Chapter 386 - Chapter 386: Chapter 386: Dream Invocation (1/2)

Chapter 386: Chapter 386: Dream Invocation

After guiding Old Xia out of his dream, Xia woke up almost instantly, increasingly familiar with this type of dream induced by “Emotion Infused Objects”. Within the dream, she became adept at influencing the dream by controlling the projections of “Super-connected Objects”.

Soon, Xia Libing entered the “Conscious World” through the co-manifestation of “CAKE01”, connecting to the piece of black circle graffiti on a windowsill of a dormitory in the district branch, which Xiang Kun had just established a connection with today.

The perceptual changes were significant, as if entering a new world.

Xiang Kun knew that within the influence of the black circle graffiti on the windowsill, there were people sleeping soundly, who had been successfully led into her “Dream in A Dream” by Old Xia.

But when he understood the situation in the dream, Xiang Kun was somewhat surprised.

The owner of this “Dream in A Dream” happened to be someone he and Old Xia both knew.

On the night of the 29th, when he had just returned to Citong City and met with Old Xia at a café, they encountered someone shadowing Old Xia. They ended up fighting and capturing two “bad guys”.

The officers in charge of their case back then were two district police officers, one old and one young. The older was surnamed Xu and the younger was surnamed Zhao.

Now the “protagonist” in the dream was clearly Officer Xiao Zhao.

In the deserted streets, Officer Xiao Zhao, in his casual clothes, hid nervously behind a car.

A giant figure of about four meters, with a dozen arms and a forehead full of eyes, wandered the streets, seemingly looking for Officer Xiao Zhao.

Seeing that this was Officer Xiao Zhao’s dream, Xiang Kun was already quite surprised and astonished. Seeing the multi-armed, multi-eyed giant in Officer Xiao Zhao’s dream was even more unexpected.

Although the image of the giant wasn’t exactly the same as the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving. The number of arms, the connection of the arms to the body, and the arrangement of the eyes were all fundamentally different.

However, Xiang Kun had an intuition that the giant in Officer Xiao Zhao’s dream originated from the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving.

He clearly knew that his current intuition was derived from a large amount of super-sensory information that his brain could not yet process and was not unfounded conjecture. Moreover, in this dream environment, intuition is sometimes even more reliable than direct sensory information in the dream.

However, he could also judge from the form of the giant that Officer Xiao Zhao’s cognition of the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving was probably based on other people’s descriptions.

After all, from previous instances, whether it was causing hallucinations in reality through “co-manifestation projection,” or projecting emotions in a dream from the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed Wood Carving, the overall body structure, such as the arrangement of eyes, the number of arms, and the way they are connected to the body, should be consistent with the wood carving, even though some details, such as the size, clothing, and skin condition of the multi-armed, multi-eyed monster, might differ.

If the people who saw the hallucinations and had the nightmare described the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed monster in reality, there might be some unclear points, but in the dream, the image of the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed monster from the subconscious should not be distorted so severely.

Xiang Kun quickly guessed where Officer Xiao Zhao might have heard about the image of the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed monster – the three car thieves who were affected by his “Super Sensory State” emotion projection range in the abandoned factory.

As per the news he heard later, all three car thieves eventually went to the police station where they were arrested.

One went crazy, two went to confess.

They would have told the police about the “hallucinations” they saw in the abandoned warehouse.

Although they went to Yun Gang Area Office to turn themselves in, and Officer Xiao Zhao wasn’t there, being in the same city of Citong, it is estimated that he must have heard something about this incident— even his old classmate, Li Peiye heard quite a bit of news, let alone Officer Xiao Zhao who is within the same system.

But hearing about it is one thing, dreaming about it is quite strange.

Keep in mind, this dream is triggered by black circle graffiti and, based on past experience, it mainly calls up recent events the dreamer has been focusing on.

The incident at the abandoned factory on the outskirts of Yun Gang District took place over half a month ago. It seems unreasonable that Officer Xiao Zhao would still be thinking about it, especially since it wasn’t his case.

Moreover, the police would normally not believe the description given by the car thieves. As per the description given by Li Peiye at his classmate’s wedding, the police took it as a joke. This is the normal reaction.

Could it be that Officer Xiao Zhao took those “rumors” seriously?

Or… did Officer Xiao Zhao get scared by that “rumor” due to his timid nature?

Well, based on Xiang Kun’s brief interaction with Officer Xiao Zhao on the night of the 29th and the cognitive model established from this interaction, the likelihood of the latter seems almost zero.

While Xiang Kun was puzzled, Officer Xiao Zhao’s dream underwent a dramatic change, from an empty city street to the sky.

Officer Xiao Zhao was actually riding on the back of the multi-armed multi-eyed giant, soaring in the sky, flying from the city to the suburbs.

Soon, verdant trees came into view, entering the region of Zi Huan Mountain.

Naturally, Xiang Kun knew it was the handiwork of Old Xia, the “Dream Director”.

In the afternoon, he had already discussed in detail with Old Xia how to tell a “story” in the dream to guide the person into finding the bodies on Zi Huan Mountain after waking up.

The choice to invoke a dream in someone from the district branch dormitory, to directly make a “Dream Call to the Police”, instead of randomly finding someone near Zi Huan Mountain for a dream invocation, to discover the bodies and report afterwards, was because they were afraid that if a commoner was guided by a dream and went to the mountain to see the bodies, it would cause a great mental shock, possibly triggering some negative impacts.

However, at that time, they could not have expected that they could invoke a dream in Officer Xiao Zhao, and Officer Xiao Zhao would also happen to dream of a giant monster resembling the Eight-armed, Eight-eyed monster.

Old Xia apparently took the liberty of altering the “script” she had previously discussed with Xiang Kun and added the giant into the plot.

In the beginning, Old Xia did not have the ability to make such a large-scale influence in the “Dream in A Dream” so quickly, but Xiang Kun found a method. When he was in the “Dream in A Dream”, aiding Old Xia’s “Super-connected Objects Projection”, he could significantly increase her efficiency in editing the “Dream in A Dream” and could also directly involve himself in the construction and editing of the dream.