This is a dream! ?
When she first saw these four words, Shen Xing was stunned and immediately felt like the world was spinning.
"You said...we are in a dream now?" He had to ask again.
Achai squatted on the ground, looked up at him, then nodded quickly, stretched out his index finger and started drawing on the ground again. After a while, another line of words appeared.
[I thought that the master could appear in other people's dreams at will, so I was very confused when I came out just now. 】
At this moment, Shen Xing felt that everything around him had become unreal, all illusory, and even he had an illusory sense of existence.
If the current situation is really as Achai said, he is in a dream. When did he enter the dream? Why didn't I find out?
Thinking about all this, it’s terrifying to think about it.
This was the first time in Shen Xing's history that he encountered such a strange situation. He took a big breath and wanted to find a place to sit down.
Soon he felt that his breathing was smooth and there was nothing unusual. He went to the window and looked out. The street lights were dim in the early morning, but the street was quiet. There was not a single person or car in sight.
Turning his head to look at the sleeping person on the bed, Shen Xing forced himself to slow down his breathing, calm his mood, and began to remember seriously.
He remembered that after he had indeed used the strange eyes, he discovered from the hotel that there was a lot of abnormal red aura in the building opposite, and it was mainly concentrated in the room where Yao Jie, his wife and Yao Tong were.
So Shen Xing thought that this should be Yao Tong's most active period, so he decided to take this opportunity to come and have a look.
He carefully recalled everything that happened. He did not carry a backpack at that time, but put two pens in his trouser pockets. When he touched his trouser pockets, the pens were still there.
After closing the door of the hotel room, he took the elevator directly downstairs and came to the street. At that time, there was an idle taxi that saw him coming out of the hotel and was about to pull over.
Later, he realized that he didn't look like he was taking a taxi, so the taxi driver drove away again.
After crossing the street and arriving at the old building opposite, Shen Xing remembered that he found that the small door next to a window at the bottom of the building was not closed, so he opened the door and walked in.
The light on the first floor was dim, and the voice-activated light seemed to be broken. He turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone and went upstairs quietly.
After arriving on this floor, I found that the living room door of the room where Yao Tong was located was opened directly. When I stood at the door, I saw that Yao Tong was staring at a music box on the square table in a daze.
The music box was broken and could no longer function, and then he walked into the room to express his intention.
Thinking of this, Shen Xing suddenly became confused, "No, I went upstairs and got here, but what floor is this place on?"
At that time, he saw from across the hotel that the two rooms with the most abnormal red aura were on the fourth floor of this old building, but in his memory, he couldn't remember how many floors he went up to.
Something must have gone wrong here. Shen Xing didn't believe Achai would find this reason to lie to him. After all, he was his master now.
But he entered the dream without anyone noticing, and everything transitioned so naturally that Shen Xing didn't feel any strange at all.
If he hadn't summoned Achai, who could appear in other people's dreams at will, I'm afraid he would still be kept in the dark, and I don't know how long it would take to find out.
That's why Achai was surprised when he appeared just now and was eager to tell him the truth.
Thinking of this, Shen Xing became a little worried about the current condition of his body. He immediately asked Achai: "Am I in the dream of the girl lying on this bed now?"
Achai nodded, then shook his head again, and continued to write on the ground with his fingers.
[This is her consciousness, which is similar to the dreams of ordinary people, but this level of consciousness is very stable and powerful. I don’t know how different it is from the dreams of ordinary people for the time being. 】
Shen Xing pondered for a moment, "In other words, the parents of the girl outside also don't know that they are in Yao Tong's dream consciousness?"
[I probably don’t know, but it doesn’t rule out that the girl named Yao Tong created her parents with her own consciousness. 】
"Oh no, it's so powerful!" Shen Xing secretly smacked his lips.
After experiencing so many anomalies, he felt that he had been careful enough, but in the face of this anomaly that he had never encountered before and whose characteristics he did not understand, who knew he would still get away with it.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, I mentally improved my understanding of Yao Tong's characteristics. However, even if my reasoning was successful, in the face of such a powerful anomaly in the sequence chain, mere speculation would still not be of much use.
[Yao Tong, the current characteristic understanding level is 15%. 】
At present, no matter how Shen Xing reasons, the improvement in his understanding of its characteristics is very slow.
This is not to say that my guess is not correct, but even if the guess is correct, it only stays at the level of speculation. To this level of anomaly, in-depth contact is needed.
After Achai's reminder just now, Shen Xing already knew that he was in a dream, but he found that his understanding of Yao Tong's characteristics had only increased by 2%.
After thinking for a while, Shen Xing said: "Achai, you are more experienced than me in dreams, tell me how to wake up now?"
Now that he is in Yao Tong's dream, he is in a very passive situation. Whether he wants to know more about Yao Tong or leaves here, it is very disadvantageous. Therefore, the first thing Shen Xing must consider is that he must wake up first.
