Chapter 69: Endless Nightmare

  Li Ling's face slightly changed, and a hint of sympathy and heartache appeared in his eyes. He lowered his head slightly and said slowly: "The quiet loneliness and helplessness, I can understand. I can also understand why An Jing never wants to interact with others. She is just afraid..."

  "Anjing is a very considerate child, she would rather bear all the pain herself than burden others. Sometimes, I feel so powerless, although I'm invincible on the battlefield, but now, I couldn't even protect a little girl." Anlan's eyes were filled with helplessness, his tall and straight figure seemed to have aged ten years in an instant.

  "How could that be?" Li Ling patted the old general's back and smiled slightly: "Isn't it because I'm here? I can protect Anjing."

  An Lan looked at Li Ling's confident eyes, and her slightly lost heart suddenly brightened up. She laughed and said: "Ah, I thought I was an optimist, but it seems I'm going to lose to a kid. Alright, An Jing, I'll leave it to you."

  Li Ling took out the hand that had been patting An Lan's back and rubbed his nose, chuckling: "That's right, why did An Lan have such a strange dream, and how could one nightmare accurately predict the location of this huge creature?" Li Ling pointed to the skeletal mass that looked like a pile of fences.

  "At the age of eight, Anjing suffered a severe brain injury. Since then, every week or so, she would start having strange nightmares with an extremely high degree of realism. From then on, endless nightmares haunted Anjing, making her live in pain for the rest of her life." Anlan also let out a faint sigh as he recalled the past.

  "What kind of head-on blow?" Li Ling lowered his head and nodded thoughtfully.

  "At that time, An Jing was right beside me, and just then, a stone the size of a palm of a hand fell from the sky and hit her brain! But the origin of this stone is unknown." An Lan recalled the scene at that time, with a hint of self-blame.

  "The doctor has done several checks, but nothing was found, just speculation that it might be a slight injury to some nerve endings in the brain, which triggered the nightmare." Anlan continued.

  Li Ling furrowed his brow and shook his head, saying: "It's possible that the impact of a stone block opened up the quiet inner subconscious, and triggered an extraordinary function, who knows?"

  "We once had a supernatural scientist examine the silence, and the conclusion was... the seal is gradually being lifted." Even as a seasoned general, he couldn't help but show a hint of emotion when saying this.

  "Seal lifted!!" Li Ling's eyes revealed a hint of surprise, saying incredulously, after all, this wasn't a myth, where did those seals come from, and did they really think it was cultivation?

  "That's right, a former Feng Shui master told me in private when he was diagnosing An Jing, and also asked me to keep it confidential, otherwise, there will be chaos all over the world." An Lan sighed slightly.

  "But just when Anjing was twelve years old, she had an extremely realistic dream. At that time, she stubbornly insisted on going to a very mysterious area, in order to avoid detection. At that time, my son Anxiangyu, along with a few elite soldiers, set out towards the region that Anjing had indicated, alone." There was a hint of sadness in Anlan's eyes, as if something had happened afterwards.

  "Could it be just a tomb in the ancient Loulan?" Li Ling looked at An Lan and exclaimed.

  "Yes, the ancient Loulan tomb, a mysterious tomb. At that time, after finding the tomb, everyone was shocked because this tomb is exactly the same as the one described in Anjing's mouth. Even more so, the years are so long that they cannot be calculated. According to Anjing's description, this tomb has a history of 100,000 years." An Lan grasped the iron railing beside her with both hands and slightly bowed down.

  Li Ling hurriedly supported An Lan's already very old body and said: "Gu Loulan can't have a history of 100,000 years?"

  "No, it's impossible to have a history of 100,000 years, so this tomb is not the tomb of any king of ancient Loulan. The problem lies here." An Lan's eyes became increasingly sorrowful, as if bearing an extremely great pain.

  "At that time, there was also an archaeologist who went with us. He also expressed some ignorance about this piece, because in history, this site did not exist at all."

  "In order to get to the bottom of it, Xiang Yu brought a few trusted followers and entered the entrance of the tomb they had found. They went deep inside, but several days later, neither Xiang Yu nor his followers were able to come out. At that time, the archaeologists quietly informed the local garrison and dispatched a large number of troops to develop this mysterious region of ancient Loulan that had never been discovered before."

  As he spoke, An Lan's eyes welled up with tears, and an old man was about to send off a young life, which is indeed the most tragic ending in human history.

  "Unexpectedly, even General Lian's son has disappeared into this tomb." Li Ling knew the pain of losing loved ones and could empathize with An Lan's feelings at that moment.

  "Ah, sometimes these are just fated!" An Lan comforted herself.

  After calming down a bit, An Lan continued: "Later on, a large number of troops, relying on advanced detection instruments, discovered huge biological skeletons and a crystal coffin in this tomb."

  Li Ling looked at the skeleton of that strange creature and pointed to the nearly ten-meter-high skeleton in front of him, saying: "It's this skeleton!"

  "Yes, that's right. And then there's the crystal coffin. The crystal coffin doesn't have a corpse, only a severed arm, and it hasn't rotted after ten million years." An Lan said.

  "After that, all these things were secretly brought to this underground laboratory and kept." An Lan finished the story, slowly letting out a sigh to ease the pain in her heart.

  "And then, did Anjing ever have a similar dream again?" Li Ling asked.

  "Quiet that child, after this matter, felt that it was oneself who killed one's own foster father. From then on, never again spoke of the nightmare things, always alone endured endless fear, truly pitied her!" An Lan's facial wrinkles suddenly deepened, apparently this old general's majesty was all to cover up the softness in his heart.

  "I understand now." Li Ling finally knew what was going on with the quiet indifference and loneliness. She didn't want to hurt anyone else around her, so she chose to bear those unprecedented pains alone.

  "Later, through some unknown channels, the news spread that Anjing possessed this extraordinary ability. High-end individuals from all over the world wanted to get their hands on Anjing, a living dead man." Anlan patted the railing and said with a look of distress.

  "There's no wall that doesn't let wind through, and you've even searched a 100,000-year-old ancient tomb in the old Loulan, it's only natural to attract some attention, and the news will spread. Li Ling nodded his chin, thinking quietly."

  "Now hiding and concealing are not options, the only way is to unravel the mystery of the quiet nightmare? I may, with quietness, step into the world she has shown in her dreams." Li Ling looked at An Lan with a firm gaze.