Plague Doctor

In December of this year, there were a lot of extreme weather conditions in Dongzhou. In the latter half of this year, there was a heavy rainstorm, which flooded the streets throughout the city.

The flu has been raging here for more than a month. There are always long queues at various hospitals. A large number of isolation points have been set up a few days ago. Communications and transportation in the city continue to be restricted. People here are panicked. The situation in Dongzhou has also attracted national attention, and everyone is worried that the influenza epidemic will continue to spread.

A place on the outskirts of the city that is unknown to ordinary people, the Medical Department of Dongzhou Tianji Bureau is shrouded in a heavy atmosphere.

In the mental and psychological building, a large conference room on the tenth floor was cleared and turned into a "dream room". The 46 people who participated in this dream operation were all lying on relaxation chairs and connected to various monitoring instruments and equipment. Data such as electroencephalogram, skin resistance, and heart rate are all monitored.

After they had a lucid dream, the electroencephalogram was different, but the staff at the nearby monitoring center were not sure what was going on.

"Mr. Jiang, is this going well now?" Yao Shinian asked a middle-aged man, with six younger people behind him.

Jiang Mingchang has an ordinary appearance and a slim figure. He wears a simple black suit, but his eyes have the depth of accumulated knowledge.

They are the unexpected helpers that the Tianji Bureau received, and they are all members of the "Angel School".

In 1925, Professor George Gammer Angel, a linguist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, met a strange young man. The young man named Wilcox brought a strange clay bas-relief to Professor Angel and told about his strange dream.

The young man's original intention was to ask Professor Angel to help him decipher the hieroglyphics on the bas-relief, but Professor Angel found some other clues.

About a heretic, about the "collective nightmare-induced mania incident" that broke out across the world in the spring of 1925.

But this incident was only a private investigation and sorting by Professor Angel. The manics were scattered all over the country and were not noticed at the time. Moreover, there was no communication like today in that era, so apart from the newspaper clippings collected by the professor himself, there was no other information.

By studying Wilcox's dreams, Professor Angell comes close to some amazing pagan secrets.

But not long after that, Professor Angel died unfortunately. Although he died at the age of 92, and the cause of death was considered to be a heart attack, the school of thought has always believed that he was murdered by the pagan, and that the professor fell ill when he was roughly pushed to the ground while walking on the road.

Professor Angel's death was not the end, because at that time his grandnephew and several students formed a secret society, which was the Angel School.

The school continues the professor's dream research and pagan research. The reason why they do it in secret is to avoid the pagan religion, and secondly, if this kind of research is disclosed to the academic community, they will be ridiculed and expelled. Over the years, the school has been passed down for several generations and has developed members all over the world, and Mr. Jiang and the others are one of them.

The Tianji Bureau is not clear about the specific situation, because the school still has many secrets.

However, Mr. Jiang and the others not only revealed their in-depth research on dreams and the dream world, but also had considerable knowledge of the "Raleye Order".

They believed that this was the pagan religion they had been studying.

Even this sentence has been deciphered by them: [ph'ngluimgl'nafhcthulhur'lyehgah'naglfhtagn]

[In the eternal R'lyeh mansion, the sleeping Cthulhu awaits you in your dream]

"We call that pagan cult the Cthulhu Cult." Mr. Jiang told Tianji Bureau. "These believers worship an ancient existence whose name can barely be translated into the human pronunciation of 'cthulhu.' They call this existence 'Old Days.'" Dominator'. Our research believes that the leader of the Cthulhu Order is an old Chinese man who lives in the mountains and is called the 'Immortal One' by pagan believers. The goal of this order is to awaken the city sleeping under the sea. R’lyeh’s Cthulhu, let it come to this world again.”

The information provided by the Angel School is consistent with Gu Jun's exploration and speculation.

The school of thought believes that if Cthulhu is successfully awakened by those evil believers, it will be the end of human civilization.

At this stage, humans should not be thinking about how to deal with the Old Ones, but how to prevent their arrival, or not be noticed by them.

This coincides with why Gu Jun wanted to blow up the passage to the Yiwen world.

Mr. Jiang's help surprised Tong Ye and Yao Shinian, but at the same time, of course, they still had doubts about their identity and their purpose.

"We hope that through this cooperation, the school will come out and cooperate with countries around the world." Mr. Jiang said, "The times have changed, and the current situation will completely change." He also said that this cooperation was his initiative, "I We know very well how harmful nightmare sickness is, and we cannot ignore it.”

He said that the Angel School is not a religious organization, but an academic organization, and what they pursue is different from that pursued by that order.

The school is not omniscient and omnipotent. After all, they are also a group of ordinary people, but they have researched in this area earlier. He can't solve the nightmare disease, and he doesn't have much knowledge about spells, but he has the best way to enter dreams.

