In the evening, Dean called Hope to the yard for a chat.
“You know what the sensory deprivation tank is about?”
Hope frowned, "This thing is not a piece of equipment from Hawkins Laboratory. Why do you ask it?"
"I want to see if I can expand Jane's mind in the water tank and ask her to help me find my missing parents."
In the afternoon, Dean had used the bathtub at home to create a water tank to amplify the dark area of Jane's mind. Unfortunately, adding cold water, warm water, and salt water to the bathtub failed.
Unlike the water tank in Jane's impression, it has no effect.
"The dark area of the mind is some kind of super power?"
"Yes, but Jane has more than one superpower. Jane can retrieve objects from across the air, so both the laboratory and the Sulian people want to get her." Dean simply said frankly, "It's just that she has just arrived and is reluctant to reveal her abilities to us."
Hope looked at the little girl on the sofa who was watching TV intently in the glass window and her eyes became complicated. When she turned to Dean, a dangerous light shone in her eyes, "You want to put her into a sensory deprivation tank and talk to the perverted Martin... What’s the difference Brenner?”
"I didn't force her, she offered to help."
"Will that hurt her body?"
"She said no problem."
"Okay. But I didn't go to college and I don't understand this kind of advanced scientific knowledge. I suggest you go to Hawkins Middle School and ask the teacher of the audio-visual club, Scott Clark. He is a graduate of the physics department of Princeton University. He is a real The genius must know the answer."
Dean remembered that Dustin mentioned this teacher, and he had an idea in his mind.
…
The next morning.
"Mr. Clark, this is Dustin." The little fat man knocked on the teacher's door, and Dean stood in the shadow next to him,
"Just in time," a thin man opened the door and said with a smile, "I have good news to inform you. The principal has agreed to allocate funds to the audio-visual club to purchase new equipment. Next semester, you will see a brand new projector..."
"Wow...that's great, teacher, I can't wait to see it!" Dustin immediately jumped twice with excitement, making Dean who was watching aside couldn't help laughing.
"Don't worry, young man, school starts in half a month, and you can watch enough every day. Now back to the topic, didn't you come here specifically just to say hello to me?"
"Well, I have a scientific question I want to ask you." Dustin glanced at Dean next to him from the corner of his eye, and received an encouraging look, "Do you know how to build a sensory deprivation tank?"
"Sensory deprivation is not a trivial matter. What do you want to use it for?" The man said with a solemn expression.
“The weather is hot and perfect for swimming, but ordinary swimming pools are really boring and crowded,” Dustin said smartly. “Mike and I want to use the children’s pool at home to create a sensory deprivation tank in the yard and experience being in it. What it feels like to float.”
"Uh...this..." Clark's thin face showed a look of embarrassment.
"Please help us, teacher, didn't you say that curiosity is the ladder of progress?"
"OK, the size of the children's swimming pool just reaches the minimum standard to fully stretch the body. Then you need to prepare 1,500 pounds (680kg) of salt and mix it into the water...the water temperature is similar to the body temperature...then eye masks, earplugs, and thermometers are essential. You have to create a It creates an environment similar to the mother's amniotic fluid, and entering it creates a feeling of returning to the mother's belly."
"Okay...I remember," Dustin waved goodbye, "See you again at the start of school, Mr. Clark."
…
"Great job, Dustin, you helped me a lot!" Dean put his arm around the boy's shoulders and walked to the car.
"Compared to what you did for us, this little favor is nothing." Dustin rubbed the back of his head and said with a smile,
"Well, but there is a major problem. Everything else can be easily solved. Where do you get these fifteen hundred pounds of salt?" Dean asked, "Does the small supermarket where Joyce works have so much stock?"
Dustin touched his slightly curly hair, "The small supermarket only has one or two hundred pounds at most. Even if you search all the stores in the town, you can't buy so much. But I remember that there are two tons of food in the basketball gym of Hawkins Middle School." To deal with de-icing salt in winter, but now the door is closed for summer vacation... There is no way the teacher will allow us to waste so much salt."
Dean nodded secretly.
"Then I'll think of another way."
"By the way, Dean, I swear to keep it secret for you, but can you let me see Joshua again." Dustin looked up at him, his eyes full of desire.
"There's a chance."
…
After saying goodbye to Dustin, Dean went across town and bought a rubber children's pool to take home. When it got completely dark, he drove to Hawkins Middle School.
This place was larger than he expected, with a playground, three teaching buildings, and a luxurious basketball gym.
