At noon, under an off-white sky.

A man in pajamas and a delicate mature woman walked down the street one after another.

The women in front of you are very eye-catching in terms of appearance and clothing, but due to the special relationship between the location and the period, there are no passers-by on the street who can stop and look back.

If you go forward and take a closer look, you will find that the low and serious expression on the woman's face at this moment has formed a polarizing scene with the sloppy man behind her who seems to be walking aimlessly.

"Hey...... According to the regular plot, this kind of reunion after a few years of absence, shouldn't you invite a guest to have lunch with me or something? ”

Lin Sheng seemed to have digested the breakfast he had just eaten, and said with a thoughtful touch on his abdomen.

"What you were asked to eat just now will temporarily stabilize your withdrawal symptoms, you should know how expensive this guest is, besides, isn't the indescribable thing you ate before breakfast and lunch?"

"To be exact, it's just my breakfast, and it's because of your arrival that it's become brunch."

"The band change has been detected in the morning, and this dream event is expected to be revived again today, so we have to leave immediately, but I have some snacks in the car, so I can make do with my stomach first."

Looking at the other party's uninterested look, Nan Mingyuan's face was full of solemnity and helplessness, so he continued:

"Besides...... You don't look like you care at all, you went back after three years, and you finally washed up and shaved your beard, but you really didn't do anything like that, and came out in your pajamas and slippers. ”

While walking on the road, while looking back at Lin Sheng's appearance of walking and smoking with a cigarette in his mouth, Nan Mingyuan finally couldn't help but want to complain a few words.

"Don't open your eyes and talk nonsense, what do you mean by 'really just doing nothing'?"

"Really? So what did you do before you came out? ”

Showing an unbelievable look, Nan Mingyuan glanced at Lin Sheng's whole body with a little disgust.

"I'll help you glue that sole."

Lin Sheng answered the other party's question with a serious expression.

"With my original adhesive, I'm so confident in my formula that it won't open again in the next few years, no matter how much it tosses."

"Hmmm......"

Speaking of this, Lin Sheng paused thoughtfully, and then said:

"Of course, the premise is that it will not be used as a reason to visit and talk, and then forcibly tear it apart with violence."

“…… You! ”

The sudden attack of shame was almost shown by Nan Mingyuan, and after forcibly holding back, she didn't know how to refute it, so she could only turn her head and continue to stare at the other party with her eyes that wanted to eat people.

"Okay, where is your car parked, if you don't get on it, I'm going to freeze to death."

A gust of cold wind blew in the winter snow, and the butt of the cigarette that had just been smoked was covered with snowflakes before it could be stepped on.

The extremely low temperature made Lin Sheng can't help but shrink his neck, and began to think about whether he should go and buy a stove first, so as to prepare for the day when the snow melts later.

"It's coming soon."

"Speaking of which, why are you stopping so far?"

"You care about me."

"You just said time was pressing."

"Catch up."

"Do you want to press the road with me more when you go back?"

"It's not."

"I'm afraid I'll hear the engine and wonder about the origin of your rubber sole."

"It's not!"

"It's useless, you don't have a lot of snow on you, I knew at first glance that you weren't hanging out."

“…………”

Nan Mingyuan turned around suddenly, looked at Lin Sheng angrily, and reached out to take something out of his satchel.

Seeing this, the latter hurriedly raised his hands: "Don't say it, don't say it, give it a chance, don't put on the knife." ”

"Where did the knife come from?"

Nan Mingyuan took out a car key from her bag, and with her click, the headlights of a pink sports car not far away lit up.

"Oh, give it, you can open it."

After throwing the key to the man next to him, Nan Ming Yuan took a step forward to the vehicle, and then sat in the passenger seat in a huff, holding his satchel and holding his hands to his chest.

"Okay."

Lin Sheng took the car keys and followed, sat in the driver's seat, and started the car.

"Fortunately, there are few people I know in my life, otherwise this sassy pink car would really die socially."

"Then let's fight for the next life."

Nan Mingyuan said angrily, and then entered a state of closing his eyes and recuperating and stopped talking.

But after a long time, the car didn't start, and Nan Mingyuan opened his eyes again with some doubts.

Looking at the woman's puzzled eyes, Lin Sheng, who was repeatedly tinkering on the center console, immediately became a little embarrassed.

"That...... I forgot where the nest came from, so help set up a navigation. ”

“…………”

A few minutes later, Nan Mingyuan sat in the driver's seat, gritting his teeth and holding the steering wheel, but Lin Sheng on the side had already closed his eyes leisurely.

Looking at his tired and resting appearance, Nan Mingyuan gradually calmed down.

Over the years, he's been feeling guilty.

