What It’s Like Being a Vampire

After Xiang Kun guided Lao Xia's dream, Lao Xia almost "woke up in seconds". Now she is more and more familiar with the dream caused by this "emotional injection". To affect the dream, but also more and more skilled.

Soon, Xia Libing entered the "world of consciousness" through the "CAKE01" that appeared in his dream, and connected to the black circle graffiti on the window sill of the branch dormitory that Xiang Kun had just established contact with today.

Perception has changed significantly, as if entering a new world.

Xiang Kun knew that there was a person who was sleeping within the influence of the black circle graffiti on the window sill, and Lao Xia had successfully lured her into her "dream within a dream".

But seeing the situation in the dream clearly, Xiang Kun was a little surprised.

The owner of this "dream within a dream" turned out to be someone he and Lao Xia both knew.

On the night of the twenty-ninth year of the year, he had just returned to Erythronia, and after meeting Lao Xia in the coffee shop, when he returned, he found someone following Lao Xia, so he had a small fight and captured two "villains" alive.

At that time, two police officers from the police station, one old and one young, were in charge of their case. The older one was surnamed Xu, and the younger one was surnamed Zhao.

But at this time in the dream, the image of the "protagonist" is obviously that police officer Xiao Zhao.

On the empty street, police officer Xiao Zhao in plain clothes was hiding nervously behind a car.

A giant over four meters long, with more than a dozen arms and eyes all over his forehead, was wandering the streets, as if he was looking for Police Officer Xiao Zhao.

Xiang Kun was already a little surprised and surprised to find out that this was the dream of police officer Zhao. It was even more unexpected to see this giant with multiple arms and multiple eyes in police officer Zhao's dream.

Although the image of this giant is not exactly the same as the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving, not to mention other things, even the number of arms, the way the arms are connected to the torso, and the way the eyes are arranged are fundamentally different.

But Xiang Kun had an intuition that the origin of the giant in police officer Xiao Zhao's dream was a wood carving with eight arms and eight eyes.

He is very clear that his intuition now comes from a large amount of super-sensory information that the brain cannot process, and it is not an unreliable conjecture that pops up immediately. And now in the environment of dreams, intuition is sometimes even more reliable than direct sensory information in dreams.

However, he could also judge from the shape of the giant that Police Officer Xiao Zhao's knowledge of the eight-armed and eight-eyed woodcarving should have come from someone else's report.

After all, judging from the many previous examples, whether it is the "projection all appearing" in reality to make people hallucinate, or the emotional projection of eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carvings in dreams, although some specific details, such as the monster with eight arms and eight eyes There will be differences in size, clothing, skin condition, etc., but the overall body structure, such as the arrangement of eyes, the number of arms, the way it is connected to the torso, etc., should be the same, and it is unified with the wood carving.

If it is a person who sees hallucinations and has nightmares, there may be some confusion when describing the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster in reality, but in the dream, the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster comes from the image of the subconscious, but It shouldn't be so distorted.

Xiang Kun immediately guessed how police officer Xiao Zhao knew the image of the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster - the three car thieves in the abandoned factory building that were affected by the emotional projection range of Xiang Kun's "super sensory state".

According to what he heard later, the three car thieves all went to the police station and were controlled by the police.

One is mad, and the other is to surrender.

They will more or less tell the police about the "hallucinations" they saw in the abandoned factory building.

Although they surrendered themselves to the Yungang District Bureau, Police Officer Xiao Zhao was not there, but they are both in Citong City, so they must have heard about this incident to some extent—even his old classmate Li Peiye could hear a lot of news, and even his old classmate Li Peiye could hear a lot of news. Needless to say, Officer Xiao Zhao in the same system.

But it's one thing to hear something, but it's a bit strange to dream about it in a dream.

You must know that this dream was caused by the graffiti in the black circle. From past experience, it is mainly to mobilize the recent attention of the dream owner.

More than half a month has passed since what happened in the abandoned factory building in the outskirts of Yungang District. It doesn't make sense that Police Officer Zhao still remembers it? After all, it wasn't his case.

Moreover, it is impossible for the police to believe the descriptions of the car thieves normally. According to Li Peiye's description when he attended a classmate's wedding before, the police also listened to it as a joke, which is a normal attitude.

Could it be that police officer Xiao Zhao is particularly concerned about these "rumors"?

Or... Police officer Xiao Zhao is very timid and frightened by that "rumor"?

Uh, judging from the cognitive model established by Xiang Kun's brief contact with Police Officer Xiao Zhao on the night of the 29th, the latter possibility is almost zero.

Just when Xiang Kun was wondering, Officer Zhao's dream changed drastically, from the empty city streets to the sky.

Police officer Xiao Zhao actually rode on the back of the multi-armed multi-eyed giant, flying in the air, watching him fly from the urban area to the suburbs.

Soon, there were lush trees in front of the eyes, and they entered the mountainous area of ​​Zihuan Mountain.

Xiang Kun naturally knew that this was the work of Lao Xia, the "dream director".

In the afternoon, he had already discussed in detail with Lao Xia how to tell a "story" in the dream to guide the person entrusted with the dream, and go to Zihuan Mountain to find those corpses after waking up.

Choose the people in the dormitory of the Dreaming Sub-bureau to directly "call the police" instead of randomly finding someone in the villages and towns near Zihuan Mountain to call the police after they find the dead bodies. , will suffer a lot mentally and may have some negative effects.

