Chapter 346: Facing Fear
Looking at Xia Libing, who was asleep in the bed, Xiang Kun had to pull the quilt and cover her so that she wouldn't catch a cold.
And he untied the bands from her hair and spread her hair apart.
Then he took out the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving in the cabinet and put it at the head of the bed, next to the box containing the chopsticks.
With Xia Libing's usual style of acting, since she made it clear that the purpose was to try Xiang Kun's dream triggered by the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving, she also brought another emotional injection item, chopsticks, and placed them on the side of her head, obviously with a purpose.
Sitting on the computer chair in the room, looking at the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving placed at the head of the bed, Xiang Kun did not immediately sense, but first deduced the situation that he might encounter in the dream for a while in his mind.
Judging from the previous experience of perceiving many dreams, the dreams and emotions caused by the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving have relatively strong negative effects and follow-up influences, which is why he has been "sealed" in the cabinet since he asked for this wood carving from Tang Baona's grandfather.
Therefore, regardless of whether the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving can successfully trigger Lao Xia's dream, how to judge Lao Xia's state and limit after inducing, how to provide help and support to her in the dream, when to end the dream and how to end it, you need to make a plan first.
Originally, these questions should have been discussed and settled with him before induction and before falling asleep.
As a result, Lao Xia is too sleepy now, come over and sleep directly, and it is not good to pull Lao Xia up and shake her awake, discuss and then let her sleep again, then she can only grasp and decide to Xiang Kun himself.
After five minutes, after considering a variety of possibilities and thinking of a number of plans, Xiang Kun began to sense the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving, and then a large amount of perceptual information poured in, and sure enough, it successfully triggered Lao Xia's dream.
It seems that this emotion also has an effect on Lao Xia.
In the dream, Xiang Kun observed the surroundings through Lao Xia's perception.
It was a dim and uncertain world, unable to see the surrounding situation clearly, as if it was in space, boundless, but there was an invisible ground under her feet, allowing her to stand firmly on the ground.
A burning hunger drove her to search her surroundings for something to eat, but there was nothing, and it seemed like there would be nothing.
Hungry, so hungry.
The body is getting weaker and weaker, and you can even feel the passage of life, feel your stomach shrinking, your internal organs failing, and your muscles are breaking down.
Xiang Kun felt that in Xia Libing's dream perception, she was like a candle, constantly "melting", feeling that she was "melting" by hunger and moving towards death.
Just like hunger, this is the body's most instinctive response, the most primitive response.
Xiang Kun could clearly perceive the source of Xia Libing's fear, which should also be the sequelae brought by the Doctor Li when he treated her when he was a child.
In other words, the threat of death and the fear of extreme hunger are the main ways of "healing". With this method, the little old Xia can integrate into the lifestyle of normal people and understand what can be done and what must not be done.
In the dream, after being frightened by hunger and death, Xia Libing was not as panicked and hysterical as ordinary people.
Sharing the perceptions and emotions in Lao Xia's dream from the first perspective, Xiang Kun knew that she was constantly observing her surroundings now, even if she could see at a glance, there was nothing around.
It seems that even if he is not "awake" in his dream, Lao Xia's instinct is still dominated by reason, even if he perceives the strongest fear, he is not simply thinking about running away and escaping, but how to "solve" - although normally, this is a dead circle and an unsolvable problem.
Then, Lao Xia saw a white door appear in the distance, and there was a window on it, and there was a blurred face on the window.
Lao Xia ran over quickly, and as the distance quickly closed, when she saw the face on the window, her steps couldn't help but slow down.
It was a face with two rows of eight eyes, and it was a monster.
In an instant, the entire door merged with the monster, not only the head with eight eyes, but also the huge and strange body with eight arms, giving people a strong feeling that it was impossible to get out of this only door.
She was going to starve to death in this empty space, this was the instinctive feeling of Lao Xia in her dream.
In the next moment, extreme sanity came, and Xia Libing "woke up" from the dream.
Xiang Kun's perspective of perceiving dreams was transferred, and the support of dreams was transferred from him to the ten "super-associations" that had established a special connection with Xia Libing.
Compared with the previous dreams that triggered Xia Libing through chopsticks, this time she "woke up" in the dream a little slower.
Moreover, in the previous dream, the emotions brought about by the chopsticks after the dream were quickly suppressed by her reason after Xia Libing "woke up". But this time, Xiang Kun could clearly feel that the emotions brought about by the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving, the fear of death brought about by extreme hunger, were still there, only slightly weakened.
Although the homemade chopsticks and the eight-armed wood carving trigger the emotions of the dream, there are some similarities, which are related to eating and hunger.
But the former's emotions are mainly focused on "eating", the satisfaction brought by eating, and the urge to possess food. The latter is more about the fear of hunger, the threat of physical harm and death.
There is no doubt that the intensity and negativity of the latter's emotions are far greater than those of the former, and perhaps it is precisely because of this that even if he is "awake" in a dream, Lao Xia has no way to completely suppress the negative feelings brought by his emotions.
