"Big Stone" is named Shi Qingsheng, a graduate of a technical school in Nanyuan City, Central Plains Province; 25 years old this year, working in a factory as a lathe worker, has been working for 5 years; I'm not married yet, but now I have a girlfriend and I also work in this factory.

Shi Qingsheng's home is also in this city, and he now lives with his parents; Although his parents still have jobs, Shi Qingsheng's family and economic conditions are not well-off, and if he wants to get married and buy a house, he has to work hard to earn money. The benefits of this section of their factory are good, the amount of tasks every month is large, and the employees are also happy; Every month, not only the salary can be paid in full, but also the benefit award and the full attendance award.

The reason why Shi Qingsheng didn't want to take leave for the time being and went to enter the 'dream game' activity by himself was that he was reluctant to give up and received a full attendance award of 200 yuan per month; Although he likes to practice martial arts, he also recognizes a principle: practicing martial arts can be learned slowly and in games, and he is not in a hurry to practice immediately; But the attendance bonus was abandoned, but there was no more; So at the moment, he won't consider taking time off during working hours. Shi Qingsheng belongs to the kind of man who can live; He also has his own calculations in the game and working in the carpenter's workshop; He hopes to learn some carpentry skills in it, and in the future it will be possible to make his own furniture; In that way, when he gets married, he can save a lot of money on furniture. Shi Qingsheng began to work in the 'dream game' on May 24th, and the work he learned to do in the carpentry workshop was to open mortises on wood; The timber was ready-made and processed, and where the mortise needed to be opened, the line had already been drawn, and he only had to take a hammer and a hammer and open the eye on it.

This job seems simple, but it takes a lot of effort to do it; When the mortise is opened, the position should be accurate, to ensure that the part outside the line can not be cut off, and to ensure that the part inside the line is clean; When the hammer strikes the hammer, the force should also be even, because the wood has a certain elasticity; If you just blindly and hard knock on one place, the mortise is not opened, and the wood will be cracked first.

Fortunately, Shi Qingsheng's advantage is that he can calm down and be patient; After the boss demonstrated a tenon-and-tenon and opening technique, he could calm down and slowly grope for it. A small hammer in one hand, working for a long time, is still very tired, may be his physical strength, the first afternoon of work, just do the time, do the work to meet the requirements of the boss, smoothly earned 5 copper coins.

After working in the game for the first time, he also felt some soreness in both arms the next day; After finishing work in the game this Saturday, although my arm will feel a little sore when I wake up in the afternoon, I won't feel any discomfort in my arm the next day; When I work again, I don't feel too tired. Shi Qingsheng now has to go to the game to work every Saturday afternoon, so he faces two problems. The first problem is: the girlfriend is not happy with him. In the past, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, he would take the initiative to pester his girlfriend and get up at an event; But this is three consecutive weekend afternoons, and when he wants to enter the game, his girlfriend is suspicious of him.

People who don't see him in the afternoon don't answer their phone calls; When he couldn't explain it clearly to others, he said bluntly that he had entered the 'dream game' to cultivate, but his girlfriend didn't believe what he said at all. What's more, since he often consulted Kong Xiuying on QQ, sometimes he would definitely snub his girlfriend and couldn't hang out with his girlfriend at night; This also made his girlfriend wonder if he had some other reason. For this reason, he also specially asked his girlfriend to come to his home to watch him talk about QQ, so as to prove that he really had something, and he did what he said; But even looking at him and chatting, his girlfriend still couldn't believe what he was saying in the chat; I wonder if he asked for help to fool him. In this regard, Shi Qingsheng can only hope that after he learns martial arts in the 'dream game', he will prove to his girlfriend that he is innocent. The second problem is that his parents are very uncomfortable with him lying in bed at home on weekend afternoons.

Because Shi Qingsheng is at home, living with his parents; So these few times, his weekend afternoons and one afternoon sleep made his parents very worried; I'm worried that he or he's having trouble with his girlfriend and doesn't want to go out; Or, Shi Qingsheng's physical condition is problematic. He could only explain to his parents that he was too tired from going to work on weekdays, and he often dreamed at night and didn't sleep well, so he just took advantage of the afternoon of weekends to catch up on sleep; As for the girlfriend, it was absolutely not awkward.

And the problem of him sleeping and not waking up can only explain to his parents whether this is a problem or not; I have checked it last time, and I can't find anything wrong with my body; His parents knew about it at the time. Since you can't find any discomfort, you can only let it go. On Sunday afternoon, his girlfriend came to visit him at his home without prior greeting; It was more than 14 o'clock, and Shi Qingsheng had already fallen asleep; Shi Qingsheng's parents saw his girlfriend arrive, but they were a lot more relieved about the relationship between the two of them; He happily let his girlfriend in the door and let her go to Shi Qingsheng's room.

