Chapter 503 - Chapter 503: Chapter 503: Old Xia’s Analysis (1/2)

Chapter 503: Chapter 503: Old Xia’s Analysis

Xiang Kun and Old Xia ran up to the rooftop terrace and set up a small table to place the laptop. They each took a seat on a small plastic stool and huddled together to discuss the information he had gleaned that night while watching the screen. The primary topic of discussion was the analysis of the dream content of the humanoid “mutant” he had sensed.

Xiang Kun already knew from Alice that the “human-shaped mutant” who was lingering underneath the Brilliant Fortune Building with Mr. Liang was named John. All that was known was that he came from Europe, entered the country irregularly, and his specific history and identity were not entirely clear.

In the dream of John that Xiang Kun had sensed, John was fighting a giant serpent in a gloomy and spooky underground building. The building looked like an underground tomb, with a ceiling that was dozens of meters high and filled with a hodgepodge of Egyptian, medieval, and ancient Chinese architectural styles and altars. The surrounding environment was clearly not the underground space beneath the Brilliant Fortune Building, but rather an environment that he had imagined based on his own experiences and emotional influences.

The giant serpent was enormous, at least seven or eight meters tall when it stood up, and its body was as thick as a barrel. It had a huge mouth filled with sharp teeth on its chest, and within its mouth were several hooked tentacles, menacingly baring fangs and brandishing claws at him.

Regardless of whether it was information obtained from Alice or what Xiang Kun deciphered from the “Super Sensory State”, it could be determined that the “mutant” resembling a giant serpent lumbering under the Brilliant Fortune Building was not so gigantic.

John himself was clad in a suit of European medieval style plate armor, however, what he held in his hand was a gargantuan white porcelain knife. This porcelain knife was incredibly sharp and easily severed the tentacles in the giant serpent’s mouth.

With relative ease, John defeated the serpent that was far larger than himself. The serpent then turned into a white mist and dissipated, while John turned to kneel beneath a large platform, looking up at the steps leading to a gigantic throne at the end, and submitted himself in subservience.

Subsequently, an uncanny “monster” manifested on that throne.

The monster, though humanoid in shape, was naked with no eyelids or lips, a broad and flattened nose with wide nostrils as if two holes had been dug into the face, and odd patterns running across the skin with an appearance of streaming light.

The humanoid monster slowly rose, was about to speak, when suddenly sensing something, it turned to look at the space above behind it. There, an overwhelmingly huge figure slowly emerged in the glow of the fires from the surrounding multitude of altars.

First appearing was a enormous head, it’s eight eyes as if eight creatures with lives and consciousness of their own, indifferently surveying everything below.

Emerging slowly from beneath the colossal head from behind the building was an equally titanic body, as well as eight arms as large as colossal pillars, reaching down to the ground to support its body as it continued to rise.

The Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Giant was not only rising from the ground but also continued to expand, seemingly intending to occupy the entire underground space.

The humanoid monster that was originally on the platform retreated step by step, then abruptly vanished.

John on the other hand swiftly rose from the ground, hopped up onto a nearby altar, scanned around, then lifted a plate of rabbit meat high above his head, before again kneeling down.

A moment later, a gigantic hand descended from above, covering the rabbit meat, John who held the meat, as well as the entire altar beneath his knee.

The dream ended there.

Xiang Kun speculated that the humanoid monster that appeared and disappeared atop the high platform was likely Mr. Liang.

Through John’s sensory information in the dream, Xiang Kun knew that John felt a touch of fear towards the humanoid monster, but towards the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Giant that almost burst the entire underground space, he felt a strong sense of longing, joy, submission, and worship.

The absence of fear towards the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed being was easily understood by Xiang Kun because the dream was induced by the rabbit wood carving, not the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed wood carving, thus the person influenced in the dream would be displaying emotions and thoughts during wakefulness.

But given this, why would the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed wood carving hold such huge significance in his dream, and why would he hold a sense of worship?

Could it be that this guy had previously experienced the emotional projection emanating from the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed wood carving?

Perhaps in Burma?

No, if he had indeed been influenced by the emotional projection from the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed wood carving, there would certainly be fear involved when he saw the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Giant in his dream, and it would materialize into something he fears the most. It wouldn’t be so strongly submissive and worshipful.

Dreams and the memory fragments Xiang Kun obtains after devouring the blood of other “mutants” obviously differ greatly, usually limited to a singular scene with minor activities. And a lot of what is seen and sensed would have been processed by the subconscious, hence deviating from actual memories and objective facts.

Although Xiang Kun can now directly edit the dream he induces to some extent, compared to Old Xia’s “Dream in A Dream”, his abilities to directly explore other’s memories, and to hypnotize and guide them is still somewhat inferior. There is no guarantee on the information that can be gleaned through dreams, or that the subject can be hypnotized to forget the process of being hypnotized. Thus Xiang Kun refrained from acting rashly.

Nevertheless, the dream he had sensed this time allowed him to draw a few conclusions:

1, His “Emotion Infused Objects” could cause “mutant” beings to have dreams. Whether non-humanoid creatures could be induced to dream was something that still required testing;

2, It was clear that John had just finished devouring that serpent and entered a blood-drinking slumber. According to his experience, during this slumber after devouring a “mutant”, he would obtain fragments of its memories, and these sensory information would rapidly play out in his mind like a carousel. It was unknown whether John had finished acquiring these memory fragments, or was that process interrupted by his “Emotion Infused Object” inducing a dream, or perhaps John was unable to acquire memory fragments from other “mutants” that he has consumed;