Grudge Breaker

Chapter 191: Mirror Flower and Water Moon (Part )
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Pfft!
Song Weichen fell into a sparkling lake!

It was not an illusion, but deep water that could actually cost her life.

This is going to kill him before he can accomplish his mission! Song Weichen cursed in his heart. He wanted to call for help but drank several mouthfuls of water. His nasal cavity was choked by the water and it was burning and painful. He couldn't breathe at all.

After slapping the water and struggling for a few times without any purpose, Song Weichen, a landlubber, sank to the bottom of the lake like a gooseneck kettle with its lid removed, bubbling...

"Child, be sure to hold on to that half of the jade pendant."

Before Song Weichen completely lost consciousness, Grandma Huang's voice rang in his mind again.
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"Isn't it shameful that someone who is such a good swimmer almost drowned? Luckily those guys who were swimming in the wild found you. Did you have a cramp in your leg?"

Good at swimming? Leg cramps?

Song Weichen lay on the bed, looking at the woman in front of him who seemed to be very familiar with him. Who was she? She was wearing a coarse cloth skirt, with wheat-colored skin and some light brown spots on her face due to the sun, which made her look more playful and cute, and could not hide her youthful edge.

"You, you are...?"

"Don't you know who I am? Huang Meiyun, are you crazy? I'm Yingyun!"

Song Weichen's heart trembled. Huang Meiyun? Isn't that Grandma Huang's name? Isn't Yingyun the neighbor who...Huang Hu went to war for her husband?
What's the matter? !
She sat up suddenly and caught a glimpse of a bronze mirror with a crack in the corner of the room. She rushed over in two steps. What was reflected in the mirror was clearly her own face. She was a little uncertain and raised her hand to touch her cheek. The person in the mirror also moved synchronously. It was definitely her!
He turned to look at the woman in disbelief, "What did you call me just now?"

Song Weichen didn't understand why he was Huang Meiyun in her eyes. Did the old woman do something to him?
Speaking of which, where is she? Didn't she say she would come with us...

Just as he was daydreaming, he suddenly felt a headache, accompanied by a sharp tinnitus. Song Weichen couldn't help but cover his hand and hissed.

The woman looked at her with a surprised and suspicious expression and shook her head, "No, no, you must have hurt your brain. I need my wife to quickly find Brother Hu and bring you to the town to see a doctor!"

Huang Yingyun was about to leave when Song Weichen took a few steps forward and grabbed her.

"No, no, no, I'm just a little confused for a moment, maybe I'll be fine in a few days. Can you tell me what time it is now? Is there a war in the South?"

"There's a war in the south? Where did you hear that? Don't just say that!"

Huang Yingyun looked at Song Weichen with an even weirder look in her eyes, "Meiyun, did you offend the yellow-skinned guy? Why are you talking nonsense?"
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"The war started when winter came in the south. Now is the best time for Huangjia Village."

Grandma Huang's voice suddenly rang in Song Weichen's mind, scaring her so much that she screamed.

Huang Yingyun was startled by her shout and slapped Song Weichen's arm hard, "What are you doing? You're so weird and jumpy!"

"Child, let Yingyun go back, and I will tell you the rest."

Grandma Huang has become Song Weichen's "system".

Following the old man's instructions, Song Weichen just said that he just needed a good sleep, and coaxed Huang Yingyun out of the house.

Just as I was about to close the door, I looked up and saw an acacia tree in the yard, with yellow rice-like flowers blooming. A wooden peace sign was tied to the trunk close to the ground, and the red ribbons on the ears were fluttering gently in the breeze.

Isn’t this the tree that Song Weichen saw when he opened the window that night when he first saw the ghost husband at the cloth shop in Luoyun Town!
"Grandma Huang, are you still here? What's going on?"

Looking at the acacia tree, Song Weichen's mind was drifting away for a moment, and he felt that life was like dew and lightning. When he thought about it carefully, it was a long time ago that he first saw this tree in the cloth shop.

