Chapter 16: Strange Smell

At half past six in the morning, Ran Sinian walked out of the small hotel, and while turning the corner, he texted Rao Peier again to report that he was safe. Last night, Ran Sinian's sleep was divided into several pieces by him, he asked himself to wake up every hour and send a text message to Rao Peier to report his safety, if he didn't do this, Rao Peier would call the police, so he didn't want to continue to find out anything here.

The text message was successfully sent, and as soon as Ran Sinian looked up, he saw a familiar car, which stopped on the other side of the corner. Rao Pei'er in the car was sitting in the driver's seat and looking down at her phone.

Ran Sinian strode over, opened the car door, looked at Rao Pei'er who was still dressed yesterday, with messy hair and a haggard face, with a look of shock, and asked, "You, you have been here all night?" No, didn't go home? ”

Rao Pei'er rubbed the panda's eyes, nodded weakly, squeezed out a reassuring smile, and said, "Fortunately, you're fine, I still think that once you don't report your safety in time, I will call the police first, and then go in to save you immediately." Wait for the police to come, I don't know if you're already ......."

may have realized that she didn't speak very well, Rao Peier didn't finish speaking, and stuck out her tongue.

Ran Sinian pulled Rao Peier out of the car without saying a word, let her sit in the passenger seat, and then drove her home. Last night, Ran Sinian slept for a while, but Rao Pei'er didn't close her eyes all night when she looked at her. Ran Sinian's heart is indescribably mixed, the most is sour, and there is a trace of warmth and emotion in the sourness.

"What? Say that Junjie Oba looks a bit like Xiuxian Oba? As soon as she entered the house, when Rao Peier heard Ran Sinian say this, she was shocked and said, "I said Mr. Faceblind Detective, I didn't tell you, does Li Songjie look a bit like Kim so-hyun?" ”

Ran Sinian was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, could it be that the new student before him, the Junjie Oba in Yu Wen's mouth, was Li Songjie? However, why did Li Songjie go to Dreamland to learn lucid dreaming? Why didn't he show up last night? Ran Sinian was glad that he had not met Li Songjie, so that even if they met in their dreams, Li Songjie would not see through his identity.

Thinking of this, Ran Sinian immediately called Qu Zichong and asked to watch the video of Li Songjie's confession, he had to remember this Li Songjie through his voice and body features, so as not to see it in his sleep but not recognize it. Immediately afterwards, Ran Sinian also told Qu Zichong about last night's experience, and Qu Zichong promised him that he would send someone to pretend to be an industrial and commercial tax officer to go to the small hotel in the morning, and take the opportunity to check whether Zhang Guoliang was hiding there.

"Si Nian, wouldn't it be too risky for you to go behind enemy lines like this? Simply I led someone to arrest all these people in Dreamland and interrogate them. Qu Zichong proposed on the phone.

Ran Sinian immediately rejected this proposal, "No, you can't startle the snakes, first, if you arrest them back for trial, you won't be able to find any information related to Yao Ye's jumping off the building, and second, if you do this, you have alarmed the teacher, and he will probably disappear." I can't let such a scourge teacher continue to engage in such a scourge activity, I have to catch him. I will go to Dreamland the night after tomorrow to continue my inquiry, but I want to see with my own eyes who this teacher is and what he is capable of. Moreover, I also had a little idea of my own about the previous jewelry store robbery, and I went there the night after tomorrow to confirm my idea. ”

Qu Zichong couldn't resist Ran Sinian, so he had to agree, and hung up the phone after a few more words.

After lunch, Ran Sinian received a call from Qu Zichong again. Qu Zichong told him that he pretended to be a police officer from the industrial and commercial tax department and entered the small hotel, and also took the opportunity to enter the inner suite that Ran Sinian said, but there was no Zhang Guoliang in the whole hotel, and the owner of the hotel, Fan Mingwei, a young man in his twenties, lived in the suite.

Ran Sinian felt that this must not be simple, and it seemed that everything could only progress when he went to sleep and study the night after tomorrow.

Qu Zichong said that the police investigation had reached an impasse, and that the above meant that if there was no progress, the case would be closed as suicide. Qu Zichong pinned his hopes for solving the case on Ran Sinian.

Ran Sinian hung up the phone, his mind was a little messy, on the one hand, it was the case of Yao Ye falling from the building, on the other hand, it was the missing memory card, on the other hand, Lucid Dream had become a tool for killing, on the other hand, he always felt that there was something wrong with last night's experience, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

pondered in the living room for a while, and then remembered that Rao Peier hurried upstairs after lunch and said that she still wanted to sleep. She had already slept all morning, and it was not a way to sleep like this, so Ran Sinian planned to go upstairs to see this woman who had not slept all night for herself.

