Early the next morning, Zhao Feng and Wang Dean rushed to the hospital to visit the old man Du, who was said to have drawn a picture of the "eight-armed and eight-eyed monster" in prison.

The hospital where Old Man Du was released on parole naturally needed to be designated by the prison, but judging from the environment of his separate ward, the equipment in the ward, and the professional nurses, it was obvious that he had spent a lot of money himself.

Wang Dean whispered strangely to his companions: "Looking at the information last night, didn't he have confiscated his illegal gains, and he has no relatives." ”

Zhao Feng said: "I'll ask." Then he asked the nurse, who was obviously not a hospital.

The nurse didn't hide it, and directly said that it was a godson of Mr. Du who paid the money, and he was a cellmate before.

"Cellmate, godson?" Zhao Feng frowned, asked the nurse for the mobile phone number and name left by the "godson", and then passed it to the information collection department and asked them to check it.

Zhao Feng and Wang Dean walked into the ward, sat down next to Old Man Du's bed, and asked softly: "Hello, Mr. Du, we are reporters from the 'International New Perspective', have the people in the hospital told you? We would like to interview you." ”

The old man Du on the hospital bed barely held his eyelids, looking very weak, and the nurse also explained beside him: "Try to be as fast as possible, don't take too long." ”

After Zhao Feng got down, he leaned down slightly, leaned close to Old Man Du's ear, and said, "Old Man Du, how do you feel?"

Old man Du's eyes moved, he glanced at him, pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, and said, "I'm dying, but I should be fine after dealing with you." I'm just an old liar and I probably can't give you any big stuff about what interviews you're going to do. ”

Zhao Feng felt a little strange, although Old Man Du did look terminally ill and weak, and his voice was very small and a little vibrato, but he inexplicably gave people a very calm and stable feeling.

"Yes, I don't know if you've seen the news before, there was a large-scale collective visionary event in Mentamira, Myanmar in early March, where a few blocks of people saw a huge giant vision with many arms and many eyes, walking through the middle of the city and then disappearing. All the people who saw it felt the shock and fear for the first time, and many people had subsequent psychological effects, and even the trajectory of their lives changed. ”

When Zhao Feng spoke, he had been observing Old Man Du's facial expression.

He found that when mentioning the description of the illusion of the multi-armed and multi-eyed giant, Old Man Du's expression changed faintly but clearly.

So he glanced at Wang De'an, who understood, took out his tablet from his bag, and called up the sketch of the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant that had appeared many times on the news before.

As soon as he saw the picture, Old Man Du immediately opened his eyes, his neck was slightly raised, and his mouth was slightly open, as if he wanted to sit up hard.

If you take a photo of Old Man Du at this time and post it on the Internet, it is estimated that many people will be accompanied by words such as "Grandpa, the "XXX" you are waiting for has finally been released!", "Help Grandpa get up!", and other words will be spread as popular emojis.

Zhao Feng hurriedly added a pillow to the back of Du Lao's head, pillowed his head higher, then took Wang De'an's tablet, took it closer, and said while showing it to him:

"Sir, have you ever seen anything on this picture? The reason why we came here this time is that I heard that you drew a similar picture in prison, I wonder if the picture is still there, can you show us?"

Old man Du didn't answer, but stared at the painting on the tablet, and took two breaths before saying, "Tell me about the one you said...... Meng ......"

"Montamira. ”

Old man Du: "Tell me about that Montamira, how did it happen?"

Zhao Feng and Wang Dean were also prepared, and directly used the tablet to play a Chinese news clip that they felt was the most clear about the cause of the incident, and showed it to Old Man Du.

Zhao Feng observed Old Man Du's expression and added: "At that time, there was a riot in Montamira, and the appearance of that giant illusion, in a sense, prevented this riot and saved many lives. ”

From the information he saw last night, the descriptions of Old Man Du's behavior by other people in prison, and Old Man Du's reaction just now, he could not speculate about his stance on the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant illusion", and some deliberately described the giant illusion in a good direction - of course, his words were also true.

