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Chapter 1041 An Abnormal Aura

The next day, Xia Shou contacted the foreigner he had seen on the beach the day before who looked quite similar to the enemy in his dream, but the foreigner's name was Josh Durand, not Glenn Doyle.

The other party is a university library administrator who also does some literary writing and runs an online bookstore. He is highly educated and a person of refined tastes.

In short, it has absolutely nothing to do with the villain in Xia Shoumeng's dream.

Xia Shou felt that this result was reasonable and very scientific.

So he stopped thinking about these strange and unusual things.

However, through their shared interest in surfboards, he and Josh did become friends, and Natsume also discovered his new hobby.

While shopping for surfboards with Josh at his friend's shop, he discovered that the shop also sold some melee weapons and bows and arrows. Xia Shou suddenly became interested in these tools, and after learning more about them, his interest grew even stronger.

In fact, he has been quite interested in things related to "violence" since he was a child, such as fighting, brawling, and of course, swords and clubs.

There's nothing special about it; every little boy does this when he's young. Some people, even as adults, still have a natural affinity for these kinds of hunting and competitive activities. It's an instinctive love that our ancestors left behind during the long process of evolution.

So when Xia Shou returned to the hotel, he not only had a surfboard in his hand, but also an expensive composite bow, which was worth about the same as the fishing rod that Shangguan Yan himself used.

While he was figuring out how to play with a bow and arrow, Shangguan Yan, wearing black-rimmed glasses and only a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, sat on the sofa looking up parenting and education materials.

In fact, she is neither nearsighted nor farsighted. When doing paperwork or focused work, she wears glasses without a prescription, similar to athletes performing special ritualistic gestures before a competition to promote subconscious pattern adjustments.

Xia Shou particularly liked Shangguan Yan at this time because she was very serious and had an intellectual beauty of a humble student, which eliminated the aura of a strong leader and made her seem very approachable.

But in fact, Shangguan Yan is most difficult to approach at times like this, because she is very serious.

Xia Shou sat on the floor fiddling with his newly bought sports equipment, while Shangguan Yan sat on the sofa reading parenting books. It gave people a sense of peace and tranquility, making them feel that they could see a peaceful life ahead of them at a glance.

He doesn't need to work hard; he can indulge in his favorite hobbies every day, raise a pair of lovely children, watch them grow up, and then he and Sister Yan will grow old together.

And so their honeymoon went by day by day, and they had a lot of new experiences every day: diving, swimming, archery, trying local delicacies, admiring architecture, visiting museums, and seeing art exhibitions.

From the Maldives to Venice to Las Vegas, they have no restrictions. Sometimes plans are already made, but they might be attracted by a small point of view on an online forum and change their plans to go to another country at the last minute.

The world is vast, and each place has its own unique customs, cuisine, architectural styles, and historical myths.

Climate, clothing, food, animals—everything can be incredibly fresh.

Sometimes they would wander around outside all day, sometimes they would stay in the hotel all day without going out, and sometimes they would stay quietly in the hotel without doing anything.

Shangguan Yan often brings up the topic of parenting, saying that she doesn't want to hire a nanny in the future and wants to live an ordinary life. She feels that this way of educating children would be more beneficial, and she also finds doing housework very interesting.

Xia Shou felt that Shangguan Yan didn't find housework itself interesting, but rather found the role of a mother doing housework very interesting.

Xia Shou felt that Shangguan Yan, who had such interesting ideas, was even more interesting. He decided to go back and find a job, as he felt that such a father figure was more suitable for his future life.

Soon, on the twenty-eighth day of their honeymoon, they were leaving Las Vegas.

On his last night away, Shangguan Yan received a call from Qiao Xin.

When she answered the phone, the first thing the other person said was, "If Xia Shou is nearby, don't answer me. Just do as I say, and we'll talk after you're done."

"..." "Go to a place where he can't hear us," Qiao Xin said.

Shangguan Yan pushed open the door and walked to the balcony: "Alright, what is it that Xiao Shou can't hear?"

"Didn't I say last time that I was going to discuss my colleague's condition with him? I discovered something interesting."

"what?"

"Xia Shou's portrait looks a bit like that person."

Furthermore, in the passage Xia Shou wrote, he said that the person in the portrait was likely named Van Cleef, the same name as a patient my colleague had previously treated.

Shangguan Yan fell silent, her mind racing.

She remembered the fragments of text that Xia Shou had written down, which contained detailed instructions that, in essence, simply aimed to make him believe that the dream was real.

Besides emphasizing the importance of believing in these words, he also wrote some incomprehensible fantasy-related phrases.

The only thing related to reality is a message in which Xia Shou, who has just regained consciousness, asks Xia Shou to kill someone.

The portrait and name are the information provided in the message.

Shangguan Yan asked Xia Shou if he knew this person, and Xia Shou said he didn't even know if this person really existed.

He had no recollection of this person whatsoever, not only in real life but also in any similar portrayal in films or television shows.

Because of this answer, Shangguan Yan felt it was no big deal. After all, the probability of a completely unfamiliar figure in a dream suddenly appearing in reality with an exact match is infinitesimally close to zero.

It's not a big problem for Xia Shou, who is half-awake, to kill someone who doesn't exist; the real problem is for him to kill someone he knows.

But now, things have changed.

She never imagined that such a thing would actually happen.

Perhaps... there really is some kind of supernatural element in this world?

"What did that person do for a living before?" Shangguan Yan asked.

She still retains common sense about science.

Although Qiao Xin said that person was a bank employee, if he had previously worked as a TV actor or a self-media host, then it is possible that Xia Shou had watched his show but forgot about it later.

But if not...

Although Qiao Xin hadn't answered yet, Shangguan Yan already had the answer in his heart.

She knew Qiao Xin well; if Qiao Xin's profession was a public one, she wouldn't be so secretive.

Clearly, Qiao Xin also sensed something unusual.

"He's always worked at a bank, and I saw his painting. Can you guess who it depicts?"

(End of this chapter)