sounded like lightning slashing into consciousness. Yu Hao shouted and sat up from the bed.

The last scene in my memory is the moment when countless tentacles wrap around the general and drag him towards the huge mouth full of sharp teeth!

Yu Hao immediately searched for his cell phone, and gasped, dialed the phone number that Xiaoxiao left to him yesterday afternoon.

There was a sound of waiting on the other end of the phone, and Yu Hao kept praying to answer quickly! Answer quickly! Countless scenes flashed through his mind, the demonic eyes on the lighthouse, the snakes in the snow, the sea monsters full of tentacles and sharp teeth, and Mr. Shi's crazy laughter... Yu Hao seemed to understand who the master of this dream was and the meaning represented by all symbols.

A wave of fear and anger suddenly surged into my heart. If it was true, how desperate would Shi Ni be?!

The phone is on.

"Hey?" Xiaoxiao's sleepy voice rang.

"Call Niu Niu! Get her up!" Yu Hao shouted almost desperately.

Xiaoxiao on the other end of the phone was also frightened and said, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

"Hurry! Do you have her phone number?" Yu Hao knew that as long as Shi Ni woke up, the dream would be interrupted instantly, just like he and the general were facing the army in his dream before. When the master woke up, all the visitors would be forced to pop out of the dream and would be continued the next time he fell asleep.

"I'm here." Shi Ni's voice rang out on the other end of the phone, "What are you doing?"

Yu Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Do you spend the night at Xiaoxiao's house?"

Shi Ni said, "What's your business?"

"Don't hang up the phone." Yu Hao said, "I have a few words that I want to talk to you."

Shi Ni's voice was tired and said, "I have nothing to talk about with you."

"Listen to him." Xiaoxiao's voice whispered, "He is an adult."

The opposite side opened, Yu Hao sorted out his thoughts and plundered words while trying to break the darkness in her dreams. He put on down, put on headphones, got out of bed, and arrived at the window where the signal was better, opened a small gap, and looked at the alarm clock.

It’s still early at 11:00:70… The time is well controlled and I can go into the dream again.

"Ni Zi." Yu Hao took a deep breath, then tried to make his voice appear calm and whisper, "What did your dad do to you?"

On Christmas Eve, it started to snow outside. On the opposite side of the dormitory road, the colorful lights wrapped around the school fence flashed, making it a warm and quiet atmosphere on this winter night.

There was a long silence on the other side of the phone. Yu Hao waited patiently, as if a century had passed, and a low sob came from his headphones.

"Since when you were old?" Yu Hao asked again.

"Eleven years old." Shi Ni choked and said, "I'm sorry, Teacher Yu..."

"It's okay." Yu Hao replied.

At this moment, the anger that surged in his heart almost squeezed and exploded his chest, making him feel very uncomfortable. He just wanted to grab himself hard or beat something hard with his fist to vent.

Shi Ni cried for a while, Yu Hao sighed and took out his change. He urgently needed some wine to settle his emotions.

Without comforting Shi Ni, he just listened quietly to the crying sounds coming from his headphones.

"I have to leave tomorrow." Xiaoxiao said, "I don't know what to do. Nishi is so miserable. She also knew that she was wrong about the past..."

"It's okay." Yu Hao hurried downstairs and asked, "Where are you going?"

Xiaoxiao said: "I have to transfer to school and go to Hong Kong."
To be continued...