Dream Guide

Xia Wenyuan looked exhausted when he woke up. He held Wu Lixia's hand tightly, and Wu Lixia felt that her finger joints were almost broken by his grip, but she did not complain a word, nor did she withdraw her hand, but looked at Bi with a gentle and pitying look. My husband is nearly thirty years older than me.

Hu Xing and Xia Wenyuan woke up almost at the same time. She searched for the target around her in panic. When she saw her surroundings clearly and realized that she had escaped from the dream and truly returned to reality, and that her grandfather had also woken up, she breathed a sigh of relief.

She suddenly felt so tired, as if she had worked overtime for three days and three nights in a row, and all the strength in her body had been drained away. Is this what Aoki said, the sequelae of excessive mental energy consumption?

The agarwood on the incense table raises misty green smoke. She saw that the first piece of incense ash on the incense head just broke and fell into the incense stick.

Wu Lixia ordered someone to bring ginseng tea and feed it to Xia Wenyuan spoon by spoon with a silver spoon.

Xia Wenyuan drank ginseng tea and felt much better. He took a deep breath and said, "Thank you, Mr. Aoki, for saving me."

"What happened?" Peter on the side was confused. He only knew that Mr. Xia woke up less than three minutes after lying down, and the guy in the windbreaker didn't move. How could he save him? Could this old man be crazy?

Xia Wenyuan ignored Peter and said to Wu Lixia: "Let me prepare a family banquet." Then he smiled at Qingmu and said: "I'll treat you to Mr. today and stay for a simple meal."

Li Wei, who was next to him, felt something in his heart and couldn't help but look high at Aoki. He has been in the Xia family for many years and knows that the old man has different standards for entertaining guests. Those who can eat in this manor are not ordinary people, and there are several types of banquets, one of which can be called "family banquets". Either it was for Li Wei to give orders, or it was the highest level. Even the Xia family's own people could only enjoy it to the few closest to them.

Aoki was not polite and said, "Oh, you don't have to cook too many dishes!"

What a country bumpkin, I thought he was visiting the countryside for the New Year! Hu Xing was amused by Qingmu and laughed, and even her physical fatigue seemed to be getting better.

Xia Wenyuan also laughed loudly and said: "No more, no more, they are all fruits and vegetables grown on the mountain behind, and the fish in the reservoir in front are also raised by ourselves."

Wu Lixia came back from the kitchen after giving instructions and said: "Okay, I'm bragging about how delicious the fish in the reservoir is again! As a parent, I don't have to worry about what to cook. Now let's ask Mr. Aoki to help us. Please tell us." How is our old man doing? Otherwise, if you guys were talking and laughing there, we onlookers would be so anxious that we would die!"

Wu Lixia's words touched everyone's mind, especially the confused Dr. Peter.

"Ah, what should I say about this? The shadow in your dream -" Aoki was having a headache trying to use theory to explain something beyond their understanding to them, "that shadow is actually you."

"Myself?"

"Yes, yourself." Aoki said, "Everyone has a shadow. Shadows only appear under the sun. Our own bodies block the light, and there is it. The shadow is another part of our humanity hidden under the sun. On the one hand, it lives with us. Normally, we don't notice its existence and it doesn't have any impact on us. But if our shadow becomes self-aware, things can be troublesome."

"Self-awareness?" Peter interjected, his brows knitted together, looking at Aoki like a monster, "You mean, Mr. Xia's shadow became conscious and then wanted to kill him in his dream? "

Aoki said: "Absolutely."

"Nonsense!" Peter cursed in English unconsciously, "If the shadow has consciousness, why don't you stand up now? What are you doing in the dream?"

Aoki shook his head and said: "It's not this shadow, it's the shadow in my heart, understand?"

"The shadow in my heart..." Xia Wenyuan was thoughtful.

Aoki said: "That shadow knows everything about you. He knows your memories, your habits, your interests and hobbies, knows where your inner vulnerabilities are, and can even predict what your conscious body is going to do. , so in a sense, he is yourself."

"You mean, am I schizophrenic?" Xia Wenyuan asked.

"No, you didn't." Aoki said firmly, "Precisely because you didn't, I'm sure that the source of this shadow's consciousness must not be you. He is an intruder!"

"Intruder?" Just like when Hu Xing heard the word for the first time, others also expressed the same exclamation and questions.

On the contrary, Xia Wenyuan was calmer and sat in his wheelchair, deep in thought.

As a doctor, Peter naturally didn't believe in the nonsense of consciousness invasion. He also didn't think a shadow in a dream could kill someone. From a medical perspective, this is clearly a mental illness. What he was most concerned about was Xia Wenyuan's brain lesions, which were really fatal.

"Then, Mr. Aoki, how did the intruder you mentioned cause fibrosis in the gray matter layer of Mr. Xia's brain?" Peter asked.

This question really stupefied Aoki.

"Maybe it doesn't matter!" Aoki said, "I think when Professor Mei comes back from Europe, we can go to his laboratory to study it. You know, he has a lot of novelties there."

"Oh, really!" Peter sneered, thinking to himself, do you think Mr. Xia is an ordinary person? You can be used as a test subject and brought into the laboratory at any time! If that were possible, I don't know how many laboratories in the United States would like to use him as a sample for research! And he no longer has to take such conservative treatment.

"We'll talk about this when Professor Mei comes back." Xia Wenyuan seemed to have remembered something, "To be honest with Mr. Aoki, sitting in my position is not only on tenterhooks and on pins and needles, but also on thin ice every day. People who are keeping an eye on our Xia family's property We can line up from Wuzhong all the way to Shenzhou, and there are many people who want to harm me, Xia. Mr. just said that this shadow is an intruder. Can you explain it more clearly? Is it possible that someone is using evil magic to harm me? I?"

Aoki knew that Xia Wenyuan already had someone to suspect, and said: "I don't rule out this possibility, but it is not easy to implant a consciousness in your brain! First of all, this person must know you very well and know your mental weaknesses; secondly, Second, consciousness is not like a chip, which can be put into your brain through a surgery. It must first have a seed of consciousness, and then contact you for a long time, so that you can relax your vigilance about it, and then take advantage of it. , lurks inside your brain, and grows until it is as powerful as you."

Xia Wenyuan said: "So it disguises itself as a shadow in my dream? Who would be wary of a shadow in a dream!"

"Probably so."

Xia Wenyuan asked again: "What are the seeds of consciousness?"

"It can be an obsession, a habit, or a little overflowing love." Aoki said, "But in this case, it will usually cause you neurasthenia or schizophrenia at most, and a separate consciousness must have existed for a long time. , like...soul."

Aoki suddenly stood up as he spoke, walked to the famous Picasso painting, and asked, "Has this painting always been hung here?"

Thanks to the devil, god, and bloody youth for the reward