catch the dream

Graduation thesis, interview topics, this month's interview draft, on-duty proofreading... Yu Hao thought that there were still so many things to do, so he had the urge to resign.He began to understand why there are always people who want to quit their jobs. It's really cool to lie at home every day and do nothing!Going to work day after day, year after year, even if you like the job you like, you will feel tired.This has only been done for less than half a year, and it's still the job he wants to do the most... Yu Hao didn't even dare to think about what would happen if he found a job he didn't like. He probably lived like a walking dead every day.

"Don't be anxious, okay?" Zhou Sheng said, "You can play Gong Bao with your face."

It was still cold and windy in Beijing in February. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng dragged their suitcases and pushed open the door of their house. No one lived in the house for nearly half a month, and there was a musty smell unique to winter.Zhou Sheng kicked the suitcase to a corner, opened the curtains, rolled up his sleeves, and started cleaning.Yu Hao put the grapefruit peel on the radiator, wiped the table, made coffee, and spread out the computer on the table.

"I can't finish this thing!" Yu Hao said frantically.

Too much work really broke Yu Hao, and his anxiety was lingering. On the high-speed rail, he and Zhou Sheng had a quarrel. The reason was that Zhou Sheng was too absorbed in playing the game console. The motion of leaning his body always disturbs Yu Hao's mind.In the end, Yu Hao angrily told him not to play any more, while Zhou Sheng looked puzzled. After the two quarreled for a few words, Zhou Sheng had to lean on the back of the chair to sleep. He turned over, leaned on Yu Hao's shoulder, and fell asleep all the way.When they got out of the car, they acted as if nothing happened, okay.

"You can write whatever you want." Zhou Sheng said, "Or should I write it for you?"

"Kaikai can see it." Yu Hao stroked his forehead hair, it was too long, Zhou Sheng found a rubber band from somewhere, tied it into a pigtail, and said, "Eat more candies, so your brain can move freely." , Look, what are you writing about? You are a reporter, why are you writing this?"

The topic of Yu Hao's thesis was "self-identity", which is a very complicated category. After reading it, Chen Yekai did not suggest him to choose another topic, but thought it was a good choice.After all, the unity of personality and the basis of self-perception are important cornerstones of what makes a person a human being.And after traveling through many dreams through the Golden Crow Wheel, this is the most important problem he perceives, and it is also the point he most urgently needs to understand.

Experienced the dark self on the Great Wall, Chen Yekai who was at a loss deep in Chichen Itza, Satan Zhou Sheng in the arena, Liang Jinmin's childhood and marriage, Fu Liqun's ancient city of Loulan... Yu Hao in Jung, Freud , Dewey, Wundt and other works, hoping to find a unified explanation for the birth of personality, but these viewpoints are hidden in a cloud of fog, and he clearly knows that they must be there, but they are in the middle of nowhere. Looking at the five fingers, it takes a long time to work hard to clearly capture them.

This is the source of all Yu Hao's anxiety.

"What are you doing?" Yu Hao noticed that Zhou Sheng was looking around, checking cabinets, wardrobes, bedside tables, and decorative paintings, like a detection dog.

"Bugs." Zhou Sheng said, "Didn't you find it? When we were not at home, someone came, and there were two groups of people."

"How did you find out?" Yu Hao became vigilant.

Zhou Sheng: "Private detectives of course have the methods of private detectives, otherwise how can they get along?"

Yu Hao thought to himself that before Zhou Sheng left, he should have tampered with the house, and now that he said it like this, he probably didn't find the bug.After Zhou Sheng checked his territory, he pulled out a vacuum cleaner and started to vacuum. Yu Hao was disturbed by the sound of the vacuum cleaner, so he had no choice but to stop writing his thesis and come over to clean up with him.

"What should we do next?" Yu Hao asked.

"Wait." Zhou Sheng replied, "Wait for them to come to the door and negotiate terms with Huang Ting."

Yu Hao said: "I have a hunch, Zhou Sheng, regarding the Golden Crow Wheel, we may wait for an end in the near future."

Zhou Sheng poured out the dust from the vacuum cleaner, sneezed, and said, "Why? Because all the gifts bestowed by fate have secretly marked their prices?"

That sentence was said by Zweig, and Yu Hao also knew that Zhou Sheng had never completely let go of the existence of the Golden Crow Wheel. From the first day he got it, the Golden Crow Wheel had become a double-edged sword in their lives. .There needs to be some kind of vigilance at all times for any troubles that come with it.

Although in the past few years, every time the Golden Crow Wheel was activated, it had changed a lot for them, and whether they were good friends or not, it had never let them down.If it is conscious, it must be treated that way, which is not fair.

Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao sat at the dining table, Zhou Sheng's thumb popped out the Golden Crow Wheel, and Yu Hao caught it.

"Do you think we will lose it in the end?" Zhou Sheng asked.

Yu Hao replied: "I can feel that someone will take it away no matter what." As he spoke, he flicked the Golden Crow Wheel back, and the Golden Crow Wheel drew a flashing arc in the air and landed in Zhou Sheng's hand.

Zhou Sheng: "Three times in my life, I have thought about giving it up. The first time was after I saved Ni Ni, I had the urge to throw it into the river." Then he flicked the Golden Crow wheel to Yu Hao, Yu Hao caught it.

That was when Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao first met, and Yu Hao couldn't help thinking about the past, if he hadn't guessed that Zhou Sheng was the general, maybe he still couldn't confirm his intentions, but he didn't know if they would still be together later.

"Why didn't you give up?" Yu Hao handed the Golden Crow wheel to Zhou Sheng again.

"You braided me a bracelet." Zhou Sheng replied, "The second time, after I won the runner-up in the bicycle race, I wanted to either take you to Australia and throw it into the sea on the Great Barrier Reef."

The Golden Crow Wheel bounced back, and Yu Hao caught it: "What about the third time?"

"When it was handed over to Kaikai." Zhou Sheng pondered, "However, from the moment they set their sights on the Golden Crow Wheel, that is, the third time they had this idea, throwing it away is no longer helpful."

Yu Hao put the Golden Crow Wheel on the table, and the two of them looked at it together.

"Do your job." Zhou Sheng spread out the book and said, "Don't think about it, everything will have a solution."

Yu Hao closed his graduation thesis and began to revise his draft on pyramid schemes, but his mind was not on it.

"The Golden Crow Wheel has already been taken away by Huang Ting," Yu Hao said, "Did he find out that it was a fake? If he found out, it would make sense to enter our house. If he didn't find out, why would he come here? And he hasn't installed a bug or monitor?"

With a smile in his eyes, Zhou Sheng glanced at Yu Hao and gave him a thumbs up, indicating that he was smart.

Yu Hao thought for a moment, then said, "Zhou Sheng, tell me, what exactly do you want to plan?"

Zhou Sheng fell silent, and Yu Hao said, "Don't keep hiding it from me, I know you don't want me to worry, but if you don't say anything, it will only make me worry more, you know?"

"It's not that I don't want you to worry." Zhou Sheng closed the book, raised his eyes to the ceiling, thought for a moment, then looked at Yu Hao squarely, and said, "It's because in the next step, there is a link in our plan that can only be brought into full play without your knowledge. fighting power."

Yu Hao looked at Zhou Sheng full of doubts. Zhou Sheng picked up the Golden Crow Wheel, tapped it lightly on the table, and said, "It's like a dream. You must not know that you are in the dream before you can borrow your hand." , to complete the whole process, before that, once it is clearly explained to you, it will increase the risk."

Yu Hao could roughly understand Zhou Sheng's words, and immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I won't ask any more."

But after a while, Yu Hao still couldn't help asking another question.

"What is the ultimate goal of all this?" Yu Hao said, "Can you tell me?"

Zhou Sheng didn't answer, he opened the book again, and turned the pen a few times in his hand, the pen was turning back and forth between his dexterous fingers.

"Look out all the enemies," Zhou Sheng said nonchalantly, "Let them forget everything once and for all. After the matter is over, throw the Golden Crow Wheel back to the place where I picked it up the first time, and it's over."

Yu Hao: "..."

Zhou Sheng added: "But before ending this matter, I want to learn the truth as much as possible."

"What truth?" Yu Hao asked.

"What exactly is it, where does it come from, what is its use, and why did I choose my truth." Zhou Sheng said, "Aren't you curious? Of course, this plan may finally be based on the information I got from the Golden Crow Wheel , to make some corrections, so many things are quite uncertain and may change at any time, so I cannot discuss it clearly with you."

"Okay." Yu Hao could only say, "As long as you know what's in your mind."

"Trust me." Zhou Sheng said, "Trust me no matter what."

"I've never worried about you very much." Yu Hao replied.

Zhou Sheng smiled and said, "Look at your adoring little eyes."

The next day Yu Hao went to report to work, he didn't want to go to work at all, he felt very tired.Lin Ze thought that he would come after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In the office, there was a big red paper with the blessings of spring coming, and there were New Year’s candies and dried fruits on the table. It was freezing cold, and there was a huge Alaska in the hall. .Lin Ze, Situ Ye, and Jin Weicheng were eating snacks, drinking tea and chatting in the office, and everyone was discussing newspapers hahaha.

