Mei Yiqiu's workshop was filled with the smell of smoke, and even an old smoking gun like Aoki felt a little choking.

Mei Ziqing stood outside and didn't dare to enter the door, and asked Mei Yiqiu if she had any other instructions.

Mei Yiqiu thought for a moment and said, "If you don't hate the smoke here, come in together." ”

Mei Ziqing happily said "yes", smiled at Aoki, and secretly gave a thumbs up. The fact that the professor was able to let her in showed that he had complete trust in her, and she was happy in her heart and admired Aoki very much.

However, Mei Ziqing obviously underestimated the frequency and concentration of Mei Yi's smoke, and coughed incessantly as soon as she walked into the workshop.

"Professor, why don't you turn on the purifier!" Mei Ziqing complained, and then pressed a few switches on one wall.

"Oh, the smoke helps me focus." Professor Mei said lightly.

An advanced laboratory like this can theoretically remove every speck of dust from the workshop, leaving no smoke behind. Not long after Mei Ziqing turned on the purification switch, the smoke in the room disappeared, and the fresh air was refreshing.

"Professor, what the hell is going on?" Aoki asked.

Professor Mei Yiqiu did not answer Aoki's question directly, but handed the pipe in his hand to Aoki: "Do you want to take a sip?" I only have this here, and the cigarettes are all in the office upstairs. ”

Mei Ziqing immediately said, "I'll go get it." ”

"Oh, no, I have my own." Aoki pulled his cigarette out of his coat pocket and lit it with a lighter.

"The lighter is good!" Mei Yiqiu looked at the Dupon lighter in Aoki's hand, "Rich?" ”

Aoki smiled: "Last time, the business you introduced made three million, and I heard that it was a lot of money. ”

"Three million? That's a lot of money to invest in a project in my lab. Mei Yiqiu began to trick Aoki into moving the studio again, "I have projects here that can change the fate of mankind!" It makes more sense to spend money here than if you waste it on something like a lighter. ”

Aoki said, "The lighter was given by a friend. ”

"Girlfriend?" Mei Yiqiu seemed a little surprised.

"Hmm...... It's a woman, but it's not a girlfriend. Aoki said after confirming in his mind what Mei Yiqiu meant by his girlfriend.

"Oh, I said!" Mei Yiqiu took a puff of cigarette and exhaled a long puff of thick mist, "How can someone like you have a girlfriend?" You don't understand love at all, because you're a piece of wood! Still, there are always silly chicks who will like wood like you. ”

Aoki was stunned by Mei Yiqiu's words, and he couldn't tell whether the professor was hurting or praising him.

Mei Ziqing covered her mouth next to her and smiled secretly.

"So you haven't touched the three million?" Mei Yiqiu said.

"I didn't move, but ......," Aoki honestly confessed, "I gave it to another woman, like ...... It seems to be running out of money. ”

Mei Yiqiu shook her head and said to Mei Ziqing: "Look, wood is wood, you never know what stupid thing a piece of wood will do!" ”

Mei Ziqing smiled: "Professor, don't you often call money a blockage, and it's not worth mentioning?" I think Mr. Aoki has the same temper as you! You don't have any concept of money, that's why you spend it indiscriminately. ”

"Are you criticizing me for spending money?" Mei Yi blew her beard and glared.

Mei Ziqing lowered her head and didn't dare to talk back, but she couldn't help but want to laugh when she thought of the story of the professor and money. This straightforward, cute, and occasionally grumpy little old man really has no concept of money. Don't look at his level of math as good as any math professor in college, but when you show him the financial statements of the lab, it's like a teacher forcing a poor elementary school student to do his homework. He can be cheated out of all the cash on the street by a scammer who pretends to visit relatives, or he can debate with the store for two hours for a bottle of mineral water for eight yuan a bottle in the scenic spot, and finally the leader of the scenic spot came out to apologize.

Of course, Mei Yiqiu didn't know what his students were thinking, so he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, forget it, your three million won't make anything, and that box can't be made out of millions." ”

"What box?" Aoki said, "Are you studying something strange again?" ”

Mei Yiqiu said: "Well, let's not talk about this for now, I want to discuss a few issues with you first. ”

"Okay, you say." Aoki waited for Mei to ask for a question.

Mei Yiqiu thought for a while with her pipe in her mouth, and asked, "You can be hypnotized, and I remember you told me that you can enter other people's dreams through special methods, right?" ”

Mei Ziqing was surprised when she heard it, and thought that the professor was joking, but when she saw Aoki nodding, she almost exclaimed: "Ah, it can really be ......"

Mei Yiqiu stopped her and asked Aoki, "When you enter someone else's dream, you can see other people's consciousness, right?" ”

Aoki said, "Yes. ”

"So, what are you relative to that consciousness?" Mei Yiqiu suddenly looked at Aoki with a very serious expression.

"What am I?" Aoki also became serious, and thought carefully and seriously for a while, "Everything in the dream space is constructed by the proprioceptive consciousness through memory reorganization, including the rules of the entire dream realm. For him, my presence meant danger, and the space could collapse as a result. Or rather, I shouldn't be there, I'm more of an intruder - an intruder. ”

"Well, the intruder......" Mei Yiqiu closed her eyes and pondered, and took a few puffs of her cigarette vigorously, "When you invade a dream, is there a way to kill the main consciousness in that dream and become the master of that dream?" ”

"I can't." Aoki replied in the affirmative, "I can't fully grasp the details of that dream space he constructed unless I have all of his memories. If the main consciousness is killed, the dream space will collapse. Unless I enter his body to replace him, I will be trapped. ”

Mei Yiqiu asked again: "If there is already an intruder in that dream, you should be able to find it when you go in, right?" Or to put it this way, if there are two consciousnesses in a person's body, then when you hypnotize him, which consciousness is you hypnotizing, and which one will you see in the dream? ”

Aoki suddenly remembered the shadow in Xia Wenyuan's dream, the intruder that Yao's mother had said, and the white cat.

After a moment's thought, he said, "I haven't encountered such a situation, and theoretically if there are two consciousnesses, then you will see two in your dreams." ”

Mei Yiqiu nodded and began to gulp down her cigarette. After a long time, he said, "Your words have inspired me so much!" Humanity is facing an unprecedented catastrophe, and if we are not careful, we may never recover! ”

Mei Yiqiu said so seriously, and looking at his emaciated face and smoke-red eyes, Aoki knew that something must have happened, and asked, "Professor, what happened?" Why should everyone learn Leicester Signature? ”

"Mr. Lester has died." Mei Yiqiu said.

"I've heard that." Aoki had already seen the news on the Internet. It is true that a great scientist is capable of changing the fate of mankind, but he does not feel that the death of a scientist will make mankind doomed.

Mei Yiqiu brought a large metal goggle-like eye mask to Aoki: "Take it." ”