Chapter 25: The Last Infected (7)
Baker turned his head with a strange expression, and the only remaining eye was wide open and glazed, as if he had really turned into a zombie.
He nodded slowly.
Zhou Yu was taken aback by this appearance, feeling that he really couldn't go any further, he looked at Hanok, and saw Hanoke waiting for them expressionlessly, neither mocking Baker out loud, looking at Zhou Yu's gaze without any emotion, calm as water.
Zhou Yu frowned, and carefully recalled the difference in Hanok's attitude before and after, it seemed that it was suddenly changed when he called before, and the change in attitude is not difficult to understand, no matter who is shot twice, he will change his attitude, but it is obviously not normal to change so completely? Where is the anger before the call? Where did the emotions go after the call?
It's like a different person.
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Baker's dream, Baker has the final say, since he wants to move forward, Zhou Yu has no choice but to accompany him.
The trio continued along the dark corridor underground, as if playing an adventure game in development where enemies weren't even added and could only be looped through one scene.
After walking a little further, Hanock suddenly stopped, turned to Baker and said, "Go back, while it's still too late." ”
Baker hesitated for a moment this time and slowly shook his head: "Please take me to meet them, I have already made a decision." ”
"I see." Hanock let out a long sigh and pressed his hand against the wooden door beside him.
Zhou Yu hurriedly used [Blind], and saw that there were two figures in this room, simple figures, no hair, no facial features, snuggled together, sitting on the ground and looking at the wooden door, judging from the figure, these are two women, one big and one small.
The perspective ability given by the dream talisman is to see the facial features, but it is translucent, and the line of sight can pass through, otherwise you can't even tell the difference between people, and you will accidentally injure your allies when you fight together. Why did it suddenly become a terrifying dream again?
"Wait." Zhou Yu made a pause gesture to Hanock and said to Baker: "I don't understand what you're saying, but I have a very ominous premonition, it's better to listen to Hanock's words and turn back." ”
Baker's expression at this time has become very firm, and he said in a deep voice: "Although I don't know who you are, but thank you very much for bringing me here, please go back, the next road is not for you, I have made a decision, I must see them, in other words, if you know that your family is behind this door, I am afraid you will not turn around and leave." ”
Zhou Yu smiled: "Indeed, I wouldn't have left if I had me, but I wouldn't have been spared if I went back, since I have walked here with you, there is no reason not to continue, Mr. Hanok, open the door." ”
Hanock looked at Zhou Yu with interest, nodded, and pushed open the wooden door that seemed to have not been opened for tens of thousands of years.
The room was pitch black, and Baker seemed to expect this to be the case, and he raised his feet to go inside.
"Wait! I'm going to get a torch. Zhou Yu grabbed Baker, turned around and ran a few meters away, pulling out a torch from the wall.
For a few seconds, when he looked back, he saw that Baker was gone, and the door was closed.
He hurriedly used [Blind], but failed to find anyone in the small dark room, no Baker, and no two faceless women.
Sighing, throwing the torch forward, Zhou Yu raised his gun and pointed it at Hanok and said: "I know that Baker has made a decision, but his decision is obviously wrong, I want to correct it, but I must let him come back, please get him back." ”
"Wouldn't it be good to let him say goodbye to his family? And you don't have a begging attitude. Hanock pointed to Zhou Yu's gun.
"I beg you, will you say yes?" Zhou Yu pointed the barrel of the gun to the ground, he noticed the word "farewell", and the decision Baker made was to say goodbye to his family? Isn't he here to pick up his family?
Hanock shook his head.
"yes, to save time, I'm skipping the begging step, please get Baker back." Zhou Yu raised the gun again.
Hanok continued to shake his head: "Unfortunately, your weapon is ineffective here. ”
The gunshot rang out, and the bullet hit Hanok's leg, but it went straight through and shot into the wall, Zhou Yu continued to shoot, shooting at different parts, but a box of bullets didn't touch Hanok, so he had to throw the gun away helplessly and sighed.
I can't figure out what kind of dream this is, according to Taibai, a special dream is equivalent to a world, and each world is its own unique law, this law is like 1+1=2, which is impossible to change easily.
Grimm's dream is similar to a fairy tale, there will be a talking cat, a big bad wolf that eats people, a sleeping beauty, and a monster queen, and Baker's dream is the end of the world, so there will be infected people, humans, cars, guns, and monsters that can't be killed, but there should be no people who can't be hit by bullets.
