catch the dream

Zhou Sheng came back from a business trip, and Yu Hao told him everything that happened. Zhou Sheng listened silently at the dining table, sorted out the investigation materials at hand, and did not express any opinions during the whole process. When the situation happened, Zhou Sheng put down the documents in his hand and glanced at Yu Hao.

"That's it." Yu Hao said.

"Didn't he ask you to keep it a secret from me?" Zhou Sheng said.

"Is it useful?" Yu Hao asked back, "Of course I will say it if I want to say it, and I won't say it if I don't want to. What he means is that he hopes I won't tell you."

Zhou Sheng said: "According to his understanding, the Golden Crow Wheel is already in his hands, and I won't eat him."

"That's what you said." Yu Hao said, "If you can activate it remotely, wouldn't they all be finished? What illness do you think he has?"

Zhou Sheng was still thinking, squinting his eyes, shaking his head, Yu Hao said again: "I need you to accompany me to do an experiment, Zhou Sheng."

Zhou Sheng replied, "Yu Hao, you haven't used the Golden Crow Wheel before, have you?"

Yu Hao said inexplicably: "Of course I don't have it anymore, I can't use it, what's wrong?"

"They must have some power to monitor the Golden Crow Wheel." Zhou Sheng said.

"What?" Yu Hao asked in disbelief.

"Have you forgotten my dragon?" Zhou Sheng said, "On the day of Loulan."

Yu Hao suddenly remembered that Zhou Sheng's dragon did flicker briefly a few times, but this problem never happened in Nanlu.

"The flickering of the dragon is their interference?" Yu Hao asked, frowning deeply.

Zhou Sheng didn't answer, but instead asked, "What do you want to do in your dream?"

"Check one thing." Yu Hao turned the computer over and clicked on the document he downloaded a few days ago to show Zhou Sheng. Said: "If the guess is correct, we may be able to..."

"I'll think about it." Zhou Sheng replied.

After half an hour of silence, Yu Hao took the computer and started to write his graduation thesis. Zhou Sheng didn't say anything, got up to prepare dinner, and Yu Hao asked, "How is the investigation going?"

"Yeah." Zhou Sheng said, "It's okay, I also have a clue."

Yu Hao said, "What clue?"

Zhou Sheng didn't answer, Yu Hao said, "Okay, I won't ask any more."

The atmosphere today was a bit weird. After Fu Liqun came back and greeted Zhou Sheng, the three of them were as normal as they used to be together.After dinner, Zhou Sheng watched a drama for a while, Fu Liqun took the materials and began to read German, Yu Hao wrote his graduation thesis, and made an appointment with Chen Yekai to meet next week.Until late at night, Zhou Sheng fastened the Golden Crow Wheel on his wrist, and put one hand on the back of Yu Hao's hand.

"Wait." Yu Hao said, "Isn't he being monitored?"

"It's okay." Zhou Sheng said casually, "Come on, make bold assumptions, carefully verify, good night."

In the closed cell, two doctors were measuring Huang Ting's blood pressure when Zhao Liang knocked on the door and came in.

"How is it?" Zhao Liang asked.

"Troubleshooting." Huang Ting replied, "This disease cannot be cured."

Zhao Liang said, "As long as you are willing to cooperate, there are plenty of ways."

Huang Ting said, "It's not a good idea to lock me up here. It will intensify the conflict between you and Mr. Ren."

Zhao Liang laughed and shook his head helplessly: "I have worked with him longer than you, and I know his character very well. He attacked Zhou Sheng first, took away the equipment, broke the balance, and owes me an explanation. Before he gives this explanation, he won't think too much about your disappearance."

Huang Ting pulled up the sleeves of his shirt and said in a deep voice, "Just treat me as a pawn. Don't you think it's not worth wasting so much time on me?"

"It all depends on your performance." Zhao Liang said earnestly, "You should explain what needs to be explained clearly, saving us each other's time, and everyone can do more important things. Isn't that better?"

Huang Ting said, "It can be said that I have explained everything to you at the beginning."

"Why didn't you take Zhou Sheng away?" Zhao Liang said meaningfully, "With the Golden Crow Wheel alone, it's impossible for you to come up with a research result. Huang Ting, you are a very individual person."

"Why does Teacher Zhao expect me to bring Zhou Sheng back with me so much?"

Huang Ting spread his hands, looked directly into Zhao Liang's eyes, and asked, "I really can't think of a reason why you like to worry about Teacher Ren so much."

"I'm a person who likes to eat salty radishes and not worry about it." Zhao Liang said, "I'm in a hurry. Seeing that a shocking secret is about to be unraveled, you have stopped in front of the answer. You can't." Are you curious?"

Huang Ting said, "I do have a thirst for knowledge, but you are so anxious and want me to arrest Zhou Sheng, which makes me think there is a ghost here. Teacher Zhao, please be cautious in everything."

