Jiang Yanche was like he was facing a formidable enemy. He took several steps back unconsciously, and the backpack on his shoulder fell to the ground.
His right hand subconsciously took out the [Star] from his pocket, and his left hand consciously covered the position of his heart.
He took out the [Star] because it was his only way to save his life at present - although it was not clear whether it could prevent Jiang Yanche from sudden death.
But the [Star] could not be triggered by Jiang Yanche actively, and the white cat did not move. After seeing Jiang Yanche come back, he walked to the corner of the living room, curled up into a ball, closed his eyes and rested.
A false alarm? Or was he about to die suddenly?
Jiang Yanche only felt that this dream world was full of anomalies. He walked slowly into his room, closed the door, took out his mobile phone, and called Si Qin.
Don't ask why he didn't call Luo Wuyou. The main reason was that he felt that Luo Wuyou... seemed to be useless.
"Hello, Jiang Yanche? What's wrong?"
"Captain, I just got home and found a white cat at home. It's probably the one you mentioned."
"Okay, I got it."
...
After saying that, he hung up the phone without any hesitation.
Jiang Yanche still held the phone to his ear, his brows slightly furrowed, Si Qin's attitude made him unpredictable.
Logically speaking, the white cat, as the commonality of this series of cases, is a very critical breakthrough, but listening to Si Qin's words, he didn't seem excited or excited at all, even...
A little too plain!
Wait!
After thinking about Si Qin's abnormality, the more I thought about it, the bigger the flaws became.
Si Qin... would he call him by his real name? This captain of the dreamer had no official airs and a very good personality. Jiang Yanche clearly remembered that he called him "Xiao Jiang" directly in the backstage of the lecture hall.
The person on the other end of the phone... wasn't the real Si Qin? !
Jiang Yanche's pupils shrank, and he opened the door, but the white cat was still curled up in the corner of the living room, without any movement, as if it was dead. But Jiang Yanche felt like a thorn in his side, and he dared not stay any longer. He put himself into the role of a student, left the community, and walked towards the criminal department's work building.
He did not notice that the moment he left home, the white cat slightly raised its head and stared at the direction of the gate, with a strange green light flashing in its eyes.
...
"Captain, I just called you."
The criminal personnel seemed to have just returned from the university. Jiang Yanche came to the outside of the office building and happened to meet Si Qin and other criminal personnel who were returning by car.
After sending away the other team members, the two came to the corner of the parking lot. Jiang Yanche narrowed his eyes and tried.
"Ah? When we were on a mission, our phones and other communication tools were all handed in to avoid distraction from work. Sorry, I may not have received it just now."
Hearing this, Jiang Yanche's muscles tensed up. Although this place was far from home, he always felt a gaze, as if it was always on him.
"Captain, can you come to my house? My family suddenly..."
As he spoke, Jiang Yanche's face turned pale, and fine cold sweat oozed from his forehead. His mouth was open, but he couldn't make any sound.
He... lost his voice!
"What happened to your family?" In the darkness of the corner, Si Qin didn't notice Jiang Yanche's abnormality and asked.
"My family ran..."
He lost his voice again, but Jiang Yanche was still able to spit out the word "home". He instantly realized that Si Qin and his official staff were right, and there was indeed something wrong with the white cat!
It must have done something. Jiang Yanche couldn't tell others about the existence of the white cat in any way.
He took out his mobile phone and planned to inform Si Qin by sending a text message, but the input box clearly said "white cat", but when it was sent, it became "bird".
"Ah ha? A bird got into your house. You can handle this little thing yourself."
Si Qin instantly looked at Jiang Yanche with a strange look. He always felt that this graduate student was thoughtful, taciturn, and seemed quite capable.
But if he couldn't even solve a bird...
Si Qin had to hesitate. If there were any cases in the future, should he tell Jiang Yanche?
After all, a waste can't complete the task of X Company at all, and it is very likely to become the trigger for the destruction of the entire dreamer team.
Jiang Yanche is indeed thoughtful. In the darkness, he clearly felt the change in Si Qin's attitude towards him.
But no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't convey the message he wanted to say correctly.
In the end, he looked at Si Qin's back and shook his head.
I guess... in Si Qin's heart, his image has collapsed...
Just now, he had tried various methods to tell Si Qin about the white cat.
But Jiang Yanche couldn't say it in any way, whether it was the word "white cat" or the onomatopoeia "meow".
Dejected, Jiang Yanche returned home, and the white cat seemed to be motionless, always lying in the corner in a dejected manner.
He stopped avoiding and walked straight to the white cat. After hesitating for a moment, he mustered up his courage and poked it.
Hmm... furry, it seems to be just an ordinary white cat.
