Chapter 64 Ghost File Legend and Real Nightmare Beast

People in the Middle Ages believed that nightmares originated from a black horse-shaped monster with red mane and tail hair fluttering like flames, four hooves with the power of chaos, and a halo of fear. They called them Nightmare Beasts. ).It is said that it is one of the branches of unicorns, but because of making a covenant with the devil, it was rejected by the group and lived a wandering life like loneliness.However, this is just a legend, just like a unicorn, this kind of monster does not exist in reality. Although the red-haired black horse-shaped nightmare beast does not exist in Western legends, there is another kind of nightmare beast in reality, which is the Persian cat-shaped nightmare beast mentioned in the novel.

It was Hongye who provided me with this material, and I would like to thank you in advance.According to her, this happened to her father. Hongye's mother died of illness when she was young, but her father has always been in good health.However, two years ago, my father suddenly became mentally atrophied, listless all day long, often made mistakes at work, always felt very tired, and often had nightmares.Everyone thought that he was too tired from work, so the leader asked him to go home to rest for a few days and go to the hospital for a physical examination. However, after his father went to the hospital for a lot of tests, he didn't find any major problems with his body, so the doctor prescribed some dispensable supplements for him and told him to go home and rest more.However, after resting for nearly a week, not only did his condition not improve, but his spirit became worse and worse.Seeing this, Hongye had to turn to ghosts and gods for help. In addition to going to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, she also asked the witch to relieve her difficulties.

They asked for help from a well-known local sorceress, who said that his father had been victimized by an evil spirit, so she performed a method for him to exorcise the evil spirits.Afterwards, his condition did improve slightly, but within a few days he became listless again.Later, they also tried many other methods, all kinds of ancient remedies, folk remedies and strange remedies, and they may have done everything, but the father's condition still did not improve.Because he often had nightmares, Hongye had no choice but to turn to a dream interpreter for help. In fact, this dream interpreter does not specialize in interpreting dreams for others, but an old gentleman with profound knowledge.The old gentleman did not interpret dreams for his father when he was learning about his father's situation, but asked Hongye a very strange question: "Does your father sleep with the window open every night?" There is an exhaust hole, which was originally used to install an exhaust fan, but he doesn't often turn on the air conditioner, so he didn't install an exhaust fan.Moreover, his house was on the fourth floor, and the wind and rain could not come in through the vent, so it was not blocked.In other words, even if he closes the doors and windows, the "door of convenience" of the vent will still be open.

After Hongye told the old man about the situation, the other party told her to wait for her father to fall asleep and stay outside the door. As soon as she heard any movement inside, she immediately opened the door and rushed in and yelled.Although she thought the method the old man said was very weird, but her father's condition was very bad at that time, so she had no choice but to act as a living horse doctor and follow his method. After she got home, she didn't tell her father about meeting the old man. After her father went back to the room to sleep, she moved a small stool, sat in front of the door and put her ear to the door.However, she stayed until late at night and did not hear any movement in the room.Just when she was about to fall asleep sitting on the stool, her father's voice came from the room.

Father seemed to be talking, but the words were vague, probably talking in sleep.The old man said that as soon as he heard movement in the room, he would rush in immediately, so she didn't think too much, and immediately opened the door and jumped into the room.She turned on the light as soon as she entered the room, and immediately saw a black animal with a shape similar to a Persian cat on her father's bedside. Although the animal looked like a cat, it had a long nose like an anteater, and the color of its two eyes was different, one was yellow and the other was blue.When she turned on the light, the long-nosed cat was sticking its nose over the top of her father's head, seeming to be sucking something out of his head.And the father closed his eyes, talking vaguely in his sleep.

The sudden light obviously startled the strange cat, and its body trembled suddenly.Hongye kept the old man's words in mind, and immediately yelled at it, scaring it into panic.Hongye originally wanted to find something to hit it, but it was as agile as a cat, and after running around for a while, it escaped through the vent hole. Since then, my father's spirit has gradually recovered, and he has no more nightmares.The father and daughter were very happy about this, so they brought gifts and fruits to the old man to reward the old man, and asked what the strange cat with the long nose was.

The old man said that it was a kind of spirit called Nightmare Beast, which was a branch of "Nightmare-eating Tapir".He has read relevant records in an ancient book called "Different Dreams", it is said that this kind of ghost lives by sucking the essence of human beings. When humans are sucked by it, they will have nightmares and feel weak all over the next day. .After a long time, the spirit will shrink and even die.However, this kind of spirit is very timid, as long as it is discovered, it will not dare to make trouble again. After hearing the old man's explanation, even though he knew that the nightmare beast would not come again, his father still had lingering fears and asked someone to block the vent hole in the room that day.While Hongye rejoiced that her father's body was recovering day by day, she felt sorry for not being able to catch that magical nightmare beast.

However, even if she was given another chance, she would only dare to hit it with a stick. "Who knows if it will bite." These are her exact words.