My Endless Life.

Chapter 446 Old Wu

In order to verify this conjecture, Li Qi simply closed his eyes.

The familiar sound of wind was heard again, and this time the sloppy man who had lost his weapon came around from behind Li Qi, waving his fists.

Li Qi didn't even open his eyes, and he didn't even dare to focus his mental strength on the man. He just relied on his hearing and perception, as well as his instinct as a warrior, to grab the sloppy man's arm with his backhand!
"!!"

The sloppy man seemed stunned for a moment, but Li Qi was not stunned.

His small body suddenly burst out with extremely powerful strength. He was just taller than the man's waist and he gave the man a shoulder throw!

boom! ! !
The man was thrown to the ground by Li Qi and let out a silent scream.

This sound also caught the attention of the ponytailed girl who was cooking noodles outside. She quickly took the spatula and pushed open the door and asked loudly:

"who is it!!"

However, the room was empty. Not only was the sloppy man missing, but Li Qi was also gone.

……

A subtle feeling came from his body, and Li Qi opened his eyes again. He found that the sloppy man's arm was still held by him, but the surrounding environment had changed.

Although it was still in the two-story building, there was no longer any warmth or popularity in it.

A bone-chilling wind blew out from the damaged hole, and the faint smell of corpses in the air made Li Qi frown.

He let go of the sloppy man in his hand, turned around and looked around, confirming that this room was the two-story building that Li Qi had seen before.

It's just that the environment is a little different.

Not only was there no light or warmth in the entire building, but there was also a body curled up on the bed in the room, wrapped in a quilt.

The corpse had become freeze-dried under the dry and cold air, but one could still vaguely see his appearance when he was alive.

No different from the boss of the expedition team!

"died……?"

Li Qi frowned and looked at the dead leader of the expedition team. Just as he was about to go forward to investigate, he saw a sloppy man next to him suddenly roaring and rushing towards Li Qi!

"what!!"

He seemed to have lost his words, like a wild beast without any intelligence, using his hands and feet as weapons to attack.

Li Qi didn't even look at him. His right hand turned into a hook and swung it behind him, instantly tying the man up like a dumpling.

Then with a little more force, the man's body leaped from the back to the front and fell on the earthen kang in front of him!
"Ahem—!"

There were soft cushions and bedding on the earthen kang, so the sloppy man didn't suffer much damage from the hard fall, but the impact on his internal organs still made him cough.

After coughing twice, before he could stand up, Li Qi stepped on him and asked condescendingly:

"Hey, can you talk?"

"what!!"

The man roared, his eyes were cloudy and confused, without any rationality.

This time, Li Qi used telepathy to sense the man's thoughts and realized that his thoughts were a mess, which meant that the man had gone crazy.

After taking a deep look at the sloppy man, Li Qi stopped wasting time trying to hypnotize the man.

He knocked the man unconscious and threw him into the quilt, then walked forward to check the body on the kang.

Because the weather was too cold, Li Qi could not tell when the man died, but judging from his clothes, he must have stayed in the village for a long time.

Apart from that, there were no injuries inside or outside the body, but his stomach was empty.

He seemed to have starved to death.

However, there was a peaceful expression on his face, as if he was having some intoxicating dream.

Li Qi checked the body from head to toe several times, and after confirming that the cause of death was indeed hunger, he focused his attention on the head of the corpse.

There, a transparent thread stood upright that he could see but could not touch.

The transparent thread extended upward until it disappeared into the void, making Li Qi unable to find its source.

After staring at the transparent silk thread for a while and not seeing anything strange, Li Qi got down from the earthen kang, opened the door and checked other rooms.

The leader of the expedition died in the house, and the rest of the expedition team did not survive either.

All the people who were alive and kicking in another world have turned into cold corpses here.

Above these people's heads, Li Qi saw transparent silk threads extending to who knows where.

Without even thinking about it, Li Qi knew that the thing that made everyone fall into the "dream loop" was this transparent thread like spider silk.

Turning his eyes outside, Li Qi's vision was blocked by darkness.

His left hand released the lighting technique, and his fingertips lit up. Only then did Li Qi see that the darkness was actually piled up snow.

The snow is piled up very thickly, completely covering the entire area without any gaps visible.

Li Qi walked to the second floor and found that it was also half covered by snow, with only a small part at the top showing.

Li Qi opened the window and left through the gap outside the room on the second floor. Standing on the thick snow and looking into the distance, he found that the entire village was almost covered by heavy snow, with only two places leaving basic entrances and exits.

One is Sun Yu’s family.

One is the home of Old Wu, who sells candles.

After looking between the two houses for a few times, Li Qi did not choose to go back to Sun Yu's house, but turned around and went straight to Old Wu's house. Li Qi had already met the foreign journalist couple and the expedition team.

The only thing was the father and son of the old Wu family. Li Qi had only met them once when he visited them two days ago, and had never seen them again since then.

