catch the dream

When the movie started, the two watched the movie.After the show ended, Yu Hao was about to propose to go back to school for self-study, but Zhou Sheng sat down in the greenhouse coffee, ordered two drinks, sat opposite Yu Hao, and asked, "Do you have a VPN?"

Yu Hao said, "Buy one now."

Zhou Sheng: "Come on, you open it first, and log in to my account. I have registered for Facebook before, but it was too troublesome to bypass the firewall, so I stopped using it. Your English is good, search for Takin, Columbia University, and see if you can find him Facebook or blog."

There are almost no secrets in the Internet age, and Long Sheng's name is relatively special. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng started to search separately, starting from Chen Yekai, Takin, and Columbia University. Yu Hao said: "Are we considered human flesh? I always feel bad…”

The corner of Zhou Sheng's mouth twitched: "Then why don't you watch a movie again? Just let him die?"

Yu Hao: "That's still...well, let's search."

Zhou Sheng said: "I asked you to search, you just blame me for not being able to do it. Or I search for it myself and give you the screenshots? Can you translate it for me?"

Yu Hao: "Of course it's a joint responsibility. I just think...you can't find the information you want."

Zhou Sheng: "That's it, what are you talking about, why don't you look for it first?"

Yu Hao was just afraid that he would find Chen Yekai's... Just as he thought about it, he came here. From the account of an overseas student, he found a photo of Chen Yekai's naked body... Fortunately, there was only the upper body.

Yu Hao put his hand on his forehead, Zhou Sheng said, "Let me take a look? Don't be nervous, this is a swimming pool. He's wearing swimming trunks, and he was secretly photographed."

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng searched for a while, and there were many secretly photographed photos of Chen Yekai, one of which was a photo of him with several girls when he attended a party.

"Look at the comments." Zhou Sheng said, "Look in the comments."

It was nearly four and a half years ago, and it was posted on Thanksgiving Day. Yu Hao searched through the few comments, but he didn't see Takin or anyone suspected of being Takin, but he found Chen Yekai's account.

"Look at Kaikai." Zhou Sheng said.

Chen Yekai's Facebook content has been almost emptied, leaving only one post: "ThushaveIhadthee, asadreamdothflatter, Insleepaking, butwakingnosuchmatter."

Zhou Sheng: "What do you mean?"

"It's such a dream that I have a deep love with you. In the dream, the throne is there. When I wake up, everything is empty." Yu Hao said.

Zhou Sheng: "It's quite poetic."

Yu Hao: "The original text of Shakespeare."

Zhou Sheng: "I mean the translation is very good..."

Yu Hao: "Mr. Gu Zhengkun translated it."

Zhou Sheng: "Okay, shut up and keep looking."

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao looked through Chen Yekai's friends. He didn't have many friends, but he had a lot of fans. None of them were like Zhong Chuan Longsheng. Zhou Sheng said, "Take a look on my Twitter."

Yu Hao got off Twitter, logged into Zhou Sheng's account, entered his Twitter from the link on Chen Yekai's page, and deleted all the tweet content, so the clues were interrupted.

Zhou Sheng said unwillingly: "Search with Nikcy and Takin as keywords, what about the webpage snapshot function?"

Yu Hao searched everything he could, and Zhou Sheng said, "Look up Longsheng's katakana. Katakana plus Takin, Nicky, try all combinations, wait, see if Kaikai has any other nicknames? The email prefix What about the domain name?"

Yu Hao: "That's right!"

Yu Hao went back to Chen Yekai's Twitter and Facebook pages, found his domain name prefix, and turned to a domain name of "Nick_0928", and combined it with Takin and Longsheng's katakana to search.

Yu Hao found a photo on Google.

It was the one he had seen, the photo of Long Sheng and Chen Yekai under the Iguazu Falls.

Zhou Sheng: "..."

Yu Hao: "..."

Finally, Zhou Sheng found out.

"Aren't you surprised?" Zhou Sheng's attention was always strange, "This dress was worn by Long Sheng!"