As if feeling a vibration, the white cat raised its eyes, and its pair of dark green eyes stared straight at Jiang Yanche.
Buzz!
As if feeling the threat of death, after a buzzing sound, [Star] automatically flew out of Jiang Yanche's pocket and just floated in the air.
Strangely, the starlight shielding of the past did not appear. The white cat blinked its emerald eyes, just glanced at [Star] lightly, and then yawned, as if it had never taken Jiang Yanche to heart, and fell asleep again.
Huh...
What exactly is this white cat?
Jiang Yanche let out a long sigh. The feeling of escaping death was not pleasant. Fortunately, [Stars] could still provide a layer of protection.
He tiptoed back to the room, fearing that he would disturb the white cat. He sat down, took out a blank notebook, and began to record everything today.
He had never had the habit of keeping a diary before, but there was no way. The dream world was full of weirdness and chaos. If he didn't record some details, he might forget them in a blink of an eye.
...
October 10, sunny
This was my first day in the dream world. After attending Professor Liu's lecture, Shang Zhou, secretary of the School of Literature of Yuwang University, died unexpectedly. According to the information provided by Si Qin, this type of sudden cardiac death patients have appeared frequently recently. This is the fifth case.
The official established it as a case, and the criminal department was responsible for the investigation. The commonality of the five cases was that the white cat appeared at the scene, and this cat came to my house in the evening. The identity and motive were unknown.
Through the stress response of [Stars], it was confirmed that this white cat had the ability to kill people, and it was confirmed to be high risk!
p.s.: The dreamer must always play his own role in the dream. If he reveals any flaws, he will be killed by the dreamer.
The number of dreamers remaining: 7.
…
At this point, Jiang Yanche paused.
His brows slightly frowned, and then slowly relaxed.
He seemed to be overly concerned about the negative impact of the white cat, but in fact, he didn't have to worry too much because he had the [Star].
Although it was still a mystery how the white cat found his home, he could also use the white cat.
Isn't it that every time someone died suddenly, a white cat would appear at the scene?
If he paid more attention to the movements of the white cat, would it be possible to arrive at the scene before the person died?
If he was lucky, maybe he could witness the whole process of the white cat killing people!
…
Jiang Yanche, who was thinking rapidly in the room, didn't notice that the white cat woke up from his doze the moment he closed the door.
It slowly walked to the door of Jiang Yanche's room, tilted its head, and looked at the door with cat eyes full of human confusion…
At night, he hastily cooked dinner at home.
Although there was a supply of nutrient solution from the X company in the real world, Jiang Yanche would not feel any hunger or excretion in the dream world, but one reason was for acting, and the other was that eating was a kind of enjoyment. He still cooked a table of sumptuous dishes as usual.
The white cat had been sick since it came home, but when it was time for dinner, it became active, jumped onto the dining table, and sat in front of a plate of vegetarian dishes.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes?
Jiang Yanche pretended to bury his head in eating, but his eyes always fell on the white cat.
But he saw it directly scratching with its claws, pushing the egg flowers on top aside, and picking up a few tomatoes with its claws and chewing them, looking no different from an ordinary cat.
It was eating, and Jiang Yanche did not dare to disturb it. [Star] had little energy left, and he had to save it to deal with the failure of the performance————No matter how careful he was, he was not a professional actor after all, and it was normal to reveal flaws.
At this time, with [Stars] as a backup, he can really put his mind at ease.
The white cat ate in a very polite manner. Unlike other wild cats, after eating tomatoes, the red tomato pulp was not all over the table. It ate about four or five tomatoes, and the juice did not splash out of the dish, which saved Jiang Yanche time to clean up.
Back in the room, Jiang Yanche once again left the white cat in the living room, distracted his attention, and tried to share vision with Xilan Ningshang. He thought it was time to get more information from her.
It was easy to establish visual sharing. After arriving in the dream world, the time at Xilan Ningshang seemed to be consistent with Jiang Yanche. In front of him, there were still green mountains and clear waters, but they were all dyed in black by the night.
There were stars, hanging high in the sky, which Jiang Yanche could not see in Yuwang City. In such a modern city, the stars were affected by light pollution and could not be seen.
Jiang Yanche had ever thought about what would be outside Yuwang City?
But he immediately dismissed the idea of going to explore. As far as he could see, it was too strange for him to go to the border of Yuwang City, and he would be targeted by the dream world immediately.
"Sitting by the water during the day and at night, aren't you bored?"
Seemingly feeling the establishment of visual sharing, Xilan Ningchang blinked, and Jiang Yanche controlled his neck to turn so that Xilan Ningchang could see the situation in the room.
