The next day, Team Xiao was afraid that Li Jing and I would come up with some bad ideas halfway, so I personally came to Zhang Qiang's house early and took him to the police station. This room was originally used as a conference room, but today there are only five people with Zhang Qiang, so it seems a bit empty.

Zhang Qiang saw Li Jing walk in, and immediately stood up: "Doctor Li, didn't you tell me that I won't dream anymore" But I was still having a nightmare last night, and there were more messy things and sounds in my dreams. Isn't hypnosis working on me? ”

"Because we were only halfway through yesterday, we have to finish it all today, so I worked hard for you today." Li Jing smiled at him.

"Did I really forget something?" Zhang Qiang looked at Li Jing, his expression a little twisted

"No, it's just a subconscious act of your mind, the part of yourself that you deliberately conceal will appear in the form of fragments in your dreams, and that's why you are dreaming. Because you are awake subconsciously avoiding these fragments, you will feel strange. Human beings feel scary because of the strangeness, so you call these dreams nightmares, which is why many people are obsessed with interpreting dreams to predict good luck and evil. Hypnosis is an external stimulus that allows you to recover your lost memories more quickly, so that your dreams do not reflect what you have forgotten, which is not a good thing for you. So don't worry. ”

Li Jing's words made Zhang Qiang agree to continue hypnosis as if he didn't understand, and I secretly gave Li Jing a thumbs up after Zhang Qiang closed his eyes.

Like yesterday, Zhang Qiang entered a hypnotic state under the sound of a piece of quicksand.

"We downloaded back to the sea of sand, and through the sea of sand you saw your companion carrying the map somewhere else. Did something happen later? The hypnotist's tone was as calm as yesterday, and she looked at the notebook spread out on her lap, which contained questions that Li Jing had sorted out in advance.

"No, nothing happened." Zhang Qiang closed his eyes and shook his head.

"Okay, keep relaxing, let's keep walking, and you'll come back to the place where you dug the sand before, and this time you smell something."

"It smells bad." Zhang Qiang frowned and said, "I was so panicked that I put a scarf around my nose. ”

"Don't be nervous, let's not smell it now, let's see what's around." Seeing Zhang Qiang frowning, the hypnotist interrupted the topic.

"I can't see it, it's dark all around, only the head of the person in front of me has a light." He was supposed to be referring to the light from a headlight.

"Keep going, what do you see?" The hypnotist asked him.

Zhang Qiang recalled, sitting on the guest chair and shaking his head slightly: "It's still very dark, I haven't seen anything." ”

"Did you hear anything?" The hypnotist asked him.

Zhang Qiang's ears moved, and after a while, his voice suddenly became a little loud: "Yes." There was the sound of things being opened, and there was the sound of striking matches. ”

"Is it a little lit up around now?" The hypnotist followed Zhang Qiang's words to guide his memories.

"It's a lot brighter." Zhang Qiang closed his eyes and nodded.

"Can you see your surroundings clearly?"

Zhang Qiang moved his head left and right slightly: "I can see clearly." ”

"Can you describe the surroundings like me?" The hypnotist asked him.

"It's shabby around, and even though there are candles, it's still very dark. The walls are adobe, middle, middle. Speaking of this, beads of sweat began to appear on Zhang Qiang's head.

"What's in between?" The hypnotist asked him, but his eyes looked at Team Xiao and Li Jing, and his eyes indicated that they might Zhang Qiang would wake up directly from the hypnosis.

Team Xiao and Li Jing looked at each other, and Team Xiao made a gesture to continue

The hypnotist understood, she patted Zhang Qiang's arm a few times like yesterday, signaled him to calm down, and asked softly again: "Don't be afraid, with me by your side, the things around you won't hurt you, tell me what do you see now?" ”

"Coffin." Beads of sweat had begun to fall on Zhang Qiang's forehead, and his face was already flushed. If you interrupt him now, there might be other problems.

The hypnotist interrupted the questioning and began to help Zhang Qiang "Breathe, breathe deeply, we are now back in the sand." ”

"No, don't go back to the sand." Zhang Qiang's feelings not only did not calm down, but also became more and more excited, and the sweat had already wet his hair.

The hypnotist knew that it was impossible to go on, so he had to shout to stop: "Let's not go in the sand anymore, let's go outside, you can feel the wind on your cheeks now, you are not as nervous as you were just now." Take a big breath, you don't smell anything right now. ”

Zhang Qiang inhaled the air with his nose vigorously, took a few big breaths of air, his face finally eased, but there were still words in his mouth: "No sand, no sand." ”

"Why?" Li Jing suddenly interjected.