After her girlfriend entered the bedroom, she saw that Shi Qingsheng was indeed sleeping, and she felt a lot more relieved; After screaming a few times and not seeing Shi Qingsheng wake up, she came out of the bedroom. After coming out, in order not to let Shi Qingsheng's parents worry, she still had to think and play a round for Shi Qingsheng: "Shi Qingsheng told me that he was sleepy in the afternoon and wanted to take a rest, I happened to be passing by, so I came up to take a look; Seeing that he slept soundly, I didn't wake him up. Uncle, aunt, then I'm leaving. "Shi Qingsheng's parents know that 'their son has the problem of not waking up when he is asleep';

I'm not going to let my son's girlfriend know? Seeing that people are leaving, they don't talk nonsense anymore, and they politely send each other out of the door. However, no matter what you say, Shi Qingsheng's 'problem of not waking up when you fall asleep' always makes them feel at ease, but it's a pity that they can't do anything about it.

He also told Kong Xiuying and Xu Ran about this matter with his girlfriend, hoping that they would help and come up with ideas. As for the problem of 'logging in to the game on Saturday and Sunday afternoons', they gave him an idea: you can change the time to enter the game from the afternoon to the morning, but the bad side is that because he has just practiced the 'dream game' with the gamer at night, when he enters again in the morning, it is possible that the mental power value will decrease, so that he is more likely to feel tired in the game; As for the mental strength in the morning and whether it has dropped, he can log in and verify it by himself in the morning.

It's just that although this method can solve the problem of him accompanying his girlfriend in the afternoon, it can't solve the problem that his girlfriend can't answer the phone call in the morning; He can only rely on himself and explain it to his girlfriend well. As for the meeting in QQ at night, if he really has something to do at night, he can leave a message in advance or later, in the private chat window on QQ, and then read the reply later. Regarding his explanation to his girlfriend, they all reminded him to explain to his girlfriend: "Believe it or not, don't tell others, lest he be studied as a guinea pig." "For martial arts, Shi Qingsheng is very energetic, since in the game, can write down a little bit of the gamer's martial arts moves, he has to go downstairs every morning and evening to practice martial arts, in the morning is 6:30 out to practice 7 o'clock home; In the evening, QQ chatted until 9 o'clock, and then went downstairs to practice the moves for half an hour; If he wants to go out at night and accompany his girlfriend, then when he comes back, he will also practice martial arts for half an hour before entering the house. At present, no matter how his martial arts progress, at least his body is getting better and better.

The name of "Looking Through the Autumn Water" is Li Xin, who is 26 years old this year; After graduating from high school, he first went to a three-year Zhongzhou College of Political Science and Law, majoring in "social work".

The employment direction of this major is quite broad: you can be engaged in social security, social policy research, social administration, community development and management, social service, evaluation and operation in the civil affairs, labor, social security and health departments, as well as social organizations such as trade unions, youth, women's organizations, and other social welfare, service and public welfare organizations.

However, because it is only a college degree, it is still quite difficult to find a job after graduation; When he was about to graduate, he heard from his classmates that there was a Zhongzhou Public Security College that recruited a two-year college to promote his major, and after graduation, he was assigned to a national civil servant, so he applied for this school; After passing the political examination and examination, he was admitted to the "Public Security" major, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Network Security Department of the Zhongzhou Municipal State Security Bureau, and has been working for more than a year.

Li Xin was on a public forum on a certain website, and accidentally saw a post posted by Shi Qingsheng: "I always have dreams with continuous plots at night, and I often play online games in my dreams. Has anyone else had such an experience? ”

He felt a little strange, and he didn't know what the poster's intentions were, so he tried to contact Shi Qingsheng according to the QQ number left by "Big Stone". What I didn't expect was that Shi Qingsheng was so enthusiastic and easy to say, when asked Li Xin's questions about dreams, it was often Li Xin who hadn't said anything yet, and Shi Qingsheng said it first, Li Xin only needed to follow Shi Qingsheng's topic, and understood Shi Qingsheng's questions about dreaming.

The problem is that I understand it, but Li Xin is confused; I thought that Shi Qingsheng was going to fool around, but I didn't expect what Shi Qingsheng said, and there was something wrong with it, and Shi Qingsheng and they already had a group; This made Li Xin even more aware of the situation, so he complied with Shi Qingsheng's invitation and also applied to join the group. Li Xin entered the "Dream Walker" group on May 16, and within a few days of coming in, he confirmed one thing: that is, the people in the group did not intend to fool anyone; It's not a pyramid scheme either.

Every day, the group members are between 20 o'clock and 21 o'clock in the evening, and there are only 4 people in the group, including him; When you have a problem, that is to say, you have a problem in your dream. The "peacock" and "camel" should be senior, and the "big stone" should be a little less senior; In addition to Li Xin, it is often the "big stone" who asks questions; When there are no problems, everyone is busy with their own affairs, and they don't ask each other about personal problems, so they are all very cautious.