The room was very clean, and the clothes for changing were in the bathroom. There were only coats and shirts hanging on the bed and hangers.
"It's quite boring, but there's nothing I can do. What about you?"
No way, why no way?
Jiang Yanche found that every sentence of Xilan Ningchang seemed to have a point that could be analyzed. There was a leaf boat on the island, but she said she couldn't leave. Was she imprisoned?
Not wanting Xilan Ningchang to notice that Jiang Yanche was thinking, Jiang Yanche scratched his head and told her about his experience today.
He didn't intend to hide anything from Xilan Ningshang. Only by telling her everything would Xilan Ningshang talk to him. Only by talking and talking could information be extracted.
"Wait, you said that the white cat is staying at your house now?"
Jiang Yanche nodded, stood up from the chair and opened the door.
The white cat was full and sated, and nestled in the corner of the living room again. As if it heard a sound, it slowly raised its eyes and turned its head to look at Jiang Yanche.
Meow~
The moment its eyes fell on Jiang Yanche's eyes, the white cat seemed to have seen something horrible. Its whole body bounced, stood up from the ground, and bent its back. This is a unique action of cats before preparing to attack.
Jiang Yanche couldn't see the abnormality of the white cat. He was still enjoying the tranquility of the island at night. Therefore, the one who was looking at the white cat at this moment should be Xilan Ningshang.
Huh?
Jiang Yanche looked at the twinkling stars, thinking about how to control the [stars], but caught a glimpse of a flickering light in his peripheral vision.
As if she realized that Jiang Yanche noticed the flash, Xilan Ningchang remained calm and shifted her vision to ignore the flash.
"I roughly understand what you've encountered. Don't worry, with [Xingxing] here, this cat can't hurt you...
"It's just that Jiang Yanche, did you really come here in a normal dream? What... are you hiding from me? "
After hearing the first half of Xilan Ningchang's words, Jiang Yanche was relieved. After all, the existence of the white cat made him worry all the time. With the guarantee of Xilan Ningchang, a person in the dream world, he really dispelled it.
But the second half of the question made him speechless.
What should he say? If he tells the truth, wouldn't it be equivalent to letting the people in the dream know his identity? Will he also be rejected by the dream world? After all, Xilan Ningchang seems to be very familiar with the dream world. It's easy for her to kill him in the dream.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yanche licked his lips and lied without thinking:
"I don't know why I can't wake up. I've been in a coma for a long time. Maybe I was seriously injured in the real world. Do you have any way to let me leave?"
To retreat in order to advance, Jiang Yanche understood that unless the fifteen-day deadline arrived, Company X would not let him out. But he still pretended to be confused and asked Xilan Ningshang.
"It's not easy to wake up from a dream. You can try self-harm, jumping off a building... You can try it."
Somehow, after listening to Xilan Ningshang's words, Jiang Yanche frowned. He always felt that Xilan Ningshang always had something to say, and he didn't know what she was hinting at.
"Uh... It sounds a bit exciting. I'll think about it."
Jiang Yanche concentrated his attention and ended the visual sharing. He was still standing in the living room. In front of him, the white cat stood up at some point, looked at him a few times, and lay down again, feeling a sense of losing interest.
In this visual sharing, he always felt that he understood something, but he also felt that he didn't understand anything.
The biggest gain was to solve Jiang Yanche's inner anxiety.
Let's not worry about other things for the time being. As far as the white cat is concerned, it won't hurt him, so there is no problem.
In this way, he can use the white cat with confidence in turn, follow it, and know in advance who may die next.
After a quick wash, Jiang Yanche returned to the table to complete the contents of the diary and lay down on the bed.
Although he was already a graduate student, he still had to attend the classes he was supposed to attend.
Haha... Dreaming in a dream, interesting...
This was his last thought before he fell asleep.
The room returned to silence. The window was not closed, and a wisp of evening breeze came in from the window crack, blowing up the diary pages spread out on the desk.
No one noticed that there was an extra line of words at the end of the diary that day:
"There is a gaze that is always in the dark, observing the criminal personnel's investigation of the scene. The owner of this gaze cannot be seen clearly, but he seems to be wrapped in bandages."
...
On the other side, an island surrounded by clear water.
The wind started to blow, and Xilan Ningshang felt the coolness. She did not sit by the water, but turned around and went into the house.
On the table, the tarot card facing down was still flashing. After a simple count of the number of flashes, her face showed an expression of "as expected".
There was no light in the hut, and the light was completely supported by a candle. Strangely enough, this candle had been burning for a long time without any signs of shrinking.
Blowing gently, the candlelight in the hut went out.
In the darkness, a voice was faintly heard:
"It's been three years, Jiang Yanche... Can you come to my place..."