The night in the deserted mountains is peaceful and tranquil. There is no noisy hustle and bustle of downtown streets and no blaring car horns. Everything seems so quiet.

Ji Jie opened his eyes and found himself in a barren mountain. Occasionally, there were some strange bird calls and insect chirps around him. He seemed a little dazed and did not react to where he was.

He tentatively stepped onto the dark, wet muddy road, but was startled by the crisp, dull "crack" sound and trembled in fear. Some of the broken branches and leaves on the ground stuck to the soles of his shoes, while some sank deep into the mud.

Ji Jie looked around blankly and was sure that he had never been here before. He was packing his luggage at home. The school was going on a camping trip tomorrow. After packing his luggage, he lay down on the bed and took a nap...

So...is this a dream...

Ji Jie hesitated for a moment but he was so curious that he didn't want to miss this opportunity to have a "lucid dream". He had seen in a video before that if you can clearly realize that you are dreaming in the dream, then the dream will become something you can control, and this is called a "lucid dream".

Ji Jie was very curious about why he dreamed of a barren mountain. He didn't like climbing mountains and climbed less than once a year. But since he was here, he wanted to see what the barren mountain looked like in this "lucid dream".

He finally took the initiative to take a big step forward. The "crackling" sound of branches and the strange cry of birds still made him a little scared. He couldn't help but wonder if there would be any female zombies in the deserted mountain in his dream, and whether he would turn into a Taoist priest and fight with them for three hundred rounds before conquering them.

Ji Jie was looking forward to this hard-earned "lucid dream". After walking for a long time, he heard some sounds other than the chirping of insects and birds not far away. He found that many tents had appeared around him, as if many people were stationed here.

But there was no light in the tent, and in the middle of the night, looking at those bulges in the moonlight, they looked more like graves.

Ji Jie bravely opened a tent, but it was empty. There were only quilts, pillows, school bags and other things inside. It was obviously a student's tent.

“Swipe… swipe…”

The sound was getting louder and louder, like a shovel hitting a hard stone, and suddenly there was a dull sound... like someone was really digging something not far away...

Ji Jie hesitated for a moment and subconsciously assured herself that it was just a dream. Now that she had realized that she was dreaming, this dream could be controlled. If she encountered danger, she would imagine herself becoming a Taoist priest and subduing the evil spirits.

Finally, the sound was getting closer and closer. After passing through countless "graves", Ji Jie saw a person holding a shovel and shoveling the wet soil...

Ji Jie first hid nearby quietly, but the man's back looked a little familiar... He slowly approached and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the man's figure clearly.

"Ma Xu, what are you doing? Digging a hole in the middle of the night?"

Ji Jie didn't expect to see her deskmate in her dream, but why would he dig such a big hole in the deserted mountain with a shovel? It was quite scary at night.

Ma Xu didn't say anything and just dug a hole by himself. Ji Jie found it boring. He guessed that in this dream, his desk mate was like an NPC in the game who was guiding him on the task and was now waiting for him to trigger the task.

“Almost done…”

Ma Xu suddenly spoke in a sinister voice, with a strange smile on his lips. Ji Jie thought his NPC classmate was going to give him a special task, so she quickly leaned over and asked, "What do you mean by almost done? Why are you digging a hole?"

“Almost done…”

Ma Xu did not respond to Ji Jie's words. He really seemed like a low-level NPC who could only speak simple words. Ji Jie pursed her lips and asked again: "Why are you digging holes, Ma Xu?"

Ma Xu didn't say anything. He finally stopped after a while. The pit had been dug to a full two meters deep, and it felt like a person could lie in it alive.

"It's done..."

Ma Xu's smile widened even more strangely, he seemed extremely satisfied with the deep pit, holding the shovel, he turned his head stiffly and looked at Ji Jie.

"Hmm? The NPC is going to issue a mission?"

Ji Jie quickly stretched his head towards the deep pit, but it was pitch black inside and he could not see anything. Just as he was about to ask something, he felt a dull pain in his head, and suddenly he felt dizzy and his body went limp and fell heavily into the deep pit.

