My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 54 Dream Perception

Chen Zhenghai took sleeping pills and deliberately didn't sleep much last night, so he fell asleep quickly and seemed to be sleeping soundly.

Li Jiuhe, on the other hand, remained calm and focused on defining the task first.

Although the reward was less after the last mission, his total mission time had increased to 2 hours and 10 minutes.

However, since this mission takes place in a dream, Li Jiuhe was not entirely sure. The perception of time in a dream is definitely different from that in reality, so strictly speaking, the mission time follows the time of the real world.

However, the mission time was clearly calculated according to the time in the alternate dimension when we were in the Morning Bell last time.

The main reason is that he set up the mission directly in another dimension.

Therefore, since the task was set up in the real world in advance this time, the time should be calculated in real time.

After all, time in dreams is unpredictable, whether it's fast or slow, and the instability is too great.

However, there is one drawback: Li Jiuhe cannot define another new task in the dream.

[Task definition successful. The task is temporarily named "Capture the Nightmare".]

【Title: Capturing the Nightmare】

[Level: Grade I, Class A]

[Requirements: 1. Determine the true identity of the Nightmare Perpetrator; 2. Capture the Nightmare Perpetrator.]

【奖励：1、重置点上限增加2点（当前上限10点）；2、奖励1个重置时间锚点。】

[Note: 1. The total duration of the tasks you can currently define is 2 hours and 10 minutes; 2. There are more clues to be uncovered behind this anomaly.]

Looking at the mission information that appeared before him, Li Jiuhe realized that this mission was indeed not simple, as it was actually a level higher than hunting the Terror Eaters.

He was just a little worried about whether he would realize he was dreaming once he entered the dream world.

If you're not aware of it, can you at least know that you've already defined a task?

After all, there is a big difference between dreaming and the alternate dimension of the morning bell.

After reviewing the electronic manual he had just read in his mind, Li Jiuhe soon fell asleep without realizing it.

He had reclined the passenger seat to make it easier to fall asleep, so his sleeping position was quite comfortable.

Xu Wei sat in the driver's seat without saying a word. After a while, she heard Li Jiuhe breathing evenly, so he must have fallen asleep.

She turned her head and glanced at Chen Zhenghai, the group leader, who was lying in the back row.

After carefully confirming that the wristbands on both of their wrists were secure, they checked the headlamp switch.

With everything ready, Xu Wei looked out through the car's windshield, her gaze sweeping over the old-style residential buildings, and muttered to herself.

"With the team leader and Li Jiuhe working together, you shouldn't be able to escape this time!"

The Nightmare has caused the deaths of more than thirty people in their sleep, all in an effort to continuously evolve its sequence abilities.

Like the Fear Eater, this guy is also a ruthless killer. However, due to the limitations of creating nightmares, his killing efficiency is different from that of the Fear Eater, which creates fear in its target.

This is why Nightmare Dwellers don't kill as many people as Food Fear Dwellers.

Before she knew it, Xu Wei had already taken the bone flute into her hand.

……

……

The sun shines brightly outside the window, and you can hear the clear chirping of birds from time to time.

The room was spotless, and the sight of it made one feel very comfortable.

Li Jiuhe, dressed in a plaid pajama set, sat at the dining table in the living room, with his wife Lin Fengya sitting opposite him.

Lin Fengya has an oval face, bright eyes, and slender eyebrows that look like a stroke of ink. She always looks at Li Jiuhe with a hint of a smile.

Li Jiuhe suddenly realized that he hadn't felt this warm and content feeling in a long time.

He glanced at the steaming dishes on the table: stir-fried vegetables, braised pork ribs, a large bowl of tomato and egg soup, and a plate of cucumber salad.

These are familiar dishes; they're all his usual favorites.

"Eat it while it's hot."

Lin Fengya's voice brought Li Jiuhe a strange sense of peace.

He nodded, picked up two pieces of food for Lin Fengya, and then started eating himself.

