Chapter 8: Awakening
Qin Ming didn't know what would happen if he died in this nightmare.
It's the real self that will die.
It still means that the entrance test has failed.
But obviously, either way, it was unacceptable to him.
So he had to find a way to wake himself up.
This may be the best solution to all this.
In fact, he had long suspected that this was a dream.
Because the salient feature of dreams is that they have no head or tail.
However, this dream is really scary, and it even gave a relatively reasonable explanation for this kind of headless and tailless.
So if it weren't for his family, and this Gao Chan's abnormality, he was really hard to be sure.
But even if you know it's a dream, it's not easy to wake up.
Because there are only a few reasons to be able to wake up from a dream.
Influenced by the outside world. For example, the dreamer is woken up.
Physiologically affected. For example, being awakened by urine, feeling unwell, and so on.
The above two can undoubtedly be ruled out, because if this is a test of the school, then this kind of loophole will definitely not be drilled.
If external factors are excluded, then only the internal situation can be considered.
If you are frightened in a dream or encounter danger, you may wake up from a dream.
However, frightened, he had already experienced it, and the result was useless.
In the event of danger, it is not easy to determine where this tipping point is.
It's like if he chooses to jump from the upper floor, if he doesn't fully stimulate him in the process, and he falls, then he is equivalent to being killed in a dream.
Therefore, even if you encounter danger, you must find a relatively safe way to die.
Qin Ming thought of one.
That's cutting wrists.
pretended to sleep all night, and after breakfast the next day, he and Gao Can came to the Internet café again.
Halfway through, Qin Ming said that he was going to the toilet, so he escaped by taking advantage of the urethra.
Then he found a hotel from a distance, opened a room and hid in it.
The uncertainty of the dream, as well as the suddenness of the dream, is too high.
And it may also be accompanied by scene jumps, so although he has successfully gotten rid of Gao Chan now, it is difficult to say what will happen in the next second.
So he had to die as soon as possible.
Otherwise, if they are found by Gao Can, they will not die but really die.
Lock the door of the hotel and the door of the bathroom.
Qin Ming sat on the lid of the toilet, took out the razor blade he had specially prepared for this, and after taking a deep breath, he cut it with the artery in his wrist.
He deliberately cut the wound deeply to prevent the wound from bleeding on its own.
Blood flowed down the wound at a rapid rate.
It didn't take long for Qin Ming to feel a little dizzy, and it was becoming more and more intense.
But he obviously had no intention of giving up, and not only that, but he threw the mobile phone that he could use to call for rescue into the urinal.
Don't leave yourself any way out.
It was undoubtedly a big gamble for him, either he would wake up or die here.
The temperature of the body drops dramatically, and the blood is slowly drying up.
As his vision became blurred, he heard the sound of death's approaching footsteps in his ears.
Eventually, his remaining strength could no longer support his sitting body.
His body fell heavily to the ground, and Qin Ming's consciousness was already on the verge of collapse.
At this time, the fear of death in his heart has also climbed to its peak.
His body curled up in a ball, and his hands turned pale clutched weakly, as if he was struggling with this fate for the last time.
At the same time, a loud sound of the door being broken open suddenly sounded from outside.
In the next second, the bathroom door began to tremble violently.
Obviously, Gao Can has already arrived.
"Qin Ming, why don't you say a word to me when you leave, it's easy for me to find it.
Good thing I've found you.
Now that I'm here, you should hurry up and open the door.
Qin Ming! Don't think I don't know you're inside, hurry up and open the door for me! ”
Gao Can frantically banged on the door panel, and Qin Ming fell to the ground and twitched weakly because of excessive blood loss and panic.
With a loud "bang" sound, Gao Can, who was full of fierceness, finally broke into the door.
Meanwhile.
Qin Ming's consciousness also began to withdraw from the nightmare.
Finally, the dream woke up.
Qin Ming screamed and sat up from the ground,
The nightmare scene left in my mind also dissipated as quickly as the ebb tide.
When he thought about it again, he couldn't even remember what had happened in his dream.
stared blankly at the world in front of him, highlighting the dead silence and drowsiness, just as he gradually got used to it, a somewhat shyly face suddenly leaned in from the side, and then came to him.
"Young man, with my years of diagnostic experience, if you sweat so much, you must have kidney deficiency."
Qin Ming had already had palpitations before, but now he suddenly poked out his face from the side, which also frightened him and couldn't help but exclaim.
