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Zhang Jin stood by the window and looked at the street below. He felt an indescribable sense of familiarity, as if he had returned to the scene when the Xihong City dungeon first started. This is the sound and shadow of more than 90 years ago. I miss it so much!

Doctor Xu's voice suddenly came from behind.

"What are you looking at? We don't have much time!"

Zhang Jin turned to look at the other party and asked: "What is going on now? Am I in Xiao Xu's nightmare?"

"Of course, otherwise where do you think you are? This is 1995. Have you forgotten what year you came from?" Dr. Xu said.

"But your room hasn't changed at all?"

"Because this is the safe place where dreams connect to reality. It is the only place that is not disturbed by nightmares. When you solve the root cause of Xiao Xu's nightmare, you must return here to leave the dream."

"Then when did I enter the dreamland?" Zhang Jin asked.

Dr. Xu replied: "Why did you ask such a strange question again? Of course it was after you put on a blindfold and lay down on the gurney."

"What about my companion? Why didn't I see her?" Zhang Jin was a little worried.

"Are you talking about Xiaoxu's sister? I haven't met her yet. It may take some time to enter the dream state. After all, everyone's sleep quality and dreaming frequency are different."

"Then I'd better wait for her to come in before we act together." Zhang Jin thought for a while and said.

Dr. Xu shook his head and said: "I think it's better for you to act first, because I not only know when Miss Shen will enter the dream. The passage of time in the dream changes according to the subconscious changes in the dreamer's brain. In reality, it may only be a few seconds.

It only takes a few seconds, but in a dream it may last several days, or even half a month or a month. Are you going to waste time waiting here?"

"It's not impossible." Zhang Jin said nonchalantly.

Since real time will not be wasted, it doesn't matter if he waits here for a month. What he lacks most is patience.

Otherwise, when he was recording game clearance videos, countless "dangers" would have made him give up long ago.

Dr. Xu was speechless and patiently explained: "The subconscious mind of the human brain has a self-defense mechanism. Now that you have entered Xiaoxu's dream, it will cause changes to her subconscious mind. This change may be good or bad. But she

Now it’s a nightmare, and it’s largely changed for the worse. This change will make it more difficult for us to solve Xiao Xu’s nightmare. In severe cases, it may even cause subconscious harm to you. Then you will also be affected by nightmares like Xiao Xu.

Troubled.”

Zhang Jin smiled lightly: "I won't be troubled by nightmares. Monsters and ghosts can't scare me at all. Besides, I like watching horror movies the most. Sometimes I really want to experience it myself."

"Nightmares are not just about monsters and scary things. Nightmares are the result of infinite amplification of the most fearful things in the human subconscious. For example, you may not be afraid of monsters, but you are afraid of boredom, then your nightmare is likely to be that you are alone.

We are walking on a road that will never end, and everything around us is wilderness or nothingness.”

Doctor Xu looked at him with an extremely serious expression.

"You will keep walking and walking, never stopping, and always seeing the same scenery, until you wake up from the dream or have a mental breakdown, but no one can guarantee whether you will wake up from the dream or have a mental breakdown first."

Zhang Jin looked at Dr. Xu indifferently. Maybe what the other person said was right, but it was of no use to him because none of it was real to him.

He doesn't care whether Xiao Xu's nightmare can be solved, he only cares whether he can return to reality.

To be honest, he is actually a little angry now!

If he hadn't had the sense to suppress his impulse, he would have used the fruit knife in his hand to go forward and ask Dr. Xu, asking him where exactly this place was, why he let himself go through such a thing, and what was the other person's purpose?

Seeing that he still had a nonchalant expression, Dr. Xu could only say helplessly: "Okay, since you want to wait, it doesn't matter. In reality, it only takes a few seconds to a minute. I will leave a table for you with the information."

Come on, if you're bored in the room, you can take a look. That's all. I wish you good luck and hope you can successfully solve Xiao Xu's nightmare."

"After hearing what you said, are you preparing to leave the dreamland?" Zhang Jin asked.

"Of course, I'm just a guide. I have to keep an eye on your and Xiaoxu's physical condition from outside. If something goes wrong, I'll forcefully wake you up immediately." Doctor Xu disappeared directly after saying that.