But at this moment, hurried footsteps came from outside.

The assistant came over quickly and said: "The operation of the integrator has been detected! The signal is very obvious!"

Zhao Liang's and Huang Ting's expressions changed at the same time, almost instantly, Huang Ting guessed the reason, smiled unbelievably, and took a deep breath.Zhao Liang understood immediately, got up and rushed out, Huang Ting pondered briefly, got up, put on his coat, and followed quickly.

Zhao Liang entered the research room, the computer began to analyze, and the program seemed to be activated. Zhao Liang sat on the experimental chair, and the researcher hurriedly said, "Mr. Zhao, you can't try it yourself."

Zhao Liang wanted to insist, but everyone demanded it unanimously, and finally had to give up.

Huang Ting stood in front of the instrument. On the left was a light spot on the map, which happened to be at Zhou Sheng's home.

"Xiao Huang," Zhao Liang turned around, and said to Huang Ting, "If you don't tell them everything, don't start the integrator again?"

"I don't know." Huang Ting raised his eyebrows slightly, "Zhou Sheng is smarter than I imagined."

Zhao Liang asked the researchers again: "Can you monitor the sound and restore the picture?"

The researcher turned the monitoring reset button and said: "No, it's the same as last time, I can't hear theirs, it should be some kind of encryption mechanism of the integrator, but my own voice should be able...well, now you can go up, Try to see if you can do signal connection interference."

Zhao Liang pondered for a moment, called his assistant, gave some instructions in a low voice, and then glanced at Huang Ting. Huang Ting was silent, and Zhao Liang smiled slightly: "Huang Ting, this chair is actually specially prepared for you. Come, please." sit."

Huang Ting's face suddenly changed.

Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao stood on the beacon tower, looking into the distance, there was a vast sea of ​​grass outside the Great Wall, the darkness had receded after Yu Hao lit the beacon a long time ago, but there was still a layer of white mist in the distance.

"What kind of experiment do you want to do?" Zhou Sheng asked while holding Yu Hao's hand.

"What would happen if I jumped off the Great Wall that day?" Yu Hao asked.

"Darkness will spread across the Great Wall," Zhou Sheng replied, "sweeping your entire dream, swallowing all surface consciousness, and then..."

"It's all broken." Yu Hao said, "It's like Teacher Liang's subconscious world, and then I fell into a coma."

Zhou Sheng said: "For a short period of time, it then fell into the subconscious, and finally all consciousness disappeared."

Yu Hao said: "You can build a channel leading to the subconscious and superficial consciousness through the flame."

Zhou Sheng lazily put the golden cudgel on his shoulder with one hand, and snapped his fingers with the other. A brilliant golden fire burst out between his fingers. He looked at Yu Hao from the side, showing a tired and handsome appearance.

"Huh?" Zhou Sheng looked into Yu Hao's eyes.

Yu Hao said: "This allows the fragments in the subconscious world to be reconstructed and return to the real world."

"Hmm." Zhou Sheng replied, "So?"

Yu Hao pondered, and stopped talking, Zhou Sheng said: "Look, you want to play tricks, I never urge you to make it clear, if I want to hide something, you have to ask clearly, otherwise you will tell me Angry."

"I don't have it!" Yu Hao said, "And I haven't thought about it myself, can it be the same?"

With a smile in his eyes, Zhou Sheng stretched out his hand to touch Yu Hao's face, and said, "Think about it, think slowly, don't worry."

"I'm going to take a trip to the subconscious mind," Yu Hao said, "Can you go with me?"

"Nonsense." Zhou Sheng said, "Of course we will go together. Have you finally made up your mind?"

Speaking of which, Zhou Sheng summoned somersaulting clouds, flicked the golden cudgel, and turned it into an ear clip, which was clipped on his left ear. Yu Hao hugged his waist and said, "Aren't all the Dinghaishen needles put into the ears?"

"I'm afraid I might accidentally fall and get stuck in my ear, can't I use it as an ear clip?" Zhou Sheng rode somersaulting clouds, descended the Great Wall, and skimmed across the empty sea of ​​grass.

Yu Hao: "Why do you say 'finally'?"

"I thought you would start to explore the subconscious mind very early on." Zhou Sheng said, "Kaikai also mentioned that maybe the answer to the Golden Crow Wheel lies in the subconscious mind."

When Yu Hao remembered it, he couldn't help but blame himself, why didn't he think of it before?That time in Liang Jinmin's subconscious and even in the ruins of memory, he has already proved that he has the ability to travel through the subconscious without being swallowed by darkness.Doesn't this mean that he can set off at any time to explore the subconscious with Zhou Sheng?

"That's right!" Yu Hao asked, "Why didn't you remind me?"

