The lingering fear

"What's wrong with you?" Shan Yu clearly saw Wu Liang just now like a frightened madman, his face was deathly pale, his pupils shrank because of the horror that grinned Wu Liang, but slowly the cold sweat that poured out faded away along with his breathing that slowly returned to normal.

Wu Liang was at a loss for an answer, he just swallowed a mouthful of saliva into his throat, then rubbed his face.

Seeing his brother in disarray, Shan Yu went to the kitchen to get a glass of water for him, and Wu Liang accepted it with trembling hands.

"Are you feeling better? Is your wound hurting again, it should have stopped hurting since yesterday right?" Shan Yu was puzzled by this younger brother, she tried to glance at her brother's head bandage and tried to check it, seeing that the wound healed quickly, leaving only a small gap of frozen blood red wound which also dried up soon.

This made Shan Yu even more confused and amazed.

Wu Liang only slowly drank with his trembling hands, his gaze still in intense fear.

"Calm down my little brother, your big sister is here... come tell me, who knows you will be calmer..." Shan Yu embraced Wu Liang with her right hand over Wu Liang's shoulder, then stroked his back which felt moist from sweat.

Wu Liang's backside was really wet, his whole backside was wet.

"I-i..." Wu Liang unconsciously spoke.

Shan Yu glanced at Wu Liang on the left edge of his face, "what's wrong? Just tell me, no need to worry..."

Wu Liang was about to speak, but he was still haunted by the feeling of his mouth being locked, the dream felt very real, even the fear still clung to him, once again he tried to drink a sip of water from his glass while trembling.

Seeing her brother who was really scared Shan Yu could only continue to calm his in the room.

***

Ao Nan this morning walked cheerfully to the hunting lodge post in the southwest of the first frontier forest not far from the river, he met his father who was helping Su Chang collect more herbs while also looking for some mushrooms that seemed to have filled one basket near his father, while the other two baskets were not full, there were only a few leaves and flowers in it.

"Dad, let me help you finish quickly" he said while looking for herbs that were similar and familiar to the herbs that had been picked in the basket.

Hearing his son bargain and volunteer, Ao Qi's uncle smiled at him, Ao Nan went around and searched every nook and cranny of the tree, several times getting herbal shoots, or small trees, or parasitic herbal leaves that could still be used.

"Uncle, this is enough, let's go back."

Herbs in the first frontier forest grow wildly, wherever you walk every 5 steps there will be at least one herb, but these herbs are not all safe, some can be consumed directly, some must be pulled out and left to remove the sap, some must be boiled first, some must be crushed, or even some cannot be eaten at all.

Su Chang took uncle Ao Qi and Ao Nan back.

Walking out of the first layer border forest, and directly appearing at the edge of the first layer border forest close to the farm, passing by the path next to the farm.

"So its that true uncle? Is tomorrow the day?" Su Chang who was carrying a basket curiously asked Uncle Ao Qi, while Ao Nan did not bring anything, just followed them and listened to the two.

Uncle Ao Qi corrected his grip on the basket in his right hand and said, "Yes, that's right, tomorrow is the full moon night, exactly the night we will pray, Ao Nan, don't forget to pray to Wu Liang's parents as well", Uncle Ao Qi smiled slightly and softly at the mention of Wu Liang.

"Of course, isn't that a must, since we are family, hahaha" Ao Nan laughed not because it was funny, but because almost every full moon he was always reminded by his father to also pray to his parents Wu Liang.

Without even being told, Ao Nan would tell the two of them, and secretly tell the figure of Wu Liang based on his perspective, for example, during the last full moon, he and Wu Liang were stung by bees, the truth is that Ao Nan was the target of the most stings, while Wu Liang was not as much as him, when praying, Ao Nan laughingly prayed a little and told the opposite of the incident to Wu Liang's parents, hoping that they would be entertained by his idle stories.

"I can teach you a little, after that I will help other uncles and aunts prepare the offerings, because yesterday we got a bear so this full moon preparation must be bigger and grander, I'm sure they will all be satisfied and happy."

Ao Nan just nodded happily, while the old male cousin Su Chang just chuckled at that, he was also happy with this full moon, when else could pray and make offerings to ancestors with bear meat?.