Zhang Jin didn't expect Dr. Xu to disappear so quickly. He still had many questions to ask, so it seemed that he had to find the answers by himself. He kept his promise and had no intention of leaving the room until Shen Siyi appeared. Anyway,

You shouldn't be hungry in your dream.

Zhang Jin picked up the diagnostic report on his desk, came to the window, listened to the free songs, and started to read the information.

This diagnostic report is very long, about twenty or thirty pages, but most of it records the conversation between Dr. Xu and Xiao Xu, and it also contains some analysis notes made by Dr. Xu during the conversation.

After spending more than thirty minutes reading it carefully, Zhang Jin discovered a problem, that is, according to the entire analysis report, Dr. Xu only had some guesses about the origin of the nightmare.

Xiaoxu's identity is that of an orphan. She grew up in an orphanage. Her so-called sister and brother are actually volunteers at the orphanage. As a reporter, she only reported news about the orphanage at the beginning.

The identity of that classmate was even more strange, because she grew up in an orphanage, and Xiaoxu was not old enough to go to school outside, so she didn't know any of her classmates at all.

Finally, Zhang Jin saw Xiaoxu's photo. The girl in the photo was about seven or eight years old. She had a fair and well-behaved appearance. She had double ponytails and was wearing a simple floral dress that looked a little dated. She looked very cute.

After reading it over, Zhang Jin put the file back on the table. He had already secretly memorized the contents of the investigation report, and he had a treasure trove of memory where he could recall any information at any time.

After doing this, he leaned against the window and listened to the songs from the video store outside, which were very popular songs in the 1990s, Black Panther, Beyond, Jacky Cheung, Na Ying, Liu Huan, Zhou Huajian, etc. It seemed like a nostalgic hit playlist.

Zhang Jin just listened to nostalgic golden songs every day, waiting for Shen Siyi's arrival.

The sun sets and the moon rises. Days like this lasted for a month, and Zhang Jin didn't wait for Shen Siyi to appear.

He also changed from leaning against the window, to sitting by the window, and then lying next to the bed. He also listened to the nostalgic hit playlist from the video store downstairs over and over again, and his ears almost felt like cocoons.

I don’t know if it’s because of nightmares, but the time in the dream repeats itself every day, always fixed on September 7th. But people’s lives in the dream world are not static, at least the nostalgic songs are different every day.

Occasionally, you can hear quarrels on the street downstairs, and at night you can hear the sounds of drunkards acting crazy, or even couples breaking up and quarreling.

This is a world that seems alive but without hope.

Because I can't see the future.

Not only is there no future in this dream world, but if I continue to lie down like this, there will be no future.

Zhang Jin turned over and sat up from the gurney, turned and glanced out the window at the morning light that had just passed over the city skyline. The orange, white and blue sky looked very refreshing.

The orange morning light gradually pushes away the blue of the night, giving people a sense of vitality and hope.

It seems to be a process of constantly getting better through one's own efforts after experiencing setbacks in life.

The dark night will eventually pass!

Zhang Jin got off the bed, tidied his clothes, went to the bathroom to wash up, then opened the door and walked out of the office for the first time. Dr. Xu said it was the only safe place, and he didn't know what he would do after he went out.

What kind of weird thing happened?

Outside the room was a long corridor. Both sides of the corridor were empty. There was only the door and the room behind him in the entire corridor, which looked strangely lonely.

However, Zhang Jin didn't care too much. After closing the door, he walked towards the stairs at the end of the corridor. Just a few steps out, he suddenly turned back and looked at the window on the opposite side of the corridor, and suddenly had an idea in his mind.

In Inception, there is a weightless fall method to wake up from the dream. I don’t know if it is suitable for my current situation.

Perhaps he was a fan of the authorities. He had been waiting by the window for a month without any intention of jumping off the building, but now that he was about to go out and go downstairs, he suddenly remembered.

After the idea of ​​trying this came into his mind, Zhang Jin didn't hesitate at all, turned around and returned to the office, went directly to the window and jumped down!

The height of three floors is not a problem for him. Even without the [Sky Star Bracelet], his physical fitness alone can ensure that he will not suffer too much damage.

Bang! After a second or two, Zhang Jin hit the sidewalk below hard, then rolled forward to relieve the force, then turned over and stood up.

"Well, it has no effect at all. It doesn't look like a dream." He muttered as he patted the dust on his body.

