Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 173 Mirror
Shi Fei did not stop. He waved his palms continuously, and flames swept across the entire wilderness like a storm.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Every time his palm landed, a huge charred hole was blasted out on the ground, flames splashed, and heat waves rolled. The entire wilderness was turned into a scorched earth under his palm power, and even the air became scorching and unbearable.

Shi Fei slowly withdrew his hand only when the last trace of flame was extinguished.

He stood on the charred earth, surrounded by deathly silence, with only the embers of fire flickering in the wind.

"Now, the two ghosts should be dead, right?" Shi Fei said unconfidently.

He had several dreams and encountered a ghost for the first time.

How to get rid of ghosts? He doesn’t know!

However, all fear of the unknown comes from insufficient firepower. Shi Fei looked at the scorched earth around him. His firepower should be... enough to kill the ghosts, right?

After waiting for a long time and seeing no more ghosts coming out, Shi Fei finally felt relieved and left.

He walked along the desolate path for a long time. There was still dead silence all around him, only the sound of the wind whispering in his ears. Suddenly, a figure appeared in his sight.

The man was wearing old-fashioned grey clothes and had a long braid behind his head, which made him look particularly out of place.

"Hey! Brother, wait a minute!" Shi Fei shouted at the man, his voice echoing in the empty wilderness.

Unexpectedly, when the man heard Shi Fei's shout, he not only did not stop, but ran even faster.

In the wilderness, someone suddenly shouts "Wait a minute", who dares to wait?
However, how could that person's speed be compared to Shi Fei's? Shi Fei moved as fast as the wind, and caught up with him in a few steps. He stood in front of the person and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid! Why are you running?"

"Ah!" The man was startled by Shi Fei's sudden appearance and his face turned pale instantly.

The person who called him was clearly still behind him, how come he ran to the front in the blink of an eye? Could this be... a ghost?
He turned around and was about to run, but was grabbed by Shi Fei.

"I told you, don't be afraid!" Shi Fei said helplessly.

The man was held back and was about to hit Shi Fei, but he suddenly felt the warmth of Shi Fei's palm and was stunned: "You...you are a human!"

"Yes! I am a human!" Shi Fei nodded and noticed that the person in front of him spoke with a southern accent.

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!" The man wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled awkwardly, "I thought..."

"Do you think I'm a ghost?" Shi Fei understood his concerns and said with a smile, "My name is Shi Fei. Those two ghosts wanted to scare me, but then they ran away."

The man breathed a sigh of relief and introduced himself, "My name is Zhang Dafu. I just met a ghost and was almost caught by him and thrown into the mirror. Fortunately, I ran fast!

"Awesome! Awesome!" Shi Fei said in admiration when he saw that Zhang Dafu was just an ordinary person, but he actually escaped from the ghost.

"You are also very powerful! Ghosts run away when they see you!" Zhang Dafu also said. He felt that Shi Fei was not a magician, and that he was just bragging that ghosts would run away when they saw him.

"Where was the ghost you met?" Shi Fei asked.

"What? You..." Zhang Dafu was stunned for a moment, looking at Shi Fei puzzledly, "You don't want to go find that ghost, do you?"

"Yes, I'm going to go check it out." Shi Fei said, "See if I can get rid of that ghost."

"Are you a wizard?" Zhang Dafu's eyes widened, and there was a bit of awe in his tone. In his understanding, only wizards can deal with ghosts.

"I'm not, but I want to try." Shi Fei said. He wanted to see what kind of existence the ghosts in this world were. Could his moves exorcise ghosts? It seemed that even Zhang Dafu, who had some skills, could escape, so he must be in no danger.

"Uh..." Zhang Dafu felt that the person in front of him was probably sick.

After thinking for a while, he pointed the direction for Shi Fei and said, "It's over there. There are several abandoned small buildings over there. There's a ghost in the tallest one!"

"Okay!" Shi Fei patted his shoulder and asked, "What year is it now?"

"Which year?" Zhang Dafu shook his head and said, "I don't know. I can't remember. Isn't it the same every year?"

For a guy like him, does it matter what year it is?
"Okay! I understand! Thank you!" Shi Fei nodded and his eyes fell on Zhang Dafu's braid.

The braid was not like the characters in TV dramas, where the forehead was bald in front, but the long hair was tied into a pigtail-like braid at the back of the head.

Obviously, this is the South during the late Qing Dynasty.

Late Qing Dynasty... that was really turbulent! However, Shi Fei wanted to deal with the evil ghost.

The evil ghost is so damn scary!
"You're welcome!" Zhang Dafu waved his hand and walked in one direction.

Shi Fei remembered the direction he pointed, and at the same time left a trace of his aura on him. He knew too little about this dream world, and it would not be too late to find Zhang Dafu after solving the ghost.

He first followed the direction pointed by Zhang Dafu and came to the foot of a mountain.

There seemed to be several families here, one of which was a particularly imposing building with blue bricks and gray tiles, like the mansion of a wealthy family. Unfortunately, it is now deserted, with moss crawling all over the walls and vines growing wildly, wrapping the entire house like a forgotten ruin.

A desolate atmosphere hits you in the face, as if even time has stopped here.

Shi Fei stood in front of the house and looked up at the mottled wooden door. The door panel was already rotten, and it creaked when touched lightly, and then collapsed with a loud bang, stirring up a cloud of dust.

He walked in. The ground beneath his feet was full of potholes, and every step he took felt like he was stepping on soft soil. The old furniture in the house was placed crookedly, some had collapsed, and some were half buried in the dust. There were a few broken calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, which had long faded and yellowed, and it was difficult to see what they originally looked like.

However, what Shi Fei found most abnormal was that it was too quiet here.

There was no sound of mice rustling, no sound of insects buzzing, and even the sound of the wind seemed to be blocked out. The entire space seemed to be wrapped in an invisible barrier, and the silence was so frightening.

What's even more strange is that the temperature inside the building suddenly dropped a lot lower than outside.

Shi Fei stood in front of the mirror and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Zhang Dafu actually ran to such a haunted place in the middle of the night and was able to escape safely. He is really blessed and deserves to be called "Dafu"!
He walked around the small building twice, but found nothing unusual. Until he pushed open a half-open door and walked into what seemed to be a bedroom.

The room was in a mess, with overturned tables and chairs and a broken bed. There was a rotten smell in the air, as if something had been fighting fiercely here.

The most eye-catching thing is the bright mirror.

The mirror is set in a carved wooden frame, and its surface is as smooth as new, which is out of tune with the dilapidated environment around it. It emits a faint light in the dark, as if some unknown existence is peeping in the dark.

Shi Fei thought of Zhang Dafu's words, and he was almost captured by the evil ghost in the mirror.

"What's in the mirror?"

Shi Fei slowly approached the mirror, and every step was as silent as if he was stepping on cotton.

(End of this chapter)