Nightmares in Dreams

Lin Wan frequently fell into strange nightmares. Every time she woke up, fleeting dark nightmare lines would appear on her wrists. An accidental visit allowed her to step into the secrets hidden in Calabash Mountain for thousands of years. Underground secret passages, dust-covered copper sheets, stone chambers built in Yong'an's three years, and giant iron walls that isolate the mountainside. A broken and recast bone ring became the only token connecting the human world to the bottom of the mountain. There are people stationed behind the iron wall for a long time, and there are guardians deep in the dark river watching for generations. The iron gate closed the road in the seventh year of Yong'an. The old path is hidden deep under the rock formations, and thousands of years of messages have been passed on through ancient artifacts. Lin Wan was an unrelated ordinary person, but because of the nightmare pattern, he was involved in this time-spanning waiting. She shuttled between reality and nightmare, followed scattered clues to clear away the fog, and finally understood the silent agreement of everyone underground. The mystery will eventually be clarified, but there is a long watch that never ends. When the nightmare that haunted her every night completely dissipated, Lin Wan returned to the ordinary world. Only the bone ring between the wrists always retains a ray of unchanging warmth, echoing the old path that never ends deep in the mountain.