Sherlock...... You...... I...... I'm ......"

Blinking, it took a long time for Dr. Watson to finally react and seem to be awake.

Suddenly, he subconsciously took a long breath, and then found that his clothes were soaked with cold sweat, and the same was true of the bed under him.

"Your face is terrible, Watson...... Having a nightmare? Holmes pulled a chair over and sat down directly into the room, asking calmly.

"Yes, yes, Sherlock......" Dr. Watson sat up from his bed, he felt his hands and feet tremble, and his back shivered, "but I forgot what nightmare I had, I forgot all of them, I just felt terrible, very ...... Very ......"

He gestured a few times, his face was cold and sweaty, and he only felt indescribably frightened, and even had a feeling of extremely happy Holmes to wake him up, which was a fluke and a strong sense of fear for the rest of his life.

Dreams are always difficult to remember, often when you wake up, you can only vaguely remember a part, and then over time, gradually forget, basically wait until half an hour has passed, you can't remember anything.

At most, it leaves a superficial impression that you know that you have just had a dream.

- That's about it.

But this dream is different, Dr. Watson basically forgets it all the moment he wakes up, and all of it, everything, and no impression of the dream remains.

It's the subconscious self-protection mechanism that comes into play to keep that terrifying madness from continuing to hurt the brain.

However, it was impossible to completely erase the effects, and the feeling of fear still remained, dormant in every cell of Dr. Watson's body, causing him to wake up with a great increase in mental stress and a drastic decrease in SAN value.

"Have you forgotten everything?" Holmes nodded thoughtfully, and as he said so, he pushed his chair back and lit a cigarette.

"Please, Sherlock...... This is my room, can you ask me first when you smoke? ”

Dr. Watson said irritably, waving his hand and frowning, his tone looking disgusted.

Because he had just been baptized by a nightmare, he was indeed a little unable to control his emotions now, and he had an urge to vent, and the fear that he couldn't explain the source of anything turned into anger.

This is human nature, and Dr. Watson is no exception, and it is precisely because he and Sherlock Holmes are good friends that he says this, after all, people are always used to venting negative emotions on those close to them.

"Well, I see what you mean, Watson...... Do you mean to let me go and give you a chance to be alone and quiet? Holmes looked up at him in amazement, and made a gesture to his feet.

"No, no, no...... I didn't mean that, Sherlock. Dr. Watson's face froze suddenly, "Okay, you can smoke if you want, damn it, don't leave me alone at this time......"

He felt particularly insecure now, the fear of the aftermath of the nightmare that would drive any human-sane person insane.

I couldn't stand it, and if it weren't for Holmes in this room, he thought it would be difficult for him to keep his composures calm, and he would have yelled like crazy, smashing everything desperately to vent the fear in his heart.

"So, Watson...... Why bother? Holmes nodded, stretched out his palm and patted his friend's shoulder, and said a little harshly.

“……”

“……”

Dr. Watson suddenly remembered something, and he looked at his door, and saw that it had been forcefully slammed open.

"Wait, Sherlock? Did I just make a big fuss? ”

"No, in fact you didn't make any sound, I called you outside the door for a minute and didn't respond, and I thought you were killed in your room." Holmes shrugged. "Don't worry, I'll take care of fixing your door, but it's still midnight, so I can only wait until after dawn."

"And my dear Holmes, how do you know that something is wrong with me?" Dr. Watson didn't care about the broken door at all, and he had a vague guess.

"Reintrade also had nightmares, I was just going out to drink saliva and see if he would freeze, after all, he is not too young, and sleeping next to the fireplace is not a good choice......"

Holmes said with a quiet look.

"Inspector Lestrade is having nightmares too?" If that's the case, then it would explain why Holmes felt that something was wrong with him, and he wasn't surprised at all when he said he had a nightmare.

"That's right, when I woke him up, he almost grabbed a chair next to me and hit me on the head." "You can go out and see him now," said the great detective, rather calmly, poor Lestrade, who is adjusting his mood by the fireplace." ”

Adjust your mood?

It can't be a shiver, right?

Dr. Watson stared at his friend suspiciously, to be precise, at the relaxed and happy look on the other's face: "Then Sherlock, you...... Had nightmares too? ”

"No, I didn't." Holmes exhaled a puff of smoke, "It's weird, but I didn't have nightmares and slept well......"