In the dream, Xia Libing observed the surroundings again, and the empty space was immediately "full", except for the door that was still firmly blocked by the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, the other places had actually appeared-it was in the dream that Xiang Kun triggered for the first time with chopsticks, in the closed, nothing-room room.
There is no doubt that this is where Lao Xia's fear was born.
Xia Libing walked directly towards the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, the closer she got to it, the stronger her fear became, even in her dreams, Xiang Kun could clearly see that she was trembling slightly-if it weren't for the fact that he could directly feel Lao Xia's emotions in the dream, objectively, her performance was more like holding back excitement and excitement than suppressing fear and fear.
But that didn't stop her, she knew very well that she was dreaming now, and she knew very well what the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster represented.
But no matter how close she tried, she was always a little bit away from the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, and it seemed like she would never be able to touch it.
Xia Libing thought for a while, and without any more futile operations, nine coins and a tungsten steel ball appeared in front of her, and the next moment, they all disappeared together, turning into a crispy pork knuckle.
She gulped down the pork knuckle, and when she was done, she had another piece and kept eating.
But after eating a few pieces, she found that neither the process of eating nor the process of swallowing it alleviated hunger and the fear caused by hunger.
She frowned and thought for a moment, raised her head, looked at the empty ceiling, and said, "Chopsticks." ”
Xiang Kun, who was observing Lao Xia from the perspective of an eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, immediately knew that she was talking to herself, and immediately understood what she meant-she was letting Xiang Kun sense the pair of chopsticks now.
Normally, in the process of perceiving other people's dreams through "love objects", he can no longer perceive other "love objects" at the same time. But Lao Xia's dream is different, when she "wakes up" in the dream and transfers the support of the dream to the dream projection of the "super-link", Xiang Kun's has the ability to sense other "love objects", just like "free your hand".
Last time, he tried to sense Liu Shiling's pair of chopsticks in his dream, so he successfully fused the dreams of Little Fat Niu and Lao Xia together, and the two of them even met in a dream and had a "dinner" together.
But this time, the "chopsticks" that Lao Xia mentioned obviously did not refer to Liu Shiling's pair, but to the pair that Xiang Kun gave her and now also placed at the head of the bed.
Xiang Kun immediately sensed the pair of chopsticks, and after a while, there was a change in the dream, and a figure appeared next to Lao Xia, which was the dream emotional projection of the pair of chopsticks, that is, the image of the little chubby girl.
The chubby girl representing appetite and the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster representing fear, these two "love objects", the projection of two different emotions, actually appeared in a dream at the same time.
Xiang Kun knows that the underlying structure of Lao Xia's dream has also undergone great changes, and now this "system" is both Windows and Linux.
The emotional projection of chopsticks was a chubby girl, looked up at the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster not far away, came to Xia Libing's side, took a chicken wing to her, and then hugged her thighs and looked at the monster timidly.
Xia Libing ate chicken wings, and finally had the feeling that his appetite was satisfied, so his hunger was also relieved, and his fear was reduced, and the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster seemed to become less hideous and smaller.
Xia Libing dragged a little chubby girl holding her thighs, eating chicken wings, while leaning on the side of the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster to observe carefully, from time to time with a scalpel she appeared on the monster a few times, that poke a few times.
Xiang Kun suddenly realized that Xia Libing was so interested in this eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving, perhaps because he had heard the group hallucinations created by Little Apple before, and he had seen the illusion effect of the three car thieves in the abandoned factory area, and he also wanted to try to have a more direct connection with the "Love Notes" outside of the dream, and tried to call the projection of the "Love Notes" for his use.
Xiang Kun couldn't help but look forward to it, would Lao Xia be able to find a way to "appear" the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster in reality through the method of "fantasy and fantasy"?
Although the ability "developed" by the little apple can also create "illusions" for others, allowing them to "see" eight-armed and eight-eyed monsters, the objects that "appear in fantasy" are fundamentally different from illusions.
Xiang Kun didn't think about what the "Juxian" thing was going to do, but he simply had a feeling of "this function seems to be difficult to achieve and difficult to do, and if it is made, it must be very emotional".
However, judging from the previous "appearance" of other dream objects, I am afraid it is not so easy to do.
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After the dream ended, Xiang Kun opened his eyes, only to find that Lao Xia on the bed did not wake up, but lay on his side and curled up, like a baby, sucking his thumb joints, and the expression on his face had a sense of satisfaction after "full of wine and food".
It seems that the sleepiness was too strong tonight, or the consumption in the dream was too great, so after the dream ended, she did not wake up, but continued to sleep and rest.
Xiang Kun naturally won't wake her up, there are still many things to do during the day tomorrow, and next, he will fall into a deep sleep after drinking blood, Lao Xia is likely to "keep vigil", so it is very important to rest well and sleep enough tonight.
He turned his computer chair and shifted his body from facing the bed to facing the computer.
Because he was afraid of waking up Lao Xia, he did not call Alice through his voice, but through the keyboard.
After asking Alice to reply to herself through text as well, Xiang Kun began to summarize the improvement direction of today's game and re-issue the task to Alice.
But unexpectedly, after Alice first routinely reported the progress of some tasks assigned before, Xiang Kun found a situation that surprised him.