But at that time, I didn't expect that Police Officer Xiao Zhao happened to be entrusted with a dream, and Officer Xiao Zhao happened to dream of a giant who was suspected to be a monster with eight arms and eight eyes.

Lao Xia obviously temporarily changed the "script" that he had discussed with Xiang Kun before, and played it on his own, including the giant.

At the very beginning, Lao Xia couldn't have such a large-scale influence so quickly in "Dream in Dream", but Xiang Kun found a way, when he replaced Lao Xia's " Assisted by the "hyperlinked object projection", it can greatly increase the efficiency of Lao Xia's editor Dream in Dream, and also allow him to directly participate in the construction and editing of dreams.

Xiang Kun is equivalent to turning herself into a "what you see is what you get super plug-in" available to Lao Xia in her dream, quickly realizing her vision.

It was precisely because of this kind of assistance that even though Lao Xia hadn't actually seen the place where Xiang Kun found the corpse in Zihuan Mountain, he was still able to roughly outline the place in his dream with Xiang Kun's help and support. show up.

The multi-armed, multi-eyed giant carried Police Officer Zhao on his back, flew all the way into Zihuan Mountain, and then began to slow down, becoming very slow, deliberately letting Officer Xiao recognize where he was and the route he was traveling on.

Although some details are different from the reality, and many places are even blurred and cannot be seen clearly, as long as the general terrain and some iconic scenery remain unchanged for reference, Officer Xiao Zhao can also see the scene after waking up. "Follow your dreams" to find the location.

If Police Officer Xiao Zhao can't find it, at worst, I'll have a few more dreams...

When the giant reached the final position, he put Officer Xiao Zhao down, and then all his hands pointed to the cave not far away, as if inviting him to enter.

Officer Xiao Zhao's fear of the giant in his dream dissipated a lot after flying all the way, so he walked cautiously to the edge of the cave and took a look inside.

Inside, a person whose face could not be seen clearly and whose body was also shrouded in mist reached out to him, and shouted hoarsely, "Help me..."

Officer Xiao Zhao was startled, and subconsciously took two steps back, but immediately turned back and rushed into the cave, reaching out to grab the man.

Under Lao Xia's control, the dream ended and disintegrated.

...

Zhao Feng opened his eyes and woke up from the dream.

He got up and sat on the edge of the bed, looked back at the dark sky outside the window, and checked the time on his mobile phone, frowning, and began to recall the dream he had just had.

This is not the first time he has dreamed of the multi-armed and multi-eyed monster that he had discussed many times with his old classmates in the police academy.

But generally speaking, after he wakes up, it is difficult to recall the dreams he had before, at least most of the content and details are unclear, and he can only vaguely know what the dream is related to.

As for the dream he had just now, when he recalled it now, all the details were actually very clear.

He was actually carried by that monster and flew into the sky, and then went to the mountains!

He also knew very well that the mountain he entered in his dream was Zihuan Mountain.

The last place where the monster settled down, the cave, is in a relatively remote and less visited area inside Zihuan Mountain.

Why do you have this kind of dream?

Is there really such a cave in Zihuan Mountain?

What does the person in the cave asking for help mean?

Zhao Feng suspected that he had this dream because he had read the post about the phoenix calamity in Zihuan Mountain during the day, and he had been researching the hallucination of the multi-armed multi-eyed monster that many suspects had seen with his old classmates during this time.

In fact, during this period of time, he and his old classmate who worked in another city made some other discoveries.

Through the follow-up of six suspects in the previous two cases, they found that the behavior and personality of the six suspects who had hallucinations and seen monsters with multiple arms and multiple eyes had undergone great changes.

There are two main manifestations. One is to change their minds very sincerely, and actively explain to the police and prosecutors their previous crimes and wrongdoings, regardless of whether they are asked about the relevant content or not. Even some wrong things that are not illegal, but just moral, are all said out in one go.

The other is that the nerves become extremely tense, have strong delusions of persecution, and are always in a state of fear, afraid to sleep at night, mentally exhausted, and wary of everyone.

Among the six suspects, there were four in the first case, and two in the second case—one on each side of the two cases.

The one here in Zaitong City is the car thief who ran to the Yungang branch with a kitchen knife and said that someone was going to kill him. The prosecution has already applied for a psychiatric evaluation for him.

Compared with those two people, the four people in the first kind of behavior will definitely go to prison to serve their sentences according to the judicial procedures, but they are all in a very good mental state, very optimistic, full of hope for the future, and full of hope for the upcoming trial. It is also frankly accepted.

The comparison between the two is very sharp and the difference is huge.

Both Zhao Feng and the old classmate felt that the abnormal behavior of these suspects was probably related to their hallucinations.

But this situation is still just guesswork, there is no real evidence, and the two cases have already been settled, so he can't bring it up to his partner, Lao Xu, and can only continue to investigate with his old classmates during the break time.

It's normal to have this dream after thinking about these things all the time.

But after lying back on the bed again, Zhao Feng couldn't fall asleep anyway. He kept thinking about the scene of the multi-armed monster flying with him on his back in his dream, and thinking about the person in the cave who reached out to him.

So he got up again, rubbed his face, took the phone, opened the map app, and began to follow the "route" in the dream to check the real geographical situation in Zihuan Mountain.

Then he was surprised to find that the route in the dream seemed to be comparable to reality.

And that route was something he had never traveled in reality.

So when it was dawn, he finally couldn't bear to get dressed and go out, he didn't drive the car of the unit, didn't inform Lao Xu, and directly took a car to Zihuan Mountain by himself. .

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