It's weird to apply for Witch Academy as a boy

But one thing I am very clear about is that the blessing that the plant that gave birth to her finally gave her turned into a complex combination of runes and merged into the body of this little guy.

I saw the rune clearly, it was another rune I didn't recognize.

When Yu Meng in my hand began to move, waving her little hands and making her first moan since coming into this world, I felt the space around us vibrating.

No...it's the dream that is shattered!

Broken dreams are like glass, removing a filter from the world for us.

When we looked here again, everything had changed drastically.

The originally elegant and transparent boulder became turbid at this moment, and a dark nightmare-like force was running rampant inside. The originally dreamy and beautiful scenery was broken at this moment.

Messy weeds grow here, and the flower elf plants and buds that once looked full of vitality appear listless. They hang their proud buds to the ground, as if they have lowered their heads.

At this moment, Yu Meng in my hand began to cry, and the voice seemed to be filled with sadness.

I pushed aside the dark, mutated and twisted weeds and walked towards where we originally came in.

Logically speaking, we have already left the dream at this moment when we walked out.

There is already a large number of foolish dreams gathered outside.

The leader was the village chief Yu Hu.

"Why...are you gathered here?"

"Dear... respected brave man, we are going to the ancestral land with Yuxi's molted shell to let her return to the embrace of the ancestral land." At this moment, after seeing the newborn Yumeng in my hand, Yu Hu changed the way he addressed me.

"Ancestral land?" I asked doubtfully. Of course I wouldn't act like I knew about it in advance.

But I was still relieved to hear them confirm that this was their ancestral land.

This is the ancestral land, and the place where the meditation spellbook mentioned earlier can be reconstructed is here.

So what was there that could be used to reconstruct the spellbook? The first thing that came to my mind was that huge stone.

"Yes, the ancestral land is the most important place for our Yumeng clan."

"Then why didn't you go in?" I continued to ask curiously.

"I'm sorry... I can only answer your question, brave hero, that we cannot actively return to our ancestral land, as that would cause us to return to our original form."

Yu Hu was explaining it to me, but she stopped here. She didn't say what the original form was. Maybe it was similar to the form I saw before, in the huge rock.

"Brave man, please give me this newborn child. I will let other fools take care of her. As for other matters, please follow me to my home and I will explain them to you."

"Yes." I did as she said without hesitation.

Afterwards, the newly born Yu Meng was surrounded by a group of Yu Mengs, who cheered for its birth.

Obviously, they had lost a friend before, so maybe this is their most simple concept about life, death and birth.

I accompanied Sister Bai and followed Yu Hu to her huge house.

I didn't expect Yu Hu to be so easy to talk to and actually be willing to answer our questions. Normally, this kind of thing requires at least a certain level of trust.

If all this were so simple, it stands to reason that many seniors should have done this and would have recorded it in strategies and intelligence, but many of the things we encounter now are rarely mentioned in intelligence.

Perhaps the information we collected is not detailed, but we prefer to believe that those seniors are unwilling to reveal it. There has never been a shortage of geniuses in the Witch Academy.

"I'm sorry, although you have promised to help us through this difficult time, I still want to express my gratitude to you for this. Thank you for bringing new members to our Yu Village. If you have any questions, I can give you the answers I know to answer your questions."

"Have you ever encountered something like this before?" After arriving at the village chief's hut, I asked directly without being polite.

"Well...it has happened before, or it happens so often that we have become numb to it."

"So the new Yu Meng, is she still the original... Yu Xi?" I continued to ask.

"That depends on how you define a brave man."

"Just call me Xiaohan. Whether it's a hero or a guest, these titles still feel weird." I said.

"Okay...Xiao Han, your foreign guests seem to attach a special importance to death, but for us it is just a cycle of life."

"I understand." I nodded. "Then I want to ask, when you said that you returned to the ancestral land and returned to the original state, what state is that?"

"It's our truest form." Yu Hu said seriously.

"All right…"

It's as if I haven't asked about this result, but Yuhu must know a lot of things, but if I don't ask, she just won't tell me. It's like when she talked to me about the relationship between meditation before, she didn't mention the ancestral land, and if she didn't mention it, she didn't explain it.

I don't believe that there was no senior who didn't get this information before. She might have really continued the script and went there, reconstructing the spell book to obtain information. Then Yu Hu should not be unaware of it. Does that mean that Yu Hu is the successor to the village chief and is unaware of past events?

