Dream Guide

Mei Yiqiu's workshop was filled with the smell of cigarette smoke, which even a long-time smoker like Aoki found a bit choking.

Mei Ziqing stood outside and didn't dare to come in. She asked Mei Yiqiu if she had any other instructions.

Mei Yiqiu thought for a while and said, "If you don't hate the smoke here, just come in together."

Mei Ziqing happily said "yes", smiled at Aoki, and gave a secret thumbs up. The fact that the professor allowed her to enter showed that he had complete trust in her. She was happy from the bottom of her heart and admired Aoki very much.

However, Mei Ziqing obviously underestimated the frequency of Mei Yiqiu's smoking and the concentration of smoke, and he kept coughing as soon as he entered the workroom.

"Professor, why don't you turn on the purifier!" Mei Ziqing complained, and then pressed a few switches on a wall.

"Oh, the thick smoke helps me concentrate." Professor Mei said lightly.

An advanced laboratory like this can theoretically remove every particle of dust from the workroom, leaving no smoke behind. Not long after Mei Ziqing turned on the purification switch, the smoke in the room disappeared, and the fresh air was refreshing.

"Professor, what happened?" Aoki asked.

Professor Mei Yiqiu did not answer Aoki's question directly, but handed the pipe to Aoki: "Would you like to take a sip? I only have this here, the cigarettes are all in the office upstairs."

Mei Ziqing immediately said: "I'll get it."

"Oh, no need, I have it myself." Aoki took out his cigarette from his pocket and lit it with a lighter.

"The lighter is good!" Mei Yiqiu looked at the Dupont lighter in Qingmu's hand, "Have you made a fortune?"

Aoki smiled and said: "The business you introduced last time made three million. I heard that was a lot of money."

"Three million? That's a lot of money. You can invest in a project in my laboratory." Mei Yiqiu began to trick Qingmu into moving the studio again, "I can change the destiny of mankind here. project! Spending money here is more meaningful than wasting it on buying lighters."

Aoki said: "The lighter was given by a friend."

"Girlfriend?" Mei Yiqiu seemed a little surprised.

"Well... she's a woman, but not a girlfriend." Aoki said after confirming in his mind what Mei Yiqiu meant by girlfriend.

"Oh, let me tell you!" Mei Yiqiu took a puff of cigarette and exhaled a long breath of thick smoke, "How can someone like you have a girlfriend? You don't understand love at all, because you are a piece of wood! However, there are always some silly girls who will like a piece of wood like you."

Qingmu was stunned by what Mei Yiqiu said, and couldn't tell whether the professor was hurting him or praising him.

Mei Ziqing was covering her mouth and laughing secretly.

"So you haven't moved the three million yet?" Mei Yiqiu said.

"I didn't move it, but..." Aoki confessed honestly, "I gave it to another woman. It seems... it seems to have been almost spent."

Mei Yiqiu shook his head and said to Mei Ziqing: "Look, wood is wood. You never know what stupid things a piece of wood will do!"

Mei Ziqing smiled and said: "Professor, don't you often call money a thing and say it's not worth mentioning? I think Mr. Aoki has the same temper as you! You don't have any idea about money, so you are confused. Spend the money.”

"Are you criticizing me for spending money indiscriminately?" Mei Yiqiu puffed his beard and glared.

Mei Ziqing lowered her head and did not dare to talk back, but she couldn't help but laugh when she thought of the story about the professor and Qian. This straightforward, cute, and occasionally grumpy little old man really has no idea about money. Although his mathematics level is not inferior to any mathematics professor in the university, when you show him the financial statements of the laboratory, it is like a teacher forcing a primary school student with poor grades to do homework. He could be defrauded of all his cash by a liar pretending to be visiting relatives on the street, or he could argue with a store owner for two hours in a scenic spot over a bottle of mineral water that cost eight yuan, and finally the leader of the scenic spot came out to apologize. He was stunned. He got angry at the CPPCC meeting and forced the Tourism Committee and the Park and Culture Bureau to issue notices to lower prices in scenic spots.

Of course, Mei Yiqiu didn't know what his student was thinking, so he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, your three million won't do anything. That box can't be made with just a few million."

"What box?" Aoki said, "Are you studying something strange again?"

Mei Yiqiu said: "Well, let's not talk about this first. I want to discuss a few issues with you first."

"Okay, tell me." Aoki waited for Mei Yiqiu to ask.

Mei Yiqiu held his pipe in his mouth and thought for a while, then asked: "You can hypnotize, and I remember you told me that you can enter other people's dreams through a special method, right?"

Mei Ziqing was greatly surprised when she heard this. She thought the professor was joking. When she saw Aoki nodding, she almost exclaimed: "Ah, it's really possible..."

Mei Yiqiu stopped her and asked Qingmu: "You can see other people's consciousness by entering their dreams, right?"

Aoki said: "Yes."

"So, compared to that consciousness, what are you?" Mei Yiqiu suddenly looked at Aoki with a very serious expression.

"What am I?" Aoki also became serious and thought carefully for a while, "Everything in the dream space is constructed by the ontological consciousness through the reorganization of memory, including the rules of the entire dream. For him, my appearance means Because of the danger, the space is likely to collapse. In other words, I shouldn't be there, I'm more like an intruder."

"Well, the intruder..." Mei Yiqiu closed his eyes and meditated, and took a few puffs of cigarette. "When you invade a dream, is there any way to kill the main consciousness in that dream and become the owner of that dream? Owner?"

"No." Aoki replied very firmly, "Unless I have all his memories, I cannot fully grasp the details of the dream space he constructed. If the main consciousness is killed, the dream space will collapse. Unless I Get into his body and take his place, or I'll be trapped."

Mei Yiqiu asked again: "If there is already an intruder in that dream, you should be able to find it when you go in, right? In other words, if there are two consciousnesses in a person's body, then when you hypnotize him , which consciousness is hypnotized, and which one will you see when you enter the dream?"

Qingmu suddenly remembered the shadow in Xia Wenyuan's dream, the intruder Yao's mother had said, and the white cat.

After thinking for a while, he said: "I have never encountered such a situation. Theoretically, if there are two consciousnesses, I will see two in my dream."

Mei Yiqiu nodded and started to smoke heavily. After a long time, he said: "Your words have inspired me a lot! Humanity is facing an unprecedented disaster. If we are not careful, we may be beyond redemption!"

Mei Yiqiu said it so seriously. Looking at his thin face and eyes red from the smoke, Aoki knew that something big must have happened and asked: "Professor, what happened? Why do you want everyone to learn from Rice?" Special signature?"

"Mr. Leicester is dead," Mei Yiqiu said.

"I heard about it." Aoki had seen the news on the Internet. A great scientist is indeed enough to change the destiny of mankind, but he does not think that the death of a scientist will make mankind doomed.

Mei Yiqiu brought a large metal goggles like diving goggles to Aoki: "Put it on."