"I'm so surprised!" Yu Hao said, "I'm so surprised."

"Google Maps." Zhou Sheng said again.

Yu Hao used google to read the pictures, and finally came out, Zhongchuan Longsheng's Facebook, without a single friend, existed alone in this noisy Internet, like an isolated island that could not be reached by any route.

There are only two pieces of content on the isolated island. One is a photo with Chen Yekai under the Iguazu Falls. The title is a Japanese sentence, which Yu Hao pasted into the translator, which means "start".

The other one is encrypted content, the title is in Chinese, called "End", and the accompanying picture is a curtain under the sun.

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng sat opposite each other in silence, Zhou Sheng looked at Long Sheng's Facebook quietly.

"Do you want to go in and have a look?" Yu Hao asked.

Zhou Sheng put down his phone and said, "Forget it."

"I guessed it would be like this." Yu Hao said, "So at the very beginning, I thought that you might not get the content of the news you want."

Zhou Sheng was very tired, looking at the sun outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Yu Hao said: "He has been to this world and left in the end. He feels that he has nothing to do with this world, and he doesn't want to leave any traces before he leaves. The only thing he wants to say is to bid farewell to... his lover. He was very calm..."

"Don't talk about it." Zhou Sheng replied irritably, "I don't want to hear you recall something with empathy."

Yu Hao stopped talking. In fact, he also had this thought. This world is so noisy and lively, but he is just an isolated island.But in the end, Zhou Sheng opened a route and became a ship leading to this island, and his world gradually became full of vitality.

Zhou Sheng tore five or six packets of white sugar in a row, poured them all into Yu Hao's coffee cup at once, added several packets of sugar for himself, started to stir, and finally said: "Come on, cheers! I feel so emotional, I'm bored!"

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao couldn't help Zhou Sheng, so he clinked glasses with him, finished the coffee, and said, "It's too sweet, I can't bear it."

Yu Hao's throat was sore, Zhou Sheng said, "Go back."

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

Zhou Sheng spread his hands: "This is too bad, the general is not stupid—"

Yu Hao looked at Zhou Sheng suspiciously, but the corners of Zhou Sheng's mouth slightly raised. Yu Hao keenly captured this moment with confidence...

"You must have figured out a way!" Yu Hao said, "Tell me quickly!"

Yu Hao looked at Zhou Sheng expectantly, and Zhou Sheng then laughed.

"Aren't you pretty smart?" Zhou Sheng said, "I'll test you. The clue is this letter. Think about it. If you can figure it out, I'll make you a delicious meal later."

Yu Hao's attention was immediately diverted: "What's delicious?"

Zhou Sheng glanced at his watch: "I'll give you 10 minutes. After five o'clock, go to the school cafeteria."

Yu Hao immediately said: "Don't! Let me think about it... letter, letter..."

"Huh?" Zhou Sheng lazily leaned on the back of his chair.

"This letter." Yu Hao said, "Do you want to open it?"

"Don't watch." Zhou Sheng said, "But you will need a lot of cooperation later on, so I'll let you guess first."

Yu Hao racked his brains and said, "Letter? What should I do? I..."

Zhou Sheng: "Why are you so stupid? If I don't read it, will no one else be able to?"

Yu Hao: "Let me see?"

Zhou Sheng: "Who else is there besides the two of us? I have missed the question to this point, and you will never guess that I am really..."

Yu Hao: "Kaikai! Let him see!"

Zhou Sheng: "That's right, how can I ask him to open it by himself? Let's change the angle. Now everyone doesn't know what this letter says. Who else knows in theory?"

Yu Hao's mind was once again in chaos, Zhou Sheng really lost his temper, and just looked at Yu Hao like that.Yu Hao said: "But Teacher Chen himself said that he didn't want to open that letter because he couldn't forgive himself... Of course the person who wrote the letter knew..."

Zhou Sheng held his forehead with one hand, and Yu Hao suddenly said, "Wait."

