"Addicted?"
When Lu Xin first heard Vice President Xiao's story, he didn't feel anything special.
If it was just a nightmare, it would be acceptable to him...
But when he heard Vice President Xiao's last words, he suddenly realized where the problem was.
Facing Lu Xin's eyes, Vice President Xiao grabbed his hair weakly.
His hair, which looked like it had been specially washed and styled in the morning, immediately became a little messy.
Then he took a long breath and smoked a part of the cigarette in one gulp: "I was forced to eat by that person every day..."
"Eat that kind of thing."
"Although it was an extremely horrible dream, I... I was still forced to change my taste."
"Some people say that in dreams, there is actually no sense of taste. This is false. We just rarely think of the taste in dreams when we are awake, but when we are really in a dream, no matter how absurd the dream is, it feels that everything is real. I was in a dream, eating my... eating that thing in different ways every day, and then, I tasted the indescribable deliciousness, and I couldn't forget it when I woke up."
"During that time, I started to eat meat crazily. I tried all kinds of meat, but... it didn't work."
He stopped talking a little tiredly after saying this, staring at Lu Xin with bloodshot eyes, and whispered: "No food in reality can compare to the taste I tasted in my dream. Compared with the food in the dream, everything in reality is so bland, like chewing wood, so, so I...even look forward to falling asleep quickly."
"..."
Lu Xin nodded calmly and said, "It's really scary."
Vice President Xiao looked up at Lu Xin and wanted to say something, but just sighed.
"Everything in the dream is no longer scary to me, but one day, I was scared by myself in reality..."
Vice President Xiao's eyes became a little panicked and frightened: "Because I eat such things in my dreams every day, but I can't eat them when I wake up. This desire seems to be superimposed, and it becomes stronger day by day. One day, when I went home to eat with my father and others, my younger brothers and sisters came to play with me. When I hugged them, a terrible idea suddenly came to my mind..."
"I..."
He suddenly looked up at Lu Xin, with a nervous and flustered expression on his face.
But in this panic, there was a strange greed: "I have a strong urge to eat them..."
Knowing that he didn't eat them after all, Lu Xin just nodded calmly.
"After I found this idea, I was very scared..."
Vice President Xiao saw that Lu Xin had no intention of talking to him, so he had to continue slowly: "From then on, I tried to go home less. I used to go home almost every day, but now, I try to live in the company as much as possible. Even if I really have to go back, I try to avoid my brothers and sisters. I really can't stand the feeling that suddenly surged in my heart..."
Lu Xin expressed his praise: "You did the right thing."
"But this doesn't solve the problem..."
Vice President Xiao's excitement began to slowly recede, and only more and more fatigue: "I can't always avoid my brothers and sisters. After all, you may know the situation in my family... My mother has passed away, but my aunt is very good to me. My father is old, and he actually loves my brothers and sisters very much. What he is most worried about is that we brothers and sisters will not get along in the future."
"I am much older than my brothers and sisters. If they really have selfish motives, they can't beat me. If my father splits up his own industry in advance and gives it to us, the competitiveness of my family's business will be weakened in this fierce environment..."
"So, my father also attaches great importance to whether I can really take care of my brothers and sisters..."
"To be honest, I can develop so smoothly in the company because my father and aunt believe in me. They know that I love my brothers and sisters and can't treat them badly. Otherwise, my aunt may have started to trip me up..."
"I am actually very grateful to her in my heart, and I also like the harmony in our family."
"But I keep having such dreams, and I feel that I am becoming more and more abnormal."
"I don't even dare to tell them about such things, or anyone else..."
"I'm just worried that if I accidentally leak it out, I may immediately fall into an irretrievable situation..."
As he spoke, it seemed as if he had found it difficult to speak. He was silent for a long time before he sighed: "This time, if it weren't for my father and aunt going to the main city together to handle the family's settlement, and my younger brother and sister who stayed in the second satellite city to go to school had to ask me to take care of them, I would not allow myself to be so close to them. And just yesterday, I really..."
"I was really scared. I didn't dare to stay in their hotel. The more they wanted to make trouble with me, the more scared I was. Fortunately, I don't know what happened. The police came to investigate some problems. I happened to stay in the guard hall for one night..."
"..."
Vice President Xiao kept talking, his face was pale and his hair was messy. His complicated eyes were full of collapse.
Lu Xin was in no mood to pay attention, but just silently thought of the problem he said.
Having the same dream every day, eating his younger brother and sister, and even gradually becoming addicted...
...What kind of problem is this?
What kind of pollution source did he encounter?
