Dream Guide

The darkness gnawed away at the moon bit by bit, like a giant in the sky eating a pie bite by bite. Bright red blood oozed out from the places he bitten, smearing the clouds in the sky.

Huang Liang knew that this was a natural phenomenon.

When the Earth blocks the sun, the atmosphere refracts red light onto the moon's surface. When a total lunar eclipse occurs, we can still see the red moon in the sky in the shadow of the earth. This is the blood moon.

It stands to reason that a blood moon is rare to see. But Huang Liang always has an ominous premonition. He recalled some folk rumors that the changing color of the moon heralded disaster coming to the world, and red corresponded to bloody disasters and was often considered to be a harbinger of war disaster.

When the entire moon turned into a hazy blood shadow, the wind and snow stopped.

The earth seemed particularly peaceful at this moment, and a giant red moon hung ferociously in the sky in the darkness.

Huang Liang looked into the darkness around him. For some reason, he always felt that there was someone there. He thought again of the cloaked man in black. That face was as terrifying as the moon in the sky at this moment.

He heard Hong Kui's heavy breathing and turned to look. The blood moonlight reflected on Hong Kui's face like a drunken man.

Huang Liang knew that Hong Kui was suppressing his emotions. From the moment the moon appeared, he began to emit abnormal mental fluctuations.

Huang Liang looked at the hazy white wolf's shadow in the moonlight in front of him and said softly: "Stop pressing me down. You have been pressed down for half your life."

Hong Kui suddenly screamed, like thunder that had been buried in the clouds for a long time, finally bursting out, accompanied by a strong spiritual storm, exploding in the mountains.

His face was instantly covered with white down, and it grew longer at a speed visible to the naked eye. The corners of his mouth cracked, and long fangs stuck out. His eyes were shining with a layer of green light, but what was reflected in his eyes was the blood-red moon in the sky.

He walked forward slowly until he reached the rock where the white wolf was standing.

The white wolf, which had been raising its head to the sky, finally lowered its head and looked at Hong Kui.

As if he was encouraged, Hong Kui suddenly jumped up to the huge rock dozens of meters high in an attitude that was impossible for humans.

Huang Liang saw Hong Kui's body and the white wolf's body gradually merging into one, but he couldn't tell whether the man turned into a wolf or the wolf turned into a man.

There was deathly silence all around, and even the nine dogs stopped whimpering. It was as if something was stuffed in their throats, unable to make any sound, and they could only huddle in fear.

At this time, there was a little light in the dark night in the distance, flickering there like fireflies on a summer night.

The white wolf looked up to the sky and roared, then jumped off the boulder and walked towards the light.

Huang Liang didn't see Hong Kui. He knew that the white wolf in front of him was Hong Kui.

The Indian guide and the nine Alaskan dogs followed the white wolf silently, as if this was a matter of course and pre-arranged.

The white light is getting closer. The moon in the sky gradually dimmed.

When the blood color completely faded, the white wolf disappeared.

Hong Kyu is back to his true self.

Huang Liang found that they were standing next to the camp where they set up tents, without moving a step.

Everything just now was just a dream.

I don’t know whether it was the remaining spirit of God here or Hong Kui’s own spiritual explosion that made them have this dream.

When you wake up from the dream, everything returns to reality.

It's a winter night on the highest snow-capped mountain in Alaska. The wind is howling and the snow is falling. The night is still dark and dark.

But in such weather, next to the camp, they saw the piece of ice——

That was the purest thing Huang Liang had ever seen in his life.

It is like a piece of ice hanging upside down from the eaves of my hometown on a clear morning after snow in winter. It is clean, translucent and bright, hanging upside down in the void of the night.

The darkness, depth and uncertainty of the night were instantly dissolved in its light.

It is so close and yet so far away.

It was like a wanderer who had been wandering for many years returned to his hometown. At the entrance of the village five hundred meters away from his home, he saw the earthen wall, the window with the paper cutout, and the girl looking out on the window sill.

Huang Liang's heart beat loudly.

He walked towards it unconsciously and reached out his hand to touch it. It was clearly right in front of him, but his hands couldn't touch it.

The spirit overflowed from the trembling fingers in a daze, hit the ice like electric waves, and penetrated into the world of ice.

He saw his sister's crystal face, and the sunlight illuminated her bright smile.

"Brother is back!" my sister shouted in surprise.

"Is this sister-in-law?" my sister asked again.

Huang Liang saw Martha and snuggled next to him like a mimosa.

"Brother is back with his sister-in-law!" My sister shouted happily and ran away from the window sill.

The fence gate next to the earth wall opened, and my father and mother came out with a smile.

"Okay, okay, it's good to come back!" Their smiles were like the corsage fields in April.

A hen flew up from the yard, landed on the top of the earth wall and clucked, but was soon drowned out by the sound of a tractor in the distance.

Lao Yu drove a hand tractor over.

The tractor was filled with things: neatly folded red silk quilts, wooden boxes with big red characters on them, boxes of pastries, hot water bottles wrapped in red silk... and even a red-painted toilet.

Lao Yu moved them down one by one and said cheerfully: "I know Pengcheng is back, and he has a foreign wife with him. We don't understand the rules of foreigners, so these things are just for them to make up for their wedding! I'll go there later Bring half of the slaughtered pigs to the town, Lao Zhao, don’t be reluctant to part with those chickens you raised today!”

Dad laughed heartily and said, "There are countless of them, you don't need to tell me."

The chicken on the wall seemed to understand. It clucked and flew away, its wings stirring up a lot of dust.

"Pengcheng?" Martha asked in confusion, "Isn't your name Huang Liang?"

He was startled, "Ah - Pengcheng? Pengcheng! My name seems to be Pengcheng!"

My sister said, "Brother, your name is Pengcheng! Have you forgotten?"

He answered suddenly: "Yes, my name is Pengcheng. Zhao Pengcheng, my name is Zhao Pengcheng!"

Martha raised her face innocently, pointed to the low house behind the earthen wall and said, "So, Zhao Pengcheng, are we going to live here in the future?"

Mother affectionately held Martha's hand and said, "Daughter-in-law, this is right here, this is your home."

My sister said, "Brother, you're not leaving now that you're back, right?"

He Nuonuo said: "I won't leave, I won't leave, sister, I will never leave again..."

Just as he was about to step into the yard, he suddenly felt his shoulders sink and he was pulled hard by someone, and he suddenly kicked back.

He saw his mother pulling Martha through the door, his father chasing the old hen in the yard, and Yu Jianguo driving the tractor to the town to pull pork. The black smoke from the tractor fluttered in the air like a ribbon.

The sister made a face and went back to her room, lying on the window sill and waving to him.

He saw a long iceberg hanging from the window sill, reflecting his sister's face, the paper-cutting on the window, the sun in the sky, the earthen wall and the figures of his parents that were gradually receding...

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Hong Kui held Huang Liang's shoulders tightly.

Before he knew it, he had reached the edge of the cliff, and there was an abyss beneath his feet. The howling mountain wind roared in the valley, like the roar of a giant trapped at the bottom of the abyss.

There was only that section of ice hanging upside down in the void ahead.

Huang Liang clearly saw his own face from the ice, as well as Hong Kui, the Indian guide and the nine Alaskan dogs.

Behind them is the entire Denali Mountains. The mountains are covered with white snow, and the sun, moon and stars hang on the top of the mountain.

Everything reflected by it is clearly visible.