Meanwhile, The migration time for bears to hibernate to the north is almost every 12 full moon at once.

"Dad, I'll wait for you at the training ground," Ao Nan said and then parted to the two, while his own father just smiled at him.

Uncle Ao Qi arrived at the village with Su Chang, so with the direction of the aunts they gave the herbs, then went to the river bank to clean the fur on the meat of the biggest bear.

The size of the bear was twice as big as Ao Qi's uncle, slightly bigger than Hei Tai, but smaller than yesterday's mutant bear.

After uncle Ao Qi briefly helped them, he excused himself to go teach Ao Nan.

While on his way he thought it would be better to take Wu Liang too, without saying much he headed to his place.

***

"I'm sorry big sister, to be honest last night was really scary, did you not feel the same way?" Wu Liang tremblingly still grasped the empty wooden cup with both hands.

Shan Yu was confused about what to answer, whether she should say that she also felt the same way so that it could calm Wu Liang, or she should say that she did not experience it and of course it would make Wu Liang think that his sister did not understand what he was experiencing so Wu Liang would never be able to feel calm because of this, only he himself felt it, without anyone else feeling the same way, how could he share feelings and stories, Shan Yu thought.

"To be honest, I feel the same way, but I believe it is just a dream, there is nothing to be afraid of, just calm down Wu Liang, just calm down..."

While rubbing and caressing Wu Liang's wet back covered by his clothes.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Uncle Ao Qi stood casually, waiting for the residents in the house to reply.

"Yes Uncle Ao Qi, is it Wu Liang? He's scared right now, Shan Yu is at a loss on how to calm him down..."

The worried Uncle Ao Nan then entered and saw Wu Liang from the room, a young man sitting awkwardly on his bed with a body that was no longer sweaty but the effect was still obvious and soaked his clothes, which were originally sky blue to cloudy blue.

Without any hesitation, uncle Ao Qi moved closer to Wu Liang and sat on the edge of the bed while looking at him with a worried gaze.

"What's wrong? Come tell uncle, uncle will try my best to eliminate whatever it is..." hearing that Wu Liang was stunned, he turned his face towards uncle Ao Qi.

Who else could he rely on to handle the evil things in his life other than uncle Ao Qi, this uncle who he already considered as his own adoptive father.

"u-uncle, huft....." Wu Liang was about to speak but it felt like his breathing was heavy and murky.

Uncle Ao Qi understood this, he tried to pull Wu Liang's clothes and take them off, while Wu Liang just resigned his clothes being taken off, exposing the skin of his back and front skin which was still moist, sweat still clinging clearly and wet.

Seeing this, Shan Yu took the initiative to get new clothes from the clothes storage box cabinet in the left corner of the room, in front of the other side of Ming Qi's grandfather's bed.

"Here uncle" she said as she handed over a folded set of Wu Liang's clothes, then received Wu Liang's used clothes back from his uncle.

"It's okay, let's take a deep breath... Hffff.... Then just let go slowly... Huftttt... Isn't it good?..." Wu Liang followed his uncle's directions, and little by little his feelings also improved, his eyes again no longer exuded a strong impression of fear, there was only a lingering impression of worry.

"So let's tell uncle, what exactly did Liang'er see?", hearing his uncle who said 'Liang'er' Wu Liang became more calm, uncle Ao Qi did not say anything, but the look on his face became relieved and happy, it turns out that only need to mention Liang'er then Wu liang can slowly calm down, he thought.

Wu Liang took another deep breath and tried to slowly recount everything he remembered about his dream, the beautiful and soothing meadow, then turned into a meadow with a storm, Wu Liang who could not speak or do much about himself, then entered the cave and found a strange statue in the middle.

Upon hearing Wu Liang describe the statue, uncle Ao Qi's gaze turned wary.

"Did you go out at midnight last night?"

Wu Liang nodded confidently, he was also suspicious of this, "Then it's true, Wu Liang was disturbed by 'Shan Xiao' a small mountain spirit who likes to disturb, fortunately he didn't kidnap Wu Liang, Wu Liang you don't try again to go out at midnight, that fog mist can be a shield for their vision from you, if they can reach you, you can be taken by them directly to their realm"

Wu Liang was really shocked, he was really disturbed by 'Shan Xiao'.