Chapter 8: What I Saw in a Dream
"What do you see when you open the door?" Huang Jun asked.
Xiao Li seemed to fall into memory, and did not react to Huang Jun's question, but said to himself: "After opening the door, I found that those two people were standing outside the door, or the two people I saw last time, this time they didn't say anything, just put an invitation in my hand, and then turned around and left, but this time I felt a little different from last time, what is the difference?" I couldn't tell for a while, by the way, I remembered, yes, this time it's eyes, their eyes are different from last time, last time they sent me an invitation, they were expressionless, and this time, I saw a trace in their eyes, well, that's anger? I'm not sure if it was that emotion, but I felt that anger at the time, I don't know why they were angry, I didn't think much about it at the time, and before I could do anything, they were gone."
Huang Jun waved his hand at this time and said, "Stop."
Under Huang Jun's voice, Xiao Li got rid of that blurred emotion, and then came back to his senses and said, "What's wrong?" ”
Huang Jun said: "Let me ask you, do you remember what they look like?" I mean, what do the two people who came to deliver the invitations look like? ”
Xiao Li shook his head and said, "I don't remember."
"If you see them again, do you recognize them?" Huang Jundao.
Xiao Li said, "If it's in a dream, I can definitely recognize it, but if it's in real life, I shouldn't know it, because I don't remember what they look like."
Huang Jun didn't ask any more, just made a gesture to continue. Seeing this, Xiao Li continued: "After receiving the invitation, I thought about it again and again, hesitated to go, and finally, I remembered those who died, and I decided not to go again, and after making up my mind, I didn't do anything again, closed the door and continued to sleep."
Huang Jun said: "It's right that you don't go, because you don't know what will happen, look at those people, I think they may have seen something in the wax statue hall that shouldn't be seen, well, no, didn't you say you went in?" Why do you say you didn't go now? ”
Xiao Li smiled bitterly: "It's just my personal idea that I said not to go, I really didn't want to go at that time, if it weren't for those terrible things that happened later, I might not really go, but then something happened that made me have to go."
Huang Jun said: "In other words, this dream is still a little different from last time, isn't it?" ”
Xiao Li said helplessly: "That's the case." When I decided not to go, I closed the door, ignored them, and went back to sleep, and they didn't knock again, and then I slept, and I slept and slept and sleep, and no one came to disturb me, nothing happened, and the door was empty and quiet."
Huang Jun said: "Didn't you say that something happened? Hurry up and say, don't sell it."
Xiao Li said: "That's what I'm talking about, I've been sleeping there, and the surroundings are getting quieter and quieter, and then I've been sleeping and sleeping."
Huang Jun couldn't bear it anymore and said, "What the hell happened?" You should know that right now we don't have much time to waste."
Xiao Li said: "I also know, Mr. Huang, I know this better than you, but haven't you realized what happened?" I'm talking about the kind of terrible thing that happened."
Lei Jun said: "But you didn't say anything, the room was empty, you have been sleeping, what is this?" ”
Xiao Li said: "Yes, the room is empty, quiet, nothing happened, under normal circumstances, this is indeed not what happened, but what if, if it keeps being like this?" What if it keeps going like this? What will you do? ”
Huang Jun has been in a bad mood these days, because there is no progress in the case, and because many people have died, he finally couldn't help hearing Xiao Li's words, just when he was about to explode, suddenly Huang Jun's heart flashed, and said, "What do you mean?" ”
Xiao Li saw that Huang Jun finally understood what he meant, so he said helplessly: "Yes, Mr. Huang, do you understand now?" That's all I'm going to say, you say, isn't this a terrible thing? ”
Lei Jun saw that Mr. Huang Jun was annoyed, he deeply understood, because his current mood was not much better than Huang Jun, after listening to Xiao Li's words, his reaction was even more radical than Huang Jun, but Huang Jun immediately changed his expression, and at the same time asked such a question, Lei Jun knew that there must be something critical in the middle that he did not understand thoroughly.
"What the hell are you talking about? Don't play dumb riddles, hurry up and say "Lei Jun is a scientist, and the most important thing for scientists is the pursuit of truth and truth, how can he bear it now, and it seems that Huang Jun and Xiao Li both understand, and he seems to be stupid and doesn't understand anything."