Now, in the entire snowy area, only the doors of their house and Sun Yu's house are not covered by the snow, which means that they can also move around in this space.

It is basically certain that there is something wrong with Old Wu's family. Li Qi plans to go to Old Wu's house first, and then return to Sun Yu's house to see what the situation is.

Old Wu's house is not too far from Sun Yu's house, and not too far from the two-story building.

It took Li Qi only a few minutes to reach the place, and then he saw two lanterns placed outside Old Wu's house.

Two white lanterns hanging on the door were emitting bright flames under the dark sky.

Li Qi looked at the lantern swaying in the wind, and after confirming that there was nothing special, he took a step forward and knocked on the door in front of him under the light of the white lantern.

dong dong dong.

There were three knocks on the door, and before Li Qi could ask anything, the door was opened.

An old man standing at the door, wearing a thick cotton coat, looked down at the little kid in front of him, and pushed his reading glasses with surprise:
"Oh? How did you, a kid, get rid of Dreamweaver?"

"What is 'Dreamweaver?'"

Li Qi asked the old man puzzledly.

The old man in front of him was none other than Old Wu, whom Li Qi had met in another village. However, unlike the kind-looking yet somewhat vigilant funeral home owner in the village, the old man in front of him looked more like an old professor who was somewhat pedantic.

He has a scholarly temperament and his elegance is particularly obvious, which makes people feel good about him.

When Old Wu heard Li Qi's question, he pushed his reading glasses again, then looked Li Qi up and down, and said suddenly:
"So you are a puppet."

"..."

Li Qi immediately looked up at Old Wu, but Old Wu didn't say anything. He just waved his hand at Li Qi:

"Well, whether you are a puppet or a human, come in and talk. I think... you have a lot of questions to ask."

Old Wu turned and left, not worrying at all that Li Qi would attack him.

In terms of courage, Li Qi could not lose to an old man. He walked into the room calmly and closed the door to prevent the cold wind from blowing in.

Old Wu's family runs a funeral home. They converted one of the two large houses into a shop, changed the back door into the front door, and turned the courtyard into the backyard. Therefore, as soon as Li Qi entered, he was in the main house of Old Wu's family.

There were mostly yellow and white things in the room, white shrouds and yellow paper money for the dead, but all of these things had been collected by Old Wu and thrown aside.

Instead, he took out all kinds of candles in the house, as well as various lanterns, both red and white. Looking at the situation at the scene, Li Qi guessed that these things should all be handmade by Old Wu himself.

"Oh, the owner of this house used to sell funeral goods, but he died in Dreamweaver a long time ago, so I shamelessly moved in. Look, his body is still in the yard."

Old Wu pointed to the small courtyard outside and said to Li Qi.

There were also lanterns hanging in the courtyard. The lanterns were also white. The pale light reflected everything in the courtyard, and also illuminated the face of the young man lying in the corner on the snowy night.

Li Qi recognized him immediately.

He is Old Wu's 'son' from another village.

"What's going on in this village?"

Li Qi withdrew his gaze from the young man's face and looked at Old Wu in front of him.

Old Wu was sitting on the earthen kang, rolling a cigarette by himself. He smiled when he heard Li Qi's question:
"What else could it be? As you can see, I was enveloped by the power of the wonder. By the way, you know what a wonder is, right? Yes, you should know. After all, you are a wonder."

Old Wu asked first, and then asked and answered his own questions.

Li Qi sat opposite Old Wu, looking at the old man shrouded in smoke, and asked:
"A strange object is covering you? Did you do that?"

"Haha, how is that possible? If I did it, I wouldn't be trapped here."

Old Wu said this and pointed to the top of his head.

Li Qi looked in the direction of his finger and saw the dotted line above his head. That was also the silk thread he saw on those corpses.

Seeing that the thread was still on Old Wu's head, Li Qi asked in confusion: "You didn't break free from the control of the strange object? Then how did you stay awake?"

"because this."

Old Wu pointed at his reading glasses and said, "Through the glasses, I can see through illusions and reality. The price is that the more I use my eyes, the higher the degree of my eyesight becomes. If I take them off now, I will be no different from a blind person. But... I can't take them off either."

"So... you've already seen me in another village?"

"No, I haven't. It can only keep me awake, but it can't let me see everything in the 'dream'."

Old Wu said, without waiting for Li Qi to ask, "The magical item [Dreamweaver] has the ability to weave beautiful dreams that people can't escape from. This is the magical item that has put the entire village into a dream."

"The master of Dreamweaver is..."

"You should have met her."

Old Wu said with a smile.

Li Qi was silent for two seconds, then he sighed and said a person's name:
"Sun Yu?"

Old Wu didn't say anything, he just smiled and blew out a smoke ring.

The smoke rings floated in the air and finally turned into smoke and dissipated.

(End of this chapter)