Mysterious Resurrection: What If

Chapter 41 The Buddhist Kingdom in a Dream (Part 10)

"Yes."

Yang Jian nodded.

“It’s my dad, but that doesn’t matter anymore. When someone dies, they should be properly buried in the ground.”

Yang Jian glanced at the small garden and continued:

"In this dream world, ghosts can be killed. That is to say, we just need to find the ghost that is the source of the nightmare, kill it, and we can get out."

"Can ghosts be killed?"

Lin Bei was taken aback at first, but then immediately understood what Yang Jian meant. In this dream world, the ghosts that appeared also followed the murderous pattern of this nightmare itself, and followed the nature of vengeful ghosts.

Yang Jian nodded and continued, "The vengeful ghost can recreate the experiences of those who are pulled into dreams, and then use these experiences to kill people. To get out, you must find the vengeful ghost under its attack and kill it."

Lin Bei frowned. Yang Jian's words sounded simple, but in practice, they were incredibly difficult to implement.

The fact that this ghost could pull him into a dream without him even noticing means that it is far more terrifying and extremely dangerous than the one that had been chasing him in his dream before.

This is only the initial stage of entering the dream; as time goes on, the dream will only become more and more dangerous.

Lin Bei had confirmed Yang Jian's authenticity and said, "Captain Yang, I don't possess any supernatural abilities here. I'm no different from an ordinary person right now."

Yang Jian nodded and raised his missing left hand: "Everyone is the same; they don't possess any supernatural abilities in dreams."

Lin Bei glanced at Yang Jian's left hand and continued.

“My situation is rather special. There’s always a ghost chasing me in my dreams, but I can control the supernatural to keep this ghost from finding me. As long as there’s a mirror as a medium, I can make the vengeful ghost chasing me get lost in the mirror.”

Yang Jian pondered, and considering the current situation, he quickly analyzed the situation, trying to find the key information to unravel this bizarre dream.

Yang Jian asked, "You mean that no matter where you are, as long as there is a mirror, you can use the mirror as a medium to connect with the vengeful spirit you control?"

Lin Bei nodded and said:
"You could say that the dream demon initially tried to kill me in a small room, but there I encountered a Buddha statue. An extremely dangerous supernatural object, and even now I can't be sure if I truly controlled it."

A deep fear flashed in Lin Bei's eyes as he continued:
"Ever since that night, the ghost has been appearing in my dreams, but in my dreams I can travel between different scenes through mirrors. The room gradually grows larger as I move through it, and the Buddha statue also grows larger as the room expands..."

Yang Jian looked at the mirror fragment in Lin Bei's hand. His previous guess was correct; the strange Buddha statue was indeed related to Lin Bei.

If what Lin Bei said is true, then the vengeful ghost that Lin Bei controlled was not a consciousness-type ghost. If it really had to be described, it was a special type of vengeful ghost that Yang Jian had never encountered before.

Idealism.

Wherever there is a mirror, no matter where you are, even in a dream, that ghost can use Lin Bei and the mirror as a medium to invade any place.

Lin Bei's approach doesn't seem like he's controlling the supernatural; rather, it's more like he's using it as a form of manipulation.

If Yang Jian wasn't mistaken, the ghost that attacked Lin Bei in the dream was suppressed by the Buddha statue every time it passed through that space.

However, this suppression is mutual. At this moment, Lin Bei can take advantage of this gap to indirectly control the strange Buddha statue and use its supernatural powers.

When the bus was turned off, Lin Bei was using the Buddha statue and the mummified bride as a means of fighting back while he was sleeping.

This makes sense. Based on Lin Bei's information, Yang Jian can confirm that the appearance of the mirror in this dream was not due to himself, but because of Lin Bei.

With Lin Bei's arrival, the giant Buddha is also invading this space. In other words, a collision has now occurred between the two supernatural entities, and this dream world is no longer just a reenactment of Yang Jian's experience.

Just then, a familiar voice came from the doorway:
"Young man, what kind of car are you driving?"

"AE86, what's up? Want to show off?"

Zhang Wei? Yang Jian stood up, walked to the door, and pushed it open.

"Wait a minute, Captain Yang!" Lin Bei suddenly remembered something and tried to stop him, but it was too late.

The three of them sat in a speeding taxi. Outside the window was Dachang City, and a light drizzle was falling from the sky.

