"Tell me more about the dream you just had." Shen Xing reminded.
Lu Yang was still sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall, and patted his somewhat groggy head: "I didn't know I was dreaming just now. It was just sudden, but it felt natural. I found myself in a dark room. . When I was in that room, I couldn’t see anything except the cleaner. Only his body had light, which was very strange.”
"What is he doing?" Shen Xing asked.
"He was staring at me." Lu Yang himself felt very puzzled. "At that time, I didn't know why I entered the dark room, and this guy's eyes were very scary. They were granular crystals like flies, and the surface of the pupils was densely packed. , like a honeycomb, very disgusting.”
"So I immediately looked around for the door, but found that there was no exit at all in that room. Then I thought about using an electrostatic field to blow it up, but it couldn't be released, and then I began to doubt whether the place I was in was real. world, because that guy just kept staring at me, doing nothing, and his expression seemed stunned."
"Maybe he was the same, he found that his compound eye gaze couldn't work, so he was surprised." Shen Xing guessed, and asked: "Then what?"
"Then this guy started looking around the dark room. He probably felt like I was trapped in the room." Lu Yang said, "But in the process, his head and skull kept squirming, constantly moving his scalp and Hair and even cheeks are pushed up by bones, and sometimes the face is completely deformed."
At this time, Shen Xing put his head around the corner of the corridor and glanced at the place where Fuyan was lying. He saw that he was still lying down. He wondered if this guy's body was twitching just now.
"In other words, his face is movable and not fixed?"
Shen Xing turned around and saw the direction of the toilet at the far end of the corridor. At this time, two cleaning staff, a man and a woman, were standing there. They did not dare to come over after seeing the situation here.
But the male cleaning lady among them quickly took out his mobile phone and started making calls.
Lu Yang continued: "Then this guy suddenly screamed. It was very high-pitched. I can't imagine that a normal person's throat can scream at that level. But after he screamed, I soon started to wake up. .”
Shen Xing glanced at the corner of the corridor again and saw that Compound Eye's body was already moving, but he might have just woken up and hadn't raised his head yet.
Another moment of dream stimulation, the Meiying's breath was released. This time, Shen Xing realized that there was not much left of the Meiying's breath, and he could release it once at most.
The compound eye that was about to raise its head suddenly hit the ground and became motionless again.
At this time, Shen Xing coughed twice and glanced at Compound Eyes' lying body again. This was his and Achai's secret signal.
Achai, who had been hiding in the gap in his backpack, received the code signal, and the black shadow swayed and disappeared without a trace. When he reappeared, he was already in the dream of compound eyes.
This time, Achai was specially brought out to prevent the current situation from happening.
Achai can enter and exit dreams freely, and no one is more suitable than him to find out what the compound eye looks like in a dream.
After entering the dreamland, Achai found himself standing in a corridor.
And this corridor was exactly the corridor where Shen Xing and Lu Yang were located when he saw them in the gap in their backpacks just now.
But there was no Shen Xing or Lu Yang in the corridor at this moment.
Achai took a step forward, walked to the corner of the corridor, and looked in the direction of the compound eye that was lying on the ground. There was no one there, and there was no compound eye there.
There was dead silence all around, and there was no sound. Achai was very familiar with this silent scene, because it often appeared in his dreams.
He turned around and looked in the direction of the toilet in the corridor behind him, but as soon as he turned around, a pair of compound eye lenses suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and he was face to face with Achai, only a fist away.
Ah Chai turned into black gas with a bang, and reappeared a few seconds later about four meters away from the compound eye.
He saw that the compound eyes were still standing where they were just now, and a large number of crystals in the slightly bulging eyes were flipping rapidly. Inside his head, a mass of unknown things was surging rapidly, pushing up the skin of his head and then flattening it down, repeatedly. .
"I can't see behind me." Compound Eyes suddenly spoke, seeming to be talking to himself.
As he spoke, he turned around and turned his back to Achai.
Just when he turned around, Achai was startled and found that the hair on the back of the compound eye was turning. After a while, the scalp split open, revealing a huge eyeball, which was also a big compound eye.
