Chapter 96

"Those damned dreams still haunt me."

At this point, Li Changye let out a roar as if venting his frustration. The police officers standing outside the door thought something had happened and hurriedly opened the door to take a look. Xia Tianqi quickly gave them a gesture indicating everything was fine, and the door was closed again.

Seeing the police retreat, Li Changye gave a bitter smile.

"Tianqi, I think I'm really going crazy."

"I don't want to hear that. I just want to ask you one question: Did you kill Shucheng?"

"No," Li Changye said firmly.

"Then continue and make me believe you."

"Alright, I'll continue." Li Changye, perhaps sensing Xia Tianqi's trust, showed a hint of excitement on his face and hurriedly said, "Because every time I fall asleep, I enter a state that's neither fully awake nor fully asleep, I strictly control my sleep and don't let myself fall asleep at all.

However, the effect of this control is minimal. My mental state is getting worse, and my fatigue is increasing. This makes it hard for me to even leave the dormitory.

Many times, I've been fighting off sleep, but I suddenly hear that bone-chilling conversation again.

I mentioned earlier that a few days ago, I couldn't hear what they were saying, and I couldn't move. But in the following days, I gradually began to hear their conversation clearly, and it was all about wanting to kill me and dismember me.

And this talk progressed from just thinking about it to becoming eager, and then to them preparing knives.

And I, who was initially unable to move, gradually managed to open my eyes, and eventually, I could see the scene clearly."

"What did you see?"

Xia Tianqi asked, full of doubt.

"The dormitory. The one we usually live in. And there were Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng sitting on the opposite bed, talking about me with malicious intent.

Do you know what that feels like?

When you think you're dreaming, but in what you believe is a 'dream,' you can open your eyes as if you've woken up, see the surroundings clearly, and even be noticed by the people in the dream.

Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng noticed me; they saw that I was awake.

Can you imagine the scene? A few people talking about you with malicious intent, and then the awkward atmosphere when you suddenly notice them.

That's how it was. When they saw me looking at them, they stopped talking and slunk away."

"What did you do after that?"

Xia Tianqi asked again.

"I got out of bed in the dormitory. Sounds unbelievable, right? I got out of bed in a dream and started looking around.

It was the dormitory we live in, exactly the same. The window showed our Yingcai College, and it looked no different.

The only difference was that Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng were planning to kill me."

At this point, Li Changye's trembling voice suddenly stopped, and he looked at Xia Tianqi, who was also somewhat shocked, and said, "Do you have a cigarette, Tianqi? Give me one."

"I do."

Because Li Changye's hands and feet were cuffed to the chair, Xia Tianqi lit the cigarette and put it in his mouth. Li Changye gave Xia Tianqi a grateful look, which made Xia Tianqi feel a pang of sadness, unable to believe that his good friend from the past had come to this.

Li Changye inhaled the entire cigarette almost without stopping, perhaps too quickly, which caused him to cough. Xia Tianqi put the cigarette butt in the ashtray and waited for Li Changye to finish speaking.

"Even though nothing happened in the dream, it was more terrifying than any nightmare I've ever had.

Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng might come back to kill me at any time, so I had to leave and wake up.

I tried to hint to myself to wake up, but it didn't work.

During the process, I tried to leave the dormitory, go to the next room, go downstairs, and go to the classroom.

Everyone was there, every classmate.

But the way they looked at me was strange, as if they were looking at a dead person. It's a hard feeling to describe, but it wasn't a friendly look.

I was very afraid, but I couldn't wake up, and the most terrifying thing was that I could feel pain.

I could recall past events, leave the campus, and do anything according to my will, and it wasn't blurry at all.

Do you understand what I mean? Can you understand what I'm saying?"

"You mean it felt too real to be a dream, right?"

Xia Tianqi said what Li Changye was trying to express.

"Yes, but it was clearly a dream.

I could even call my parents, and they answered. I told them I wanted to go home, and they agreed without asking why. But I hesitated because I knew I was in a dream. Even if I bought a ticket and escaped, what would happen?

I didn't know if I would wake up in reality if I died here, so I didn't dare to try, as my intuition told me that if I died here, I would die in reality too.

In despair, I returned to the dormitory, and by then, Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng had also come back.

They spoke to me with strange expressions, the kind of fake politeness that hides their desire to kill me.

I didn't pay much attention to them and got into bed out of fear, thinking I wouldn't fall asleep, but I lost consciousness at some point.

When I suddenly woke up, it was already morning.

I sat up in a daze and looked at Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng playing games in bed, feeling like I had returned from heaven to hell.

I told them about the terrifying experiences in my dream, but they didn't take it seriously, just advising me not to overthink and to see a doctor if necessary.

At that time, I thought that as long as I could return to reality, everything was fine.

That day, I didn't stay in the dormitory but went out, returning only in the evening. But that feeling came back because I saw those cold, sinister looks again.

Everyone looked at me with those sinister looks.

I couldn't help but feel uneasy, so I kept an eye out.

When I returned to the dormitory, Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng went out to be with their girlfriends and came back to rest later.

We didn't talk much. They played games when they came back, and I lay in bed obediently.

Time passed, and I didn't dare to sleep because I was afraid of dreaming, but I tried to keep my breathing steady.

I don't know how much time passed. I thought it was around midnight when I heard a sound from under the bed. My heart skipped a beat, but when I listened again, there was no sound.

But I was sure that Cao Jinhai and Yang Shucheng were watching me to see if I was asleep.

This silence lasted for about three minutes before I heard their voices.

"He should be asleep."

"Yeah, he seems to know I want to kill him. What should we do?"

"Tomorrow."

That was the last thing I heard. They decided to act on me tomorrow.

Of course, what made me most desperate was... I was still in this damned dream."

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