She felt that her feelings at the moment seemed to be slightly complicated.

Although the words were so beautiful, when it was really time to face it, the other party only used a sentence of "It's not your turn" to gag his mouth, and then put the responsibility back on his own shoulders.

"Don't be nervous."

Lin Sheng, who was sitting on the side, closed his eyes and said softly:

"It's going to be fine."

Nan Mingyuan looked aside in some surprise.

She thought that her worries and guilt had been perfectly concealed, but the gentle comfort of the other party made her feel a little overwhelmed.

"I ......"

"If it's not in the way, please have one less meal, and I don't hold grudges."

“…… Can I trouble you to get out of the car first. ”

"What's the matter, didn't you just sit up."

"I'm afraid I'm going to have the idea of kicking you down."

“……”

Lin Sheng stopped talking, and in the expression of gnashing his teeth that Nan Ming was willing to turn back to, it didn't take long for bursts of snoring sound to come from his mouth from time to time.

Due to the collapse due to snow along the way, about four hours later, Lin Sheng, who woke up but was still recuperating with his eyes closed, felt that the car he was riding had stopped.

When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by the not-so-bright lights of the underground parking lot, as well as the bird signs of hawksbill finches that can be seen everywhere in the parking lot.

The two got out of the car and walked to the security check area where the elevator was located, and after Nan Mingyuan showed his documents, Lin Sheng was the only one surrounded by several security personnel with instruments, and he touched all over his body.

It used to be the other way around.

Lin Sheng looked at Nan Mingyuan's playful eyes on the side, and sighed silently.

As he entered the elevator, Lin Sheng found that the shrike building had indeed undergone great changes.

First of all, the elevator button is no longer only on the ground floor and the parking lot on the third basement floor as in the past.

Instead, in addition to the digital floors from -3 to 130, there are also many floor icons marked with Greek letters, and at this time, the "ω" icon is emitting a faint blue light.

Obviously, it corresponds to the code name of the detachment responsible for various functions in the Shrike Dreamer Project.

Some of the detachment functions that Lin Sheng had come into contact with in his memory were as follows:

ALPHA is the alpha, the tower communication command department;

BETA, i.e., Beta, Ground Task Force;

GAMMA i.e., Gamma, Air Task Force;

DELTA, i.e., Delta, the Incident Area Lockdown Division;

EPSILON, i.e., Epsilon, Reality Correction Division;

ZETA, the Intelligence Analysis and Evaluation Division;

NU i.e., New, rationing equipment design department;

PSI stands for, Psy, Event-Assisted Artificial Intelligence;

OMEGA, or Omega, is the Incident Intervention Secret Service and the heart of Project Dreamer.

Through somatosensory perception, Lin Sheng found that after the elevator descended to a certain height, it seemed to be sent into a certain track, and then began to run in other directions.

The more novel experience reminded him of a time when he was still working for the Shrike.

At that time, on the bright side, the Shrike was only an extremely advanced pharmaceutical company, and its standards of clinical trials and medical services were unrivaled in the field.

However, the disaster at the beginning also showed that it also has a technological level in the spiritual field that is difficult for ordinary companies to achieve.

It is hard to imagine that a private enterprise company would have such technical and financial reserves.

The reason for this may only be clearly known to the top forces of the Shrike Bird, who have never come forward.

Initially, the Shrike, who had cooperated with the government, was only secretly trying to redirect the functioning of society to a normal state.

Through memory and cognitive adjustment techniques, people close to them with social connections think that most of the missing people they know are "routinely dead".

As a result, the number of disappearances has been reduced to a minimum for society.

After several years of hard work, society finally settled down, and even if this stability was false, people at that time were indeed tired of dealing with various problems from themselves or from the outside.

The catastrophe was successfully covered up.

The very small number of cases makes it only live in the memory of some people and a corner of the Internet in the future.

Subsequently, the shrike began to investigate the truth of the matter.

Through a series of experiments on recovered individuals, they learned that some force of unknown origin was constantly eroding people's consciousness through dreams, to the point of taking over their shells entirely.

And with some of the people who escaped from the dream by chance, they were found and recovered one by one.

This mysterious force, which was later named "Morpheus", also quietly appeared behind the course of human history.

And this also contributed to the birth of the "Dream Hunter Project".

With a "ding" sound, the elevator reached the target floor.

After the elevator door opened, a stout fat man standing outside the door looked at everyone very quickly, and then flew towards Lin Sheng.

"Brother Sheng! You're back! After so many years, I didn't care, your little fat boy almost hit the street several times and never saw you again......."

This extremely strong fat man cried like an iron man's tenderness, and wiped a handful of snot and tears on Lin Sheng, who had already blackened his face at this moment......