Chapter 23: Three Sessions
My name is Yan Shunlu, I have been a good person since I was a child, and I am now assisting in the investigation at the police station......
It was boring to sit dry, but I didn't know what to say about this situation, and Team Tan was equally silent, and the atmosphere in the conference room became quiet and a little awkward for a while.
"Deng, Deng~" Suddenly a mobile phone ringtone broke the quiet and awkward atmosphere. I quickly pulled out my phone, the head's phone.
Seeing that I didn't come to work in the morning, it was the Tan team who helped me take leave, thinking that something was wrong with me, so I called to inquire, I picked up the phone and explained the situation to the head, just cooperating with the investigation, and thanked the leaders for their care and consideration.
As soon as I hung up the phone, there was the sound of footsteps outside the door, and several old men with gray hair in white coats came in. This group of old people looked excited, as if they were about to win the Nobel Prize, and the old gentlemen who had been engaged in academic research all their lives now have a new door open to them, and this excitement is understandable. It is estimated that the white coats are worried about the old people's old age, afraid of any accidents under the excitement, and a few of them are obviously a little staggering when they walk.
"Alright, we're all here. However, we still need your grievances and cooperation, the stakes are very high, and we need some equipment to assist. Team Tan said apologetically.
What the? Those white coats are for me? I was speechless, and although he was apologetic, it was clear that I would not be allowed to refuse.
I watched as they pulled out some instruments and put some patches with threads attached to my head and chest, and a clip that caught my fingers. I guess it's a lie detector or something, to see if my heartbeat and blood pressure change during the description to tell if I'm lying.
"Let's do a simple test first." A white coat said to me.
I nodded in agreement.
"Name?"
"Yan Shunlu."
"Age?"
โ25ใโ
"What did you do to get in?" He also dug a little trap for me.
"I didn't break the law, I was asked to come and help with the investigation." I didn't fall into his trap.
"No problem, the display is normal." He turned back to the other personnel. "It's time to get started."
"Do you know Goliath?" Team Tan took over the interrogation.
"Yes." I looked at him and said.
"How did you meet him?" Team Tan asked, and the people on the side were busy, including the white coat observing the instrument, the police officer taking notes, and the expert whispering in the back.
"I don't know how to say it, I first affirm that I am not crazy and have no history of mental illness. I met him in a dream...... Maybe it's in a dream. I paused and added uncertainly.
"Can you tell me clearly? I don't quite understand what you mean, why maybe? Team Tan was puzzled, and his brows were twisted.
And the discussion of the group of experts suddenly became louder, and I could vaguely hear their conversation:
"See in a dream? How can it be? โ
"Why do you say maybe?"
"Could it be hypnotized?"
"Hmph," I cleared, my voice quieting again, "because I'm not sure if it's a dream." I saw him after I fell asleep and it felt like a dream, but he said I wasn't dreaming......"
My explanation obviously didn't make them understand, and it was so strange that if it weren't for my own experience, I would have thought it was a neurotic paranoia......
"Can you tell me what happened?" Team Tan thought for a moment and asked.
"That's a long story, can I smoke a cigarette?" I made a small request.
Team Tan didn't answer immediately, and turned sideways to ask the white coat something, probably asking whether smoking would affect the instrument or affect the detection effect. The white coat nodded, indicating that it was okay.
"Yes. The more detailed the better, and the more specific it is, the more helpful it will be for us. "Team Tan relayed the permission of the white coat and made a little request to me.
I pulled a cigarette out of my trouser pocket, popped one out of my mouth and put it in my mouth, took a slow light from the lighter, and took a puff. Team Tan was patient and didn't rush me.
Slowly exhaling again, the smoke slowly diffused in the air, and I leaned back to sit more comfortably, my eyes hollowing out as the smoke drifted away. With a look of reminiscence, he said, "I also have to start with my injury that day, I accidentally fell that day, broke my head and bled a lot, and I also fainted, and was sent to the hospital by a colleague, and the doctor said that there was a concussion after examination." I don't know if it was because of the concussion that caused me to hallucinate, or if I actually experienced it. โ
"Can you give me an ashtray?" I withdrew my empty eyes, took another puff, looked at the somewhat shaky ash and asked.
"You go on." Team Tan pushed the cigarette ash from one end of the conference table in front of me and said.
