catch the dream

Yu Hao lowered his head and looked at the WeChat chat box with Zhou Sheng. Apart from those few simple conversations, they didn't exchange any opinions.

"This matter starts from the day I committed suicide in Houshan." Yu Hao murmured, and then told Huang Ting roughly what had happened. Huang Ting just listened carefully without interrupting Yu Hao, frowning slightly up.

"This is how I met Zhou Sheng for the first time in my dream." Yu Hao said, "I think you can already deduce the rest."

Huang Ting's expression was not the slightest bit surprised. Yu Hao suddenly had an idea, and vaguely understood Zhou Sheng's secret arrangements and arrangements.Huang Ting was not completely clear about the Golden Crow Wheel and their purpose of dreaming, or in other words, he had a certain degree of misunderstanding about this device.Confessing the truth to him was quite risky, but it also opened up another possibility—maybe after Huang Ting realized the true power of the Golden Crow Wheel, he would change some of his original ideas.

Sure enough, Huang Ting replied, "It's a little different from what I imagined, but not too big."

Yu Hao: "What was the Golden Crow Wheel that you originally imagined?"

Huang Ting didn't answer. At this moment, Yu Hao clearly remembered the information on the second page of the research report on the PPT, which revealed a lot of content that neither he nor Zhou Sheng had thought about. With his knowledge system, he couldn't understand it for the time being, so he could only force it. Write it down, go back and find relevant literature for comparison.

Huang Ting: "So this is a device used to change other people's hearts."

"To be precise," Yu Hao replied, "it's a device used to help others and change their hearts. We don't directly intervene in a person's dream, but find the owner of this dream and help him regain the totem."

Huang Ting didn't take it seriously, and turned the page, and there was a photo of Liang Jinmin lying on the hospital bed in a coma.

"In other words, as long as you are willing, you can also enter my dream." Huang Ting said.

"It's my turn to ask questions." Yu Hao accurately cut into the best timing and set off a smoke bomb, "Where is the Golden Crow Wheel now?"

"No comment." Huang Ting replied, "It's not in my hands anyway."

"Then our conversation can't continue." Yu Hao was about to get up, and said to Huang Ting, "This is not the way friends communicate."

"Okay." Huang Ting stopped Yu Hao from getting off the bed and said, "Leave it to the superior."

"Which superior?" Yu Hao said, "I remember you have several superiors."

Huang Ting laughed it off, but was still thinking, Yu Hao said, "How are you going to study it now?"

Huang Ting replied, "It's my turn. How did you wake up a comatose person?"

"Subconsciousness." Yu Hao said, "I don't know the general principle, only Zhou Sheng understands it."

Yu Hao roughly described what happened in Liang Jinmin's dream that day. Huang Ting said, "So in the end you found out, the monitoring that Liang Jinmin forgot. Let me tell you... why did you get something that she couldn't even remember? hint."

Huang Ting gave Yu Hao another meaningful look, and motioned for Yu Hao to ask.

Yu Hao pondered for a moment: "The Golden Crow Wheel is now in your hands. Through research, your questions can be answered. Why are you still chasing us?"

Yu Hao was always testing Huang Ting, wanting to know if he knew that what they took away in the Golden Crow transfer package case was still a fake.But through observing Huang Ting, Yu Hao is now almost certain that they don't know that what they got is a fake Golden Crow Wheel.

"You know better than me." Huang Ting said in a daze, "No one can activate it except you and Zhou Sheng."

Yu Hao: "I can't activate it, only Zhou Sheng has control over it, let me see?"

Huang Ting said: "It's not in my hands, don't try it anymore. Come on, the next question, can you pass it and erase people's memories?"

Huang Ting switched to the next page. This page was empty, but there was a player hanging under the screen. He clicked on autoplay. On it was a hypnotic recording of Ou Qihang.Sure enough, it was exactly the same as what Yu Hao had guessed before, through hypnosis, Huang Ting reminded Ou Qihang of that lost memory, and restored the process!

"... At first, I dreamed about Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao, and I recreated the scene in the dream." Ou Qihang's voice was tired when he was hypnotized, "But common sense tells me that this is impossible..."

After Yu Hao listened to the whole paragraph, Huang Ting turned off the sound.