Yu Hao: "..."

"Oh!" Situ Ye said, "Why did you come here without saying hello?"

Yu Hao was about to explode, and said, "Don't you all need to go to the interview?!"

"Didn't you finish writing?" Lin Ze said, "I will use your manuscript for the past few days."

Yu Hao was a Chinese New Year student, and he racked his brains every day to provide two short drafts to the department. After Lin Ze got it, he handed it in Yu Hao's draft. The three of them had nothing to do, eating peanuts in the office.Yu Hao said sadly and indignantly: "You guys are going too far! I worked hard at home writing for you, and you are here to play?"

Holding the red envelope, Situ Ye motioned to Yu Hao: "What should I say? I won't give it."

"Madam Boss, Gong Xi Fa Cai!" Yu Hao immediately said obediently, and took the red envelope, which was heavy, at least a thousand.

Lin Ze said, "Good boy, give another one to your husband." After saying that, he also gave Yu Hao one.

Jin Weicheng was very natural, pretending nothing happened, and said to Yu Hao: "The first draft is well written, and when the responsible editor comes, I will arrange for you to publish it."

Thankfully, the editor-in-charge was finally hired. Yu Hao thought that the manuscript would not need to be turned over and over for countless times, but...he looked out and said, "Why do you still have a dog?"

"The dog at home has no one to take care of it, so I brought it here." Situ Ye said, "Anyway, everyone is not afraid of the dog. Let it watch the door during the day and bring it back at night."

The huge Alaska was obviously well-fed, fat and sleek, tied to a rope and wagging its broom-like tail on the ground.Yu Hao said, "Can't your family support you?"

"I came to be on duty the day before yesterday." Situ Ye said, "Ah Ze went shopping for groceries and didn't bother to walk him. He pulled it in the living room..."

Yu Hao: "Stop!"

Yu Hao remembered that dog couldn't hold back his poop at home, and then the sweeping robot automatically turned on at regular intervals, pushed the poop and spread it evenly on the floor of the whole house, and was finally baked by the indoor heating in the north... The human tragedy, Then he began to sympathize with Lin Ze and Situ Ye.

Jin Weicheng said: "Recently, there are always people on the other side of the road probing their brains. It's better to leash a dog during the day."

What?Yu Hao thought to himself, is there?When it came to the matter of himself, Zhou Sheng, and Jinwulun, he couldn't help feeling suspicious.Lin Ze and Situ Ye glanced at Yu Hao and then at each other, but they didn't say anything.

"The pennant is here." Lin Ze motioned Yu Hao to look at the wall.

Yu Hao was distracted, he looked at the pennant on the wall, and there were four large characters written on it, "Salvator".

Yu Hao: "???"

Situ Ye said: "During the investigation and interview of Guangxian Battery Factory, didn't you send out the medical records of a pregnant woman?"

Yu Hao had already forgotten about this, but there is still a pennant!He happened to go to Nanlu that day. Before the Chinese New Year, the family of the pregnant woman came to Beijing and sent a pennant. They thanked Lin Ze and the leaders in Taili crying.The weather was too cold for the victim to come over, so he wrote a handwritten thank you letter to Yu Hao.

Lin Ze showed the thank you letter to Yu Hao. Yu Hao unfolded it, and there were three densely packed pages on it, as if through the letter paper, he saw a real person, holding a child while crying, writing a letter to Yu Hao, on the letter paper And tear stains.

"I..." Yu Hao almost cried when he read it, and he had to put down the letter after reading it for a long time to ease his emotions.

Lin Ze threw peanuts and answered with his mouth: "The station will do an exclusive interview for you. You can write the manuscript by yourself. If you brag about yourself, I will say goodbye."

"No, no, no." Yu Hao said, "Of course not! I write my own manuscript, and I also sign a trainee reporter, Yu Hao, who will die of laughter!"

Several people laughed for a while, and Situ Ye said, "I said you just took a photo, and didn't think too much about it."

"Right, right." Thinking of this, Yu Hao had to admit that at that time, he was really just a little effort, and Lin Ze was doing all the things like posting the photos and reporting the case to the provincial bureau, and his own role was very small.

He finished reading the letter, then looked at the pennant on the wall, and lowered his head a little guilty. Lin Ze laughed, and threw him a piece of candy. Alaska thought he was crying, and came over wagging his tail, rubbing Yu Hao's calf.Yu Hao patted its head, as if a force filled his body, just like when he just became an investigative reporter, all his spirit came back at once.

"Okay, get to work!" Yu Hao said, "I hope the editor-in-chief will start working soon!"

Situ Ye moved a chair, came over and sat down, put a handful of melon seeds on the table, and said, "I saw the photo you uploaded, this guy is quite handsome."