Zhou Sheng replied: "Of course it depends on your own wishes. Why does he want to know the truth and ask you to explore it? What if there is danger?"

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao put his arms around Zhou Sheng's waist, and suddenly realized that Zhou Sheng really cared about his wishes, no matter what the issue was, he would hardly force him.

"It's still comfortable to hold your waist." Yu Hao said again.

"Whose waist have you hugged before? Huh?" Zhou Sheng immediately became nervous.

Yu Hao laughed, Zhou Sheng turned his head and said, "Get ready, this is the boundary of subconscious mind!"

With a "buzz" sound, a bright moon light spread out from Yu Hao's body, and he flew into the mist together with Zhou Sheng.The subconscious area was misty and constantly surging, but it was not like the time when he fell into the trough of his life, baring his teeth and claws, dark and very aggressive.

"I understand." Yu Hao said.

"Do you understand why it's happier to hold me?" Zhou Sheng didn't know where to go, he just flew into the mist with somersaulting clouds, surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness, and a protective shield formed around Yu Hao.

"The existence of the sun in the dream is to prevent and control the subconscious mind from crossing the boundary." Yu Hao said, "Under the sun's light, the subconscious mind will have a boundary, so as not to swallow the superficial consciousness."

"That's right." Zhou Sheng replied, "What now? Where are you going? Teacher Yu, the experiment has already started?"

"Fly further." Yu Hao said.

"Is it deep enough here?" Zhou Sheng asked.

Yu Hao: "Don't tell nasty jokes, it's too serious."

That sentence is Yu Hao's usual private conversation with Zhou Sheng, "deeper" followed by "Is this deep enough, baby".Zhou Sheng said: "Look at you, you are not serious."

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao was still worried at first, whether it would be the same in any direction in the fog, and the result of flying in would be to wander around, but after Zhou Sheng flew for a while, the fog became thicker and the light became darker.

Yu Hao: "How long have you been flying?"

"You can go out." Zhou Sheng replied.

Yu Hao said, "You have never entered the subconscious mind."

"I've been in." Zhou Sheng said, "Don't worry, everything depends on me."

Yu Hao was a little nervous at first, he was afraid that due to his own recklessness in this exploration, he would end up subconsciously lost and never get out again.Unexpectedly, Zhou Sheng seemed to understand what he wanted to do, and he wasn't worried at all.

"When did you come in?" Yu Hao asked.

"My own subconscious mind." Zhou Sheng said, "Isn't the arena on the island? I've been in the sea once, and I want to know what's inside."

"The result?" Yu Hao asked.

"The further you dive," Zhou Sheng looked around at the fog, the environment became darker, only the moon-like protective cover on Yu Hao's body resisted the invasion of the cold fog, "the more he felt confused, and finally he was caught in the fog." The water washed up on the shore."

"But you won't lose consciousness here." Yu Hao said.

"Because of this layer of light," Zhou Sheng casually pointed at the ball of light surrounding them, "it has resisted the engulfing of the subconscious mind to the autonomous consciousness, so don't withdraw it, otherwise we won't be able to get out."

"It can't be withdrawn." Yu Hao said, "It appeared automatically."

"Well, that's good..." Zhou Sheng was thinking, and Yu Hao asked again: "But in Nini's dream, I also fell into the sea, yes! That's how it felt! I remember that there was no protective cover at that time, it was the back Appeared, what does this mean? When did I have this ability?"

"My wife," Zhou Sheng asked, "Didn't you come here to do experiments? I thought you had thought it through, why did you keep asking me?"

Yu Hao: "I'm rather stupid!"

Zhou Sheng: "Because we were together later, right?"

Yu Hao: "When I entered Teacher Liang's dream, we were not together."

Zhou Sheng: "That means I already like you."

Yu Hao thought maybe?Ask again: "When did you start to like me?"

"Falling in love with you and liking you are two different concepts." Zhou Sheng said, "When do you mean?"

Yu Hao: "Can you stop eating my tofu?"

"Who are you if my wife doesn't eat your tofu?" Zhou Sheng said, "Hurry up, it's getting dark, what experiment are you going to do?"

"Wait!" Yu Hao said, "Stop!"

After passing through a certain area, the fog receded miraculously, revealing a void. The place where they were was actually a gap in the continent, and beyond that, there was nothing left!However, the fog behind it slowly caught up again, and the ground was constantly extending into the void!

"What does this mean?" Yu Hao said, "Is this the boundary of the subconscious mind?"

"I don't understand." Zhou Sheng's eyes were full of confusion, "I've never been here before." Yu Hao was about to speak, but Zhou Sheng's eyes were a little distracted, and he made a "wait" motion. A hint appeared!

"Yes, this is the boundary of the subconscious mind." Zhou Sheng was in a daze for a while before explaining, "But the boundary is constantly expanding, because your conscious world is spreading along with your perception, pushing your subconscious mind to continuously expand."

