Chapter 42: The Spinning Top (Happy Chinese New Year)
()"It's time for this to end! My friend. Xiang looked at Cobb with a cold face and said, "Don't continue acting, I really see it." ”
Cobb's eyes were full of questions, and he held Mar's corpse and looked in the direction and said, "Direction! What's wrong with you! Why did it suddenly become like this! ”
Xiang shook his head, threw the left wheel aside, took out a cigarette and lit it, sat on the sofa and crossed Erlang's legs and said, "You are really cautious enough!" Then I'll just say it bluntly, this qiē is a dream, right? ”
Cobb frowned, and said with a look of wanting to cry without tears: "Nonsense! Direction me. Dry. You. Mom, it's not a dream! We decided on this plan together. ”
Xiang spat out a smoke ring, looked at Cobb expressionlessly and said, "Don't continue, I've been acting long enough." This is a dream, and from the first second I came to this space-time I was in a dream, and the leader of this dream was you. ”
Direction took a deep puff of his cigarette, stood up, stared at Cobb and said, "Want to know how I know?" A thing and a meeting with me. ”
Xiang smiled at Cobb, walked to the table, picked up an apple, took a bite and said, "Let's talk about that thing first, a pair of glasses, I came to this plane when the other skills were there, but I didn't find my eyes, I originally thought I forgot it at home, and at that time my brain cells were thinking about the situation at that time and didn't have time to take care of this thing in this plane, but when I calmed down, I remembered." ”
Direction sat on the chair, looked at the expressionless Cobb and said: "This glasses of mine will only appear in time and space, not in my world, by the way, this rule is also what I thought of in your dream, I have to thank you for this." ”
"And the main reason for my suspicion is not because of this, if you look at the whole thing as a puzzle, the glasses are just the middle piece, and the first piece of the puzzle is my meeting with the so-called Dragon." Xiang pouted and shook his head, and said with an unhappy face: "You really underestimate my IQ, and you actually gave me such a big hint." ”
"Draw snakes!" Direction looked at Cobb and said very unceremoniously: "This is a very delicate thing, why let me see me in the future?" And to say something like that is really my words, no matter how I change it, I will never say anything like that. Moreover, my IQ makes you play me clumsy and flawed, so I will kill you after you finish the hint you gave me, and I can't accept your play. ”
Cobb stood up, also sat on a chair, and said with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth: "So you knew it at that time, so why didn't you say it at that time?" ”
Xiang lit another cigarette, did not answer the question, but looked around and said, "Since you admit it, then remove the background." ”
As soon as the direction was spoken, the surroundings disappeared, and then it became a wooden house by the sea. And, there's one more person here.
Luo Xi stared around with big eyes, and when he saw the direction, he hurriedly ran to the side of the direction and said, "This ...... What's going on? Wasn't I waiting on the plane? ”
Xiang smiled, took out an apple and said, "Good, eat the apple, I'm doing business now." After speaking, regardless of Luo Xi's angry expression, he turned his head to Cobb and said: "Actually, I didn't dare to say it at the time, because I didn't know what you wanted to do, and I was only 90 percent sure at that time, so I didn't dare to take this risk." ”
The expressionless Cobb smiled contemptuously, glanced at Luo Xi and said, "Is it because of her?" ”
The direction is very happy, and sure enough, it doesn't take much to talk to smart people.
"That's right, if it was just me, I might have uncovered it directly at the time, but with this guy, in order to ensure that there is no accident, I can only uncover it 100% later."
"So you've been acting all along?"
