Chapter 13: The Night Watchman
Da!
Klein couldn't help but take a step backwards, not knowing for a moment whether he was awake or still in a dream.
The figure took off his black top hat, bowed slightly, and smiled lowly:
"Reacquaint yourself with the Nightwatch, Dunn Smith. ”
The night watchman?"Justice" and "The Hanged Man" mentioned the code name of the Extraordinary Team of the Church of the Goddess of the Night?Klein was suddenly surprised, and before thinking about it again, he suddenly blurted out:
"You manipulate dreams? You made me dream like that?"
Dunn Smith, the night watchman, put his black top hat back on to cover his slightly high hairline, and said with a smile in his dark gray eyes:
"No, I'm just going into your dreams and doing the necessary guidance. ”
His voice was mellow and soft, not alarming others to echo in the dark and glimmering corridors like dreams:
"In dreams, although there will be amplified presentations of usually suppressed emotions and various dark psychology, making everything seem chaotic, absurd and crazy, the truth still exists and is still hidden in it. For a veteran like me, everything is obvious and easy to see, and I trust you in my dreams more than you in my dreams. ”
This...... Who in a normal person can control his dreams? If I dreamed of something on earth, wouldn't I have been discovered by Dunn Smith? Klein was shocked, full of fear of what happened in the dream.
But he soon tasted something strange again, because he remembered that he was very awake and rational in his dreams, and knew what to say and what not to say.
To put it simply, it's not like a dream at all!
So, Dunn Smith just "saw" what I wanted him to see?
Klein's thoughts raced, and he had a vague understanding.
Is this the perks that come with the traversal, such as the special nature of the spirit itself, or the additional effects of the "transit ritual"?
"So, Mr. Smith, are you sure I've really lost my memory?" Crane asked rhetorically.
Dunn Smith didn't answer directly, but looked at him deeply:
"You're not surprised that this kind of thing happened?"
"The person I met before didn't believe in extraordinary powers, even if they had just finished dreaming, preferring to think that they hadn't really woken up yet. ”
Klein said "um":
"Maybe it's because I'm praying, expecting this strength to help me. ”
"It's interesting to think about the logic...... Maybe you didn't just survive because you were lucky. Dunn nodded without a smile, "I can now confirm that you really lost some of your memories because of this incident, especially the relationship incident itself." ”
"Can I go back then?" asked Crane tentatively, with a sigh of relief.
Dunn slipped one hand into his pocket and walked slowly, the darkness around him becoming quiet and soft.
"No, you're going to have to come with me to meet the 'expert'. The corners of his mouth turned up politely.
"Why?" Klein blurted out, busyly adding, "You don't trust your own guidance to dreams?"
What are you kidding, if the "expert" is good at hypnosis, mind reading, and the like, then won't my biggest secret be exposed?
It's impossible to imagine what the result will be!
"I've always been humble, but I've had some confidence in dreams. Dunn calmly replied, "However, it is not bad to confirm the key and important things again, not to mention, she is very different from what I am good at, and may be able to help you recover some memory." ”
Without waiting for Klein to say more, his voice deepened:
"After all, you have a stake in the whereabouts of the Antigonus family notebook. ”
"What?" Klein froze.
Dunn stopped in front of him, his gray eyes staring into his eyes and said:
"There's no note left over from the Quaternary on the scene, not in the whole house, Welch is dead, Naya is dead, you are the only clue. ”
“...... All right. Klein was silent for a moment, then exhaled.
The notes are missing...... This is really weird!
I hadn't even thought about the whereabouts of that Quaternary notebook!
Dunn nodded imperceptibly, and as he walked past Klein, he spoke:
"You lock the door and go with me to Welch's residence now, where the 'expert' is waiting for us. ”
Silently inhaled, Klein's heart pounding, uneasy.
He had the heart to refuse, and even wanted to escape, but he believed that with the rut of the dream, Dunn Smith must have raised his guard, and with the difference in strength between normal and extraordinary people, forcing it would not have much chance of success.
He must still have a pistol on him...... It should also be the kind that has practiced shooting many times......
Various ideas collided violently in his mind, and Klein finally chose to recognize reality:
"Okay. ”
Hey, I can only take one step at a time, maybe the special thing in my dream will work again......
"Let's go. Dunn's tone didn't make the slightest wave.
Crane turned around and followed two steps, then suddenly stopped:
"Mr. Smith, I ...... I want to go to the bathroom first. ”
I came out to go to the bathroom......