Moreover, it is unclear what condition his body is currently in. Wouldn't it be terrible if his body was in some kind of danger at this moment?
All in all, there were too many uncontrollable factors, and he needed to take back the initiative immediately.
Achai tilted his head, thought seriously, and wrote on the ground.
[If Yao Tong's subconscious control is not very strong, you need to hurt yourself and make yourself extremely uncomfortable with this environment, so that you have a chance to wake up. 】
Shen Xing nodded, turned to look at the bedside table, opened the cabinet drawer, and then searched elsewhere in the bedroom for a while, but did not see any sharp objects.
It may be because Yao Tong originally suffered from mental illness, and her parents were worried that if there were sharp objects in the house, she would be hurt, so they took them away and hid them.
This means that in Yao Tong's dream, these things also do not exist. It has to be said that this girl has a high degree of restoration in her dream consciousness.
It is not without reason that I have never been able to distinguish between dreams and reality.
After a while, Shen Xing gave up searching and turned his attention to Yao Tong on the bed.
At this moment, Yao Tong was still in a deep sleep state. Shen Xing was very confused by this scene. Since he was now in Yao Tong's dream, it meant that the girl should be asleep in reality.
In other words, she is now asleep again in her dream. Is this the so-called dream within a dream?
Are the things that appeared in the dream actually the things in her dream?
In other words, in reality, Yao Tong may not have the ability to manifest other abnormalities at all. She did this in her dreams.
In this way, her most powerful ability is the ability to unsuspectingly bring others into her dream consciousness.
Shen Xing tried to pinch his thigh hard. He could feel the pain, but it was far from enough to wake him up.
He turned around and saw that Achai had disappeared.
While he was wondering, Achai squeezed in through the crack of the closed bedroom door, opened his mouth, and spit out a kitchen knife.
[Master, use this. I found it next door. 】
After a pause, A Cai asked again.
[Are those two people sitting outside Yao Tong’s parents? I took a look just now. They have their own ideology, which is similar to yours. It should not be created by Yao Tong himself out of thin air. 】
Shen Xing picked up the kitchen knife and nodded. He also guessed that the experience of Yao Tong's parents was similar to his own. After thinking about it, he said: "If I chop myself now, for example, in the thigh or my arm, then I will Will it hurt in real life?”
Achai squatted on the ground and wrote quickly.
[If it’s an ordinary dream, you can cut it as you like. If it breaks even a little bit in reality, I’ll lose. But the current dream consciousness is unusual, so there is a certain chance that it may cause harm in reality. If you cut yourself on the thigh now, the muscles in that part of the leg will hurt in reality, and the same wound may appear, but maybe it is just the conditioned reflex in the dream that causes muscle pain, and no wound will appear in reality. 】
"Then you still have to be careful." Shen Xing probably understood.
He pulled over the only wooden chair in the bedroom, sat down, held a kitchen knife in his right hand, and stabbed his left arm.
But he didn't chop it, but cut it directly.
The clothes tore apart instantly, the muscles in his arms rolled up, and blood poured out.
Shen Xing didn't care whether the blood would stain his clothes and pants. A sharp pain hit him. He pulled the corner of his mouth and looked down at the wound.
In order to achieve the effect of severe pain, the knife was cut a bit deep, and the bone was almost visible.
Achai stood aside, seemingly a little surprised, and looked around.
The blood was still flowing. Although Shen Xing grimaced in pain, he still sat on the wooden chair and did not disappear.
After a moment, Achai suddenly pulled up his sleeve, cut it off with a kitchen knife, rolled it around, and wrapped it around the wound on Shen Xing's arm.
Shen Xing looked at him puzzled.
I saw him writing on the ground [Can't get out, her consciousness is too strong, your life will be in danger if this continues, real life danger! The wound must be treated immediately! 】
Shen Xing was also surprised when he saw what he wrote. Fortunately, he didn't bite off his tongue just now when he didn't find any sharp objects, although he had this thought at the time.
If I really have to bite it off, it will definitely be extremely painful, but just like now, I still can't wake up and can't go back.
Wouldn't that mean that he killed himself in Yao Tong's dream?
This scene reminded Shen Xing of Freddy in the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street" from another memory. If he is killed by Freddy in his dream, then people in reality will also die for real.
Is my current situation similar to "A Nightmare on Elm Street"?
Although this possibility is possible, Shen Xing cannot confirm it at all.
The blood was still gushing out, and it was impossible to cover it with my sleeves.
Shen Xing stood up and said to Achai: "First, study Yao Tong who is currently sleeping. See if she is still dreaming in her dream. If you find anything new, notify me immediately and I will go out to stop the bleeding."
As soon as he finished speaking, he stood up, opened the bedroom door and walked out.
Yao Jie and Huang Guiping, who were sitting in the living room, were shocked when they saw his appearance, thinking that Shen Xing had been injured by Yao Tong.