"Unless ......" Zhou Yu thought of a possibility: "Unless this apocalypse is an illusion from the beginning, an illusion of Baker's main consciousness, and the fourth basement floor is the essence of the dream, so the painting style will change abruptly...... Is this a multi-layered dream? No, only a multi-layered dream is called a fault, and we can still see the space of the laboratory after we climb the stairs down, not a fault. ”
Attention was taken away from Hanock for a few seconds, and when Zhou Yu realized this, he found that Hannock's appearance had also changed, turning into a thin white-bearded old man, wearing a white robe, half of his body exposed like a robe, looking at him expressionlessly.
"This is ......" Zhou Yu froze, and suddenly felt the ground shake slowly, not an earthquake, but like a boat being gently pushed by a wave.
"Boat?" He suddenly remembered the shape of the Freeman Building, the secret door like the hatch when they entered the fourth basement floor, and some thoughts popped into his mind, but these thoughts could not be grasped for a while.
"I want to ask you a question." Hanock pointed to the camera around Zhou Yu's neck and asked, "Why did you bring a camera just now?" ”
"Oh." Zhou Yu glanced down at the camera hanging on his chest, pointed to the cloth pocket and said: "I really didn't plan to kill you, I just wanted you to take a photo with the hand of the corpse, so that you wouldn't dare to order the soldiers to hunt us down, since you made a fortune with a photo, you should understand the importance of the photo, you also said that the country is not easy to guard, there are many people staring at your position, your photo can make those people make a big fuss and force you to step down, but now it seems that it is completely unnecessary, you are not Hanoke at all." ”
The old man's thin face had a hint of a smile and said, "If I were Hannock, this would be a good threat. ”
"Who the hell are you?" Zhou Yu was about to be driven crazy by the thoughts in his head that he couldn't catch.
"Haven't guessed yet?" The old man pointed to the wall beside Zhou Yu and said, "Go up and know." ”
Zhou Yu turned his head and found that the ladder they had come down from was beside him, and the old man slowly "sank", sank to the ground, and disappeared.
After looking around with [blind], but still couldn't find Baker and his family, Zhou Yu cheered up, checked "11", and climbed the ladder back to the upper floor.
The lab was gone, and he stood on the deck of a giant ferry that floated in a wide river, the water as black as ink.
The old man was also on deck, his feet and the ferry were one, and the infected who had been in the laboratory were gone, leaving only Wilde and Rasbeche, and their appearance had changed.
Wilde turned into a monster with dark red skin, horns on its head, bat-winged bats, and a slender tail; Rasberghe shrunk into a puppy with three heads.
Seeing this dog, Zhou Yu suddenly realized.
It's not a multi-layered dream, it's not the end of the world, it's the underworld.
Isn't Hanock Charon? Isn't Wilder the Devil? Isn't Rasbeche the watchdog of hell, Cerberus?
The name of the city and the headquarters of Harnock are also obvious hints, Styx is the Styx and Freeman is Ferryman.
No wonder there are so many flowers planted in front of the building.
Knowing this, then this dream is not difficult to understand.
Baker's wife and daughter are dead, in ancient Greek mythology, after death, the soul is to go to the underworld to be judged, the innocent are reincarnated, the sinful go to hell to suffer, and if you want to be judged, you must cross the River Styx, and Charon is the ferryman of the River Styx.
There are many versions of Greek mythology, none of which can be said to be true unless Zeus or Hades appear to say it, and in some versions, the Charon ferry was to collect money, so there was a tradition of putting coins on the eyes of the dead in the past, and those who did not pay could only linger on the banks of the River Styx or lament in the River Styx.
If the souls of his wife and daughter are to be judged, they have to take Charon's ferry, probably thinking that Charon is interested in wealth and can be bought, Baker decorates this dream with his own unique brain tricks, and makes a deal with Charon - he brings the last infected back to Hanock for experiments, and Hanock returns the souls of his wife and daughter to him.
"That's not right." Thinking of this, Zhou Yu suddenly had an idea that made him shudder: "It is the subconscious mind that decorates this dream, Xinyue said that the source of dreams can have an impact on dreams, Baker had this dream, and after the subconscious was separated, he decorated the dream like this, if there was no intervention from me, Baker would have been sent back to the laboratory by Hanock, with a glimmer of hope, obediently making an experiment, waiting for the results of the experiment that would never come, being deceived by the dream, he even forgot that his wife and daughter had died." ”
Could it be ...... The subconscious mind wants to cause selective amnesia of the main consciousness?
Zhou Yu figured out a lot of things, but there was one thing he didn't understand - why did the hell watchdog and the demon also have a role in this dream? They are not in the same camp as Charon, and when I dreamed of them, could it be because Baker thought that his wife and children would go to hell?
It's ridiculous too.