Dunn didn't stop him, but looked at him deeply and said:
"No problem, Crane, trust me, in the dark of night, I'm far stronger than you think. ”
In the dark...... Klein repeated the words silently.
He didn't try recklessly, honestly solved the suffocation in his lower abdomen, and then washed his face with cold water to calm himself down completely.
After changing his coat and hat and closing the door to his house, Crane followed Dunn down the stairs and towards the door of the apartment.
In such calm, Dunn Smith suddenly spoke:
"At the end of the dream, why did you want to escape? What are you afraid of?"
Klein's mind was like electricity, and he replied as he pondered:
"I don't remember what I did at Welch's house, and I don't remember if it directly caused the death of him and Naya, I'm afraid that it will really be me in the end, I don't dare to bet on this, it's better to run away and go to the Southern Continent to start a new life. ”
"If it were me, I would do the same. Dunn pushed open the door to the apartment, letting the cool midnight breeze blow away the stuffiness inside.
He was not afraid of Klein's escape, so he got into the carriage first, which was the one Klein had seen in his dream, a four-wheeled, single-horse, coachman, and the police system logo engraved on the side of the compartment with "two swords crossed and a crown embraced".
Klein followed in, and found a thick carpet inside, filled with a calming aromatic scent.
Sitting down casually, he searched for the topic, trying to find out more about the situation:
"Mr. Smith, if, I mean, the 'experts' confirm that I really forgot that part of my memory, and there's no other evidence that I'm the perpetrator, not the victim, then it's over?"
"Theoretically, we'd look for the notebook somewhere else, and as long as it exists, we'll be able to find it. Of course, before that, we will make sure that you have no curses, no residual evil spirits, no corresponding psychological problems, and can meet your future life safely and healthily. Dunn Smith smiled, a slightly odd one.
Klein keenly caught this, and couldn't be relieved, and hurriedly asked:
"Theoretically?"
"Yes, just theoretically. In this field, there is always a lot of distortions, counterintuitive things, and things that make people unbelievable. Dunn looked into Klein's eyes and said, "Their continuation, their end, sometimes, is not something we can foresee and control. ”
"Like?" Klein was a little frightened for a moment.
On the almost deserted street, the carriage was speeding forward, and Dunn took out his pipe and sniffed it:
"When we think it's over and everything is back to normal, it comes back in a scary, terrifying way. ”
"A few years ago, we dealt with the case of a cult, they organized believers to complete the living sacrifice by committing suicide to please the evil god, and after one of the believers was chosen, the instinct to survive defeated stupidity, defeated dissent, defeated psychedelics, and secretly ran to the police station to report the crime. ”
"The matter was handed over to us to deal with, a very small task, because that cult has no extraordinary beings, and the gods sacrificed are even more casually conceived by their leaders, in order to accumulate wealth, for enjoyment, and to extinguish human nature. ”
"We only used two team members, and with the cooperation of the police, we successfully solved this cult, and not a single one of them slipped through the net. As for the person who reported the crime, we also confirmed that he had no smell of evil spirits, no curse entanglement, no psychological disorders, no personality problems, and no other strange traces. ”
After that, his career developed well, he married a good wife, gave birth to a boy and a girl, and all the shadows seemed to turn away from him, and the horrors and gore of the past seemed to have completely dissipated. ”
Speaking of which, Dunn Smith smiled and said:
But in March of this year, he died of a smart and lovely child who was financially in good shape, a deep relationship between husband and wife, and strangled himself in the office. ”
The crimson moonlight outside the carriage window shone in on Dunn Smith.
At this moment, his seemingly self-deprecating smile actually made Klein feel crazy, indescribably crazy.
"Strangled myself to death......" Klein took a silent breath, as if he saw his own miserable end.
Even if you dodge a catastrophe, you can only escape for a while?
Is there any way to solve it once and for all?
Make yourself an extraordinary person to fight?
The carriage fell silent, and Crane's countless ideas came to the fore and fell one after another.
In such indescribable silence, the carriage traveled for a long time, and it drove very fast.
Just as Klein had made up his mind to cheekily consult Dunn Smith to see what a solution he had, the carriage stopped.
"Mr. Smith, Welch's residence has arrived. The coachman's voice reached the ears of the two men.
"Let's go down. Dunn straightened the black trench coat up to his knees, "Heh, I'll introduce you in advance, the identity of the 'expert' disguised to the outside is the most well-known psychic in Ahowa County. ”
Crane restrained his other thoughts and asked curiously:
"And who she actually is?"
Dunn half-turned, turned his head, and said with deep gray eyes:
"A true 'psychic'. ”