So he came to believe that these people all had similar experiences in dreams, and that they could all gain something in their dreams. At first, Li Xin was still a new member and asked some questions, but then he felt that he had no way to ask; Because he himself has no dream experience, he is afraid of being exposed if he talks too much; And when he asks the wrong question, not only will people not answer him, but will also ask him about his dream experience, at which time he can only pick up the dream experience that he has confirmed and heard these people say, or say that he can't remember it clearly; He felt that the "camel" seemed to be suspicious of him.

Li Xin can now confirm that what is related to the experience of these people in their dreams is that they can all learn some martial arts from their dreams; They can discover what they like from their dreams and can delve into it. For example, "Peacock" understood the detailed structure of ancient soldiers' leather armor from the game, and applied it to animation design; "Camel" has comprehended some unique styles of ancient wooden structure decoration, and applied them to the current decoration design.

These are all introduced by "Big Stone" when he first joined the group and enthusiastically popularized science for him in the group; At that time, "Big Stone" also reminded him that if there is something he likes and sees in his dream, he should try his best to remember it, which will help him to remember more and more things in his dream; He said at the time that he was a worker in the factory and had no hobbies, but was interested in martial arts.

Li Xin also confirmed that the dreams of these people are all game scenes in ancient costumes, maybe these people are usually too good at playing games, and they think about it day and night; But it was incredible to see these people gather in a group with such great interest, discussing how to seek new knowledge and skills in their dreams. Unless these people have mental problems, or the three of them are really experiencing an incredible thing that Li Xin still can't understand, looking at the words of the three of them, it doesn't seem like they have mental problems.

"Big Stone" also reminds himself that you must go to bed before 12 o'clock every night, otherwise no matter what you are doing, the dream world will directly bring you into the dream, and when you enter the dream, you will not wake up no matter what; "Big Rock" said that he himself had encountered it once, and he was taken to the hospital, and he couldn't find anything after an examination. Regardless of the truth or falsity of this matter, persuading people not to stay up late is also kind in itself. According to the three of them, they were forcibly brought into the dream by an incomprehensible mysterious force. Li Xin talked to Shi Qingsheng at the beginning, just thinking about paying attention to it by the way, as long as Shi Qingsheng's behavior did not endanger national security, he would no longer care. But what was happening now, he couldn't understand it.

A week after joining the "Dream Walker" group, Li Xin reported his thoughts on the "Dream Walker" group to the section chief, hoping to check the current life and work situation of the QQ user names "Peacock Flying Up", "Camel in the Desert", and "Big Stone".

After listening to his reasons, the section chief really didn't care, just thinking about young people, and he has always worked very seriously, since he has an idea this time, he will support it, let him fill out an application form, and after the section chief signs, he will hand it over to the office to arrange an inquiry.

The application form filled in by Li Xin is an ordinary inquiry application form; Except for particularly urgent matters and urgent inquiries, general matters are ordinary inquiries. Li Xin filled out the application form on Monday (May 25) of the second week after joining the group, and the reply to the inquiry form returned on Thursday (May 28) afternoon. The reply includes: Kong Xiuying, Xu Ran, and Shi Qingsheng's personal files from elementary school to the present, as well as their current addresses, marriages, and so on.

For Li Xin's request: "Inquire about the business ability of each person in the current work unit, and whether he will do martial arts." The reply form described it like this: "Peacock flies up", Kong Xiuying, female, 24 years old, unmarried. Animation designer of "Blue Sky Animation Company" in Zhongzhou City; Highest qualification: junior college. The company has been working for 2 years and 7 months, and has recently conducted unique research on the animation design of the armor of the soldiers in ancient costumes, and has developed a ready-made style within the company. No martial arts.

"Camel in the Desert", Xu Ran, male, 26 years old, unmarried. Civil designer of Wanyang "Imperial Capital Decoration Company"; Highest qualification: Bachelor's degree. The company's working time is 4 years and 2 months, and the latest decoration design of 232 houses is highly evaluated by the owners, especially the wood decoration, which is evaluated as novel and elegant. Have a certain foundation in martial arts. (According to the personnel of his company, he once revealed a certain martial arts foundation when he had an argument with outsiders; In the personal specialty column of the school's file sheet, there is no martial arts option. ）

"Big Stone", Shi Qingsheng, male, 25 years old, unmarried. Lathe worker of "Oriental Machinery Factory" in Nanyuan City, the highest education: technical school. Working hours 5 years and 6 months, business ability is average. No martial arts. All three have no criminal records. Looking at this reply form, Li Xin pondered; Judging from the file table, in addition to having contact on QQ, there is no intersection in daily life, there is no cohabitation, the same city, and the possibility of knowing each other is very, very small; And it is impossible for them to know that they can find out their life background just by using the QQ number.