"How do you erase a person's memory?" Huang Ting said.

"The memory is always there." Yu Hao recalled Chen Yekai and Zhou Sheng's conjecture, and replied, "We just temporarily sealed it, mobilized a part of the dream, and then threw it into the subconscious."

"Take a walk in Liang Jinmin's subconscious mind, what did you learn?" Huang Ting raised his brows and asked Yu Hao.

"I don't know," Yu Hao replied, "I have to ask Zhou Sheng about it. It's up to me."

Yu Hao thought about it, and suddenly got some kind of inspiration from Huang Ting's words. Could it be that he speculated that after Zhou Sheng entered Liang Jinmin's subconscious, he learned the method of mutual transformation of memory between the superficial consciousness and the subconscious, and Found some kind of pattern?No, earlier, Zhou Sheng proposed that Chen Yekai's memory could be "erased" to avoid leakage of secrets.

So has he used this method before?Who is it used on?Zhou Sheng never told him...why?Of course it is also a reason not to ask, there are not many opportunities for them to discuss the Golden Crow Wheel...

"Hello." Huang Ting said, "Are you asleep?"

Yu Hao: "Why did you only take away the Golden Crow Wheel and not Zhou Sheng?"

Yu Hao wanted to confirm their guess about Huang Ting, but got another answer.

"I don't want the superior to make it difficult for you." Huang Ting said, "Given the full freedom of choice, this device is too powerful, and Zhou Sheng can't hold it for a long time, so I made a deal with the superior: I will be responsible for getting it." Golden Crow Wheel, hand it in. In exchange, the organization will let you two go and stop interfering with your normal life."

"But obviously it didn't work," Yu Hao said, "otherwise there would be no conversation today."

Huang Ting was noncommittal: "It's my turn, how many dreams have you entered?"

"Not much." Yu Hao told him everything Huang Ting knew, or what he thought he could deduce, including Fu Liqun.

"Only this?" Huang Ting couldn't believe it, and glanced at Yu Hao.

"Since you don't believe me, why ask me?" Yu Hao said, "What's your superior's attitude towards us now?"

"This question cannot be answered for you." Huang Ting said, "You can only trust me, I will try my best to protect you."

"Thank you." Yu Hao replied.

"You're welcome." Huang Ting said, "According to your guess, could it be that you didn't know..."

But Yu Hao said: "However, you helped us break this matter out."

Huang Ting said sternly: "Do you think that if I choose not to investigate, the secret of your dreams will never be discovered? Yu Hao, you have already stepped into society and are no longer a child."

Yu Hao remained silent, took the remote control, flipped through the PPT, stayed on their past evidence collection photos, looked for an opportunity to go back to the front, and read the English analysis report on the second page.

Huang Ting said: "Then, let's solve the last problem, it's getting late, don't rummage around, Yu Hao."

Yu Hao didn't turn over again, turned his head to look at Huang Ting, Huang Ting said, "It's still the same question, would Zhou Sheng enter other people's dreams without your knowledge?"

Yu Hao replied: "Impossible, if he dreamed someone else's dream, he would definitely tell me."

Huang Ting said: "Is this an agreement between you? His performance in the office is quite outstanding, and the whereabouts of some targets are not so easy to grasp."

Yu Hao asked back: "The office is one of the steps you arranged, right? They also know the secret of the Golden Crow Wheel? How many other people know?"

"Not much." Huang Ting said casually, "I can't tell you the specific personnel involved."

Yu Hao: "Qin Guodong opened the firm, what is his relationship with Ren Chong and Zhao Liang?"

"Ex-colleague relationship." Huang Ting got up and said, "I'll take you back? Xiao Fu has arrived in Beijing, why don't you say hello to him?"

Yu Hao: "???"

Yu Hao had put down his phone for a while, so he checked it quickly, and saw that Fu Liqun had sent him a message but didn't get a reply, so he asked again in the group, Zhou Sheng replied that Yu Hao and Huang Ting were having dinner, and Chen Yekai asked if he wanted to go He lives there.Ou Qihang was asking if he wanted to pick him up, but Fu Liqun finally replied to wait for him at Yu Hao's unit.

