Dream Guide

Even though it was broad daylight, everyone in the ward heard it with horror.

The patient in the next bed also opened the curtain and spoke: "Sister-in-law, are you telling a ghost story?"

Yao Jingjing also said: "Yes, Mom, what are you talking about!"

Yao's mother said: "How can I be in the mood to tell ghost stories? This is all my personal experience. I was frightened that day and had a high fever the next day, so I came to the hospital for a check-up. The result was later found out. Such a problem. I even told your dad that I had encountered a ghost and wanted to go to Yuantong Temple to burn incense!"

Dad Yao said: "It's true, but you didn't tell me about looking in the mirror! There are still people playing rock, paper, scissors in front of the mirror. Are you hallucinating?"

Yao's mother said: "How embarrassing it is to say this! If you know it, I will not be laughed at by you for the rest of my life!"

Yao’s father said: “After all this, you still want to save face! Then why did you say it now?”

Yao's mother said, "Isn't this what my son-in-law asked?"

When Yao Jingjing heard that her mother was talking about her son-in-law being longer than her son-in-law, she quickly interrupted and asked, "Did you go burn incense later?"

Yao's mother said: "I didn't go. Later I was diagnosed with this disease, so I thought it might be a hallucination caused by poor health. But for a long time, I didn't dare to look in the mirror or go to the toilet in the middle of the night. And I felt like someone was following me all day long, like I was being watched.”

"You have watched too many spy dramas." Yao's father said.

"Don't interrupt!" Mother Yao glared at him, "Actually, it's different from being followed. That person is not the kind of person who is following you from afar, but is right next to you, overlapping with you, like you. Like a shadow. This feeling is very strange. Sometimes it scares me, and sometimes it makes me feel friendly. It's like I suddenly have a companion who agrees with everything, even when I'm sick. It’s as if there is someone who can share my pain, but I just can’t see her.”

"Later, I don't know why, I started to dream. I fell asleep as soon as I sat down, dreamed as soon as I fell asleep, and dreamed all day long. The dreams I had were also varied, but the strange thing is that all the dreams were It is a real thing that happened to me when I was a child and a young man. It replayed my whole life like a movie. Except that the order was messed up, the things were all true. I have forgotten many things. It’s all clean, even the letters I wrote to my pen pal when I was in school, and every word in them is flawless.”

Aoki knew that this was a kind of mining of memories under deep hypnosis, just like a computer virus constantly searching hard drive files in the background. This process consumes a lot of CPU and memory resources. Similarly, when people in a deep hypnotic state search for memories, it causes great damage to the spirit and brain. It also consumes a lot of energy for a hypnotist to maintain this frequency of hypnosis for a long time. Great mental power, even greater damage than the hypnotized person, but hypnotists generally have received professional training and have much stronger mental power than ordinary people. Therefore, hypnotists will never do such a thing unless necessary.

Qingmu wanted to ask Yao's mother if she had seen a shadow in her nightmares because her brain disease was close to that of Xia Wenyuan, so as to determine whether there was any connection between Mr. Xia's illness and the shadow in her dream. However, he didn't expect that Yao's mother's situation seemed to be more complicated than Xia Lao's. She was actually infected with something like a consciousness virus, searching for memories in her mind.

"Auntie, did you dream of anything special after that?" Aoki asked.

Yao's mother said: "I met her later."

"who?"

"It's the person who has been following me, and the person who plays rock, paper, scissors with me in the mirror." Yao's mother turned a little pale when talking about this person, "I just started chemotherapy that day, and I felt very uncomfortable. I saw her right away. She looked exactly like me, and she was also wearing a hospital gown. When I saw her, it was like seeing myself in the mirror, but I knew at just one glance that person was not me."

"At that time, Jingjing and her father hid the truth from me. They didn't tell me what the disease was. They only said it was antibiotics when they gave me chemotherapy injections. At that time, I already guessed that I had a bad disease, but I was really sure that the person in the dream told me Mine. She said I was about to die and there was no way to cure it, so she told me to tell the truth, otherwise she would kill me before I could die."

Qingmu and Yao Jingjing asked together: "What does she want you to explain?"

Yao's mother said: "I don't know either! She didn't say anything. She asked me to explain all day long, and then she strangled my neck. Every time I felt like I was about to be strangled to death by her, so I just woke up."

"As for nightmares, I haven't had them before. I saw ghosts, fell into a river, and everything in between, but I can't remember them after I wake up, so I don't think there's anything scary about nightmares. But. This dream was so real, as if it had really happened. At that time, I was receiving chemotherapy injections that made me look like a ghost, and my hair fell out. I was in a daze all day long, but it was actually a dream. It's more real. Every day, someone who looks exactly like me wants to kill me, but doesn't really kill me. You have never encountered that kind of situation. If you really encounter it, you will know what life is worse than death. .If it weren’t for Jingjing’s lifelong event..."

Yao Jingjing was worried that her mother would start calling Aoki her son-in-law again. At this time, the patient in the next bed helped her out and interjected: "Sister-in-law, you are not dreaming. This is called obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have a relative who is like this. He always felt that someone was trying to harm him, and he was very suspicious. One moment he said that the food he was eating was poisonous, and the next moment he said that someone was following him. He got up in the middle of the night and took a taxi and drove around the city. He told the driver that there were agents chasing him and that he had to contact the organization. Station to send information. Ask him what information he has, and he won’t even tell you even if I beat him to death.”

Yao's mother said a little embarrassedly: "I also asked the doctor secretly, and the doctor said that maybe I was too nervous because of the illness and told me to relax."

"So do you still have such dreams now?" Aoki asked.

Yao's mother said: "I stopped doing it a long time ago. I will stop having this dream after I finish chemotherapy."

Qingmu is now certain that Yao's mother's situation is similar to Xia Wenyuan's, except that Xia Wenyuan's mental power is stronger and he has been resisting the invading consciousness, so his consciousness has always been in a shadow state. But Yao's mother is just an ordinary citizen with very weak mental strength, and the intruding consciousness soon became a person exactly like her.

The only thing I don't understand is that the invading consciousness clearly has the ability to kill her and occupy the magpie's nest. Why hasn't it killed her yet and forced her to confess something?

If Yao's mother knows any secrets, the intruding consciousness has already searched her memory through the consciousness virus. Nothing will be missed when subconsciously searching for memories, unless someone uses strong mental power to set up a protected area in a certain area of ​​Yao's mother's brain, just like encrypting a computer hard drive. If even administrator rights cannot decrypt it , the virus will not be able to search this area.

But why did the invasion consciousness give up later? Is it because Yao's mother is terminally ill, so the intruding consciousness thinks she has no value?

"Auntie, do you remember the circumstances under which you stopped having this dream? Where did the woman in the dream go? Did she leave any words?"

Yao's mother said: "I remember that day, that 'I' came to force me to confess some secret again. When she was about to strangle me, my cat came. She seemed to be particularly afraid of cats, so she ran away."

"Cat?" Aoki didn't expect this result at all.