170, as white as snow
Yao's mother's dream space is always small, and there is a gray border not far away.
Aoki watched as the void at the boundary of the dream appeared faintly shining, which was the traces left by Yao's mother's own consciousness constantly searching for memories.
She's looking for her cat.
But for some unknown reason, she was never able to retrieve the relevant memories.
Aoki thought it was very strange. When she is awake, Yao's mother can remember her cat, but when she dreams, she can't retrieve the cat's memory, this method of consciousness interference and memory blockade is extremely clever, just like the files on a computer, you can see it when you open it normally, but when you want to copy it out, you find that you can't find it, whether you use administrator privileges or background virus programs.
After countless flashes of bright spots at the blurred boundaries of the dream's space, Aoki found an area that was always in darkness. The area wasn't big, like a black moon hanging from the gray sky. Since there is not much space in the dream realm, the black moon seems to be reachable.
Aoki knew that was the hidden area of encryption.
When he tried to touch the area with his psychic powers, the world suddenly turned into darkness.
The depressions are gone, the crops are gone, the houses are gone, the old trees are gone, the ants moving under the trees and the rats crawling all over the ground are gone, and the graceful old lady is gone
But the space didn't collapse, just the things in the space were gone. It's like a house, all the bricks, wood, concrete and steel bars have been sucked away, but the space of the house is still there, and Aoki and Yao's mother are still in this house.
Then, a dazzling white appeared in this space.
Aoki saw the cat, covered in soft white fur, like the snow of a Siberian winter, and it stood out in the dark void.
From Aoki's point of view, the cat was far away from him, but he could still see every detail of the cat's body - snow-white and soft fur, sapphire-like crystal green eyes, black pupils like black pearls set in sapphires, sitting there in a noble and elegant posture, only the little pink lips and nose added a bit of cuteness to it.
Although the scene is lost, it does not mean that the dream space is gone. On the contrary, the current dream space is incomparably large. Because of the darkness, it is difficult for you to judge where the boundary of space is, just like when we look up at the sky in the dark, we cannot judge the height of the sky. Sometimes it feels like it's within reach, and sometimes it's unfathomable.
Aoki felt a surging spiritual power, stretching the entire space like a shock wave after an atomic bomb exploded.
Now this dream space was definitely not built by Yao's mother, because her spiritual power could never be so huge. However, they are indeed in Yao's mother's dream, and the core of the whole space is her dream. And with her ability, she can't withstand such a huge space mass.
Aoki didn't think twice, raised his hand slightly, and used his spiritual strength to protect Yao's mother. If she didn't do this, the huge spatial pressure would crush the core dream that Yao's mother had constructed, and her consciousness would also be injured.
Almost at the same time, the white cat moved its paws slightly.
As soon as Aoki's spiritual power protected Yao's mother's consciousness body, he touched another spiritual power. The two forces collided in the same space without warning, like two stars in the universe suddenly colliding.
The huge shockwave burst into thin hair, and it was about to devour Yao's mother's consciousness. Aoki had to raise his hands and use his body to bear all the impact force to prevent Yao's mother's consciousness from being harmed.
At the same time, he saw that the cat suddenly arched its back, exploded all over its body, and made an aggressive gesture with angry eyes.
Aoki could feel a huge spiritual power emanating from the cat's consciousness body, undisguised, like a fierce tiger furious to protect his territory.
Man and cat confronted each other like this.
Yao's mother is now standing in an invisible ball. There is a protective shield on the outside of the ball, and half of this protective cover is formed by Aoki's power, and the other half is the cat.
The white cat seemed to sense that Aoki had no intention of harming it or Yao's mother, and slowly relaxed. The white hair on his back slowly lay down, and became silky and soft again.
The space around it is slowly shrinking, and the white cat's body is slowly shrinking. It didn't take long for the white cat to turn into a normal-sized cat.
The depression was back, and so was the hut behind it, and the ants under the trees were moving, and the rats were fleeing in all directions, and in a moment they were gone.
Yao's mother and her grandmother stood there, looking at Aoki and the white cat stupidly.
The white cat stared at the old lady for a moment, then turned and walked towards the blur of the dream border.
"Heyโwait a minute!" Aoki shouted.
The white cat stopped and turned around, opened its pink mouth slightly, mewed at Aoki, and then disappeared into the darkness.
Aoki watched helplessly as it left.
Of course, he could touch the black moon again and force the white cat out, but it was useless to think about it.
It wasn't a complete cat, but just a thought to protect Yao's mother and the encrypted area of her mind. It's strange that the power of this idea is so powerful. It is conceivable that this cat was such a tough guy when he was alive, maybe not much worse than the coal boss.
A thought doesn't tell him more, and the most Aoki can do is eliminate it, and then open the memory of the encrypted area of Yao's mother's brain. That might reveal some secrets, but it might also hurt Yao's mother. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if it was just some privacy in someone else's home?
And to destroy such a beautiful and cute cat with his own hands, although it is just an idea, Aoki can't do it, not to mention that without affecting Yao's mother, it is still a question of whether to kill or not.
Aoki had no choice but to honestly withdraw from Yao's mother's dream, of course, before withdrawing, he waited for a relatively peaceful and beautiful dream space, and even so, Yao's mother woke up with a languid appearance, as weak as if she had just undergone surgery.
"What's wrong with me? It was like a dream just now. Yao's mother said after waking up.
"It's okay, you're just too tired, just rest for a while." Aoki said and opened the curtain, and then poured a cup of hot water for Yao's mother, "You drink saliva." โ
Yao's mother said: "Oh, I'm really embarrassed, you see that when you came back for the first time, I couldn't treat you well, and I asked you to take care of me upside down"
Aoki originally wanted to ask Yao's mother about the cat and her graceful and noble grandmother, but looking at Yao's mother's complexion after waking up, she had already reached the limit of her mental endurance. He didn't ask any more questions and asked Yao's mother to lie down and sleep for a while. Of course, with his help in hypnosis, Yao's mother fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.
After a while, Yao Jingjing and Yao's father came back, packed a lot of dishes, chicken, duck, fish, fresh and sparse fruits, and brought a big pot of soup.
Yao's mother woke up, saw the big crockpot, and asked, "Why did you even bring the jar, how heavy!" โ
Yao's father said: "This is a stewed soup, it won't taste good without the crockpot, so I specially put a deposit of ten yuan." Look at the soup and the bones, they are fresh! โ
As he spoke, he lifted the lid and stirred the spoon in the crockpot a few times, and the bones tumbled in the milky soup.