But she gave me a very "old" feeling, already like an elder, even though this was inconsistent with her appearance.

"So do you know where nightmares come from?"

"It was born with us, like a maggot attached to our bones, and it is also the end of our destiny."

"Born together, are you of the same origin?" I continued to ask.

"Yes."

When Yu Hu's "yes" came to my mind, I roughly constructed the situation.

They have the same origin, and a reasonable guess would mean that the initial state is a combination of a foolish dream and a nightmare?

That is the crazy Yuxi we saw before, that was their true appearance.

Coupled with Yuxi's somewhat indistinguishable words before, if she were to kill her, she wanted to throw herself into the boulder, peel off the nightmare, and be reborn with the help of the flower elf's body.

I noticed that they called Yuxi's original "corpse" a "molted shell", which seemed to imply this in itself.

It is because the flower elves are not nurturing life, but rather the body waiting for foolish dreams, that their birth process is so fast.

Finally... that blessing...

And the secret of the huge stone. Does Yuhu know that the huge stone can reconstruct the spell book?

Or should we ask this question: did Yu Hu also experience such a reincarnation? And how did she become the village chief?

I asked Yu Hu these questions one by one, but the answers were somewhat beyond my expectations.

Yu Hu has experienced reincarnation, and more than once, and the most important thing is that she still remembers them all.

As for how she became the village chief, she said that she had always been the village chief.

Just when I wanted to continue asking and get some deeper information, Yu Hu's sudden outburst startled Bai Yu and me.

"Outsider, you ask too many questions!"

"You...you...I..." At this moment, a black mist like a nightmare emerged from Yu Hu's body for a moment, but was quickly suppressed.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry! I... I'm sorry..." Yu Hu looked at a loss at this moment, and seemed to have just come to his senses, and kept apologizing to us.

"It's okay, but are you also infected by the nightmare?" I asked seriously with a frown.

"No… not an infestation."

"Not an infection? But your situation just now was obvious, wasn't it? Are you hiding something from us?"

"Nightmare... Alas... Actually it doesn't hurt to tell you... Nightmare is our cognition, carrying our memory... I... Yu Hu, inherited the position of the village chief of Yu Village, I can't be as naive as them..."

The brief and even somewhat incoherent words suddenly revealed another truth, and this truth made me frown even deeper. It was very similar to what I guessed, but now it seemed even more troublesome...

"So... does that happen often?"

After Yu Hu's explanation, I immediately became interested in her. If Yu Meng is an incomplete existence, an absolutely innocent and simple life that exists without nightmares, then why is this?

"No... No, maybe the question you asked just now was too sharp... When I said I would answer your questions, I was prepared for such a change, but please don't tell this fact to the children in the village."

Yu Hu said this with a pleading tone. Although she was already an elder, her thinking was still so simple. Wasn't it naive to hand over the initiative to a stranger whom she had only known for a few days?

"Of course I agree to that."

"Thank you, thank you very much." After getting my promise, she seemed relieved.

"It's okay, but your behavior is just a time bomb after all. Aren't you afraid that it will be exposed one day?" I asked curiously.

"In order to survive, I need to keep entering the ancestral land to reincarnate. Every time I lose control, it is a warning to remind me that I need to reincarnate. Because of this, I often lose my composure in front of the children and behave like I did just now, so most of the children are afraid of me."

“Is that so…” I nodded. It turned out that the respect of the villagers for Yu Meng was not simply out of respect, but also out of fear. That was why Yu Meng lived alone in an independent house surrounded by the lake.

Moreover, her tone was indifferent and her emotions were very cold. Maybe she was suppressing the outbreak of the so-called nightmare all the time. But even so, I still had a question.

"Wait, if you're planning on going to reincarnation, how did you manage not to be completely separated from the nightmare?"

"This... has to do with the blessing I received after my first birth."

"Blessing? That rune?"

"I don't know what the rune is, but every Yu Meng gets a different blessing after it's born, and I'm the most special one, so I can only be the village chief."

I continued to learn about some other situations from Yu Hu, but I didn't dare to ask questions as sharp as before. I just asked other questions indirectly.

After learning this, I also roughly understood why Yu Hu only answered the questions we asked. Even if she knew some truth, she would never tell us as long as we didn't ask.

She needs to be responsible for herself and Yu Village. Although many Yu Meng in Yu Village are afraid of her, she plays a very important role in Yu Village and has become the most indispensable role in Yu Village.

