Xiang Kun knew that although Xia Libing could not perceive the dreamer's various sensory information and mood fluctuations as much as she could in the first-level dream she triggered, Xia Libing's grasp of various details in the dream was much stronger than in reality.

After all, in that "dream within a dream", she has the highest "administrator permission", and she can also enter the "developer mode", and the information that the dreamer receives in the dream, the behavior pattern, and the existence environment can be determined by her, and she can have more understanding.

Just as he was thinking about it, Xiang Kun heard movement in the bedroom - Lao Xia also woke up.

Xia Libing walked out of the room yawning as she tied her loose hair back up.

Xiang Kun couldn't help frowning: "Why didn't you continue to sleep?"

Based on his sensory information, he judged that Lao Xia should still be very sleepy now, and his body was also in a state of exhaustion, and after the "dream within a dream" ended, he should normally continue to sleep.

And tonight, not long before going to bed, he made a supper for Lao Xia, and he won't be woken up hungry.

Obviously, this was Lao Xia who forcibly controlled himself to wake up when he returned to his first-level dream after ending Officer Xiao Zhao's "dream within a dream".

After sitting down next to the dining table and opposite Xiang Kun, Lao Xia opened his mouth, and what he asked was indeed the memory that Officer Xiao Zhao confessed at the end of the "dream within a dream".

"Why do you think it's funny when you fart when you confess? Is it because of the contrast? In a more formal atmosphere, it's easy to make people laugh when there is an incident that doesn't match the atmosphere? But what kind of situation makes people feel embarrassed, what kind of situation makes people feel painful, what kind of situation makes people feel angry, what kind of situation makes it funny, and how do you distinguish between this point?"

"This is actually not so easy to distinguish, people's emotions are not completely single, many emotions are closely connected. Xiang Kun said: "And sometimes, the same thing, in the eyes of the parties and bystanders, have different feelings. Even different parties may have diametrically opposed emotions. There may also be different perceptions and feelings at the time of the event and afterwards. Just like the dream that Officer Xiao Zhao confessed, maybe at the moment of the incident, he was so ashamed and embarrassed that he wanted to dig a hole and hide himself, but ......"

Halfway through speaking, Xiang Kun suddenly felt that something was wrong, although Lao Xia had difficulties in perceiving emotions, he himself had a double master's degree in psychiatry and psychology, and he had been studying this aspect of the problem all these years. What he just said, Lao Xia must know it clearly, and even know it more comprehensively, deeply, and systematically than him.

And from the past experience of playing with Lao Xia, Yang Zhener, and Tang Baona, and her various WeChat chat conversations, as well as the notebook that records more than 900 behavior patterns, Xiang Kun can also judge that Lao Xia has long known how to grasp the boundary between humor and rudeness, although she herself can't have funny and joyful feedback, but it doesn't prevent her from being an excellent cold-faced joker.

Just when Xiang Kun was feeling puzzled, Xia Libing, who was originally discussing with him seriously, suddenly stuck out his tongue and pretended to be an "Einstein grimace".

Xiang Kun was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood Lao Xia's purpose - she didn't sleep and got up, not to break with herself and analyze theories, but to directly conduct experiments.

Lao Xia probably had a new idea after seeing Officer Xiao Zhao's "funniest thing ever" in "A Dream within a Dream", and wanted to make Xiang Kun laugh at Xiang Kun by actually creating "funny events" to arouse his emotions, and then reverse Xiang Kun's "emotional assimilation", so as to integrate herself into the "funny incident", just like Officer Xiao Zhao who farts when she confessed to a girl in middle school and remembered it for a lifetime.

Seeing that Xiang Kun didn't react, Xia Libing put away his grimace, his expression was indifferent for a few seconds, he stretched out his two index fingers, pushed the skin at the corners of his eyes on both sides up, and wrapped his upper lip around his lower lip, making a grimace imitating a fox.

Xiang Kun still didn't react, so two seconds later, Xia Libing returned to his original state, and after being expressionless for a while, he pinched his cheek with one hand, squeezed his mouth up, pushed his nose up with the other, rolled his eyes at the same time, and made a very impactful grimace.

Xiang Kun finally smiled and gave Lao Xia a thumbs up.

After Xia Libing recovered his expression, he looked at Xiang Kun and shook his head: "You didn't think it was funny, it was just perfunctory." Is it because my grimace is flawed and not contrasting enough, or is it because of the atmosphere of the conversation now?"

"No, if you usually do this coldly and grimaceously, I guess I'm already laughing stupid. Xiang Kun helplessly explained, "But just now I have noticed in advance that you are deliberately talking seriously, maybe there are other purposes, as soon as you make a face, my attention is on why you are doing it, and I am still thinking about which part of the funny video we watched yesterday afternoon......

Xia Libing nodded: "I understand, I did it too deliberately." ”

As he spoke, he asked: "If the funniness level is at least 0 and the highest is 10, how many points can be scored for Officer Xiao Zhao's confession?"

