Chapter 21: Dream Interpretation
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Lin Xiao covered his head and lay on his back on the ground: "What is this?!If I can get out of here alive this time, I must kill Yang Chenghuai...... and his cat!"
"I'm already wondering if his name and identity are real. Hong Chen held his forehead with one hand, and pulled the weeds on the ground with the other hand to vent his emotions.
"Don't talk about it, my trigeminal nerve hurts so much!"
"Come less, don't pretend to be dead at the critical moment, hurry up and think about how to get out. ”
"How do I know? This kind of thing...... It's the first time I've encountered it. ”
"Then what's the use of asking you?!"
"Please, eldest sister, you can do it. ”
"I ...... Well, I'm the first time too. ”
Lin Xiao pursed his lips disdainfully, then straightened his back in a sit-up posture, sat up from the ground, patted his cheek to sober himself up, and said: "Everything in the world follows a certain law of heaven and balances development, whether it is a person or a thing, there must be weaknesses if there is strength, simple as the positive and negative of a coin, profound as the poles of yin and yang......"
Hong Chen's face turned dark: "Speak human words!"
Lin Xiao was stunned by her fierce tone, and paused stiffly for a few seconds before continuing: "If we can find the weakness of the dream tapir and find a loophole in the dream it creates, maybe we can get out." ”
"Weakness?" Hong Chen frowned and said, "There are only a handful of people who have been able to see the Dream Tapir for thousands of years, and none of them have survived, it is not easy to pass down the way it kills, how can you know its weakness." ”
Lin Xiao smiled, stood up, stretched his waist and shook his arms, stretched his body, walked to the edge of the cliff and stood still, looking at the thick clouds shrouded under the cliff, and stretched out his hand as if to touch it.
"Our predecessors have left us with little experience, so we have to reason for ourselves to come up with the answer. For the first time since Lin Xiao entered the dream, a relaxed look appeared on his face.
"The Method/Theory of Politics Compulsory 4 – Life and Philosophy requires us to learn to see the essence through phenomena. You should be glad that the person who is trapped here with you today is a liberal arts student, if you change to a science logic monster who only understands data analysis, all the brain cells want to die, and you may not be able to understand it!"
Hong Chen looked at Lin Xiao standing on the edge of the cliff, listening to his narcissistic tone, and felt the urge to kick him into the abyss from behind.
But she also knew that although the person in front of her didn't look very good, he was not a man of all his word, and since she said that, there must be a reason for saying so. So when the foul mouth came to his mouth and forcibly turned into a slight smile, he should say to him: "And then?"
Lin Xiao turned around and said, "You told me before that the dream tapir's way of killing is to use the fear in their hearts to break down the spiritual defense line and destroy the soul by imposing a nightmare environment on the target of the hunt, right?"
Hong Chen nodded and said, "That's right." ”
"Then have you ever wondered why it uses such a perverted ...... No, uh...... You wait for me to phrase it......" Lin Xiao rolled his eyes and thought for a while, and then said: "...... Alternative ways to kill?"
Hong Chen shook his head inexplicably: "This is the ability that people are born with, what is there to question? You want to talk about this for most of the day!"
"No, there must be a reason. Lin Xiao waved his hand impatiently and said, "I'll give you a very simple example - for example, there are many people who think that crocodiles can easily tear a person to pieces. But in reality, crocodile teeth are alveolar teeth, which are the type of teeth that are born in the alveoli of the jaw, and although they are sharp, there is no way to chew, let alone tear. ”
"So crocodiles are naturally extremely strong as a way to compensate for their tooth defects. When they bite their prey with their grooved teeth, they will use their extraordinary animal power to suffocate the prey by dragging and wrestling, and become food for their mouths. ”
Hong Chen's eyes lit up: "You mean to say that the reason why Dream Tapir wants to destroy his opponent by means of mental attack is also a way to make up for his own shortcomings?"
“Bingo!”
Hong Chen pondered for a while and then said, "Generally speaking, an alien beast that uses spiritual attacks as its main means of attack will not have too high attack power, or no attack power at all. ”
"In addition to carrying out psychic attacks in the form of nightmares, you also said that it disguises itself, and although the camouflaged creatures are all supernatural, these animals are usually harmless to humans and animals......," Lin Xiao continued.
Hong Chen didn't wait for him to finish before he continued: "Double camouflage and cover, then it can basically be concluded that the creature Dream Tapir is not physically aggressive. ”
"Oh, that's good, it's a bit of a good way!" Lin Xiao gave a thumbs up.
Hong Chen smiled slightly, and then asked, "But even if it doesn't have any physical aggression itself, we can't attack its body now in the dream realm it creates, so even if we know this weakness, it's useless." ”
"Don't worry, you forget, it actually has one of its most fatal weaknesses. ”
"What kind of weak ......" Hong Chen was halfway through speaking, when he suddenly noticed Lin Xiao's finger pointing at him, and couldn't help but widen his eyes excitedly: "Dreams are not effective for the heartless!"