It turns out that what's been squirming in this guy's head is not his skull or anything else, but his big eyes.
"I can't see both sides of me." Compound Eyes spoke again.
His head was still turning unconsciously. In the dream, he showed a very unsuitable control over his own characteristics. It felt like this guy had never had a dream.
He didn't seem to know that this was the limited world formed by his consciousness after he fell asleep.
After he said that he couldn't see both sides of himself, Achai saw the left and right ears of the compound eye squirming, then splitting, the same two big eyeballs squeezed out, and a large number of compound eye lenses rotated rapidly.
"So, is he so 360-degree blind?" Achai secretly wondered, wanting to see clearly what this guy would look like.
But at this moment, the compound eyes turned the body back, and the head was no longer human-shaped, with no intact parts, and the skin was broken in all directions.
And what squeezed out from the cracked place were huge compound eyes.
This guy now raised his meat cone-like arms and walked towards Achai.
At the same moment, Achai could feel that his body was stuck, but in the dream, the binding force of this feeling was not very strong.
He struggled a little, started to move, and then drilled into the crack in the ground at the corner of the corridor.
Then he turned his body and looked up at the outside.
In his gaze, a strange humanoid figure walked over and stood outside the crack. His right hand was in the shape of a cone, a large number of irregular eyes bulged on his head, and his scalp was almost completely split.
Looking at it this way, the compound eye has no facial features at all, and his head is composed of a large number of compound eye lenses.
Such a guy with eyes has the terrifying characteristic of making people freeze completely just by looking at it. It is unimaginable that when facing it, you can't help but look at him or stare at it, unless you do nothing. , turned around and ran away before seeing him.
puff!
The meat cone quickly poked in at the small gap between the wall and the ground. Achai immediately squeezed in hard, and at the same time quickly noted the appearance and characteristics of the compound eye in his mind.
Although he was in a dream at this moment, he still felt that his body was moving very slowly, less than one-third of the normal speed.
This is related to the abnormal characteristics of the compound eye itself, but it doesn't seem to know that this is just a dream. If it knew that this was a so-called dream and it was a dream of its own, maybe this abnormal characteristic could be used as perfectly as in the real world. .
The meat cone was too big to penetrate the gap, but it destroyed the gap itself and caused a large amount of stone chips to fall, completely blocking Achai's sight.
"No, I still have blind spots in my vision."
At this time, the compound eye made a sound again. He retracted his flesh cone and kept turning his body and his head full of eyes, trying to completely cover his blind spot.
In fact, Achai didn't know where this guy's blind spot was, but it was obvious that the compound eye was extremely uncomfortable in the dream, which forced the compound eye to show its original shape in an attempt to change this discomfort.
The surrounding images began to vibrate and became unstable.
Achai, who has experienced other people's dreams for a long time, knows that this is a sign that the dreamer is about to wake up, and the entire dream world has begun to break apart.
He immediately left the dreamland of compound eyes.
In a flash, he returned to the gap in Shen Xing's backpack in reality, and said in a voice that only Shen Xing could hear: "This abnormal head is a disguise. The head is full of eyes, with a large number of compound eye lenses, as if it was covered with There are many eyes of flies. Then his right hand is in the shape of a meat cone, and there is no change in other places."
Since Shen Xing's characteristics were transformed and gathered, he could hear Achai's voice, but in the eyes of others, Achai only moved his lips but did not make any sound.
But this is a good thing for Achai. His voice is very special. Even humans and some abnormalities can't hear him. Now he finally doesn't have to write when communicating with Shen Xing.
Although his description was accurate, it was difficult for Shen Xing to form an image in his mind of a head made entirely of compound eye lenses. The flesh-cone arms were easy to sculpt because they could be seen in reality.
Achai immediately got out of the gap in the backpack and stood behind the prone body of Compound Eye. The black shadow kept changing, using his own body to simulate the appearance of Compound Eye in the dream just now.