Yu Hao noticed something, and said to Zhou Sheng: "So, I can also ask the 'Long Sheng' in his heart, what is written in the letter?"

Zhou Sheng said, "Your IQ is finally online."

Following Zhou Sheng's guidance, Yu Hao began to reason, and said, "I probably understand, let me clear things up..." After a full 5 minutes, Yu Hao said, "First of all, Mr. Chen doesn't know what is written in the letter. What, but in his consciousness, there must be this letter!"

Zhou Sheng: "Yes."

Yu Hao: "And, in his impression, he must have 'imagined the contents of this letter'."

"This is the key." Zhou Sheng said approvingly.

Yu Hao: "So when you came to Long Sheng, I had to ask Long Sheng! What was written in this letter!"

Zhou Sheng: "Full marks, do you understand now? Besides, you have to ask him to hand over the letter, otherwise you don't understand that Kaikai can't die. He himself said that he will only open it on the last day of his life." ..."

Zhou Sheng was about to get up and leave, but Yu Hao held him back. Zhou Sheng said, "Let's go buy vegetables first. If it's too late, there won't be any good ingredients."

Yu Hao followed behind Zhou Sheng, Zhou Sheng was pushing the shopping cart, and the two of them were choosing food in the mall.

The more Yu Hao thought about it, the more shocked he became. Zhou Sheng pointed to a slaughtered raw chicken on the shelf, and said, "A little correction, according to our previous actions, when we defeat the gatekeeper, we have to fight the gatekeeper when we reach the totem." Talking about it, isn't it? As soon as I get in front of Longsheng, I will mention that letter."

"Then it's your turn to play." Zhou Sheng said, "We have to get Long Sheng to hand over his last letter."

Yu Hao said: "But that is the letter in Chen Yekai's imagination, not the letter Long Sheng left him in reality."

Zhou Sheng: "Yes, what do you think the letter in his imagination would look like?"

Yu Hao said: "I... I don't know, maybe it's because I went to the other side of reincarnation first and waited for you."

Zhou Sheng: "Do you think it means to encourage him to 'live well'? Or 'Don't waste your life alive, come and die with me!'."

Yu Hao pondered, Zhou Sheng said: "This is the key. In the real world, it doesn't matter what the suicide note looks like, but what the suicide note looks like in Kaikai's world."

Yu Hao: "If Long Sheng's last wish is to keep him alive, then in his conscious world, Long Sheng is no longer a dark and crazy person to a certain extent."

Zhou Sheng: "That's right! So, Long Sheng's power will be weakened, and even part of it will be transferred to you."

Yu Hao: "And if Long Sheng's last wish is to let him die...then...then..."

Zhou Sheng interjected: "Then the Longsheng in reality is in conflict with the Longsheng in his imagination, and he will immediately realize that this is not the Longsheng he loved, at least not entirely. Kaikai's thoughts wavered , we have a chance to defeat Longsheng, because the aura he blessed with his 'imagined Longsheng' disappeared."

"I'm pretty sure it's going to be the former because I remember him saying 'I know he's forgiven me, I'm just afraid I read that letter. I'll be there in the days to come. , Forgive myself'. Based on Kaikai's understanding of Longsheng, he knows very well that Longsheng will forgive him in the letter and hope that he can live well. Let's go, buy a bottle of soy sauce, what are you doing?"

Yu Hao suddenly changed his mind again: "As soon as Fu Liqun leaves, let's cook and eat in the dormitory, okay?"

"Buy some Cantonese-style sausages, and the leftover sauce can be used to make claypot rice...you are stupid! What if he eats what you have?" Zhou Sheng said.

"You are really a genius, Zhou Sheng." Yu Hao's train of thought changed again, and he said with emotion, "How can you be so smart? How can you?"

Zhou Sheng said: "Can you sing praises to me in another way? I'm tired of hearing it."

Yu Hao: "..."

