The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 485 Death Game Part 19 ()

The air here is filled with a mixture of the aroma of food and the stench of swill.

With a roar, the huge black silhouette of the plane passed through the sky. Zhang Chunfa leaned on the railing of the dim corridor. All kinds of noisy voices appeared in his ears, including people beating and scolding children, shouting to buy things, and music from TV. Although it was noisy, it made people feel at ease and nostalgic.

But strangely, there was no one in the corridor except him. There was no one in either the grocery store or the dentist's office, as if all the sounds and smells were illusions.

"Dream?" Zhang Chunfa was very clear at this time and felt that he was not in reality, but in a nostalgic dream. He got up and went to the empty store, took a candy, peeled it and put it in his mouth, muttering to himself: "It's not bad to have such a dream..."

A familiar taste that seemed to be so distant that it was a little blurry melted in his mouth. The sweet feeling made Zhang Chunfa's eyes squint. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether this was a dream or reality.

Come to think of it, he hadn't had such a clear dream for a long time.

Zhang Chunfa walked forward along the intricate corridors, which were like a maze. He would always discover unknown paths and passages, and then he would return to the familiar places after going around in circles. Every time he walked to a new place, he could hear and see the sounds and smells of that place. For example, when he passed by a butcher's shop, he could smell the meat, and when he passed by a residential house, he could hear the sound of mahjong.

He walked for a long time but couldn't get out of this place. Finally, he returned to the patio and looked up at the sky.

At this time, a voice came.

"Aren't you curious about what's out there?"

Zhang Chunfa looked in the direction of the sound. It was still the same shack. Qian Xiaoyi was sitting on it with a cigarette in his mouth, with wisps of green smoke rising from it.

It seemed that he was in a dream, so after seeing Qian Xiaoyi, Zhang Chunfa did not feel strange that he was here. He just replied: "Maybe I was curious before, but now I think this place is just right. There are not so many messy things. Neighbors are neighbors. Everyone helps each other just for the next meal. It's simple and straightforward."

"But now they have all left." Qian Xiaoyi said, "You are the only one left here. Aren't you lonely?"

Zhang Chunfa smiled and said, "What can I do? I'm already trapped here and can't get out."

"I don't think you can get out, you're just running away." Qian Xiaoyi said, "You're running away from what happened outside. What exactly makes you so scared? You don't seem like such a timid man."

"This is none of your business." Zhang Chunfa said firmly, but the next second, he seemed to realize that his tone was a bit too harsh, and then said: "I'm sorry... that's all in the past, I don't want to talk about it anymore. Do you have any cigarettes? Give me one."

"This is just one, it may not suit your taste." Qian Xiaoyi said: "Do you want it?"

"Just take whatever you have." Zhang Chunfa said.

So Qian Xiaoyi flicked his fingers and threw the cigarette in his hand towards Zhang Chunfa. The red dot turned into a parabola in the air and was caught by Zhang Chunfa.

Zhang Chunfa sniffed the cigarette and said, "This cigarette smells weird, what brand is it?"

"I rolled it myself." Qian Xiaoyi shrugged and said, "Isn't it okay if you have it? It's up to you whether to take it or not. If you don't want to take it, just give it back to me~"

Zhang Chunfa smiled and started to smoke. Suddenly, the air around him was filled with smoke. At this time, Qian Xiaoyi said, "You really don't want to go out and see the truth?"

"I've already told you that I can't get out of this place." Zhang Chunfa said. He had forgotten that this place was a dream. He just said impatiently, "I can't find a way out."

Qian Xiaoyi said: "If that's the case, just follow the smoke."

"Follow the smoke?" Zhang Chunfa waved away the smoke around him in confusion, and when he looked up, Qian Xiaoyi's figure had disappeared.

He looked around and found an interesting sight.

——The smoke from the cigarette in his hand seemed to be blown by the breeze and drifted towards a narrow passage that he had never seen before.

Zhang Chunfa looked at the cigarette in his hand, then looked at the passage, and finally decided to follow. He was also a little curious about where this cigarette would take him.

The buildings in the fortress were intricate and Zhang Chunfa himself could not remember the locations of the secret passages, but the wisp of smoke always led him to find the hidden passages. After twists and turns, Zhang Chunfa finally saw the exit under the guidance of the smoke. The golden light shone from the gap into the dim corridor, looking somewhat holy.

Zhang Chunfa swallowed his saliva. When he was young and went to kill someone for the first time, he was not as nervous as he is now. It seemed as if something incredible was waiting for him ahead. He calmed himself down, and finally overcame his inner hesitation and walked into the golden light.

When his eyes gradually adjusted to the light in front of him, Zhang Chunfa could see the scenery here clearly. It turned out that the golden light was not the rising sun, but the lights in the casino!
Countless haggard-looking undead were sitting in front of various gambling tools, concentrating on the game, their eyes full of desire, their ears filled with incessant shouts and the sound effects of machines.

The smoke from the cigarette in his hand drifted into his eyes, forcing him to blink. In just a moment, he saw the true faces of the gambling tables and machines! They were ugly monsters, with their mouths wide open and tongues hanging out, waiting for the gamblers to put their heads into their mouths.

Zhang Chunfa opened his mouth slightly, as if he had realized something. His eyes rolled downward and he saw that he also had a big mouth with sharp teeth.

——He is also one of these monsters!
Zhang Chunfa woke up from his dream with a start. His wife was still sleeping soundly. In the dim room, a familiar fragrance came from the side. He turned around and saw that in the incense burner beside the bed, a stick of incense had burned to the end, and the dim red dot emitted the last bit of smoke.

This was the calming incense that Qian Xiaoyi gave him before he left after visiting him. He said that it could help him avoid being troubled by nightmares and keep his original mind.

Zhang Chunfa rubbed his temples, his mind was a little confused. It was clearly a calming incense, but it gave him a nightmare. And they said it could dispel nightmares...

A thunderclap exploded in Zhang Chunfa's mind, and dusty memories came flooding back like a tide.

He had always thought that he seldom dreamed, and he could remember only a handful of dreams in the past twenty years. He slept well every night. But now he seemed to remember that it was not that he did not dream, but that he only had the same dream every day and then forgot it the next day.

And this dream was about him wandering alone in the castle of his childhood, peaceful and comfortable.

"Wait a minute!" Zhang Chunfa suddenly thought, "Qian Xiaoyi's master is very powerful, a real master. I believe his level is not bad. If he didn't lie to me, the effect of this soul-soothing incense is really to drive away nightmares..."

He thought of a horrible possibility: Doesn't that mean the fortress that made him feel at ease was the nightmare, and that casino and those monsters were the truth!
(End of this chapter)