The head covered with compound eyes is not symmetrical, but has a small piece on the left and a large piece on the right. The size of the eyeballs are also different, but thanks to Achai's good memory, he can basically imitate it, but his whole body is black. , unable to imitate the true appearance of a compound eye.
In fact, Shen Xing didn't need to imitate too carefully, because those bumpy areas on his head were obviously where the compound eyes were fully exposed.
After seeing Achai's shape, he immediately started carving on the wood in his hand with a carving knife.
First, we quickly completed the overall body shape of the compound eye. This part is relatively simple, except for changing its right arm into the shape of a meat cone.
Shen Xing quickly completed this part. When he looked up, Compound Eye's body was already moving slightly and he should wake up soon.
He reserved a large piece of the head part of the wood in advance to facilitate carving a large number of compound eyes, but this part was also the most difficult part.
Shen Xing smiled bitterly in his heart after taking a look at the compound eyes that Achai was imitating with his black body. The head was covered with big eyes like that of Sakyamuni.
Time is very short. Even if my fingers are as soft as bones and my carving speed is extremely fast, it is impossible to complete this compound eye wood carving in such a short period of time.
Shen Xing nodded quickly to Achai, who was standing behind Compound Eyes, and motioned for him to hide back. Then he said to Lu Yang, who was sitting on the ground at the corner of the corridor: "Before this guy wakes up, we have to avoid him."
The dream that Lu Yang entered just now was a compound-eyed dream, and it also included part of his own intertwined dream. At this moment, his whole body was weak and he couldn't use much strength for the time being.
After Shen Xing gave instructions, he struggled to stand up and walked quickly toward the toilet while holding on to the wall.
The two cleaners standing at the door of the toilet shouted in panic: "We have called the security guards. They will come right away. Don't you two thieves even think about escaping!"
They have regarded Shen Xing and Lu Yang as thieves.
Lu Yang ignored their warning and said: "Leave immediately and tell the security guards not to come up. It's very dangerous here!"
The male cleaner picked up the broom. If Lu Yang came closer, he might attack directly.
But the next moment, he saw the work permit that Lu Yang took out.
"Sheriff?"
"Let's go! Don't waste time!" Lu Yang shouted.
Shen Xing was following behind Lu Yang at this time. As he walked, he quickly carved the wood in his hand. The head of the compound eye wood carving had a rough shape. The only difference was the exquisite carving of each compound eye lens.
Ding!
Just when Lu Yang and the two cleaning staff arrived at the elevator, the sound of the elevator arriving was heard.
Lu Yang was stunned and secretly thought that the situation was not good. He saw four security guards with rubber batons walking out after the elevator door opened.
"Who made the call just now?" the leading security guard asked.
At this moment, there was a muffled groan and the sound of a person getting up from the ground from the corner of the corridor. Compound Eyes had obviously woken up.
"You can't go there." Shen Xing quickly walked into the elevator, still busy with his hands, and said without raising his head: "Everyone retreat. Didn't the manager of the property company tell you that we are working on a case tonight?"
"Ah, it's Mr. Sheriff." The security guards suddenly woke up.
"Yao...Fang?" A voice suddenly came from the corner of the corridor.
The voice was a little hoarse, giving the impression that it was not a normal voice, but rather like a person who had been injured.
The female cleaning lady was stunned and immediately realized who was speaking: "It's Wang Rujun, our colleague, he is still over there."
While speaking, she quickly looked in that direction, and suddenly her whole body froze.
Lu Yang grabbed another male cleaner who wanted to peek, but he was too exhausted at the moment to catch him.
The male colleague also maintained the posture of leaning out and watching, stiff and motionless.
While carving, Shen Xing blocked the security guards with his body and said in a stern tone: "Don't look, you can't look over there."
These security guards noticed something was wrong, and the leader asked fearfully: "Sir, what's there... there?"
"Ghost!" Lu Yang replied directly.
The four people were suddenly startled, and seeing the two cleaning staff stiffly looking in that direction, they all subconsciously took a step back.
"Catch them, go to the elevator first, and don't come up again for now." Lu Yang ordered.
This just forms the blind spot of the compound eye's sight, because even if it is covered with eyes, it is impossible to bend its sight.