"Li Liang, I'm sorry, Li Liang." Zhang Qiang's expression was a little painful, and the hypnotist stopped Li Jing from continuing to ask, and he kept gently patting Zhang Qiang's arm: "It's okay, it's okay, there's no sand, it's all over." Now listen to my instructions, and when I count to three, you'll wake up. Now listen to my voice, one, two, three, open your eyes. ”

As soon as the words of "three" fell, Zhang Qiang's eyes opened, gasping for breath, he raised his head and looked at Li Jing with a dull gaze. Team Xiao walked over, he heard footsteps, turned his head to follow the sound, and when he realized that it was Team Xiao, he lowered his head again, refusing to make any eye contact with Team Xiao.

The hypnotist lowered a glass of water to him. He gulped down, but the hand holding the cup kept shaking.

"You remembered, didn't you?" The hypnotist asked, taking the cup from his hand.

Zhang Qiang stared blankly at the ground, neither nodding nor shaking his head. The hypnotist cleaned up the things at hand, whispered a few words to Team Xiao, and left the conference room.

Team Xiao moved a chair and sat in front of Zhang Qiang: "Don't worry, hypnosis will not have a bad effect on you, it will only remind you of what you are running away from." Judging by your reaction, you should be reminded of the case from three years ago, right? I know you're not in a good state right now, I'll give you a day off, but because you're now suspected of murder, you can't leave the police station, and there are police guards at the door of the conference room, so don't try to escape from here. There is hot water and hot towels. You calm yourself down first. I'll come back to see you in the afternoon, and if there's anything you want to say, you can tell me at that time. From now on. You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say will be used as evidence in court. ”

Team Xiao left the conference room first.

"You lied to me." After Team Xiao left, Zhang Qiang looked at Li Jing.

Li Jing sneered and retorted: "I didn't lie to you, it's you who have been deceiving yourself." ”

After being silent for a while, Li Jing spoke again: "Your friend died in that tomb robbery, and you refused to talk about the sand just now because when you robbed the tomb, the tomb collapsed, and your friend was hit on the head by the falling stones, and he didn't escape in time, and you didn't go to save him." So you're very guilty, and you've been trying to forget about it, but human memory is very complex, and it's constantly remembering, keeping, recognizing, and reliving all the things that you don't have to do with what you feel. Even if you insist on escaping what you have done, you try to reconstruct your memories, the truth that you have first remembered will always reveal yourself as you are when the time is right. So, you can't avoid the fact that you watched your friend die without helping. ”

Zhang Qiang responded to Li Jing with silence.

Li Jing walked to the window and looked at the wall of the building opposite: "The reason why you refused to tell me that you had suffered a heavy head injury was because you would subconsciously link this matter to the cause of death of your friend Li Liang. Memories are so strongly connected that they are connected, and once these connections are opened, you will be reminded of the whole truth. The fish will appear in your dream because the hilt of the evil sword you are looking for is carved with the pattern of an ancient fish, and the two Chili boys you kidnapped were once asked by you about the legend of the evil sword. In the legend of the Chili tribe, Chiyou's hometown has a deep river, and there is a spring water gushing out for dozens of miles, and there is a kind of fish like a carp in the deep river, but with a beast and a bird's tail. Such a totem has appeared among other descendants of the Jiuli tribe, and you conclude that the hilt of the evil sword is engraved with such a pattern. I checked you, Li Liang and Qiuming went to the Miaojiang region together, it should be there that I heard the legend of the evil sword, and finally went to verify your guess with Qiuming's uncle. I think Tyumen's uncle must have been the one who helped you sell the stolen goods. The Chili teenager you kidnapped for yourself has seen this pattern, but they don't know the existence of this fish, because they have experienced too many joys and sorrows, one of the rules of the Chili tribe is to never go to Xiao Xiang again, all of them originate from the pattern of the fish, so every time you start a dream, there will be a fish. The 'fish' represents the beginning of everything that follows. In addition, the screams in the nightmare you mentioned to me should be the screaming of the girl you have always remembered, and if I am not mistaken, it should be the last memory you concealed - the voice of Wang Ying before her death. I told you that dreams are the fulfillment of wishes, and your wishes should be that your mistakes can be stopped, so every time you hear Wang Ying's scream in your dreams, you will wake up. This shows that you still have remorse, and if you really want all the nightmares to end, you should tell the police the truth. ”

I looked at Zhang Qiang, his eyes were closed, his face was wrinkled together in pain, and his hands were clenched into fists and looked very tangled. After a while, his hands slowly spread, he exhaled a long breath through his nose, and smiled palely.