"Hello, who is this?"
Jiang Yanche picked up the phone and hesitated for two seconds before answering it. On the other end of the phone was a middle-aged man with a familiar yet unfamiliar voice.
"Xiao Jiang, I'm Liu Minsheng. I have a lecture this afternoon. Are you free? Come and be a teaching assistant."
Liu Minsheng...
Jiang Yanche's hand holding the phone trembled unconsciously. The person on the other end of the phone was none other than his graduate supervisor. On weekdays, he called Liu Minsheng Professor Liu.
Jiang Yanche was aiming for a doctorate in literature, and Liu Minsheng was also a doctoral supervisor. If he wanted to be his student, it was extremely important to establish a good relationship in advance and show his enthusiasm for learning.
Look, as the relationship was established, Liu Minsheng was already confident to ask Jiang Yanche to be his teaching assistant.
Having hastily agreed, Jiang Yanche made a few more polite remarks. Liu Minsheng gave him an address. As he listened, Jiang Yanche narrowed his eyes slightly, and his hand holding [Stars] tightened unconsciously.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yanche did not rush out. He turned on the navigation on his phone and entered the address he had just heard into the search.
Yuwang City?
This is the name of this city, but Jiang Yanche has no impression of it. Moreover, he who has studied geography knows very well that there is no such city in the world.
It is specifically fictionalized in dreams?
Is it possible that the so-called acquaintances met in dreams will undergo great changes in personality and appearance?
Suddenly, Jiang Yanche also understood why he did not recognize Liu Minsheng's voice at the first time.
It's just...
Thinking of this, Jiang Yanche couldn't help but waver in his heart. Since this is a dream, is it important to flatter the mentor and attend the lecture?
The short-term task of them who enter the dream is to explore the first level of this dream world and find the passage to the second level.
Shrugging, Jiang Yanche opened the door and walked towards the elevator. Dreams are all fake, and it doesn't matter whether you attend the lecture or not.
With this in mind, he looked around and planned to start from the community where he lives to find clues of the passage.
Ding!
The elevator arrived at the designated floor, the door slowly opened, and the elevator was full of people.
Hiss...
Jiang Yanche raised his head and looked at their faces, but as he was observing, a sharp ringing in his ears rang through his ears.
He subconsciously paused, and in just a moment, Jiang Yanche's face turned pale, and fine cold sweat oozed out of his forehead. For some reason, he had never met the strangers in the elevator before, and at this moment, everyone's eyes fell on him at the same time.
This kind of eyes contained a strong sense of scrutiny. In front of them, Jiang Yanche felt that he could not hide all his secrets, and everything was exposed in front of them.
Buzz!
The five people's eyes fell on him like searchlights. There was a buzzing sound in his trouser pocket. Without making any sound, Jiang Yanche reached out his hand. It was [Star]!
But at this moment, the Tarot cards that were originally dead seemed to have life. Starlight seeped out from his trouser pocket and floated between Jiang Yanche and the five people in the elevator.
The starlight flickered, as if forming a barrier, isolating the two sides and isolating the five people from examining Jiang Yanche.
Gradually, Jiang Yanche's stiff face relaxed, and the sense of scrutiny brought to him by the five people gradually decreased. As if nothing had happened, they walked out of the elevator and passed by Jiang Yanche.
As the few people disappeared around the corner, the starlight in front of Jiang Yanche slowly dissipated.
Cough cough cough...
The moment the starlight dissipated, Jiang Yanche felt dizzy, coughed a few times, took a few steps back, leaned against the wall, and gasped.
What's going on? Why are these people in the dream so hostile to him?
Shaking his head, he stared at the starlight that had not yet dispersed in front of him. In the twinkling, in a trance, Jiang Yanche seemed to see the shimmering lake from Xilan Ningchang's perspective.
When his sight turned left and right, he saw the green mountains by the lake and couldn't help but grin. He understood that the first active visual sharing was successful.
"Why, it's not long since the sharing ended... Hey, you activated the [Star]?" Xilan Ningchang also saw Jiang Yanche's perspective, and in an instant, she discovered something unusual about Jiang Yanche: "This world is rejecting you, what did you do?" Jiang Yanche blinked: "Ah, I didn't do anything. My mentor asked me to participate in the lecture, and I just planned to walk around here." "Have you ever seen someone wandering around while dreaming? If you don't follow the development of the dream, you will be rejected by the dream. The most intuitive manifestation is that everything in the dream will be hostile to you!" Xilan Ningchang's tone was very serious, and it seemed that Jiang Yanche's current situation was not optimistic. She took the initiative to end the visual sharing: "You are going to attend the lecture, and you have to prepare for it now. Learn to act, so that you can stay in the dream longer." Stay longer in the dream... When the corridor scene returned to his eyes, Jiang Yanche smacked his lips. Although he did not reveal the real reason for entering the dream, he always felt that Xilan Ningchang knew something. For him, he could use Xilan Ningshang to some extent. Obviously, Xilan Ningshang was very familiar with the dream world. He could get more information from her, which would be beneficial to his exploration.
Acting?
Regardless of whether Xilan Ningshang's words were true or false, Jiang Yanche decided to try. He was not comfortable with being targeted just now. Facing those five people, he even felt like he was facing five wild beasts. As long as he made any unusual movements, they would rush over and tear him apart.
…
Beep~Beep~Beep~
Beep——
"Quick, extract the data of each part of the body!"
In the real world, in the next room to the dreamers. Eight medical instruments were neatly arranged here. On the instruments, dozens of display screens detected the heartbeat, blood pressure, brain waves and other data of the eight dreamers.
As an instrument made a sharp blast, the wave line of the electrocardiogram on the display screen gradually subsided, and finally stretched to form a straight line - the heartbeat stopped.
A label was attached to the instrument. On it, there were two simple words, but they represented a person - Yong Li.
After recording the peak values of various physical values before death, the staff of Company X, led by the director, tiptoed into the room of the dreamers. Yong Li, a young college student with a bright future, had lost all vital signs.
Quietly took Yong Li out of the "capsule" and placed him on a stretcher. The director took the white cloth from the staff beside him and slowly covered Yong Li's body.
Their eyes were indifferent. They didn't look like they were looking at a deceased person, but rather at a string of cold data.
That's right, they didn't even use the most basic rescue measures. In the eyes of X Company, the dreamers were no different from the dead.
They seemed to have seen the future. This work of collecting the bodies of the dreamers was just the beginning...