"Dad, aren't you going to put some food on my plate?" A soft, sweet voice rang out from the left side of the dining table.

Li Jiuhe turned his head to look and smiled: "Of course, of course I have to put food on my Xiaoyi's plate! Hmm, eat more spare ribs and vegetables."

Because of her short stature, Li Yi sat on a higher chair, and there were several layers of soft cushions under her bottom.

She nodded obediently and placed a piece of vegetable into the bowls of Li Jiuhe and Lin Fengya respectively.

"Jiuhe, I might have to go on a long trip," Lin Fengya said while eating.

"Is it a business trip?" Li Jiuhe asked.

"No." Lin Fengya shook her head.

"Where to?" Li Jiuhe asked curiously.

"A...very far away place," Lin Fengya said.

"Mom, when are you coming back?" Li Yi asked quickly.

Lin Fengya put down her chopsticks, affectionately patted her daughter's head, and said nothing.

"Yes, where are you going? When will you be back?" Li Jiuhe repeated.

Lin Fengya remained silent, her gaze shifting downwards to avoid eye contact with him, but her eyes suddenly reddened.

"Are you... hiding something from me?" Li Jiuhe looked at her carefully.

"Dad, did you make Mom angry?"

Li Yi glanced at Li Jiuhe warily, then pouted and put her hands on her hips, looking like she wanted to stand up for her mother.

Lin Fengya suddenly stood up, wiped her eyes, and said, "I'll go pack my things first."

"Wait a minute, answer me first..."

Li Jiuhe quickly stood up, but the next second his body sank and his wrist was suddenly grabbed by a strong force.

Looking down, he saw that it was his daughter, Li Yi, who had suddenly grabbed him.

Li Jiuhe was terrified because the pulling force was incredibly strong, something a child couldn't possibly exert.

However, this feeling of fear disappeared in an instant, and Li Jiuhe himself didn't think there was any reason why he didn't take it to heart.

"Answer me first!"

Li Yi's tone became stern, and her little face showed a cute but fierce look.

"This is……"

Li Jiuhe was surprised and didn't understand why her daughter had suddenly become so unfamiliar, and why Lin Fengya was hiding her thoughts from her.

"Elegance!"

"Say it!"

His voice and Li Yi's voice rang out at the same time.

However, Li Yi's originally childish voice suddenly became much rougher at this moment, which startled Li Jiuhe.

He looked at his daughter again and saw that Li Yi's fierce expression no longer had the childish ferocity, but instead revealed a truly fierce and violent emotion written all over her face.

At the same time, Li Jiuhe felt a sharp pain in his wrist, which was being grabbed. Li Yi's grip tightened, becoming so strong that he felt his wrist was about to break.

For some unknown reason, his wife went into the bedroom and never reappeared.

But suddenly, her daughter seemed like a completely different person.

Suddenly, Li Jiuhe froze. He looked at Li Yi's fierce expression and murmured, "You... are my daughter?"

puff!

A chopstick had already pierced his thigh; it was Li Yi who had done it, and at the same time, she released Li Jiuhe's wrist.

Although Li Jiuhe felt a lot of pain in his thigh, the pain was strange; it seemed that he could ignore it if he wanted to.

"I hate you!"

Li Yi left a sentence, jumped off the chair, and ran into the bedroom her mother had just gone into.

"No!" Li Jiuhe covered the wound on her thigh and looked at her wrist, which had just been pinched so hard.

He felt as if he wasn't injured, yet he also felt as if he was seriously injured; a strange sense of contradiction filled his mind.

"Where am I? My wife seems to be dead? And... I... I don't have a daughter..."

Li Jiuhe quickly looked around. This was indeed his home, but what had just happened was so absurd and outrageous.

At that very moment, a strange connection stirred within him, and this familiar feeling caused four words to quickly surface in Li Jiuhe's mind:

The morning bell tolls on the 27th.