It wasn't until I saw it clearly that I realized that it turned out to be Yi Shaodong.
"Damn, I was almost scared to death by you just now!"
Qin Ming really wanted to kick the bastard in front of him to death.
"It's like it's true, aren't you dead?
Did you just have a very real nightmare? ”
"Or do you think I'm going to sweat so much?"
From what Yi Shaodong asked him, Qin Ming judged that Yi Shaodong should have been in a similar situation to him before.
Consciousness should be trapped in a nightmare.
"How much you sweat has anything to do with nightmares, didn't I tell you that it was kidney deficiency?"
"Don't talk to me uselessly. When did you wake up? ”
"About 10 minutes ago. When I woke up, I found that you were all sleeping soundly, so I just waited here. ”
After Yi Shaodong finished speaking, Qin Ming took out his mobile phone and glanced at the time and date on it.
I found that a full 12 hours had passed since the start of the test.
In the open space not far from them, there were many people lying on their backs.
These people are still in a state of slumber.
It can be said that in the entire No. 4 examination room, only he and Yi Shaodong are sober at present.
Qin Ming found someone nearby and tried to call a few times, but the person who was called did not react.
Just when he wanted to try it with another person, Yi Shaodong teased and persuaded beside him:
"Don't waste that spit, I didn't wake you up after I screamed you so much. You can't wake up by screaming, and these people are afraid that they can only find a way to wake up by themselves. ”
"I just want to see if these people in dreams will be affected by the outside world."
"What's the use of you trying this? Aren't you all awake? Haven't you slept enough? Yi Shaodong couldn't understand what Qin Ming was thinking.
"Of course it works.
Because we normally fall asleep, we will be awake if someone calls us from the outside.
Even if you take some drugs that can make you sleepy, you will wake up when the effects of the drugs have worn off.
No matter what, there will be no such thing as the dream self trying to stimulate the consciousness and escape from the dream.
Can you understand what I mean? ”
"I can't." Yi Shaodong shook his head affirmatively.
"You don't study well, I really don't blame you." Qin Ming was deeply skeptical of Yi Shaodong's IQ.
"Don't sell it, don't you mean a dream, why is it involved in my study again."
"I mean, the school might be able to manipulate our dreams. Even if we don't have full control, it can limit our consciousness. Or maybe they have a way of channeling our consciousness. ”
"Well, what you're saying makes a lot of sense, I'll admit that I don't understand it because of my low IQ.
Rather than analyzing this, can you give us some advice at the moment? ”
"You're all as if I didn't say anything just now."
Qin Ming really didn't know what to say, and after a long time, he said that it was all nonsense.
However, what Yi Shaodong said is not wrong, about the school's affairs, presumably after the test, everything will become clear.
The top priority is to find a way to pass the test.
He then took a closer look at his surroundings.
The head is shrouded in gray mist, and behind it is surrounded by a tower-like wall, forming a closed arc.
It is equivalent to having no way back at all.
In front of the road, a large mountain forest looms.
And you can hear the "howling" wind that walks back and forth through it, like a child's cry.
After looking at it this time, Qin Ming couldn't help but have doubts in his heart again.
It's not so much what lies ahead, it's how the road behind them is blocked.
After all, if this was the fog-shrouded area they had first entered, then it shouldn't be a dead end.
He could only think that it was the school that transferred them here from elsewhere after they fell into a dream.
After thinking about it, he said to Yi Shaodong:
"This should be the second level of the entrance test."
"What do you mean?"
"You probably remember the headmaster's words, he said that this test is made up of levels.
Since falling into a dream is not an accidental event among us, it is likely to be one of the trials.
And if the dream is the first level of the test, then after we escape from the dream, we will undoubtedly face the test location of the second level. ”
Qin Ming explained casually.
"Makes sense."
Yi Shaodong understood what Qin Ming meant this time, and after nodding in agreement, he pointed to the people on the ground who were still asleep, and asked uncertainly:
"Everyone else isn't awake, just the two of us are awake, do you think we're going to go deep alone, or wait.
When a few more people wake up, let's act together as a group? ”
"Let's wait a little longer, there are more people, at least my heart is more down-to-earth."
Qin Ming glanced at the mountains and forests hidden in the darkness in front of him.
In my heart, I inexplicably gave birth to the bad premonition I had before.
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