He felt the tearing pain in the back of his head and the hot and sticky blood. His eyes trembled as he looked at the strange Ma Xu outside the pit: "What are you doing!"

"It's done..."

Ma Xu took a few steps closer with a shovel and hit Ji Jie hard on the head.

"boom!"

The shovel was slowly dripping with a mixture of mud, blood and flesh that was sticky and wet. Ma Xu finally took action, using the shovel to shovel out the mud next to it bit by bit and covered the corpse in the hole.

"It's done..."

"I've dug...your grave..."

...

"what!!!"

Ji Jie suddenly woke up and felt dizzy. The back of his head was aching and numb as if he had been hit hard. He was shocked to realize that his back was already covered in cold sweat.

"I was so scared! Fortunately it was just a dream!"

Ji Jie glanced at the time. The alarm would ring in a few minutes. He was too lazy to sleep any longer. His back was so sticky that he reluctantly went to the bathroom to take a shower before going to school with a backpack that was a little bigger than usual.

My deskmate Ma Xu hasn't come over yet and his seat is still empty. Today is different from the past. Because the senior year students are busy with their studies, the school organized a camping activity for the class that ranked highest in the last monthly exam.

Ji Jie's class was originally a rocket class, so she naturally got a spot. The last chance to relax as a group was hard-won, and they spent the whole seven days barbecuing and camping at the famous Zhaoxia Peak.

Squad leader Liu Yang called the roll one by one, and when he was almost done Ma Xu finally arrived with dark circles under his eyes. His legs were shaking as if he had stayed up too late. When he looked at Ji Jie, his throat rolled unnaturally, and after hesitating for a moment, he finally sat down.

Ji Jie also noticed Ma Xu's slightly strange look. Since they usually had a good relationship, he subconsciously asked, "What's wrong with you? Did you masturbate all night watching movies?"

Ma Xu pursed his lips as if he didn't dare to look at Ji Jie. He shook his head gently and hesitated for a long time before speaking: "I... I had a nightmare..."

Ji Jie was stunned for a moment and then comforted him: "What! What's the big deal? I had the same dream last night. Let me tell you! It was a ridiculous dream!"

Ji Jie patted Ma Xu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I dreamed that you killed me and buried me. Don't you think it's outrageous? You are usually so timid that you can scare yourself to death by a cockroach, but you actually killed me in your dream!"

Ji Jie didn't notice Ma Xu's increasingly ugly expression and said to herself, "Oh no! I was careless. I didn't expect someone so familiar would kill me. I finally had a lucid dream but you killed me before I could even enjoy it."

"Ji Jie..."

Ma Xu's voice trembled, his pupils slightly contracted, and even his fingers couldn't stop getting cold... He spoke with great difficulty: "If... I tell you..."

"I dreamed of killing you last night..."

Ji Jie's hand on Ma Xu's shoulder trembled slightly, and his face turned pale and then he immediately laughed: "Oh! Don't be funny! You want to scare me in broad daylight? Did you just follow my words after I said I was dreaming?"

Ma Xu did not speak but seemed to be in great fear. He inserted his fingers deeply into his hair for a long time before he slowly spoke: "I have had the same dream for a week..."

"Every time I dreamed that I was digging a hole with a shovel in a desolate mountain late at night..."

"Then someone kept talking next to me... I knocked him out with a shovel, and then... he..."

Ma Xu shrank back and said painfully: "I didn't care at first... After all, it's normal to have this kind of dream... But for three consecutive days, I dreamed of beating a person to death in a dug pit..."

Ji Jie shuddered violently. He wanted to find an excuse to change the subject but found that there was no way. He only heard Ma Xu continue to speak: "Then in order to figure out who I killed... I told myself over and over again before going to bed that I was dreaming..."

"But as long as I fall asleep... I am like I am out of control... I will just mechanically dig a hole... wait for that person to come... and then beat him to death in the hole..."

"On the fifth day... the dream began to change..."

Ma Xu turned his head with difficulty and looked at Ji Jie, who also had an ugly expression on her face. He moved his lips for a long time: "I can finally hear what the person I killed five times is saying... I heard his voice..."

"I'm so familiar with your voice...Ji Jie..."

"I killed you seven times over and over in my dream..."

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