Yang Jian looked towards the driver's seat; there was no one there. The taxi sped along the highway, with a cold, gloomy lake ahead. Just as the vehicle was about to plunge into the lake, Yang Jian nimbly slipped into the driver's seat, gripped the steering wheel tightly with one hand, and slammed on the brakes. The rear of the car drifted close to the edge of the lake.

“That was a close call…”

Lin Bei looked at the gloomy lake beside him; its color was clearly abnormal.

Outside the car window, the gloomy sky hung low, and grayish-white condensation was slowly drifting down from the clouds, as if the whole world was being covered with a layer of deathly gray.

"Ghostly Paintings and Ghostly Domains?" Yang Jian looked at the sky filled with gray and white, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

"It's impossible for the ghosts here to only have physical appearances and not supernatural abilities."

At this moment, Lin Bei spoke up: "Perhaps there's something wrong with the mirror world where the Buddha statue exists..."

"Imitation, but not true imitation. As long as it has been reflected in a mirror, it can be simulated. However, it can only simulate the external appearance, not the reality. This ghost realm is an illusion."

Yang Jian pondered after hearing this.

Lin Bei was still on the bus when the Ghost Painting went out of control. He had never seen the Ghost Painting's ghost realm, and it was even less likely that his cousin had. He was the only one who had ever seen the Ghost Painting's ghost realm.

How did Lin Bei manage to create a mirror world that mimicked the Ghostly Realm?
The only plausible explanation is that, in the supernatural confrontation with this dream, the Buddha stole some of the scenes Yang Jian had experienced from the dream.

But through this illusory ghost realm, Yang Jian could confirm that the giant Buddha was more deeply entangled with this nightmare, which gave him a glimmer of hope—a chance to escape from here.

Xiaoyuan suddenly pointed to the rearview mirror and said, "I see that giant again."

The two looked into the rearview mirror and saw a Buddha statue sitting there, but its features were not clearly visible.

It was exactly the same Buddha statue that Yang Jian and Xiao Yuan had seen in that mirror world.

"again?"

Lin Bei's expression changed, and he asked:

"Captain Yang, have you seen the Buddha statue?"

“Yes.” Xiaoyuan nodded.

"My cousin and I just fell into a mirror, and there was a huge Buddha statue sitting there."

As Xiaoyuan spoke, she stretched out her arms and gestured.

Lin Bei's face turned deathly pale: "Under normal circumstances, only I can see that giant Buddha."

"What do you mean?" Xiaoyuan asked, tilting her head.

Lin Bei explained:
"I've never understood the relationship between the Buddha statue and the mirror..."
"But once, a demon tamer who had a grudge against me invaded my dream through a skull. He forcibly tore my dream apart and broke into that mirror world. The moment he observed the Buddha, the number of Buddhas increased to two and then he died, along with the skull, which also crashed."

"What do you mean?" This time it was Yang Jian's turn to ask.

Lin Bei continued, "Ever since then, I've suspected that as long as someone's gaze falls upon the Buddha statues in the mirror world, their number increases. The more people see them, the more numerous they become, just like observing a mirror. Through the refraction of gaze on the mirror surface, the Buddha creates countless replicas of itself... until it breaks through that space and completely invades reality."

Yang Jian gripped the steering wheel, his expression growing increasingly grave. According to Lin Bei, this Buddha statue was far too idealistic.

I and Xiaoyuan had entered that mirror world before, and logically, we would have died the moment we saw the Buddha statue.

However, the two of them survived, which suggests that the Buddha statue was at a disadvantage in its struggle against the dream and was suppressed by it.

However, according to Lin Bei, the Buddha statues can autonomously accumulate their own supernatural power. As long as there is a line of sight and a mirror, one day, the number of Buddha statues will accumulate to a level that even this dream cannot suppress.
Looking at the Buddha statue in the rearview mirror, this dream world is now colliding and invading with that mirror world.

If another attack like the one involving the female corpses of Ghost Lake were to occur, the sheer number of these female corpses would cause the number of Buddha statues to increase exponentially, reaching a terrifying figure.

Thinking of this, Yang Jian suddenly considered another possibility: perhaps that mirror world was created by the ancients using some kind of supernatural means to imprison that strange Buddha statue there, but it was only because of Lin Bei's appearance that the Buddha statue reappeared in the world.

(End of this chapter)