Knowing that Situ Ye was referring to Fu Liqun, Yu Hao replied, "He's coming to Beijing tomorrow night, and he's taking a German class to prepare for the exam. Then he will introduce you to each other."

Yu Hao finished revising the manuscript. This time his topic was MLM. However, unlike other newspapers and online media's manuscripts about MLM, Lin Ze hoped that he could deepen the topic, so Yu Hao didn't put the old-fashioned sensational Imprisonment, corporal punishment, etc. are taken as the focus of the topic, but the topic falls on the point of why pyramid schemes can trap people.

Lack of self-confidence, being a vagrant for a long time, doing nothing, hard to realize self-worth, easy to be brainwashed, strong desire to prove oneself... Yu Hao interviewed the employees who escaped with Fu Liqun that day, including Fu Liqun's own explanation.From the company's sharing encouragement group to the gradual slogan-style brainwashing...by taking advantage of various weaknesses of human nature, they are tricked step by step into the thief's boat.

"More than 80.00% of the employees trapped in MLM have a common feature, that is, they urgently need to rebuild their values..." Lin Ze glanced at the manuscript and said, "How do you determine the percentage?"

Yu Hao said: "The proportion of interviewees."

"It's not convincing." Lin Ze said, "What I want is to look at the whole from an individual example."

"Then... most of the employees?" Yu Hao said, "Function words are not enough."

Lin Ze said: "Leave only one example, and let readers evaluate the rest. We only tell the facts and do not draw conclusions."

"Organization chart, MLM model, and incentive materials, the process is really clear." Jin Weicheng looked at Yu Hao's materials and salivated, "Even the reports of MLM companies can be obtained."

Yu Hao chuckled, and Situ Ye said, "It's just that the photos are flawed."

Yu Hao said, "Is the filming not good?"

Situ Ye said: "These are all close-ups of your man, how do you upload them?"

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao had no choice but to work with Situ Ye to select a picture of Zhang Zhou Sheng flying up and kicking his legs, with all the security guards staring at him in horror, and tried every means to cut Zhou Sheng out.Situ Ye made a black strip at random to cover Zhou Sheng's eyes. Yu Hao suddenly burst into laughter, and the two began to play hahaha. The cover, the cover of "A Chinese Journey to the West", also put on ancient costumes and long hair, and gave Zhou Sheng a Thor's Hammer to play "The Avengers", and put two lightsabers on Zhou Sheng's fist to COS "Star Wars"... ...Until finally Situ Ye found a poster of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and cut out Zhou Sheng's photo to fill it in. Yu Hao finally begged for mercy, his stomach hurt from laughing, and he lay under the desk and waved his hands for help, begging Situ Ye Stop playing.

Alaska suddenly yelled a few times, stood up and stared outside, Yu Hao laughed until tears came out, Situ Ye pulled Yu Hao up from under the table, Lin Ze said: "A friend is looking for you, Yu Hao. Little enough! Be quiet! "

Yu Hao looked back, and Huang Ting's voice said from the door: "It seems that being a reporter is quite fun, not bad."

In the office, Lin Ze, Situ Ye, and Jin Weicheng stared at Huang Ting together. Today, Huang Ting wore casual clothes, a leather trench coat, leather pants, and sunglasses. Absolutely can't hide it from these reporters, the same expression appeared on the faces of all of them——

- Tiaozi!Here comes the note!

"My friend." Yu Hao said to them, and then greeted Huang Ting, thinking that he really came, but instead of looking for Zhou Sheng, he came to him directly.

"Where is Master Tiaozi?" Situ Ye asked with a smile.

Lin Ze: "Is there a Land Rover?"

Yu Hao: "Don't make trouble! Wait a minute, what kind of shit is a Land Rover?"

"Look at him, the leather—pants—" Situ Ye sang.

"Thirteen Land Rover in front of the gate—" Lin Ze also sang along.

Yu Hao: "..."

"Director Lin." Huang Ting said, "I have admired your name for a long time, and it is like thunder."

Huang Ting took off his sunglasses and went over to shake hands with Lin Ze. Lin Ze just sat down and shook his hand politely. Yu Hao found that Lin Ze was still quite domineering at this time, and Huang Ting seemed a little afraid of Lin Ze .

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Lin Ze said, "All ears."

Huang Ting replied, "Lend your little brother for one night and have dinner with him."

"Then you wait a while." Lin Ze replied, "We don't get off work until six o'clock, unless he is willing to leave early."

Yu Hao said: "I'll fix these pictures and give them to the proprietress, it will be ready soon."

Huang Ting snapped his fingers and went out to wait by himself.