Sure enough, hearing this, Old Man Du laughed: "It's normal, it's normal......"

But before he laughed, he began to cough violently, causing the nurse who was guarding the door to hurry over.

After relieving himself, Old Man Du looked at Zhao Feng: "Do you want to ...... From me...... Where did he come from?"

"You have indeed seen this thing, can you tell us where you have seen it?" Zhao Feng asked.

Old man Du looked at the ceiling with his eyes and exhaled: "In a dream." ”

"In a dream?" Zhao Feng was slightly stunned, and glanced at Wang De'an, both of them thought of Zhao Feng's previous dream guidance to find the corpse hidden in the cave in the depths of Zihuan Mountain.

"Can you tell me about it...... What is that dream you had? Is there any difference in detail between the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant in the dream and this picture? It would be great if you had a picture that you had drawn before. Zhao Feng continued to ask.

Old man Du turned his neck with difficulty, looked at Zhao Feng's face, and suddenly said, "Have you dreamed of it too?"

Zhao Feng was a little surprised, and subconsciously blurted out: "How do you know?"

Old man Du laughed with difficulty again, gasping for breath with laughter, and after a while, he said, "I know you all want to...... They all want to find Him, but that ...... It doesn't make sense......"

Old man Du's voice became much quieter, but his mouth was still moving, so Zhao Feng leaned over, leaned his ear over, and heard Old Man Du's intermittent and weak voice:

“...... Fear shines into the true self...... Follow your heart...... Death is not the end...... Don't be afraid...... Obey Him...... Be obedient to your own ......"

As he spoke, Old Man Du suddenly began to gasp for breath, and seemed to have a little difficulty breathing, so the nurse hurriedly rushed over, took a look, and hurriedly pressed the pager to ask the doctor to come over.

Naturally, Zhao Feng and Wang Dean were also kicked out of the ward and waited outside.

The two of them were also a little worried, but they didn't want to come over to visit once, so the old man Du hung up directly.

After a while, the doctor came out and learned that Old Man Du's condition was temporarily stable, but he was indeed terminally ill and did not live long. And they are also advised not to talk to him about topics that will stimulate emotions, otherwise there will be consequences.

So Zhao Feng and Wang Dean had to go back to the hotel first, judging from what the doctor said, they wanted to apply for the next meeting, but it was estimated that it was not so fast.

"Did you record what he said?" asked Wang De'an.

"Yes, but his voice is too quiet, maybe the recording is not clear, go back and see if the people in the technical department can handle it." But that's all he said, and I remember them all. Zhao Feng said.

"Fear can shine on the true self, follow your heart, death is not the end, don't be afraid. Zhao Feng repeated and said, his original dream of being guided by the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant to discover the cave of dead corpses was a "dream within a dream" caused by Lao Xia and Xiang Kun, but the "love note" that led the dream was not an eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving, so in the dream, he was not affected by the projection of fear emotions, and this sentence was not as deep as Qi Haoguo earlier.

Wang Dean smiled: "I almost shouted Ollie." This old man Du is really chattering, no wonder he used to pretend to be a god and deceive people, he wouldn't have said this on purpose, right? Could it be that there are some other intentions? However, these words he said, judging from a few key words, are indeed more consistent with the feelings of people we have come into contact with before, seeing the illusion of an eight-armed and eight-eyed monster or a giant. ”

"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, let's see if we can apply to talk to Old Man Du, and directly ask him when and where he dreamed of that eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, and what the specific content of his dream is. Zhao Feng said.

However, in the afternoon of the same day, they got the news that Old Man Du's condition had suddenly deteriorated, and he had fallen into a coma and entered the ICU ward, which may not be able to survive.

The two of them rushed to the hospital and asked the nurse when Old Man Du's "godson" would come over, but the reply was that he couldn't come over because of something, and he didn't have to worry about the medical expenses, so he could go for any treatment.