The four security guards immediately hurriedly tried to lift the two stiff cleaners away, and put them into the elevator first. Unexpectedly, after dragging them for a long time, the two stiff people on the spot did not move at all, as if they were weighing thousands of kilograms and could not be lifted at all. Walk.
"Ignore them, you go first." Shen Xing glanced at them from the corner of his eye and immediately ordered.
The compound eye is a high-level anomaly. After nailing someone to death with its gaze, it should be impossible for the target to move and escape easily, even with the help of others.
The four security guards ignored them and rushed to the elevator that had just closed the door, pressing the door-open button frantically.
Shen Xing said to Lu Yang: "If you stay here, I will have to take care of you. Follow them first."
"What?" Lu Yang was shocked, "How can you be alone..."
"It doesn't matter. If I can't figure it out, I can still escape unscathed, but I will be wary of you here." Shen Xing interrupted him and said quickly.
After he finished speaking, he said to the security guard: "Come here and help him leave alone."
At this time, the elevator door had opened, and a young and strong security guard immediately ran over, supported Lu Yang and almost dragged him into the elevator.
Compound Eye's footsteps were getting closer and closer. Instead of calling the female cleaning lady's name, he made an intrusive grinding sound.
This made Shen Xing very curious. According to Achai, this guy should have no teeth on his head, just eyeballs. He didn't know where the grinding sound came from.
The head part full of eyeballs on the wood carving in his hand has already been carved by one-third, because the compound eye lenses are all about the same size. After mastering the previous carving techniques, the subsequent compound eye lenses are just a repetitive process for Shen Xing. Process.
He took a breath, changed the carving knife to the left hand holding the wood carving, reached out and tried to pull the stiff male cleaner, and sure enough, he didn't move at all.
With a slight exertion, the male cleaner's body bones made a grinding sound. It was obvious that he could not exert any more force, otherwise even if he could be pulled over, the bones in his body might break.
"What a powerful compound eye sight!" Shen Xing was secretly shocked and started to resume the carving in his hand again.
At this time, Compound Eye's footsteps passed by the door of the toilet, and not long after, the figure of the thin man came to the door of the elevator.
At this moment, he just kept his arms in a conical shape, and his head still looked like a normal person, without the condition that Achai imitated.
However, there are indeed a lot of things moving around in this guy's head, but Shen Xing now knows very well that it is not bones that are moving, but countless eyeballs hidden under the scalp.
He slowly backed away, carving in his hands continuously, and sawdust fell to his feet like raindrops.
At the same moment, Compound Eye originally raised the meat cone, preparing to hit the two standing cleaners. Suddenly, it was attracted by the wood carving in Shen Xing's hand.
Although it did not appear at this moment, it clearly found that the wood carving that Shen Xing was carving was the same as its own body.
Bahba bah…
The skin on the compound-eyed head burst open instantly. At that moment, four or five eyeballs squeezed out from its forehead and moved quickly to look at Shen Xing.
Ever since this guy appeared, Shen Xing had kept his head down and stared at his toes without looking forward.
"Come on, come with me quickly. Why are you still standing there?"
At this moment, Lu Yang's voice suddenly sounded from the front, his tone urgent.
Shen Xing almost looked up subconsciously, but he was just stunned for a moment, activated the causal isolation, and spoke directly.
"You have always hidden yourself under human skin, not only because of the idea of not revealing your identity, but also because of an inferiority complex. Others can't look directly into your eyes, but you don't realize it, and you don't want to see yourself like this. So in When you saw the wood carving in my hand, you were shocked immediately, as if you saw another version of yourself."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Xing could feel that all the eyes were looking at the wood carving in his hand, no longer confusing him with their eyes, and no longer paying attention to the two stiff cleaning staff.
After buying time, Shen Xing concentrated on working quickly. The compound eye wood carving in his hand, especially the head full of eyeballs, was two-thirds complete.
But at the next moment, a faint bright light shone over, and the compound eye's eyeballs seemed to have bright light shining through. It looked away from the wooden sculpture and looked at Shen Xing again, and it was no longer disturbed by the isolation of cause and effect.
