Doomsday begins with a nightmare

Because of malnutrition for a long time, Apu looks thinner than girls of the same age.

16 years old, looks younger than her actual age.

It was Apu's father who spoke just now.

He is the opposite of Apu. He is only in his forties, but he looks like he is in his fifties or sixties. He has short hair, half of which is already gray, dark skin, rough palms, one eye is already blind, and he looks cloudy. Like a frosted glass.

Apu's mother sighed, but there was nothing the woman could do about her current life.

Only Apu's six-year-old brother is still happy, but this kind of happiness is based on innocence. After a few years, I guess the whole family will only sigh.

The premise is that they can still live to that.

The sky outside was extremely dark. Because of the geographical location, it was actually very late at night in this season. Although it was only dim, it was not completely dark, but it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

After dinner, the family each do their own things.

Looking out of the window, there are sporadic candles in the village.

As for electricity?

Don't even think about it.

After the nightmare completely fell, there was a complete power outage.

In other words, the officialdom here has been completely shut down, almost in name only.

It is the temples all over the place that are really in charge.

After the nightmare came, the masters in the temple seemed to have a way to resist the nightmare, and this is absolute hard power at this stage.

No one dares to fight against the masters.

Let alone doing the right thing, I dare not be disrespectful in words.

If you don't respect him, you won't get the protection of the masters.

Without protection, after falling into a dream, they will be attacked by nightmares, and the end will be extremely miserable.

So here, the masters in the temple are the most noble existence.

A large temple can be seen in the distance from Apu's house.

Even at night, it is brightly lit.

It seems that there is only one place around that is bright, and only that place is safe.

"Mom, I heard that A Ling's family went back to the temple to spend the night. They said it was the safest place." Apu said to his mother at this time.

Mom nods.

That's right, at this stage, the big temple is indeed the safest.

"No terrible nightmare dares approach the Great Temple!"

"But why can't we go?" Apu's younger brother Soul asked next to him. My mother understands this truth, and so does Apu, but my six-year-old brother doesn't quite understand it.

My younger brother didn't know that people are different from birth.

Some people hold a golden spoon in their mouths, while others are doomed to suffer.

In the past, there may have been a little possibility to change the class and change the life, but now, unless one gets an adventure in the nightmare world, gains powerful power, or controls some kind of terrible nightmare.

Otherwise, if you want to change your fate against the sky, the possibility is zero.

We try to reduce the time to fall asleep as much as possible.

The same goes for Apu's house.

They have alarm clocks.

Dad is the backbone of the family, so dad goes to bed first, from about eight o'clock to twelve o'clock, the other family members start to sleep, and at four o'clock in the morning, mom will change dad to sleep, but Apu and his brother can always sleep Sleep till dawn.

Because if you encounter a nightmare, you can tell the clues from the sleeping expression and breathing, and if you find something is wrong, you must wake up your family immediately.

This can avoid some deaths.

These days, this is how Apu's family came here.

Although they have paid the offerings to the temple according to the week, it is still right to be careful.

Just like the funeral of Aqin's family in the village.

Aqin's family also turned in offerings every week, but their youngest son still died.

Although the masters came to see it, they said it was a natural death.

But who would believe it?

Do you really think everyone is a fool?

But there is no way to find out a result of this matter. Even if it was killed by the nightmare, no one has evidence, because this matter depends on the masters in the big temple?

No one wants to be this early bird.

So, in the end, you have to be careful.

"Mom, I don't want to sleep!"

It's already twelve o'clock.

Apu's younger brother didn't want to sleep yet, he kept tugging at the corner of his mother's clothes, with fear in his eyes.

"What if you don't sleep, although you will enter that terrible place if you sleep, but with your mother and sister by your side, what are you afraid of?"

The mother comforted the younger brother through experience.

But today's younger brother is obviously abnormal, unwilling to sleep, and said that he saw a terrible thing in his dream.

"Where is there something terrible? We are together every day, why haven't I seen it?" Apu retorted his brother immediately.

She felt that her younger brother was simply ignorant.

"Really, I really saw it. That thing is hiding in the corner of our house. Sometimes, it will, and it will hide behind you."

The younger brother's words were obviously scary.

Apu heard goosebumps all over his body.

Hiding behind yourself?

is it possible?

"Brother, don't talk nonsense, go to bed quickly."

Apu said something.

As for the mother, she obviously didn't believe it at all, she just thought it was a child's nonsense.

Finally, mother and Apu coaxed the younger brother to lie on the bed.

"Apu, you should sleep too."

"Okay mom, good night!"

"Good night, baby!"

Apu fell asleep.

This is not the first time she has entered the nightmare world. For her, the nightmare world is both familiar and strange.

She is familiar with it because she dreams of it every day.

Strangeness is because she has never left her room in the nightmare world.

It's Mom and Dad's rule.

It is said that some kind of exorcism was given by the masters in the temple, which are placed on the gates of their homes and bedroom doors, so as to prevent the monsters from the nightmare world from entering.

So every time after falling asleep, Apu would do his own thing in the house.

Sometimes I would be in a daze, sometimes I would chat with my younger brother, mother and father, or, I would secretly look out the window, trying to figure out what was going on outside.

But most of the time, it's pitch black outside and you can't see anything.

Maybe you can see the outlines of some houses, but they are just outlines, like the urine stains after my brother wetted the bed when he was a child.

Apu has already thought about it today.

She counts as a storyteller with her brother.

Telling stories and listening to stories is one of the most effective ways for them to pass the time.

Of course Mom said she would try to get some candles so they could read in the house.

"younger brother?"

Apu started looking for his brother.

Usually the younger brother will wait for her on the bed.

The main reason is that the little brother is very timid. Every time he falls asleep, he will shrink into the quilt, and sometimes he will shiver.

In this case, you need to be coaxed.

Mom didn't fall asleep this time, so Apu had to do the work of coaxing his brother this time.

She walked to her brother's room and saw that the quilt on the bed was raised, and she was shaking non-stop.

Apu smiled, ready to go over and lift the quilt.

She walked over and grabbed the quilt with her hand. At this moment, she suddenly wanted to tease the disciple.

So instead of pulling it away, he reached into the quilt with his hand.

Sure enough, he touched a small hand.

At this moment, Apu suddenly heard someone calling her sister in a low voice.

She was stunned.

The voice came from behind, it was my brother's voice.

Apu immediately looked back.

He found his younger brother hiding behind the door, looking at the bed in horror.

Apu was stunned.

The younger brother is hiding behind the door, who is on the bed?

A chill came from Apu's hand.

She found that the little hand she was touching seemed very cold.

Like a dead man's hand.

In an instant, Apu got goosebumps. She wanted to scream, but she remembered mom and dad's instructions.

In the nightmare world, no matter how frightened and frightened you are, you can't scream.

Because you don't know what will happen after you scream, and nine times out of ten, something more terrible will happen.

Apu was about to cry.

She wanted to pull her hand back, but the thing under the quilt was holding her hand firmly.

It seems that he doesn't want her to go.

This is the trouble.

At this moment, Apu's mind was blank, she could only suppress her crying, and prayed that someone could save her.

correct.

Didn't dad fall into a dream?

Apu suddenly thought of this, and a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart.

She turned her head and gestured to her younger brother, and whispered to him to find his father.

The younger brother understood, and now he mustered up the courage to run out from behind the door.

Apu was still struggling to draw his hand.

Finally, I don't know if she prayed successfully, or what, the hand was pulled out.

Without hesitation, she turned and ran.