"This 'godson' doesn't seem to be very filial, he is in prison with Old Man Du, maybe he knows something, should we go and talk to him?" Wang Dean asked in a low voice in the aisle of the hospital.

Zhao Feng thought for a while and shook his head: "Then it's better to investigate what happened to Old Man Du before he turned himself in and went to prison, maybe you can find the reason that triggered his dream." ”

Wang Dean disagreed: "There may not be any trigger events, you look at the cases we investigated before, which case had any exact trigger events, didn't they all appear suddenly, did you dream that the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant guided you to find the dead body cave? If you really want to say that there is any trigger event, at most he has committed some criminal acts, if this can help us find the reason, we will not find nothing when we investigated those two cases before." ”

"Yes. Zhao Feng thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Wang Dean said: "To be honest, if Lao He hadn't found us, we would have known that the official had nothing to do with the eight-armed and eight-eyed illusion, and based on the investigation in Myanmar, I would have thought that this was a black technology secretly developed by our officials." You see, that vision appeared twice in Myanmar in just 24 hours, and once the result was the rescue of a kidnapped Chinese citizen, and most of the kidnappers affected were fugitives from the country. On the other occasion, Montamira indirectly stopped a riot against the Chinese, and the real mastermind behind the kidnapping was killed by his men in the same incident. If that eight-armed and eight-eyed illusion had a nationality, I think it must be Chinese. ”

In fact, before Lao He came to the door and they became members of the secret department of the "Abnormal Research Center" and the "Shenxing Technology", the two of them had all kinds of unreliable speculations about the eight-armed and eight-eyed vision.

For example, if someone's consciousness enters another dimension for special reasons and becomes another form of existence, he has a great sense of justice, and he will want to draw a knife to help when he sees injustice, but he cannot directly affect the real world, and can only act through psychological influence, creating illusions, or dreaming and the like.

It is precisely because of this that those who see the illusion and are affected are basically those who are related to the crime, either criminals, victims, or law enforcers.

Zhao Feng said thoughtfully: "I think these affected people should not be simply random, there must be some reason." Especially in the case of the kidnapping in Burma, when the kidnappers saw the vision, it was at sea. In this world, evil deeds happen all the time, why did it appear at that time, on that ship?"

"Indeed, judging from the temporal point of view, the apparition occurred on the kidnapper's boat much earlier than the mass group apparition of Montamira. If the eight-armed and eight-eyed illusion really came from China, it was really controlled by subjective will, and there was really a purpose in crossing the ocean to Myanmar, then maybe it was to save people. Wang Dean speculated.

"What's the name of the kidnapped man? He should have returned to China, let's talk to him again. Zhao Feng said.

......

Originally, according to the plan, Xiang Kun, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhen'er had another meeting with Zhang Qian, and they were ready to leave Pengcheng City and return to Chongyun Village in the afternoon.

But at noon, Zhang Qian said that her grandfather, Zhang Hongpu, the chairman of Zhang's Group, happened to be in Pengcheng City today, and wanted to have a meal with him in the evening and have a chat.

Xiang Kun's blood drinking time for this cycle is expected to be from tomorrow afternoon to evening, and it is not impossible to stay for one more night, so he agreed.

He could guess that the old man Zhang Hongpu came to Pengcheng, and there was a high probability that he came specifically for him, and Zhang Qian was able to call up so many resources during the previous time, and it was impossible without Zhang Hongpu's support.

Of course, if his blood drinking period is tonight, then he can only say sorry to Old Man Zhang - anyway, he believes that this small faux pas will not have much impact on the premise of being able to provide huge future benefits that can be expected.

The place to eat at night was in the classical manor-style restaurant where I saw Zhang Chu last time.

Zhang Hongpu and the Zhang Group are not high-profile, so there is not much information about him on the Internet. However, Alice has collected a lot of information and materials before, and Xiang Kun is not ignorant of this old man.