"Fuck, so fast?! Could it be that its eyes can see through cause and effect?" Shen Xing was shocked.
However, he kept his head down, so even if the other party looked over, he would be fine for the time being.
Compound Eyes also noticed this scene, and while staring at Shen Xing, he strode closer, raised the meat cone in his hand, and slammed it down hard.
Shen Xing's sense of sensitivity was extremely strong now, and he immediately dodged in advance. The meat cone fell from his side and hit the ground with a bang, and a large ball of sparks exploded.
Shen Xing quickly took a few steps to the side and spoke again.
"You think my words are deliberately disturbing you. In fact, you have subconsciously approved the wooden sculpture in my hand. You see, it is exactly the same as yours. Every compound eye is lifelike. You can't help but go to it every time. Pay attention to it, appreciate it..."
The compound eye's attack movements stopped, and his gaze turned to the almost completed wood carving in his hand again.
But at this time, Shen Xing also suddenly discovered that although he did not even look at the compound eyes, his body was gradually becoming stiffer, the movements of his hands were getting slower and slower, and his legs were gradually becoming stiff as if he could not move forward.
This shows that this compound eye also has some terrifying characteristics. Even if you don't look at it, you will still be affected by stiffness as long as you are under its gaze for too long.
Fortunately, the big eyes of the wood carving are basically finished, and only some small eyes are embellished. They can be formed almost by poking each one with the carving knife, which is very fast.
Gradually, Shen Xing's limbs began to solidify, leaving only his mouth that could still speak. He continued: "The appreciation for this wooden sculpture that is exactly the same as yourself makes you unable to help but... caress it..."
At this moment, Shen Xing finally stiffened up. Like the two cleaning staff, he was still conscious, staring straight at the approaching black figure in front of him. After a while, the undeformed arm stretched out and slowly came closer to his hand. wood carving.
Shen Xing held her breath as the last breath of the charming baby was ready.
If the compound eyes at this moment still see through the isolation of his own cause and effect, and his arm reaches over without touching the wooden sculpture, Shen Xing will immediately activate the instant dream state, adding a layer of double insurance to himself.
In the sight, the stretched arm paused for a moment, as if it wanted to grab his neck, but after a pause, the arm went down and touched the wood carving that had just been completed.
In an instant, the space in the elevator went dark, as if lights were flashing, and the shadow of the compound eyes in front of him quickly shrank.
It seemed to be frightened, turned around and wanted to run away, and at the same time made a harsh cry. With a bang, the light tube exploded and plunged into darkness.
The wooden sculpture in Shen Xing's hand trembled and contained the compound eye, which was turning around to escape.
The two cleaning staff standing at the door of the elevator fell to the ground and fell unconscious in the next second.
The stiffness of Shen Xing's stretched out hand was also lifted at the same time, and there were also signs of weakness in his body, but he did not sink too deep, and stretched out his hand to hold the wall to stand still.
Just when I took a breath, I saw outside the elevator room, the lights in the corridor suddenly exploded in a series of bangs, bangs, bangs, like a solitaire, and the entire corridor was dark for a few seconds.
Not only here, not only on the 47th floor, if you stand outside the White Tower Building and look at it at this moment, you will find that the building has instantly fallen into darkness, and no more lights can be seen.
As if a vent had been opened, a strong wind flowed into the elevator, making Shen Xing's limbs cold and his hair standing on end.
"ah--"
At the same time, he clearly heard a woman's miserable scream in the corridor on the 47th floor, followed by the sound of dragging.
"whee……"
At the door of the toilet next door, a burst of children's laughter appeared, sharp and thin, and inexplicably weird.
On other floors, after falling into darkness, extremely strange phenomena also occurred.
At this moment, Shen Xing's abnormal perception skills issued a large number of warning prompts. The warnings came from this floor, floors above and below, and even elevators and stairwells.
Shen Xing, whose limbs were cold, suddenly understood at this moment why the compound eyes had been lurking here.
