Chapter 1761 — A Strange Dream (Part Two)
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"Yaoyao, tell us first. What did you feel last night?" Wei Zhao did not answer Gu Mengyao's question. Instead, he asked her one of his own.
"Last night..." Gu Mengyao frowned, apparently trying to recall what had happened. After thinking for a while, she said, "The three of us agreed that each of us would keep watch over the pot for a while. When it was my turn, I grew a little bored and sleepy, and somehow I fell asleep... I do not know what happened after that. When I woke up, I was lying in bed, and I even instinctively told them to go check the pot..."
"So you knew nothing at all about what happened after you fell asleep?" Wei Zhao nodded as he asked.
"Wait... I vaguely remember having a dream..." Gu Mengyao suddenly recalled the dream she had had the night before. When people woke in the morning, unless they deliberately tried to remember, their dreams simply faded away and were never mentioned again. But Wei Zhao and the others kept prompting Gu Mengyao to think back, and so she finally remembered that strange dream of hers.
"What kind of dream?" Wei Zhao asked hurriedly.
"I dreamed... I dreamed that I seemed not to be myself..." Gu Mengyao was at a loss for how to describe it.
"What do you mean, you were not yourself?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback by her words.
"It was me controlling the person in the dream, but that person did not seem to be me..." Gu Mengyao offered an equally vague explanation. "It was as if, in one of your dreams, there were someone called Xiao Shu, and you could control Xiao Shu's body..."
"Wow, Sister Yaoyao, that is amazing!" Shen Yushu exclaimed. "Brother Arrow can control Xiao Shu now..."
"Ahem..." Wei Zhao coughed twice, caught somewhere between laughter and tears. "Xiao Shu, stop fooling around. Yaoyao was only giving an example. I understand what she means. The person at the center of the dream was not her, yet she could control that person's actions..."
"Yes, exactly!" Gu Mengyao nodded and continued. "I dreamed that I was the leader of a very powerful sect. Everyone called me Palace Mistress..."
"Palace Mistress?" Wei Zhao was faintly startled. Could this be what people meant by dreaming of what occupied their thoughts by day? They had only just discussed the Dark Night Palace, and now Gu Mengyao had dreamed something like this?
"Yes, everyone called me Palace Mistress... The strange thing was that the Palace Mistress did not look like me, though she did resemble me somewhat. I had no idea who she really was..." Gu Mengyao went on. "It seemed that a ritual was being held. Someone brought me a completely black creature called a Dark Phoenix and asked me to consume it... And I actually swallowed the Dark Phoenix whole... Can you imagine it? I swallowed an animal the size of a pheasant in one piece. Now that I think about it, how terrifying was that? Yet the me in the dream seemed to regard it as the most natural thing in the world..."
When Gu Mengyao finished, strange expressions spread across Tang Zhi's and Xiao Shu's faces. Wei Zhao, meanwhile, was caught between laughter and tears. When Gu Mengyao asked whether they could imagine it, they all had the same thought: not only could they imagine it, they had witnessed it with their own eyes.
They had all seen Gu Mengyao swallow that Black Phoenix whole the day before. Could that Black Phoenix have been the Dark Phoenix she was talking about?
"What happened next?" Wei Zhao did not comment. He merely continued questioning her.