Lin Xiao nodded with a smile and added eight more words:
"Because there is no heart, there is no fear. ”
Hong Chen said: "Therefore, the reason for sinking into a nightmare and losing your soul is not dying in a dream at all, but the kind of permanent haunting of the fear in your heart that is triggered by a nightmare. ”
"The tool of killing is not a nightmare, it is fear!"
Lin Xiao clapped his hands: "That's OK, don't do anything now, let's ...... Break yourself!"
Lin Xiao said as he stepped one foot off the edge of the cliff. Hong Chen suddenly grabbed him, Lin Xiao staggered under his feet, and suddenly half of his body hung outside the cliff.
He turned his head and looked at Hong Chen with anger:
"What are you doing?"
"Are you sure your reasoning is reliable?"
Lin Xiao couldn't help but be silent.
Hong Chen was anxious: "What does it mean not to speak? don't say anything to me, 'I understand', I really don't understand anything this time!"
"Actually...... I'm not quite sure about ...... myself."
"I'll you! Then you just said so eloquently!" This time it was Hong Chen's turn to be shocked and angry.
"Isn't horizontal and vertical half and half probability? Lin Xiao said, "You yourself said that no one survived, how do I know what way to ensure that we get out 100%." ”
"You ......"
"Oh, you're relieved. Anyway, you're a heartless person, and if you die here, you won't be affected if you go out. Even if I fall down and die after I make a mistake in reasoning, when you wake up, you can directly take me who has become a vegetative person to Dr. Bai, and she should have a way. ”
"Are you sure she can do it?"
Lin Xiao hesitated for a while: "Maybe...... Teacher Xiao Ye is so powerful, her cousin shouldn't be far behind. ”
Hong Chen nodded with a look of understanding on his face, and suddenly said, "Then you will die!" Yu Bi raised a foot and kicked Lin Xiao directly.
"My day, you fucking communiqué private ......" Lin Xiao's figure fell towards the bottom of the cliff, and the scolding gradually became faint in the process of falling until it disappeared.
Hong Chen poked his head and glanced at the bottom of the cliff, clapped his hands with satisfaction, jumped back and forth a few times on the spot and made a victory gesture vigorously, and then couldn't help laughing-
"Oh my God!
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"Ahh
For the first time, Lin Xiao felt how strong the earth's gravity was. When his physics teacher taught the subject of free fall in his first year of high school, he once vividly gave an example: "Now we throw Lin Xiao from the fifth floor and let him do free fall, and it is known that Lin Xiao landed in 3 seconds, g=10, what is the speed of his fall?"
I can't imagine that it has become a prophecy now......
There may still be a little discrepancy, after all, the height of the fifth floor is quite different from the height of the cliff!
The moment of landing, the pain came as expected, but it was not the imaginary feeling of being crushed, but ...... The feeling of hitting my head on the bed.
Lin Xiao covered his head and only inhaled with a headache, and took the mobile phone next to him with his backhand to look at the time, showing that it was half past two in the morning, and it seemed that the time had returned to the same as before. Hong Chen was still lying beside him and didn't wake up, probably because he hadn't jumped off the cliff yet, or maybe he was entangled by the new spider man. But since she's a heartless person, it seems that she doesn't have to worry too much.
Lin Xiao sat up with his elbows propped up, opened the curtains and poked his head out to look around.
The night outside the window was as dark as thick ink, almost exactly like the scene in a dream. The difference is that the snoring of the roommates echoed in the dormitory, as well as the sound of Chen Xiao talking in his dreams from time to time, and there was no pungent smell of blood, everything seemed so normal.
If there is no such person......
At the table where they were playing Three Kingdoms before, there was a person sitting at this time. The reason why Lin Xiao was able to see him in this environment where he couldn't see his fingers was not because of how eye-catching he was in this darkness, but because of the creature in his arms-
It was a cat.
A cat with a pitch-black body and yellow and blue eyes shining in each other. Even in such a dark environment, the pair of eyes constantly shimmered like jewels.
As if sensing Lin Xiao's gaze, the cat's gaze moved upward, and the pair of heterochromatic pupils stared at him deadly, making his scalp numb. The man holding the cat opened his eyes in the darkness and let out a sneer from his mouth:
"From the perspective of the cultivation realm, there are two kinds of dreams. One is the dream seen, blue, which represents reality, and the other is the dream, yellow, which represents fantasy. People's dreams are composed of reality and fantasy, and at the beginning of the dream, it is all things that have happened in reality, and in the later stage of the dream, it becomes the imagination of the person, which belongs to the dream that does not really happen - this is the dream seen and the dream of thinking. ”
"So don't be so surprised, the tapir relies on fear to create nightmares, and as the creator of dreams, its two eyes represent the dreams it sees and the dreams it thinks, hence the phenomenon of heterochromatic double pupils. ”
The room suddenly lit up with a faint light, and a faint blue flame burned on a white candle on the table at some point, like the fire of the underworld, lit in the world. This eerie ghost fire reflected the man's face blue and white, and Lin Xiao saw his face full of slag through this firelight.
"Yang Chenghuai!" Lin Xiao couldn't help but exclaim.
Lin Xiao's voice was not small, but the other three boys in the dormitory were still sleeping very soundly, snoring so loudly that they didn't even wake up, not even turning over a little.