Do you believe these people? Based on a lot of strong evidence, the Tianji Bureau's choice is to control them while doing more research and some experiments.

"There are two types of lucid dreams, one is just immersed in one's own subconscious ocean, and the other is entering the dreamland."

Mr. Jiang said this, he

People call that dream world "Dreamland".

"Only a very small number of people have the talent to enter the dreamland on their own, and our school has only succeeded a few times, all due to factors of chance. But your situation is different. A large number of people have entered that nightmare, and in a short period of time There is still some inspirational connection between them. If Gu Jun is used as an anchor, he is still in the nightmare and can respond to the call of the dreamer, maybe he can reach his side. This requires some people he is familiar with. , can connect with his spirit.”

After repeated discussions, the Tianji Bureau finally made the decision to try, or in other words, Tong Ye and Yao Shinian made this decision.

The two of them could not let that sect succeed, they could not lose Gu Jun, and they could not let the situation in Dongzhou get any worse.

"You may only have one chance, and inspiration will be consumed. Once the inspiration of these former dreamers is exhausted, there will be no way to go in again."

This time, the 46 dreamers hope to help Gu Jun and the others. There are a lot of people, but there are very few people who are connected enough.

Everyone is willing to bear double risks, one is the authenticity of this Angel school, and the other is that dreaming is inherently dangerous.

Beep, beep, beep. In the monitoring center, various instruments were making sounds, and the staff were quietly watching the data on the screens. Suddenly, the electroencephalogram of each dreamer changed, turning into a chaotic waveform that was completely unreasonable. .

However, these data are very similar to the data provided by the school for entering the dreamland.

"..." Tang Zhifeng, the leader of the psychological team, was stunned. Not everyone familiar to Gu Jun fell asleep, most of the commanders needed to stay.

"They're in." Mr. Jiang said, unable to hide the excitement on his face, and the other six young members of the school almost shouted.

Yao Shinian was quietly paying attention. If the other party had not lied, this would be the first time that the Angel School had participated in such a large-scale dreaming success.

But soon, the monitoring data became more and more confusing and crazy. Even Mr. Jiang and the others were surprised by it. They had never seen such a situation before.

"The situation they experienced in the dreamland..." Mr. Jiang frankly admitted his ignorance, "is something we have never experienced."

Everyone couldn't help but become nervous. The heart rates of all the dreamers were overspeeding, and some even jumped to extremely dangerous levels. Their facial muscles also showed strange distortions, and they were sweating all over. But Mr. Jiang has already said that once they fall asleep, they cannot be disturbed, otherwise it will be more dangerous.

After a while, suddenly, someone in the dream room woke up suddenly with a scream, breathing heavily, "Ajun..." It was Uncle Dan.

Then more people woke up one after another. Lin Mo, Yu Xiaoyong, and Lou Xiaoning all experienced a complete madness, and their faces were pale and confused.

"Ajun, Ajun..." Dr. Shen's voice was hoarse and his eyes were a little red, but he was unwilling to tell the situation. Maybe it wouldn't be like that in the future?

At this moment, the dreamers who woke up first and the staff at the monitoring center were shocked to see a blurry black shadow suddenly appear in the middle of the crowded dream room, and the space seemed to be torn apart and became shaking and blurry. , forming a crack.

At this time, all the surveillance cameras only captured a black shadow that was constantly twisting and mutating.

Without waiting for anyone to do anything, a figure suddenly jumped out of the crack. He was staggering, dressed in linen clothes, holding something like a book, carrying a medical kit and a bag of food. It was Wu Shiyu.

She stood for a while, threw away the medical kit and food with an expressionless face, lay down on the ground with her book in her arms, let out a long breath, and stared blankly at the sky.

At the same time, Tong Ye, Professor Gu, Cai Zixuan, Wang Ruoxiang and other people who were most familiar to Gu Jun, who had not woken up just now, suddenly woke up.

They seemed to be drowning people being pulled ashore, breathing hard, and looking around suddenly, their faces full of shock, nervousness, and sadness...

"Arjun, where is Arjun?"

"Is Arjun back?"

"Gu Jun?"

They shouted one after another and scanned the surroundings, looking for that figure. Gu Jun was wearing linen clothes. If he were here, he would be easily identifiable.

But in the entire dream room, there was only one figure in linen clothes, Wu Shiyu lying on the ground.

"There's no need to look for him anymore," Wu Shiyu said, choking a little, "He didn't come back."

She couldn't sense his presence here, nor could she sense his presence.

Gu Jun is in another world, maybe in a dream world, maybe in heaven.

Anyway, people like him... won't go to hell, right? She held back tears because she didn't know if being stupid was a sin.

Love the Plague Doctor.