After knocking on the door, Rao Peier came to open the door after a while. As soon as Ran Sinian entered the door, he saw that Rao Peier was not sleeping at all, and she had been surfing the Internet. Looking at Rao Pei'er's somewhat nervous expression, as if a child who had done something wrong had been caught, Ran Sinian immediately understood.

"You're looking up information about lucid dreaming, aren't you? Do you want to teach yourself lucid dreaming? Ran Sinian asked with a straight face.

Rao Pei'er simply confessed, "That's right, but don't worry, I won't replace reality with illusory dreams like those students in your mouth, I want to have lucid dreams, just to find my lost memory, first of all, I want to think about who is on the photo in the box." It's important to me because it's about my father's death! ”

"Lucid dreams, father." Ran Sinian muttered these two words, and the young man in the pouring rain reappeared in his mind, stubbornly standing downstairs in his university dormitory.

"Si Nian, can you help me? If you refuse to teach me lucid dreaming, then you will enter my dream yourself and find out the truth for me! Rao Peier grabbed Ran Sinian's arm and shook it coquettishly.

Only then did Ran Sinian come back to his senses, "What? Into your dreams? Did I hear me right? ”

Rao Pei'er walked to the computer, enlarged the minimized web page, pointed it to Ran Sinian, and said: "You see, I have found out, the Internet is divided into five levels according to the ability to control dreams: the lowest level is the dreamer, that is, he cannot change the content of the dream, he can only follow the flow with the change of the dream, but he can clearly know that he is in the dream. The second level is the dreamer, who can 'think' things that fit him according to the content of the dream created unconsciously, but the whole cannot go beyond the dream rules created unconsciously. Then there are the dreamers, that is, they can drastically change the content of the dream according to the unconsciously created dream to benefit their own direction, but the dream that appears during the dream cannot be predicted by themselves. This is followed by the dreamer, who can force the subconscious mind to create conscious assigned dreams before going to bed as needed, and the effect is related to ability. Aren't you the dreamer? You can dream whatever you want. The highest level is the dream diver, that is, the ability to fully grasp the essence of dream control, and can also synchronize and dive into other people's dreams. ”

Ran Sinian glared at Rao Peier in disbelief, glanced at the computer screen again, and finally pointed to a line of words at the bottom of the web page, and said, "See?" Even the web pages you trust tell you that latent dreams belong to the category of metaphysics. Do you really think I'm a god? ”

Rao Pei'er pouted aggrievedly, "You, can't you dream?" ”

Ran Sinian grabbed Rao Pei'er's shoulders with both hands and said bitterly: "Pei'er, I understand your urgent feelings, but don't be panicked and whimsical. I don't think this thing is nonsense, at least in my field, I never dare to think about it. I promise you that I will find a way to help you explore your secrets, can you please give me a little time? When I'm done with Yao Ye's case, I'll help you. ”

Rao Pei'er breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a wry smile: "After finishing Yao Ye's case, you still have Li Wenci's case, and you still have to look for that memory card, it's my turn, I don't know when." I'm afraid that after a long time, I won't be able to remember. ”

Ran Sinian looked at Rao Peier's little face, who was still tired, and remembered that she spent the night in the car last night because she was worried about her safety, and couldn't help but soften, and said, "Believe me, I won't promise anything that I am not sure of." And have you forgotten? I've always been lucky enough to find a memory card and let you see who the person in the picture of your dream is. ”

Rao Pei'er nodded, she was convinced of Ran Sinian's promise, "Okay, let's be busy with Yao Ye's case first, and then hurry up to find the memory card left by Li Wenci, the memory card matter is a big matter, and my matter is actually not in a hurry." ”

Ran Si patted Rao Pei'er on the shoulder and said gently: "This is good, I will reward you with a big meal in the evening." ”

Late at night, in a trance of Ran Sinian, he was once again in that semi-underground hotel, the base camp of dreams. He lay on the bed, listening to the arguments between Yu Wen and Cui Zhichao around him, and what he smelled was still the smell of smoke on Cui Zhichao's body that could not be dispersed. Only this time, Ran Sinian smelled the smoke and seemed to have something else mixed with it, as if something had gone bad.

Ran Sinian sat up from the bed with a spirit, his actions did not attract the attention of Yu Wen, Cui Zhichao and Wu Zhi, as if they couldn't see Ran Sinian. That's natural, because the reappearance of this moment is Ran Sinian's dream.

Ran Sinian left the large classroom lightly like last night, and walked down the corridor to the innermost suite. That's right, not only did the snoring come from here, but so did the strange smell. This is the day when Ran Sinian vaguely felt that it was inappropriate, but he couldn't remember where the source of the inappropriateness was, it was this strange smell!