Zhang Hongpu is a tall and energetic old man, with a gentle and kind smile on his face, and he has no shelf for Xiang Kun, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhen'er, and is very enthusiastic.

"Mr. Xiang, I have heard of the name for a long time, and I have always wanted to meet you, but my old arms and legs are useless, and I have not traveled far in the past few years, so I have only had the opportunity to meet today. Mr. Xiang is really a talent, and this body looks like a 'civil and military body', haha. As soon as Zhang Hongpu met, he patted Xiang Kun on the shoulder and praised it half-jokingly.

If it was Xiang Kun before the mutation, he would definitely be very nervous when he saw a big man of this level, for fear of saying something wrong - of course, if it was him at the beginning, he would definitely not have attracted Zhang Hongpu to pay so much attention to the special banquet.

At this time, after seeing Zhang Hongpu, Xiang Kun instinctively analyzed the relevant sensory information, and even subconsciously "scanned" his physical condition.

"The chairman praised it falsely, I knew that the chairman wanted to see me, so I should have visited me earlier. Xiang Kun also responded with a "loyal and shy technical house-like smile".

Zhang Hongpu greeted Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er again, mentioned Tang Baona's grandfather, Mr. Feng, and mentioned Yang Zhen'er's father, Yang Qiyan, the former He had met in his early years, and although the latter had never met, the companies under the Zhang Group had business dealings with the pharmaceutical factory where Yang Qiyan worked, so there was a reason to mention it.

Zhang Hongpu behaved like a kind elder, and after saying hello, a few words made the atmosphere harmonious and natural, and Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er, who were originally a little nervous, also relaxed a lot.

After taking a seat, while Zhang Hongpu explained to Zhang Qian that he was making some changes in the dishes at the meeting, Tang Baona, who was sitting next to Xiang Kun, couldn't help whispering: "I originally thought that Chairman Zhang would be more serious and old-fashioned, but I didn't expect to be so easy to speak." ”

Indeed, through the outside world's reports on the behavior of the Zhang Group, as well as some of her occasional unintentional mention of Zhang Hongpu in her past contact with Zhang Qian, it is easy to think that the head of the Zhang Group is a relatively strict old man who is not easy to contact.

Xiang Kun smiled and whispered: "Because it's a private occasion, treat us as Zhang Qian's peers." ”

In fact, through his observation of Zhang Hongpu, Zhang Qian, and the entourage around Zhang Hongpu, it can be judged that this old man is more majestic in the eyes of his subordinates and the Zhang family. Zhang Qian, in particular, is obviously more cautious in speaking and acting than usual.

What I see now is Zhang Hongpu's warm side, but the old man must also have a thunderbolt side.

When greeting, the old man's eyes were full of smiles, and he had been observing and examining Xiang Kun, judging from the comprehensive sensory information analysis, Xiang Kun thought that the old man should not have a predetermined position on him, but more curious.

And judging from the situation he mentioned about Tang Baona's grandfather and Yang Zhen'er's father, before he came or earlier, he already had a basic understanding of the information about the three of them, and he would definitely not be unclear about Xiang Kun's origin and experience.

While eating and chatting, Zhang Hongpu did not ask Zhang Qian, Xiang Kun, and Tang Baona about the specific situation of their company's operation, company business, and company products, and did not even mention the game they made that is now very well-known and has a promising future, but just chatted about some parents, and occasionally talked about the impact of the development of the Internet and mobile networks on the real economy and traditional business models.

Xiang Kun quickly grasped Zhang Hongpu's true intentions from these seemingly unrelated topics and small talk.

Normally, even if "Sound Genesis" has a good momentum and will almost certainly have good revenue in the future, compared to the entire Zhang Group, at least it is far from being a business worth mentioning now, so it will not make Zhang Hongpu pay so much attention.

