Chapter 296 The whole city is covered with golden armor

The warm sunshine of Yundu shines through the gaps in the curtains and into the ward filled with the sweet fragrance of flowers.

Feng Yusu came to the bedside table and replaced the wilted begonia in the vase with a bunch of bright yellow osmanthus flowers.

September in late autumn is the season when osmanthus flowers are in full bloom. People in Yundu like to use osmanthus trees as street trees. At this time of year, the sweet and rich aroma quietly permeates every street and alley of this ancient city, and the flower buds bloom in golden pieces in the green belts.

The incense soars through Chang’an, and the city is full of golden armor.

Feng Yusu looked down at the pistil in the vase, his vision a little blurry.

I still remember this time last year, when Azhi left her hometown for the first time to come to Yundu to study as a freshman. I was worried about my daughter, so I followed her and bought a house in the residential area next to the university to live in and accompany her.

It was autumn at that time, and the residents’ buildings were filled with bamboo trays filled with freshly shaken osmanthus flowers drying in the sun.

The aunt who lived downstairs had just picked up her child from school in the afternoon. Perhaps because she saw Bai Zhi, who was standing by the road waiting for her mother to park her car, was so pretty, she persuaded the shy girl into giving her two pieces of osmanthus cake.

“By the way, Azhi likes to eat osmanthus cake…” Feng Yusu woke up from his memories, bent down and threw the wilted begonia in his hand into the trash can.

Standing up, Feng Yusu glanced at her daughter who was unconscious on the hospital bed and said bitterly, “Azhi, Mommy is going to buy some osmanthus cakes. Can you wait here for me? Be good…”

Big tears rolled down her cheeks, blurring her vision of her daughter and drowning the words in her throat.

Feng Yusu wiped away her tears and was about to leave, but when she raised her eyes, she met a pair of eyes as clear and soft as autumn water.

“Azhi?” Feng Yushu’s mind went blank, and the tears she had just wiped away suddenly welled up again, and she sobbed: “You, you woke up?”

As soon as she woke up, she saw her mother standing by the window crying. Bai Zhi was a little confused and asked, “Mom? How long have I slept?”

Feng Yushu hurriedly squatted in front of the bed, holding Bai Zhi’s hand and said, “It’s been almost four days, you have been lying on the bed, and I can’t wake you up… The doctor can’t find the cause, so he can only give you some nutrient solution…”

Four days?
Bai Zhi felt her body become weak and powerless, and the details of the nightmare were still vivid in her mind: “I…”

“Azhi, are you having a nightmare again?” Feng Yuxu held her daughter’s hand tightly with a serious expression.

“……Yeah.” Bai Zhi nodded.

“Can you tell mom what you dreamed about?” Feng Yusu asked again.

Now she is no longer the helpless mother who knew nothing. She knows the existence of strange things and many secrets that ordinary people cannot touch. She is even an ascender who controls two different evil spirits. Now she can understand what the “nightmares” in Baizhi’s diary mean.

Bai Zhi thought for a moment and briefly recounted her dream experience to her mother: “I dreamed that I was in a castle, where there were ghosts wandering in another world, and lights that could illuminate the inner and outer worlds…”

Feng Yushu listened patiently and quietly, and suddenly his face changed: “You mean, you dreamed of Ning Zhe?”

“Yes…” Bai Zhi pursed her lips and smiled lightly, saying, “However, it’s not ‘dreaming of Ning Zhe’, but ‘seeing Ning Zhe in the dream’. He seems to be troubled by nightmares like me, and was drawn into that world in the dream… We had the same dream, mother.”

“Eh?” Feng Yushu was stunned, and even forgot to blink. As the only survivor of the strange incident in Hejia Village, she knew the rules of “Taiyi”, which was a kind of weirdness that could steal other people’s identities, not only identities, but also memories, abilities, and even the weird rules that the ascended people controlled with their bodies, and the divine powers they mastered, could be stolen to a certain extent.

So, Ning Zhe stole his daughter’s identity?

Why did he do this? Was it to gain Azhi’s ability to enter dreams? Was this also a kind of upgrade ability?
At that moment, Feng Yushu thought of many things. She regarded her only daughter as her life. If anyone dared to touch Bai Zhi, Feng Yushu would immediately protect her daughter and use any possible means to retaliate against the other party.

But Ning Zhe, only Ning Zhe. Even though she knew that Ning Zhe was very likely to have done something dangerous to her daughter, she could not feel any hostility towards him in her heart.

“How could this happen… I…” Feng Yushu tightly grasped Bai Zhi’s delicate wrist, at a loss: “What happened to me…?”

“It’s all thanks to Ning Zhe, otherwise I would have to wait a long time before I woke up.” At this time, Bai Zhi continued: “Ning Zhe found the castle we dreamed of in reality, went there himself to solve the strange incidents there, and ended this nightmare.”

“Yes, is that so?” Feng Yushu smiled immediately, as if a drowning man had grabbed a life-saving straw: “Did he save you from that castle?”

Bai Zhi nodded: “At the end of the nightmare, I vaguely saw a small closed room. The narrow space was filled with simple furniture. A thin and hunched figure was curled up in the corner. The dry skin was tightly attached to the bones, like a skeleton. It fell asleep in the corner…”

“The skeleton was wearing a necklace on its chest. The rough hemp rope was densely tied with countless bent fingers, like a monk’s Buddhist beads coiled around his neck. It was a ghost wearing ‘Buddha beads’ and it fell asleep in the corner…”

“It fell asleep and I woke up.”

Bai Zhi said, with a smile blooming on her pale face: “Ning Zhe didn’t lie to me, he really solved the puzzle in the castle and caught the ghost there…”

“Yes, yes, thanks to him.” Hearing her daughter’s voice, Feng Yusu’s panic gradually subsided.

Yes, yes, Ning Zhe stole Azhi’s identity in order to help her, it must be like this, how could he do such a sinister thing, I must have misunderstood him, Ning Zhe was just helping Azhi in his own way, how could I be so suspicious of him?

Yes, it must be like that…

Feng Yusu kept repeating the same words in her mind until the huge panic that almost tore her soul apart gradually subsided.

“mom.”

“Hmm?” Feng Yuxu looked up at her daughter’s eyes.

“I want to eat osmanthus cake.”

“Okay, Mom will buy it for you right away.” Feng Yushu stood up, gently touched Bai Zhi’s forehead, turned around and left the ward: “Wait for me here.”

Bai Zhi lay on the bed, looking sideways at her mother’s back as she disappeared through the door, whispering to herself, “Next time I have a nightmare, will I see you in my dream again?”

Thinking of that possibility, for the first time in her life, Bai Zhi actually looked forward to the next nightmare.

(End of this chapter)