Fu Liqun didn't have the key to their house, and he originally planned to go to Beijing tomorrow, but he didn't expect to come tonight.He sent a courier to Yu Hao last year, and the address of the newspaper office Yu Hao left, Jin Weicheng should still be on duty at the newspaper office now.

Yu Hao said, "I'll go to work to pick him up."

"Okay." Huang Ting said, "Let's go, after a while, if the research fails, maybe I will take you to have a look... Golden Crow Wheel, is that what it's called?"

Yu Hao said: "You should go to Zhou Sheng directly, I can't open the Golden Crow Wheel either."

Huang Ting replied: "The conclusion obtained from Zhou Sheng is far from being as simple as communicating with you alone. If you want to protect him, it is obviously the safest route to follow."

Huang Ting changed into a down windbreaker. It was already cold outside. When he got into the car, he coughed twice and handed Yu Hao the helmet.

"You have to believe," Huang Ting said, "I am the last person who doesn't want you to be in danger. I just hope that everything is still under control."

"One last question." Yu Hao asked Huang Ting while holding the helmet, "What's in the small refrigerator in your room?"

The snow-thawed Beijing was very quiet, with water dripping from the icy edge. In the dark night, Huang Ting lowered his head and put on gloves, straddling the motorcycle without looking at Yu Hao.Holding the helmet, Yu Hao stood by the side of the road like a sculpture.

"You've grown up, Yu Hao." Huang Ting put on his gloves, looked up at Yu Hao, and said, "I still remember the day when I had coffee with you, Xiaojun."

"What kind of medicine?" Yu Hao said, "Injection? Huang Ting, is your body in danger?"

"Get in the car." Huang Ting said.

The motorcycle drove into the urban area where the lights were just beginning to shine.

"Why?" Yu Hao said while waiting for the red light.

Huang Ting looked sideways at Yu Hao, Yu Hao asked puzzled, "Is this your project?"

Huang Ting nodded.

Yu Hao: "It started with you? I mean, because you brought up this case."

Huang Ting recalled briefly, then shook his head.

Yu Hao: "Is it meaningful for you to devote yourself to finding out these details?"

"The truth." Huang Ting said in a deep voice, "I want to know the truth, but I don't know if you can understand it."

"It's understandable." In a sense, Yu Hao understood Huang Ting's thoughts.

"You are not a bad person." Finally, Yu Hao said to Huang Ting outside the newspaper office.

"There's still a difference between 'not a bad guy' and a 'good guy'." After finishing his sentence, Huang Ting straightened his helmet and said, "Let's go! Say hello to Xiao Fu for me."

The engine rang, Huang Ting galloped onto the road and left.

Yu Hao immediately opened his backpack, pulled out his laptop, and entered the office in three steps at a time. Jin Weicheng was indeed on duty, and he and Fu Liqun each had a small bottle of Erguotou, chatting and drinking in front of the stove.

As soon as Fu Liqun got up, Yu Hao immediately said, "Give me another half an hour, you guys continue."

Yu Hao quickly sat down at the desk, opened the notebook, turned off the WIFI, found the network cable adapter from the drawer, went online, opened the library and started searching.He didn't want to look up information related to Golden Crow Wheel online at home, for fear that the Internet would be monitored.At the same time, I took a post-it note, opened the pen, wrote down the first key word "communication of collective subconscious mind", and started searching.

This is one of the keywords in the English research report on the second page of that PPT.

The conversation between Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun came to my ears, and the content of the literature popped up on the webpage.Yu Hao studied Jungian psychology when he was in college, shadows, persona, anima and animus... are all the things he has learned.Among them, "self-nature", Yu Hao specially used it as a key word in the opening report of his graduation thesis, and did a literature search.

"So your responsibility is very heavy." Jin Weicheng said to Fu Liqun, "This is how men live. Society is harsh on women and men as well. You can't say that you have to take responsibility, there is no way..."

Fu Liqun drank some wine and said, "What happened next?"

"Cremation." Jin Weicheng replied, "It can only be cremated. Now that I think about it, if I hadn't nodded, she wouldn't have wanted to get pregnant..."

Yu Hao looked up at Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun, and wrote the second paragraph from memory.

Fu Liqun looked outside and said, "It's snowing again, Yu Hao, are you cold?"

"It's not cold." Yu Hao said, "Should I avoid it?"