I also learned about the relationship between the ancestral land and meditation that she had not told me before. These contents involved very deep truths, which she did not want to touch upon actively. There were so many outsiders, and if she told the stories over and over again, she would probably have to reincarnate every few days. That's why she compiled a booklet to provide us with information. What she told us was all recorded in the booklet.

And I also roughly understood the information left in the spell book, what it meant to gain Yu Meng's trust.

In fact, it can't be considered trust. Maybe it's because she knew too much and wanted to ask too many questions, which made Yu Hu reveal herself. As long as he promised to keep her secret, he would gain the feeling of trust. This way of gaining trust is absurd.

But at this moment, Yu Hu did invite me and Sister Bai to accompany her in reincarnation. It seems that this behavior can really be regarded as building trust for the naive Yu Meng.

And she has to reincarnate and maintain the cognition and memory given to her by the nightmare, eliminate the nightmare's erosion of her pure and foolish dream, and get a new body to carry her existence.

And the more crucial step is... she needs our help and the participation of meditation, so that she can use the blessing to preserve part of her nightmare.

Moreover, because there have been no outsiders arriving in recent times, Yu Lake cannot always have the help of outsiders to "reincarnate".

That's why Yu Miao, under Yu Hu's instruction, would bring any outsider to her as soon as he or she encountered them.

So... completing this so-called wisdom enlightenment task still requires a certain amount of luck.

But there is no rush at the moment. Even though we have just experienced a dangerous battle, it is not dawn yet. Yu Hu gave us some time to go back and sleep for a while, and she also needed to announce to a group of Yu Meng that she needed to reincarnate again.

Of course, we also asked about the nightmare attacking Yu Meng again, fearing that such a thing would happen again.

But Yuhu tells us not to worry about this, and at the same time we also learn a shocking truth.

Yu Meng should have stayed here and continued to live, day after day, without any external cognition or the emergence of new concepts, so the "purity" of Yu Meng would not be changed.

Outsiders will bring new things, different temptations and cognitions. When foolish dreams reach the upper limit of cognition, they will attract nightmare attacks, which cannot be stopped.

So this is why nightmares appear with the arrival of outsiders.

The existence of foolish dreams is the result of separation from external forces. As time goes by, they will instinctively and spontaneously become their original selves.

At the beginning, a large number of senior students poured into the secret realm of Yucun, bringing a huge amount of surprises and new knowledge, so that was also the time when the nightmare was most rampant.

Therefore, I guess the decline of Yu Village Secret Realm is most likely the result of deliberate guidance by senior students who have recognized the truth, in order to reduce the occurrence of such tragedies and allow more capable people to come here to try to change the status quo. However, with fewer people coming now, the village chief Yu Hu has become the one who has problems.

This is really...

For a moment, I didn’t know how to evaluate such behavior.

I can feel their desire to become independent and aware beings, but they were originally chaotic and unconscious monsters mixed with nightmares. Perhaps nightmares are the price they have to pay for becoming foolish dreams...

And the village chief Yuhu in front of him at this moment, is she still Yu Meng?

If the truth is revealed, Yuhu might become an outlier in Yucun...

The purer and more innocent creatures are, the less they are pure and kind. It is as if they are facing death one moment, but the rebirth the next moment can completely break the previous silence and cheer for it.

Yu Hu wants us to keep the secret, and she also sees through this. Or maybe not see through, but... experience it?

I couldn't imagine such a thing happening, and Yu Hu didn't explain these things to me, and I didn't want to ask and provoke Yu Hu.

If that were the case, my EQ would be too low. It really wouldn't be that bad.

"See you later, then."

After saying final goodbyes to Sister Bai and Yu Hu, everything seemed to be happening too smoothly.

"What's wrong, Xiaohan? You look like you're worried."

"Nothing, I just feel like everything is going a little too smoothly."

"Isn't it good to be smooth? Things with twists and turns, that's..." Bai Yu was about to say something when a force stopped her.

"I know. Sister Bai, please stop talking." I naturally knew that Sister Bai wanted to talk about something related to the script. I didn't know how the confidentiality agreement was determined. This kind of thing had never happened before.

"But I can't sleep now, so let's just be cautious. How about accompanying me to visit Yu Village? The environment here is really beautiful and the atmosphere is great, don't you think so, Sister Bai?"