I soon arrived at the gate of the Public Security Bureau, and at this time, the plainclothes detective who was previously called Xiaodong was wearing a police uniform, standing at the door. As soon as he saw me coming, he walked over with a serious face and said, "Follow me."

  I was too lazy to talk to him, so I followed him into the police station. He took me to a small room that looked like an interrogation room in the movies - very dark with only a small table and a single lamp in the middle. Old Zhang was sitting inside, while Officer Huang sat opposite him, and they were chatting.

  "Little Feng? How did you get here?" Old Zhang asked me with a curious look.

  "Don't change the subject." Huang said: "Teacher Zhang, I've given you all the information about these dead people. Think carefully and see if you have any connection with them?"

  Lao Zhang didn't ask me anything else, and said somewhat angrily: "The three who died were indeed my ex-girlfriends. My girlfriend Li Na has also had an accident. You can't possibly suspect that I killed them, can you? I was originally going to get married with Nana next month."

  "But you're so calm about their deaths. If your girlfriend was in trouble, wouldn't you take time off or do something drastic? But apart from being a bit down emotionally, you haven't shown any other reaction." Huang looked at Lao Zhang expressionlessly: "I've been handling cases for many years, you must know something, speak up."

  Lao Zhang furrowed his brow and shook his head, "Sorry, I don't know. As for what you said about my being emotionally numb, I cried the day she died, a man crying one night is enough, do I have to cry every day?"

  "Alright, Huang's team is gone, Lao Zhang also said he didn't know anything, what else do you want?" I was a bit unhappy too, anyway, I don't believe Lao Zhang has any relationship with that monster.

  Huang turned around and looked at me: "I'm not suspecting that he's the killer, but four of the deceased had a relationship with him, and the other victims' appearances are also similar to his girlfriend's. Is this just a coincidence?"

  "Maybe you know who the murderer is, but you just can't remember now. Teacher Zhang, think carefully and say anything that comes to mind." Huang asked.

  I also looked at Old Zhang, just as Huang said, although Old Zhang wasn't the murderer, that monster must have had some connection with him.

  Lao Zhang also furrowed his brow and fell into deep thought. After a while, he slowly said: "Actually, I've been having a very strange dream lately."

  "A strange dream?" I perked up my ears at once.

  "Uh-huh." Old Zhang nodded: "In my dream, there was a very beautiful woman who kept asking me to marry her."

  "Is the woman in your dream like this?" Huang asked hastily, then he took out a sketch and it was actually a portrait of the white-clothed female ghost they had met before. Although not as good as a photograph, the resemblance was still quite high.

  Lao Zhang lowered his head and took a look, his face turned iron-green, staring at us eerily: "How did you know the appearance of the woman in my dream?"

  "Lao Zhang, maybe that wasn't a dream, or perhaps the monster ran into your dream." I said to Captain Huang beside me: "Captain Huang, tell Lao Zhang about what happened."

  Huang nodded and then said that this time's murderer was not a human being, but a monster.

  After saying that, Old Zhang didn't show the usual frightened expression, but instead looked thoughtful and said: "I see, it turns out that this dream occurs every once in a while, and it's incredibly realistic, just like a personal experience. I've had a bad feeling about it for a long time."

  It has to be said that Lao Zhang's mental endurance is much stronger than ordinary people.

  "Little brother, it seems that Teacher Zhang is indeed related to that monster. What should we do now?" Huang asked, turning his head to look at me.

  I also fell silent and asked Old Zhang: "Old Zhang, under what circumstances do you usually have this strange dream?"

  "This has been happening almost every night, especially after Xiaona passed away. The woman in my dreams has been haunting me every day." Old Zhang mentioned his girlfriend and scratched his hair, clearly not in a good mood.

  "I actually have an idea." I said.

  Entering a person's dream is not too difficult, as long as it is a ghost or a well-cultivated monster can do it. However, the difference lies in that when ghosts and monsters enter a person's dream, we dare not act rashly. Because after entering the dream, the ghost is very close to this person's three souls and seven spirits. If you deal with the ghost, it is easy to affect the dreamer's three souls and seven spirits.

  But the monster is different, if the monster enters a person's dream, then its physical body cannot be more than 100 meters away from the dreaming person. Of course, those particularly powerful monsters are not included. As long as we find the monster's physical body and burn it, the monster's three souls and seven spirits will immediately disperse.

  No matter how powerful a monster is, it's just a mortal body, unlike ghosts that don't have a physical form.

  "Lao Zhang, trouble you to go back and sleep again today, just bring her into your dream, we will deal with that monster." I said: "Huang team, prepare a red rope, two red candles, in case of any unexpected event, still have to lure that monster over."

  After I finished speaking, Huang and Lao Zhang rushed to Lao Zhang's home in a police car.

  Lao Zhang lives alone.

  The red cord and the two red candles actually have a saying, the two candles are called dragon and phoenix candles, and the red cord is used as a matchmaker. The red cord is tied to the dragon and phoenix candles, then one end of the red cord is thrown outside the door, which cannot be closed. The other end is tied to Lao Zhang's toe, but it must not be tied into a dead knot, otherwise when dealing with monsters later, that monster can stick to Lao Zhang's side all the time. Only by tying a living knot, in this way, when danger comes, untie the rope and run away.

  "Old Zhang, just sleep well and that monster won't harm you." I watched as Old Zhang stripped naked and lay on the bed, then beckoned to Huang's team with a wave of my hand. Huang nodded, and we both crawled under Old Zhang's bed.

  "I'm going to sleep." Old Zhang said on top, I hummed in response.

  Soon came the sound of Old Zhang's snores.

  I and Huang's team didn't dare to breathe too loudly, our eyes fixed on the red line at the door. As long as that monster comes in, this red rope will react.

  It was soon 3 am, and I was also extremely sleepy, feeling like my eyelids were filled with lead. Huang, on the other hand, was full of energy, perhaps because he was a bit nervous too.

  I dozed off in a daze, and suddenly Huang Que patted my shoulder. I opened my eyes to see that the woman wearing white ancient clothes gently pushed open the door and slowly walked in along the red line.

  I made a hissing sound towards Huang's team, and soon the woman got onto Lao Zhang's bed. The breathing sounds on Lao Zhang's bed also became heavier.

  It's all over! It wasn't the three spirits and seven souls of the demon that came in as expected, but the demon itself that came in!