Lin Xiao's face looked very gloomy under the faint blue fire: "What did you do to them?"
"It's nothing, it's just a little bit of incense, just a small trick. Yang Chenghuai showed a sinister smile on his face, and Lin Xiao got goosebumps when he saw it. "I have no grudge against them, and there is no need to do anything to them. Just let them sleep a little bit so that they don't disturb our conversation. ”
Lin Xiao pushed Hong Chen into the inside of the bed, turned over and jumped off the top bunk. "Your voice doesn't sound quite the same as Yang Chenghuai. Lin Xiao said: "Who are you? Why do you want to raise a dream tapir to target me?!"
"I'm Yang Chenghuai. This identity was forged by me - there is no such person as 'Yang Chenghuai' in this world. So if you want to call me 'Yang Chenghuai', there's no problem. ”
"You're so deceitful to be a three-year-old child, where can you forge those files when you entered school?!"
"Innocent! Since I can make you feel that the skinners and spider-men in "She Won't Die" are real, then there is a way to make the fire department think that they really recruited a student named 'Yang Chenghuai'. ”
"You use the dream tapir to create illusions to confuse the real?"
"That's right—your brain is spinning pretty fast, and it looks like I underestimated you before. ”
Lin Xiao looked at Yang Chenghuai's face, the face that usually looked quite honest was wearing a sinister smile that did not match it at this time, and under the reflection of the ghost fire on the table, people couldn't help but feel a chill down their spines.
"Who the hell are you?"
Yang Chenghuai didn't rush to answer Lin Xiao's question, his hand kept stroking the soft fur on the back of the dream tapir, and the dream tapir closed his pupils comfortably under his touch. After a long while, he said faintly: "You are so anxious to know who I am, why don't you think about how you should get out now?"
Lin Xiao sneered and asked, "Since I can escape from the nightmare created by the dream tapir, do I need to be afraid that you will use other means?"
Yang Chenghuai's always cloudy face began to show a ruthless look: "Although I don't know how you survived after falling from the building, I can at least feel that your current cultivation is very weak, and if you want to clean you up, you don't need to use many clever means." ”
Lin Xiao had already felt the coercion formed by the true qi on the other party's body, and it was pressing on him at the moment he finished speaking. This coercion is not as domineering as Ye Xin's, but it is unusually soft, but it is full of an indescribable coldness, like a spike that hits the bone marrow and blood, as if a layer of frost is about to form from the body.
Lin Xiao couldn't help but shudder, and hurriedly used the true qi in his body quickly, constantly circulating along the second vein of Ren Du that he had just opened up, to resist the cold formed by the coercion.
"I bet you wouldn't dare to do it rashly!" Lin Xiao gritted his teeth and endured the chill to keep his teeth from chattering.
Yang Chenghuai showed a fierce face: "Are you provoking me?"
Lin Xiao suddenly laughed: "Ha~ If you can kill me as easily as you said, why bother sending me dreams with dream tapirs? I guess there must be a character around me who makes you frightened, as long as you dare to touch me, she will definitely make your death more ugly than I imagined!"
Lin Xiao's eyes were staring at Yang Chenghuai's face tightly, and he was very satisfied to find that after he said this, there was really a trace of hesitation on the other party's face, and even saw a slight throbbing in his eyes.
At this moment, the dream tapir in Yang Cheng's arms suddenly opened its strange eyes again, staring directly at Lin Xiao's eyes.
Lin Xiao couldn't help but be stunned, his brain became blank at that moment, and he only felt that everything in front of him—the bedroom, the table and chairs, the candles, and Yang Chenghuai—were all twisting and spinning rapidly, as if they had all fallen into a whirlpool.
When he came back to his senses, a strong smell of blood came to his nose. Lin Xiao was horrified to find that he had returned to the bedroom of the inner world where his roommate was brutally slaughtered, the flesh and blood of the three beaches were still sticky on the ground, Yang Chenghuai in front of him looked at him and smiled hideously, the flesh and blood on his body automatically peeled off piece by piece, and within a few seconds, he turned into the image of the skinner.
Lin Xiao's whole body was in cold sweat like rain, but at this moment, his hands and feet wanted to be drained of bones, and he couldn't use half of his strength, so he could only stand in place and watch the skinning ghost open his bloody mouth and pounce on him.
"If I kill you in my dreams, you will only die suddenly in reality. If that's the case, forgive her Ye Wuxin, no matter how big her ability is, what can she do to me?!" Yang Chenghuai's words mixed with bursts of wild laughter echoed in his ears. Lin Xiao's heart suddenly cooled, and he unconsciously closed his eyes, waiting for death to come.
At the moment when his eyes were closed, the oppression caused by the nightmare suddenly disappeared, and Yang Chenghuai let out an angry roar.
Lin Xiao opened his eyes in astonishment, and the first thing that caught his eye was the bloody dream tapir in Yang Chenghuai's arms—its head had left his body and rolled to the ground.
Lin Xiao turned his head and saw Hong Chen standing beside him with a smile, the red ancient sword in her hand blooming like a flower on the other side.
【To be continued】