But is the impact of the pollution source on the surrounding area really limited to one person?
Or, it could be their entire family.
In this case...
Lu Xin thought slowly for a while, and remembered a person with the ability called "dream maker".
Could there be such a person who is exerting influence on him?
...
...
"Why... don't you speak?"
Vice President Xiao talked for a while, but didn't hear Lu Xin's answer.
When he looked up, he saw Lu Xin frowning, looking thoughtful, and asked in a panic: "Am I hopeless?"
"Huh?"
Lu Xin was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said: "No, I'm thinking about something else."
Vice President Xiao looked at him pleadingly: "You said you have experience in dealing with this kind of thing, so..."
Lu Xin thought for a while and said: "Wait a minute, I'll make a phone call first."
After that, he picked up his bag and turned to walk out of the office.
"Hua La..."
When he walked out of the office, countless eyes were focused on Lu Xin.
All his colleagues looked at him blankly, their eyes full of curiosity.
Especially at this time, Director Liu, who had to sit in Lu Xin's small partition because his office was occupied by someone, looked up suddenly, first at Lu Xin, then at the office, fearing that blood would flow out or a body would fall inside...
... He had been waiting for the sound of gunfire in the office, and his heart was getting anxious.
...
...
Lu Xin was preoccupied at this time, ignored them, and went straight to the staircase corridor.
Taking out the cigarettes from the iron box sent by Vice President Xiao, lit one, and called a number.
"Mr. Shanbing, good morning..."
Han Bing's voice sounded so nice.
"Oh, good morning..."
Lu Xin hurriedly greeted the other person, was stunned for a moment, and managed to say: "Have you had breakfast?"
"Yes."
Han Bing replied with a smile, and also added: "I had wontons."
"Good, very good..."
Lu Xin calmed down and did not continue to discuss the topic of breakfast. He lowered his voice and said: "The Vice President Xiao I told you about yesterday came to the company to find me today... Don't worry, he doesn't seem to be a perverted killer, and I didn't solve him... He became like this because he has been having a strange dream for the past month. Every night, he would be forced to eat his..."
Describing it as briefly as possible, he slowly said: "So what do you think is going on in this situation?"
"Dream-making ability user?"
Han Bing reacted quickly and said calmly: "He seems to have received a strong psychological suggestion, which has created a twisted **."
"Yes."
Lu Xin said: "I think it might be the case, so I have a question..."
Han Bing said softly: "Mr. Shan Bing, if it is really a dream-making ability user who is influencing him, then it means the situation is more serious. Moreover, dream-making ability users are different from others. They belong to the influence type... It is difficult to deal with..."
"Influence type?"
Lu Xin was stunned when he heard this.
I vaguely felt that I had heard it somewhere before.
Han Bing explained: "This is also part of the training of ability users, and you will learn it soon."
"After the Red Moon incident, more and more ability users appeared. One of our practices is to record them. Every time we discover a new ability, we will record it, give it a name, and then share it among the alliance."
"But because many abilities are scarce and distorted, our records are also difficult to be complete."
"Sometimes, it is difficult to record only one or part of its characteristics."
"Therefore, we will also classify certain abilities of similar nature into a group, so that even if we cannot investigate the complete abilities of certain opponents or strange creatures for a while, we can make general inferences and references based on their categories."
"Dream-making and hypnotism are classified as influence types because their main abilities are to influence opponents."
"And the princess and puppet types are all about controlling and mastering others, so they belong to the domination type."
"In addition, there are distortion types, horror types, hell types, etc..."
"..."
"So complicated..."
Lu Xin finally reacted and remembered that it was Qin Ran from Happy Town who said this.
Subconsciously, he said, "What is the Destruction Group?"
Han Bing was stunned for a moment and smiled, "What Destruction Group? It seems that there is no such group."
"Oh oh."
Lu Xin thought that he might have remembered it wrong, and he didn't care. After a slight pause, he said, "But I don't want to ask this."
"Huh?"
A small question mark should have appeared above Han Bing's head at the other end.
Lu Xin was somewhat embarrassed, blushing, but still asked: "That..."
"If I accept this, it will also be counted as a mission, right?"
"How much is the reward?"
"..."
Han Bing paused for a moment, then laughed and said happily: "Mr. Shanbing, dealing with people with abilities who break the law is different from dealing with pollution sources. Because these people with abilities who break the law, if not restrained, often use their own abilities to cause great unrest in Qinggang City, so dealing with things related to them, at least 50,000 rewards..."
"Pah!"
Lu Xin flicked off the long cigarette ash and smiled: "Okay."