"Nine points. Xiang Kun said.

After that, Xia Libing didn't talk much about this topic, and began to talk about the information they got from Officer Xiao Zhao's "dream within a dream" tonight.

Relying on Lao Xia's "professional guidance", Xiang Kun knew that Officer Xiao Zhao and his companions met Mi Qiao and his party when they went to the area where the body was found in Zihuan Mountain.

It just so happened that when the companion assisted the Yangcheng police in the investigation of a certain case before, he saw Mi Qiao's information and recognized her, so he notified the substation where Officer Xiao Zhao was located, and dispatched someone to stop Mi Qiao's car and bring it back to the bureau, that is, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia turned around and saw the scene on the way back from the airport.

After the people from Yangcheng arrived in the evening, Mi Qiao behaved very cooperatively and explained Guo Tianxiang's case very clearly, letting the Yangcheng police know some information that they had not noticed or found before.

Officer Xiao Zhao and his companions were also allowed to participate in the interrogation.

What the two of them originally wanted was to use the identity of "Chen Tianhua" to dig out Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts, or other big cases hidden behind Mi Qiao's back that may be involved.

However, the leaders of the bureau suddenly gave instructions, which was equivalent to endorsing the identity of "Chen Tianhua" from an official point of view, except for the information related to Guo Tianxiang's case, other relevant information should not be touched, and Mi Qiao's identity was defined as a witness who assisted in the case.

Officer Xiao Zhao then judged that Mi Qiao was most likely a person with an official identity, so he guessed whether he would be an undercover police agent, who had a mission by Guo Tianxiang's side before, and Guo Tianxiang may have noticed her identity and disappeared directly. Now Mi Qiao has changed his identity as "Chen Tianhua" and entered the undercover "Zhiyu Laboratory" of Thorn Tong, investigating something.

But Officer Xiao Zhao immediately overturned his speculation, because if it was a police undercover agent, even if it was not the police in Yangcheng and belonged to other provinces and cities, it would be impossible for Guo Tianxiang to be wanted for so long without getting angry. So even if Micho is an undercover agent, there is a high probability that he is not a police person.

Because when they met by chance in Zihuan Mountain, Mi Qiao and his party were sampling the places where the lightning had struck, so Officer Xiao Zhao had a faint guess in his heart, maybe the official department to which Mi Qiao belonged was specifically investigating incidents such as the strange thunderstorm and the burning aircraft on Zihuan Mountain on the 14th, and even they knew about the bodies found by him.

If that's the case, then Mi Qiao stayed by Guo Tianxiang's side before, is it because Guo Tianxiang is also similar to the male deceased who committed suicide after killing two female companions in Zihuan Mountain?

Did Micho and his department also know about the existence of the "multi-armed monster"?

Xiang Kun still admires Officer Xiao Zhao's speculations that are half close to the truth and half of his imagination, whether it is the process or the result, after all, the real information that Officer Xiao Zhao can access is very limited, and he and Lao Xia's "dreams" have to be affected from time to time, and it is not easy to come up with such a "guess".

And through what Officer Xiao Zhao learned about Mi Qiao, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia also came to a lot of judgments about "Shenxing Technology".

Xiang Kun is very clear about Mi Qiao's original origin, before she helped Guo Tianxiang do things, she was a "hacker" who extorted money by mining other people's privacy, and did not have any official identity.

But since her identity as "Chen Tianhua" can get official endorsement, it means that many of the things that "Shenxing Technology" is doing are officially licensed.

It is easy to understand that the government is aware of the existence of "institutions that study 'mutant organisms'" and secretly controls and provides support.

But Xiang Kun was a little puzzled, why didn't the department directly under the government do these things, but under the "Shenxing Technology"?

Through his previous investigation, he was very sure that the secret department of "Shenxing Technology" was not officially done through the shell of "Shenxing Technology", but was really done by the people of "Shenxing Technology".

This can be corroborated from the dreams of Fang Pingfang, Zhou Rui, Li Shiyu and others, as well as their personal information.

If it is purely for the sake of secrecy, the official can make a secret department on its own, and there is no need to rely on a private technology company to do these things.

There may be some deeper reasons behind this.

If we can understand this, we may be able to understand why the public is ignorant of the information about "mutant creatures", why the official research and investigation of "mutant creatures" is not carried out with great fanfare, and why the whole world seems to be unaware of the existence of "mutant creatures" on the surface.

In this regard, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia discussed for a long time, and both put forward some of their own speculations, but there is no definite evidence for the time being, and further investigation is still needed to verify it.

