Hearing Jiang Baimian's question, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen instinctively looked at each other, but only saw the same dazedness on each other's faces.
Jiang Baimian propped up his hands and sat a little straighter:
"Do you remember that relic hunter from before, named Harris. Brown's one, the bald one, did you provide any information?"
Obviously, Jiang Baimian's memory is quite good.
As a party, Shang Jianyao instantly recalled:
"Is it the information that there is abnormal human death north of Yuelu Station?"
"Yes." Jiang Baimian nodded solemnly, "At that time, Harris. Brown said they found several bodies that had just died, without any fatal marks on the surface, but with expressions or pain, or fear, or strange smiles."
Bai Chen suddenly realized:
"Team leader, you mean those people all died in dreams, no, real dreams?"
Jiang Baimian said "hmm":
"You think, I just poked myself in a dream, and in reality there were corresponding red and swollen dots, but if you look closely, there are no pinholes at all.
"Similarly, Shang Jianyao slapped himself in a dream, and reality also got five fingerprints and swelling of his face.
"If, I mean, if a bullet hits the vital point in such a dream, or if you inhale poisonous gas with a strange expression, or if you are suddenly frightened at the peak of joy, what will it behave in reality?"
"Will you die without fatal scars on the surface......" Shang Jianyao replied in a deep voice.
The five fingerprints on his face are likely to be a stressful phenomenon, which will subside very quickly, but once the heart stops beating because of this, it will never recover.
Before he finished speaking, Shang Jianyao stood up abruptly, returned to his sleeping bag, put on his coat, and carried the "Berserker" assault rifle.
He opened his gun safety and strode out of the tent.
"What happened?" Long Yuehong, who was in charge of vigilance, hurriedly asked.
Shang Jianyao looked up at the rock wall behind him and looked around:
"Did you find anything suspicious?
"Or, an unusual phenomenon?"
Long Yuehong thought about it for a moment and shook her head firmly:
"No.
"Even the beasts passing by are very few and belong to normal species."
As he spoke, Long Yuehong took advantage of the bright moonlight to see the redness and swelling of Shang Jianyao's right face and the more obvious five finger prints.
"Uh......" He suddenly didn't know how to ask, and his eyes became a little strange.
At this time, Jiang Baimian was neatly dressed and took out his weapon, followed closely by Bai Chen.
"Did you find anything?" Jiang Baimian asked with a slightly solemn expression.
"No." Shang Jianyao replied seriously.
Jiang Baimian didn't care about Long Yuehong's gaze at this and that, and patrolled around on his own, sensing various electrical signals around him.
"There is indeed nothing abnormal." She walked back to Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It seems that as long as you don't fall asleep, you won't be affected."
Seeing Long Yuehong's blank face, Jiang Baimian picked up the key points and described what happened to him and Shang Jianyao.
And Long Yuehong was like listening to the story on the radio show, scared and not believing it.
Frankly speaking, if it weren't for the testimony of the team leader, based only on Shang Jianyao's words, he would definitely say:
"Don't be kidding, this kind of thing is not funny at all!
"Go and tell the order supervisor to see if they believe you!"
Order supervisors are professions responsible for the internal order of "Pangu Creatures", whether they are fighting or infringing on others, they are under their control.
——There is an "order supervisor" on each floor of the "Inner Ecological Zone", and there are three order supervisors below, and each team leader has several order supervisors.
Further up, there is a large area on more than ten or twenty floors, and each area has an "Order Supervision Bureau".
Above the "Order Supervision Bureau" is the "Order Supervision Department" subordinate to the "Board of Directors".
After listening to Jiang Baimian's description, Long Yuehong subconsciously replied:
"This can't be true, right?"
After asking, he quickly closed his mouth and stopped waiting for an answer.
Since Shang Jianyao could ask the mechanical monk Jingfa to shake hands with him and say goodbye, it didn't seem unacceptable for a monster to make people die strangely in their dreams.
I have to say that after leaving the company and coming to the surface, Long Yuehong felt more and more that the world was much more magical than before.
"Will it be an awakened person? Or, a subhuman or animal that has produced an aberration? They may have similar abilities." Jiang Baimian looked sideways at Shang Jianyao.
"Apart from my own abilities, I know no more about the Awakened than you." Shang Jianyao turned his head and looked at Bai Chen, hoping that this woman with rich experience in surviving in gray soil could give an answer.
Bai Chen shook his head, indicating that he had never encountered a similar abnormality:
"If it weren't for this, it wouldn't have made Harris. An experienced relic hunter like Brown hurriedly evacuated and did not dare to approach."
Jiang Baimian thought for a few seconds, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:
"I'm a little curious, how did you break free from that dream just now?
"Well, as you just said, it relies on the abilities of the Awakened One, but I want to know some details, which may inspire me.