Shen Xing did not explain, but just said: "Do you have a first-aid kit at home? Stop my bleeding first."
Huang Guiping immediately ran to the room next door, while Yao Jie pulled Shen Xing and asked him to sit on the sofa first, pressing his wounds with his hands through his blood-soaked sleeves.
Not long after, Huang Guiping ran back with a small medicine box. After opening it, she took out gauze and a hemostatic bandage, and used a thick stack of gauze to hold down the wound on Shen Xing's arm.
After the blood stopped flowing out, the couple wrapped the wound on their arm with a bandage. Huang Guiping seemed to know some medical aid knowledge. With her help, the wound was quickly treated.
"Mr. Shen, did Tongtong hurt you?" Yao Jie dared to ask at this time.
Shen Xing shook his head and did not talk about it, but changed the topic, "The problem now is a bit tricky. Do you think there is something strange here? It means it is very different from usual."
Yao Jie and Huang Guiping looked at each other and shook their heads.
In their opinion, there has always been something strange in their own home, and for them now, this kind of strangeness is not something they are accustomed to, but at least it is no longer strange.
The only thing they hope is that Yao Tong can get better and truly live a good life as an ordinary person.
"Have you been on the streets these days?" Shen Xing asked in a different way.
Although Achai was also guessing, it was impossible to determine whether the couple were the original products of the dream, or whether they came in from sleep like Shen Xing.
So Shen Xing didn't tell them directly that this was Yao Tong's dream.
Yao Jie said: "I asked for leave from my work. I have been suffering from insomnia for the past two days, so I didn't go out on the street."
Huang Guiping also said: "There are still a lot of vegetables to buy at home. I haven't gone out to buy them for the past two days."
"You haven't been out yet?" Shen Xing frowned and pointed out the window, "Although it's very late now, go to the window and take a look at the street outside to see if you can find anything unusual."
The couple looked surprised and followed the instructions and went to stand by the window.
Shen Xing stood up and felt that his left arm was still hurting. This pain was very real. He didn't know how his body was doing in reality.
He came to the bedroom door, pushed it open, and closed the door smoothly.
If Yao Jie and his wife can discover the abnormality, it basically means that they are the same as Shen Xing. But if they cannot discover it, then it is possible that they are the product of this dream.
In the bedroom at this time, the dark figure Achai was bent over, as if staring into Yao Tong's eyes, and seemed to be sensing something from her.
Seeing Shen Xing come in, he immediately wrote his words on the ground.
[She is indeed asleep, but there is no way of knowing whether she is dreaming. 】
"Can you go in and have a look?" Shen Xing asked.
Achai suddenly became hesitant.
[I dare not enter her dream within a dream, and I may never come out again, because she is too powerful, and her consciousness can form a space isolated from the outside world. 】
Shen Xing frowned and asked, "Then can you leave this dream and return to reality?"
Achai felt it for a moment, nodded, and wrote [But I can't guarantee whether I can come in again].
His body structure is completely different from that of humans, and even his life form is different, so Shen Xing cannot imagine the way in which Achai comes in and out of other people's dreams.
"You go out first, protect my body, and don't let it get hurt." Shen Xing ordered: "If you get any key information outside, be sure to notify me in time."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the dark shadow in front of him began to fade, getting lighter and lighter, until it was completely transparent. Within a few seconds, Achai disappeared mysteriously.
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Dark stairway corner.
There is a leaky water pipe on the ceiling of the fourth floor, and water drops are dripping down.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
The sound of water dripping in this old building shrouded in thick ink-like night seemed empty and strange, giving off an unbearable uneasiness.
Except for the street-facing shops on the first floor of this old house, no one seems to have lived in the upper floors for a long time.
At the corner of the stairs leading from the third floor to the fourth floor, a man's figure was lying here, breathing evenly, and seemed to have fainted.
The dripping water hit the stairs not far from his cheek. At this moment, the left side of the young man's cheek was already soaked in water.
A black shadow suddenly flashed and appeared out of thin air directly on the side of the fainted man. After seeing the person on the ground, he was startled and immediately prepared to help him.
But at this moment, footsteps sounded in the corridor on the fourth floor.
The sound was dull, giving the impression that he was walking barefoot instead of wearing shoes.
The black shadow appeared and there was no time to continue. It immediately floated back and got into a crack in the wall.
Not long after, a thin, disheveled girl appeared at the stairs on the fourth floor, approaching the lying man step by step.
This girl was Yao Tong. She still didn't wear shoes, but walked down the stairs barefoot. Every step she took was very steady. Although there was no light here, it didn't seem to affect her movements.
Step by step, until he was completely standing next to the lying man, the water droplets falling hit Yao Tong's shoulders. The water droplets were cold, but Yao Tong did not react at all.
Not only that, her eyes were still closed, and they had never been opened since she walked there.