Xiang Kun said: "The people behind 'Shenxing Technology' should want to use the power of the police to investigate Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts on the surface, and they themselves are secretly checking and filling in the gaps to assist in the investigation. After all, in China, there is no stronger force than the police to track down a person's whereabouts. This also further proves from the side that 'Shenxing Technology' has a connection with the official, and they can ensure that after Guo Tianxiang is controlled by the police, they also have a way to get in touch. ”

Xia Libing asked, "If the police re-investigate Guo Tianxiang's movements on the pedestrian street, will they find your existence?"

Xiang Kun shook his head: "Probably not, even if you know my existence, you can't lock my identity." ”

Previously, the police investigated Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts, but they only knew that Guo Tianxiang and Miqiao disappeared after they went to Liushi, and did not know his exact trajectory in Liushi.

And although Mi Qiao knew Guo Tianxiang's movements on the pedestrian street that afternoon, he knew very well what Guo Tianxiang was doing during that time, so when he investigated Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts, he would not check the past tracks.

But now, Miqiao has removed the information she knows about "vampires" and told the police, and the police want to investigate Guo Tianxiang's whereabouts, but it is very likely that they will re-investigate Guo Tianxiang's movements on the afternoon of October 8.

Lao Xia is worried that the police investigation will not find the existence of Xiang Kun such a "yellow bird in the back".

This possibility Xiang Kun has actually been deduced many times, since the midnight street patrol was inadvertently discovered by Officer Chen through the monitoring system, he is particularly concerned about the monitoring, that time to go to Guo Tianxiang's appointment, he not only disguised himself from the appearance, but also always paid attention to the location of the monitoring along the way, most of the time he can ensure that his face is not photographed.

The only places that are possible for the police to realize his existence are three places, one is the waiter at the restaurant where Mi Qiao and Guo Tianxiang dined, he asked to see the surveillance on the grounds that his companion had lost something, and the other is the security guard in the parking lot, he looked at the surveillance on the grounds of catching the adulterer, and the people in these two places all know the iconic feature of "dirty braids", so they know the direction of his inquiry.

The third is that Zhang Jin'an, a local contacted by Miqiao through the dark web, was "intimidated" by Xiang Kun into the room, although he didn't see his face, he definitely knew his existence.

This time, when Mi Qiao explained the relevant facts of Guo Tianxiang's case to the police, he did not mention the process of "fishing" on the Internet, and naturally did not mention Zhang Jin'an, so this point can be ignored directly.

As for the restaurant waiters and parking lot security guards, Xiang Kun is also not too worried, because this incident happened on October 8 last year, more than four months have passed, and many people's memories may become blurred, and most of the merchants' surveillance has been washed away. And even if the police really asked the waiter and those security guards, the focus would be on Guo Tianxiang, and they might not mention Xiang Kun, the "back-footed investigator". Even if he knew, there was no corresponding surveillance screen to compare, and he would not be able to investigate his identity, and he would not be threatened for the time being.

After listening to Xiang Kun's explanation, Xia Libing nodded, and after being silent for two seconds, he suddenly puffed up his cheeks slightly and made a sound: "bú~~~~~".

Xiang Kun was stunned for a moment, but then from this peculiar voice and the change in the pitch that slowly increased, he thought of Officer Xiao Zhao's confession in "Dream in a Dream" not long ago, and realized what Lao Xia was imitating.

Looking at Lao Xia's round eyes and slightly puffed cheeks, as well as the stupid hair that was not tied up and the top of his head shook slightly, Xiang Kun finally laughed uncontrollably.

Lao Xia disregarded the funnyness of the image, which brought an excellent effect, Xiang Kun looked at Lao Xia as if nothing had happened after "bú", but the more he thought about it, the funnier he became, the more he laughed, the more he wanted to laugh, and he laughed so much that tears were about to come out.

For a time, the room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

......

Star City.

At four o'clock in the morning, before the sun came out, Liu Shiling had already rolled up from the bed, ran to the egg yolk pie on the sofa cushion in the corner of the room, squatted on the ground, gently touched the cat's head, and looked worried.

"Yolk Pie, what's wrong with you?"

The yolk pie raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at his little master, but his fleshy body was motionless, and he didn't respond with a meow as usual, and seemed to have fallen asleep again.

Liu Shiling went to get the freeze-dried egg yolk pie's favorite food, as well as other cat snacks, and even her own favorite snacks were moved over to lure it in front of the egg yolk pie.

"Egg yolk pie, come and eat, it's all for you, only today! You can eat as much as you want! If you don't eat it, if you don't eat it, you still can't eat it...... I...... I'll eat them all!" Liu Shiling said with a "threatening" tone.

But the egg yolk pie, which is particularly greedy on weekdays, is still lying on his stomach and does not move, and it seems that sleeping is the top priority.

Liu Shiling's eyes already had tears: "Egg yolk pie, are you going to die......?"

Hearing the sound of the little chubby girl moving snacks and chatting with the cat, Shiling's mother was also woken up, standing at the door of the room with her clothes on, looking at her daughter and the cat helplessly.