Dreamland Guide

　　 Xia Wenyuan looked exhausted when he woke up. He held Wu Lixia's hand tightly, Wu Lixia felt that her knuckles were almost broken by him, but she did not complain a word, nor did she withdraw her hand. Instead, she looked at Bi with a gentle and pitying gaze. Her husband is nearly thirty years older.

　　 Hu Xing and Xia Wenyuan woke up almost at the same time. She panicked and searched for the target around her. She was relieved when she saw the surrounding situation clearly, realized that she had escaped from the dream and returned to reality, and her grandfather had also woken up.

　　 She felt so tired all of a sudden, as if she had been working on three days and three nights in a row, all the strength of her body had been emptied. This is what Aoki said, is it a sequelae of excessive mental energy consumption?

　　 The agarwood on the incense table rises into a misty blue 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 people to bring ginseng tea and feed it to Xia Wenyuan with a silver spoon one by one.

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

　　 "What happened?" Peter on the side was confused. He only knew that Father Xia woke up in less than three minutes after lying down, and that the guy in the windbreaker hadn't moved. How did 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 Chao Qingmu smiled and said, "I would like to ask your husband to show his face today and stay for a light meal."

Li Wei next to 　　's heart moved, and he couldn't help looking at Aoki. He has been in the Xia family for many years, knowing that the old man entertaining guests is divided into different standards. Those who can eat in this manor are not ordinary people, and there are several types of banquets. Among them, it can be called a "family banquet." It was not for Li Wei to give orders, or it was the highest-ranking one, even the Xia family's own people, only the closest few people could enjoy it.

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

　　 is really a hillbilly, I thought it was a visit to the country for the New Year! Hu Xing chuckled when Aoki was amused, and even his exhaustion seemed to be better.

　　 Xia Wenyuan also laughed and said, "Not many, not many. They are all fruits and vegetables grown on the mountain behind, as well as fish from the reservoir in front, which are also raised by themselves."

After Wu Lixia ordered the kitchen, she came back and said, "Okay, the fish in the Blowing Reservoir is delicious again! It's not a good idea to cook what kind of dishes, you parents are bothered, now we still ask Mr. Aoki to solve our doubts, please tell me What's going on with my old man, otherwise you will be chatting and laughing, and our bystanders will be anxious to death!"

　　 Wu Lixia's words caught everyone's mind, especially the confused Doctor Peter.

　　 "Ah, what do you say about this, the shadow in your dream—" Aoki is very troubled to use theory to explain something beyond their understanding, "The shadow is actually yourself."

"Myself?"

"Yes, yourself." Aoki said, "Everyone has a shadow, and the shadow only appears in the sun. Our own body blocks the light, and we have it. The shadow is another part of our human nature hidden under the sun. On the one hand, it lives in symbiosis with us. Usually, we don’t notice its existence, and it will not have any effect on us. But if our shadow has self-awareness, then things can be troublesome."

"Self-consciousness?" Peter interjected, his brows twisted into a rope, looking at Aoki like a monster, "You mean, Xia Lao's shadow has consciousness, and then he is going to kill him in his dream? "

　　 Aoki said, "Almost."

　　 "Nonsense!" Peter cursed in English unconsciously, "If the shadow is conscious, why not stand up now and go to 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 thoughtfully.

Aoki said: "That shadow knows everything about you. He knows your memory, your habits, your hobbies, and your inner weaknesses. He can even predict what your consciousness is going to do. , So in a sense, he is you."

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

　　 "No, you don't." Aoki said affirmatively, "It is because you don't have one, so I'm sure that the source of the consciousness of this shadow must not be you. He is an intruder!"

　　 "Intruder?" Just like when Hu Xing first heard the word, others also made the same exclamations and questions.

　　 On the contrary, Xia Wenyuan was calmer, sitting in a wheelchair and thinking.

　　 Peter, as a doctor, naturally doesn't believe in the nonsense of consciousness invasion. He also doesn't think that a shadow in a dream can kill. From a medical point of view, this is obviously a mental illness. What he cares most about is Xia Wenyuan's brain lesions, which is really terrible.

　　 "Then, Mr. Aoki, how did the intruder you mentioned caused Xia Lao's gray matter to fibrosis?" Peter asked.

　　 This question really stopped Aoki.

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

　　 "Oh, isn't it!" Peter sneered, and said to his heart, do you think Mrs. Xia is an ordinary person? You can be used as an experiment to get closer to the laboratory at will! If that is possible, UU reading www. I don’t know how many laboratories in the U.S. want to use it as a sample for research! And he doesn't need to take such conservative treatment.

"I'll talk about it when Professor Mei comes back." Xia Wenyuan seemed to think of something, "Don't hide from Mr. Aoki, sitting in my position, not to mention worrying, sitting on pins and needles, but also walking on thin ice every day. Staring at our Xia family's industry. You can go all the way from Wuzhong to Shenzhou, and there are not a few people who want to harm my Xia. My husband just said that this shadow is an intruder. Can you make it clearer? Is it possible that someone used sorcery to harm me? I?"

Aoki knew that Xia Wenyuan already had an object of suspicion, and said: "This possibility is not ruled out, but it is not easy to implant a consciousness in your brain! First of all, this person must understand you very well and know your mental weakness; Second, consciousness is not like a chip. It can be put into your brain through an operation. It must first have a seed of consciousness, and then after a long period of contact with you, let you relax your vigilance against it, and then take advantage of it. , Enters your brain and lurks and grows continuously until it is as strong as you."

　　 Xia Wenyuan said: "So it pretends to be a shadow in my dream? Who would be guarded against the shadow in my dream!"

　　 "Probably so."

　　 Xia Wenyuan asked again: "What is the seed of consciousness?"

"It can be an obsession, a habit, or a bit of overwhelming love." Aoki said, "but in this case, it will usually cause your nervous breakdown or schizophrenia at most, and a single consciousness must have existed for a long time. , Just like... the soul."

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