Huang Jun said: "Don't you understand? What Xiao Li means is that he has been in that state and has never woken up."
Xiao Li said: "Yes, that's what I mean."
Lei Jun said: "I haven't woken up?" You mean, Xiao Li is still in the dream, and although nothing happened in the dream, he didn't wake up in time? ”
Xiao Li said: "That's right, that's what it looks like, according to the previous dream, I should run to the wax statue museum, and then after entering, I can see some things, and I can wake up." But this time, instead of following the script set in the dream, I decided not to go to the museum, so I couldn't wake up."
Huang Jun said: "When did you find yourself trapped in a dream and couldn't wake up?" ”
Xiao Li said: "To be honest, I didn't care at first, but I slept for a long time that night, for a long time, and I don't remember how long it was, until I slept until I didn't want to sleep anymore, but the sky outside was not yet bright, I thought it was my own illusion, so I forced myself to sleep, but the sky outside was still not bright, and I realized that something was wrong, so I immediately got up and wanted to do something else, but no matter what I did, it seemed that it had been a long time, and it was still as dark outside as ever, I took out my watch and saw that the clock showed three o'clock in the morning, but the time of the two men's visit was three o'clock in the morning, and I was sure that a long time had passed, and it was supposed to be dawn, and I should have gotten up at the normal schedule, but that night it was as if time had stopped, and no matter how hard I tried, it was dark, and the clock was not gone."
Huang Jun said: "So you realized that you were stuck in a dream? ”
Xiao Li nodded and sighed: "Yes, I finally realized this problem at that time, and that feeling is very mysterious, I don't know how to say it, although no one told me, although there are no hints, but I just know that if I don't act according to the script set by those two people, I'm afraid, I'm afraid this dream will never wake up, I will be trapped in this dream forever, as soon as I realized this, I was a little broken."
Huang Jun said, "You haven't doubted it, are you thinking too much?" ”
Xiao Li shook his head and said, "No, I waited for a long time later, and the dream still didn't change at all, and I realized that although those two people never came to knock on the door again, I had to go, because if I didn't go, I'm afraid I don't know how long I would be trapped in this dream, do you know how much mental time I spent in that dream?" ”
Huang Jun said: "How much?" ”
Xiao Li said: "At least for more than a month, for a month, it was dark, the clock didn't go, I couldn't see anyone, I could only stay in my room and sleep, I didn't even feel hungry, bored, collapsed, I don't know when all this will end, do you understand that feeling?" It's like a person who is suddenly imprisoned and doesn't know how long he will be imprisoned."
Huang Jun was silent, Xiao Li's experience was indeed bizarre, but Huang Jun admired Xiao Li a little, if it was an ordinary person who couldn't stand it in that environment, but he was able to persevere. Huang Jun heard a story that said that during World War II, in order to interrogate a spy, the Germans adopted a method that was to lock up in an empty room, which had nothing but the walls, and someone delivered food on time every day to prevent him from starving to death, and finally that person finally collapsed because of boredom and psychological pressure. Xiao Li's situation is similar to his.
"However, you haven't been around for long, and we haven't received any reports of your disappearance," Lei Jun said.
Huang Jun said: "Of course, the time in the dream is different from the time in reality, besides, didn't Xiao Li say it? In that dream, the clock didn't move at all, which means that he was trapped in that time, and people outside wouldn't notice anything."
Xiao Li nodded and said, "What Mr. Huang said was what I thought at the time, and I had no other way, and finally thought about it, and felt that if I wanted to end all this, I had to go to the wax statue hall for a walk."
Huang Jun said: "This reality is a bit like playing a three-D game, the game script is all set, if you don't follow the game script, the characters can't get through at all."
Xiao Li said: "Yes, that's it, when I realized this, I felt very scared, I don't know why such a terrible thing happened to me, and I don't know what will happen if I go to the wax statue museum, but if I don't go, it will make me collapse even more."
Lei Jun said: "And then you went?" ”
Xiao Li smiled bitterly: "Do I still have a choice?" So I walked in the direction of the wax statue hall according to the road in my memory, and sure enough, not long after walking, I saw the wax statue hall that was still lit outside the dark village and was still open at three o'clock in the morning. I had to get closer step by step, but this time it was still a little different from the last time."