"Thank you! I didn't see Goliath that day, but I had a strange dream, and I came to a black space, and in that space there was only black, black that I had never seen before, as if I had lost my sight all at once, and I couldn't hear any sound, as if the sound was completely absorbed by the black. It was like I didn't know if I was alive or not, but I could feel my body, my sense of touch was still there, and I could still touch my body. But this darkness and silence felt too permeating and panicked, so I started to run, trying to escape from this dark space, but this space was like there was no boundary, I ran for a long time without encountering any obstacles, and finally I collapsed from exhaustion and lost consciousness. When I woke up again, it was already night. I recounted in detail, my body trembling involuntarily as I recalled that black space.
The cigarette had burned to the end, and I felt my fingers burn, and subconsciously threw the cigarette butt out, picked it up and pressed it out in the ashtray. They had different expressions, and the Tan team was checking the reaction of the instrument to what I had just told me in the white coat, and the experts were talking to each other again, and the police officers were dutifully taking notes.
Ignoring them, I continued, "But at night, when I fell asleep, I dreamed of that space again, and it was still endless darkness and absolute silence, as before, I was afraid, I was afraid, I screamed but there was no sound...... Again he began to run wildly, again he fell from exhaustion, and again he lost consciousness. When I woke up, it was the next morning. โ
I took out another cigarette and lit it, looked at the curling smoke and continued, "The next night, when I fell asleep, I found myself in that space again, and I clearly knew that I was in this space for the third time, which was very strange, so I wondered if I was dreaming. What I know is that people don't realize that they're dreaming when they're dreaming, which means that there is no active thinking in the dream, but I can be active. But the third time I had some good luck, I found that there was a place under my feet that seemed to be softer, so I wanted to dig a tunnel through the ground to escape, but I fell, and when I fell to the ground, I didn't feel pain, and I suspected that this was a dream, and there would be no pain due to wrestling in the dream, and the pain in the dream was often due to the conscious reaction of being stimulated by pain in reality and combined with the dream. The second space is different from the first, it is a completely white space, even the direction I fell, the top is also white, boundless white, I can see again, I started to try to shout, I can hear it, then a voice replied to me, and directed me to him, a huge mirror appeared in front of me, he asked me to put my hand on the mirror, and I passed through the mirror and came to the third space, a red room, where I saw Goliath for the first time. โ
I finished my memory, finished my second cigarette, pressed the butt out of the ashtray again, and took a sip of the tea that had cooled down.
"So you can't tell if you were dreaming at the time, or if it was just your imagination?" Team Tan understands something.
"Yes, it's a strange thing, and every time I wake up I lie where I was before I fell asleep, my body doesn't move, and I know that I don't have a precedent for sleepwalking, and I live alone, and there is no possibility of being hypnotized." I explained it carefully.
The white coat leaned into Team Tan's ear and said something, he nodded to indicate that he understood, and continued to ask, "You saw Goliath, can you describe what he looks like?" โ
I saw a police officer holding up a sketchpad and looking at me intently, waiting for me to describe it so that he could draw it.
"He is not tall, about 1.5 meters according to my height, he looks very strange, no hair, no eyebrows, big eyes, and large pupils, so big that they almost occupy the entire eyeball, like a character in a two-dimensional comic; There is no nose, like the shape of Voldemort, with his breathing, where the nose originally belongs, the wings of the nose open to reveal two holes; The mouth is large, almost grinning to the base of the ear, and the lips are so thin that it is almost invisible; The ears are large and close to the head; There is no neck, not that we joke that we are so fat that there is no neck, but there is really no neck, and the head is directly connected to the body; The shoulders are narrow, and the shoulders are in a figure-eight shape; The arms are thick and strong, the hands are long, but the legs are short, and they appear extremely uncoordinated. The skin tone is very white, which is different from the white of the Caucasian race, and the skin looks smooth. โ
Along with my description, the police officer's hand moved quickly, and almost as soon as I finished speaking, he also stopped his pen, and then handed the drawing board to Team Tan, who looked at the portrait, turned the drawing board over and pointed the portrait to me and said, "Look at it, is this what it looks like?" โ
Good drawing skills, good sketching, my description is very expressive and graphic, almost like the Goliath I saw.
"Also, he wears robes that resemble ancient Greek rituals." I nodded, and added.
But it hasn't been changed again, maybe it's not easy to express, at least the appearance is probably depicted accurately, and the clothes are not so important.
Several experts also came to watch, and one of them grabbed the drawing board directly in his hand, held up his glasses, almost attached them to the drawing board, and looked at it very seriously, as if he was identifying a precious antique painting through the details.
"And then?" Team Tan ignored the group of experts and turned to me to continue asking questions.
"He introduced himself as รฯ รรฆะด, Goliath was his nickname, and he came from the legendary lost continent of Great Western Continent, Atlante, which was once glorious but was thought to have disappeared."