“……”

“……”

Dr. Watson's face darkened almost immediately, not so much at Sherlock Holmes, but as with the feeling that he had been targeted.

From the moment he entered the secret underground facility of the Golden Dawn, it was like this, hallucinating, having nightmares, and always seemed to have bad luck with him, and no one else was like this, except for himself.

"You're not right, Watson." Holmes snuffed out the cigarette butt, "Actually, except that I don't have nightmares, I'm the same as Inspector Lestrade and you, for example, we're all stuffed with occult knowledge, and our eyes seem to be able to see more......"

"......" Dr. Watson was startled, staring at him without speaking.

"Don't look at me like that, dear friend, your expression is already clear about what you're thinking." Holmes smiled.

Dr. Watson frowned and rubbed his temples: "Well, I thought it was only me who was abnormal, and there was something wrong with my brain and eyes...... It turns out that you are the same, just don't say it. ”

Sherlock Holmes felt that his friend's mood had basically regained his composure, so he turned directly to the topic, and said in a gentle tone: "Watson, what matters now is why you and Lestrade had a nightmare just now. ”

Dr. Watson's body trembled slightly, and he finally forced this incident to the bottom of his heart, wanting to treat it as if it had never happened.

Although there were no specific memories left in the dream, the fear was imprinted into the deepest part of the soul.

"First of all, we all have to admit the existence of the occult field, and then think about the problem from this point of view...... "The great detective did not give his friend a chance to refuse, "and the problems that arise in us can be considered to be caused by the extra knowledge in our heads." ”

At this point, Holmes suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Watson, do you know the Law of Contact?" Contact witchcraft is one of the most common manifestations of witchcraft culture in the world, but it belongs to a branch of sympathetic witchcraft in witchcraft......"

Dr. Watson, who calmed down, thought hard for a moment, and then seemed to remember the information he had read before-

The principle that things are interconnected with each other, and that once things come into contact with each other, they will continue to interact with each other at a distance even after the physical contact is interrupted, and this principle is called the "law of contact".

From this principle, shamans believed that they could exert influence over one thing, especially "people". As long as the thing has been touched by that person, whether or not it is part of the person's body, this effect will be true.

The name "Exposure to Witchcraft" comes from the fact that it is said that a wizard only needs to touch a part of someone's body or something they have used in order to achieve their goals. In the past, the evil magic used to collect the hair, beard, nails, and beloved objects of the discordant in order to harm the other person......

"Looks like you're remembering, we just read those materials a few days ago......"

The detective always paid attention to his friend's expression, "I don't know if the occult knowledge we have acquired is the same, but as far as I know, the "law of contact" in the occult does exist. ”

"So what?" Dr. Watson gasped, his face turned pale, and said in exasperation.

"I'm wondering, since there is such a principle in the occult itself, would it be more exaggerated and infinitely magnified for those so-called gods?"

Sherlock Holmes said unhurriedly.

"Even if you accidentally come into contact with their concepts, know some forbidden knowledge, or read a certain magic book, you have already developed an invisible mysterious connection with them......"

The detective's guess is actually not wrong, whether it is direct or indirect contact, except for the difference in the way and way, what is the difference in the result?

When a person directly reads mythological texts, it is inevitable that the SAN value will drop wildly, and he will come into contact with areas that should not be touched, and he will have insight into the truth of madness, and he must also have an invisible connection with the "gods".

And the same is true for the acquisition of forbidden knowledge by directly sharing the copied memories and feelings. It's just that it's not through reading books, but by sharing memories and feelings.

Or it will be worse, after all, you can decide how many pages to read when you read the book, whether you want to continue to contact, and you can retreat decisively if you find something wrong.

However, Mr. Smith directly opened a big wave, as long as he fell for the illusion, every second his head would be stuffed with a large amount of knowledge, how could the audience have the ability to decide how many pages they should read?

"Then Sherlock, why didn't you have nightmares?" Dr. Watson was reluctant to admit this fact.

"Maybe it's a matter of acceptance?" Sherlock Holmes was also a little uncertain for a while, "The biggest difference between me and you seems to be that I am more receptive to these things. ”