"Golden Crow Wheel told you?" Yu Hao said.

Zhou Sheng nodded, and the two looked at the space under the cliff together, which was completely dark.Yu Hao heard from Zhou Sheng that the timing of the prompts from the Golden Crow Wheel was very strange. When Zhou Sheng first activated the ability to enter the dream world, no matter what phenomenon he encountered, the Golden Crow Wheel would directly trigger an explanation in his consciousness, but as he knew More and more, less and less explanation.

"Can I go down and have a look?" Yu Hao asked again.

"Let's go." Zhou Sheng stepped on the somersault cloud, and Yu Hao flew out of the cliff and flew into the abyss.Yu Hao was very nervous and felt very strange, he was exploring the edge of his subconscious?

"I can't see to the end." Yu Hao looked back at the cliff from time to time, they were already far away from the cliff, and the fog slowly fell from the edge of the continent like a waterfall, into the abyss.

"I can see it." Zhou Sheng slowed down and said, "There is a bottom."

As if they were wrapped in a silver-white ball of light, they slowly descended to the bottom of the abyss. There were messy geometric figures piled up here, and a thought suddenly appeared in Yu Hao's heart.

Memory ruins!

"Here are the ruins of my memory." Yu Hao looked up at the high place, the mist falling like a waterfall transformed into geometric lines and shining fragments in the air, continuously sliding down.

"Huh?" Zhou Sheng said, "What experiment are you going to do here?"

Yu Hao took Zhou Sheng by the hand and looked around. It was quiet, cold, empty, and boundless. He murmured, "Will there be a boundary here?"

"It's best not to run anymore." Zhou Sheng said, "It's all black, if you get lost, you will be in trouble."

"Go forward." Yu Hao said, "Stay close to the cliff."

He held Zhou Sheng's hand all the time, and the two walked into a large area of ​​ruins. Yu Hao said, "These are the...memory fragments that I have forgotten."

Zhou Sheng nodded, and Yu Hao said, "You can use flames to reassemble it, right?"

Zhou Sheng frowned and said, "Do you suspect that you have also lost your memory?"

"No." Yu Hao replied, "That's not what it means... I think, um, I want you to try to restore a memory that I have forgotten."

Zhou Sheng: "What memory? No, you have already forgotten it, let alone say it."

"Yes..." Yu Hao said, "It's probably... a memory similar to a nightmare."

Zhou Sheng was full of question marks when he heard this, Yu Hao said, "A small room, or a door, whatever is fine, try it?"

Although Zhou Sheng was very confused, he had no choice but to give it a try.

He snapped his fingers, and a flame appeared in his hand. The flame immediately spread into a ring and swept away. Yu Hao exclaimed, "It's so beautiful!"

It was like a miracle happened gently in the ruins of memory, and like planets colliding, bursting out violent fire, the surrounding fragments began to reorganize under the power of golden fire, presenting a room, in which familiar people walked towards him.

"This is my dad?!" Yu Hao said, "I was very young!"

Zhou Sheng said, "Next?"

"Not this." Yu Hao replied.

Zhou Sheng withdrew the golden fire, and the memory shattered and dissipated again. Yu Hao said, "What happened just now?"

Zhou Sheng: "You said it wasn't this."

Yu Hao was a little confused, and said, "What did you reproduce?"

Zhou Sheng laughed, put his arms around Yu Hao, tilted his head and kissed him on the lips, and said, "Don't ask."

Yu Hao said, "Try again."

Zhou Sheng raised his hand, swiped it flat, and once again a beam of light and fire was scattered between his five fingers, like a brilliant galaxy.

Yu Hao: "This is... the neighbor's house. No, it's not here."

Zhou Sheng took it again, his memory was shattered, before Yu Hao could ask, Zhou Sheng suddenly said, "I think I know where it is."

Yu Hao: "???"

Zhou Sheng raised one hand above his head and snapped his fingers loudly.

There was a burst of light and fire, and the surrounding colors changed, and the two appeared in a closed cement room.

Yu Hao: "!!!"

"You want to talk about this?" Zhou Sheng asked.

There are several wooden boxes in the concrete room, a charcoal stove in the center, mattresses on the floor, and gray windows with adhesive tape on them.

"Yes." Yu Hao murmured, "Maybe, but why would I forget this place?"

Zhou Sheng didn't speak, Yu Hao said strangely: "I shouldn't forget such an important thing, forget it, it's not important."

Zhou Sheng held Yu Hao's hand slightly tighter, and said, "What exactly do you want to do?"

"What does this place symbolize?" Yu Hao pondered, "Death, right?"

There was no door in the concrete room, Yu Hao was still holding Zhou Sheng's hand, trying to push the window with one hand, but the window was sealed, he went to look at the wall, where there should have been a door, the door disappeared strangely.