It was still late autumn, but now spring was approaching. She had been in the sleeping world for more than half a year without realizing it. Eh, only more than half a year? How come she felt like she had gone through several lives, and in every life there was someone who left a lasting impression on her.

"Child, someone broke the formation at the most critical moment just now. Now I can only try my best to maintain the illusion. The rest of the things are up to you. Please listen to me carefully." Grandma Huang's voice sounded in Song Weichen's mind again.

Song Weichen listened attentively with bated breath and obtained some very important information from the old man.
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First, this fantasy is set according to the Huangjia Village eighty years ago. The period before the outbreak of the Southern Border War at the end of the year was the happiest time in Grandma Huang’s life. At that time, she and Huang Hu had just been married, and the two had their own world and lived a very happy life.

These few short months have been replayed countless times in her life. She remembers the people and things at that time very clearly, so this illusion is so real, so real that even the sunlight and rain every day are different.

Secondly, Song Weichen is now like Grandma Huang's "accomplice", a reference to the old woman in the illusion, so people in Huangjia Village will think of her as Huang Meiyun when they see her - but Song Weichen has not been possessed or possessed, nor has her appearance been changed. She is still herself, and all her actions and emotions are from her heart, but all her emotions and feelings in this illusion will be fed back to Grandma Huang and the soul-confusing Huang Hu who is also trapped in the Seven Evils Soul-Locking Formation.

Thirdly, Huang Hu's soul is in "Huangjia Village" right now, but there is no need to worry about the ghost husband disturbing people, because its biggest obsession is to go back to Huangjia Village in Wanghai Town to find Huang Meiyun. As long as it arrives at the place, its resentment will be reduced by several percent, and it will not go berserk easily.

However, the illusion array was attacked and cracks appeared, so Huang Hu's confused soul is now in a state where he knows he is in Huangjia Village, but cannot find Huang Meiyun in the vast wilderness. If he cannot find her for too long, it will definitely explode and things will become difficult.

Therefore, it is necessary to let Huang Hu and "Huang Meiyun" reunite before his soul goes berserk, and the only way is the jade pendant. In short, Song Weichen needs to find a "referent" in the illusion to serve as Huang Hu's "accomplice", live with him in reality, and invest emotions in each other. The stronger the emotions, the faster the emotional power will connect to Huang Hu - when the soul-disordered Huang Hu is drawn over and is willing to take out his half of the jade pendant and give it to Song Weichen, it means that it believes that it has found "Huang Meiyun", and the matter can be successfully concluded.

At that moment, everything in the illusion will disappear, the world will return to peace, and Song Weichen will be able to return to reality safely.
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Grandma Huang said that she originally wanted to use the acacia tree to transform into a human, and become Huang Hu's "ghost" substitute in the illusion, because the tree condensed too many emotional memories between her and Huang Hu, and the telekinesis and emotional power were enough. It was a pity that one of the three layers of the formation was broken, and the original energy was leaked, and it was still one step short.

So from now on, Song Weichen can only rely on himself to find a suitable person in Huangjia Village to be the "Huang Hu".

Song Weichen's face was full of confusion when he heard this. This old lady Huang was too outrageous. It was already outrageous enough to let a tree be the "substitute" of the soul-chaos Huang Hu. Now she wanted her to find someone to pretend to be Huang Hu and live together - this, this, this, I really can't do it!
"Grandma, I have a lover, I can't just find someone to live with, and I can't fall in love with a stranger quickly. It's impossible."

"My dear child, do you have a sweetheart? That's even easier. Where you are is just a mirage, everything is empty and everything is up to your heart. Just go out and walk around thinking of your sweetheart, and you will definitely meet him. When the time comes, remember to give the peace card tied to the tree to him, and he will become a 'yellow tiger'."

"Child, the crack in the barrier is huge and may collapse at any time. I can't talk to you anymore. You must concentrate on forming the formation. I will rely on you from now on."
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"Wait a minute, one last question! Grandma Huang, does the passage of time in this illusion flow the same as in reality?"