Now it seems that Kong Xiuying and Xu Ran may indeed have learned something related to their profession from the game, as they said; Xu Ran should also have learned martial arts. (Generally, college students, who have martial arts expertise, like to fill in the file form, which is also good for finding a job.) Kong Xiuying and Shi Qingsheng should have also learned martial arts, but they didn't show it. (Shi Qingsheng introduced to Li Xin that he could learn martial arts from dreams.) Maybe there really is, what the three of them call a 'dream game'.

But how can such a dream exist? Are aliens doing the trick? Or is the relevant department doing an experiment? (But this kind of technical ability is also beyond Li Xin's understanding; He felt that with real-world technology, he should not have this level. ）

Or is it three people with mental problems, getting together and entertaining themselves? (But the possibility that three neuropaths who don't know each other can get together to resonate, is too small; Even if they can resonate together with fate, they can actually resonate with a 'dream game' that can improve their abilities, then their resonance ability should be a superpower in itself. ）

Maybe these three people really have this kind of special function? (But I don't think I've heard of such a special function.) Li Xin wrote a report on the results of the investigation on this issue and handed it to the section chief the next morning, and since there was no acceptable conclusion, Li Xin wrote down several of his questions in the conclusion part of the report, and hoped to continue the investigation. Li Xin's section chief took the report written by Li Xin in the morning and reported to the director of the Municipal National Security Bureau; After reading the report, the director of the municipal bureau thought deeply for a while and told Li Xin's section chief: "There should be no relevant departments in China that are doing similar experiments, and you must continue to track and figure out this problem." ”

In the afternoon, the section chief called Li Xin to the office, and the section chief asked: "This matter is indeed a bit strange, what are your plans?" I think they're a little suspicious of me now, or they're usually in the group, and they don't talk much, and I don't think I'm in the group every day, and I can't ask what the name is; Can you monitor their QQ? Let's see what they talk about privately. ”

The section chief said, "That's it, you write an application, first monitor the QQ number of the group leader Kong Xiuying for 10 days, and then talk about the situation." In the first week of June, Li Xin went to work every day and received sealed QQ monitoring records of Kong Xiuying handed over by the office. Judging from the records, Kong Xiuying doesn't spend much time on QQ every day, and she usually has something, that is, she simply says a few words to others, and there is no problem with the content of the chat; It feels like a busy person. Kong Xiuying's main QQ online time, that is, from 20 o'clock to 21 o'clock every night.

By Friday morning, Li Xin had obtained the following information: (1) The game that the three people entered was a game that required a fee, and they shared their respective game accounts with their respective gamers. They can earn game currency by entering the 'dream game' during the day, or they can learn martial arts by spending game currency. (2) They are now in a kind of 'novice village' in the initial stage of the game where they practice their mental power, and the next level of the game is the training of the mental force field; The highest-level game scenario known so far is the 'Mental Force Field Space'. I don't know what the level of spiritual thorns of these three people is. Kong Xiuying and Shi Qingsheng's mental power is less than 8 now. (3) Kong Xiuying and Shi Qingsheng's current 'Dream Game' team is a team of 9 people, but they should be indifferent to the rest of the team and don't talk about it. I don't see any intersection. (4) This 'dream game' can be entered in a waking state, but it needs to be practiced and mastered by yourself. (5) They were brought into the 'dream game' by the gamers at night against their subjective will, and even if they wanted to stop participating in the game now, they were not in charge of their own affairs; Maybe they're just the game accounts that act as 'fuses' for those gamers.

(6) Xu Ran did not say that he was a team of several people, nor did he say that his mental power was worth or which range it was in, but only that he was in a special situation and was not in a hurry to exercise his mental power. Judging from the tone of the conversation between Kong Xiuying and Xu Ran, Xu Ran should be more senior than Kong Xiuying.

(7) After entering the game during sleep, outsiders cannot wake up the person unless they wake up from the dream; Shi Qingsheng once entered a dream when singing in KTV, others couldn't wake up, and after being sent to the hospital, he couldn't find anything wrong, he said it himself, and his parents also knew.

(8) When there is a lot of labor in the game, the arm will feel sore after waking up; It also makes the three 'Dream Walkers' need to increase food and nutrition. (9) Judging from the introduction of several people to Li Xin when they first joined the group, they all had a vague impression of dreams at the beginning, and gradually remembered more and more dreams; It can be regarded as awakening in a dream, and you can even learn things in a dream.

(10) The gamer in the 'dream game' (if it does exist), who it is not known who it is. In response to the results of this week's investigation, Li Xin wrote an investigation report to the section chief and handed it to the section chief on Friday afternoon; In the conclusion of the investigation, he wrote: according to the analysis of the information, what happened should have been, and indeed happened; But what happened in itself is incomprehensible; It is recommended to continue the investigation.