"If you think this is your secret, let Bai Chen and Long Yuehong go to the edge to patrol.
"As for me, uh, I should still be trustworthy, right?"
In the end, Jiang Baimian really couldn't find a reason, and he was unwilling to use his current situation to force Shang Jianyao to answer, so he had to play tricks.
"It's nothing." Shang Jianyao replied calmly, "I use the 'reasoning clown' ability you have seen. At that time, because I slapped myself but didn't wake up, I initially ruled out the possibility of dreaming, thinking about grabbing the car, going away, and coming back after dawn to see if you have returned to normal.
"As a result, when I got up, I saw myself in the rearview mirror.
"I was wondering if I could use the ability of the 'reasoning clown' to influence myself, which made me believe with greater certainty that this was a dream.
"If it is really a dream, then I am equivalent to seeing through the truth and falsehood, strengthening my self-awareness in this area, and there should be a lot of possibility of waking up directly.
"If it weren't for the dream, I would have written a hint for myself......"
Speaking of this, Shang Jianyao remembered the arrangement in the dream, hurriedly put his hand into his pocket, and took out a few pieces of paper for recording.
Except for a mutilated layout map depicting the ruins of a steel mill marked with "toilet", the rest of the paper was blank without any hints.
"Sure enough......" Shang saw that Yao Chang breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "After writing the prompt, I began to use the ability of the 'reasoning clown' to make myself come to the conclusion of 'dreaming' based on irrelevant conditions, and this did strengthen my judgment and cognition, helping me break free from the dream."
Jiang Baimian was quite touched when he heard this:
"It's so ruthless, even you lie yourself."
"......" Long Yuehong was almost amused, and finally held back.
"......" Shang Jianyao didn't expect Jiang Baimian to give such an "evaluation", and almost forgot what he was going to say later.
He paused and said:
"I haven't done a similar experiment before, and when I saw myself in the rearview mirror, I thought I could give it a try, and the 'Reasoning Clown' is also divided into two situations:
"One is to use obvious facts to draw almost irrelevant conclusions in my favor;
"One is to rely on worthless conditions to make the target make an illogical judgment but the result is correct."
Jiang Baimian nodded lightly and said:
"Yes, it seems that this incident has helped you further master your abilities and broaden its boundaries."
Shang Jianyao was about to say something when he suddenly showed a thoughtful expression.
Jiang Baimian then looked at Bai Chen:
"What do you think?"
"If you are not sure that the anomaly is far away, it is best not to sleep tonight. When dawn broke, I immediately drove south. With your energy, not sleeping for half a night shouldn't be a big problem." Bai Chen gave very steady and cautious advice.
Long Yuehong subconsciously pointed to the entrance of Black Rat Town and said:
"What should I do here?"
"What else can I do? Ensure your own safety first and then talk about other things." Jiang Baimian responded without hesitation, "Besides, the abnormality of the dream will not only be aimed at us, there should also be people affected by the relic hunters and wilderness wanderers in the nearby area, and their strange deaths will make this place a forbidden area for a short time, becoming a terrifying area that has been passed down by word of mouth.
"Hehe, if someone can't even receive such news and enters without knowing anything, then I don't think they have the ability to find the entrance to Black Rat Town and remove the boulders blocking the cave.
"When the corresponding impact subsides, the people of the company will almost come, and at that time, if they don't find us, they will definitely send a flare notification."
Long Yuehong had no objections, and the four of them were on duty until dawn.
They then took turns driving back south.
When it was almost noon, Jiang Baimian, who was in the passenger seat, turned his head and said to Shang Jianyao:
"Try to sleep and see if there are any abnormalities in the dream.
"Don't worry, I will keep an eye on you and wake you up if something is wrong."
"I can wake up myself." Shang Jianyao whispered confidently.
"Huh?" Jiang Baimian tilted his head.
Her smile did not diminish at all, but became more obvious.
Shang Jianyao didn't say anything more, thought for a while, raised his right hand, and pinched his temples on both sides.
He immediately closed his eyes.
…………
The cold and dark metal walls stood tall, surrounding a wide and empty hall.
High up in the hall, you can't see the top, only darkness.
In the dim light, countless bright spots of light were densely packed, slowly rotating, as if forming one galaxy after another.
In the center of the hall, starlight sprinkled out, condensing into a huge, blurred figure. The figure spread his hands outward, maintaining strict symmetry, as if simulating a scale.
The voice of "one price, three gifts" echoed emptyly, layered in Shang Jianyao's ears.
Shang Jianyao stared at this scene for nearly ten seconds, and spat out four words in a low voice:
"Hall of Stars......
He didn't say anything more, crossed the blurred figure, and arrived at the innermost part of the hall, stopping in front of the heavy gray stone door.
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