Song Weichen was worried that if his spiritual consciousness was away for too long, his body would die.

"Child, I can't answer you. It is my greatest regret in this life that the person who set up the formation cannot enter the illusion. Otherwise, I would have wanted to stay in it forever. But judging from the speed at which I set up the formation, it should be similar to the time difference between dreams and reality?"

If that’s the case... Song Weichen remembered the movie "Inception" he had watched before: time can expand in dreams, and as the dream becomes deeper and deeper, the speed at which time passes becomes slower and slower.

In the first level of dream, time is twelve times slower, in the second level, time is twelve times slower again, which is equivalent to 144 times slower than reality, and in the third level of dream, time is 1,728 times slower than the real world. In other words, in the third level of dream, every second in the real world is equivalent to half an hour in the dream, so even if you are working as hard as a tiger in the dream, it is just a blink of an eye in reality.

Song Weichen came back to the yard, picked up a small branch from the ground and wrote and drew on the ground.

If the Seven Caves in the illusion are the first level and time is twelve times slower, then the Huangjia Village where she is now is the second level of illusion, which means that time is one hundred and forty-four times slower than reality. Then one hundred and forty-four days here is equivalent to one day in the real world. If half a year is calculated as one hundred and eighty days, it is equivalent to 1.25 days in reality.

Song Weichen was happy when she thought of this. It's okay! Half a year is just fifteen hours in reality. As long as she doesn't do anything too outrageous, she will not die!

I have to say that this little girl is really careless. She actually believes in the data given by a movie so much that she never thought that if the time passage in reality is the same as that in the illusion, then when her consciousness returns a few months later, her body will have been recycled by insects, ants, soil and water.

But Song Weichen obviously didn't think about it that way. She was just optimistic by nature, too optimistic...

But she still thought of someone.

Fifteen hours was enough time for that man to become so angry that he turned the ghost market upside down.

"Grandma, you have your Tiger Brother, and I have mine. I'm afraid he'll get anxious after not being around for so long, and might do something outrageous. Can you give him a message for me? Tell him not to worry, I'll be back soon..."

"Grandma? Grandma Huang? Huang~ Grandma~" Song Weichen shouted towards the sky.

The old man made no response.

After a long time, Song Weichen sighed and curled his lips in resignation, moved a small stool to the tree and stood on it, then stood on tiptoe to take out the peace sign, swung it in his hand, and strolled out of the yard.
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She walked along the main road of the village for a while and didn't meet anyone. It was not like what Grandma Huang said, that she could "just find anyone" in the village to play the male lead, Huang Hu.

As it was getting dark, the cry of an owl was heard in the dense forest behind the village houses. Even though he knew it was an illusion, Song Weichen was nervous for no reason and decided to go home first and make further plans.

After turning around and taking only two steps, she heard a rustling sound behind her. Song Weichen subconsciously turned her head to look. This look instantly brought back her dream to the big dog she met in Qiu Shui Town when she first arrived in the sleep world.

The giant black wolfhound in front of him was walking towards Song Weichen with its teeth bared and saliva drooling. It was even more terrifying than the one at that time.

I don’t know if it hurts when a dog in the illusion bites someone... Song Weichen smiled bitterly, she didn’t want to know at all.

By the way, there is no need to make the illusion of Grandma Huang so realistic! The "granularity" is too fine! There is no need to include this kind of creature in the illusion teaching materials!
A good woman will not suffer a loss in front of her. No matter if the bite hurts or not, the best strategy is to run away! !

Song Weichen realized what she was thinking, lifted up her skirt and ran away. As soon as she turned around, she fell into a strong embrace, which hurt her nose.

When I looked up, I saw that the man had eyes and eyebrows as black as stars and ink, and he was wearing black clothes.

When the dog saw him, it didn't dare to approach him. It slowly retreated with a whimper in its throat.

The man met her gaze with a smile and said exactly the same words he had said in Qiu Shui Town.

"Are you still running?"