"It's okay." Jin Weicheng said.

On this snowy night, Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun were drinking wine in front of the stove, Yu Hao was very surprised, this was the first time Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun met, and they actually started chatting.

While looking up documents, he deduced a general idea from their intermittent conversations—Jin Weicheng was one of the few college students back then. In that era when workers were proud of their profession, he was in charge of numerical control in a steel factory and married a beautiful woman. His wife, who also plays basketball well, can be regarded as a man of the hour in this small world.

He has a very lovely daughter, and he showed Fu Liqun the photos, his words were full of pride for her.But there is only one child, and I always feel that something is missing. Once my wife got pregnant unexpectedly and wanted to give birth to a second child.Back then, family planning was very strict. Jin Weicheng thought about it for a long time, and finally nodded his head in a strange way.

This decision brought about a drastic change in their later lives.The lover went back to the countryside to hide and planned to give birth, but when she was eight months pregnant, she was taken away by the family planning office and given an abortion injection.After the miscarriage, he bleeds profusely and dies.Jin Weicheng also lost his job, and his daughter resented her father because of her mother's death, so she lived with her grandmother.

"How much ambition do you have?" Jin Weicheng sighed again, "When you were young, you wanted to be a powerful figure. These ideals and goals will become different after your first child is born. In your life , the child will be part of your new future."

Fu Liqun remained silent, and Jin Weicheng said: "Being a father is sometimes not easy. You have to understand your father-in-law. He did that because he couldn't express his emotions. In the Eastern cultural system, men, especially fathers, , always wearing a mask, always reminding myself 'I am a father'."

Yu Hao asked: "What about Teacher Jin's daughter?"

"I'm studying abroad." Jin Weicheng said, "If you save her some money as a dowry, I won't run away. Being an investigative reporter is also tiring, not as young as you guys."

Fu Liqun said: "In fact, many times, as a child, I also hope to communicate more with my parents. It is not bad to sit down and talk."

Yu Hao clicked and downloaded the documents and papers one by one, and Jin Weicheng replied, "I can't let it go. There is a wall in my heart, and I can't let it go, and she can't let it go, so that's it. , go far, just like the Buddhists say, maybe one day you will have an epiphany."

Yu Hao closed the computer, in this quiet snowy night, for some reason, what he remembered most clearly was Huang Ting's back on the motorcycle.Zhou Sheng took him by bike, and Huang Ting also took him. The feeling of being with Zhou Sheng is heartbeat and love, but on the back seat of Huang Ting's motorcycle, it makes him feel more direct and more impactful. force.

What emotion is that?Just like the moment when Jin Weicheng held the Erguotou wine bottle to his lips and looked at the snow outside the window.

It is a deep, deep loneliness, a loneliness that pulls everyone out of the noisy environment and the entire grand world. At this moment, they are in the world, but they are separated from the world. The sound and sound became far away in an instant, and there was only a solitary individual between the sky and the earth, like a small boat that could never reach the shore in the boundless sea.

The stars all over the sky have disappeared, and the sun has not yet risen. Yu Hao thought of what Ou Qihang said with a smile while sitting side by side on the school bench with him before the end of that summer.

Huang Ting turned around an intersection, and an SUV stopped in front of him.He looked back, and there was also an off-road vehicle behind him. Two vehicles were blocked at both ends of the road, and a person got out of the vehicle.

"The things have already been handed in." Huang Ting replied, "It's useless to find me. Teacher Zhao should go back."

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Liang said, "If you hadn't invited Yu Hao to meet today, I wouldn't have come here specially. Whoever can't restrain himself first will lose. Remember what you said at that time?"

Huang Ting twisted the motorcycle handle a few times, making a "buzzing" idling sound.

Zhao Liang said: "Although I left the investigation team, I still have some strength. Xiao Huang, don't do stupid things."

Huang Ting looked at the vehicle behind him through the rear view mirror through his motorcycle helmet. Zhao Liang said, "Just a few words, you are Brother Ren's favorite student, so I won't hold you back. I also have something to give you." have a look."

Huang Ting finally gave up the plan to fight, took off his helmet and got out of the car. Someone came over in front of the SUV and rode his car away. Zhao Liang signaled Huang Ting to get in the car first, and the driver drove away.