On summer nights, the school was dark and quiet, like an abandoned cemetery, with not even a janitor in sight.
Dean walked around the school's walls and guardrails, checked the fifty-meter range from God's perspective, and turned off the monitoring equipment in the security booth with his mind.
Then "Shadow" opened the door of the basketball stadium from the inside, and Dean sneaked into the utility room like a gust of wind, leaving a thousand dollars in compensation. Then he loaded bags of deicing salt into the car and transported it back to his ancestral home.
…
When we got home, Hope was taking a shower in the bathroom.
Dean carried a huge roll on his back to the yard. The roll contained a rubber children's swimming pool, eye masks, ear plugs, thermometers, rubber hoses connected to faucets and other tools.
"Jane, come here and help me spread the pool..."
"OK."
The lights on the corridor outside the house illuminated the small courtyard in front of the door. A circular swimming pool spread out in the middle of the courtyard, just big enough for Jane to stretch her limbs.
Dean used his telekinesis to send one end of the two rubber water pipes into the wooden house to connect the cold water and hot water respectively, and the other end flew into the swimming pool out of thin air.
The valve was turned with telekinesis, and with a gurgling sound, the liquid poured into the pool, mixing hot and cold, creating a soft luster in the moonlight.
Jane looked on with her big black eyes widened and her small mouth opened wide enough to swallow an egg.
"Dean, you, you also have 'power'?"
"How else would I rescue you from the laboratory?" Dean smiled at her, looked into her eyes and said sincerely, "We both have superpowers and are looking for our parents, so we are the same kind of people. Or companions.”
After half a month of preparation, the heat is almost ready.
"We are companions."
This sentence echoed repeatedly in the little girl's mind like magic, making her look stunned.
After losing memory.
She had the impression that there were hundreds of people in Hawkins Laboratory, including researchers and security guards, but she was the only one who had control over her abilities. Therefore, she was different from everyone else, including her father. She was a lonely individual and would never have real friends.
She thought the whole world was like this.
But today——
"Dean and I are companions."
The huge surprise made her nose feel sore inexplicably. For a moment, she looked at Dean with eyes full of trust. She seemed to have some kind of connection and bond with him.
"Why are you crying?" Dean couldn't help but curl his lips slightly as he looked at the system's progress that had soared to 82%.
"I-I'm so happy, but why are you more skilled in superpowers than me?"
Jane ran over and held Dean's hand, tilting her head at the same time. A trace of blood slipped down her nose. The invisible power of thought rolled up the thermometer on the ground and dropped it into the pool, and began to measure the water temperature.
"Because I have received professional training, which is more effective than your training in the laboratory. Your current use of telekinesis is too rudimentary." Dean looked at the back door of the car next to him.
The shadow of the past turned into a gust of wind and rushed in. At the same time, he used his telekinesis to lift two white woven bags into the air and fly above the half-filled swimming pool.
A large hole was torn in the woven bag, and white deicing salt fell into the bathtub.
The splashing water appears in crystal colors under the light.
"Stir it up, Jane."
"good."
The little girl used a crowbar on the ground to stir up a pool of water and let the water and salt merge.
The two of them just cooperated with each other.
Jane stirred the pool's solution, measured the temperature with a thermometer, and occasionally tried to carry bags of salt from the car.
Her mental power is stronger than that of "Shadow", and she is faster when holding a 50kg woven bag, but her strength fluctuates and is unstable. Sometimes the bag falls open halfway, and the salt splash covers half of the yard.
Finally, all the woven bags were empty.
Jane controlled an egg to fly into the swimming pool and float steadily on the water. The temperature on the thermometer reached the standard and the faucet was turned off.
A kid’s version of the sensory deprivation tank is new.
Jane is about to take off her skirt.
"Wait a minute, Jane, have you forgotten, privacy, don't change clothes in front of outsiders..." Dean stopped her immediately, "Go to the utility room."
"Um."
Jane put on a one-piece swimsuit that looked like a black diving suit, looked at the photos of Lena and Guangming again, and then, with Dean's encouragement, put on an eye mask and earplugs, jumped into the pool, and lay down flat on her back. He struggled to float on his back in the sensory deprivation tank, motionless like a floating corpse.
Sizzling——
Invisible energy fields swirl in the air.
The TV screen in the room turned into a large signal snowflake, the wiring of the hanging light in the corridor flashed with a blue current, and the light began to change between bright and dim again until it was completely extinguished.
Jane, floating on the water, was engulfed in darkness.
Time stands still.
I don’t know how long it took.
