Xia Wenyuan looked exhausted when he woke up. He held Wu Lixia's hand tightly, and Wu Lixia felt that her finger joints were about to be broken by him, but she didn't complain or withdraw her hand, but looked at her husband, who was nearly thirty years older than herself, with a gentle and pitying gaze.

Hu Xing and Xia Wenyuan woke up almost at the same time. She panicked and searched for her target, and when she saw her surroundings clearly, she realized that she had come out of her dream and really returned to reality, and that her grandfather had woken up, she was relieved.

She suddenly felt so tired, as if she had worked three days and three nights in a row, and all the strength in her body was drained. Is this what Aoki said, the sequelae of excessive mental power consumption?

The agarwood on the incense table rises with ethereal green smoke. She saw that the first piece of incense ash on the incense head had just broken and fell into the incense plug.

Wu Lixia ordered someone to bring ginseng tea and feed it to Xia Wenyuan with a silver spoon spoonful by spoon.

Xia Wenyuan drank ginseng tea, felt much better, and let out a long breath and said, "Thank you, Mr. Aoki, you saved me." ”

"What happened?" Peter on the side was confused, he only knew that Old Man Xia woke up in less than three minutes after lying down, and the guy in the windbreaker didn't move, how could he save him? Isn't this old man crazy?

Xia Wenyuan ignored Peter and said to Wu Lixia: "Let people prepare a family banquet." Then he smiled at Aoki, "Today, please ask Mr. to appreciate his face and stay for a light meal." ”

Li Wei, who was next to him, was moved, and couldn't help but look at Aoki Gao. He has been in the Xia family for many years, and knows that the old man is divided into different standards for entertaining guests, and those who can eat in this manor are not ordinary people, and the banquet is divided into several types, among which it can be called a "family banquet", and the one that let Wu Lixia go in person instead of letting Li Wei order it is the highest level, even if the Xia family's own people, only the closest people can enjoy it.

Aoki was also polite and said, "Oh, don't cook too many dishes!" ”

It's really a hillbilly, I thought it was a visit to the countryside for the New Year! Hu Xing was amused by Aoki and laughed, and even the exhaustion of his body seemed to be better.

Xia Wenyuan also laughed and said, "Not much, not much, all the fruits and vegetables grown by myself on the mountain behind, as well as the fish from the reservoir in front, are also raised by themselves." ”

Wu Lixia came back from the kitchen after giving instructions and said, "Okay, the fish in the reservoir is delicious again!" It's not a matter of what kind of food to cook, you parents don't bother, now let's ask Mr. Aoki to solve our puzzles, tell us how my old man is, otherwise you will talk and laugh there, and we bystanders will die in a hurry! ”

Wu Lixia's words hit everyone's minds, especially the confused Dr. Peter.

"Ah, what do you mean by this, the shadow in your dreams—" Aoki struggled to explain to them something beyond their comprehension with theories, "that shadow is actually yourself. ”

"Myself?"

"Yes, yourself." Aoki said, "Everyone has a shadow, and the shadow only appears in the sun, and our own bodies block the light, and we have it." The shadow is the other side of our humanity hidden in the sun, and it is inseparable from us. Often, we don't notice it's there, and it doesn't have much effect on us. But if our shadow becomes self-aware, then things are in trouble. ”

"Self-aware?" Peter interjected, his brow twisted into a rope, looking at Aoki like a monster, "You mean, Xia Lao's shadow became conscious, and then wanted to kill him in his dream?" ”

Aoki said, "Pretty much. ”

“Nonsense!” Peter unconsciously scolded in English, "If the shadow has consciousness, why don't you stand up now, what else do you want to do in your dreams?" ”

Aoki shook his head and said, "It's not this shadow, it's the shadow in my heart, understand?" ”

"The shadow in my heart ......" Xia Wenyuan thought thoughtfully.

Aoki said, "That shadow knows everything about you. He knows your memories, knows your habits, knows your hobbies, knows where your inner vulnerability is, and can even anticipate what your conscious body is going to do, so in a sense, he is yourself. ”

"Do you mean I'm schizophrenic?" Xia Wenyuan asked.

"No, you don't." Aoki affirmed, "It's because you don't have it, so I'm sure that the source of this shadow's consciousness must not be you." He's an intruder! ”

"Intruders?" Just like when Hu Xing first heard the word, others also let out the same exclamation and questions.

On the contrary, Xia Wenyuan was calmer and pondered in a wheelchair.

As a doctor, Peter naturally doesn't believe in any nonsense about the invasion of consciousness. He also didn't think that a shadow in a dream could kill. From a medical point of view, it is clearly a mental illness. What he is most concerned about is the lesion in Xia Wenyuan's brain, which is really fatal.

"So, may I ask Mr. Aoki, how did the invader you mentioned make the gray matter layer of Xia Lao's brain fibrotic?" Peter asked.

This question really stopped Aoki.

"Maybe it doesn't matter!" "I think when Professor May comes back from Europe, we can go to his lab and study it, you know, he has a lot of new stuff there." ”

"Oh, yes!" Peter sneered, and said in his heart, Do you think Xia Lao is an ordinary person? You can use it as an experiment to get closer to the lab! If that were the case, there would be many labs in the U.S. that would like to study him as a sample! And he doesn't have to take such a conservative treatment.

"I'll talk about this when Professor Mei comes back." Xia Wenyuan seemed to remember something, "Don't hide it from Mr. Aoki, sitting in my position, not to mention worrying and sitting on pins and needles, it is also walking on thin ice every day." People who are staring at our Xia family's industry can go all the way from Wuzhong to Shenzhou, and there are not a few people who want to harm me Xia. Mr. just said that this shadow is an intruder, can you make it clearer? Is it possible that someone is using evil magic to harm me? ”

Aoki knew that Xia Wenyuan already had the object of suspicion, and said, "I can't rule out this possibility, but it's not easy to implant a consciousness in your brain!" First of all, the person has to know you very well and know your mental weaknesses. Second, consciousness is not like a chip, it can be put into your brain through a single operation, it must first have a seed of consciousness, and then after a long period of contact with you, let you relax your vigilance against it, and then take advantage of the weakness to enter your brain and lurk and grow until it is as powerful as you. ”

Xia Wenyuan said: "So it is disguised as a shadow in my dream? Who would be wary of the shadow in their dreams! ”

"Probably."

Xia Wenyuan asked again: "What is the seed of consciousness?" ”

"It can be an obsession, a habit, or a little overflowing love." "But in this case, it usually causes you to have a nervous breakdown or schizophrenia at most, and a separate consciousness must have existed for a long time, just like ...... The soul is the same. ”

As he spoke, Aoki suddenly stood up, walked up to the famous painting by Picasso, and asked, "Has this painting been hanging here?" ”