This move of a fierce man descending from the sky scared the passers-by around him, and everyone stared at him in shock.

"Young man, you are crazy!" a grocery shopping lady said in a loud voice with disdain.

As the aunt yelled, everyone came to their senses one after another and went back to doing their own things, except occasionally casting strange looks at him.

Although Zhang Jin was despised, he was not angry at all because he found that no matter whether these passers-by were angry, happy, lost, depressed, etc., their faces always had the same expression, as if they were wearing a mask.

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It was a very sad smile. It looked like a smile, but it exuded a gloomy and musty air everywhere. It was as stiff as an incorruptible corpse that had just been dug out of a tomb.

No matter adults, children, men or women, all of them had the same weird expression on their faces and were talking to each other.

If you don't look at their faces, you won't even feel that anything is abnormal, but once you look at their faces and listen to their conversations, a strange and terrifying feeling will arise in your heart.

"So this is Xiao Xu's nightmare? In her dream, everyone has a dead expression of 'smiling'. It is really a disharmonious dream world."

Zhang Jin looked away from the faces of these people. Even with his psychological quality, he felt uncomfortable looking at them, let alone a seven or eight-year-old little girl. I am afraid that she had been frightened and collapsed.

If you have such nightmares every night, it is indeed a kind of torture!

Although he was a little curious as to why Xiao Xu had such a nightmare, Zhang Jin still did not forget that his main purpose was to leave here, not to help solve the problem.

He is neither a saint nor a villain, just an ordinary normal person. If they force him to help without his consent, and in such a weird way, no normal person would agree!

Respect is mutual. I have never heard of threatening someone when asking for help!

If the other party had asked him for help in a more friendly way, he wouldn't have felt so unhappy!

Since he couldn't take the initiative to escape from this nightmare world, he could only follow the clues and try to find the source of the nightmare. Maybe he would find a way to go back in the process of solving the problem.

Zhang Jin stopped a taxi on the street. Taxis were still rare in small towns in the 1990s. Santana hadn't become popular yet, so the drivers still drove Xiali.

"Master, please go to the dormitory in the old factory area of ​​Wuqing Machinery Factory."

"Old Wu Ji's dormitory? Where are you going to go and see your elders? Many people have moved out of these old factory dormitories one after another. Only some retired old workers are still living there.

." The driver was talkative, "That area is being renovated. It's sparsely populated now. I wouldn't dare to drive there even during the day. It's easy to get into trouble."

Zhang Jin looked at the driver's "smiling" face in the rearview mirror, and secretly thought to himself, how could you be afraid of getting into trouble at night with your appearance? Don't talk about people, even ghosts are scared to death by you!

In fact, Zhang Jin was going to the welfare home opposite the dormitory in the old factory area of ​​Wuji Factory, because the investigation report did not mention the specific address of the welfare home, but only mentioned that it was opposite the dormitory in the old factory area.

The patient's address in the investigation report was not clearly stated, which is quite outrageous. I don't know if it was because the details were careless or for some other reason.

Along the way, the driver was very talkative. Although Zhang Jin didn't speak much, he could always find various topics to talk about in different ways. In short, as long as he was not stopped, he seemed to be able to keep talking.

After a thirty-minute drive, passing through most of the small town to the suburbs at the other end, the taxi finally arrived at its destination.

Zhang Jin got off the car and walked towards the gate of the welfare home. The driver's shout came from behind him.

"Hey, young man, you haven't paid yet!"

In a dream, you still want me to pay!?

Zhang Jin ignored the driver's shouting and quickly arrived at the entrance of the orphanage. The black iron door was tightly closed, with several circles of chains wrapped around it and a large iron lock hung on it.

According to the information in the investigation report, this orphanage should still be open. Why would it lock the door in broad daylight?

Moreover, there was no sound of anyone coming from the courtyard or the building, it seemed that there was no one around.

"Hey, young man, you have to pay..." The taxi driver chased after him, but his eyes suddenly widened and he watched in shock as the young man in front of him kicked the big iron door of the orphanage away with one kick!

Bang! The big iron door flew backwards and hit the cement floor in the courtyard, making a huge noise!

"What did you just say?" Zhang Jin turned around and asked the driver.

"Uh...it's nothing. Young man, you are busy with your business. If you have nothing to do, I will leave first." After the driver said this, he turned around and walked back quickly.