Xiang nodded, and said with an unhappy face: "That's right, when I came out of my dream, I didn't have to give me a subconscious at all, and it was very natural to shatter the subconscious of "this is reality" that you added to my mind. But there is no way, in order to hide this goods and you, I can only pretend. I'm really not suitable for acting, but fortunately I'm next to Luo Xi, otherwise I would have been exposed. ”
Speaking of this, he glanced at Luo Xi, who had been shocked by this passage and was about to die on the spot, and continued: "I have said so much, it is time for you to talk about it, how to construct this qiē, how to know that we are not from this time and space." ”
Cobb laughed out loud, laughing and looking in the direction playfully, "Can't you guess that you're so smart?" ”
Xiang nodded and said, "Actually, when I knew that this was a dream, my head was making inferences all the time, and I kept pushing and returning and returning and pushing and returning. But since you say that, let me talk about two of the possibilities that I think. ”
"Originally, I thought you could read our memories, but when I think you didn't use my glasses, I don't think it's very likely. The second is that you can see our words and deeds all the time, you can guess from our words and deeds, but I don't have any basis, because we came to this world not long after the mission came. ”
Cobb nodded, then said with a smile: "You're right, I can see your behavior, but not anytime, anywhere, but in specific situations, if it was anytime, anywhere, you would have already shown your flaws." As for how I know you're not from this world, it's very simple, because I've met people like you before, that dragon number, that is. He does look exactly like you. ”
Direction rolled his eyes, he had thought about such a situation but was overturned by him, he really thought about it, it turned out that the answer was so simple.
Sighing, he looked at Cobb and said, "Now we can talk about what this qiē is all about." ”
Cobb pursed his lips and said, "You tell me what you think first, and see if your guess is correct." ”
Xiang patted his forehead, and said with a smile on his face: "Originally, I wanted to give you a chance, but it seems that I don't need to." So, let's start with the promise you made to Saito. ”
Xiang stood up and said as he walked slowly, "You promised Saito, but you don't have enough manpower, you can only find someone, you found the dream builder, you found the pretender, and then you went to find the pharmacist." While looking for a pharmacist, you experience a highly hypnotic dream. If you restore the original scene, in fact, you haven't woken up since you fell asleep, and there is no such thing as the three-story dream behind you, and your physical body is still in that dim basement. ”
"Why? He's awake! Although Luo Xi didn't know what the direction was talking about, as an original drama party, he couldn't help but interject.
"Because I had a dark dream and was interrupted by Saito while shivering and spinning a top in the bathroom, I thought I was waking up, but in fact it was ......"
Direction: sat on the sofa and crossed Erlang's legs and said, "He's still in a dream." After saying this, he looked at Cobb and said word by word: "It seems that my inference is correct, can you tell me the real story next?" ”
"The true story? It's a story to you, but it's true to me. After completing the mission, I returned to the United States, and passed a period of peace, but as the best dream thief, I sensed that something was wrong, but at that time I thought that Mar's influence on me had deepened instead of contact. ”
Cobb sighed, then continued: "So I desperately tried to prove the truth of this world, and the more it turned out, the more false it became. I couldn't stand it anymore, but for the sake of the children, I endured it, and when the children were all grown up, I jumped off the building like Mar, and as a result, what awaited me was an endless reincarnation, and as soon as I died, I would go back to that dim basement and start over. ”
"I thought I had fallen into the lost world, but the result was even more terrible than that, the lost world will keep growing old and then dying, but here death is just reincarnation for me." Cobb said with grief in his eyes.
"Reincarnation hell is suffering from reincarnation all the time! How can I help you? Directions asked.
"Kill me! My own death is reincarnation, so if someone else who is not my dream kills me, I may be free. ”
"Then why didn't you just let us kill you in the first place?" Luo Xi asked a little puzzled.
"Because that doesn't work, remember when he said there was once a man just like us? If that could, he would have gone out a long time ago. Direction said as he pulled out his gun.
Cobb stood up, closed his eyes, and said, "That's right! Indeed, I tried it when the Dragon appeared, and I fell into a deep sleep, and when I woke up, I was still in my dream, and the Dragon was gone. And don't use a gun, use the coin I gave you, only that one is the real deposit. ”
Direction put down the gun, took out the coin and tested it a few times, and then said: "Bear with it, you may not succeed once." With that, Direction hugged Cobb's head and held the coin on his temple.
This action startled Cobb, took out something similar to an electric dog and said, "Use this, use this." ”
Directionally, he stammered the gun, put the coin in it, and aimed it at Cobb's temple and fired cleanly.........
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Opening his eyes, Saito's face, Yusef's face, and Ames' face appeared in front of Cobb's eyes. Cobb sat up abruptly, removed the line from his body, ran to the bathroom, and slammed the door shut. Then with a trembling hand, he turned the spinning top.
The top fell to the ground and began to spin.........