"Black, black..." Jane murmured slightly, and the light turned on again.
She swam to the edge of the pool, took off her blindfold and looked at Dean.
"I saw your mother."
Dean suppressed the excitement in his heart and took her out of the water tank. He used a blanket to wipe the blood and wet hair between her nose and mouth, and at the same time summoned "Shadow", "Where is she? Speak slowly, don't rush. "
"A hall with colorful lights..." Jane stared at the empty memory in front of her. "There is a stage in the center of the hall. On the stage, a naked woman twists her body around a steel pipe, while Lena and another beautiful woman sit Chatting at the corner table.”
"A woman without clothes, are you kidding me?"
"Sorry, I didn't say it accurately. I actually wore a little more." Jane pointed to her chest innocently, "That woman is wearing two black hoods here."
Pointing downward again,
"Here is a rag."
"You mean bikini?" Dean held his forehead, his face turned a little ugly, "So, Lena is currently drinking in a strip club?"
"Shadow"'s black body became as unstable as an abyss.
Bloodline progress jumped to 11%.
"Where is the strip club?" Jane was curious,
"That was a scarier place for a kid than Hawkins Lab."
Jian shrank her neck and didn't dare to ask again.
"What did Lena and the woman talk about?"
"I'm sorry, I can't hear clearly. There seems to be some force blocking my prying eyes."
"Supernatural power?" Dean's expression changed. This should not be an ordinary strip club. "So what does the woman sitting with Lena look like?"
Jane sat by the swimming pool, tilting her head and thinking, "She is about twenty years old, with white skin, auburn hair, big red lips, and well-developed breasts. I can't help but want to take a second look."
In her twenties, Dean thought for a moment, it was probably not Carly No. 8 who escaped from the laboratory together, "Tell me more carefully."
"The outline of that woman's facial features feels a bit similar to your mother's."
"Somewhat similar to Lena?" Dean looked at the outline of his mother's facial features in the photo, and suddenly realized, "Does that mean the woman she was chatting with is also Asian? Oh, no, she's more likely to be Indian!"
Bloodline progress jumped to 13 percent.
"Can you draw her?"
"Sorry, I can't do it."
"What does the woman on that stage look like?"
"Very distinctive, with yellow and light brown skin, black and smooth hair, and prominent cheekbones..."
"A bit like Mo, or maybe an Indian." Dean turned his eyes, reached out and took out a map of the United States from his arms, placed it on the lawn, and marked the approximate location of Hawkins, Indiana, where they were.
"Where exactly is this hall located?"
Jane took a pen and drew a long diagonal line southwest of Hawkins, which passed through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. "It was probably on this straight line, but I couldn't see the street sign outside. There was something scary staring at me in the dark, which made me panic."
"It's okay, you've done a great job," Dean handed Jane a candy, and the information he collected flashed through his mind - in southwest Indiana, there are suspected supernatural beings of Indian, Asian, or Lao Mo dancers. Power Strip Club.
Bloodline jumped to fifteen percent.
Dean couldn't figure out why Lena would appear in such a place, but after completing the "Caged Bird" incident, he would have to follow this route to find someone.
…
"So have you seen the light?" Dean pointed to the man in the photo, "Is he with Lena?"
"Sorry, I didn't see your dad." Jane recalled her experience under Martin Brenner's guidance. "Either he was far, far away from us, in another place that was out of reach. Or he was already dead. Long time.”
Huhu——
A gust of wind swept through, and the shadow flew wildly around the yard like it was venting, and the electric lamp was driven around.
"No, Guangming should not be dead?"
Dean mentally rejected Jane's guess. The system would not let him find a person who had been dead for a long time.
Now, since there is no light in the dark area of his mind, Dean immediately changes his mind - first find Experiment No. 8 Carly, who escaped with the couple!
…
"That's it for today," Dean smiled gratefully at Jane and wiped her face clean.
"Sorry, I couldn't help you find your father." Jane looked tired with guilt. The perception and telekinesis tonight consumed too much of her physical and mental energy.
"Don't say that, you did a great job." Dean rubbed her little head, "To thank you for your help. I plan to teach you how to use your super powers, are you willing?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Go inside first, dry your hair, and change into clothes." Dean reached out and rolled up a woven bag and floated it toward the trash can. "I'll clean up the yard."
"OK."
"Ahem..." The police sergeant in a nightgown walked out of the door with his hands on his hips, and glanced at the whole family with resentful eyes like a jealous old father. "What secret are you two hiding? Can't you explain it to me first?"
(End of chapter)