That night, Zhou Sheng washed the chicken in the dormitory, marinated it with soy sauce, green onion, ginger, star anise, fennel, and rock sugar, put it in the induction cooker, added a little soy sauce and started to simmer.Yu Hao was washing the rice, and Zhou Sheng was on the side to guide him: "When washing the rice, use a sieve to gently wash clockwise. After washing, start the sieve immediately to wash off the bran powder on the surface of the rice grains. Don't rub the rice grains, otherwise the rice grains will be broken. Wash until the rice is washed. If the rice water is transparent, the rice will be shiny.”

"Soak it for a while, then dry it until the rice grains turn white, then soak it in water. This is new rice. Just soak it for about ten minutes. If you like it, you can add two drops of sesame oil. You should like the taste."

Zhou Sheng took it, opened the mineral water, filled it with water, covered the rice cooker, waited for the rice to soak, and said, "Lock the door and close the windows."

Yu Hao: "What's wrong?"

After 15 minutes, when Zhou Sheng turned on the induction cooker and skillfully turned over the soy sauce chicken, Yu Hao knew why.Zhou Sheng sliced ​​Cantonese-style sausage with a bored face, and taught Yu Hao how to cut it deliciously. The sauce after cooking soy sauce chicken can be added to claypot rice with chicken oil... Yu Hao's ears are already deaf, Just staring at the cute chicken in the glass cover of the induction cooker.

"Is the window closed?" Zhou Sheng finally said, "Don't let people smell it, otherwise it will be gone."

Yu Hao checked again. Zhou Sheng took off the cover and tore the chicken with his bare hands. Even though he only used two lunch boxes, he still tore it neatly. meal.

"...The sausages are the best in Huang Shanghuang. You'd better go to Guangzhou to buy them... Damn! Yu Hao! Where's the chicken? No more?!" Zhou Sheng just mixed half of the rice, and when he turned his head, the lunch box was already half empty , said angrily, "Save some for me!"

Yu Hao made a gesture to signal that I should stop talking, I want to eat chicken.

The two of them ate a chicken and a pot of rice, Yu Hao was very depressed, the rice cooker had no rice.After eating everything, Zhou Sheng opened the window to diffuse the smell.

"Are you cooking in the dormitory?" The person on the other side began to knock on the door, "What do you eat so delicious?"

"Who cooks?" Zhou Sheng shouted, "I'm sleeping! Don't make trouble!"

"That's right!" People from the next bedroom also came and said outside the door, "It's the smell coming from this bedroom! Braised pork?"

Zhou Sheng said: "The braised pork in your dream!"

"Then why don't you open the door?!" There were a few more knocks from the outside, and he shouted, "If you don't open it, you'll hit the door!"

Zhou Sheng stepped forward to open the door, and a group of people came in from the opposite room and the next bedroom, sniffing around like a group of huskies, and finally saw the bowls and chopsticks in the sink, said "Damn", and left resentfully.

Yu Hao: "I have to lie down for a while, you can come up with some questions for me to guess, I still want to eat tomorrow..."

"Get lost!" Zhou Sheng said angrily, "What time is it in America?"

It was nine o'clock in the morning at Chen Yekai's side, and Yu Hao was worried that he might not be able to sleep because of jet lag, so Zhou Sheng said, "I'll go and see in my dream."

Fu Liqun wasn't in the dormitory, so the two of them talked a lot more casually. Yu Hao asked, "If I fell into his dream, where would I be when I woke up?"

"It's still the same place." Zhou Sheng replied, "Be prepared to deal with it."

Yu Hao: "Zhou Sheng..."

Zhou Sheng: "??"

Yu Hao said painfully: "I'm too full to sleep..."

Zhou Sheng: "..."

"Let you eat so much, forget it, get up and sit down for a while." Zhou Sheng said, "I'll try first."

Yu Hao ate half of the pot of rice, plus half a chicken, which stretched up to his throat, but he didn't regret it at all, and was still thinking about it.

Zhou Sheng: "..."

Yu Hao: "?"

Zhou Sheng: "I couldn't fall asleep either... I knew I wouldn't have that cup of coffee in the afternoon..."