My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 60 Locking in the Nightmare

The room was deathly silent.

Everyone stared in astonishment at the spot where the middle-aged man had suddenly disappeared.

The cries for help from the uncle's son that had been coming from the bedroom fell silent at that moment, as if they had never been heard at all.

After a long pause, Liu Jiaqi spoke in a trembling voice, "That voice... didn't call this older brother's name just now, but it still... still disappeared!"

Li Jiuhe analyzed, "It seems that as long as you respond, you will be caught, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to be called by name."

The middle-aged man's disappearance also served as a reminder to himself, because his daughter Li Yi's voice might suddenly ring out, calling him "Dad" instead of his name.

If he's not careful and subconsciously responds to the other person, his fate might be the same as the person just now.

Chen Zhenghai reminded everyone, "Ignore any sounds coming from other rooms. We'll stay in the living room and not go anywhere."

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind.

"Junghae, is that you? I... how did I get here?"

Chen Zhenghai was suddenly stunned.

The sound was very close to him, not in any other room, but seemed to be right behind him.

Moreover, the person speaking was none other than Chen Zhenghai's wife.

Before he could react, Li Jiuhe's urgent voice rang out: "Don't turn around, don't answer! That voice is fake, there's no one behind you."

The conversation had clearly been heard by everyone else in the living room.

Everyone was stunned and was trying to find the speaker. Only Li Jiuhe reacted quickly and immediately reminded Chen Zhenghai.

Chen Zhenghai was not surprised; his expression remained calm.

He didn't turn around or answer the voice that sounded like his wife. Instead, he said, "Let me correct what I just said. Even if the voice is right next to us, as long as we don't see the speaker or are certain that the speaker can't possibly appear, we shouldn't pay any attention to it."

He then looked again at the little boy holding the pet cage.

"Little friend, what's your name?"

The little boy looked terrified and whispered, "My name is Zhao Yuanhang."

Who are people in your house when you sleep?

"My mom, my dad, and my grandpa. My dad told me that my grandma went to heaven last year. But I know that grandma is dead, and once she's dead, she'll never come back."

Chen Zhenghai nodded, which meant that Zhao Yuanhang's father, mother, and grandfather were still sleeping inside.

However, none of the three appeared here, meaning they did not escape the first dream. But Zhao Yuanhang escaped alone and projected his memories of the pet rat into this second, even more bizarre dream.

"Tell your uncle again in more detail how you got here?"

Without hesitation, Zhao Yuanhang said, "I thought I was awake when someone called me to get up for breakfast. After getting up, I didn't see my parents or grandpa, only grandma. She brought me a bowl of my favorite minced meat and egg custard. Then I noticed that the photo hanging on the wall was empty, so I asked grandma how she came out of the photo. Grandma then became very fierce and kept staring at me. I was very scared and ran into the bedroom to find my toys to protect me, but my toys were gone too..."

At this point, he looked down at the pet cage in his arms: "Xiao Di, so you were here all along! I couldn't find you, so I opened the closet and hid inside."

"And that's it?" Chen Zhenghai asked.

Zhao Yuanhang nodded.

Chen Zhenghai frowned slightly. It sounded like the little guy had entered the second shared dream by accident.

Li Jiuhe walked over at this moment, her gaze fixed on the pet cage Zhao Yuanhang was holding: "You just said that when you woke up you couldn't find Xiaodi, but it just appeared here?"

Zhao Yuanhang nodded again and hugged the pet cage even tighter.

Meanwhile, the adorable little mouse in the cage was still fast asleep.

Chen Zhenghai also focused his attention on the little mouse, and suddenly asked Li Jiuhe, "Have you noticed what this little mouse looks like?"

Li Jiuhe didn't know much about these kinds of small pets and shook his head.

"It's quite small, with a long, fluffy tail," Chen Zhenghai explained as he pondered. "It reminds me a lot of a dormouse. Dormouses sleep for about nine months of the year."

Li Jiuhe immediately asked Zhao Yuanhang, "How long have you had your Xiao Di?"

Zhao Yuanhang said, "It's been two days. My dad bought it for me at the night market."

Chen Zhenghai and Li Jiuhe immediately exchanged a glance, their thoughts coinciding at that moment.

They suddenly realized that the nightmare wasn't necessarily human; it could also be an animal, like the dormouse in front of them!

Just then, a noise came from the bedroom, like the sound of the door being opened.

Li Jiuhe turned his head and saw that he could see most of the bedroom from his position. He saw that the wardrobe door was open and something was crawling out.

Chen Zhenghai also looked into the bedroom and discovered that the thing that crawled out of the closet was the shed-skin man.

Only now could they see the molting man clearly. It was impossible to tell whether he was male or female. His skin had peeled off and was trailing behind him, with only his feet still attached to it.

The person's body was covered in scarlet flesh and white tendons, with blood dripping from some places.

The skin trailing behind it twisted and turned with the creature's movements, like a bizarre, living being!

After the skin-shedding man crawled out of the wardrobe, he immediately dragged the skin-covered bag under his feet and walked out of the living room.

Upon witnessing this scene, the others in the living room were already terrified, their faces ashen, and they kept backing away.

Chen Zhenghai and Li Jiuhe exchanged a glance; they knew in their hearts that they had found the real culprit.

The Nightmare was most likely the Dormouse; otherwise, it wouldn't have been such a coincidence that the molting man crawled out of the closet just as they made their discovery.

Looking down at the dormouse in the pet cage, I noticed that the little guy had opened his eyes and was looking out of the cage.

"Now that we've found our target, you can wake up."

Before the molting man entered the living room, Chen Zhenghai whispered to Li Jiuhe, "No one in the current nightmare is a match for the nightmare master. Now leave the dream world and, once back in reality, immediately locate and capture this dormant in the Zhao family's house!"

Seeing Li Jiuhe's confused expression, he said, "If you find yourself unable to wake up, it's okay. I have a way to wake up first, and then I can wake you up."

Li Jiuhe nodded: "Then you can leave first!"

The skin-peeling man had already entered the living room and was reaching for the elderly man in the wheelchair.

Li Jiuhe immediately pulled the wheelchair along and simultaneously kicked the peeling man in the stomach.

It felt like kicking a ball of cotton, completely unresponsive. The peeling man seemed to feel nothing either, but changed his target and pounced on Li Jiuhe.

"You hold this guy off for now, I'll wake you up as soon as I do!"

Chen Zhenghai took a few steps back, his consciousness sinking into the key in his hand.

That was the key to his consciousness, capable of unlocking or locking any information at the level of consciousness, and usually, leaving the dream was just a matter of blinking an eye.

However, Chen Zhenghai was soon taken aback and realized that he was still standing in the living room.

……

At the same moment, Xu Wei, who was in the official car, suddenly noticed that Chen Zhenghai, who was fast asleep, began to tremble.

His eyes were tightly closed, beads of sweat quickly appeared on his forehead, and the frequency of his body trembling increased.

"Team Leader Chen?!"

Without hesitation, Xu Wei immediately leaned over to the back seat and pressed her hand against the wristband on Chen Zhenghai's wrist that had a slight electric shock function.