But from Zhang Hongpu's words, Xiang Kun heard that the old man had hidden worries about the development of Zhang's Group's traditional business, and he planned to slowly shift the focus of development and have the idea of extending his tentacles to emerging industries such as the Internet. It just so happens that now Zhang Qian has made a name for herself with the game "Sound Genesis", and the old man is probably hesitating whether to directly use this as a breakthrough to give Zhang Qian great power and resources, and put the burden on her shoulders.

And Zhang Qian's "Tengjiao Mutual Entertainment" is now the most important partner of "Qiankun Technology", or Xiang Kun. Maybe Zhang Qian used Xiang Kun to "draw cakes" in front of her grandfather before, which impressed the old man, but the cooperation model between them was very weird, so I wanted to meet Xiang Kun in person.

After making a rough judgment on Zhang Hongpu's intentions, Xiang Kun was naturally able to "do what he liked" and help Zhang Qian "draw cakes" together, depicting a blueprint for the future era of 5G, intelligent manufacturing, and new interactive entertainment, and describing this time as the best and last time to enter the market.

As for Zhang Hongpu's temptation of himself, Xiang Kun's response is also very simple, just one word - "sincere".

He knows that when people try to obtain information, they will have a tendency and expectation in their hearts, and if the information obtained is contrary to this tendency and expectation, then even if it is a fact, there will be instinctive doubts in the heart, and a verification process is needed, and if it is highly consistent with their tendencies and expectations, even if the information obtained seems to be nonsense alone, there will be a feeling of "it is so", and then readily believe it.

Of course, it is difficult for ordinary people to do this perfectly, after all, most people can't make an accurate grasp and description of their own ideas.

Xiang Kun can grasp the victory response mechanism through verbal communication on other topics and real-time feedback on Zhang Hongpu's various body sensory information, constantly adjust, and grasp his various subtle emotional changes and physiological subtle changes when he has a certain thinking tendency, so as to push information that conforms to his expectations and tendencies.

Of course, most of what Xiang Kun himself said was the truth, but it was just a packaged and unpanoramic truth.

But in Zhang Hongpu's view, he can basically answer some of his doubts, and establish a basic impression and cognition of Xiang Kun in his mind - a very talented, very confident and even a little conceited in technology, a young man with vision and mind but not too much ambition, not too much scheming and sincerity, and low-key patience who values profit and righteousness.

This kind of "personality" is in line with the general judgment he made through the information he obtained through Zhang Qian and other channels, and the discrepancies are not big, so with the passage of time and the improvement of communication, Zhang Hongpu naturally thinks that he has touched the idea of this bald young man.

Dinner has been eaten, and when he went to a courtyard tea pavilion in the restaurant to drink tea, Xiang Kun took advantage of the fact that everyone was very relaxed, and said along a topic of Zhang Hongpu: "In China, what I appreciate the most is the company 'Shenxing Technology', I admire their style of doing technology, always working in places that everyone doesn't pay much attention to, and often popping up all kinds of products and inventions like 'black technology', and they are particularly low-key, that is, focusing on technology, not exaggerated." I also hope that in the future, 'Qiankun Technology' can become a company like 'Shenxing Technology'." ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiang Kun immediately noticed that Zhang Hongpu's eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and Zhang Qian immediately looked at her grandfather a little nervously.

Xiang Kun naturally said these words intentionally, he had heard Yang Zhuo say before that Zhang Qian's grandfather hated "Shenxing Technology" very much, and even the company founded by Zhang Chu was handed over to Zhang Qian by Zhang Hongpu before, all because he cooperated with "Shenxing Technology".

According to Alice's investigation, Zhang Hongpu and Lu Chengan are of the same age, and they had a lot of contact and even cooperation in their early years, maybe they know any information that was not recorded in the secret documents before, and they can help him answer some questions. You know, at the same time, some information is just ordinary information that is not visible to people who are not in the know, but people who know the inside story can judge a lot of things from it.